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It’s always amazing how music has changed our life

Posted on Sunday, Mar 25 at 11:40 am

[23 Mar]

Although we were walking as a group from classrooms to classrooms, but our hearts werent together. Less talking and chit-chatting. And i was escaping from the reality by listening to the songs in my Neeon2. As we were walking to our next venue,i saw the last person i would wish to see. One moment, i was feeling so pissed. But just as i shifted my vision to the other side, i saw yan jing tang. Everything was solved naturally.

Ms wee came quite early for practice. Chatted with her about the up-coming SYF competition. IS ON 26TH APRIL 2007 Thursday, we will be the last group. That means, i will be skipping PE lesson! This will be the last performance, last chance, last time i will be performing. i will miss CCA alot.

can i just stay in CCA longer? i will miss all my angklung members..i wish to see them grow everyday in their learning of music. Teaching them how to play the angklungs is a sense of accomplishemnt and satisfaction. i will miss all my darlings and dearies. we had many performances together. our first performance at marina bay, lau pak sat, henderson home performance, watching Forbidden City together,SYF closing at IMM when all of us cheered for the school while waiting for our bus to come, our esplanade at the concourse performance when the alumni came back to help us, CCA Bonding at Sentosa, Gamelan workshop. i will miss ms wee, her laughter, her conducting. i will miss mr J and ms lim.

We had our practices, fine-tuning the pieces. Ms Wee kept calling us “the bronze group” when we made alot of noises and not listening to her. Then, some of them were really bored and started to play some hide-and-seek game. Hendra hid Shirley’s phone into the PBs. Ben hid Nani’s phone.

After that, ms wee made some of them to stay back to practise their playings. Went dinner with ben, cuijun, edith, sera, tk and jl. Then, jl and edith went NTUC to buy drink. Ben asked JL to buy some drink for him. Ben needs to rush back to school to deliver the dinner to the rest. But he insisted to wait for jl for his drink. Then, jl came with Baygon. Was so shocked and said to jl “a.. ben’s drink leh?” Jl didnt hear that Ben wants drink. Poor ben, had to go back to sch without his drink.

Then, Mr J joined us only after we have eaten. We waited for him and negotiated with him whether do we need to go for lessons after our SYF performance. Then we came to this shop which sells alot of cute cute stuff. Initially, i was just waiting for the rest to buy their things. But in the end, i was attracted by this little bear keychain. Guess what, it’s 50 cent. Then, i bought a big packet of many packets of tissue papers. The cover of the tissue paper is MY MELODY. Then, i also bought a metal box with mickey mouse picture. I just bought it without thinking of what to put inside.

When we bought our cute cute stuff, we found that we are going to late. So, we ran all the way from the coffeeshop all the way to school. People just saw 4 crazy women running on the streets.

I got a sense of satisfaction bcos of the 50cent bear. I showed it to everybody. Yeah,I know, I’m crazy. Then, we continued our practice until 9pm. I was the time-keeper for that day. We had to keep track of the time. 2 pieces should not exceed 8 minutes, but we exceeded. So, more cancellation will be done.

[24 Mar]

We had our trial run at Singapore conference hall. We were only given one hour 15 minutes to trial run our pieces, to get familiarise with the coming in and out of the instruments. We waited for our turn. While waiting, i grabbed a sandwich from the vending machine. I was so hungry that i will go mad anytime. I started acting infront of my friends, trying to entertain them. Next time, if you want, you can ask me to perform for you to see my “stomach-show”.

cam-whore while waiting.

We timed our moving in of instruments, and it was 5 minutes. That’s too long. The maximum time we are given is 2 minutes. Perhaps is because everyone was unfamiliar with the backstage and stage. Once again, im back on the stage. The last time i went on stage was the last time i performed for my drama group. And the stage let me think of the time i went to Esplanade Concert Hall for my chinese cross talk performance. But.. all these were the past. We should look forward. towards the future.. our SYF!

Mr Tan( ms wee husband) came and really gave alot of comments on the sound quality and stuff. Isnt it good to have a partner who shares the same interest as you? just like Mrs Tan and Mr Tan. They can exchange views and opinions to each other.

Back to school, we arranged our instruments- melodies, PBs etc. The pieces of wood indicate the notes-like 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 representing the do re mi. Tze kiat was standing beside me and he complained:

Kiat: Why not “3″?

Me: Got ar.. so many.. you cant see meh? the field out there, the roads there got “trees” what.

He was so shocked that i will say this kind of thing to him. It’s so funny lor. He didnt expect that someone like me will rebut him.

Back home, i managed to squeeze in time to do my music composition.

anyway, talking about my cca. I already have an idea what souvenier to give back to CCA. I’m intending to compose a song. Really! i already have a rough idea how the music will go. So, hope i can finish it, before i step down. Hope i can really finish composing the piece of music. (extracted from the entry-vending my anger)

I finally got the main melody of it. Now, i have to think of the counter melody to suit into this song..