Everyone was all geared up for this day to come..28th of april..it was the first the time YJ guitar ensemble stepped into the grounds of the SYF concert hall. It was a historic moment for us! Ladies and gentlemen! presenting to you..the pioneers of the YJ guitar ensemble!
Hai..In fact I had mixed feelings when the day came. although I felt excited..I could wait for it to come as I wanted to show everyone badly how much we've progressed..I wanted to do my best so that we can get a gold! hey..Im serious...im not joking ok..I really felt tt way..for the first time I was so proud of my CCA! hahaha.. But on the other hand..I know that after this SYF is over..we would never get to see each other as often anymore..it's like after the performance was over..it's over for us as well..we won't be able to let Mr A teach us guitar..we won't get to hear his jokes..we won't play together as often..
Anyway..
Yes! and we ended lessons at 9..we immediately head for the dance studio.. where we were going to have our last practices before we go on stage. lol..then Eugene and Me had a new hairdo done by Ms Tan! haha..she started to style my hair..hmm..dunno how to describe..haha. Then Eugene's hair was too messy..Ms tan wanted to do something about it.. Lol..and it turned out nice wor! haha..Eugene shld comb his hair everyday..at least style abit..then he look very diff le! haha..
then we practiced for a while..and waited for the bus to arrive. When the bus arrvied..we're told to bring our guitars to the bus as soon as possible to prevent our guitars from getting a 'chill' haha..so me and harris ran to the bus like kids..haha..then we realised we're the only ones there..the rest were still behind.. -.-
During the bus journey..we're all very quiet.. haha..minimal noise.. maybe we're trying to conserve our energy..or maybe..we're even too nervous to talk?!?! but I was feeling nervous..obviously..I tried to sleep.. but i couldn't..eyes were closed..but my mind was full of thoughts..
Mr A was there..earlier than anyone of us.. he was so excited..he shook hands with some of us.. and he kept smiling. u can see that he can't seem to wait to see us perform..wahaha..while waiting Mr A made us play lady Di as a warm up.. then suddenly the hall was quiet..everyone looked up to see who was playing..lol..but we're stopped halfway..hehe..we're not suppose to play while waiting in the first place. =P was it a tactic to make the rest of the ensembles hear our piece and get pressured? lol..Im thinking too much.
And we made sure we didn't make any mistakes..made sure the strings don't break..made sure everything is tuned.. made sure our hands were all warmed up by rubbing some hand warmers. Qi Ren was going around and mouthed the words.. "GOLD!" Harris was nervous..lol..Samuel looked cool.. Paul was 100% stage-fright free.. Lol..
and there we go..
off we went..
behind was the voice of Mr A's last words, before we step on stage.. "good luck!"
hmmm..but we had expected more out of our first piece..lady Di..we tot we didn't play it well..but farruca was well done..we really played it contrastingly..haha..I guess i've never pluck my strings so hard before..
We're the first to perform..A good thing is that no school gets to listen to us..the bad thing is taht we had to wait for the entire performances to finish before the results could come out. So we sat there..listened..and listened..till some of us fell asleep. Then after the guitar perormances were done..just when we tot it was over..then came the harp-ensembles! argh!! But it was a real surprise..I've never seen a harp ensemble before..and it's pretty interesting.
Yes..and after the harp performance... it's time for the results!! and the bad thing about being first to perform is that your school name gets to be announce first.... I will never forget that moment..I will never forget the voice which sounded the entire hall.. "Yishun Junior College.." ......
"Silver"
Our expression was pretty listless.. my expression was mixed..coz we didn't get gold..but we didn't get bronze.. we're in the middle. But however we still managed to give some extra energy to clap for ourselves.. Then as the rest of schools' results were anounnced..we heard cheers from schools that got gold..they were literally jumping for joy. But their celebration has in a way hurt us even further inside. *Ouch* we didn't get gold! Then we walked out of the hall back to the waiting area.. and the bus was late..so we had to withstand even more cheers from the schools.. indeed..winning is a very sweet thing.. but the gold was not meant for us to be this year..
As we waited..I looked acrossed the waiting area.. I see them cheering..making a hell of a noise that could make the entire hall collapse..they were taking pics..but we didn't have the mood.. I brought my camera stand for nothing. Then I glanced and saw Mr A. He slowly walked down from the stairs.. and he spotted us.. he stopped.. glanced..then he was greeted my another conductor.. he chatted for a while and he pointed in our direction..then he said something. I guess he was dissapointed also.. we had put so much effort together with him. In a way..I felt that we had let Mr A down by attaining a silver.. that moment I nearly cried.. my eyes were a little watery.. =P Samuel was sianz 1/2.. lol..Marrisa's expression told me everything that she was upset.. then she told me she made mistakes during the performance. I tot she could breakdown any minute.. better comfort her.. lol..
But kinda think of it.. It was our first time..and yet we could get a silver..it's was laudable too. we manage to pull through multiple obstacles..We started as an enemble less than a year ago.. Mr A had less than 8 months to prepare us.. We had 4 months more to get our pieces done before SYF..got our niborii's less than 2 months awy from SYF. And now 8 mins had determined our fate.. It took us 1 sec to respond to the results when it was announce.. and yet the impact took us so long to accept.. Yes it was dissapointing..but I can really say..WE'VE DONE OUR BEST!
After that..we boarded the bus back to school..some of us took out our guitars to play our 'last note'..Eugene was devastated..He flopped a note during his solo..but we didn't blame him at all.. It was immense pressure for him tt time to pull off the solo well. We got back to school..placed our guitars and we left for causeway point to Seoul garden's to have DINNER! wahaha.. then suddenly everything turned out back to normal..we're joking.. we're having fun..fooling around..
Who cares if we got silver.. We've alraedy done enough to let the rest of the world know wat we were made of. At least we manage to pull off a good fight. I guess the best thing to have was not to get a gold..but I've got to know 20 great ppl.. whom had been through this amazing journey with me.. I was blessed to get have Mr A. to teach me guitar and many other things. The ensemble was blessed to have Ms Tan and Ms chua as our I\Cs and tremendous school support. It's ok if a silver was meant for us to be...I guess I wouldn't have won much more.. Thank you guys!! you've beautified my life..
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