Monday, 21 July 2008 ;
21:42:00
ok this is a rather late post of my 19 july.12am: cheonging some presents, memorising yujia's item script :p, slacking around (heh), packing. first time (I think) I bathed after midnight!1.50am: happily slept for 4 hours *scrunch face*
5.30: woke up, attempted to get up
5.50: got up6.15: got ready, blabla, left for school6.35: reached school. like 15min later than what I planned to. cheonged into bandshoes which I absolutely refused to wear there (not like I walked much anw), started cheonging presents, still struggling with yujia's item script haha
6.50: gloria arrives, cheongs presents together (we shared!), attempted (FAILED!) to practise yujia's item, freaked out at the erasers hanging precariously from the pencils and decided to stop attacking them with pliers, watched the poor golden trees shed away somemore D:, got notes, gave notes, lost kangjie's note, ran around the corr like a mad woman. ok ignore that last part. but kangjie found her note for me hahaha. (:7: walked into bandroom like some paperbag hanger, bandroom was literally overflowing haha, gave out more notes, attempted to give triplets to batch presents (SAM JESS WHERE WERE YOU AH), got a potato from zhenyi, set up instru somehow, grabbed stuff to dump into the eco-friendly yue hwa bags our section was using. LOL my phone pouch was pink and fluffy *squinch eyes like crazy* cos it was the only one I could find. -.-
7.20: rushed off for section present exchange. the sec4s weren't there yet so we hurriedly did yujia's item and just managed to finish it before they left haha! but yujia blogged the video we did much later (after cadenza -.-) at far east soo.
exchanged presents whee. :D haha ohmann I think our sec4s think the bananas were only from gloria. ): haha ohwhells. haha valerie dug up the cheeeeeeeeem poem she wrote for our inunion and used it again. :p and this is the first time lynn gave a present and a letter haha! btw there are marshmallows in the cup! don't let them rot in there like I nearly did! *squinch with "* haha richh. anywayy. yay we actually read our letters before cadenza! :D lol. I mean like last year we read our letters AFTER syf, how sad is that! D:
7.50: got all the stuff, went to foyer, waited, breathed, tried playing the make a story game which ended up being about some pink elephant who wore tutus and extraextra x893275191 large underwear. and drank bubbletea. -.- whee. felt really weird, like wow, cadenza is in 7hrs kinda thing.8.45: memories of syf omg. and julia's wonderfully sick phrase which I shall quote later. climbed up/down steps diagonally and glamly HAHA. yay my ankle didn't hurt too much. (:
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rehearsal: went through nearly everything vaguely. HAHA this is cool, rebecca and I were getting similar symptoms at the same time. freakyy! like both mouth dry, lip pain, therefore drink water. drink water so need to pee. need to pee thus stomachache. AND hungry thus more stomachache. haha but I'm not as weird as rebecca, pee more than she drink! and the mr oura: "where are you going?" us: "um, toilet." thing was quite freaky/amusing haha. ohyeah and our lips hurt and stopped hurting at similar times too. I think it's something to do with the song la. but doesn't make sense cos we have diff parts!
ok so we suddenly had to stand up during tico tico. like the soli at E part. might as well say this now I guess: we were all so unprepared for it and didn't really memorise and everything, so we kinda screwed it during cadenza itself. *HUGE SQUINCH* ok tried to conserve so I would survive cadenza itself, so yeah it didn't hurt till like dying or anything.changing: WHOOPS! we thought the section left to change without us so valerie, kejia and I went to some random toilet (which was obviously not the right one) to change. so they used one cubicle each and after waiting quite long I finally threw all caution into the air and (after telling them not to come out and throwing my considerable weight onto the door!) changed OUTside the cubicles. :p then we went back and realised the section hadn't pangsehed us after all, we pangsehed them. heh. *squinch*
lunch: argh I think people should just not have chickenwings in catered food fullstop. so mafan. I happily broke my spoon into half! give boneless chicken steak la haha. and somehow during lunch we got on the topic of drinking water before brushing teeth being a natural laxative. hm after lunch was my fifth? sixth? attempt at french braids. in the end I decided to just tie a ponytail haha though my hair was kinda screwed with all those attempts.
camwhoring session: I shall post photos some other day. maybe. haha blogger photo posting has something against me la. I shall not risk letting it happily delete my whole post. :/ but it was fun haha! mirror. and jess that pic is not unglam la. :pinspection: COOL how do they tell whether your socks are folded exactlyy the right way i.e. 1. put on your garters to a reasonable height 2. fold the top down to the line of the garters 3. fold half the top back up 4. fold half the whole flap thing back up. hmm.
batch cheering?: haha we were like the first to get together and after eons and eons of discussion all we did was OH NINE HOO YA! hahahahaha. backstage: FREAKING OUT AHHH. omgomgomg. and people were emoing already, before cadenza, and then I saw sam and she was teary-eyed and omg AHH I started emoing too. samseah all your fault! D: haha. and then she saw me emoing and then she started emoing again and then I started emoing more and then she started... yeah haha. ok not that bad la haha.
entering: the concert hall was sadly empty! apparently most ppl only came in after centurion haha. and I was like seriously ZOMG and I was super scared of tripping and falling onstage (kindergarten concert memories AHAHA ok shoosh noone needs to know) and everyone was looking and all. AHH.
CADENZA XI!: it was like WHOOSH. huh it's over? like seriously. ok first half mr oura smiled at us a lot. ((: I squeaked twice during centurion cos my mouthpiece+neck was at the wrong angle and I couldn't suddenly adjust halfway, and once during carmen. global was seriously our best la! and aquarium was quite zzz heh. but second half mr oura looked pissed omg. D: super sadd! ))): I think songs like beauty and the beast (alumni! :D) and prince of egypt appealed to the audience haha. but tico was so freaking screwed omg I can't even begin to say how screwed it was. we praced tico and pioneers like, twice? but yay yixian made it for pioneers I think. (: proudofyou. cat ears were fun haha and brazil shaking was funny. I got the coordination right yayy! and I think rebecca did too lol. I pity the fluboes and clars la, have to run forward during do re mi!
yeah anw, I felt really empty and weird and floaty after it was over. I surprisingly didn't feel emo or high at all, despite screwing up and the fact that the big day we've spent months and months pracing for was over. it was weird I tell you. *squinch* sighh well. that's not a good sign.
la mer: pardon the weird header. there was seriously this sea of people waiting for us when we came out omg! :D so happy. we thought it would be like *crickets chirping*.
haha ok so si rui and sze min appeared and gave me an orange rose! :D lovee!
then esther popped out and gave me a BIG white rose. thanks! (:
then we maneuvered our way into the sea (not before rescuing our reeds and putting them safely into reed cases first!) and spotted our directs (up) and we were doing the usual "I see them!" "where!" "there!" "omg yeah I see them!" "ahh I lost them!" "there!" "where!" "look for the tall one!" thing hahaha. and they gave us a big red rose and a small red rose each. :D and they baked brownies! [a heart would be very appropriate to insert here but unfortunately html hates me and doesn't allow the signs on shift above the , and .]
and our directs (down) appeared behind them haha but couldn't seem to catch our attention or something so they passed gloria the stuff. they got flowers! ((: I wish I wasn't that uncaring/ignorant/stupid in sec1 and knew something about giving flowers at cadenza, which I don't even rmb anything of now. *squinch*
then angie, evan, joni, joong theyall whooshed over and gave me an enormous (ok compared to the roses la haha) sunflower! :D love you guys!
back to school: ohyeah have I mentioned the absolutely funkayy cargo lifts! :D we were happily standing beside this "wall" talking when suddenly it *DINGed* *BOOSHed* and did some totally cool high tech top security thing and opened HAHAHA. it was a cargo lift and we didn't even know haha! anw. got back to school, packed up stuff, changed to NORMAL UNHEELED COMFORTABLE shoes. whee I love my funky fluorescent orange and pink laces! :D which I forgot to change back during the weekend and almost wore to school today and freaked out at the last min and grabbed my reebok shoes.
dinner: haha batch dinner. wanted section dinner! D: but they were having batch dinner which we MUST NOT interfere with so it's okay haha. (: I took ages to eat my jap rice thingy which I didn't even finish in the end anw. *small squinch* and we camwhored with cat ears haha! and yeah gloria and I did the yujia item thing again. in public! :O then went home looking rather weird in a scottish skirt and holding a bunch of flowers and 2 heavy paperbags.
10.30+: got home, immediately flopped on the sofa and died fell asleep. woke up like a little before 12. then I vaguely rmb stumbling to the toilet and bathing and then falling asleep. NOT IN THE TOILET, AFTER BATHING I MEAN. I have no idea why I was so exhausted. actually, come to think of it, I do, but ohwell haha.so ends!quotes of the week!sze min's blog; this one is so totally awesome and it's about cadenza so I guess it's the most significant:"Someone once told me that music is the language of love.I do not doubt it.You know how one song can worm its way to your soul, wrap around it and tug on your memories so gently you feel as though you might cry? Picture this: all around you, beautiful, magnificent music, the rhythm so strong that your heart, completely absorbed into the tempo, moves with it; it beats with the drum, strums with the plucked strings, hums with the high flutes, soars deep into the trombones, sings with the clarinets. It's not gentle, it slams into the soul with such power and force before cradling it sweetly, lightly, with careful hands. It whirls around, taking you by the hands and literally flinging you up into the air, such that for one wild moment, you think that wings would burst from your shoulders and you'd soar-Sometimes it takes you dancing, with high heels and flouncy gowns, and you just feel like you can dance and dance all night, with incredibly light feet. Hats tipped jauntily to an angle and satin gloves. Champagne bubbles and clouds! The feeling of having fun for the sake of it.
And then the only piece that was so familiar, like a well-thumbed book, well-worn shoes, well-known lover. Only it returns so much more breath-taking, and we reach out for it. It called, and something deep inside us answered, an ancient call. It was almost like watching life blossoming in front of us, emotions overlapping out of the metal instruments, synchronising to form the very essence that makes up our souls. We love it for what it is, awe-inspiring and stunning and at the same time so terrible, pulsing through our minds and vibrating in our cells. For two-half hours we sat there-Breathing music. Living music. Swallowing music, knowing it from the inside out, allowing it to run through your veins like molten honey, warm and sweet and golden. No words. This is but the conversation of souls."litlitlit omg! :D anw it makes me feel really wonderful reading it that we did manage to capture some hearts, but it also made me feel terrible that our rather screwed up playing is so muchly admired by some.ok now for the sick quotes!
yours truly: "I can't be bothered to resist." I don't find it remarkably wrong (I get it la duh!) but jess insists it is so haha. what la! I was sick of jess kicking my chair legs for the thousandth time at long john's. :psam: "I want to screw xinyi!" like could it be any more direct! xD she was talking about cadenza presents btw haha. hmm.julia: "we didn't do it here, we did it there." zomg this is like wrongwrongwrong, not so obvious but still obviously wrong. haha yeah this is the thing she said abt the syf/cadenza different qing/zhong foyer thing.and THE ONE. the one we saw on the newspaper headline about inflation which I can totally bet most people don't get but somehow or other sam, jess and I get it and jess was like "what kind of books do you read!" and I rebounded the question and there was the innocent look. xD"fanny, freddie and you" zomg. *enormous squinch* I guess you need a good sick vocab as well as imagination for this one. :pso finally really ends!phew right.
-light my way
