Today was our choir performance and also our last choir class for the semester! Cheers! Honestly, choir would be much more enjoyable if everyone actually CHOSE to be in it and not forced into it. I'll admit, I've looked forward to the choir practices almost everytime (save during exam period) but I would always end up disappointed when I saw people's reaction towards the songs given. All everyone did is complained and fussed and never tried to appreciate choir as something different from the music we listen to. Haihz...I miss the good old days of CHS Choir, 1 of the 2 reasons I miss high school (the other being my social life).
Anyway, the performance was just a short one (a mere 45 minutes), probably for the sake of making full use of the songs we've learnt, with us Big Choir alternating with the Chamber Choir every 2 songs. It started off with us singing 2 English songs, followed by Chamber Choir, then us again with 2 Italian songs, after that the Chamber Choir for the last time, then us closing the concert with 2 Malay songs. So, it was like,
Big Choir1. Beautiful Dreamer (the opening of the song was written poorly)
2. Gonna Build A Mountain (it still sounded like a children's song to me)
Chamber ChoirSorry, I don't know the titles
Big Choir3. Laudate Dominum
4. Laudate Pueri (or was it Peuri?)
Chamber Choir??
Big Choir5. Di Tanjung Katong (serene sounding melody but non-sensical lyrics)
6. Glimpse of Malaysia (LOVE the 'Geylang Si Paku Geylang' arrangement)
The annoying thing was, each of us was required to bring a friend to the performance and to prove that you'd brought a friend, he/she had to register under your name. What the heck?! Sadly, my whole family didn't want to come (mom claimed it would be too jammed up thanks to the Malaysia's freaking longest pasar malam and she wanted to attend her yoga class) and my room mate went out with her sister (not that I blame her) so out of the 3 attendances taken, 1 of them had to have a pitiful 0 marked =( Oh well.
Here's a short clip taken of our last Malay song. I don't know why it suddenly stopped near the end of the 3rd song, which was my favourite song of all! Crap.
And some photos...
In the Auditorium during row call. The Recital Hall where we performed looks exactly the same except that the seats are red in colour.
Bi Ying, Hui Yin (our lecturers used to get our names mixed up), Jin Fem and me. Thank goodness Joyce (between Bi Ying and Hui Yin) didn't bother to join us for this photo, I would have died of agony.
Us girls with the president, Eileen, in the centre
Eunice (on the phone), me, Song Lin, Emmanuel and Phyllis
Group photo! Too bad Joyce had plonk herself down beside me when we clearly wished she didn't join us. See that disturbing black splotch there? Yerp, that was her. If only I had only thought of a way of making her bent down when the photo was taken, like make her hair clip fall...
Now I'm freaking exhausted and drowsy but I can't possibly sleep unless I intend to fail Malaysian Studies and waste another bloody RM180 to retake the subject in the next semester. Gah. Ms ******'s (her name is being protected for her security sake) tips better be accurate or I'll...I'll...heck knows what I'll be able to do..