Yo Hoo April

It's been awhile since i have updated my blog. Well, a long while. Same reason all the time.

Anyway, to update this blog from where i dropped it, i have to look at the calender and try remember anything significant to write down XD

January

There's something extra added into our form six life. That something was called 'coloqium', don't think i get my spelling right, but it sounded like that. So, for this something, we form six are required to stay back every Monday from 2.30pm till 3.40pm. We are assigned in to different groups, about 7 students per group, and each group will do some little research, depending on which group you are in. For example, I'm in the Chemistry group, so I will have to do some research relating Chem and present it in June to our fellow classmates, and the new Lower Six.
Hmm.

Anyway, I'm the group leader and our group decided to investigate whether some metal plates and, juice and soft drinks are suitable for emergency power supply. So far( 5th of April now), the results are okay, we have finish experimenting and are now moving to preparing a report.

This year, without knowing why, we are unable to use the air-conditioned dewan kuliah as our classroom like the previous UpperSix. Strange.

February

First day of Chinese New Years falls on Valentines Day, which should be a good news to some people. Our school got a one week plus a day of holiday. Didnt do much in the holidays, only went out once on 17th to GuiZhi's house around 7pm and to Queensbay with kitty before that. After the holidays, it's time to prepare for 1A examination, but, as usual, i didnt accomplish much.

March

First UpperSix exam. And of cause, it didn't went well at all. Again, stayed at home pretty much for the whole holiday. Only went out once on Wedns again for movie in Gurney. Started attending Physics tution because, I'm starting to getting some hard time understanding the newer chapters. After the holiday, bad results came falling like heavy rain and bombings. On 31st, members of some club from Kelantan's Chung Hwa came and drop by our school. 30th and 31st are their state's holiday as it is the birthday of their current Sultan. Their PA teacher,Encik Haji Hapidin Saat (aka. Happy day, he said so himself XD) gave us a taklimat on how to attack questions in A and B for an hour. He was quite an interesting teacher. Though Malay, he was quite supportive of Chinese in some aspect. Says him that regardless of races, we should learn to choose and learn up the good side of different races and threw aside the bad habits. I kinda like this old man XD

Besides that, the students are interesting too, there are only about 5 boys out of 20++ members in the club, which was strange.. Anyway, there are some cute girls, some pretty girls, some pretty cute girls and some cute and pretty girls. (Haha..just kidding, didn't know there so much combinations for this two words.) We came to school at 7.30pm that day, and after some ice breaking, we started the taklimat. After that, we took some picture and wave goodbye to our new friends as they need to get some rest (in our music rooms!! T.T) since they will be getting up early the next day ( heading to Langkawi)..

That's all for now..lalala~

Holidays to School reopen! XD

Before school reopens

Last entry i mentioned about the concert that will take place in KOMTAR,Auditorium A on 2nd of January. Finally it past and all went well. (thank god XD)

That day, gather up in school before taking bus together to KOMTAR. Reached school at around 2.00pm and dropped my freshly ironed long black pants on the way to the music room. Darn. Everyone was quite excited. And then it's time to leave and soon the music room was empty...except some of us. We are a small group of choir which will be performing extra 2 songs for the concert.

First, there was the song 'Pasigin'. Love the melody darn lot. And there was some part felt like singing rap XD These song was originated from Philipines, and so, all the lyrics are in tagalog (the language used in Philipines) as well. Of cause, it took us quite some time to pronounce it and even more to memorise it. That's why we are allowed to look at d music sheet when singing. That song, according to the coach, is a fishermen's song. I search for it in wikipledia, hoping to find the meanings of the lyrics. But all it came up is only a city in Philipines called Pasin City, located in between Manila Bay and Laguno de Bay.

As for the second song, there's '催咚催'. It's a 湖北 folks song. That day i found something in Wikipledia, but now i can't find it when typing this entry. If my memory serves me right, the song is kinda like a festive song and the lyrics and melody potrait the merry scene of a festival. This piece and 'Pasigin' both have a quick tempo and some high notes for tenor. XP

So, we lag behind to pracitce abit. Then we get on the last bus of 3 and head to KOMTAR. Reached there and start practicing. Can't really remeber the details of the practice and it was all over at around 6pm. Start to have our dinner and change. Dinner was fried rice with hot dog and fried chicken and more importantly we get to eat some marsh potatoes from KFC...WEEE =]

Concert started at around 7.30pm and oh my, the auditorium is pretty darn small and soon all the seat was taken. Concert starts of with 'The Phantom of Opera'. And there is '在水一方' which i get to lead sing with another boy. Lucky my throat was ok and i was able to sing it fine =]. I was standing slightly to the right, so, when it's my turn to lead sing, my voice boom out and most of the audience turned their head in my direction. It was so funny looking them all turning at once, I could imagine hearing a snape and was trying hard not to laugh XD. That piece followed by '天黑黑' and '望春风'. After that, we performed '八骏赞' and '美丽的草原我的家' both two are Mongolian songs that have been translated into chinese, and they are really nice, go hear it when you are free in Youtube. Later, its us, the small group performing 'Pasigin' and 催咚催'. As for the closing, we sang and dance abit for 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' and 'Mama mia'. But of course, in between those pieces we performed, there are some other performance, like solo singing and another choir made up of primary school students and the choir is called Happy Little Angel. Anyway, that night, all went smoothly and was very memorable, too bad can't watch it live.

After School Reopens

Back to school 2 days later. School was fine so far (16 Jan). There's some changes for form 6... From now on, school's over only after 1.50pm for us Science Stream. And we need to stay back for something about doing a project and presentation on Mon till 3.25pm weekly. Our big class have been split into two due to..eerr..noisyness XD One thing then doesnt change is, we are using the same class as last year ==. And there's a bad news about the construction of the new block. Seems like there's a problem about applying for tax free or some discount for the generous donors and the proposal was not yet approved. Which means insufficient fund to complete the whole block. It's completing the block the problem, mind you, not start building it is. And the school's 董事长s are interested in installing a 天文台 on the top floor, so there will be some delay on completing the block. WHICH means i won't be able to use or visit or even step into the new block before i graduate T.T

As for co-curriculum, all performing art club have some audition or interview for the first Saturday of January. The thing is, Form One students are required to sit a simple musical theory test before that and also fill in a form on which performing art clubs they would like to join. This was unheard of in the history of Heng Ee High School as this year's freshmen are so darn many compared to any past few years. There's 700+ Form One students this year!

So, it was pretty fun on the first Sat. We stationed some committee in the foyer, to gather those freshmen whose chosen choir as their first choice and pass the small test. Some was stationed in the classroom next to the music room, which will lead those who are disqualified to their 2nd or 3rd choices of club like Chinese Orchestra, Symphony Band and Harmonica. I mentioned it was fun cause I was one of those who was in charge to bring them around the school to the other club. In the end of the activity, there were 110 out of 280 students passed the audition and will have another audition today (16 Jan). Today, the figure was reduced to 80 something XD

That's all for now...bye =]