CHSCO Mission Accomplished

This year..I can finally be at peace, because CHSCO has finally clinched

GOLD WITH HONOURS!

so I may now retire from my Assistant Section Leader (ASL) posts in peace, of course after choosing the next SL to take over the group. This year's SYF result was really by God's Grace which showered on CHSCO, otherwise we wouldn't even stand a chance against other superb chinese orchestras from Hwa Chong and Evergreen.

but before I go into the details...it's first of all time to announce the answer to the previous challenge. Here is the answer for the previous challenge (please increase your speaker volume):

This is Home - switchfoot

well, not really a well known song isn't it? that was the piano rift for switchfoot's this is home. Now for the next challenge(please boost your bass at 80hz):

SONG REC TEST8.mp3 -

I'll give you a clue, it is by the same band as the previous song.

As usual:

1. Listen
2. Guess the Song name and Artist
3. Find out the answer on my next Posts

okay...basically here is an account on what happened after we perform after SYF:

As we walked out of the Conference Hall, we got increasingly worried for our Gold with Honours award. We had messed up the ending part of our set piece, 蝉歌。 Our only hope was left on our choice piece, 梦蝶, which could have been better if I had followed the conductor’s hand closely。

Our goal this year was to clinched the Gold with Honours award, to prove that we, Musicians of Catholic High Secondary Chinese Orchestra (CHSCO), is worthy of the Gold with Honours award, and that our previous Gold with Honours award was not by chance, but by our hard work and determination.

We all walked out of the hall and we were greeted by 龙老师‘s teary eyes. She told us that whatever the results may be, so long as we have done our best, she will be satisfied. As usual, we made our way down to the lobby with our instruments, putting them back into our bags and cases and divided them to heavy instruments which were to be placed in the lorry, and light instruments which will be carried on the bus. After putting my instrument in the loading bay, I hurried back indoors hoping that I have not missed out any chance of entering the conference hall. To my dismay, I learned that we had no access to the conference hall until every school have finished performing.

We waited impatiently outside the concert hall, eagerly waiting for the ushers to grant us access to the concert hall. Some of us went to the toilet in hope that they would hear “Catholic High School Chinese Orchestra Gold with Honours!!” through the PA system and rejoice in the toilet like how it was done during our last SYF.

I strolled down the stairs to the vending machine and bought myself a drink hoping that it would allow me to cool down, but it did not. My mind raced rapidly, thinking of how I should face my seniors when I have failed to mould my juniors into CHSCO members of Gold with Honours standard, thinking about a speech I have to make after the SYF to spur my juniors on, thinking of how my efforts of waking up early in the morning for morning practice would have just gone down the drain if we had not clinched the Gold with Honours award for our SYF.

I dragged myself back to the entrance of the conference hall, this time, I saw that our orchestra was lined up, looking ready to barge into the conference hall.

“This shouldn’t take too long” I mumbled to myself.

I slipped my way through the crowd and joined the queue, beside my CCA mate Guo Chang. We were acting childish, playing ‘scissors, paper, stone’ when he asked everyone to join in for a game of “Heart Attack”, while waiting for the other schools to enter the conference hall.

Soon, it was our turn to take another step into the concert hall, this time not on stage, but to the seats all the way at the back where I had a great view of every seat on stage. At this juncture, I had finally understood what my conductor mean when he said that even a movement of an eyeball can be seen offstage by the audience. Indeed, even a person who sits right at the back of the hall will be able to spot this if he or she is sharp.

The air in the hall was rather arid as first, all the schools that had performed on that day (22 April 2009), were eagerly waiting for the results, expecting it to be released soon. This year, things were different; the judges could have had a hard time deciding who to give the awards for they took what seemed like forever to make the final judgement.

While waiting, some students had their hand phones out, frantically pressing the number pats, some who decided to be silly, started clapping their hands, attempting to trick others to clap. However, had failed and was even jeered by most of the students in the hall.

I decided to ignore the silly jokes, took out my earphones, and listened to music while taking a short nap. Somehow, the tense environment slowly disappeared when I lay there.

Finally, the door opened, and five gentlemen (I reckoned) walked through the grey doors as everyone appalled to welcome them, they were the panel of judges of this year’s SYF. The MC later walked in and introduced them individually, of which one of them was the composer of蝉歌; another was a conductor from CCAB I think.

Now, the moment the CHSCO, No. 55 of the SYF competition, have been longing for this past 2 years has arrived, The Results. The MC started reading the results starting from Chinese Orchestra No. 49. When the MC announced that Evergreen Chinese Orchestra had the Gold with Honours award, Evergreen screamed loudly, till my ear drums almost burst. At this instant, most of us were getting anxious. Now that 1 Gold with Honours award has been taken away by Evergreen, will we be able to clinch the Gold with Honours award? Will be get Gold instead since Hwa Chong was bound to get Gold with Honours?

Then, it was No.55, Catholic High School. The air-condition suddenly felt colder, as all of us gripped on to our seats as we watched the MC bring her microphone up and opened her mouth.

“No.55 公教中学, Catholic High School,” she paused, “荣誉。。” and the rest was lost in our cheering, our entire Chinese Orchestra jumped out of their seats and punched the air. It was as if it was a miracle, as if all of this was probably just a dream while I am still sleeping in the conference hall, but the pinch on my hand was enough to prove that this was reality. We had accomplished our mission; we have retained the Gold with Honours.

After all the results had been released, we started singing our school song and cheering as we marched out of the conference hall, like soldiers back from a victory war. We shouted and yelled until some of us lost our voices. Some were just too exhausted to cheer as they had used up all their energy during the announcement of the result.

This year’s bus ride back to school was probably the quietest as compared to the previous SYF where we were so noisy that the bus driver reprimanded us. Guess we were all tired after 2 years of energy-draining and stressful days in our practices, and deserve some rest.

From here, I have finally seen how my hard work as a ASL in my tan bo group have paid off, though it was mainly the effort of my juniors and peers which has allows our Chinese Orchestra to once again attain the Gold with Honours.

As I retire as an ASL in CHSCO, I pray that CHSCO will continue to strive on to retain the Gold with Honours standard our seniors and peers have set, and that they will learn to accept any result they get during the SYF Central Judging, be it good or bad. May the Love Of God shine through every member of CHSCO

Term2 post

Hi guys, long time not blog...again O'level are drawing nearer as I type or as you read..Yes, and here is the Answer to my previous challenge: Rihanna - Unfaithful - Rihanna

did you manage to guess it?? I suppose most us did, but it's okay if you did not get it. you'll get your chance now, for your next challenge would be this:

Song Rec Test 6.mp3 -

now, this is a challenge, isn't it? Well, i guess those who have watched Chronicles of Nania or had its soundtrack should know this.

As usual:

1. Listen
2. Guess the Song name and Artist
3. Find out the answer on my next Posts

Good luck!

okay...SYF is drawing near..and I just received news that we're going to have a attire spot check on Monday. CO members, Refer to http://chsco.blogspot.com/...and dun worry if you have not gotten everything..we'll be giving them to you on monday..

so what you would need woul be:

BLAZER (To be given out for those who have yet to receive)

PANTS (To be given out for those who have yet to receive)

Long-sleeve collar white shirt

Black leather shoes and black socks.

so yea..that's about it for CO buzz....

sigh..this term..is a very messed up term...somehow I fell very dreamy everyday in school.. maybe I'm juz tired, maybe I couldn't be bothered about studies, maybe I was just thinking about my CCA.

sigh..it's hard to manage time with studies and other activites..I should not be stop playing now and I must start mugging, but why am I not doing so?

becuz of addiction?

becuz of my laziness?

The chinese o' levels are less than a month away and I'm still not doing anything to improve my chinese!! AGRH!!START Mugging!!

sigh...if only I knew what is going on..I feel so lost now..so distracted...and so oblivious to the things around me. like I dun even know what is going on right now, how's my progress, what should I do, where do i go from now...

so dead tired..sigh, Even now, I wonder if I have not completed any homework, what are the homework I have to complete, if there are any projects or events to handle....I"M GOING CRAZY!!!

sigh..I can't even talk about joining the worship team in church this year...if i can't even handle my workload from school...how am I to concentrate on the worship ministry, and serve God wholeheartly.

Now i can't even make sense of what i am typing in this blog post as every problem just flows through my brain and out to my hands, randomly and unorganised.i feel lost now as i can't tidy up what's on my mind, and place it on a shelf like a library, it feels like it each time I try to put things back in place, something or someone would mess it up again.

Maybe, I'm just too worried for the future, a saying from Kongfu Panda once stated"Yesterday is History, Tommorow is a mystery, but Today is a gift" that's why today is also known as the present...lol. We may not know what the future holds, but at least we know that today is the day that the Lord has made..

Like what my friend said, take the o'levels as a challenge, and the assignments as a training platform to face up to this challenge. In my analogy, I guess "taking o'levels as a marathon run, and every homework dumped to me as bananas given to us during the run" is the only enouragement that's sutains me till today in my Sec4 life..hopefully it may be able to do so.

but i would definately need more encouragement to keep going..recently my school had request a company called 'Super Achievers' to conduct a workshop for us students who did not score too well for our Prelim 1.

So now I'm just unsure of wether I should attend this course as my results were quite lousy and the principle strongly encouraged ppl like me to go to the workshop and will call my parents soon to see if i am going.

So to readers out there who had been to this worksop b4, can you share with me how effective this workshop is so that I may be able to decide wether I should go or not?

thanks..will blog again soon, when I have "sober up".