Tuesday, December 05, 2006
YAY! Indeed, both grps got into finals!
This morning, as usual, I woke up early to practise. Then I went to Evergreen Primary School with Szemin to look for xls cos she wanted to listen to our qinqiang. Since I was leaving at around the same time as my mother, I decided to take a free ride from her. Strangely, she took a taxi instead of driving her company's car. Due to the mrt station suicide, all mrts were stopped in the morning and many employees had to hire cabs to work. Apparently, there was not a single taxi available, so we waited for 45min, till we finally saw a taxi. Poor Szemin had to wait for me for 40min.
After we left, we headed to the cc's hall and joined in the yulinling, which was played halfway through. Then, Michelle, Sijia, Layting, Szemin and I went to change into our costumes first, and then we had our lunch. Just like yesterday, the HEALTH CONSCIOUS Sijia started complaining about how oily the chicken rice was. But it' true that the rice was very oily lah. While waiting for the bus, chris gave all of ur a Fox's sweet. Many people began to blow with the sweet wrapper. hurhur. Soon, the bus arrived and we left for SCH. woohoo...
When we reached SCH, we were 1h earlier. As usual, Mic, Sijia, Jeanette and I crapped again. Oh! Not only that! We also took pictures togther! When we were crapping, we saw Mrs Ee entering SCH. After reading the booklet, we then realised that she's one of our judges! Oh! I also saw Huichi there! She was my group member of the hcco interaction. She's in Yew Tee CC CO, which means she's our opponent! :O!
At backstage preparing to perform, we encouraged one another and wanglong told us the yulinling story again. FINALLY, it was our turn. When I just sat down, I realised that there was a white patch of rosin on my blouse. I didnt wipe away because I would look very ugly if I did that on stage. When I played bar 17, I suddenly realised that my bow was rather tight, but having no choice, I had to play the subsequebt parts with it until my rest. Dont know why, because of that, I was quite scared to play. Lol. As an overview, though it wasnt one of our best, it still sounded pretty ok.
At the third performance, Mic, Sijia and I went in to watch the subsequent groups. Haha. This is the benefit of being the first group. However, we still missed the second performance lah. Tamesek was so so. Braddell Heights was OKAY, but had no feelings in their song. The songs they played were happy, but they didnt seem lively at all. PA Youth CO was not bad. Their tai2 feng1 is quite good. They played as if the whole orchestra was bouncing. I felt that the erhu boy (first row, third from the right) moved as if he was running! His head was moving, his arms were swaying freely and even his legs were 'FLOATING'. LOL! Someone (i think it's michelle) told me that the liuqin girl bounced so vigorously as if she's gonna fall off the stage lah! HAHA! But they were impressive! (: Finally, it's the last group, COnbrio, another group that we sent! Apparently, the GECO grouped clapped very loudly for them. hurhur! They did well too! Oh! Yiling gave me a magnetic necklace that she bought from China. Amazed by it, I immediately wore it and kept meddling with it. hehe. The weird Junzhi said that it looks kind of arabic. I bet he's jealous man. haha! Anyway, I think the necklace suits my black suit!
During the results announcement, my mother suddenly called me. But i quickly answered and hung the phone. Just after I hung up, I heard "No. 1" then people started cheering. Then I realised that no.1 was our grp number and we got into finals! HAHA! all thanks to my mother who made me not listen properly. haha! As I had expected, PA Youth CO and COnbrio got in too! Upon hearing our grps' numbers, we cheered for one another! we were so high!
After competition, we went to take pictures again. Haha! As expected, we got high on the bus again, but not as high as the previous night because most of us were tired already. After returning to the cc to collect our bags, Sijia, Mic, Layting, Szemin, Peiyan, Jeanette and I went to eat western food. It was drizzling. Peiyan, Sijia and I walked there without umbrella while the rest shared 2 umbrellas 2 each. When the three of us reached the lift first, we said that they were very slow. Then Jeanette came out with a theory, saying "People holding umbrellas walk slower". Sijia reacted very quicly and said,"DUH!" and they started laughing again. Actually I also dont know why they laughed, but probably because Sijia reacted very quickly to the common sense theory while Michelle took a long time to realise that it's a very common sense thing. AGAIN, Sijia complained about how oily the chicken cutlet was. Indeed, it was VERY OILY. lol. Only smart Jeanette ordered chicken chop. When I randomly said that I should have ordered spaghetti, Jeanette said,"Haha. Too late!". But Sijia said,"You want? You can go and order now. It is never too late." LOL! She sounded like a priest when she told me that lah!After Jeanette finished her share first, she sat there and laughed at how all of us forced ourselves to finish ours. The chicken was SO oily that I felt oil instead of saliva in my mouth! Spastic Sijia commented," Huh?! You mean you are drinking oil?" LOL! In the end, I couldnt stand the chicken anymore. I peeled its skin off before I eat the meat. Then Sijia said I striped the chicken and now the chicken is so naked. LOL!! SO FUNNY LAH! CHICKEN BECOMING NAKED! LOL! Randomly, Szemin said as she stuffed some ice into her mouth,"Aiyah... no more ice for me to cleanse the oil." Then Sijia burst into laughter. Because she said the ice will solidify the oil in her stomach even faster. It was so funny lah! When Szemin knew about it, she felt like vomiting the ice out but it was too late. HAHA. Other than all these, we laughed a lot about a lot of craps. Until Sijia and Michelle alight the mrt, all of us got a chance to take a breather. After today, I realised that Sijia is a very funny person. HAHA! oh well, I'd better go and sleep now, so that I can wake up early to practise tmr. Competition is 2 more days later!
Oh! By the way, my junior just sent me a link where you can find out your name in Japanese. Well, mine is
Shiira koo fungu uenu. What's yours? Go try it out! :)
http://www.rcs.k12.va.us/csjh/japanesename.htm
10:33 PM
Till we meet again..
