Chem and Emath today was crap. Chem was soooooooo boring my brain stopped functioning. Emath was tedious, brain went into hibernation after question 10.
NVM LAST PAPER TMR~ :D

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I woke up at 3.30am. Although i'd promised myself i would sleep real early, like maybe 8, i ended up going to bed at 11 cos i couldn't find that stupid scrunchie, and that stupid foundation. I found the latter, but was forced to go to bed hoping my scrunchie was in sch. i washed my face with the cleanser and ice water, and Pa followed me down to meet audrey and we went to eastpoint to meet linjing and wait for yannis' car to come. when we got to sch linjing waslike so scared of the dark ha and i was like "whoooooo omg the classroom so dark omg i saw a shadow move in the classroom!" and linjing was like "eeeeee stop it la i really very scared!" then we went to guitar room. and we all thought charr was inside so we were like "u go first u go first" and finally i think audrey went in first.
we slacked around, cleared up a bit, then waited for charr to come. we went to change into the horrible ahma costume and eat our sunshine bread. i had to eat some of celeste, some of linjing's, and dunno who else man. lol. then when mrs koh came, we had to put makeup, and cos i was in tone 1 ( the fairest ), me and alicia went first. luckily the makeup couldn't really be seen. then audrey and celeste braided their hair ha quite cool lurh. audrey lent me her scrunchie cos i really couldn't find mine D: i paid two bucks for that stupid thing...
walked around barefooted :D mr shi came at around 6+ and so did the seniors. hmm. germaine? si hui? wanting? can't rmb who came...then we practiced and practiced and mr shi said our tempo wasn't quite right. we had to walk past the sec four classrooms to get to the toilet and we were like *hides face in scarf and chiong past classroom* lol. the juniors justyne, geraldine, and tania came at arnd 6.50. haha helpers lol. yiying, chloe, and dunno who came also.
the bus came at nine and the rhythm went with the second guitar although me and celeste were supposed to go with the first guitar. we played mulata and mezza luna on the bus for a while, but then me and meow fell alseep and when i woke up again meow was still sleeping and my hair was like so messy...and there republic poly was.
Big. that was my first thought. big, very big. so posh, so grand...and when the bus turned in, we saw a few girls in much better looking costumes, also holding guitars. that was when the first inkling of anxiety set in. we were herded into the, well, lobby, maybe? we waited outside the door to the tuning room the RI and RGS people walked past. the guys laughed at our stupid costumes and mrs koh was like "don't look at them". eek how could we not look at them? their costumes were like so stylish. rgs had that lime green jacket with white skirt and ri was clad in black i think. when we finally got into the tuning room, we chiong play some parts of both songs and then for some reason gem's heel broke! D: omg dunno what they did to fix it.
and finally we were led to backstage. tania was unusually sober as she wished us good luck, but she did smack me. T.T just like always. haiz. we were making a lot of noise backstage actually, cos we were finally beginning to feel nervous. we were like reminding each other "smile, sit half the seat, move, sway, look at mr shi, enjoy, keep to tempo, listen to each other, rmb musical expressions" blah blah. then mr shi was like smiling and reminding rhythm to keep strict tempo, and then the RGS girls came in! they stood next to us and in comparison we were very fidgety and giggly compared to them lor. then charr asked mr shi something, and mr shi replied some dunno what funny answer and the whole section of ppl there just exploded with laughter, including some of the RGS girls lol too bad i never see D:
then. it was our turn.
SMILE was my repeated thought. DON'T TRIP. we sat down and bai our scores for show, and stood up when mr shi came in, and smiled at the audience for all i was worth, even though mrs koh had told us not to look at the audience, i did. strangely, all nervousness just vanished when i looked at the crowd in the auditorium. i was also trying to pick out the judges. didn't work.
I MISSED THE FIRST STRUM! i didn't see mr shi's baton go down and i lagged, luckily i didn't try to save it by strumming a beat late; i just let it go, smiled like i was playing perfectly, and continued. the echoes were loud, really loud. there was nothing like it. i couldn't really hear either first guitar or second guitar, only some parts, and i hoped with all my heart they were keeping to our time. i swayed and i smiled and i tried to really feel the song. regardless, for some reason, my attention wandered a few times ( crap man stupid how could i let that happen? ) cos i was still wondering where the judges were, and how they thought of our performance.... mulata was a bit messy, although our dynamics had miraculously improved!!!! :D :D i nearly forgot to "flip page" for second song man.
Les Reves Du Matin was much better than usual. the dynamics were good, and i swear one of the few times my eyes flickered around unconsciously, i saw shawn swaying too omg omg i love you shawn! ( or was that jacob? o: ) the last part of our second song i think we did really well. the tremolo by the alto guitar was so chilling man, and zhitao played his whatever-that-part-is-called perfectly love you too zhitao! and that one beat of RINGING SILENCE before audrey's and hailong's last note was so profound, time could have literally stopped just for them. i actually held my breath for that second and let it out when audrey banged her guitar. i felt our second song much more than the first. when we stood up to bow, i was grinning so widely cos it was finally over.
yannis cried outside and i was hugging her and i nearly cried too, but i usually don't cry in public so i didnt. yannis was like "omg omg i'm so happy so happy" and *sniffsniffsniff*. we all went into the auditorium again to watch the other schools. after rgs ( crap we didn't get to watch theirs! ) was st hilda's, they played canon in D and although it was okay, there was like practically no dynamics...i can't rmb what schs came next, but there was ACSI and loyang and toa payoh and dunno what.... crap man they were so good that me and yannis were like dismayed at what we thought was our rapidly slipping away chances of GWH.
toa payoh played green fields of summer and lover's theme, MAN those were our songs cos MR SHI TAUGHT THEM TOO!! i was like wtcrap how come..? then was it their sch whose double bass player played like crazy damn good and the running notes for green field at the last part she spun her double bass one full round like walao so crap man! D:D: so good like hell i was so amazed and goddamn impressed sia! then we were like "hailong, you must aspire to be like her!" haha. then we all went for lunch at the canteen so fun! we all bought chicken rice and bubble tea. i pulled my scarf down so it looked more like a tie and rolled up my sleeves i swear we look nicer that way!!!
when we finished eating me and audrey chionged back to the lobby area so that the sec ones could go eat, and we took off our stupid court shoes and held them and pao across the gravel kinda regret that cos the ground was damn hot, and when we entered the lobby holding our shoes we looked like some stupid idiots lol so funny man. the in charge woman kept coming out to tell us not to play or anything in the lobby she was so frustrated. cam whor like crazy man everything also muz take pic together. :D :D
the bus finally came walao i nearly lost that stupid ahma flower brooch thingy. we went with the secon guitar again and we played mezza luna, love story, lover's theme, greenfield, blah. then i dozed again until we finally got back to school. me, celeste, and meow went to ask mdm ho whether we could still postpone our bio test the next day cos we really wanted to go hear the results after paper 1. D: she say cannot. MAN should have taken the stupid thing last week lorh.
when everyone left we were still there cam whoring, jumping pic, piggy back pic, wushu pic, taller/shorter pic haha dunno what man.

-From Yanyou's blog :D

Reading this makes me miss playing with guitar. handing over soon ):
Syf was awesome to the maXxX :DDDDDD
Woke up darn early, showered, packed, made coffee. Claire's parents fetched us to school, argh I forgot to bring down my costume the first time then I saw claire's one hanging in her car and I was like ARGHHHHHH then I ran up to get it :/
reached school super duper early, hahaah ahs was darn creepy ok like totally dark and everything. Reached the guitar room to find that a few guitarians were there alr :D Played around a bit, had bread, changed into costumes. Songs were played, make up appiled, Ensemble was committed into the hands of the Powers Above.
Syf place. Nerves acting up. Lots of hold guitar properlys, rmbr to tune, don't waste time in the tuning rooms ect went around. The people there kept shushing us, hahah we weren't supposed to tune but then Mrs Koh decided that it didn't make any difference cos everyone else was being noisy so she told us all to quickly tune hahah hilarioussss :D
In the tuning room (whassitcalled). Nerves fraying. Went through selected parts of the songs. Mulata not impactful enough. Les reves du martin not enough feelings. Ten minutes went pass way too fast.
Backstage. Glimpes of the audience and lights through curtains. Nerves at breaking point. Even more whispered reminders. Mr shi was funny :D
Spent way too long backstage. Hands sweaty. My shirt kept falling out (._.).
Onstage - GT08 ANGLICAN HIGH SCHOOL GUITAR ENSEMBLE.
smiled for all we were worth. Looked at audience. Looked at Mr shi. Baton swooped, entry of Mulata. Tried to concentrate on playing but attention occasionally slipped away. It felt very surreal playing onstage. After so many gruelling hours of practise this. is. IT.
Felt awesome playing. :D
Les Reeves du Martin. No major timing slipups. The last beat was beautiful.
Left the auditorium. Yannis cried, we all hugged her. Couldn't believe it was over. Even more surreal than playing onstage.
Re-entered the auditorium to watch the other schools. RI was good. Lots of them were, felt GWH slipping away. Lunch after that at RP's canteen, hahaha chicken rice gooooooooood. CHIJ's conductor came over to congradulate us, told us that we could definitely get a gold/gold with honours. Everyone was damn happy. Like we'd alr gotten the award. Later while we were eating Mr Shi himself came over and said smth along the lines of who wants to bet with me we'll get gold/gwh. Needless to say everyone was giddy with joy. Ran back to the syf site building place, camwhored like .-., got scolded quite a few times for making noise, made great fools out of ourselves. It was awesome fun. :D
Back to anglican. Packed, camwhored, talked, left.
Yeah they were right when they said syf was once in a lifetime. Gold with honours just made it even more memorable.

I luvvvvvv ahguitar :D

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post pictures after papers hokay I have a lot.
I want the syf recordings if anyone has them thanks ;>
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