THE BASS PHOTO IS UP! Hahaha finally.

*MERRY* *CHRISTMAS* SNSO *!!!*
AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR !~**

-FROM ONE OF THE DOTS IN THE DOT TRILOGY.

Some pictures from today's Secondary 1 registration!












And this is the annual photo makeshift notice board we put up every year. Pictures from left to right are.... Bass Section, Combined camp, Orchestra, Violin 1s, Conductors, Violas, Farewell, DOUBLE BASS GLAMOUR SHOT, Violins playing, Cellos, Sec 2s and Violin 2s.

After that.... hung around in the MEP room... played with the drums...


Played cards....


And Noonling frolicked around with the carpet :)

Spot the STRING ORCHESTRA banner! Hahahaha.

Anyway stringers who are performing for the Sec 1 registration tomorrow, REMEMBER to reach the MEP room PUNCTUALLY at 7am and REMEMBER to bring your STRING uniform PLUS COURT SHOES. No black shoes, sport shoes, slippers, sandels, school shoes, white shoes, any other form of footwear allowed. Thank you very much.

hurrah!

3 cheers and cheers and 3 cheers for sec 2s
hip hip, hooray !
hip hip, hooray !
hip hip, hooray !

hello sec 2s! thank you so much for putting in so much effort to do those stuff for cca fair. your efforts are recognised :] hahah oh and special thanks to cassandra for taking care of everything. not forgetting the others who helped! thank you ( :

much love,
rach

ATTENTION!

New practise timeslot (For our darling OCC insists that she MUST be there during our practise)

20TH DECEMBER 2006
0900-1200
BRING ALL SCORES

WALAU HOW COME THIS BLOG IS SO DEAD AGAIN. Jana is back! Yes, alive and kicking - thank you very much.

Well, I keep on reminding myself to update this and put it on the SN String but somehow.. it just keeps slipping off my mind. This is the link for the 2006 Farewell photo log

CLICK CLICK!

And this is the link to the fake String Idols that a few of us tried to do during the 2006 string camp.

CLICK 1
CLICK 2

And this is the link for the MEP Orchestra photo log. Totally irrelevant to some of you but there's Mary-Anne, Noonling, Angela and Jana inside :D

CLICK 3

Anyways, all those who are involved in the Open House on the 22nd of December, there will be a VERY SHORT PRACTISE (If you don't come and you are supposed to, you will.... You will know what will happen. If you're not supposed to come but you want to, please feel free) Practise will be on:

19th December 2006
MEP Room
1300-1600 hours

Please bring ALL your scores. Thank you very much.

Oh yes, to all those involved again, Rachel Pang and Lin Ziqian won't be able to make it so PLEASE, PLEASE PRACTISE HARD. Please contact your SLs or me for the programme.

Yours truly,
Jana Loh

HELLO STRINGERS :D Hope your december holidays have been enjoyable thus far! <3

Enjoy yourselves but PLEASE REMEMBER TO PRACTICE FOR OPEN HOUSE ON 22ND DEC!

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The Violist Outing took place yesterday ! :)

Hello all! The violins are back from bowling :D

Violins present today were:

SNSO
Jana
Angela
Congyi
Joey
Shireena
Rebecca
Vanessa
Jomain
Weng Jun
Jessica
Rachel Tan
Rachel Pang
Jo Hsi
Elizabeth

HCISO
Chia Kai
Nicholas Png
Xiong Chen
Zicong
ZHEN YI
Man Lok
Zhixiang
John Voon
Gary
Kuan Hua
Alan

VIOLISTS PRESENT WERE: BJORN LEE HON HAN, LIN ZIQIAN, ALBERT

CELLIST PRESENT WAS: KENNETH

Photos will be up very soon (yes, as well as the combined camp ones) as soon as Miss Angela Teng sends me or anyone the photos. If you're dying to know what we did today, which you are, we went to Victor's Superbowl at Marina to bowl 3-4 games followed by lunch at Marina Square Foodcourt. Jana ate some tom yam thing, Angela ate duck rice, Rebecca Vanessa Elizabeth ate pasta, Weng Jun ate some tofu thing, Chia Kai ate some ramen thingy, Zicong ate fried chicken, Xiongchen ate pasta, Nicholas ate dried yellow noodles, Congyi Jessica ate ban mian, ok forget it I can't really remember the rest.

Then Alan and Kenneth popped by. Was attracted to go play more bowling. So walked, hopped, skipped over to the Marina Superbowl to play 2 more games of bowling.

We hid Alan's phone.

Gary brought 2 of his own bowling balls. Zhixiang brought 1.

The lowest bowling score of the day was.... by a violist.... named...... Bjorn.

AND ZHENYI CAN BOWL WELL! (For all Zhenyi Fan Club members who are dying to know) Oh yes, Zhenyi also wore a red teeshirt and jeans today.

:) Love,
The Violins

some pics from violins outing!

Hello stringers,

hope you all had fun during the concert preps and on the actual day itself. you guys were great by the way. sitting there as part of the audience watching SNSO for the very first time made me realise i miss strings so much :(

anyway we've had our gradnight, so we're officially out of stnicks. but i promise we'll try to come back to visit you people! cherish the time you have in strings and thanks for being such a lovable bunch of juniors (teehee) all these while.

four years ago i came into strings with nothing much to give, but i left with so much more :)

and jana loh! thanks for allll the memories, eg. string idol, grey recesses, haunted-houses-in-the-mep-room-during-camp etc.

Love you all :)

Sarah Koay
Grey Badge
Graduating string cohort of 2006

Ok this is so irrelevant to string but take a look at this!

HOW TO BE EMO.

WARNING: Very long and quite vulgar.

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Please pray that the photos can be uploaded. -crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers crosses fingers-









YES YES YES YES YES OMG FINALLY!

These are the photos that I edited - the normal ones are still with me. Anyway, SO SORRY BASSES, but my memory card reader is screwed up. Somehow, I can't seem to load the pictures in! :S

Yours dearly-oh-so-truly,
Jana

change of plans

change of plans
Cellists:
ok we're going on WEDNESDAY instead.
same time, same place. hee, for the sake of two people.

fenwee (:

cello section outing

CELLO SECTION
We're going ice-skating! :D

4th december 2006, Monday
Jurong MRT at 11am.
we'll have lunch first before going to ice-skate!
wear long pants cos' it can be very cold.
anyway, see you guys!
tell me before monday whether u can make it.

fenwee

BOO x)
yay :D
basses to confirm outing! ><
monday, 4th dec,
12.15, somerset mrt
movieee

Hello Jana here, just now the font was too small so i made it BIIIIGGGERRRRR.

... And the violists are the next to confirm their section outing! :D yay!

Here's the details:

6th December,
Meet at Escape @ 11.a.m.

Yup. Then we'll be going to Pasir Ris Park after playing at Escape for a few hours. So you can cycle, skate, etc. Oh, we'll be having a picnic too :D

Violists, please inform Ziqian asap. (by Monday) if you can make it for the outing! :D

Sarah <3

HELLO STRINGERS! We will not be having a combined HCISO-SNSO outing as planned because.. there will be simply too many people and Singapore doesn't have the resources for such things :)

So well, your sections will be having outings by themselves.

AND VIOLIN1 AND 2s ARE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO SETTLE EVERYTHING! :D So violin 1s and 2s, it will be... :

4th December 2006
Monday
10 AM at Marina Bay MRT
Bowling!
(I CANNOT BOWL FOR NUTS)

So there, au revoir!

P.S THERE IS PRACTICE TMRW 3-6PM.

Yours truly,
Janaaaaa

Here's some videos of our performance! Cherry's sister took them :)

Capriol - Pavane
Bach double violin movement 1

Tadah that's all!

Yay hurray our strings blog is getting lively :)

Ziqian

HELLO STRINGERS, HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE 3 DAYS OF INTERACTION PLUS THE CONCERT. Please be reminded that there is STILL PRACTISE this coming Monday and Friday (27th November and 1st Dec respectively) same time, same place. Do not be late if not you'll have to contribute to the Pink Pig economy (well, now that our beloved piggy bank cracked at hci, I don't know what we'll store the fines in, hahaha)

By the way, there will be a SNSO-HCISO bowling outing soon. So, watch out for it! In the meantime, PLEASE CONTINUE PRACTISING YOUR SYF PIECES :) Those who took photos during the camp please send them to anyone from the Comm (HCISO people if you are reading this, please send them to Bjorn or something so he can send it to us)

BTW! Hahahaha the noisiest bunch of audience was our seniors from the grey and light blue badges respectively. The bunch that was screaming ENCORE! and GO MR CHANNNNSSSS.

Anyway, here's a joke that the HCISO people made up about the very oh-so-adorable guy emcee:

Once upon a time,
There was a boy named Zheng Yi.
He was the emcee for our concert.
Thank you and goodnight.

Have a greaaaatttt December holiday!

P.S All the other String Orchestras are NOT stopping for December, so COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS!

P.P.S If you still feeling like invading HCISO's territory, click HERE.

Oh yes, here are the long awaited section photos. Sorry it took so long! Basses! Your photo will be coming up soon. I'm still trying to get my memory card loaded in :S There're more though, of each section, those are the un-edited ones. I'll put them up when my time permits.

OKAY FORGET IT. BLOGGER CANT LOAD. NEXT TIME THEN.

Hi Stringers! Hope you have enjoyed the camp so far. I'll be posting up the pictures as soon as the camp ends as well as a photo log in YouTube (when my time permits). So, all the best for tomorrow's concert! (IT'S ALMOST FULL HOUSE) Play hard, play well!

Love,
Jana

P.S: HELLO ALL HCISO PEOPLE, WE KNOW YOU'RE LOOKING AT THIS.

EVERYBODY OMG PLEASE PRACTISE I AM SO SCARED MR CHAN SAID HCI ARE VERY PREPARED SO PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT NOT NOT DISGRACE YOURSELF I LOVE ALL OF YOU SO SO MUCH AND HAHAHA HELLO PLEASE SELL MORE TICKETS TELL ME THIS WEDNESDAY OR YOU CAN JUST ASK YOUR FRIENDS TO BUY FROM THE DOOR.

LOVE,
JANA

YES CAPS MEANS I AM FREAKING OUT OUT OUT OUTZZZZXXXZZZ.

Hi all! Please remember to bring your Capriol scores this Friday (17/11). Use of the MEP room photocopier is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Members without their scores will be fined accordingly.

Dear all, since many of you said you all couldn't access the recording for Turina, here is the recording you've been waiting for!

click HERE for ultimate enjoyment.

We will not post the SYF pieces online because.. Well because you know why because :) If you all want the SYF pieces, ask from any of your seniors FOR EXAMPLE - Sarah Tan, thehalloweenangel@hotmail.com, Cherry Tan - likedolls@hotmail.com, Lin Ziqian - paperguns@hotmail.com. Enjoy and practise hard!

Oh yes, please try your best to sell the tickets! The capacity of the Drama Centre is around 370-400 so yes, we need to sell tickets!

Love,
JL & LZQ
(It's cool being mysterious)

HAHAHAHA I was being paparazzi to Mr. Chan today. So all you Mr. Chan Fan Club-bers: feast, ogle and enjoy these few gorgeous oh-so pretty pictures!









and my personal favourite! Look! Ahoy! He's SMILING!



And how about a lovely picture of Angela, Jana and Noonling to brighten up your dull and moody day! <3


(In memory of the OCC)

Yours truly,
Jana

Hello :)

The music files had really weird formats so they can't be copied in a disc. Click on the links to listen to them:

TURINA
http://by104fd.bay104.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg?&msg=497D8CE3-F9D1-4998-9568-3386A37978C5&start=0&len=13630468&mimepart=3&curmbox=00000000%2d0000%2d0000%2d0000%2d000000000001&a=61aa72a92914f26bb3d80f18a563edbaca45ceb6ceaf1986339d0a30c008534a&vscan=scan

CAPRIOL
I. Basse - Danse 01:23 http://octet.naxos.com/naxosdotcom@20k/NAC/red/red/271658_19_full_wm_020.wm
II. Pavane 01:56 http://octet.naxos.com/naxosdotcom@20k/NAC/red/red/271658_20_full_wm_020.wm
III. Tordion 01:00 http://octet.naxos.com/naxosdotcom@20k/NAC/red/red/271658_21_full_wm_020.wm
IV. Bransles 01:56 http://octet.naxos.com/naxosdotcom@20k/NAC/red/red/271658_22_full_wm_020.wm
V. Pieds - en - l'air 02:17 http://octet.naxos.com/naxosdotcom@20k/NAC/red/red/271658_23_full_wm_020.wm
VI. Mattachins 01:01 http://octet.naxos.com/naxosdotcom@20k/NAC/red/red/271658_24_full_wm_020.wm

BACH
I. Vivace 03:29 http://octet.naxos.com/naxosdotcom@20k/BIS/BI0961_01_full_wm_020.wm
II. Largo ma non tanto 06:44 http://octet.naxos.com/naxosdotcom@20k/BIS/BI0961_02_full_wm_020.wm
III. Allegro 04:29 http://octet.naxos.com/naxosdotcom@20k/BIS/BI0961_03_full_wm_020.wm

Happy listening!
<3 Cherry

Hello stringers :) About the Angel and Mortal thing, actually you all can reply your angel. But since you do not know who your angel is, just leave it in your own envelopes. Oh and the envelopes, we are putting up envelopes. Each of you get one. And your angel's supposed to put her letter to you in it. And angels, when you collect your letter from your mortal's envelope, make sure your angel doesn't see you do it or something!

This seems very confusing. Nevermind, I'll explain on Monday to all of you.

Yay hope this thing can go on and not stop! :) If can, we'll pick a new mortal again 1 or 2 months later.

Seee you all! Practise hard!

<3 Ziqian.

Ahh, I wanted to tell you all this today but didn't feel right. Anyway, I shall spill it all here.

I really hope all of you do practise hard - especially for next year's SYF. Reasons being: I may not be able to lead you all for SYF next year. It's not me, its my parents. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed. Well, all this is still tentative, so well, wish me luck!

Competition will be extremely tough next year, with many new orchestras coming in. WE ONLY HAVE AROUND 4 PLUS MONTHS LEFT (minus December) for SYF preparations, and these 4 plus months will fly past really fast. Next year we red badges will hardly have time to drill and help you all for we will be extremely busy with O level preparations so IT IS UP TO YOU TO MAKE SURE WE GET RESULTS.

So, what's our goal for SYF? It's up to you to decide.


UPCOMING PERFORMANCE
17th November
PMB Investiture
1PM
Forum
Bach Double and Peter Hope Momentum

The acoustics there can be really nice but one wrong note and it can be heard. I may be calling a few of you up for checks - so be prepared. AND IT IS JUST A CHECK so please do not get all flustered up and please do not cry (eh hem, you know who you are).

And please bring $15 for the Camp Tee and fees the next practise.

Jana!

hello everybody! or those who know me :P

heya, can see you guys working hard to improve the standard of sn strings! you're doing a good job so far, keep it up k? (:

go go go red badgers, your turn to step up to leadership positions so bring strings to greater heights. glad to see the bonded-ness of s.o. now. yup

my dear cellists (: holidays are here so if you are gonna have sectionals or need help with anything feel free to call me okay? haha i'll try to help with my one-year-never-touch-cello skills. (:

take care!
deborah
(light) blue badge
cello (:

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Hahaha it looks like carrots -wink wink.

Hello! Well, very few people know of this blog - so far. Anyway, please thank MISS CHERRY TAN for doing up the coding for this lovely lovely blog!

WHAT'S UP TOMORROW

CCA starts at 3PM, so that means you all come EARLIER than 3pm.

Violin 1s, please brush up on the last few bits of Shosta. Some of you are still sight-reading through the entire thing. Also, if you can't get the notes for Turina right, please ask me or Maryanne or just use a piano. If you do not have a piano at home, come earlier (before string practise) and make sure you get the notes right.

Violin 2s, for Bach Double Movement 1, please practise the fast quaver-y chunks as many of you are depending on Rachel for sound.

Sec 1s, I know it is difficult for all of you to handle so many pieces at one chunk, but please understand the tight schedule we are in!

Violas, Cellos and Basses, I have no right to comment on you all for I'm not familiar with your instruments, but Basses - PLEASE IMPROVE ON THE VOLUME OF SOUND! We can't afford to sound so "small" during the concert. The HCI side will not have many Basses performing for the concert. Cellos please take note of this too.

Jana

TEST!