well, i guess this'll be one of the last posts before i leave for KL on friday. excited! haha! going for competition. almost done with the intensive practices. we're getting much better. i heard the recordings wei wei posted. it actually sounds not that bad. :D but today's performance was bad. kwei said we were too agitated, esp during "lily". and our "sweet honey sucking bees" was too fierce. like wasps. or hornets. haha! but the folklore is good. i think we're almost there. they definitely want to go onto the grand finals. well, remembering nus choir's reputation, naturally lah. hui yin says i've improved for "sweet honey sucking bees" yay! but bit ironic since immediately after, for "lily", i cracked. the "linden lea" we're learning for the friendship concert is so nice! love it. the most 'relax' song we're going to be singing in KL.

anyway, little note that isn't too good about the nus choir. i think sometimes, in the bid to be excellent, they forget about the ren qing part. like today, the situation with dharini. both the SL (section leader) and another senior (not mentioning names) kept 'snapping' at her cos she isn't getting it quite perfectly as they would like it. to the point that the SL told dharini not to sing at all during the sectionals for "lily". dharini walked out of the room and she was crying when she came back. she said wanted to pull out of the competition altogether cos she thinks she isn't good enough, that she'll pull down the entire choir. which is complete BS imo.

point is that, we want to be perfect and excellent and grand finalists and all, but the process is a bit, maybe a lot, brutal. people are going to be darn demoralised after all the brutal treatment. li yi tried to talk to her and kept asking all of us if we're ok, do we feel demoralised. i think she's scared that we'll become like dharini. but at least she's concerned enough. she's one of the better seniors, despite her weirdness and fake fierceness. the SL didn't bother, maybe she doesn't even know this is happening to her section. she's really impatient with those who are weaker, and, well, i kinda feel that how she handles it when we don't perform up to expectation is not right. her tone when she reprimands us reminds me of mrs quek's i-don't-understand-why-you-don't-understand line, only much harsher and not funny at all. i hope i never become like this. if i do, feel free to slap me.

saw mj's performances. not bad actually. my altos sound so good. but sometimes they're good to the point that they're overpowering the other sections. which is surprising since altos weren't ever that loud during my time. but i'm proud of them! eugenia, cass, and even that crazy girl with the super exaggerrated expressions. haha! their "sweet honey sucking bees" is so different from ours. kwei says that theirs is better. maybe not so aggressively fierce hornets but sweet honey sucking bees. ;D me and paulus crashed their practice for a while. and later on, paulus revealed that mr yong doesn't remember me anymore. mr yong was asking him who am i. *pout* next time i won't bother so much with mj liao since i'm so easily forgotten. *grin* tp was singing "gloria" that we did for la risonanza last year for their open mix piece. haha! nostalgia. i like mj's interpretation of it better tho.

anyway, bit of an update. duan hui, i said i would blog about that meeting with khoo (yes, i do talk about church issues with my non-church friends outside of my blog's air time). but i don't think i'll ever get the full picture. every attempt at talking about it with those present turns into a khoo/ronald/elders bashing session. so ya, the less said, the better i think.

moving on. i realised that sometimes, well maybe most times, my posts are really really really damn long. and i just realised that it may be a bit difficult for people to read. see, the problem here is that i would like to keep my posts precise and concise (as naresh would say) but when i get started, as you can see, the precise and concise post mutates unrecognisably. on one hand, i feel like saying, heck lah, this is my space! i'll do what i want with it! on the other hand, i want readers to be comfortable reading and not feel like they're reading academic papers, plowing on just cos they're my friends and are therefore obliged to read what crap i blog. ya, so feedback? do i bore you all? or are you ok with my style?

talking about feedback, i did the module preference exercise. i registered for french and psych. go ahead, call me crazy for thinking that i'll survive french. whatever. i've decided on my modules except for the cross fac that i'm planning to take next sem. fyi sumi and jas, IF general bio requires lab time, which i heard takes HOURS, i would rather take calculus as cross fac. i really love maths and i'd miss having no maths at all in my life. but this is assuming that, and i'll check this one, calculus makes use of numbers instead of alphabets.

oh ya, forgot to mention, something i wanted to ask for a while. do other people have this problem too? my computer folders, it's on details view. you know usually the font for the icons is black right? well, for some files, the font is BLUE!!!! why????!!!!! anyone know to tell me why? i can't figure it out myself. is there something wrong with my comp?? *scary* this comp has to last me till the end of uni. if mother finds out i somehow managed to screw up my comp, all hell will break lose.

to end off, funny thing i saw on the clayboard. clay wears penguin slippers to rehersals! haha! maybe he's a penguin fan too! there'a alot of talk about him and a penguin called pedro. no idea where it (clay and penguins) came from tho.

and no, i do not like penguins just because clay maybe likes them. i've liked them long before i found out that he wears penguin slippers. haha! btw, in case people have forgotten, penguins are evil too. they're trying to infiltrate the highest ranks by acting so cute and to ultimately TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!! the clayboard's sudden obsession with penguins just cos clay wore penguin slippers has proved this. it's a CONSPIRACY!

*goodness gracious! great balls of fire!!!!!*

(just a note, i got another clay thing to talk about but i'll spare you for now. resist until after KL. it isn't exactly a good thing anyway. but it'll be interesting to discuss.)

till next time!

p.s. haha! first time i upload photo onto blogger and it works!