NIGHT 1 :

november 25th.
reported in band room at 7.30pm.
had combined practise till around 10.15
packed instruments , washed up.
and lights out at 11.05.

girls slept in the training room and guys, dance studio (as usual)
but jason and i had to sleep in the BAND ROOM ALONE.
aiyoyoyo
needa take care of percussion instruments.
like who would steal in the middle of the night with everyone sleeping over?

didnt really sleep much as we only got a few hours of sleep
and we were too excited.

had to wake up at ard 2.30am and gather in the concourse at 3.30.


DAY 1:

arrived in hongkong at around 10 plus.
went to VICTORIA PEAK.
we got to roam ard at the top.
there were shopping centres up there.
i was very very hungry.
halal food wasnt easy to find.
the muslims havent had a proper meal.
i felt like crying out of hunger, serious.
plus, i had gastric.
sigh.
i got myself two ice cream from macdonald.
some teased me but the others said it was okay,
they knew i was super hungry.

then we went to see some golden statue of a flower.























































behold my roommate- chew jun wern

NIGHT 2:
































went to see some buildings with lights.


then went to avenue of stars and caught the symphony of lights.
symphony of lights is basically lights and lazers
shone from alot of buildings
across the big river in front of us.
it was dazzling at first.
but it got boring haha.
the song not happening plus the lights kept on repeating haha

can say that night was full of lights (from buildings) hahah

DAY 2:

sectionals workshop full day.
brasses woodwinds and percussion are separated.
but brasses and woodwinds had their workshop at the same place.
percussions went somewhere else.
sadded

NIGHT 3:

night market at 'ladies street'
it was rather dissapointing,though
gwen deon fiona and i couldnt really find stuff we like

but i got myself a pair of shoes,
a shirt,a pair of shades and a jacket

btw there's this guy who's crawling on the street there,
asking for change
(he's disabled)
gwen actually shrieked and screamed twice at the sudden sight of him.
aiyoyoy
but i admit,
he did look abit frightening.
seeing how pitiful he was,
deon gave him a 5 buck coin.

good job bro !

(fiona and jinlan sneaked into our room that night
before curfew time,
knowing that we weren't supposed to go to rooms
of the opposite sex. but what the heck?
haha shush )

btw, something else happened that night before we went to our rooms.
when we were gg back to our hotel room.
ugh we so hate those damn mainland chinese !

some of us squeezed into the small lift.
and some chinese from mainland china
(warned to us by tour guide to be careful as they
are rude, loud and inconsiderate)
squeezed in with us.
i didnt know they would be THAT bad like mike had said?

they came in.
it was okay at first.
then there's this BIG FAT china guy,
he pushed himself forward lying down to his friends
who in turn squzeed us even more.
we were all super pissed.
mrs chee was inside that lift too.
shaffiqa couldnt tolerate anymore.
she shouted out.

" CAN YOU PLEASE DONT PUSH"
eceryone looked at her.
mrs chee was unhappy at all that she shouted.
in fact, she seemed rather happy, rofl.
we all were so happy shaffiwa spoke out.

that inconsiderate guy took it as a joke.
he said something in english with his accent
and also plus some chinese words.
like WHO THE HELL can understand.
but his friends seemed to understand.
those mainland chinese were just laughing with that fat guy.

shaffiqa shouted again " THAT'S NOT EVEN ENGLISH"
now, it was us, sporeans, who were laughing, OUT LOUD.
mrs chee laughed too!
that fat guy continued to mock us in chinese
as they made their way out of the lift.

again, shaffiqa responded " I UNDERSTAND CHINESE LAH"
and this time, she spoke in chinese!
hah cool

and mrs chee shouted out too, saying " YOU PEOPLE AH, ARE STINKY!"

shaffiqa and i looked at each other, nearly bursting out into laughter.
i mean, of all things?
S-T-I-N-K-Y?
HAHAHHAHAHAH
but nevermind, at least she dared to speak out.

ugh the whole jvcb hated those mainland chinese.
anyhow take advantage and squeeze through
our queue to get into the lift
just cause we had big instruments and cant squeeze like they did. fuck

but lucky we were clever to have used our big tubas and trombones
and stuff to block their way.
HAHAHAH clever right?
mrs chee's idea

DAY 3:

HONG KONG DISNEYLAND!
we actually performed in DISNEYLAND!


















deon.hafiz.junwern.lerchen
























this is called-it's a small world
that ride is super irritating !
it was fun and cute at first,
moving in the boat through that building
but we kept hearing the same song (its a small world after all)
but only in different languages by some dummies inside.
aiyoyoyo headache lah !



























fountain outside disneyland







































jvcb conquering entrance of disneyland early in the morning.
hah






















see how excited everyone is?





























some building with mickey plants
cool shit huh


i panicked before our performance.
the timpani they lent was SUPER out of tune.
and i wasn't given enough time to re-tune it or even mark it.
wth?

i cooled down soon after with the help and soothing words
of mrs gan sj and mrs alice gan.
phew,

i managed after all.
i succeeded performing with only 3 timpanis (we have four in school),
tuning them to the band while playing!
WHOOHOO.
am i good or what.
rofl

after so, we supported ST ANTHONY pri sch band in return
as they supported us before their performance.
after so,
we got out of our blazers and got into another set of clothes (forgot what)
and got to roam ard freely there.
the rides were awesome and being there
sure feels like you're really in another world.
gosh.
(psst, i took space mountain about 5 times !)
WHOOHOO! im not scared of roller coasters anymore !

NIGHT 4:

watched sleeping beauty's castle
as it was being showered with dazzling fireworks in the sky.
MAN IT WAS AWESOME.
i nearly teared as it was a dream come true
to really see that castle with fireworks LIVE.
syazwani cried, though.
man man, disneyland is awsome i tell you !



DAY 4:






















went to the beach.
lazed around,
played with sand,
took pictures.





























went to some museum
no link to the objectives of our trip there.
oops.

then we headed to some college
for music exhange and band clinic.

music exchange is basically ,
exchanging of musics lah.

they performed for us
then we performed for them.
and we performed two pieces together
MARCH BEYOND THE CRITICAL POINT-chosen by our band
and FATE OF THE GODS-chosen by them.

dang, combined was awesome.
guess what,
i panicked again.
HAIYO

know what,
now they only have TWO timpanis !
haha
imagine,
from having four timpanis,
i have to try,adapt and play with 2 in just a few minutes?
changing the tune while playing even faster?
aiyoyo

and guess what,
i succeeded again!
gosh,
i didnt know it was possible.
and again, AM I GOOD OR WHAT.
HAHAHHAH
psst, i heard only good timpani players
like in some orchestra use two timpanis.
hoho

after music exchange, we had band clinic.
the conductor there took over JVCB and worked on our
choice and set SYF pieces.
hell yeah, we improved.

why does it seem that our band improves only when there's
a guest conductor?
hmmm ..
haha oops


























joey- section leader of perccusion. plays all percussion instruments.



























frankie- clash cymbal and suspended cymbal



























queenie-bass drum



























tong tong- mallets


NIGHT 5:


























syazwani treated me to chocolate soya bean
fromt he vending machine in our hotel that night
yum yum!
thank zany!
oh oh guess what,
she bought two blackcurrent juice
and got one extra!

lucky or what !


and that night we were allowed to party !
a reward given to us as we were so disciplined
to have listened to instructions and not
go to other rooms and not sleep by curfew time.

our curfew, which was initially 11 was extended to 1.
not much but it was enough.
going into each other's rooms and hang out.
and we were finally allowed to go into rooms of the opposite sex,
but not alone! hah
fun lah.
so yea,

psst, btw
jun wern and i sneaked into atiqah's room
after both our rooms got checked by teachers,
past our curfews.
and we only went back to our rooms at 3!
hahahha shush!

my my, junwerns eyes were red and heavy that night.
but atiqah insisted we stay abit longer.
i asked him to sleep first on atiqah's bed.
his eyes began to close..

suddenly, the room got smelly.

hafiz: eh who fart ah? smelly siol !

hafiz:you ah? (points to huiwen)

huiwen: no, no

hafiz: you ah? (points to atiqah)

atiqah: no lah !

hafiz: eh then you ah junwern? (points to junwern whose eyes were shutting)

junwern: huh, what? oh ya..

everyone: burst out laughing !

junwern: huh? what? oh sorry i didnt know.. i was sleeping.

LIKE WTF!@? HAHA
everyone tried to hold their laughs, fearing the teachers might hear,
but we couldnt. HAHAHHA
so cute lah he

DAY 5:

mike( our tour guide) told us we were going to some museum again.
an ARTS museum this time.
i was happy as it was about ARTS
but yet sad cause its going to be boring.
like duh?
im in no mood for arts in hong kong?

on the way,
i spotted signboards of ocean park.
i got even excited as we seemed to be following the signs.
soon evryone also got excited.
then mike said,
"dongg be excited. we are only taking a picture tgt outside ocean park.
then we going to the arts museum beside it. that's all"

everyone got sad and quite
hahaha so cute

we went down the bus,
everyone still excited.
went to ocean park's entrance and took a picture as a band.
immediately later, we walked away from the entrance
everyone had their sad frowns on.

"everybody line up. we are going to museum. weady weady weady?"

we walked forth,
and found ourself outside ocean park again!!
we were really going inside !

HAHAHA WOOTS!
evryone cheered in joy.

mrs chee said that the surprise visit to ocean park
was a reward for being so punctual everytime.
aww i love mrs chee,mrs chia and both mrs gan-s

i took the mine train yo!
so fun!
it was the scariest roller coaster there i think?
and i took the abyss!
omg
HAHHAHA
i've always been too scared to try out all these thrilling rides.
NOW I LOVE THEM!
but i still wont go ANYWHERE NEAR haunted houses.
period.


after all the fun,
we headed to some factory outlet
where everything were sold at factory prices!
yumyum

and again, it was rather dissaponting.
but i helped deon choose a black shirt from espirit.
CHEAP CHEAP !
and found myself a quicksilver t-shirt.
that's all actually,
pathethic much huh?




























that's the shirt i chose for him,
which everyone else encouraged him to buy.
well, he does looked EVEN hotter huh?

and btw, that's adila.
who was there to help decide on the shirt too.
haha

NIGHT 6:

shopped at HK airport before
boarding the plane
and home sweet home


psst, im not used to the temperature here.
i miss the sun there, our best friend.
its our enemy here.
(wth, its the same sun hah)

im not sure if you know, but




JVCB and its trip to HONGKONG ROCKS




















BIG TIME.