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Saturday, December 13, 2008

{flew in at 10:10 PM

.: Not So Silent Night 2008 :.

I finally have the time to blog and be sure this is going to be a super long but meaningful post! NSSN '08 was a blast! Now that it's over, it feels empty all of a sudden! All the hard work the EXCO + TAE + J1s + Sec 4s + Teachers and Mr Tan have put in the past 1 month plus concluded on the night of 12th December 2008!

The preparation was intense! EXCO spending a few hours talking about what we need to include and the delegation of jobs and all! Thank you EXCO for being so co-operative with helping me in the task I’m being delegated to do! Working with Gabriel, Gillian, Alyssa, Sean and RouHui on a major project like this for the first time was really great. This EXCO is filled with so many talented people, natural leaders and great thinkers!

And for the first time in my band life, I was so busy during a concert. This concert was not just practicing my instrument, playing the music! Half the time I was in school was not because of band practice but because of all the admin stuff I had to do in preparation for the concert. At home, switching on my computer = typing our deadlines and reports! Ticketing was such a stressful YET super fun thing to do! Being in charge of all the ticketing, money and receipts is what a treasurer should do! Sometimes it gets so messy that I would just stand there and try to calm myself down! Dealing with thousands in cash is no small deal!!! But I would not be able to achieve the full house and overflowing, crashing audience without the help of the J1s and Sec 4s who helped to sell the tickets so willingly (although they gave me a heart attack when ticket sales were only like 16% 3 weeks before the concert!) haha! And not to forget my ticketing committee – Shu Han, Hidhir and Amelia! Although 2 of them were in TAE, busy with their skit practice, they still willingly helped me out! And Shuhan who went without lunch with me for a few occasions! Thank you guys!!! This is an experience not to be forgotten! Majestia next year would be no different! The feeling of members sms-ing me in the morning of 12th December, our concert day, to ask if there was any more tickets left and I had to say no was great! Because I know it was full house to the max! Also, the gifts committee who came up with really super nice gifts! Thanks for following the deadlines set and coming up with so much nice presents! With all your hard work and effort, I believe the teachers, Mr Tan and Dr Goh are happy with the gifts!

NSSN and the skit was fun! Although the skit just involved me doing 2 dances, and comments were that it was hilarious and I can’t dance, BUT NEVERMIND! Haha! Because the super long hours and many days we took practicing the skit, perfecting the scenes and making the dance look great was all memorable! At least I entertained which is the main point! Even if getting people to laugh would entertain them than I have played my part in the skit! However, dancing with Yanzhu was great! This dance partner of mine always never fails to want to make us great couple dancers and would always practice the steps we’re not really sure of! Not being able to grasp our hands properly and all! Haha! Waltz was like so super super fun! Lifting her was not difficult but when they video and how us! Omgosh I can’t believe we can do it until so nice! At leat we had fun!!! And TAE worked like a whole lot for the skit so kudos to TAE!

The Secondary 4s were a great bunch of people! What would NSSN be without them seriously! Although it has only been like 1 month, but I feel that the whole band has bonded together with the Sec 4s and that we are really starting to feel the post NSSN feeling – the missing of people, missing of band practices and skit practices and all! We wish that all the Sec 4s would come back to VJC!!!

My horn section!!! Elton, Estee, Stephanie, Ridha, Peter. These 5 Sec 4s were really different! Have the one who always suan people but is a pro player, one that is really enthusiastic, one that is quiet but bites when he talks (oops) and 2 girls who are really quiet! So much colour in the section right! The 4 quartet J1s horn seniors, us, of course got interactive with them and kept talking to them! And we 4 got closer too! I love my horn section! Thinking of all the stupid names like ‘Eston’ haha and the stupid moves for our encore, Copacabana! It was so much fun!

The biggest part of NSSN I would really miss is late nights we’ve had at burger king, parkway etc! The NSSN week was really hectic. Reaching school at 8am everyday, having no lunch because of ticketing, practicing pieces in the morning followed by skit in the noon and than heading to parkway for dinner and gossip and talking and buying gifts and all only to finally reach home at 10plus pm! I guess that’s when we all bonded together as a band, as a happy family! It was so much fun! All the laughter resonated at burger king and staying there for hours must have made the workers like remember us! KFC even switched off some of their lights to chase us out when it was too late! Lol!

NSSN night itself was a blast! It sure is! How we played through the pieces happiness and sadness, how we acted out the entire skit, how we totally choreographed our moves for Copacabana which was totally messy but fun and how we dedicated the video and song for Mr Tan! It was a night full of emotions! To make it better, receiving all the flowers and chocolates and potato chips and famous amos and gifts from friends was just a happy feeling! Thank you all those who came and all who gave presents – 08S64 peeps, Elizabeth, gino, Yvonne, xiangluan, Rachel, xiaowei, my horn section, jiajiun, Chun yuen, Darren, Lorraine, lixin, Samuel, Nicholas huang, Nicholas chew and Kenneth, Aloysius, shanhui, liling and anyone else I missed out! Really thank you guys! Hope you all had a fun and memorable concert! Thanks for all the j2s coming to support too! :)

With all said, NSSN would be an event I would never forget! Not just that night but the entire process of making NSSN a success! Post NSSN activities coming up! Can’t wait for them! As usual, pictures up the next post! Which is very soon!