Haha, Cherlene here. Still remember me? (: I know I haven't been coming back, but I'm REALLY busy! REALLY REALLY miss you people man. :( As some of you may know, I'm in Meridian JC now and no longer in the choral scene...Haha, yeah. We all have to make choices someday. I'm aspiring to become a journalist someday, so I'm now in College Publications writing for the school magazine. (: I still love choral pieces and I still appreciate them and I still sing, in my own way, like singing children songs with little children on Saturdays. :D Sometimes, I really do envy my JC choir friends a lot when I see their scores and think about the familiar things I used to do in choir. Not getting into Temasek was actually quite a sad thing for me at first, but I really do not regret going MJC now haha :D College life is VIBRANT, just ask Ying Ting. (: There's a ton of student-initiated stuffs and you are just like a busy bumble bee in JC. I totally beg to differ that MJC is a mugger JC, because we do have our share of fun stuffs. It's just that we have tons of homework...But seriously, you do not want to screw up your "A"s. (: CCA is a BIG THING, it's a SECOND FULL-TIME COMMITMENT, other than your studies. For me, College Publications (CP), is my second thing and I have to devote a lot of time to it too, it's NOT SLACK AT ALL. Choir, for Ying Ting, I believe is just as a huge commitment as CP is to me. So yeah, CCA is quite a big thing.
In JC CCAs, it's hard to be the best. One may think that he's a good singer but upon entering a JC choir, one may find many people who are tons better. It's normal...So just take it in and strive to give your 150% or even more every CCA session. (:
Oh yeah, haha, just for those people who want to take Arts in JC, Literature is a must but it is uber FUN. (: In this post, I'm going to share with you girls a classical piece from a Lit text that I'm learning now. It's a tragic love story with supernatural elements. I'm currently taking GLEM= Geog, Lit, Econs and Math. Much better than Triple Science. Best subject combination for me ever, though Econs is hard to grasp in J1. We'll all get it somehow, someday, with enough hard work, that is. "Wuthering Heights" it is. By songbird Hayley Westenra. HAHAHA you'll NEVER sing this in choir, but I'm just sharing some music with you people. Don't laugh at the start and stop the music ok! :D The chorus is nice. You can find out more about the story "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte online, if you're interested.
I know that you guys are leaving this Friday, so just give it your all and make us proud! :D
Love you altos.(:
XOXO Cherlene (:
P.S.: Do you all want a change of blogskin? Tag! (:
kawaii!; 9:20 PM
Sunday, April 05, 2009
HELLO YOU GUYS!
its been a super long time since i visited the blog already! and to my horror i found it dead.
anyway, i want to agree about what cherlene said. really must be hiong about it okay! SYF's coming super soon, so now draw on the last reserves of strength and do WELL for the last 100m!
with lots of love, cheryl
kawaii!; 4:39 PM
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Ok. Alright. Due to popular demand, I've decided to post.
I don't know what happened today and I haven't been fed with the latest updates about the practice because I was at music class, but I guess it's about focusing, retaining stuff that have been taught and reaching out for the goal that we're all working towards yeah?
Alto, don't give up. NEVER GIVE UP. Listen to what Mr Toh says. Jot it down like how you would jot down notes in class and remember them. The best way to get them into your head is to realise that more is expected from you/there are corrections to be made, and the next time you sing, you do it. During group practice or sectionals or combines, do it. Practise it. Practice makes perfect, and permanent (in a good way, if you heed my advice).
Smile people. (: There's still hope, as long as you are willing to work hard for the next few practices, and pray for the miracle, there's still hope.
Miracles happen, but not by standing there and waiting for it to come, but by having faith, praying, and most importanly, WORKING HARD.
Our term is coming to an end, our days in choir are numbered, in fact, I doubt we'll have anymore practices with you all.
Are you willing to be a part of the beautiful memory that we'll have for many years to come?
Are you willing to work with us for SYF and create another beautiful memory that many people will reminiscence, the tears shed, the hard work put in, the joy and the laughter at the end?
I remembered giving you people a very harsh scolding weeks ago. I'm sorry if I was too harsh with my words. But did you notice something? It's all about focusing and having self-discipline.
So Altos, there's still hope. And miracles do happen, but only if you want them to happen. Let's not make Mr Toh angry again. We need him and he needs us. It's a give-and-take thing. Hope you all understand. (:
There's still time. As long as there's still time and we haven't got onto the SYF stage yet, we can still salvage the situation and work towards perfection. :D
Jiayous! :D
With love,
Cherlene(:
"Keep holding on, because we'll make it through...Just stay strong, because I'm here for you...(:"
kawaii!; 9:32 PM
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Dear Altos,
This is my first time posting here on this blog. (: Firstly, I want to say that you all did well for the past few events that we had for you, be it AVA, the performance for the Chinese visitors, or the NDP. The choir did well, you all did well. I'm so proud of every single one of you (:
Well, I will be gone for a short period of time, till the 28th of August. I'll be at home practising hard hard hard for my piano exams. Wish me luck :D Meanwhile, you all must be obedient and listen to Ying Ting okay? Listen to her instructions and you will be fine, trust me.
There are some problems we have to face as a section, but these problems are not unsolveable and definitely they will only make us stronger. They say that tough times make or break a section, but I know it will not break us, because I can sense the bond that Alto has within herself.
We are all mature young women and definitely are critical people. I would like to apologise to you all if me and Ying Ting have been very hard on you. The training is tough but the fruits of your labour will be sweet. Remember, if our singing is fine, Mr Toh will not have to spend as much time fine-tuning us, and this principle goes for all the other sections. As long as we play our part in music-making, the progress will be fast and steady.
Altos, I have absolute faith in you all. Like what our Ex-SL, Cheryl, said, the jam is me and Ying Ting, the bread is you people. But this sandwich will not taste good without either of us. The bread will be plain without the jam, the jam will taste plain without the bread. It's the fusion of the two flavours that create the distinctive tast of the sandwich. How are you going to call peabut butter sandwich without the bread and just the peanut butter? Of course you will say it's peanut butter. And how are you going to ay it's peanut butter sandwich with only the bread? Of course you will say it's just bread slices. Okay I know it may sound crappy, but you get the theory right?
There are many other things I would like to share with you. But I will do that in time to come. Let's do things step-by-step now. Do not ever, ever bow your heads down to hard times. They are supposed to make you a stronger and better person. (:
Always do your best. Have faith. We know Alto can do it. (:
With Love, Cherlene. <3
kawaii!; 9:25 PM
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
thats like so emo. HAHAHHAAH
I LOVE ALTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
now isn't that nice? :DDDDDDDDDD
to the altos: the 4years in ahchoir were just so magical and WONDERFUL i hope that all of u altos will also get to experience the beauty and the happiness of singing with people that u LOVE. always remember to hold strong ur love and passion for choir and ultimately SINGING.
to the SLs: 6 words. I HAVE GREAT FAITH IN YOU. being a SL isn't just about the pia-ing of support and what-not, it is the inspiring of your fellow juniors and section members and to support the whole alto. it is to be the glue between the paper, the jam between the bread, whatever! but really, even though i admit i did not do much as a SL, i really hope that you two will bring altos to GREATER HEIGHTS! the section is in ur good hands now be a good mama heh;D
i love you all and I WILL COME BACK. IT IS A PROMISE OF A LIFETIME.
kawaii!; 9:45 PM
Saturday, June 14, 2008
seriously. if no one posts on this blog but me, i shall stop.
no, really. seriously.
well, the concert was a blast! next up, olomouc.
yeah we've been there and back. what did we get from there? 99?
no, not really. we got friends, a once in a lifetime experience, music, great food (doesnt apply to everyone hah), pictures, shopping, nice hotels, ...
but really. MUSIC.
when you think about choir, what comes into your head? (mx's qn)
for me, firstly it's music. may be different for everyone, but when i joined choir i didnt mind being new and having not much people to talk to. i was okay okay during sectionals, but the thing i looked forward most of all during choir was sat pracs. i loved the way mrtoh did the music with us. when i went to olomouc, i felt that what i've heard and done this four years really got me onto this music thingy. it told me that i could make music, that i could bring feelings to people and move them with my music. i loved it that i had a chance to do and know this music. and i felt that this four years i have seen enough to let me know this is what i really like to do, bringing music to people. i feel really good this way.
well and next of course are my wonderful friends and experiences with choir. i wonder how many of you are like the ms girls and how many of you are like me? im really wierd seriously, i could never talk much to my seniors and my teachers, much less mrtoh cause i always looked up too much to authority to ever feel that they could become my friends. and this trip taught me alot. while there is a level of respect, having a distance also causes you to miss out on alot. i wonder whether i could ever chat with mrtoh the way he does with jem or the rest, but i really would love to. and in this trip i had a few fleeting moments and i must say it felt pretty nice.
milestones really bring us all together dont you think? emma told me, that if it werent for syf, concert and olomouc, she'd pretty much not feel anything for choir. i thought it was quite true. really try to take any opportunity you can in this choir, when you go through something that is important to you with your friends, that's when true friendships are born. really hope something special for you guys cause i want you to leave with a piece of memory of AHS CHOIR. i was quite sad that my sis did not feel that. and im quite happy that mrtoh's dream is for you all to leave with that so you would feel you havent wasted four years. i know i havent.
maybe my posts are really wordy, that's why you all dont really bother reading them much. but i cant thelp it, so maybe i'll just continue ranting here even if it dies and no one comes anymore. haha.. wonder if you all will miss me? i know i will miss you all soooo much. i have had special experiences with all of you. maybe not so much for some, but i hope that my time as an SL has impatcted your life and that i have not just been someone that came and gone. i want to have had touched your life. seriously, that's what i really would have been contented with.
i always say im going to say goodbye or that im leaving or sth, but the reason why im continuing to post is maybe deep down, i dont want to ever lose this memory that has become an inseperable part of me. thank you ahs choir alto, you mean so much more to me than i can say.
yours truly, isabel.
kawaii!; 11:16 PM
Monday, May 05, 2008
tmr is sec 3 MYE.
friday is sec 2 MYE.
when is mine? next month. gah.
altos, i have last sectionals with you on sat! my one last chance to teach you le.. after that, byebye.
have fun but miss me. haha
just feeling bored, not wanting to do chemistry so slacking here, but finding i dont have much to say.
bye. off to mugging again.
jiayous for MYE, everyone! (including me!)
yours truly, isabel.
kawaii!; 6:02 PM
Sunday, April 27, 2008
hi-lo, altos!
im just feeling a little bored cause you all are studying for exams and im slacking away. well, so im here again!
i suddenly felt it was really high time we got back to basics. mrtoh's wonderful warmups, it made me realise how much we were lacking. whenever he does voice classes, i always feel like that, no matter how much we have acomplished.
jiayous, alto! we can do it!
under new leadership and guidiance, things always seem a little harder to get used to at first. i mean sec 2s. you all were under wen siu and pin lang when you all came in but i was quite surprised to see that you all accepted me and cheryl pretty quickly. whatever happens, never compare your SLs. mrtoh has chosen them and so have we. give them a chance to prove to you themselves. trust in them, and trust in yourselves and you all will turn out fine. i have great aspirations for you all.
i really CAN wait to leave choir. hope the olomouc trip will not end so fast.
audieos! (can someone please tell me the spelling of this?! arghh.)
yours truly, isabel.
kawaii!; 6:54 PM
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
oh blehx. this blog is really quite dead.
ahahahahahahahahaha.. it feels so funny to have juniors now 'acting' as my seniors!!
the other day brenda called me. 'hi isabel! just want to ask you ar, have you passed up your passport thingy yet?' 'um.. erm.. ah.. no.' 'haha it's just that alvina asking for it le.' 'oh! okay, i'll bring it tmr.' 'great! can you help me tell cassandra too?' 'haha she pass up le.' 'oh! okay, that's the last one! yeah! byebye!' 'bye!'
THE VERY NEXT DAY..
'OH NO.. DIC!!! (short for discipline IC)' 'yar?' 'i.. er.. i.. um.. forgot to bring my passport heehee..' (twitches foot nervously) (can hear the irritatedness in the background) 'oh liddat ar. nvm la just bring asap k?' 'haha okay.. bye.'
so that was that.
reminds me soo much of the days i was always talking with certain ppl in alto (dont care to mention now) and pin lang always shot me that look in our direction. haha. miss so much to be nagged at by my seniors.
now im nagged at by my junoirs! -.-
haha but it's a nice feeling (LOL) so dont feel bad yeah..
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEW COMM 08-09! pres: corny, alvina secretary: piying treasurer: ying jun publicity: shi jia wardrobe: ada L-squared: jason DICs: brenda, chris
sop SLs: tianjiao, LOO, shuqing(did i write correctly?haha) ALTO SLS!: ying ting, cherlene (haha i see many ppl's blogs write shirleen or sth..:)) tenor SLs: jesse, emmaus bass SLs: godwin, nicholas
haha bet most of you know le so im just wasting my time -.-
but yeah, work hard! i cant wait to see how much further you all can go!
so.. im leaving.. after olomouc la but officially leaving, going back to the good old days: "sitting on the floor in the concourse beside the piano during break. wensiu and pinlang talk quietly to themselves at the piano. me, laughing loudly with cassy, jiewei, dawn, jason, (geraldine).. 'okay altos, break's over!' comes wensiu's powerful voice. (much groans) we stand up laughing. wensiu has played a few notes le but we still arent listening. pinlang shoots me that LOOK. i shut up immediately."
ahaha.. never knew i was so naughty de har? haha i only tell you cause i retire le mah! dont worry, i will behave myself for the olomouc practices de ^^
oh mans..
sec3s, you all are seniors le, must behave maturely and like a grown up. dont ever bring your personal disputes into choir k? my batch comm had alot of differences between us, but we tried our best not to let the choir see whenever we were in conflict. hope you all can do the same. being a senior and comm member means sacrifice. you have to learn to stand up for what you think is right, even when others are not doing it. you have to learn to behave well and set a good example for your juniors even when you feel like behaving naughtilly(is there even such a word?). jiayou for whatever else will come your way, take all challenges as an opportunity to rise higher. i have absolute faith in you!
sec2s, you all are the most special to me cause you came in when i was a senior, when i came into comm. i was not so close with the sec 3s cause when i wasnt an SL yet i was living in my own little world, not knowing i could have so much more if i just came out. so when i became an SL, i felt the most close to you, i felt like i had to protect you or sth. you were the ones i felt most comfortable with. sometimes i would wonder if what i was doing would be of liking to the sec 4s and sec 3s, but i never thought that of you. i have respected you all as much as you have respected me, i have had as much fun with you all as much as you have had fun with me. hilary, piying, kunmei, yeeying, manjing, jolin, rachel, eugenia, cheryl, i have had my special experiences with each and every one of you and i will treasure that forever. you all have made sucha huge difference in my life, thanks for being such great juniors. continue to sing and do choir proud! i believe in each and every one of you!
my dear sec 1s, because you have just come in, i dont feel really much attached to you but you all have great potential. improve on your singing and i sincerely hope very much from the bottom of my heart that you will develop such a passion for choir like no other! hope that the boys in alto will not feel so out, you all are as part of this family as the basses and tenors. dont care whatever the girls say yeah! coming into choir is a man's decision! (going to ncc is gay!:))
so yeah, maybe i wont ever post on this blog again.. i dunno but well, i hope you all will come often!
yours truly, isabel.
kawaii!; 6:28 PM
Monday, February 11, 2008
heya altos!
hope you all arent feeling too sore about having prac on wed cause we really have no choice.
concert is coming, guys! wake up!!! dont slack anymore! work hard!
in case you didnt know, if you all dont perform well the first people mr toh goes for are your poor SLs.
so..
if you all show whatever again then we will get whacked once more again like today.
and then..
we will give you lian se kan.
and trust me, you will not like that.
agreed?
so we will do our veryveryvery best?
"YES ISABEL!!!"
very good! all so guai one..
just for self entertainment and amusement purposes.
yours truly, isabel.
kawaii!; 10:20 PM
Saturday, February 09, 2008
happy chinese new year, altos!!
hope you all have lots of hongbao money this new rat year.. with lots of ratty stuff coming your way..
as someone told me, when you see a rat dont scream and chase it away cause this is the year of the rat.
haha and i wonder of all the pigs that are slaughted during the pig year? hmmm.. XD
anw.. some wise stuff today.. cause i've just been through some hair-raising experiences..
1) dont ever spout nonsense. 2) dont ever say something if you dont know how to put it across properly. 3) dont ever say things that could allow you to lose the trust of those you love. 4) think before you speak. 5) if you say something criticisive, be prepared to get hurt.
these has all got to do with what you say, right?
yupp, i've just realised that what you say is very very very powerful.
dont ever underestimate the power of your words, it can really make or break someone.
yupp you've just heard wise words from a wise person. XD
yours truly, isabel.
kawaii!; 5:17 PM
Thursday, January 31, 2008
hahahaha..
im sounding like a happy freak who's just got advantage over certain people in her section (ahem ahem) cause my guess was right!!!
i love sunshine everywhere now!!!
so you all must love it too!!! XD
hey and stop just tagging come read my posts la..
i really am angry with pipi cause she just wont ans my tags, she only ans to meow. i'm so pissed XD bias bias bias bias..
okay lar this is not ren shen gong ji.
just feeling extremely excited for tmr!!! are you all? the sec 1s are coming and hsm.. well, okay lar i still like our part. :)
i want to go play game le cause im free! (it's very seldom though)
oh you'd better waych out for cheryl chong she abit siao siao one these days.. or should i say everyday? haha opps.. but i going le so i wont get a chance to bully her anymore.. so must bully abit.. (haha opps sorry cheryl i still love you very much!! XD)
okay gtg my dears..
yours truly, isabel.
kawaii!; 8:54 PM
Sunday, January 27, 2008
hey altos!
great job on the dance! haha i saw many of you posting that mr toh was impressed with our dance! i was really glad too! but one thing.. dancing still must sing ar! no further discussions! :D
it's really great, seeing the whole choir come and work towards something that we all want to achieve. it's also great hearing praise from our conductor, one that we have all come to love and respect. keep it up yeah!
just wanna encourage you all that no matter how sucky a song or alto's part in a song may sound, we will still do it yeah? treat it as a challenge for you all, to be able to learn a sucky song properly, and make it into a nice song.
i bet you all have heard of a song called luk luk lumbu, and all the seniors always propose to sing this song whenever something like open house comes up, cause we all love the song. and believe it or not, we used to hate the song. we hated it and we didnt want to learn it nor combine cause our parts were just sucky and the scores looked damn wierd and everything. surprisingly, we started to love the song once we combined it and it sounded great. once you stop focusing on how bad ur part sounds and hear the whole thing, it actually sounds great. take for instance gloria? our part does sound monotonous when we sing it. but i bet you all enjoyed it as much as i did when mr toh combined it on sat. i thought it sounded fantastic.
i really believe that every song will sound nice once you start to piece everything together, and really, dont judge a song by its cover.
lets all work hard for mon's sectionals yeah!
yours truly, isabel.
kawaii!; 5:35 PM
Sunday, January 20, 2008
posting on my FINALLY free time(:
hey long time no post, hope everything's all well with the dance- no sprains, injuries yea.
just wanna say, JIAYOU<3 work hard for the new year!
love, CHERYL :D
kawaii!; 3:52 PM
Friday, January 18, 2008
dearest Daddy God,
thank you for loving us, and i thank you for providing this wonderful opportunity for us to go olomouc.
i thank you that whoever is facing financial trouble, you bless their finances; whoever is facing parental objection, you change their minds.
thank you Daddy that we will all have a great time there and that you will protect all of us.
thank you that we are your beloveds in Christ Jesus.
amen. :)
kawaii!; 9:24 PM
okayy.
maybe our school isnt so bad after all..
i mean..
moe pressurises you to build a stadium. you have to fund raise for it. you know your students most likely wont pay. your students are angry at the fact that they have to pay for a stadium that they wont use. you are tight on expenses. you want to push your school academic to a band 1 cause even xinmin sec sch is there. you want your students to have better discipline cause that's fundamental for good learning. blahblahblah..
would you feel stressed?
i would.
seriously.
but..
as bentwy said, the approach is not correct. the school wants to reserve our chinese values and all, but they have to understand that the culture is changing and the fact that we are influenced by european culture cannot change. i do observe some chinese culture, i wear red on chinese new year though some dont anymore, i greet my grandparents, uncles and aunties with chinese greetings and they do so alike when we are exchanging hongbaos and oranges, i eat dumplings on duan wu jie, i eat mooncakes and carry lanterns on mooncake festival, blahblahblah..
but..
not everyone is the same. people have different mindset now, esp us youngsters. the more i feel that an authority is punishing me and scolding me for sth i think is unreasonable, i feel even more inclined to disobey. that's what they call rebellion.
i feel that adults have to understand and listen to us instead of just forcing their rules on us. i feel that the teachers in this school are in a really tight spot cause they are the only true ones who understand us, yet to keep their job they have to carry out the p's orders which are totally not understanding AT ALL.
why do A* p's dont understand this younger generation? every generation is different. i cannot stress that more. why do they have to force their rules on us? why cant they listen to us and then we can work out on sth that everyone agrees with? why are they demanding unreasonable stuff that we cannot produce? why are they trying to change our habits, instead of just putting it to good use?
i read one version of high school musical books, and the story was about gabriella having to coach sharpay in her studies. well, gabriella makes use of sharpay's acting talent, as she challenges sharpay that she can act all roles except that of a studious student. well sharpay tries her best to prove gabriella wrong, and soon she's studying harder than ever for her exams and does really well.
we can make use of bad habits to good use. i believe that.
well, HABIT. it's really hard to break. you take away the 'h' you still have ABIT. you take away the 'a' you still have BIT. you take away the 'b' you still have IT! the only way to remove the 'i' is through the 't', the cross. :)
i love you all.
yours truly, isabel.
kawaii!; 9:00 PM
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
i absolutely love my school! (refers to emma's post, which i have kindly exerpted some for you)
(start of exerpt) " "OMGGG TEACHERS ALERT! I SAW TWO TABLES OUT OF LINE IN CLASS XXX! EMERGENCY MEETING! NOWWWWW!"
pretty self explanatory, i'm not telling you what's that. you can have a go at it ;D
Imagine if buying the calendar's compulsory. Sigh i don't want to pay, i can buy a plate of hokkien mee, a plate of duck rice, two cups of sugarcane juice and two bowls of tang yuan at market 85 with that amount. That'd prolly fill me up to the brim, and i wouldn't have to eat for the next 100 years. That's exaggerated, but hey, nothing here's non-exaggerated *stares at sentence above*
i'm not lying. Its a fact, because i take pity on our poor teachers too. personal note: never be a teacher here, until ___________________.
everything here's censored for our/my own good, i wouldn't want to be seen on stage or anywhere..here's another fact, everybody's complaining! They're fearful of the *points up* people, so we'd have entertaining facts during lessons. So, we students have to 1) sweep the floor from 7am to 3pm, 2) we have to allign our rows neatly or else our teachers might be called off for emergency meetings, 3) we must have the calendar on the door under the fan,4) we must have a spotless classroom..5)... 6)... 7)... 8)... (until infinity)..
being clean and neat is good, but being obsessively clean and neat is another issue. monitoring us is good, but monitoring us about everything is yet another isssue.
what i'm saying is, we're living in a state of trauma. We do not have a moment of peace here, and i feel strangled.
here's what happens everyday: "4L! quick pick up the litter! allign your rows! where's the dustbin? how many times must i remind you, what if miss xxx comes by and check?" (then rants about how hard a life a teacher must lead)
something like that.
you see, *points up* people nags at teachers (all day), teachers nag at us (all day). So we rant here (almost all day). Perfect example of chain effect.
Anyway, i've already cut my hair so i'm safe for spotcheck tomorrow. (grins). i'm SO going to shave my head botak one day. Hasslefree and of course, safe. But who knows, maybe xxx'll catch some random person for not shaving their xxx / xxx in the near future.
did i mention, i'm experiencing BAD HAIR DAYS. LIKE TODAY. I'M GOING TO HATE WHOEVER SAW MY MESSY HAIR TODAY! D:"
"and we found out the horrible, corrigible pungsai truth :PURCHASING OF THE CALENDARS ARE COMPULSORY.so yeah, pungsai. 10 bucks down the drain. NO, its *lists out alot of food* down the drain. So, to commemorate this special event of us buying calendars as a school for the sake of our poor, poor school
and here's the best part. The school is being TOTALLY unreasonable and weird, because they spent close to half an hour doing spotcheck for the secfours' hair. For guys....
and came back with close to 30 males lined up at the stage. PRCs included. Some of them were practically bald, so what's wrong with their hair? -.- Sideburns they say. They're natural, man. Everytime they put a guy in that line of display, we would gasp in total utmost shock and horror; "OMG, HIS HAIR WHERE GOT LONG?! LIKE THAT ALSO NEED TO CATCH?!"
totally unreasonable, although they've acknowledged that those guys have had their hair cut, they still had to put them up. Quite of a laugh though, mrpoh even managed to cut some hair off my classmates' heads. -__-
i think all guys should have botak heads. They're so fashionable, cool and shuai. Not. -.-
School's been a torture these days, and i've been loaded with other lame pungsai stuff like the "CLASS RULES POSTER" thing by monday.'
cmon, are we a concentration camp or are we a secondary school?" (end of exerpt)
great stuff, isnt it? wonder whether you all lower sec people have suffered the same fate as us?
just face it. im having a mixed up day.
(okay i dont mean to brainwash you with sth else, it's the damn bloody truth!!!)
haha but you should have seen how kayat cut his hair! so cute! he didnt get caught of course XD, but your two wonderful jon's did.. even christopher tan.. and the prcs. esp the prcs. i mean, i thought that the prcs would have hair so perfect (or rather, the school is so biased towards them they never even catch them if they dont wear school socks)
okay, im sorry. i love my chinese scholar friends.
it's just like some s'poreans say: the people in charge of us do favour foreign talent. like sports, they favour the foreign talent, and brush us aside. i do admit im feeling a little jealous, but they do help spore to shine, just that - it's not us. see?
nvm, im feeling crappy about the crappy calendar. but - shant let sth like that spoil my day!
loves, isabel
(oh man do notice i didnt use my nick. blehx.)
kawaii!; 6:57 PM
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
okay dammit if piying can use vulgar words so can i. grahh. majorly.
mon.. haiz. no words could express my disappointment.
too lovable to scold or no heart?
my dear altos. it's true, but you're getting out of hand.
pleasepleaseplease do concentrate during sectionals k? it would make this place a better one :) and please do control urself during sectionals if you really want to do sth really funny you can do it during breaks k? i feel really quite upset sometimes but i really cannot bring myself to scold you all, my dears. limying says i've spoilt you. i think i have.
grahh im feeling the pains of adulthood. you love ur kids too much to scold them, even when they're getting out of hand. pleasepleaseplease do not push me to my limits. in case you didnt know, i have limits too. not everything is fun and games, there will be serious times and fun and games times. please do not be fun in serious times and serious in games times. you will disrupt the whole ecosystem. i mean it.
as for combine, my dears please do not take it to heart. in my utmost truest feelings and opinion, i feel that marcus is a great student conductor. it's just that at times he has his down moments, like if mr toh comes in with a bad mood. but you all cannot judge him like that. who knows what he's going through? if you've had a majorly bad day you'd be putting on a tom yam face the whole day and not much can make you smile (although i am a person that is very easily encouraged if im down and you try to make me smile :)) i seriously respect marcus because he does certain right things and i feel that no matter what, we should respect our seniors. even though people say, to earn others respect, you have to respect them. marcus may not have done anything in your opinion to make you respect him, but please do so in the same way if you respect me. after all, all of us should work together for this choir to work. i feel that sections should not be competing with sections in order to work well, although we do challenge you with the other sections sometimes, to drive you to do well.
the ones that i will always remember, are those times when marcus gently encouraged us even if we didnt do well, and praised us when we did well. and the one that is deeply etched in my heart is when we sang for open house in the avt and also for sec ones in the hall. i could see his determination, and all the effort we put in didnt go to waste. i felt we were really connected, like we were really focusing on something, the whole choir, and we were working to achieve that goal. mr toh always said that we should connect with the conductor when we are singing. i fell that's really true. everytime i focus on him when i sing, i can feel it in his eyes that he wants to produce the best in this choir and the best in himself as well.
as there was a story, a guy was walking with his friend and his friend got angry with him over a small matter and punched him. he wrote in the sand," my friend punched me today." then they continued walking and he fell down, and his friend helped him up. and he took a stone and carved on a rock," my friend helped me today." and the friend was suprised, why did he write on sand one and on stone the other? and his friend replied, "because in the sand it will soon be blown away, but on rock it will never be wiped away."
so, i do encourage you all to focus on people's good points and not their bad, and this world will definitely be a better place :) my dear altos, whatever you do, do your best okay?
yours truly, isabel.
kawaii!; 9:24 PM
Sunday, January 13, 2008
ahh! blogger is screwed!!
cannot put my cute little baby spongebob and patrick template on it (boohoohoo:(( sniffles)
just visited choir forum (nicenicenice!!!)
just a totally random post.
for you all to pass time.
just read finish my ss chapt 1 and my amath lu chong!
wish my hp could be connected to the com so i can show you the cute pic of mr poh that my class drew! deddicated to him and him alone! :)) haha when mdm ho came in she immediately wrote 'poh' beside his "potrait" uber funny!!
haha yupp wiating for my sis to come home so we can go celebrate my mummy's bd! happy birthday mummy! i shant tell you how young she is (notice the use of words.. :P)
oh mans hope cheryl tan wont scold me for almost treating this like my real blog! opps.. but you all want to read right? haha..
yea yea yea high school musical is loves!!!
yours truly, isabel.
kawaii!; 6:07 PM
hey great job altos on my fav song! (prayer)
haha hope you dont get it wrong next time i'll just hack you all (just kidding, i love you guys too much! :))
okayy so i admit i cant shop.
pardon the use of certain words that you might feel uncomfortable with in the next few moments cause.. i have no other words to use? and we're all girls by the way so.. yupp.
i went out with emma yest after choir! (sat) yar so she wanted to eat fries after eating a freaking TWO large fries on fri with riane. -.- okay i stopped her in time. then we went to look at preesies and i went to look at sakae sushi's menu (cause i want to buy it for my mummy's birthday on mon! yeah! :)) then emma left cause she had tuition. so i went to century square, net brenda, cherlene and some sops. then brenda asked me if i was with cheryl chong (cause she was just walking in front of me) and i said no cause i didnt want to walk with her she would just drag me to eat. n i need to slim down! pardon cause i dont look fat on the outside but i actually have spare tyre. blehx. (sorry cheryl it's nice to go out with you but.. i really dont want to be dragged down to the stores to eat the wonderful tako pachi i so love and adding on to which i dont need)
yupp so as i was walking to century square i asked cherlene where's the sakae sushi shop (pardon if even the sakae is spelled wrongly -.-) and she stared at me as if i should know these things le. (sorry cherlene i just dont go out very often..) then she told me where it was (thanks!) and after i left the sakae sushi shop i passed by E2 lingerie. now i wished i hadnt seen that shop.
the underwear was on discount!! i do not go shopping and i have absolutely no love for shopping at all (my close friends can vouch for that) but i am soooo attracted to discounts! it was 4 for $10. how to resist? so i went there and looked awhile (i really felt wierd to be looking and touching undergarments but i suppose that's the way it is if you have to buy them right?) im really inexperienced. i only buy clothing when my mum or sis is there. so i dunno what was it that was triggered in me, maybe the shopping genes that has been dormant in me have suddenly erupted! and i bought 4 lar for $10 only to go home and realise i bought the wrong size. haiz. no matter my sis said i could give them to her (thanks!) okayy so..
here comes the hard part. blehx will i start shopping like my sis says so that i will when i grow up or was just that a once in a blue moon kinda thing? who knows?
(please bear in mind this is just a wierd post so dont give vulgar comments or anything) (and please please whoever wants to help me maintain this dying blog can always ask for the url and password from me!)
yupp so.. shopping is __________. fill in the blanks yourself.
yours truly, isabel.
kawaii!; 5:01 PM
Thursday, January 10, 2008
okay i've decided to ressurect this blog (pardon the frightful english spelling)
cause apparently im the one who owns it haha. the tagboard is alive but the blog is dead?! whoever heard of such a thing?! got leaves alive with roots dead the mah? maybe only short term. so must water the roots, not leaves.
haha congrats to my sec 1s now sec 2s le! congrats to my sec 2s now 3s le! AND congrats to my sec 3s now 4s le! (like me!) everyone who is taking 'o' level, jiayous! we will run this race together!
my dear altos, please dont forget me when i go. im a very sentimental person.
i will miss the times we just had sectionals, how we screwed when our seniors left, how when we dont screw mr toh ignores us, (but then again isnt that better? haha kudos to sops! we give you chance you know? ahaha) and just being who we are, altos.
you've made my this sec 3 year in alto a very meaningful and memorable one.
i just realised only when you step up and take a leadership post, that you realise how much all of this means to you, when you suddenly have 28 faces looking at you and they expect your guidiance and leadership for the next year. altos, please never lose your light for choir, we only shine when we all work together yeah!
i did have moments when i doubted my ability, especially when i made mistakes. but there were always people there to cheer me up. thank you. my close friends, and my dearest altos. thanks for always just trusting and believing in me, being patient with me as well. i wanted to be perfect for you, but i realised that no one can do that, so i'll just do the best that i can.
feeling a little emo now, let me emo somemore k? it's not everyday i get a chance, now that im sec 4 i really want to let you guys know my feelings.
i really caught onto something during the auditions for sec 1 girls. there was this girl who when mr tan asked whether she was in choir before and what section she said,"yes, i've been in choir before. i was in alto section, but because the day when i audition i had a sore throat. actually i can sing soprano one you know?" bentwy just nodded his head in utter disbelief. true renough, when she auditioned, she could barely reach the high note. i knew that if she went into choir, she would be in alto section, and she would be extremely unhappy.
which reminded me of when i was p5. though i wasnt in choir, i loved singing and my form teacher happened to be the choir teacher in charge so she asked me to sing for syf. i was very pleased and i went into soprano section. to be frank, my pr sch choir was a cop choir. (suprised?) anw when i was there, i saw thec ombines, i saw that the altos were always getting scolded cause they knew their part, but whenever the sops started singing, they would switch to the soprano note.
i remember my teacher asking me one day,"do you want to join the altos?" i flatly turned her down. (guess you all can guess the reason)
so i had this impression of altos when i came to sec sch. i was in sop at first in sec 1 (juniors dont be suprised!) and i struggled to reach the high notes. i felt really bad, getting sore throats most of the time. when mr toh came in and re-auditioned, and he put me in alto 2, i wasnt really surprised, nor disappointed, nor angry, just a little relieved and uncomfortable. someone came up to me and asked,"you're still in sop right?" and proceeded to walk away, almost expecting the answer to be yes. but i answered just as flatly,"no, i went to alto 2." she looked at me, then said,"oh, thats too bad."
but after that, i realised lots of stuff: i learned to listen more, i felt more comfortable in my range, i could sing my part when the sops were singing. i remembered in my sec 1 and 2 years, i could not, ABSOLUTELY COULD NOT sing my part when the sopranos were singing their part. but now i've learnt. and im still learning, but i realised that being an alto is a whole new different thing. i used to love being the melody, noe i prefer the harmony.cause whenever i sing my part, i can hear the soprano's part ringing in my head. and i can hear the two parts at the same time. it's lovely. better that just singing the melody, cause you have no idea what the harmony is. and also, you cant listen (sorry sopranos) cause sopranos dont tend to listen alot. so if an alto comes and 1 sop sing and 1 alto sing, if the alto can sing her part without switching, the inexperienced sop will switch.
my sister once said," not everyone can be a sop." and i replied," yes, but not everyone can be an alto." yes, when you're an alto, you learn to be the soprano's shadow, yet shine in your own way when you know that you are contributing to the music. whenever i sing my part only i dont just hear my part, i hear both the sops part and my part in my head, and it is nice sounding to me.
so my point today is," I AM PROUD TO BE AN ALTO! and my dear altos, i hope you are too!
yours really truly, isabel
kawaii!; 9:55 PM
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
hey my beloved altos! holidays are here! and soon we'll all be working hard on the musical that we are going to put up next year! so exciting! yupp so if ever u do want to offer to help, just approach us! and the choir camp is on the 23 & 24 nov, farewell on 17 dec, carolling on 15, 16 dec and 22, 23 dec, open house on 24 nov, concert next year april! get excited man! great things are in store for u! yours truly, isabel.
kawaii!; 5:00 PM
Saturday, October 13, 2007
&hello again my fellow ALTOs<3 heys and exams are FINALLY over! its a time to slack, and play and have fun BUTBUTBUT don't forget to come for choir! we would be starting to learn more interesting songs and the musical soon so DON'T MISS A THING! personally i'm very happy exams ended because choir was on my mind all day. don't u guys feel honoured? so get hyped up for choir, choir, AND CHOIR!
ps: a good recommendation of a book for those who love romance thrillers and handsome guys. READ TWILIGHT BY STEPHENIE MEYER<3
-CHERYL LOVES YOU
kawaii!; 12:00 PM
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
heyhey! GREAT job today yeahs? haha so enthu.. but no one do kallang wave.. so sad.. :( anws just keep yourselves healthy so that you wont come down with the flu! :) and also pls rmb to bring $2 on sat for the concert! OH YES and choir's at 7.30am on sat MUAHAHAHAHA.. never fear you have lots of brave souls enduring it with you yeah? XD esp yours truly.. :) seeya all there! LOVES!! "i love singing songs! esp NATIONAL DAY songs!!" :P
yours truly.
(and pls. NO ONE is to adopt MY nickname. :P)
kawaii!; 6:55 PM
Sunday, August 05, 2007
oh yes ppl please do NOT ask me anymore about when is there choir prac. there is always prac on FRI AND SAT. mon then is only on the week without common test. OKAY? grahh
-cherylSL(:
kawaii!; 5:19 PM
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
hey alto! :DD i'm sick today, so i'm posting(: get well soon everyone who's got he flu D: and JIAYOU for 2.4 & national day!
RACHEL ;D
kawaii!; 11:56 AM
Friday, July 20, 2007
hey wait. STOP. im not les(x
kawaii!; 11:01 PM
i love you guys. suddenly i realised it. WHAHAHAHA(((:
kawaii!; 11:01 PM
Saturday, July 14, 2007
"enough of looking at those sweet castles in the air."
-cherylSL(:
kawaii!; 10:43 PM
Friday, July 13, 2007
heya altos!
i think we'll be changing the template soon, but in the meantime just make do with this k?
hope to see u all tagging and posting on this blog often!
quote of the day (as CHERYL implemented): just have fun singing yeah? :)))
yours truly, ISABEL.
kawaii!; 6:57 PM
okay this is the OFFICIAL ALTO BLOG((((:
so this blog is for u guys, only ALTOs to blog in and to comment on the sectionals and to discuss techniques or to just simply CRAP<3
u may sign off as anonymous if u want to.
and please remember to write a quote of the day(: this applies to all who are online who post on this blog^^
