Drum Circle Facilitators Training (Day 2)

I wore my nice black Drum Circle Facilitators Shirt... so did my dad. I had to do drum call at 8.30 am. Drum call is.... to put it in a simple way.. one person who starts everybody drumming, and that only person who goes into the middle of the circle to facilitate for a period of time... And Arthur selected me yesterday, so I was put into the TRAP.. HELP!! I never did drum call before so I was really exited...

Arthur breifed me that I should first be Dictator.. (the noob level, hehe), then Director ( 2nd noob level.. haha), then Facilitator ( <> Those pics up there are the finger dance... what a finger dane is you and another person pair up and youre fingers touch.... Person A leads.. then person B... then guadually.. both person A and B lead together... It was really cool.. hehe

I started to fall in love with one of the drums. My dad has one of them, and the whole day I just kept playing that drum. Its a green REMO nesting drum (part of the Arthur Hull designed drum kit.... {poses} tada....). A nesting drum, is a drum that nests.. you know... like those dolls that can go into one another... these drums can to!! They have 2 sides, so if you pull of one of the heads one drum can supply 2 people... Yeap. So I fell in love with the green one. It had a great sound and I loved it... I could play it nice and loud... yay!!!

After we finished the days training it was 5.00 pm. Those who wanted to go home could go home, those who wanted to stay and have a half hour drumming session WITHOUT someone facilitating were welcome to join. And that half hour was great, no one was in the middle facilitating us so we were free to just drum... all of a sudden we started to collapse.. all the good drummers were making it hard for the not-so-good drummers to cope. Those who couldn't cope were just hitting their drum looking around... hehe... . The good drummers were playing really loud rumbles ( you know what a rumble is right??? Like a drum roll....) I couldn't rumble that fast like my dad can but I could cope and play fast...

Arthur stopped us and said that we had just experienced a number of transition points, which means the rythm changes because maybe a few drummers started going crazy and drummed really loud or really fast and people start following them and some can't cope, like what I explained just now... We went home.. and today was Billie and Uncle Brad's last day of the training because they had to go back to Singapore tomorrow.. haih.. So that means tomorrow I'll be the youngest participant. Billie is younger than me so she was the youngest the last 2 days... :D

Drum Circle Facilitators Training ( Day 1)

Hmm.. so anyway... After the shirt incident my dad got so pissed. He left the house to pick up Arthur, the dude who does the drum circle training... maybe called.... our facilitators training's facilitator. Hehe. Besides Arthur he had to pick up a few more people from the same ho tel... I had to go in a taxi with Julie-ann whos staying with me and my dad, Uncle Brad and Billie (friend). At Yamaha music... checked out some guitars... More people came... Then we started!!! yay!! It was great to see Arthur again... since this is my second time for this training.

If I tell everything we did for todays training.. I'm not sure many of you would understand whats drum call.... whats call and response and stuff like that. Before we went home after the first day, Arthur said to me "thank you for volunteering for tommorrows drum call" In my mind I was like "what??" I didn't volunteir for drum call.... but Arthur says I have to do drum call so I do... I never did drum call before so its a great chance to practice my facilitating skills.!!!!

Drum circle training !! Whoho!!

Friday, Saturday and Sunday.. 3 full days just drumming away... Hand drums... along with percussion stuff... 3 days of that... And what is that?? Thats a drum circle... Those from SMK BU who came to school on the 5th November will know what I'm talking about...

So 3 days of drum circle training... Hopefully to pick up some new techniques for drum circle facilitating. This is my second time for this training.. last year was my first and from then till now.. I have to say that my drumming has gotten faster.... I can do faster rumbles now!! yay!! Anyway, this was held at Yamaha Music Headquaters in Kelana Jaya...

Day 1

Dad came to pick me up in the morning... then we went to the other side of Taman Tun to pick up this years official Drum Circle Facilitator Training, Malaysia 2007 T-shirts. :D Last years were white and this years are BLACK and they look super cool... They have the arrow logo on it... Must have.. or it won't really look like a drum circle facilitator training shirt..

The logo...........

Haha... oops.. Wrong picture...

Hah... there we are... The logo..... Now lemme ask you.. how many arrows do you see?? 4... nope. 6? nope... Answer is 8.. hehe... If you don't see 8 arrows.. look at the arrows pointing out (white arrows) and the ones pointing in (black arrows)... I don't really get what the logo means.. but its something like Which came first? The chicken or the egg...?? Do the drummers accompany the dancers or do the dancers accompany the drummers?? The answer is YES. If you get the meaning.. good. We picked up the shirts from this guy who makes them. (duh). Me and my dad went back home and we eagerly took out a shirt each .. My dad got his on first.. I was lazy to put mine on... They seriously look great... the only problem was, the back of the shirt. My dad gave the guy last years T-shirt as a model for this years shirt. And when my dad asked me to read the back of the T-shirt what it said, it said Drum Circle facilitators training, Malaysia 2006. All of a sudden my dad's happy expression was so shocked... "does it really say 2006??????" "yeah dad" and we both had the same word in our heads "SHUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" My dad called the guy and asked for all the shirts re-ordered... Terrible.. haiz... those really looked great, just for that silly mistake my dad has to re-order all 20-30-40 something shirts... and He'll have to mail it to all the participants because they won't be done for a week.. haiya.. terrible, terrible, terrible..

Holidays..

Its now the long school holidays... zzzzzzzzzz.
I have nothing to do... And during holidays means that I get to blog more but nooo.... I can't/don't.... Why?? I don't know either...
Lols... soo uh.... just to wish everyone a happy holiday ya... ok... uh.. nothing else...
lol

KKB Camping Trip extra pics....

Julia and Antares
Ramona....
Gaspar
Me and Sunita
Me, Sunita and Julia

KKB Camping trip (Day 3)

So what was left of us slept in the Bamboo Palace... The tents were taken home. Some of us were pretty lazy to go back to the river.. like me. So I stayed at the bamboo palace and watched Micheal Jackson music videos............ Julia left with Gaspar to go home... So it was my mom, Sunita and me left. We went home by car. There was another group of people who lived in KL that offered us a ride. We were listening to Linkin Park all the way home.....

This was a really great camping trip. Except for all the mosquito bites on my leg and the sunburn.......

All of us came looking normal and no sunburn and no mosquito bites.. after the trip
I got ALOT of mosquito bites...
Sunita got alot too... but not as much as mine
My mom got sunburned bad.. but no bites.
Julia looked like a peach because she was sooooo red from sunburn
Gaspar got burned bad to.. and my mom called him a spanish kebab because he's spanish.. but why a kebab I don't know.

KKB Camping Trip (Day 2)

Sunita's dad woke us up. He took some lalang and opened our tent.. He tickled us with the lalang... I grabbed it and pulled it away and we went back to sleep.. Finally Sunita woke up. I looked at the time... It was about 8.40.. I slept a little longer, Sunita came back to sleep.. then finally, Julia, Sunita and me woke up and went for breakfast.

We didn't go to the river immediately, relax la...

Me in the hammok

Me reading

Julia on the hammok

Sunita on the hammok

Then we went back to the river.....

I waved because I made it across the icy water!!!!

The Kenyan's, South Africans and Sunita's parents left during the afternoon today.. Sunita's parents left at night. Heres a pic of everybody outside the Bamboo Palace...

Dinner we had at the Bamboo Palace. Sunita's parents left after dinner.

Instant noodles... with leftover African DejaVoo Chicen.. :d