finally i have found time to blog about bel canto! it has been three (PAINFUL, i tell you, PAINFUL) days since the end of concert, and fine i admit i'm like one of the slowest choir people to write about concert but with the performance tasks and tests and everything you just can't help but push back thing after thing.

maybe rgs should consider including students' blogs as a summative assessment for, let's see, english? okay come to think of it that's definitely a flop because i guess no one would be interested in writing about stuff important enough to be considered for assessments in their blogs?

back to bel canto. it feels so weird, like spending so much effort on bel canto, staying back almost everyday during exam week to practise for combined and choreo, coming on (almost) every saturday for rehearsals with ms lim, rummaging through my mum's closet for sectional costumes, and then in what seems like 5 minutes, everything gets taken away. it's a brilliant concert, but like people always say, you just can't get enough of a good thing.

i confess, when i first came into choir and found out that the level of commitment was so high, i didn't really like choir. in actual fact, i didn't really want to put choir as first choice because i really, truly, cross my heart, wanted to join band (and play the flute!). but then my parents half persuaded me, half forced me into choir, so of course i didn't really enjoy my time because it wasn't what i wanted as a cca deep inside.

and then i got really irritated with choir at times because sometimes there would be so much homework coupled with summatives the next day and then choir ends at like what, 6:00pm. and when i get home i would be so super exhausted i wouldn't want to touch my homework with a yardstick. at times, i thought there wasn't much fun in just singing and singing because it just felt so monotonous and repetitive. trust me, i thought i would be better off in some cca like band or something.

(sheesh i'm crying)

but then during concert preparations, it really struck me what choir was really about. i don't know but it just came to me when i was hearing us sing blue or something (i don't really remember). the feeling was so surreal and i realised how nice we sounded (and of course there's the bit about my imagination running wild and thinking about how proud we would be if we could sing like what, angels on stage...). fine maybe not perfect but it was really touching to me. and the seniors were just so nice. you could always depend on them for a joke, a hug, and encouragement. they were always there for you.

and half an hour before concert, when suet announced that it was (well) half an hour before concert, i just started cheering with the rest. it was exhilarating. during prayer i was like thinking about how much i loved everyone in choir. as we were getting ready for the stage and exchanging hugs, i almost cried. with joy.

i just don't know what to say now. but i'm sure that i love rgs choir one million times more than i did at the start of the year.

thank you rgs choir for showing me the love, courage and passion i needed to see. i truly love you.

i need a tissue.

or zongmin, in english, chinese or - okay, not really otherwise.

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oh, and she likes embarking on her own 'free hugs!' campaigns after exams and the like; not really sure why. D: (at any rate, you can tell that she's random enough.)

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