Saturday, May 30, 2009
omg harmoc concert is over alr omg omg so fast! ): omg ): anyway, AloHaMonica was great! (((: and thanks so much, margaret, jin ning, xian wei and shing for coming for the concert! (: and yu ze for being our wonderful guest player haha! :D
and i'm really so glad that the concert was a success yayy! :D and i'm especially proud of the j1s yayy haha cos you all managed to put everything together in such a short time (: and when i was backstage listening to you all playing intermezzo for the last time ever, i really really felt so proud of you all! i remember the first time i heard you all playing intermezzo, it was during the sl auditions, and i remember our sl nominees couldn't get past the first few bars because there was soooo many mistakes! and haha you all have really come a long way since then! in a short span of less than one month, you have managed to learn the piece and put up a good performance on stage, and you have all really touched my heart with your music ((: and i wish i could have listened to your small groups songs as well, especially titanic omg! (: it's my favourite song out of the j1 small group songs haha (: and i know you all only had a very short period of time to practise, but you all managed to make it in the end yayy haha so pro (: and i'm sorry i almost lost my temper at the slavonic dance group and snapped at you all rather exasperatedly ): but i'm glad you all bucked up and practised so hard after that (: you all sounded much much much better by concert eve alr (: haha but though i didn't manage to hear it for myself on the concert day, i heard that you all sounded good, so yayy! (: and haha a few hours before the concert, a friend of mine heard you all practising backstage, and he said that if he were part of the audience, he'd feel really touched ((: and i really can't express how super happy i was to hear that (((: heh having been in performing arts for like 6 yrs alr, i have really learnt and experienced for myself how important it is to touch the hearts of the audience with your music ((: [quote ms ku when we were practising respighi for strings syf 05: "you must be able to move the judges with your playing. when you have moved them to tears, that is when you know you've succeeded" haha see i still remember these words till today haha amazing right (: ]
and yayy our syf pieces sounded good on stage too! or at least it sounded better than during post-syf pracs haha! (: and although i think our standard has dropped since syf, considering the amount of concert pracs we had, i think it was still a good job (: so yayy haha (: and haha we literally ended the concert on a good note with chicken pickin rag! :D like haha we sounded mess-free (: and the mood of the song was great yayy haha! :D great job everyone! (:
and i liked our j2 batch songs too (: air and all i ask of you (: and yayy omg sharon and jon loke's chairpersons song sounded really pro too omg haha you both have a lot of mo qi ((: and sl song was nice! :D goodness i'm really so glad we sounded synchro and nice and haha so many people liked our song omg i'm so happy (:
and thanks so much clement hong for being my page turner haha you're a wonderful page turner seriously (: and haha i'm so glad you were right next to me on stage haha it really helped calm my nerves haha (: and thanks for your comforting words right there and then when i played that super obvious wrong note haha omg how did you manage to know that i was going to freak out alr haha :D thanks kayy it really helped me not to panic even more haha! (((: and yayy evee and yinghin, you all sounded so super pro too yayy haha (: it feels so nice performing with you all! (: and considering we only had a few days to prac our song, i think we really really did a great job out of it ((: and haha i will never ever forget this special item, and haha i think this rendition of way back into love is the best ever! :D :D :D
and i'll never forget our practice sessions also haha and our many failed inital attempts to play the song nicely together haha! :D haha like i remember how we initally started out with evee playing the melody, ying hin playing bass harmoc, and me playing the chord harmoc! and haha i think the sounds coming out from the bass harmoc and chord harmoc were so funny that ducky couldn't stop laughing everytime we tried to play it haha! and i remember our many practices at the amphi, and how we always forgot to DS al Coda, and how we were always super laggy in realising that we forgot to do so haha! and how we kept complaining about the faint printing on the score, me whining about the out of tune amphi piano, and yinghin complaining about how hot it was, and ducky laughing everytime we sounded so terrible haha! :D heh (:
and when we played our last note for chicken pickin rag, and the curtains closed and we started clapping for ourselves behind the curtains, all i could think about was that harmoc was really really over, and that would be the last i'd ever play on the harmoc ): the last time i'd be making music with all these wonderful people, the last time i'd ever be performing on stage ):
and after concert we had handover! sharon and jon loke made their farewell speech and omg i felt so emo listening to them ): and then we watched the video that clement made, and haha it was quite nice yayy (: and omg looking at all the photos and the quotes from our batchmates, i really really felt so super sad at leaving harmoc ): i really do miss those times omg, our delicious dinner date and alife cip and concert last year! and syf this year and everything else like all our normal prac sessions etc! and i like jon loke's message haha it was really quite meaningful (:
then we had exco handover haha omg the j1 sls are super sweet omg they made such nice photoframes for us ((: i'll post the pic when i have time haha (: jiayou dorcas, fiona and natalie, our future sls! (: i truly believe you will all be able to lead the ensemble well and help everyone to shine (((: all the best! :D and after handover we were happily taking pics and eating and everything (: and ooh haha our j2 batch present is really nice haha it's a mini harmoc on a chain! and so cute lah omg the harmoc can actually be blown leh haha omg! :D though it's only 4 notes lah haha! and mr yew gave all the exco members a special harmoc! :D haha it's a yew hong chow harmonica with 10 holes haha and the box was autographed by him! (: good keepsake indeed haha ((: and thank you weiling for your note and oreos! :D haha i never knew i was always so cheery even during prac haha, cos i remember being told not to smile so much when i first became an sl haha or else you all wouldn't be scared of me heh, so i made an effort not to smile so much hehe, but yayy yepp i'm just really glad i could brighten up harmoc pracs for you all ((: and haha even though harmoc is over, we'll still have many opportunities to joke around together kayy no worries (:
omg i really feel so sad at having to leave harmoc omg ): harmoc has made up a really significant part of my life in rj! possibly almost 50% of my time in school is dedicated to harmoc stuff omg! and harmoc was the reason for my busy-ness and fatigue, especially this year during the months leading up to syf! and i guess i used to whine quite often about how sleepy i was, and how i often wished we could go home earlier after prac because i was just so tired omg ): but now, when i realise how all this will be gone, and replaced by endless months of shitty mugging, i know i'm really really really gonna miss everything ): like on tues and wed afternoons when i'm facing my homework, i'll prob be wondering to myself what i'm doing here, and why i'm not in lt 3 or lt 5 practising my harmoc and taking prac and whatnot! omg ): now there's this void in my life that's waiting to be filled omg and i don't know what to fill it with also omg ): technically i'm supposed to fill it up with mugging but argh sighhhh i really wish i didn't have to omg ): i guess i've come to be so used to spending so much time on harmoc, that it's just gonna be so so weird for me not to have anymore harmoc-related stuff to do anymore omg ):
and i'll really miss our batch so much omg! all of you have been so so nice and so kind and cheerful (: and we make such nice music together omg! :D i miss all our fun outings and gatherings and events and performances! ): we've really come so far together omg! i still remember when i first joined harmoc, and we were all still struggling with our notes! and i remember i used to sound like a cow when i played the low notes, and then somehow along the way, we all got better and we put up Harmonix XI that was such a blast omg (: i still remember our super cute storyline haha and our nice nice concert songs from last year (: like i still remember our ensemble songs, phantom of the opera and voice of spring! and our batch song, canon! (: and my small group song, beauty and the beast! ((: and haha i remember our alife cip also haha working with all the small kids was really fun (: and busking and project highlight and open house and everything else (: omg we've really created so much memories together (((: and i'm really thankful to you all for all these wonderful times and all the nice memories (: and thankyou for being such wonderful batchmates (: you've all really made my time in harmoc so enjoyable (: i love all of you! (((((:
and i must especially thank my fellow sls yinghin and evee for this journey together (: thank you for being my fellow sls and for sticking through all the tough times together with me (: all the long and exhausting pracs and all the mistakes we had to correct, and everything (: thanks ducky for being my fellow stoning partner during prac, when we just got so so tired that we couldn't anything else but stone together, and for all our pigging out sessions when we went to buy food and munch together haha, and our note-typing sessions together and everything else (: and thanks yinghin for being my whining partner haha, and for our bitching sessions also hahaha i still remember our bitching session about the photocopying aunty hehe, and thanks for being such a funny sl haha! and hahaha omg i still remember evee accidentally calling you yinghan hahahaha really super super funny omg! and haha i must say that the 3 of us really managed to work together very well yayy yayy i'm so glad for that! (: love both of you lots too! (:
and j1s, all the best for next year kayy! (: i'm sure you will all make the next concert a blast (: jiayou jiayou i can't wait to come back and watch you all (: and i shall come back and visit your prac sessions when i'm free too okayy! (: i'll miss you all so much too omg ): i still remember teaching you all how to play the harmoc, and listening to you all during all the auditions, and i really really think you all have made so much progress (: you've all done me proud yayy! :D keep up the enthusiasm and passion for harmoc okay! (:
haha omg that was one really long post hehe! shall reply tags now (:
shing: haha yepp thanks lots kayy! :D and thanks for coming for concert kayy i'm glad you enjoyed yourself! (((:
clement: haha i just did! :D ahhh yeahhh omg really so sad omg ): i miss harmoc so much omg ):
