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Thursday, February 02, 2006

*[[ ~choir~ 2 months to Riva Del Garda, Italy 2006!!! JIA YOU HC CHOIR!!! =) ]]*

ya know whenever people ask what we do in choir, the answer seems lame - to sing - which is true... yea, to learn the technical skills of singing like how to make a voice non-airy/ bright/ thick/ chinesey/ cut off together/ be more p than pp/ be fff/ cres/ decres/ accent/ etcetcetc... maybe to even learn about discipline? or passion? personally, besides the above mentioned of course, i think every single chorister will take back a different experience from each practice. ok personally that's true for me... I mean, it has to be... otherwise why would I wanna be in choir if I had sung "without brains" (as ms lim puts it)...or rather, "without hearts"?

ok la, I don't wanna launch into the whole "BIG BANG" theory about PASSION coz it's very obvious that I go for choir coz of my passion to sing... but it's what I get out of it that very few people can understand... they'll probably only understand when they really get to sing with the choir. Just listen to 2 notes harmonize and people will go "wow"/draws circles (RIGHT JASON? AHEM!) I mean, just take this evening for example. As Suet, Zoe and I were walking along the pavement (in between the TCHS fence and the rows of trees), we just started admiring the sky at sunset and singing "Dahil Sayo" (a Filipino love song)... and I think all three of us just transcended into some other world... our imaginations took us... our music took us... I duno how to put it, but we reached a point when the music was just flowing out of our mouths without us realising it, and I wasn't even really thinking about what I was singing... but then again, I was really in awe of the music... and getting all emotional about it... and when we held our last chord, that was when I realised that the song had ended, and that it was the 3 of us who were producing that piece of music (though only by sop 1 & 2)... and it's amazing how the music we produce can take us somewhere so beautiful. and the best thing is that we know we are the only ones who are experiencing this kinda "more than just la-la-land" feeling... haha. Suet, Zoe and I were just chatting at the "Zen Garden" after an unofficial J1 sop prac to drill on BIN-NAM-MA... and I randomly wondered out loud if our NY choir batch is really that close... I mean, seriously, the only people I feel close to/have an EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT (LOLX) to are Zoe, Tammy, MeiSi, Joanna, Yi Ting... yah I shall be frank here (as I always am, so don't mind me =p)...but although I "feel" close towards Melissa, LiLin, Kimberly, Kai Xuan, Tricia, Miao Qin, Suet, Kerryn, Yu Bai (haha cannot leave out anyone), I think it's a different kind of "close"... Anyway now I see why a batch who isn't all that close (like share v much personal emotional attachments) can be so bonded.... it's just coz everytime we sing together, we feel DIFFERENT. we feel uplifted and possibly enlightened... we feel that kind of common focus and feel when we "make music"... i guess...

Anyway, last time I mentioned how I feel so different when I'm with my class and when I'm in choir... It's really REALLY weird.... I mean, somehow, when I'm with my class, I feel that I can scream/shout/make whatever kind of noise I like/be as lame as I want...and wow I can actually be known as a "jukebox"...like WOW... so when I'm laughing with my choirmates, suddenly I wonder why I'm so loud?! and I definitely sense something different in my way of laughing and other mannerisms? People in nanyang choir know that I don't behave like that. I'm v demure k. and serious. yah believe it or not. =p=p ahhaa. k la. "demure" is too nice a word for me. I duno la... but when I'm in choir, I always know that there's THAT focus, THAT discipline, THAT attitude required of me... and somehow, I just turn serious, more emotional, and I just know that no matter how tired I am, I give my all. "Slacking" will never once cross my mind, coz I don't want to. And I'm sure all 10 of us from NY choir now in HC choir have THAT very same attitude. duno leh. but it's not just 10 of us lor. the whole choir seems to know that. the atmosphere is just very different compared to my class where the "joking mood" fills the air and, at any point in time, you know that someone is always laughing.

ahh. alright. Shall stop here. or I'll rattle on and on by typing anything that comes to my mind. yea... HC choir will do it right! CANTATE DOMINO. BIN-NAM-MA. CALME DES NUITS. HAINANESE SONG. YEA WE'LL DO IT WELL FOR THIS ITALY COMP! WE'LL GET THAT GOLD ALRIGHT! Yah 2 months only. must treasure whatever practices that we have. =)

Anyway, I'm really glad that Wayne/Wen Wei has um...well, SHOWN INTEREST =D=D in A CAPELLA! hahaha... was rather surprised. LOL. It's not everyday that a guy is interested in singing songs like these! ahhaha. or can even APPRECIATE such a capella. lols...... bleugh. some people think guys in choir are sissy. =(

hm. choir again tomorrow. so tired.

Anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIAN!!! =) hope you had a great time during yr bdae celebrations today=D hahaha... shall treat ya to Swensens tmr! use angbao $$$ lol. hopefully I won't be too tired/dead after choir prac haha. ah. v tired these days. guess everyone is =p jia you ba, soulmate! =p

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