Friday, April 20, 2007
@ 9:55 PM
Good job to the choir members!!!!!!!!!
We finally attained a
silver after our 3rd SYF since the school started. We rosed from a Certificate of Participation in 2003 to a
bronze in 2005 and this year we made the impossible by obtaining
silver!!! This could not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of the choir members. I would like to thank all the choir members who spent their time for choir practice until late night; the teachers of the choir, Ms Lee and Mdm Li, for dedicating their time for choir despite having lessons; the instructor, Mr Liew, for his continuity in teaching the choir despite many unhappy events; the pianist, Ms Lim, for being the pianist to help in our SYF; and also the ex-choir teacher, Mrs Lee, who came and support us. I would also like to thank the Choir Alumni, Jolene, people from 4/5, Edwin, Xian Feng, Rashid, Amirah, Sufia, Yan Han, the PA juniors, the teachers, the Principal and many others whose well-wishes allowed us to get to where we are now.
Back to what happened today. After the morning assembly, all the choir members assembled in the AVA room from morning all the way until 1pm+. The first half of practice began until 9.15am. The Sopranos were having difficulty in reaching the correct note at first. They were then made to stay behind longer while the others went down for recess. After that, around 10am, we went back for the second half of the practice. We managed to finish up all the songs but the Altos began to have problems for some of the songs. At 11.30am, we had our nap time until 12pm by which we went to have our lunch and change to the performance costume. At 1pm, we had one final run of the songs and boarded the bus to Victoria Concert Hall.
Once there, we were the second choir for the afternoon session. Commonwealth Secondary School was before ours. They got a gold with honours for their previous SYF and they dropped to a gold. Then it was our turn. We managed to scrape through as the pitching was a bit off. After us was Loyang Secondary School I think. I can't remember the rest. The second last choir was Kranji Choir. They sang their songs pretty well. Most of the UniqVoices preferred their Janger to the other schools. Sadly, they maintained a silver which made most of them very unhappy and you could see many of them crying over their result as they were expecting to get a gold. It could have been the set-piece which dragged them down or the volume of the bass. After the results were read out, we were cheering outside the VCH on our accomplishment. We took photos and on the bus, the sec 3s and 4s were so crazy on board the bus that we all sang the songs we learnt but without any pitch. Back at school, we were debriefed and some of us went for dinner at McDonalds. There would be a celebration somewhere next week on our achievement and there may be a surprise for the juniors from the graduating seniors.