Band

Slept at 1 am yesterday cos i was watching gintama and nodame cantabile. Woke up at 8 this morning for band. Nodame cantabile is quite an inspiring anime, especially for orchestra or band members. So i strongly recommend yufei and sammy to watch!

Andrew aka the head led the band in warm up excercises today and it was different from the usual warm ups. The band moved to the amphi theatre area and i kept trying to stay in the shade but to no avail T_T So i sweated like a pig =__= Thankfully we returned to the band room for tuning and stayed there till the end of prac. Mr Ho wrote this whole list of songs he wanted to go through but so far, we've never managed to get past the 3rd song. I like an american in paris! Cos it's written by gershwin and it's jazzzzzz XD Will be performing this song for college day i guess. Had a slight headache cos i plugged the earphones in my ears for too long a period of time yesterday.
Danza sinfonica is officially my favourite band song now. Whenever i hear a buzz or vibration of some kind, the bass clarinet part for danza will start playing automatically in my mind. I'm going mad. @_@ and it's ALWAYS the bass clarinet part. Plays in a loop

I've noticed a few interesting things in band. Hilary kisses his reed whenever he's not playing. It looks very strange. Li Qiang, the tuba guy closes his eyes when he pitches. Then opens them like, around 5 seconds later, slow-ly. XD When band ended today, i was putting my saxophone back into the case when i reaslised it was abnormally cold and windy in the band room. The wind seemed to come from behind me. Turned out that the trumpet section (last row) was practising the fanfare and blasting away like anything. Usually the french horn ppl would be behind me, acting as a buffer but don't know why they disappeared then. Perhaps they didn't want 'aircon' provided by the trumpet section.

Oh yes! I ran 14 minutes and 52 seconds for my 2.4!! Totally unexpected wahahaha thought i would end up with a 16minute timing cos i had this bad stitch down my right. haha gold for this year should be no problem =X