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FOREWORD
WELCOME TO THE CLASS BLOG OF 2G'o7 OF GESS!

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Are we not? *smirks*


>>Proceed to 'NAVIGATION' to, well, navigate. ^^

CAUTION!!! ATTENTION ALL INSTRUMENT PLAYERS! Esp Guitar players


RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) can occur from any movement that is repeated many times. For most people it is the clicking of a mouse and the tapping of fingers on a keyboard, but it can also be contracted by playing a musical instrument. Other such conditions that can be aproduct of RSI are Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Tendonitis.


Ways Of Preventing RSI

01. Check Your Fretting Hand
Having a poor hand position can be a factor is having more tension in your fretting hand, this is usually because the placement of the thumb is too high and that the wrist has to bend to allow the fingers to do their job. Depending on the size of your hand and how comfortable you are with playing with your thumb quite high this should be seen as a problem that needs sorted -- look at your wrist and that should tell you everything.

2. Check Your Guitar Height
Never ever play with a guitar too low down. It does not look cool, it does not enhance playing but it does encourage injury. Playing with the guitar quite high is actually more comfortable and allows for better playing in most cases. Again the indicators here should be the wrists and how straight they are.

3. Check Your Picking Hand
Anchoring your hand, forearm, pinky or any part of your body to the guitar creates more friction and more tension in your muscles. Fact. The decision as to whether they create enough tension to be a problem is yours. If it is then it would involve learning a new way of picking all over again -- this is worth it as I'm sure you'd rather play guitar than not even be able to grip things (happens in extreme cases).

4. Relax
Like above -- any unneeded tension can attribute to more pressure on your limbs. This can result in having a sore shoulder when you play to your hand going numb. At no point is guitar supposed to hurt when you're playing (apart from calluse building in your finger tips). If you are having such problems then just try to play something easy with no tension -- think light. Sometimes tension is a result of muscle memory and needs to be wiped out through lots of practice. This should involve relearning something slow -- speed when you can't play very fast causes most people to lock up their hands a bit too much.


Guitar Exercises

The usual exercise of going 1-2-3-4 on the E string and moving up a string and up a string is good as it forces you to use all of your fingers and is a good indicator of improper technique. Your fingers should be able to easily fret after a little bit of practice and some improved finger independence. If this isn't the case then your thumb is probably too high.

Warm Up Exercises
Athletes warm up before running -- guitar is a physical exercise too. Try creating different stretches and such to help counter RSI. Something like putting your hand out before you like you were high-fiving someone, straightening your arm and gently pulling back on all of your fingers with the other hand until you feel a stretch in your wrist is a good little warm up.

Also try to stretch the wrists gently in any other direction you can. You might also considering doing stretches for your picking arm too if you are just geeting use to not anchoring as this arm is going to be feeling tired at the end of a playing session (tired not sore -- it's muslces that need to build up).

Build Up Endurance
The strength of the wrist depends on how strong your forearm muscles are. So some good exercises would be something chin-ups if you are lucky enough to have the facilities and the strength. Otherwise there are other exercises you can use.

For example, I use a tennis ball in each hand when I'm walking somewhere or waiting on a bus or watching TV and, with all of my fingers over the top I sit and squeeze them. This would build up muscles in your forearms and would also improve finger strength too. The stronger a muscle is the more it can endure before injury.

Golfers are known to always carry strong rubber balls for the same purpose and many of them (due to increased muscle in their wrists and forearms) have longer drives than before. Padraig Haddington uses a product called Powerball that does the same job except it puts a small amount of pressure on your muscles indirectly. It is recommended by chiropractors which brings me to my last point.

Seek Professional Advice
If your wrists are hurting (and I mean in every day activities like picking something up) then go and seek medical advice from someone who is actually qualified. Rest any type of exercise that could have an adverse effect on your wrists and follow the advice of your doctor and you should be fine.



So remember to stretch your hands before playing. Dont take this lightly cause my knuckles have been numb since the National Day performance and its scary. This is taken from the trusty and loved by all, UG.com.

Just saving hands my friends,
Kat

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yo hoho and a pirate's life for me !//


Thursday, August 09, 2007 @ 7:38 AM

Hello 2G

I want to post too. So, here are some hilarious videos followed by something which I dont know what will be yet.

MADtv Spoof - Promiscuous


MADtv Spoof - Ugly Betty (f. Youtube's LisaNova as Selma Hayek)


MADtv Spoof - James Blunt You're Beautiful


MADtv - Vancome Lady (She's my favourite among all MADtv skits)


Please note all of them contain no explicit content, watch em with your parents behind you cause it wont matter. The Promiscuous spoof is like a better version of our Sex Ed classes here, though.

SO ANYWAY time for the thing that i dont know what would be just now but now I know what it is. Today, I went with Brenda on her church event, Seasons Of Life. We went through the stages of life, from birth, childhood, teenhood, adulthood, and death. We started at 8pm, 8th Aug and ended at 8am, 9th Aug. There were some fun activites throughout. We stuffed water balloons in our shirts for birth, played kampong games for childhood, watched a full-length movie (Facing the Giants) for teenhood, dabbled in the stock market for adulthood and took a walk through the Choa Chu Kang Christian cemetery for death. How fun is that? A 4am walk through a cemetery. We had to fill in missing information about the tombstones. There was a 2 year old and a 100 year old person.

And we learnt some good things too. It's Christian stuff but I'll just say it, might save yer souls. I'll put them in short point form.

1. You can physically die anytime, not everyone gets to go through all of those seasons of life, but everyone experiences physical birth and death.
2. Nothing is impossible with God.

Okay points done. This has been a bit preachy but whats a little preachiness if its going to give you eternal life?


Okay I gotta go feed my llama, have a good holiday everyone.

PS: the marina bay NDP was the same as usual. After 5 minutes of watching i started reading my book in front of the tv and then after 30 minutes i left the living area completely. Dont you get tired of 42 years of the same thing?

And PMOAD going to perform again for Lunchtime, but the date and venue is not confirmed yet. Make this one count guys.

Red Hot Chili Pepperianly yours,
Kat

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yo hoho and a pirate's life for me !//


Tuesday, August 07, 2007 @ 6:35 AM

A FEW HOURS AWAY!
wooooots.
people who r ever gona see this anyway.
please cheer loudly for PMOAD ok.
we will be the last to perform!
so cheer for ur lives, be HIGH.
HIGH like SHIT.
whee.yeah.
GOGO! best of luck to all of us man.
im gona die tmr.

xoxo,
VAL

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yo hoho and a pirate's life for me !//


Saturday, August 04, 2007 @ 9:00 AM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN!!!!!
happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you.
happy birthday to ryany daddy!
happy birthday to youuuuu~~

ITS RYAN'S BDAY!
everyone make a wish!
happy birthday to ryan, who turns 14 like, now.
he has been a superb daddy, superb son, superb grandad etcetc.
so everyone loves him!
happy birthday to ryan.
daddy! me loves ya!
and so does cheryl, dont worry lah.
LOL.


xoxo
val daughter.
TRIBUTE TO RYANNNN!

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yo hoho and a pirate's life for me !//


Friday, August 03, 2007 @ 8:04 AM

Seeing as i don't wanna be left out in all this festivity, I HAVE COME TO BLOG. First things first, I'd like to thank everyone who supported us during the rehearsals. If it weren't for you guys, I don't think PMOAD would even exist 'cause we live to play for you. And please work on your fangirl screams. (just kidding) Seeing as I have miraculously ran out of stuff to write about, I'll end it of with a trivia!

-----Put Me On AutoDrive Trivia-----

1. What does Kathryna play?
(a) Grand Theft Auto
(b) Double Bass
(c) Wave
(d) Electric Guitar

2. What song are we playing for National Day?
(a) Where I Belong
(b) Dani California
(c) Californication
(d) Majulah Singapura

3. Where is Dani singing songs to me?
(a) Beneath the marquee
(b) In mah crib
(c) California
(d) The arena

Have fun with the trivia, and remember, things aren't always what they seem.

Prince Nuwanda Charming.

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yo hoho and a pirate's life for me !//


@ 8:04 AM

why aint anyone posting?
and i dont see many tagggs!
tag more people! thanks.
today im gona upload some photos.
even if they were taken long ago.
cos its fun.



our prince benjie nuwanda charming.

michael is a good bassist.

matching guitars and bags!

see mikey so hardworking!

PMOAD! without kat, she went home. :(

now these pics are of our lil picnic with cher!
meant to be surprise but i guess she found out lo.
it was on her bday :)


the nice guard that had a lighter.

cheryl!

weitingy!

veee!

me!

those were the only close ups i can find.


the four musketeers!

look at the fooodiess.

vee made a cake! so nicee right.

sorry ryan we didnt invite you.

lastly, i injured my knee.


lala.it was a random post.
well wednesday is coming.
support pmoad! seriously,
try to make banners kay!
thank you.it will boost our confidence.
wooots.


xoxo
VALLIE

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yo hoho and a pirate's life for me !//


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