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Thursday, April 28, 2005
Title : GOLD WITH HONOURS!!!
Time : 10:42 am Earworm: The Day that I Die ~~Good Charlotte Currently reading: The Phantom Of the Opera~~ Gaston Leroux let me say that again: TJC guitar ensemble achieved GOLD WITH HONOURS! ok rewind a little to the long prac on tues, 2nd last time mr. liaow is conducting. somehow everyone doesn't seem into it, which is a bit worrying, the two pieces were one huge mess when we started playing. largely contributed by fatigue. towards 8pm, we improved slightly before wrapping up for the day. on wednesday, we tried to psych ourselves up for the big day tomorrow. our playing was much better after some rest. and we were let off early at 5.30pm not before some words of encouragement. it's like the final hurdle. we've worked so hard to be here.. all that. as prez kee meng put it>> keep 2 Cs in mind-- Consistency and Calmness 28th APRIL, THURS, GUITAR SYF 2005 a day i will remember for the rest of my life... in the morn, heard that mar burnt her tie during ironing...aaaahhhhh!!!!!!! how she salvaged it will be explained later... went straight to mozart room to deposit our belongings after assembly. after that it was practise in the recital room. kent trying to get all of us to express ourselves. year ones and year twos pointing out our mistakes. trying hard to smile but feel awkward doing it. 9.45am. moved towards the audi. passed our friend's classrooms. saw fung's class--everyone seem to be sleeping while mr. goh is in front of the lab =p turns out there's year one FM lecture so had to shift back to recital room and wait for mr. liaow. everyone seems tense and rushing thru the pieces and he had to keep telling us to relax. after he left it was off to the audi for technical run-through. at this point, felt as if we over-practised. our fingers need some rest. released for lunch at 12pm. 1pm. back at the recital room waiting for makeup to be done by gina and see teng. saw the sample of makeup on see teng and most of the girls were horrified. shocking blue eyeshadow and blood red lips. definitely overdone! luckily she toned down... but just a little. maybe she's right about makeup not showing up on stage so have to slather on more. i understand that. but just scary looking at ourselves in the mirror. oh and mar tried to get her tie fashioned in a way that will cover up the burnt mark but the tie would be too short for her. in the end gina helped her with a safety pin and somehow made the white part less visible. phew!  while waiting for the bus, kee meng made another speech about how the teachers are already very proud of us. now added on to make it 3 Cs-- consistency, calmness and confidence. in the canteen, we were a funny sight, singing the tune of the dance of the yao people.  lost track of what time we arrived at the Singapore Conference Hall since we weren't allowed watches and all our handphones are kept with the helpers. saw how the other schools costumes compared to our waiter outfits with bright blue ties. The RJC guitar team looked fantastic. guys in all black with gold tie. and girls looking resplendent in long black gowns and gold strings knotted around their necks. min joo made a passing comment: i feel so butch now. lol... but is it very practical to wear gowns i wonder, since we sorta have to wedge the guitar into position between our legs, hence the long black pants. had a quick tuning in the foyer then proceeded to another tuning room where mr. liaow burst in and had a quick final run-through. by this time feeling much tensed. siang kee very jittery and need cold jokes to distract her. in a flash we were waiting in line to go on stage already. so after 4 months of intensive training, long and hard hours of practises, eating dinner at 9pm, sore fingers after practising, lugging special guitars back, it's come down to this moment in time. and we're given to cue to go onstage!  this arrangement is actually for some other day's performance. hard to walk with the music stands so near the chairs so i guess our angles we're supposed to hold the guitars at were all messed up. nearly missed the cue to set down the foot stools and felt the chairs were not really spaced out properly. my left arm was like touching jia en's sleeve. The dance of yao people started off quite softly. hesitated whether it was too soft or what but daren't play louder coz remembered what mr. liaow said about it's not about hearing yourself but playing as a whole. then we jumped right into the allegro and with a superb clash of cymbals by our percussionist which shocked the crowd i believe. midway thru the song heard tinkles of laughter but had to focus on the conductor. rushing quite a bit as we neared the finale but he was rushing along with us. i thought besame mucho was ok, except the bongo beats were not exactly co-ordinated with our playing but most others thought it was very messy and quite negative about the piece. admittedly it may not be our best playing but still... all too soon it ended. we rose to much applause. huge sighs of relief all round. now we sat back and listened to the harp ensembles while waiting for the results. all of us were holding hands as we waited with bated breaths. since we were the last to perform and the results were announced according to order, the anticipation was almost too much to bear. the first few had a lot of silvers, with VJ getting gold, but after the interval a lot of gold winners. 6 in total. and now its down to TJC---- GOLD...WITH HONOURS. everyone of us just started jumping up and down and screaming!! we were all in hysterics, hugging each other. i felt tears at the corner of eyes! the announcer had to remind us not to leave out the two harp ensembles who havent heard their standing yet hehe. so it was all worth it. our hard labour produced the fruits we so coveted. not only are we the ONLY JC to get it we were also the FIRST IN HISTORY since this is the first year they introduced the gold with honours system. cannot describe the adrenaline rush we had the whole club was absolutely brimming with mad energy that had us shouting the TJ cheer and all other schools following suit with their own cheers. on the bus back to school we were screaming three cheers for helpers, kee meng, yu ting, kent (hahaha thanks for the treat!), ming xiu.... singing the TJ anthem on top of our voices and chanting gold with honours gold with honours gold with honours once we alighted. the school was quite empty then tho. but we were too happy to care. later mar, pat, brit and me went to swensen's to celebrate our victory.  so here's HUGE THANK YOU to all the well wishers, my classmates, hostelmates, guitar club members and of course the entire SYF team. WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!   here's my beloved bass family! |
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