The lunch
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 @ 3:59 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
I was disappointed and sad. That is true.
After thinking about it though, I feel that I should just put it behind me. Which was why when many asked me if I was okay, I was honestly feeling fine. In fact, somehow, I just feel even more determined to do my part in choir and push everyone to better standards. We will also make all our seniors proud of us. I know that they are sad therefore I do think that we should be even stronger so that they will come back and feel a sense of pride in us.
Homework is piling up each day. There won't be much time for me to post often. However, there will at least be a post each fortnight.
Oh, how we will miss the seniors after they graduate...
During a certain Elementary Mathematics lesson...
After thinking about it though, I feel that I should just put it behind me. Which was why when many asked me if I was okay, I was honestly feeling fine. In fact, somehow, I just feel even more determined to do my part in choir and push everyone to better standards. We will also make all our seniors proud of us. I know that they are sad therefore I do think that we should be even stronger so that they will come back and feel a sense of pride in us.
Homework is piling up each day. There won't be much time for me to post often. However, there will at least be a post each fortnight.
Oh, how we will miss the seniors after they graduate...
I mean, (we) should keep up with...modern times, you know!
And (the security guard) went like, "BEEEEEEP"!!!
I'm from 4C3. AHHHHHHHH! Sorry!! I'm from 4C2, wrong class. Not 4C3!And they are such a rip-off! I mean, it's really expensive for it to be priced at forty cents ...and it's wingless! Most of the time, nothing comes out of the box and I really need it frantically at that point of time!!
Girl, don't think I don't know that you're gonna climb over the gate! (which is kind of impossible to do so and it's unlikely for anyone to have such a weird inclination to climb the school gate.)
During a certain Elementary Mathematics lesson...
Girls, don't use a chopper to...?
(chorus) To chop ourselves.
NOO! I meant, don't use a chopper to chop the ants on the ground. Don't make things difficult for yourself!
(chorus) OH.
Labels: choir, Crez chorale, School Days
Softer.
Sunday, April 19, 2009 @ 9:47 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
I'm scared of letting myself down. I never cared about the gold. I just want to be able to express myself through my voice. That is all I want. However, why is it that I just can't feel the songs anymore? I felt so numb during the Speech Day's performance. Each time someone tells me to sing softer, I really want to scream out. How much softer can I get? I really can't go any softer. That's my volume. I can't even feel anything now...I can only concentrate on the volume of my voice and trying so hard to blend in. What am I suppose to do?
I have decided to let everything go tomorrow. Whether or not my feelings come back, let it be known and heard tomorrow. This void: I shall let it be filled with my emotions and passion for choir.
I have decided to let everything go tomorrow. Whether or not my feelings come back, let it be known and heard tomorrow. This void: I shall let it be filled with my emotions and passion for choir.
Labels: choir, Crez chorale, School Days
And its paws touched the hidden crevices of the earth.
Saturday, April 11, 2009 @ 6:44 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
I realise that even with just a competition, it sure does reveal the bias nature of certain people.
Maybe it's just prejudice. However, I am really disappointed in the childish and ugly perception of those who just think of themselves and would rather put the progress of the whole group of us onto shaky ground just weeks before the competition. Things like that should be solved with some good talks and serious faces.
If only it were to be that simple.
I do understand the reasons that were given for their ugly behaviour. However, I wonder is it because I do not understand or that I cannot pardon the perverse rational behind the reasons, which led to my immense disappointment in the people in question.
What good will it do to affect a performance with such malice just for the sake of spite. Yes. I reckon it is spite which led to such ugly, shocking words and feelings. How childish and narrow-minded a person can be when they are so blinded with spite is shown almost everyday. Alas, I doubt I will want to step in - it will only backfire. I did so once, and was lucky that it was effective as I tried my best to shake her awake and open her eyes. It wasn't very effective though, seeing that she was once again influenced as easily by another person and has affected even more people with her words once more. I have no courage to speak to the one who really is the one who started it (although she did it without the knowledge of doing so) and am too tired and disappointed to speak to the other who is my friend, whom I've stated her responsibilities to just a month ago.
All these distressingly petty 'politics' will not end soon I expect and I'm really afraid that if neglected, will just portend some sort of internal dispute, thus affecting our performance.
I don't think getting a gold is the most important thing. Of course, it is really important to those who had taken part in 2007's SYF and I wouldn't understand the sadness they'd felt. But, I definitely do not want to have any regrets as this is my first and last chance to partake in SYF with my beloved Crescent choir, which is my sole outlet for my voice. I just want the choir to put in their best, do their best, think their best, show their best, and achieve the best. Who cares about gold with honours when the choir will be happy with their efforts anyway. I understood that part already.
It's funny. How the effects of WYCF last so long. Usually, when you attend some course, you wouldn't think so much about it. But I feel that it's a life lesson instead. Learning under so many conductors, learning their styles, studying their different gestures and facial expressions just so that you can understand them. Those conductors all left an impression on me and they made me realise something: The conductor, whoever it is, is the one who guides you and not makes you sing. Neither does the conductor need to make an extra effort to make you like the him or her. After all, the mutual passion for singing alone is enough to make up for anything. They are never our enemies, instead, I'd rather see them as the pillar of support a choir leans on during performances and the one who connects the sections in terms of singing.
Another thing about WYCF will be the choristers. Someone said it's because they are all committee members of their own choirs, that's why we never had any problems. Well, maybe that's the case. But for it to be the only reason...well, I beg to differ. The main reason is obvious. Even each conductor saw it, felt it, heard it and praised us for it. That is, our common love for music. We did have the usual problem of not being able to blend our voices for the first day, as it is for new choirs. But we did it in the end. Sure, all the choristers were strong and were all leaders. But never once did they act all authoritative - in fact, they did not hesitate to learn from anyone.
But of course, that is too much to ask for when it comes to this matter. I do understand that in every school's choir, at least 60% of the people who join were just interested in CCA points. And at least 20% of these people will rarely be seen taking part in the activities or they refuse to sing. With some hope, another 40% will learn to love choral singing and treat it as an actual art form.
I'm so sorry that this post isn't light-hearted as my other posts. I promise to post something light-hearted tommorow if I can find the time. Till then.
Maybe it's just prejudice. However, I am really disappointed in the childish and ugly perception of those who just think of themselves and would rather put the progress of the whole group of us onto shaky ground just weeks before the competition. Things like that should be solved with some good talks and serious faces.
If only it were to be that simple.
I do understand the reasons that were given for their ugly behaviour. However, I wonder is it because I do not understand or that I cannot pardon the perverse rational behind the reasons, which led to my immense disappointment in the people in question.
What good will it do to affect a performance with such malice just for the sake of spite. Yes. I reckon it is spite which led to such ugly, shocking words and feelings. How childish and narrow-minded a person can be when they are so blinded with spite is shown almost everyday. Alas, I doubt I will want to step in - it will only backfire. I did so once, and was lucky that it was effective as I tried my best to shake her awake and open her eyes. It wasn't very effective though, seeing that she was once again influenced as easily by another person and has affected even more people with her words once more. I have no courage to speak to the one who really is the one who started it (although she did it without the knowledge of doing so) and am too tired and disappointed to speak to the other who is my friend, whom I've stated her responsibilities to just a month ago.
All these distressingly petty 'politics' will not end soon I expect and I'm really afraid that if neglected, will just portend some sort of internal dispute, thus affecting our performance.
I don't think getting a gold is the most important thing. Of course, it is really important to those who had taken part in 2007's SYF and I wouldn't understand the sadness they'd felt. But, I definitely do not want to have any regrets as this is my first and last chance to partake in SYF with my beloved Crescent choir, which is my sole outlet for my voice. I just want the choir to put in their best, do their best, think their best, show their best, and achieve the best. Who cares about gold with honours when the choir will be happy with their efforts anyway. I understood that part already.
It's funny. How the effects of WYCF last so long. Usually, when you attend some course, you wouldn't think so much about it. But I feel that it's a life lesson instead. Learning under so many conductors, learning their styles, studying their different gestures and facial expressions just so that you can understand them. Those conductors all left an impression on me and they made me realise something: The conductor, whoever it is, is the one who guides you and not makes you sing. Neither does the conductor need to make an extra effort to make you like the him or her. After all, the mutual passion for singing alone is enough to make up for anything. They are never our enemies, instead, I'd rather see them as the pillar of support a choir leans on during performances and the one who connects the sections in terms of singing.
Another thing about WYCF will be the choristers. Someone said it's because they are all committee members of their own choirs, that's why we never had any problems. Well, maybe that's the case. But for it to be the only reason...well, I beg to differ. The main reason is obvious. Even each conductor saw it, felt it, heard it and praised us for it. That is, our common love for music. We did have the usual problem of not being able to blend our voices for the first day, as it is for new choirs. But we did it in the end. Sure, all the choristers were strong and were all leaders. But never once did they act all authoritative - in fact, they did not hesitate to learn from anyone.
But of course, that is too much to ask for when it comes to this matter. I do understand that in every school's choir, at least 60% of the people who join were just interested in CCA points. And at least 20% of these people will rarely be seen taking part in the activities or they refuse to sing. With some hope, another 40% will learn to love choral singing and treat it as an actual art form.
I'm so sorry that this post isn't light-hearted as my other posts. I promise to post something light-hearted tommorow if I can find the time. Till then.
Labels: choir, Crez chorale, School Days, SYF
It's these things
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 @ 9:24 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
This time, the English language holiday homework consists of a composition titled 'An Educational Visit' and a comprehension passage. The school had organised a Learning Journey field trip for our level recently. The Battlefield Tour includes places like the Changi Chapel, Bukit Chandu, Labrador Park, Kent Ridge area, and other places that are related to the past Japanese Occupation in our native land. Since each class will visit only two places, every three classes will visit two places that are classified by their locations such as the eastern part and the southern part as such.
It was good that we got to visit the Ford Factory and the War Memorial place. I've been to the other places more than once before but never been to these two. However, there wasn't much time spent in the Ford Factory since we'd set off late. I'd actually screamed when I saw Yimin's 'friend', the fisherman. One minute I was busy staring at this wedding dress from the WWII period and the next I turned to my right and see a fisherman bust staring straight at me.
The two short films we watched on WWII showed how cruelty and fear was used for control over the different races in Singapore. Propaganda was a term frequently used and due to a desperate lack of resources, it was no surprise that the economy then was terrible.
When we went to visit the next location, the Kranji War Memorial, I saw many tombstones, each in the memory of someone who had so gallantly served the people. It'd seemed a little different. The weather was pretty sunny that day and it made the place seem like a world on its own. I felt that the place was so peaceful and extremely different from the usual hubbub of the cosmopolitan city. Such that, the place appeared to be wrapped in a bubble and protected as a fragile reminder of a past that had spurred our forefathers on to worked so hard for a better lifestyle for the present generation.
As it has been written above, a person can tell that the trip has left an impression on me. Our guide for that day was also excellent, giving us all the facts and stuff. His facial expression after realising that our class do not take History was quite amusing. He seemed aghast. However, we did have a rather sketchy idea of the whole picture due to our shallow Social Studies syllabus which was covered in our Primary school education. His enthusiasm for spreading horror stories however, isn't really ideal to me. I dislike listening to such stories when told with such conviction. It just seemed, scary. I do know about the Bukit Chandu story though. Since my first visit there, I'd always felt a little apprehensive about that place. Oh, and Fort Canning Park too.
The March holiday has never been a good holiday to start with. Humans are never content with what they have aren't they? Therefore, I must try to appreciate the little things that this week will give me. Although I need to go back to school, I get to wake up half an hour later which still counts as more sleep. I don't need to be as worried about my hairstyle too.
I feel a little sad that I still can't sing after a week. Sure I can speak normally, however, once I try to sing, my voice just comes out as a pathetic croak. SYF is coming soon. Oh please, let me be able to sing once again. I want to sing at my normal standard or if not better. Without singing everyday, it just seems empty.
It was good that we got to visit the Ford Factory and the War Memorial place. I've been to the other places more than once before but never been to these two. However, there wasn't much time spent in the Ford Factory since we'd set off late. I'd actually screamed when I saw Yimin's 'friend', the fisherman. One minute I was busy staring at this wedding dress from the WWII period and the next I turned to my right and see a fisherman bust staring straight at me.
The two short films we watched on WWII showed how cruelty and fear was used for control over the different races in Singapore. Propaganda was a term frequently used and due to a desperate lack of resources, it was no surprise that the economy then was terrible.
When we went to visit the next location, the Kranji War Memorial, I saw many tombstones, each in the memory of someone who had so gallantly served the people. It'd seemed a little different. The weather was pretty sunny that day and it made the place seem like a world on its own. I felt that the place was so peaceful and extremely different from the usual hubbub of the cosmopolitan city. Such that, the place appeared to be wrapped in a bubble and protected as a fragile reminder of a past that had spurred our forefathers on to worked so hard for a better lifestyle for the present generation.
As it has been written above, a person can tell that the trip has left an impression on me. Our guide for that day was also excellent, giving us all the facts and stuff. His facial expression after realising that our class do not take History was quite amusing. He seemed aghast. However, we did have a rather sketchy idea of the whole picture due to our shallow Social Studies syllabus which was covered in our Primary school education. His enthusiasm for spreading horror stories however, isn't really ideal to me. I dislike listening to such stories when told with such conviction. It just seemed, scary. I do know about the Bukit Chandu story though. Since my first visit there, I'd always felt a little apprehensive about that place. Oh, and Fort Canning Park too.
The March holiday has never been a good holiday to start with. Humans are never content with what they have aren't they? Therefore, I must try to appreciate the little things that this week will give me. Although I need to go back to school, I get to wake up half an hour later which still counts as more sleep. I don't need to be as worried about my hairstyle too.
I feel a little sad that I still can't sing after a week. Sure I can speak normally, however, once I try to sing, my voice just comes out as a pathetic croak. SYF is coming soon. Oh please, let me be able to sing once again. I want to sing at my normal standard or if not better. Without singing everyday, it just seems empty.
Labels: choir, School Days
Life in its general term
Saturday, March 07, 2009 @ 10:44 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
That is a three-hour long movie that was screened for the last day at the cinema at Tampines Mall today. It can easily be named as one of my favourite films and I understand just how it had garnered nominations so effortlessly ( with the information about those awards from the guy manning the ticketing counter. )
When my mum and I entered the movie cinema, we asked the staff to recommend a few movies to us as it was common for us to do that. However, I suspect the guy is new as his answers were somewhat amusing and I had to pull at my face to keep from erupting with laughter; which could have severely injured his self-esteem, thus leaving a permanent scar in his life as a staff at the cinema. The dialogue between my dearest mum and him went as follows,
We then realise that it was futile trying to prod him for any details. Maybe he didn't know that there is this file that I'd seen the staff showing to us many times that contains the summaries of each movie that is screened. Oh well.
The film showed the different aspects of life. Unlike the usual story lines that you see in other shows, this has a heart-wrenching plot. Told in the form of Benjamin Button's diary, the emotions of the characters are clearly depicted. Lessons from life in a general form are shown with such ringing clearness that it could let the viewer identify with or learn from. It shows how people change over time and in the end, nothing really matters in death. Life is just about letting go.
What made an impression on me too were the stark similarities and differences there are in the complicated and vastly diverse human race. Contrasting personalities, or those who can click, all our lives are interlinked in some way. Supporting this view was this article from a magazine I read. It really is a small world. If you try to map out all your acquaintances in your various social networks, your map will branch out to such an extent that it's almost impossible to contain everyone. Maybe it's because we are the same species, that's why there are so much similarities. However, if you label everyone you know as a character, you realise there are different types of people out there. The motherly kind, the dancer ecetera. Most of the time, the most distinctive factor would be the individual's passion, if you have realised. But there are various ways to classify people, of course. Their personality for one.
Benjamin's life was backwards. A mourning father who made clocks set his most magnificent workpiece to wind backwards in memory of his son, hoping to turn back time, when the people were all happy and unaffected by war. However, this last display of paternal love may have just represented Benjamin's destiny. I wonder how he felt in his last moments, in the arms of Daisy as a sweet innocent baby.
I also bought a new novel this morning, with the Times voucher that my aunt gave me for my birthday last year. The novel's pretty interesting and it was nice finishing it in the evening. I still have my Literature novels to read though. Maybe I can finally finish them after doing my homework. Hopefully.
That is a three-hour long movie that was screened for the last day at the cinema at Tampines Mall today. It can easily be named as one of my favourite films and I understand just how it had garnered nominations so effortlessly ( with the information about those awards from the guy manning the ticketing counter. )
When my mum and I entered the movie cinema, we asked the staff to recommend a few movies to us as it was common for us to do that. However, I suspect the guy is new as his answers were somewhat amusing and I had to pull at my face to keep from erupting with laughter; which could have severely injured his self-esteem, thus leaving a permanent scar in his life as a staff at the cinema. The dialogue between my dearest mum and him went as follows,
"What movies do you recommend?"
"Oh, what type of movies do you prefer, ma'am? There is comedy, romance, romance-comedy, drama."
(Towards me)"Which do you like? Do you want to watch drama?"
"Oh ma'am, currently, the more popular ones are: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Marie and Me, He's Just Not That Into You."
"Oh, they have a new movie Marie and Me? That's cute!"
"It was just released recently."
(I whispered to my mum)"He meant Marley and Me..."
"OH. Well, I think we shall just go along with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button then."
"Alright. Today is the last day for this show. A lot of people watched it already and for the past few days it has been almost full house."
"What's the show about?"
"It's drama. It has got many awards."
"Yeah, but what's it about?"
"It's drama."
"As in the plot."
"It's like a drama."
We then realise that it was futile trying to prod him for any details. Maybe he didn't know that there is this file that I'd seen the staff showing to us many times that contains the summaries of each movie that is screened. Oh well.
The film showed the different aspects of life. Unlike the usual story lines that you see in other shows, this has a heart-wrenching plot. Told in the form of Benjamin Button's diary, the emotions of the characters are clearly depicted. Lessons from life in a general form are shown with such ringing clearness that it could let the viewer identify with or learn from. It shows how people change over time and in the end, nothing really matters in death. Life is just about letting go.
What made an impression on me too were the stark similarities and differences there are in the complicated and vastly diverse human race. Contrasting personalities, or those who can click, all our lives are interlinked in some way. Supporting this view was this article from a magazine I read. It really is a small world. If you try to map out all your acquaintances in your various social networks, your map will branch out to such an extent that it's almost impossible to contain everyone. Maybe it's because we are the same species, that's why there are so much similarities. However, if you label everyone you know as a character, you realise there are different types of people out there. The motherly kind, the dancer ecetera. Most of the time, the most distinctive factor would be the individual's passion, if you have realised. But there are various ways to classify people, of course. Their personality for one.
Benjamin's life was backwards. A mourning father who made clocks set his most magnificent workpiece to wind backwards in memory of his son, hoping to turn back time, when the people were all happy and unaffected by war. However, this last display of paternal love may have just represented Benjamin's destiny. I wonder how he felt in his last moments, in the arms of Daisy as a sweet innocent baby.
I also bought a new novel this morning, with the Times voucher that my aunt gave me for my birthday last year. The novel's pretty interesting and it was nice finishing it in the evening. I still have my Literature novels to read though. Maybe I can finally finish them after doing my homework. Hopefully.
Labels: Movies
Happy Valentine's Day
Saturday, February 14, 2009 @ 12:20 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
It has been quite a long time since my last post.
Lessons have been tiring since the start of this year. The workload has also gotten much more exhausting. Especially this week. I have been sleeping less than five hours each day.
School has been the usual I guess. It's never a good thing to have your lessons ending earlier than other classes. Teachers will often try to give us extra lessons and we will end either as late as or later than other classes.
Choir has been quite fun, since we are singing White Horses. Then again, I think it is a little disconcerting when Yibin asks the Secondary Ones to think of me and my non-existent prince when singing the song. I don't think they get it anyway. We still have to teach the new members Diu Diu Dang A and Joiku or Regina Caeli, depending on what Mrs Lim decides.
Practice on Thursday was alright I think. Teryne was the only one who was singing the "Ahh" part but somehow, all the Sop1s will have to sing it now. Oh well.
Yesterday was long and I was counting down to the end of school throughout the whole day. I was really exhausted and by 2pm, my mind had already stopped functioning properly. I just stared at the screen and didn't really absorb anything. Splashing my face with cold water didn't help too. Maybe it's because I haven't been sleeping much.
I'm really relieved that the class likes my Valentine's gift to them. I have to thank my mum for helping me with the origami hearts. And no, I don't have a Valentine, thank you very much. xD
During a particuler E. Math lesson in class...
And before our Social Studies class test...
And to end off this post...
Lessons have been tiring since the start of this year. The workload has also gotten much more exhausting. Especially this week. I have been sleeping less than five hours each day.
School has been the usual I guess. It's never a good thing to have your lessons ending earlier than other classes. Teachers will often try to give us extra lessons and we will end either as late as or later than other classes.
Choir has been quite fun, since we are singing White Horses. Then again, I think it is a little disconcerting when Yibin asks the Secondary Ones to think of me and my non-existent prince when singing the song. I don't think they get it anyway. We still have to teach the new members Diu Diu Dang A and Joiku or Regina Caeli, depending on what Mrs Lim decides.
Practice on Thursday was alright I think. Teryne was the only one who was singing the "Ahh" part but somehow, all the Sop1s will have to sing it now. Oh well.
Yesterday was long and I was counting down to the end of school throughout the whole day. I was really exhausted and by 2pm, my mind had already stopped functioning properly. I just stared at the screen and didn't really absorb anything. Splashing my face with cold water didn't help too. Maybe it's because I haven't been sleeping much.
I'm really relieved that the class likes my Valentine's gift to them. I have to thank my mum for helping me with the origami hearts. And no, I don't have a Valentine, thank you very much. xD
During a particuler E. Math lesson in class...
"Girls, what is the most important thing you must have when drawing a straight line?"
"A ruler."
"Huh?! Oh, yes, that is important. But what is the next important thing?"
"A ruler and paper."
"Well, those are important. But what I wanted you all to say was we need two points to draw a straight line!"
And before our Social Studies class test...
"I'm going to die!!! I'm really going to die!"
"No you are not going to die. And please do not die in the classroom. Otherwise I will have to write a report on your death and I hate writing reports."
And to end off this post...
"See, you have people literally falling at your feet!"
"Yeah..But it's the wrong gender.."
"Oh. True."
Labels: choir, Crez chorale, School Days
A new post
Saturday, January 24, 2009 @ 8:17 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
It's a pity that I couldn't find the NJC people after the Chinese New Year celebrations in school yesterday. They took the the trouble to go all the way to Tanglin Road and I missed them!! D:
I think it was because I was also rushing to open the classroom doors before the rest of the class need to wait outside. Oh well.
Like the past two years, I gave out angpows to the rest of my class. And likewise, Yimin finished all the sweets and junk in her angpow in less than an hour. Some just can't wait.
We were late for Physics SPA as Ms Chua ended her lesson late. I could barely keep awake during E Math though. Thank goodness Ms Chua didn't say anything - or maybe she didn't notice. I really hope that is the case. I've been trying very hard this year to keep awake for all my classes. However, I dozed off during Geography this year. I am really sorry to Ms (Magdalene) Sim. I really need more sleep. I'm sleeping three to six hours now.
Anyway, as I was nodding off during E Math, all my inking on my second word document worksheet that Ms Chua prepared for us is in a mess. That's bad. It's good that it isn't some unknown topic.
Ms Chee was angry that we were late for SPA but gave us a Gotcha ticket in the end. It's a CNY gift to us. I got a better micrometer yesterday too. One with no zero error, making my life so much easier. I was the first to finish the experiments at my table too.
Chemistry was really rushed as we had to assemble in the auditorium in the middle of our lesson. Ms (Jerene) Sim went through the slides with great speed and I was inking the slides furiously.
This year's CNY celebration was alright. I realised that our school is pretty biased. Once the little boys came onstage with their young partners and danced their item, many of the girls cheered of them. In fact, when the boys went up first, they got one of the loudest cheers. Their performance was really good though. Although I find that the poor little girl in the middle who does not have a dancing partner looks pretty lonely amidst the rest of the dancers.
Zhuo Min and Rosi were amused by my amateur attempt at lip-syncing. I think I still have a long way to go with that. Overall, the concert was fine, with the usual dance items and stuff. My leg muscles went stiff like they do every year during school concerts.
This year's secondary ones need to improve on their school spirit. Everyone agrees with that. When we had our customary school cheer after the concert, everyone took part in it except the Secondary Ones. In fact, this is the first time the Secondary Ones didn't take part. When it was my batch, we had no qualms about cheering and this year's Secondary Twos didn't have any problems too. That is bad. Maybe they just need a lot more time.
I think it was because I was also rushing to open the classroom doors before the rest of the class need to wait outside. Oh well.
Like the past two years, I gave out angpows to the rest of my class. And likewise, Yimin finished all the sweets and junk in her angpow in less than an hour. Some just can't wait.
We were late for Physics SPA as Ms Chua ended her lesson late. I could barely keep awake during E Math though. Thank goodness Ms Chua didn't say anything - or maybe she didn't notice. I really hope that is the case. I've been trying very hard this year to keep awake for all my classes. However, I dozed off during Geography this year. I am really sorry to Ms (Magdalene) Sim. I really need more sleep. I'm sleeping three to six hours now.
Anyway, as I was nodding off during E Math, all my inking on my second word document worksheet that Ms Chua prepared for us is in a mess. That's bad. It's good that it isn't some unknown topic.
Ms Chee was angry that we were late for SPA but gave us a Gotcha ticket in the end. It's a CNY gift to us. I got a better micrometer yesterday too. One with no zero error, making my life so much easier. I was the first to finish the experiments at my table too.
Chemistry was really rushed as we had to assemble in the auditorium in the middle of our lesson. Ms (Jerene) Sim went through the slides with great speed and I was inking the slides furiously.
This year's CNY celebration was alright. I realised that our school is pretty biased. Once the little boys came onstage with their young partners and danced their item, many of the girls cheered of them. In fact, when the boys went up first, they got one of the loudest cheers. Their performance was really good though. Although I find that the poor little girl in the middle who does not have a dancing partner looks pretty lonely amidst the rest of the dancers.
Zhuo Min and Rosi were amused by my amateur attempt at lip-syncing. I think I still have a long way to go with that. Overall, the concert was fine, with the usual dance items and stuff. My leg muscles went stiff like they do every year during school concerts.
This year's secondary ones need to improve on their school spirit. Everyone agrees with that. When we had our customary school cheer after the concert, everyone took part in it except the Secondary Ones. In fact, this is the first time the Secondary Ones didn't take part. When it was my batch, we had no qualms about cheering and this year's Secondary Twos didn't have any problems too. That is bad. Maybe they just need a lot more time.
Labels: New Year, School Days
Agar Agar Sea
Monday, January 12, 2009 @ 9:38 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
This will be my first post of year 2009!
A few people have been waiting for this post... well, actually only one person who is my most loyal reader and 'tagger', Ching Han!!
There was choir practice everyday last week. It was tiring but it felt fun to go for choir practices after zombifying myself with lessons. Mrs Lim's exercises are really tiring - I actually do them in hope of attaining a better body figure.
Secondary One orientation campfire was better than I expected. Although there was a mistake in the start, it turned out well.
My class G1 is also really great. Our first Social Studies lesson last week was kind of a Q & A session. The teacher asked if any of us have gone to India for a vacation before and only Dominique answered.
"Anyone been to India before? Any part of India."
"Yes! Me!" (Dominique)
"Which part of India?"
"Dubai"
"Oh, Dubai is not part of India..."
Haha, I didn't know that too. But the expressions on both parties' faces were really priceless.
I also attained a higher level in my so-called sleepy-state-craziness. I actually went out of my house this morning without my badges. At least I was not late.
CCA Open House 2009 involved many balloons. Teryne has this strange force that attracts all the balloons on the table to her. Haha. Most of us went to the mini forum to sing a few songs and played the BALLOON GAME. Which gave me a neck ache the following day but it was great fun nevertheless.
Saturday's farewell BBQ party was a success. Save for the fact that I was really tired at some point and introduced myself to the satay sauce - much to the amusement of Claudia and whoever that was present. Yi Bin, like her usual carefree self, managed to take a few candid shots of me that were really bad. I didn't even notice her camera. I must also thank the Alto Two Secondary Twos, Winnie, Grace and Pei Pei for pushing me on in East Coast. I think I would have just given up and waste money on taking a taxi if not for them. I saw them at Bedok Interchange and decided to follow them since I have no idea where I'm supposed to alight at. Turned out that we overshot and walked past thirty BBQ pits and four large sectors of East Coast Park. We were shouting out the number of the BBQ pits as we walked past them. =D
Saturday also proved that the Sopranos are better at sliding ice cubes into other people's shirts. It was really fun and we dirtied the ice with our dirty hands. Juniper also revealed her special fascination to BBQ. She tried to barbecue a wedge of orange and a piece of sugared gummy.
Oh, and the sea looks like agar agar to me at night. And I got to ride in Ms Ong's mini cooper to Bedok MRT station as I was stranded at the beach. =D I had a minor headache after the ride though.
A few people have been waiting for this post... well, actually only one person who is my most loyal reader and 'tagger', Ching Han!!
There was choir practice everyday last week. It was tiring but it felt fun to go for choir practices after zombifying myself with lessons. Mrs Lim's exercises are really tiring - I actually do them in hope of attaining a better body figure.
Secondary One orientation campfire was better than I expected. Although there was a mistake in the start, it turned out well.
My class G1 is also really great. Our first Social Studies lesson last week was kind of a Q & A session. The teacher asked if any of us have gone to India for a vacation before and only Dominique answered.
"Anyone been to India before? Any part of India."
"Yes! Me!" (Dominique)
"Which part of India?"
"Dubai"
"Oh, Dubai is not part of India..."
Haha, I didn't know that too. But the expressions on both parties' faces were really priceless.
I also attained a higher level in my so-called sleepy-state-craziness. I actually went out of my house this morning without my badges. At least I was not late.
CCA Open House 2009 involved many balloons. Teryne has this strange force that attracts all the balloons on the table to her. Haha. Most of us went to the mini forum to sing a few songs and played the BALLOON GAME. Which gave me a neck ache the following day but it was great fun nevertheless.
Saturday's farewell BBQ party was a success. Save for the fact that I was really tired at some point and introduced myself to the satay sauce - much to the amusement of Claudia and whoever that was present. Yi Bin, like her usual carefree self, managed to take a few candid shots of me that were really bad. I didn't even notice her camera. I must also thank the Alto Two Secondary Twos, Winnie, Grace and Pei Pei for pushing me on in East Coast. I think I would have just given up and waste money on taking a taxi if not for them. I saw them at Bedok Interchange and decided to follow them since I have no idea where I'm supposed to alight at. Turned out that we overshot and walked past thirty BBQ pits and four large sectors of East Coast Park. We were shouting out the number of the BBQ pits as we walked past them. =D
Saturday also proved that the Sopranos are better at sliding ice cubes into other people's shirts. It was really fun and we dirtied the ice with our dirty hands. Juniper also revealed her special fascination to BBQ. She tried to barbecue a wedge of orange and a piece of sugared gummy.
Oh, and the sea looks like agar agar to me at night. And I got to ride in Ms Ong's mini cooper to Bedok MRT station as I was stranded at the beach. =D I had a minor headache after the ride though.
Labels: choir, Crez chorale, School Days
Dum Dum Di Dum
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 @ 9:35 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
It's just hours away from year 2009 now.
After reading Teryne's blog, I still can't understand what's so interesting about a beautiful name. A few people went quiet after that remark was made and had a shocked expression. Was it that strange?
This year has been a great year for me. I think.
I will miss the girls from 2C1 2008 and their wackiness. I will also miss Ms Li and Mr Tham. Ms Li has got to be the first teacher to stand on the table to introduce herself. Maybe it's her height.
I have also given up on growing taller as I think my height is quite alright after all.
For this year,
Our class had the absolutely crazy Amazing Race that took a long time and a huge effort to plan.
Thank goodness it was successful although the participants came back all tired and hungry.
There was also the trip to Sentosa where we had the water bombs and games.
Then there was the memorable kueh-gorging session I had with Deborah during the Learning Journey trip.
Singing Christmas songs in the middle of the year with Pam.
Falling down on almost all the slopes within the school compound - I only have the service road left to trip over.
Learning the African Pantsula dance. I really miss dancing actually. It was really fun.
I will also remember History lessons. Whereby I will just stare blankly at the screen, till Mr Tham had to ask if I'm alright as I looked really blur.
Suet Yi and me sleeping through Geography lessons. Ms Sim would always knock on our tables as we were sitting right at the front. She didn't really get angry since I did well for the subject though.
A new school rule was made, stating that no girls are allowed to use the Gents in school.
I grew 2 cm taller.
There is now wii in the canteen.
The plastic spatula melted while I was frying an omelette. I kind of forgot that it was made of plastic. My mum got me a new spatula since then. And my cooking is actually quite nice, just that there a minor accidents every now and then.
I had a great time with the people at WYCF. Yibin and Evangeline will say this too I suppose. And I still have the songs playing in my head at times. I also managed to embarrassed myself there too. From choking on water during a workshop to hyperventilating over a trivial matter.
The choir managed to find out something from Yibin. At least they are enthusiastic in learning the set piece 'The White Horses' now.
After reading Teryne's blog, I still can't understand what's so interesting about a beautiful name. A few people went quiet after that remark was made and had a shocked expression. Was it that strange?
This year has been a great year for me. I think.
I will miss the girls from 2C1 2008 and their wackiness. I will also miss Ms Li and Mr Tham. Ms Li has got to be the first teacher to stand on the table to introduce herself. Maybe it's her height.
I have also given up on growing taller as I think my height is quite alright after all.
For this year,
Our class had the absolutely crazy Amazing Race that took a long time and a huge effort to plan.
Thank goodness it was successful although the participants came back all tired and hungry.
There was also the trip to Sentosa where we had the water bombs and games.
Then there was the memorable kueh-gorging session I had with Deborah during the Learning Journey trip.
Singing Christmas songs in the middle of the year with Pam.
Falling down on almost all the slopes within the school compound - I only have the service road left to trip over.
Learning the African Pantsula dance. I really miss dancing actually. It was really fun.
I will also remember History lessons. Whereby I will just stare blankly at the screen, till Mr Tham had to ask if I'm alright as I looked really blur.
Suet Yi and me sleeping through Geography lessons. Ms Sim would always knock on our tables as we were sitting right at the front. She didn't really get angry since I did well for the subject though.
A new school rule was made, stating that no girls are allowed to use the Gents in school.
I grew 2 cm taller.
There is now wii in the canteen.
The plastic spatula melted while I was frying an omelette. I kind of forgot that it was made of plastic. My mum got me a new spatula since then. And my cooking is actually quite nice, just that there a minor accidents every now and then.
I had a great time with the people at WYCF. Yibin and Evangeline will say this too I suppose. And I still have the songs playing in my head at times. I also managed to embarrassed myself there too. From choking on water during a workshop to hyperventilating over a trivial matter.
The choir managed to find out something from Yibin. At least they are enthusiastic in learning the set piece 'The White Horses' now.
Labels: Birthdays, choir, Christmas, classouting, Crez chorale, New Year, School Days, WYCF
5am
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 @ 9:22 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
After today's choir practice, I suddenly feel like I have become a source of entertainment for the choir.
Thanks to Yibin, the whole choir committee now knows something really unnecessary. I can't really blame Yibin though, since she was confused by Teryne and blurted out a very untrue statement about a personal topic. I guess as long as this matter isn't known by any other choirs it's okay.
With such over-enthusiasm over this certain matter, I think it has become something that the whole choir knows. Oh well, at least majority are bewildered by the term 'White Horse'. And how is a horse attractive? I still find Yibin's analogy hilarious.
I also think that there could be something in my personality or outlook that makes me a very tough person to communicate with. I have lost count of the number of times a person said that I am a cold person or that I take too long to know a person. D:
And I made a big discovery today! A dragon fruit’s flesh can actually be purple instead of white. I did not know that! I had to ask my cousin Ivan many times to make sure that it’s actually edible. =O
The year is coming to an end so I guess I should post some New Year resolutions?
I don’t think the slimming down part will be successful. Sure, I did lose 2kg before Christmas. But I think after eating so much and not exercising at all, my 2kg has been returned to me. That’s bad.
Thanks to Yibin, the whole choir committee now knows something really unnecessary. I can't really blame Yibin though, since she was confused by Teryne and blurted out a very untrue statement about a personal topic. I guess as long as this matter isn't known by any other choirs it's okay.
With such over-enthusiasm over this certain matter, I think it has become something that the whole choir knows. Oh well, at least majority are bewildered by the term 'White Horse'. And how is a horse attractive? I still find Yibin's analogy hilarious.
I also think that there could be something in my personality or outlook that makes me a very tough person to communicate with. I have lost count of the number of times a person said that I am a cold person or that I take too long to know a person. D:
And I made a big discovery today! A dragon fruit’s flesh can actually be purple instead of white. I did not know that! I had to ask my cousin Ivan many times to make sure that it’s actually edible. =O
The year is coming to an end so I guess I should post some New Year resolutions?
The standard ones will be
- To do well in my studies
- To slim down
- To be more focused
I don’t think the slimming down part will be successful. Sure, I did lose 2kg before Christmas. But I think after eating so much and not exercising at all, my 2kg has been returned to me. That’s bad.
Labels: choir, Crez chorale
Deck the Halls
Thursday, December 25, 2008 @ 11:28 am leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
Merry Christmas!
I don't really feel the Christmas mood this year though. Maybe it's because I've just painted my house and the furniture is in quite a mess. Or maybe it's because I have yet to complete my homework. I'm working on it, thank you. 陈老师may have said that this year's homework is easy as we only need to type out a minimum of four substantial journal entries on the Koobits software. Sure, it does sound better than book reviews and such but as I was trying to do my Chinese homework on Christmas Eve, I realised the standards of my Mandarin. Oh well.
My mum got an Ipod nano-chromatic for me! Plus a little soft toy chick. It's just really great of her to get me such nice things. =D
I bought her perfume and gave her a hand-made card plus a drawing which I took two and a half hours to do. I had to use so many markers, pigment pens and colours to just draw that Christmas tree. Thank goodness my mum loves the Christmas tree piece. I haven't been drawing for some time and I was worried my designing skills have all but drained away.
Thinking about it, this Christmas has not been that bad either. Sure, my best friend is currently ignoring me. But I made new friends from the festival this December and I became braver so much so as to add people online.
The 6/9 gathering was made up of seventeen people out of the past forty-three. Anyway, I met Jolene and Chan Qy at Simei MRT station and we were walking towards some faraway bus stop when we had to backtrack to the station once more. Daniel suddenly called up and asked to meet us at the station. Somehow, we managed to find our way to Kelly's house. Jolene was leading the way most of the time.
We also found out how vain Daniel and Benedict are since they just can't stop worrying about their hair. Once we reached the house, they zoomed to the mirror and arranged their hair once more. It was also hilarious when Daniel actually mistook a shaver for a house phone.
We were the first few to arrive so time was spent just sitting around to wait for the others to come. Next came Avelene and after Christel, Tabitha, Beth and Priscilla reached the place, we started to pool the DVDs together and choose which to watch. Prisicilla declared that we should watch the NC16 movies since she doesn't get to watch them at home.
We started with Wall-E which is so much more innocent compared to the rest of the shows. While we ate the pizza, Iris, Cally and Kai Ho arrived. Some people left during the second show I think. Next up was Wanted and Tropic Thunder. Wanted was kind of nice if you exclude some parts of the movie. Tropic Thunder was funny in a really sadistic way. Both movies were really bloody.
In the end, only the girls and Kai Ho were left. Our Movie Marathon only had three movies and lots of junk food. But at least the gathering was kind of successful since almost twenty came.
I don't really feel the Christmas mood this year though. Maybe it's because I've just painted my house and the furniture is in quite a mess. Or maybe it's because I have yet to complete my homework. I'm working on it, thank you. 陈老师may have said that this year's homework is easy as we only need to type out a minimum of four substantial journal entries on the Koobits software. Sure, it does sound better than book reviews and such but as I was trying to do my Chinese homework on Christmas Eve, I realised the standards of my Mandarin. Oh well.
My mum got an Ipod nano-chromatic for me! Plus a little soft toy chick. It's just really great of her to get me such nice things. =D
I bought her perfume and gave her a hand-made card plus a drawing which I took two and a half hours to do. I had to use so many markers, pigment pens and colours to just draw that Christmas tree. Thank goodness my mum loves the Christmas tree piece. I haven't been drawing for some time and I was worried my designing skills have all but drained away.
Thinking about it, this Christmas has not been that bad either. Sure, my best friend is currently ignoring me. But I made new friends from the festival this December and I became braver so much so as to add people online.
The 6/9 gathering was made up of seventeen people out of the past forty-three. Anyway, I met Jolene and Chan Qy at Simei MRT station and we were walking towards some faraway bus stop when we had to backtrack to the station once more. Daniel suddenly called up and asked to meet us at the station. Somehow, we managed to find our way to Kelly's house. Jolene was leading the way most of the time.
We also found out how vain Daniel and Benedict are since they just can't stop worrying about their hair. Once we reached the house, they zoomed to the mirror and arranged their hair once more. It was also hilarious when Daniel actually mistook a shaver for a house phone.
We were the first few to arrive so time was spent just sitting around to wait for the others to come. Next came Avelene and after Christel, Tabitha, Beth and Priscilla reached the place, we started to pool the DVDs together and choose which to watch. Prisicilla declared that we should watch the NC16 movies since she doesn't get to watch them at home.
We started with Wall-E which is so much more innocent compared to the rest of the shows. While we ate the pizza, Iris, Cally and Kai Ho arrived. Some people left during the second show I think. Next up was Wanted and Tropic Thunder. Wanted was kind of nice if you exclude some parts of the movie. Tropic Thunder was funny in a really sadistic way. Both movies were really bloody.
In the end, only the girls and Kai Ho were left. Our Movie Marathon only had three movies and lots of junk food. But at least the gathering was kind of successful since almost twenty came.
Labels: 6906, choir, Christmas, WYCF
Oh Jungling
Tuesday, December 23, 2008 @ 10:16 am leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
I just read this forum that was on 'Which section is the best?'
I definitely will always side the First Soprano since we are the usually the melody and a song wouldn't sound nice without us most of the time. We are also always heard and hit the high notes. The question is kind of common (Mr Terence Toh asked us that question during the bass-soprano sectional) but there can never be an absolute answer. Mezzos can sing both the high and low notes, altos are really strong since they need to sing harmony for their part. Tenors are really good since they are superb in singing falsetto, basses are the lowest and like altos, are really strong on their part and they are like the foundation for the higher voices. Baritone is also considered great with the same reason that was stated above for the Mezzos.
In the end, I think everyone asks the question because they just want to tell others how proud and how much they love their sections - not because they want to prove themselves to be the best. Ironic isn't it? It is a question that doesn't even need an answer but gives you an opportunity to tell others how great your section is. Every section also makes up the choir; therefore each can be counted to be equally wonderful. I think.
My house was in the midst of being painted last week. However, my skin is a tad sensitive to the door paint. I was painting my room's walls last Thursday and the door of the room swung back, hitting my arm. Since the door had been newly painted, so my arm had a blue imprint on it. It started to get red after a while.
My fourth aunt, uncle and cousin Ivan came to help us paint our house too. It's really nice of them to help, especially when I have a penchant for getting paint onto myself instead of the walls.
I realised that I only gave a very broad idea of WYCF in my previous posts after reading other fellow WYCF people's posts. Therefore I decided to edit my posts in order to give a better description.
There is also the 6/9 gathering later at 1pm and I still don't know where on earth Kelly’s house is. I think I will just get on the bus and ask the bus captain later. However, I will have to miss TK's Christmas party since it's starting at 2pm and I guess it will end quite early.
I think Sean was the only one who noticed that the date set for the gathering was wrong since Kelly said it was 23rd November instead of December. He was telling me that it's impossible to go for the gathering unless the time machine has been invented. Well, I admit I can be quite slow at times but I don't think anyone spotted the little blunder in the month.
Yesterday was spent on the recording of Mama Mia for next year's campfire. Juniper was trying to get us all fired up so that we can attract more than half the level next year. Well, I think it will be fun to sing at the campfire I guess. I'm hoping that it will rain though since the smoke is really suffocating.
After the break, all of us got down to business and our section managed to learn the whole of The White Horses. I take back what I said earlier about the song as it actually sounds nice to me now. Unfortunately, I have no idea why I kept singing in minor key. I felt so guilty for singing wrongly.
I definitely will always side the First Soprano since we are the usually the melody and a song wouldn't sound nice without us most of the time. We are also always heard and hit the high notes. The question is kind of common (Mr Terence Toh asked us that question during the bass-soprano sectional) but there can never be an absolute answer. Mezzos can sing both the high and low notes, altos are really strong since they need to sing harmony for their part. Tenors are really good since they are superb in singing falsetto, basses are the lowest and like altos, are really strong on their part and they are like the foundation for the higher voices. Baritone is also considered great with the same reason that was stated above for the Mezzos.
In the end, I think everyone asks the question because they just want to tell others how proud and how much they love their sections - not because they want to prove themselves to be the best. Ironic isn't it? It is a question that doesn't even need an answer but gives you an opportunity to tell others how great your section is. Every section also makes up the choir; therefore each can be counted to be equally wonderful. I think.
My house was in the midst of being painted last week. However, my skin is a tad sensitive to the door paint. I was painting my room's walls last Thursday and the door of the room swung back, hitting my arm. Since the door had been newly painted, so my arm had a blue imprint on it. It started to get red after a while.
My fourth aunt, uncle and cousin Ivan came to help us paint our house too. It's really nice of them to help, especially when I have a penchant for getting paint onto myself instead of the walls.
I realised that I only gave a very broad idea of WYCF in my previous posts after reading other fellow WYCF people's posts. Therefore I decided to edit my posts in order to give a better description.
There is also the 6/9 gathering later at 1pm and I still don't know where on earth Kelly’s house is. I think I will just get on the bus and ask the bus captain later. However, I will have to miss TK's Christmas party since it's starting at 2pm and I guess it will end quite early.
I think Sean was the only one who noticed that the date set for the gathering was wrong since Kelly said it was 23rd November instead of December. He was telling me that it's impossible to go for the gathering unless the time machine has been invented. Well, I admit I can be quite slow at times but I don't think anyone spotted the little blunder in the month.
Yesterday was spent on the recording of Mama Mia for next year's campfire. Juniper was trying to get us all fired up so that we can attract more than half the level next year. Well, I think it will be fun to sing at the campfire I guess. I'm hoping that it will rain though since the smoke is really suffocating.
After the break, all of us got down to business and our section managed to learn the whole of The White Horses. I take back what I said earlier about the song as it actually sounds nice to me now. Unfortunately, I have no idea why I kept singing in minor key. I felt so guilty for singing wrongly.
Labels: choir, Christmas, Crez chorale, WYCF
Grow Up
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 9:49 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
The year is ending soon, and I suddenly felt very old today. There will be new juniors next year, and OBS camp - which is what I have been dreading since the start of Secondary school life.
I went shopping with Evangeline on Monday, and we were talking about how insanely high the stilettos are these days. Then came around the idea of slipping on a pair and managing to skip OBS camp since I don't think we can even stand with those spikes. Seriously, stilettos can actually be used as weapons. Just remembering how punctured Valetta's bare toe looked like after Sahana stepped on her with her stiletto heel is enough to send of warning signals in my head. Maybe that's why I get somewhat cautious of people whose heels are potentially sharp.
Our new conductor came yesterday. Mrs Lim, wife of Mr Lim Yau, is a very pleasant lady. Unfortunately, the Soprano Ones were kind of 'scream-y' with me included (sadly). Mrs Lim's breathing exercises are quite interesting: I've never felt so much like a balloon. And I still can't hold for twenty counts. Inflating yourself with so much oxygen sounds easy but it's tough. Teryne was the first one who got 'deflated'. I was trying so hard to keep it in but her influence was too great and I just let everything gush out right after she deflated herself.
Choir practice ended at four but somehow the committee meeting took longer than expected. There was the planning for next year's activities and stuff. We also gave our opinions and reasons about many things.
It was also due to yesterday's very interesting session about the set piece White Horses that I realised how great Teryne's oratorical skills are and how intimidating Ariel can be. They are a very scary pair. It's really bewildering just how Ybin compare people's appearances to animals too.
I went for a hair trim this morning. The hair stylist is pretty good since she isn't like other hair stylists. Usually a trim means cutting a huge chunk of hair in the normal hair stylist's context as they want to let you feel that it was worth your money.
The movie Twilight was not as bad as I thought it would be. Robert Pattison isn't that bad. He's actually kind of...nice-looking? Or maybe it's because of his features. My tastes veer towards fair-skinned people with beautiful eyes. Don't ask me why. In fact, I found the cast quite reasonable with the exception of one person. The character Jacob Black was a HUGE disappointment. Imagine: the next movie will feature Bella with Jacob for a good two thirds of it and he is so ordinary looking? I'm kind of disappointed. My mum just said that I'm biased since he looks the opposite of Edward. And the movie was pretty good by the way.
My mum made a peculiar remark just two days ago. She said that I am always attracted to people who look like vampires. That is a funny thought. Watching Twilight reminded me of it.
For the record: I don't think any of my eye candies looks like a vampire.
I went shopping with Evangeline on Monday, and we were talking about how insanely high the stilettos are these days. Then came around the idea of slipping on a pair and managing to skip OBS camp since I don't think we can even stand with those spikes. Seriously, stilettos can actually be used as weapons. Just remembering how punctured Valetta's bare toe looked like after Sahana stepped on her with her stiletto heel is enough to send of warning signals in my head. Maybe that's why I get somewhat cautious of people whose heels are potentially sharp.
Our new conductor came yesterday. Mrs Lim, wife of Mr Lim Yau, is a very pleasant lady. Unfortunately, the Soprano Ones were kind of 'scream-y' with me included (sadly). Mrs Lim's breathing exercises are quite interesting: I've never felt so much like a balloon. And I still can't hold for twenty counts. Inflating yourself with so much oxygen sounds easy but it's tough. Teryne was the first one who got 'deflated'. I was trying so hard to keep it in but her influence was too great and I just let everything gush out right after she deflated herself.
Choir practice ended at four but somehow the committee meeting took longer than expected. There was the planning for next year's activities and stuff. We also gave our opinions and reasons about many things.
It was also due to yesterday's very interesting session about the set piece White Horses that I realised how great Teryne's oratorical skills are and how intimidating Ariel can be. They are a very scary pair. It's really bewildering just how Ybin compare people's appearances to animals too.
I went for a hair trim this morning. The hair stylist is pretty good since she isn't like other hair stylists. Usually a trim means cutting a huge chunk of hair in the normal hair stylist's context as they want to let you feel that it was worth your money.
The movie Twilight was not as bad as I thought it would be. Robert Pattison isn't that bad. He's actually kind of...nice-looking? Or maybe it's because of his features. My tastes veer towards fair-skinned people with beautiful eyes. Don't ask me why. In fact, I found the cast quite reasonable with the exception of one person. The character Jacob Black was a HUGE disappointment. Imagine: the next movie will feature Bella with Jacob for a good two thirds of it and he is so ordinary looking? I'm kind of disappointed. My mum just said that I'm biased since he looks the opposite of Edward. And the movie was pretty good by the way.
My mum made a peculiar remark just two days ago. She said that I am always attracted to people who look like vampires. That is a funny thought. Watching Twilight reminded me of it.
For the record: I don't think any of my eye candies looks like a vampire.
Labels: choir, Crez chorale
Ah, dolente partita
Saturday, December 13, 2008 @ 8:16 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
Much as I don't want it to end, WYCF did end this afternoon. It was pretty sad. I made a lot of friends over there. With the duration being just a mere two weeks ... the whole camp was not long enough!!! Especially not with so many fun people.
It really is kind of an empty feeling - knowing that the whole two weeks of hard training and crazy moments have ended. Although I'm always sleeping during the break times in the auditorium since I only go out if I want to eat or meet Evangeline and Yibin, I still had lots of fun.
There's Michelle bunny who is always so hyper and cute. She's also the most friendly actually.
Kim, who can be considered one of the most rational of us and is my 'uncle'.
There is also Sarah, the really friendly person. Unfortunately she had to go overseas so didn't see her after the first week.
Agnes, my 'mother' and 'grandmother' of Ms Yin, I think. I still remember what she said: “因为我要子孙满堂”. And I think everyone from SSA knows her birthday.
I will always remember Alyssa as the girl who draws great manga sketches. She was also one of the first few that I introduced myself to on the first day of the SSA soprano one sectionals. And also the one I'm always standing next to for all performances.
Sheena, who is always really friendly and has the Elmo keychain.
For the slightly more senior ones, there is Yvonne, who is our section leader. She is also the willing 'wife' of Melvin, who is at least four years younger than her.
Amanda (Yar-mahn-dah) the senior one but she doesn't need to worry since she looks young. Haha, she will get sad if someone talks about her real age.
Yee Ching, the next SSA Sop One section leader who is also our dear soloist for Mieli. She is a really great singer.
Shirley the considerate person who will wake me once practice starts otherwise I will just sleep on. But I will wake up once someone plays the piano so that doesn't happen often actually. =P
Wendy who always offer to take photos with her phone
Samantha who is quiet but will talk to you if you take the first step.
Zi Xin, I'm sorry that I sometimes get you mixed up with another girl and you're a really nice person.
Melvin, the only boy in SSA and is doted on by the Soprano Ones as he's the youngest too.
Then there is Josselyn, who is really helpful.
Aisha and Charlotte who are always together and they really take a lot of photos with almost everyone.
Melissa, Wan Xin's and Agnes' friend from SSA alto who is as friendly as Agnes too =]
And there's our Ms Yin who has helped us incredibly during the pre-festival period. She saved the Soprano Ones from giving up on ourselves for Ah, Dolente Partita. Ms Yin also made the Sop Ones refrain from 'attacking' all the high notes with warm ups in the dance studio that include singing insanely high notes in pp. Ms Yin and Ms Angila pushed us on everyday and yet never hesitated to show their support for us.
Ms Angila who did the Mary had a Little Lamb and Happy Birthday exercise with us. Not to mention the German pronunciation for Shreight or something. I just remember the three fingers for the Shi-righ-teh thing. And the posture classes including the bending down part which you asked us to do with SATB too. It was kind of tiring doing the posture thing but we know you just wanted us to look good. I think.
Mr Turunen helped to lessen our phobia of Ah, Dolente Partita and challenged us with all the dynamics in all the songs - especially for Der Wassermann and Mieli. There was also the emotion part whereby we had to think of our feelings for the song since three out of four of the songs were related to love and passion. There was this girl from Alto that asked him about it. Since we were too young to know what is really love, he said
"Just think of the boy you like. How you want to be near him, and see him. But you don't have the courage to tell him or talk to him."
"Sir, what if the boy doesn't like you and wants you out of his sight?"
"Erm, but you still want to be near him, don't you?"
Well, we did manage to do the songs well during the real thing. Except for Joiku. It was interesting singing a different version of Joiku. We had to change our voices to sound like five-year-olds and sound like forty-year-olds at the end. Our clapping was shaky but it was really good considering that crescent choir took one whole month to do the clapping perfect without a single mistake from everyone. I think the Um-pe-e-ci-ka part was also nice since I taught the Sopranos how to do it =DDD
And thank you Juniper, for shouting that I rock after the SSA choir performed. I was really surprised but happy. Thanks! I don't know if I missed out anyone but there were really many people who were really great from the festival. Most of them are from my section though.
I love all the songs that we have learnt in such a short amount of time, with so many other great and passionate people. We learnt vocal techniques through the lectures and workshops. We had combined rehearsals in the morning with Mr Bob Chilcott and our own SSA, SATB rehearsals after lunch at CCAB for the whole week. SSA was conducted by Mr Kari Turunen who, like I mentioned, helped us a lot for Ah, Dolente Partita. He's a great conductor who gave us all the confidence to tackle the difficult songs.
Mr Chilcott is also a fun conductor who stresses on the importance of dynamics. He will do anything just to let us sing better, from dancing to trying to express the gentle feelings in The Goose and the Swan. That was my favourite song by the way.
I really like all the different conductors. It was really fun getting to know different conductors and their different styles. I got to make so many friends and got lucky this year. I really hope we can get together again to perform or at least meet up once more. If you ask me to describe how this experience has been for me, I would just say that it has been incredibly wonderful, and I shall cherish the memories of the past two weeks.
It really is kind of an empty feeling - knowing that the whole two weeks of hard training and crazy moments have ended. Although I'm always sleeping during the break times in the auditorium since I only go out if I want to eat or meet Evangeline and Yibin, I still had lots of fun.
There's Michelle bunny who is always so hyper and cute. She's also the most friendly actually.
Kim, who can be considered one of the most rational of us and is my 'uncle'.
There is also Sarah, the really friendly person. Unfortunately she had to go overseas so didn't see her after the first week.
Agnes, my 'mother' and 'grandmother' of Ms Yin, I think. I still remember what she said: “因为我要子孙满堂”. And I think everyone from SSA knows her birthday.
I will always remember Alyssa as the girl who draws great manga sketches. She was also one of the first few that I introduced myself to on the first day of the SSA soprano one sectionals. And also the one I'm always standing next to for all performances.
Sheena, who is always really friendly and has the Elmo keychain.
For the slightly more senior ones, there is Yvonne, who is our section leader. She is also the willing 'wife' of Melvin, who is at least four years younger than her.
Amanda (Yar-mahn-dah) the senior one but she doesn't need to worry since she looks young. Haha, she will get sad if someone talks about her real age.
Yee Ching, the next SSA Sop One section leader who is also our dear soloist for Mieli. She is a really great singer.
Shirley the considerate person who will wake me once practice starts otherwise I will just sleep on. But I will wake up once someone plays the piano so that doesn't happen often actually. =P
Wendy who always offer to take photos with her phone
Samantha who is quiet but will talk to you if you take the first step.
Zi Xin, I'm sorry that I sometimes get you mixed up with another girl and you're a really nice person.
Melvin, the only boy in SSA and is doted on by the Soprano Ones as he's the youngest too.
Then there is Josselyn, who is really helpful.
Aisha and Charlotte who are always together and they really take a lot of photos with almost everyone.
Melissa, Wan Xin's and Agnes' friend from SSA alto who is as friendly as Agnes too =]
And there's our Ms Yin who has helped us incredibly during the pre-festival period. She saved the Soprano Ones from giving up on ourselves for Ah, Dolente Partita. Ms Yin also made the Sop Ones refrain from 'attacking' all the high notes with warm ups in the dance studio that include singing insanely high notes in pp. Ms Yin and Ms Angila pushed us on everyday and yet never hesitated to show their support for us.
Ms Angila who did the Mary had a Little Lamb and Happy Birthday exercise with us. Not to mention the German pronunciation for Shreight or something. I just remember the three fingers for the Shi-righ-teh thing. And the posture classes including the bending down part which you asked us to do with SATB too. It was kind of tiring doing the posture thing but we know you just wanted us to look good. I think.
Mr Turunen helped to lessen our phobia of Ah, Dolente Partita and challenged us with all the dynamics in all the songs - especially for Der Wassermann and Mieli. There was also the emotion part whereby we had to think of our feelings for the song since three out of four of the songs were related to love and passion. There was this girl from Alto that asked him about it. Since we were too young to know what is really love, he said
"Just think of the boy you like. How you want to be near him, and see him. But you don't have the courage to tell him or talk to him."
"Sir, what if the boy doesn't like you and wants you out of his sight?"
"Erm, but you still want to be near him, don't you?"
Well, we did manage to do the songs well during the real thing. Except for Joiku. It was interesting singing a different version of Joiku. We had to change our voices to sound like five-year-olds and sound like forty-year-olds at the end. Our clapping was shaky but it was really good considering that crescent choir took one whole month to do the clapping perfect without a single mistake from everyone. I think the Um-pe-e-ci-ka part was also nice since I taught the Sopranos how to do it =DDD
And thank you Juniper, for shouting that I rock after the SSA choir performed. I was really surprised but happy. Thanks! I don't know if I missed out anyone but there were really many people who were really great from the festival. Most of them are from my section though.
I love all the songs that we have learnt in such a short amount of time, with so many other great and passionate people. We learnt vocal techniques through the lectures and workshops. We had combined rehearsals in the morning with Mr Bob Chilcott and our own SSA, SATB rehearsals after lunch at CCAB for the whole week. SSA was conducted by Mr Kari Turunen who, like I mentioned, helped us a lot for Ah, Dolente Partita. He's a great conductor who gave us all the confidence to tackle the difficult songs.
Mr Chilcott is also a fun conductor who stresses on the importance of dynamics. He will do anything just to let us sing better, from dancing to trying to express the gentle feelings in The Goose and the Swan. That was my favourite song by the way.
I really like all the different conductors. It was really fun getting to know different conductors and their different styles. I got to make so many friends and got lucky this year. I really hope we can get together again to perform or at least meet up once more. If you ask me to describe how this experience has been for me, I would just say that it has been incredibly wonderful, and I shall cherish the memories of the past two weeks.
the short bout of peace
Monday, December 08, 2008 @ 8:43 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
This whole week has been about choir. And I can say now that I really love WYCF 2008. Especially the pre-festival camp period.
Somehow, I even got a family there. Agnes is my 'mother', with Michelle (bunny) as her husband and many other people being tied into it. XD
Everyone was great and spontaneous and made new friends. I think after this ends I will be at lost with what to do with my time.
It's the first time I've been crammed with nine songs to learn within a week. Each morning will bring a new song to learn and scores to read. It was also really great meeting so many people who are passionate about singing and so friendly to each other.
Although it was only until Thursday that SSA needed to combine with SATB for the combined songs, I didn't really get to mix with Evangeline and Yibin. We go for lunch together though. And Yibin has developed this strange fascination with mayonnaise.
Saturday's combined rehearsal with SNYO for the theme song was cool. We got to see their own rehearsal with Mr Lim Yau and they are really good. Their discipline is also the best I've ever seen actually. Anyway, for once I could sing my very loudest as we were all trying to sing louder than the orchestra. Ms Ong always asked me to sing softer so it felt liberating to sing so loud.
Sunday's guitar lesson was fine and I did some advertising about the festival. Somehow I don't think anyone understood what I said though. Kai Ming just had this really amused expression on his face while the others just looked blank.
After that my mum and I shopped for my concert attire. I managed to get a white blouse before we met Auntie Shirlene and Auntie Clara for a dinner buffet at the Holiday Inn. The buffet was somewhat limited unfortunately. After dinner, we went to look for my skirt and managed to find a black skirt pants at Robinsons. I still find that skirt pants a little weird since I'm not used to such...wide pants.
By the way, if anyone is interested in watching us perform, please get the tickets at $11 from Sistic. I heard that visitors can drop by to watch us rehearse at VCH in the mornings too. =]
Somehow, I even got a family there. Agnes is my 'mother', with Michelle (bunny) as her husband and many other people being tied into it. XD
Everyone was great and spontaneous and made new friends. I think after this ends I will be at lost with what to do with my time.
It's the first time I've been crammed with nine songs to learn within a week. Each morning will bring a new song to learn and scores to read. It was also really great meeting so many people who are passionate about singing and so friendly to each other.
Although it was only until Thursday that SSA needed to combine with SATB for the combined songs, I didn't really get to mix with Evangeline and Yibin. We go for lunch together though. And Yibin has developed this strange fascination with mayonnaise.
Saturday's combined rehearsal with SNYO for the theme song was cool. We got to see their own rehearsal with Mr Lim Yau and they are really good. Their discipline is also the best I've ever seen actually. Anyway, for once I could sing my very loudest as we were all trying to sing louder than the orchestra. Ms Ong always asked me to sing softer so it felt liberating to sing so loud.
Sunday's guitar lesson was fine and I did some advertising about the festival. Somehow I don't think anyone understood what I said though. Kai Ming just had this really amused expression on his face while the others just looked blank.
After that my mum and I shopped for my concert attire. I managed to get a white blouse before we met Auntie Shirlene and Auntie Clara for a dinner buffet at the Holiday Inn. The buffet was somewhat limited unfortunately. After dinner, we went to look for my skirt and managed to find a black skirt pants at Robinsons. I still find that skirt pants a little weird since I'm not used to such...wide pants.
By the way, if anyone is interested in watching us perform, please get the tickets at $11 from Sistic. I heard that visitors can drop by to watch us rehearse at VCH in the mornings too. =]
tanz
Monday, December 01, 2008 @ 9:17 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
I was kind of apprehensive before going for the WYCF pre-festival camp today since I will be the only Sop1 and girl from my school. But I think every choir's soprano ones are always the crazy group because my section is made up of really great people. Somehow I find that our section is the noisiest.
Michelle and the other Sec3s got a shock when they realised that I'm not a sec3 student. They said they thought I was older since I am tall. Haha, and when I said that I'm considered short in my class and told them the height of the tallest person in my class, they were like, 'woah!'
Sectionals were okay. It's the first time that I encountered a boy in my section and in a SSA choir. I know that there are male sopranos but I'd always thought they would go to SATB (not that there is any huge difference) but it's just strange since SSA choirs are usually female choirs. And Melvin's first reaction could be heard in the whole auditorium I think. He looked so freaked out when he realised he's the only boy in our choir. Anyway, he sure can sing in falsetto well.
Der Wassermann is a beautiful song - however sadistic it is. German is really difficult to pronounce though. I still pronounce 'tanzten' as tungsten.
Michelle and the other Sec3s got a shock when they realised that I'm not a sec3 student. They said they thought I was older since I am tall. Haha, and when I said that I'm considered short in my class and told them the height of the tallest person in my class, they were like, 'woah!'
Sectionals were okay. It's the first time that I encountered a boy in my section and in a SSA choir. I know that there are male sopranos but I'd always thought they would go to SATB (not that there is any huge difference) but it's just strange since SSA choirs are usually female choirs. And Melvin's first reaction could be heard in the whole auditorium I think. He looked so freaked out when he realised he's the only boy in our choir. Anyway, he sure can sing in falsetto well.
Der Wassermann is a beautiful song - however sadistic it is. German is really difficult to pronounce though. I still pronounce 'tanzten' as tungsten.
what colour is the horse?
Thursday, November 27, 2008 @ 10:06 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
We started on the 2009 SYF piece this morning. We had to get into pairs and Ms Ong asked me to teach Jorina how to count since she didn't understand. I was really worried that Jorina didn't get what I was trying to tell her... after all, I am bad at any music theory. The song still sounds weird to me but I guess it's just a matter of getting used to it.
Ms Ong also bought us cakes. And Cynthia just had to feed me. Yeah, she loves me too much. She insisted on stuffing my mouth with the cake since I couldn't reach it. Anyway, thank goodness Juniper warned me about the brandy butter - I almost took it. Hahah, I don't want to break out into rashes.
Oh oh, and Teryne and I are now the managers of the 'Fist- rubbing' club. Cynthia was trying desperately to get warm since the PAT is like a freezer and I still can't understand why she should rub her fists and not palms together to keep warm. So Teryne and I thought that she was trying to start a fire. It was really funny and we tried to imitate Cynthia. Then Ms Ong was talking about using some primitive way of communication (which was using the phone to call the other party personally). But somehow I thought of the paper cups and string method and the smoke signal thing. Teryne then said that was what Cynthia was trying to do. Although I think if it was an emergency, it would be a decade before Cynthia can even get a fire started.
Lunch and Tiong Bahru Plaza was just funny. Anna and Zhuo Min couldn't stop laughing and somehow everyone laughed when I said I felt like a walrus and after that, a mammoth. Well, I was that full.
The rest of the day proved that I am really bad at shopping alone. I spent five minutes walking around Bugis Junction before giving up. Then I popped into Kinokuniya and read a whole novel within thirty minutes and then left since I felt bad reading a whole book there instead of buying anything. With more than two and a half hours left before my mum can end her work, I spent the time stoning on the seat outside Kinokuniya. I slept half the time sleeping though. I also saw a man cross dressing as a woman...he was wearing this low back dress with a V-neck with his chest hair sticking out.
I think Miyavi would do a better job however. Since the guy was in his mid-forties and it's just unusual to see chest hair sticking out of a dress. I've seen a few cross dressers on the MRT trains and stations before and I have nothing against them since they are actually nice people but this is seriously the first time I've seen someone who didn't even bother to shave. -.-
Ms Ong also bought us cakes. And Cynthia just had to feed me. Yeah, she loves me too much. She insisted on stuffing my mouth with the cake since I couldn't reach it. Anyway, thank goodness Juniper warned me about the brandy butter - I almost took it. Hahah, I don't want to break out into rashes.
Oh oh, and Teryne and I are now the managers of the 'Fist- rubbing' club. Cynthia was trying desperately to get warm since the PAT is like a freezer and I still can't understand why she should rub her fists and not palms together to keep warm. So Teryne and I thought that she was trying to start a fire. It was really funny and we tried to imitate Cynthia. Then Ms Ong was talking about using some primitive way of communication (which was using the phone to call the other party personally). But somehow I thought of the paper cups and string method and the smoke signal thing. Teryne then said that was what Cynthia was trying to do. Although I think if it was an emergency, it would be a decade before Cynthia can even get a fire started.
Lunch and Tiong Bahru Plaza was just funny. Anna and Zhuo Min couldn't stop laughing and somehow everyone laughed when I said I felt like a walrus and after that, a mammoth. Well, I was that full.
The rest of the day proved that I am really bad at shopping alone. I spent five minutes walking around Bugis Junction before giving up. Then I popped into Kinokuniya and read a whole novel within thirty minutes and then left since I felt bad reading a whole book there instead of buying anything. With more than two and a half hours left before my mum can end her work, I spent the time stoning on the seat outside Kinokuniya. I slept half the time sleeping though. I also saw a man cross dressing as a woman...he was wearing this low back dress with a V-neck with his chest hair sticking out.
I think Miyavi would do a better job however. Since the guy was in his mid-forties and it's just unusual to see chest hair sticking out of a dress. I've seen a few cross dressers on the MRT trains and stations before and I have nothing against them since they are actually nice people but this is seriously the first time I've seen someone who didn't even bother to shave. -.-
Labels: choir, Crez chorale, window shopping
Babaa Black Sheep
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 @ 9:52 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
I almost got burnt this evening while cooking. In order to wipe off stain for the stove, I used a piece of tissue paper. And it caught fire since I forgot to turn off the gas. The best part was that I didn't even realise it... I was wondering where was the smell coming from. The flame also got pretty big so I just threw it in to the basin where it continued to dance wildly. So I flooded the basin and was left with black stuff and some residue. Well, I didn't get burnt, which is definitely good. 0-0
Choir did really well for Musical Evening. We were much better than our Happening Happenings! concert performance.
I managed to stomp and clap in time for The Joiku and remembered all my moves for the ABBA medley part. For Chiquitita, my painful expression was genuine since I actually "tore" my wound while kneeling down for the first verse. Thank goodness I did remember to paste a plaster on it since it was bleeding horribly when I took it off once I reached home.
Everyone had fun that day I suppose. We did warm-ups in school for the morning. Also asked Evangeline for help with my tying of hair although my hair needed a lot of help since I really have so many layers with different lengths. I used three types of hairspray. Ms Seow also insisted that I tidy my fringe and show my forehead since it covers my eyes. It was good that I didn't die from the smell of it all.
Once we reached NUS, we went to one of their many canteens for our lunch. Mr Tan told us why it's called the 'Central Canteen' when we arrived. Everyone expected a sophisticated explanation but he just said, " It's called the Central canteen because it's in the center of the whole campus. "
Hahaha. Anyway, I ate my Italian butter bread there since my mum already packed it for me.
Once Ziyu finally finished her big bowl of noodles, everyone went of to Yong Siew Toh. We got the same dressing rooms as the ones we had for our last performance there. People then began to tidy their hair and used the hairsprays like there's no tomorrow. And they chose to use the Sopranos dressing room for the hair spray thing specifically. Therefore I decided to become a temporary alto and went next door to put on my make up and breathe in human air instead of inhaling that vile stuff.
By the way, I just read this article on hair spray this week. Apparently, hair spray can affect pregnant women with sons. There is the high possibility of the boy getting some genital defection. This article was found in the Today paper FYI.
I'm not at all prepared for next week's WYCF sessions. Why must I be isolated from the rest of the girls. My mum is also sympathetic - but it's for a different reason altogether. She wonders why I don't get to be with the boys and have to be with the SSA choir. -.-
At least Christel is in SSA too, although I couldn't find her name in my WYCF section name list.
Cheng Meng's ( I don't know how to spell his name ) chosen pop song, 童话 is really difficult to play. Sure, it sounds nice, but I seriously cannot change key in right in the middle of the song. I just get confused and play some gibberish. Hopefully, next week's Christmas songs will be easier to comprehend.
I was actually too lazy to post something but I wanted more people come here for tag-tags. D:
Choir did really well for Musical Evening. We were much better than our Happening Happenings! concert performance.
I managed to stomp and clap in time for The Joiku and remembered all my moves for the ABBA medley part. For Chiquitita, my painful expression was genuine since I actually "tore" my wound while kneeling down for the first verse. Thank goodness I did remember to paste a plaster on it since it was bleeding horribly when I took it off once I reached home.
Everyone had fun that day I suppose. We did warm-ups in school for the morning. Also asked Evangeline for help with my tying of hair although my hair needed a lot of help since I really have so many layers with different lengths. I used three types of hairspray. Ms Seow also insisted that I tidy my fringe and show my forehead since it covers my eyes. It was good that I didn't die from the smell of it all.
Once we reached NUS, we went to one of their many canteens for our lunch. Mr Tan told us why it's called the 'Central Canteen' when we arrived. Everyone expected a sophisticated explanation but he just said, " It's called the Central canteen because it's in the center of the whole campus. "
Hahaha. Anyway, I ate my Italian butter bread there since my mum already packed it for me.
Once Ziyu finally finished her big bowl of noodles, everyone went of to Yong Siew Toh. We got the same dressing rooms as the ones we had for our last performance there. People then began to tidy their hair and used the hairsprays like there's no tomorrow. And they chose to use the Sopranos dressing room for the hair spray thing specifically. Therefore I decided to become a temporary alto and went next door to put on my make up and breathe in human air instead of inhaling that vile stuff.
By the way, I just read this article on hair spray this week. Apparently, hair spray can affect pregnant women with sons. There is the high possibility of the boy getting some genital defection. This article was found in the Today paper FYI.
I'm not at all prepared for next week's WYCF sessions. Why must I be isolated from the rest of the girls. My mum is also sympathetic - but it's for a different reason altogether. She wonders why I don't get to be with the boys and have to be with the SSA choir. -.-
At least Christel is in SSA too, although I couldn't find her name in my WYCF section name list.
Cheng Meng's ( I don't know how to spell his name ) chosen pop song, 童话 is really difficult to play. Sure, it sounds nice, but I seriously cannot change key in right in the middle of the song. I just get confused and play some gibberish. Hopefully, next week's Christmas songs will be easier to comprehend.
I was actually too lazy to post something but I wanted more people come here for tag-tags. D:
Labels: choir, Crez chorale, guitar
I beat Sean in reversi!!!
Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 3:16 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
I feel like my life revolves around choir now. Most probably because we have been practising for almost every day. I really hope the concert will be a success for us since we practised a lot for it.
Thank goodness Ms Ong gave us a day to rest - I think I will just lose my voice if we had to rehearse again today. Tomorrow will be a shorter rehearsal too, so as to keep up our momentum till Saturday.
My legs are full of scars and I have yet another one from my fall on Tuesday. My mum came to buy next year's books while we were in the hall having our combined rehearsal. She had to wait for a long time since I had to get scores for Ms Sim and had to wait for her while she took my scores to the staff room to photocopy.
Had to carry the books home with my mum. While walking down the slope from the school gate, I tripped over the curb and in order not to bang into my mum I swerved my body, tripped over the books I was carrying and fell down the slope. My mum then proceeded to scold me since this is what seemed like the thousandth time I fell down this year. Well, I may not have fallen and got my balance if I didn't change my direction so fast. Yet I got a scolding instead D:
We then had to rush to get my contact lens. Since it has been a year since I stopped wearing them, I had to go through some training again to re-cap on the techniques. I still need about twenty minutes to put those lens into my eyes. =/
My mum and I also had to get new plasters and dettol solution since I finished the supply at home with my little accidents every now and then. D:
Yesterday's rehearsal was painful. Ms Ong made us smile through all the songs and my face felt like plastic in the end. Cynthia suggested that all of us go for botox injections so that our face muscles will be frozen into a smile without us even trying.
Dancing was slightly difficult with my wound but I managed just fine since it's just a minor one compared to the rest of the falls I had before.
I went to school earlier to meet up with the QMs, Anna and Zhuo Min since they were also going to the Communicative Arts room. I then took the opportunity to do my score stock-taking which is really hard work since the previous librarian didn't have a system to follow. At least I managed to finished all of this year's scores, the old scores and the 2009 SYF scores with Zhuo Min, Evangeline, Anna and Zi yu's help after they finished tidying up the gowns. =D
Everyone brought back their gowns yesterday too. Pearlyn gave an update on her love life while everyone was bored with waiting for the gowns. I really wonder how she gets her boyfriends. XD Got Cheryl's help on the train home to arrange my gown neatly since it fell from it's hanger in the gown cover. I think I'm too fat for my gown D:
Played reversi with Sean just now. I have not played that game for ages...
Thank goodness Ms Ong gave us a day to rest - I think I will just lose my voice if we had to rehearse again today. Tomorrow will be a shorter rehearsal too, so as to keep up our momentum till Saturday.
My legs are full of scars and I have yet another one from my fall on Tuesday. My mum came to buy next year's books while we were in the hall having our combined rehearsal. She had to wait for a long time since I had to get scores for Ms Sim and had to wait for her while she took my scores to the staff room to photocopy.
Had to carry the books home with my mum. While walking down the slope from the school gate, I tripped over the curb and in order not to bang into my mum I swerved my body, tripped over the books I was carrying and fell down the slope. My mum then proceeded to scold me since this is what seemed like the thousandth time I fell down this year. Well, I may not have fallen and got my balance if I didn't change my direction so fast. Yet I got a scolding instead D:
We then had to rush to get my contact lens. Since it has been a year since I stopped wearing them, I had to go through some training again to re-cap on the techniques. I still need about twenty minutes to put those lens into my eyes. =/
My mum and I also had to get new plasters and dettol solution since I finished the supply at home with my little accidents every now and then. D:
Yesterday's rehearsal was painful. Ms Ong made us smile through all the songs and my face felt like plastic in the end. Cynthia suggested that all of us go for botox injections so that our face muscles will be frozen into a smile without us even trying.
Dancing was slightly difficult with my wound but I managed just fine since it's just a minor one compared to the rest of the falls I had before.
I went to school earlier to meet up with the QMs, Anna and Zhuo Min since they were also going to the Communicative Arts room. I then took the opportunity to do my score stock-taking which is really hard work since the previous librarian didn't have a system to follow. At least I managed to finished all of this year's scores, the old scores and the 2009 SYF scores with Zhuo Min, Evangeline, Anna and Zi yu's help after they finished tidying up the gowns. =D
Everyone brought back their gowns yesterday too. Pearlyn gave an update on her love life while everyone was bored with waiting for the gowns. I really wonder how she gets her boyfriends. XD Got Cheryl's help on the train home to arrange my gown neatly since it fell from it's hanger in the gown cover. I think I'm too fat for my gown D:
Played reversi with Sean just now. I have not played that game for ages...
Labels: choir, Crez chorale
it's an annual affair
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 @ 10:17 pm leave a comment? | 0 shed some light
This year's birthday had been the usual I guess. Ching Han and Juniper were the first to wish me a happy birthday. Thanks!
I didn't get to celebrate much as I had my choir rehearsal the whole day. Juniper and Ariel paid for my lunch though. Teryne, Jollin, Lixin, Juniper, Ariel and I went to McDonald's for lunch. I kind of felt apologetic to Anna but I did promise that I would go with them for lunch and Juniper asked me in the morning to go with them. Anyway, lunch was nice and somehow everyone raced back to school, trying to outdo each other. I gave up halfway as my chest hurt.
While crossing the road, I saw the band members going home and Livia wished me happy birthday across the road. What better way to wish a person and let the whole street know. Hahas =D
Suddenly I saw this yellow umbrella over my head. The rest had already moved up ahead so they didn't see me. There was this girl who insisted that she sheltered me since it was raining and my clothes were kind of wet. She is a private candidate for the O' level examinations. Based on her accent, she must be from China. I must say that she's really kind as to shelter me from the main road to the school. 谢谢你!
Thank you for all the birthday presents. Anna gave me Ponds, a soft toy frog. Juniper, for the cute nici mug with the leopard. Ariel, for helping to pay for part of my lunch. Ziyu, for the breadou thing that Teryne has fallen in love with. Rui Ting, for the pink case that you bought during lunch. Most of all, my mum who gave me so many presents and the dinner at Eatzi.
The committee had a dance workshop yesterday for the Mama Mia moves. The Sec2s and Teryne were late as we were looking at the Sec3 placement results.
That was also when Teryne saw the bread thing that Ziyu gave me. Hahas, she's really fascinated by it. In fact, my poor bread was in the danger of being bitten that I had to warn everyone who tried to bite it;
Hahas. We did a series of warm ups with the guy although I had no idea what I was supposed to do half the time. He taught us how to do the wave thing too. After that, we spent the rest of the session doing the new moves for the ABBA songs. Mama Mia was really confusing at first but it got easier after a while.
After lunch at Esso, we had to teach the rest of the choir the new moves. It was tiring. Really tiring. I finally realised how tiring it is to dance and yet sing loudly for the whole day with a smile pasted on your face. From 10am till late afternoon, everyone felt worn out at the end of the day. But I think our efforts will pay off next Saturday. I can't wait to show the audience what the choir is capable of. =]
I didn't get to celebrate much as I had my choir rehearsal the whole day. Juniper and Ariel paid for my lunch though. Teryne, Jollin, Lixin, Juniper, Ariel and I went to McDonald's for lunch. I kind of felt apologetic to Anna but I did promise that I would go with them for lunch and Juniper asked me in the morning to go with them. Anyway, lunch was nice and somehow everyone raced back to school, trying to outdo each other. I gave up halfway as my chest hurt.
While crossing the road, I saw the band members going home and Livia wished me happy birthday across the road. What better way to wish a person and let the whole street know. Hahas =D
Suddenly I saw this yellow umbrella over my head. The rest had already moved up ahead so they didn't see me. There was this girl who insisted that she sheltered me since it was raining and my clothes were kind of wet. She is a private candidate for the O' level examinations. Based on her accent, she must be from China. I must say that she's really kind as to shelter me from the main road to the school. 谢谢你!
Thank you for all the birthday presents. Anna gave me Ponds, a soft toy frog. Juniper, for the cute nici mug with the leopard. Ariel, for helping to pay for part of my lunch. Ziyu, for the breadou thing that Teryne has fallen in love with. Rui Ting, for the pink case that you bought during lunch. Most of all, my mum who gave me so many presents and the dinner at Eatzi.
The committee had a dance workshop yesterday for the Mama Mia moves. The Sec2s and Teryne were late as we were looking at the Sec3 placement results.
I got into my first choice!!!
That was also when Teryne saw the bread thing that Ziyu gave me. Hahas, she's really fascinated by it. In fact, my poor bread was in the danger of being bitten that I had to warn everyone who tried to bite it;
'You bite that bread, and I will bite you'.
Hahas. We did a series of warm ups with the guy although I had no idea what I was supposed to do half the time. He taught us how to do the wave thing too. After that, we spent the rest of the session doing the new moves for the ABBA songs. Mama Mia was really confusing at first but it got easier after a while.
After lunch at Esso, we had to teach the rest of the choir the new moves. It was tiring. Really tiring. I finally realised how tiring it is to dance and yet sing loudly for the whole day with a smile pasted on your face. From 10am till late afternoon, everyone felt worn out at the end of the day. But I think our efforts will pay off next Saturday. I can't wait to show the audience what the choir is capable of. =]
Labels: choir, Crez chorale
