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Poly life is coming to an end for year 3s like us. Some of us have already finished the last and final paper.. Mine is ending tomorrow.. 3 years have ended so fast, and this means we will have to bid farewell to daiko soon. Sad isn't it? All the year 3 peeps can post ur thoughts and experiences in daiko on this blog ya? Good things must share.. Haha.

Daiko life coming to an end.

In summary:

Year 1

-Signed up at Daiko booth with zc.

-Getting to know everyone on orientation.

-Saw my 1st Daiko performance by the seniors in the old clubhouse.

-First training on friday.

-Red drums. 8 people on 1st training.

-Takada and Fang.

-Prayer of the Rain.

-Performance at Marina Bay. Fun.

-Helping out at the National Day Celebration in Jurong East. Quite boring.

-Trainings every friday and saturday. Always late. Haha.

-Dinner after friday's training. Tiong bahru/Lau Pa Sat.

-DOH-Yoshino-Kiyon-Chun Feng-SOK-Victory

-Performances in school and outside school.

-International Cultural Night performance which led to the 3 girls joining us in year 2. Haha.

-Memoirs of a Geisha performance. Lots of people impressed. Haha.

-!Chill performance in school. Nobody watching.

-Starz @ SP performance. Met Yvonne Lim backstage. Haha.

-Doing duty at Clementi Student Service Centre. sian.

-Daiko Test cum Christmas outing. Steamboat. Woolala.

-SRRR performance. Staying overnight in Clubhouse. Not bad.

-Learning of Suigun Daiko. Great.

-Preparation for Tsuki Concert. Tiring.

-Practise and practise.

-Learning of Blue Moon. Fun!

-Tsuki Concert on 18/03/06. Happy.

-Daiko Chalet at Chalet M in Aloha Changi. Double happiness.

-Kodomo Concert during the 4 days chalet. Impressed.

-Farewell to our seniors. Sad.

-Preparing video and gifts for our seniors.

-Amazing Race at Marina Square as a gift from seniors to us. Very fun!

(That's all folks for year 1. More to come.. I need to study for tmr's exam now. Hahaha.)



Year 2

-CCA Drive! Fun.

-Doing duty at Clementi Student Service Centre. sian.

-Learning of Speedy. Pretty tough.

-Learning of Mizuguruma. Ok la. Easiest of all senior songs.

-First training as a senior. OMG. Nervous.

-Met lots of juniors. In the end only left 6. Haha.

-Taught Fang, Takada, etc.

-Learning of Sanji/Hajiyjo. OMG.

-People left. Conflicts. Blah.

-Performing for Graduation Ceremony.

-Performing for BP Mentoring Anniversary

-Performing for GEM Asia at MOS. OMG.

-Performing for Asia Life Assurance Society.

-Performing for Nomura Bank Seminar.

-Performing for APSSA Conference.

-Performing for Japan-Singapore Joint Stamp Issue Exhibition.

-Performing for HDB Nippon Naito. Playing Shime for the 1st time during performance. Haha.

-Performing for Sony Digital Workshop Dinner & Dance.

-Performing for OSIM. Sian.

-Performing for NAC-Shell ArtReach Programme.

-Planning for Amazing Race 2006. OMG DAMN FUN LA!

-No concert anyway.

-AGM and appointment as VP. Haha.

-Training on every saturday during itp. Missed the times.

-Chinese New Year at zc's house. Watched Night at the Museum & The Host. Haha.

-Learning of Soretakebushi. Best song.

-Performing for SRRR. And K-box + Camp in School. FUN.



Year 3

-Preparation for CCA Drive.

-CCA Orientation Camp.

-Meeting the new juniors.

-Performing for the Graduation Ceremony.

-Preparing for Concert. OMG. Nice.

-Learning of Megumi.

-Concert Camp. Fun.

-Making Props. Hohoho.

-Steamboat. Wahaha.

-Concert Day! OMG OMG. Best concert! Hahaha.

-Outings after concert. Karaoke, Movies, etc. Hohoho.

-Daiko outing at Minds Cafe. Fun.

-Performance for Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration.

-Performance for Children's Day Party. LOL.

-Performance for 13th Asean Transport Ministers Meeting @ Marina Club, Sentosa. Yawns.

-Performance for Hitachi World's First Product Launch at Ritz Carlton.

-Performance for Global Cultural Festival.

-Taiko Workshops. 2 of them. Hohoho.

-Learning of Adventure. Great song.

-AGM. I was sick. Baaaaaaah.

-Amazing Race 2007. Argh. No feel though I put in more effort for this. 2006 was the best of all.. Haha.

-Performance for Open House.


OMGOMG LOOK AT MY DAIKO LIFE!! HAHAHA.. Juniors there are still 2 more years to go.. It can be more and more fun as time goes. Though conflicts are ought to happen, people come and go, there can still be times whereby u enjoy! So continue to stay for the whole 3 yrs and be a loyal daiko member. HAHAHA.
Well just to share something with you all from what i have just came across on the net.. Yeah Jack probably has seen this but most of you all didn't. This is an extract from Eric (our mc for kodai concert)'s blog on our last year's concert.

Here it goes:

Just got back from a hearty dose of hosting at Daiko 2007, an annual drum performance put by the S’pore Polytechnic Japanese Drum Team. Thanks to this hosting engagement, I had the chance to witness the grace and power of Daiko drummers. Trust me, it takes skill, strength and a sense of rythmn to drum up a decent tune. And as usual, I had a lot of fun hosting this event with Charissa whom I met at Irene’s hosting class.

Our role as hosts was straightforward: To narrate the two hours story interwined with the Daiko drum performance. We had an unsaid role as well: To ensure that there is no awkard silence while they set up the stage for their next drum piece. Now that’s the tough part coz’ you never know when you will be hit by dead silence and you don’t really have a pre-written script to help you out. Ironically, it is in such times of unpredicaability that humor presents itself.

L-R: Wakame & Momoko (stage lovers), Charissa (my co-host), moi, Weisi, Jennifer and Jessica (my friends!) And in the front row, we have Misa and Kenichi (stage baddies).

Such as a particular scene when the two main characters had to journey through the unventured mountains to find the lengendary hero. As planned, the lights were supposed to be on them (Wakame and Momoko) yet they were no where in sight. And the stage manager took the liberty of shining the spotlight on us instead, which means “SAY SOMETHING!!!” So here’s what happen. Charissa looked at me and started asking me what I think the legendary hero will look like. As you and I know, this was not on our script. Without thinking, I said something along the line of “well… most legendary heroes are bald… and since this is some kind of drum performance in the old japanese days, he will look like a drum…” And that got the audience bawling over. We took the cue and started making more fun of the so called legendary hero.

And then there was another scene when Wakame was suppose to be courting Momoko with “Can you feel the love tonight?” playing the background. First of all, only Momoko was on stage. And we (as hosts) have no idea where Wakame was. On script, he was suppose to be with her. That was when we played along and started shouting for him. And we even cooked up a story of how Wakame was always late. And then when he finally came down much to our relief, we instinctively tease him again, which elicited quite a bit of laughs. Next, was the “flower” that he got for Momoko which was wayyyy too small… in fact if I recall correctly, it wasn’t even a flower. It was some kind of weed. And then I continued teasing him by calling him a “yaya-papaya” when he was smirking at the audience. This interaction between the storytellers and characters was unplanned yet added freshness and fun to the performance.

Of course there was the final scene. It took extremely long to set up which was understandable since this was the finale, and the drums were really heavy. Hence in the name of fun, we decided to do an audience poll. Just a side note. When you have a spot light shining directly on you, you see absolutely nothing except a circle of white light. Still, we pretend to be looking at them and asked, “SO WHAT ENDING WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE?”. To our surprise, a lot shouted SAD!!! Talk about a morbid bunch of people we have as audience (grins) And so we played along. By the time the schmoozing with the audience was done, the drummers were prepared for a final showdown.

So if you ask me, I say that as a host, you got to master the art of “thinking on the feet” coz’ you never know what is going to happen. And it is in times like this where a host truly shines. Of course, it really helps to have a co-host to banter with, since this effectively means that you only have to memorize half the script. And if you forget your lines, you always have your co-host to back you up. So Charissa, if you are reading this, many thanks! More to come yeah!


Well that's all folks. Interesting isn't it? Got reminisce? Hahaha.. Remember to invite both of them back as the emcees for this year's concert! They were pretty good right? Ha..

Yo everyone. Goodluck to each and everyone of you in ur exams. Training will resume on 2nd February (Sat).

Seniors training - 10am -3pm (12pm-1pm ==> lunch break)

Juniors training - 3pm - 7pm

This will be the same schedule for every training on saturday during the holidays.

As for the wednesday training during the holidays, it will only start on 13th February so take note.

10am -12pm (physical training)
12pm - 1pm (lunch break)
1pm - 6pm ( daiko training and learning of new songs)

Juniors
For the 9-week holidays, there will be:
-Improvisation of DOH, Yoshino, Kiyon and SOK.
-Learning of Chun Feng and Victory.
-Test
-Learning of Suigun Daiko.

Seniors
For the 9-week holidays, there will be:
-Learning of Soretakebushi, Masaru and Adventure for those who haven't finished learning yet.
-Improvisation on Wadaiko before learning.
-Introducing song composition, come up with at least 2 new songs for the upcoming concert (still under planning)
-Plan for daiko concert 2008.

Alright that's all folks. Look forward to life after exams and in the meantime, happy mugging and all the best! Ciao.
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Shuzenji Technical high school Japanese taiko drum Group

Date	Time	Venue	address
Friday 4 January 2008	1300 -1400	Nus Exxon Mobil Campus(forum)	50 kent ridge cresecent
Saturday 5 January 2008	1000 to 1400	Singapore poly	Club house	Workshop
Saturday 5 January 2008	1600 to 1700	Tiong bahru plaza	302 tiong bahru road
Saturday 5 January 2008		Thomson community club	104 upper Thomson