Chee Hang's Life Story part 17

Oh wells this is one day overdue... i forgot to post it yesterday night, or rather last year haha. But still...

My Life Part 17.
31 dec 2003 was the day i typed out part 16. its now lost somewhere i guess. but that day i was wondering how 2004 would be and now 2004 is over. hmmm...
jan 2004. first day of school, in a new school. in a totally new environment where i have to adapt again. i was almost sure i wouldn't like it here in RJ, but i stil had to go to school... met some great people in my OG and jaxoras was a blast. alright except for dancing blindly during O nite but still... met some even better people in MEP... still rmb how we had such a big class hahaha. bigger than our senior batch, and we are such an enthusiastic bunch of people. How much effort we put into Lamour (more on this later). i wun forget how on one of those days when we have to arrange the library things, i reached there and everyone said it was done already. wow. and the first few people i met, and the people i'm paired wif for tutorials... hmm...
My class... i have to admit i didnt realli click wif them at first. i actually spent more time alone in the music room than wif them fooling around. but still, my class looked everything like a mugger class then. we had people who spent lunch breaks in the library and such... grr... but still... oh wells.
Chorale... i didnt know what made me go for auditions, and i still don't know. for one, i almost wanted to quit the moment i joined. it was just not for a guy in green shorts previously in nelson's choir. hmm... then i was determined to change for the better, and last out in the choir. but still... wells more on that later.
Piano Ensemble... it was in jan that we proposed for it. eventually turned out well but more on that later too.

Feb 2004. The highlight would have to be L'amour, the v-day concert by the j1 meppies. can still remember singing not in a choir for the first time, A Whole New World and All I Ask Of You, alongside audrey. and then accompanying shaun for Hot Canary. boy was he hot. Haha. then the Beyond the Sea and all those actions which i came out wif. Haha what a joke! And how we all spent that night at Pizza Hut and the 5 of us in chorale cabbed over to chorale chalet.
V-day. Argh had to spend V day at changi wif the chorale. would have preferred to be somewhere else but still.did manage to go out in the afternoon but turned out to be a sad v-day for me this time. :'(

March 2004. MEP: the duets thingee. had fun playing duets, not my first time though. but i found out that i had a plus point is that i can play wif almost anyone. thats good in more ways than one. im versatile!
the O levels results came out. I already started to hate school that i made an agreement: if i didnt get 6 points i won't stay in school any longer. gosh and how things turn out la. my 6A1s gave me 6 points exactly. grr... was sort of hoping i got a 7 then had the perfect excuse to drop out of shcool. but i had to stay. not my happiest decision though. not that the people there are not good. esp the meppies they are fantastic and wonderful. but im hating school already. oh wells that's march.

April 2004. Piano Ensemble started! and i was sort of dissapointed to see quite a passive group but still... i understand we are a new group. hoping that we wld last through the year (and we did!)
Council Elections. for me, there were 2 reasons i wanted to join council. one was becus of orientation. 2 was because if i got in it wld have been the purrfect excuse to quit chorale. oh how i remember LEAF... Leader Encourager Achiever Friend. the 4 of us, Xuanzhong, Wang Yue, Me and Candice (from oldest to youngest: 19, 18, 17, 16 hahaha). ahh i rmb the late nights we spent, the big banner we had, the colourful posters, the taxi rides, pizza hut again, shopping for materials, campaign speech... all those wonderful things. but the amount of effort i put into it didnt pay off. we didnt get voted in and i was very very disappointed.
Chorale. i told the teacher i/c that i wanted to leave. she asked me to last out until VE. oh boy. alright, then i decided i wld contribute something to the only production i wld hav wif the choir. i wanted to help design the poster. but in the end my designs were rejected. oh alright...
chamber playing was fun.
so was Erhu.

May 2004. VE. yupz got a flower that night haha. from lau wen jin. oh wells had an okay time that night and im going to remember it. but that was my last night in chorale.
440. piano ensemble concert. it was so well attended! gosh wad magic. and it went good. wait more than good. Haha. and the prepared piano was fun fun and more fun.

June 2004. MEP UK trip. quite a roller coaster trip for me. was the one time in the year i spent wif the people i liked most, and i learnt a lot. definitely. both academically, and non academically. it was also a week of reflections, to look carefully at my actions and think what happened, and what else could have happened, but was too late to. sheez. although the highlight of the year but it wasnt that a happy ending. still it was memorable. to quote my log book:
Some things that I remember most:
1) I can’t forget Florent Boffard, the pianist in the Wigmore Hall concert. His playing was so crisp and clean and yummy. Something that I aspire to…
2) The piano duo masterclass was so interesting… the two of them were literally jumping around and dancing to the music. Made the whole masterclass very lively and interesting. Now that’s what I call a perfect masterclass. J
3) Tate gallery visit… Looking at all those pictures really hit me hard. I’ve never been into any art exhibition before so this was a first. And I was pretty amazed by everything inside there. Had quite a few inspirations as well…
4) Wen Jin practising in the hotel room…
5) The Pathetique quartet practising outside the hotel in London and in my room in Birmingham…
6) And of course, Cadbury World.

CCAL camp. fun. learnt a lot, and found out im passive. oh wells. i was active. a lot has changed since i returned from UK. but had a blast spending all those time together wif all other CCALS. wad i remember most would be during the war game at night, how me and shaun were both too scared to come near each other to attack the candels, and stood like how far away trying to blow at them Haha.
Noteworthy. felt super out of place wif everyone there a string player. but playing the milhaud trio... unofficially named us the CNC trio? Candice, Noven, Chee Hang. Haha. would be one group of people i feel very attached to, no matter how far apart we have drifted now.

July 2004. common Tests. had grades ABCD. to others thats good. to me oh wells it doesnt reali matter. grades are superficial to me. people are more important. July was quite a simple affair for me. people were all so busy preparing for outside exams, me included.

August 2004. My LRSM exam. was so scared about it only AFTER the exam. look wat kind of person i am? haha.
Chinese Opera project: was fun doing till late all those nights... doing on canton opera wif a group wif only 1 canton speaker (Grace), 1 who can understand but not speak(Me), and two others who cant understand at all (Wendy and ToonLi). Haha. but was great. i mean, looking at our scores. we were definitely learning, and also finding out how some people realli hate research and went for 2nd instrument.
Also helping others preparng for dip exams. Haha how to psycho urself.

September 2004. With so many accompaniments: Prelims in 2 schools!!! and not to mention my own exams. wow those were the days. how people commented that i took another way home now, taking 165 instead of MRT or 156. haha.

October 2004. Promos. i wasnt worried about that at all. but maybe im like that, who don't worry. as i said, exams are superficial. ive got 3As and 1 B in the end.
Badminton games. Haha. wad can i say. of yes i joined Rec Bad too!
CIP wif Sinda. haha first time i found out im good wif kids. Yay
Ohana. oh had fun. climbing up ladders to put up posters, and going out shopping for materials. wow how enthu the meppies were. we had everything done so quickly! and the board was superb! kudos to the board group!
Accompaniments. wow one week, 3 accompanimentts. 2 A levels, 1 o level. gosh i think the chief examiner wld have seen enough of me!!! wow if i charged those soloists i would have been rich hahaha.
Vocale finally started!!!

November 2004.
PW OP. yay got it through.
found back some old friends long lost.
CIP at AWWA!!! wow my 2nd time wif kids! it wld be one organisation that i committed most to in this hols.
Piano Ensem CIP at Hendersons. erm they got me ill. but still the kids liked me. oh well im a kid magnet. they all love me.!
Got my LR results. WOW i mean WOWOWOW!!! it was super good la. hahaha. sorry to boast.

December 2004.
Accompaniment for a violin exam. saw the CNC trio together again, though it was a violin exam, a piano accompanist and a page turner. Hahaha.
My Erhu exam. Had to say it went well. still awaiting the results.
Vocale's 2 performances. it was good to perform again. and wif a group that has such a high quality. i enjoyed it! a lot!
RJ moving, unpacking. haha the new RJ campus is like super big and takes 10plus minutes to walk from one end to another. hahaha.

Finally. the previous year's over!
Wad will part 18 of my life hold?

i would want to enjoy this year. accomplish things other than results. but im making no new year resolutions. cus i never keep them. i just hope people will like wad i do.

stay tuned. 31 dec 2005 and i'll tell u all about this year!

-Chee Hang