Again, for the 16876516578414857th time, I must add. Tsktsk, it’s hard to coordinate something when there’s more than 20 people in the main band currently (I think?) and a handful of people in the alumni band (more than 10?).

HuiQing called me yesterday and she sounded stressed, because this is a highly impossible task. Some can only make it on weekends, some can make it everyday except for weekends, some in the evenings, hell of a headache to plan. Anyway, I gave a few suggestions, all of which revolve around food, oops.

There’s band practice on Saturday, I wonder if I can bring home the instrument to practice? Because my sister’s bring home her ugly bassoon (no offense to all the bassoon players out there, but hers is really ugly because it’s hers) and play ugly sounds on it. And she looks funny, because it’s just a red pipe and it’s making sounds like an elephant with a stuffed nose. Makes me want to laugh everytime I see her play.

Besides, my pitch is always sharp, I don’t know why. But everyone is, so it doesn’t really matter that much.

Back in PJ band, I’ve never felt this way. I brought home the instrument once only, I think, played a few notes, and never touched it again. I don’t know, I didn’t feel inclined to play, I didn’t want to improve myself. Yes, I hated it.

Oh, I really want to play some theme songs from Pokémon, but I bet it’ll be damn effing difficult because it’s Japanese. Japanese composers usually try to kill off all the clarinet players. If I lifted weights with my fingers, can I run my notes faster?

I used to play Pokémon on the Gameboy. I spent many many hours on it! I played crystal version a long long time ago, and I liked the piece that was played after I defeated the Elite Four.

But no, now we’re playing something from High School Musical 2, and I don’t know, Zac Efron’s face keeps popping up, which makes me cringe. The piece is rather simple, but I have a personal prejudice against it, because I don’t like Zac Efron, simple as that.

Then there’s the other piece, ABBA Gold. Never knew ABBA is such a great band, never listened to them. I didn’t even watch the movie Mama Mia!. I like that piece enough, but I hate the high notes. I HATE HIGH NOTES DAMMIT, STOP MAKING ME PLAY HIGH NOTES! So throughout the whole piece, I just listened to the flautists, because the score looks like the flute’s score.

I don’t know what’s going to happen after the concert, whether the alumni band will still stay together. I don’t know, what I don’t like about the current alumni band is the lack of regularity. Like the last practice, where the clarinet section almost dominated the whole band (let’s do it again!). Can’t be helped, I guess, but I do wonder who’s going to turn up on the actual day itself. Oh, and what’s the attire?

HuiQing! We must take turns to play the Squeaky Solo okay! And also Oops I Did It (Played The Wrong Note) Again.

It’s the first time in a long long time that I feel like going for band. Back in PJband (for goodness sake, I should stop making comparisons), I had to whine (and irritate everyone unlucky enough to be there, wrong place, wrong time) and be semi-dragged to band (and crying buckets). I even skipped band a few times, when I could. But now I actually look forward to it. If I hadn’t known better, I would have rammed my head against the wall just to see if there’s anything wrong with me.

Okay, I think I’ll go steal a clarinet home. Reminder to self: Buy reeds! Oh, and this post was supposed to be about the sectional outing, but I digressed too much, no wonder I keep failing GP, oops.