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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
jiayou negativ-! (:

sorry xy, wemissedyou!
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12:18 AM
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Hey Negativ-! Time for an update by ME! =D
Okay so u all know that there's a gradnight rehearsal next thursday 30th Nov in the sch LT1 AND WE HAVENT LEARNT/REHEARSE/ARRANGE THE SONGS WE ARE PERFORMING!
Ah lemme write down the performance dates first ar.
2nd Dec : Njchoir campfire night. What song u all wanna sing?
3rd Dec : J2 prom/graduation night. "Come away with me" and "Superman"
4th Dec : Cocolatte, post gradnight party. What other songs can we perform?!
Oh yeah so we haf a PROBLEM! Not enough time to practice and not enough songs. Xq got this inspiration from Usher just now in Clarke Quay and sort of composed a new song so let's hope he can finish penning them down onto scores and let us learn. I am trying to arrange 简简单单 by JJ Lin for xy to solo. It's going be noobish so maybe we perform that for campfire night! anyway perform for choir dun need too high standards =D
Oh and pls welcome Cheong Chee Jun to perform with us in Cocolatte. He'll be our sound manage and 2nd vp! Actually i shd be the 2nd one since he's so pro. ah wells..
So happy learning ur songs! Good job man im sure we can do it. Have it memorised by monday ty =) AND DUN FORGET THAT THERE'S A NEGATIV PRAC AFTER SAJC WORKSHOP ON THE 29TH WHEN XY GETS BACK. BY THEN, WE SHOULD BE COMBINING AND NOT CHECKING CHORDS!
Thank you and sorry for spamming of caps. hahaha. =)
Jiahao4
12:33 AM
Friday, November 24, 2006
grad night performance costume
well jia hao and me have decided the costume for grad night performance. we will wear black blazer(choir blazer), black pants, black leather shoe, and a coloured long sleeve shirt(plain). now the only thing that has to be settled is the shirt. all of us will wear different colour. pls post what colour you want here so that there will be no clashes.
for me i want pink. if zhirui already take it i'll take yellow.
xian
10:03 PM
Monday, November 20, 2006
gradnight rehearsal, lt1
right, just want to record our
progress (if you consider it any at all) here.
gradnight rehearsal, lt1, 10am (supposedly)
premiered
superman (five for fighting) and
come away with me (incognito). not well done AT ALL, but its not bad considering we only seriously combined at 730am. we didnt have full attendance (thanks zr), and we only had everyone at the rehearsal itself (well done negativ).
but considering the amazingly little amount of combining we had, think we did pretty ok. alot more work to be done (alot more procrastination?) . just wait and see.
jiahao: really want to applaud you for fantastic vp, really improved by leaps and bounds since you started. but dont get complacent! heh. go on, show me you can vp better than on a drum set.
xianyong: great job on getting the notes. you've been the weakest in sightreading among us, but been improving steadily. been hearing you come up with harmonies more easily. seems like midi wasnt a bad idea after all. time to move on to learning on your own, piano first!
cil: well done, you only saw the score today and were able to scrape through most of it. get your ball clamps and do those falsettos please! and omg get the original melody right before you throw in your blue notes lol, it should still sound incognito no matter what.
zhirui: thanks for oversleeping this morning, despite 2 sms reminders yesterday. haha but ok lah, you know your stuff so i shall not complain too much. just remember to come for subsequent pracs (im not demanding punctuality, yet) . nice solo for superman!
linus: always reliable, deep bass voice to give our songs a solid foundation. you know i like to challenge you with insane notes (like in come away with me), but you've been doing a really superb job at handling them! don't sing as if they're too easy tho, i wont hold back on upping the difficulty lol.
negativ: hope everyone is happy working in this group thus far! no, i will not arrange your favourite songs, not even those you prefer. negativ will sing what i arrange, fullstop. lol. but it wont be a bad idea to bring up nice songs, xingqun like means negativ gets to sing (provided he gets past the pre-arranging depression). songs will get harder and more demanding from here on! we love yakult!
guys, move on! move on! another rehearsal on 30th nov. supp to be full dress, and please memo the songs by then!
XQ ROAR!
5:40 PM
COSTUME!!
i remember i DID say we are going out today to buy (or at least see) our costume for performance rite? and what happened?? all went out to dunno where... u all win liao loh... win liao...
so now we are left with 29th, the day JUST before full dress. i ASSUME that everyone CAN make it since there is a dunno what choir event on that day. so i expect everyone to be able to go on that day after the choir event. this is very very very VERY important.
xian
5:39 PM
Thursday, November 16, 2006
negativ gmail
i believe i have told all of u abt negativ gmail,
make full use of it!
username: negativ6@gmail.com
password: i shall not type it here, u know what...
just remember, it's negativ
6 cos there are 6 of us ;P
xian
2:04 PM
Sunday, November 12, 2006
hey!
hey! send me photos you want me to put on this blog then i can help you change k! since jia hao and xingqun say need to change photo. so send me asap k! if you don't send me then i don't change hor...
erm i am working on more codes to improve on this blog. wait and see...
xian
12:14 PM
About Negativ
Inspired by their senior a cappella group
“The Tenor Bass Brothers”, abbreviated as TTBB, they wanted to start a junior a cappella group on their own. Thus they started with ALL the junior guys, 12 of them. Arranged and performed “Collide” by Howie Day at that year’s senior farewell concert. It didn’t work out too well though it was a decent farewell gift at senior farewell 2006.
Then there was NJ Open Day auditions, an opportunity to perform. They knew they couldn’t manage too big an a cappella group of 12, so it was downsized to 6. They practiced at Xingqun’s place, where Yakult (probiotic drink) was in abundance. They drank Yakult and commented that they preferred Yakult over Vitagen (competitor probiotic drink).
Hence, on October 2007, they named themselves Negativ (Vitagen spelt backwards).