Eugene

my life has direction again!

i think since i can never come to a conclusion, i am in the wrong.

I think of things bigger than I am.

When the mood is as black as the night sky
I think of things greater than me
When the illusion falters for a moment, I think of those things
With the whirl of a world, when the demons surrounding chatter infernally

Then something is funny
Or something is a pity
Then I laugh, rather jeer. Pass the time and dull the senses
I see with my eyes not my mind.
I speak with my mouth not my soul.
I set my own Earthly goal

I am the dead man over my body and I see a snapshot of what is,

And I think of things bigger than I am.

I am armed with a metronome and a stopwatch. To intensive practice!

the chinese love us and they are a hell of a lot more ALIVE than a singaporean audience :D

display, street march, concert. just about done, 2 more days to book out day.

ALCOHOLLLL.

Aside from the pretty pointless rehearsals (for me, since the toms don't play 90% of the time) where i had to Endure the weight, free time today was spent going to the supermarket, watching Ghajini with muthu, and GETTING A BLIND MAN MASSAGE. They weren't actually blind though, not all of them. But it was honestly an awesome massage and i am light and sprightly now (:

Hello online world, this is day 2 in China and so far the experience has been shocking but nonetheless refreshing.

Flying China Southern has really made me appreciate SIA and it's comfortable seats, entertaining technology, and prettier air stewardesses. Somehow there was turbulence, and I don't really do turbulence well. My ear's still popping.

Then when we touched down in Guangzhou, I thought China was pretty advanced after all, since the city was very cbdish. Amenities are cheaper here! After that we took the connecting flight to Nanchang, which, for all its one lane 4 way streets, is pretty charming. I've visited my first walmart. CHAOS.

It seems like food is very extreme here. Juice is either too sweet or too bland. Food is too spicy. Or oily, or salty, or in the worst case, too bland. There's actually a dish of pork lard here. Almost ate a mouthful of it. And for some reason they don't have cold drinks. The tea is hot, okay, but the orange juice and apple juice and milk and soya bean are hot too. Not to mention the soya bean is white water.

But life's good!
 

"Where is the aircon?! My men are dying!"

My standards of soldierliness have really changed since i joined band.

It would be nice to grow up, like so many of my friends out there.

Hi lj account thou hath rotted as I had in bmt D:

Anyway an update on my life for those who've forgotten my existence (: Basically fundamentally in a nutshelly, I have signed on, I'm a regular, I have signed on to band! For 5 years I will be doing the percussive arts in Singapore Armed Forces military band and shall reap all the perks of being a regular musician including but not limited to overseas training, free abrsm diploma examinations and much higher pay than nsf (D:), then I shall evacuate to Berklee to do my contemporary studies. Yes, I'm going to be doing my further studies in music~ and I'm totallay going to be a professional musician heck I already am :D Of course there was the painful process of deciding and convincing my parents because now effectively all my education qualification is wasted but whatevers la life is just once doncha agree :D