1, 2, 3, W!

Firstly, I would like to thank the people whose Facebook accounts I have stolen pictures from. Namely Amber, Looi Ling, and Naveena. But mostly Naveena.

I would just like to say: We wock. Wock with a capital W.

It's been the best year. Surely. If not throughout the whole year, at least these past few weeks of post-ex have really brought us closer. Case in point, our killer klass party.

At the beginning, we were fearful it might not be half the class party last year's was. The reason:

No one had brought a radio.

So a couple of us went around the staff rooms to check if any of the teachers had a radio we could borrow. When suddenly, our monitor, the ever-prepared Tan Lay Yin, mentions that "Oh, one of the teachers are keeping my radio for me."

This is Tan Lay Yin from the back. Trust me, you don't want to see the front. Haha! Just kidding. Sort of. And yes, I drew that toothless picture of her saying "I'm Lay Yin!".

If you're wondering why everyone is leaving nice messages on her shirt(Lee Jia Wen excluded, he wrote the "Kick me"), it's because she's leaving school next year to go learn somewhere in FRIM(don't ask me, that's just what I heard).

So anyway, back to the story. We retrieved Lay Yin's radio from the staff room, then went back to class, only to find that it was way too soft to supply music for a dance party.

The radio dilemma. Hmm. That sounds like it could be a great movie! Let's see...

YES! It's amazing!

Anyway, because The Radio Dilemma, we had to come up with a new plan. Our resourceful Mr. Jonathan Patrick James came up with the solution.

"We need to find another radio."

It's not exactly the best plan, but I was kidding when I said "resourceful". No offence, Jon. So we went again.

We thought for a while. Who would have a radio? Then, we happened to see Mdm Vicky standing in her staff room looking bored. Ding ding! She might have a radio.

But even if she did, what if she didn't want to lend it to us? We needed someone to persuade her. Someone good at sucking up. Someone like...

Alistair Bow!

That was proof of his suck-up prowess. Standing hand-in-hand with our principal, Mrs Matthews, preparing to waltz.

We ran to find Alistair, and found him talking and joking with Mdm Shabnam. See what I mean? Suck. Up. So, we told him we needed him to work on Vicky, but Shabnam, overhearing our plan, told us that there was a radio in staff room 8 belonging to Kok Hao Zhe which was not in use.

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And so, the party begins.

It so happened that the day of the class party was also Chai Jia En's birthday. Here we see him trying to fly.

And so, being in charge of bringing a cake for the class party, I decided to make it Jia En's birthday cake. You're welcome, Jia En. Haha!

See? Look at it! I baked that, believe it or not.

But damn. That day was also possibly Jia En's last day in school. He went for an interview to get into a military school the very next day. I don't mean to curse him or anything, but I think I speak for many when I say I hope that he doesn't get in.

So anyway, we started dancing, and slowly, people from other classes started coming in. All the teachers were coming, too. How nice.

Now, if you look at this series of pictures taken by Naveena, you will see that it would actually make a very good flipbook/.GIF image. Haha!

Jon and I begin to dance.

Jia En punches in.

"Hey, Jun Shern, let's squash him!"

"Okay, now!"

No narration required.

The End.

Hilarious. And we have more pictures!

It's close to midnight,
and something evil's lurking in the dark.

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night And no one's gonna save you from the beast about strike

DANCE BATTLE!
This is my favorite pic, personally. The angle is so dramatic.

This is me. I think I'm doing baby swipes. It's hard to tell. Doesn't look like anything in particular.

Again, me. I think I'm coming down from a handstand.

Wheelbarrow race!

Jun Shern + Bryan = Breakdance

Let's not forget all the great food, yeah? Which everyone contributed to. Woot!

And.. yeah. Run, Jon, run!

That's pretty much it.

Damn, I'm gonna miss all of you guys who'll be leaving.

Jun Shern out.

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The Cold Front

It's getting colder. Or rather, these last two days, my area has been really cold. It's as if the air-con is on 24/7.

Jun Shern out.

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Who's The King Of The World?

I've really missed out on a lot of posts. Many things have been happening, really. What with all the post-ex activities(which from now on will be referred to as PEA), and absolutely no work involved in my life, I've been having a great time.

I can't remember everything, though. The main stuff was like the AAR concert,

which, predictably, was super-awesome. At the start, we kept trying to get to the front, with me leading the pack holding my handphone, pretending that I was trying to get to my "friend" who was far in front. However, nobody cared. We managed to get quite deep in, then found ourselves stuck tight in the middle of a dense sea of bodies.

It became kinda crazy during the local bands' opening acts before AAR came, but it was all in good spirit. You know, sort of a mosh, but not so serious. Just people pushing us all around. And, I happened to get hit on the head by a flying plastic bottle from behind.

I didn't mind any of that, except for an annoying little malay boy with a large bag pack on. He was seriously getting on my nerves, constantly half-crouching and covering his head then using his backpack to crash into everyone around him.

When Pop Shuvit came on with Mara Bahaya and everyone went crazy, I really lost it with that kid. Whenever he came close to me, I would push him as hard as I could, but he just kept coming back. Always a pacifist, I retreated behind the other audiences. And found that the older malay crowd standing behind was far more hostile.

Eventually, we got tired of waiting for AAR to come on, then went further back to get some drinks. Then, we learnt that it was much more comfortable to watch alongside the more relaxed crowd at the back. So it was there where we spent the rest of the night, shouting along to AAR's best.

So let's talk about yesterday's Melaka trip. There isn't much to say, because without pictures this kind of post would be terribly boring. The most interesting things would be that we ate chicken rice balls and cendol for lunch, Jia Wen stole us some snake skin from inside the snake's cage in the zoo, and the bus ride back was a platform for the movie "Don't Shoot Me!", which you can watch on here on Facebook.

What's been going on in school? Well, there was my powerpoint presentation, which would honestly been ten times better if the hall's sound system was working properly. Meaning that I wouldn't have embarrassed myself if all the sound clips I'd inserted weren't on mute.

And then there was the patriotic song competition. Basically, the idea was to have each class perform a song which upheld the morals of patriotism. It was fun while it lasted. It gave us musicians an excuse to bring our instruments to school and jam. However, I've come to realize that jamming isn't a good idea. For instance, on the last day after our song performances, I'd invited the P class people over to jam. What resulted was many musicians in the same room, each playing their own thing and trying to be heard. That kinda thing just gives people headaches.

The real fun in music is performing. Like the few times when I'd played guitar in class and had people singing along to the songs I was playing. That's what music is about.

On the note of music(pun intended), I've decided to stop learning piano. Surely, learning piano for possibly almost 10 years and having nothing to show for it is a sign that piano just isn't for me. As a result, I have space to learn a new instrument.

However, I don't know which to learn. I can play gutar, piano, and a little bit of drums already. So those are out. Remaining choices are:

violin, trumpet, saxophone, cello, flute, harp

Elimination time.

1. Violin- Plenty of people play this. Besides, the violin is known to be a strictly classical instrument, and very hard to tackle if you plan to take exams.
Genre: Classical, otherwise limited to Yellowcard, Vanessa Mae and VSQ songs.
Verdict: Maybe not.

2. Trumpet- At first, I liked the idea of learning the trumpet. So I went to Youtube to check it out. Unfortunately, the trumpet has a pretty ugly sound.
Genre: Classical and marching band music.
Verdict: Nah.

3. Saxophone- This is my favourite. The sound is absolutely amazing, and it's portable, and very few people I know can play it. The only problem is, one of the very few people I know who can play it is my brother, so there might be a problem there.
Genre: Blues, soul, and pop songs aren't too far out of reach, either.
Verdict: Leaning yes.

4. Cello- A pretty cool instrument, definitely more ideal than the violin, for me. However, my sister wants to learn the cello, so she has banned me from doing so.
Genre: Classical, but good for accompaniment in pop songs.
Verdict: A forced no.

5. Clarinet- Jia Wen plays this. And it's also a cool instrument, and supremely portable. But I'm not so sure that the sound is very usable in modern music.
Genre: Classical, unless I learn to be like that beatboxing flute player on Youtube.
Verdict: Either way.

6. Harp- This would be really cool if I were a mermaid. Unfortunately, the harp is a rather sexist instrument, having been protrayed by the media as a woman's otherwise an angel's instrument.
Genre: No idea what genre this falls into.
Verdict: Probably not.

So there you have it. I think I'll go for saxophone, if my brother doesn't mind. It's a really sax-y instrument.

"The best thing about learning to play the trumpet is that I'll be called a trumpeteer. How cool is that?"

"So why don't you go learn to play the pion?"

Jun Shern out.

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