Last carol of year 2009 ~merry christmas~

Today was the last day of carolling and just like yesterday, I carolled at Conrad Centennial. It has a really nice view and lighting all around the hotel. The restroom is incredibly beautiful, I give it a 5 star. I can even sleep in there haha. We sang through a list of carol like we usually do, but without scores. However, overall the performance we gave received positive feedbacks from the hotel manager, more like feedbacks from the dwellers of Conrad. Before going down the lobby to perform, we had to walked down a long, circular flight of stairs. So it was pretty scary especially for us girls who were wearing heels. But thankfully no one fell or tumbled. Its really fun and our voices can be heard clearly thus allowing us to blend in well with one another. In contrast with performing at the malls, its quieter and the audiences present could hear us well. Practically, the people at the lobby of the hotel were focused on just our singing compared to in the mall where it was much more crowded and noisy. After our session ended, we had a debrief from our music conductor Gabriel and also compliments from the hotel manager himself. Each of us received a Conrad teddy bear~!^^ as our christmas gifts woohoo~ its pretty small but its cute. I will take a picture of it and post it at facebook later. Last but not least, I would like to thank everyone for such awesome experience by singing together at various venues and most importantly, to be able to share our Christmas joys with our smiling faces and the melodies of Christmas. Hohoho~ Merry Christmas of year 2009! Lets roll again next year and also the following years to come. Joy to the world~! =D

Here we come a carolling~

Friday (18th Dec 2009) was my first ever carolling session with NUS Choir, or perhaps my first ever carolling session in my life ^^. We performed at Marina Square which we started at 7pm. We had to report at 6pm but I reached there at 6.30pm due to heavy traffic which I did not expect. But it was not only me, there were few other choristers who were late too. Thus, there goes the warning about our punctuality. To make matters worse, we did not give a good performance, in other words, a performance which was far below par to the standards of a NUSChoir T.T. I did sing my part well since I memorised it but a choir is always a choir; a combination of four different sections which adds up together to form a colourful hues of melodies. When one person fumbled on his or her part, it will affect the others as well. Anyway, we still somehow managed to give an overall OK performance but of course, to our music director, it was not good news. Now skipping to today's carolling, the performance today in my opinion, was at the very least much better than the first. Together with other choristers, we performed at West Coast Plaza, a smaller and lesser people shopping mall, not to mention nearer to where I stay too XD. I enjoyed today's carolling and I can feel the christmas energy swirling around us as we were getting more and more excited throughout the list of songs we sung. We started sweating as well as blood rushed in our bodies when we sang fast carols 0.0. Nah...we were all sweaty because the air-conds are not strong enough compared to Marina Square. Ok, better don't complain >.< All in all, I still love carolling, going through ups and downs with the seniors and other freshies and most importantly, spreading the joy and merry spirit of Christmas, the day when Christ shed his blood and life to forgive our sin and His reborn with our singing. May the folks out there enjoyed and loved our carollings ^^ . Merry Christmas~!

Cycle of Life

Christmas is nearing and year 2010 is approaching. When the minute tick pass 12am on the last day of December, a whole new lot of experiences along with ambiguities and doubts will soon recycle itself back in daily life; another year had passed and a new year begins. When I was younger, I was always eager for New Year's Day as the day, to me, brings about new resolutions and new aims, to put it simply, a new life, or so I thought. In fact, it was not any different from the past. Everything laid upon me were and are ironically, incessantly the same. It is just the matter of application of life in different situations. Perhaps if we put it in a more specific way, we can say that particular resolution or objective is entirely new and different, something to look forward to. For example, if I resolved to save up $5k in 6 months, it is something different and vary from the past goals I aimed and achieved if that is the resolution I inclined to reach due to working for the very first time. However, generally we still have to make great efforts and push ourselves no matter what kind of resolutions we have. It is still about going back to ground zero and climbing back up the ladder to reach the top after one had achieved his or her goal. Life is actually moving in circles, picking up vital tenets of life which we may have missed out or went unnoticed in the past, and also correcting our mistakes with the opportunities we will have. All of it are repeating, and our task is only to unlearn and relearn to shunt out mistakes and wrongdoings. From that, we will be able to mature and improve ourselves to become a more well-honed person from time to time.

A night which will forever be engraved in my heart

Yesterday, 3rd of December 2009, was a night which I will bring to my grave. Fun, laughter, food, friends, family and happiness were all brought together. Wai ling was the first person to reach my house (with her watermelon ^^). Then, we chatted and did a little preparation until Bryan and Yee Sing came. Half an hour later, few more people reached and my house began to loom with shrieks and laughter XD. It was indeed a memorable night for me. From playing cards to counting numbers, and eating one plateful of beehoon and eggs to drinking cocktails as punishments, all of us laughed, giggled, smiled and practically shouted at each other ^^. The whole thing was fun and jovial, acting as a magnet to restrain me from flying back to singapore T.T (I really wanna continue staying for at least until another week!!). However, I am still glad to be able to celebrate our friendship banquet before leaving home again. Thank you so, so much everyone for allocating your time and energy to come for this potluck! Without you, this potluck will never be the same. =) I hope we will be able to have another gathering like this during the next semester break! ^^ Take care everyone and all the best till we meet again~ *muakz*

~pek yee~