GECO ROCKS!

Practice schedule

2011-05-03T14:06:00.010+08:00

GECO Concert Practice Schedule

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40 days to concert! :D

2010-03-11T22:45:00.001+08:00

It's Earth Hour again!!!

Earth Hour 2010

Above poster is designed by SP Environmental Club

At 8.30pm on the 27 March, 2010, millions of people in some of the world’s major capital cities, including Copenhagen, Toronto, Chicago, Melbourne, Brisbane, Tel Aviv and Manila will unite and switch off the lights for Earth Hour.

Last year, thousands of people across Singapore took part in Earth Hour as individuals at home and organisations switched off their lights to reduce carbon footprint and many parts of Singapore were plunged into darkness for one hour.

For one hour, commercial entities and residential households around the island powered down their lighting collectively, drawing attention to the extent of energy that actually goes into superfluous lighting.

2010-02-23T22:19:00.001+08:00

a post from heaven to revive this blog.

THOU BLOG SHALL NOT DIE!

GECO CHALET

2009-10-25T00:01:00.002+08:00

HI PEOPLE!

we are planning to have a GECO chalet this year again! we need to know when will you all be free.. so vote!

1)first week of dec
2)second week of dec
3)third week of dec
4)forth week of dec

for the venue, we might be choosing back the one tat we booked last time. haha =D unless you all got a better venue for us to have the chalet =D=D

good time to go for an ge outing!

2009-09-17T21:15:00.004+08:00

HELLOOOO!

YEC(youth executive club) from toa payoh west CC will be having BGM(biannual general meeting) on 26sept! on a sat and we are inviting all PA youth, or ANY youth aging between 12 to 35 to join us in the ceremony( yes you are still counted as a youth if you are 35 this year =X).. time date and venue :

Date: 26 September 2009
Time: 10am
Venue: The Cathay (Handy Road, near Dhoby Ghaut Mrt)
Movie: WhiteOut

the movie will be free.. you all just need to book ticket from me by next wed latest.. i got around 30 tickets with me now =)

people who are in YEC are:
*drum roll*

Sherry, Sheila, Wan Hua, Ek jun, Julian, Chun Yang, Xiquan, Yishan, Junyi, Szemin, Layting

yay!!! DO GO FOR THIS EVENT =D cos we need hundred youth to be present.. hahaha

wanhua

2009-09-12T12:16:00.002+08:00

Posted by: 郑宝炜

如果你以为二胡是老一辈的玩意儿，那你就错了！对今年仅18岁的二胡青年才子钟旺龙而言，二胡可是他生活中不可分割的"伴侣"。

7岁开始拉二胡，10岁考获中国中央音乐学院的9级文凭，旺龙是有史以来最年轻的本地得主。

"二胡让我能够通过音乐表达自己的喜怒哀乐，更让我奏出很多自己喜欢的音乐。"目前就读华侨中学的旺龙演出经验丰富，同时参加多个本地和国际二胡比赛，获奖无数。2007年，他参加中国中央电视台的民族器乐电视大赛，更以99.06的高分拿下海外少年拉弦组冠军。

在漫长的学习过程中，他遇过不少挫折。" 最令我难忘的是10岁考二胡九级文凭那年；由于考级的曲子很难，我边练琴边流泪。"回想起那段日子，旺龙觉得有点可笑，但他坦言熬过那段时间可不简单！

以前表演前，旺龙总会担心表演不理想以致非常紧张；后来他领悟，紧张或许会把事情弄巧成拙。他说："学习二胡让我领悟一个道理，就是处事要用平常心。以平常心处事、全力以赴才能表现更好；一昧的紧张或许只增加不必要的压力。"

每次表演都有朋友与家人的捧场，确实鼓舞旺龙。"这种力量是言语无法形容，我常叫他们我的‘粉丝'，也非常感激他们一路来给我的支持。

去年的《青春展才艺》中，旺龙表演二胡独奏歌曲《草原新牧民》，战友许文俊以扬琴伴奏。对于参加演出，旺龙表示很值得。"最重要的是我能显出我的力量为慈善献一份力，帮助社会中一些需要帮助的族群。"

来临的《清楚展才艺》，他鼓励大家参与。"这不仅能实现个人上台表演的目标，也能完成一件有意义的事，而且排练时间主办单位也很热心，十分友善，所以这是一个难逢的机会！"

-alfred

teachers day celebration plus ge first t-shirt day!

2009-08-29T17:59:00.005+08:00

Teachers day celebration plus GECO first t-shirt day!

boo! this blog is going to die soon. so i'm going to add some photos.. haha

(WELFARE WAT ARE YOU ALL DOING???)

here you ggggooooo..........

Group photos!

yay!

Forget to take photo of the teachers day present.. bleh!!!!!!!!!! shall ask zls for it... hahaha =X

~wa

2009-08-24T21:59:00.001+08:00

REMEMBER TO WEAR GECO T-SHIRT ON FRIDAY.... 28AUGUST 2009!

=D

to those who dunno wat's going on: we are celebrating teachers' day this fri. so if you feel like coming over to join in, you are invited.. =D

~wa

2009-07-14T20:28:00.001+08:00

CHeers GECO! ^^

ANNOUCEMENT!

2009-07-06T21:53:00.001+08:00

QING GONG YAN WILL BE HELD ON 17JULY INSTEAD

COS MANY PPL CANNOT MAKE IT THIS FRI..

(SL help me tell your section)

btw,

WE WILL BE HAVING IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES THIS COMING FRI.. 10JULY..

HOPE TO SEE EVERYONE THERE =D=D

wanhua! =D

WHY EVERYDAY SO FREE NOW!!!!

2009-06-30T22:47:00.007+08:00

hmmm... i tink many ppl will feel "empty" at night.. cos no need to go for prac, can stay at home to study, watch tv, slack.. etc etc etc! haha

EVERYONE CANT WAIT TO SEE THE DVD RIGHT?

haha, we will ask the photographer / videographer to rush it out if possible b4 qing gong yan!! =D=D

just some reminder....

People who bring back the costume after concert, REMEMBER to bring it back on the next practice. if you are not coming back, pass it to someone who is coming back. We need to collate and send it for washing b4 the whole room start to stink with different kind of "nice" smell.. haha..

so...

BRING BACK COSTUME BY NEXT PRAC!!!!

many ppl are asking when's qing gong yan.. IT WILL BE ON NEXT FRIDAY(tentatively), 10 JULY.. venue : MULTI-PURPOSE HALL.. yay!!!

(sls, help me ask your member if they are able to make it or not.. if got alot of ppl cant make it, we will change to another day =D)

see ya all there!!! =D=D

wawa =p=p

Being Random

2009-06-30T21:09:00.004+08:00

Post concert depression~ haha
okay no, i am just bored.

COME TRY THIS POWERFUL CHOCOLATE!

It makes you FLY~

chocolate proudly sponsored by chewy-fei.
It's just Time Out.

wendy~

Judo Prac

2009-06-30T13:45:00.002+08:00

BomBom vs. CYang

QING GONG YAN!!!! :D

2009-06-27T13:05:00.001+08:00

YAY GE CONCERT IS FINALLY OVER AFTER ALL THE HARD WORK EVERYONE PUT IN..AND IT WAS A MAJOR SUCCESS!!!!!

WOO!! Now we're just waiting for the qing gong yan!!!

AND THE GE T-SHIRT is coming out ON THE QING GONG YAN DAY!!!! :D

Pls vote for your colours via sms or msn to me!!!

Derek

Mengdie video

2009-06-26T00:17:00.000+08:00

Qinkai's grp's Mengdie

(as requested by many ppl haha)

Enjoy! (:

costume!

2009-06-16T11:33:00.001+08:00

hihi people.. costume will be here on friday!!! so ppl please dun skip prac on fri... =D

wawa

Monday Soccer Competition

2009-06-13T12:27:00.002+08:00

This monday, there would be a GE soccer competition!!!! It was supposed to be for boys and girls, but no girl team took part. So..its just boys only -.-

Anyway, for a people taking part, meet at 9am at ge room first, before we go down ok.

Derek

COUNTDOWN!

2009-06-12T00:18:00.000+08:00

14 MORE DAYS TO CONCERT PPL!!!!

JIA YOU JIA YOU!!!!! =D=D

OUT

2009-05-25T01:13:00.002+08:00

NEWCASTLE UNITED IS OUT OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE

:(

DEREK
once a geordie,always a geordie.

2009-05-23T10:58:00.007+08:00

hello! sorry to have another post by me D:

BUT :(...

Please ask me for scores BEFORE practice starts if you can! Coz if you all keep asking me at the end of practice, the scores will surely run out D:! Especially those that were given out long ago :(...

Sms me or call me or tell me on msn beforehand or come early to ge for your scores! :( You can even practise there early ^^... Don't expect me to remember from Friday's prac coz my memory isn't that good.

If you all tell me beforehand, I can roughly estimate how many more extra scores to photocopy before practice starts coz it keeps running out!!! :( ...

So far the dazu songs are:
庆典序曲
古槐寻根
春天
梦蝶
and the encore pieces (go to yahoo groups and see, if you dont know what are the encore pieces.)
If you don't have any of this just tell me ok :D
you can contact me at 96257003.

Thanks (:

szemin

2009-05-20T22:36:00.003+08:00

okok no more mean jokes about conductors! :( haha conductors are the best people in the world ok! :D especially our dear moses! so whoever that was putting the jokes (i dun want to put the name here), dun put any weird jokes about conductors here pls T-T.... find some other one that is funny and doesnt say mean things about conductor ok (: i appreciate u for actually making the effort to keep this blog alive with jokes haha (:

:D haha i removed the part abt the shirt thingy :X anw yayyyy got geco shirt le! :D

szemin :D

GE T-SHIRT!!

2009-05-17T14:17:00.004+08:00

Hello people!

The hardworking, determined and tireless WELFARE has finally thought of the GE T-SHIRT idea.

After 3 days and 3 nights of hard work from us, we have finally decided.

We will be using the Alfred's idea, which is about the lots of grey scale thingy forming into a GECO word.

However, we do not know what colour you people would prefer for the base of the T-shirt!

So choose them now!!

They are
1. Black
2. White
3. Red
4. Blue
5. Green
6. Yellow
7. Orange
8. Purple
9. Pink
10. Brown

Tell your SLs or just simply write what u want on the Tagboard!!! BYE BYE!!

DEREK :D

NPCO CONCERT!

2009-05-16T18:37:00.003+08:00

HIHI PEOPLE!!!! =D=D

NPCO HAVING CONCERT ON MAY 24, SUNDAY, 7.30PM AT SINGAPORE CONFERENCE HALL.. DO COME AND SUPPORT US!!

WE GOT..

SONGSIM,
JULIAN,
CHUNYANG,
WANHUA,
YISHAN,
KENNETH(THE NEW SUONA GUY)

WANHUA AND JULIAN WILL BE SOLOING!!! =D=D

YEAYEA!!!! IF YOU NEED TICKET, FIND ME OR JULIAN!!
price:$12

THANK YOU!!!!

WANHUA! =D

TJCCO Concert!

2009-05-14T14:43:00.002+08:00

Hi all, TJCCO will be holding their annual concert this Saturday, 16th May 2009 at Singapore Conference Hall. Songs include their SYF choice piece 第二民族交响乐, 北京喜讯到边寨, 草原小姐妹 etc.

Moses, Qinkai and I will be playing Zhonghu and Liang Yu will be playing Erhu for this concert. Do come and support!

Those interested can contact any of us. Even better, make it a GE outing! Haha...

Rozie

2009-05-09T12:44:00.005+08:00

GOOD PERFORMANCE(:

A musician must be a stubborn optimist who is willing to spend hours, weeks, even months on the dull problems of technique.

In a performance, the heart, mind, and hands must all work together.

The heart should be filled to overflowing with wonder and beauty; the mind must learn to communicate these emotions; the hands must obediently, and under all conditions, execute the musical ideas that heart and mind command.

We must be able to imagine every tone, every phrase, the whole composition as we wish it to sound and we must be able to project the piece so that the listener receives precisely the impression we wish to create.

We must practise in order to develop flexibility, sensitivity and maximum mastery of our instrument. We practise to become competent, which in turn, if we concentrate, will make us confident.

Alfred Cortot once said, "Music is poetry. Once you have played, it's over. You can never express the same thing twice in the same way."

The first rule of practising is to 'LISTEN' and to learn from all sources with an open, investigating mind and with the determination to make a piece 'sound right' regardless of the means required to achieve this end.

We must think of our instruments as part of us - an extension of our equipment to express musical thought. We cannot play for an audience unless, or until, we have confidence in ourselves

Concentrate for the full length of the musical line, without interruption.

Determine the mood to be expressed and make every detail point towards it.

Find the focal point or climax of a phrase or section in order to give direction to your musical thought.

You must also, at all times, give the music direction - make it 'go' somewhere. A melody without direction is purposeless. Every sound must be beautiful.

Always use the imagination to help create a mood. When a musician uses their imagination, they stop playing mere notes - they make music.

"Never must your fingers stand in the way of your artistic interpretation,"

Imagine yourself as the audience

Don't get discouraged during any part of the learning process. "The darkest hour is that before the dawn." DONT GIVE UP!(:

Hope this helps.(don't ask me where i got this)

alfred

GE T-SHIRT

2009-04-27T22:05:00.007+08:00

HELLO!!! :D

im here today to ask for some GE T-SHIRT ideas!!

If you are a talented artist, a wonderful desginer, please give and share with us your ideas!!!

Good luck to the JCS going for SYF!!

DEREK :)

2009-04-22T23:05:00.001+08:00

IT all happened within a flash.
SYF for SEC CO is over...

Gratz those who got GWH, GOLD, SILVER etcetc.
As long as u did your best, actually it doesnt matter. xD

<3 HCICO!!!

2009-04-20T22:37:00.002+08:00

aiya, no one come post. later the blog die again.

ok, today was the first day of SYF. Gratz those who are satisfied with results.
JIayou for those competing tmr or tmr de tmr. xD

bye.
javier xD

GE OUTING ON FRIDAY : D

2009-04-05T22:34:00.002+08:00

HEEELLLLLOOOO PEOPLE!!!

DEREK HERE :D :D :D

Currently, me and alfred are planning whether to have an outing THIS COMING FRIDAY. which is good friday. We have come out with some ideas,

1. go sentosa
2. GO ZOOOO
3. go back to ge and slack at cc -.-"

TELL US WHAT U THINK!!!

2009-03-30T21:16:00.002+08:00

Aiseh, finally i can post. xD
I just realised i made a fool of myself cos i have not checked gmail for ages. -.-

So..first and foremost, ONWARD GECO!
10 reasons why GE rocks:

It's on a friday.
It's at toa payoh.
U know u cant resist it.
Friendly people.
Fierce SLs and leaders.
Cool conductor.
Strong air-con.
nice smell of room.
it ends at 9.45pm.
Story telling!!!

And i wish GECO success in the future endeavours!

2009-03-25T11:21:00.003+08:00

Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia with 2.2 million homes and businesses turning their lights off for one whole hour. Only a year later and this event had become a global sustainability movement with up to 100 million people across 35 countries participating. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square, all stood in darkness, as symbols of hope for a cause that grows more urgent by the hour.

In 2009, at 8.30pm on March 28, we are asking people across the world to turn off their lights and join together in creating the vital conversation about the future of our precious planet. Earth Hour is a message of hope and a message of action. Everyone can make a difference.

It’s as simple as a flick of the switch. Join us for Earth Hour 2009.

website : http://www.earthhour.org

below is a video frm youtube:

SUPPORT EARTH HOUR

2009-03-21T11:16:00.000+08:00

Earth Hour 2009
Banner courtesy of WWFOn March 28 2009 at 8.30pm, many companies, houses, schools and industries of all kind will pledge their support to having the impact of climate change heard. They will switch off all their unnecessary lightings for exactly one hour.What began as a campaign to get Sydneysiders to turn their lights off, has grown to become one of the world’s biggest climate change initiatives. For more information, please check out this link; http://www.earthhour.org/about.Come over to our booths this Wednesday (4/2) and Thursday (5/2) and pledge your support. We also have merchandises on sale; ranging from panda plush to diaries. All sales will go towards funding the campaigns set up by WWF (World Wildlife Fund).Remember! A single person's action might be too insignificant to be heard, but a whole entire group of people's actions will definitely send off a strong signal. Support today by going to any of our booths (FC6, FC5 and FC1) to sign up.
Posted by SP Environment Club at 6:36 PM

gecussion bumblebee

2009-03-18T00:08:00.001+08:00

四哥和十第playing bumblebee @ a random tempo

ZHAM!CUSSION 10 BROTHERS!

2009-03-16T00:59:00.041+08:00

INTRODUCING THE 10 BROTHERS FROM PERCUSSION OF GECO!!

Big Brother (大哥)
Name: Ong Zong Jin
Age: 20
Alliteration Name: Zongjin the Zany Zebra
Nickname: Laoda, Da ge!!~~
Favourite Pet: Penguin
Favourite Instrument: Snare Drum
Part of the: BHCO ._.

2nd Brother (二哥）
Name: Julian Goh Jun Liang (英俊又善良）
Age: 19
Alliteration Name: Julian the Jumping Jackrabbit
Nickname: juuuuuu~!!, Bai Rong Hui (白荣辉）, PIG FACE!!!
Most Famous Composition to date: Spirit of the drum (鼓魂）[video below]
Part of the: Hsinghai-s, ZHAM!

3rd Brother （三哥)
Name: Lee Chun Yang
Age: 18
Alliteration Name: Chunyang the Corny Caterpillar
Nickname: Cyang, LCY
Favourite Quote: "JUST...(insert)", "like a...(insert)"
Favourite Drink: Beer
Part of the: Hsinghai-s, ZHAM!

3rd Sister-In-Law (三嫂)
Name: Chia Wan Hua Age: 8 (wawa:no!! i'm sweet 12)
Nickname: WAN NIAN, wawa, sarah
Favourite Quote: "我不理你了!" (Usually accompanied by a Lee Chun Yang infront), "你走开!" (Usually repeated 10 times in a row)

4th Brother （四哥)
Name: Goh Ek Jun
Age: 18
Alliteration Name: Elephant Egg
Nickname: Egg, eggy, EK NIAN!!!!
Part of the: Hsinghai-s, ZHAM!
Most repeated incident said by zls: "他以前跟我学二胡，太差，我把他赶出去"

5th Brother（五哥)
Name: Li Cheng Ying
Age: 17
Alliteration Name: Chengying the Colossal Cockeral
Nickname: Zomzom, Zombie, Cying, LCY, low class youngster
Most Famous Stunt: Falling to the ground during NAC Competition (video below)
Part of the: ZHAM!, Woodland's Gang

6th Brother（六哥)
Name: Kelvin Yeoh
Age: 17
Alliteration Name: Kelvin the Kong Ba Bao ._.
Most commonly seen playing: Timpani
Part of the: Woodland's Gang
Post: Assistant Sectional Leader

7th Brother （七哥)
Age: 16
Name: Bom Bom Low Wei Hao
Nickname: Bombom
Alliteration Name: Weihao the Wishing Whale
Most girls like to see him play: Drumset
Fan Club Name: Weihao Fan Club (Weihao F.C)
Part of the: Original ZHAM!, Hsinghai-s

8th Sister/Brother （八弟/妹)
Name: Cassandra Foo
Age: 15
Alliteration Name: Cassandra the Curly Cuttlefish
Nickname: Curly Cuttlefish ._., Cass
Most famous for: Playing mallets
Favourite Face in reality: -.-
Part of the: YQP

9th Sister/Brother （九弟/妹)
Name: Wendy Yue
Age: 15
Alliteration Name: Wendy the Wisely Wiesel
Nickname: Wendy the Wicked Witch, 2nd place, wenderyue
Achievement: 2nd in yangqin youth NAC competition 2008 (there was no 1st =o)
Part of the: YQP
Post: Sectional Leader, Sectional Discipline Master

10th Brother （十弟)
Name: Derek Koh Wen Jun
Age: 15
Alliteration Name: Derek the Dancing Daisy
Achievement: 1st in yangqin youth NAC competition 2006
Post: Welfare Head of GE (or so he claims), CHS Leader
Favourite Quote: Lame!
Favourite song on mallets: Flight of the Bumblebee, Mario

Videos:

<= Spirit of the drum (鼓魂)

look out for chengying's trademark at 4.32!!

2009-03-14T22:09:00.002+08:00

hello i just anyhow changed the blogskin. if u got nicer one then dont hesitate to change haha ._. btw im szemin.

2009-03-08T20:40:00.001+08:00

GE Rocks xDD Yay.

Song Sim here btw.

2009-03-01T22:02:00.001+08:00

i love GECO :D

2009-03-01T18:02:00.000+08:00

YAY geco blog has made a comeback, due to some unforeseened and mysterious reasons, the previous blog was deleted!, luckily i could get back the old url and recreate this blog. We need people to create a unique blogskin, so..who wish to volunteer?