Friday, November 18, 2005
prize presentation oh five.

Hola! I shall skip the itallics today and proceed to the happenings of today. (well, well, this seems like a typical anne frank-regurgitated sentence. hahar.)
9.o7am: I guess I didn't really expect myself to wake up THIS early, but somehow i could feel that my mind was willing me to awaken, strongly oppressing the lethargy i was feeling. bleh! Five minutes later I was asleep again, my head dangling at the edge of the bed. Until my maid woke me up at 9.30. I fell asleep AGAIN and was finally forced to wake up when mom returned home at 10am.
Next was practice time again. I was so hungry and sleepy that I couldn't even see the notes correctly, until I was given a packet of chicken rice some time later. It was quite a funny sight to see my mom wrenching my mouth open to push in scoops of chicken rice while I rehearsed on the piano. Do you suppose I'd have enough time to practise TEN blasted songs when we were leaving in half an hour?!
I arrived at RSS at around noon and was pleasantly surprised to see Leng waiting outside the guzheng room, with her little sis jumping all around like some frisky puppy. We talked for a while and then I had to practise my pieces on the baby grand piano in the school hall. oh no.
HERE WE GO AGAIN. I sat down at the piano and played so many songs for so long that i couldn't calculate how long i'd been sitting at the piano. The whole hall then was completely silent as there wasn't any guests around there, except for a bevy of pri 6 girls who seemed pretty interested in my performance.
When the guests came streaming in I got really nervous. I mean, at home, I was already so nervous that my feet were sweaty and icy cold. Here's the scenario: I had to give a mini-concert which involved myself playing seven songs in more than an hour, until the guests for the Prize Presentation had all arrived. Oh, and of course, play three more songs for the intermission during the grand performance.
WOW. Initially i was only asked to play TWO songs, and now it had come to this- TEN songs. The moment the guests came, I had to start playing. Here are the songs in order:
for the mini concert,
Think of Me-Phantom of the Opera
Sonata in D-Domenico Scarlatti
Yu Jian-the famous song which i'd tried to teach lulu to play...
Impromptu-Anton something something Arensky
The Phantom of the Opera-the song explains it all.
Canon in D-Johann Pachelbel
Rondo-Diabelli
Arabesque in E-Claude Debussy (my favourite)
And the three intermission songs:
Think of Me (again)
Mariage D'Amour-Richard Clayderman
Ballade Pour Adeline-Richard Clayderman
I think the whole thing was pretty good, especially the intermission songs. I never dreamed that I'd ever be able to finish a whole medley of songs all by myself. But i don't think I'd want to perform piano pieces in RSS for now. What about a hip-hop dance or something?
Prize Presentation. I was awarded some prize money for being top ten in standard for PSLE last year. Quite a handsome sum, I guess...
I met gordon and johnathan siow and ying and shang xuan. But no wee-wee! Where are u! We were talking for a while when we met Mr Chua...and of course, the rest of the time was spent dawdling around the staff room and general office, trying to find my pri6 chinese teacher who's more commonly known to me as CROCO. And so kar min and I were invited to the tea reception by mrs fong (the VP) and mr ong (the principal) and the guest of honour was mr douglas foo, who is in charge of sakae sushi restaurant (YAY sushi!). and I was given an offer to get a VIP card! yes! more sushi for octeopus!
kar min... I can't wait to see you in RGS next year! and i've told you about my liangzi fan club rite? *pokes lulu* see ya!!!!
well. today rawked. totally!