So today was teacher's day. and meeting day!!
ok fine i came to school not for the teachers....i think.....
Vicky came along with me (well he can walk... so i guess his back problem would be over soon....) ... actually Javis asked but then... bing bang bong..... him and the lazinesss disease many of us here have just because "not many people are going" environment is there... only vicky and i went. Though we wanted to call more but decided that it might be too troublesome for the rest to come down. After all.. how many of us even "had good teachers"?
I met up with mdm sung (wow... she looks better now....seriously...) and mrs teng (Go, Teng, Go!), mr. yeo, mdm aini... mdm rina... sir latiff and mam raps.... and maybe a few more..
And it seems like ms. tan and mr. chan loves to diao me. well... just because im a media student maybe....
and of course.. those ex-students who come back to school with all these funny hairstyles and artificial smells used in candy manufacturing plus tattoos and ripped shirts and a ton of cosmetics (and dressings that dont fit some of them especially..)
its like.. jsut because ITE or Poly allows them to dye their hair, wear skimpy clothings and all that... they HAVE to do it. (okay so ITE has a uniform... oops)
I mean just look at Erwin and Vicky... they just go there with NATURAL coloured hair, adequetely applied hair cosmetics and matching dress attire.
And they look more approachable than most.
Well...
ANyways the meeeting with the NVSS NVP1 Prod Team (let's call them... NNPT... ) was short.. again.. sadly... due to the incorrect forseeing of constraints in time. So i passed some of them notes which i wrote and my sch textbook and a sample production paperwork.
I really hope they would complete all paperwork (script, shooting schedule, budget, etc. etc.) by this coming wednesday. but most importantly, ASSIGN ROLES for EACH OF THEM. .. so that i can pinpoint peple if anything doesnt go according to plan....
Currently i have 14 people under the prod team. That's a hefty load. Actually i think its to many as well.... maybe i should make two videos instead?
I spoke personally to some of them (HI SHERYL!!!) and tried to get them to think about handiling certain roles.....
The team must be shooting latest by..... end of next next week.
And then the final outcome of the video will be finished earliest three days after i receive their footages.
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So i met The Nerdies of 4e1 2005 today. Saw Daryl, Tianyu, Ming Hai, Zhen Zhen and chee kern. did i miss anyone? hmm.... oh well....
So i guess te government is doing some work in breaking the stereotype that ITEs are for idiots..... first they changed the name of ITE to ITE College (wow!) and then they change the JC uniform of Yishun (tts a funny way to put it) to something about 90% similar to ITE uniforms (inclusive of GST and GDP and income tax.... well..)
Hey baby Tianyu has long hair... now i can pull it.. lolz... handsome lad...
Still the usual arse he is... lolz.... ooo and i just found out Zhen Zhen likes Henry Aw!!! OMG OMG!!!! well fat chance, Zhong Guo Nu Ren~~!!!
Played a bit on the school's grand piano just now.... i didnt really like thesound of it.... it was just too muffled (ok fine maybe i should open up the piano's cover) and dull... just like the barber;s upright piano in his shop.
Vicky and i were supposed to meet Donald for a bit after that but then Nesh said it was off....
oo oo i saw hui shi just now!!! with her hui wen and xin xiu~~~=p=p=p=p.... lolz... i love teasing them....
And hui shi's NOT anaroxic. She eats a lot but never grows.
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i spent my day with Erwin and Vicky. After sch we went over to the barber shop. I wasnted toplay the piano. The barber was feeling lethargic, the air con was on.. Erwin just grabbed the Xbox nearby and started playing...
Vicky was quick as well..
After i fiddled around a bit... i asked the barber to play me some classical... so he did... after he turned down the volume of the TV...
but then....
while he was playing... i jsut couldnt sense that exact same brightness he was playing his pieces a few days ago... it sounded lazy and slow. The other two were less than mindful to the fact that someone was playing music. Erwin was sitting on the same chair as the barber... viky and win were changing games on the Xbox.... talking.. whispering... though Erwin did appreciate the music that was playing. Apparently i found out that he too wants to play the piano.. he WATNS to take up a course.
Evrything didnt sound right that day.... the piano just sounded blunt. Maybe it was out of tune.... maybe it wasnt against the wall... maybe maybe...
Then erwin started fiddling with the piano... pressing two keys.. then two lkeys... then two keys... and pressing here and there.. i can see that he WANTS to make music.... it's as if he has that little something and wants everyone to see it. (ok maybe that didnt sound too right but u get what i mean.)
I kept prompting him to close the piano cover cos we still gotta go to Chong Pang to look for some piano courses (there were two music shcools). And when he closed the piano cover, the barber said,"I think the game sounds better than the music."
well...
So off we went to BLK 102 to find some piano courses. Well we found one...and it wasnt up to erwin's liking. He said that the rooms were too small (2 by 3 metres only) and the guy at counter looked ill-informed and influent. Though the courses were cheap (SGD68 per month), we still didnt feel convinced. Even the guy at the counter commented on how a student of theirs are playing in the room nearby: rigid pressing of the keys, fumbling inconsistent pacing with playing. And the studet was way over grade 8.
So no...
But we found another school... Cristofoni Music School.
Not a bad deco to begin with. Spacious (well... at least... three of us can walk side by side to the counter.) and good aircon.
The lady was cold towards us first.... but when we started talkin and i mentioned that i'm in FSV, she just got warmer and erwin and our cheekiness got to her. I asked a few questions (non-sensical ones too.. like... whther they have Steinway pianos; the worl'ds finest pianos - Shaun) and she started giving out brochures and some promotions going on (like a 4k Suzuki piano which can be played SILENT... with the sound transferred to headphones.... and i had to ask her how does the electronics work.... -.-) and even got out of her seat and showed us the piano that will be used by students when i prompted her.
This time i find the notes brighter and much more responsive and a lighter touch to it than the Lippmann in the barber and Grand in school. I think i like the sound.
Fees are SGD252 for three months (a term).
i liekd the place.. but Erwin was still not happy abt the environment as it wasnt "condusive" for learnin and that we should go to Plaze Singapura or Bugis instead to learn beause the place "was just renovated" and stuff.
I think i would have to disagree on that. because i think that i'd rather play in a small room with my piano alone rather than in a large reverberating room with many other pianos clinking about (or worse.... with earphones on!).
And i also have to disagree with him that we should play without learning theory because "theory's only for performing". He actually mocked me when i said that i wanna learn at least till Grade 8 for piano. He mocked,"Oh ya la now u wanna be a pianist go play to make money la? now you want to perform la?"
And out came all those weird names for my Music CD.
I think that going higher in learning something will just bring you more satisfaction. I dont think i want to be stuck playin three chords all my life.
Oh dear.. i think i'm gonna adopt playing piano the same way that i am doing with my models now.
So then we went to Sun Plaza to look for the "big brother" of all music schools... Yamaha.
Shaun recommends Yamaha for the love of the universe! I called him... and said i was up for Cristofoni...... and he proved the Russel Peters theory abt Chinese peopel giving the longest "no" in the world.
Shaun went,"NOOOoooooooooooo~~..... NOOooo audi... dont...."
Shaun doesnt like Cristofoni because of their approach to teaching music. But then again.. ... this bright boy was taught under Yamaha.... though he's under private tutor now.
I dont really liek the Yamaha School in Sunplaza.... (oh yar.. there was this organ player playing at the place where the instruments are up for sale... he was on headphons.... i think he was playing some dramatic pieces..a nd he was swinging abhut.. swaying here and there... doing the "Phantom of the Opeara" acting... throwing arms here and there in his sec sch uniform and we were stadning next to him giggling. But omg u should see one of those organs... they are freaking complicated...i think there were a dozen foot pedals!) .... and the environment this time, to me, was not inviting... i felt like i was in a kindergraden play house. The receptionist also wasnt that helpful nor enthusiastic at all. Is like she has some thing against those who mention the word,"Beginner's course..."
I tried some Yamaha pianos on display there (No, mam, i didn t see the "do not play" sign...i swear) becasue a few moments before, Shaun was playing some pieces for me over the phone (and some more on the way home! whee!!) and recommends Yamaha.
I dont really like the Yamaha pianos as welll.... even though they sound real sweet.... because touch-wise.... it's just too shallow for me. But then again.. maybe tt's how it's meant to be. Ina few days time, shaun and i will be going around Piano Shopping (audi shops'? oh my...) so maybe i'll learn more there.
And he gave me that long "no" again when i asked if i should buy that Suzuki piano.
oh well...
My dad accepted my decision for piano lessons.
The house now is currently being packed into boxes to be sent to the Johr house. Soon, my room will have less shelves and more place for sex! uh.. i mean.... flex!..... yeah...
All the furnitures are going, really... leaving only the dinner table. The TV? i guess so too... i dont use it anyways... =p
How stingy of me.
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Erwin once again mocked me and i thnk i really couldnt take it when he says that keyboards and pianos are the same.
I told him that keyboards and pianos are not the same because keyboards are "fake" (as in, they are MIDI... electronical...).
Adn he goes on being sarcastic and saying that yeah.. keyboards need to be played with drumsticks and that we can easily switch to piano on keyboard because "pianos all sound the same".
i thnk that through my anal-retentive hunt for a piano proves all these wrong.
I'm just weary of new technology.....I'm weary of how technology could steal away the classic feelings... liek for example pseudo culture as wwe have learnt in geography... its just unfair... that the uniqueness and authenticity of an artform has been degraded to something that can be bought, spoiled, and replaced again.
Just liek how the olden wars were fought, i just hink that real pianos are romantic. To me, at least.. when someone is playing a powerful piece, i can imagine the hammers bouncing and reflecting back an forth on the stirngs inside the piano. All that mechanical movements are something im truly amazed at. Listeners and players as well can FEEL the vibrations of the piano in the tunes being played. Digital crap cant do that.
That is why i dont htink i think highly of keyboard or E-music players than with REAL orchestras with REAL timpani drums and violins.
Maybe that's why i like my things done the "old fashioned way". otherwise what i do wouldnt be so special anymore... cause after all.. with all these machines coming about make things TOO easy to produce... anyting you do can actually be DUPLICATED by someone else.
But then again... i'm try not to be that anal-retentive to do everything without the help of new technology.
and i absolutely LOVE trance and techno music.
Rather than crap noise they call RnB and Rap and Hip Hop.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ermm oh yar.. ghosts stories?
well...
some of my classmates were apparently disturbed by some unseen beings nside the Audio Recording Studio...
Microphones dropping (seriously shaun, i saw that mic drop unnaturally) adn audio levels on the meter jumping up and down WITH NO SOUND BEING HEARD... ooo...
actualy.. during my recording session as well.. i kept seeing one of my audio channel lights flickering a bit... a sign that something is playihg at a a low level... i up-ed the volume and still cant hear anything. oh well...
ok fine i came to school not for the teachers....i think.....
Vicky came along with me (well he can walk... so i guess his back problem would be over soon....) ... actually Javis asked but then... bing bang bong..... him and the lazinesss disease many of us here have just because "not many people are going" environment is there... only vicky and i went. Though we wanted to call more but decided that it might be too troublesome for the rest to come down. After all.. how many of us even "had good teachers"?
I met up with mdm sung (wow... she looks better now....seriously...) and mrs teng (Go, Teng, Go!), mr. yeo, mdm aini... mdm rina... sir latiff and mam raps.... and maybe a few more..
And it seems like ms. tan and mr. chan loves to diao me. well... just because im a media student maybe....
and of course.. those ex-students who come back to school with all these funny hairstyles and artificial smells used in candy manufacturing plus tattoos and ripped shirts and a ton of cosmetics (and dressings that dont fit some of them especially..)
its like.. jsut because ITE or Poly allows them to dye their hair, wear skimpy clothings and all that... they HAVE to do it. (okay so ITE has a uniform... oops)
I mean just look at Erwin and Vicky... they just go there with NATURAL coloured hair, adequetely applied hair cosmetics and matching dress attire.
And they look more approachable than most.
Well...
ANyways the meeeting with the NVSS NVP1 Prod Team (let's call them... NNPT... ) was short.. again.. sadly... due to the incorrect forseeing of constraints in time. So i passed some of them notes which i wrote and my sch textbook and a sample production paperwork.
I really hope they would complete all paperwork (script, shooting schedule, budget, etc. etc.) by this coming wednesday. but most importantly, ASSIGN ROLES for EACH OF THEM. .. so that i can pinpoint peple if anything doesnt go according to plan....
Currently i have 14 people under the prod team. That's a hefty load. Actually i think its to many as well.... maybe i should make two videos instead?
I spoke personally to some of them (HI SHERYL!!!) and tried to get them to think about handiling certain roles.....
The team must be shooting latest by..... end of next next week.
And then the final outcome of the video will be finished earliest three days after i receive their footages.
---------------------------------------------------------
So i met The Nerdies of 4e1 2005 today. Saw Daryl, Tianyu, Ming Hai, Zhen Zhen and chee kern. did i miss anyone? hmm.... oh well....
So i guess te government is doing some work in breaking the stereotype that ITEs are for idiots..... first they changed the name of ITE to ITE College (wow!) and then they change the JC uniform of Yishun (tts a funny way to put it) to something about 90% similar to ITE uniforms (inclusive of GST and GDP and income tax.... well..)
Hey baby Tianyu has long hair... now i can pull it.. lolz... handsome lad...
Still the usual arse he is... lolz.... ooo and i just found out Zhen Zhen likes Henry Aw!!! OMG OMG!!!! well fat chance, Zhong Guo Nu Ren~~!!!
Played a bit on the school's grand piano just now.... i didnt really like thesound of it.... it was just too muffled (ok fine maybe i should open up the piano's cover) and dull... just like the barber;s upright piano in his shop.
Vicky and i were supposed to meet Donald for a bit after that but then Nesh said it was off....
oo oo i saw hui shi just now!!! with her hui wen and xin xiu~~~=p=p=p=p.... lolz... i love teasing them....
And hui shi's NOT anaroxic. She eats a lot but never grows.
--------------------------------------------------------------
i spent my day with Erwin and Vicky. After sch we went over to the barber shop. I wasnted toplay the piano. The barber was feeling lethargic, the air con was on.. Erwin just grabbed the Xbox nearby and started playing...
Vicky was quick as well..
After i fiddled around a bit... i asked the barber to play me some classical... so he did... after he turned down the volume of the TV...
but then....
while he was playing... i jsut couldnt sense that exact same brightness he was playing his pieces a few days ago... it sounded lazy and slow. The other two were less than mindful to the fact that someone was playing music. Erwin was sitting on the same chair as the barber... viky and win were changing games on the Xbox.... talking.. whispering... though Erwin did appreciate the music that was playing. Apparently i found out that he too wants to play the piano.. he WATNS to take up a course.
Evrything didnt sound right that day.... the piano just sounded blunt. Maybe it was out of tune.... maybe it wasnt against the wall... maybe maybe...
Then erwin started fiddling with the piano... pressing two keys.. then two lkeys... then two keys... and pressing here and there.. i can see that he WANTS to make music.... it's as if he has that little something and wants everyone to see it. (ok maybe that didnt sound too right but u get what i mean.)
I kept prompting him to close the piano cover cos we still gotta go to Chong Pang to look for some piano courses (there were two music shcools). And when he closed the piano cover, the barber said,"I think the game sounds better than the music."
well...
So off we went to BLK 102 to find some piano courses. Well we found one...and it wasnt up to erwin's liking. He said that the rooms were too small (2 by 3 metres only) and the guy at counter looked ill-informed and influent. Though the courses were cheap (SGD68 per month), we still didnt feel convinced. Even the guy at the counter commented on how a student of theirs are playing in the room nearby: rigid pressing of the keys, fumbling inconsistent pacing with playing. And the studet was way over grade 8.
So no...
But we found another school... Cristofoni Music School.
Not a bad deco to begin with. Spacious (well... at least... three of us can walk side by side to the counter.) and good aircon.
The lady was cold towards us first.... but when we started talkin and i mentioned that i'm in FSV, she just got warmer and erwin and our cheekiness got to her. I asked a few questions (non-sensical ones too.. like... whther they have Steinway pianos; the worl'ds finest pianos - Shaun) and she started giving out brochures and some promotions going on (like a 4k Suzuki piano which can be played SILENT... with the sound transferred to headphones.... and i had to ask her how does the electronics work.... -.-) and even got out of her seat and showed us the piano that will be used by students when i prompted her.
This time i find the notes brighter and much more responsive and a lighter touch to it than the Lippmann in the barber and Grand in school. I think i like the sound.
Fees are SGD252 for three months (a term).
i liekd the place.. but Erwin was still not happy abt the environment as it wasnt "condusive" for learnin and that we should go to Plaze Singapura or Bugis instead to learn beause the place "was just renovated" and stuff.
I think i would have to disagree on that. because i think that i'd rather play in a small room with my piano alone rather than in a large reverberating room with many other pianos clinking about (or worse.... with earphones on!).
And i also have to disagree with him that we should play without learning theory because "theory's only for performing". He actually mocked me when i said that i wanna learn at least till Grade 8 for piano. He mocked,"Oh ya la now u wanna be a pianist go play to make money la? now you want to perform la?"
And out came all those weird names for my Music CD.
I think that going higher in learning something will just bring you more satisfaction. I dont think i want to be stuck playin three chords all my life.
Oh dear.. i think i'm gonna adopt playing piano the same way that i am doing with my models now.
So then we went to Sun Plaza to look for the "big brother" of all music schools... Yamaha.
Shaun recommends Yamaha for the love of the universe! I called him... and said i was up for Cristofoni...... and he proved the Russel Peters theory abt Chinese peopel giving the longest "no" in the world.
Shaun went,"NOOOoooooooooooo~~..... NOOooo audi... dont...."
Shaun doesnt like Cristofoni because of their approach to teaching music. But then again.. ... this bright boy was taught under Yamaha.... though he's under private tutor now.
I dont really liek the Yamaha School in Sunplaza.... (oh yar.. there was this organ player playing at the place where the instruments are up for sale... he was on headphons.... i think he was playing some dramatic pieces..a nd he was swinging abhut.. swaying here and there... doing the "Phantom of the Opeara" acting... throwing arms here and there in his sec sch uniform and we were stadning next to him giggling. But omg u should see one of those organs... they are freaking complicated...i think there were a dozen foot pedals!) .... and the environment this time, to me, was not inviting... i felt like i was in a kindergraden play house. The receptionist also wasnt that helpful nor enthusiastic at all. Is like she has some thing against those who mention the word,"Beginner's course..."
I tried some Yamaha pianos on display there (No, mam, i didn t see the "do not play" sign...i swear) becasue a few moments before, Shaun was playing some pieces for me over the phone (and some more on the way home! whee!!) and recommends Yamaha.
I dont really like the Yamaha pianos as welll.... even though they sound real sweet.... because touch-wise.... it's just too shallow for me. But then again.. maybe tt's how it's meant to be. Ina few days time, shaun and i will be going around Piano Shopping (audi shops'? oh my...) so maybe i'll learn more there.
And he gave me that long "no" again when i asked if i should buy that Suzuki piano.
oh well...
My dad accepted my decision for piano lessons.
The house now is currently being packed into boxes to be sent to the Johr house. Soon, my room will have less shelves and more place for sex! uh.. i mean.... flex!..... yeah...
All the furnitures are going, really... leaving only the dinner table. The TV? i guess so too... i dont use it anyways... =p
How stingy of me.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Erwin once again mocked me and i thnk i really couldnt take it when he says that keyboards and pianos are the same.
I told him that keyboards and pianos are not the same because keyboards are "fake" (as in, they are MIDI... electronical...).
Adn he goes on being sarcastic and saying that yeah.. keyboards need to be played with drumsticks and that we can easily switch to piano on keyboard because "pianos all sound the same".
i thnk that through my anal-retentive hunt for a piano proves all these wrong.
I'm just weary of new technology.....I'm weary of how technology could steal away the classic feelings... liek for example pseudo culture as wwe have learnt in geography... its just unfair... that the uniqueness and authenticity of an artform has been degraded to something that can be bought, spoiled, and replaced again.
Just liek how the olden wars were fought, i just hink that real pianos are romantic. To me, at least.. when someone is playing a powerful piece, i can imagine the hammers bouncing and reflecting back an forth on the stirngs inside the piano. All that mechanical movements are something im truly amazed at. Listeners and players as well can FEEL the vibrations of the piano in the tunes being played. Digital crap cant do that.
That is why i dont htink i think highly of keyboard or E-music players than with REAL orchestras with REAL timpani drums and violins.
Maybe that's why i like my things done the "old fashioned way". otherwise what i do wouldnt be so special anymore... cause after all.. with all these machines coming about make things TOO easy to produce... anyting you do can actually be DUPLICATED by someone else.
But then again... i'm try not to be that anal-retentive to do everything without the help of new technology.
and i absolutely LOVE trance and techno music.
Rather than crap noise they call RnB and Rap and Hip Hop.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ermm oh yar.. ghosts stories?
well...
some of my classmates were apparently disturbed by some unseen beings nside the Audio Recording Studio...
Microphones dropping (seriously shaun, i saw that mic drop unnaturally) adn audio levels on the meter jumping up and down WITH NO SOUND BEING HEARD... ooo...
actualy.. during my recording session as well.. i kept seeing one of my audio channel lights flickering a bit... a sign that something is playihg at a a low level... i up-ed the volume and still cant hear anything. oh well...
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