Went for band practice today and yesterday. my sight-reading skills improved!!! I can actually sight-read I COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT and DISNEY SPECTACULAR. I like under the sea, beauty and the beast and the Arabian nights. I don’t always play the timpani part already. it’s quite a different feeling when playing the mallets as compared to the timpani and other instruments. At around late afternoon, the bookshop aunty was like shooing our shoes and us out of the band room. Even ms low couldn’t stand her too! The aunty is always complaining about us even when we did nothing. The section says that she has Post Menstrual Syndromes! Ms low and Ms azilah let the whole band take charge of next year’s February concert’s programmes and the emcee scripts.

February Concert [name hasn’t confirmed]
6^th February 2007 Tuesday
At around 7.30pm
Tickets are going to be sold at $10.
Do support the BAND!!

I had life-saving lesson yesterday. the water in the pool was brrr…cold. I reached Jurong East Swimming Complex just in time for the lesson because I waited for yijing at the JE MRT to go together. Phew.

Notes for yesterday.

We swam 8 laps of breast strokes. After that, we had to practice the towing rescue with the float on and the defensive technique. During the towing rescue, I was supposed to be the rescuer but when I was half way through, I had serious leg cramps. In the end, I was the REAL victim and yijing was the rescuer. Oh my. What an irony. I still managed to recover from the cramps and continue to swim.

Defensive technique

You are 1m away from the victim. If the victim tries to catch hold of you, you immediately swim back and start to kick violently. This is to ensure that you as the rescuer will not get hurt in the case of rescuing people. After kicking and causing huge splashes, you instruct the victim not to come near you and you throw the float to the victim. When he/she grabs hold of the float, you ask the victim to kick back to the shallow waters while watching over him/her closely.

If the victim gets a shock, the rescuer will lie him/her down on a flat ground and put the float vertically below his/her feet. This is to improve the blood circulation of the whole body and allow more blood to flow to the heart and the brain. IT’S BIOLOGY!! Next week we are going to learn more about the respiratory and circulatory systems in our body. LOL. We have to learn all the biology terms like alveoli, bronchus, trachea, windpipe and more.

We had secondary One registration today. I was doing the information counter and ushering of parents. Oh I had a great time talking to some of the parents. Some were very worried about the ccas in our school, the tablet project, the shoes their daughters are supposed to wear. I saw some of my primary school mates but I don’t know them. The whole registration ended at about 12.15pm. The bookshop aunties with all her books were blocking the band room and she doesn’t allow us to go in and take our things and to practise. Enough of the bookshop aunty. The band board is finally more presentable after all the decorations from every section. Ours was cute and the rest were very artistic and beautiful. Besides the band board, I also learnt a new song and a camp rhythm. Diana taught us and it’s very cool!! The section went home together. I want to try the red hill’s ice cream. Diana and Christine said it’s nice. Im going to try it sometime. I had a nice good chat with Diana and Christine while waiting for the bukit batok train to arrive [I don’t know what line is that.] we kept procrastinating and in the end, they took the train 10 minutes later because we were talking and talking. (:

School is reopening in a week’s time and I have to start to prepare for the New Year. I am really curious as to who our subject teachers and for teacher are for the year 2007. Ms azilah will not be teaching us anymore and our new English teacher is MR RAVI!! Yoohoo!! And 4C1 will be at the Echo Block 2^nd level and it’s beside the toilet. 4C2 is using the next classroom. There will be two vacant classrooms as there are only eight classes in next year secondary one and two. Yep. That’s about it. c ya.