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Saturday, December 30, 2006

get in tune with my life

kitchen up, house painted, new gate installed, light at my piano installed to save energy. my house looks NEW. anyway, here's the updates.

28 dec
JAMMING!!! went with mervin (rhythm guitar), kenneth(singing and keyboard), crystal(singing), daniel(drums and keyboard), sean wee(lead guitar and drums), sean ri(lead and rhythm guitar) and me bro. made a bad decision to wear jeans just as crystal made a bad decision to wear birks. it was poring. walking in the rain is so emo-ish haha. went to some place that was alien to me. it sold guitars, girl's guitars too. the designs are so not me, all that shimmer and glitter makes me blind.

the jamming studio was quite small but quite cool at the same time. sean thought me how to adjust the knobs on the guitar and a bit on the amp 'cause he says that different amps do different things. we weren't really prepared so we played a few songs: one way, always and forever, great and mighty, bad day, perfect, chasing cars, wake me up when september ends and few other scraps(songs that we not played finished).

was really fun. was on the keyboards (yes there were 2!) most of the time except for always and forever where no one could do rhythm guitar and the intro in C except me (mervin practiced it in B) so i left kenneth with the keyboard (he told me he could read chords) but he couldn't change chords fast enough so ended playing the melody (sorry dude!). distortion on electric guitar combined with palm muting rocks man! first time i touched a electric guitar and actually played one of my favorite songs. the keyboards was cool. fully utilised them.

after that went with sean wee, me bro, mervin, benedict and daniel to a lot of guitar galleries. went to timothy (i think that was the name) saw this pretty acoustic guitar that had really nice sound. immediately fell in love with it, but when i saw the price tag, it was $10,500 which took my breath away. saw some other interesting guitars (i.e a 12 string one). saw some really cool keyboards too. tried it out and somehow inspired sean to learn piano. daniel thought i had a merit in grade 5 from the way i played, like in my dreams. i only had a pass. haha.

went dinner at carls jr. after that then help sean shop 4 christmas present. didn't have the time to get one i guess. couldn't find any in the end so went back home.

29 dec
went to avina's house to do eng project. the project is finished FINALLY. she then later joined cell group. yay! :) she had a fun time today as it was just games :) played 'who am i?', ultimate frisbee and 'pop the balloons on ure opponents before they pop yours' game. then went back to the room to watch the whole youth drama. I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT I WAS THAT BIMBOTIC. i can't even remember i learnt to act that bimbotic. *puke* so not me.

today
tuition in the morning. then did house chores for the rest of the day. how boring.

#rachel Rambling| 8:05 PM | 1 comments

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

get in tune with my life

THIS IS THE 100TH POST OF THIS BLOG.

my room is in the middle of painting. byebye boring blue and white, hello green and grey. soon my kitchen will be up, painting will be done in few days time, new gate will be coming in. my house is so dusty now so i'm blogging in my cousin's house.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!

spent the whole week painstakingly making dream catchers for christmas present. each dream catcher will talke approx 30 mins just to do the netting itself. had thanksgiving party at 525 on fri. wrapped my three trobolone bars like a gold bar. haha. i should have wrote there 99.9% swiss gold.

24 dec
the christmas event was Great! doing stage hands was damn fun. learnt some chinese along the way eg. emmanuel in chinese is yi man nei li (can't write the chienese characters here). stayed at the expo since 9.30am. the backstage became a lil like a campsite with some sick people lying down to rest, people doing makeup on their faces. was a lil bit like santa claus finding people to give presents to . after the whole thing went supper at the airport with a group of 20 other people. went back home at 1 plus.

going jamming with crystal, mervin, benedict, sean wee, me bro, daniel and kenneth this thurs. yay! i'm finally not the only girl in a jamming session. will be playing the keyboard and teaching kenneth as well. sean had better teach me how to adjust the knobs on the electric guitar to create the effect eg. distortion on the amp. it seems to me that it will be a learning jamming session.

photos coming soon.... bye!

#rachel Rambling| 12:44 PM | 0 comments

Monday, December 18, 2006

get in tune with my life

hi all!! haven't blogged for quite awhile. too many things are happening and i'm quite busy. here's what happened.

14 dec - the prize giving ceremony for the straits times national sch newspaper competition.
YAY! KC got merit + a INglish prize!!! way to go peeps!! we had better keep the et cetra alive.

15 dec
more rehersals for the starlight star bright thing. tomorrow is the actual day and i haven't got a hold of the bimbo thing. christmas presents are not done yet. oh dear.

16 dec
its here! starlight star bright, gen acts youth chrtistmas event. we spent the whole morning doing deco then we had the rehersals. the whole place looked GREAT!! after rehearsals was MAKEUP. oh no. haven't put makeup since k1 and that was like kids makeup. the makeup was very heavy. they also put fake eyelashes on mua. i went to the toilet to look at myself and OMG i almost couldn't recognise myself. i looked soooooooooo bimbotic. those fake eyelashes was so uncomfortable and a lot of people couldn't recognise me, including my mum and dad!! yeah, avina came and she couldn't recognise me too 'cause i look 10 years older and of course prettier. its like a makeover from nerd to chiobu (commented by avina and charmaine) the whole thing was a sucess. i managed to pull off the bimbo thing with GOD's help. somehow, i went up, acted, then exited and i just realized yay! after that went to LJS for supper with avina, dione, yiru, crystal, beatrice, and a lot more people. then walked home.

today
church as usual. christmas event rehersal. stage hands rock man! this year's one is made up of Aron (our leader), Big ben, jian zhou, mervin, kenneth, crystal, lijing and me!! got to know more people in our church. bonding was good!!

more soon. kitchen under renovation so i ain't got time to blog these days. toodles!

#rachel Rambling| 9:56 PM | 0 comments

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

get in tune with my life

tomorrow is the straits times national school's newspaper competition results. please pray for my team of people.

past 2 days was at the old folks home. had to do about the same stuff. yesterday was my last day there.

random here
'always and forever' by planet shakers is perfected :)
next thing to master: tapping
things that are mastered on guitar:
-chop
-power chords
-bar chords
-finger picking
-a few strumming patterns
-hammering
-pull offs
-palm muting
-playing dead notes
-bending
things that have yet to master on guitar:
-fast finger movements
-more fluent on improvisations
-tremolo
-tapping
-tuning without the electric tuner or any other instrument
-building up stamina for strumming faster songs
-new strumming patterns

how random.

#rachel Rambling| 2:11 PM | 0 comments

Saturday, December 09, 2006

get in tune with my life

photospread!

pretty sky from my block
nice angle of my guitarmy piano last time i polished it
my injured thumb (story later)

participated last year, this year, next year?
our first page
hahahahahahahahaha!
de- stressing ball for the competition

feet in the air on the skyride in sentosa.

sea from sentosa!

yup this is some pics from the last month.

went to the old folks home yesterday for CIP for guides. we were doing a lot of moping, sweeping and a bit of sewing. thats where i got my injured left thumb. here's what happened. i was clearing the dirty water from the mops with angela when both of us tried to carry it to dump the water into the sink. she lifted up the handle to get a better grip, not knowing that my left thumb was in the way, making my thumb clamped for a little but excruciating period of time and about one cm of skin scraped off. furthermore, it is near the contact area where i play my piano and use to play my guitar. so no guitar in about a week i guess :( well at least it wasn't my right hand or else i can't write properly. i still can train on my right hand but it will still be awkward. oh well.

full dress rehearsal tonight. toodles!

#rachel Rambling| 1:45 PM | 0 comments

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

get in tune with my life

hello dudes, haven't blogged for a long time. all that recent last minute arrangement and business dun leave me time on the computer to blog.

last wed
at the old folks home, did a lot of sewing and made a 2D christmas tree out of hangers for the home. was the captain's bright idea. it eventually worked. was asked to play the piano in the corner for the old folks but it so out of tune, the moment i started playing i stopped.ugly sound produced. it was in an average 3 semitones out of tune. do they maintain their piano at all? oh ya, forgot to tell u guys that KCGG has its own bat. a life bat. we found it during camp under a fan with its wing broken. we concluded that it got hit by that ceiling fan. so we named it: Bruce Bartok Braces Blossom Bubbles Buttercup. long eh. Bruce was batman's name, Bartok was the bat's name in anastasia, Braces (where did that come from?), the powerpuff girls in hope that it will one day fly again. so crappy.

thurs

sentosa! haven't been there for a very very very long time. like a span of 5 years. LONG eh? had a lot of fun with my cousins. took some skyride thing to the start of the luge ride. soon went speeding downhill with my cousins with that adrenaline pumping. whee!!! walked a lot. went to see the 4D matrix with my cousins. 'twas so fun and exciting. went to the beach to swim around. loads and loads of fun.

fri and sat
fri cell as usu. sat was dry run for the acting. i have to act as a bimbotic secetary (can anybody imagine me bimbotic? 'cause i can't) had short bimbo lessons from ashley haha. i so cannot do it. must go watch legally blonde to see how she act and act like that. movies are not my kind but its for the sake of acting.

sun
sermon was sooo relavent. pursuing righteousness, what really is it? what in the first place is righteousness? i realized that i got the wrong idea of righteousness: i was living a self righteous life.

monday-tues
the national schools newspaper competition was finally here. sangee, keshi, soph, kathy and me went to SPH for it. it was a 24 hr competition so we are staying overnight in SPH. this also means working through the night. missing worship prac because of it. anticipated it to around that time. was praying that the prac that i have to go to wouldn't clash with the competition. oh well. next year then.

we were given 4 articles to do on. 1, personality interview with Stefan Tseng, 16, a world record holder for triple jump at his age; 2, illegal downloading from the internet, had to call abt 50 people so tried to contact everybody on my contact list; 3, jurong bird park and how it changed; 4, the english syllabus change and how it will affect the nation.
we have to come up with a 4 A3 size newspaper with ads and all. we also had to make one of the ads our self. yup, bloodshot eyes was on the way as all of us slept for less than 2 hrs each. fun anyway. i was left as the layout person as the rest forgot how to use publisher from the training. SPH like gave us 6 meals! breakfast when we arrived, lunch, tea, dinner, supper (that was pizza) and next day breakfast. urgh, there comes the fats. pics to come soon. we managed to finish on time. but the printing was slow so we had to wait a while for the stuff. went home to collapse on the bed sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

pics next entry. bye

#rachel Rambling| 4:00 PM | 0 comments