swiss co rocks!

yea! swiss co orchestra nite has finally ended with a GREAT BANG!!!
hahaha, it was such an eventful day on 28march2010!

it had its fun, laughter, stressful moments, nerve-wracking moments, depressing moments, and what-have-you. but in the end, scco prevailed and OWNED THE WHOLE CONCERT MAN!!!! hahaha. (: im on such a high! it's so nice to still be able to contribute back to scco as an alumnus. so privileged. :D



and so, the day started with meeting zaiyuan, andrew, ernest, debbie, cassandra, jingkai, sihao & john at woodlands mrt(: only i wore the full black attire thr, and they said i was so ganjiong. haha, i scared ltr no time to change ma. hehs. went to cold storage to buy sweets for WOODWINDS and mslim(: took so long to choose the sweets (i was on a tight budget!) tht zaiyuan and i thought that the rest would have ignored us and gone off for lunch first. but in actual fact, they were waiting for us outside! haha, so paiseh. thn, we went to ichiban to buy choco&custard coronets. it was nice!! :D thn, we went to foodcourt to eat. bought gerald's food thr too.

after finishing our food (actually a of us had some leftover food. hehs), we walked to rp under the blazing sun. aiyo, it was so hot la! i was wearing full black and long-sleeve too. =.= used sheer willpower from sweating too much & stinking up my clothes ven before the rehearsals started. haha. on the way, we saw the huixin gang! got huixin, huiying, shimin, florence, pauline & yingqi! (: happy. went into the concert hall and sat at the audience's seat. it was a weird feeling as i didn't have the time to sit thr and look at the stage fr tht perspective before. haha, i really felt odd. but anws, after slacking for some time and giving mslim her sweets, we went to backstage! :D yay!

co was kinda in a frenzy, busy with the set-up of the stage, tuning of instru, taking out misc stuff and all. haha, being an alumnus is so fun!(: alumni members can help out without being caught up in the hustle and bustle. haha! so i went around hugging ppl to cheer them on. gave WOODWINDS sweets too!(:

woodwinds shared a room with cello/bass (as always, but still, we wanted a whole room to ourselves. hehs), and the room was so untidy la. haha. but tht isn't the main pt. the main pt is, we can wreck havoc in tht messy room! haha, and nobody will notice anything cos th room's so disorganized to start with. hehehhhs. xD gave gerald his food and saved him fr starvation. :D i rock. haha! ok, no link. gen ate his food too. the rest of us passed sweets arnd and everybody started to eat. in case you haven't realised something gravely wrong, you must either be clueless abt this, or you've done this yourself. :D
EATING OR DRINKING IS NOT ALLOWED IN THE DRESSING ROOMS.
hehhhs.

after beng able to get away with our misdeeds, the rehearsal started. (: gen, wenqiang & i slacked arnd in the dressing room until i went to backstage to... i forgot to do what. hehs. but anw it's such a crazily hectic rehearsal!!

1. TIANSHOU'S SHAOZI SPLIT. omg. the suona ppl, jieren, and i were like totally gg crazy laaaaaa. tianshou didn't have a passable back-up shaozi. =.= best man. aiyo. and mr lee didn't bring his shaozis too. omg. total disaster!!! jieren and i almost cabbed down to d'oritale to  buy shaozi la (what a desperate attempt). thn mr lee reminded us that it's a SUNDAY and these shops are CLOSED. omgggggggggggggggg. gg man. but yay, cos mr lee said that he'll meddle with tianshou's shaozi to make it ok. ((: phew. but still, the shaozi still isn't in perfect form for the concert. so, tianshou was in the dressing room, trying very very hard to get the yin zhun right. haiyo, everybody was so uptight la. fc was like commenting on the notes and stuff. luckily he's thr! cos the rest of th suona ppl need to go for the rehearsal, and i know nuts abt suona. =.= haha, and tianshou was so scared also a. it's ent although he didn't show it. haha. but anyways, tts still got around the shaozi problem and performed AWESOME-LY during the concert!! ((: you rock, tts & fc!
2. ZHONGYINSHENG'S PLANK TO PUT THE SHENG ON & THEIR SCORES WENT MISSING. omg. tian ahhhh. total disaster!! thr was so much crying going on. haiyo the mood was so depressing. it all had to happen on concert day. aiyo. i wasn't really involved in this issue as jieren was handling it, and it wasn't appropriate for me to butt into such matters ma. but anyways, jieren was so freaking stressed out. ): thr wasn't anything i could do except to try to encourage him and to assure him tht things will turn out fine.
3. ZHONGRUAN'S SCORES WENT MISSING. omg. what the..... only 2 out of 7 scores were found, and as more people came to know of the matter, many of the free ppl(not rehearsing) were searching high and low for them. O.O major search hunt la. aiyo. changfeng and i teamed up and searched practically and whole venue for concert. =.= we went out to the ticketing booth thr and ran into MSLIM. omg. MSLIM LEHHH. so cf and i kpt it fr her and took on an added responsibility of putting up the posters on the walls in our frantic attempt to cover up out main motive of sneaking out of the concert hall. haiyo. thn we went to the other entrance of the hall. hehs, it was locked and i stretched my hand into the opening of the doors and unlocked it. YAY. haha! thn cf and i realised that the door wasn't working =.= the handlebar of the door spoilt. haha, so we had to lock it up agn. haii, so retarded. haha! and while we searched the sudience's seats, mr yeo told us that the scores were found. =.=......... WO MEN BEI PIAN LE!!!!!!!!!! aiyoooo! cannot take it le. hehs, thn we went backstage. ( i kinda forgot to continue putting up the posters. oops?)

yea major drama man. haiyo. all those happened before the rehearsal for syf jjl started, and, WE HAD TO KEEP ALL OF THESE FROM MSLIM,lest she loses her temper, which aint good for everyody. o.O what a day. thn it was time to go onstage to rehearse. DD: aiyo! i still couldn't memorize all of the fingerings esp nanwang & qing nians F diao portions. ROAR. my F diao sucks la. D: so much so that i went backstage after the reharsal to prac. haiyo, i know that i shouldn't be doing tht cos it'll make the juniors so ganjiong, but i had to cos i dun wanna screw up these songs and pull co down ma. haii. so kaining and i rehearsed tgt, (mainly farandole). we rehearsed until we had only 10min left to eat ou dinner, so we rushed out to eat! the food was nice. :D good job, sinyee! haha, i tink this is the only time where we have such nice food. haha, ans i oved all of the liao4 la. teriyaki chicken, cabbage and tomato sauce-hotdog. :DD damn shuang. haha, but kaining and i had to GOBBLE dwn the food. ): so couldn't take our time to enjoy the food. hehs. so we rushed back to backstage so tht kaining can prepare to perform chunjie. (:

thn, drama episode 5 happened. haha, major counselling session done by jieren. i decided to help out this time, cos nbody can take such stress alone on concert day man. so i went out of dressing room and into backstage to be with tingpeng and siuhui.(: it's so nice to see them b concerned over their junior. (: hao xinwei ah! thn, i went back to dressing room. asked peiyun to keep a look-out in case co's gone onstage to stand-by. during the 5min quiet time, i went over to the dizi psrt of guayue. :D they were havng a hell load of fun by stealing shoes. o.O hahaha, it sounds ridiculous, but he, it was really  high time over thr. ((: it was very good to know tht half of guanyue is ok. so i went back to the suona&sheng part of woodwinds. (: things turned out fine. :D

so, i went to the other side agn, and asked zaiyuan why we weren't getting ready onstage yet, cos it was alr 6pm. haha, knew the reason, felt worried, but still went over to tell cello/bass & ruans abt the lianzou thing. haha thn i high-fived the cb ppl to wish them good luck. o.O felt so retarded. haha! come to think of it, this has a certain resemblance to joshua tan. haha! ratatouille! ok, back to the main pt. i went over to guanyue thr and was soo touched cos everybody was ready. (: when i say everybody, it meant everybody. so of ourse i was happy la! haha, chatted with zhiming and krystal(: chia was so nervous! haha, so i crazked jokes with zhiming abt celebrating the end of the krystal reign. haha. (: and zhiming didn't have sweaty palms, unlike during SYF, where his palms could practically drip sweat man. haha, zhimin zhang da le la. although ot's cos he doesn't wanna be a weakling (bad influence fr tts la. haha), it's still good cos if he's not nervous, krystal won't be as nervous for her solo. haha, next time, zhiming can aso be a pillar of support for junming & the other gys junior during next yr's syf.(: good job man! haha. hugged krystal, siuhui and jieying, hit jordan's butt (WOOPSIE) and dodged yet another attack fr fc to mess up my hair. haha. (: finally, th doors opened and jieren and i wished goodluck to everybody while they walked out. ((: it's nice to see them smile before meeting the sudience. haha.

when the doors closed, i almost cried cos i was soo jing zhang for thm!!! omigosh. so the rest of us went to the dressing room to listen.  when fc, jieren and i sat in front of the tv in room 3, we realised that we couldn't hear a thing cos co wasn't using a mic, and the audio fr the tv only supported sounds fr mics. =.= so we went outside to listen. haha. qinxin&huikeng came over too. we found the high-pitched "diiiiiiiii" sound coming fr the door very irritating, and qinxin shouted in whispers "BU YAO CHAO LA"  to the door lock and the sound miraculously stopped~ haha! we were all so shocked la haha, thn the sound came back agn =.= and no more shouting did the job anymore. sian. haha.(:

soon, the first song was over and many of them cme back! (: drama episode 6 happened, and i had to explain to everybody what's happening. haha. see? everybody's so concerned abt you, so what's thr to be scared of? (: you did it in the end yea?

THEN, IT WS KRYSTAL CHIA'S SOLO PIECE. omg. so nerve-wracking!!! i went to bacstage to listen and was super duper touched la. my junior lehhh. solo lehhh. solo with so much confidence lehhh. :D haha! zaiyuan, fengcan, changfeng, shimin, pauline & florence saw me "crying". hehhs. ((: KRYSTAL CHIA ROCKS!!! thn it was time for peijin's solo. haha, i went over and gave her an encouragement hug! :D i've been hugging alot yesterday. o.O haha. peijin's solo rocked too! :D

fnally, after one more song, it was INTERVAL~ haha, backstage was super crazy la. woodwinds went bonkers and partied. haha! it was as if there isn't a second half to the concert. haha...(and soh huixin had to miss it all. arg. D:) but i was frantically drawing fingerings on my pu! haha, so anti-climax. as i was sitting in a corner with sylvester, ( he came over and slept cos he was super tired for no apparent reason), it seemed as if it was an emo corner. haha, soon junhong & gang came over to see what's happening n tht corner. haha! thn almost everyone came one by one to ask what i was doing. haha! so, in order to stop emo-ing and join in the fun, we camwhored like nobudy's business and even had one darnidly funny pic involving me, jordan and kaining!!! the one whr we looked into his blazer. hahaha, omg, so ps but it's so fun!! ah haha. oh, i musn't forget to put this down! jordan and kaining kept squeezing me on both sides while we were sitting on the dressing table! ok, this sounds so wrong. haha! jieren even took a polaroid pic of it. haha, btw, it seems as though polaroids are the new craze nowadays. haha! it's so fun! zhiming and tts were joining in the camwhoring by being such paikia-cum-ah bengs la haha, unbutton shirt, roll up blazer sleeves, pull down tie and went into the smoking pose. haha, it was uper funny. thn they guys were also playing arnd by pushing tianshou arnd in the round chair. ah haha! as always, tts' face is freaking epic. haha! it was so fun!! we took more woodwinds pics with a few decorative (read: extra) ppl fr cello/bass joning us in al of the woodwinds pics that we took la. =.= hahaa! and so we played right up till syf jjl, where the whoe guanyue had to perform. o.O we scrambled when the doors opened. haha. (: it was so nice to join my jnrs on stage! :D yayy!

haha, mr lee is damn shuai k. he looks so suave in that black coat! and he's as ci xiang as ever. (: kept smiling at us and kept telling u not to chiong and to look at him. ((: awww, mr lee's the best! :D haha. AND JIANGJUNLING ROCKED. SERIOUSLY. woo! totally feeeeeeeel man. the jian qiang, as always, pushed the whole song and the whole theatre into the ULTIMATE CLIMAX!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! sooo high!!! haha! it garnered such thundering applause from the audience! (((: wheee! zhiming and i agreed that we haven't heard such a nice jjl for such a long time. (: the feeling's so great. (: thn it was time for nanwang. woo. jordan &  weren't so confident for this song. haha, but it still turned out AWESOME too!!! haha, and not to forget mrlee reminding us once agn on stage tht he'll be giving four-and-one. haha. :D to be honest, i've only tried the four-and-one once before the actual concert. haha, im so proud of myself cos i could do it. (: haha. and the fingering tht i drew on my pu really did help. haha. (: yay!

oh, and zhiming's taifeng was totally out of the mind! haha, so hiong! he used to be the one tht moved the least, and now he's the one tht's movin like crazy. haha, it's so funny! thn krystal and i joined him. haha, chui dao hao fang ah. totally best man. :D thn the encore pieces. farandole was not too bad. thn came qing nian jin xing qu. haha, it was fast in front! but luckily we still managed to play it well and it ended well too!  haha, mr lee heaved a sigh of relief at us when the song was over. (: the feeling was nice cos we know that we've finally done it. we've finally done this song justice after so long. haha. thn came LIAN ZOU!! haha, the hoo-ha thing was seriously funny k. and jordan cracked me up. hahaha. he was like " *gasps* hoo! *gasps* haa! *damn quick-yet-big gasp* blow suona"  hahaha!!! it started with sylvester and gerald shouting the "hoo!",  i think. thn jordan, jiawei and other ppl joined in immediately for the "haa!". then, mr lee joined in for the rest of the HOO-HAAs too. hahaha, so funny!!! and it was soo cute!!! mr lee seriously rocks man. whoooooooooooooooooo~~~ so highhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

:D

and so, the concert ended. it all felt so surreal. like what jordan said on stage, and like what sinyee & jieren said during funorama : this time like no feel. haha, kinda true, cos the other time felt soo formal, and all of us were gunning on the concert. but this time, it's a diff feel totally. haha. but anyways, WE STILL DID IT NO MATTER WHAT. :D WHOO! WE ROCK! WE OWN! WE'RE THE BEST MAN! haha! backstage was in a whirlwind mess as always. ( its nice to have sinks in the dressing room cos we can just wash our pipes thr. :D) soon, we went to the loading bay, and xinzhi & sherlyn came to see us! awww, so sweet! they gave me a rose too!!! awww, thx girls. ((: love you guys! haha.

sinyee and i talked abt the moon being full ysterday and felt so good (: full moon. haha, so nice! we were randomly taking abt the gibbous moon the day before, where things still seemed more gloomy. but after the concert, the moon somehow seemed to mark our successful concert! (: totally wonderful.haha. hopped onto the bus, and let mslim sit down. haha. chatted with wenqiang, mslim & the 3 sec1 jnrs on the way back to swiss. (: it felt good. haha. mslim said tht more thn 80 tickets were sold at the ticketing booth. wow. tht's a huge number! aha, and the turn-out rate was good this time round! close to full house. haha, we rock man. the worries that we had were unfounded. Praise the Lord! (:it was great that our morale was high because of the high turn-out rate. support fr the audience is what makes a concert successful. so, with that, swiss co performed to our usual splendid standard and made Swiss Orchestra Nite 2010 not only possible, but also made it fantastic. (: we did it guys, im so proud of you all. haha. even though there were mistakes and stuff like that, it didn't really matter cos we pulled off the concert tgt yea? (: we've got the stuff man. we're DAMN SOLID ah. haha!

during the 1st half of the concert, andrew, zaiyuan and i were commenting on how much scco's improved since last time. the performance on stage is all tht matters, cos tht's what we're truly capable of. even though the normal practices were not up to standard, and even though members were bored during the prac, the concert made up for all of that. (: good job, people! i love you guys~

haha, gg back to swiss co is such a wise decision. it's really nice to give back as an aumnus. really. haha, and even felicia came back! i was so super shocked. (: but of course, im so happy tht she came back to help. (: haha, wearing tht black long-sleeve shirt makes you feel special~ haha, ok, i AM special. :D hahaha. scco is just so special la. ((: i do not regret joining scco - not at all. haha. we rock!!

i just wanna say a great big THANK-YOU to all my seniors that guided me when i first joined co and made me love co to bits, all my peers and made co so enjoyable, all my juniors who taught me loads of invaluable stuff in order to be a better senior to you guys, all the past and present TICs of co, esp mslim for, and of course, ALL THE INSTRUCTORS! for we won't be what we are today if not for you. (: thank you!!! thank you for my awesome time spent in scco. - 5 years and counting.
 may i continue counting forevermore! :D

I LOVE YOU GUYS! <3