a belated post. haha
OKAY! this is like a one-week belated post. i'm blogging about AEWF 2008. =D
right, so on the 6th July 2008, many things happened. firstly, it was Youth Sunday, which i could not be involved in this year because i wasn't sure of my reporting time for my choir concert only till the day before. in the end, i only had to reach Esplanade, changed into costume and made-up by 2.30pm latest. i had wanted to attend 2nd service and yea.. you can read all these from my prev post.
oh yes, this day was also JJ's birthday. he's 23 this year.. lalala.. so old. haha. anyway, RAYs had a small surprise for him after the mentoring talk he gave to those adults who have responded to the call during the service. i wasnt there. =( yea, so i wished him beforehand. well, and also because that day being his birthday, his mum wanted him to have a bday dinner with the family instead of going to the concert. thus, i had to hurriedly go find someone to go in place of him. some problems cropped up but in the end, i got news that lydia's mum is going then. and i helped her to get one more ticket for her dad thereafter.
well, i went home, ate lunch and then got ready to go. sayhwee's father came round to pick me up and drove us both to Esplanade. THANK YOU. (even though i know she doesnt even know my blog, much less read my blog entries.) many arrived at esplanade then changed. yep. after a while, we made our way backstage into our dressing rooms.
then the soundchecks started. due to some slight technical problems, we had to start with college choir soundcheck first, followed by the alumni and finally, it was the soundcheck for the combined choir. after that, we went to have our dinner. i remember that room! we went there for dinner the last time we performed at SCO goes pop! haha.. anyway, back to the point, then we went back to our dressing rooms and did the touch-ups as well as prepare ourselves for the concert.
at 7.15pm, we had to standby at the door and we had a word of prayer before the concert started. THEN, came the moment of appearance. the college choir did well for the whole opening i felt. yea, saw nat and lydia waving frantically before we started singing. haha.. my mum and classmates were at circle 2 so i couldnt really find them quick enough. haha. im glad our songs were pretty well done. haha..
the alumni were good too! well, as we stayed in the room again, sam went through the combined choir music with us. however, we paused to listen to LiangLin's solo piece. haha.. he's seriously got a superb voice. =) yea so after the intermission, we went upstage again, this time as a combined college + alumni choir. the songs were all pretty well done i thought. sang Soleram as encore piece. was really breathless while singing it.. oh man, gotta work on stamina! haha..
all in all, the night ended really well and we enjoyed the entire performance as much as the audience did. =) heh. we had to then clear the backstage before 10.30 in order to prevent getting extra charges. the moment i stepped out, i saw this group of people outside! love them to the max! haha..i truly thank God for the blessed night.
saw them when i came out..(not all are in this photo.)
after i went up and then came back down to the basement to find them again. (now everyone except lydia's parents are in.)
oh yes, and not to forget, my strawberry sticks they gave me! =D
Lydia and Ben Tan's parents who came for the concert so last minute. THANKS.
with terence, my sis and my mum. =))
sadly, didnt get to see my classmates who came. they left like right after the concert? sam lam said they thought i was going to take very long to come out. oh well, nevermind then. at least they came to hear the choir. im happy enough. haha..
THANKS ALL WHO CAME! it wouldn't have been a success without an audience like you!
oh yea, i forgot to mention this. PRESIDENT SR NADAN came to watch us that night. and friends from RAYs were just 2 rows behind him. haha..
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