Awesome times...

HEY CHOIR!!!!

Hope everyone is looking forward to the X'mas party! =D YOU BETTER BE. Just to ask, can anyone bake? Cuz we need volunteers to bring food and stuff....We'll let you know how we're gonna get the food FOOD done, but we need people to volunteer to bring cake, cookies, cake, cookies and more cake. Yeah, I know it's bad for our voices, but WHO CARES? We all deserve a bit of fun for 1 night. (yeah...and let's all keep it to the night of the 11th of dec, k?)

Awesome things are being planned, so please keep an Eye on your Email (you see? There's gotta be a reason for this awesome coincidence, right?), cause we'll be updating you =D

SO, please drop me or Rachael an email if you can bring cake. or cookies. or anything else. OH! And if you're waiting for us to ask you personally if you can sponsor anything, please don't...cause I don't read minds....Just drop me an(other) email to tell me what you want to sponsor, so we don't have to keep a budget in mind for that.

Yupz. Are you'all practicing your scores? YOU BETTER BE. hehe...naw....just make sure you're prepared for choir next year, k? Don't keep practicing until you get bored of choir, or the comm will have to work extra hard to get you all alive again next year....

OH! And please remember to drink lots of water, k? I'm guilty...I just recovered from a sore throat....so, learn...It may be rainy season, but the rain doesn't just seep into your body by magic. yeah...

Oh, and I know how much we're all missing choir (right, Right, RIGHT???) So, here's a thought for you...

"I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite."

-Isaiah 57:15 (2)

Please remember to tell me if you can't make it for the party on the 11th, and OH! If you still havn't gone for 3 concerts this year, there are LOADS of concerts to go and watch during the holidays, so email me, and I'll tell you some good ones to go see, k? Or you can pick up the Esplanade diary (which you can get at the Esplanade, by the way...) and see what good concerts there are. Yes, you can go even if you've already done 3 concerts for the year. More is good.

ok.
love you, dears!
eli sayampanathan

yo choir!!!

ok this is kind of a sum-up of what's been going on, for those who missed practices recently.

-we finished ting tan qin
-attempted yagi xDDD
-got new scores (mary's song, children etc.)
-learnt first few pages of "children" (the japanese song)

hmm hope that holidays have been so far enjoyable, so to speak.

oh ya I found this video on youtube. it's our performance from the Sounds Of Hope concert.
"You Raise Me Up" Mgchoir+String Ensemble
dunno who posted it. haha it doesnt have picture, but then again, you dont need pictures to hear a choir right?



here's the link if needed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3nD0LLuofc
there's also the other performances of the concert.

lotsa awesome randomness,
-christie-

HEY!

Firstly, can we make it COMPULSORY for everyone to sign off when you finish a blog post? Cause it can get kindda confusing...

anyways...HOW'S LIFE KEEPIN' YOU, CHOIR? =D good, i hope! okay. happy holidays. happy times...and now, we're gonna have even more happy moments!

The date for our post-carolling cum Christmas party is out. 11th December. It's gonna be loads of fun, so you really don't want to miss it. We've got a great line-up planned, so please make sure you're free on the 11th. We're not sure about the venue and time and all of that yet, but we'll let you know, so please keep an eye on your emails.

Make sure you don't slack during the hols, k? Go run a few kilometers (at least) a few (at least) times a week, or you're really dead when you get back to school next year, cause we're gonna be whipped cream. SWWWeet. XD

Go and practice your scores, k? SLs/ Octet leaders, if you want to hold practices, please go ahead and do so, cause we don't want to be completely lost in January next year. OH! And don't go and eat too many sweets and chocolates and junk food, cause it will just spoil your voice, and that's bad...

okays.
thanks!
bye!
eli sayampanathan

Duuuuuuudies,
can we look for a nice blogskin with navigations?
Or can someone design one! That'll be awesome.
Then we can revive the blog and put photos up and do "Reflections" on like our performances!
Like Ms Tham wants us to.
So any suggestions for blogskins, PUT IT IN THE TAGBOARD.
Thanks!

Hey!
This is an email I sent to the MGS-SASS choir today...just incase you didn't receive it, here it is....I think I'm just too lazy to write another looooong story...=D ENJOY! And no excuses for not reading the whole thing...it's not THAT long....

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HEY Choir!!!

AHH. Carolling is over. Sweet release. I hope you all enjoyed yourselves over the past few months, during all our practices, whether good or bad, happy or sad, and the carolling days itself. The past two days will definitely hold memories that we will cherish as a choir for a looong time. I know that ALL the sec3s from MG choir still love the carolling days we had in 2007. So, please do reflect on everything we've learnt and done the past few days and make sure you continue to apply them, or Mr Tay will KILL US.

Just a thank you to JP (SASS President), Rachael (carolling co-i/c), Ruth and Yann Ting (MG vice-Presidents) and the carolling comm from MG: Lee Khim, Marian, Maria and Siying. Thanks for all the help you've given to me during the process of planning for carolling and during the actual carolling itself. (the bracketed stuff are for all you people who are still living in your own nutshell...)

Another thank you to go out to all the GLs : ME!, Lee Khim, Marian, Maria and Siying, and their respective AGLs : Joel, Barnabas, Darien, Evan and Jeremy (who we should all congratulate for pulling through O'levels and carolling all at the same time =D...CONGRATS!!) Thanks you all for helping co-ordinate your groups and keep them under a tight rope when we had problems organising the choir...by the way, you should know that there were about 70 people carolling in total, so that's why it was always so noisy...rings a bell? Thanks also for taking charge of the music when we had to break into our small groups! It all turned out well in the end.

Yet another thank you for all the conductors: Evan, Lee Khim, Joel, Christie, Stephen and Rachel. Thanks for being so courageous and taking the stand, and trying your very best to immitate Mr Tay and Ms Tham....

To Lee Khim: You are becoming ever more confident gal!! And your conducting is getting more and more hillarious, by the way....in a good way...cause it makes us smile =D MG gals, we're so lucky to have her around, so BE THANKFUL.

To Evan: LOL. Your conducting will forever be remembered...a testimony to all. I think I've told you before, but please don't change the way you conduct, cause it's entertaining (hehe...) and makes people smile, which in turn makes their singing better, so everything is better in the long run. X)

To Joel : Hi dude. Thanks for being the booming bass in our group. The bassists couldn't have survived without you. (AHEMAHEMRYANCLINTANDSEAN!!) And you're too serious when you try to cue us in for Gaudete, but it works anyways...

To Christie: Two words: You're Natural. No, not the gummies...You are tiny, but you're awesome. Seriously... you should make Sop 2s work so hard that we become the awesomest section ever...wait... we are the awesomest section ever! =D GO SOPPY 2s!!!

To Stephen: You conduct Wassail amazingly. Is your name pronounced Stephen or Steven? As in Stephen Leek or ..... nevermind...why do people have such wierd names? (talk for myself eh? ellissaeasitasayampanathan.)

To Rachel: HEY! You did great conducting us during practices. Sorry you didn't get a chance to conduct during carolling, though...the biggest pitty...nevermind. SOON. :)

Yupz. If anyone has any photos, please send them to me, so that we can compile nice ones and send them out to everyone...OH! And please don't tell me to go look on facebook, cause I kindda deleted my account, and it wasn't an accident. I PROMISE!! I'm not that absent minded.............okay, maybe I am, but I'm very sure I didn't delete my account by accident.

JP, can you please forward this to your whole choir? Thanks!

THANKOOO EVERYBODY!!
ellissaeasitasayampanathan
aka.
eli

ps. now you know why the comm says I'm very LOOOONG winded.....in my emails....i think i'm a bit better in real life....=D

ps no.2. this thing is gonna be posted on the mg choir blog : mgchoir-.blogspot.com, which I believe is linked to the SASS choir blog, so go see...

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Yeah....please share your views...comment or something....we'll do a debrief soon...i think....

thanks!
eli