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Hey everyone!
Its been a really hell of a hectic week with music camp at GM everyday and what not. Since exams were done with, i have been catching up with lots of reading. It is really a splendid feeling, putting down a book after a few hundred pages and feeling accomplished, something impossible to do the past few months. Grab a book everyone!
Oh before anything else is said i'd like to introduce an original reproduction of the Epiphone model 'Wildkat' that was just bought for church (a couple of weeks back..?). It is really, a semi-solid beauty, and a whole lot better than our cracked-up Ibanez model.
Monday had the very first electric guitar lesson with Oops Asia team, and they really made us so... inadequate. The team comprised of Patrick [worship leader/recorder/professional singer/keyboardist], Elliot[drums], Anson[bass], andrew[keys] and Timmy[electric guitar]. All of which went to contemporary music schools and have honours in their respective fields. but professional as they are[and amateurs as WE are], they were really humble and went all out to impart skills and musical knowledge to us.
My class consisted of Royce and myself, YES REALLY SMALL CLASS. But it was brilliant. in a single lesson we were scribbling the pentatonic scales down furtively and playing actual free jazz fill ins!! It felt so good to be able to do that.
The rest of the week were pretty much the same routine of going to church and having lessons, workshops and concert practices. Drum lessons with elliot was mighty interesting, learnt a ton of stuff.
Sleepover pictures, thus the brilliant videos taking with the mac. and stoopid photos.
do you now??
Lizzie with her 50-dollar-rip-off-of-a-wig.
Cyndi Lauper had better hair.
Anyhoos, had a major picture spaz with Lizzeh's Macky. The following just goes to show how we don't really hell care about unglam pictures cause the fun anyway and make you laugh like the hooville people.
Five-string basses never tended to bode well with me.
Ooooh! its a geek!
chug away, this is our night!!
Sometime around two am on the patio, before heading up to the attic to sleep(yeeeah right.)
Lizzie says: The trick to taking jump shots is to not jump. Just flail your arms wildly and spaz alot, and it'll look loads real.
So watched What Happens in Las Vegas and laughed like hell, oooh and aaahed at ashton kutcher (lizzie's new love.) and drank the 1.5litre bottle of coke. I think im banned from their house! Finally fell asleep at four am with lizzie screaming god knows what.
woke up feeling like a really overdue hungover. Was exhausted and lizzie was still screaming [since last night?!] about stop-motion videos and taking bus 80 to church so i think i died for about half an hour there and ascended to the heavens. but god reminded me i had a 1:30 class and rushed back to church.
Thursday's lesson involved a final jam and practise for the 'LIVE AT GM' concert. The Oops Asia team more or less made up look like
an absolute joke a little bit like a sham, but its all for the glory of god, si?
Timmy reminds me of a teddy bear. in the form of a lesser know, steve vai, of course. Also a liverpool fan haha!
Elliot as always, was wicked on the drums.
and so were you luki, HAHA.
Well the concert went pretty well. i was using Royce's US fender and it felt... heavenly. If i may say so. It did cost a hefty 900US tho, so it better!
The rest of the service went pretty smoothly but leng was a bit peeved since we didnt pay much attention. CHHHH all jennifer's fault, who did i mention, made a spectacular comeback after being M.I.A from music camp for the whole week?
timmy rules! Kudos to the best guitar player in the world.
Who does not dig elliot's jumper!
Andrew, brilliant at keys and synth. Mel and Lucy really learnt a hella lot from him(although he scared all of us at first, we soon realised he was pretty docile and a nice dude. in fact, he and sheri hit off pretty well. hmmm.)
Anson, wicked bass player.
So just mucking around and taking pictures of kids.
When micah's supposed to have a serious face, he doesn't. Sheesh!
Golly, my hair's cool!
Picture of the century jen a.k.a girl who isn't really my friend cause she neglects telling me the truth of her online journals. phoo.
Hung out with Mel, Ains, Carl and Luki in church and we were the last to leave for some supper at HK cafe at Upper East coast. Had a blast, and by the time ains drove us home it was about 1-ish. Made plans for friday i think... my timing's all screwed up.
Friday had drum class with carl at the studio with alex and edwin (luki neglected to show up. at all!) which was pretty much useless. Mooching around as usual. Met tim, nick and mel afterwards for dinner in town and a movie, which we didnt catch eventually. All we did was trial behind carl while he did some shopping, and let me tell you, for a dude he surely does love shopping.
After a tired dinner at pepper lunch, alex went home and we headed to marina square for some pool(which i suck at, evidently.) but got distracted by the I.D photo booth as usual.
I.D photo number 6 of the year!
Pool at the arcade. Didnt even play a single round, was too busy drinking some overpriced coffee from starbucks and screaming our heads off playing House Of the Dead 4 with Mel. Have i mentioned both of us absolutely SUCK at those Drum-mania machines things? It is embarrasing to have two (ex-)percussionists laughing when the speakers on the game machine announce loudly to half the world 'YOU HAVE FAILED THE BEGINNER'S STAGE' to half the world.
Even with a broken arm, nick still played well! life is waay unfair.
cabbed home with luki ains and mel and talked about stupid things like we always do. i swear luki and mel were about to choke on their own tongues when we started talking about the ice hotel and gay babies.
Saturday had lifenet and then dinner with the family wherein dad said 'Hey lets go get some coffee from Coffeebucks.'
Today was another early morning at church where we played. The songs were screwed up... then the baptism at mel's house in her swimming pool. So now Sheri is baptised yay! I am proud to be the only one in my family to have a saltwater baptism, that is, one at sea. Siloso beach to be exact. It was definitely more exciting then a simple dunk under chlorine-infiltrated water. Was supposed to have ice-cream with mel and the lads but had to return home to um sleep. :)
Tomorrow A-level students finish, which means jennifer is a free person! For now. Yay!
Goodnight all.
My vunderful drawing of a suburban house on jennifer's tablet where she draws all her wonderful manga drawings like this:
ITS SO PRETTY INNIT. anyway jennifer, don't spaz when you see this up. And only cause you deleted the pic i took of the drawing you did last night on your tablet.
