Avatar is incredible, especially in 3D. Awesome is such an understatement. Graphics were jizz in my pants, literally but somebody else’s though, because there were at least 5 people who rushed out to the toilet during the movie to not jizz in their pants. Though the storyline is okay, neytiri rocks. The score is nice too.
Sherlock Holmes is damn funny. Enough said. But it sometimes was like Brokeback Mountain without the sex.
So my day after christmas was spent listening to phil winds at esplanade. They played “music from the beatles” (very nice trumpet, trombone, sax solos), a alto sax solo song i think it was called “tears of moon” can’t remember, the alto guy (his name was ang yi xiang) was awesome, altissimo the ending notes i think everyone in the hall was deeply enthralled. Then there’s ponyo which some people were like “whut? -.-” but the trumpet guy sounds very good. Best one I think was clarinet candy, xiang dang nian hcband played this. Yeah finally there’s the usual christmas songs, quite interesting. Speaking of christmas, my favourite christmas song is “last christmas” originally by Wham, but this arrangement sounds great too. Taylor Swift has a version but I don’t think it’s as great.
Was thinking about thailand namely the kasetsart workshop and what leng said about the two kinds of people that will surface – 1. “Woah they are really good. I must aim to be like them in future.” 2. “Omfg they are good. But I’ll never reach that standard.” Yeah, it has really dawned on me that there is almost no time left. And I can still remember the shock on the thai saxophonists’ faces when they asked “How often do you all practice a week?”. So when I said “2 maybe 3 times” They were really completely stunned. Like the 3 of them –> o.o o.o o.o Then they said “We practise almost everyday!” Quite an awkward situation there but thank god ahfatt tried to explain that our school is “academically inclined” and it is just a extra curriculum activity and we are not really music students too. Nonetheless, they were understanding and sweet, they gave me two books which are quite useful even ahfatt got a copy. “Practical Tutor for the Saxophone” by Otto Langey and “Melodius and Progressive Studies for Saxophone” by David Hite. I was lucky to got to play something with them and they really sound awesome. They also taught warmups which make the ones we play now a piece of cake. Nothing beats pure hard work in the end I guess. Hard work coupled with adversity. That makes you even better. We got a bloody $26 million salt centre and they don’t even have proper rehersal rooms. Though the sax people were in a so-called room which was actually like a storeroom for extra chairs, some sections were like standing around trees or just some open space. Well, I guess it’s just the difference in the education systems in these two countries, they can really focus on their music without the mentality of “academic results are everything”. That we can’t do much. But we can work harder though. Let’s end the decade on a high note (no pun intended). It can be done. So you may ask what’s the no-link post title “the girl that is liked by all”? That’s the name of the thai saxo girl who gave me the books, translated from thai of course. Cute? haha
class christmas eve pseudo-stayover at alyssa’s house was so jizzy! Graced by the presence of mr ng （黄A) the godly rockband drummer cum bestest math tutor, ms wong (黄B) the lamest and fabuloustest chem tutor, and ms ong the sarcasticest and awesomest gp tutor. Jizz it up!
on a side note, thai names have very deep meanings.
pink bus.
pink taxis.
mbk.
gay sex.
straight sex.
multiple transgressions.
dreamworld.
rollercoaster jizz in your pants.
waterslide jizz your pants.
flying carpet shit your pants.
kasetsart workshop.
saxtionals with 3 godlike thai players who are all girls and are freaking pro.
gay sax.
jizzable sax warmups imba shit.
they got pink saxa case ftw.
japgraf14 combined with kasetsart jizzifying.
last day mbk again.
hongnam fun.
If you’re bored like shit: http://papertoilet.com
bo peep bo peep bo peep bo peep bo peep bo peep bo peep. freaking coolest song since gee. bo peep bo peep bo peep bo peep bo peep.
wtf I was researching on thailand on google and the first link they gave me was a sponsored link: http://www.ThaiKisses.com “Single Thai Girls – Girls and women from Thailand searching for love”. Then I went to click on the link cos I was curious. wtf got this “woman of the day” section and they featured a freaking 55 year old woman today on 8 dec, wtf which guy wants this sugar mummy? Then there’s a “most recent man” section for the latest guy to register at the website, wtf how come it is a freaking 52 year old Caucasian man with a zi-pai photo of himself? wtf now I’m scared to go Thailand.
Off to Thailand on sunday, the land of the smiles or is it land of the suns? I forgot.
Anyone wants anything from Thailand, cheap cheap?
Guys, I can help you get a Thai bride if you want.
If not I guess, I’ll just get some Instant Tom Yum Soup powder.
And it’s official, my instru case’s dimension is 58 by 23.
Girl: “I need all of you to give me your [case's] dimensions.”
Another Girl: “30 30 30.”
Kids are cute, but not when there’s 13 of them and you have to be one of their four papa or mama taking care of them.
So this was the central theme of the science centre visit where we had to be facilitators for kids suffering from dyslexia. In the morning, we just had to teach them to do experiments in the dyslexia centre and it was crazy from then on. The instructors for the experiments had to ring a bell to keep everyone quiet and get their attention but always there will be a random kid shouting “I want chocolate chip ice-cream!” when the bell was rung. Ok so the experiments were just average like one in which they are supposed to learn how magnets attract each other. Got two bottle caps with two ducks pasted on each and a magnet stuck under the bottlecap. Float them on water and they are supposed to attract. At first they repelled, then some girl from my group went to forcibly attract them together, ok not that successful but at least the kids were interesting. “The ducks kiss kiss, are they married?” – a ten year old kid.
But the fun part only begins at science centre itself. So on the bus to science centre, some caucasian girl, she’s 9, kept shouting the names of the facilitators at the top of her lungs. I mean really top until you can’t top it anymore. I don’t know if you’ve seen the Heineken ad on tv where 4 women screamed like shit, yeah she was like that, times ten. I guess it was pretty fulfilling bringing the kids around in science centre, at least you learnt also besides them, not like some other meaningless shit cip like flagday where you just stand at the mrt station like a piece of shit and collect shit money donated by people who don’t give a shit. Lucky there were like 4 facils in my grp, but still not enough to control the 13 kids. Seriously, before they enter, they were like lining up in twos neatly and holding hands, but when they get into the place, they will press and touch every single object they can see. I think jane (a girl from my grp) was quite pissed and sian diao at first, all the facils’ expression –> >:s
So I guess it was pretty enriching for them, and also for us, to see how kids nowadays behave, I definitely won’t want to be a primary school teacher. Yeah, though pppl were quite frustrated but the kids were still very cute, which made us quite entertained, but also more frustrated cos their cuteness involved trying to escape from the exhibit area. Yeah, there were like 5 people guarding every exit but 4 kids and 1 waterbottle were still gone. Lucky we found them in the end.
So the kid I remember the most is the caucasian girl I said earlier, wel not because of her overly bubbly personality, or that she shouts your name when she sees you. Actually, I think I should be happy she know my name, cos they had this packet of oreos, and she left one oreo, so she basically shrieked my name, and I was like “omg what’s the matter this time omg scary girl..” but she just wanted to give me the remaining oreo. haha so yeah free oreo!
