Class Spirit
Saturday, August 13, 2005
after busying myself with trying to modify one of the (gasp!) templates blogger provided, my chinese blog is finally ready! links updated, posts up, personal info too. no tagboard since I think it will most probably be spammed than anything else.
hmm...lets pick up from where I left off. since the days are all pretty uneventful till the school days, lets pick up from there.
on thursday, it is your extremely boring thursday (no thanks to the hour by hour boring lessons) by the timetable. alicia and liesl is trying to get chong keng to say who he likes but since chong keng remained tight lipped, alicia decided to spread some other rumours in order to get him to say the truth out. the (fake) rumour is of course regarding liesl and chong keng (only 3 of them at that particular secluded corner). so if you hear it dont bother since it is a blatant lie
(chong keng paid me to put the above paragraph in the blog)
however, seeing how chong keng is comparing liesl with kornelius and jiahui. it makes us wonder how many girls does he actually like.
after school it is the teachers' day performance auditions held at Music Room at 4.30pm. we happened to be on the last day of auditions. the performers (about 20 of them) have changed by about 3.30 and are rehearsing for the dance.
this is a show of much improved class spirit and bonding as you can see from the various paragraphs later and you can see for yourselves how much we changed from last year to the noisiest class of the level with class spirit.
the performance evolved a lot. from a modified dance from Para Para Sakura to adding miming (padey's suggestion), break dance (padey, chin tau, reuben, wei hao either of theirs' suggestion) and finally tango (wei hao's suggestion) into sections of the performance, all with the same song that is used from the start to the end of this performance.
to get everyone to know how to perform the modified dance, the performers have to meet nearly every day to practise in order to know how to do the dance well as well as to be coordinated at the same time. the better dancers often had to give some guidance to those who are not as good. bringing the bonds closer among the performers.
the highlight of this dance would have to be the tango near the final part of it. the four pairs of guys and girls doing the dance chose the male/female (it have to your opposite sex) partners themselves and as they gradually warmed up to the idea of the girl having to fall onto the guy's arms as it changed from standing on one feet to one that the girls really fell on. another evolution by itself as this is the first time there is such contact between the guys and girls of 2/3.
finally off to the auditions. as it is the music room, only performers can go in. supporters like us have to view the show from some of the open vents of the curtains pulled around the side of music room which is where we watched the show. the supposedly air conditioners' compressors holding area became a supporters zone. nearly all the non performers are there where we watched the show and cheered them on (in our minds, make too much noise and ridzwana will chase us off) and some even prayed for them. another show of class spirit.
the performance ended and the performers came out where we congratulated them for the good job they have done. I think the rest went up to celebrate the passing of the first round of auditions but calvin, mx and I left first.
the results are supposed to be known the next day (friday) but the info got leaked thanks to some sources and we knew that we will be going onto the 2nd round the moment I reached home.
next day, making it yesterday. the only lesson worth mentioning is the chinese lesson where liang lu opened up virtually all the blogs to take a look and ask a few persons to go and present what they wrote. he opened mine too, but unfortuantely it is not updated. I swear I updated it. maybe he should try Ctrl+F5.
after school comes the CCA. before it begin I am back at class watching the performers rehearsing for the final auditions (which is the 2nd round of audtions. real lame considering it only eliminates 2 out of the 6 classes). think they made some more changes but I didnt really catch sight of it as I went off soon for cybernauts.
cybernauts is utterly lame as well. as we cannot get lab 3 we have to use the ancient lab 4 (at least the aircon is good). the computers are perfectly useless and having no idea what to do we played hangman (-.-"). soon chng came in and told us to dismiss them as we are not doing anything useful. guess it will stay this way until two weeks later when the SPA training ends.
at first I wanna go back to class but my seniors insist I go with them to have someone to talk cock with. a big mistake as 2/3 passed the final round too (again because of leaked sources I found out about it when I reached home). meaning we are going to perform on teachers day celebration on 31st august.
I am pretty proud of all these achievements our class has made, one this as well as getting runner up class for cross country for both sec 2 boys and sec 2 girls. from a relatively below average class to one of so much more bonding and class spirit. too bad the year is ending, which signifies we are going to go our seperate ways in sec 3. if only we realised this last year. but well, at least we accomplished it in the end.
hmm...lets pick up from where I left off. since the days are all pretty uneventful till the school days, lets pick up from there.
on thursday, it is your extremely boring thursday (no thanks to the hour by hour boring lessons) by the timetable. alicia and liesl is trying to get chong keng to say who he likes but since chong keng remained tight lipped, alicia decided to spread some other rumours in order to get him to say the truth out. the (fake) rumour is of course regarding liesl and chong keng (only 3 of them at that particular secluded corner). so if you hear it dont bother since it is a blatant lie
(chong keng paid me to put the above paragraph in the blog)
however, seeing how chong keng is comparing liesl with kornelius and jiahui. it makes us wonder how many girls does he actually like.
after school it is the teachers' day performance auditions held at Music Room at 4.30pm. we happened to be on the last day of auditions. the performers (about 20 of them) have changed by about 3.30 and are rehearsing for the dance.
this is a show of much improved class spirit and bonding as you can see from the various paragraphs later and you can see for yourselves how much we changed from last year to the noisiest class of the level with class spirit.
the performance evolved a lot. from a modified dance from Para Para Sakura to adding miming (padey's suggestion), break dance (padey, chin tau, reuben, wei hao either of theirs' suggestion) and finally tango (wei hao's suggestion) into sections of the performance, all with the same song that is used from the start to the end of this performance.
to get everyone to know how to perform the modified dance, the performers have to meet nearly every day to practise in order to know how to do the dance well as well as to be coordinated at the same time. the better dancers often had to give some guidance to those who are not as good. bringing the bonds closer among the performers.
the highlight of this dance would have to be the tango near the final part of it. the four pairs of guys and girls doing the dance chose the male/female (it have to your opposite sex) partners themselves and as they gradually warmed up to the idea of the girl having to fall onto the guy's arms as it changed from standing on one feet to one that the girls really fell on. another evolution by itself as this is the first time there is such contact between the guys and girls of 2/3.
finally off to the auditions. as it is the music room, only performers can go in. supporters like us have to view the show from some of the open vents of the curtains pulled around the side of music room which is where we watched the show. the supposedly air conditioners' compressors holding area became a supporters zone. nearly all the non performers are there where we watched the show and cheered them on (in our minds, make too much noise and ridzwana will chase us off) and some even prayed for them. another show of class spirit.
the performance ended and the performers came out where we congratulated them for the good job they have done. I think the rest went up to celebrate the passing of the first round of auditions but calvin, mx and I left first.
the results are supposed to be known the next day (friday) but the info got leaked thanks to some sources and we knew that we will be going onto the 2nd round the moment I reached home.
next day, making it yesterday. the only lesson worth mentioning is the chinese lesson where liang lu opened up virtually all the blogs to take a look and ask a few persons to go and present what they wrote. he opened mine too, but unfortuantely it is not updated. I swear I updated it. maybe he should try Ctrl+F5.
after school comes the CCA. before it begin I am back at class watching the performers rehearsing for the final auditions (which is the 2nd round of audtions. real lame considering it only eliminates 2 out of the 6 classes). think they made some more changes but I didnt really catch sight of it as I went off soon for cybernauts.
cybernauts is utterly lame as well. as we cannot get lab 3 we have to use the ancient lab 4 (at least the aircon is good). the computers are perfectly useless and having no idea what to do we played hangman (-.-"). soon chng came in and told us to dismiss them as we are not doing anything useful. guess it will stay this way until two weeks later when the SPA training ends.
at first I wanna go back to class but my seniors insist I go with them to have someone to talk cock with. a big mistake as 2/3 passed the final round too (again because of leaked sources I found out about it when I reached home). meaning we are going to perform on teachers day celebration on 31st august.
I am pretty proud of all these achievements our class has made, one this as well as getting runner up class for cross country for both sec 2 boys and sec 2 girls. from a relatively below average class to one of so much more bonding and class spirit. too bad the year is ending, which signifies we are going to go our seperate ways in sec 3. if only we realised this last year. but well, at least we accomplished it in the end.
