Thursday, December 18, 2008
WAAAA HAVENT BLOGGED FOR AGES! LOL! SO MUCH TO UPDATE!! Ok, shall begin with NAC Competition.
NAC Competition FinalsWas very nervous when I first woke up. I wasn't even that nervous the previous night! Haha! At the CC, we went through Li Shan Yin for several times as usual. After that, Rozie and Moses gave our group a talk, like some pre-competition mental preparation. haha. And Rozie gave us a card each! How sweet of her! Sherry and I were guilty cos we actually planned to get smth for her but we forgot. Sighs...
Had Char Siew Rice for lunch again, and for the last time... Unfortunately, the bus came late, so Qinkai and Rozie's groups reached Yong Siew Toh late. On our way there, smth happened to Kuangit's bao sheng, and once of its notes can't be played. Once we reached the dressing room, Rozie supervised our tuning of our instruments, while Kuangit tried to repair his sheng.
In the end, his sheng couldn't be repaired, so he had to sight-read the bao sheng parts on his zhong yin sheng! On stage, impromptu, and it's competition finals! At backstage, I was super nervous. I was very scared that I'd screw up bars 137, 203 and 275. It's finals you see! It'll be so scary if Im the one who deprived my group of the top prize. Thanks to Rozie who was always there, giving us support and encouragement! It helped! (:
Finally THE MOMENT came. I took on xls's advice, that is to think of the notes that you're playing when you're feeling very nervous or when you feel lost. Front part, an 'accident' happened. Haha, shant dwell on it. At least we managed to get back after the 'accident'. Kuai ban was good! Perhaps I was so scared of mistakes that I played very catiously and I didn't fang4 kai1. Didn't make any mistakes, but I didn't feel as shuang3 as normal practices. I felt very happy after performing cos I didn't make any mistakes! And many ppl said our bar 275 was good! YAY!
ROZIE'S GROUP! 必胜！<3
After combined ensemble was the percussion ensemble's finals. Zham!'s Gu Hun was cool! Hehehehh... YQP's still as shuai as ever and Symphonic's chong tian pao was awesome! :) The entire GECO went crazy after the competition ended. We were all cam-whoring outside the concert hall and screaming like mad! And the guys were doing dao pok IN THE PUBLIC! So unglam lah! HAHA! Then we had Canadian Pizza for dinner!
unglam photo of GE guys... -.-
At first we wanted Rozie to be the representative of our group to collect the prize, but due to some reasons, she refused and somehow, I ended up being our group's representative. It was really horrifying experience I tell you. I could understand how the singing competitors felt during the results show. DAMN SCARY! Fortunately Derek was with me (he was the representative of his group). We were so nervous at backstage that we kept bombarding the backstage i/c with queries as to how we should walk, what to do etc. HAHA! As there were five teams that got into finals and there're only 3 teams that will clinch the top 3 prizes, we were so scared that if we werent top 3, we would have to stand there throughout which is very embarrassing. We were so nervous that we kept talking on stage. HAHAHA! I think the emcee was very mean lah! Kept us in suspense. Derek was so scared that he kept telling me,"人越来越少了，怎么办！" HAHA! Well, here's the result...:
Combined EnsembleJingying - Honourable Mention
TPWCCCO - Third
coNBrio - Second
PercussionZham! - Third
YQP - Second
(these are results of teams that are 'related' to me haha!)
YAY CONGRATS TO EVERYONE! :D
OH! There were some funny incidents that happened after comp. HAHA!
Funny incident 1:
We were all waiting to load the big instruments onto the lorry...
Enzon: Eh Sheila! Can I load my guzheng on the lorry?
Sheila: Can, if you think it's safe!
Enzon: Can! No problem! My guzheng is very good!
[so he went to load his guzheng onto this pick-up which was alrdy parked at the loading bay]
Enzon: Eh Sheila! Where's our lorry? I loaded our guzheng onto this pick-up and the uncle chased me away cos he said it's not ours!
Sheila: OH NO! That's not our lorry! I'm so sorry that I didn't tell you our lorry isn't here yet!
LOLS! I'm so sorry to have embarrassed him! HAHAHA!
Funny incident 2:
All of us had to clear the dressing room, so we had to take whatever was left in the room. Yonghui was carry 3 erhus and she had difficulty in squeezing her way through the bus. So I offered help to carry one of the erhus.
Yonghui: Ehh! I don't know whose erhu that is!
Sheila: Haha nvm lah! I also don't know where's mine! We shall look for the owners when we're back in the CC.
[I took a look at the erhu case...]
Sheila: EHH! THIS IS MY ERHU!!!
Yonghui: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Back in the CC, we had this mini 'thank you session' to thank people who made contributions to this competition. AND WE WENT HOME :D!
Though we didn't get what we all aimed for, I'm still very happy cos not only I've learnt a lot a lot from this competition, I've also enjoyed being a part! I hope everyone won't be very sad cos of the competition results, cos I'm sure we had many happy moments through the process, hadn't we? I bet we're the happiest groups among all the teams! :D Moreover we've done our best! We still have concert! We shall create more wonderful memories then!
This is my favourite photo! GECO QUAN JIA FU! It's so nice lah! Look at Enzon, he actually jumped at the right time, that's y he managed to appear in the middle of the photo at the last row! HAHA! Yesterday, I've also found out something really funny about this photo! Try enlarging it!
Can you spot someone lying on the floor? Yup, that's none other than SHUNTA GOH! HAHAHAHAHA! I THINK IT'S SUPER HILARIOUS COS NONE OF US REALISED HIS EXISTENCE IN THE PHOTO UNTIL HE TAGGED HIMSELF IN THE PHOTO ON FACEBOOK! HAHA!
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Till we meet again..
