Wow! 3 Days Events

Wow.. Lots of thing happened this weekend and today!

Saturday.

Rehearsals.
Father's day celebration.

Sunday.

Gig - Not bad! A little lacking in terms of sound equipment and attitude though. Audience was quite receptive. But it's typical performance la. I have to admit, we really grew as performers. Really... It's very pleasant to see.
Date - Hot body. Intellectual conversations. Jokes. Teasing. Compliments. Nice hands *wink wink*! Haha! Quite the charmer. It ended well, though the goodbye was slightly abrupt.

Monday (Today).

Rehearsals in the morn - Ok, I admit. I'm unused to rehearsing with Angie, Alemay, Fareeq & Jun Kai alone. It's a first time I felt so intimidated, like if i were to make a mistake, i'm gonna go down! It's very fearful to rehears with a professional group. In TAS YV, at least i've more experience and able to guide people. But at today's rehearsal, i kinda felt i was under scrutiny, like i was so so so small and weak and insignificant! Eeeks. But i guess i need more exposure to work with professionals to upgrade myself, so i won't feel so useless!

Met up with my childhood friend, Sharina and her mom (also my mom's childhood friend). My Mom knew her Mom (Salma) since THEY WERE 6 YEARS OLD, NEIGHBOURS. How cool is that!? And they still keep in contact. I knew Sharina since I was a baby, and we've basically played together in our cribs la! Haha.. She was just born 1 month after i was born, our mothers were pregnant at the same time! Haha! Now where can you find such a friend? It's bloody rare.
She and her mom left for the states to be with her dad 8-9 years ago.
She's a pretty, young lady, elegant, knows her values even though she's half-caucasian (no offense to any caucasians! haha!). Very polite and respectful. Nice girl.
Both our mom's were (jokingly - i hope) suggesting they be in-laws since we were babies! LOL! Not gonna happen!

We met up and after a few 30mins we went to a restaurant for lunch and stuff. Had to follow our parents around for some shopping and had some small talk; trying to strike up good conversations and stuff. Then our parents ditched us and asked us to go walk on our own, so i brought her to teenage-shopping paradise - The Heeren. Showed her around with my sister tagging along. Had some nice conversations and were very comfortable with each other, almost like we've known each other for a long time (we have, literally. but that's besides the point. Haha!). It's like we just picked up where we left off. Real cool.

- Jho. Sleep. Stressful gig. Swim meet. (Noticed i did not talk about school or work? Yeah!)

Stuff stuff stuff

Recap
1 :. Temasek Seminar: Site visit
2 :. Wings Athletic Meet
3 :. Gig at Tiong Bahru Plaza
4 :. Lunch with Ramy, Tat, Jeremy Ho, Chua & Angie, then singing session with John.
5 :. Track Camp

<1> Joke.
[On the naval ship LST]
Officer: If you look behind you, the thing on the 2nd level is the ship's gun.
Jade: Where?
Marrisa: There. Behind you.
Jade: Huh? You mean the thing that looks like a gun is actually a gun?!
Marrisa & Me: =.= Duh!
Jade: What! I thought it was a pipe la...

<2>
It was actually really cool to see such an event. Got the free t-shirt because i helped ^_^
Met the 3505 Jade at the meet also. She was not throwing that day, just there for support i guess. It was really nice to see her again ~ : )
WINGS ended late. So i walked up to the mrt. The sign-board displayed "4mins" for about 5mins without changing. So fed up la, and they did not announce anything. So i went down an asked the people in charge. The announcement then came after i went up to the platform again that it will be delayed. I'm such a bitch!

<3>
It was one of the better gigs i say! Though Gerrie wasn't able to sing with us, but we sounded fine. Facial expressions and emoting was much better that day, though some of us still needed work. The sound systems sucked though. It's always the case, when we sing well, we get shit sound (sibilant alliteration/assonance - haha)! Show some competence Arts Fest handlers!
The primary school kids we quite lost coz the monitors were turned off. But they were still cute. Hee...

<4>
Ramy ramy... Hmmmm... I hope he's straight. So angie has a good chance for grabbing an ABC, he has such a typical American accent! Haha! Seems like a nice guy though. Did not speak to him much, he was sitting at the other corner of the table and i was late (as usual) due to track in the morning. Had a good amount of conversation with Tat tong though. Nice guy. Singapore A Cappella is lucky to have him back, sound recording and mixing, his forte. I'm sorry for the undeliberate spitting on your hand, just that sometimes Chua can be hilarious in a serious way. LOL!
Chua and Angie had singing lessons with John Lee (the local singer Dick Lee's brother - they only look alike at certain angles). Their house is HUGE! Long pool, about 50metres, 3 storeys, GREAT SCENERY! It's so inpiring! Makes you wana earn sooo much money and buy such a house ya know? Some people are just lucky to have met witha pot of gold i guess...

<5>
One word: ACHE!
Brief run up of events.

Wed:
Train at Woodlands, 300m sprint X 3 after lots and lots of Ms Lee's drills and managed to clock a much better time than one of my earlier timing. Great! ^_^ Then we had our normal bread and drinks brought by Mr Wong and we went for lunch at Vista point. The food was actually good. Bought drinks and the kids' biscuit - i finally knew what was it called: ICE GEM.
Went back to IJ, then we had our study time - most of us fell asleep though. and Ming Bang, Jade, Izyan were all munching on ice gems, who knew such a cheap and inferior good can bring such satisfaction. Then it was the "Easy run" in the late afternoon. Sprinters 30mins, Distance peeps 1hour. Mr Chen wasn't there to push us though, so our pace was actually quite slow - it was infact an EASY run compared to the one we are gonna have the next day.

Thurs:
My Calves ache like hell!!! Probably not used to doing distance running anymore, so a sudden start created all this problems. Shit, i need to do mileage.
Morning at Woodlands. Did the pyramid (80, 100, 110,110, 100, 80m). And all the drills of course. Then we had our breakfast the the track and head back to IJ for talk on mental skills, biological factors for different engery systems.
Remember PPTT: Physiological, Pschological, Techincal, Tactical (someone said, Tai Kou - Hilarious la!). It was quite useful actually. The of course study time then followed by a estimated 7 km run. This one Mr Chen paced us. Shiong ah! And my calves were aching so bad that i had to stop a few times before I continued.
Took a bath then it was dinner time!. Pizza hut! Yum... Then we went on to watch Chariots of Fire - a movie which inspired Mr Wong to get his christian name Eric. It was an old movie but was actually nice. ^_^ Then a break and we went on to watch COACH CARTER! Great movie. Quote, " they are Student Athletes. 'Student' comes first" , "give me 500 suicides & 500 push-ups".. We were joking about it all morning today.
Everyone was still aching and the "deep-heat" muscle ache cream was passed around like all the time.
Then we head up to the dance studio for our night's rest. Supposed to have lights out by 2230, but Coach Carter was too cool to be missed. So we had lights out at 0030, technically. We stayed up for sometime and told ghost stories and tried to scare one another. The 6 boys were actually so scared that we, orginally placed out things at different corners of the large room, actually gathered to one corner and slept together, for the fear of our own ghost stories. WE'RE SUCH LOSERS LA! Lol.. So in the end, we slept at 0116. It was really fun!

Friday:
Muscle ache!
Training morning. Did relay passing today at CCK stadium which supposed to be exclusively ours, but at the end of the day, so many schools were there training - Raffles, Cedar, Cat high, Hwa Chong. So bloody irritating. But it was all well. We are still tending to our injuries and aches, but it was actually fun. The aches are worth the camp. So here ends Track Camp.


- Jho. Ache. Rehearsal. Father's day dinner. Ache-relieve cream.

Yeah!

Yeah!

The person actually initiated an MSN convo with me! Whoohoo~ I thought i was being ignored! I know i know... you guys must be thinking, " WTF! L O S E R, what does that say? Looooser!" But hey, i'm such a love fool - always yearning for the simple yet romantic and meaningful things in life.

Life goes on

I finally got back to the gym today. What a sense of accomplishment! Going tomorrow morn again before William Blake's make-up lesson and rehearsals ALL THE WAY at Pasir Ris Primary - Goodness me! *Random Thought: Nice song on Class 95 now. The Corrs - All the love in the world*

That reminds me. I gotta practice my DJ-hosting voice. "Good morning Innova! How's everyone doin' today? Alright then, let's move on to the next dedication by..... requesting for a song to go out to all innovians wishing them good luck and live happy! I think i shall take that advice for myself. Haha. So here's The Corrs with All the love in the world... *music plays* "

-Jho. Sleep. Gym. Lesson. Rehearsal. The OC!