ok NEXT:) im gonna blog about my concert.. it was a great success i thought!! i mean it had a much much higher entertainment value as compared to those i had before:)
had been practising for this concert for almost a year now..was a great sense of satisfaction to see it end so successfully..haha you guys probably dont wana read all this..but let me just ramble for a while k?
haha yeah.. initially, i came into NTU choir without thinking..i just wanted to have a cca to keep me occupied in campus..and i guess i really missed singing in a choir..yeah..then just join lor..then when i got in, i got a shock coz there was seriously no one i knew there..and the worse thing was there were barely any singaporeans there..the choir was made up of mostly chinese and indonesians.so it was pretty scary..like being thrown onto this island with pple u dont know..
yeah then after that, i figured i needed some points to stay in hall..so i went to run for the position of biz mag in choir..and being me, i regretted my decision to run immediately..after the interview, i was hoping so hard that i wont get the post..and guess what, i got it after all..which i felt changed everything for me in choir:) and for the better of course..
things got really busy with choir camp and carolings in december which i couldnt missed coz i was the biz mag and i had to liaise with the pple..and i got to know everyone in choir a whole lot better...i mean you guys watched the concert and thought everyone was cmi like on the surface..but really, everyone there is really really nice..like..yeah not as bitchy and mean as i am..and i have learnt a whole lot from them..and the most important lesson is to follow your heart and to continue with your passion no matter what..
then I had to go through the process of obtaining sponsorships for the concert..and I must say I was super proud of myself coz I managed to obtain quite a sum of funding for this event..a whole lot more than last year at least..so that was quite an achievement for me since this was my first time doing such things..had to keep calling pple up and sending emails..and it wasn’t easy I guess..but lucky there were really helpful seniors around to help..thanks Margaret and Melvyn!:) I owe you guys..
anyways, we have been practising for this concert since choir started i think..when we learnt all the first-half songs with miss lim..getting toby (the angmoh guy) to teach us german and finding all the translations for the songs so that we could understand it better and sing them with feeling..learning how to sing like a chinese for the tea mountain love song...coz that song must be like..wah u know last time hwa chong we sang that cheena cheer...yeah something like that...
then came the preparations for second half during camp in december..it all started from scratch with christian, cheryl and raymond rushing to meet the deadlines to come up with the songs and minus-ones for us to practise...after which the first set of choreography was designed...but ms lim didnt like it at all, so we had to improvise it and come up with a (almost) whole new set of choreography..which we practised almost every weekend since school started in jan..i think..cant remember the exact timelines
the going was tough..but im really really thankful for the people in choir for without whom practices would have sucked in a major way..even though I always complained about practices, I would still look forward to every practice coz I was sure that the pple there would make the process a whole lot funner..yeapp..thanks ariel, anthony, eugene, myrna, raymond, naomi, yee woon, Irene, davin, Melvyn, james…..and many many more!
Also, the concert wouldn’t have been possible without the amazing audience, which included some of the most important people in my life right now..(and in no order of importance of course)…
Celestine: ROOMIE!! Thanks for your support all this while man..without you to complain to, I really don’t know how I’ll survive this crazy period of concert preparation! Lucky you had IVP before my concert, if not you wouldn’t have made it to the concert.. haha and you were like the first to reserve tickets from me without any questions asked! Thank you so much
Rou-hui: thanks girl!you were also one of the first ones to reserve a ticket from me..thanks for bringing steven and eunice too! (hee allowed me to sell like 2 more tix) and though I knew you weren’t very willing to come for another choir concert of mine, I know you had fun for this one right??haha it was way better than any I had back in mg..thanks for the three stalks of flowers really:) they meant a bouquet to me.
Zibin: haha another person whom I always complain to! also another person who agreed to come support me at my concert without any hesitation. Thanks pal! for being there to listen all the time:) life in hall would be hell worse without you! thanks for the flowerss
Diana: hey babe! :) hee though you didn’t really want to come to my concert too, you still came! And I really really appreciate it! Thanks for the flowers! It was really nice of you to always accommodate my practice schedule when we were pia-ing our project..really glad to have you as a hall mate! Late nights would really suck without me going to block 5 all the time! :)
Hongyi: eh man! Thanks for coming! I knew you really put in the effort to make it to this concert..asking me what to wear and all..thanks for the flowers and I will really work on my dance k! haha..ok now stop making fun of me already:)
Chin: hee really glad you had the time to come down and watch! I was just trying my luck at first when I asked you if you were free, coz I know NS can be quite xiong for you:) also, thanks for the flowers:)
Sam: hope I didn’t make you pang seh your friends coz of this concert..but was happy to see you there:) although you kept doing the slicey leg arm thingy to make fun of me after that..thanks for the flowers!
Ann: So glad you could make it down after your rehearsal:) thanks for the effort and chocolates!!my favourite! I owe you man coz I was seriously hungry after the concert! Haha:) thanks girl
Lifang: you’re like the nicest senior I know! Hee thanks for the flowers! :) hope you enjoyed the concert while sitting up there with the VIPs..:)
My lil’ brother: thanks bro for helping me sell one ticket! Didn’t even expect you to sell any, but I was really desperate, so I asked you! Haha really didn’t know your friends would wana come for this type of thing..but really thanks for trying and I owe you!
and thanks to those who sms-ed me and wished me luck:) my big bro, lyn and ting guan! thanks for the luck..though i think they didnt really rub off on me:) To the rest whom I have left out but definitely have not forgotten: thanks for being part of this memorable experience of mine and thanks for the flowers..your presence there to witness my proudest and most embarrassing moment at the same time was priceless:) really hoped you guys enjoyed CANTEMUS 2007, Vox Populi
