Ripples and Sunshine

Very often I don't blog about major stuff, because somehow a brief entry wouldn't do it justice in any way...

Fancy words and elaborate descriptions aside, I just wanna say that I'm really really blessed to have such lovely people in my life. Thank you, my dear people, for everything. To every Reso-singer on the stage-- Equi, Voco, OOPs, RFYs, Ballad, Prock, Jazz... to each person backstage--logistics com, FOH, ticketing, in the lights room, at the sound board... to the camera man, videographer, SP crew... To precious friends who came to support and made the concert real proper concert...

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for being a part of this all. You are the people who put meaning into VOII and made it such a special collage of fond memories.

















It doesn't end ever, does it? The music just goes on in a loop, running the way life does... and each person that comes into your life becomes a new song added to your playlist, so that it grows and grows still, and yet the early tracks would never be forgotten, ever, because you loop back to revisit them again in moments like these =)

Gotta wait for enough pictures to be circulated and downloaded on my side for a proper VOii flashback, but that can wait-- the thank-yous cannot, so here they are, for you all, for making this happen, for teaching me, in so many different ways, not only to learn to sing and love singing, but to live and love living :)

*hops around doing weird swirly hand actions*

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Come for Resonance's concert come for Resonance's concert come for Resonance's concert come for Resonance's concert come for Resonance's concert come for Resonance's concert come for Resonance's concert come for Resonance's concert come for Resonance's concert come for Resonance's concert come for Resonance's concert

And there isn't a need to reason why you should--you come, you listen, and you'll know that you wouldn't want to have missed it for anything at all. I promise.

Now get the tickets from me already =D

High Bs aside, my dear girl, it would probably help if you don't lose your nerve and throw all your notes out of the window in the process, A B C D E Fs and what have you. What are you scared of?

*firmly* You have done it properly before, and you can do better than properly this time around. Sail through your notes and make them tingle with yearning wistfulness, let the feeling linger and sweep you away into the song, and quit feeling like a deer caught in headlights, because you got over that already, right?

That said, I haven't been home early for ages. *groans mumble grumble* Yet it's heartwarming to find a cup of slow-cooked herbal mix on your table when you arrive home exhausted... that a quick surge of warmth-- remembered and loved, regardless =)

More next time... no energy to churn out elaborate entries. Work and prac tmr~ Till the next time, sing well!

I can reach a B-C-D!

C and D for good days, like today(!) B on normal days, as of recently :) With a quick warm-up to that range I can hold it for eight bars and glide almost the complete chromatic scale, breath allowing.

So should I sing the B after all, for Summertime?

So many many many factors to consider...

I have a million and one things to say, but now's not the time... It's so aggravating not so have self-time nowadays, where the whole world spins in a freaking whirlwind of events that leave you breathless yet unable to pause, still.

More at a better time.

*laughs* I didn't know what results they had other than singing and acting, so this one was kinda a surprise... Though maybe it shouldn't be, huh? Writing comes side by side to singing in terms of all-time favourites, except that I get a stronger sense of how I form my writing than how I deal with music... yet there's nothing quite like revelling in a rich blend of lovely lovely music, the interweaving of many voices in a series of chords and movements, setting a scene, coaxing out a mood, sending your feet a-tapping in irresistable delight :) Although in stories there are worlds to explore, and selves to find, and lives to unravel... Whichever the art form, each one of them still wields their own unparallelled magic.

I love the combined songs!!! Come and hear Reso sing, every one of you, and reso-peeps, go sell your tickets and spread the joy! Seasons and Change are exhilarating pieces =) *blissful sigh* And it's interesting to be back singing as chorus again, haha... it's a different kinda touch that I haven't felt for a long time, mingled with the entrancing a cappella groove. Lovely ^^

I'm so glad!

I thought my other diary site is officially dead, but then I discovered that recently they took down the whole site, archived all the entries, and enabled a transfer to a new site with a better server.

Happy :)

Checked my archives, and discovered that it dated back to year 2000. That's almost seven years worth of typing can. Safe and sound and still existing =D So relieved!

Happy :)

Charm is kinda stressed up, having started work only but briefly but already feeling like crap on day one... Day three, which was a Monday, went all right actually, except that a migraine began to set in in the closing hours of work, and built up to an awful loud demanding war within her head, so that after her 13-hour day she shut herself in the bathroom and shuddered I need to stop, I need a break, I don't want to continue anymore anymore anymore and cried so furiously because she was so drained and because it hurt so much and because the following month looked like hell at that moment in time. Which is bad because this sudden lapse of control made her even more angry with herself, because she is not supposed to be so ill just because she had extended intensive hours, because she made her mum worry again, and because, wah lao, how can she even cry in the first place? So silly, so so silly...

Crying would be darn therapeutic when you're not having a runny nose, so that you had to sniff and blow your nose at every alternate breath you take. Gave up crying in less than five minutes because I was so peeved at having to blow my nose over and over. Very disruptive. Which made me even more pissed off because wah lao, I cannot even cry in peace. How to achieve catharsis like that? (But then I recovered from my week-long blocked-nosed syndrome the following day, so... oh well.)

I need to put a damper pedal on my energy expenditure and run on low-to-average cheerfulness so that I still have leftover bounce at the end of the day. It's sickening how quickly happy-energy drains into moping misery on a bad work day, especially when boss arrives in her Dark Haze of Negative Vibes and your morning greeting dies in your throat, and when she starts to label drafts with mistakes as f**king drawings and certain people as bloody idiots and asks me to check what the hell the person on the other end of the phone wants and roars at all her employees and slams doors and objects on her table then departs in a hurricane storm of rumbling anger (repeat cycle). At least, that was the reception I got on day one and two, which is why, with the perm staff having officially resigned after day 2, I spent day 3 and 4 perched on the edge of my chair waiting for my turn to be yelled at, springing up to deliver myself to the room door the moment she raises her voice in angry frustration.

But she is all right really, temper aside. And her job is stressful, so it's understandable... I guess.

I just need to adjust accordingly lar. And not flare up like a nervous wreck when my mum adopts the same tone of address that my boss uses and lash out in a sudden outburst of defensiveness to compensate for the usual lack thereof. And then feel bad. Crap, this is driving me nuts. I need to fix this odd fluctuation of emotions... it's just temp work, for goodness sake, Charm, and it's not like you've never worked before. Although things does seem to get better now with gradually more knowns and less unknowns each day, so I get a firmer sense of where and how to tread.

I need more energy for Reso pracs... I don't like turning up stoned and listless =( And I need more time to prac choreo and revise scores, too, and for admin stuff that now is partially pushed to an increasingly kan cheong Cheryl cos I'm not available to do stuff during office hours. AAHHHHH. Sorry girl, bad timing =S

Speaking of which, I was looking for angsty songs to load into my mp3 player (for catharsis on bad days, but then I realised that save for Bring Me To Life I have no angsty rock songs in my playlist), but the Bring Me To Life I uploaded turned out to be a recent OOP version. *grins* Takes a fair bit of effort to restrain myself from laughing on the train at Jeremy's very expressive "Wake me urrrp! Can't wake urrrp!" and the memory of Derek's.. erm... scuba-diving escapades. Hahahahahahhaa... We should really video-cam a random OOP prac, whether for reliving of fond memories in future, for laughing ourselves silly, or for blackmail =P

And ehhh, so many people haven't done the nice fun tag yet... I've got a tag pending for "5 most pleasuable things in life", but I'll do that at a more pleasurable time, lar...

Okay, Time's up. Till the next time, take good care and see you all! Update your blogs people, and leave notes, hor...

Instructions: Name 20 people you can think of at the top of your head.
Don't read the questions before you write, and tag 5 people to do the survey.

1) Angeline
2) Wenyi
3) Charlene
4) Amanda
5) Gill
6) Yishan
7) Siyi
8) Cheryl
9) Derek
10) Jeremy
11) Wai Lun
12) Gek Tiang
13) Jeslyn
14) Dyn
15) Eme
16) Maria
17) Sharon
18) Simon
19) 3za
20) Ginny

Questions:
1. How did you meet number 14?
Answer: NYJC Choir... Our super beloved pianist and the much less violent half of the alto SLs' pair :P But I think she's not quite as quiet as we all assumed her to be at first sight... *grin*

2. What would you do if you had never met Number 1?
Answer: Eh, that's scary... all the class-and-CO/choir moments way back in sec sch till now... whether as the fellow-seat-mate-who-also-writes-zuo-wen-super-slowly or the tap-tap-tapping of her CO songs during class or the fellow xiang qi player and so many many things... it's a lot to do without!! She's really unlike the outwardly fiery Wen or Char so she really balances out the dynamics between us four and makes it more... complete, somehow. Plus she's got this wicked sense of humour that perks things up at unexpected moments... so things'll be quite dry without her =S

3. What would you do if 20 and 9 dated?
Answer: Hahahahahahhaahaha... I would be very very amused =) This is uncanny... who was it who once said that in terms of blurness Derek's like the male counterpart of Ginny? But eh... this is an interesting suggestion... *grin*

4. Would 6 and 17 make a good couple?
Answer: No, because they're both female, and definitely straight =) And even if one of them's a guy I'll still say no, because they're kinda similar in character in some ways... *thoughtful* They are lovely friends, though =)

5. Describe no.3.
Answer: Lots of spunk. She's just this blazing ball of energy, vivacious, straightforward, plucky, dynamic, sensitive, thoughtful, full of ideas swimming in her head all the time, and very infectious =) Charm with Char is never quite the Charm everyone knows...

6. Do you think No.8 is attractive?
Answer: She's the only one attached out of us fellow OOPers... so that says something, doesn't it? ;) But yes lar, she's sweet and sensitive and thoughtful and full of quirks, and OOP functions the way we do cos she's around to nag us up and down like the mum that she is :P

7. Tell me something about No.7.
Answer: She's witty, and funny... shows in her writing =)

8. Do you know anything about no.12's family?
Answer: One mum and one dad and one younger brother... umm... her brother has a girlfriend... and she's pretty close to her mum I think, they're both good at corny jokes :P Oh and they stay in Hougang too!

9. What is no.8's favorite?
Answer: Pink! And earrings. And bullying Derek. Heeheehee...

10.What would you do if 11 confesses that he/she likes you?
Answer: Um, say thank you first. And then freak out (No no, it's not that he's not nice or anything lar, it's just an instinctive reaction...) And then ask why. But that's all hypothetical, cos I'm quite sure that the said person already has someone else in mind, riiiiight? :P

11. What language does 15 speak?
Answer: English and Chinese and Geog (no wait, geog is not a language... somehow I tend to associate Eme with geog, haha... is that a good thing?)

12. Who is 9 going out with?
Answer: Nobody presently... he declares himself happily single, whilst the other OOP guys are secretly jealous because he's always surrounded by many girls :P

13. How old is 16 now?
Answer: allllllmost 21 (someone's birthday is coming!)

14. When was the last time u talked to 13?
Answer: Ouch... super super long ago... our dear Miss President is still busy with her exams I think...

15. Who's 2's favorite singer?
Answer: Haha, Wenyi of all people... I really don't think she has any...

16. Would you date number 4?
Answer: Er, no, she's female, and we're straight, plus she's my best friend since sec one =)

17. Would you date 7?
Answer: Haha... no again...

18. Is 15 single?
Answer: I think so :)

19. What's 10's last name?
Answer: Quek

20. Would you ever consider being in a relationship with 19?
Answer: Er, only a non-romantic relationship. Friendship-wise 3za's a wonderful friend and super funky senior! =)

21. What schools does 3 go to?
Answer: SN, NYJC, SMU

22. Where does 6 live?
Answer: Sembawang, I think...

23. What's your favorite thing about number 5?
Answer: She's really comfortable to talk to... we can yak on and on about absolutely anything under the sun

Tag?
Maria, Eme, Gillian, Jeremy, Sharon :)

Hahaha... this was entertaining... Quick, pass your tags on...