clearing out my room/YO emo
i've been clearing out old programme booklets... even stuff like that can make me go a bit emo. esp the YO booklets. must be a sign i'm getting old and losing it a bit -.- nuts.
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damn. i really miss YO. i know i've wallowed in it before but its not enough, they were really fantastic heady times. less than 4 years back (march 04) i was still in TO and watching their concert (UCC, copland and the trombone concerto)... and then suddenly i got promoted to the big time even though i played utter nub stuff in the auditions - i think it was elephant and some noobish sonata O.o - and mr casteels smashed me for not doing the vibrato on the top notes. and i was in there, right at the back and not giving a crap, i was up there in YO wow not the kiddos at TO any more. woohoo!
and we had great laughs at LJS at j8 after mep on the way to thurs night rhsls talking cock all the way from 2:30 in ri (was that when mep started?) to just before 7 when we walked into the room and the bass section was froody and ike did frog faces and zh was smitten with random someones and one glance from rachel was enough to make both of us laugh at the last joke, never mind what it was, never mind that it was communicated by the eyes and obscure hand gestures and invariably misinterpreted, never mind we were halfway across the room, never mind we were both in the middle of the freaking PIECE-
and then next year mr lim came in and i broke into the big time - the REAL big time, section-leaderhood - and there was rooming in vienna with remus and shag, cards with jon lee, people scrambling onto my bed to play heart attack and bridge, partying and pigging out, looking for owls and squirrels, chasing out the pigeons and gurning at their poop on the carpets, people emoing in hotel corridors (although i was asleep when the search was on), wild times, crazy times, brilliant times.
and then suddenly a couple more camps, a few concerts, all the oldies zaoed, newbies like adriel wenyi leening (hang on leening were you there before me? gosh i can't keep track alr!) remus (no we came in same time... did we?); even more recently people like zenn and justin and real kiddos like ryan kwan and lanabel (no offence! you're really little critters from my perspective xP)
wham bang chairman wham bang gone. it's been a dream of heady madcap times.
time to move on, pretty soon the Y part of SNYO will cease to apply to me, there's so many new people in the vlns and winds that i will never know their names; i'd just vaguely got the hang of some of the older faces but whoosh i'm gone already; even good old mrs wong might be retiring soon, and she changed her shoes - the clacketty sound that defined a generation of young eager musicians in rehearsal, that's gone now - she's an institution unto herself, she's awesome. that was a brilliant swirl of thoughts, and i'm sure i could pull out many many other fond memories.
but that's what they are, memories; they leave a nostalgic waft of emptiness behind in their wake like the air after your aromatherapy's burnt out. i'll probably never be at rehearsal with all these fantastic whacks of friends ever again; that's an incredibly sad realisation. seeing these people around still makes me remember the great times we had. amazing how rachel and i could still mime at the violin competition quarterfinals and we still understood each other - i hope she understood me heh. amazing the way friends spontaneously brighten up and give megawatt smiles when they locate each other. amazing people. amazing.
waves of nostalgia keep on hitting me; i feel like i have a lot in common with a beached whale though, in the sense that it's all over for me now. i hope we'll all keep in touch, despite all the funky places we'll go and all the things we'll be... i hope those memories will keep us together, friends pals all.
/emo
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damn. i really miss YO. i know i've wallowed in it before but its not enough, they were really fantastic heady times. less than 4 years back (march 04) i was still in TO and watching their concert (UCC, copland and the trombone concerto)... and then suddenly i got promoted to the big time even though i played utter nub stuff in the auditions - i think it was elephant and some noobish sonata O.o - and mr casteels smashed me for not doing the vibrato on the top notes. and i was in there, right at the back and not giving a crap, i was up there in YO wow not the kiddos at TO any more. woohoo!
and we had great laughs at LJS at j8 after mep on the way to thurs night rhsls talking cock all the way from 2:30 in ri (was that when mep started?) to just before 7 when we walked into the room and the bass section was froody and ike did frog faces and zh was smitten with random someones and one glance from rachel was enough to make both of us laugh at the last joke, never mind what it was, never mind that it was communicated by the eyes and obscure hand gestures and invariably misinterpreted, never mind we were halfway across the room, never mind we were both in the middle of the freaking PIECE-
and then next year mr lim came in and i broke into the big time - the REAL big time, section-leaderhood - and there was rooming in vienna with remus and shag, cards with jon lee, people scrambling onto my bed to play heart attack and bridge, partying and pigging out, looking for owls and squirrels, chasing out the pigeons and gurning at their poop on the carpets, people emoing in hotel corridors (although i was asleep when the search was on), wild times, crazy times, brilliant times.
and then suddenly a couple more camps, a few concerts, all the oldies zaoed, newbies like adriel wenyi leening (hang on leening were you there before me? gosh i can't keep track alr!) remus (no we came in same time... did we?); even more recently people like zenn and justin and real kiddos like ryan kwan and lanabel (no offence! you're really little critters from my perspective xP)
wham bang chairman wham bang gone. it's been a dream of heady madcap times.
time to move on, pretty soon the Y part of SNYO will cease to apply to me, there's so many new people in the vlns and winds that i will never know their names; i'd just vaguely got the hang of some of the older faces but whoosh i'm gone already; even good old mrs wong might be retiring soon, and she changed her shoes - the clacketty sound that defined a generation of young eager musicians in rehearsal, that's gone now - she's an institution unto herself, she's awesome. that was a brilliant swirl of thoughts, and i'm sure i could pull out many many other fond memories.
but that's what they are, memories; they leave a nostalgic waft of emptiness behind in their wake like the air after your aromatherapy's burnt out. i'll probably never be at rehearsal with all these fantastic whacks of friends ever again; that's an incredibly sad realisation. seeing these people around still makes me remember the great times we had. amazing how rachel and i could still mime at the violin competition quarterfinals and we still understood each other - i hope she understood me heh. amazing the way friends spontaneously brighten up and give megawatt smiles when they locate each other. amazing people. amazing.
waves of nostalgia keep on hitting me; i feel like i have a lot in common with a beached whale though, in the sense that it's all over for me now. i hope we'll all keep in touch, despite all the funky places we'll go and all the things we'll be... i hope those memories will keep us together, friends pals all.
/emo
posted by Unknown at
10:42 pm
4 Comments:
amen to that.
hmm... does clear out = discard?
I did throw away much stuff when I packed up to leave boarding. What I did was to scan those nice pages so I still have portable copy which I can get emo over ten years later.
=)
woah some real emo stuff here man.
HAHA vienna: owls at the hotel window sills. goodness that was a laugh!
in less than a year's time my batch's gonna be leaving like yours.. will you all still be going for YO concerts then? hahaha we'd join you in the audience..
(i went in before you. 2001. lol was a "kiddo" that didn't belong there at all)
yup. it gave me a pain in my heart. yah i discarded a heck lot of progbooks cos i keep - kePT - multiple copies. so now i only have 1 or 2 copies of every concert i played in, not like 3 or 4.
yeah leening we'll all be going back for the concerts lah, until we're old and grey and in our 20s and dun recognise anyone there anymore -.- ohnoz you were there before me lol
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