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I really feel liberated. It feels
soooooooo good GREAT to have finally recovered from my illness! No more nausea, incessant coughing, and irritating phlegm! Oh yeah!
There's a lot to blog about, but the first part of the week I was sleeping as early as I could, and then I didn't feel like blogging. But I guess I have to blog, before I lose the motivation to do so altogether!
Alright... lemme gather my thoughts. Hm......
Aargh I can't remember most that's happened this week! Just the later part of this week then.
This part is gonna be in my class blog, so there maybe a lot of unknown names mentioned.
Friday. Really fun day. Not the lessons, but what happened after the lessons. There was choir as usual, but then I had some free time after lessons. So some of our class was just hanging out at the canteen with Clarence, Dexin, Calvin, Joe and Weilong. The girls were at some other table. We still sit separately sometimes. Why? I think it's the girls that don't want to sit with us, if you ask me. Hm...
Anyway, Joanne needed some people to help her move some things from the harmoc room to LT3. That's when it all started. Untill now I still don't know why all of us volunteered to help. I don't regret it though. One helluva fun time man!
So the whole lot of us, calvin joe weilong clarence, dexin, li-en wangye yiwen liting and I went all the way up to the fourth floor, near the library. Hm... I didn't realise that small little room was the harmoc room. So pathetic. Anyway most of us went into the small little room after joanne opened it for us. I remember feeling a little apprehensive. Claustrophobic? Not really. Maybe I just had a premonition of what was to come!
It was so fun in the harmoc room! We played with all sorts of things- the drum sets, the cymbals, the portable fan. Then Clarence started singing, as usual. "LU BIAN YI GE.... RONG SHU XIA! (路边一个....榕树下!)" After while I decided to join him. "LU BIAN YI GE... RONG SHU XIA!" Then Dexin tried to join in, but he couldn't really sing in that kind of voice I guess. haha. Or maybe he just wasn't crazy enough. Yet.
I didn't really pay attention to what was happening around me. Too engrossed "singing" into the fan! Oh yeah. I didn't even hear the banging of the door. Then the next thing I knew, someone was saying the door was stuck! Woah. I wasn't worried at all though. "LU BIAN YI GE... RONG SHU XIA!" lol. It didn't really sink in until some people started panicking. Namely Joanne. Haha. Only then did I realise that we really were stuck! The door couldn't open. Apparently Calvin and Joe (on the outside) had tried to open it the wrong way or something, and deformed the latch and the frame of the door! But tried to open it. Couldn't. Oh well. "LU BIAN YI GE.... RONG SHU XIA!"
Joe decided to go get a screwdriver, and then they started trying to unscrew something ( which I later found out was the latch of the door). I dunno... I still didn't feel that worried. Just continued- "LU BIAN YI GE.... RONG SHU XIA!". I guess I didn't understand the gravity of what had happened. It took joanne's (almost) breaking down to make me stop singing. haha. Later we found out that she wasn't gonna cry, just 哭笑不得. So I stopped my singing. And tried to contribute to getting the door open. Tried is the key word man. The whole ordeal took only half and hour though. They got the latch unscrewed in quite a short while (Joe's a lousy, erm unscrew-er). I was getting impatient towards the end. But yeah I just ate, so I wasn't really afraid of dying of hunger. I just didn't wanna go for choir late!
I was the first to go out when they got the door open. Truth be told, the air didn't smell any fresher at all actually. And I wasn't all that glad to be out. No more "LU BIAN YI GE RONG SHU XIA!" Aww. I sang a bit in the stair well while carrying the equipment to LT3 though. haha. Anyway like I said- one helluva experience! And I'm sure we all came out for the better from it. Right? Stress management. Lol.
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I found the lyrics! Yay now I can sing almost the whole song (dunno the rest of the tune). And it's 路边一棵, not 路边一个. Whoops.
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So I went for choir as usual after that. Nothing very out of the ordinary for practice. Our choir president gave us her first scolding ever though. Yeah I admit we're quite noisy. And all the time too. It was I wake up call I guess. Only two more weeks to the full dress rehersal! Omg. So much to do, so little time! And then there's still that stupid SYF recording. Sigh...
I stayed back with a few others to practice the songs we were gonna perform at some home for the mentally disabled. Ye Lai Xiang and Can't Help Falling in Love (with you). CIP. I volunteered. At first there was only one bass, but then Jingzhi and Wang Ren volunteered later, so there were 3 basses. Or so I thought anyway. So, ok I stayed back for that extra practice. It was 8 when it ended. Whoops. Guitar started at 7.30. Whoops. I didn't feel like going. Whoops. I was tired and hungry. Whoops. All I kept thinking of was to go home and eat and sleep. Whoops. So I didn't go for the remainder of the guitar concert. Whoops. Wasted money. Whoops Aargh. I'd better go for harmoc concert next friday...
Saturday. I didn't do any work at all. Just waited till 12 before I set off for Bedok MRT station. It was almost 1, when I got an SMS from Jingzhi.
JINGZHI "Have you arrived?"
ME "Nooo! I'm gonna be quite late." "Ok actually I'm only 1 stop away"
JINGZHI "I still at city hall.."
Ok, fair enough. City hall. So he was gonna be quite a bit late. When I reached (5 mins late only!) there was only Sarah and Linxin. Some of the rest went for lunch somewhere else first. So we waited. And waited. Cheryl came at 1.30. She thought we were supposed to meet at 1.30 instead of 1pm! Hm... I told them Jingzhi was gonna arrive soon. They asked about Wang Ren. So I asked jingzhi.
"Is wang ren with you?"
"No he is there ald.having lunch now.."
Hm.. maybe he was having lunch with the others. He wasn't responding to my smses though.
So we waited. And waited some more. I got impatient.
"Where are you now?"
"Jurong east one stop away.."
What the heck. O. M. G. HE THOUGHT IT WAS bukit batok INSTEAD OF bedok! Aaaaarhhh! So he was at the entirely opposite end of the green line! And- ho ho ho!- Wang Ren was "already there"- at Bukit Batok! Omg. I can't believe it man. Bukit Batok sounds like Bedok?!? Hm... anyway they're PRC. Can't really blame them I guess.
We were already running late, so we told them not to come anymore. Aw. I still couldn't believe what happened. Just earlier that morning I told Jingzhi in a one-word SMS when he asked me- "bedok"! Wang Ren SMSed me while we were in the bus on the way to the home:
"We thought it was Bukit Batok..."
"Yeah I know. Oh well. But today jingzhi just asked me. I told him Bedok!"
"Then I told him Bukit Batok.."
ROTFL. I really wanted to ROTFL in the bus. Aaarh. So there was only one bass- me. With three tenors, three sops and three altos I think. Waaaahh. I guess it wasn't too bad. I had some help from two tenors- one for each song. They knew the bass parts. But tenors can't pull bass parts off la (whoops some anti-tenor feelings here haha.). Especially if they're really low. Oh well. Better than nothing.
It was quite a new experience. No no, not that kind of trapped in harmoc room experience. The really new kind of experience. I knew they were mentally disabled. They also looked, um mentally disabled. It wasn't each individual, but the whole crowd of them... seemed a little disturbing to me. I felt quite uncomfortable and, actually, a little afraid. And we were supposed to smile. Hm... The environment was quite noisy. So in the end we almost couldn't hear each other for most parts. Haha. Apparently I could be heard though! Woah. I was trying very hard to blast, but my ear was blocked. So my own voice sounded very loud in my head. Having a blocked ear isn't fun at all man. Especially when you sing loud. It's deafening!
So we stayed back for a while upstairs and the harmoc people did their stuff. This whole thing was organised by one of my choir senior's class, and they invited us choristers and also some harmoc people to perform. While we were upstairs, the seniors (and some juniors who knew the songs already) started carolling! Aargh. Almost every time they sing those songs when there's nothing to do. Makes me feel so left out. Sigh. I should really go get the scores and learn them myself first.
We ended by singing some "school songs". No, not the school song. Just some, erm school songs? What're they called anyway? I dunno. They expect us choristers to be able to lead the singing. Lol. I didn't know more than half of the lyrics. So I was just lala-ing away.
All in all, quite a memorable experience. Especially that stupid MRT station mix up! We're all gonna have a good laugh tomorrow during the extra J1 SYF recording practice. Bedok not Bukit Batok!!!
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4/30/2006 04:30:00 pm
