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Monday, October 16, 2006

♥ 4:51 PM

a good laugh is sunshine in the house

Helloooo! I'm finally going to blog about gala dinner but i'm feeling lazy so i shan't post too many pictures and type too many words hahh. Most of the pictures are mainly of dance so if you're bored, feel free to close this whole page straight away.

Gathered at school at 9.30am. The Sec3s gave out the postcards they had written for us and xinyan also gave out hers, ningli's were halfway written ahhah. Then boarded the bus and headed down to Suntec. Very sleepy and the whole journey was super boring and loooong. When we finally reached the two lu laoshi brought us the wrong way and we had to turn back. So those of us who were at the back became at the front and xinyan and i were desperately trying to catch up with yuntong who was striding?!

The whole place was definitely different from what my mind had pictured. The ground was carpetted and the entrance was already nicely prepared, though there were still some touching ups to be done. And in order to get to the function rooms or backstage, we had to walk all the way to the other end of that level.
We shared room 203 together with the student councillors, choir, lion dance and npcc? The room was much more spacious than i thought and despite a mixture of so many groups, i think our room looked super spacious! Oh yeah, the floor was carpetted and the air-con was at full blast and it was super comfortable.
After settling down and placing our things properly, we had a briefing by lu laoshi. Omg, just look at how attentive everyone is. One wrong move and mrs wong and the whole school would be upon you. What a heavy responsibility for us to bear! :/
Then liang laoshi came and we changed into our huifu or 50th anni shirt and rehearsed once in the room. Everything was going on well until the part when i was supposed to lead the group in running out, somehow i accidentally tripped over one of the guy's legs and i could only feel myself being flung. It wasn't the ordinary trip and fall, it felt like someone just set a bomb under my feet. Soon i was like lying on thr ground and i was super lucky that the ground was carpetted and i didn't break my bones. But until now there's this pain whenever i move my right hand backwards.

Soon we had a rehearsal on the stage and i flopped it once more. This time while leading the group out again i ran in the wrong direction- anti-clockwise instead of clockwise and the whole stage was in a mess thanks to zina! muahahah :D

Free time for lunch! Sec2s and tongwei and huangching lunched together at the Congress kopitiam which was just behind the escalator we came down from. I bought wanton mee and carrot fruit juice and it cost a total of $5.50 in all. We had to be very thrifty with the 10 dollars we had for lunch and dinner lah! ): Reached back and had to change and prepare for the full-run rehearsal. The toilets were all crowded and everyone were rushing lah. Oops i forgot who tied my hair for me, was it meixian, joylynn or ningli or somebody else? Ahha anyway very soon it was our turn to perform. Things went on pretty well except that i flopped my dao ti. Even jiahui said i looked as if i were falling any moment. I looked retarded ):

When we finished, it was free time and we could do whatever we wanted. So we basically maked-up and made other preparations and camwhored and stuff. It was pretty fun seeing everybody having fun i didn't want prime minister to come so soon hahh! Mrs Wong must be thinking: what in the world is happening?

Then yuntong, shunying, mingwei and i went to collect the chicken rice from another food court at Suntec and it was embarassing and fun walking about in our costumes (luckily with something pulled over the top!) in Suntec and people were all looking at us. On the way back yuntong went over high and started asking anybody we met to take picture for us lol.
There was even Macs that yuntong bought to share with her own money, thank you so much! (: i was greedily kupping the french fries and after that the chicken rice packets started to topple so i was arranging them back, but to no attempt 'cause they refused to stand still! Hmph, i was relieved when yanmi finally asked if we could eat the chicken rice already. The chicken rice was nice, at least i think $3.50 didn't go to waste for nothing! Mmmmh.
Ahhhhh! Time to panic to get everyone prepared and stuff. Did final touch ups and then some of us practiced on our weak steps. I of course practiced my dao ti and had all sorts of weird landings lah. By the time i got super tired of jumping, i nearly wanted to tell liang that i didn't want to jump and that was when i made a good landing [:
Meanwhile, while the performers were all busy preparing for their items, the guests started filling in. They made a great entrance and had to go through the metal detectors and stuff. i think it was a long wait before the Prime Minister, VIP for the night, arrived. Speeches were made and then got the cake and Dunman High Orchid and stuff.

Omg! The first course looks so nice and yummy unlike what all the backstage people had lah! Boohoo not fair, i want a share of the looking super super nice food too! ):
Hm, we were called to get ready and went backstage very early. We could not go out to the stage yet nor hide behind the curtains so we were behind the door and it was so silent in there. There were many wires and stuff inside and things seemed freaky i actually asked "do you think the bomb squad came to check this area?" Hahh, some started sleeping, some were trying to calm themselves and some were flirting! And after a long wait, it was finally our turn!
Guess what? The performance was great, at least i thought it was for the dance. I managed a perfect landing after my dao ti and even jiahui said she saw! [: The teachers also said it was very good. Hahh hard work really does pay off! (:
After the performance we could pack up and leave already. But everyone rushed to the toilet to clean the make up and remove the hair and stuff. I was done pretty quickly but i couldn't remove the mascara 'cause i had alot of it thanks to joylynn. i have a phobia of joylynn curling my eyelashes for me! Then weijia joylynn and i went to the main entrance to view the things but we had to pass through the metal detector first. So the policemen on duty there checked my bag but my costume was like anyhow thrown inside and they didn't check thoroughly. Got through safely and viewed the things until jocelyn suddenly told us that lyon and the other sec3s were crying very badly because they had found out that xinyan was leaving.

So weijia and i rushed back, only to see the sec3s and huangching and tongwei at the back crying. Xinyan and ningli were seating facing each other and crying. I felt super bad, 'cause i was the first person xinyan had told and yet i had had to keep this secret for so long until today ): Here's an extract from dorothy's blog:

i agree that good things do have to come to an end. xinyan, is leaving us for njc.

sec3s heard the news just before the actual performance. ok we were bad citizens, we read xinyan's postcard beforehand, even though she wanted us to read it at home.

the sec3s cried. huangching, tongwei cried. ningli cried.. all of us cried.

initially, i tried fighting back my tears. but i couldn't.. it was too much for my eyes to hold. once xinyan hugged me, i felt that i really really couldn't bear to let her go. i didn't want her to leave wudao, leave cs, leave dunman high.

STUPID LAH WHY DID THE GOVERNMENT START THIS INTERGRATED PROGRAMME THINGY ARGHH!!!!!!

ok back to being emo.
i don't remember feeling so overwhelmed when others transferred to the ip schools last year. it pains my heart so much as i recall seeing ourselves in room 203, crying our hearts out. i see ningli cross legged quietly on the floor. not making any noise.. but i could see tears streaming. in my eyes, ningli has always been a very strong girl. one who does not cry easily.. but this time..

我不知道应该怎么说。。

then one by one we embraced..
jocelyn cried and kept shaking her head, "你可以不要走吗？"
shunying feeling helpless, "is there anyway you can reject the offer?"
ningli "stop it (crying)"

many more..

we know you have your reasons, and it's not right that we pester you to stay. you don't have to be sorry my dear. it hurts so much.. when you go around hugging and saying sorry.. don't.

despite all, we wish you all the best in nj, xinyan.
wudao wishes you the bestest luck you could ever have. the passion of wudao, power of cs will always be within you.

Okay i shan't rattle on that. We finally left the place and jocelyn's father agreed to give me a lift and drop tongwei at city hall mrt so we waited for her father, who was stuck at changi airport. Meanwhile, we were anticipating the leave of the prime minister. After a long wait, the prime minister finally came down the escalator and Mr Sng was beside him. When he saw us, he smiled and waved at us and then when the prime minister saw, he did the same thing. Omg, jocelyn and i were so shocked and happy that we couldn't wait to tell others that the prime minister actually waved at us hahha! :D

Anyway then strolled to Macs and bought something light to eat. Jocelyn's father came soon and then we went back, and the three of us talked about stuff about xinyan leaving and others. Hahh i think we are lucky to have been able to be performers for the school's 50th anniversary celebrations. Imagine 25 years down the road when the school celebrates 75 years and we are no longer able to perform and can only eat the dinner (hopefully) and watch the future generations perform for us. Aww, like Mr Sng said before, i think we should feel honoured that we have been chosen to perform and all the hard work has paid off! (:

Okay, i think this post is super long! I've spent a long time on it and i think it's good in a way that i've managed to kill some time ahhah! Oops and before i end, must mention: credits to dorothy, yuntong and lichang for photos! :D