Hi guys

Some humour to celebrate the end of term.

Have a restful break, somehow.

Cheers

Adrian

THE BEST CHURCH BULLETIN BLOOPERS

These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins
or were announced in church services:

Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa, will be speaking tonight at Calvary Methodist. Come hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.

Announcement in a church bulletin for a national PRAYER & FASTING Conference: "The cost for attending the Fasting and Prayer conference includes meals."

The sermon this morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water."
The sermon tonight: "Searching for Jesus."

Our youth basketball team is back in action Wednesday at 8 PM in the recreation hall. Come out and watch us kill Christ the King.

"Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Don't forget your husbands."

The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been cancelled due to a conflict.

Remember in prayer the many that are sick of our community. Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say "hell" to someone who doesn't care much about you.

Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.

Miss Charlene Mason sang "I will not pass this way again", giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.

For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.

Barbara remains in the hospital and needs blood donors for more transfusions. She is also having trouble sleeping and requests tapes of Pastor Jack's sermons.

During the absence of our Pastor, we enjoyed the rare privilege of hearing a good sermon when J.F. Stubbs supplied our pulpit.

The Rector will preach his farewell message after which the choir will sing "Break Forth into Joy."

Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.

A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.

At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What is Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice.

Eight new choir robes are currently needed, due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.

Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles, and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.

The Lutheran men's group will meet at 6 pm. Steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, bread and dessert will be served for a nominal feel.

Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.

Attend and you will hear an excellent speaker and heave a healthy lunch.

The church will host an evening of fine dining, superb entertainment, and gracious hostility.

Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 pm - prayer and medication to follow.

The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.

This evening at 7 pm there will be a hymn sing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.

Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B.S. is done.

The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.

Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use back door.

The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The Congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.

Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.

Mrs. Johnson will be entering the hospital this week for testes.

The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new tithing campaign slogan last Sunday "I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours."

Our next song is "Angels We Have Heard Get High."

One More:

The Lecture on "How to Utilize the Horoscopes to predict the future" has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances"

Hey guys,

I guess now is the best time to pen down what I felt about investiture, while it is still fresh in our minds.

That day was one of the very few days where we were at our best.Not in terms of playing, of course, but in terms of the way our batch did stuff. Just see the way we moved the percussion. There was no arguing, no reluctance to move the instruments (at least from what I saw), those people who would usually make trouble or stir up feelings were helping out...... It seemed as if our batch was showing the true bondage we had achieved over the years. Can we have this attitude for the rest of our time in RIMB?

From talking to some seniors or reading their blogs, you should know that most of their comments about investiture centered upon words like "unimportant" and "insignificant", but I beg to differ. In my opinion, how significant something is depends on how you want it to be. The simple action of a child playing the piano (even badly) might seem like nothing to someone who does not care yet seem like the world's proudest moment in a father's eye. No matter the circumstances, the importance of something really only depends on how important you want it to be. Investiture was one of the most important things to me. What about you?

Investiture marked the closure of the 07-08 year and the start of the 08-09 year. Let us go through the year with passion, diligence cooperation to make oursleves proud by our achievements.

On a side note, look at our batch piece, Wham, which we will be playing for REACT.

After listening to it again,, see if you were regularly looking at the conductor (me), especially during the parts where you were out the most. Since there will be a lot of people at REACT, the messiness will be multiplied unless you set a good example to everyone else. Hopefully, you guys will know to make the neccessary change. So here's to a successful first event of RIMB '09

Josiah


Flute: Johnson
Clarinet: Brandon
Saxes and Lower Woodwinds: Patrick
Horns and Euphos (merged): Ernest
Trumpets: Bryan
Trombone: Linjin
Basses: Shang Shuen
Percussion: Si Kai

LD Head: Chengxun
QM Head: Brandon
UD Head: Andy
WD Head: Johnson
Treasurer: Yifan
Secretary: Linjin
Student Conductor: Patrick
RD Head: Zeyang
DBM: Josiah
BM: Kirk

*For all those not in any positions, please dont be disheartend. You can still contribute to the development of the band via many many other alternative ways and help make band both a fun and exciting CCA ppl are fighting to join. On a sidenote, please read my email regarding future pracs as well as REACT. seeya all =D


Any of our saxes want to try this?

We could have a saxophone and trombone performance =)


sorry havent been updating, have been busy with all the tests and projects that are coming up. lozl i'm sure everyone is. anyway, i guess we have more or less finalised our final song for investiture: circle of life (batch piece), army of the nile and WHAM. also, the date of the investiture ceremony and performance of each batch has been confirmed: 27th august. the activites date plus the section dinner will be finalised, and i am guessing that they will be decided within each section.

well, all i can say is that we have approximately 4 pracs left before our "performance" and i want all of us to be ready and well prepared for this. we're the sec3 batch after all and we gonna take over in like 2 weeks time, our practical standard (though still not there) must be sufficiently good enough to at least play properly.

interviews are also almost done and i'm guessing the release of the results are gonna come really soon (amidst all the studying and tests). good luck to all and do take care, dont fall sick (ernest xD) and please come for all the remaining practices leading up to investiture. we need the practices. Call up all those who are not here, esp. andy =( wonder why he pon two times in a row =.= kirk say he need go mug for maths but oh well dont we all?


hey all plz take note tmr's practice, we are gonna use the band room so oh well we should have full attendance to make the most out of our session in there. we need to finalize two songs: the final piece of our investiture as well as our REACT piece. plz cooperate and call up all those that are likely to be missing (both section and batch) thanks


Our trombonists should try this:



whee!


I only just remembered about this blog a few minutes ago >.> Now to be random and bored, I shall present to you a few clips...


Here's Eric Miyashiro playing something gay. Yeah, he's the guy who performed at the same concert we guest performed at in Japan. This clip is still not too bad.


Yeah...I have no idea how he plays that three-belled trumpet.

And for something just plain fake...



for all those who didnt come to today's band practice, heh you can find out from my blog xD. juz wanted to say we're trying out the piece "cant take my eyes off you", it's a super duper famous jazz piece tt everyone most prob have heard be4.

here's a jazz version real pro xD we wont be doing that dont worry yifan and bryan =] but still i believe it would be a nice song :P