These past few days have been really exhausting, due to the overwhelming amount of homework I have to do, the studying of tests and lots of other stuff. To make matter's worse, I constently give myself unnecessary stress and pressure, breaking out in cold sweat for no particular reason, to the point that I almost hyperventilated.
Well, I'm definitely beginning to feel the fatigue building after the SYF. Well, hopefully we'd all be able to cope with our studies and at the same time, find time to relax and unwind. If not, we'd just overwork ourselves and go into depression or something.
At the very least, there is some one there to take away all our burdens, so why not pour your heart out to him and enjoy life? After all, life is about changes and how we respond to them. That in itself, is brilliance.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
Deep waters await...
I've just recovered(not fully) from my fever today and tomorrow's already the mid-year exam paper one. I'm definitely feeling the heat and stress, mostly because I'm very afraid that I might not do well. I feel even more afraid than I was for PSLE. I don't know what's up with me these few days. I pray tomorrow's topics will be something I know how to write about. Actually, it will be an achievement if I even manage to finish the two parts on time. Nevertheless, I am thankful for a great family there to support me, for I would have crumbled long ago if it wasn't for them. I've not crumbled yet, please LORD, don't let me start now,please...
Friday, April 17, 2009
SYF 2009
Yesterday was the SYF Central Judging competition and I have to admit, it was really very fun and enjoyable! The whole experience was really a rollercoaster ride.
In the morning, right after assembly, we already started choir. We warmed up, practiced the songs, got changed and ate a super early lunch at 10 am. Then, Mr Toh came! He practiced with us and we did Ave Maria humming with our eyes closed in the dark. It was really cool!
Afterwards, we went to Victoria Concert Hall and practiced in the rehearsal room. We were really really tense, but it got better as we relaxed. Mr Toh told us to focus on him, and nothing else. We waited to go on stage for maybe about 15 minutes and it seemed forever, but the time finally came and we went on stage. We savored the moment, as one choir, one body. We performed the songs and it was magical!
After the performance, we went off stage and changed into our uniforms, home clothes etc. and went to eat. Done eating, we reached Victoria Concert Hall at 5.10 p.m, we waited for the rest to come. We went into the concert hall first to get seats for the results. Eventually when the rest reached, there wasn't enough space for them anymore, so Gemonn, Joshua and I gave up our seats for them. The person announced the results and VS choir got Gold with Honours too! The sop ones screamed and we were all like 'lol'. When it came to our turn, we were anticipating a gold or a silver, but we got Gold with Honours! Naturally we were all freaking happy.
The Celebration
We tried to tau pok Mr Toh but he insisted that we couldn’t, so we didn't. However, we did tau pok someone else. It was the Impeccable Cornelius! We did lots of crazy stuff, because we said we'd do them if we got Gold with Honours. Therefore, Zhen Sheng had to jump into the pool, Gemonn had to kiss Terence, Joshua and Zi Feng had to slap each other 15 times and we did lots of other crazy stuff. The most memorable scene, however, was surrounding Mr Toh and singing Ubi Caritas to him. It was the best!
White Horses
Maiden Of Miao
Ave Maria
In the morning, right after assembly, we already started choir. We warmed up, practiced the songs, got changed and ate a super early lunch at 10 am. Then, Mr Toh came! He practiced with us and we did Ave Maria humming with our eyes closed in the dark. It was really cool!
Afterwards, we went to Victoria Concert Hall and practiced in the rehearsal room. We were really really tense, but it got better as we relaxed. Mr Toh told us to focus on him, and nothing else. We waited to go on stage for maybe about 15 minutes and it seemed forever, but the time finally came and we went on stage. We savored the moment, as one choir, one body. We performed the songs and it was magical!
After the performance, we went off stage and changed into our uniforms, home clothes etc. and went to eat. Done eating, we reached Victoria Concert Hall at 5.10 p.m, we waited for the rest to come. We went into the concert hall first to get seats for the results. Eventually when the rest reached, there wasn't enough space for them anymore, so Gemonn, Joshua and I gave up our seats for them. The person announced the results and VS choir got Gold with Honours too! The sop ones screamed and we were all like 'lol'. When it came to our turn, we were anticipating a gold or a silver, but we got Gold with Honours! Naturally we were all freaking happy.
The Celebration
We tried to tau pok Mr Toh but he insisted that we couldn’t, so we didn't. However, we did tau pok someone else. It was the Impeccable Cornelius! We did lots of crazy stuff, because we said we'd do them if we got Gold with Honours. Therefore, Zhen Sheng had to jump into the pool, Gemonn had to kiss Terence, Joshua and Zi Feng had to slap each other 15 times and we did lots of other crazy stuff. The most memorable scene, however, was surrounding Mr Toh and singing Ubi Caritas to him. It was the best!
White Horses
Maiden Of Miao
Ave Maria
Thursday, April 16, 2009
SYF 2009
OK. This is going to be a mighty short post because of tomorrow's Chinese test. Will blog more tomorrow though.
GOLD WITH HONOURS MAN!
GOLD WITH HONOURS MAN!
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
The Day before 16th of April
This post is going to be rather short because I need to study for my upcoming chinese test. Well, today will be the day before SYF, the last 24 hours before the real thing starts. Let's just hope that we would be able to give it our all. After all we've gone through, I really believe we can do well. Let's not do it for the prize, let's do it for the fun in making brilliant music! One shot, no regrets, let's do it!CHIONG AH!
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
A Good Day
Today was a good day, although there were two tests. Well first up was English. I had to write a News Report about a guy who got ran over by an MRT train. It was all right. Better than I expected in fact, considering that I didn't study for it. Yeah than there was the Mathematics test which everyone claimed to be 'very difficult' but to tell you the truth, it wasn't actually that difficult. Except for question 4b, where my first answer was (4x+1) or something like that. Many people can't see this, but it can be further factorised into (2x+1) (2x-1). I almost got tricked, but I saw it in the end.
Next up, there was choir. The first half of it was rather slack, because we had tenor sectionals (For those of you who didn't know, tenor sectionals has always been very slack).Then when Mr. Toh came, we headed back to choir room to do the songs. We sang White Horses, Ave Maria and 苗家少女. It actually turned out quite well, and we even gave him 'Goosebumps' for Ave Maria. See, we can retain what we learnt if we just put our heart and soul into it. Yup, we still have 9 more days to SYF, so we have to 'Chiong like no mother' quoted from Young Yee.
Next up, there was choir. The first half of it was rather slack, because we had tenor sectionals (For those of you who didn't know, tenor sectionals has always been very slack).Then when Mr. Toh came, we headed back to choir room to do the songs. We sang White Horses, Ave Maria and 苗家少女. It actually turned out quite well, and we even gave him 'Goosebumps' for Ave Maria. See, we can retain what we learnt if we just put our heart and soul into it. Yup, we still have 9 more days to SYF, so we have to 'Chiong like no mother' quoted from Young Yee.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
April Fool's Day
Oh Boy! This year's April Fool's day has got to be the worst day of my life! Our Trainee teacher, Mr Jonathan Shyong has left 2B and choir was screwed up today.
Science Lesson
Before the period, we went to the empty class next door to hide. Then when Mr Shyong came in, we surprised him with our party poppers and gifts. Bet he didn't know what hit him, haha. Actually, he has been with us for quite some time already. He was supposed to leave long ago, but the school decided not to let him leave yet. We didn't know, so previously, there were two farewell surprises prepared for him too. LOL. Anyway, thank you Mr Shyong for teaching us Precision of instruments, Kinematics, Dynamics. Really appreciate it.
CHOIR
It started out pretty well in the AVT, but Jesse didn't come today. We had warmups, then Mr Toh came and conducted us.
He was very angry/frustrated because:
1.people were not focused
2.Bass ones couldn't sing right notes
3.He squeezes out precious time to conduct us and improve, but we did badly
4.Lastly, of course, we didn't perform up to standard.
Therefore Mr. Toh got super angry and he just left, saying that his mood was destroyed by us.Then Cornelius(president) told us to reflect on ourselves, on whether we've been performing up to standard, maintained good discipline etc. I reflected, and man I fail!!!The worst part is, there are people who are worse than me. Dang it. 15 Days left people. It's either we do it properly and live with no regrets or do it wrongly and live with regrets.
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