My English is becoming quite bad. I have so many mistakes in expressing ideas. I should start reading the newspapers again and more books but I don't think I'll ever touch Harry Potter. The thickness of the book just puts me off. I shall not comment any more just to be sure that I do not get sued for defamation. I feel that all these is crap. Why can't we express our views on online blogs? It is not that we are discouraging anyone from staying away from something. It is only our personal views on the things that go on. Anyway, I thought that we are supposed to have the freedom of speech?

I wonder if I will have any access to the internet or even a computer when I'm in Holland. I do not really bother about missing out on all the lessons in school other than for Mathematics. Everything else I think I can easily catch up with (hopefully I can). I think I will miss band more than school. Anyway, I have not informed everyone that I will be away.

I am really looking forward to World Music Contest but the band's playing is not really up to any standard yet. I feel that most of us are still very relaxed, thinking that it is only another rehearsal. Nobody seems to be putting the extra effort to practice their parts so that they can play their parts properly. I quite miss the times where I can sit down and practice with my friends.

I'll be leaving tomorrow evening. I wonder what I can do on the plane. I hope I won't be bored to death. Using the phone on board the plane is not allowed. I wonder how I am going to survive the 20 hours on the same plane. Luckily Baoying is lending me her mp3 player. I am very grateful.

I have to stop here for now. My parents are forcing me to pack my luggage already.

I'm seriously lacking of sleep. I think I should go sleep now.

Anyway, thanks to everyone who has wished me happy birthday and special thanks to Andy, Danny, Elinor, Cheong Hing, Jun Long, Shu Jing, Fang Xian, Bernice, Jie Jun, Wai Yip, Oi Fong, Simeng, Xiu Yu, Terrence, Jaslyn and Tian Ying for the presents.

I will be excused from school tomorrow to promote tickets. Seriously, I wonder why my leave was approved. Surely, the promoting of tickets are not as important as attending lessons, and if they are, I suppose the whole college will have more than a few weeks of leave each year.

I have nothing much to say at the moment so I'll stop here.

I guess I'll continue to update tomorrow. I have too many things to do right now (including going to sleep).

Those who are free tomorrow, feel free to come to the botanical gardens at 5pm to watch a free performance.

I am quite glad that my tone on the Selmer bass clarinet is improving. I hope that by Thursday, I would be able to produce a sound that is as good as a buffet sound. My concert tickets are still unsold. I have only torn out 2 tickets up till now. Frankly speaking, I am rather disappointed (I mean very disappointed) about that, especially when there are more people who are not band members confirming that they will attend the concert.

I have no mood to carry on writing.

The mid year examinations have finally come to an end. I am so relieved. In fact, I am so relieved that I feel even better than after I had completed my 'O' level examinations last year. The past 2 weeks or so has been the worst torture for me. I had to cram myself with information that will supposedly be useful to me in my future life. I think that I won't even use a tenth of what I am learning now in the future. I don't really see a point in studying all the things I'm studying now but since I'm already enrolled in a junior college, I have no choice but make the best out of it. Anyway, my mid year grades will be taken into account for the promotional examinations later this year and I certainly do not wish to go through what I am going through now.

There are some things that happened this week that I really feel strongly about. One of it was about somebody whom I cannot name or I'll be sued for defamation. (Anyway, do no worry. I can assure you that the person I'm referring to will not be you because the person is too old to know what a blog is.) That person did not actually do much to make me feel this way about that person but it was enough for me to remember it at least for the next few months. I shall not specify what that person did but I really feel that that person was either really selfish, or that that person was just trying to avoid having to take up an extra responsibility. Well, it does not really seem like anything serious that is worth to write about but it was the way that the person brought the message across that made me feel this way. That person reacted in a manner such that it was as though that the only thing that came out of my mouth was lies, even after I have explained very clearly to that person. I wonder how that person will react if I were to give the same treatment to that person, that I don't think I will ever do, unless that person continues to be that way till a point where I can no longer take it. Anyway, it is always good to bear in mind not to do something to someone if you do not want it to be done to you.

Somehow, there seems to be a "The Phantom of The Opera" craze going around in Singapore, islandwide. Firstly, it was the numerous bands performing the band arrangement. Today when I was in Parkway Parade, the piano version was played as background music in the shopping complex. That was not all. I happened to catch a glimpse of the channel 8 programme at 8pm just now and Mark Lee was singing "The Phantom of The Opera", with the lyrics changed of course.

I have a bad feeling that I will get scolded by my father for doing badly in the examinations. All I can say is that the papers were really difficult and of a standard that I had never imagined of. I only knew how the answer to a portion of an essay of the Economics paper. That constituted of a mere 10% of the total marks and even if I were to get that full 8 marks for my answer, there is still a large possibility that I will fail the paper. General Paper wasn't much easier. My composition was totally not what I had expected it to be. I started it in one way, ran out of points and had to change my stand in the middle of the essay. I don't think that I can get much credit for that. The comprehension that came after that was even worse. I can only understand about a third of what the passage is saying. I think my English really needs some brushing up. I thought I was prepared for the Chemistry paper but the questions that came out were quite unexpected. There were so many questions that needed the application of what I had learnt. The Mathematics paper wasn't much better either, but I can consider myself lucky to be able to do most of the questions despite having not touched the subject for around 3 months. Just for your information, I left around 33 marks worth of questions blank and after the paper, I realised that most of my graph sketching was wrong which means that I will have around 40 marks deducted from the miserable 100 marks. Physics paper was something that came as a pleasant surprise. The questions were mostly of reasonable difficulty with a few exceptions, but I feel that it is enough for me to have some hope of getting an A for the subject. My Chinese composition went roughly the same as it went for my English composition. For paper two, I was merely guessing at the multiple choice answers and hoping that the multiple choice section can multiply my marks for the paper.

I have not really celebrated the end of the mid year examinations yet. I want to catch War of The Worlds. Hopefully I will be able to catch it during the youth day holiday.

I hope I will have an instrument to play this Sunday.

I think I have written enough for tonight but before I end, please try to come for Mus'Art Wind Orchestra's fund raising concert on the 7th July at VCH. The concert will start at 7.30pm and we will be performing Impressions of Japan by James Barnes, Iris by Hardy Mertens, Rebirth by Tony Wei and some other light pieces. Tickets are priced at $12 and $20. There will be a free door gift (supposedly some hello kitty soft toy) for everyone who is watching the concert. Please let me know if you are interested to come for the concert. Thanks.