♥ Friday, April 13, 2007
How freaking fast time flies!
Just a while ago I remembered saying that SYF was 7 days.
NOW IT'S OVER!!!
And Maris Stella Symphonic Band was awarded a... GOLD!!!
Yes it's soooooooo SURREAL OMG!
Anyway, here is the story of it all...
Got up at 6am... too excited for everything. Had breakfast and went to band.
Hui Xiong and I had a VERY random encounter with Ms Koh Siang Cheng in the morning. Haha.
Hui Xiong and I : Stoning
Ms Koh : *upon seeing us* Where is the rest of the band?
I : Oh they haven't come yet.
Ms Koh : Then your instruments leh?
I : Oh in the band room lor.
Ms Koh : Then why you all still here?
I : *reaches out hand* We wanted you to wish us good luck!
Ms Koh * =.= face; reaches out hand and shakes mine*
I : Yeah we were waiting for you lor.
Ms Koh : Ya, very funny.
I : HAHAHAHA
Yeah and I shook Sir, Ms Diana Sim, Mr Bronson Chan... um oh Mr Ragun (is that how you spell it...?), omg I can't remember! Oh yes, oh yes when we were boarding the bus... we saw Mr Denis Koh! Yeah!
I : MR KOH!!!!
Mr Koh : Eh hi!
I : Can you shake my hand and wish me good luck for SYF?
Mr Koh : Eee don't want!
LOL!
Well before that DK incident... we ran through the songs, Mr Lin tuned us.
And yes my famous whip dance. Whee.
Well on the way there all of us were excited I believe.
At SCH... it was just too SURREAL!
Had 10 minutes of tuning and I was kind of surprised Mr Chiang wanted to run through Sunrise and the last part of WHAV. Ha.
Well... all the waiting... I shook hands with some band mates, we were all excited and nervous.
Then it came. Our turn.
Sitted down, looking at Mr Chiang, that whole background just looked... SURREAL!
I can't actually believe that this IS it.
I actually thought it was just another exchange HAHA!
Haha so we played and...
In Sunrise... I really thought it was Over. I mean it wasn't our best to me.
But I guessed WHAV saved everything. Yeah of course.
And so we waited...
Blah blah blah.
Then we went in for the results...
At Band 95 Westwood Sec, I was gripping onto Alvin and Randolph's hands... yes we were very nervous.
Soon my whole row were holding hands already.
Band 97... Monfort Sec, I was too nervous and excited to even hear what they got.
"Band 98 Maris Stella..."
I looked back.
Mr Chiang was leaning forward, his hands were clasped together. I know he felt the same as us too.
Mr Wu, Ms Lee and Mrs Tey had stern looks on their faces.
Fredy looked very very very scared.
Yes we were all thinking...
"What will we get? COP? Bronze? Silver? Gold? or Gold with Honors?"
I gripped Alvin and Randolph's hands even tighter.
"Please, please, please! A Gold!" I prayed silently.
"Band 98, Maris Stella High...
GOLD!"
That was it.
!!! It was so SURREAL!!!
MSSB jumped together!
WE DID IT!
At the peak of my jump, I cried.
The tears couldn't stop.
I just thought about 6 months of hard work, getting scolded, crying, laughing, everything.
And we got a Gold. It paid off.
It was an undescripable feeling.
It's just... SURREAL!
I remembered hugging Randolph too. To the point of crushing him I guess.
I looked back at Fredy and Mr Chiang. They were all smiles.
The Sec4s at the front were like crazy too.
WE DID IT!
And I continued crying for like 10 minutes I think. Or was it less? Please tell me if it was.
I looked like we got a COP or something.
I remembered Mr Lin and Fredy smiling at me.
Mrs Tey even said "Why you everything also cry one?"
It was like happiness, jubilant!
Ha.
Then later I hugged Mr Chiang.
And he was like 'Very shiok right?'
INDEED IT WAS!
That feeling... was just SHIOK and SURREAL!!!
Um yeah then back at the band room, I posed a photo with Mr Chiang but uh...
WHY IS CLEON RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE!!!???
HAHAHAHA!
Oh well.
12th April, 2007. Maris Stella Symphonic Band --- GOLD for SYF 2007!!!
A day I'll NEVER forget.
Thanks to all those who have helped me along this road.
I LOVE YOU GUYS!
And um want to hear how our Choice Piece, With Heart And Voice sounds like and how it was it that made us MSSB?
We're having a concert on the 29th July, 2007 17 30 hours (TBC).
Come to hear us, Maris Stella Symphonic Band. la Gold Band.
Listened to music @ 9:21 PM
