2nd july'06

SYF 2006 OPENING CEREMONY!!
Reaching Beyond 40th anniversary

yesterday was so fun! (: (: (:
will never forget it. national stadium. wow. so many people yesterday. it was packed. hahs.
ok.
rewind

SYF 2006 through the eyes of a performer (choir. to be exact.)

met lina at 11:45 at the clementi kfc. ate zinger meal again with cheese fries. yummy. arrived in school at 12:20 to wait for the bus to pick us up. sat on the bus with chewhuiteng. hahs. and we got mcchickens. hahs. finally reached national stadium at ??. we had to wait (as usual) at the concourse for like 2 hours?? before entering. meanwhile... lina huiteng and i played chopsticks and 二零五。哈。so fun. for 二零五 we were seeing who got the most 默契。huiteng and i manage to hit lina 20 times!! wahhaa. pity lina.. (: ate the mcchicken. which by then had turned cold and soggy. l0l. went with huiteng to collect newwater for the choir. at 3:20?? we finally entered. it looked so grand. the benches where the choir sat was covered with a HUGE cloth to make it look like a stage and there were lots of flowers covering the speakers and the place where our conductor ,miss pauline ho,stood. many pri school studants were already sitted and using their "bangers" adding to the atmosphere. (: after the warm-ups for the audience. we danced!! hahs.
first 8 songs (coloured according to our apron colour)
absolutely everybody
reach up for the sunrise
malay medley
i believe i can fly
munnaeru vaaliba
绿光
i dream
老鼠爱大米

after that. proceeded to march past. which we had already watched like 3 times during rehersals. lol.
proceeded to sing
come fly with me and myriad of colours
after the UGs left we sang the chorale version of reaching beyond.

chatted with huiteng. because as mentioned previously. we watched the whole thing 3 times. hahs. the choir and SKs also did the kallang wave THREE times when PM lee circled the stdium in the jeep. it looked really nice especially with the pom poms. (:

then. the guest bands from malaysia and thailand performed. although it was the first time and i was looking forward to hear what bands from other countries will play however, it was a slihght disappointment because the music was way too soft. couldnt hear much. after that, the top 3 bands from tanjong katong sec, deyi sec and bowen sec competed for the display band of the year. watched this too and only realised right at the end that what they were showing on the screen was actually the formation of the band. lol.

after the display by nan hua high. pulsating beat of youth. or something like that. hahs. forgot the title liao. then they announced the winners (tajong katong won display band of the year award while deyi sec won best drum major)

finale. everyone joined in at the last bit where beatty sec and some other school did a display and cheeyang and teresa sang reaching beyond. pop version. and it was really fun! (: the atmosphere was at its peak!! after it ended at 7:30 we headed back to the concourse to return all our props ): byee props. and... we met millie zn and eileen!! hahs. at first we thought we were gonna leave liao but we still managed to meet them!! (:
waited 1 hour for the bus to fetch us. cos there was a jam at the main road. played concentration and billibanja...
finally the bus came at 8:30 and we headed back to school. very much exhausted, but we still sang high school musical songs. (:
had late dinner with lina huiteng annabel szehui jaclyn and yuexiu at the coffeshop. before reaching home at 10pm.

end

definately a wonderful experience. (: