照片

The pictures...


Never expected her to be so fast, she was online at that point of time though...


The girl with the camera, and of course me...


Picture of all the girls...


Another pic of the girls...

預慕

Sneak previews...


Just seen the pictures taken on the drumming festival, it's just a small sized one though... The sneak preview is for me, not for everyone else... You all will just have to wait until I get the full sized pictures... I'll try to post it promptly; can't gurantee anything cause work is like hell...

收穫

It's not what I gain but what everyone gains...


Finally found the time to continue that unfinished post, no work today... For those of you who don't know what is a Djembé, below is a picture of the one I played...



That day was like every other day, even though it was the performance itself, I wasn't too exicited... Maybe it's because I'm just one out of the many performers, so there was no pressure... About the performance, it went well, but I didn't give it my best... I'm not sure what happened, I just kept playing like my normal practice standard, not my performance standard... Our segment was quite short and nothing went wrong, so I don't think anyone noticed...

Now that everything is over, I can safely say that I had gained next to nothing from this event... However, my band gained a whole lot... The reason I was there was because the organiser asked my band director to send some members to make up the numbers, but since I was there, I was asked to seek out new members... I had to socialize alot, more than my usual self at least... Amongst the few days of practice, I briefly told the potential candidates of my intention... It was until the last day when my band director personally invited them to join my band... The Singapore Polytechnic boys were quite interested, this Monday two of them came down for the practice, the rest had project meeting... Is this becoming a very boring entry?

Let's have a change of direction, did I ever mention there were girls amongst my group? I've invited them over to my band as well, one had confirmed joining, and three others replied to my sms saying they were not free that Monday... They said they'll come when they are free next time, don't know how true that would be though... Things are starting to get interesting, looking forward to every Monday's practice that I used to dread... Pictures were taken, I'll post them when I get my hands on them...

收穫

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do...


The festival's finally over, back to work for me...

似充非實

Enrichment or waste of time?


For the past two days, I've been attending rehearsals for this Saturday's Community Drumming Festival, it was a full day event from 9am to 5pm... I'm in the group that plays only the Djembé, that very painful hand drum... There are around 40 over people in this group, only 3 or 4 people knows how to play that instrument... When I first knew that, I was shocked... "This is gonna be a disaster" I thought... Much to my relief, I think we'll be ready for this Saturday's performance... I must say the instructor is a very competent one... There is a combined rehearsal later on, I'm looking forward to see what other groups there are...

For these two days, they had been teaching the very basics of playing the Djembé... Everyone is to play a very small part of the entire rhythm, very different from what I'm used to... That's probably cause my band doesn't have that much members, two Djembés is all we have to produce the entire rhythm... Finally coming to the topic of this post, I haven't been taught anything useful... All I had was lots of practice, and it feels like I've improved a bit on my technique... At first I thought it was great that I learnt something, but today when I finally got some time to rest, I took a step back and had doubts about that... Was it really enriching or was it just a waste of time? What I learnt isn't justified with the amount of time spent, I could had been taught advance techniques with two full days of time... Maybe it's still too early to judge how enriching this event is, guess I'll give my judgement after this Sat...

For those of you who are in Singapore and seen this before 19 June, check the news on that day, not sure whether there will be a long report of it though...

若隱若現

Am I here? Am I not?

Wanted to reply Daz on the chatter box, but thought I might as well blog... Been playing games as always, so not much updates or things to update...

Been trying to figure out 3d Studio for the past few weeks, finally given up on it... Not totally though, cause it's very powerful and useful, just not gonna use it for this project... Got my hands on another software, Poser 6, it's a 3d software especially for humaniod posing and animation... The major factor that made me switch over is the resources available for Poser, it's more appropriate for this thing I'm doing... However, I still can't find the exact prop I want, so I'll need alot more time to learn how to create them or at least edit the existing ones...

I've signed up for my basic theory, it's on 9th July... Should I sign up for my advanced as well? Don't have to wait so long if I do, but is it even possible?!?