Today there was an amazing sight on the roads leading out of RGS. The Raffles Strings Ensemble marched out in the blazing hot Sun and clomped their way, black top and bottom with instruments and all, to the so-near-yet-oh-so-far Garden Hotel.
ARGH I NEEDA COMPLAIN!!!!!!! Today was SUCH A RUSHED DAY. Rushed to Olympic Days (this proved again how flawed the school system is. -.- what a lousy way to mark attendance!) and sat in a queue for 30 minutes. I AM A LEGEND COZ MY FIRST SHOT WAS A BULL’S EYE! Chan Keinin herself said so, then she even asked me whether I had training outside. -.- Obviously not right. Then she started announcing to the other Shooters around her how I WAS A LEGEND. And it is NOT beginner’s luck coz the next few shots were v v near the bull’s eye as well. Only my last shot was out-of-range…-.- coz I was rushing to finish my shots to go for Strings photo taking. Clarisse Teo on the other hand is LOUSY.
Rushed to go my class and rushed to change and clomped to the music block get ready instruments and all. Rushed to Foyer and realized we were early so stoned around for a while. Then teachers came and we went down to the HOT HOT HOT AMPHI. ): The Sun was concentrating all its efforts on us. Mind you, WE WERE ALL DRESSED IN BLACK. And since none of us died from heatstroke, rest assured that String Players aren’t all that weak! Dancers came as well to pose in the middle of the Black Sea. Solame was screaming out in pain from the Sun’s rays. (OKAY KIDDING)
Took a v v long time to take photo coz arrangement was really a big deal. Finally it was done and OH NO HERE COMES! Miss Khoo announced that we were to immediately report to Garden Hotel so we can have rehearsal with Dance there! WTH right our scheduled reh time was like 1100-1300. Then she made us GO TO GARDEN HOTEL and start rehearsing at 10 plus? It clashed with the Sec 3s IC Registration as well. And therefore she stared scolding us (not our fault lah…) and made the rest of the CCA WALK to Garden Hotel first while leaving us behind and warned us to make haste. So Sec 3s RUSHED upstairs grab EZlink card etc and rushed down again and got priority in the ic registration queue. IC registration was quite fun! My first time getting the thumbprint thingum!!! Okay whatever, then we got out and grabbed our cases and marched to Garden Hotel in freaking heels and IN BLACK. (miss khoo didn’t even let us change out!) Haha oh and halfway up the slope from the music block to the main gate, we saw Clarisse Teo’s SS teacher (mr b. chew I think). He was really stoned when he stared at us and kept staring coz obviously with our cases and in black we look somewhat suspicious. Then he waved at Clarisse and she chose that moment to TURN AROUND. Meaning she didn’t see the wave lol… How sad.
GARDEN HOTEL FELT SO FAR AWAY. Plus the stupid Sun UGH.
Rehearsal was =.= Thank God I am not a violinist/violist. Kay will not reveal the programme here so MAKE SURE YOU KIDS OUT THERE GO FOR ARTS FEST. Uh, oh yea rehearsed lorh. Stood throughout the damn thing and NO WATER. >:( so pisssssssssed man… The Dance teacher is so mean please.
Later clomped back to school again WOAH the GO person and Estate Dept ppl and Security Guard actually helped the bassists to carry the Double Bass back to school! (and to Garden Hotel as well, we found out in due time) Looked really cool. And just so happened that RGS finally released the bored-stiff students so we were met with curious stares on the way back to school. I was a bit pissed (many reasons) so just kept concentrating on RGS on the way back and didn’t bother about anything else much.
REACHED SCHOOL AT LAST and my god my stomach was totally on strike and didn’t allow me to do anything until I had food. (I hadn’t had anything from the previous night 6pm till this afternoon about 1pm) Ate lunch and stoned around and went home, had a headache and fell onto bed. Here I am now.
I am prepared for more rehearsals tmr as well. The only good thing is that we get to miss lame post-EOY activities. =.=
THEREFORE PLEASE GO FOR ARTS FEST SEE ALL THE EFFORT PUT IN. AND THIS IS ONLY STRINGS AND DANCE THINK ABOUT THE REST! ANGKLUNG INDIAN DANCE MALAY DANCE HANDBELLS GUITAR ETC.