2012 :]

Happy New Year, readers! As I grow up I realized that life's getting more and more challenging year by year. And I believe that this year will be an epic year, cause I have lots of things to do this year, and I can feel the HEAT now! 

So here are resolutions for 2012 (I'm greedy >:]) :

1) To become a stronger Christian. :]

2) To become a better friend to my friends.

3) To grow spiritually and mentally and physically(grow taller -.-).

4) Improve A LOT in my drumming! 

5) Go audition for DCI and make it! :]

6) Straight A's for SPM! 

7) Shine with CHMMB Drumline in all the competitions! 

8) Share with others more.

9) Angry less xD

10) Have a closer relationship with my family ♥

11) To bring some of my friends who don't know Jesus to know him!

12) Less pimples !!

13) Happy everyday.

14) Hope my home will be safe and peaceful and will not get burglarized!

15) Save lots of money for my future!

16) Stay away from computer games.

17) No foul languages.

18) Build some muscles hehe.

19) Be more open-minded to accept critiques and adversities.

20) Make lots of good friends!!

There it goes.. So when the time comes to 31 December 2012, I will come back and report which resolutions I have achieved! 

Besides, I went to count down with my band's friends last night. Had lots of fun and went to Canada Hill at 12:00am too! The traffic jammed like mad until our car stuck on the same ground for around 30 minutes and finally it moved a bit! Anyway, I love my friends haha ♥

Alright, that's all from me. 

May God bless those who read this! :]

Getting there

Hi dear readers, I have been disappeared from here for quite a long time, was a bit lazy to blog haha, sorry for that(lol you guys don't even care I guess -.-) Anyway, I feel like writing this post today..

Recently, I joined the System Blue clinic in KL which was held for 3 days. The program was under the Blue Devils drum and bugle corps organization, which is the place where I dream to be in. So few weeks ago, when the event was just announced on Facebook, I immediately asked my dad about it and he agreed to let me join immediately, that's so cool of him right? haha.. So as days went by, the time has finally come!

On 13 Dec, I came out from band camp which was on going, felt really sad that I couldn't finish joining the camp cause it's my last year of joining it already, tears dropped an hour before I left the camp though, not sure why, but yeah, something made me felt sad to leave! 

So after I left, I went home and packed everything. Then I met up with my friend, Gaheris at Miri Airport and we left for KL together. In KL, Taw Wei, my friend whom I met through drumming came and picked us up at Bandar Tasik Selatan train station. He brought us to eat and then back to his house and we overnight there for 2 nights!

 Property of the Blue Devils

On the 14th, Taw Wei and Edwin (a friend who I met via drumming too) brought us to some popular music stores in KL. Unfortunately, there wasn't a thing which I wanted to buy..

 one of our dinner in the camp, the food was terrible throughout the camp

15 Dec, first day of camp! Taw Wei brought us to the camp venue at 8:00am, we sat there for a while and Taw Wei left. The organizer was late for the registration though, everything was off the schedule! Later, the camp started, we split into sections and started our session.We learnt really basic stuffs on the first day. I didn't bring my drum, cause it would be a burden for me to carry it around from East Malaysia. Suddenly, one of the Blue Devils snare drummers asked who wants to take his drum? I quickly ran toward it and had it! So yeah, I played on that drum for that day, Keelan Tobia, one of the Blue Devils snare drummers saw me and shouted 'Larry Yong' and turned back and walk away, he knew me via FaceBook I guess. Even though there were only basic stuffs on that day, but Andrew Odello, one of the Blue Devils snare drummers caught something bad about me, it was about my left hand, I used my arm to play taps, but it should be using wrist according to their style, so I tried hard to change it cause anything wrong about myself should be changed so that I can get better. I've been using arm to play since I started drumming though!(bad habit) 

me and Hong Yin, one of my best friend! he let me to drum with him on the same drum when I didn't have a drum to play on during the camp, without him I would have been only drumming on my pad throughout the camp!

16 Dec, second day of camp. Today we finally split into more groups among snare players, Keelan picked some of us who were slightly the better players among the team and he brought us to a shady place and drummed with us. He also shared his experience about auditions with us, it helped me to be more prepared for auditions too.. Then we had a Q&A session, we asked lots of questions, it was a great time with him. Anyway, that night, I was still not satisfied with the teachings, I felt like it wasn't enough for me, so I posted something on Andrew's facebook wall asking him to teach me more and catch and correct more of my mistakes on the next day. 

 Nabila and Wardah aka bunga from Sultanah Asma, they were fun to get along with :]

17 Dec, last day of camp. That morning, the Blue Devils team arrived the training place. As Andrew walked pass me, he called out my name, and asked me to follow him. Along the way he told me "I got your message and I will try to help you out alright!", I was shocked after I heard that, I was thrilled actually, he then brought me to the staffs room and asked me to take his drum. So I played on his drum for the whole day, he also put a lot of attention on me, he told me many things and kept trying to correct my mistakes. He even recorded a video of me playing and showed it to me so that I would know what was wrong with myself. I really appreciate what he did for me that day! And I will never forget something that he told me that day during the practice, after he told me many things about my mistakes, he asked about my age and he said "you can make it", that really woke me up lol, I was like "oh yeah?!? a Blue Devil told me that I can make it!!!", that really made me to be on the cloud line lol. It even motivated me to practice harder to achieve my dream!  

 me and Rudy, tenor tech of Blue Devils, fun guy

At night, we had section performances, Keelan lent me his drum for the performance, Andrew set my position around the centre. Actually I was standing with my good buddy, Hong Yin during the rehearsal, but a St. John guy took his spot and became the light bulb between us, how bad he was =[

Battery section performance, I the guy with the blue shirt playing on the white drum in the centre

this is a video that I drummed with Keelan, featuring his 10 seconds lick

Then it was autographs session, as I waited at the hall for the BD snare drummers, Andrew came to me and gave his pair of drumsticks to me! And Keelan came to me and gave me a broken drum head which he had been using it! Both of the gifts are used, but they mean so much to me! After some time I finally had a chance to take a picture with all of the snares!

the Blue Devils snare drummers and me! From left : Matt, Andrew, me and Keelan.

The camp was really a blast for me! I didn't learn many things, but I EARNED many things. For now, I really have to practice hard and smart, cause I'm planning to go audition for DCI next year, but it will depend on Andrew's comments on my video which he asked me to send him after 6 months, so I gotta do it, for my dream, for my future! 

That's all from me,

count your blessings =]

am blessed

Hey bloggie, I've just came back Bintulu! I went there on last Friday to help out in a primary 6 church camp in Emmanuel Methodist Church. I was invited by aunty Vivienne to help out! So the helpers from my church, Grace Methodist Church were Yung Heng, Ronald, Jeremy, Joshua, Elizabeth, Allison and me!

 

When we just arrived there, we went to EMC, then uncle Edward from EMC brought us to eat Singapore Chicken Rice!! He ordered so many food until I was so full, how blessed I am!

 

Then we went back to EMC. Along the way, we drove pass the sea side, it was really a nice scenery. The primary 6 camp started at 7pm, the night was quite simple, a day had passed..

 

Second day morning! We went to the beach, set up the games and treasure hunt clues. Had lots of fun there even though it was very sunny in the morning but it rained in the afternoon and I got myself wet..

 

playing games..

 

this person looks my one of my friend very much!! 

 

aha!! the cutest one!! 

the beach :]

 

the cute boss and me!!

We joined their church service this morning, they have a nice choir team, I really enjoyed and could felt the peace when I was listening to them singing. The photo above was when they were practicing before we left the church and departed for Miri...

 

 Oh yea!! look what my dad had done while I was in Bintulu! haha HE IS COOL! :D

End,

Thanks for reading,

God bless you all! =]

New shoess!!!!!

Hey readers! Guess what? My mommy just bought a pair of running shoes for me!(as I nagged for it). Let me tell you the story...

Yesterday afternoon after lunch, my mom asked me whether I wanted to accompany her to go Parkson to buy shoes for a dinner last night, well actually I was quite lazy to go and I had to study as exams are approaching. BUT, because I wanted to have a glance over the running shoes, so I said yes and went with her. I brought her to Lea Sport Centre in Parkson, and accompanied her to choose her high heels shoes. She didn't buy any shoes at Lea Sport, and said she wanted to go to the shop opposite Lea Sport Centre, then I told her that I wanted to go have a glance over the running shoes in Lea, and I went. I saw many awesome and cool shoes, and went off and met my mother.

She was trying out some shoes in the shop, and the small conversation began...

I        : Hey, I saw the shoes. *tsk tsk*

Mom : ......*continued to try her shoes*

I        : You wanna buy for me ma??

Mom : Wait I finish buying my stuffs first la, after that then go settle your stuffs.

I        : Ok lo.. *sat down at the place where customers sit down to try out shoes, waited for my mom*

Then she bought a pair of high heels, she said that the pair of high heels is for Chinese New Year. Then we went back to Lea and she bought the pair which she was going to wear in the dinner. After that I brought her to the pair of shoes that I targeted, my heart was filled with hope, high expectation, but she said she didn't have enough money to buy it, have to wait until today, then my heart sank lol. We went home.

Today!! I went for breakfast with my parents, we had an awesome breakfast, indescribable. Then went home and went out again with my mommy to buy the shoes. And finally, got it!!!!!!!! Wahahahhaaha, it took me some time to choose which pair I wanted though, there were different types of colors and models, and I've chosen this one!

 

Yup, Adidas!! It's orange in color, but I don't know why it is red in color in the picture. I'm so happy and contented hehe! Thanks to my beloved mommy <3 I can't wait to wear it to run tomorrow evening! Of course, there's terms and conditions to buy this pair of shoes, that is, I'm not allowed to buy new shoes in the next year's Chinese New Year =_=  Well I understand, because this pair of shoes is quite pricy, but I'm still happy with what I have now!:D

 

 yeah!!

*my old shoes

This is my previous shoes. "He" is a pair of memorable shoes to me. I had it when I was form 2. He was with me, all the way from the 'fat me' until the 'now me'. He accompanied me through all the hard times, when I ran so hard to lose weight, he was the one who suffered with me. And also until, one side of the shoe lace was broken due to my naughtiness, I went to pull others' shoe laces and they pulled mine until it broke.

Now, I will not abandon him. Instead, I will use him when I go climb mountains, especially with my dad, and the new pair will be my running shoes, which I will use for most of my sports activities. I will miss you, Asics shoes :]

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Here are some photos taken by my buddy with my phone during last week's Canada Hill's hiking trip. Thinking back of climbing mountains, it was my dad who started to bring me and my siblings to go hiking with him. Before, when I was fat, I was always lazy and reluctant to go climb mountain when my dad asked me to go, because I was lazy, and I always got my body and butt dirty when I climbed the mountains as I always fall down in the forest. Now, I'm so in love with sports, thanks to my dad, a lot! Without him, it would be a different me today.

 

 

 *at Ming's Cafe for breakfast after the climb

 

*in the forest, readers, wanna join me next time? :D

*my buddy, Eu Min's special teeth lol

That's all for today's updates. Thanks for reading and visiting my blog, I really appreciate it. And also good luck to all the PMR candidates, 2 more subjects to go! And too, to everyone who are going to sit for exam next week! 

Count your blessings,

God bless :D

My targets, my dreams

Hi everyone, I'm here to write down my targets and my dreams in my life that I really want to achieve before I turn 22 years old.

18 years old (2013):
-I want to go study music in USA. At the moment, I still don't know which university I want to go because I don't know which university is good for music education, I'm going to check it out soon.

20 years old (2015):
-I will be in USA by the time, I will go audition to join WGI Pulse Percussion and DCI Bluecoats or Santa Clara Vanguard(depends on who are their staffs). I want to be the first Malaysian to join DCI and WGI.

21 years old (2016):
-I will go audition to join WGI Riverside Community College(RCC) Percussion and DCI Blue Devils(my main target).
-I will join the DCI I & E(Individual and Ensemble) competition (snare solo).

After this:
-I will finish up my university life for music education. Then I will come back to Malaysia and start to work as a musician. I want to become a drum teacher, where I have my own school/place to teach the people who love drums and make them to go join DCI. At the same time, I want to bring up the music standard of my country, Malaysia.

When I start to earn a stable income, it will be the time when I will have a family, I want to have a happy family, with many children, living happily, trusting in the name of Jesus.

I'm writing down all these because I don't wanna just talk and talk and talk but no actions are taken. As I write down all this, I'm making a promise, a challenge to myself, to everyone that I will work hard to achieve all that I want.

All these of my targets requires a lot of support in spiritually, mentally, physically and financially(which is the toughest of all). To accomplish all these targets, I need at least RM50000.00 just to achieve my targets when I'm 20-21 years old. For studying music course, I don't know how much does it cost, but it's gonna be a lot. So I'm really gonna work very hard for this.

Lastly, I hope that you all will give supports. Thank you for reading this.

Another experience

Hi readers, I performed in the M3 concert last night, or so called 'Musicians made in Miri' Concert, it was organized by Lu Zhou(绿洲). The musicians there were greatly skilled, most of the performers were students who are studying music courses in university and some have already graduated too. It was a great experience for me, thanks to Terrence who invited me to join him in his performance.

my solo

We had 2 days of rehearsals at GCM Miri. I dropped my sticks during the both days' rehearsal. The concert committees discussed about me in their meetings after the rehearsals, worrying me that I may be the one who spoil the entire concert, and suggested that it's better if I play save and don't play stick tricks if I couldn't do it.

still my solo

Knowing that none of them trusted my skills, my confidence was tremendously drained, I was very down, I practiced very hard until the late night, then from morning until the concert started. I was doing very well during my practices, but my mind kept thinking of them, who made me felt despised.

the ending of my solo

Everything went well until when it was our turn to perform, I was really lack of confidence, I prayed hard. I couldn't smile when I was performing, the pressure was big. When it was my turn to solo, I played, when the stick tricks and juggling parts came, I did some tricks, then I didn't have the confidence to continue to do it, I stopped doing those stick tricks and changed my solo on the spot. No more stick tricks, I only did 50% of what I've been practicing for so hard.

the ensemble, me and ah yie

My solo was over, I didn't drop my sticks, but I knew that wasn't what I really wanted to show, I had to continue to play. So I continued to play, the pressure within me slightly eased, the show ended. Everything's over, I finally could stop suffering...

Anyway, that's an experience for me, not a good one, not a bad one too. Maybe the time hasn't come, for me to play everything confidently. It doesn't feel good when others don't trust your abilities to do something when you know you can do it. I was glad that God was always there for me, I've been praying so hard for it. Thank you, God =)

A little sharing of my life,
thanks for reading,
and count your blessings =)

Thailand 2011!

Hey readers! I've just came back from Thailand! I don't know which part of Bangkok I went to but Bangkok is one of it because I went to the cities outside Bangkok too! I was alone all the way from an airport to another airport. I was soooo boring at KLIA because I waited for 7 hours there because the interval between my flight from MYY to KUL and KUL to BKK was 7 hours! But thank God that there were free computers in KLIA, I even watch DCI finals live there! 

So I reached Bangkok, Swee Bing picked me up with his friend. Then we departed to BKK's camp!

the first impression they gave me! wootz!

At there, everyday, I watched them practice, then sometimes Cheer would ask me to drum with them, particularly during warm ups. I also met a nice friend, Ton! Actually he was a member of the snareline, but unfortunately he fell down few weeks ago and deeply hurt his skull, so he told Mr. Kasem that he couldn't march after he got out from the hospital after staying there for 2 weeks, he knew his limit, he said he couldn't catch up, so in the end BKK snareline end up with 8 snares! 

 

 coffee everyday! btw that was my cigarette, I don't smoke! =X

I was with Ton most of the time when BKK drumline practiced. He taught me and told me lots of story, it was very nice to meet him! I also met a lot of people there, all of them were so enthusiastic and funny! I can't describe more here because you just have to meet them to know how they are like!

 

 snareline in the lot

 

 snacks! so delicious!

I ate many many many many food there! Mr. Kasem treated me very good, he always bring me to eat and ordered 2 bowls for me all the time! Other people also treated me very well! Food in Thailand was very spicy, yet delicious! But because of the spicy-ness of the food, pimples grew all over my face while I was there =(

 

dessert!

I had lots of fun there! The competition was exciting, all open division drumlines were awesome, especially BKK! Maybe I'll be in their team next year, lol, haha just kidding~

 

Cheer and I, my teacher!! =)

By the way, I'm just back from the M3 concert, was great, I performed with Terrence and ah Yie. First time perform such stuffs, anyone recorded a video of it? Please post it and tag me in it if you do, thanks!

That's all for this post,
thanks for reading,
God bless =)