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MD XXXI finally come to an end yesterday night. This will be my last performance with SPSB.

the previous was busying with presents all those and at 12.30am, ring ring my phone rang and i saw an angel calling me and that person is jiawei. just in time to help me with my presents. and from then, we do it all the way till 4am and she send me home. where can u find such a nice friend man? her no. is 93670677, gift wrapping / designing service available. A BIG THANKS TO JIAWEI FOR HELPING ME WITH MY PRESENTS. reached home and sleep all the way till 6th of jan morning 10.30am.

chiong to queensway to take my new specs, it is just like my old specs :) then rush over to anchor point to print some photos and god, anchor point change a lot and i spent like 15mins to find the photo printing shop. and damn it, a freaking shopping centre without ATM machine. and so rush back to queensway shopping centre to withdraw money. when reach there, ATM machine spoil. in the end give up and quickly rush home as i am running out of time. reach home continue to doing the presents and quickly rush over to school. carried two big bags of presents is a hindrance.

reach bandroom, see the girls and boys with their "stylish" hair. and all the presents they made, was amaze by flute section gift, really very nice and insert lots of effort. and soon, lorry left and 3 buses arrive and off we go to VCH. reach there and start to shift all the instrument to the hall and get ready for warm up. after warm up, its dress up time and photo taking session starts. took lots of photos and this year aim is to take photo with every single band members but i didnt manage to do it because i forget to take photo with charles, and he is the last one. so sad. when out to meet uncle and auntie they all, took some pictures with them, saw yvonne they all too and also the regulars. and then quickly rush up to get ready at the back stage. this time round, more photo taking.

off we go on stage for my last MD. patiently sit down seeing the audience flowing in slowly, the sales for the concert was not too bad, i guess about 750 tickets sold. very soon, both bell rings and we start the concert with our first major piece, Die Meistersinger. i can say that this is really a tough piece and overall performance for this piece was pretty good.

second piece - ghost train. started off nicely with an eerie ghost solo by liting, then the train started to move. during the concert, the train move off a bit too fast and resulting the band to continue to chiong when it accelerate. last part of the ghost train, small mistake by the percussion section but overall its good.

third piece - willson suite mvt 3 Hurricane. after ghost train, quickly rush to backstage and drank water, lao ban was there too wishing me good luck. waited at the percussion section area for my entrance. was feeling damn nervous and my mind when blank. when emcee announce "let us welcome tonight's soloist, Mr Kelvin Tan" and off i go on stage. damn damn nervous. bow and sit down. adjust to the best playing position, gave a nod to laoban and off we go. when playing, wat i can see is only my score, thats all. take a few glance at the audience when having rest. cadenza time, really is own time own target. this is the best cadenza i have played over the past few months. and i successfully reach the pedal D but didnt manage to sustain it long. and finally to the last bar and ends off with a high G. *clap clap clap* stand up, shake lao ban hand, bow, receive flower from ah bass and gave a final bow. glorious and proudest moment of my Band's life.

last piece before the interval - The Inn of Sixth Happiness. first movement was alright. nice melody from the various section. i think we overpowered for this movement as it shld be softer than wat we play and more gentle. second movement started off with a very nice flute solo by faidhi. and continue by johan wonderful sax solo. nice soothing melody after that by the horn and saxes, 99% in tune, haha. and the final movement. yuan jun solo was 99% correct. he slightly mispitch a note. can u believe it, he only play it correct once. and no more. lol. kellyn solo was rushing a bit in the beginning and leading to string bass rush and in the end we played a faster version of the nursery rhyme's and it was quite fun. dance and play, the feeling is good.

interval when to find the chng's family, said thank you to them as they, 11 people come and support me. when over to find yvonne they all, and received a sunflower from them. so happy. and also a pooh bear from cutest friend as she cant make it for the concert. and sitting in front of them were regulars. chatted with them and took photo. saw a few other familiar faces. soon the bell ring and signal the start of 2nd half.

orient express was well played. better then we play during rehearsal. good job to yongqi (fat), dustin and weeseng on the solos. and the last part when we are suppose to only blow air to our instrument to produce the steam sound, but from the dearest eupho section, one person blow notes out. wahahah! damn funny. i guess its jiaming, use too much air liao. wahahah! next up is flourish for wind band. as usual that is the best piece that we sound good. short, nice and sweet.

and finally galaxy express 999. i think by that time, we were all very high already and we were really enjoying play the piece. singing part were a bit soft but still can be heard. the guys overpowered the girls. wahahah! and its left with encore.

believe - the band started to play this very emo and nice song. and soon lao ban slowly call out the year 3s' one by one to the front stage. and we gave a finally bow and flowers were presented to us by the new president and vice-president, tiac woo and jin kun.

a special program brought up by the year 3s to dedicate to all year 1 and 2. we played a combi of first love + welcome. guess gt a no. of the year 1 and 2 cry? haha. well done all the year 3s. even though we only had two 3hrs practices, we manage to make this performance a good wan. enough for the year 1 and 2 to remember us. wahahaha!

well, quite sad that we are graduating from SPSB. 3years in there has been fun. since year one, knowing sorzai, yuanjun, hanxian, jiawei, brenden, weijie, saihow, randy, xiaobai, cindy cai, yingyee, jiaming. we always had fun together and owning the band. then knowing stella, click along well with her, still friends. haha. knowing ah bass, kmiang and yvonne. ignore all the past quarrels and unhappiness. and finally coming to year 3, knowing cheeky juniors like adeline and cindy made by today with their funny action. haha. thks to SPSB and all this group of people. your make my 3 years in poly worth it.

photo will be up tml
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