Ivan Ng
6th January 1989
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
The Philharmonic Winds
Singapore National Youth Orchestra
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Thursday, February 24, 2005
Blogging from home... At last...
Hi Guys & Gals! I finally downloaded Mozilla Firefox on my computer!!! Can blog from home now... Todays tests were fine... Didn't complete my Social Studies as usual... I just can't stand those egoistic %@#$ that go on and on about how easy the tests were... It gives others (like myself) the feeling that we are going to fail because we didn't find it THAT easy... Anyways, the stress was over after reccess, or until the next test at least, and the fun practical sessions followed after that! Everyone loves the Wednesday timetable... My bag weighed less than a kilogram today! Talk about "as light as a feather"!! Well, during Bio Lab, we examined long beans... Usual... Chaos+Noise+Flying Apparatus like Needles and Foreceps=ANGRY TEACHER!!!!! There was an improvement... We finally didn't lose any of the apparatus!!! Seriously, we would ALWAYS lose something at the lab... Must be some curse... After that came Chem Lab... Working with Nicholas as my lab partner can be such a pain at times... He always asks for help but seems as if he only wants to see himself succeed... Maybe it's just me... Hmmmm... Anyway we had to use AMMONIA HYDROXIDE again... Smelt like someone was peeing on my head or something... For those of you who do not know what it smells like, well, think of a really dirty public toilet... That smell x10000... Yea... That bad... and as if things couldn't get worse, I realised I left my pencil case at the lab... Pastoral Care came and I met the weirdest teacher ever!!!! He insisted that no one on the face of this Earth could beat him in A Maths... The whole class was just making fun of the situation... Using handphone ringtones as the dismissal bell, shouting random answers for his questions... It was WILD!!!! Went out with Kenneth, Nicholas Soh and Kum Fai for lunch and caught a bus back to study... Kum Fai seems awfully rich these days... Did he rob a bank?
Clarinet Tip #04:When purchasing reeds, check that the color of the reed is a golden yellow color. Look for obvious flaws in the reed such as chips or splits on the tip. Hold the reed up to the light and look for a reasonably well-defined heart. The grain should be relatively even throughout. You should see a more or less perfectly inverted V-shape.
