Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Yet Another Busy Week
Just came back from a vacation trip from Malaysia and my busy routine kicks in again!
It so happened that, Jing ya and Sha came over to my house the other day and it was then that I decided to join the choir. Went for their first practice and was told right away that we will be involved in one of the concert by Singapore Polytechnic choir. Can you imagine, a performance at a big theatre just weeks after joining the choir?! However everything went quite smoothly and I even managed to make a couple of new friends there.
The next couple of days were filled with sectionals, rehearsals and more rehearsals. I should say we met up almost everyday to practice on our own 2 songs and 2 combined pieces with SP choir. It was tough; spent almost the entire day to rehearse on the whole procedure to prevent any mistakes from occurring on that important day. The president of SP choir who is also the overall in charge of the performance was mean at times, but I guess it was because he wanted a good performance that night, besides who doesn't?
Putting aside those negative issues, we did enjoy the process of rehearsing, and with such crazy people in our choir around, we were never get bored as it was fun being with them. Writing till here, I would like to compliment about lao shi's teaching. She is good, we learnt many things from her as she taught us all the essentials to make us good choir singers breathing techniques, how to sing in the correct manner, facial expressions, etc…
With such a busy day, thought I could get some rest upon reaching home but "No" was the answer. Had to finish up a project by Thursday as it is our dateline and there will be a presentation on that day itself too. So, with little time left and my busy schedule, friends in my group could only meet up at late in the night to do our work. So they suggested coming to my house to finish up on the project, and so faz, xiaolong and albert came over that night. Faz left early, xiaolong and albert slept over my house. It was quite productive as we managed to complete ¾ of the work being assigned, spend the rest of the time on msn where a few of us from the trip chatted throughout the night.
Moving on to Saturday, meet up with ERS members' right after my final rehearsal at SP that afternoon. We went to our beloved Evan’s birthday party at Chevrons. Besides us, there were his other friends from secondary school, junior college, army, relatives too. We had lots of fun there as we got to interact with people of different kinds. The atmosphere was way too romantic when we sang the birthday song with the accompaniment of the saxophone. Cutting of the birthday cake and photo taking were next as that almost sums up the day. I decided not to sleep over as performance is tomorrow, need lots of rest tonight.
Finally, the big day came. Arriving at Victoria Concert Hall, it was such a huge and grand place for a concert.
Sha and I were dressed in all black – black shirt and pants, with grey ties. We looked sharp :)
People from different walks of life coming together in unison, singing in one harmony. Though it may be my first time with the choir, there was certainly a strong bond between all of us. Guess that's an advantage of having a small choir. People know each other well, thus we are able to communicate and blend our voices well.
Backstage was so chaotic! People were warming up, ordering and definitely dressing up! Sha kept nudging me because he said I looked very emo. Haha well that is something that only I know! Enough with emo and back to the concert.
Stepping onto the wooden stage, looking into the audience with different faces and expressions. Now that was the real thing, after so much practices and rehearsals, finally the real thing. Lao shi conducted us very well, we just love the way she conducts the choir. Very engaging and easy to catch, though I felt nervous, somewhat I feel happy and also excited. Eyes were on us, Ngee Ann Polytechnic Choir. Personally felt that we sang good, well from the warm applause, definitely we did great. I know that there was only one expression in the audience- Satisfaction.
The combined pieces, simple gifts and the quest unending are very challenging pieces, but we did well. Like we sang delightfully throughout, and I know Sha was very happy and excited. Not to mention he sings well =P. Anyway, the concert was over and I was relieved that we did well and received pleasing remarks from friends and teachers, like Ms Khartini =
Having said all that, we had another gathering session the day after the concert. Met up and Lot 1 and catch a movie right after a heavy dinner at Pizza Hut. The movie UnderDog was fairly good, as there's no climax to the show, and ending could be predicted, with a superhero what you could you expect other than a happy ending? Dots... Well, went for ice-cream and lots of random shots around Lot 1 shopping center was what we did after the show. Everyone got so high, me especially... oh wells, what a way to end the week. =)
next few weeks is gonna be busy again for me. Camps, gatherings, etc...
for tonight and tomorrow, will be celebrating lantern festival with different group of friends, so do check out for my upcoming post.
backstage!
tenor boys
sha and me
=)
happy family.
it got me home
1:05 PM
