Speech Day 2010

16 April 2010

Things that happened are slowly slipping off my mind right now. Okay, before everything slips off and I don't even remember performing during Speech Day, I shall start my entry.

Was telling everybody that I was stressed. 'Cause I'm really afraid I'd screw up everything by saying the wrong lines or something. Hmm, then after having lunch we went to change and get makeup on. And I looked old. (Happy <--)

Erm, after that we went to get mic-ed up (that's what they say, which means to get the mike thingy on which I forgot the name). I mean the microphone was the coolest man. It's not like you get it stuck on your face all the time so yea. And on the way to get the mike I saw Mr Leong (P.E. teacher) and asked, "Hi Mr Leong, do you know who I am?" *smiles* Then he said, "You're Zi Lei."

I asked him because he always doesn't spot me during P.E. lesson even though I'm like the H.A. which stands for health ambassador who is also known as the P.E. rep. *breathes* He'll usually go, "Uh, where's my P.E. rep/HA?" Then I'll start waving my hands like mad before he spots me.

After getting the mike, we went back to Blackbox because there was nothing for us to do at the hall until quite late. Heh so I went around taking pictures of people and camwhoring with Meiyu. Y'know I seldom camwhore so... it's rare?! (It's 10.50pm on a Friday night and I think I'm going to play chess with 周公 already, hence the lameness. Ooops.)

A bit disgusting to see a Grandma doing this.

Let's just fast-forward all these teeny-weeny details to the performance, shall we? (Anyway you don't have a choice. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA.)

My legs were like "~~~~~~~~~" while doing the knitting on stage. I mean it's not my first time on stage but it's like the first time I've acted as a Grandma. Anyway, I almost screwed up about the Wa Zu girls part, or rather, I screwed it up but Sakinah, Praveena and Vinesha managed to save it. I totally forgot the sequence of everybody's lines and started saying my lines at the wrong moments. I was like damn sorry. :( And after that er, nothing much la. Oh, really thank Sakinah for helping me wipe my make-up off and removing my grandma costume outside my hiphop costume. But for some reason I think she didn't wipe it clean so I have a feeling that I still looked like a grandma during the hiphop dance. (I haven't seen any pictures of me dancing hiphop so I don't really know how I looked like then.)

Had some de-brief session after the whole thing and went to have LJS with some ATCians. Didn't really got to interact with the other seniors except for Darrick cos all of us were sitting in different tables. :(

I Y ATC.

Now you see it, now you don't

Was listening to some chinese songs on my way home and felt this gush of emotions rushing up to me when I heard the piano prelude of a song which sounded rather emo. Not really sure why but it just happens once in a while.

Anyway, my point is, I've always wanted to learn to play the piano. Since, a long time ago. I decided that I will learn to play it one day when I was around P3 I think. 'Cos I was in chinese orchestra, and the choir would perform with the teacher playing the piano during events. It just sounds so nice y'know.

My only music background was playing erhu and gaohu in chinese orchestra and also singing with my sis. So I've always envied people who could play the piano really well. And I especially hate it when people have a chance to learn to play the piano but don't like it because thereIamwantingtolearnbutdon'thaveachancetobecauseitcostsmoneyandmymumdoesn'tcareaboutpianos.

My mum used to think being able to play tunes (not chords for goodness sake) on my sis's donkey-year-old organ (those really small ones that you can change the sound of the keys, has about 20+ keys and without the ability to press than 2 keys at one time) is called 'playing the piano', which obviously isn't true.

I really admire Mr Chin (Ah Swee) for taking up piano at his age. My goal when I grow up was and is to learn to play the piano using my own money.

And then I'm not gonna care if I'm like the oldest person in the piano class.