what's up!!!

well...here i am again. not too sure what kind of post this will turn out to be. realised that sometimes i start out feeling ok when i begin, and end up totally depressed by the end of the post. but, for now, i'm happy. slightly hyper. so i think i'll try and stay away from depressing stuff. but, let's start. (spelling's kinda bad today. muahaha)

gonna be really really busy this week. choir everyday. the SCO performance this friday. kinda looking forward and dreading that one. looking forward cos i'm gonna get to sing at the indoor stadium. how cool is that? with a full chinese orchestra. with a bevy of buddhist monks and hundred strong combined choir. guess what we're singing. buddhist chants. yup. figure, 'nan mo ah mi tuo fo' kind of stuff. one of our pieces is "om mani padme hum". cool right! think funeral songs. (no offence to buddhists out there). and as you sing the songs, you can induce self-hypnosis. lol! it's THAT tedious and chanting. of course, only my friend aaron could sing those songs and get more and more frustrated and agitated by the end of it. lol! attended combined rehersal with the other choirs last night. wah, there was this chorus from shanghai (which i suspect that crazy china guy was from). they are SO powerful lor. some of them were sitting in front of me and i was so overwhelmed by them. they were like blasting at every turn. not that they sounded bad or anything. far from that. they were just so LOUD. very funny thing, the SCO assistant conductor was sitting in and he was commenting that the male chorus should do some kind of downward glide sound at the end of phrases (you know the kind that sounds like you losing steam by the end of a long phrase, the 'breaking down' sound) cos the monks have the tendency to do that without warning. funny.

another quick thing...you remember there was this story about this guy called Fear-Not? the one about this guy who's can't feel fear. he falls in love with this girl but the father refuses to let him marry her until he finds out the meaning of fear. so, he leaves the village and goes in search of fear. he comes to a castle where he spends the night and lots of fearsome things happen, but he doesn't fear them and easily overcomes them. he returns to the village where he finds out that his beloved is sick and dying. it's then that he feels fear that he might lose her. and so he discovers fear. remember that story? i remember watching a version of it on a plane years ago. wanting to find a copy of it. anyone know, please tell me k. :D

A Thousand Days is listed as New This Week on Power98. so, here's me sitting by the radio, waiting to hear it. how crazy is that? haha! i don't really like listening to radio nowadays. the kinds of songs they play. don't know what's going on sia. generation gap liao. like right now, i have no idea what's the song supposed to be doing. those new generation hip-hop stuff. you know, i got a theory why hady won and jonathan didn't. cos jonathan sings more pop rock kind of stuff but hady does r&b. and nowadays, you see the trend towards r&b type of music more than pop. it's ok in certain doses, but too much get's kinda bad. haha!

the FDD dance item! that is HILARIOUS i tell you. when you try and get a bunch of people who do better singing and try to get them coordinated and do complicated hip hop moves. i'm aching all over today cos the choreographer was forcing me into positions that i can't go into. lol! old liao. but it was fun. like mass dance. don't know how we're going to pull it off on the day itself, but for now, we'll just have fun and whack it.

midnight mass is gonna rock this year too. paul playing the organ in his own ways. woah! like for instance, the Salisbury Alleluia, he played the bass sounding like those traditional chinese drums. think of those high celebrations at the forbidden city, with the strong dramatic drum beats. add in the brass, strings and piano line plus strong vocals. WOAH! and paul and daryl are gonna work out something where both the organ and piano play at the same time. and waxing eloquent about that song "come into my heart lord jesus". the sopranos can pull off the high parts in the end, it'll totally rock! looking forward to that one. :D




mood: content
listening to: i need a girl - p diddy