Of the ordinary & the extraordinary.

18th august

the 50th anniversary dinner

it's the day we've been practising for, waiting for and also, dreading for. 18th august, our school anniversary dinner & concert, our principal's birthday, han sin birthday and also, sadly, the last time we're performing with the sec fours. ah!

anyway, my day didnt start off very well. took a taxi to school and saw my fellow queenstownians wearing the cleaner shirt. oops, i mean quest celebrates 50th anniversary shirt. everyone was like wearing it! mr.lau's shirt was the most weirdest looking one, it's a long sleeve shirt. lessons were per normal, but i only brought one pen with me and my homework! i had lots of stuf to bring to school, the band uniform, the clother for the dinner, the shoes and acessories.

quest mugs, quest bears, thumbdrives, umbrelllas and quest stuff were sold during recess. and, there was a commotion during recess then when we were wakling up the stairs back to our classroom, a lot of malay guys were running up the stairs to 4th level making lots of noise. they said something like wanna fight and go find raied. being kpo, we also went up. there was a big crowd. so weiling, beth and i went to inform the level form teachers.

after recess was mother tongue lesson. i wanted to skip it since we'll be dismissed from class earlier and what's more i didnt bring my homework. but i went in the end, and teacher was rather pissed with the class cos of the homework.

after our early dismissal, quickly changed into band uniform, practised in the music room, went for lunch in the canteen. in the canteen, we sang han sin a happy birthday song. he was so funny, we sang louder for him and he hush us to keep quiet. and because of the card i made for him, my lp stick is now smashed! ahh! it looks gross actually. then we quickly, bought out stuff and instruments into the bus.

on the way to neptune.

wE aRhx sHo kAwAii oRh. hEhEx.

we proceeded to the big blacony area there and we practised our pieces. it was rather unique you know, all of us were standing and playing our instruments. then we went to the place outside the toilet there and took lots of photos like we did last friday during our full dress rehearsal. and the funniest thing was that we took photos in the guys toilet! and when we came out all giggling and laughing some guys were walking to the girls toilet thinking that it's the boys toilet theyre going since they saw us coming out of the boys toilet!

germaine and i.

she's a really nice girl!

the two sections which has the most girls and only one boy-

the tumpeters and the clarinetists section!

after our "photo taking session", we went to have our make up done. wah, that teacher dont allow us to have this and that. not happy, we got our very own make up artist to do our make up for us. thanks lydia! we were all sparkly and dolled up, we went to have our dinner upstairs. it wasnt really tummy filling, i only ate the rice cause it's sweet and sour fish. last night mom and dad made me eat a pomfret fish. if i dont eat they wont allow me to bring the camera. so of course, i ate it. yucks, eeww. my brother was in front of me laughing saying i should be in fear factor -.-" we then had a last practice on stage and tuned our instruments. soon everyone came and we were behind the curtains. we were all overwhelmed with emotions before the performance, like huimin said. huixuan cried! my fault, hehe! i kept saying " whoa it's our last performance together, so sad!" oh man. and then the trumpeters played fanfare to mark the arrival of the guest of honour, mr. gan kim yong. the curtains were pulled up and the trumpeters marched in. the hosts, the head prefect- chor hao and weiling introduced the band.

we played seagate overture and one moment in time for the last officially. after practising and playing seagate overture since january, all the memories with the clarinetists and the band anf of course mdm wu will be etched in my mind. i still remember mdm wu threatening to change the song piece at the very last minute. i kind of played some notes wrongly, but what the heck, it's over now! the plan was to stand up and mdm wu will bow if the crowds applause is contunously loud. but too bad, we didnt get too. after the curtains were closed, as quick as possible, we carried our instruments, files & stands to the lift area. there was a confusion on what to do. so we eventually ran upstairs to get our stuff and gave the sec 1 prefects our instruments and went to find hui xuan, stacey & jiawei. hugged them and ran upstairs again and changed into out outfits. it was funny, stuff were all over the room and all the girls were changing everywhere. then suddenly russell came in to change and we screamed.

had a lot of comments after i changed into my outfit. one of them was that i look a mother- a mother of the clarinetists! we walked to our table which is table number 50. what a lucky number, table 50 and the schools 50th anniversary. no wonder 18th august lah, mr lau's birthday. maybe he's 50 years old.

at the table, didnt really get to eat much of the 10 course dinner. most of the time we were running around taking pictures. it was like a major photo taking session! when the old boys, or maybe 'the quest band' not our band ah, like almost everyone were engrossed in their own stuff, or maybe eating.

the night ended with the auctions and the lucky draw. we didnt win anything, but were close to! didnt know how to come home from the neptune so i took a cab with huixuan who came back.

i'm gonna remember 18th august, for all the memorable stuff we did. pictures will be up soon. it's in my other sim card!