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Sunday, November 28, 2004 @ 11/28/2004 08:00:00 PM

muuucccuuuuussssss

*sniff sniff* * ahackahack*

AH!! finally..can breathe...now i noe why i cld'nt reach the D at kenny's place on fri...coz i was coming down with a flu...no wonder my throat felt horrid that day...now its horrid...but i can still sing lah...thank god...

ok..my comp is seriously gonna crash soon...gotta delete A LOT of stuff soon man...esp all my songs and videos...oh well...did some liao...got A LOT more to do tho...oh well...leave that to another time..

currently i have 3 songs stuck in my brain...

Vanessa Carlton- a thousand miles
Mandy moore- only hope
child of the poor / what child is this

anyone wanna noe why?? well..its all "thanks" to jon and his excessive playing of vanessa carlton's song at kenny's place on fri...DANG!! can't get it out..i mean...i heard it b4 lah..but never really went all gaga over it till now lah..well..those tt din join us at kenny's place that day..you all seriously missed out on a WHOLE LOAD OF FUN...but then you were lucky to miss the singing tho...it was bad man...esp me..SERIOUSLY have NO idea why i cld not reach the D on dingdong's "GLO-ria" ...sounded like a castrated cat man..bad..but now can..i think..i've been trying evrytime i hit the shower and i seem to be able to...i guess i juz can't get over the fact i cld not hit it that day lah...oh well..noe sth?? wheni joined CJ choir..i was hoping to find a gang tt enjoys singing and music as much as my gang in sec sch does...maybe i have??i dunno...we'll see...i'm juz REALLY grateful that melia is still with me in CJ...SERIOUSLY MAN...i can't imagine my life in CJ without her..it wld be TOTALLY diff i can tell you...esp the singing part..my goodness...literally my only dependable singing partner...one that is always in tune (well ALMOST..who is anyway?) and with almost the same kind of voice quality...i guess coz trained by the same person aka Ms Goh...we blend nicely...=D and the most impt factor is that we are not afraid to sing almost ANYWHERE..i'm a person that literally sings evrywhere i go..if i dun have someone to join me in that i think i may juz begin to hate choir and singing eventually ...=S and that ain't good man...nah..i doubt i can ever hate singing and choir..love it too much..oh well..

WENT TO THE BEATELS CONCERT!!!!!!! WHEEEEE!!!!!!! beatels rock man...the concert was held at stadium waterfront or was it waterside..hmmm...oh wadeva...anyway..it was like open space lah...my family was expecting like an outdoor theatre with seats and all...so when we got there we were quite far off from the venue lah..so we had to walk pass the actual indoor stadium lah..while my dad was drving ard looking for carpark we saw like manymany ...well..wad i wld like to call "AH LIANS.."ok lah...juz not the kind of ppl you wld be expecting to attend a beatels concert...you noe the kind of teenage gals that love F4 and 5566 those kind of ppl...teeny-bopper lovers...yea...younoe the typical short skirt,re-bonded hair,pink tank tops,dyed hair...get the pic??? yea...so my sis and i were like shocked lah...kept asking my mum if we were at the right place coz they seemed to be heading in the same direction as us..my mum was in fact not the least bit shocked with the kind of ppl ard us..she kept saying beatels was for the teens..i told her more like the teens of HER time...well...thankfully aft some following they stopped and we continued.. and saw that our venue of the concert was an open-air area..with grass and evrything lah DUH...so my mum was like:" WHAT??!!!" my mum is sooo not the outdoor tyope..and mind you..her defn of outdoor is LITERALLY OUT-DOOR...as long as there is grass and open air...tts outdoor...oh well..they told us we cld purchase mats inside lah..but my family always prepared ...my mum and dad went back to the car to get a poncho and a mat in the boot...DAMN WE'RE GOOD!!!!! like wad my mum said upon return:" for a family that was not prepared,we came prepared" cld not have said it better myself...

so when my dad came back he had some brochure they were giving out and from tt i realised wad drew the "ah-lian" population earlier on...if i'm not wrong..there was a JAY CHOU concert going on...HAHAH!! NO WONDER!!! ok lah...i noe i'm gonna get a beating from all the jay chou fans now for stereotyping but i seriously can't help it...i mean...the guy can't sing lah...=S to each their own lah...oh well...i crushed the brochure aft realising wad it was...i mean..this was CRAP compared to wad i was abt to hear in abt 1/2 hr's time...yes...free seating mah...go early to chope space lah...newae...beatels rock lah ok...staretd at 8 ended at 1030...it got a bit boring in the middle coz i dun really noe all the beatels hits lah...but it was still good nontheless..gonna dl the songs soon...

choir 2mr...sick oso must go..i believe always tt as long as i can still walk i must go to sch...esp since this is choir..all the more i wanna go...=D sound like some choir -freak now..but hey!!! SUE ME LAH!!! =P gotta go anyway...marianne still not back yet...and i can still go...unless i'm like paralysed or sth then tts another problem...

Saturday, November 27, 2004 @ 11/27/2004 04:44:00 PM

DANG!!!

YEAH!!!!

yesterday was such a fun day...reminded of sec sch days...after choir, a bunch of us : melia, kenny, jon, daniELLE, norman, charissa and cindy went to Bishan for lunch...so off to J8 we went..kenny like wen to NTUC or wadeva to buy drinks lah...coz he said its cheaper there than to buy form the food court..so he went to buy and returned with 2 1 litre drinks...i thot he was juz gonna buy cans or sth...mwahaha..funfun...

after lunch roamed ard J8 for awhile then decided to pop-by kenny's hse to have a "karaoke session"...so off we went to kenny's place..sang all the way there..bet we must have scared manymany passer-by...must have been going:" wad lah all this CJC nuts..singing ' white christmas' at this time of day...siao ah.." but heck em lah!!! so we got to kenny's hse...tried singing all our carols and it sounded ...er...well..."great?"...YEAH RITE!!! it was horrid man...esp me...i SERIOUSLY have no idea why i cld not reach the D of the "GLO-ria" of dingdong...i usually can lah..yesterday..my goodness lah...horrid man...coz altos start 1st with the gloria then the rest of the parts come in one-by-one..when it was my time to "shine" i sounded like a castrated chicken...seriously...evryone bursted out in laughter...including myself..and i felt soo bad..coz if i cld not continue..the rest cld not too...hiaz...and mind you we tries at least 3 times and ALL 3 times i screwed up...well...yesterday was clearly not a day to hit a D on dingdong ALONE...

OH!! did i mention i was the only alto at choir yesterday??? freaky...michelle kept telling me not to use throat voice tho i dun tink i was...=S hmm...must investigate..luckily later some seniors came(sarah and lq..actually sops but singing alto for this concert due to the pathetically small no.) and i cld sing properly liao...i guess i'm one tt can't sing alone..esp if it requires sing HIGH notes...if its notes within my range i'm fine...oh well...

BACK to the session at kenny's... well..yea...sang and sang..then charissa and cindy left..so the rest of us tried some songs jon /dan's(???) church choir are singing...DAMN NICE...child of the poor/what child is this...really nice..but i think too late to sing it for the concert...but oh well..jon plays really nicely...i mean the way he does it lah...melia and i were commenting that he's got the "touch"..or sth liddat lah...=D left kenny's at ard 8 instead of the actual 6 pm...mwahaha...see how fun??? we shld do that again some other time man...newae... the main reason i've got 3 songs stuck in my brain now is all jon's fault...

Vanessa Carlton- A thousand Miles
Mandy moore- only hope
child of the poor/what child is this

i mean...i've heard the 1st 2 b4 lah...liked it but nvr went gaga over it..."thanks" to jon..i am now hooked to it..and i wun stop singin it until a long while more...DANG!! gonna get a beating from my sis and melia soon if this goes on man...once i start..i can't stop..well..at least for some time...gonna keep singing it...oh well...we shld go someone's hse again soon and do the same....fun...tho singin was bad at 1st..but fun nontheless...i came to CJ choir hoping to find a "gang" tt enjoyed singing as much as my gang in sec sch did...maybe i have?? i dunno..oh well...going off soon to watch the beatles concert later...mwahahah..no idea wad to expect...oh well...hopefully the songs there replaces the ones in my head now...wait..or do i really want that??no diff...gonna torture ppl anyway...mwahaha...

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 @ 11/23/2004 02:59:00 PM

pah dah xmas time!!

PAH DAH CHRISTMAS TIME...

YEAAAAAAAAHH...oo..oo shoo bee do wap...i'm getting into the xmas mood...YEAH!! singing carols like evryday really gets you into the mood...btw..you noe in sunday sch my teacher told me tt when you spell christmas as xmas..its crossing Christ out when the whole festive season IS abt him..its like saying :"Happy Birthday Timmy!!" when Timmy is not there....hiaz..dunno if true but i guess it makes sense...now gotta learn the sop part of "its christmas time"..an octave lower of coz...and sops now sing the alto part...so unfair...=P alto part for tt song is soo easy except maybe for the intervals lah...BUT STILL!!! you noe how hard it is for me to learn a song from scratch esp since my music reading skills ain't tt powderful? hiaz...oh well...at least sth for me to do..OTHER than holiday hmewrk...

seriously...consider this...does'nt "holiday homewrk" sound soo wrong? i mean...look..holiday means to take a break..to be FREE from WORK...to relax...homework means wad? WORK that is to be done at home... put the 2 together and it does not make sense: "take a break, be free from work,relax BUT do your work at home" Like how the hell you supposed to do work and be free from it at the same time??? RIGHT??!!! oh well...tts singapore...i still rmb pri sch daes where the night b4 sch reopens evryone calling each other to check wad hol hmewrk was and last min find out and rush thru the whole thing...and write some rubbish dates down there when it was all actually done the night before...MWHAHA...then kena scolcded from parents...haha..those were the days...listening to carols juz somehow brings abt this nostalgic feeling in me...hiaz...

today was a waste of time going back to sch...1/2 hr meeting lah...travel 1/2 hr to attend a 1/2 hr meeting as compared to 4 hrs of choir (which i prefer soo much more) hiaz...had to go back for some CCA orientation meeting for all the leaders...and guess wad? i dun even noe tt there was a meeting!!! ok..i knew lah..but i was informed like 2-3 wks ago by marianne and she din even tell me wad it was abt...and she din even remind me lah...hiaz..i bet she 4got oso lah...oh well...too many things going lah...LUCKILY i was toking to norman online last nite and he "reminded" me..the convo went sth liddat lah..can't rmb exact words...

norman: 2mr gotta go back bid for location rite?
norman: no need to bid lah..we sure get st cecilia's
me: HUH??!!!
me: bid for location??
norman: *copy and pastes msg from another convo* 2mr cca leaders gotta go back and bid for cca orientation location..
me: * scans thru memory.. recalls sth on 23rd..mari said..but din say regarding wad*
me: OMG!!!!
me: I TOALLY 4GOT!!!
me: DETAILS!!!
norman: LT1 10 am

whoa lao...heng man...it was God's plan man..THANX MAN DADDY!! YOU ROCK!!! its called a miricle...mwahah...hiaz...well...nth to write liao...2mr got choir and i got a feeling more probs are on their way...OH! my sis recorded the SYF set piece "sunset" sung by their choir during practice...it sounded bad...and mind you it ws in tune the WHOLE time lah..there is like no harmony..no tune towrads the end lah...hiaz...its a tri-lingual piece and the alto part is really jia lat according to her...damn minor-ish sounding...oh well..hope CJ choir will be able to pull it off..it will be hard...but we HAVE to do it...oh well...

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 @ 11/17/2004 11:06:00 AM

mwahahaaha...stole this off ying hui's blog,who stole it off amelia's blog...mwahahaha...i finally decided to steal it...mass blog stealing process goign on =D its really damn cool...those tt are in a choir or who have been in a choir will be able to indentify with and enjoy this better...I LOVE BEING ALTO!! esp the top 10 reasons part...=D ENJOY!!!

THE YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE CHORUS

In any chorus, there are four voice parts: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. Sometimes these are divided into first and second within each part, prompting endless jokes about first and second basses. There are also various other parts such as baritone, countertenor, contralto, mezzo soprano, etc., but these are mostly used by people who are either soloists, or belong to some excessively hotshot classical a cappella group (this applies especially to countertenors), or are trying to make excuses for not really fitting into any of the regular voice parts, so we will ignore them for now. Each voice part sings in a different range, and each one has a very different personality. You may ask, "Why should singing different notes make people act differently?", and indeed this is a mysterious question and has not been adequately studied, especially since scientists who study musicians tend to be musicians themselves and have all the peculiar complexes that go with being tenors, french horn players, timpanists, or whatever. However,this is beside the point; the fact remains that the four voice parts can be easily distinguished, and I will now explain how... ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:

THE SOPRANOS are the ones who sing the highest, and because of this they think they rule the world. They have longer hair , fancier jewellery, and swishier skirts than anyone else, and they consider themselves insulted if they are not allowed to go at least to a high F in every movement of any given piece. When they reach the high notes, they hold them for at least half again as long as the composer and/or conductor requires, and then complain that their throats are killing them and that the composer and conductor are sadists. Sopranos have varied attitudes toward the other sections of the chorus, though they consider all of them inferior. Altos are to sopranos rather like second violins to first violins - nice to harmonise with, but not really necessary. All sopranos have a secret feeling that the altos could drop out and the piece would sound essentially the same, and they don't understand why anybody would sing in that range in the first place - it's so boring. Tenors, on the other hand, can be very nice to have around; besides their flirtation possibilities (it is a well-known fact that sopranos never flirt with basses), sopranos like to sing duets with tenors because all the tenors are doing is working very hard to sing in a low-to-medium soprano range, while the sopranos are up there in the stratosphere showing off. To sopranos, basses are the scum of the earth - they sing too damn loud, are useless to tune because they're down in that low, low range - and there has to be something wrong with anyone who sings in the F clef, anyway. ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:

THE ALTOS are the salt of the earth - in their opinion, at least. Altos are unassuming people, who would wear jeans to concerts if they were allowed to.Altos are in a unique position in the chorus in that they are unable to complain about having to sing either very high or very low, and they know that all the other sections think their parts are pitifully easy. But the altos know otherwise. They know that while the sopranos are screeching way on a high A, they are being forced to sing elaborate passages full of harps and flats and tricks of rhythm, and nobody is noticing because the sopranos are singing too loud (and the basses usually are too). Altos get a deep, secret pleasure out of conspiring together to tune the sopranos flat. Altos have an innate distrust of tenors, because the tenors sing in almost the same range and think they sound better. They like the basses, and enjoy singing duets with them - the basses just sound like a rumble anyway, and it's the only time the altos can really be heard. Altos' other complaint is that there are always too many of them and so they never get to sing really loud. ------> soo not true in CJ
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THE TENORS are spoiled. That's all there is to it. For one thing, there are never enough of them, and choir directors would rather sell their souls than let a halfway decent tenor quit, while they're always ready to unload a few altos at half price. And then, for some reason, the few tenors are always really good - it's one of those annoying facts of life. So it's no wonder that tenors always get swollen heads - after all, who else can make sopranos swoon? The one thing that can make tenors insecure is the accusation (usually by the basses) that anyone singing that high couldn't possibly be a real man.. In their usual perverse fashion, the tenors never acknowledge this, but just complain louder about the composer being a sadist and making them sing so damn high. Tenors have a love-hate relationship with the conductor, too, because the conductor is always telling them to sing louder because there are so few of them. No conductor in recorded history has ever asked for less tenor in a forte passage. Tenors feel threatened in some way by all the other sections - the sopranos because they can hit those incredibly high notes; the altos because they have no trouble singing the notes the tenors kill themselves for; and the basses because, although they can't sing anything above an E, they sing it loud enough to drown the tenors out. Of course, the tenors would rather die than admit any of this. It is a little-known fact that tenors move their eyebrows more than anyone else while singing. ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:

THE BASSES sing the lowest of anybody. This basically explains everything. They are stolid , dependable people, and have more facial hair than anybody else. The basses feel perpetually unappreciated, but they have a deep conviction that they are actually the most important part (a view endorsed by musicologists, but certainly not by sopranos or tenors), despite the fact that they have the most boring part of anybody and often sing the same note(or in endless fifths) for an entire page. They compensate for this by singing as loudly as they can get away with - most basses are tuba players at heart. Basses are the only section that can regularly complain about how low their part is, and they make horrible faces when trying to hit very low notes. Basses are charitable people, but their charity does not extend so far as tenors, whom they consider effete poseurs. Basses hate tuning the tenors more than almost anything else. Basses like altos - except when they have duets and the altos get the good part. As for the sopranos, they are simply in an alternate universe which the basses don't understand at all. They can't imagine why anybody would ever want to sing that high and sound that bad when they make mistakes. When a bass makes a mistake, the other three parts will cover him, and he can continue on his merry way, knowing that sometime, somehow, he will end. ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:

Top Ten Reasons for Being a Soprano
The rest of the choir exists just to make you look good.
You can entertain your friends by breaking their wineglasses.
Can you name an opera where an alto got the man?
When sopranos want to sing in the shower, they know the tune.
It's not like you are ever going to sing the alto part by accident.
Great costumes - like the hat with the horns on it.
How many world famous altos can you name?
When the fat lady sings, she's usually singing soprano.
When you get tired of singing the tune, you can sing the descant.
You can sing along with Michael Jackson.
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Top Ten Reasons for Being an Alto
You get really good at singing E flat.
You get to sing the same note for 12 consecutive measures.
You don't really need to warm up to sing 12 consecutive bars of E-flat.
If the choir really stinks, it's unlikely the altos will be blamed.
You have lots of time to chat during soprano solos.
You get to pretend that you are better than the sopranos, because everybody knows that women only sing soprano so they don't have to learn to read music.
You can sometimes find part time work singing tenor.
Altos get all the great intervals.
When the sopranos are holding some outrageously high note at the end of a song, the altos always get the last words. When the altos miss a note, nobody gets hurt.
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Top Ten Reasons for Being a Tenor
Tenors get high - without drugs.
Name a musical where the bass got the girl.
You can show the sopranos how it SHOULD be sung.
Did you ever hear of anyone paying $1000 for a ticket to see 'The three Basses?'
Who needs brains when you've got resonance?
Tenors never have to waste time looking through the self-improvement section of the bookstore.
You get to sing along with John Denver singing "Aye Calypso."
When you get really good at falsetto, you can make tons of money doing voice-overs for cartoon characters.
Gregorian chant was practically invented for tenors.
Nobody invented a genre for basses.
You can entertain your friends by impersonating Julia Child.
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Top Ten Reasons for Being a Bass
You don't have to tighten your shorts to reach your note.
You don't have to worry about a woman stealing your job.
Or a preadolescent boy stealing your job.
Action heroes are always basses. That is - if they ever sang, they would sing bass.
You get great memorable lyrics like bop, bop, bop, bop.
If the singing job doesn't work out, there's always broadcasting.
You never need to learn to read the treble clef.
If you get a cold, so what.
For fun, you can sing at the bottom of your range and fool people into thinking there's an earthquake.
If you belch while you're singing, the audience just thinks it is part of the score.

Monday, November 15, 2004 @ 11/15/2004 04:10:00 PM

dream....

HA!

i decided i better type this down before i continue forgetting all the little details of my dream...

ok..i was looking thru all the STC yearbks last night b4 i went to slp...why was i looking thru STC yearbks?? coz i was toking to nick and he was saying that his "beloved" *ahemahem* was wearing pants to her prom so i decided to pull out the yearbk and see if there was a pic of her...well...there was'nt ...but aft tt i looked thru the 2000 one...when i was sec 1...and who did i see?? all the "celebrities" in STC of our time... clare kwan,clare yeo,joanne wee,diana goh,vanessa yue blahblahblah...too many to name man..why were they celebs? coz like nearly almost evry sec 1 gal had a senior tt she idolized...thinking back...i realise how VERYVERYstupid we all were...well..at least for me lah..as for melia...erm..hmm..=P well..on with my dream...

we were in CJC...sitting at the benches near the grandstad..under the shelter those?? yea...WAIT..were we there to begin with?? wait...who were the "we"??? ARGH!! memory failing !!!!!!! nvm nvm...i rmb i was with a grp of ppl..shld be my sec sch clique..tho only SOME of them..lisa,melia,yimei and me only i think...well..yea...we were sitting there doing work ( i think) then one of us wanted to refill water bottle...either melia or lisa..since both of them are like water barrels..=P
so we i went with one of them lah...dunno why we ended up walking all the way to the science labs to refill water when we cld have done so juz across the assembly area...oh well...yea..as we were climbing up the steps saw some ppl in pinafore...as we advanced furthur up the stairs saw the faces more clearly...they were clustered in like 4 grps of 3 each.. they were none other than the "celebs" lah...i was like stunned lah..like wad the hell were they doing there?? so Lisa( i think its Lisa since i dun rmb the person i was with jumping up and down for joy =P) so we walked past them and when we got to the end of the path decided to walk back..so we walked past them AGAIN WITHOUT filling the water bottles and headed back for the benches...
told yimei and amelia tt the celebs were there and melia was like :" OMG!! OMG!!OMG!!! REALLY???!!! I WANNA GO SEE!!" but i was like :" no way man!" so malu lah...remind me of when i was in sec 1...=S so yea..melia as usual continues to whine like she wld for bucky...well..all tt whining for nth coz they walked past our area and they were toking abt some sci pract lah..and all 4 of us juz froze there...yea..then my dream ended with melia pinching me and telling me to chase aft them to catch a glimpse of them with her...i obviously rejected violently...=D so yea...tts abt it...
mwwahah....how looking at some old pics can actually bring abt such a dream..so interesting...=D oh well...

Saturday, November 13, 2004 @ 11/13/2004 10:18:00 PM

Orange Coloured Sky
by Natalia

I was walking along, minding my business,
When out of the orange colored sky,
Flash, bam, alakazam, Wonderful you came by.

I was humming a tune, drinking in sunshine,
When out of that orange colored view
Flash, bam, alakazam, I got a look at you.

One look and I yelled timber
Watch out for flying glass.
Cause the ceiling fell in and the bottom fell out
I went into a spin and I started to shout
I've been hit, This is it, this is it

I was walking along minding my business
When love came and hit me in the eye
Flash, bam, alakazam,
Out of the orange colored sky

one look and I yelled timber
Watch out for flying glass.
Cause the ceiling fell in and the bottom fell out
I went into a spin and I started to shout
I've been hit, This is it, this is it

I was walking along minding my business
When love came and hit me in the eye
Flash, bam, alakazam,
Out of the orange coloured, purple striped,
Pretty green polka-dot sky
Flash, bam, alakazam,
and goodbye

ha...after hearing daphne sing it on the s'pore idol reloaded today the big band special...the song is STUCK in my brain...can you imagine? orange coloured,purple striped,green polka dotted sky?? tt will be soooo damn cool lah...so ...RETRO MAN!! WOOHOO!!! hiaz...nth much happened today tho...juz went to IMM with my family to do some shopping and i found santa hats for our costume for the christmas concert...$2 each..but a bit fitting...my sis suggested putting elastic on the bottom area..yea..good idea...=D i smsed marianne to tell her tt santa hats sold at IMM and she replied : " erm wads IMM?" i wanted to faint there man...i thot evryone knew where IMM was or at least wad it was...=S nvm...you're forgiven dudette =D WAIT! most people DO know where IMM is rite???!!! =S

hiaz...still got SPA project to do...and now i'm starting to look more forward to choir...the sessions are more fufilling now i guess...i mean..at least i'm going there to learn sth new and yea...i dunno..i juz feel tt my time spent there now is more worth it..=) Michelle is doing a GREAT job..=D and i think if we all put in juz a BIT more effort...we may very well be more prepared for our concert than we thot we wld be and even for the competition tt we JUST entered at eunos CC...=D YEAH MAN! hahaa..yea...evryone is taking choir more seriously now and ppl are starting to bond...i guess the morning games really help...=D IF only MORE turned up...played soccer on fri...hopefully we play captian's ball on tues...FUNFUN!!!

and esp the altos...i'm soo proud of ourselves...not juz coz i'm alto but i can see that our section is improving a lot and all taking the choir sessions more seriously...YEAH MAN!! hope all the other sections follow suit...=D hiaz..as you can see..i've hardly anything to type lah..so i'm juz typing stuff...OH!! OH!!! CAROL OF THE BELLS ROCKS MAN!!!!! esp by the vienna boys choir...wait..DUH! its nice! its by THE vienna boy's choir man...but WE the CJC choir will also be singing it at our christmas concert on the 17th and 18th dec...=D the :" Gayly they ring, while ppl sing, song of good cheer, christmas is here.." is another phrase tts stuck in my brain...i juz love tt phrase i dunno why..i guess coz its the climax of the song..damn cool. those tt nvr hear b4 OR wanna hear a DAMN nice version of it then msg me online i'll send you then one by vienna boy's choir which was soo kindly provided to me by Ms amelia huang...=D ok...i got nth to type liao... back to listening to clay sing :"mack the knife"..=D why can't MORE guys sing like clay,micheal buble,josh groban,alex band (The calling)...hiaz...sadsad...

Wednesday, November 10, 2004 @ 11/10/2004 10:40:00 PM

yea..feel better

i feel MUCHMUCH better now man...

all i needed was for someone to tell me i was doing the right or rather the best possible thing...now i feel soo much better..no need to keep the whole thing to myself...actually ah...i dunno why i am SOOOOOOOOOoooOOOOOOOOO affected by wad tt woman said lah..its actually a very trivial and stupid and childish and pri sch thing lah....bud coz it concerns someone dear to me so guess i got all emotional...yea...=S but aft toking to someone i feel much better now...and witht the consensus i gathered from others i guess i feel much better now...like i'm not the only one tt is thinking that way..yea!!! i feel MUCHMUCH better...

well...went for choir today as usual...they had games in the morning but din go coz i came home late the night before...and moreover i dun like volleyball...but they are playing captian's ball on fri so i'm going!!!!!!! not tt i love tt game to death but i like it better..MUCH better then volley ball..and i of ALL ppl shld be enthu abt this lah...if not i'm not being a good role model lah....newae...yesh! i will go for captian's ball!!!!!!!!! =D =D

aft choir,some of us went for lunch together in orchard lah..on the way there very fun lah!! no seat so we all stood lah..then melia,maylyn,yinghui and i were like near each other lah...then you noe i ALWAYS break out in song whereever i am...so i did! into "Ding Dong merrily on high"...i like tt song..so nice man!!!!! esp the guys:" brightly shone the moon that night,tho the frost was cruel" they sound nice for once...=P so we were like singing tt song and tt part like a lot and all the ppl ard us got free, live entertainment =D then we got off at far east as usual..then as we were walking to lunch saw olinda,leandra,taufik and nana(the one tt got kicked out)...then there was ppl crowding ard them to take pic and sign autograph...so then yienli and annabelle were like:" lets all go take pic with them!" i was like : =S and so were some others...but in the end we deciede to lah..for the fun of it and to show spirit lah..so yea..we took it with them...then had lunch at BK and toked abt nearly evrything esp abt blinking underwear for our christmas costume for concert under a white shirt...hahahaah...damn funny man....

aft eating we..melia and i left to go meet fio and her fren tammy (? spelling) ..so we wandered ard and melia and i bought a card for fio for her belated bdae...found one tt suited her soo well....it said sth to do with always being" fashionably late" so the same with the card lor...=D i hope you liked it fio!!!!!!!! well...yea...went to library,kino(sat at the kids section and toked abt like manymany things from gays to melia slowly morphing into a guy =P) and of coz without fail melia wld be whining abt bucky and wanting to see him... =S all i can say is..the more you wanna see him ..he wun come out...ALWAYS liddat one..yea...so well...we eventually went home...sat at vals' block to "pei" fio to eat her dinner as i toked and toked...then of coz as usual we ended up toking for a DAMN long time..like 3 hrs...we were sitting..then walked ard the carpark..then walked out to the traffic light and up and down the whole pavement to the bus stop at least 5 times...so tok abt nearly EVRYTHING juz like the last time...really enjoy toking to you fio... well..here's a discovery for some of you : we find a piece of ourselves in all of our frens..the fufil a diff part of you...so fio fufils this part of me...i dunno how to classify this part...yea...but enjoyed toking to you and realising wad we have in common AGAIN....=D

so yea..juz got back from toking to fio and bathing and all..listening to vienna boys choir "carol of the bells" now...melia sent me...man..i can't stand it man...their voices are soo damn pure lah...the quality and they are TOGETHER and they BLEND damn nicely...dynamics all.. ahhhhhhhh...so nice...i wanna send my kid there..=P then i have to marry an austrian =S....4get it man..haha ok...gtg...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Tuesday, November 09, 2004 @ 11/09/2004 10:29:00 PM

now its REALLY OOOOOOVVVVVVEEERRR!!!!!!!!!!

YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

ITS OVER!!!!!!! PW is FINALLY DONE!!!!!!!!! cheena is now a thing of the past...I HOPE...=S hiaz..well. yea..now my responsibilities have shrunk lah...only left choir,SPA project and Holiday homework lah...hiaz...nxt thing i wanna get off my mind is SPA project then i can finally settle down on my other stuff tts less demanding...hiaz...

really...this whole week aft i talked online with yvonne(choir) and huilun i feel horrid..its like practically spoilt my whole week...i seriously dunno why...i really wanna tell someone wad REALLY happened but i dunno who to tell...i wanna get it off my chest...but i'm soo afraid whoever i tell it to will tell the person i dun wan to know...hiaz...actually wad happened is not anything serious in my opinion...to me...frankly...it was actually quite..4get it...i'll get into trouble if " soand so" finds out...nvm..i'll keep it all to myself until i find someone who i can tell to..sorry melia but i really can't tell you for now..dun tink its right..or rather the rite time...=D yea....

hiaz..today had OP....it was ok lah...until i read the comments lah...Mrs lok..the choir teacher was one of my assesors...okok lemme tell you wad happened ok??

1) we din noe wad time we were expected to be there so were in sch by 7.30
2) went to the venue and realised tt we were only expected at 10 to be audience
3) we were the LAST grp to present...12 noon
4)went back to venue at 10 to be audience..only to find out our competition..they like bloody memorised their scrpts lah...and delivered fluently also...figures all correct...scary man...
5) we were told that our video in the presentation WOULD be included in ML's time...ML's speech was written to be 5mins WITHOUT the video..so last min changes
4) instead of 2 assesors our grp was "special" ad had 4 assesors with 2 external moderators...=S so lucky hor?
5) Q&A was ok...i thot...but when i read the comments it seemed they felt tt my answers were not well-thought out yet well-elaborated...i found tt a bit contradicting..but got it in the end...

ok..yea..so tts PW....went out with my gang today tho fio cld'nt turn up AGAIN!!!!!! sheesh man...like specially arrange for the woman then in the end liddat...aiyah..nvm..ok lah..2mr got choir..gonna slp soon..see ya...

pS: notice my entries getting shorter and shorter?

Friday, November 05, 2004 @ 11/05/2004 10:44:00 PM

OOOVVVVVVEEERRRRR!!!!!!!!!

FINALLY!!!

the bane of my life has evaporated , POOFED!! wel..at least till i get my results the i'll see...hope i pass man..i'd better pass..i dun wanna waste time on tt horrid subject nxt year man..now stlill got PW...sick man..most of the school population is FREE AS A BIRD while some of us are still stuck with this dreaded thing called PW...

hiaz...2mr got choir at 9 am and PW at 2...oh well..can't wait for PW to end..then i can chill for awhile..BUT!! there is hol hmewrk and SPA project...ARGH! SICK! oh well..

Wednesday, November 03, 2004 @ 11/03/2004 09:27:00 PM

doom

ARGH!!!

CHINESE!!! THE BANE OF MY LIFE!!!!!!! i'm like facing chinese day and night...ok..not tt bad...i've been slacking quite a bit considering how much effort i shld put in since my chinese is like shit man...watch TV..long breaks...coming online! ARGH! i think i'm studying the wrong thing oso man..coz i asked audrey and she was studying the GREEN BOOK...yes..the one lao shi recommended..its like SOOO MUCH lah...madness..i wanted to study tt oso coz lao shi said a lot of words they take from tt book...but looking at it pissed me off man...so i had to come online to seek comfort tt no other nut was doing the same ting...HENG MAN!!! the rest of the world is sane..=D

AND I CUT MY HAIR!!!! FINALLY!!!! ok...not like shortshort but short enuff to tie....yea..i hate going to the hairdresser's btw...coz ok...heres why:

1) the ppl there juz freak me with their niceness...ok...they ARE nice lah...i'm juz paraniod...
2) the ppl there are too hip and stylish to be cutting hair under a block of flats...makes me feel so...inferior for some weird reason...=S
3)THEY SPEAK CHINESE!!!! i find it soo hard to communicate effectively with them..and mind you it is neccessary to communicate effectively with them..they are cutting MY HAIR man!!!
4) there is a butch there..she's one of the hairdressers..she only cuts the guy customer's hair but she used to cut female's hair..i was one of her victims and i ended up looking like a butch( a bit lah) aft she was done...all i asked was a TRIM!!!! i(i had short hair last time )
5) fear tt my hair will turn out a mess...

yea..but my hair is fine now..not fantastically nice but also not horrendous...so yea...i'm happy..back to work...

Monday, November 01, 2004 @ 11/01/2004 03:39:00 PM

CHEENA IS HERE!!!!!!!

CHEENA IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!

well..not EXACTLY....fri...5th November 2004 is the day that determines if my torture with chinese will prolong any further or not...I HATE CHINESE!!! okok..i juz hate DOING chinese papers..thats how the system has shaped the image of chinese for me..it has been NOTHING but PURE TORTURE for me eversince i started schooling..EVERYTIME i sit for a chinese test be it JUST "ting xie" all i ask is just to pass...since primary school....when given the choice at sec 4 btwn JC and poly..i was having ahard time simply bcoz if i went to JC i would have to face the dreaded subject... CHINESE...but i still went with JC nontheless...

my family is sooo not cheena-able...my sis has been offered CLB this year for sec 3...i kinda envy her and she's relieved and happy about it..she told me she does'nt need to struggle with chinese anymore...my mum is happy oso...see how much my family fears chinese??my dad din learn chinese ...me mum chinese sux..so tt kinda explains why my sis and my chinese soo jia lat huh??i had chinese tuition since kindergarten lah...coz no one cld teach me chinese at home and i cld'nt catch up in sch simply coz i cld not understand..hiaz...sad huh??? the most miraculous thing happened in pri 6 where i got an A for PSLE for chinese...cool huh??? but hey! its never gonna happen again lah....

govt been saying wanna make learning chinese a more enjoyable experiance...using english and all that..what I wanna noe is ..WHEN??!!! when i graduate and NEVER need to use chinese again? ok..i need to use chinese lah..but HEY!!! who converses in such CHIM chinese ???speak some cheng yu or some shu yu to some one on the street i DOUBT they will understand you..so wads the point of learing such chim chinese??i noe it serves to make us like love the subject and all but frankly its just creating MORE HATE than anything else...i noe i sound really biased against chinese here...dun get me wrong ah..i love the language... i just hate the way the govt has shaped it to be for us and how we are tested on it and how the govt has made me and many others HATE the subject...the way of teaching it has been wrong but i'm glad that changes are being made...RIGHT??!! chinese is a very nice language ..i really think its damn cool..but how i have to study it is juz horrid and i hate the way we are assesed...there is a diff ok...hiaz...ok..gtg study cheena now...all this complaining ain't gonna change the fact tt i HAVE to sit for the cheena paper on fri and not gonna change the fact tt i HAVE to pass it...failing it ain't gonna be a very successful way proving ANYTHING..so well...aft much procrastination..i'm back to work and have to start crashing my studies yet again...I HAVE TO PASS!!!