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Friday, February 12, 2010

Today was the eve of the eve of the Chinese New Year. Early in the morning I journeyed to school, then after flag-raising we settled in Kah Kee Hall for a concert.

To be really frank and honest, I felt that the concert was an utter letdown. Even at the start it was evident that everyone was getting restless, and it was an amazing feat that Mrs Chan could actually get everybody to settle down and maintain a lowered volume until the start of the concert.

Right at the beginning, the teachers' walk-in was an epic fail. After a stray female teacher came chasing behind the main body of teachers, we were all still expecting many of our other teachers to come in, and we patiently clapped (synchronously) and stared, tip-toed and peeked, jumped and whooped, and what? Nothing. The teachers did not make it explicit enough that that was the end. No more. Nil. Nada. Nought. Zilch. Zero. Full stop. Period.

Then we had the Lion Dance which was not really that bad. Okay who am I kidding. The white lion on the extreme right was a total flop. Twice. I felt it was quite embarrassing. After that we had the Chinese Orchestra. Unfortunately the suona's sound was extremely sharp and piercing. It matches the resonant frequency of a certain ear bone called the anvil, and is very agonizing to listen to. I recall listening to a mistake or two in between but that was very minor. Thumbs up for CO.

We then had the "surprise" performance by the teachers. Their strange (grotesque) dolling up made things worse than they already were. It was also quite obvious that some of them were lip-syncing to the music... The performance by the Chinese Drama Club was indeed quite interesting and I found listening to Jing Yang's amusing responses quite unlike any of the performances before it. More plus points were the pretend fighting and the repeated theme of "disciple over teacher".

I found the remaining performances rather dry and boring. It was a horrible ordeal to bear the heat and noise of the KKH, and I was glad to be returned some freedom when we were released. After our early release, Yi Xuan, Eugene and Zhen Hui came to my house to take respite from the hot sun for a while before heading over to Henry Park. Ultimately we left home at 10.45 when the RI boys had already reached. A quick greeting of our former teachers was executed with much haste, and we set off for Jurong Point for a fun time of fellowship over lunch and a movie. We lingered around the area until about 4, then decided to crash Jian Hui's house as the arcade chased us out. We can't really blame them; we should have been more intelligent than to wear our school shorts in. To clarify matters I was NOT one of the people who attempted to enter.

Jian Hui's house was immensely huge with four levels and at least ten different rooms. After chasing each other around for a while, we settled down to a game of Risk and some refreshing iced water. When 5 o'clock came around it was time for us to part and head back to our respective homes. I was kinda sad to leave as we don't really see each other around much anymore. However, Jian Hui's new house's proximity to mine gives me good pranking ideas...

11:43 PM

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i'm alvin.
i come from hwa chong institution in singapore.
i'm in class 2i2. yes, i'm a sparkie.
i'm 14+ years old; celebrated my bdae on feb 12.
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