PWS!

Peirce Wind Symphony

We Should ; We Must ; We Can ; We Will

date/time Sunday, December 30, 2007,7:08 AM

SECONDARY ONE ORIENTATION

hi people...I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING TO YOU GUYS.......

FIrstly!
1) GREAT JOB FOR DIL SE
although it is already over for a week but i think that most of you still miss it right?! Just want to tell you guys to remember the experience that we had...the fun....the sorrow....the arugement...all these things are memories ok....remember them because we only have four years in secondary school...so we must treasure everything... hehe :)

Secondly
2) WORK HARD FOR SECONDARY ONE ORIENTATION
i am sure that most of you get the idea of what we are doing for secondary one orientation...so please use 100% of your brain cells, brain juices and your hearts of course....and work hard for this orientation...like what mr lim said before this orientation can be the turning point of our band's fate....BOTH PEIRCE AND FTP.... so people work hard ok....PEOPLE DONT JUST COME TO YOU....YOU GOT TO GO TO THEM

ThiRdly
3) WISH YOU GUYS A GREAT HAPPY NEW YEAR
well....2008 is coming...and we have to set new target...new hopes for ourselves....BELIEVE IN YOURSELVES AND YOU WILL DO IT....bury those arugements....those are already past....HOPE YOU GUYS HAVE A GREAT YEAR AHEAD.... ^_^

P.S: this is jin's writing....and if there is spelling error please help me correct them!....THANKS A MILLION!

date/time 7:01 AM

Hello~ Got more pictures on the concert from Jiahui and Baoyuan. Haha so anyway so post it(:

FROSTY!

Jiahui! The Birthday girl(:

Dil Se(:

Jiahui's Birthday Cake(:

Huiwen~

date/time Sunday, December 23, 2007,12:15 AM

Hey~ Pictures(: Enjoy~~~

More pictures can go to: www.idoitmin.multiply.com

date/time Thursday, December 20, 2007,10:07 PM

hi, olivia here... am i allowed to post? well anws, just want to say jy for the sec 1 orientation. i guess lots of people are going through alot of stress right now. what with the sec 1 orientation coming up and what other people or schools have said about our band. but all i want to say is we shouldn't listen to them, what they say is their business. we have already tolerated what they said f0r the past few months and why not tolerate for a while more? some pple may say that since we didn't go for syf we are not a good band. i beg to differ. now our band's standard is going up. and lets try to take it to greater heights, and those pple who went today ,you should know what happened and lets not repeat the mistakes our seniors did. if anyone has a problem we should voice it out and try to solve it. rather then keep it to ourselves. if not one day u will 'explode'. DIL SE is over and im sure we are all happy as those few months of hard work and effort we put in has paid off. and now lets work towards 2 new goals one which is the sec 1 orientation, ms wong wants 40 sec 1s. and after we have sec 1s we move on to our long time goal whch is of course syf'09. these two goals are going to be difficult to fufil but im sure we be able to perservere to the end. lets put all our differences aside and im sure everything will turn out fine in the end if we work hard together as one band. and lets not slack anymore. jiayou!

date/time Wednesday, December 19, 2007,6:31 AM

Post concert

Hi all.. yes I do know I don't usually post so try to enjoy=)
I'd just like to really thank the teachers from FTP, Peirce and our dear beloved alumni(s)Hui min, Jamakyah, Hui hong, Pei yi and Wei Ling(sorry if i misspelled anyone's name or left anyone out). They've been so supportive of us not just this past 3 months but since the beginning of '07(even earlier) and it's something i really feel we should be grateful of...
All of you, has put in so much effort and it's really been interesting.. Of course not everything was smooth sailing at times but hey look, we pulled it off together. Tired as we were, we pushed on and persevered and thats really worth something.. The concert might not have been the best, but would you have imagined reaching this standard without the help of our patient and ever understanding conductors Mr. Lim , Ms Loh and Ms Tan. I feel that we should all seriously look back at all we have gone through, times like this are hard to come by.. Many of us do not take the time to appreciate and understand the experiences we have gone through so why not take this opportunity? I am really proud of all of you and you should be at yourself but remember, we still have a long way to go and much to improve so don't ever think that I will let you off easily.. Let's continue to improve as one band and not get distracted by problems no matter the complication for when you are focused and motivated, it's hard to lose hope...

To all those who might be angry at whatever whoever said, please... This is an occasion to be joyous and cheerful.. A time of happiness not crappiness( I know there's no such word..) Let's focus our minds on being thankful rather than being spiteful for what good will come from that?Forgive and forget, Love One Another

From your ever nagging Band major=)

date/time 12:31 AM

Hope everyone enjoyed themselves yesturday. & a happy 13th birthday to Jiahui:) 3 plus months of practice with FTP, all over in one night. For some of us, this may be our first concert. The PSB has come a long way. We have crossed so many hurdles to get where we are. Although we didn't have any sec.4s to help us, we showed that we could do as well without them. We also managed to do it because of the help & support from our teachers, conductors and alumni. Dil Se was made possible also because of each and every one of us too. Most of us have faithfully been attending band practice, just to work for our goal, Dil Se.

Now that it's over, it's time to relish those moments of sweating it out during sectionals & combined. All the sweat, pain and hard work has paid off. It's like baking a cake. You gather all the ingredients and prepare them, following whatever the cookbook says. The cookbook is Mr. Lim. We're the bakers. First comes the tough part of mixing up the ingredients, and shaping it onto the batter. Put it into the oven, and then we anticipate what it will taste like when it is done. After an hour, the smell comes out. The smell of the freshly baked cake makes you think all the hard work you've put in to making the cake is nothing. And then you eat the cake that you've so carefully prepared, and then you savour the experience. So band, now it's time to eat our cake & relax:D

But. After finishing the cake we can't go to sleep yet. There's still the recruitment of junior bakers. Which is, our next year Sec.1 batch. This time we will hold onto them tightly and not let them escape. This year was bad enough, with only 6 left from 25 in January! We will need much more than that. We need these juniors to take over our aging population. We cannot always depend on seniors and alumni to keep coming back every year, can we? I hope everyone will turn up for the last few practices this year, so this way everyone will be on the know and not rely on mouth to mouth. Attendance has been quite bad this year already, next year we shall do better. Our Sec.3s this year will be graduating in the middle of next year already, we wish them all the best in their O'levels. Our current Sec.2 batch shall stay strong and lead the band to greater heights.

Some of us may feel sad that we may not be combining with FTP anymore. It is quite an achievement that both schools are able to click well with each other in such a short period of time. Okay maybe there might be some disputes or disagreements now and then, but after all that we've been through it all doesn't seem to matter anymore. I'm not sure about other sections, but I am really proud of my section, everyone treated each other as their real seniors and juniors. Nobody cared whether you were from FTP or Peirce, when the FTP seniors gave presents to their FTP juniors they didn't leave us out too, and for that I was really touched. Quite amusing how we only start to treasure them only when we're about to part. Friendship doesn't come out of nothing, not combining doesn't mean we still can't keep in touch. I don't think anyone will forget the times we shared together, not as 2 different schools, but as one band.

Dil Se is our stepping stone to achieve more together as a band. There is always room for improvement. Let's work hard in the recruiting of Sec.1s next year, and train up their batch for the upcoming SYF in 2009. DILSE'o7!:D FRENCHHORNSROCKSTOO:D

date/time Tuesday, December 18, 2007,6:30 PM

Hi people,dilse is finally over,good job everyone!Our 3months hardwork have been paid off.So now people let's concentrate on how are we going to get 40 sec ones next year.OK i am going end it here btw let's do some cheers
3 cheers for mrlim,msloh and mstan!
3 cheers for the teachers!
3 cheers for the seniors and alumnis(hope i din spell wrongly)
3 cheers for ftp
3 cheers for peirce
and last but not least 3 cheers for the snowman.

date/time Tuesday, December 11, 2007,5:53 AM

hey ppl! shimin here. juz wanna say, jia you! muz work hard for our concert. I noe it is SUPER tiring to have so many band practices. but it is for the sake of ourselves, and our concert! I noe it's hard for sec 1s to learn all those difficult songs like La Paloma, Andrew Llyod Webber. but we will be happy if you are willing to learn, do your best, put in all the effort you can. we only have this concert, though we will have more in the future, but you wouldn't wanna screw up this concert. hope you all will persevere and stay on till the concert ends. btw, we still have orientation ... so ... =) JIAYOU!!!

bAND mAJOR!!

date/time 4:37 AM

Hiii~~ Here are the Things to Bring for this coming Thursday campp:

~School Based T-Shirt: 4
(Pe shirt, Band Tee, Camp tee, Class tee..etc)

~Dark Coloured Shorts: 4
(If bringing home shorts, the length shld not go below knee)

~Undergarments: 4 sets

~Socks: 3 pairs

~Toiletries (Towel, Toothpaste, Toothbrush, Shampoo..etc)

~Sleeping Bag

~Plastic bags for dirty clothing (Depend on how many you want bring)

~Writing Materials

~Slippers

~1.5litres water (COMPULSORY!)

~Cutleries

Yup, here are the camp list, hey && girls..try to bring some extra hairclips & Hairbands uhh, later u bathe or what then later you lost ur clips or hairbands..yep, so bring extras just in case(:Btw, you all dont need bring another pair of shoes also. Yarr, that's all..if got any more adjustments, I'll say it in the tagboard:))

date/time 4:16 AM

Hey Bandies! Here are the 12 Wynton practise methods:)

1) Seek help, get a Teacher
2) Make a schedule -Organise yourself
3) Set goals to chart development
4) Concentrate when you practise
5) Practise Slowly
6) Practise longer, spent more time on things that you can't play
7) Play everything to maximum, expression
8) Don't be too hard or easy on yourself
9) Don't show off youself (show off your MUSIC)
10) Think for yourself -Find your way
11) Be Optimistic
12) Always look for connections to other things

Yup, here are the 12 ways, take note all these ya!!

date/time Saturday, December 8, 2007,3:50 AM

HELLO! Aha 10 days to Dil Se, 6 days to camp. Haha hope you guys know what to bring for the camp lerh.. Gonna put up the list another day anyway. Anyway so drink lotz of water and take care of yourself hoh.. Haha continue working hard!! So that you wont feel bad or what after the concert(: Just continue & persevere another about 10days!! Jiayouuuu!!! Rmb to take notes of what the band conductors said.. Make it a habit to use a pencil and note down whatever they said, so that you wont forget(: Make full use of all the time we left. && how are your tickets selling?? Try to sell as many as you can uhh.

All the Best^^