Constructive Noises

2009-07-31T03:32:00.000-07:00

Went to buy Formal shirt and pants for my violin exam and also for going to concerts.

Well, it uses adobe so i can't copy and paste.

the shirt

http://www.uniqlo.com/sg/explorer.html#/code:055547-000-11/

can't find the bottom.

maybe i'll post pictures. .. but nah. lazy.

Re:Ian Mui being band's student conductor

2009-07-26T04:37:00.001-07:00

First of all, I would like to congratulate Ian Mui for attaining the post of the Student Conductor.

NOW

Apparently, somepeople think I was this "passer by" guy on the band blog who was clearly jealous about Ian Mui's achievement and was sour at it.

Firstly, of course everyone's a bit jealous; the student conductor is a prestigious post . HOWEVER, an extreme level of jealousy would be due to:
1.Hatred
2.Arrogance
3.Mental Problems.

Okay, I have the 3rd part which I'm spastic and hyperactive and stuff, I have the 2nd part though not clearly much so as I often act arrogant to insult arrogant people (Ironic is it?) . However, I do not HATE Ian Mui, although I am not sure about him not hating me as I made alot of immature remarks about his birthmark; the hatred is understandable.

For example, I called him a :

black hole guy
indian-roots guy
first-to-die-in-a-war-due-to-having-a-sniper-headpaint guy

and numerous other painful insults.

I have apologised to him sincerly on occasions where I'm grateful for his help and feel regretfull;Once, he made me GameWarden ( it gave me the opportunity to bully juniors ) and I apologised sincerly, also questioning why he had given me a position despite our bad past .

Anyway, if I really wanted to insult him, I would say something damn hurtful I won't post it here, instead of saying that he ill-earned that band conductor post. Kinda lame is it? Cos no matter how much I insult him about his newfound position, I still won't have it.

WORTHLESS.

Anyway, to the passer-by guy, I know I can't conduct as good as him
Ian Mui deserves his post - he didn't screw up , didn't get emotional ( I slammed the baton onto the stand remember ) , and displayed some qualities of a conductor.

That is all.

Or as Mr Chiang would say, THAT'S IT!

2009-07-24T07:16:00.001-07:00

working on a kickass post for a kickass new website with my own domain...

wrenbin.com

not up yet, haven't contacted seller.

btw, he sells domains for maplesea mesos, quite worth.

2009-07-23T02:01:00.000-07:00

Damn FUN!

Went bowling ; a mini 2e class renuion . Got owned. I think in 8 games I was only 97.

Went to lucius' house to play bridge and taiti till 9 and went to Isaac's new house.

It had that new house smell in it. Played mac and facebook and cards till 12pm, then we went to eat roti prata @ 3am and sleep @ 4am.

Woke up @ 6am due to somebody's damn alarm .

Woke up @ 9am due to lucius kicking me.

All in all, quite fun.

P.s. Thanks Ju for the 50k CHIPS !

2009-07-22T09:03:00.000-07:00

Bloggin at Isaac's house now.

FOOOOOoooooooOOOOOOoooooooOOOooo

2009-07-18T05:43:00.000-07:00

Well I think Dwyane's damn emo now.

CRAZY.

Go check out his blog.

CRAZY.

2009-07-14T10:08:00.001-07:00

Need New BlogSkin

2009-07-14T09:37:00.000-07:00

MONDAY

Quite a fun day. Went to Music 0-level Lesson, and had to endure 1+hr there myself because dwyane was not there. Some bastard stole his ezlink and ran to serangoon.

Learnt new North Indian instruments, table, then got 3 more intstruments that start with s.

Went for SNYO concert, saw CT,Phoon Yi, and a hella lot of talented people.

And my upcoming violin exam.

And my upcoming birthday ( Sorry 2e Only, I'll celebrate on other days with you )

TUESDAY

Slept 1+hrs in the afternoon and can't sleep now.

I'm trying to link alot of people.

bye.

2009-07-10T07:06:00.000-07:00

Resurrected from the Dead .

Anyway, yesterday was damn funny. During chem SPA, Edward kept spamming Ms Tan ( the new chem teacher) questions till the point of irritation that Ms Tan just stood there and answered in a scolding manner. Then he played with the acid and added so much till the solution became so damn yellow it's like a diabetics' urine.

When asked why did he play with the acids by Ms Tan, he simply said : " I do finish, WHAT!" and he continued smiling and continued boiling the solution . However, feeling a sense of impending explosions I quickly sneaked away to another lab table, seeing Billy hopelessly trying to saturate his copper sulfate solution .

Oh and a certain teacher told us the politically-collect, technical for masturbation today. Funny. Didn't know it sounded so proper. And I mean that he told us another word for masturbation.

Today, we nearly taupoked the person in front when the camera guy told us to squeeze together. Pedo daryl neo kept squeezing my ass =.= and he say's he's INNOCENT.

Met up with Jeremy and Lucius to discuss about the sexuality of someone we may know. That guy in particular keeps hanging out with boys ...... intimately.

Oh and today Mdm Azlin was scolding us for coming in class so late in small packets of groups each time , saying : "why did you come in one by one?" .

And it dawned on me.

The complentation to mock her.

"because the door is too small"

Laughter.

YES.

"Who said that ?" she enquired.

SHIT.

Fortunately, Jiajuen said something unrelated during that silence and everybody taught it was him. However, Mdm Azlin remained in her perpertual form of mock-like face and stood there.

No comment there.

During maths lesson, Mr Koh taught us how to remember the trigonometry quadrants by the CosineAllSineTangent ( CAST ) method. Oh and the word COCK and be shortened to C.

The rest is up for you to imagine.

Oh and went for my weekly swimming class today, new timing of 1min52secs for 2 laps breaststroke.

Oh and ate Geylang Hokkien mee with my 3rd Uncle's family.

Ambience was good :)

Well, that's all for today, gonna chiong for my violin exam on 12th Aug.

2009-07-08T05:23:00.000-07:00

I realised I deserted alot for friends recently and am currently a lousy socializer. I can't even communicate well with my 2E classmates also.

DAMN.

Got 2 Book Reports and a hella lot of newspaper reports ( CHINESE ! ) to do, not posting in 2/3 days

2009-07-03T08:58:00.001-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhlDcGLVwv4

let me know whether you want me to post full episodes of this show.starting from season 1.

2009-06-27T07:54:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the delayed posts, was choinging my holiday homework assignments.

And i just discovered this video.

Ultimate gay. He did not beatbox into the mike, but he actually used the violin bow to create that sound effect.

Anyway, although the holidays are almost over ( 1 MORE DAY), but here's a series you should consider investing in. The Inbetweens - a british comedy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HrupOm9BfI

2009-06-24T20:27:00.001-07:00

Band BBQ yesterday was fun. Woke up with cramps all over though. Will upload pics or videos if I can get them from Professor Zude.

2009-06-22T06:11:00.000-07:00

SORRY. Didn't post as I was very busy with homework and stuff.

Well, here's a video extract from a french made movie, The Red Violin

It's emb code was disabled so you have to click on the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ5EX4VF9EI

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The Red Violin

Directed by	François Girard
Produced by	Niv Fichman
Written by	Don McKellar & François Girard
Starring	Samuel L. Jackson Jason Flemyng Greta Scacchi Christoph Koncz
Music by	John Corigliano
Cinematography	Alain Dostie
Editing by	Gaëtan Huot
Distributed by	Lions Gate Entertainment Alliance Films (Canada) (USA)
Release date(s)	September 10, 1998 (premiere at TIFF) November 13, 1998 (Canada) April 9, 1999 (UK) June 11, 1999(USA)
Running time	131 min.
Language	Italian German French Mandarin English
Budget	US $18 million

The Red Violin (French: Le Violon rouge, German: Die Rote Violine, Italian: Il Violino Rosso, traditional Chinese: 紅提琴), is a 1998 Canadian drama film. It spans three centuries and five countries as it tells the story of a violin and its many owners. The film was an international co-production between companies in Canada, Italy and the United Kingdom.

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[edit] Plot and style

The film tells the story of a perfect violin known as 'The Red Violin' for its rich red colour. At the film's beginning, the violin is being auctioned in Canada. As the bidding starts, the violin's history is revealed, showing that the violin has been in existence for over 300 years, having been made in 1681. Its history is told in five locations around the world: Cremona; Vienna; Oxford; Shanghai; and Montreal. To its owners, the violin causes anger, betrayal, love, and sacrifice. In each setting the dialogue is spoken in the appropriate language. Also, a variation of the movie's signature violin solo by composer John Corigliano is played at least once in the period it is played, with the exception of Cremona, where the solo is being hummed by Anna herself. Throughout the movie, the solos are played by noted violinist Joshua Bell.

[edit] Introduction, 1681, Cremona

Nicolo Bussotti (Cecchi) is a violin maker who is married to Anna Rudolfi (Grazioli), pregnant with their first child. Anna is worried about her own health, as her pregnancy at her age may mean complications, but Nicolo is confident, saying that he has the best people available when she is due for delivery. Anna sees her servant Cesca (Laurenzi) with questions about her child's future, Cesca uses a form of tarot cards to determine this. Cesca cannot determine the future of someone not born, but she does offer to read Anna's future instead. Anna chooses five cards, and Cesca's first card signifies that Anna would live a long life. In the meantime, Nicolo has fashioned a new violin, one that he considers his masterpiece, with the hopes that their child will become a musician. He is about to varnish this violin when a boy comes, sent by the doctor blood, giving it its distinctive red colour and is painted with a brush made from her hair. attending to his wife. Anna had developed complications during childbirth and neither she nor the baby survived. Distraught, Nicolo brings her body back to his violin shop and begins varnishing the violin he had created for their child. It is later revealed that this violin would be the last one Nicolo would make. Much later in the film, it is revealed that the varnish contains some of his beloved wife's

After Anna's death, the violin is donated to an orphanage in Germany. There, a succession of choirboys play this violin for at least the next 100 years.

Throughout the film, we see Anna and Cesca talking about Anna's future, when in fact, she is talking about the journey the Red Violin would make, as it is her blood on the violin.

[edit] 1793, Vienna

Cesca predicts the second card means disease and suffering for those around Anna (in essence, the violin).

At the orphanage, the violin comes under the possession of Kaspar Weiss (Koncz), a young but brilliant violin prodigy. A violin instructor, Poussin (Bideau), arrives to assess the boy's talents and he is asked by the monks at the orphanage to adopt the boy to further his development. Weiss and the violin travel to Vienna, where Poussin introduces him to his wife, who complains that they cannot afford to raise the boy. Poussin is convinced that Weiss's talents would mean prosperity for Poussin's household: Prince Mansfeld (Denberg) is due to visit Vienna and is looking for a prodigy to accompany him on his way to Prussia. Such a trip would likely mean success for Weiss and a generous payment for Poussin from the monarchy. To prepare for the recital, Poussin has Weiss undergo a strict practice regimen assisted by a device Poussin calls his "Poussin Meter" (which in fact is a primitive metronome). Poussin has Weiss practice his piece slowly, then builds up the tempo of the piece to the point where he can play it at a fast tempo.

However, Weiss has a heart defect, the strict practice regimens are taking a toll on him, and he is attached to his violin to the point of sleeping with it. When Poussin tells the boy not to sleep with his violin, his heart starts to have issues and a doctor is summoned, Weiss's heart stopping for a full minute. On the day of the recital, Mansfeld shows an interest in the violin instead of the child to the point of offering to purchase it, but allows the child to play to assess his talents. Just as he is to start playing his piece, Weiss's heart gives out from the stress and he collapses, dead.

Weiss is buried at the orphanage he grew up in, and Poussin inquires about the violin, seeing how he would like to sell it to Mansfeld. The monks explain that the violin was buried with Weiss so he "could play it in heaven". The violin is later stolen by grave robbers travelling in a gypsy England. procession, where it is handed down, and played by several generations of gypsies, spanning another century before being taken to

In the present day in 1997 the monks of the orphanage want to return the violin to where it was first played. They attempt to bid via telephone on the violin when it goes on sale at an auction house, but pull out when the bidding price reaches $500,000.

[edit] Late 1890s, Oxford

Cesca predicts the third card means seduction at the hands of the person she could only consider to be the devil.

Frederick Pope (Flemyng) comes across the gypsy procession setting up camp in his own backyard, a female gypsy playing the violin. The gypsies rush to leave immediately, but Frederick has a different idea, he wants the violin instead, and offers sanctuary for the gypsy procession in addition to viewing one of his concerts. However, on the day of the concert, Frederick is having trouble coming up with a piece to play at the concert and sends for his girlfriend, Victoria Byrd (Scacchi). Frederick and Victoria perform sexual intercourse in his suite which inspires him to come up with a new piece to play at the concert. Frederick's inspirations for his music come from his sexual encounters with Victoria, and thus has enabled himself to be a talented composer. Victoria, meanwhile is an author who obtains her inspirations for her work through travel, and announces to Frederick that she needs to leave on a journey to Russia to find inspiration for a novel she is working on.

After Victoria leaves, the two lovers write letters to each other but while Victoria is being inspired to write her novel, Frederick has lost his inspiration to compose his music. Frederick's condition begins to deteriorate as he starts to be bedridden while smoking opium. Frederick starts to cancel concerts soon afterwards as he has lost his will to play, and stops writing letters to Victoria. When Victoria does not receive his letters for a full week, she resolves to return to Frederick immediately and sends one more letter stating so, but Frederick has stopped reading her letters. When Victoria arrives at Frederick's residence and hears him playing passionately, she knows he is getting his inspiration in someone else's arms. With gun in hand, Victoria bursts into Frederick's room when he is having intercourse with the female gypsy violinist. In a moment of rage, Victoria shoots the violin, the bullet grazing and damaging the neck of the violin. The tail-piece and strings come loose as the red violin spins out of Pope's presumably shattered hand. Victoria rushes out in a fit of anger.

Frederick's final letter to Victoria states that he will be committing suicide and that he is leaving his entire estate to her. The violin however, ends up in the hands of Frederick's Chinese servant and he takes it back to Shanghai where he sells it to an antiques dealer. The violin is repaired, but a small jewel is removed from the violin's scroll work. It goes on display in the shop for over three decades, before being sold to a young woman with her daughter during the 1930s.

In the present day in 1997 a representative from the Pope Foundation (dedicated to Pope's music) arrives at the auction hall to "reclaim" Lord Pope's violin. He attempts to win the auction on it but becomes the final bidder to pull out when the bidding reaches $2.4 million.

[edit] Late 1960s, Shanghai

Cesca predicts the fourth card means tough times ahead, featuring a trial and persecution.

With the Chinese Communist Party in power during the Cultural Revolution, all items deemed unsuitable (or "foreign") to the idealogy of Mao Zedong are being burned. One of these items includes a violin owned by Chou Yan (Liu), a music teacher. He is given a political show trial and is berated for his fondness for classical music. A political officer, Xiang Pei (Chang) attempts to defend Chou by suggesting he teach Chinese traditional music, since he also plays the huqin, a remark that arouses the suspicions of her husband. Chou's violin is taken from him and tossed into a bonfire containing other "unacceptable" cultural items.

Xiang returns to her residence and starts disposing of all of the classical music which she can no longer keep, due to her loyalty to the State. She uncovers the Red Violin which was a gift from her mother. At this point, her son Ming walks in to the room and Xiang starts to explain the violin to him, even playing a piece for him. She tells Ming not to tell anyone about its existence, and tells him to go find his father. At that moment, Xiang knows that her own son will denounce her. As a result, she resolves to find Chou to give it to him to keep. Meanwhile, Ming finds his father, and inadvertently lets slip of the existence of the violin. Xiang's husband and several Communist Party members arrive at their house intending to arrest her. However, they find Xiang gone, and all her "foreign" music burning in the wastebasket. They also find a photograph of Xiang's mother, who was an accomplished concert violinist.

Meanwhile, Xiang arrives at Chou's house and pleads with him to take the violin to keep it safe. Believing that it is a trick to get him arrested or shot, Chou refuses until Xiang threatens to destroy the violin in front of him. He relents and vows to keep it hidden, while Xiang leaves to face possible prosecution from Communist Party officials.

Decades later, Chou's home has become a "sanctuary" for thousands of musical instruments and Chou later dies from natural causes. The cache is discovered when police, acting on a complaint from a neighbour, find his dead body in his house. Upon this discovery, the present-day Government of China, far removed from the rule of Mao Zedong, ships these items to Montreal where they can be appraised and sold at auction.

Filled with remorse over what he once did to his mother, a much older Ming arrives at the auction house in 1997, hoping to buy the violin which she once played for him. He pulls out when the bidding reaches $1.2 million.

[edit] 1997, Montreal

The final card Cesca sees does not predict death, but due to the positioning (the death card is seen upside down), she sees it as something else, as a rebirth.

The actual movie initially starts with Charles Morritz (Jackson) arriving at Duval's auction house auction. to witness the sale of the Red Violin. Throughout the movie, we see the various parties representing the different eras as seen in the film vying for the Red Violin. When the scene does finally shift to Montreal, we see a flashback of the events leading up to the

Morritz arrives in Montreal as an appraiser for the violins sent by the Government of China. Almost immediately he notices the Red Violin and he has his assistant Evan Williams (McKellar) perform some work with it. To verify if it is the Red Violin, he has some varnish samples sent to the lab at the University of Montreal. Thinking that this may be the legendary last Violin of Nicolo Bussotti, he comes up with an idea to purchase a copy of the Red Violin from a private collection in London, the closest copy to the original available (apparently commissioned by Frederick Pope himself before his death). At the same time, a wealthy concert violinist named Ruselsky (Bogajewicz) arrives looking for the Red Violin. He sees it and tries it out, but Morritz convinces him that it is not the Red Violin. When the varnish samples test positive for blood, he realizes that he has indeed found the Red Violin. At the same time, the manager of the auction, Leroux, (Mercure) and the lead auctioneer (Feore) confront Morritz about the expenses he has incurred and ask him the purpose of his inquiries. Morritz gives in and lets them know that the violin in question is indeed the Red Violin. Ruselsky is furious at this discovery as he believes that the violin should have been his.

Using his own funds, Morritz has Williams buy the copy from London, and it arrives in time for the auction, Williams authenticating that it is indeed the closest copy to the real thing. With this, Morritz heads to Duval's, passing by the Pope foundation member in the process (recreating one of the first scenes in the film). He sees Ruselsky and they exchange glances, Ruselsky still furious at Morritz's deception. As the auction for the previous item winds down, Morritz, with Williams acting as a distraction, switches the Red Violin for its copy, accidentally dropping the auction tag in its storage area. As the copy is being sent to be bid on, Leroux notices that the tag is missing, and is about to call security when Williams finds the tag. As the monks in Germany, the Pope Foundation member, Ming, and Mr. Ruselsky bid on the copy, Morritz rushes out, nearly getting run down by a car in the process. Ruselsky eventually beats out the other three bidding competitors for the copy. On his way back to the airport, Morritz calls his wife at home in New York City and asks to speak to his daughter telling her he has a present for her upon his return

2009-06-17T21:14:00.000-07:00

Part 2/3

Part 3/3

Haha. Enjoy

Band Videos

2009-06-17T07:12:00.000-07:00

Hi ... This is Part 1 of 3 of the Band videos. It took youtube over 1 hour to upload these 2 , so I hope you'll enjoy.

They are obviously very enthusiastic about the games.

Best if you play this video muted or quiet as I may have used some vulgarities .

Part 2 /3 contains more naked people running around like the dogs they are and

Part 3/3 contains the spraying ( Yes the spraying with the water hoses , I am not sure

I captured the one were I threw down the hose , titled it backwards to spray people on the

lower floor )

Please check this blog regularly for the future updates, as the band blog is almost dead,

like Dwayne Choi.

2009-06-16T07:36:00.000-07:00

Well today was VERY constructive. At the IT Mac Pages/Numbers workshop, the teachers thought us how to us certain damn useful applications. Below are my masterpieces.

This is my excel whatever.

Cover page of word doc

I did a satirical article on Hotel 6 2 6 but forgotten to save it . Oh well.

Also, I'm really suprised that you, Dwayne, has over 60 hits per day. WTF ? Kinda Jealous, although his blog has been created earlier so he should have more subscribers .

Anyway, here's the lastest episode of ( cue the choir ) ; The SIMPSONS!

Mr Burn's ( the old blue haired guy ) , develops a crush on Marge , wife of Homer .

Enjoy
407 Marge Gets a Job

P.S> Sorry for the large image sizes..... I accidentally selected 500pixels/inch when exporting the PDF file into IMG Files

Sorry, didn't post last night.

2009-06-15T17:55:00.000-07:00

15th June 09 ( This post makes up for the lack of one yesterday )

The Web2.0/Blogging Workshop was mostly history . Clement PAK laughed too many times at the word twit , and consequently he got reprimanded.

Anyway, he was so scared of the teacher that he didn't go today. LOSER

Here's a random clip.

Gay right ? Though the music sounds Indian, it's Middle Eastern, and the guy at the synthesisor ( or whatever it's spelt like ) is the composer. Just type "Yanni" in the youtube search box and you'll get alot of results

2009-06-14T05:38:00.000-07:00

Today was good. Violin Lesson was good . Anyway, tomorrow I'll be going to a IT enrichment course for blogging that costs 81 bucks by the school.

Here's a vid.

Although it would be better if you watched the Original Music Video -

WARNING : The following video may contain religious contradictions and a naked iranian man who's half-naked in a tight-fitting underwear and doing sexual voices.

2009-06-13T05:43:00.000-07:00

Band was okay today , had drills on a new turn called " kiri belio " which all the Sec 3s had learnt in Sec 2 , although Mr Chiang said it was new . Parenthood must be eating up his blain ( PCK Style ) .

Oh and regarding PCK, there was a recent video of him during a rap that encourages MRT Ettiqute with the video revolving around a idea of " Be gracious " .

Anyway here's the famous video of him doing the SARS Awareness thingy .

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Okay, anyway, after waiting 30mins + for Dwyane and Darren who eventually pang-seh-ed us , (I'm so caring right ; I spell the syllabus out for dumb people ! ) , me, Clement PUCK! and Chek Siang ( my kickass badass junior ), went to AMK Hub to meet up with Hwee Young ( FANNY ! ) , Jianwen, WenLiang , and Chang Jun ( PCK Wig on a Gigantorm ) and LANed. Watched the 4 of them fight each other on L4D for a while before we finally played dota.

And Hwee Young is so damn pro. 14mins then he push middle Lane until base . Then Chek Siang anyhow tell me use my ulti ( Zeus ) and I tio killed as I wasted my mana and couldn't use BOT .

After bidding farewell to them , my kickass section went to watch Night At the Musuem 2 .

SUCKED . CHILDISH . CASHING IN ON " TECHNOLOGY IS ROBBING US OF HAPPINESS " HOLLYWOOD MORAL OF THE STORY .

Although there were many laughs , most of them came from children. And some of them came from me , as I took up a dare from Clement and Chek Siang to laugh during the tearful and " father-son bonding " parts.

Rating 2/5

And the band videos would be uploaded later and maybe never unless you bug me for them.

ON RECENT EVENTS :

Malaysian air quality has detoriated to Bad according to the Pollutant Standards Index ( PSI ) . There has been a recent rumour that a slightly overweight shemale ( for a dinosaur ) , which has been given the pet name Duane , ate 50 cartons of Mentos Mint and drank 200litres of Coke , and let out a giant FART due to the reaction . He is currently targeting Baked Bean Factories and the sewer system .

BE ON THE WATCH. He's a silent but deadly killer .

Virgin Post

2009-06-12T07:59:00.000-07:00

Hey , this is my first attempt at blogging , so comments ( constructive ones that is ) are appreciated.

To kick start the post, let's watch a seemingly unrelated video .

And regarding prank phone calls, here's a hilarious UK comedian .

And let's not forget ...... unsuccessful US 2010 Presidential candidate , SARAH PALIN!

That's all for now. Laughed at the part where she just hung up . Anyway, tomorrow's band day, so except some rants.

EDIT : And today, when I went for swimming lessons with my Bro and cousin, there was this guy who was staring at females in swimsuits shamelessly , despite the stares from the females themselves and/or the victims . WTF ! If he was handsome, it may not be such a big a irritation, but he was some damn ugly ! It's like as if he had a monkey for a mum ! I would love to see someone with parents like that.

EDIT # 2 : There's George Bush.

EDIT # 2 : My timing is 211s for 100m with pajamas and I use only BREASTstroke , for all you friends who are either muscular, competitive or just ... curious.