Imagine

The choir concert was so inexpressibly incredible.
I arrived at around 3 at school for warm ups and a run through and then we joined the HCI choir and had dinner and prep
and then it was showtime
Our line up for choral was:
1) Danny Boy (Irish)
2) Kwae Jina Ching Ching (korean)
3) Morning Star (Hungarian)
4) Kalinka (Russian)
5) Salve regina (Sacred latin)
6) Aunu Aunu Balti Kajas (Latvian)
7) Shenandoah (American)
8) Keindahan Taman (Malay)

We started fairly strong, and grew better and better. I personally loved Salve regina. I imagined a court scene where a jew was being persecuted unfairly due to discrimination over his faith, before a kind and impassioned soul pleaded on his behalf and he was spared. (i tend to think up narratives to go with the songs so i can really express the emotions encompassed in the songs) when we sing salve regina more often than not i feel like the music is washing over me in waves and cleansing me and purging me and making me just think of making beautiful sound.
and that is one of the feelings i am going to miss most being in the choir.
the second section was okayyyyyyy and i truly felt the beauty of some of the songs (Voices that care especially-lonely fear lights up the sky, can't help but wonder why, you're so far away.)

And the third section, our pride and joy, our very own original musical, was wonderful. WUNDERBAR :)
we sang and danced our hearts out.
pearly was particularly wonderful, she really played to the crowd and got lots of claps and cheers. (she's so amazing on stage and so humble off stage i really truly admire her.)
i am happy to say that my scream (which signified me waking up from my dream -'more like a nightmare') was fine: i didn't sound soft or gentle, but i did let out a bloodcurdling scream :)
the story went like this.
Aurora (me) a typical school girl, is given an ss assignment which requires her to analyse the social issues faced by today's society. she falls asleep because of her dull task,and dreams of a universe like our own.
It begins with herself as sleeping beauty, who is cursed by the evil green witch because she wasn;t invited to her baby shower because her parents detested her skin colour. then, we meet the ah beng (pearly) who is entranced by the beautiful presents that sleeping beauty got for her baby shower. Wishing he had the money to buy such branded goods, he falls into the trap of gambling at the nearby golden goose casino. of course, he loses his money and almost his life to the loan sharks, and becomes penniless and pitiful. He then meets Jack, who is desperate to climb up the social ladder and become a success, unlike the failure of an ah beng he has just seen. he tries all sorts of underhanded and malicious means to rise above the rest, booting out competitors and eventually succeeding his boss as head of the company. Little does he know that for all he has gained, he has lost something far more precious. The scene switches to Mary, a woman who has been fired because a misunderstanding between her and Jack. She vents her anger on her pitiful maid Cindy ella, who flees her abusive employer, and bumps into the 3 billy goats who are also trying to escape their circumstances, but get stopped by the IRAS just as they are a hairsbreadth from their destination, they realise that the way the world works, is work. But unfortunately, the 3 little pigs who suddenly appear haven't grasped that, and 2 of them are all too happy to put aside their study material (for the exams) to rest and play, under the temptation of the wolf. The wolf almost eats the 2 pigs, which is when Aurora awakes (with a scream) and realises these issues are all so pertinent to today's society, and that writing her assignment won't be as hard as she thought.
:)

My last moments with the choir in an actual performance.
and it was beautiful
choir has meant so much to me.
its opened new doors (worship. friendship) and made me see things differently, and cultivated a love for harmony and chorus.
I don;t think any other choir is as diverse and beautiful as the SC choir and i'm going to miss it so so terribly much.