Saturday, January 1, 2011

Revamp (slight)

Revamped the blog design a little.
(Changelog:
- Header changed
- Sidebar bg changed
- Shoutbox colours changed
- Post area design edited
- Very slight change in overall layout)
Kinda strange if we keep using the Il Bacio 1....
Hope it isn't too messy though.
Comments welcome XD

Cheers,
- Jin Jian

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Epic Chalet XD (Part 1)

Hey everyone,

Thanks for the fun time at the Chalet!
I'm sure we all had lots of fun XD
Aiya, so sad we forgot to take photos XP
For those who didn't come, let me fill you up on what we did, ya?

I arrived @ arnd 5+, when Sheng Hong was lighting the fire (emoing alone)
and the rest were playing cards inside.
Amanda was probably cheating as her cards were SOOOO GOOOOD ~_~

People present are
Sheng Hong, Amelia, Ernest, Amanda, Jeraldine, Viet Son, Xin Ying, Yijia and Me.

Then when the fire was done,
we decided to crowd outside to BBQ all the random food
while "listening" to WHEEL OF FORTUNE on the TV.
We were all going like "BIG MONEY! BIG MONEY!" XP

The joke thing is that no one brought SCISSORS, so two ppl (guess who?)
have to use fingernials to PIERCE through the PLASTIC wrapping... >.<
Hahaz and when "爱" started, ppl started rushing back inside to watch,
leaving a few poor souls to cook O-_-O

The food was pretty ok la,
but we had a WHOLE BUNCH OF OTAH and 20(0)PAX BEEHOON,
is like eat untill die oso cannot finish 1...
The girls + Ernest were all really good at cooking,
so the three guys left were just sitting inside and EATING like mad #.#
Amelia was going "Cannot trust the guys on cooking one la!"
Yijia and Xin Ying kept bringing in the food,
then the guys went like "Thanks ar, later got tip XP"
However, some of the satay is like really Chao Tar,
and Jeraldine was like "The Satay very CRISPY (*swallow*)" o.O

When "爱" ended, the SENIORS (Ivan, Li Qin and Zheng Rui) came!
Hahaz, they actually found their way there,
so we had to call Ernest (who went looking for them) back @_@
We had a fun time together talking, eating, watching Indiana Jones,
and trying to poison each other with burnt food XD
Zheng Rui couldn't stop calling the Satay, "Otah" and the Otah, "Satay"... ^.^

By arnd 10, many people had to leave, leaving only Ernest, Viet Son and Me XS

And thats the end of part 1...

Epic Chalet XD (Part 2)

When the three of us left (Ernest, Viet Son and Me)
thought we had nothing to do,
guess what, Claire, Marie, Si Min, Sze Yuan and Yu Han came XD
Hahaz, we were so HAPPY to see them, ya ^.^

We wanted to go KBox, but WTL it was like 25++/person (festive charges)...
so we went to the beach instead.

It was super low tide and the breeze was VERY STRONG,
so Ernest decided to do Yoga while STANDING IN THE WATER. o.O
We were all sitting on the beach talking abt random stuff,
then Yu Han was going "Is Ernest going to jump into the water?"
Son was uber busy on his phone
with "you know who"... (Btw it was like 2-3am...)
As we walked back,
Sze Yuan was like "Aiya, now I got sand in my shoes already la"
and Marie was like "Ya lor" XP

When we got back, Viet Son and I tried to relight the flame to reheat some of the food, and used like 10+ FIRESTARTERS... o>O
Then, we got bored, so we decided to play Monopoly Deal.

It was REALLY FUN Hahaz.
We all sounded like rich ppl,
and Si Min was like "Got so much money also no use!" Lolz
Viet Son was SUPER PRO and owned all of us lor,
until Claire went "You 欺压百姓ar?"
and he went blur XD

We played until around 4, till Ernest was like
"I have to sleep so I wouldn't add the wrong reagents during my lab tomorrow.",
and we all went to sleep.
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Disclaimer: 80% of Part 2 is 纯属虚构.
Hahaz, am I not a talented playwright XP
Infer what really happened from the photo below:

Friday, December 24, 2010

Happy Christmas!

Hey all,

Happy Christmas XD
It's been a really hectic year
and I hope that you'all had a good rest during the hols ya?
Below are some really nice songs to keep your Christmas spirits up!





Cheers,
- Jin Jian

p.s. Remember to turn up for the chalet!

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

希望能看到,《晴天》*^-^*

嗨!

希望第二吉他的成员们从今天的《弹唱时间》学到了一些有用的知识,
也玩得开心 XD
以下是我们今天学的《晴天》。

希望大家会喜欢 *^-^*

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和弦图表(chords):

Em     G      C      D      B(简化)
0      3      0      2      2
0      0      1      3      4
0      0      0      2      4
2      0      2      0      4
2      2      3      0      0
0      3      0      0      0

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前奏:
e|--------------------------|--------------------------|
B|--------3------------3----|--------3--------3-----3--|
G|-----0-----0------------0-|-----------0--------------|
D|--2-------------0h2-------|-----0--------------------|
A|--------------3-----------|--------------------------|
E|--------------------------|--3-----------3-----2-----|

e|--------------------------|---------------------------|
B|--------3------------3----|--------3---------3------3-|
G|-----0-----0------------0-|-----------0---------------|
D|--2-------------0h2-------|-----0---------------------|
A|--------------3-----------|---------------------------|
E|--------------------------|--3-----------3------2-----|


  |Em      Em  |G        D |

  |Em      Em  |G        D |

  Em   C          G            D
   故事的小黄花   从出生那年就飘著

  Em   C          G           D
   童年的荡鞦韆   随记忆一直晃到现在

  Em                  C          
  ㄖㄨㄟ ㄙㄡ ㄙㄡ ㄒ一 ㄉㄡ ㄒ一 ㄌㄚ ㄙㄡ ㄌㄚ

  G                                         D
  ㄒ一 ㄒ一 ㄒ一 ㄒ一 ㄌㄚ ㄒ一 ㄌㄚ ㄙㄡ

  Em    C               G             D
  吹著前奏望著天空我    想起花瓣试著掉落   

     Em          C                 G                  D 
 *為妳翘课的那一天 花落的那一天  教室的那一间我怎麼看不见  

  Em         C                G       D
   消失的下雨天 我好想再淋一遍       没想到失

  Em    C         G             D
  去的勇气我还留著      好想再问一遍

  Em    C       D          D
  妳会等待还是离开*

     G               Em
   #刮风这天 我试过握著妳手

       C       D         G
   但偏偏 雨渐渐 大到我看妳不见

   B               Em     D
   还要多久 我才能在妳身边

   C                   G       D
   等待放晴的那天 也许我会比较好一点

   G               Em
   从前从前 有个人爱妳很久

         C      D         G
   但偏偏 风渐渐 把距离吹得好远

   B               Em    D
   好不容易 又能再多爱一天

    C               G      D    
  但故事的最后妳好像还是说了(拜拜)#

-谨键 (Jin Jian)

Sunday, November 21, 2010

To Vibrato or Not To Vibrato

Hey everyone,

With all the talk (mostly from Miss Wong) about vibrato and how it makes the music sound different, I figured you might want to hear it for yourself.
Both guitarists play "Romance D'Amour", a rather well-known classical guitar piece, albiet a little differently.

Let's watch the videos first, shall we?





As you might hear (or rather, see), the former is playing what I would call "robotically" while the later uses the vibrato technique with much more emotion.
We can also notice that the later has included much dynamics in this piece, including subtle changes in tempo and volume (spare me the technical terms),
while the later is playing maybe slightly better then the midi file on my computer.

As I like to put it,
Music is Liquified Emotions flowing into the soul.
I'm sure you can tell, if not FEEL,
the difference between the two pieces.

Just my two cents worth.
- Jin Jian