HE HAS MOVED.

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relink please people :D

Daron has henceforth decided to type in proper English on his blog.

It feels really unusual to make this transition between Internet lingo and proper English, but I guess it's a good change. I think typing in proper English would remove that level of informality and childishness that have been inherent in my blog posts all these time.

And of course typing in proper English would allow me to discuss issues without sounding like a little kid trying to talk Shakespeare. And for some reason I think reading posts that are written in proper English are also easier to read. For some unfathomable reason.

y'know, sometimes the saying that "mother knows best" isn't wrong.

usually i never ever do speak to my mother regarding my personal problems. "why should i anyway?" i would constantly think to myself. i'd usually, in fact, safeguard my personal problems from her extremely protectively.

but somehow when everyone else seems to have turned against you and you have nowhere else to go, you'll realise that you have no other choice.

talking to mum just convinced me that what i'm going through was inevitable: she had in fact tried to warn me from the start that perhaps some decisions i made regarding friendships aren't the wisest.

i've learnt the hard way i guess. maybe sometimes it's just best to heed advice, although in our rebellious, cavalier teenage age it's a little hard to follow this general rule of thumb.

i've made my choice though.

at least i think i have.

but yea sometimes certain things in life just arrive as a wakeup call. as if to wake you up from the disillusion that life's a bed of roses and the friends around you are just perfect and will stick around with you through thick and thin.

yea right. this bed of roses will just be roses full of thorns. how literal an interpretation of backstabbing.

reality check people.

sorta figured that since i had nothing nice to say, i might as well not say anything.

but yea dramafeste was such a blast! well done hullett and everyone because it was such a fantastic play! was really thought-provoking and i wasn't sure whether or not to laugh or cry sometimes. well done to (i'm sorry i don't know his name) for most promising young actor because he really really really really really deserves it! and gregory antono mr-worrywart for best actor (:

buckley was real good too, and i was quite surprised how they managed to pull the rather disjointed elements together in the ending, but KUDOS TO RICHARD you were fabulous as the PA (: really really realistic (oh wow cool alliteration) so well done! :D

well done to everyone in other words (: sad that i didn't get to catch bayley's one because a lot of people said it was good! sad that i can't pass judgement on the other plays but i'm sure everyone did their best and put on fantastic plays.

sometimes i wonder whether competitions are good or bad. results really do discourage people sometimes no? results sometimes serve as a wakeup call for those who have been blindly pursuing dreams, yet they give false hope to people sometimes too.

mmm. but then competition is inevitable no?

okay i'm not talking sense.

heh off for bass examination now. even though it's only 1.40pm i'd rather go there early to calm down.

(and mug last minute scales fingerings!)

daron wishes himself good luck, and apologises to all who would like to see him alive after the examination.

please do attend my funeral! thanks.

with love,
daron xD

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let's predict a score sheet for my double bass exam once i get the results back a few months later.

Piece A - 20/30
Piece B - 20/30
Piece C - 20/30

(heh i predicted a pass for all three pieces woohoo how incredibly optimistic)

Scales - 0/21 (which some luck i might get a 1/21)
Sight Reading - 13/21 (fail by one mark!)
Aural - 12/18 (pass :D)

Total: 85/150 (EPIC PHAIL.)

goes to show how prepared i am for this examination. sheesh.

OH SCREW SCALES. IF I DIDN'T HAVE SCALES I'D PROBABLY BE A ZILLION TIMES MORE CONFIDENT FOR THIS EXAMINATION.

i'm just left with a few more hours to memorise that junkload of scales.

go daron.

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-throws double bass out of window-

hinthint: exam's at 4.27pm tomorrow, wish me good luck via sms :D hahahahahaha, i'll need it. send earlier though, i don't think my handphone will be switched on after 4pm. y'know, prep time.

i find it horribly amusing that my exam piece was composed for a shakespeare play.

i can almost imagine how a piece titled "macbeth" would sound like.

or like the chinese parody of macbeth, "mai kan bei" (which is our name for macbeth).

the piece would probably go something like:

(to the tune of black eyed pea's my humps)
mai kan, mai kan mai kan mai kan!

first day of school today after that one week "holiday", and the day went by surprisingly quickly, despite the fact that i was keeping my fingers crossed that the teachers would forget about our holiday homework.

had racial harmony for assembly first thing in the morn, and was kinda disappointed by the performance by the groups today. always thought racial harmony day was a big important event, but somehow this year's ceremony was really lackluster and disappointing.

i really wonder: racial boundaries don't really exist in society today, but somehow events such as racial harmony seems to constantly remind us that regardless of whether we acknowledge it or not, racial differences do exist between us, and hence we must smoothen out these edges.

honestly, i don't even see the need of racial harmony day. i don't even usually think of the different races in singapore, but somehow because of racial harmony day i am constantly reminded of this divide -.-

okay i notice my blog is really boring, i don't really post much juicy stuff ;D

RISE BBQ last night, albeit mad and insane with the water bombs and all, left me feeling quite empty and sad after that.

after this we wouldn't have the sec 4s there anymore to help us and lead us, and now the weight of leading the ensemble has been passed to us.

it's sad, really. ): will really miss the sec4s, but i guess it's all part and parcel of growing up. promise to lead the ensemble to greater heights, or at least i hope :D



RISE EXCO '09, because i insist we're awesome.