Hey i'm back... just finish eating dinner and well... (: I'll upload the 1st day pics now (:


Here they are!

Cheese Zi Qi!!!

The multi-racial Singapore! (:

Up up and away!!! (:


Haha... Alright... shall continue with the 3rd Day of Japan trip (:


June 14th (Thursday): FRIENDS Concert !!!

Ooo yeah!! This is the Main Event of the whole trip!!! The concert! x)


It was rise and shine and we all went to have breakfast in the hotel. (: It was quite a delicious breakfast! haha... i felt so embarrassed when Mr Fong actually asked if i could help him put some wedges on his plate... but i heard it as "Can i dont queue up?" T.T i actually said "No" and put down the serving spoon.. Oh man!! Good thing Zi Qi prompted me and i saw mr fong pouting.. lols.. embarrassing or wad!?!


Anyways... after breakfast... we headed down to the hotel lobby and took pics (: Than we headed off to Nara International Cultural hall... (: Once we reached there, we went to our dressing rooms... Handbells was given 2 dressing rooms.. there, we rested and started taking pics as usual.. haha...


We then rushed out to collect our handbell load from the truck and started to prepare for our rehearsal... We had to wear our heels for the rehearsal.. and guess wad?? After stomping the last note, my heel bent =.= And it was JUST the rehearsal...


But thank God for Mr fong... haha... He was strong enough to bend back my heel... so after scotch-taping my shoes and changed out into our costumes, we ate our lunch (Japanese sandwich box-lunch), and got ready for our performance (:


We had to walk-in and sit with our audience.. and my oh my.. the audience was great! Kept clapping for us and i did felt kind of embarrassed and wary of my bended shoe heel... haha..

After much opening performances from the tezukayama high school, we headed to the back stage to start our performance...


For the first song, "Lenggang Kangkong", the chimers played one beat earlier for the first note... T.T But Thank God yet again, the audience thought that it was meant to be like that.. .haha... (:


For the 2nd song, "Crazy Little Thing Called love", once we reached the first verse, the audience already started clapping!!! xDDDD I was so happy!!! We didnt even had to reach to the " Initiated-clapping" part... haha!! (: I must say, they were the 2nd best audience we ever had... the best was God (:


After our handbell performance, we shifted our places and got ready for our combined performance with ACS (barker). We played faster than them... ): I was quite disappointed and guilty... but anyways... (: Mr Fong said it was ok ..


After changing out from our heels, we started to wrap up our handbell boxes and cushions... And guess what?!? One japanese person came to the backstage to ask mr fong if we could play another piece as an encore!! haha!!! But we were already halfway through packing and so... we told them to come to s'pore instead :X


After packing... we went back out to settle with the audience and we were just in time to hear the Tezukayama High School's string ensemble again!!! And My oh My!!! They played the pieces from "Phantom of the Opera"!!!! And they were EXCELLENT!!! haha.. We all gave them a standing ovation.... (:


The japanese than taught us how to make a kimono using coloured-paper (: They were really sweet... That was the end of the "Friends" concert ...


We went backstage and got our souvenirs and yep!!! GROUP PHOTOS!!! haha! We were all busy humming the phantom of the opera songs too! xD Anyways..after much photos taken and giving out of souvenirs, we packed up our own belongings and headed out of the Cultural hall...


By then, it was already raining... The next event planned out for us was to actually go to Nara Park to see deers and all.. but due to the rain, we had to pass through the park and see a few deers while sitting onboard the bus... ):


But anyways... we were really bummed out... After the "Sight-seeing", we headed to Yoshino Ryokan, where we would be sleeping in fives... (:


With the exception of handbellers, the rest of the group had to go there without their luggage! xD haha...


I shared the room with Zi Qi, Lim Xi, Charlene and Cheryl (: We had to wear the japanese suit thingy.. haha... than yep.. we headed down for dinner!! and it was some "steamboat" kind of thing... except that the "soup" was soya sauce mixed with sugar... heard that it is called "Suki Yaki" ... Haha.. it tasted alright... (:


After filling our tummies... we headed up to the seniors' room to have vaspers. That night, Lim Xi opened with prayer and shared the verses while Charlene shared the word... I then closed with prayer...


After vaspers...We all headed down to see what the public bath situation was like... haha... in the end, only some of the seniors went... the rest were either too scared or too tired... or in mine and charlene's case.. ahem.. we had nature's calling.. haha..


So yea... Me and charlene played uno with the remaining seniors and some of the sec 3s... Than... i went to BATHE!!! haha!


After bathing.. we all got news that Mr Fong wanted to play uno with us!! So we all rush down to Lingcyen's room (Right next to Mrs Wong's rm) ! haha.. There, we played Uno and my oh my! Mr Fong was funny! We kept making things difficult for him without him knowing.. lol ...But we were really making too much noise and yep, Mrs Wong came in and told us to play a little while longer and head to the sheets...


So yep! Once back to our own room, we all tucked in and Thank God for the wonderful experience down at the cultural hall... (:


Here are the pictures taken on the 3rd day:

Rise and Shine!

Messy beds... (;

The unawaken City...

The misty mountain range...


Another close-up of mountain view

Ready for the knock-out performance! xD

Yep, this is it!!!


My dressing table!! xD

Our already Messy dressing room... T.T

The facilities are not bad huh?? haha...


Our Room for the night! (:


The name of the banquet hall where we ate dinner (:

Traditional huh?? (: Night!



Alright.. i shall end here for today... (: Nite!

Heya ppl!!! Back to continue my japan trip posts!

haha! my oh my!! my blog sure is DEAD!!!

okay.. time to renew it! Shall list out all the AMAZING activities that i so Foolishly and lazily forgot to post up! heheh...

April 28th (saturday): KALEIDOSCOPE!

Really amazing performance for all the handbellers to RENEW our SYF memories (: And yes, the audience was FANTASTIC! haha...


May 9th (Wednesday) : Secondary 3 camp

Had a great time bonding with fellow sec 3s during this camp, especially with class maggi mee & the sounds of aeroplanes... haha

Fun-filled camp with Gigi ended on May 11th (Friday)

May 17th (Thursday) : Secondary 1 I-discover Camp

Secondary 1-7 just rock!! haha... they were really a bunch of enthu pple and i definately have no regrets joining the other sec 3 facilitators to make an impact in them (:

Sore throats ended on May 19th (Saturday)

May 25th ( Friday) : Meet the Parents session (ushering)

Had a really tiring yet fun time with lim xi while ushering the parents to and fro. (: Thanks for the macs teachers!! haha

June 4th ( Monday ): Handbell holiday practices!!

Welcome back Mr FONG!!! haha... we really missed the funny yet crazy dude (:
And yes, he was back to make music with handbellers (:

It was also a time for the rushing out of syf music scores...
Thanks Ling cyen and zi qi (Smellies) haha... u guys are really fun to be with... xD esp. the times when we sneaked out to.. ahem ahem.. lol

For the handbell practices, we had to rearrange some of our notes for the 2 syf pieces, and also prepare a new piece which will be played with ACS (barker) Chinese Orchestra. The song was "Amazing Grace" . (:

The music score- frenzy ended on May 7th ( Thursday)

June 8th (Friday) : Rehearsal with ACS (b) CO

We all arrived at ACS (B)'s concert hall and practiced the song "Amazing Grace" with the CO. haha... was really funny when we all started complaining abt the timing and all to mr fong.. haha (: The CO conductor was kind of uptight when he saw us complaining... but oh well... (: It turned out alright in the end...

Thanks to our faithful supporters , Wan yi & wenxin who turned up and gave us many "Pointers" ... lols... Orange-specs dude... argh,...

June 11th (Monday) : Packing of handbell load

Yea, we all turned up to pack all the boxes and cushions with film wraps and all.. (:

Glad that Mr Fong came to support us (:

He came to drop off the black bags & iron, confirm the scores and ate chicken rice with us (:

June 12th (Tuesday): Take off from Singapore to Osaka!!!

Sad to say that my "Girl-nature" came that afternoon ): Was depressed....
haha... but anyways... the handbellers and osaka trip never failed to cheer me up! Was really high when we got to the airport. (:

After checking in our luggages, we had free-time from 10pm to 11pm .. haha... we spent 1/2 hr talking abt random stuff... (eg. the things we were going to buy there) haha... the remaining 1/2 hr, zi qi, lingcyen, lim xi, sherry and i headed downstairs to macdonalds to eat icecream and a set of nuggets .. haha.. had a hard time eating everything.

We gathered again at 11pm and yep, got the news that we were checking in and have 1hr of free-time inside... After many goodbyes to parents and other family members, especially the most adorable goodbye from mrs wong to her adorable son (:

After going in, we all sat near the orchid place and started talking and taking photos (:

Than, at 12pm, we headed to the row.. (forgot) and yep, mr fong tried out the foot-massage equipment (: haha... Deborah also taught us some jap words...

After passing the handcarry security check, we went up the aeroplane (: I had the window seat.. Zi qi & mr fong sat on my right.. haha... had a fun time watching finding nemo with mr fong... lol... heard that he laughed alot... (:



haha.. .alright... i'll save the rest of the osaka details for another post (: I'll cya guys soon!

PL Pri & Sec
ACJC
Angklung (Pri)
Handbeller(Sec)
26 Aug 1992

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