unhappy

Not happy right now.

Practice today was... never mind. I though going through all the old songs would be easy and fun.

Fat hope. Me and Wen Jie were switched to 1st Clar for all the songs except Ocean and Midsummer. THEN, we were supposed to SIGHT-READ all of them. "Spanish Fever" was fine, because 1st, 2nd, 3rd Clar are all the same. "Bandwagon"... now I've got running notes instead of melody. Could sight-read about a quarter of it at the fast tempo that our SL decided to put it at. "A Midsummer's Night Dream" was terrible. I KNOW we've played it before, BUT it still has 5 flats/6 sharps!!! I couldn't remember the fingering at all, and got scolded. "Princess Mononokoe" was a nice song, but I still couldn't sight-read it. "Gershwin!" (now I remember) is a fun song! But still could only sight-read about half of it.

Because of that, the seniors were very unhappy.

HELLO. This is the FIRST day that we've recieved all these scores. WHY can't you let us practice it instead of judging us on our FIRST, SIGHT-READ performance!!! I mean, the whole purpose of sight-reading is to let us get a feel to the song, not to learn the song after running it a few times through. And you've played them before, you know how it sounds like, but we don't.

Another thing.

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SL: "Do you know whose Gershwin?"

Everyone except Sec 4s: "No."

*SL looks incredulously at BM*

BM: "He's the guy who composed Rhapsody Blue!"

*everyone except Sec 4s looks confused*

*SL and BM buries heads in scores*

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Ok, maybe that was a little exaggerated.

But I honestly feel that that was quite unfair. How are we supposed to know who is Gershwin. Do YOU know who is Gershwin?

Maybe its just me again, not playing well. Maybe I'm being stupid criticizing others when I play so lousily.

But still.

And our clarinet tutor is SOOOOO nice! He bought us PIZZA!!! TWO WHOLE PIZZAS!!! From Canadian Pizza 2 (two) 4 (for) 1 (one). Wow.

But still.

"Spanish Fever". "Bandwagon". "A Midsummer's Night Dream". "Princess Mononoke". "Gershwin!".

That's a lot to practice before Wednesday.

Hey that reminds me, no school on Monday because RI sports/musical (and uniformed? not sure) groups did so well (well at least we/they think so) in their competitions/SYFs that the Headmaster declared Monday a school holiday!

YAY!

And Tuesday's a public holiday (Labour Day)!

YAY!

And Wednesday's back to school!

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Never mind.

I think I'll start a interesting quote section.

Whoever I quote, if you have any objections please inform me and I shall delete that quote.

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I AM SO RANDOM!!!


--- interesting quotes ---

"Dialogue Obeservation Test & Assessment; DOTA"

Rating: Ahahaha! (3 stars)