Yes right it has been one week. And i had gone through my changed life for 1 week too.

Ok waking up at 5 am is easy, but to keep my concentration to the lecturer in school is difficult, since i dun get enough sleep due to the huge number of homework i have :/

Anyway all the teachers are GREAT compared to last year haha.

But great teachers are always accompanied by no slacking bcoz you are required to do all the tutorials. I dun mind though. as long as i get efficient teacher and can learn to my maximum capacity. Since this is JC2, which requires mugging. Yes mugging.

Talk abt mugging. Next week = maths revision test of all topics in JC1. Yes. The school is trying to kill us. Lol.

I have already not enough time and yet still giving so many test. Must grab any time that i m free to do revision. like now.

Off to practice Sequences and series.

Merry Christmas to all the TAS Youth Voices Admins & Singers!!!!!

Merry Christmas to all the people who are reading my LJ!!!!!

I wish you a merry christmas
I wish you a merry christmas
I wish you a merry christmas
And a happy new year =P

Whee.

For all those TAS Yv singers who still have the last performance today (P1 and P2 people) Good luck to your last performance and of course enjoy the performances as this will be the last performance for our Christmas Caroling Session in Year 2007 =)

Go TAS Yv =)

P/S: Sleeping time =) If I still sleep at 3 am today tomorrow I am going to be very tired xD so no way. Because when my tiredness reach a certain level, I will not be happy and I will tend to ignore a lot of conversation, and I will dao a lot of people. So to prevent any of the above happening, I decide to sleep now. nites =)

Yes. 5 more days to Christmas. And 5 more days of performances.

Wait. Performances is not the main problem...

5 more days... 5 more days... What to do in these 5 days except for performing...

"Hey have you buy Christmas present for your friends oredi?"

Oh HOLY CRAP. lol.

Come to think of it. Yeah i only got 5 more days. Minus off performances time and rehearsal time and supporting time and travelling time... I think i left around 2 days...

WHAT 2 DAYS? *check his christmas present to buy & to do list* 

GG. Jia lat lah. these few days = shopping + performing + rehearsing + travelling oredi. nth else. haha.

Bleah. Anyway if you are guessing who am I buying for... Go ahead and guess. But it's only for TAS Yv ppl only =P Sry but I dun have that much $$... xD So... bear with it yeah, for those friends who are reading this but is not in TAS. Sry. Will pay back next time =P

Got info that next year there will be 3 people taking over TAS Yv... Sali... Cindy... I wonder who is the third one. Oh yeah and Sali, if you are going to post some comment like saying no lah not me, no point doing it because it sort of like quite obvious that I think you will be one of them as you have seriously help a lot for TAS Yv. =P So. even if you say its not you I am not going to believe you until I know who is the 3 people... =P

Today's show at DE. What to day. 1 word. Great. This is my... *counting* 10th performances for TAS since I joined the Yv, and. Out of the 10 shows, I think this one is the best. Seriously. What I saw on stage is just. A lot of wonderful audience down the stage, which are very enthusiastic and responsive. Imagine we even  The crowd is not a normal crowd I had for previous performances at DE. Those crowd are like. Only... 20 people at most? Today, large crowd of people sitting on the staircase in front of the stage, listening to our songs and they clapping along... Cute little boys and girls are there sitting in front of the stage listening to us singing, and come up on stage willingly to help in our programme of beatboxing and dancing. This is the first time we performers do not need to go down stage to grab people. And oh. Thanks Lex for coming down supporting us and come up on stage and try beatboxing =) Haha. I think there is more than 80 audience... Yeah. Thats about the amount gathering in front of the stage listening to our singing. It really makes you feel happy when you are performing to such an amount of crowd and they enjoyed your singing. The feeling after the performance is... simply undescribable... No out of tune... Nothing serious happened. Only that according to Junkai he says only the sops when heard is a bit flatter. But the real reason is due to all the others went a bit sharper. =P But anyway. I think today is seriously a very good show... Cindy even called "encore" after we performed our last song... Then Colin says he gets high after the performances... Yeah. Thats how great the show is. But no, no complacency. Will continue to work harder to learn the music and sing, learn until no more sharper or flatter =)

Two more songs to master by Saturday (or maybe more. but this is those i currently noe i must learn one):
1) Jingle Bells
2) Hark! The herald angels sing

And tomorrow I got 2 shows =) yay. Wait. why the heck am I yay-ing. 2 shows = no time to buy presents. And I still yay-ed? Nvm still yay. xD Hope. No more coughing / nose-blocking / sore throat tomorrow. running for 2 shows + an important shows on Saturday is not funny at all when all these things happened. 

The surge of forming my own a cappella team is rising... And Colin ask me to go and form one then compete in next year's A cappella Championship. Haha. Shall seriously consider forming a cappella singing.

Well. I think thats all i should type for today. Shall go off and start doing on my christmas cards... Or else seriously no time oredi...
(And I still need to wash my clothes... And check out some stuff on the net... bathe... Bleah I think... 3 am is indeed a good time to slp. Haha.)

My sleeping for today was terrible... wake up in between every 2 hours... 11 pm slp, 1 am wake up once, 3 am wake up once, 5 am wake up once :/ bleah.

Anyway, it SEEMS that my sore throat is better today. Hope tomorrow my sore throat will not worsen.

Yeah. For today, got off bed at 8 am. lol y i use got off instead of wake up? bcoz i wake up at nvr fell asleep after 5 am again :/ bleah. just sit on bed, lie on bed, roll on bed... refusing to got off haha. Then go to Tanjong Pagar (whee some how this place is very familiar to me now, where 2 mths ago like. what tanjong pagar? i go there for wad xD) to meet the icon village performance team for today to have practices before the performance itself at 1230 pm.

Meet an interesting people. Edwin. Somehow I think my presence there seems to have pressure on him.

When i first meet him at mrt station, after self introduction to each other...

Edwin:" So what part did you sing har?"
Me:" Bass loh"
Edwin: "Then today you here then u sing loh"

I was like. O.o har you come here in the end let me sing? lol my presence there is to help you and just in case you can't make it i will be the "backup plan", but not let you give up immediately :/ Yeah anyway, i helped him in getting some of the tunes for bass in the repertoire, however during the performances some of the part he still go off tune... but yeah anyway he 1 year never sing oredi... so can't blame him much but can only hope that he can learn the part ASAP so that won't like sing offtune in the future performances. Jiayou =)

The Icon Village... is... quite few people there xD But the performance team still sing to their best (At least in my opinion, what Angie think... i dunno xD) yeah. Both sharon and sam having this show as first show, and they look quite lost (also according to angie one haha), hope they will improve over the time =) 

After the performance we go and eat lunch, and Elizabeth, Sali, Sam and I went to TAPAC, originally wanted to meet Colin there, but in the end Colin nvr come, and the girls has their fun time singing English songs which I dun really know since I rarely listen to English songs... Haha guess maybe its time for me to start to listen to English songs... The feeling of being left out still dun feel nice, even though i am used to it already thanks to my secondary school years where everybody else in my class was like talking something I do not know everytime. But anyway, went to Pasir Ris after that to support the shows by the team... Even though... somehow I think its quite... not up to standard.

The first few songs were generally ok, Last Christmas (One of my favourite song in the repertoire)  was... disastrous. not blending... And we cannot really hear Elaine on solo for that song... Then the basses (Today the show at DE got 2 basses, Aaron and Alvin) skipped the last three line of the Santa Claus is coming to town, and some of the songs basses forgot their line... Other parts are generally ok, even though Azri was like complaining that he keep going off tune in one of the song (i forgot which one). Also the movement on stage is quite messy for some songs... Generally still ok lah. But again, as I always says, there is still room of improvement lah... Out of 10

Me: 6/10
Cindy: 5/10
Chris: 3/10
Azri: 4/10

I wonder am i too lenient or wad. Maybe I am.

Have dinner after the performance, and heard from Colin saying that Edwin is quite sensitive... Maybe this is the reason for what happened in the afternoon... And then heard some of Colin's history on his illness even though there is performances, and some funny moments that Colin prophesized (or should I say he just know everything?) every actions that Cindy will have once she started laughing. Lol. And it is totally correct... Quite funny during our dinner lah. Went back home after dinner, which by the time i reach home is... about 1.5 hour ago.. haha.

Tomorrow taking over Edwin's show in the evening at DE because he is busy... Yeah. Guys, pray that I will not lose my voice tomorrow thanks to my sore throat. Actually I really hope that my sore throat will be gone as soon as possible... zz nvm. shall drink tonnes of water and go to sleep... ASAP (maybe before 1am). Haha. Guess I am going to be nagged again =P

Yes. 9 more days to Christmas, and 10 more days to TAS Yv group lunch to celebrate we finished our performances. 

Well. I think its time for me to go and look out at the stores to buy christmas present and cards for all my fellow friends, groupmates and singers in the TAS Yv, and of course Angie who actually takes her time out just to train us in singing and everything these few weeks. Appreciate the effort she had put in for TAS Yv, because within these 2 months in TAS Yv i think i had learn a lot about singing and staging. Of course, still got room of improvement. Go me =P 

Now the updated Show list of mine. Upcoming in the next 9 days.
1) Downtown East, 17/12 730 pm
2) Downtown East, 21/12 730pm
3) Christmas Carols, 19 Beach Road, 7pm (OMG THIS IS A PRIVATE SHOW... CANNOT SCREW UP =P And maybe thats the reason y Junkai put S2 for this show =) S2 rocks xD )
4) Singapore Discovery Center, 24/12 130 pm 
5) Singapore Discovery Center, 25/12 130 pm

For people who wish to come and listen to our christmas tunes which we hope to bring the joy of christmas, feel free to do so... its free of charge =)  Haha.

Well. New Repertoire. Guess wad? yes, the topic had said. Jingle Bells, and one more, Elijah Rock. Whee. More songs more songs =P Sort of spastic am I =P

Today @ TAPAC:

Whee, reached TAPAC with Azri at around 1245, and guess what? Inside the room only got Xiangyi, Junkai and Angie. We are early aren't we xD Have a short chat between ourselves about the admin stuff of the TAS Yv, and the other people reached at around 1 pm which is our scheduled meeting time. Then we had our warm ups for singing. Its quite embarrasing for me in 1 of the warm ups, but nvm, it provides laughter for my fellow friends in TAS Yv =) They happy I happy haha.

What exactly happened is, during the warm up, we sang "Mamemi Mamemi Mamemi Mamemi Mamemi Mamemi Mamemi Moo" up the range, and down the range. But for some unknown reason, everytime when i go down the range, at the last few "Mamemi", I will get confused and sing "Mamime". Lol, for the first time its still ok where by i thought its just slipped off, but what happened is I just keep singing "Mamime" everytime i go down the range. Lol. Everybody was like: Eh? Why is there a Mamime? I thought we are supposed to sing Mamemi? Lol.

Yeah. Anyway, after the warm ups, we rehearsed Jingle Bells, our new song. And Guess what. Now Willie is the one who keep sing wrong in one of the part of the song. He is required to sing like "up down up down up down" for the tunes, but everytime he sang "down up down up down up" for the tunes, which get him irritated at himself lol. He was like stomping the floor and... yeah haha. anyway in the end he got correct. Good job Willie =)

After the rehearsal of Jingle Bells, Angie and Junkai talked about some general rules and discipline we should have during rehearsals, and about the upcoming shows. And then Girls had their make up lessons, while guys go out and have more training ourselves xD Its sort of weird. Its originally raining outside, but when we practicing, the more we sang, the heavier the rain goes.

After the practices i went Bishan for my National Youth Team Championship for Contract Bridge, at around 420, and its still raining heavily. My poor bag got wet. Rain Rain Go Away Don't ever come back again =P

Before continuing, Disclaimer: Well I doubt most of the people who read this won't understand the following part, but i m still blogging this just in case anybody knows and interested in this. And if you think you are interested in contract bridge after reading, feel free to approach me for more details, or join the HC bridge club if you want =) And if you don't feel like reading anything about bridge, please skip the next part =P Those with a * sign beside some words is a special term for Contract Bridge, and i will put the explaination later =P
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National Youth Team Championship @ SCBA Clubhouse, Bishan:

Yes. The National Youth Team Championship. One of the biggest Youth event in Singapore for Contract bridge.

Anyway, reached SCBA at around 5pm, and found out that my team wasn't doing very well :/ But bo bian lah. My team, when I am not there, was 2 new partnership. Well, anyway, first 2 round both lost, one is 25-1 *vp (very bad score) and the other one is 18-12 vp (mmm... ok... not very bad, but not good... )

Yeah. Saw some... Not correct bidding when the game is going on, and surprisingly, end up with a push board. (Push board means same score for both tables), and I made a impossible 6H contract, which contributed to the first win for my team today xD

The 6H Game:

Dummy :    S KTx
                  H Txxx
                  D A9xxx
                  C A

Declarer:    S Jxx
                   H AKQ98xx
                   D xx
                   C K

Shall not talk about bidding, as its it difficult to explain here. Anyway, I am in 6H (I am the *declarer), which means I am going to take 12 tricks all together with that hand. The *lead was a Club, and the *dummy lay down. OMG WTH did i just end up in a impossible 6H contract :/  But ok. No point surrendering, just hope for wrong defence for the board. I won the lead with the Ace, dropping my king, and lose a small dime to the opponent.

What happened next. The opponent, which won the dime lead, thinks for a long time. And return a club! The defender just gave me a *ruff and discard! By then i saw the lights. I can discard away my spade losers and hope for dime 3-3 break. Immediately i took the action, discarding a spade from my hand and ruff in dummy, drawed 1 round of trumps, and cross over with Dime Ace, ruff a small dime, and indeed the dime breaks 3-3! By then i claimed the hand, gaining a total of 12 *IMPs. And this board, contributed to the first win for my team today =) Yay.

Yeah. The follow up round... Doesn't have anything spectacular, and i shall just report the scores here...

First round: Opps 18 VP, Me 12 VP
Second Round: Opps 25 VP, Me 1 VP
Third Round: Opps 25 VP, Me 0 VP
Fourth Round: Opps 8 VP, Me 22 VP 
Fifth Round, Opps 6 VP, Me 24 VP
Sixth Round, Opps 24 VP, Me 6 VP.

Maximum obtainable VP in 6 rounds = 150 VPs, and my team got...65 VPs... Ok that is bad... Hope tomorrow will be a better day =) My aim for tomorrow, get 25 VP for all the 6 rounds. =P

Appendixes:
1) VP: Victory Points, A point scale converted from IMPs.
2) IMP: International Match points, a point scale converted from the difference of points with the same hand played in different contract.
3) Declarer: The person who play the hand.
4) Dummy: The partner of the person who play the hand, in which he do not require to do anything except for playing the cards that declarer instructed him to do so.
5) Lead: The first card played for the hand by defender.
6) Ruff and Discard: A card played which allows the player to discard a loser in one hand and trump in the other hand.

End of National Youth Teams Championship @ Bishan
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Wow. Another long post. Haha. And i typed for 1 Hour again. Well done me. Yeah. Anyway, I think i shall go and sleep now, as it is already 230 am and i need to wake up at 730 am tomorrow to prepare for the next 6 rounds of the Bridge Championship tomorrow, and good luck to my fellow TAS Yv Singers for the performances tomorrow =) Enjoy your performance and make your audience enjoy your christmas tunes too =)

Sali, Is this a virus that can spread or something? Now I am sleeping around 3 am everyday... Quoting Sali: Yay 3 am is a good time to sleep. Lol =P

Yay. Back to LJ. According to LJ, it says. "Last updated: 32 weeks ago" LOL.

Anyway quite a number of things happened in this period. Let me try to list them down...

1) Block Test: HAHAHA. screwed up. Get CSSSU for Blocks. Congratulation. If you want to guess wad subject i get U for... Go ahead =P

2) Played in Singapore Mixed Pair Contract Bridge Championship, and got joint third !! This is currently my highest achievement in my contract bridge career since i learnt the game itself at the starting of this year.

3) Played in NUSS Inter JC Contract Bridge competition... Hmm. Can consider as one of the biggest event for Contract Bridge at JC level. Tried my best to get in to semi finals, but at the last round my team got beaten by my senior's team, losing by only a margin :/ sad. *sniff sniff* After the NUSS Competition, my senior got blamed by me for like almost... 3 weeks xD Because its really sad for me that i can't get into semi finals at jc1... (Well, maybe its just luck... but. wadever xD). Anyway. You will definitely see my team pwn the stage next year. =P And yes. that will definitely happen, please don't even doubt the chance of it happening =P

4) Joined the Contract Bridge Training team under the current Singapore Youth Team Coach... Yay. (This allows me to pursue my dreams in  my Contract Bridge Career... Guess what?)

5) Pia-ed my PW. Yeah. Well done. Done quite a number of work in the Group. And yay. the whole research paper, is done. well. anyway. If I am going to oversea University, i dun think PW is that much a matter... (PW is only concerned by 2 university in the whole world as far as i know. Guess what? NTU and NUS. Maybe SMU oso, but that one i m not sure. lol)

6) Here comes the Promo Exams :/ Well, for the first time, i m willing to sit on the chair, and mug bio for a consecutive 12 hours (2pm to 2am) with the aid of coffee and friends xD And. Thats actually the first time this year you see me on serious mugging.

7) Sabbacticals II !!! YAY YAY YAY I chosed the correct sabbacticals to go!! Regretted joining the Conversational Japanese in Sabbacticals 1, this time round i chose a sabbacticals i had passion in it. And the passion is still going on. Its a Sabbacticals related to singing. Its A cappella Bootcamp! Haha. Joined this sabbacticals reasons: 
                  
                a ) I like to sing. (doens't look like? observe more carefully =P) 
                b) The interest increased drastically after NANU's performance in our schools introducing the schools to A cappella singing. Their performance... inspired me and impressed me =) 

Yeah, anyway for the sabbacticals itself, its more of like an introduction to A cappella singing, and of course about the performance technique, standing posture, and of course learning how to perform an A cappella piece in a performance =) Meet a lot of people who share the same interest in singing, and of course the sabbacticals is very fun! Especially the morning warm up =) haha. Must thanks Angie (President of A cappella Society of Singapore, members of NANU), Alemay (Members of NANU) and of course our oversea teacher, Java Five for teaching that wonderful song of Jeeper Creepers! According to Angie, she said that the Jeeper Creepers we sang during the camp itself is really up to performing standard and its very tight =) yay happy =)

8) Recieve Promo's result. ok lets ignore it shall we =P

9) Joined the The A cappella Society - Youth Voices program! Yay. Passion for A cappella singing! GOGOGO haha. Somehow immediately after the sabbacticals, i think i fell in love with A cappella singing. Haha. Few friends from the A Cappella Bootcamp also went there with interest and passion in singing. And whee. This is sort of like a change in my life. I never think that I will have any chance performing on stage before i join the TAS Yv, but now I am singing Christmas Carols in different places of Singapore to bring the joy of the Christmas tunes to our audience (lol that sound like the MC line for our show but nvm =P just koop haha) Now going to the Telok Ayer Performing Art Center is sort of like a weekly event for me, and that room for TAS is sort of like a third home for me haha (since second home is always deemed as the school... but i seriously want to upgrade the TAS room to second home and school as third. i hate schools =) ) Enjoyed the songs that we are performing, enjoyed the singing when our voices are put together. 

Inside the TAS Yv program,  seriously. A lot of people from different secondary schools / JC come together and share our interest and passion in singing =) Was assigned to senior 2 (S2) team, and S2 rox lah =) whee

And Yay. Tomorrow got rehearsal / vocal training again !! ( How about... YAY every Saturday can go TAPAC for TAS Yv activity =P ) 

And definitely, even after the christmas carolling is over, I will still stay in TAS Yv =) Thats definitely, absolutely, positively.

10) Ok. last and final point. This post is getting toooooo long. of course must mention about the chalets =) Class chalets and CCA chalets. I just discovered that quite a number of my classmates and cca mates are... Mahjong Freaks. lol. They can play Mahjong overnight one leh. Impressed. And during the CCA chalet, 17-18 ppl squeezing in one room. whee. Very fun. Haha. Anyway, the chalets are fun although the activity is much limited =) Thanks Valerie for organising the Class Chalet =) 

I hope there isn't any point that i missed out... And well. This is indeed a long post. Can be an essay on "What have you done for the past 32 weeks?" haha. Sad things, i will just ignore it. =P My journal... shouldn't contain any sad stuff. =P