Choir+TSD
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Had our first choir practice yesterday. Felt hopelessly pathetic when I got lost by all the jargon and when I couldn't hold some notes long enough. Being informed of my inadequacies [albeit in a nice way by Siti/conductor to the general sops] was a bit of an ego-smasher. Something about resonance, something about round notes, something about soft palates and something...You get the idea. Boy, were my illusions about choir shattered or what. It is not easy. Not easy at all. But I still felt really powerful when the whole choir sung together. When our voices soared together as one in that room for the first time, it was so heart achingly beautiful to the uninitiated me [in gaming terms: choir n00b]. Gotta learn so much. The lyrics, the exact melody, the pitching, the timing, the proper way to breathe. Oh well, I will try.
Also had our first TSD practical today. God it was so much chaotic fun. We got the British teacher, Ms Pink [so cute her surname] who's really great and our classroom was the blackbox. Did some freeze frames [soccer and ice cream]. I was the retarded one in both. In the soccer frame, I was the lousy player pretending to be injured by lying on my back and clutching my knee whilst in the ice cream frame, I was the lame ass whose ice cream fell off the cone and onto the floor. Lol, I came up with the ideas so I'm not complaining. Then we were given this extract from a play to read. Freaky play--like Mean Girls with knifes. Anyway, the black box blacked out and there was absolute darkness that was both unnerving as well as enjoyable at the same time. Most of us forgot about the light from phones and so Ms Pink had to find the door [with great difficulty] in the darkness and when she came back and saw the phones she went "I'll remember this" in a very very cute way. The lights came on, we continued reading and then it went out again. So 'boh pian', we went to the library to do the reading. What was interesting is that the 3 guys [or 'lads' as Ms Pink put it] in my TSD class took the first 3 female characters [not that there were any males, but still they volunteered first] and then I took Ritz. T'was interesting...One of the guys later told me I sounded creepy *giggles* and that guy actually did this awesome "live or die" thing which freaked the rest of us out earlier.
After that, went to TM with most of the class for dinner and whatnot. First time going to TM since I set foot in TPJC. Bah the noodles I ordered sucked. Then we went on to fool around in Yamaha and Toys R Us. Gosh, I'm really starting to like my CG, my classes and TPJC in general. Damn. This is not good. It's going to kill me when/if I leave. It's funny how quickly bonds can formed and how quickly one feels attached to a place. Anyway, KI and choir practice tomorrow again [technically today cause its 12.20AM], looking forward to it *coughUNICORNcough* The SYF song is this Latin piece I truly like..Now if only my throat would stop feeling like a thorn bush.
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aureliaz out
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