Woohoo! Finally an update after so long. And I finally know why nobody's been updating -------------------------- nobody knows the password! LOL.
Ok, here's the password:
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K, seriously, just come and ask me - I will tell you. Just promise that you won't deface this site.
Selected members of the NVSE went to Pertapis Home today together with the Choir and TriTouch to bring some CNY joy to the lovely kids there.
The photos which can be published are here (apologies for quality of photos- they were all taken from my handphone).
The Home has kindly requested that we do not publicly post any photos of their kids - confidentiality issue. We respect that, so here goes:
Zoey, don't hide. We know its you...
I can't figure out why everyone's so camera-shy
The performance started after much delay. We played after Choir sang.
Group photo (where's Mrs Tan?????? Taking the photo, of course!)
All of you did very well today - you mingled well with the kids, you played well (the 2 pieces sounded SO BEAUTIFUL! Even Mr Tan Loon Tze complimented your playing). The kids were absolutely mesmerized while you were playing, and their eyes were sparkling when all of you allowed them to try out your instruments (selflessly for those whose instrument are personal ones). Someone described to me one boy "sawing" through her violin but she didn't stop him, seeing that he was enjoying himself.
That's the spirit of giving! :)
Special thanks goes to Samuel for overseeing the practices, Asyiqin for her spontaneous 'emcee-ing', the helpers - Zian, Adeline, Wei Pin and Chay Mun, the soloists - Samuel, Zann, Hui Si, Theresa and all the players - Yun Bin, Wei Qin, Jia Ann, Dilys, Jing Yun, Kai Yee, Jessie, Asyiqin (again), Zoey, Rachael, XiuQi, Deniece. Hope I haven't left out any. Oh ya, Mrs Loo for replacing (at very short notice) poor Mdm Tan who had been down with a very bad stomach flu. Hope Mdm Tan gets well soon.
Mrs Tan
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
All the best to our Sec 4s and 5s for your 'O' level exams....
Do your best and do us proud.
☆ { 1:29 PM } ☆
Updates on the CD for SYF Photography
Hi peeps, I've FINALLY made payment to the photographer. Will be receiving the CD soon. Hope to make it before the end of the O level exams.
Mrs Tan
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
All the best to everyone, for the coming end-of-year examinations! Study hard. Love & best wishes, your Strings teachers.
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Mdm Tan wants me to pass the message around about the schedule for next week's CCA timing. On both days, CCA will last for 3hours. Wed, 7.45am - 10.45am. Fri, 1pm - 4pm. Help spread the message around, thanks!(:
P.S. Theresa here. :D
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
CCA Awards Ceremony
Congratulations to the following Strings members who will be awarded the Certificate of Merit
Foo Fanyi Lim Junze Ng Wen Li Han Shu Shuang Kris Ong Erika Teo Orlena Tan Lynette Tan Brendy Tan Ng Jing Wei
Award winners, please be at the ISH at 12pm for attendance taking. Ceremony is at 12.45pm.
The Cadbury Advert, Vistarian-style... (if you can't see it here, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q_hH4S49XA)
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Hello NVSE, It's me again, I got bored. :/
Nevermind, anyway! There's CCA tomorrow, enjoy! :D (Love you babes&hunks. HA!)
Oh, here's something, Do you know that our school teacher's participated in the, Cabury Eyebrow thing? Click to see (:
Love, ORLENA
☆ { 11:13 PM } ☆
Monday, August 24, 2009
Hello NVSE! (:
I had change the alignment of the blog to center. (: Look better, I hope? :D Work hard! Enjoy CCA, without me! (I no longer need to wake up early on Wednesday for CCAs)
Loves, ORLENA.
☆ { 8:26 PM } ☆
Friday, August 14, 2009
I promised to post these photos, like.... many full moons ago..... As someone who always keeps to her promises, here're the photos of some members spending one whole day in the June hols taggin the instrument.
I noticed that there is a CD available, which will contain ALL the softcopies of photos taken of your performance during the SYF CJ. Once you buy the CD, you can bring it to any photo processing shop to develop the photos, any photo that you want.
If you just order the $12 photo, then you only get 1 photo, the only difference is there's artwork on it.
The CD cost $70, shared among 20 of you, that'll be $3.50 each (i'm sure some other members may want to join in because of reduced cost, so it may even be cheaper than $3.50). Once we buy the CD, we can pass it around for those who chipped in to copy the photos onto their own computer, or burn their own CD (there's NO COPYRIGHT on the CD so we're allowed to make as many as we like).
How? Shall we? We'll only buy the CD if ALL who ordered the photo decide to get the CD instead (we're getting only 1 copy of the CD, in case you're confused, in place of the photo order)
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Hi NVSE peeps!
Just wanna share what Mr Lim, our Principal, said about Strings Ensemble's performance during the post-Speech Day meeting on Friday 8 May.
He specially mentioned how Ms Martens, the Guest-of-Honour for Speech Day this year, was impressed that NV, being a neighbourhood school, had a full strings ensemble participating in the SYF. He knew that the other schools which also had strings ensembles were all the top schools. He told all the teachers present at the meeting that the violin is unlike other instruments- it goes out of tune and creates horrible screeching sounds easily when played. So he was also very impressed by the beautiful pieces that all of you played for the SYF. He said that he was very happy for NVSE's bronze (hint hint: Silver for next SYF!).
Just to let you all know that out of all the performances during the speech day (dance, band, choir, strings, modern dance), he spent most time talking about strings, then he spoke a bit about modern dance also.
WELL DONE ALL OF YOU. LONG-LIVE NVSE! (^_^)Y
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Results!
ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL INDEPENDENT GOLD
CHIJ ST NICHOLAS' GIRLS' SCHOOL GOLD
DUNMAN HIGH SCHOOL GOLD (WITH HONOURS)
DUNMAN SECONDARY SCHOOL BRONZE
HWA CHONG INSTITUTION SILVER
METHODIST GIRLS' SCHOOL (SEC) GOLD
NAN CHIAU HIGH SCHOOL SILVER
NANYANG GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL GOLD
NORTH VISTA SECONDARY SCHOOL BRONZE
NUS HIGH SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE BRONZE
RAFFLES GIRLS' SCHOOL (SEC) GOLD
RAFFLES INSTITUTION GOLD
RIVER VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL BRONZE
ST MARGARET'S SECONDARY SCHOOL BRONZE
TANJONG KATONG GIRLS' SCHOOL SILVER
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Yes, we WILL NOT settle for just COP. Well done, every single one of you, including Zoey and Yanting and the helpers. Everyone had chipped in for that bronze. The biggest credits goes to our 4 instructors: Mr Chua Mr J. Wong Mr Wong Dr Yeoh
I'm sure all of you were pleasantly surprised on Monday 27 April when both Mr James Wong and Mrs Diana Ng visited all of you. Both had made the trip specially to wish all of you luck for the SYF...
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Just to share...
A friend of mine attended a violin Seminar (named "A Violin Seminar - The New Suzuki Violin School") and gain some insights which I (unshamefully) cut-and-paste off his blog (ok, credits to Jay LOL) :
- Student: When can I learn the vibrato? Teacher: Whenever you are ready!
- Mr Nakamura likened the vibrato to the whirling blades of a helicopter. One must vibrato to the end of the note, like how the helicopter blades must keep on turning for the helicopter to stay afloat in the air. He micmiked the helicopter with his bow spinning vertically in the air, how the helicopter would start descending if the blades start and stop continuously.
- Imagine there is a bird nest in between your left hand palm and the violin neck, and there are eggs inside. If you squeeze your palm towards the violin neck, you will crush those eggs! "
Maybe we should bring some bird's nest and eggs and try this out! LOL
Erika, your photos were posted here by the person who took those photos. That's an OBVIOUS hint liao lor...
☆ { 4:23 AM } ☆
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Erika's Violin performs heroic act
This post is a special tribute to Erika's violin, hereby conferred the title of 'Heroine Violin', for having cushioned Mr Chua's dramatic fall from the stage to the ground during Saturday morning's practice. It suffered some bruises in its act of saving Mr Chua from any injury, and have since recovered (hopefully). I'm not so sure about Erika's heart, though.
1E1 Benedict Chan *
1E1 Gary Teo *
1E1 Nicole Chua *
1E1 Chen Jia Ann *
1E2 Bao Gek Yi *
1E2 Nicholas Tan *
1E2 Ernest Neo *
1E2 Goh Yu Jing *
1E2 Foo Chay Mun *
1E3 Jacky Lee *
1E3 Chng Jun Kai *
1E4 Gladys Ng *
1E4 Eunice Lioe *
1E4 Chin Wei Pin *
1E4 Tee Ling Wah *
1E4 Vanessa Chua *
1E4 Sim Hao Boon *
1E4 Kelvin Chee *
1E4 Pek Jia Xi *
1E5 Jacinda Tan *
1N1 Ko Ai Li *
All of you did very well today - you mingled well with the kids, you played well (the 2 pieces sounded SO BEAUTIFUL! Even Mr Tan Loon Tze complimented your playing). The kids were absolutely mesmerized while you were playing, and their eyes were sparkling when all of you allowed them to try out your instruments (selflessly for those whose instrument are personal ones). Someone described to me one boy "sawing" through her violin but she didn't stop him, seeing that he was enjoying himself. 
Yes, we WILL NOT settle for just COP. Well done, every single one of you, including Zoey and Yanting and the helpers. Everyone had chipped in for that bronze.
