Friday, April 06, 2007
hoho. im free to blog today! hurhur. what's the most eventful event that happened this wk that i can blog abt? none other than SYF!
on 3rd APRIL 2007 morning, i woke up at 5.30, thinking that it's alrdy 6am cos my parents were alrdy preparing things. at that time, i was very very nervous, so nervous that i had stomach ache. but i still couldnt control my anxiety, in the end i had diarrhoea. haha! (reminds me of my pri sch syf and the nac solo competition last year. i had diarrhoea for the same reason too!) after visiting the toilet for 3 times, i got better and no longer felt nervous anymore. on my way to school, i began to receive many gd luck msgs. thanks for that! (:
in school, during morning assmebly, the councilors made the sch do ny cheers to encourage the cca groups who're gonna have competitions and syf soon. since my cca had syf on that day and i also felt rather high, i cheered quite enthusiastically and i think huiying found me rather qian4 bian3 for that. lol. then i had 1h of chem lesson before going for pre-syf prac. as i walked out of the classroom, the whole class wished me good luck and i was really very comforted.
back in m401, i felt high and kept boucing around! haha! oh! and liying brought a book containing the scores of jay chou's songs. as it is 'universally known' that jay chou's songs r quite monotonous, it was quite funny to try the songs with our erhus cos most of the notes r the same. haha!
then we had audi prac! hmmm. smth WEIRD happened. during our practice (when the sch was having recess), i saw a girl sitting near one of doors. she didnt sit on the chair, she sat on the floor, with her legs crossed. she has short straight hair, wears specs, was wearing hongzi and im sure it was a red name tag (but i couldnt see if it's green or brown or blue name tag cos the audience seat area was dark and she was very far away from the stage). i looked there for several times, trying to figure out who she was. from far, her figure didnt seem to be any of our co members. so i guessed she's probably one of the students who sneaked in to watch us prac. i actually wanted to ask siying to confirm with her that there's really someone sitting there, but i dont know why in the end i didnt. when we all walked up the audience seats staircase to rehearse our entrance, i realised that the girl was gone. so i asked a few ppl to see if they saw the girl. many said no and got scared by what i said. haha! though it sounds rather freaky, im 100% sure that she's a human from nygh.
after audi prac, all of us proceeded to the canteen for lunch. nyco has actually wrote letters and notes for mrs ee to thank and encourage her. yiling put everything into an envelope, gave it to mrs ee and told her that it's some document that the general office people wanted to pass to her. i was very interested to see her expression upon receiving the letter, so i asked yiling to inform me when she's gonna give it to mrs ee. to my disappointment, she had no reaction at all. lol. maybe she's just trained to show no expression cos last yr during nac competition, i tried to analyse the adjudicators' facial expression to see if the person played well. (mrs ee was one of the adjudicators lah) unfortunately, all had no expression at all. ok. then i went to the canteen to have lunch.
at that time, the sky overcasted, signalling the start of rain. as we ate, the rain got extremely heavy and there were even lightning and roaring thunders. all of us began to get worry, cos we wondered if it's a bad omen. haha! in fact, i was telling the nycoxyz sec 3s that whenever i have any co competition, it will rain. haha! and it's true! oh! i also told them that my left eyelid twitched that morning. so rouying kept questioning me if that's a gd sign or bad sign. apparently i dont know. haha! after szemin finished her lunch (first to finish, as per normal), she asked all of us what we wanted to drink cos she volunteered to help us buy. funnily, all of us bought jasmine tea cos our choice piece is MOLIHUA! hurhur. while drinking, rouying began to ask the story behind molihua. so liying started off by saying the song is narrating about a GU1 NIANG3..... then siying got affected by the word 'gu niang', and said it should be 'NV3 REN2'. HAHA! it was so funny. especially when all the bsp ppl thought gu niang is a better word and all the non-bsp ppl thought nv ren is perfectly fine.
after lunch, i went back to the audi and helped to re-correct the dots on the erhus. oh! the seniors gave us chocolates and letters to encourage us. THANK YOU SENIORS! and soon, all of us left audi and headed for SCH. at the place where we boarded the school bus, i saw ATONG! she was so excited to see me, so she shouted 'ALA' enthusiastically upon seeing me. hahah! she also had softball competition that day. so the both of us kept wishing each other good luck. on the bus, i sat alone (cos i didnt have a partner becos luoning left n we have an odd no. of ppl in nycoxyz sec 3). along the way, i realised that i've not wished anybody gd luck for syf yet, so i smsed shiang ling and stephanie from chung cheng main co (i knew them thru the hcco interaction last yr). sadly, they kinda forgotten me, and thought i was peiyan (the TALL girl). HAHA! sadly, im of the extreme opp.
finally, we reached SCH. we saw a grp of guys queuing near the entrance. i thought it was funny cos the nyco ppl were all curious abt what sch they're frm and the guys were also very curious about what sch we're from. haha! so funny! if im not wrong, i think i was the first to know what sch they're frm. hohoho. (pardon me for my egoism) as all of us marched into SCH, we saw cchmsco queuing over there alrdy. i was quite happy cos i saw jessica, alfred, aaron, hannah and stephanie frm cchmsco. hehe! all of us wished one another gd luck. then, i saw jiali, moses, kaixiang, jiaqing, yiqing and liangyu and then my pri sch frens frm chung cheng branch co, junhe, boyuan, yihchyuan and junfeng. we've not seen one another for a long time, and they grew QUITE a lot. haha! n as all of u know, i haven't grown much since pri sch. so they approached me n laughed about my height.
then, we got our turn to practise in the 'room'. seniors and instructors came to give us some encouragements. during our practice, everything went well. soon, we all left, and proceeded to the second level. during that period of time, i dont know y most of us didnt seem to be nervous at all. we were still chatting happily. haha! when we're right outside the concert hall, awaiting for our turn to enter, we looked at the television outside to see how our arch rival, cchmsco performed. the jiankuaideliangfeng was kinda censored (as in we couldnt hear, but could only watch). so we looked at their taifeng to gage. hahaha! fortunately, when it came to their choice piece, we got to hear. however, we chose not to hear cos we thought it's quite pointless to compare. so during that time, i got a little paranoid. i kept passing down msgs to the erhu ppl, remind them things that they ought to take note of. haha! right before we entered the concert hall, we all wished one another gd luck and went in QUITE confidently. haha!
THIS IS THE TIME. after the percussion ppl finished setting up their instruments, the SCH stage manager, jimmy, asked if we're done so that he could give the emcee a cue. i was glad then cos fortunately we were not scolded by jimmy at all. everything just went on very smoothly. (: unfortunately, when i just sat down after mrs ee bowed to the audience, a fly flew around xianyue. i freaked out! i was so worried that it would keep flying to our faces when we play. what if somebody couldnt stand it and do some funny actions to chase the fly away? IT'LL AFFECT OUR OVERALL PERFORMANCE! soon, we started. i prayed hard, hoping that nth would go wrong. whenever it came to those small details which mrs ee wanted us to play the way she requested, they were all done beautifully. i could remember very clearly how mrs ee smiled after each of the details were done. i dont know if i heard it wrongly, i thought our jiankuaideliangfeng bar 15, the cellobass and erhu melody was a bit not together. well, it's over anyway, so forget it. surprisingly, i actually forgotten abt the fly. like what chewfei said, our performance seemed like a dream. we were all so into the music that when our performance ended, all of us felt as if we juz woke up frm a dream.
after that, we exited the stage with hearts of contentment. we were all elated that we played our utmost best on stage! after packing our instruments, mrs ee brought us to the carpark for debrief. she said we played very well. there were some linking parts which she didnt told us what to do, were played very well. haha! yay! she also said that there were several parts that really touched her. mrs teo was touched too! haha! then, we went up to watch other schs.
though the subsequent schs that we watched didnt really play well, i learnt some things frm them. especially frm the sch that had very few ppl and played very badly. i cant rmb what sch, but i really look up to them for one thing, that is their passion for co. i dont wish to elaborate on how bad it was, it was just very bad. when the conductor conducted them, their rhythm wasnt right at all. their yinzhun was bad and 'the sound' wasnt out (for e.g. the xianyue, not only that they didnt hold their bows correctly, they also didnt play with full bows and i think they didnt apply enough rosin). if i were the conductor, i dont think i could even carry on. but the conductor didnt give up on them at all. instead, he smiled at the orchestra and continued conducting them. similarly, for the orchestra, i can really see their determination and passion for co. just by looking at the orchestra, i dont think ppl will be interested to join. i believe it's their passion that made them join co. they played badly definitely not becos they're stupid. like what mrs ee said, it's juz becos their conditions arent gd and the sch doesnt support the cca enough. thinking of what mrs ee said, i felt very fortunate to be in ny becos all ccas r treated fairly and all r well-supported by the sch. i hoped they wouldnt get cop cos in some circumstances, if the cca really cant make it, the sch may disband the cca.
finally, after a break, the results were announced. sadly, i couldnt sit with michelle, my lover! i like to sit with her when listening to results becos we're both slow. so after the result is announced, we'll both react at the same frequencies. HAHA! during the results, i called up sijia and jeanette to conference and let them know the results. firstly was chung cheng main. though they're our arch rival, nyco doesnt wish them bad. we really hope they can achieve what they want. in the end, it was announced that they got gold. many cheered for them, but the area where cchmsco sat was in total silence, juz like two diff worlds in the SCH concert hall. that time, i was busy telling sijia n nette the results, so i was rather indifferent to the surroundings. :P next was NYCO. emcee: Nanyang Girls' High School.... (at that moment, the whole concert hall, esp the nyco area, emerged into a few seconds of silence) GOLD WITH HONOURS! oh man! WE DID IT! haha! nyco gave the loudest cheer among all the schs. i could really feel the genuine happiness in our cheers and laughters and tears! haha! btw, that sch didnt get cop either! (:
after everything ended, i ran to the area where my graduated seniors sat. WE ALL HUGGED ONE ANOTHER WITH THE UNESCRIPTABLE JOY! i can rmb how hard andrea hugged me. HAHA! n that's the day in my whole life which i received the most hugs! hahahaha! as i made my way out, i saw jessica. i called her and she smiled sadly at me. then i could sense that the atmostphere there wasnt right. still, i hope they're fine. oh! then i saw alfred. haha! he's funny! he gave me the you-better-watch-out smile when he saw me. haha!
on the bus, the xianyue ppl were just crazy. we were so high that we kept cheering and waving to the pedestrians on the road, telling them that we got gwh! hahah! so funny! oh! shawn was funny too! she was sitting beside me. she called back to her sch, saying that nyco got gwh and she's not going back to sch! haha! oh! and thank you maureen for baking cookies for us! it was very delicious! i love them!! oh man... reminds me of cheegake's cookies and xiquan's famous amos cookies! i better go n learn how to bake cookies so that i can make them for myself! hahah! i sound stingy! :P
back in sch, we all gathered in the middle of the quadrangle and shouted NYCO GOLD WITH HONOURS! then we got even crazier and took more pictures with diff poses (esp xyz, super ego. haha! we kept taking pics!) thanks to mr lim cos he helped us take pictures. thanks to uncle jack too cos not only he didnt chase us out of sch becos it was late n he had to lock the sch, he felt very happy for us! (: n ms yap, our principal. when we were all taking pics, she walked out of the office. yonghui shouted to her that we got gwh. she smiled at us and went off. haha!
finally, everything has come to an end. before syf, during those stress and busy periods, i always told myself that everything would be fine and i'll have more time for school work after syf. but now, i'd rather stay in that busy period, becos though it's very stressful, i felt very happy to work tgt with nyco to achieve our common goal. well, it's pointless to look back, so i shall etch these beautiful memories deeply in my heart. ooh! the next co event is moe co camp! yay! look forward to it... (:
lastly, i would like to thank some ppl.
mrs ee: thank you for your patience. during our lowest peak, not only that u didnt give us up, u motivated us. thank you for ur time too. i sacrificed a lot of ur time just to prepare us for syf. thank you for believing in us, believing that we can do it. really really thanks a lot. you've been a great conductor, THE WORLD'S BEST CONDUCTOR! NYCO LOVES U! THANK YOU! <3
instructors: thank you for teaching us! thank you for being so supportive of nyco. esp zls, HE ROCKS MAN! haha! thanks for telling us all those funny stories! i guess those stories really motivated us! oh! n thanks to zls for revealing some secrets abt the nasty things that SOME PPL did for syf. thanks to xls too! she always listened to my molihua solo during my lessons. though it was cancelled in the end, i'll still like to thank her for it!
seniors: thanks for coming back! thanks to those who cant make it too! cos all ur supports are appreciated! thanks to those who came back durign some of our practices, to give us comments n motivational speeches! thanks for staying tgt with us, making the nyco spirit soar to greater heights!
general office ppl, uncle jack, mdm oehlers and mrs chitra: during the syf period, we often have problems with the key system. thank you for helping us solve the key problems and letting us use the room! (:
309: thanks for the jiayous and gd lucks! hurhur! thanks for ur support! i love u guys! (:
the ppl who wished me gd luck: thanks for the gd luck msgs! thanks for the support! (:
my parents: thank you for listening to me rant abt my nervousness n worries for the past few days b4 syf. thank you for the encouragement and motivation too! i love my mummy n daddy! (:
LAST BUT NOT LEAST... THANK YOU NYCO! thanks for the time, effort and love for nyco! without any one of u, nyco is incomplete! oh! speaking of this, i would like to thank luoning! though she's migrated to australia, her heart and soul are still in nyco. thank you for the support! I LOVE NYCO! LET'S PASS ON THE FIRE TO OUR JUNIORS! LET'S ACHIEVE GREATER HEIGHTS TGT AS ONE! GO NYCO! (:
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Till we meet again..
