Sunday, April 13, 2008
Today we had our choir concert in the afternoon. I was very annoyed at first, because the taxi only took 20 minutes to reach VCH, meaning that I could have left church later and not rushed so much. Labels: choir
Furthermore, Chantik was sick, so she couldn't come, and then Tiff burnt her gown while ironing, Ann thought the warmups started at 12.15, XM was having tuition, Cherry and some other scholars were late, etc. I had to rearrange the whole alto standing arrangement since obviously Tiff couldn't stand in the first row.
Hence, I wasn't in a very good mood. For my last concert no less. Anyway, it didn't start out very well, because Ms Lim said our sound was dead, without vitality and life. I personally attributed this to everyone trying too hard to produce the correct sound / pitching / pulse / actions etc. In our defense, we haven't touched the competition songs since Italy other than when she sometimes went through them in practice.
Our guest choirs were Fairfield Methodist Sec and this Convent primary school whose name I have forgotten. I like the FMSS choir gown - it's blue and shimmery, but the sleeves aren't flattering. The primary school girls were so cute. And their singing wasn't bad. Got actions too!
Before it started, Ms Lim also gave us some pep talking. Then she also called Conan out to talk about him. But after she started on how much he'd changed, then he was gonna cry, I think, as well as her, and almost me as well. That's what happens when we get all emotional and sappy.
The concert itself practically flew away. By the end of the first half, I was surprised that so much had passed by already. And it's my last official choir practice, so I decided to squat down when we were waiting to emo for a while. Then XM bent down as well to emo with me. LOL.
Bal-laygi was really a blast. I was gasping for breath after it was over! Rosas was better than I expected, and for Tickle, poor JA's evil laugh got drowned by the applause! But I think we really got a lot of encouragement from the audience. Thanks!
Afterwards we went for dinner with some seniors at Marina Square food court, but then our batch of people went to find another table separately due to lack of space. So perhaps it was a bit segregationalist. Either way, it was good to see the seniors again after so long, especially Jia Yun!
During dinner ensued much talk about elections, and staring contests that wasted a lot of time. SSOD got mentioned, as well as H3. YJ almost declared another Insult Sixuan Day. Whatever. My stare pwns LC's. Later when we were to go home, I was asking how other people were going home, and he had the nerve to say: "By public transport." [thereby insinuating that I'd be taking private transport] !!!
On the bus home with Sheena I was rather quiet, mostly because I was tired, I think. Earlier on before dinner we asked Ms Lim whether she'll really miss us. She said that she didn't feel it yet, because she's too tired, but later on she'd feel it. I think I feel the same.
NJChoir has been an important part of my life for approximately 1190 days, give or take a week, which is about 3 years and 3 months. It hasn't really sunk in that I'm not going to be Alto SL anymore, or that I can't be going for choir practice anymore. After 3 years and 3 months of practices, 2 SYFs, 2 Italy trips, 3 concerts, 3 carollings, 3 camps, 3 seniors' farewells, it's sort of over. I hope to join the NJ Alumni Choir though, so it's not so bad.
I'm really going to miss choir.
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