updated!

alrighty. la risonanza was cool! waiting for photos from jeffrey and whoever else took photos. *hint hint* the rest of the choir already arrived at vch when i got there. but the alumni were just hanging around since the choir was doing a run of "sunset boulevard". sat up in the circle seats to watch them. interesting. there was this scene when they were supposed to form a heart shape. which was kinda disasterous. :D as in, if you didn't know it was supposed to be a heart, you wouldn't know. anyway, at least we didn't have to guard food from birds like last year. our first run on the stage was scary. the hall suddenly seems so huge. kwei said that our "yuki ga" was off. but the rest was fine. so, practice and practice and practice. we got mr yong to stand in front and listen to us. and apparently, we sounded better with him in front. maybe we just needed a focal point. so cass was teasing him, that he can just stand there and pose during our performance. which he retorted by saying that cass can stand there instead of him since she seems to like the attention. :D he looks like he lost weight. he's a LOT skinnier than i remember him to be.

ok, then...food sucked as usual. chicken, vegetable and sausage rice. at least they had the sense not to include curry. i mean, who da heck gives a choir curry just before a performance?? no serviettes, no water. :P joy got someone (aunty vivian) to come and style our hair for us. cool! of course, only for the girls. aunty vivian said that the guys didn't have enough hair for her to do anything at all, even to gel it. so, the guys hung around the doorway of the 'dressing room' and looked wishfully at the girls getting their hair styled. mine was ok. i didn't really like it though. felt really messy to me but she said that it's supposed to be like that. *rolls eyes* whatever. she's the stylist. good news came in that they had 100% ticket sales!!!! cooL!!! totally full house.

anyway, choir standby to go in. alumni was hanging round backstage, taking photos with mr yong. i think we were making a lot of noise cos an annoyed looking kwei appeared and shut the doors of backstage. they say he didn't scold us cos mr yong was there. :P anyway, we TRIED to keep quiet after that. then came our own performance time. while the choir was singing their madrigals, we were slowly freaking out backstage. hugs all round. feel the pressure a bit cos the MCs were describing the alumni choir's passion for singing, how we're the choir's seniors, mentors and friends. geez. lots to live up to. anyway, went onstage. and guess what i see first. adrian seated in the middle of the front rows. seriously. he seemed larger than life that he just stuck out of the crowd. the jap songs were ok. "good old acapella" went well. we finally got backstage, totally relieved! it's over!! we did so well!!!! they say that applause for us was much louder than applause for the rest of the choir. btw, jas and sumi says they gave us a standing ovation, but sadly, we couldn't see them cos they were at the back of the hall. yup, some of the juniors (don't know how to call them) joined the main choir again for the indonesian songs they sang at "voyage of songs". i wish i could have seen what they looked like, a sea of red gowns with a few black and jeans scattered in between.

caught up with jas and sumi backstage. they brought those cute toy flowers! thanks sweeties! saw grace and mei yan also. anyway, alumni went back to the circle for the 2nd half. no seats for us tho. they had to release our reserved seats to accomodate ticket holders. but found a seat in the end. saw dr s and naresh. went to say hi to naresh. sumi, you should be proud, the first thing naresh said after the, "hey you're here." to me was "where's sumithra?". muahahahahahaha! pity we couldn't find him after the performance tho. yup. sunset boulevard was fine. i still think they should have given the soloists mics. alumni was hooting and hollering, but knew better than to yell for encore. (cos they didn't prepare an encore so kwei wouldn't allow them to sing one)

yup, after the concert, hung around downstairs. trying to find naresh who, as usual, disappeared. zaidah was her usual self, taking her own sweet time with the hugs and goodbyes. cass was cute becoming really sassy after she lost her flower. saw adam by himself. caught up with adrian a bit. geez. it was hot outside, after the aircon inside. lucky i didn't have my hair down. i would have melted. oh ya, cass was scaring jasmine's cousin cos he apparently looks like jackie cheung and she was going ga-ga over that fact. well, ya, night ended after we FINALLY managed to drag zaidah away from the group. yup. beautiful night. loved it. can't wait for next year. hang on. i don't wanna be around for next year. i wanna be in canada this time next year. lol.

moving on. church choir. khoo's finally gotten round to changing the positioning of the choir. now, we're no longer facing the altar. rather, we've rotated 90 degrees right to face the field and windows instead. and guess what. there's TIERS now. true, it's not very big tiers, but the point is that it's not equally levelled anymore. major excitement when we first saw the change. anyway, now i'm standing in the aisle to conduct, which is a pain, especially during communion, cos i can't block the aisle. we'll try and figure out something to fix that. hopefully. partly i like it. it makes the choir seem more pro and forces them to think about the image they're presenting to the congregation (no more sms-ing or sleeping during mass). but i also don't really like it cos it's hard to communicate with the organ and i can't see how the congregation is responding anymore. :P have to really depend on hearing. anyone got any other comments about the new positioning?

and the robert loh called me to tell me that i got a place for the gregorian chant workshop. so, NICK, i'll attend that first then come back and teach the choir. i got this feeling i'm the only one from st stephen's. cos he asked me if there's going to be anyone else coming from my church. haha. i said maybe. going to bring it up at the meeting.

yup. anyway, did you know that recently, i've come to 'hate' special occasions? not really hate as in hate. but i just don't really like them so much. birthdays, anniversaries, special days like these. i don't know. becoming more and more indifferent towards towards things like these. i should be a hermit in future. maybe go and become a tibetian nun and live in some village in the himalayas. anyway, what's bad about days like these is that, people expect to be treated differently, and when they aren't, they get so mad. like mother's day. out of the blue dad came along and yelled at me to go help mum with the breakfast cos it's mother's day. can he not see that i'm not done with my morning stuff yet?? and why me?? why not that bro of mine??? anyway, so, cold war all morning just because of that. is it supposed to be MY fault?? you know what? i'm dreading my 21st bdae next year. cos everyone will be making a big fuss about it but I don't care. it's just another birthday, another number. so, almost 2 years in advance i'll say, do not even THINK of doing anything special for me. i don't want it. i don't need it. i don't care.

but i'm going off topic. mother's day. it went ok. :P nothing really special. went to swensons for lunch. supposed to treat mum but i don't know why i even bother to suggest. she had vouchers which she used, then refused to let us pay the difference. so, we said, ok, we'll pay for dinner, pizza or something. then when we get back, she cooks up something else for dinner. whatever lah. she goes catatonic when we wanna use our NETS for anything at all. (as you can tell, i probably didn't have that great a day) swensons was ok. drank this forest fruit flavoured lipton tea, which was, imo, diluted to the point of grossness. don't know why leh. the tea bag was still in the cup and i left it there until the last drop of liquid was drunk, but it still tasted like faintly flavoured hot water.

quite a slack day. went to library where it was too crowded to read, so just grabbed books and checked them out. btw, the $0.15 fine i incurred was considered an OUTSTANDING fine. if it was $15 i understand why you'd call it outstanding. but 15 cents? anyway, i paid it. i could barely remember which book it was for. it was THAT long ago. FINALLY got hold of "kite runner". so now i can go see what's all the fuss about. got kafka's "the castle" also. got home, talked to mu hua on msn. long time no see her. suprised that she actually wants to keep in touch. i mean, we weren't THAT close. she was never in my class. just someone i see around the sch, in the bus.

oh ya. i finally bought dvds to clear out my hard drive. FINALLY can get rid of the 2 JNTs hanging around that i don't watch anymore but can't bear to delete. but it can't playback on my dvd player. only on the comp. cos i stored it as data files. haha! 4.7GBs of space is alot. have to do that for my videos and music pretty soon. and if and when i'm done clearing out my comp, i'll have to clear out my room. my cabinets and closets have been hit by the great mess monster again. yuppers. i'm betting this'll be my job this hols. cleaning my room.

which reminds me, top priority. 'fumigate' my room to get rid of the fucking mosquitoes. 17 mosquito bites on my legs alone. geez. i'm a prime candidate for dengue again. and i CANNOT afford to have dengue again. no no. kill me. nutmeg balm and mopiko have become my best friends.

forgot to mention. chris daughtry is eliminated from AI. *jaw drops onto floor* damn. why america? why??! last week's idol was weird. 4 of them left. they were separated into 2 groups, chris and kat, taylor and elliot. one of them was the bottom. and i seriously thought it would be elliot to be eliminated. i mean, chris is good. he was hot favourite to win. and now...darn. considering whether or not to continue watching. i mean, i don't care about the other 3 very much, especially not for taylor. i admit, he's good, but i just don't like him for some reason. elliot may be the next out. but, who knows? sigh. hope chris releases an album. i will buy it.

p.s. sorry sumi and jas and all. probably going to watch "da vinci code" with jacqueline and feng cai instead. hope you understand. hard for the 3 of us to meet up. need to cherish every time we do.



mood: after lunch sleepy effect
listening to: where the streets have no name - U2.