Hey!!

Well, CHOIR CAMP 2010 IS OFFICIALLY OVER. =( It's okay!! Now you can all look forward to choir camp 2011!!! =D Yeah, all except sec 4s...hinthint, we're leaving soon, so coughFAREWELLcough...nevermind, we'll come back and join you for camp next year, kay? Only difference is that we won't sleep on the super-duper-hard MEP room floor...heheh!

I'm gonna keep this short, so just wanted to say that I hope that all of you enjoyed camp VERY MUCH. Of course, there was the good and there was the bad, but overall, I think there was more good than bad, so...SMILE!

I think that camp was a great time of fellowship, learning and growth, so personally, I am happy with the outcome of camp. Just make sure you take home whatever you've learnt, whatever it may be, and remember that choir is just as fun as you make it. This camp could have been a disaster if everyone refused to cooperate, but because of everyone's enthusiasm, we ALL had fun! Let's do the same for our practices, kay?

Well, a few take-away pointers:
1. We are better than we think. Apply all that you've learnt everytime you sing, and we'll grow into the best choir WE CAN BE.

2. Energy and attitude are the two most key things in choral singing. Musicality will take care of itself if we give off our best.

3. Yes, I know you're all waiting for me to say it, so, have FAITH, TRUST and TEAMWORK! =D

Love you all!
eli sayampanathan

"They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, declares the LORD, to deliver you." - Jeremiah 1:19

HEYYYY CHOIR!!!

HOPE THAT Y'ALL HAD AN AWESOME TIME AT CHOIR CAMP. I'm missing it already, and it's the sec3s' second-last year..... so enjoy your time while you still can.

anyway I shall do a sum-up of camp!

remember the three things that are very very important, that we learnt during the camp:

- BREATHE. ( i.e. the cup thing) you do know, of course that obviously because voice comes with breath, so for the voice/sound to be good, you have to BREATHE DEEPER. and use stomach muscles, expand stomach outwards, and be prepared before entries in the music

- ANGER. when you're angry, you'll have the kind of energy that is needed in all the pieces. stomach muscles will naturally be used. dont forget the emotional colours that we learnt during the workshop with Branco Stark, and apply it to the other pieces, not just Hodie. if it helps, do the hand movement thing. you have to really mean the punches, not just wave your hand up and down. but then again, when you're feeling "anger" in your energy, you have to add on externally and show happiness/laughter.

- PHYSICALITY/ENERGY! as vocalists, our instrument has a lot to do with how you're standing, and what you're feeling, so like, be enthu and dare to do things that look weird, but in actual fact helps with your singing. bring the life into the pieces!!

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and another thing, in the next few weeks, months, we'll have to work very very hard, so be prepared to be memorising a whole lot of scores within the next few weeks. so it's best to start memorising, like now. memorisation table will be up soon, with all the deadlines and all, so yeah.

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OH on a more helpful note, I FOUND VIDEOS!!!!!

SISTER ACT 2 - Joyful Joyful



Sister Act 1 - Hail Holy Queen



yeah so go watch and learn how to sing the songs.

lotsa craziness,
christie

HEYYYYOSSSS CHOIRRR!!!!!

hope y'all have been going through your scores and memorising them.
reminder that this week we will be having extra practices. please remember what slots you signed up for, and go for them.

I was searching youtube, and to aid those who are new to learning the scores, I found a video of a choir singing examine me. so take a look at the video, and get an idea of how the piece should sound like.

Examine me: (the piece starts at about 30seconds into the video)


hope the video's helpful to y'all.

-christie-

Hey Choir!

I've got a really important announcement to make, so please take this post seriously...

Common Tests would have ended by the time next Wednesday comes, so, please be prepared for a big change in the way we do things at choir. We really need to focus a lot more, and work as hard as we can. And this has to be done as a choir effort, not just some people working hard for the better good of the choir, k? Please always remember that personal responsibility comes before choir responsibility. That means that before the comm, conductors and teachers can try and help the choir, each and every one of us has to go home and do all our homework, learn our music and be prepared. Now, going on to our big plans...

By choir camp, we should have learnt our whole repetoire. In other words, we have 4 practices left to finish learning Kodomo, Ave Regina Coelorum, Examine Me, Hodie Christus Natus Est, Ubi Caritas, Laudate Dominum, Mian Yi, Ting Tan Qin, Doo-Wop, Hail Holy Queen, Joyful Joyful and God Be in My Head. That's 12 pieces, excluding all the other pieces the conductors have yet to give us. Also, we will have to master LonDali, Examine Me and Hodie by choir camp in preparation for the Branko Stark workshop.

As you can see, we have A LOT of work to do. HOWEVER, although this seems like a very great task, I believe that we can do it. We will be having small group practices held in the morning (6:55-7:15) and during recesses (10:20-10:40 and 11:20-11:40) on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from now onwards. It is compulsory for everyone to be at at least 2 of these practices. Please make sure that you are there. SLs will be handing out sign-up sheets soon for you to put down in black and white which practices you are committing to attend. Yes, you are more than welcome to attend more than 2, if not all of the available practices. Please note that all this is being done for your good, so that you have the chance to practice your music.

Before practice on Wednesday (3rd March), please make sure you know Examine Me, LonDali and Hodie thoroughly. This includes new-comers. If you don't know how to learn the score on your own and need help, I am in 4M (linkway, level 2). You can also look for your buddies, octet leaders, SLs, any comm member or anyone else in choir. Ms Tham Pei Wen has also kindly volunteered to help, so if you need help, you can go to her too =D

Choir, I really hope that we work together, and put in our best effort. Remember our CNY performance? It showed us that nothing is impossible for this choir. Please remember to be prepared to work VERY hard for the next 4+ months, whether or not you are going on tour. If you have any problems or worries or anything you feel you want to address, I am in 4M =D Don't worry, I'm not going to scold you even if you say that I'm asking you to do something impossible. I rather know that you think I'm asking you to do something impossible, than you suffer in silence.

Okay. Work hard, and WE CAN DO THIS!!
Love you all!
eli sayampanathan

CANTABILE 2010

Presented by the MGS (Sec) Choir

and guest choirs from CHIJ Toa Payoh and MGS Primary


Date/Time: 29th May 2010, 7:30pm

Venue: MGS Auditorium, 11 Blackmore Drive

Ticket Price: $15 (Free Seating)


Please purchase your tickets from any mgs choir member.

heyyy choir!

hope you've enjoyed the first performance of the year. it's amazing how we've come so far, within 2 days. wednesday we werent that great, but we really pulled through, and friday's performance saw this huge jump in standard. just wanna encourage y'all to continue putting in the hard work, cause we got this big hill to climb, with "cantabile" and "russia tour" at the top. xDDD. not to mention that we've now seen what we can do if we put in the effort, we could flyyyy!!! i suppose that we can fly above aeroplanes in the next few months, and continue going up till we reach orbit. or mars. or pluto. ah you know what i mean. xDDD.

just a few reminders (as usual):
- try and learn up the rest of O Virgo Benedicta
- put in solfege for Examine Me until pg4 on the score, stop at the last system of the page, where the time changes to 6/8 and it says "moderato". (F - doh)


yep i think that's it for now.

xDDD
-christie-

HEYHEYCHOIR!!!!! =D

Yes, for all new-comers, I'm sure you'll all be able to relate to what Sarah said in the previous post...choir, just wanted to say how awesomely proud I am of all of you!! The choir sounded relatively awesome (except for the bad mikingssss...), and, well, yeah...

Well, we know how much effort it took us to get here, right? Since this was the first performance of the year, our standard for this performance would probably have been 50% of our potential. So, imagine if we work as hard (or harder!!)...Cantabile WILL be the best thing humans have ever heard. =D+D=D+D=D+D

Go and look through all your scores over the 5-day weekend, start memorising whatever you can, and be ready for choir on Friday!!

Well, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR, HAPPY VALENTINES DAY, and...okay, HAPPY TOTAL DEFENCE DAY.

Enjoy!
eli sayampanathan.

spread the love...

Reflection on Today's CNY Performance

Hi all,
This is my first time posting on the blog... ...
I am supposed to post my reflections/what I think about today's CNY performance... ...
Well, I feel that everybody was great and I think that all of us have put in our best and were enthusiastic. Also, all our efforts that we put in in memorizing the scores have paid off as I think the audience did enjoy the performance and some of them were clapping along to the music too.
This performance was also a new experience for me as it was my first time performing in MGS. At first I was a bit nervous but gradually, I started feeling more at ease and even quite enjoyed singing.

I like today's performance on stage and I am sure glad that we were all able to perform on stage today and no one had problems memorizing the scores!

However, the preparation was sure intense but well, it was worth it! And I think that also without God, and our conductors who have put in effort to train us and everybody in the MG Choir who practised really really hard, this performance would not have been successful.

In general, I am really happy that we were able to put up a good show for our friends and teachers in school and show that our choir is indeed a gold-standard choir! :)

-Sarah Ng-

Hellooooo (:
So, how's life in choir, so far?
Fun, I hope. (:
Anyways.
We have to memorise 大地回春 and 新年个儿大家唱 by Monday kay?
I know how you feel.
Don't worry cause [ahem]some people[ahem] have more difficulty than people who learn Chinese. XD
(Btw, for those people mentioned above, if you don't understand anything from the scores, please, PLEASE go and ask someone who knows)
Alrighties (:
I'm done here.
BYEEE and
Good luck memorising the scores (:
Mich

Heyoo Choir!!!

Well, now that auditions are over, the choir should be more stable, so we have to start running like racehorses, k? As in, we shall start practicing to the high heavens...

Audition results have been let out, so all successful auditionees, CONGRATS!! Good job on making it into the mg choir. It would not have been easy, but then again, the mg choir journey is not an easy one either! =D But hey, generations of mg girls have done it, so you'll be just fine...

Please look through all your scores (the whole choir...not just choir of '09), cause we've got a lot to work on in the coming weeks!!

BUHBYE!!
eli sayampanathan

ps. Go sell fundraising cards if you havn't finished!!

Heyosss choir!

hope y'all have been revising your scores, cause the new people are coming in tmr!!!

so as always, a few reminders:
1. brush up on kodomo, and start memorising
2. londali should be memorised, and if you havent then the deadline is this week.
3. more focus during practices please, we got uphill work to do!

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yay my desktop can work alr, so yeah i can post more, i hope it doesnt crash again.

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To new people:
Welcome to the MG Choir!
please be reminded that the first practice for you gals is tmr,
please be at the bamboo courtyard at 2.10pm, your P.E. attire.
cause there's this thing called PT, a.k.a physical training.

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-christie-

It only takes 2 steps to sing with the

MGS CHOIR

Step 1. Attend the Choir briefing

20^th or 27^th Jan 2010

2:30-5:30pm @ LT1 (*note change in venue– was previously conference room)

You will be given a “tour” of the mg choir which will give you a better idea of what is expected of you if you decide to join us. You will also get to attend part of a choir rehearsal and you may clarify your doubts during a question and answer session.

This briefing is compulsory if you want to be part of the choir. You can sign up for the audition after the briefing.

Step 2. Audition

22^nd or 29^th Jan 2010

You will be assigned the time slots and venue when you sign up after the briefing.

Please prepare a short song (no pop songs) to sing during the audition.

Audition results will be released through email and will be put up on the choir board by 1 Feb.

Please refer to the Choir notice board outside the MEP rooms (near auditorium) or the choir blog http://mgchoir-.blogspot.com/ for more details.

“Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; make melody to our God on the lyre!”

Psalm 147:7

hey ppl!
rmb to go thru ur scores! (kodomo and londali) try to just see thru the new scores!
don't forget! newcomers are walking in to see the choir! so be in ur best behaviour k?
and lastly, pls pay $120 and ur info to ur SLs ASAP!
-lee khim!

GOSH. I love the last post. It's awesome!! I shall treat whoever did that for lunch on Wednesday. =D Yes, you get the point, choir, we have awesome conductors and teachers and a awesomely fantastic choir with such fun-loving, hyper, enthusiastic, angelic (i hope!!) members (that's you, by the way, so you BETTER agree...), so GET PEOPLE TO JOIN!!!!

For those wannabe-mgchoir-members, it's definitely worth it joining choir. As a sec 4 (LOL. scary stuff, mann...), I can honestly tell you that I'm counting down the days, VERY regretfully, to the day I have to cry. At farewell...which better be good!! cuz I really want to cry...hinthint, Yann Ting...heheh...

Yeah, choir has held memories for all of us which are never to be forgotten...I'm gonna tell you a story. NO, DON'T START SCROLLING DOWN. it's not that loooonnnggg.....right?? Ok, you know, I joined my church choir for the advent season this year, cuz I figured it may be the last year I get to do it, plus it's kindda cute being the youngest member of the choir...I was talking to the church organist cum choir director (not conductor...).Suddenly, she started talking to me about her days as a secondary school choir member...I knew she was an old mg gal, so I was like, "yeah, I know, mg choir, right??" and she started jumping with her hands over her mouth. and she's probably 50/60+ years old. and she was in church. and she was JUMPING. You see, that's the effect choir has on you, k?

Basically, in choir, we learn about awesome stuff like solfege and music history and other stuff...it's awesome, cause you can go talk about it to some other musicians, and some of them have never ever heard of it before, and then,,,,you can make them look dumb =D=D=D=D=D
Also, unlike other performing arts groups, you don't have to have any prior qualifications. All you need to be able to do is sing....and considering that you're reading this, you probably do it every day in the shower anyways...so...yeah.

In the gist of it all, choir is awesome. Your best memories in MGS will be your time spent in choir. I'm not joking. I'm waiting for me to be 20 to actually realise that, but I can tell you in advance. For those of you in choir, treasure your years left in choir. For sec 4s, treasure your days/months/hours/minutes/seconds left in choir. For those not in choir yet, join choir so you get to hear me nagging at you about all this XO.

EVERY SMART PERSON WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU SHOULD JOIN CHOIR OR REGRET FOR LIFE. BE THE SMART ONE =D

Love,
your awesome best friend,
eli. sayampanathan.

About the Choir

The MGS choir strives not just to bless the people around us with the joy of music, but also bless each and every one of our members by inculcating several essential skills.

In(ter)dependence, diligence and a sense of shared responsibility are instilled into each chorister as music is learnt and made. Our conductors and teachers reinforce the important of making music as a group, taking great carae to establish self-discipline in every member because "a choir is only as strong as its weaker member".

By mastering vocal skill and techniques taught by our conductors and by growing as a choir, the MGS choir hopes to be of service to the school, the community and our Heavenly Father with the voices he has blessed us with.

Practices are twice a week, Wednesday and Friday, 2.30 - 5.30pm.

Our Conductors

Jennifer Tham

Jennifer is best known as the conductor of the Singapore Youth Choir (now the SYC Ensemble Singers) an ensemble she has led since 1986. A composer by training, she believes that the student chorister is the future of choral music in Singapore, and enjoys infecting young students with her own enthusiasm for music and the expressive medium of voice.

In addition to her work in schools, Jennifer has served on several artistic committees for the International Federation of Choral Music and serves on the Board, chairing a working group for the development of the Asia Pacific choral network. She also represents Singapore in the Choir Olympic Council and has been on the jury at the World Choir Games and at competitions in China, Germany, Indonesia, Japan and Korea. She has taught choir conducting at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and has given workshops and courses to conductors in Indonesia and Japan.

Jennifer is a recipient of the inaugural Young Artist (Music) Award given by the National Arts Council and is a member of their arts resource panel.

Albert Tay

Albert believes strongly in cultivating high levels of disciplined musicianship, musical in(ter)dependence while having fun making music. Alberts choirs have won distinctions locally and internationally. He also believes in creating an appreciation by music written by living composers. Albert serves the SYC Ensemble Singers as Conducting Assistant.

Albert was selected to be an active participant in the conductors' masterclass organized by the International Federation for Choral Music, representing the Asia South Pacific region in the 7th World Symposium for Choral Music held in Kyoto, Japan. Apart from Theodora Pavlovitch (Bulgaria), he has also worked with established conducting teachers such as Karl Turunen (Finland), Alberto Grau (Venezuela) and Gary Graden (Sweden).

Albert majored in voice and studied vocal conducting with Jennifer Tham and orchestral conducting with Dr Robert Casteels at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, graduating with a Diploma in Music with Distinctions and BA (Hons) from the University of Wales (UK). Albert is a recipient of the Georgette Chen Scholarship and Arts Bursary, both awarded by the National Arts Council (Singapore) and the NAFA Scholarship for his diploma and degree studies.

Teachers-In-Charge

Tham Pei Wen

tham_pei_wen@moe.edu.sg

Angela Ng

angela_ng_suat_theng@moe.edu.sg

Cherie Heng

ong_su_ling_cherie@moe.edu.sg

welcome back to school, choir!!!
hope y'all have fun in your new classes and such.
anyway, as you may have noticed in the practice today, we need to speed up the learning of the pieces. soon enough, the competition scores will come in one big load, and we'll need to learn all of them by may (cause of the pre-tour concert).

please please please please please make an effort to go on this russia trip. from seniors, I heard that these trips are really worth going for, and that they really learn a lot. after all, how often do you sing in these international competitions, with top choirs from all over the world (maybe) ? xDD so please try to come for the trip. plus the more we sell the fundraising stuff, the more the subsidy will be, so we'll pay less if we sell more stuff.

few reminders:
- people go and get the name of your mortal from eli
- hand up your forms for the russia trip with the cheque
- revise scores!

oh and to those curious sec1s who read the blog (not sure if they do)
join choir!!!!!

xDDD
-christie-

HEY Choir!!! =D

Okays. Yes, as Christie said, come and get the name of your mortal from me. Before choir ends next Wednesday....and don't complain if you don't get one of your close friends, cause the whole point of the angel-mortal thing is to help you make friends with other people in choir who you may not know as well...and make sure you pamper your mortal, and send her LOADS of letters, k? If you find you're not receiving anything from your angel, come tell me, and I'll go and find your angel, k?

Also remember to practice all your scores...make full use of the rest of your holidays!!! Ms Tham and Mr Tay said that next year will be a realllllyyyy packed year, so if you want to have time to do anything other than choir stuff, you should learn your music ASAP. Remember, we have 18 pieces to go...plus all the other music we're gonna have to learn. Don't worry...we'll try and make choir as pleasant an experience as possible...

Remember to go and sell your fundraising stuff, k? If you have people still willing to buy more, you can go buy some off other choir members, or go see the teachers or something. Also publicise that we may have more cards printed shortly...yes, we're gonna have to sell those.

kk.
love you all!!
see you next wed!
eli sayampanathan

KODOMO!!!

hey guys!! this is my 1st time posting something here!
because of ellissa, i have to scan this out for u guys!! (i have only 1 monitor, and the scanner attached to the CPU is the one that has some problems with starting up the com...)
hope u ppl read it!!
(i think u can click on it to enlarge..)

[:leekhim:]

*have a gd yr ahead!!! (:

hi choir!

so y'all know that next year will be a very busy year, and hence I think we have to step it up. we got a longggg way to go. so we gotta concentrate!!! esp with new people coming in next year. must set good example okay.

ok just some reminders:
1. first practice of the year!!! 6 jan, wednesday, after school (obviously. xD)
2. go and get the name of your mortal from eli
3. practise your scores

LOL i'm quite high now.
yeah so anyway,
the list of people in which section will be posted soon, i think.
I think that's it for now.

lotsa craziness,
christie

HEY CHOIR!!

kk....Partae's over, people...hope you all enjoyed yourselves! =D Things were not as organised as I would have prefered them to be, but people were scolding me for trying to get things too organised, so....yeah...I hope that none of you were dying to go home or anything, cuz that's not the point of a party, is it??

Yeah, don't forget that the year's events are not over, k? We still have practice on the 30th Dec, so make sure you turn up for that. Go through all your scores and stuff like that, cause it won't be very nice for the conductors if we have to start from scratch all over again, right? Yeah, let's do them proud!! =D

kk. tatafornow!
eli sayampanathan

HI CHOIR!
I'm here to post something utterly random but totally cool.
Like, I'm sure you've all heard Jason Derulo's "Whatcha Say" right!
SOOOOOOOOOO
Like some people say he ripped off Imogen Heap's "Hide And Seek" but whatever.
Anyway!
I found this awesome singing group/choir/whatever who sang it!
AND IT'S LIKE AMAZING.
SO WATCH IT!
Cool or WHAT!
Did you hear the dude singing the high note? And we can all learn something from this totally-not-frivolous-post/video. Note their dynamics! And blending! And they all watch the conductor etc.
And yes, they're all dudes.
Let's not be too blown away by that awesomeawesomeawesome performance and remember Ellissa's equally long post.
Love,
Marian

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

Hello Choir!
How have you been? Hopefully practicing Hodie like, a lot.
Anyway, does anyone have suggestions for a new blog skin?
Something with navigations please.
If you do have some, which I sincerely hope you will go and scout for, please link it in the tag box.
Thanks hons!

LOL. and that's to the video on ellissa!

and now for some reminders xPPP:
-carolling scores (the 6 that we learnt during the workshop) to be memorised by wednesday
-NCCS concert scores (you raise me up, hope is the anchor) also to be memorised by wednesday.
-new carolling scores (canzone, go tell it, carol of the bells) to be learnt by wednesday, memorised by 23 october
-bring $80 for NCCS tickets
-bring $11.50 for t-shirts

btw: those people who want to teach/learn basic theory, please give your names to Ellissa.
those people who cannot make it to carolling, or any practices WITH A VALID REASON, please tell Ms ThamPW first before telling SLs.

Take note: wednesday, 7am, at the bamboo courtyard, to revise carols. as you know, the SASS choir will be at mgs after school for choir practice. we must show them that we girls can do ownage!!! xDDD

AND PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL.
REGULARLY.
those who dont check their inboxes, please start checking them regularly, especially since it's the holidays.

-christie-

p.s. please do watch the ellissa video and comment!! xDDD

Hallos.

I promise you, the video is a total mess. Seriously. And the hair, well that was Marian's work of art, so don't laugh about it, cause that is not me. Honestly, why is bullying me so easy??? Let me explain the video in detail.

Once in a while, some of us crazy choir girls go to Pizza Hut for lunch on days we have choir in the morning and the afternoon. AND, without fail, every single time we go there, the same guy serves us. And I think he's really pissed now, cause....well, imagine if this same group of people keep coming, and they always tell you "table for 16 please!"

So happened, on Friday, a comm. meeting was called for and so, we decided to go to Pizza Hut. Now, you've got to understand the tabasco and pepsi story to fully understand what's happening here. Yann Ting, Rachael and Siying, can you please post something about the tabasco and pepsi story? Anyways, for those people out there who are clueless, the Tabasco and Pepsi story is about the wonder of bullying me.

So, like any other normal Pizza Hut day, Tabasco, by some miraculous means, ended up in my pepsi. Obviously, since I hadn't even started eating as yet, I decided to change my drink. After I'd gotten it changed, Tabasco (naturally) got added again. Awesome. In short, everyone got into the swing of bullying me. AGAIN.

No matter the odds, I treated those of the comm. who were there at Pizza Hut to the chocolate cake with ice-cream add-on thingy. You know, the ones which come with cherries on the top. CHERRIES ON THE TOP. Oh!!! and I eventually ate everyone's cherries...cause no one else likes them...=(

Siying, being the mentally (maybe physically) sickening person she is, passes a comment that if you can tie a knot with the cherry's stem, you're a good kisser. BTW, this comment was passed at our previous visit to Pizza Hut too. (AHEMAHEMAHEM!!!!!). So, Siying and Yann Ting each stuck a cherry stem in their mouths and tried to tie a knot. For the record, Siying managed to tie the knot...which means what??.........H A!

Eventually, they managed to persuade me into trying (it's the whole bullying ellissa thing again) it as well. So, the video is basically showing me trying to tie the cherry stem with the knot. Now, post story.

Later on, we dropped by at cold storage (another popular hangout). And guess what. They decided to search for cherries to buy for me for my birthday. HELLO?!? My birthday is wayyy over. Then, they tried for Christmas. They are crazy. CRAZY.

Please guys, I don't want cherries for a present, or I'll have to look at Mrs Cherie Heng's name like it was alien.

Love,
Eli

cherries...

heyo <3

here's a video of ellissa attempting to tie a knot on the cherry stem with her mouth...to see how good a kisser she is...ENJOY...<3<3<3

you're welcome :)

siying <3

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Heys Choir~
How were EOYs? Let's hope they weren't too bad that you can't come for choir on Friday, normal time. Hehes. Okies. Anyways, before Friday's rehearsal, you have to try make time to learn the caroling scores, Hope Is The Anchor and You Raise Me Up (according to Ellissa's email). And, if you've lost any of the scores, ask Daphne to see if she has any extra copies. Okies. I'm done here :). Have fun!
Smiles,
Michelle