Me and ZhongWei (the lucky choir's pro cameraman)!

Shall start off with our singing: Despite the rather disappointing performance at Komtar building on the 3rd night of the trip, we've definitely had many refreshing practices together as a choir, achieving standards which we've never before attained back in Singapore! In fact, the pre-performance during the exchange programme with the 'Penang Chinese Girls' School' and 'Zhong Hua Secondary School' was pretty impressive. For instance, our 'Karimata' was so dynamic! We were so neat and united in rhythm and just enjoying every moment of it. haha. Another breakthrough of the trip is the song 'calme des nuits'! Initially I thought it was a pleasant song, but the more we sang the more boring it became... and somehow, we couldn't seem to create the moods that Ms Lim wants in the song... However, we miraculously managed to sing it quite successfully during one of the practices in the hotel during the trip, create appropriate moods and everything just felt so good! I thought that our best song during the terrible performance on the 3rd night was also 'calme des nuits'... haha coz I felt so depressed after our messed-up 'Jaakobin' that I just poured out all my emotions into 'calme des nuits' lol... Can you believe it that the Sopranos didn't come in at all for 'Jaakobin'? But then again, it was because the wrong beat was given. basses came in early, and altos or some other section came in wrongly and so perhaps it was a blessing in disguise that Sopranos didn't come in since we might just make things worse...

HC Choir on stage during performance on 3rd night - we look so solemn lol....

'CHIO BU'S! :)

'SHUAI GE'S?!!

Anyway, moving on to bonding within the choir: I think the basses rock (for once)! I didn't think that they would ever become so united... but yes they have really opened up during this trip! I want to affirm Donald especially! I don't think I would've ever talked to him at all if not for this trip... haha, I'm glad that Jason had such a great influence on him, being his roommate. Anyway, yup I think I can really started to feel the basses' spirit as a section (maybe due to Johnny's propadanda every practice)... haha...

Overall I guess the basses have helped much in gelling the choir together during the trip! heh... I think I'm pretty disappointed with myself though... lol... coz I don't think I know my section much better... We were all in our cliques - Cheryl + Luosha, Yvonne + Sera, Me + Suet, LiLin + Cheryl Jnr... ok la, but I guess this is inevitable... and we did break out of our cliques la so that's really great! :) I got closer to the Altos I think! haha... like Xin Yi, Yu Han, Catherine, Lynnette, Kimberly... hahah... Oh yeah, like we have a 'noobies gang' in choir for shopping LOL, which includes Catherine, Lynnette, Yu Han, Xin Yi, Suet and me! lol...

Hmmm... okay I really hope we do keep our promise of making the rest of the practices till SYF very effective and fun and just full of energy, instead of like in the past when everything was so SIAN and all efforts we made in choir was futile... yupyup I think we're all ready to work towards SYF now... I guess what we were really lacking in was FOCUS... so with Ms Lim's constant reminder for us to 'WAKE UP!' plus whatever experiences we've gained during the trip that has strengthened us with regards to singing and bonding, I think we'll gear up and make great leaps in our performing standards:) yepp...

Anyway enjoy the wonderful high-resolution shots taken by ZW! Thanks ZW for making the great effort to capture so many memories of the Penang Trip for us! :)

Basses worshipping their 'da sao' LOL! =p

Sssssopranos! :)

RMates! wooo.

Jumping in the air - Suet, Sera, Cheryl Jnr, Yvonne and me! =p
haha can you see a black line in the background?
- that's the Penang bridge! :)

Some of us in Job and Zhong Wei's hotel room
in the wee hours of the morning after performance night!