C h o i r

Hello. If it isn't obvious from the title already, this whole post is going to be about Choir. So.. I guess if you are really turned off by emotional little girls gushing/crying her heart out in a single long post, you might as well close the tab. :(

长话短说... Musical Promenade 2012 was a success!

It was awesome.

Amazing.

Wonderful.

Ear-gasmic.

Heart-warming.


I absolutely enjoyed myself during the concert night, as well as the months of preparation that followed. Sure, we had our ups and downs which resulted in many of us pulling our hair off. But come to think of that, it was really worth it after all of us felt the awesome feeling when we step off a stage, knowing that we shined so brightly on it :D



That morning, it was open house so we had open house performance. Singing plaudite, lion and may it be. The acoustics were horrible but nevermind still attracted many people haha. :) After lunch, there was some last minute choreo fixing-up before we ran off to the PAC for rehearsal. And then zoom zoom ZOOM... the final one and half hours of prep was up. Everyone was running around to finish dinner, change into costumes, makeup/shower at the same time. By 6.45 or so Choir room was a frenzy of opened up baggages thrown everywhere, girls lining up the wall mirrors to makeup.. and there was a calm Ms Tham sitting in the middle of the room going: "I understand that it is important to look pretty, but it's important for your voice to sound pretty too." (Y) haha. We did warm ups and all with SHchoir and BOOM! WE'RE UP.

I guess when we reached the backstage of PAC that was when all of the nervousness kicked in. I started to feel queasy, people showing signs of shuffling their feet and all... and then I looked around. I realised this was going to be the Y6s last concert. Shirlyn, Clement and Chikhim, we're never going to sing as one voice with them again. Seniors you guys are awesome! For a SH to try and get to know a newbie JH last year, you guys have broken down a boundary and definitely has a place in my heart :'( and then, I looked at the Y1s and thought, this is gonna be their first. concert. ever. and then to the Y4s, will they choose to sing with us as the combined choir next year? A million thoughts must have went through my head then. Everyone was like giving fist bumps and shoulder taps and all, I almost tripped with excitement when my row started moving for the door.

Then... IT'S SHOWTIME.

Taken from facebook but yes, that was opening piece, My song. I think I wrote my views about this song already. I'm not sure how we did for this song, but it was alright I guess. After that it was a mad rushing in and out for songs we are performing/not performing, combining with SH, SH moving out and all... I really loved how Ezekiel sounded, we pulled off the high notes well!! It actually sounded harmonious :') I hope we do this song for SYF!

When it was intermission everyone ran off to change into their Phantom costume. When I was changed and just entered the choir room, all the girls were tying their hair and I was just like, CAN LET DOWN HAIR MEH. "Only half!" people randomly shouted. Then before you know it almost all the girls went to change their hairstyle. Now this is more like it, Christine Daae with her hair down...



So we went backstage and listened quietly for the SH Wicked, and I actually felt so happy for them when they belted out the last wicked. All of us were cheering for them, it was just so nice. Their choreo is 435x nicer than ours too. It's just sad that JH is dying to do wicked and the SH is dying to do Phantom, and we get opposites :( Angie was saying that the medly sounded AMAZING. I think so too!!



And then we are up again. It was just nice to see that everyone was smiling and really putting their heart and souls into the song, and when we collapsed at the last "Ah" and the lights went out, the cheers were astounding. Best finale indeed!! Then it was all the token of appreciation and all then the SH came up again. Then the best words of the night
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"ENCORE!" x ihavenoideahowmanytimesitwasshouted



We were all laughing haha cause we expected it but nobody actually talked about preparing for it. Then suddenly the guys went "oh-wim-oh-weh" and we followed suit, LION SLEEPS TONIGHT again! It was so fun to move together, a 130 people choir on a stage meant for 80 people HAHAHA!! Then the audience started to scream when we went to the words and clapped along, although it was fail at first (the clapping.) haha, it was just awesome :')

Then when we are done there were still people who shouted encore again and I was really hoping someone considered doing the Banana Potato song. I mean, WE HAVE THE SCORES K but anyway, the MCs just went on ending the concert. The lights went on and you see people running down the aisle with flowers and balloons. So we were just smiling at the people who received stuffs when suddenly... a wild dad and mum appears. HAHA they actually bought a small bunch of flower for me! How nice of them :D Felt so happy and blessed then.

It was just amazing, when we went up to Choir room afterwards and Ms Fang, Ms Tham were all happy for us... we took pictures and all, I especially loved the group photo. We were really squashing each other and poor Bingyang (not sure haha) was being taupok-ed so badly he was squashed for how many photos. Haha. BLACK AND WHITE FTW! (The boys with black outfit, girls white dress :) )

Soppies!!! Love you duck, and I hope you enjoyed your first concert shiqi ^^

A photo with Jerlyn! Thanks for standing beside me for almost all the songs. Hope you enjoyed your first concert too :D

SOPRANO!! Omg I love every. single. one of you so much I can't even oh my god why ahh ashjnowfufbouwborw. Best section okay! We stand stong, all of us and we really show what is SOP POWER. Funnyfaise ftw!
Lastly, must thank the YEAR2 BOBOS. Thanks for all the constant spamming of whatsapp whether it was regarding concert or not... Also, for the self initiated practices as a level. We have become more bonded than we were last year, and I hope the new peeps also feel the same :) Let us stay like this and become better friends haha! Our cuteness and how fun-going we are definitely helped me pull through the hetic pre-concert prep... love you all!

And then, we unwillingly made our way home. There was major concert hangover the next day, and in two days time... it was the deaded

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Handover.

Oh boy, I'm gonna miss the year fours so much :'( You guys have helped me grow so much for the past two years and we've grown so close together, what are we gonna do without you D: When you guys came in and walked on the bubble wrap and you guys turned from year fours to four year olds straightaway... I was like oh man, we're gonna you all so much. And when we sang for good (Yes we borrowed the Wicked score from SH haaha), I really cried from the lyrics and the already crying faces of some of you :(

skip to 2:20

It well may be,that we will never meet again.In this lifetime,so let me say before we part.So much of me,Is made of what I learned from you.You'll be with melike a handprint on my heart.And how whatever way our stories end.I know you have re-written mine,by being my friend....

bye bye you all, I will miss all of you. All that you have done for us, its deeply appreciated. So... JIAYOU OKAY, study hard and i'll meet you guys in SH! Who knows, if you guys join SH choir... we can sing as one voice again. Love you all.

Adios

Hello all!

Camp was A W E S O M E. I got to meet many new friends who were very friendly and co operative :) also, the guys in our group are most nice OR funny, haha. (see what I did there. )

To me the biggest takeaway was dragon boating, it was fun to try out the different stunts on boat such as flinging our feet out into the water and all. Also, sit on the verge and rock the boat :P screamed our hearts out but hey, it was fun ^^ lastly, our group won the mini competition and I really learnt then that speed isnt everything. In fact, how effectively we used our strategies was. :) even Mr Chan afterwards was saying how this thing is an eye-opener!

So let's fast forward/rewind to the tents. It was not bad except for the presence of insects especially grasshoppers... Well, we were irked when we started pitching but due to time contains in setting off for orienteering we had to leave. So at night, Natasha had this lightbulb that we get some masking tape. For what? LOL, inside the tent all six of us were armed with a little tape and were like using kung fu speed fists to hit the 小朋友们 till we got a lot of sticky tape with wriggly insects on it... Which we tossed away. Opps!

High Es was fun :) it was most thrilling to jump off! But this instructor has this thing about after every climber completes the course, we all have to gather and tap their helmet saying "good job, well done. " guess having Gabriel and Nat in my watch wasn't exactly the best. Haha, from really tapping they turned into fists and all so when it was my turn to reach the ground... It felt like an earthquake.

Anyway, the low Es were fun too :D guess a reason why being small is fun is that I don't burden my group membs much when they lift me. I really liked the wall (though it hurts a tad bit) and spider web! The sense of accomplishment was overwhelming when we had an all-girls spotter team to transport a guy :) it was fun lol when the boys made crying baby sounds and say things like "push! I can see the head!!" "it's a boy!" Also, team spirits were really shown during the Mohawk Walk :)

Finally, like to talk about campfire because I was a concert IC with new friend fuyi and we choreographed the song (I've had) the time of my life. That song is classic and not only that, it really fulfills our feelings for camp then. Not everything was perfectly memorized and all but we still scraped though, and that was what made me most happy. I felt that we tried out est and at least most of the things were done. Afterwards, we had a group hug and I can't believe so many of us felt that little bit of water in our eyes.

Erm, would like to thank SISTER SOPHIA for being our instructor hahaha thanks for being so GL to all of us. And hitting me multiple times on my helmet. Youre really caring and they way you shoot the boys until they lose an argument was funny! Haha I quote one of them "huh after campfire take group photo? I want to get Sophia's number la!"

And I became like really good friends with Clarice, Yixin, Huizhi, Jerlin you all are cute in your own ways but of cos, awesome. I really couldnt ask for more. See you guys around! :)


By the way, all the songs on DJ dashboard was really catchy nice and all! Had fun singing along or even mutter for lyrics I don't know. :)

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Low achiever, and I am obviously very disappointed in myself.

Whee

Well, I went to watch The Lucky One with Michelle, Jansen, Jeffery and Jansen and it was just so touching. I can't wait to lay my hands on the novel. I really love the grandma in there she's really one of the few old people that makes you go (Y) and in the end, it was a scene of Zac efron (omg asdfghjkl) and his partner and etc on a boat. It zoom out, and we all realised it was actually the first scene that we saw. The river. Then, the boys began all the nonsense like "oh look, we just spent 10.50 watching a ship move from one place to another, practically the whole movie is a flashback!" "so this movie was about us going into the dirty mind of zac efron (you'll get this if you've watched it..)" "he fixed the boat? GLOBAL WARMING!!"

And that probably made Michelle and I who were on the verge of tears to growing 8 packs or something.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN, IT'S MAY?

This is kind of the worst way to begin a blog post but..

WHAT YEAR IS IT?
Nah just kidding was just trying to exaggerate about not being on blogger for a long time. A long time :( Recently kicked CT's ass so right now we're all free from mugging and I honestly can't wait for camp! However, I do have a lot of things to update from the last time I've updated (which is like march...) till the end of April. Thus this is gonna be one really long post...

Firstly, thank you all who made me enjoy my 14th birthday :D I'll really remember it! Thanks to everyone who bought me a gift, I appreciate all of them... Thank choir who sang a birthday song for me. Unfortunately I fell sick on the day itself (what luck!) I had to leave choir early. Thanks Jiahui who accompanied me :) Haha, lastly must thank my parents right who still allowed me to have some cake after endless begging! I mean, it's not my fault you buy me a RED BEAN FILLING cake when I'm sick right? Righhht?

Love the cake.

The most awesome one of all: Thanks mum, for accompanying to watch some of the best. things. ever. I am most touched about this because I know you have zero interest in anything related to english but you came with me just because I gushed about wanting to watch this one day. Love you! WICKED WAS JUST AMAZING, I ENJOYED ALL OF IT! :)

Wicked @ MBS

After that it was back to boring life trying to absorb as much as I can during lessons. Sigh :/ I really cannot stand geography lessons. I mean, the teacher just finished teaching whatever topic and BAM we get a quiz the next day. It is no miracle that a lot of the class is able to fail -_- Also teaching of essay skills was just ??? and I really don't think I could have lived without hon's notes and self study. Other than that... Chem formula and balancing is really fun!! Ok. That's about all I want to waste time to write about on studying.

Angie had her qihang performance at RP, it was not bad. Good job laoniang! Especially proud of myself because I found the way from my music school all the way to a remote corner in woodlands.. with a map! Like seriously the directory book HAHA :P

Lastly, something to melt your heart.. presenting to you the newest addition to the family! His name is Mantou :D He is not exactly ours, but he will be here long enough. Really love this little thing! It's a long-haired chihuahua.

Right and then, along the end of April was the common tests, spent most of my time mugging. Some days were spent with yixuan at various coffee outlets and some others at compass's library. Now with the end of the exams, I'm not really happy because its either some subjects were very difficult, I had not enough time to complete, or end up testing much lesser than what I have studied for! It's okay. I don't really care anymoreeee

Alright, jiayou to myself and the choir for 100% focus to the upcoming concert!

xy