30-Hour Famine 2008 Phase III

So where did I stopped for Phase II~? Oh ya! So.. I went to practice choir with Elaine and Shuling! However, Shuling was rather busy with her sickbay (since she is a first-aider), I practiced with Elaine first by the corridors. I actually wanted to find the correct key for the first song we were suppose to perform that night, “Siyahamba”, an African song which means “We are marching in the light of God”. As I was trying, I messed up a couple of other keys. In the midst of helping me to search my key, Elaine got confused with her own keys as well (although she found it back after that XD). After that, Shu Ling was free to practice with us, so we went to practice with her in the Sick Bay~, where I met a new friend~ Wai Ken. OR something. Lolx. As we were practicing, Shu Ling lost her key as well. Luckily, she is Soprano, same as Elaine, so Elaine can help her! Hahaha =P So in the end, we decided to just practice the second song, “Seasons of Love”, which was much better~ ^^ After a couple of practices, we decided to rest abit while waiting for Huafu and gang to arrive. Meanwhile, we were just acting plain crazy in the sickbay XD

We posed with the scarf that she brought along to give her warmth~ hahah~ Honestly, the picture of me above, is one of my favourite picture of myself =P I actually look kinda cool… right? ^^ Do leave a comment regarding this ^^

Anyway, after about 10 minutes of waiting, Huafu and gang arrived, and we practiced and practiced until it was around 30 more minutes before our performance. We went back to the lower foyer and rest up abit. We even had a last round of practice at the Conference Hall for both songs to confirm all the keys and make sure we are all fine! And then we can rest until the time of performance came. Without my spectacles, I can’t really see faces of people far away~ so I saw this guy with the silhouette of Marcus at one of the far back seats of the Conference Hall showing me a thumbs-up. I went up and realized it IS Marcus and we had a little chat~ ^^ Thanks for your praise~ He kinda say our choir was cool and we woke him up with our singing. Hahaha~ =P And I spent the time till the performance chatting and camwhoring with him~ And this is the picture which I am the most satisfied with! ^^

Alrite! Before I head towards how did our choir do, lemme tell you a little bit of how the agenda was like. I missed the first part of the Concert so i didn’t know what happened, but I did watch a few performances such as the Belly Dancers, Manhand ( I think, that’s what it’s called) and also the artist Luo Yise, the original singer of the Chinese part of the song “Tomorrow’! =P Below are a few pictures of the performances I have mentioned! =D In case if u guys are wondering what the hiragana words on the Manhand picture meant, it means “something like that”…

My performance! From left to right, Bass: LengKeat, HuaFu, Tenor: Me, Marcus, Soprano: Elaine, Shu Ling, Alto: Renjeeta, Puveshin. Well, This was taken during the Siyahamba song, which is a slow song~ Slow, Sentimental and … slow. Well, that’s why we are standing so decently. We were moving quite…. alot during the second song, but I don’t have a picture of it, so~ hahaha =P My stomach was so empty it was totally filled with Butterflies! I was so freaking nervous before the performance ohkay! It was like ‘OMG OMG OMG’, I only sang once on stage before during my highschool time… this is worse than dancing I tell you. Once I got on stage, I was singing “Si-ya-haaaaam” and while we were dragging the key, I was like “OMG WAT’s THE NEXT WORD???” den luckily I remembered it last minute.. and as we have sung half of the song, i calmed down and I was basically looking around at the audience while I was performing! Everything was fine, as I was beginning to enjoy the performance ^^ Especially during Seasons of Love, cuz I was really like, you know, singing for the fun of singing. It was a good experience. It was my first time with a choir, so.. hahaha, I really enjoyed it! ^^

So we earned quite some applause and also people screaming “Encore” but, im sorry T.T We can’t encore cuz we got nothing else to sing.. hahaha! =P Thanks to all of your support!!! =P But after that, we were like high five and high ten-ing each other. It was a performance well done! ^^ So happy lah~~~ =P After that, I went to play Big 2 (Chor Dai Di) with Edward, Mei Hwei, Irene and Yuen (take turns laaa =P) and when I came out of the Conference Hall again, Luo Yise was on the stage and she sang some songs. Yee Ling then decided to make a Birthday Gimmick for all those born in the month of August! (Since it was August during the event =P). Thus, she set up a Box and say she wanna play a game with the people. She prepares a box which contains all papers with the name of the months written on it, and she will have Yise to randomly draw out one. (Actually, all the papers in the box are August XD), I gave Yee Ling the idea of the Gimmick actually. Haha, so we had everybody present there to sing Happy Birthday song for us! Well, in case you have forgotten, I am an August-Baby, too. =P The concert then ended~.

The committees and Group leaders and Volunteers had a meeting and discuss about some things before we were dismissed to freely roam around (except for interrupting the sleepers) or sleep. I actually decided not to sleep, cuz I scared I cannot wake up in time as I was really exhausted due to the running around during the day! So I borrowed the cards from Irene and play Big 2 with Alex, Zhen Ning and Sam/Irene/MeiHwei, etc. I don’t even remember who played with me. LOLX =P

Me on the left, Sam on the right, Alex in the bright yellow, and Zhen Ning right beside me~ =P

At around 12am, I cannot take it anymore. I went to my sleeping bag, had a little conversation with Eu Veng (which Marcus eavedropped in his sleep, damn cool kan?) and then doze off. I preset my alarm to ring at 5.45am, and at 6am. I woke up at 5.45am, den nap till 6am, den lie there from 6am till 7am, which I think i did fall asleep and got back awake in intervals, because Marcus say I snored. And Sam say Marcus snored. Oh WELL! =P Oh, lemme explain, Marcus was sleeping on my left, and Sam on his left. Evo was sleeping towards my back, while Gorgan was sleeping on his right, and Alex on Gorgan’s right. ZhenNing was sleeping facing Sam. We were all sleeing ON THE STAGE. XD

This is all about Phase III~ =P Enjoy the post while I prepare for Phase IV. =P