Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Name suggestions for my brass octet from the following people
"Fafafa", "The Beautiful Sounds of 8 Instruments Playing Together" - Yunshu
"Octopus" - Charlotte
"Octopus", "Fafafa" - Deborah Joy Ong (omg why T__T)
okay anyone who can help me think of a name and convince me to adopt it for my brass octet and/or ode to VCH will get a bubble tea treat from me
jinjun at 21:43
Monday, October 19, 2009
going back to camp after a one week long break is dangerously depressing ):
then again it's going to be a short week, with an early parade tml, which means early release, and thursday hopefully can take half day off, and wed and fri got the engineer thingy, at least i wont be sianded waiting for time to pass! haha
jinjun at 21:34
Thursday, October 08, 2009
today's journey home was quite eventful! an exciting race between an SMRT167 and an SBS132
let the Singapore Grehnd Pricks begin!
the race begins when 132(blue) approaches the bend into upper thomson road in pole position while 167(red) is holding at the traffic light. square markers mark the point when 132 stopped and 167 almost seemed to be able to overtake with ease (and almost effectively winning the race at the thomson plaza bus stop when i can get off and hop onto 132, which will definitely call there) unfortunately some kuku has to press the bus stopping button 10m away from the bus stop.
132 gains a huge upper hand by going past the sin ming road junction just before the traffic light light turns red. sadly, red lights seemed to greet 167 at every junction along this stretch, giving 132 a humongous advantage.
the humongous lead makes catching up impossible. I take a gamble and pray that 167 can miraculously go ahead and reach far east plaza before 132 does. 132 keeps the lead for the entire thomson road stretch too.
132 encounters it's first major trap, the turn into whitley road (long slip road entry into PIE) where at peak hours involves a 2-cycle traffic light long queue. 167 manages to catch up and eventually overtake.
the two buses split up. 167 has the advantage of slightly less bus stops, but faces heavier traffic conditions at a major junction turning into moulmein road. 132 has the advantage of fairly clear traffic, fewer traffic lights, but faces a 2nd major trap when turning into scotts road.
the scott's road trap delays 132 alot. 167 reaches far east first! muahaha! and epic end to the Singapore Grehnd Pricks!
frankly, it was pretty nerve wrecking, high adrenaline and heart stopping race...
jinjun at 20:14
Sunday, October 04, 2009
wheeness the brass octet is coming along quite well XD
but i think i can expand a little more on the 1st subject? i'm not sure ut maybe i will..otherwise the whole thing is quite short!
went to some chinese restaurant thingum at Raffles Hotel (hoho) 7 course lunch for $12 yay!
the best chilli i've ever eatn in my life! it's only mildly spicy, but has
shirim shrimp paste in it so it's very fragrant and it goes well with almost anything!
the glass that is so cool because of it's shape! cute right!
OMM having exciting stuffs this and next year! i'm glad that i finally get to perform some of my dream works..like since sec 2/3 i've always wanted to play them :D OMM's good..realises many of my dreams (scheherazade and rach 2 were two of them)
last but not least! to my junior Rachel Phua! i hope you'll do well for the rest of your exams and performing with you has been excellent experience (:
i still look weird with the flugel dont i?
and before i end off this post, i would like to share this with everyone:
a random conversation:
1: Do you speak English?
2: Yes!
1: Name?
2: Abdul al-Rhazib.
1: Sex?
2: Three to five times a week.
1: No, no...I mean male or female?
2: Yes, male, female, sometimes camel.
1: Holy cow!
2: Yes, cow, sheep, animals in general.
1: But isn't that hostile?
2: Horse style, doggy style, any style!
1: Oh dear!
2: No, no! Deer run too fast...
happy laughing :D
oh and lsat night was the first Mid-Autumn Festival in which i didnt see the moon, but it didnt matter (:
jinjun at 11:42
Monday, September 28, 2009
now when i look back in time, i realised what Dr Lee Tian Tee said during JCBandfest was a very sad reality:
"They don't practise. You have to practise them"yeah it's really sad. like REALLY sad only those with real passion and a sense of responsibility will ever practise their own parts before rehearsal.
and for RWinds, i wouldnt be surprised if most of the members are the kind who really come to RWinds to play music for fun only, and like sightread every single prac, in the end qianhui's rehearsals are like inefficient because he cant do much if the members themselves don't do their own preparation! and when u sightread, most of the time you wont bother about anything else other than your own score..u wont follow the conductor/listen out to other people and tune/be sensitive to musicality and balance.
yes it's true that people that have other things to do, other commitments, but still it's a responsibility that they've chosen to take, then why not do a good job? it's really sad to see that not the whole band isnt putting in the effort to prepare for their parts. if they don't turn up for rehearsals, but still come prepared, then at least they've taken the initiative to prepare their parts before coming!
| (12:34 AM) jinjun - Porsch: | but provided the 2 conditions
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| (12:34 AM) be thankful you: | how do u expect them to pract if u arent there to conduct |
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| (12:35 AM) jinjun - Porsch: | practising parts doesnt require a conductor -.-
since when does practising your part require a conductor |
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| (12:35 AM) be thankful you: | but u do realise tt the only time they practise is when someone conducts the pieces |
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The last Coda was decent, but is RWinds resigned to the fate of not being able to go beyond that? RWinds has a long way to go, but if RWinds is only aiming to be a alumni band where people just come together to play music for fun without any aim of standard, then i really have nothing to say.
only a few RWinds members will ever read my blog, and unfortunately they are not the ones who need to be woken up.
i'm surprised that i even care for RWinds! am i actually wasting my time and effort here?
i've neglected this blog for almost a month! i feel bad for it haha!
jinjun at 23:02
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
well today i was told straight in the face that i sounded bad
haha sometimes why i like staff selamat is because he's truthful and sincere to help me improve!
at least now i confirm my doubts about me sounding bad (i always thought so, but people claim otherwise..other than wenrong, who is tactful enough to keep quiet but agree when i tell him that i sound bad, and of course a certain coughahemcough that i shouldn't mention hurhur) my sis claims that i'm too hard on myself, but it's probably because i know i can do better and i'm either just suay (i seldom blame my bad playing on misfortune, although it DOES happen at times) or i'm not focussing enough
interestingly the past few days i've been reflecting alot on my current musical status. i may be a professional musician (by status, not by standard) but i'm not being like one. sometimes i feel that i'm not fulfilling my potential.
even for rachel's O-lvl thingum. i might not be the one being tested, but if i play badly i might affect her, and my poor playing can affect the invigilators overall impression and marks given too. i dont want to jeopardise her chances of doing well, but i still dont know why i am so inconsistent =\
i'm beginning to feel my musicianship slipping away from my life? i've already set my mind on doing music in my life, but why do i still have doubts about myself?
i rmb jinhao telling me this quote once that if u really want to be a musician, u cannot have second thoughts because to succeed as a musician you cannot have any doubts and your mind has to be really set on it.
i really hope i've chosen the right path for myself =\
man seriously someone has to wake me up
jinjun at 00:07
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
i kinda like this screenshot haha
waking up early to play soulstorm campaign with unlimited hammerhead gunships isnt exactly healthy, but now the campaign on hard is much more playable..hopefully..
waiting for rachel to come over, then going to do ravel again haha..argh my low notes ):
maybe i should make some progress with one of my ongoing low priority projects...none of them are in a rush or have any deadline, but i still like to keep them going
okay time to start work (:
jinjun at 08:56
Sunday, September 06, 2009
i never knew revisiting music could let u discover new stuff about it (:
anyway it has been a long time since i posted! haha i've been feeling really lazy to update this blog recently haha..oh well
guitar hero 5 has cool functions..u can even play on party mode and you wont die on it haha! tried it at pauls house! really fun hahaha
anyway after doing reflections on ode to VCH, as well as having garnered feedback from many people..there's this general agreement that french portrait was a better, more coherent, and more well composed work..and i can't help but agree! now let's zoom into both works and see why!
in french portrait, there were only 2 motifs, 1 main theme and 1 side theme which was undeveloped. result was a coherent work that managed to portray the imagery intended, with little amount of basic musical material..which equates to effecient and effective use of my motifs.
also the harmony was much more controlled, and i managed to actually sectionalise the piece and give it and arch form structure by using key centres (C - G - devt - G - C) plus i used simple harmonies, yet i still managed to give the work life..equates to effective use of harmony
basically, without realising the good i've done, i actually fulfilled a recent dream a year ago..to create beauty with simplicity.
then we move on to ode to VCH
it was supposed to be a proof that i have grown as a composer, to have improved over the year, with a better grasp of harmony and musica material usage. but then everything just went wrong
let's begin with motifs. now the idea of this ode, was not to create any imagery..it was just music to be appreciated on it's own..much like our two overtures by dr kelly tang. what i requested was for various people to donate motifs and i collect them all, and try and build themes with these motifs, or to create a collage of motifs (like how debussy does for some of his works)
okay so mistake number one was the idea itself! now building a collage of motifs could have sounded like an easy job, but it meant there was going to be a huge problem with coherency of the work, which i did sense during the composition progress, but i thought at first it was just the usual composition paranoia. but after gathering comments my worst fear was confirmed haha! until a few nights ago i realised what debussy did to his collage that i didnt which allowed his to sound more coherent, which brings us to the next point.
harmony. what my piece lacked was sectionalism defined by harmony. this unfortunately destroyed whatever chance of the potential coherency that can be produced in 6 minutes of music containing many motifs, many side motifs and many themes because of the amount of permutations of the motifs to produce various themes.
and speaking of harmony, i was too experimental and too daring in using interesting non key centered harmonies this time round. this resulted in complicated harmonies that don't flow well, and dont give a strong sense of direction. after all it is better to let the listener expect something, then deny him of it to keep his interest aroused, rather than to let him be lost.
well there is ONE good thing i've gotten out of the composition of ode to VCH. that is i have learnt my lessons (the hard way, unfortunately) at least now i have a clear idea of what to do and what not to do!
today is self-criticism day yay!
jinjun at 18:46
Friday, August 21, 2009
ahhhhh i wish i had a camera with noise control like guanwei's!!!!
this morning's celestial shooting was quite disappointing because i saw so much but captured so little due to bad luck and lousy placement (just like the last time, but the last time i captured 14 constellations, which is way more than this morning's 4)
anyway i'm glad to announce that ode to VCH is at it's final touch up stages! cant wait to hear rwinds play (:
what i need now is a name for it! haha reminds me of the french portrait problem i had last year!
victorian ode sounds funny...please give me suggestions pple (:
performing my 2 favourite rachmaninoff works tonight (: i'm really happy! i just hope i dont emo and cry during the 3rd mvt because i almost did during the rehearsal???? felt really silly though ahhhh
and i'm going to get laughed at by keyun coz of my hair D: eeee faster grow back to normal mannnn
off to get into the rachmaninoff mood (:
jinjun at 14:04
Thursday, August 13, 2009
i realised i havent posted here for a very long time haha!
national day was a blast! i've got so many pictures to show but i'm just plain lazy to upload them all here hehe..there's always facebook! laods of pictures (:
i've really lost a sense of blogging hhahaha
ode to VCH is almost done! just left with this last 30/40 or so bars! haha but i really wonder if rwinds will be able to play it to it's full potential, but oh well we'll see how it goes!
as long as they dont do the conserving shit, they'll be fine!
jinjun at 10:31
Monday, August 03, 2009
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| (7:34 PM) keyun: | put a plastic bag over your head! |
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talk about epic
cant wait for rwinds/table tennis this saturday!
busy august concert season man..i'm so glad i have my saturdays freed up :D
wanted to post some renee photoshoot pictures, but she'll slaughter me, so i shant! but she was a really good model! go for her recital to see her pretty face on the programme/poster xD
yay only left with the actual NDP :D
okay off to do some arranging (:
jinjun at 10:17
Monday, July 27, 2009
i was on the brink of falling asleep when the sounds of my sister coming home woke me up..rawr lucky her she took SQ 15 home!!!! that's a 747! okay i MUST grab a ticket on a SQ 747 flight sometime soon before they disappear!!!!
i dont know why i'm posting this at 2 am but argh somehow i cant sleep anymore after being woken up from my transition into sleep mode ):
i'm going to die for HQ BO duty and parade tml man, i mean, later..oh well i swear that taking long naps in afternoons can be damaging to one's sleep cycle!
okay i'm going to go back and try and sleep again...
jinjun at 01:55
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
hmmm singapore's next significant eclipse event would be a partial one on 3rd august 2016, starting at 7.22am, maximum at 8.23am with magnitude 0.89, which is even better than this year's CNY eclipse of magnitude o.8! (see my january archives! i took pictures!)
and we will get totality for an annular eclipse on 26th december 2019!!! starts at 11.26am local time, maximum at 1.23pm (whoa nice timing) with magnitude of 0.97! totality is going to last for 2min 6 seconds...
haha and our next total eclipse is october 7th 2135 so i'll be happily lying in my coffin by then -.-
haha today was a fun day (:
jinjun at 17:07
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
i wanted to blog about quite alot of stuffs, but i kinda forgot suddenly argh
i'm glad that i'm getting a $100 wedding gig for brass quintet next year thanks to nizam!
and hopefully some money for this arrangement thing yuting asked me to do!
for some reason, last saturday's merry-go-round felt really special to me, because i pushed myself beyong my mental limits, beared blisters and a really really bad corn, and managed to see heart shaped fireworks, which totally pushed me on beyond the 3rd round (and reminded me of you (: )
oh well got NE3 tickets for my parents! green sector though..
and wow nelson is already promoted to a LCP! he must treat us man!!!!
time to work on my rwinds premiere..it's beginning to take a better shape!
jinjun at 19:18
Sunday, July 19, 2009
haha dang i feel bad i've neglected my blog for quite some time!
anyway these days i've been so engrossed in work/slacking too much such that i cant blog!
oh well i think it's high time i throw in some pictures again
hahaha guess who the lyricist is =P
deborah and kimbery got bored so they decided to put a heart above my food...food of love huh! do i have to play on =p
square watermelons!!! (that were U.P. $220, $199 on offer)
deborah acting cute with her bottle!
look at the prices! $89 for a bunch of grapes yay!
sgbandfusion addicts who are going to say byebye to shichun because he's going airbourne hoho!!!! gd luck in commandos dude!
good one -.-
up!
okay i'm going to carry on writing ode to VCH or else it'll never be done!
jinjun at 10:59
Sunday, July 05, 2009
keyun says:
*i don't think its a break.. cos i can't remember what its for
[Fanfare] jinjun needs to reflect on how he managed to perform better than normal today o-----iii-------<() says:
*then isit a crack
keyun says:
*but might be just a crack
[Fanfare] jinjun needs to reflect on how he managed to perform better than normal today o-----iii-------<() says:
*OMG
keyun says:
*HAHA
[Fanfare] jinjun needs to reflect on how he managed to perform better than normal today o-----iii-------<() says:
*HAHA
*WTH
keyun says:
*I TYPED FIRSTTT
[Fanfare] jinjun needs to reflect on how he managed to perform better than normal today o-----iii-------<() says:
*I SAID IT FIRST
*NOOOOO
keyun says:
*AHH
i dunno why i recently keep posting msn convos xD
today i played better than my normal cracky self during sectionals..i'm still puzzled and i cannot find out what made me perform better D:
jinjun at 23:22
MAR: (3:27 AM)
carved in stone
MAR: (3:27 AM)
=x
hiya999: (3:27 AM)
HAHAHAHA
hiya999: (3:27 AM)
stone what
cheeken: (3:27 AM)
OM
MAR: (3:27 AM)
okay.
cheeken: (3:27 AM)
G
MAR: (3:28 AM)
MADE OF STONE.
MAR: (3:28 AM)
yeah
cheeken: (3:28 AM)
the mar statue
MAR: (3:28 AM)
like
hiya999: (3:28 AM)
lol
MAR: (3:28 AM)
ME.
MAR: (3:28 AM)
=.=
MAR: (3:28 AM)
LOL!
hiya999: (3:28 AM)
I KNOW
MARble
epic right -.-
jinjun at 04:08
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
you know sometimes there are people who cant help but waste that few seconds of my life?
| (11:05 PM) [I LOVE RJCSB] y: | JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| (11:05 PM) [RWinds] jinjun: | ?
my name only got 2 Js
relax |
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| (11:05 PM) [I LOVE RJCSB] y: | I CANT
THIS IS SUPER IMPT AND URGENT
LISTEN
LISTEN |
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| (11:05 PM) [I LOVE RJCSB] y: | LISTEN
LOOK
EH ARE |
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| (11:05 PM) [RWinds] jinjun: | what |
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| (11:05 PM) [I LOVE RJCSB] y: | U
THREE
OPS I MEAN THERE |
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| (11:06 PM) [RWinds] jinjun: | yes i'm here-.- |
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| (11:06 PM) [I LOVE RJCSB] y: | NO U MUST BE THERE NOT HERE |
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| (11:06 PM) [RWinds] jinjun: | huh |
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| (11:06 PM) [I LOVE RJCSB] y: | HAHA OK WHATEVER |
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| (11:06 PM) [RWinds] jinjun: | wth -.-
i smack u |
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| (11:06 PM) [I LOVE RJCSB] y: | THIS IS |
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| (11:06 PM) [RWinds] jinjun: | WHAT LA |
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| (11:06 PM) [I LOVE RJCSB] y: | V IMPT |
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| (11:06 PM) [RWinds] jinjun: | JSUT SAY |
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| (11:06 PM) [I LOVE RJCSB] y: | NONO U CAN ONLY SMACK SAM, HUG, YOUR SIS
HAHA OMG I'M LAME |
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| (11:06 PM) [RWinds] jinjun: | -_______________- |
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| (11:06 PM) [I LOVE RJCSB] y: | EH I WANNA TELL U !
LISTEN! |
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| (11:06 PM) [RWinds] jinjun: | WHAT LAAAAAA |
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| (11:06 PM) [I LOVE RJCSB] y: | U'RE NOT PAYING ATTN
I'M GG OFF TO SLP ALR
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but oh well..
happy SAF day peeps!
i hate last minute changes but oh well have to live with them!
yay long break coming up :D
jinjun at 21:54
Monday, June 29, 2009
haha i've neglected my blog these days ):
nvm time for picture spam
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the tune of we are one got stuck in my head, and since alfri created these lyrics i might as well just realise them in black and white (:
NDP rehearsal pics in no particular order!
batch 79 band A people plus extra timothy XD
red lions!!!!
crowded backstage!!!
red lions again! i used to love them when i was a kid!
hahaha video with green screen!!!! havent add in backdrop image xD
screen testing..the eye idea (hurhur) is quite interesting but i have no idea what it means till today
yay stage transformation!
fanfare trumpeters getting ready!
me and my Eb o---iii------<()
leopard tank! dont mess with these guys man the firepower they have is oO
IR!
this is my view from the stage during the arrival of the president..scary D: imagine the parade ground filled with contingents, and then the grandstand filled with audience..man how to handle the stress???
all the mirrors on the stage backdrop
contingents marching out to the tune of "We are one" (see above)
haha i'm lazy to continue updating =\
oh well SAF day is coming up! hopefully i don't screw up?
which also means the end to my 1356 KFC days..now left with every saturday only..which is still quite bad but oh well...
i need to salvage my horrible playing ><
jinjun at 22:24
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
oh well this week and next week will be a really hectic week with SAF day preparations and all ):
meanwhile i did go out armed with my cam on sunday, got a few nice stuffs (:
our good friend, XL version (:
random private business jet that came in..quite funky ah!
9v-SWO..the rank quite well designed ah!
the marina bay IR is coming up quite fast (:
(and to you-know-who, i swear i didnt do anything funny on the rooftop with abtzy!!!)
this lego masterpiece describes dunno what awareness to normality blah blah but i couldnt really understand it..really abstract art made using lego hahaha
hmm will start writing soon..maybe if thursday nothing on i'll take one whole day off? just to start composing..it's high time anyway (: borrowed schoenberg's book on harmony..should help me alot! xD
no i'm not going to wrtie 12-tone in case u were wondering!
oh well off to prepare, pack and go off to camp!
jinjun at 20:54
