Semi awaits us :)

Yesterday was stunning, really. The talent contest went pretty well. My band and I arrived at school at 12 and we've already seen lots of people there performing, waiting, rehearsing. We arrived pretty earlier I must say, as we were the last to present. *wth*

There were 24 groups in the preliminary, and only 8 will go in the semi final which will be held on Monday. Yep we were pretty nervous, and excited. And that taught us a really good lesson. Sorry I didn't take any photos cause my hands were shivering, hehe blame me :D

Finally our turn, everyone was tired of waiting. We were in front of 60 plus people in the multimedia room testing our mics and instruments. I wasn't suppose to be nervous cause my church has more than 60 people, and I play there every week......but.......I really felt the chill yesterday.

I gave the starting tempo and.... something went wrong. Jeremiah's starting solo was a bit sloppy but nvm mind I could still get myself into his beat but then it didn't sound so good. Seems like everyone was playing on our own kind of feeling.

He helped himself to get into the verse and it went on smoothly, finally. Damn I was so nervous when we did the intro, everyone kept starring at us, like...... "did something go wrong?" Well I'm not blaming you Jeremiah, I know you did your best.

Nvm we were back on the beat and we did pretty well. Only that Jeremiah's mic was too soft. Damn why wasn't there anybody there to make it louder? Our instruments covered his voice. I couldn't hear him. But then we completed the song on full throttle. But I really admit that my drums were too loud, sorry bah I was so into the song. And I guess everyone liked our performance, in the end I still think that we should have done better.

Anyways, we were waiting our results outside as the judges were making their final decision. Only 8 goes it, only 8. Surprisingly we did go in the semi finals. I didn't know how was my reaction when Joie told me the result but definitely we were happy and glad :D

I must say that the others performed well also. Ben's group aren't bad as they were the top scorer in the preliminary round. The dancing group isn't bad, they danced pretty well. And I think that the shuffling mimes were really good. Hehe.

Monday will be the day, which we will perform in front of thousands of people in the school hall. Pressure is rising but we are ready.
To all the semi finalists, all the best :)

Pursuit of Busy -------- NESS~

Hi people!
How are y'all doin'? Hope y'all enjoy your longgg holidays.
Well certainly I do enjoy now.
I'm so happy that I could play in the TTSS competition next week. I'm so damn excited man... Actually I'm not supposed to be so happy or excited cause I haven't got myself a drumset for the competition =.= but I'm just so looking forward to it = D

Anyways my schedule till 4th of Nov are gonna be tight and BUSY! I have so many things to prepare and manage. I have to go for my regular band practice, have to work on with my peoplezzz. Our first jamming session went pretty well, with the additional Jacyntha should be PERFECT.

Just recieved a call from De notes just now when I was in church...

Kevin: Hello Federick!

Federick: This is...?

Kevin: Kevin here dude...

Federick: Hey waddup?

Kevin: Erm... Can you come for practice tomorrow from 6 to 7.30 at night?

Federick: Huh??? What's that for?

Kevin: Actually I've chosen you to be our drummer for the performance at Hai Lo(City Mall) on
2nd of November. Can you come?

Federick: *astonished* Serious? Woah... But I don't think I can come at this time tomorrow.

Kevin: If this is it, then I have to find a replacement for you. Is either you want it, or not.

People, with this sentence of his above here. It almost killed me on deciding on whether to go. I have practice with my band in the morning tomorrow 11 to 1 at RAM and before that we have a warm up from 8 to 10 at my house. Then 6 have to come back to De notes AGAIN! I was like... gosh what am I gonna do, I'm gonna be damn tired cause I have another session with my church band at night! It's like so damn busy! Well at last I replied him after half an hour saying that I accept his invitation. WTF????

Anyways I should be happy cause I get to do my first-time-performance with the De notes band. I should appreciate that Victor chose me, or probably Kevin...

Okay people I think I better sleep now. Gonna face a drumset for the whole day tomorrow. I need rest. Cheers people :)

Bored like @*#$&

Oh yes, purchasing of my drumset has been comfrimed:)
It will arrive within two or three weeks. Well it sounds neither long nor short. But I'll have to wait...

Holidays have been boring. Yes my holidays are always like that. Wake up in the morning, online, TV, blogging, Word Challenging-ing, study(probably), sleeping, TV(did I repeat that?)...............

Gosh what else can I do? I'm so desperately waiting for my drums to come so that I can have a better life during holidays. Yessssss, much more better.

Exam is coming and believe it or not I haven't open-house my books yet. With such hot weather in KK(or Sabah, or Malaysia...whatever), how could I sit there and concentrate on studying? Yes blame on the weather... and sometimes Badawi for cutting of our electricity often. (Hehe)

By the way, my band and I are still not jamming this week*grunt* . I'm worried about this, worried about how good can Jeremiah sing(not criticizing seriously), how well can Jacintha play on the guitar(I've never seen before), how long will Michelle take to find herself a keyboard, how smooth can our practices go...etc etc etc etc ect ect ect... Arghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At least I know where am I now. We've got plenty of strong rivals like Benji and the bois(Marstajin), Karen's dancing team, probably the XIAO class band or some other Cina Cina bands(the Cina bands are not included), haha I'm so mean! Can we handle it? (I have no idea)
I need support.

Damn I'm addicted to this video.

Hahahahahahahahahaha! Over!

~Marine Ate Steak!~

Finally our band have submitted ourselves in the TTSS talent competition. Gosh we took so long to settle down everything, the instruments, the registration fees, practices and so on. We are called Marine Ate Steak! Seriously, I've forgotten how that came into our minds. It's a little bit funny when we read it the first couple of times but after that we think that it's cool. Our band consists of six people, seems to be a lot eh? I'm on the drums, Fay and Jeremiah are the vocalists and guitarists, Jacintha is on the main electric guitar, Michelle and Johnath are our keyboardists. Sounds complicated and different right? I feel the same way. We don't have a bass guitarist! Well you can't find a better bass guitarist in TTSS Senior 1 right now, they are facing extinction. Steffi has her own band and Joie is not allowed to join as she is one of the members of Drama Club(frustrated). From there one of the keyboardist should play the bass by using KEYBOARD. Yeah I know that will sound weird and unnatural. Hopefully we can work well together as a team.

Fay and I talked about our practice during math lesson. We can't wait for it. But unfortunately we're facing some problems. We don't have a jamming place like others have. So I planned to buy myself a drumset. Well this is not the first time that I think about this matter. How could a drummer can improve more without having his own drumset? My biggest problem is that I don't have a place to display my drumset. BUT smart Fay suggested me to buy a cheaper one and keep it in my store room so that I can use it when we practice. Ain't that smart? Or just that I'm dumb for not have thought about it earlier. I'll negotiate with my mum tonight that I'll need a drumset ASAP! When it comes to my budget, my thoughts just keep lingering around my mind. Probably I should just buy a RM1000+ for temporary only.

In order to prepare for the competition, I've currently changed my grip from normal(modern) drumsticks grip to traditional grip. My teacher thought me that, and I found out it was quite difficult when I just picked up this grip. Now I think it's quite cool actually to hold the left hand stick like that.

Traditional Grip:)

Found a funny cartoon video on Youtube.