Saturday, July 26, 2008
concert '08
AT LONG LAST. Alright so it's been nearly a week since concert, but the entire day's been appearing and reappearing so vividly in my mind day after day it sometimes freaks me out. Suppose almost everyone else in CO's experiencing the same strong concert withdrawals. :)I expect that this will be a sort of recount of what happened during concert peppered with (by my standards) emoness.
Uh. Where to start?
Oh yeah. The big day.
20july2008;
Finished off daji and chuiguan's notes about half an hour before I left for school. Was close to laughing when koh told me how she got stranded at the school gate. That's what you get from being too early [: Lol. All thirty-odd CO people plus lulaoshi were frantically packing stuff and checking instruments, it was pretty hectic. I love the wonderful mike in the KS Chee, it wasn't off so ginteng yuyue and I were doing nonsense stuff there for a bit. Was using yuyue's sms-flooded phone when we got a super urgent call from simei telling me to bring along stace's chuida shirt from the storeroom. Well done koh for remembering to retrieve the shirt much earlier than baomoomoo did. : D
Yuyue and I think we have some sort of mild obssessive compulsive disorder 'cause we kept checking our bags before leaving for VCH. By the time we finished loading and unloading the whole lot of instruments and bottled water a couple of us were so sian that we couldn't speak. =_= and uh simei jiaqian and I came up with a weird rhyme inspired by the sec1 backstage helpers' sec1 orientation shirt:
aspire to inspire, inspire to perspire, perspire to respire, respire to transpire, TRANSPIRE TO SPIRE AHAHAHAHA.
And the rest of the day was probably the best moments I had with shengsuo ever. How we made ourselves so comfortable in our very own dressing room, sleeping on the dressing table, sleeping UNDER the dressing table, locking each other out, randomly losing bags, shoes, socks and even shaopians, and MASS CHANGING. We all lunched right at the top of the outdoor spiral staircase at VCH, where we all screamed because of one hairy black pigeon that probably wanted to stay with us if we hadn't screamed so much. All I know was that I didn't really enjoy the food (except the coke I shared with wenting) 'cause it had a bloody oily fried chicken wing, and more so because I was already a bundle of nerves by then. But I wasn't hungry though. Most of us weren't.
Rehearsals commenced straight after lunch, everyone was scrambling back to the dressing room to mass change into our CO costume. People were screaming "eh I can't find the zip!" and "eh I haven't even taken off my shirt!" and mine- "eh I think I wear wrong side already." After that we grabbed our instruments and rushed out. And when I settled up at the highest platform with the rest of shengsuo, I just couldn't help but feel so much emotions just rushing out left right and center. It's like, at last, after dreaming of it for nearly three years, I'm up there, we're all up there, pretty much ready to give it our best shot. Honestly the rehearsals almost made me cry because they frightened me, it may have been because I'm SL and I just felt I had to be responsible for anything that went wrong- including the dreaded freaking pitch problem. But to be very frank, suona's pitch was completely off, it wasn't up to normal standards and it certainly drove me crazy. Dingding was super worried I think, because he went over to check our pitch and went to fix anqi's gaosuo and shaopian. Zhongsuo was quite off too. Probably all of us were very, very, very nervous. But I think pitch is the one thing that could kill me. Molou was good though, everything went just fine.
MASS CHANGING part two began when we all had to change into chuida shirts for jiang jun ling. I must emphasize that NOBODY SAW ANYTHING THAT SHOULDN'T BE SEEN, despite sunying's suggestive proclamations- "I can see you!". But that was coz she was standing at the mirror and she must've seen faint silhouettes of changing shengsuo-ers in the dark. Anqi wore her shirt the wrong way. Heehee. After changing we went to join the long queue at the makeup station (i.e. the backstage corridor). Cassandra's pro mum and all her pro assistants came over to help, and they really did a good job on everyone even though the makeup was abit thick for my liking. The hair was totally beehive. Xianyue and diyinbu people filed into the concert hall looking like super glamorous hairspray actresses. :) While we were queuing up esther was freaking us out with her random hello kitty-ness, yuyue and I were playing our favourite haidai in the awfully cheena way. And then we met laobao, jiali and fiona! :D who came back early to look see and help with MAKEUP.
Chuida rehearsal was fine, but the lining up and taifeng were totally nonexistent, except probably for a couple of people and yingting and limrei the two young strong lead players! Wanglaoshi called off our victory screech (more like a victory call) at the end, which totally pissed me and koh off alot. But anyway.
While the rest of chuiguan went off to do makeup I got kidnapped by three undercover makeup artists. Seriously I had no idea yall were that good at makeup. Kinda felt like I was undergoing surgery without anaesthesia, with fiona and laobao trying to figure out what to do with my very uncooperative eyes, boss doing blusher for me and jiali the makeup consultant who thankfully did not join in the undercover makeup surgery. And baomeili at the side laughing manically. :D uh. Honestly they did a very, very, very, very good job, they managed to transform my kangkong eyeshadow into something quite nice, with two shades of green (: The downside: my mum now goes "you better learn how to put on your own makeup for FAM huh, see, people only one year two years older than you can do makeup so well already." Right. But the undercover makeup surgery was super fun though. dear crazy seniors. hahah :D
Just less than an hour to go before concert, and everyone was either camwhoring or getting scared. I've never seen shengsuo so nervous and yet determined at the same time before. Suona people were blowing away, brenda anqi and claire were memorizing jiang jun ling, etc. Just twenty minutes before concert my hands were going all clammy, didn't eat any of the snacks 'coz I just wasn't in the mood. Grrrrrrr nerves. somehow I thought it was even worse than last year's piano exam. And then concert began.
Seeing so many many many people staring at us was kind of cool, because when those chairs were empty the whole auditorium seemed so much smaller. I couldn't find mum dad yiying and leng but I saw all the seniors sitting upstairs. I liked our tajike and qinwang very much, overall and in terms of pitch it was SO MUCH BETTER than usual. Can't believe I didn't screw the uber high gaosuo part, when wls was going to cue us I blew as well as I could, half expecting the first note to squeak and die off, but it didn't. Koh's dizi solos were pretty pretty good too. Brenda and jiaqian sounded incredibly wonderful for their zhongsuo solos in qinwang and tianshan, it was almost too good to be true. Well done you two :) Jiangjunling was much better too, and although there were a few slight screwups here and there, it didn't matter much because we did great overall. And zheng lao shi approved of our victory call, he kind of liked it too, so we did it loud and proud at the end. :) HOI! The rest of the dazu songs were great too, hongloumeng and tianshan especially. Molou suddenly sounded great, and before it started I heard a "GO BAO MOO MOO" and uh something that some people shouted which I shall not say here >: ) ____ to the max. *giggles* Those 160 bars of idleness during molou made me ponder alot... and then it was almost our turn to play, after the gaohu part. All I remember was my heart thumping so hard, and that brenda, jiaqian, wenting, xinyi, anqi and I were all tapping our feet to keep time and we felt the whole platform shaking like crazy. But we did great in the end, which is probably one of rgco's biggest accomplishments for concert. Well concert's sort of an accomplishment in itself innit?
The encore songs. Juhuatai and tajike. Kinda screwed one or two notes in the ttk-added zhongsuo solo, but I guess it's an improvement, considering the part got added the day before. zhengchaoji laoshi is the best. The ultimate conductor. Hm. (: Tajike was so unexpected, if ttk didn't mouth the words "tajike" to the whole orchestra, we'd probably be going HUH. And it just occurred to me when I was playing halfway that it'd be the very last song we'd be playing together with the rest of the whole CO.......... and then it'd be byebye CO for all the secfours. Which is very, very sad. ):
I think concert '08 was the best concert we've done ever. Okay so I'm not in much place to say that since this is the second of two concerts I've done with rgco, but who cares, because for me, and for probably alot of people, it's gotta be the best ever. BEST TO THE MAX.
After concert was over yuyue and I were doing cleanup and all that, and while waiting for the bus to come we both realised how much we're gonna miss rgco. When we all first came in we were (uh...) dejected, wondering why the blazes we got into CO just to play some weird, uncool, loud (and in yuyue's case, troublesome) instruments. We didn't start out looking forward to CO every day. And now it's been some three to four years, and we've come so far from where we started out. Somehow during those tiring June pracs and the hellish APCG we wished for concert to end so we could concentrate on our studies, but looking back, we've had so much fun and built so many strong friendships and gotten to know so many wonderful people, it's just hard to wish CO would ever end. It was just really sad, especially thinking about everything we've done as a section especially, both of us just stared at each other and cried 'coz we'd genuinely miss each and every single part of CO. Even the practices.
And personally I'm so full of regret I didn't get into CO in sec one. Sometimes one year of ignorance makes you feel really left out within the batch at first, there are things they know that you don't, or will take very much longer to realise. And that was the most socially insecure period of my life, not knowing, but trying. Most of the secfours say that secone was kind of a stoning year because the seniors and teachers were pretty much focusing on SYF, but that one year could've made a whole big difference. It still has I guess. Missing that one year made me treasure just that single place in CO, being a part of it, no matter how loud or sucky the instrument is. It's easy to learn to love something, and I really do love suona so much now no matter what people say. It's a matter of how you want to play it. :) Missing that single year made me want to find out more, to want to catch up and feel like I'm part of the others too, and not someone singled out as "oh the one who came in sec two". And that whole year is probably one of the biggest reasons why I love rgco so much- after ages and ages of wanting to get in so badly, after pleading and pleading incessantly with lulaoshi, asking willette to ask her xianyue seniors if I could get a place in the middle of the year, getting a big scolding by the CCA teachers, or even uh (i was terrible in sec1) ponning my previous CCA to the point of notoriety, I guess I just felt so relieved and all, I treasure CO alot more than I would have.
The whole process of practising for concert took such a long time, and so much heart pain and tears and getting pissed off and all, but it was definitely worth it. I'm gonna miss everything- the saikang, collecting money (maybe not), doing programme booklet with bao, going insane during pracs and inventing all sorts of rubbish with wenting and jiaqian during dazu, and most of all the people. I'm sorry I don't exactly know dizi on the whole as well as I should, but shengsuo really is the most bonded bunch ever. We didn't exactly have a sort of barrier between each other because we were juniors or seniors, and with equally crazy and charismatic people like ginteng it's kind of hard to not get along with anyone. I LOVE CHUIGUAN/SHENGSUO :D
And now my little escapade's gone. CO was once my escapade, a sort of way for me to get rid of the stress from studying and have real fun and do the stuff I really enjoy. It's so difficult to stop those images of CO flashing in my head, but I suppose I have to snap out of it and start getting into mugger mode again, for the sake of my grades. Who needs math when you have chuiguan!
Uh and finally, thanks to every single person who came to give support- mum, dad, yiying, leng, baofang (for the smses!), relatives, and gourmet! and valsoh, xinqi, lory, shiying, chuashimin, elaine, xinwei, bong, boon, celine, the whole bunch of coolz hcico people! i don't know who came but i saw songsim wenhao xingzhi nigel dewei zhengrui and limyang :D
and of course lah, the rgco people!
thankyou concert comm for all the yahoogroups and sms spamming, and weeks and months of planning and saikang!
thankyou nina dorcas and willette the design people for entertaining our fussy requirements for programme booklet's design!
thankyou koh and kexin for doing up a wonderful script!
thankyou BAOMEILI/BAOMOOMOO/SIMEI for the great times (and getting pissed and depressed and high and going on crack and getting lost at bendemeer road and opening champagne) we had just doing up the programme booklet!
thankyou seniors ahh for coming down to watch us and support us and help with makeup even though you guys are super super busy. esp laobao for the spastic smses and jiali for all the advice (and being very nice about the subway money i still owe you) and good old boss for uh alot alot alot of things i cannot put into words 'coz it'd take forever :D
thankyou juniors for being so sporting and joining our fun when we get overly high! and for being cooperative. heehee.
thankyou shengsuo for keeping the fun alive.
thankyou koh for being a superb efficient ASL (and also to yixin and stacey and yingbao for helping to bully your dear baomoomoo)
thankyou rgco and rgco chuiguan/chuida for EVERYTHING.
good times. <3>
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
walk out proud
Will blog about concert tomorrow, after I finish SS peetee writeup and MATH TEST. I'm praying for the best. for math. :)OH LOL. nina just reminded me. (:
*evil grin*
I LOVE US FOUR:
1) Boss of bos S(houxi)
2) Boss of bo Sheng Suo
3) Boss of b OSS's friends!
4) Boss of B O S S. The ultimate Boss of Gourmet Bosses. Bosses for a Better burB(age)! :)
Saturday, July 19, 2008
DESTRESS MODE.
GITCHI GITCHI GOO MEANS I LOVE YOU!from phineas and ferb. whee!
Bow, chicka, bow-wow
That's what my baby says
Mow, mow, mow
And my heart starts pumpin'
Chicka, chicka, chew-op
Never gonna stop
Gitchi-gitchi-goo means that I love you
I said a...
Bow, chicka, bow-wow
That's what my baby says
Mow, mow, mow
And my heart starts pumpin'
Chicka, chicka, chew-op
Never gonna stop
Gitchi-gitchi-goo means that I love you
Gitchi-gitchi-goo means that I love you
Gitchi-gitchi-goo means that I love you
Baby, baby, baby (baby, baby, baby, baby)
Gitchi-gitchi-goo means that I love you!
AND THAT MEANS I LOVE YOU, RGCO CHUIGUAN (AND CHUIDA)! WE'RE ALL GONNA WALK OUT TO THE STAGE AND WALK BACK WITH OUR HEADS HELD HIGH. NO QUALMS ABOURRIT. :D NO SWEAT, JUST PLAY THOSE PUMPIN' HEARTS OUT. (:
Thursday, July 17, 2008
three days.
This appears to be some sort of countdown to concert, from six, to five, to four....... and now three.I have never felt so productive yet so unproductive in my life. Productive in terms of music I s'pose, 'cause besides being able to devote at least an hour to piano during this crazy holiday, at least shengsuo (alright then, so I don't really know about dizi) has seriously improved by leaps and bounds. Miraculously my fear of fears- gaosuo going horribly off-pitch- probably won't be realised during Concert. Everyone's pitch is just getting better, my two little gaosuo juniors have (honestly) been astounding me with their better-than-usual pitch and committment time and again these few days of intensive prac. Zhongsuo's doing great. And stuff just seems to be falling into place now- programme booklets printed and delivered, the fickleness (is there such a word?) of wangls quelled by me and bao, chuida shirt's nice and has been delivered after some tumultous days of non-stop worrying and settling things, etc.
Guess it's quite evident that chuiguan's finally feeling the rushing sense of urgency to make Concert '08 right.
And I should really be doing math. I'm torn between two things now- geog PT or math? Ho well. Half an hour of math and another half of geog PT lor. Better than nothing. Destressing time with willette and jass was super fun just now, after CO I think the three of us totally lost our marbles. Our gaohu-erhu-zhongsuo changdi trio, and the two of them attempting to play my own written version of the phuachukang theme song! xD It turned out quite nice leh! I should seriously consider selling the scores I wrote out of pure boredom during molou and juhuatai practices.
Okay. Current mode of destressing: having somewhat illegal phonecalls with willette and bao, playing six-minute rounds of freaky factory, davidcook, going online just to see who from CO is on, sleeping, stoning, playing veryveryveryvery nice final fantasy + pokemon songs, drinking water.
=_+
See ya then. THREE MORE DAYS, THREE MORE DAYS.
p.s. thanks tien! <3
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
save the cheerleader, save the world.
FOUR DAYS.For the first time in ages I woke up especially early just to take public transport ALL THE WAY TO SCHOOL. Alright, so I admit you guys will probably think I'm some sheltered idiot who gets to hop aboard the father / mother express every single day, but that's where you're wrong Wrong WRONG. See lah wenting. I really did reach school before 830am just so I could meet you earlier! Oh and because there was quite alot of time before dazu started, wenting priscilla and I went to peep at all our class photos which were sitting innocently in the classtrays. STEWPID FORMAL SAMPLE ONE. I'm the only idiot who HALF closed my eyes in the photo. BLAST IT.
Dazu was quite............. strange.
and extremely messy for dizi, probably because koh was still sick at home D: and we were extremely bored during molou because we never got the 5/8 beat part until very much later. So xinyi anqi brenda wenting and I mugged during molou. The Molou Muggers. ahahaha. brenda was reading some strange and cheem DNA stuff, wenny did some chinese paper which I totally got a headache from reading, xinyi was reading some bestseller, anqi annotating Merchant of Venic and me poring over a colossal stack of readings on gender identity. For english. Diaoz. We saw this weird thing which came from a home econs textbook in the '50s, on How to be a Good Wife.
We were super disgusted after reading it. It makes women seem like all they do is live for their husbands and suck up to them. THANK THE GOOD LORD GOD I WASN'T BORN YET.
Jellybeans! We were all going high and feeling extremely tempted by my JellyBelly jellybeans, so we decided to do our concert tradition- B_ _ _ _ _ _ FLAVOUR GUESSING. Each of us has three guesses, and on the day of concert we'll see who wins! The loser gets to display their very own passport-sized, high resolution photo of wls on their score files! Wheeee.
Pepper lunch with simei, yixin and lingyan. Then we went home.
The weirdest thing was that after eating out with simei the bao, her sister the laobao started sms-ing me all the way through my horribly bumping bus ride, and the moment I arrived home I was greeted with a wonderful phonecall from none other than bao. This is turning out to be a very bao-filled day. ^^ <--- typical bao smiley!
YAY I DID LOTS OF MATH. Now to draw up geog peetee and sleep. Till dazu tomorrow then :)
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
get well soon (:
REPLY TAGS!lingyan, jiahe: thankyou! (: all the best for concert too you guys. And thanks lingyan for your affirmation.
xiaohan!: LOL! then you should visit our chuiguan blog (and mine!) more often okay! And yes heheh I have a knack for cracking people up. :D
kiwi!!: IMA GONNA KILL YOU KIKKOMAN CHANKIWI! Heehee. I know you miss me. I miss you too!!! And thanks!!!!
valsoh and wilzz! : you two gourmets tag around the same time one. Valsoh I can lend you jobros CD lah, then you lend me fall out boy! Love my moose! And willette. EGO-ING IS MY BUSINESS. >: D
jass the marsiling DONKEY! : HRRRRUMPH DONKEY. I AM SMARTER THAN YOU. I'm a crazy horse! Heh heh. Five days to concert leh. Go polish your erhu! and i know you saved your hands, I SAVED MY BREATH!
Anyway!
argh no my dear ASL is sick! What in the world have you been doing lah you, hurryup rest well and seriously GET WELL SOON KOH :) because chuiguan needs you too!
Hrrrrrrrrumph i think today was very strange. Strange in the gourmet sort of way? Went to school to do chem pt, realised that we didn't have many materials but ahwell I still feel it was quite productive 'cause we managed to formulate our ultra-secret super murder mystery (after spending almost an hour sprawled on the foyer).
After chem pt we decided that we should stop moping around in the lab and get our butts to Art Friend to buy materials for chem pt, and my jigsaw puzzle for geog pt. AND THE NGEEANN CITY BRANCH DIDN'T HAVE WHAT WE NEEDED :X But I got my materials anyway, thanks to valsoh the crazy moose who helped me search for economy-class cardboard! (:
We totally squabbled for a long time because we couldn't decide whether we should listen to willette and eat macs/food court, or go ahead with the MAJORITY and eat our mosburger. Clever willette thought of yoshinoya, and since there was a pretty good student meal, we had an hour-or-so-long lunch there. Catching up and crapping about our horrifying experiences at OBS. And GOURMET-APPROVED MALE PARTNERS : D
And we wanted to go to the 12th Craziest Toy Sale at the atrium but it wasn't open! Then on the way to the washroom we met our PE teacher- no wait, our relief PE teacher. Who is veryveryveryveryvery nice. :) Which prompted willette dorcas and I to do our spastic EDNA MMMMMMMMODE chant which always freaks valsoh out these days. We MODE too much!
I fell so soundly asleep in the bus that I didn't see wenting's smses, some people's calls, the "bus stopping" alarm thing, and the nicenice music I was listening to. And so when I woke up because the uncle sitting behind me sort of bumped my seat by accident, I had a shock because I had missed two stops. Argh. Shall never sleep in the bus again. Had to walk home all the way from Safra, but I don't mind 'cause I'll be walking home like that anyway next year when I take the bus home from RJ.
So here I am, blogging because I have a pressing urge to blog, and because reading donkey's blog makes me feel like blogging (and I should really sleep by 11pm), and because bao's talking to me for the 14577998945346479879/595314th time on msn. I literally live, sleep and breathe bao now. Sounds wrong but true. I guess third lang, chuiguan and concert really made me find unbelievably nice friends in so manymany people. People like bao!
Five days to concert. Five days to brandishing david the lovely shiny gaosuo for the world (or at least an 800+ strong audience) to see.
and my reign of chuiguan SL will soon be over. Good times.
Monday, July 14, 2008
LEE MEAD! <3
Before moving on to get on with geog peetee, i am dreadfully high and will now proclaim my new-found love for LEEEEEEEEEEEEEE MEAD! :Deheheheheheh. he's pro. really pro to get the lead for Joseph! :)
Okay, so any guy who's charming, isn't fat or obnoxious, can sing Joseph and is pretty nice, will TOTALLY make their way into a special place in my msn nick. too bad. davidcook will just have to share that place with leemead now!
Yesterday was fun-er than usual, probably because kenneth went to church with us and we got perpetually high during lunch and throughout the car ride home. Crazy kenneth taitai and your crazy stories of supposed prank calls and BULLS. *mental images of bulls charging around the school begin to form*
So kenneth, THEY are hoping that THEY can see HIM soon, because THEY had loads and loads of fun with HIM and really missed HIM very much. It's been nearly a year lah you, and you grew- what, to 1.78m already? I AM SHORT. Heh heh. Good times, my taitai friend. :)
Mass emailed chuiguan last night. Hope leaves an impression, or trigger some extra committment to practising or something. Dang, my whole week's eaten up by chem, the stupid survey thing we came back to do for just FIFTEEN MINUTES today, and CO, CO, CO, and more CO.
Not to mention that I found a donkey on msn last night. > :D reminiscing 'bout concert '06 (and how I was totally NOT there) and SYF, and our standard. Gawsh I do miss SYF period, it was truckloads of fun. Everything I enjoy is fun- but then again, who doesn't enjoy fun? At least thanks to hrrrrrrrumphing donkey who happens to be a certain xianyue SL helped me complete (nearly) my concert '08 playlist!
Six days to concert. I suppose our hongloumeng will never sound as sad or heartwarming as it did with the mind-blowingly proded people in 06, but we can still create our own standard. A good one, of course. Exclusive to us. heh heh. :) It is nice to reminisce once in a while, as long as you get to sleep before 11.30pm. Woot.
:)
SIX DAYS TO CONCERT
AND LEEMEAD IS COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLZ.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
music appreciation.
Heh heh was today fun? Guess so.Kinda didn't want to go for CO because I was so darned tired, but got dragged out of bed anyway. We were moping about for almost half an hour outside the needlework room, then settled costumes and everything in there. THE CHANGING PART WAS FREAKY. don't ask why. Phew. at least the M pants is a bit baggy for me. WHICH GIVES ME REASSURANCE THAT I AM NOT FAT. WHOOPEEDOO.
TTK came for dazu. It was kinda amusing 'coz I met him outside Jblock and bowed to him with my gao and zhong shaopians (those reed-like bamboo things) spilling out of my mouth, and he half-bowed back. :] Good thing we managed to do almost all the dazu songs today, and um jiali and boss came back too! (: jiaqian xinyi anqi and I were stoning during one of the songs when we saw two dark figures moving about outside the classroom, then when we realised it was them jiaqian and I started shouting like stupid fangirls. Heh heh. Went lunching with a jiali and bao and xiaohan and xiaohan's friend and nina and a whole bunch of dizi people at lido, where we amazingly managed to get three tables back to back. Old people's table, crazy people's table and neutral young-er people's table.
Oh dang. I owe jiali money for subway : O
Uhrurh after lunch simei and I rushed back to school, where we were running to catch the bus with a earphone in one of our ears, and my earphones got caught in between the pole at the entrance of the bus. We are terrible. Then we sort of high-ed back, met poor daji people whose KFC order still hadn't arrived yet after almost an hour, and did stuff with backstage + the concert emcees.
I KNOW HOW TO PLAY THE 5/8 PART OF MOLOU, SO I'M A 5/8 PERSON >:D
haha because nicole, bao, cassandra and I were having some sort of instrument exchange thing, all three attempted to play DAVID my lovely shiny handsome little gaosuo, and nic taught me the 5/8 pai part which is extremely addictive (for non-dyb people). But suona shall forever be my love. wait- that sounds very wrong. (:<
andthenandthen daddy took mum and i to paragon to eat starbucks. Love the food. Cost wise it's still alright, because the food really is so darn good. We spent forever trying to buy CDs, so I bought XIAOJINGTENG'S NEW ALBUM and jonas brothers. WHOOPEEDOO. next target= yangzhongwei's album and daughtry.
:)
so today is a happy day. besides the fact that i have to mug. hahaha. YAY.
a little midnight fantasy.
Oh well, since it's just about five minutes or so to midnight, and officially EIGHT MORE DAYS to concert '08.Gah. One whole week of sleeping at 1.30am, toiling all the way through math, trying not to nod off during certain (boring) lessons, and meeting simei my wonderful bao-friend online practically every single night and almost every single hour of the day to discuss concert issues. Like our programme booklet WHICH IS OFFICIALLY DONE.
*brandishes a bottle of strong vodka*
It's been some helluva roller coaster ride these days, programmebooklet and tshirt and tickets not going right and all. Suppose yesterday was one of those very rare days (besides Chinese new year, as i've lamented countless times about some cousin who irritates me to no end) where I genuinely felt angry and desperate. If bao and koh hadn't saved me halfway through.... aish. So many mistakes and so little U-turns. Kind of like everything happening back to back was making me crumble inside, as if the heart was being overturned and squeezed hard at the same time.
Mrahahahar. Probably the first time dingding saw me pissed/unusually emo, because I didn't smile when I came back into the xiaozu room.
But I think, next to prayer, the second best thing to do when you're pissed is to turn up the daughtry + davidcook playlist and sleep the grudges away.
Hmhmm but 90% of the problems are dead and gone. (:
School today was rather enjoyable, considering that there was no chinese and philo. Not that I loathe those subjects, but they really are a bore. All four gourmets managed to plan out the entire chem PT today at the lab with the help of free filter paper, and the nasty bottle of fermented apple juice (dorcas' special APPLE CIDER +_=) . Somehow I've got this feeling gourmet'll survive this perfectly terrible week, especially since wil dorcas and I have waded our way out of the great big saikang swamp.
It's ten minutes past minight.
It's pretty weird, but listening to willpanweibo at night is almost therapeutic. And you cannot listen to all the songs, you have to listen to two or three particular panweibo songs, lie on the bed and lock the iPod before you kill your eardrums by accidentally rubbing against the clickwheel. And then i just find myself drifting off to a midnight fantasy.........................................
what's my midnight fantasy?
uh. going up to panweibo at his concert / public event and telling him that i can play loads of his nice songs on the piano. OKAY WEIRD.
Oh. not that i'm horribly cheena or anything, but I shall not be embarrassed to say that I have more than five CO songs on my playlist. I think two of them are last year's syf pieces.
I WANT TO GO BACK TO LAST YEAR (but not to last year's math lessons which were total bummer) :D
I love gourmet. you three people seriously make it alot easier to understand math. And the very assurance that there are friends who'll offer you help all the way. <3
chuiguan WILL pwn concert. Despite our terrible tendency to go horribly off pitch. I know I'm picky about pitch, but ohwell I s'pose that's good in a way. Butbut I still wish I weren't like the oldest batch in school. I so wish I could teleport back to when I could just scurry off from dazu/xiaozu with jiaqian and chew, without having to worry about what would happen when we got back. Not having to have so much headache over our pitch, or collating orders, concert tickets and money, attendance, shirts, discipline, etc. Deep down you just wish you weren't the one in charge all the time I s'pose. Ahwell. :)
Thursday, July 10, 2008
pfffffffft
pfffffffffft this is so darned irritating.YOU have no reason to just change your mind like the weather in some weird dodo rainforest etc etc etc.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. my face is getting hot.
THIS IS SO DARN FRIGGIN FRUSTRATING.
I need to pray for a miracle. : /
Monday, July 07, 2008
bao comes to play!
*evil grin*bao's coming to do PROGRAMME BOOKLET MRRRAHAHAHAHAR.
okay things i MuSt do today!
1) SS powerpoint
2) Programme booklet test print
3) Chuida shirt quotation + enquiry
4) Piano
5) Random math stuff
6) Start planning materials for geog PT + drawing
7) STUDY FOR BIO SPA BIO SPA BIO SPA. ARGHHHHHHHH.
i am totally going to blow up soon.
WITH EXCITEMENT.
because baomeili's coming!
........... random people from my section who get to read this post are gonna be utterly stupefied.
+_=
Thursday, July 03, 2008
the ordeal.
My daily schedule is tighter than the old brown pants I used to wear to math tuition in primary 6.Okay, so I got quite alot of readings done, and the nasty math assignments xD
SO MUCH TO DO SO MUCH TO DOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Especially for concert programme booklet. On the bright side, we're nearly, nearly done with the programme booklet and done-o with script so that's one more thing off my (and prog booklet comm's) chest.
Let me recount a very painfully hair-raising ordeal this evening.
I LOST MY WALLET. for the very first time in my life.
Mom was at this syf guzheng concert @ esplanade, so i had to take bus home after xiaozu. Not that I didn't mind, but my hands were totally full. yuyue and I were laughing at the photos in my camera when we realised that 105 was already stopping at the bus stop, so we screamed, frantically kept the camera, picked up the granola bar that fell out of my bag, and charged for the bus. Totally hilarious, but we SHOULD be embarrassed.
My ezlink card had only a miserable TEN CENTS left so I went to top up my card, and while queueing for the bus at the interchange I realised MY WALLET WAS NOT WITH ME. Just before I stepped up the bus. The next fifteen minutes were total hell and panic attacks which could have killed me if it continued on. Ran to two counters at the MRT station but didn't find my precious old wallet, attempted to retrace my steps but realised that my wallet could not have fallen on the escalator, then finally retrieved it at the office just next to where I was supposed to board my bus.
:D
THANK GOD.
From this day on, I shall never, ever keep my eyes (and hands and nose and other bodyparts) away from my wallet. And I will never, ever top up my ezlink card while carrying my schoolbag and a huge plastic bag full of books, tissue and a suona in it.
My heart still palpitates with unrest at the thought that I almost, ALMOST lost my wallet. Even though it is pretty old and battered (the velcro's peeling off).
End of story. I'm so tired : /