Wednesday, November 26, 2008
hello folks! yeah yeah i know it's been ages since i last posted. i'm skipping the korea trip details for now cuz it's really too long, and not because i'm lazy (actually i am lazy too). anyways, today was singout'08 day! and an awesome one it was :D too bad it was the last one.i shall not talk about the other rehearsal days as they're all pretty much the same as other rehearsals... haha.
today was only our SECOND and FINAL rehearsal at VCH. see? that's the bad thing about going to korea. we didn't have much rehearsal time and everything was all rushed up. well all three schools met for the 1st time just last wednesday (also my birthday). ok back to today. we reached there at like 1.30pm. haha we were the 1st school to reach! yeah finally beat the st gabs people, for once! then we had our warmups and stuff... all the usual.
[skips to 5.45pm]
we had dinns at 5.45pm. it was some chicken thing with sauce, long beans with chilli and tofu. also, there was this slab of chilli on the rice. the funny thing was, they told us not to eat all the chilli stuff (although most ate everything). i, for one, can't really tolerate chilli. so all i ate was the NON-CHILLI stuff (rice and the tofu and ONE piece of chicken). heehee. and let me tell you that the rice was darn filling.
after eating (around 6pm), we rushed off to change, do our hair and makeup. you had to climb a flight of steps to get to our dressing room. the steps were those planky things, and there was only a small space left for our feet to walk when the planks over-lapped. i almost fell! gahh. erika's a super woman when it comes to bunning hair. after changing and makeup-ing, we had only 5 mins left. erika totally bunned for me, with 2 mins to spare! cool right?
all 3 choirs gathered in the hall at 7pm, just before the audience were allowed to come in. we didn't have the usual prayer. instead, we sang "heart of worship" as a prayer to dedicate to God. haha it's quite a novel idea. when the performance started, everything was rush rush rush, dodging in and out of the many folks who were gathered together. the whole concert lasted for 2 hours and 15 mins, but it felt like only an hour. gahh i hate it when time totally flies when you're just starting to have fun. soon, we were down to the last few performances, and after that, everything's OVER.
met brenda, lynette, inglee, juleen, wantian, annabel, clara cher, claudia, clara wong, weiwen, serena, chuanlian, my parents etc after the concert. oh man it was really jammed outside the hall. juleen gave me my birthday present, and wantian, annabel, clara cher, and claudia gave me a tiny bouquet each. they're really sweet, and then i was up to my neck, literally. i felt like a giraffe when i carried all the presents that they gave me. nonetheless, THANK YOU PEEPS! heehee.
D: i never wanted singout to end. in fact, many of us didn't feel that today was our performance day. this post marks the end of singout'08 and singout, generally. this is our last singout. oh man i sure will miss working with the other schools and fooling around with them. the next time we see each other is SYF next year, but i think the odds of meeting them is only 2%. oh how sad. and there's the big 'O's next year, something that i'm absolutely not prepared for.
i'll miss HI choir when i retire next year...