Friday, May 12, 2006
Let's start with the day: no lessons! No sitting in boring lectures and tutorials, no facing of those bleaghs. Just warm-ups and rehearsals.
Plenty of breaks, so it wasn't tiring. Photo-taking!
Jo, Holly and I in our "we-are-oh-so-cool" shot.
Channelling S.H.E. in our "we-are-super-cutesy" shot.
The altos, with a very narcissistic me in the front. =p
After lunch, we headed down to VCH. This place brings back good memories, like AHS choir days, last year's concert...
"Yes, everything's as if we never said goodbye."
I was singing this as we walked into the hall, and a junior said that I have a mellow voice that is very nice. Yay, thanks! =)
Breaktime.
Not long after, it's time to get dressed. Yep, time to get into our Chinese Restaurant waitress uniforms. That's what the dress looks like. But standing together on stage, we look quite nice actually. Better than the plain silver-grey dress of AHS.
My nu-er, Priscilla, and me the geisha. Damn, I wasn't so fair in person, only in the photos. I look so ghostly!
Holly and me!
Yeah, the concert itself was great. Sure there were some pretty bad screw-ups, like we got too excited/nervous/anxious and we rushed. Some parts were quite off-key. I screwed up major in my emcee-ing, because I was so damn nervous. My mother a.k.a. my harshest critic told me that I spoke too fast and too aggressively. My first time as an emcee, what do you expect? My mother was so mean lah, she asked me, "Aiyoh, why they choose you as emcee?". *Sob!*
Anyway, I mainly screwed up when I went up alone. When talking with fellow emcee Justin Hui, I'm a lot less nervous. Anyway he did way better than me. My mother said that he sounded a lot more sincere.
Justin and me, post-concert.
I think the musical was good, though the audience laughed at inappropriate times. But now come to think about it, the revelation that the butler, who writes hundreds of fan mail a day to his fallen film-star employer, is really her first husband, is well... hard to believe, I guess.
I love the dancing part. My sister told me that when all of us first went on stage for the second half, the guy behind her said, "Wah, Michelle damn sexy sia!" I'm so flattered, thank you, whoever you are. And own up if you read this!
Anyway, I was saying that I love the dancing part. Keng Foo told me that I was dancing so erm... energetically, he feared that my top would fall off. A few seniors also said the same thing. Hmm... thanks for all your concern, but my top was pretty safe, so no worries! Only thing was the strapless bra, kept slipping off... Hmm... too much detail.
(At this point, I want to thank all my friends for coming for the concert. You guys are the greatest. Muack.)
Post-concert, a big group of us went to Lau Pa Sat for supper. Such a long way to walk, and I was perspiring in my stockings, and I couldn't change out of my stockings, 'cos I'd then get blisters. Ate a bit of this and that at Lau Pa Sat; I drank some vodka again, only this version tastes more like Sprite, for some reason. Then we caught the last train home.
So this was 10th May 2006. May not sound like much to you, but it was a beautiful night to me, and more. And it was a night I'll never want to forget.
♥ The lights faded at 11:47 pm
