have got lots to blog about today, so here goes:

firstly, well done table tennis girls! we're proud of you and i'm really proud of you. (i sound like some teacher or something) well for the simple fact that you guys gave it your all, and despite a strong opposition team, you girls fared well and played to your capabilities! well, all i can say is never give up ~ NIL SINE LABORE.

secondly, after the match, atiqah, chiew shan, cam, chin chong and i went out to ljs to have a meal or two. ha. my teriyaki sauce was absolutely gross, but hey! what can you do if you're super duper hungry and you don't want your old gastric problem to recur right? yepps, so gobbled that down and went back to school to get my last-minute drama night ticket at ten bux. more of that later. what's more chronologically more important is that i went to cut my hair today and now i look as if some cow bit my hair off or something. haha. i mean the cut's fine, but a bit the short ah! *thanksa) francis commented that i look cuter now and i caught him with some guy tracker on the bus. `HELP. *jkjk

so more on drama night now. hmmm, felt black comedy was good and to see my primary school classmate/ vs schoolmate darrel act like that was woah. never knew he could do that man - not like the quiet reserved boy i knew back in primary school or even during the good ol' days of vs. wheee. well done darrel. was a good play but what i really enjoyed was the play of light and dark. it started off a bit slow, but slowly (literally) people started to notice what was happening actually and ya! i totally enjoyed it, and the idea of the light thing: was awesome; fantastic! the second play was a bit melodramatic with a sudden abrupt twist. what i liked were the acting of the trees and the script. there was so much potential to the entire thing and what i felt was lacking was the build up to a climax which could have made the sad scene drama mama and really saddening. hmm.. but overall i think the 2 plays were eye-catching and well done. kudos to vactors!

fourthly, thanks to the cheap taxi drivers who wanted to wait till 11pm then they'd send people home, i reached home at 11.30pm when i could have probably reached home at 11. wth. seriously, we waited like 45mins for a single cab and some people in front of us would just want to grab that precious cab away from us. in the end, we resorted to primary transport: bus. in total, karfu zihua and i missed a total of nearly 5 bus 36s, and my dearest cousin darel had to miss like countless buses back to bedok. wth. thanks a lot man cab drivers. you guys rock. take that literally and seriously at the same time. tell me bout efficiency in the taxis industry.

well then, i better end here and start my photoshop for the programme booklet for sov.

ah

and of all these things,

love is the most important.

wondering how life will be

if you were by my side today

you're my wonderwall

five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes
will never be enough for me to say this continuously :

i love you.

the onset of nafa and wat not

nafa is coming in bout 2 weeks time, and boy am i so prepared for it. bah! standing broad jump has never been better and my run timing is like sai, argh. guess i just might go into ns early as much as i don't want to. gah.

i better start training soon. actually, i should start training tonight. then again, i just had pe today, so i guess i'll start tomorrow. haha. wait, i've got thrid period pe tomorrow, so yet another delay. lolx. wed start then. but wed got choir prac, how? ahhaha. dunno lahx. i just gotta start REAL SOON.

on the lighter side of things, i'm adding this blog entry during gp lesson now. haha. how exciting. okay lahx, nothing exciting bout it. haha. i must be going mad today. supposed to research on science and technology, then again blogging is also part of research what. "how do blogs work" or "how does the computer do so many wonders". haha. whatever man. i'm delaing with science and technology now, so i just would consider that part of research. haha. who cares? the 2 of them in front doing some interview for the final year testimonial. haha. guess mine won't come that soon, hmmm.. how would i noe then again?

haha.
phototaking later!
"SMILE)
*Ka-chik*

cute me.

back in singapore/ back to work.

~AHHHH!

(screams thereafter)

after a few days in italy having fun and bringing back glory to the nation and the choir, reality hits me and hey hey hey! i'm back in school- wth. haha. catching up is really really difficult. and boy can you trust me when i say that. ask anybody in choir now and they'd probably slap your asses with their tightly clenched fists and send you running home to mummy. i'm serious.

(everybody nods)

see? what did i tell you? everybody agrees. all the finding out who kept the notes for you and the borrowing of notes from friends to copy from and not to mention the copying itself is simply sickening. omgosh. you have no idea how much we have to copy. i mean in one lecture, you guys probably finish like 6- 7 pages (i'm referring to the good and fast lecturers here). so using simple mathematics, if you have missed 4 lectures (yes, i'm discriminating against the S paper people) then you probably have to copy about 24- 28 pages of lecture notes. that's equivalent to like half of chemical bonding lecture notes. hold on, that's making it sound easy. but who cares, you get the point don't you?

(everybody nods and claps)

thank you thank you.

(waves hands to stop the clapping)

gah. it's simply sickening. and besides, the jet lag and the time differences didn't exactly help at all. moreover, the time we spent on the flight back pretty much screwed up our internal body clock that faithfully tells us what time to wake up every morning since secondary school or something. thank you flight. gah. irritating. while i have been getting reports at the start of the week of people sleeping openly in classes, i personally have not. thank you thank you. but i was a living walking zombie in the morning, but the same old retarded siao kia me in the afternoon. weird eh?

(gasps in horror)

relax. nothing's wrong. ha. i guess we're all fine now...

(claps for encouragement)

but we still have to catch up with tutorials and copy somemore lecture notes.

(boo sama dia!)

so for now, gonna change > go out for dinner > come back and bathe > do work!

thank you thank you!

(everybody gives a standing ovation)

(on the way out, everybody pats darren's head and say "Good Lad!")

~i'm super full of crap these few days.

Riva del Garda International Choir Competition 2006

WHEEEEEE! you know, as i type this, emotions run high and memories start to fill my mind of the endless experiences with the VICTORIA JUNIOR COLLGE CHOIR during this international choir competition at Riva del Garda, Italy. wheee.

ok. the results!

Category S (Musica Sacra): 6th

Category G3 (Mixed Youth Open): 1st

Audience Prize

Grand Finals: Champions !

you have absolutely no idea how euphoric we were at the results lohx. actually to be more accurate, we were already filling good when people gave us standing ovations and double clappings for us at both teh Grand Finals and the Mixed Youth Open. it was such a stunning experience to see that people sitting in that hall were touched and simply enjoying the music that we make. the sound that we produce was heavenly, well it sounded like that at least from where i was standing at.

alrights, now details for the individual categories. lets start with the Musica Sacra. i can still remember the tensions and the atmosphere when we were in that small holding room which could probably only fit only bout 45-60 people? ha. anyway, all 69 of us were in there excluding Mr Kwei, the teachers and the tour guides. omgosh. everybody was just so... TENSE. haha. practised confitemini there and i guess everybody was feeling better after listening to ourselves. yeah. haha. after that, we had a short prayer session where all the Christians and the Catholics joined hands and just prayed. to me, somehow that just bonded us in some way? i dunno man. haha. obviously there were all the hugging and the encouraging words and all, it was just great to see everybody united as one body. then it was our turn to sing. waiting at the entrance of the church in the slight drizzle was cold lohx. i mean imagine the temperature there without rain and wind was about 10degrees already. so plus the rain and the wind, it was freezing expecially for the girls in their gowns and nothing underneath (okay, this part i dunno) but we adapted by having group hugs with the girls in the middle and the guys on the outside. haha. since the guys had their blazers on, so to some extent we were more protected than the girls lahx. haha. okay. our turn soon came, and we walked in with that bright smile on our faces. whoo! this was it guys! hah. standing at the altar and facing the jury who were in the middle of the church was an awesome sight. i mean the entire church was pretty much dimly lit, so the only bright lights that you could see were the lights placed on the jury's table. was damn cool. will upload the pics soon i guess. haha. thank the heavens we remembered every single detail of the song and all. thank God for that. every song was heavenly partly because of the resonance and the reverbarations off the stone church walls. it was jsut beautiful lohx. hear my prayer was a personal prayer for me, wheread confitemini was amazingly beautiful. could picture all the angels and the heavenly hosts dancing and playing the instruments of praise as we sang. beautiful. went out feeling good and yeah. that was that

then the next competition for us was the Mixed Youth Open (G3). everybody were tense, i could feel the vibes. it was woah! haha. especially when the night before we had our public concert and we pretty much screwed the songs up. so i guess we were pretty afraid that we might make the same mistakes again. but i guess when we walked up that stage, for me the smiles on each person's face somehow lightened my load and somehow encouraged me, yeah. factum was fine. shower somehow resonated through the dry hall . zhuliguan impressed everbody and pamugun just ended our performance with such a bang! in fact, after we sang the hall gave us a standing ovation and it was jsut encouraging that while we did our best on stage, the people who gave their utmost attention to us enjoyed our singing. and frankly, as a performer for 6 years such an ovation is all that you want. the results no longer matter. it was enough. obviously considering that we practised bin-nam-ma and ashita for ages, dun perform and show what we have to offer, a bit the wasted ah>> so we were praying for the best lohx.

well. the best came. haha. prepared for the grand finals and it was just another amazing experience altogether. we were the sixth choir to perform and yea, while we waited, we could actually sit in and listen to the other competing choirs sing their pieces. it was little wonder that these choirs topped their category. amazing sound and beautiful voices. especially the choir right after us and the last choir. amazing amazing. okay. now for our performance. we went up on stage, and immediately people started making wolf calls and all that sorta thing for us. it somehow made me feel like some star. lolx. then again, all of us were to be able to make it thus far. we sang ashita whcih was okay lahx. i felt bin-nam-ma was better, but mr kwei felt ashita was better. haha. i dunno man. the pro speaks. haha. okay, then it was bin nam ma. WHEEEEEE! so exciting lahx. all the choreo that we practised like sai all came to pass lohx and even better, we did it all together and there was not time lapse in between lohx. haha. i mean i watched the recording and it was like that. haha. i really really loved the last part where the sound just resonated really far into the relatively dry hall. whoo! and after we sang, the ENTIRE HALL gave us a standing ovation. it was just an amazing feeling deep down inside and yea, i just felt like some superstar. i felt proud to be part of this choir, of this school, and simply to be a singaporean. it was amazing lahx. they stood for us, and i guess that lasted at least 3 minutes. jsut clapping and screaming from the audience. haha. then it died down. then as we walked off the stage, they clapped for us again. whoah! damn power-packed lahx.

then the results show. haha. they started by giving out the individual prizes to all the participating choir first, so whenever we heard our name, we just started roaring! haha. literally. lolx. then came the audience prize. haha. WE WON IT! haha. so exciting. okay, to explain what the audience prize is all about. its simply just a prize for the choir that impressed the most people ie. the most popular choir. lolx. wheeee. then we all got abit scared. cause we thought if we had won the audience prize, it was something like the runner-up prize or something y'all know? haha. so we were damn scared we didn't win the grand prize. haha. then the results came. the emcee went "and the grand prize winner is... and the grand prize winner is... the... Do you really want to know? (shouts and screams by us here) the grand prize winner is... the VICTORIA JUNIOR COLLEGE CHOIR!" by the time we heard vic-, we all just stood up and screamed lahx. wahlau. nobody ever imagined that we could actually win the top prize of an international competition. it was just WOW. what can i say man? we jsut rock! then we ran up on stage to collect our prize which was a HUGE trophy. haha. whaoh!

we have fulfilled Psalm 150

flying off really really soon.

wah lau eh! today so fast come today lohx! haha. talk no meaning and no sense here. haha. possibly because it's drawing nigh to departure time. "Great is thy faithfulness"- beautiful song that i'm listening to now.. and so here i am sitting before the computer which i may not get to use and probably see in the next 11days when i'm away. argh, who knows how backward the italian hotels can be? i mean i shan't compare them to singaporean hotels, but yea. haha. am i being nationalistic here? national day not here yet. wait, i shall save up such passion for the nation till nineaugust then. lolx.

to think that i'll be leaving soon in about 6hours time, i'll be in the skies with those lovely fluffy clouds (i'm really sounding like yuting. *bleaghs*). haha. its quite an exciting you know? haha. i mean its not an everyday thing that you get to go overseas with your 'family' during school term right? haha. something that i guess the sports people and the councillors wouldn't really understand. lolx. so exciting. this is so super uber exciting lahx. wheeeeee~

and there's some soccer match taking place at mj now, mj-aj soccer match i guess. hmm, can already predict who the winner would be lohx. argh. but still, kudos to both teams. haha. this is so irrevelant to the topic of flying to some exotic place. haha. but the fact is beacuse they are having a match there, there are people from 2 colleges there supporting their school team. and when i leave for the airport, i'd have to walk down to the bus stop there to hail a cab. that means i'd have to lug my luggage down to the bus stop swarmed of SMELLY people and relatiively normal people. i mean its not an everyday thing that you see a kid (hey, i'm still a small boy) pulling a luggage along the pavements right? haha. so i guess to prevent me being such a cuckoo-looking boy, i have already called my mum to pick me up. lolx. just a glimpse into the private life of a celebrity. cannot be in the presence of smelly people and not forgetting that you still have to look EXTREMELY GLAM. haha. just that there are no paparazzi below my house... and i thought i could be some tom hanks. hah.

"Our God is an Awesome God,
He Reigns From Heaven Above.
With Wisdom, Power and Love,
Our God is an Awesome God."
- God: Bless us this day forth.

woah! time really flies lohx. i mean it seemed like yesterday when my mind jsut brought me back to first three months of 2006 when all the newbies year ones all stood so newbie-ly in front, and the seniors stood like some disciplinarians at the back. haha. but i guess they never got see that side of us, probably because we don't even have that side of us. hah. talking quite of no meaning stuff here first hor, i warn you ah.. dun tell me later the entry no meaning. nah- tell you already ah?

then my mind brought me back to pre-syf days when the then newbie us stood like noobs in front and the zai3 seniors at the back- totally bully us lahx. haha. but time really flies lahx. from one local competition [or festival which daniel claims it to be] to an international one in less than a year... woah, time must have really flown by. hah . dunno why, i'm having this picture of airpork in my head now. wth.

lolx. but i guess all's been going well with choir and all, and yea. my job as GAM- omgosh, adrian: now i understand why you can flare up so easily at times. i can so understand now. the settling of the scores (okay lahx, this one not say very difficult), choir uniform and then finally the college blazers... ohmygosh. i wanna scream lahx just now. haha. super irritated with everything. aiyoh. but i guess i'm alright now ya? i think so, i hope so.

flying off tomorrow... wonder how the flight will be. praying that the plane will have PERSONAL TV SCREENS, if not i'd just bore myself over the inflight magazines which they claim is fun and interactive. ohmygoodness- *slaps forehead*. haha. will be so fun. but i guess this trip will not just be fun, will be super tiring for the nominees and super worrying at times i guess for the leaders. aiyoh. 加油!

Crediamo!

woah! its just four days to ee-tah-leee! wheeeeee~ hahaha. so exciting. to think that we've come four months into the year, and we are now just four days to italy! and i just realised we can count the number of days ot italy with one hand. haha. fine- i'm bimbo. lolx. wat a self-confirmation. hahah. hahah. mad le, mad le. cannot stop laughing. if i stop, i'll probably konk out on my bed lahx- shit. cause i need to do my tutorials! ARGH! how nice. don't wanna bring any unfinisehd work over o italy, cause once you come back, it starts to haunt you like a big pile of sai lahx. dun wan that to happen ya? so might as well do the final chionging these three days ya> hah. then slack like mad (in terms of studies lahx, wat else? slack in singing: might as well just chop your head off lahx. practise so hard, just to go there and slack... aiyoh. slap you a thousand times sia) for 9days, then come back to college with GOOD RESULTS!

MY PRECIOUSSSS -
GRAND PRIZE, YOU'RE MINE!