It was a tear-jerking news, really. Especially when you know that you are on the verge of getting a cop on the previous attempt and now "upgraded" to silver! All the effort we have put into the training have not been in waste and I hope, will continue it's way for eternity.

For choir members: I do hope that you guys wouldn't be complacent now and start slacking! I know you guys can do it! You too right? Jiayous and aim for gold for the next SYF! I have my faith in you!

I woke up quite early( about 3.00am) and occupied myself with the computer. Ah, the joy of technology. I mentioned this in my previous post, but I will just say this again: Choirs doesn't really sound good in the mornings( the voices haven't fully warmed up yet), that's why I woke up that early, so that my voice could be more prepared than the other. Although It is nothing for me, I mean, I do have this habit of waking up that early already, so yes, nothing much.

I still remember vividly the scene when I cried in the morning. I was just thinking through the possibility of singing in front of the school the National Anthem( Majulah Singapura), then came with the thoughts that it would be the last time that I will be singing with them as a whole. After that, came the "stepping-down-from-choir-after-SYF" thoughts. You know, all the sad stuffs, then I cried. I saw my extremely red eyes before I leave for school. Wonder why none of them took notice of them( have to thank the surroundings, I guess!).

Because I know it's the last time when I will officially sing with them, I got hold of my camera and started snapping random shots everywhere. Most of them were shy, so I only got a mob of black hair for a "face". What selfish people. However, that is not the worst thing it has happened to me, the horrible thing is that luigi caused me to drop my camera and it is spoilt now. Great, there goes my snapping streaks. We tried to do emergency treatments on the fallen camera. It did not recover, the impact was too great.

When we started doing our final practice in school, our instructor, Mr. Chen, made the altos run around the school one time- they sounded sluggish. Mr Lim was there when our instructor shouted them to move, it was so embarassing, letting him witness a scene like that. After the altos were back, we performed for Mr.Lim and received good comments on our singing- saying that there is a distinct difference between 2 years ago and now. I was on cloud nine then.

So, I was on a bus when I heard this great news: That our sounds were heard when we sang Majulah Singapura and You Raise Me Up, and was described as an angelic voice. The one that pierced through the walls of the school.

Note: We canceled our plans on singing infront of the school due to the lack of time to prepare. How disappointing.

I am still able to recall the feeling when I sang on stage. It was, nerve-wrecking. Knowing that we only have 6 baritones( comparing to others, I can safely say that we have the least amount of guys), we might just be too soft. I am still able to feel myself in the middle of the stage( I was suppose to stand in the middle), looking up at the judges( all the half-bald white hair uncles and aunties...opps), and waiting for our singing to be assessed with. Honestly, I was really terrified then: What if we are not good enough? But no, we did good enough to get a silver! And then, unknowningly, we finished our three songs. And I was like, "that's all?!?, after so many days of training and practicing, all we did only sums up to that few minutes?!?". It was basically the sense of empty-ness, like what Mdm ho had said. The other choirs after us were quite average except for one: they had done it flawlessly well. I was impressed, the others too, I believe. Kasa Kasa( claps) and "O-leh-WARH", doonstu.

We were chased out from VCH and immediately travelled back to school. Took some group photos and changed back into the normal wear( this is when my camera fell). Had lots of fun. We were told that we could stay back to receive our results at 6pm. Having the assurance we have more than enough time to get back to school, me and my group of friends when out to eat. When we came back, we had nothing to do, so we started making our own songs. It sounded awesome, at least, to my ears. And I still love the part where I sing "Siiiil..VER~~". Yes we were singing silver in hopes of it becoming true. Just to let you guys know, I sang the highest note in our composed songs, and when I attempted to go higher, the others covered their ears( It was too powerful and sharp for them, and of course, I was using my falsetto). We also have our own mixed versions of the pieces we sang in our SYF, it was fun, to sing in this relaxed form.

I unintentionally scared my jie(kimberly) when I went into the room to search for my water bottle. They were sharing ghost stories then, and the room was pitched dark. I switched on my torchlight and placed it under my chin, letting it shoot upwards. It creates the "I-have-the-hollow-face" effect which looks as if you have no sockets and stuff. And a scream came towards my direction( My jie's), she asked me not to do that- I guess she was too scared then, I meant, she went out to cry one time when she was unable to take it.

We went down near blue room and waited for the news. When Mdm Ho took the call, it seems like she took ages before telling us the news. She tricked us by getting into this posture that "Uh-oh, this is not to be expected( in a bad way)" and walked towards us "dragging" her feets. "Choir..." she said, and everyone went silent. There was a deafening silent when she came again.."We've got COP..". And a second later,"no la, we've GOT SILVER!!" She exclaimed as we all cheered with our entire being. I was stunned then, still not able to take the fact that we got silver, so I went into this mode of "we get silver, we get silver, we g...". And then it gets happier and happier when I suddenly let out tears of joy from the floodgates. It was really embarassing, crying like that in front of friends, at least I am not the only one- quite a number cried. We hanged out for dinner awhile later and went home straight after that. This could be said, as the best day of my life!

P.S. :NO photos thanks to YOU-KNOW-WHO
P.S.2 : I told you that it would be long