Monday, November 17, 2008

3rd Annual Drums Ensemble Camp

This year, we did something different. Usually we would have a training camp where our drums instructor would teach us new instruments to play. However this year, Mdm Isnani and Mdm Mislimah organised a fun camp for us.

1st day
We had our breakfast in school. Then, we were instructed to bring any instruments of our choice. We headed to West Coast Park. Our first activity was to introduce ourselves and explained why we chose the instruments. Den, we had a puzzle game where we put up the pieces of a 3D animal puzzles. Faris got 1st. Then, Syafiq and Nazri was appointed the group leaders and they chose their group mates.

We played the Human Sewing game where we had to "sew ourselves" up with a rafia string and Nazri's group was the fastest. We were then told to think of a group name and a cheer. Shafiq's group was named Shafek Batucada and Nazri's group, Corntos, after the 1st prize they won. We headed to the open field to play some more games.

We played the Water Bomb Dog and Bone and Pick up sticks Race. We really had fun playing those games. After lunch, we prepared for our item to be performed the day after, the last day of our camp, using the instruments we chose. It started to rain so at about 3plus, we headed home.

2nd Day
We had lunch at school before heading to East Coast Park. We were given time to practice for our items since it was raining quite heavily. Once Mdm Is and Mdm Mis prepared the BBQ food, we put up our performance. Shafek Batucada won!! After that, we had our BBQ. We then had 1 last game before the prize giving.

We were asked to fill up 2 empty bottles with salt water and the group who managed to fill up first will win. It was very hilarious looking at the boys finding means and ways to fill the bottles up. Some even use their mouths! Shafek Batucada won again.

For prize presentation, we presented the 2008 committee with Cert of Appreciation and announced the new committee for 2009. Shafiq became the new band leader. Zulkhairi our vice chairperson. Level rep for sec 4 fareez, level rep for sec 3 sharil, level rep for sec 2 alfiyan. Congrat gang! We also gave token of appreciation to our seniors, Shafiyan and Faezul for helping out for the 2 days.

Overall, the students were very happy and satisfied with the camp. They hoped for this kind of camp to be continued the following year. Thank you all for your kind participation and help.

updates updates updates

It has been a long time since we update our blog....well..since our teacher in charge was on maternity leave..we guess the blog was on leave as well.

What has been happening since our last update? After our NYGHS performance, we were involved with a few more. Happy news!! We got into a competition finally. It was called the Drumzout Competition. And we got 2nd place!! We were very delighted when we were informed that we were the runner up. Who could have believe it...1st timer got 2nd place. After this, we became much more motivated. We won some product vouchers and a 6-hour drums workshop.

Then, we were involved in the Teachers' Day Concert. We put up a suprise performance for the teachers. Even our two teachers-in-charge didn't get to see till the rehearsals.

We were invited to perform for Ar-Raudhah Kindergarten Graduation Day at Bukit Batok East CC and Sri Warisan's event, Tunas Berseni at Malay Heritage Centre. We will be performing at Zhenghua CC on the 6th Dec 2008 too.

We also had our Annual Drums Camp this year and it was different from the past 2 years. Will update that in another blog.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Book Your Tickets To Catch Upbeats Percussion! LIVE on 29 November 2008!

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2 Days of Percussion Fusion in November 2008!

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samba, funk, reggae, hiphop and more.

a lil bit of everything.

Rhythm De Pasion [RDP]

Date:
17 November 2008, Monday
1st Set: 7.15pm
2nd Set: 8.15pm
Venue: Esplanade Concourse
*visit http://myspace.com/rhythmdepasion

Mad About Drums [MAD]

Date: 18 November 2008, Tuesday
1st Set: 7.15pm
2nd Set: 8.15pm
Venue: Esplanade Concourse

*come down both days to catch exhilirating percussion performances!

2 Days of Percussion Fusion in November 2008!

samba, funk, reggae, hiphop and more.

a lil bit of everything.

Rhythm De Pasion [RDP]

Date:
17 November 2008, Monday
1st Set: 7.15pm
2nd Set: 8.15pm
Venue: Esplanade Concourse
*visit http://myspace.com/rhythmdepasion

Mad About Drums [MAD]

Date: 18 November 2008, Tuesday
1st Set: 7.15pm
2nd Set: 8.15pm
Venue: Esplanade Concourse

*come down both days to catch exhilirating percussion performances!