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Tuesday 26 June 2007

假末

Last Holidays...


This week will be the last of my holidays... After this, I can no longer lead the carefree days that I have now... Sad as it may be, this major milestone in my life opens up more opportunities for me... There are stuff that one can only achieve when they are working... And I'm not talking about things you can buy with the money earned... yet...

Hopes and dreams...
Being able to earn a living by drawing and doing stuff I like is one of the few things I hope to achieve in life and this dream seems to be realising itself as my first job...

Things that one can buy with the money they earn...
With the financial freedom, I can afford things that are out of my reach in the past... First up would be a car; I hope to get my dream car by the end of next year...

Having a job that you like is good, but one must think of the monetary returns as well... With my current job, it might be difficult to achieve my goal of getting the car... That is why I have engaged in a joint venture with my friend... Plans are more or less concrete, the company registered, and the gears are already rolling... This is one thing that I'm really looking forward to these days... Gets me excited every time I think about it... I'll probably have news by next week and the fun part will begin...

So what exactly is it that we are doing? Well, let me keep it a secret until next week when I have everything in my hands... But this I definitely need the support of all the friends out there... So don't worry, I'll surely make frequent announcements when business starts; it'll be so frequent that you might hate me after that...

Friday 15 June 2007

雙擊

Double trouble...


My eldest sister just gave birth last night, now they'll be 2 babies in my family... Most probably, they will be staying at my place since my mum can take care of them... I just hope that they don't cry in unison... Maybe they can harmonise their crying; that will be interesting...

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My niece, Chloe...

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She knows how to smile for the camera already...

Not much harmonising seen in this afternoon's Esprimere performance... Our club consist of mostly soloists, good soloists in fact... Harmonising is not something we can do except for a select few who have that kind of knowledge... Oh well, soloists tend to earn more than groups...

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Our best performance ever... See it here...

Monday 11 June 2007

無聊

The secret of being boring is to say everything...


I wonder if its because of the huge contrast between the last few weeks and now that made my life seem damn boring... The second last week of May was the most hectic period... I had 3 papers back to back; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday... With the previous paper on Thursday, I only have Friday, Monday and Tuesday to study, not counting the weekends because I'll never get anything in during those days... That was an ultimate test of my time management... After those 3 papers, it felt as like the end of my exams even though I have one last one the following Tuesday...

After the examinations was the preparations for the performance at Esplanade... First performance was on the first Monday of June (04/06/2007) and we had a performance at a home the day before that... The performance at the home was a full dress rehearsal for us since we're be playing the exact same pieces... We thought it was gonna be a easy job but had utterly underestimated the kids... It was the worst performance ever... Most of the effort needed was to fend off the kids from our instruments rather than playing them... So much for an easy job...

The first night's performance at Esplanade was good, we totally rocked the house... Though the performers' feelings weren't the greatest then... Everyone was damn irritated by the Band Director... Erggh... Am still irritated by the thought of it...

Everyone was feeling good at the second night, but the atmosphere was just not there... We couldn't heat up the crowd because we had to restrain ourselves while playing that night... There were other performances at the neighboring theaters and we were not allowed to give it our all... What's a percussion band without the bang? Boring... Luckily, only our last piece was compromised as it was the only emotionally-driven piece... But I still wished we could had ended in a more... explosive way...

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The next night was our boy's night out to MOS... Salimin's birthday was coming soon and he had not went clubbing before, so there we were... I shall not go into details considering the different groups of friends that read this... All I can say is, "It was fun... very fun..."

After so many events, I was bored to tears the following day... And it was only the first week of June!!! I wonder how can I survive through the rest of the days before I start work... Always wanted holidays and am bored to death when I have it...

Things are only good when you can't have it...