Wednesday, August 08, 2007, 11:22 PM
Haha! Im fufilling my handbell buddy's wish of me blogging abt the fanfare performance.
August 6th (Monday): Fanfare performance for Twinning Programme @ PLhaha... yep yep! Yesterday, we had a fanfare performance. This twinning programme is basically the China students who were visited by PL students a few yrs back, have come to PL!! haha!
For this fanfare, like i said in my previous post, was being played by 16 handbellers! I said 14 in my previous post huh? haha... anyways, it is 16. So yep! It turned out not bad since we only had 1 practice to learn the song.
Although some pple were lost during the performance, it turned out better than expected actually! (:
So yeP! wanna thank all the girls involved for missing their lessons (even though i know they wanna) and yeah, took the effort to memorise their scores. (: Ling cyen, the ever observant treasurer managed to get some fines from clashing of bells. haha! Isnt she great or what?!
After the performance, we all went back for lessons. At 2.15, zi qi and i rushed out from PW presentation to meet up with Charlene & Ling Cyen for the Handbell demonstration. haha! Mrs Wong was doing most of the talking so yep! Thanks to her, my bad chinese could be kept to myself and the handbellers. :S
The handbell demonstration was quite funny! haha... one china girl actually forgot to take her bag with her when they left! haha!
Anyways, i must say that im quite confident abt tmr's CC's fanfare performance, after yesterday's performance.
August 8th (Wednesday): National Day Parade & Concert @ PL Yep, its RED & WHITE everywhere in PL today! (:
Reaching school only at 7.05am, my sis and i rushed to the NE corner to get checked up for our attire for colours awards. Yep, met up with the rest of the handbellers and i was busy running away from ling cyen, the national-day-flag-snatcher. T.T
After everyone proceeded to the track, lim xi and i headed up to the classrooms where the colour awardees were located. Not a bad view actually, just that we could not really hear the pple talking. But yeah, besides flashing our shorts and all to everyone in the track, we had loads of fun singing the community songs and laughing at Zhi xian's dance moves... :X
After the parade, we were rushed to the hall and got ready for the colours award ceremony and national day concert. After the colours award, the concert started. My oh my, wasnt it a hyper event when it came to the community singing. The whole hall was filled with students waving their little flags with pride. Haha, Cheers to Mr Thompson! (:
"Mayhaps" to Ziqi! (: *winks* and yeah, thanks to Lim Xi for dedicating "MY song" lols...
P.S: Credit of the word "Mayhaps" goes to my DEAR cousin Elizabeth Channy! (: After the concert, the ever-helpful handbellers helped out in carrying and arranging back chairs to various classrooms... (:
After getting our free gifts, Canned-juice (The only brand of drink i can take since im fasting), and koko-krunch CEREAL, my sis and i went home.
Today we both slept a lot... and i mean a LOT! haha! After taking our lunch, we both fell asleep on the couch while watching "eragon" vcd. lols...
Alright, shall stop here with all my unwanted-minor details of my life... lols... Ciao! (:
Saturday, August 04, 2007, 12:31 AM
Many things have happened recently... all the fast-moving days especially since it is the test and quizzes-period...
Anyways... having to cope with catching up with studies and handbells is still quite some work for me...
The last performance we had was the Thanksgiving service for the graduated students... We played "What a mighty God we serve" and "Turn your eyes upon Jesus"...
That was the first performance for the secondary 1s... Even though Mr Fong wasnt there to conduct us and we made some mistakes during the performance, we still managed to played through to the end...
However, it was quite disappointing when it came to the discipline in the handbell ensemble. Charlene had to shout and scold the juniors quite often... and i sadly had to end of the tiring day with a lecture...
Any juniors reading this, just want u to know that whatever we seniors did and said, happened because we wanted to correct yr mistakes... Do reflect back on what you personally did/said, and work on it... we really need to keep improving ourselves... So yeah, no point talking behind seniors' backs... it isnt gonna take u far in life...
As for the sec 3s, do continue to keep up the good work! As seniors, we ought to be good examples infront of the juniors... do continue with the good team-spirit. Especially to the main ex-co, thanks so much for the support and hard work u guys did during the performance. From reminding the girls about certain basic things to eating fast in order to supervise them. I want to thank you here. U're work was deeply appreciated by many!
Next monday, we would be playing a fanfare piece for the china people who are coming to our school. We would be playing "Rondeau Fanfare", which is played by 14 handbellers. To the 14 handbellers, i just want to remind u to memorise yr scores and please dont forget them after the performance because we have to play again on national day! (: Thanks for being a good Sport and being able to come!
As for those who arent involved in the fanfare pieces, just want to say a big "well done"! You guys managed yr time wisely and composed songs with Mr Fong! (: I've seen much potential leaders rising in some of the juniors.. so keep up yea! (:
Alright, guess i better go get some slp soon... Ciao for now!
