Thursday, November 24, 2011

What Defines Me As A Daiko Drummer of Singapore Polytechnic

“Okay, let’s start from the beginning.” Someone started hitting the drum sticks against each other to count the beats. “One, two, three, go!” Sitting around in a circle, we began playing on the floor to the newly learnt beats. Running the beats in my mind, my hands struggled to coordinate with my mind. Despite my best efforts (and everyone else’s too), we never fail to miss a couple of beats here and there. Even if we had perfected the beats, there comes a new challenge: movements on the actual drums.

Though every new song brings new challenges and the training gets tougher, every one of us Daiko Drummers can never hide our excitement at learning a new song. It meant a new song for us to perform to the audience. We stretch often to prevent muscle spasms. We did our warm ups seriously as we know the consequences if it’s not done properly. Whenever we feel like giving up, we just have to look around us to see our comrades working equally as hard. Jokes were exchanged often during the grueling trainings. Laughs escapes readily from our lungs and thoughts of quitting dims immediately.

Now, I stand behind the curtains, positioned at my drum. I can hear the emcee announcing us. I took a glance at my fellow drummer beside me. I share a smile with her, as we get into the mood of the song. As the curtains parts, I looked at the audience into their eyes. I smiled and send them a message telepathically. “Look at us. We’re awesome.” When the cue is due, we started of our beats simultaneously, bringing on every sharp movement that has been drilled into our muscles. I gazed constantly at the audience. At the climax of the song, I share a glance with the drummer beside me. I know what she’s thinking. “This is what we’ve been working for.”

-Ong Wendy

I post this now because I believe that this should be my last post on the club's blog. I often wondered what held us together and for me, it is the prospect of performing to the audience. SP Daiko is one of the greatest thing in my life. SP Daiko, fight on!

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Another invitation from the Embassy of Japan =)

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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Theyinvited us for the opening ceremony,

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Friday, February 11, 2011

Updates updates~

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Saturday, January 29, 2011

GONG XI FA CAI

It's a Saturday, and Juniors are having training in our beloved clubhouse. Since the prettiest junior is unable to turn up, she decided to connect with the others through a blog post! And I do not want Emily to gimme killer glares anymore!

ANYWAY, Chinese New Year is coming up! It's in less than a week's time!!! Daikoreans, aren't you all excited?????? I AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But don't you all get too excited! Right after that will be a week of revision week and we will be having our Semestral Exam! If you don't have exam, do click on the cross at top right hand corner, kthxbye. After the exams, prettiest junior and tiko junior will be heading to China for OITP. Following that, Fang and Xiaopick will graduate, and the rest of the juniors will be in third year and one of our VP will be heading to China! Freshies, get ready for the jaws of second year MUAHAHAHAHA. And we will get even fresher freshies! :D

That's all for now. TEEHEE

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Friday, January 21, 2011

Post due to Emily's command

As per title, Emily forced me to post a blog post :P *tio whacked*

It's the New Year! And so, I shall post the progress report for Freshies and Juniors!

Freshies
DOH: you just have to perfect it! Come on! Bend your legs, bigger movements, hands higher and straighter, follow shime!
Yoshino: complete too! Perfect it, you know you can! Practise spinning! Spin and spin and spin and spin!

Juniors
Soretakebushi: Singing part done! Let's build up killer lungs to sing it all loudly and proudly! And hopefully we won't die out of breathlessness

P/S: Do post something on the chatbox! It makes me feel so disheartened when no one posted on the chatbox. It's like, no one reads what I wrote and I will get very discouraged to post more :/

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Thursday, December 9, 2010

2 events coming up!

Dear Daikoreans,


It has been a long time since our last proper correspondent. Now that the darn Mid Semester Test and whatnots are out of the way, I am obliged and eager to update minna-san gladly.

Do remain updated that we have 2 (TWO) upcoming events, which we require compulsory attendance for one, and hopefully complete attendance for the other. Details of which are as followed:-


1. SP Daiko Spring Cleaning (Event link)

Date: 20th December 2010 (Monday)
Time: 9.00am - 4.00pm
Officer-in-charge: Chiu Po Heng
Event overview: This event, dubbed the Annual Spring Cleaning (albeit not during spring), is organized in conjunction with Singapore Polytechnic Clean the Clubhouse Day, involving various CCAs, such as SP Japanese Daiko Drummers Facebook Spammer Club, SP Japanese Daiko Drummers Beatboxers, SP Japanese Daiko Drummers Dance Chapter, SP Japanese Daiko Drummers Acapella, SP Japanese Daiko Drummers Choir and many more. Members are encouraged to participate, especially since the event date has to be relocated should there be even 1 (ONE) member being unable to attend. Activity scope includes cleaning the clubhouse, cleaning the clubhouse, cleaning the clubhouse, cleaning the clubhouse and ultimately, cleaning the clubhouse. This shows that there are many activities planned and involved, so do expect work. In an efficient system, work input=work output. In terms of Thermodynamics, Heat supplied=Work output.


2. Christmas DAI-KON-NIA!~ (Event link)

Date: 23rd December 2010 (Thursday)
Time: 3.30am - 11.00pm (TBA)
Officer-in-charge: Tan Chee Liang
Event overview: This event is organized in conjunction with the International Christmas Celebration which attendees tends to yell "Merry Christmas!" at one another. This event is said to be semi-formal, so do dress semi-formally (eg. less than suits and ties ; more than pjs). Things to note includes BBQ, gift exchanging, games and more. (subjected to change)


All members are advised to attend both events. Should there be a need for clarification, do not hesitate to enquire as per requirement of 'malu bertanya sesak jalan'. Enquiries can be in form of comments at respective events page or, as an alternative, at the chatbox at the left sidebar. Thank you for your attention. Hope to hear from you soon.


Yours truly,

Ong Wendy

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