haha i'm getting increasingly worse at keeping up with stuff eh? :/ in any case am glad i've kinda obliterated a couple of crazy snowballs along the way that threatened to merge and blow up into one Gargantuan Killer Snowball capable of steamrollering me - yes i know i'm throwing all sorts of random words that don't really make sense but hey, i'm pretty sure i do have a right to be incoherent! :D so yup, guess i've learnt a lot from the past couple of weeks, and i'm pretty sure i'll be smarter with things - things that matter - from now on haha. (:

but in any case, that rambly paragraph wasn't really the point of this post; i realize that this place has been severely lacking in syf-related posts (much unlike that of dearest growie - hahaha sorry chloe xD) and since that's one thing that truly does matter, it's time i spent some time (don't you hate it when you repeat words that way -.-) to consolidate this whole whirlwind of an experience and well, just to take stock of how far we've come. (:

i remember telling growie (haha oops i really can't help it!) once that i've never felt as stressed out over syf as for this time round, and well, ignoring the fact that that's quite a rubbish statement given that this is only been my second (and last - ! ! ! - but okay will not think about that for the time being) syf with RGSChoir, growie's quite right in saying that it's probably only because the seniors were the ones handling all the pressure on behalf of us all two years ago. now that we've taken up the mantle i guess it's pretty inevitable that we'll feel a tad nervous, a tad stressed out, but then y'know, at the end of the day certain things also don't really matter as much as others - or should i say that certain things will just take good care of themselves. (: two years ago when we were doing itsuki i remember how msloo kep telling us how the most important thing was to emote, to convey the essence of humanity, to move and touch the people whom we were singing to - yes, singing to, and not merely singing for - and that we sing not for a colour, but because we believe in the urgency and pertinence of our message, that we believe in what we need to and what me must convey. and that's really what has stayed with me throughout the years, that the essence of music-making is not only about getting every pitch right, every rhythm on-the-dot, but so much more about using those little details to bring to light the bigger picture, to bring to life the meaning behind all those quavers and chords and what-have-you.

and that's the kind of magic i'm pretty sure we as one choir, as one RGSChoir, can create. (: i'm really thankful that we've more or less gotten the very basics anchored (not like 2 years ago when we still had that little tendency to do funny things with our pitch haha oops :/), and so now what we need to do is to just truly feel what we're singing, to put our full selves into the music and intertwine our emotions and our souls and our love for music with every single note that we let go into the air. and y'know, i think we're getting it, we're getting there. guess it's always rather difficult to open up initially, but then once we open up everything more or less falls into place, like how berobero (haha i shall codename our pieces :D) is starting to sound more kiddy and cheeky now. (: the other ringing + resonating piece is also starting to become more moving - in all sense of the word, hoho how i love to pun :D - now, and i'm glad we're starting to break free of our inhibitions, and that we're starting to cut ourselves loose from all the ordinariness of normal life and going towards making music that's no less than Spectacular, and yes, Spectacular with a capital S at that. simple joys (i was so tempted to write 'small good things', but alright will not let lit get to my head just yet haha), devout supplication, love for nature...these are ideas that we can express and that we will express. :D

on another note, i'm so grateful for the people who make RGSChoir what it is. (: msloo + wonderful batchmates + awesome juniors. ♥ they're probably the biggest reason why i've grown to love choir just so very much, the bondedness and the randomness and just the sheer joy and love we find in singing are just truly incomparable. (: and while this paragraph in itself hardly does justice to just how brilliant everyone is, suffice to say every bit of music we sing together is just sheer joy and delight. ♥

so yes, final three now. take care and sleep early, everyone, drink lots of honey water and keep thinking about the pieces, feel the music in you, and love your music. (:

as growie says,
we've got a message to convey. (:

i ♥ RGSChoir09. :D

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

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lives, writes, sings, plays the piano, and attempts to sound intellectual at times (conclusion: fails rather miserably).

loves music (almost strictly classical, hurhur & inclusive of faziolis!), literature (& also the sciences - no they are not in conflict), making hopelessly lame puns, laughter, white/milk chocolate, cheesecake, the world & the people in it. list not exhaustive, by the way.

wants the world to be filled with peace, joy and love, and also wants (perhaps a little more selfishly) to be happy, plus lead a life of purpose. that would be more than enough. (:

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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very plain, she knows; but this is probably herself in its entirety - nothing more than a compilation of perhaps-boring-to-you little things (and the occasional Important Event), but also nothing less than all the brilliant memories which constitutes her life, and perhaps yours.

also interpreted as an inability to express with other things but words (nothing more, nothing less!), although even words sometimes won't do enough. but she does like orange.

v2.0 (230208): maybe solid grey isn't that fantastic after all. but wordy is good, all the same. she's weird, she knows.

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