29th May, A Day Never to Forget.

I woke up early today, 8:30am in the morning. The moment my eyes popped open, my brain told me something terrifying: "Concert's today.." Heaving a sigh, I sat up on my bed. "11 hours and 30 minutes to go." I blurted, waking Angie up as I stood on the ground, accidently stepping on her pillow. I managed a smile and winked a "morning" before I went outside.

Having a fight on the night before with my mom didn't make anything easy. But it was still fine, I prepared myself, got everything ready and waited for a phone call from FL jX2 saying that she'll come pick me up. About 10:15am, she called. I hopped outside, onto my left slipper, outside the front door, along the corridor, into the lift, down, out of the lift and into her car. We reached MTC around 10:35am. My dad was a minute earlier and had parked his van nicely, getting ready to bring all the props down.

Putting the props and banners on stage took a rather long time:
--"Move that right pot to the left, no no no, I mean my left, your right... yea, a little bit more.. yea yea... thanks!"
--"Err... I think that banner should move a little to the right... cannot see lar, that tree blocking it liao. K, thanks!"
--"FL jX2, do you think we should put that sengeted tree in the middle or on the right?"

The piano man came in, we had a few minutes of discussion where we wanted the piano to be before he started tuning the piano, making "Tonk Tonk Tonk" sounds as we continued moving the stuffs around. Putting the mic up was really "PENING KEPALA", it took them rather long to get 5 mic up on the ceiling and hanging down... then when it was done, we started to mess with lights. Red, Blue, Green, Orange, Pink, Purple.... disco meh?

We just went through scene one with the lights when the big monsters started stomping into the hall... choir memebers. Okay, so we got everyone ready on stage and did a few scenes for lights... then I think it's a waste of time if we run it without mic now, so the mic people started fixing the mic... and boy did they take a long time. The choir members had fun though... jumping like monkeys around the hall, deciding which is the best seat, complimenting how nice the props were laid in place... and etc. Our long rehearsal lasted around 3 hours, by the end of the rehearsal, everyone was cold, hungry and bored. We had an hour break time before the Preview at 5:10pm, and everyone ran to get ready.

I finally had lunch... along with FL jX2 and the other crew that came in early in the morning.

Preview.

It was disasterous.

Thanks to mommy dearest, who came to look out. She messed up the curtains and lights at the very first scene. My Stage Manager (FL jX2) got mad but she couldn't do anything since its mommy dearest for me and boss dearest for her. So I decided to take the lead and shouted "CUT" through the mic. Waaa... director wor... I know I'm so gonna get it from her if I do this. I demanded a restart (since we're just at the first scene) and I demanded that all the crew were to follow what we had rehearsed in the afternoon. Mommy dearest made a comment through mic also: "If you don't on the curtains, there's no jungle feel... and its a jungle song!" I rolled my eyes back stage ... so did my stage manager. lolx. at the same time. And I said through mic: "Sorry, but that is HOW I WANTED, I'm SORRY people, I want you guys to run through the first scene again the WAY I WANTED it. TQ." and mommy dearest shut up. Ho Ho Ho. Trust me, both me and Stage Manager wanted to stranggle her to death at that moment.

Well, after some time of horrible moments in the preview, things began to smooth out. The preview came to an end and we gathered everyone on stage and I was about to say something when mommy dearest came stomping down. "MY DEAREST PRODUCER, WE NEED TO TALK!" For two seconds I didn't know what the heck she was talking about so she yelled again, "PRODUCER, THIS IS IMPORTANT." I shrugged and hopped near her. She ordered me to sit. on stage. Gah. How easy would that be... ok, fine. Then she started bla bla bla bla blaing' about stuffs that she thought it was no good. I listened, of course I did. But I really couldn't stand her sarcastic tone. Even the choir members shook heads. C'mon mommy dearest, you are just the penasihat, you can give comments, but you CANNOT change things that the DIRECTOR set. If you think it's not good, you can discuss with the director. Not change them yourself. Gah.

"Nevermind, you guys are gonna be just fine!" I told the choir members and let them have their break time. It was aproximately 6:30pm. "1 and a half hour to the concert." So we ate dinner, bath, make-up, rest, went to the loo... and did some last minute preparation before the big thing.

Around 7:30pm, two reporters from Oriental Daily came up to the dressing room and had a short interview with me. Haha... I'm gonna look SO OLD in the news... since I'm already dressed as Granny, all ready for the show.

8:00pm.

Everyone was excited, nervous, scared, happy, -- mixed emotions. We were ready to bust it and do our best. But Stage Manager told us we might have to start 7 minutes late since it was total chaos at the front counter. We had group hug... twice. And everyone bounced off to their position.

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"Welcome to Simshen's Junior Youth Choir -- Little Noise, show of the year. This time, bringing you their VERY Own musical -- JUNGLE WONDER!" and the show took off. It was spectacular. Everything went great.

9:30pm. Everything ended, we waved goodbye to the audience and pressed smiles that would almost seem to never fade. We packed and cleaned up the place, everyone was in their highest spirit, having the best time of their days. I smiled and sighed. Happy it went well and sad that it's all over. We went back to Pandan Indah, got all the props into Simshen and we went for supper before the night bid us goodbye as a new day arrives.

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It's been two days since. As for me and mommy dearest, we hadn't talk since... I tried, but no response... so not bothered to do so anymore. Yesterday night we had our celebration party along with Jason's birthday party at Fish's house. Everyone had a great time, can't wait till the next time I lay hands on that PS... GAH! I was so NEAR to winning!

I woke up 12:00pm today. Just finish practicing piano, Rong and Angie's out in Simshen and I'm left at home with nothing to do. So, decided to come blog blog before I forget everything.

But hey, 29th May. Which Little Noise member would forget that?

Feeling BAD.

Concert's tomorrow. and it's the only thing that my brain can response to. The whole play, the whole concept and idea along with what I've imagined it to be tomorrow is still swirling inside me.

Nothing good has happened.
Typical.
Seems like everything just screws up before the big day... Well, nothing big. Just my problem. Yea, me.

I don't know, eversince I've lost my walking-with-both-legs ability, I've seem to lose something more than just a right foot. I know it's troublesome when you need to look after someone, take extra care, send them around, make sure that they have what they need, be at their side 12/7... sigh, I HATE IT TOO! I KNOW! I KNOW IT'S TROUBLESOME! BUT PEOPLE, STOP REMINDING ME THAT YOU THINK THAT TOO! Stop sighing when I ask for help, stop rolling eyes and walking way ahead from me. Trust me, walking with one leg is hard, but dealing with you guys makes it even harder.

I don't hate you for that.
I HATE MYSELF.
I hate myself for not being able to do what I use to be capable of.
I HATE asking people for favors, I'd rather do them myself.
I HATE it when people offer to help me.
I HATE IT EVEN MORE when there's no one to talk to.
I HATE MYSELF.
I can't seem to control my freakin emotions.
It just keeps bursting like some freakin volcano.
And I know I have to control it.
I just can't.
Gotta go now, my head's achin' like mad.

没心情

今天一整天的时间就花在合唱团上。
有时在想，也不知道究竟为的是什么。
现在脚又不方便。。。
真的是心有余而力不足。
真的很恨自己不好好看了才过马路。
现在怨谁都没用，就只能够怪自己了。
怪也没用。
怪也没用。
真不敢想象要是这一辈子都是这个样子。
盼望已久的演出即将来临，
我却弄成这个样子。
心情又多兴奋都没有用了。
想念的人不在身边，
哈哈。
其实，因该说，
将会想念的人还没出现。
别这么悲观，
不会有事的，
伤心日子也要过，快乐日子也要过。。。
好像哭。
一直把自己伪装成铁汉子，
心里已经破洞了，却不能让人知道。
因为自己不能倒下去，
有人还需要我为他们撑下去。
明天真不想上学。
为何？
没心情。

Crash Plang BOOM

Good day dear readers, want to know how much of bad luck you can get in one day? Well, here's how bad it is.

I woke up this morning with a slight headache, being low blood preasure, I experienced some two seconds blackout followed by an almost killing headache twice. Once when I climbed out of bed and once in the toilet. Well, I was supposed to wake up at four to study, but I forgot. I woke up at six. So... there goes. Luckily this isn't last minute studies, or I'll be dead.

Right before I go to school, stomach ache. Ouch. No big deal, just go to toilet lorrr... big business ma, easy easy.

Then as I reached school, I noticed that I've forgotten my ribbon (Yea, we have to wear ribbons on our pony tail, and well "Bamboo it please," says prefect in blue while I give her a black face.) Well, seems like all the prefects had run out of stock... they don't have RIBBONS. And I'm like some moron asking about in school, walking up to every prefect I see. At half past seven, I finally got one. Gah.

Exams. Now, the first objective paper, which I normally already don't do GREAT seems to be rather HARD. But I scraped through... and did okay. (Checked the answers with friends, didn't really make too much mistakes... hehe) After recess.. Ho Ho Ho Meeeerrryyy Doomsday!

What do I mean? ;p I practically CANNOT do the second paper. By the way, it's chemistry. There was one question which I don't know how to answer AT ALL, and there goes like 10 marks! But well, I am talented in crapping stuffs and making up my own theories... (Ceh, perasannya...) So no matter how bad it is, my paper is ALWAYS filled with scribbles and I always use up quite a lot of time. But I know that Chem 2 paper is officially gone. If I want to score, I'll have to aim for the experiment paper (Chem 3).

After school, I had plans to go to Plaza 138 to meet up Vivian for some choir stuffs, hoping, well, at least to sell a few tickets. I met up Pui Mun at KLCC's Putra Station and we walked there together. GUESS WHAT? She wasn't in. I called up the office a zillion times and no one picked up the phone. Ha Ha Ha. So me and Pui Mun thought, "Why don't we check at the reception?" and I said, "Okay, good idea." So we went into the dark creepy lift and it took us down to the second floor. The door opened and we walked out without second thoughts. The moment our eyes laid on the scene outside, we went numb, aproximately two minutes later, we went "WOHHHHH... so scary." The plaza was under renovation and every where was Zeee Zaaaa Zakkkk (People working around). We turned around quickly and pressed the lift's down button. IT WASN"T WORKING. "AHHHH... how?!" I asked, "Pressed the UP button and see!" Pui Mun shrieked. "AHHH, it's not WORKING!" I turned around and stuck my tongue out. "Go ask the guy!" I pointed at a worker and Pui Mun went up immediately. He smiled and pointed the way out... or to be exact, the way DOWN... we had to climb this twirling staircase with squeeky sounds and rusted steel before we finally reached to safe land. LAND!!! Lolx. "I'm NEVER going back in there again!" Pui Mun laughed.

We went back to KLCC, met up with Jason and Khai Shin before heading to MTC, checked out the hall that we were going to perform in a week's time and went back out around half an hour later. I decide to pay Mr.Frog a visit. And it was DARN unpleasant. He was just LCLY!!!!!!!!!!! OKay, don't want to talk about him. GAH GAH GAH.

Well, we then broke into two groups (Pui Mun and Jason, me and Khai Shin, they went around MTC sticking posters, me and Khai Shin headed to KLCC. When we reached the T-junction, the light was red and we crossed the road. Not realizing that they were little running engines that travels between the big engines, CRASH PLANG BOOM. I was knocked down by the motor. My immediate reaction was to move every single muscle and bone "Phew," all in a second. The next moment, I turn around, looked at the motorcyclist, who looked terrified before the 40+ year old chinese man scooted away. "Darn, plate number!" My head cried, but too late. Khai Shin, was shocked beyond words.

I thought everything was fine. But my right leg couldn't stand my body weight, and it was hell with every step I took. Finally got a cab, told Khai Shin not to worry, and I was off to Pantai Hospital. The cab-man was nice. :) Cheers to him. Called mom during that, she was of course scared and worried sick. But she came to the hospital immediately... I went to have my leg x-rayed, some time later, they told me I had a fraction in the middle of my foot, (third bone). "Yaiks..."

The specialist (doctor) came into the little emergency ward, and said, "Actually it's not a fraction. A fraction is a cut, half way or so. Yours is broken. YOu see, your bone broke off, but it is perfectly in place, not twisted, nothing. It'll grow back itself, it just needs time."

Uh-huh. What about concert next week?

Well, that's about it. I'm back at home now... typing away. Getting kinda lazy already. Oh, I even took a picture of myself with the cast... yea, I got a cast.

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A Musical by TEEN for YOU

Simshen's Junior Youth Choir (Little Noise) will be bringing on their very own musical entitled "Jungle Wonder" on the 29th of May 2005 (Sunday), 8:00PM, at Tunku Abdul Rahman Hall, MTC. This jungle based musical speaks of a journey of a young girl who wanders lost in a magical forest and all the funny things she met on her adventure. All the songs sung in three different languages (Malay, Chinese and English) included in this musical were taken from various composers, re-arranged, planned and plot by one of our member (JiaYing) and will be performed in various kinds of arrangements (Choral, Duets, Solos, etc.)

Simshen's Junior Youth Choir (Little Noise) participated in the 2003 International Choral Festival in Genting "The Voyage of Songs", and they brought home a Gold medal from the Folklore Category along with a Silver Medal in the Junior Youth Choir Category. Every member from the choir masters at least an instrument, some of us even have more than 5 years of singing experience, others come across as winners from various singing competition, song-writing competition, instrumental competition and etc. Just recently, Little Noise met with England's reknown choral conductor - Peter Broadbent, who was on his vacation in Malaysia. Under his guidance, the choir had improved dramastically. "Beautiful Voices, this is a rare choir of its kind. Very musically attached and very sensitive to pitches." said Peter Broadbent.
The motive of organizing this musical is to promote the choral culture among teenagers in Malaysia letting these youngsters earn a great lot of stage-experience, to gain fund for their yearly activities, and most of all to let our choir members express their anxiety for music. The choir would hope to visit Hong Kong and GuangZhou by the end of enrich their knowledge in music by learning from the local choirs over there.

So come join their adventures in this mystical jungle wonder, a musical created by teenagers, performed by teenagers and made specially for all of you out there! For more information, you can visit http://www.littlenoise.cjb.net OR email mailto: mailto:ganjiaying@walla.com

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One Down, Two to Go!

Yea!
Ready babe, hear me rap this one,
Yo Yo!
One down and two to go!
Three four we're singing ho!
Five six it's baby toe,
Seven eight little moe,
Nine Ten and here we go!
Yo Yo!

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Don't give me that look. I'm just celebratin' a little over here cause I just scraped through a ROUGH week of my mid-year's examination. That's why you haven't been seeing much blogging from me.

But don't worry, I'm BACK! ... for the weekends... before I slump back into my books for the next two weeks.

Here's a little summary of what happened:

Monday: BM 1 and 2, wasn't that bad, just couldn't figure out the peribahasa part AT ALL! Darn... 6 marks GONE! But I wrote some craps... hopefully I'll get a mark or two from there.
Tuesday: Let's see... ENGLISH! YAY! No need to slave myself to read... but I did slave along with my bestfriend -- pilot 0.5 wet ink black pen whilst writing my 5 FULL pages long essay... (I would call it short story)
Wednesday: Maths, wasn't great. There were a few questions I had to scratch the itch of myself before I can actually scribble something I hope it's the answer.
Thursday: WORST NIGHTMARE + No. ONE FEAR : ADD MATHS. You know what? I actually answered ALMOST every single question for paper two (I left one out, no idea at ALL). Which is quite a bravo because I normally do like one to two questions during BIG examination for this paper. Haha. Yay for me and cross my fingers. Hope I'll pass...
Friday -- Today: And I thought Add Maths was horrible, before I discover Technical Drawing is WORST to the WORST! Gosh, *spits, growls, vomits* GROSS! EIGHT questions in two and a half hours?!! That's IMPOSSIBLE, and it's not even close to Almost, it's IMPOSSIBLE! Maybe for now... I really need to dig and sleep with Technical Drawing exercises.

After school, came home and ate the WEIRDEST poridge I've ever tasted (or existed) in my life (maybe yours too!). Gosh, I really believe my mom's gone mad adding what ever she could find around her and throwing it into the cooking pot. Gosh, poridge with carrot, green beans, jagung, chicken, this yellow color vegetable cut into slices, bawang... and I don't think I'm having that for dinner. But I did, I just had it, dad did some magic with it, and it tasted much better. But seriously, try NOT to put jagung with poridge, it's just.. er.. eww.

Then I went for tuition in Martin, the usuals. Not much to tell.
So, guess that's it for now. =] Will try to post as frequently as I can.

Exams Talk

Check out most of the blogs from teenagers around Malaysia these days and all you see is "EXAMS".

Yea, my mid-year examination is coming as well, actually, it's on the 9th of May a.k.a. this COMING Monday. How lovely.... not.

I LOVE EXAMS!!! Haha... who doesn't? You don't have to listen to your teacher babble babble and babble the WHOLE day long PLUS you won't have any homework to do AND you get EXTRA sleeping time in school... Sleeping in SCHOOL. Who wouldn't LOVE exams?lolz. Just kidding...

As the time ticks away,
Following my pen sway,
Papers filled with ink,
Some, highlighted pink.

Crosses and hatches,
Blanks and cranks,
Trying to make sense,
When everything's tensed.

Look Right, Look Left,
Up on the ceiling, Down on the ground,
Trying to find,
An answer around...

What happened yesterday
When every answer was found
Didn't I read it?
Or took a sleeping treat.

A pat on my back tells me,
"Time's up baby,"
As I look down,
And made a deep frown.

Examinations, tests and
"Oh what a mess."

Just a little fun fizzling with words. Comments would be cool.

Bad Mood Solution

Problem: What do you do when you feel like doing nothing but you have tons to do and nothing beside you is going in the right way?

Hipotesis: You will feel still as bad as you felt or maybe even worst because you wasted some time on doing things that you not supposed to be doing and finds out that what you SHOULD be doing is NOT done.

Method:
1) Grumble
2) Scold some bad words
3) Calm down
4) Relax
5) Go on with what you have to do

Procedure:
1) I Grumbled
2) I scolded some bad words
3) I calmed down
4) I relaxed
5) I went on with what you have to do

Results: I still don't feel like doing it, in fact, I'm NOT doing it.

Conclusion: Hipotesis proved. When you're in a bad mood, you're in a BAD mood.

*Mom comes in with a bar of chocolate.*
*After eating chocolate.*

Hehe, solution to bad mood = A BIG BAR of chocolate.

-- Method Credits to Blu3z the Bumblebee

A little time out.

Have a break, have a kit kat. I love Holidays, it's when you really get to NOT do anything stressful, and forgive yourself for NOT doing your regular duties. Just laugh it out and say : "C'mon, it's A HOLIDAY!"

Well, this is the SECOND time I'm blogging today. I tried to blog this afternoon but the electricity had to go "Poof" and my LOVELY long post was gone. I hadn't blog on Saturday and Sunday, but an awful lot had gone on, so this is a little flashback on the two days:

Saturday
Morning: I don't really remember... But if I'm not wrong, I didn't really do anything on Saturday Morning.
Noon: I had a piano student at 1:15pm.
Afternoon: Went home straight after the piano lesson I gave (About 2:00pm)...
Evening: Had Choir masterclass with Sulaiman. He wasn't such a great guy after all... compared to Peter Broadbent. But he's got a few very interestings points and a funny character indeed. But the thought of having Piano Masterclasses with him at the same night freaked me out, coz I really can't stand the lovely scent he brought along. Perfume. I hate perfumes. Don't come spraying everywhere, or I'll kill you with one stab.
Night: Piano masterclass with Sulaiman, it turned out to be quite fun. Here are some quotes:

1) Sulaiman: "Oh, lovely! I loved that, what did you play?"
Yi Fen: "Er... A wrong note?"
2) Sulaiman (earlier that day): "Shostakovich is a nasty old fellow!"
Sulaiman (later on that day): "Shostakovich is a genius"
Conclusion : "Nasty old fellow + Genius = Shostakovich"

Overall feeling of Saturday: Ups and down. But it was fine.

Sunday
Morning: Woke up REALLY early to head out to Subang for my piano lesson with Mr. Loo, honestly speaking, I didn't practice enough to actually even do "oo-kay" during my lesson. So I'm gonna work extra harder to make it up for the next lesson. I went straight from lesson to choir and reached there about 10:30am. It was supposed to start at 10:00am... but not surprisingly, everyone was still chit-chatting about and not doing warm-ups. Well, wonder what my co-director a.k.a. the president, was doing?

Anyway, we had choir practice. NO FULL ATTENDANCE. How nice. This means MORE WORK to be done DOUBLE. Hohoho. And guess what, at 12:00pm straight, just after a while of practice, Jason had to go off because he had a guitar student. Now, did anyone even bothered to tell me anything? Nevermind. So I concluded an end for the morning session and let everyone go for lunch.

Noon: Choir started, we ran through the WHOLE musical, surprisingly, it was rather smoothe. I can't wait for the concert now... hopefully we can get a full house on that day. Selling tickets is really hard. Which reminds me that I should give myself a clap for selling off two 50 dollar tickets.

Afternoon: Went to get some birthday presents for three of the choir memebers. Got Wa Chaw a really nice blue swing bag, a pikachu (soft toy) for SinYue, and a pair of fluffy cow slippers for Yi Fen before returning home to snooze on my bed.

Evening: The choir people called us (Angie, my sis and me). They woke me up and we headed over to the BBQ party (Birthday bash for the three person). WOW... was there a lot of people or LOADS of people. But it's nice to arrive late. Why? Hehe, you get to eat straight away (Those people BBQed). Uncle (SinYue's dad) was pretty hyper that night, lolz, he gave everyone (including kids) beer and said it was the only drink available that night.

Night: We all RULED SinYue's + the brother's room, playing loud music along with PS and some poker shots. Went home about 10:30pm with Yi Fen and Yi Wen (Their dad fetched). Mom and dad went to work with Uncle Lim... lolz, those guys are sure having fun. So, watched a lil' TV before I sat in front of the pc and chatted with some people : Simon, Pui Mun and Mun Fong. Went to sleep at 2:00am... not too late eh.

TODAY
FINALLY!!!

Morning: Guess what time I woke up? 11:30am. lolz. Good for a start. Had lunch for breakfast and breakfast for lunch.
Noon: Practiced Piano. Learned something new: Beethoven's Sonata. And found out that Beethoven ain't so bad after all, in fact it was pretty nice playing it. Learned the WHOLE Sonata today, pretty proud of that accomplishment. hehehe.
Afternoon: Went out to Simshen, supposedly to get ku-ku's song done, but hey, I forgot to get new empty cassettes. So had to go back home. Went out again around 4:30pm to Fajar, restocked my stationary and got the cassette before I headed out to Simshen once again. I was supposed to replace Carmen's piano classes, hehe, guess what? I taught SinYue's big younger brother and her younger sister, which was kinda fun I guess. Class finished around 6:00pm. Then I finished recording the stuff for ku-ku around 6:30pm. HoHoHo... was about to go home when it had to rain. Hah. Mom then made kinda what I call a request... something that i am in no place to refuse to do -- Be the accompanist for all grade 4 and 5 violin students who were going to take their exams in the coming June, including William Loo (My piano student whom sometimes could be an angel, and sometimes a demon). Sigh. Yea. And I had to sight read immediately on the piano, accompanying two students -- In Nuen (grade 4) and Shao Jin (grade 5). Was at first frustrated coz I might would have to walk home in the rain, but Shao Jin offered the ride. Learned something : Kinda cool to have a elder brother who has licenced. Yea, I KNOW, I'm elidgible to drive... but my mom just WON'T give into the "AFTER-SPM" thing. GAH.

Night: Nothing much, am blogging now. Mom asking me to go to bed already, k. Good night.