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 =]
