特别献给敬爱的杨培贤老师...

特别献给敬爱的杨培贤老师。。。

2007年7月11日（星期三），难过与震惊地……我收到了杨老师已经离开了的消息。

岁月不为人而停留。命运不为人而改变。

无奈。痛心。怀念。

因为安初华乐团，所以加入了人民协会青年华乐团 （人协）。

因为人协，所以认识杨老师，也曾经在杨老师的教导和指挥下学习演奏曲子。

离开人协已有大概6年了吧。我的记忆向来都不细腻。

却无法忘怀杨老师……那亲切的微笑，那温馨的招呼，那耐心的教导，还有…杨老师叫学生们为“小孩们” …

杨老师，谢谢您。

~秀华~

Unraveling The 'Mysterious' AJCO Alumni Gal...

Background Information:

Recently, our AJCAACO blog is stalked by two unknowns... (unknown to the older 'aunties' and 'uncles' AJCAACO members). They are very much attracted by Jianjie's 'not-so-freakish' accident (or incident). One is benny (who still remains a mystery) while the other is sp (Siew Ping). Jianjie, who was injured with a punctured lung and has since recovered due to intensive practices on his new lung-exercising 'musical instrument', claimed that "at least sp n benny has seen [his] face from this blog. but [he] dunno who u r". Basically, they are in the light while we are in the dark. Thus, it is my duty to unravel who these mysterious ppl are... Benny is still a mystery figure but muahahaha... I have found SP (hiding in London)....

"ahah no worries tags are welcome yea i studying in london...
AJCO was the most beautiful thing that happened in my JC life...
i really miss it! hahah i'm actually very happy that theres such a
blog.. and i go there like 10 times a day heheheh". - Siew Ping

Oh... This is such a LOVELY comment to receive from an AJCO alumni. I guess for the efforts that AJCAACO (EXCO and members) have put in, the best things that we hope to receive are expressions of emotional attachments to AJCO even after they have 'graduated' from there or words of encouragement for AJCAACO to move on - to continue as the bridge that binds 'graduates' of AJCO and the ongoing 'new' AJCOs' progress.

So Siew Ping... Glad to know that you treasure the memories you had with AJCO and thank you so much for just the few words you have mentioned (which mean an awful lot to the AJCAACO and the current AJCO people). Do let us know when you are back in Singapore so we can organize a trip back to AJCO room and watch them practice and pay Huang Sheng a visit.

Anyway, its time to unravel the mystery of Siew Ping (who suddenly appears in our AJCAACO blog)... So who is this 'stalker'? (I meant it in a good way as the way you stalk our blog helps to increase the Blog Counter hits and show how much you still feel for AJCO)

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Not this squirrel!!! The mysterious alumni gal is the photographer
of this picture in London. (Wow! London!)She is good with camera wor!

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Mystery Unraveled!!! HARLOW SIEW PING!!! Hee

AJCAACO - Euphony of Bonds Across Time AND SPACE

~Ah Liang~

AJCO 'Website' and Words of Encouragement by Sylvia

The current 23rd Batch AJCO has come up with their own website to facilitate interactions among the members. Since it is their website, I guess we should not sign up as a member (I assume they will want some autonomy for themselves rather than having the Alumni as surveillance camera). However, the website offers messages that the AJCO EXCO convey to their members and 'outsiders' are able to access to these messages. To save the readers from going to read so many blogs and webbies, I will copy and paste insights from the messages posted in the AJCO website. For those who are interested in exploring their website, this is the address:

http://groups.msn.com/AJCO

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NOTE: The main text is written by Sylvia (The 23rd AJCO Zhongruan Player) whereas the photos are uploaded and the captions written by NONE OTHER THAN AH~LIANG!

hEy everyone..

i know that the rehearsal at SCH wasn't was gd as we expect it to be. some of you might heard the comments given by TJCO. BUT.. i hope that this will not affect our mood and morale ok?

Perspiring at the SCH's concourse. It's HOT! No Air-Con!

Ok! I am a bad photographer. Taking pictures of
people's backsides rather than their beautiful faces.

Notice the 'shine' on their faces? YES... THOSE ARE DROPLETS OF
SWEAT. WTH... Just simply because we booked the SCH concert hall
only, all places outside the concert hall were NON-AIRCONDITIONED.
Yar... Save the Earth... I Shall Just Shut Up!!! Anyway, look at those
new pipas. AJCO members are so fortunate nowadays.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

The comments given to us only serve to spur us for the better. it is the obstacles we will forever be seeing if we give up on our goal. so, lets us fight to the very end. show others our potential, show them what we are truely make of. prove to them we'll be able to get GOLD.

Well... As long as the AJCO costume remains the same, this photo will
always look the same like any other AJCO batches performing in SCH.
Believe me! Maybe I shall post a photo of their actual SYF photo and
you can try spotting the difference (Won't be an easy task). Anyway,
I don't think anyone will know it if I have used instead the last
batch's SYF or the last last batch's photo rather than last Sunday's
SYF rehearsal photo. Haha! Cos they all look the same!!!

i know many of us are tired of the late practices and other stuffs. but everyone is in the same situation together. we are together as one and we will support each other to the very end. it really requires the commitment from everyone of us. it's not just the effort of each individual, the conductor or even the exco members. everyone in CO is together as one.

Comeon, it's already the last lap.
lets put in our very best, don't let yourself live in regret.
i believe in our hearts we have a common goal.
so where's the drive towards it?
ask yourself, what do you really want out of this SYF?
it's now the time to really give all our efforts to ajco.
at the end of the day, the efforts put in will be paid off.

So what are you waiting for?
make the difference now!

It's 18 days to SYF!

It's 33 days to concert!

JIAYOU EVERYONE!

I know the route is tough and there are times when you really want to give up. but always look beside you, we'll forever be there to walk this route with you.

let the music touch our hearts. =D

Posted by Sylvia (23rd AJCO Zhongruan Player) on the AJCO Website

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~ Zhiliang ~

Famous Visitor to Our Blog...

http://www.thetengcompany.com/samuel.html

Hahaha... Just have a nice marathon chat on MSN with Samuel Wong Shengmiao (Top). Most of you all will know who he is. =) He read our blog wor... Hahaha... =p and here are his comments:

"I read the AJC blog... So funny... I mean the alumni one... So fun... you guys... How I wish I was in such a school... the people are so on" - (19th March 2007, 0227)

Like what Samuel has said, I guess I am really lucky to be in AJCO or AJCAACO. We have good friends around to help out one another. A lot of extremely fun and happening people such as our legendary Siqiang... (now he has really become a legend... Where the hell is he now?)... So we shall be proud of ourselves. YEAH!!!

Thanks Samuel for your comments. =D

- Mr President, Zhiliang

Blog Entry From AJCO 14th Batch President

Taken from Tan Hwee Yee's (AJCO President of 14th Batch):

Blog Address (http://tanhweeyee.livejournal.com/40749.html)

so it was my acjo teacher-in-charge's （陈老师）retirement dinner on friday. he will be leaving the school after 20+ years in education and 14 years in ACJO. it was an evening of gratitude and a walk down memory lane.

ajco was a 'chance eca' for myself. i had no CO background knowledge and my interest in classical chinese music was limited to the occassional hongkong serials with a catchy tune.

I applied for 2 other ecas, but by some strange twist of events, i ended up in ajco and devoted much of my time and energy in it. thinking back, ajco could easily account to be a place where i spent most of my jc years in. the 华乐室 was like a hideaway. the comm would practice, eat, nap, play and copy homework in there. i remember i would open up the music room with my illegal pair of keys (sort of like a 'heirloom' from one batch to the next) for CO people to gather before school starts every morning.

its a pity the old music room has been converted to a lab and the new 华乐室 seems to just lack the warm comfort (and the loose ceiling panes, leakages, insects etc) of the old room.

so, the old fogies like us (the current batch is 10 yrs younger!!) were just talking about old times on friday....like how the ex-comm would go back on saturdays from 10am for the jc1 practices and stay through to 10pm after our concert prac (suprisingly, no one really complained...=p) , the long, boliao and often laugh until can flip meetings,the used to be jubliee foodcourt's tomyam 版面was our staple for saturday lunches, the '天书' where we wrote all the CO bitching (and how our conductor went red after he read the very 1st entry and complaint of him, by ME....), how we went to the other jcs and sec schools to sell our concert tickets,how the ex-comm went all out to convince and '骗' juniors to join CO, our lack of 音准 and 节拍, the 几只小猫 attendence during practices, how we felt a sense of emptiness after the concert, creating the first alumni newsletter 心玄in wenyin's amk living room and of cos, THE concert at the '老人剧场' kreta ayer theatre in chinatown.....

it had been a fun 2 years. even though our level of participation may have dwindled, we do hope that ajco will continue to be the playful and energetic group as it had been 10 years ago.

cheers.

After reading your blog, I really miss the old times we had in the old, stinky, torn down CO room. Sob Sob Sob...

Anyway, "Love is STILL in the making"... I need more photos from those couples from CO... =p Haha

Zhiliang

Lilian's recount of kukup..

i miss kukup!! T__T it was SO SO SO fun!!!

it all started with a simple email: "anyone wans to go msia for a short break?"

i was realli sick of work, so juz wanted to get away. didn't really expect to haf replies but i received some of them almost immediately! so i went to search for a nice place to go to. weilin gave me this website http://kukup.bravehost.com, which looked kinda dubious at first. my colleagues were all telling me it's a con for sure and i'll nv see my deposit of $600 again! but it turned out dat the uncle Dennis (tour agent) was realli nice to us! phew.. =p

luckily, we were allowed to meet at 2 pick up points, so i arranged for the vans to pick us up from woodlands mrt and amk mrt. however, uncle dennis insisted we had to meet at 6.30am(amk) and 6.45am(wdls) as he was afraid of traffic jams at the causeway. i bet some of u were regretting the trip as u dragged ur half-asleep body out of ur beds rite... anyway, the amk grp was super punctual! the onli late geek was mervin, who came at 6.40am. haha.. the wdls grp, however, had more late-comers! shame shame!! =p

so we set off, with nice weather and smooth traffic. soon, we arrived at johore for breakfast before continuing the journey to the kukup ferry terminal..

we had lunch at the ferry terminal. well the food was ok.. but there were lots of flies!! but, haiz, we juz closed one eye lo.. b4 we ate, we explored the place.. omg we saw so many candies from our childhood!! no longer sold in SG leh.. we were gg "ooh! aah!" inside the shops.. a bit diu1 lian3 hor.. haha..

then we took a ferry over to the chalet..

the chalet was much nicer than wad we had expected! it was Big and Clean! I could even smell the soap on the bedsheets and blankets! floors were oso clean n shiny! super clean can?? the most kua zhang thing was that they actualli boiled water for us! b4 we even ask if there're kettles for us to use!!!! and there was so many beds! 4 rooms in total, and each room had at least 8 beds lo!! all double-deckers, with some single beds and some double beds. there were 2 mahjong sets and ktv system in the living room! super satisfied lo~! haha..

the place itself was a peaceful fishing village. except for the salty smell of the seawater, it was realli a comfortable place to be in.. no sounds of traffic, only the swishing of the waves.. the villagers led simple lives dat none of us could imagine having. i think. it feels so carefree and relaxing over there!

after a tea break (we were constantly being fed), uncle Dennis brought us to watch the sunset.. it was so beautiful.. you can nv get to see such a sunset in sg.. but i rem when i was small, and there were not so many HDB flats, i was able to see the sunset every evening at my old flat in yishun. it was almost as beautiful. anyway, which sunset is ugly? haha. i recorded the sun setting down.. took abt 2 n 1/2 min. u can get it from me if u wan it. =)

and then, we had bbq dinner! i tot the starting fire part was gg to take ages, so i asked everyone to go to the bbq pit earlier. in the end, guess wad? there were ppl there who bbq everything for us! the onli thing we needed to do was to take and eat! n their bbq-ing skills are the greatest can? none of us ever cook dat chicken wing till dat kind of level b4! it was cooked perfectly, juicy, crispy skin yet soft meat. yummy.... even the sotong balls tasted better den wad i normalli eat at bbq. the $83 is worth it!

after dinner, all of us went back to MahJong (MJ) or.. erm nothing, all of us were MJing. some were chatting la. but mostly it was MJ MJ MJ! haha.. at ard 1.30am, we went out to put fire crackers... the small small fireworks. veri fun n exciting! but oso super noisy.. =p after uncle dennis came out to gently remind us dat there are villagers living nearby, we went back to the chalet.

in the end i slept at 5am.. morning 8am breakfast? i couldnt care less.. heck the breakfast la.. i did wake up for a minute, feeling the responsibility of being the organiser to wake others up for breakfast. but onli lasted a min. haha.. i woke up at abt 10am. =p

after playing the "pop! pop!", and taking of grp photos. we went to visit a fishing village b4 gg for lunch.. fyi, Pop!pop! is the small white thing dat goes pop! when u throw it on the ground. haha.. i used to play it when i was a kid. but it was banned..

funny stupid pose!! haha

zhiliang holding up a horseshoe crab at the fishing farm:

after lunch, we went to JUSCO, a veri veri veri BIG shopping mall in johore! it was veri nice! a bit like marina sq.. not as big as vivo i think, but comparable! after the shopping, we went for dinner, where we had an 8 course at a cleaner restaurant (yes!!) plus shark's fins for onli $9 per pax! it was worth it. esp the beijing roasted duck! ooh.. forget the fats and oil in it. i juz wan to eat~!!! haha..

after the dinner, we finalli said goodbye to uncle dennis and headed back to sg.. altho we all enjoyed the trip veri much, i was glad to be home.. hope we can haf such a trip again!