seemed so far and hard to reach 6 months ago. I have to admit that there really were many times when I thought we wouldn't be able to do it, but I hope I never showed it to any of you (maybe to kengfang)! The lack of confidence could probably be attributed to the significant decrease in the amount of practices lah so please think first before deciding to attack me with your mum's chopper.
making comparisons to SYF 2009 was futile and foolish, I wasn't in SYF 2009 but still the tendency to compare ourselves to the SYF team 2009 was always there, if not always bugging us seniors.. Tended to say that we had lesser practices than phyllis' batch and stuff.. But yeah we realised soon that having more pracs doesn't necessarily equate to higher standards.
Sorry for losing faith in us quite a few times.. yesterday when the announcer went like 'nanyang girls' high school...' -long pause-, idk what the hell the pause was for and until now I still don't know, I started crying already for fear that we couldn't get what we wanted. And when he finally decided to announce the results, those in our huddle cried (and this joan and kf ah pls cry more glamourously next time leh) and for once I really found that we all truly had the common passion for NYCO, nydizi and all its members, and that even if the announcer really announced that we got the other award with 3 words, this common desire to be the best we can ever be, to show mrs ee and all the other COs what we are truly made of, is more than enough for me to declare that I love all of you, nydizi and NYCO! and myself HAHA.
This SYF journey was really quite arduous cos I would say dizi SYF batch'11 is a batch comprising of so many elements like confidence and faith and trust and belief.. That was scary sometimes to hear of how you all were so confident that we could do it when sometimes we really didn't perform up to expectations. So for all the pep talks we've given you, this was the reason behind them, though in our hearts we already know how pro you all are :D
Thanks for believing in NYdizi, hong lao and yourself because without this simple action from you juniors, I don't know what I would have done.. hmm.. maybe I would have jumped off M401..
This is my batch's last year in NYCO, and I'm really touched and surprised by our standard, we might not be the best in SG, or the best in bt timah or whatever but we are the best in our hearts! and that's all that matters! it'd be good if we get into SYF showcase though! Thanks nydizi for providing us with all these wonderful memories that will never cease to exist, and that nydizi includes the sec 2s and 1s too! we never forgot about you all okay! In fact we talk about you guys so often during CCA :D
Don't laugh hor but during our zheng performance ytd I almost cried (AGAIN) cos I could really feel the music for once (?). I'm not guniang okay my tears are produced involuntarily! Shijia's xun solo for yaotian was scary and eerie too, and the note which we all played after her solo - hope it woke up the yellow 'fat' guy who was sleeping. neh neh ni poo poo BLEH price to pay for sleeping. -.- okay lah joking. But I really felt like we did one of our best yesterday, might not be the best but certainly not the worst! Mrs Ee was proud of us too so we should be proud of ourselves as well for being to keep up to our standard!!
Was really surprised how so many of us were so calm before and during the performance (can't say about after lah), like before that we were all sitting down and taking turns to go to the toilet but in my almost perfect memory (haha) nobody said they were nervous and nobody was desperately trying to do qigong to calm themselves down!!
The performance was really a great experience, regardless of whether we touched the audience or not, we still touched ourselves. sounds so freaking wrong.. HAHA 毛手毛脚 (btw honglao says he was touched by our performance!!) yay!
So congrats to all of us for getting a GOLD WITH HONOURS for the FOURTH CONSECUTIVE TIME!! PROUD OF ALL OF US!
and to the other COs, congrats for putting in your very best efforts in SYF'11, the mere award will never be able to accurately pinpoint the amount of hard work you put in, nor surpass the passion you have for your CO! every CO has a strength, and it's up to all of us to expound on it so the results will forever pale in comparison to the bond you share with your CO.
to our dear juniors, beatrix, kemerly, carmen, yingxuan and yuting, thank you all for being so so so nice and cute and encouraging!!! beatrix we love you for being there to help us take care of our stuff and for providing me with amusement haha!!!!!!!
and to all our seniors! thank you for making the effort to come down to watch us perform onstage, esp the ancient seniors like elise and ger etc, not saying you guys are old but your presence really made a difference!
and to honglao, he'll probably never read this but ahem we all love you!
let's pray we all get into SYF showcase alright? then we can perform to our hearts' content once again on that very same SCH stage with the very same fantastic and awesome conductor Mrs Ee, whom we all love and adore so very much <3
Yo yo people decided to post something:D (i'm supposed to be doing HMP now)
It's 8 days to SYF counting today! And tmr would be officially A WEEK to SYF!! Haha I'm not here to stress everyone to lian cos I'm sure you all do that at home right right? If you're still not lianing at home at this stage I'm gonna whack you with my DIDAI (NOT DIZI) tmr horh!!!! (I still stressed everyone to lian anyway. Nvm~~~)
Hmmm. I just want to ask everyone a question - what do you play music for? (DON'T WORRY THIS IS NOT A PEP TALK)
Ok I should rephrase - why do you love music?
Music... music is basically the language of the heart. It's something that will betray your state your mind without fail and it's impossible to lie with it. When you're playing people can tell if you're bored, tired, energetic, happy, contented... No matter how good you are at lying (not saying that anyone here is a habitual liar), you cannot, cannot lie with what you're playing.
Makes sense? What I'm trying to say here is - feel the music that you play! I know it's easier for zheng, but try your best to do the same for yaotian too! Yaotian is actually a very beautiful piece. What kind of feelings do you get when you play manban? A sense of anticipation? What about kuaiban? Do you feel the beat, the rhythm pulsing inside you when you play? Most of all, do you feel a passion, a bond that penetrates the entire CO when we play together? If you did that, then your performance is successful (:
Ok yinzhun and all the other stuff aside, the main objective of any performance is the FEELING you get when you play. This is one of the reasons I'm addicted to playing in the CO haha. You feel the bond whenever you play, and you will never, ever feel lonely when you're playing with everyone else. Cos well, we're all together right?:D
Lets strive for this feeling every dazu, every audi prac, and of course on stage. If one person starts feeling the music, another person would be "infected" and it will spread!!:D
One tip for feeling the music - TAIFENG! When you try your best to move, the feeling just comes to you naturally and it's the same the other way round! When you feel the music, "release your body from its bonds" and MOOOOOOVE to your heart's content! Like it's just a higher level version of swaying to a pop song like err Lucifer?
My friend from band just shared with me today about her experiences this SYF. She said that as long as you felt the music on stage, it's not the award that matters. As long as you experienced the togetherness on stage, there's no need to care about whatever award we got. We would have won anyway.
I'm not saying that we can't get GWH. I'm saying, that what really matters that you enjoyed the experience on stage, and that this experience will forever be a memorable one for you, and that your heart thumped with the music on stage.
So, lets open up our hearts to the music and MOOOVE!!:D
Jiayou with lianing!! Yep as Fennie said in the last post, we cannot get complacent! There's still a lot of stuff to improve on!!! BUT WE CAN DO IT.
I'm proud of you guys(: (I hope I did convey this correctly ._.)
hey guys, because I'm so free now after school I decided to post something.. and make the blog look not so cheena hahaa. soo as it is we have like 8 days left to SYF as of today? hope everyone's practising yinzhun at home!! (though my yinzhun sucks) cos we have to reserve lunch pracs and aft-sch pracs for coordination and feeling and taifeng! I think we're almost slipping into the complacent mode already.. because well, zheng was kinda easy for us to get the basics so maybe we all started to relax after awhile? but what we have to do now is to delve into the deeper significance and magnificence of zheng! and also yaotian! LET'S ALL TRY TOGETHERRRRRRRRR TOGETHERRRRR TOGETHERRRRRR!!! because we don't want to leave without regrets, so we have to do our best.. remember the promise we all made that time to shijia that we will practise on every sat and sun on our own at home? idk how many people actually really did.. I know I didn't prac on one of the fateful sundays.. :X but at least I stayed back today to prac a bit! :D I want to thank those who really make an effort to turn up for practices since pracs are ever so important. (which is everyone lah we're all quite proactive..?? right right??) but I think our pracs are sometimes or rather, often, quite unproductive because sometimes we crap too much.. not the literal meaning, but yeah our attention gets diverted sometimes. I know it's normal of girls and I talk a lot too but WEF today, please concentrate during practices!! LET'S ALL TRY TOGETHERRRRR TOGETHERRRR TOGETHERRRRRRRR~ then we can end earlier and eat more beijing dumplings. -cues proclamation of '我是个北京人!!!!'- from shijia :) Oh and ytd's dazu.. you know like almost 1hr was spent on us.. :( i need to lian the freaking xiaodi.. but take note of kuaiban and guangban, mainly the second and third page of yaotian! when you're rotting on the bus/car/mrt/at home/in the coffin(?), and you have absolutely nothing to do, just think of yaotian and zheng and how you would play each bar in the pieces.. I do that in my dreams! haha seriously! so I believe we all can do it and we've come a nong nong way so what's another few more days of hardship? 先苦后甜 right? if we get the result we want, we'd be 'as happy as a lark'. haha primary school english. with the fluffy marigold clouds drifting across the azure blue sky aiya whatever lah JIAYOU GUYS!!fennie PS THIS IS A SHOUT OUT TO YIXIN AND JOAN TO STOP ABUSING YOUR SENIOR'S CHEEKSEDIT: THE SCHOOL COM IS SO ANNOYING TO THE EXTENT THAT PARAGRAPHING BECOMES SCREWED SO IT'S NOT MY FAULT TYVM
虽然古代音乐总共有十二个音，但一次只会用五个或者是七个音来组成曲子。运用五个音的叫“五音调”，运用七个音的叫“七音调”。五音调中的音称为：宫，商，角，征，羽。七音调中则加了两个音：宫，商，角，变征，征，羽，变宫。宫与商之间永远相差一个全音(major 2nd, e.g. C to D, 1 to 2 on C diao)，角与征之间永远相距一个小三度(minor 3rd. e.g. 2 to 4 on C diao, D to F)。
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SEC 1'11
Yu Ting<3<3(16/7/1998) Winner of most adorable person award
Carmen<3<3(14/8/1998)
Ying Xuan<3<3(21/7/1998)
SEC 2'11
Joan<3<3<3(7/6/1997) Winner of SIAO-est person award
Qian Shan<3<3<3 (25/10/1997) Winner of the -.- est person award
Kemerly <3<3<3(7/2/1997)
Beatrix <3<3<3(13/12/1997) Winner of lamest person award
SEC 3'11
(I LOVE KEY)Sally!!:D (12/2/1996)
Yi Xin!!:D (21/3/1996)
SEC 4'11
(I LOVE MYSELF)Fennie (31/8/1995)
Keng Fang (29/1/1995) Winner of loudest person award
Shi Jia (5/12/1994) Winner of most retarded person (ever) award
SEC 4'10
Grace (8/8/1994)
Lai Teng (7/11/1994)
Victoria (4/10/1994) Winner of most EGO person award
Yu Min (23/11/1994)
SEC 4'09
Pamela (16/11/1993)
Phyllis (27/10/1993)
Wan Ting (15/6/1993)
SEC 4'08
Elise (16/7/1992)
Jia Qi
Jin Yao (1/4/1992)
Liu Chang
Portia (27/4/1992)
SEC 4'07
Yuqin
Li Fern
SEC 4'06
Juliana
Sin Yee
Xin Er
Jing Lin
SEC 4'05
Jun Hua
Cai Na
Jaime
Yin Shan
SEC 4'04
Zhixuan
Sabrina
Ying Ying
Hei Man
SEC 4'03
Geraldine
Karin
Mei Sum
Yunsu
SEC 4'01
Kia Min
Ker Choon
Jia Xin
Qiu Chan
Qing Ying
seemed so far and hard to reach 6 months ago. I have to admit that there really were many times when I thought we wouldn't be able to do it, but I hope I never showed it to any of you (maybe to kengfang)! The lack of confidence could probably be attributed to the significant decrease in the amount of practices lah so please think first before deciding to attack me with your mum's chopper.
making comparisons to SYF 2009 was futile and foolish, I wasn't in SYF 2009 but still the tendency to compare ourselves to the SYF team 2009 was always there, if not always bugging us seniors.. Tended to say that we had lesser practices than phyllis' batch and stuff.. But yeah we realised soon that having more pracs doesn't necessarily equate to higher standards.
Sorry for losing faith in us quite a few times.. yesterday when the announcer went like 'nanyang girls' high school...' -long pause-, idk what the hell the pause was for and until now I still don't know, I started crying already for fear that we couldn't get what we wanted. And when he finally decided to announce the results, those in our huddle cried (and this joan and kf ah pls cry more glamourously next time leh) and for once I really found that we all truly had the common passion for NYCO, nydizi and all its members, and that even if the announcer really announced that we got the other award with 3 words, this common desire to be the best we can ever be, to show mrs ee and all the other COs what we are truly made of, is more than enough for me to declare that I love all of you, nydizi and NYCO! and myself HAHA.
This SYF journey was really quite arduous cos I would say dizi SYF batch'11 is a batch comprising of so many elements like confidence and faith and trust and belief.. That was scary sometimes to hear of how you all were so confident that we could do it when sometimes we really didn't perform up to expectations. So for all the pep talks we've given you, this was the reason behind them, though in our hearts we already know how pro you all are :D
Thanks for believing in NYdizi, hong lao and yourself because without this simple action from you juniors, I don't know what I would have done.. hmm.. maybe I would have jumped off M401..
This is my batch's last year in NYCO, and I'm really touched and surprised by our standard, we might not be the best in SG, or the best in bt timah or whatever but we are the best in our hearts! and that's all that matters! it'd be good if we get into SYF showcase though! Thanks nydizi for providing us with all these wonderful memories that will never cease to exist, and that nydizi includes the sec 2s and 1s too! we never forgot about you all okay! In fact we talk about you guys so often during CCA :D
Don't laugh hor but during our zheng performance ytd I almost cried (AGAIN) cos I could really feel the music for once (?). I'm not guniang okay my tears are produced involuntarily! Shijia's xun solo for yaotian was scary and eerie too, and the note which we all played after her solo - hope it woke up the yellow 'fat' guy who was sleeping. neh neh ni poo poo BLEH price to pay for sleeping. -.- okay lah joking. But I really felt like we did one of our best yesterday, might not be the best but certainly not the worst! Mrs Ee was proud of us too so we should be proud of ourselves as well for being to keep up to our standard!!
Was really surprised how so many of us were so calm before and during the performance (can't say about after lah), like before that we were all sitting down and taking turns to go to the toilet but in my almost perfect memory (haha) nobody said they were nervous and nobody was desperately trying to do qigong to calm themselves down!!
The performance was really a great experience, regardless of whether we touched the audience or not, we still touched ourselves. sounds so freaking wrong.. HAHA 毛手毛脚 (btw honglao says he was touched by our performance!!) yay!
So congrats to all of us for getting a GOLD WITH HONOURS for the FOURTH CONSECUTIVE TIME!! PROUD OF ALL OF US!
and to the other COs, congrats for putting in your very best efforts in SYF'11, the mere award will never be able to accurately pinpoint the amount of hard work you put in, nor surpass the passion you have for your CO! every CO has a strength, and it's up to all of us to expound on it so the results will forever pale in comparison to the bond you share with your CO.
to our dear juniors, beatrix, kemerly, carmen, yingxuan and yuting, thank you all for being so so so nice and cute and encouraging!!! beatrix we love you for being there to help us take care of our stuff and for providing me with amusement haha!!!!!!!
and to all our seniors! thank you for making the effort to come down to watch us perform onstage, esp the ancient seniors like elise and ger etc, not saying you guys are old but your presence really made a difference!
and to honglao, he'll probably never read this but ahem we all love you!
let's pray we all get into SYF showcase alright? then we can perform to our hearts' content once again on that very same SCH stage with the very same fantastic and awesome conductor Mrs Ee, whom we all love and adore so very much <3
Yo yo people decided to post something:D (i'm supposed to be doing HMP now)
It's 8 days to SYF counting today! And tmr would be officially A WEEK to SYF!! Haha I'm not here to stress everyone to lian cos I'm sure you all do that at home right right? If you're still not lianing at home at this stage I'm gonna whack you with my DIDAI (NOT DIZI) tmr horh!!!! (I still stressed everyone to lian anyway. Nvm~~~)
Hmmm. I just want to ask everyone a question - what do you play music for? (DON'T WORRY THIS IS NOT A PEP TALK)
Ok I should rephrase - why do you love music?
Music... music is basically the language of the heart. It's something that will betray your state your mind without fail and it's impossible to lie with it. When you're playing people can tell if you're bored, tired, energetic, happy, contented... No matter how good you are at lying (not saying that anyone here is a habitual liar), you cannot, cannot lie with what you're playing.
Makes sense? What I'm trying to say here is - feel the music that you play! I know it's easier for zheng, but try your best to do the same for yaotian too! Yaotian is actually a very beautiful piece. What kind of feelings do you get when you play manban? A sense of anticipation? What about kuaiban? Do you feel the beat, the rhythm pulsing inside you when you play? Most of all, do you feel a passion, a bond that penetrates the entire CO when we play together? If you did that, then your performance is successful (:
Ok yinzhun and all the other stuff aside, the main objective of any performance is the FEELING you get when you play. This is one of the reasons I'm addicted to playing in the CO haha. You feel the bond whenever you play, and you will never, ever feel lonely when you're playing with everyone else. Cos well, we're all together right?:D
Lets strive for this feeling every dazu, every audi prac, and of course on stage. If one person starts feeling the music, another person would be "infected" and it will spread!!:D
One tip for feeling the music - TAIFENG! When you try your best to move, the feeling just comes to you naturally and it's the same the other way round! When you feel the music, "release your body from its bonds" and MOOOOOOVE to your heart's content! Like it's just a higher level version of swaying to a pop song like err Lucifer?
My friend from band just shared with me today about her experiences this SYF. She said that as long as you felt the music on stage, it's not the award that matters. As long as you experienced the togetherness on stage, there's no need to care about whatever award we got. We would have won anyway.
I'm not saying that we can't get GWH. I'm saying, that what really matters that you enjoyed the experience on stage, and that this experience will forever be a memorable one for you, and that your heart thumped with the music on stage.
So, lets open up our hearts to the music and MOOOVE!!:D
Jiayou with lianing!! Yep as Fennie said in the last post, we cannot get complacent! There's still a lot of stuff to improve on!!! BUT WE CAN DO IT.
I'm proud of you guys(: (I hope I did convey this correctly ._.)
hey guys, because I'm so free now after school I decided to post something.. and make the blog look not so cheena hahaa. soo as it is we have like 8 days left to SYF as of today? hope everyone's practising yinzhun at home!! (though my yinzhun sucks) cos we have to reserve lunch pracs and aft-sch pracs for coordination and feeling and taifeng! I think we're almost slipping into the complacent mode already.. because well, zheng was kinda easy for us to get the basics so maybe we all started to relax after awhile? but what we have to do now is to delve into the deeper significance and magnificence of zheng! and also yaotian! LET'S ALL TRY TOGETHERRRRRRRRR TOGETHERRRRR TOGETHERRRRRR!!! because we don't want to leave without regrets, so we have to do our best.. remember the promise we all made that time to shijia that we will practise on every sat and sun on our own at home? idk how many people actually really did.. I know I didn't prac on one of the fateful sundays.. :X but at least I stayed back today to prac a bit! :D I want to thank those who really make an effort to turn up for practices since pracs are ever so important. (which is everyone lah we're all quite proactive..?? right right??) but I think our pracs are sometimes or rather, often, quite unproductive because sometimes we crap too much.. not the literal meaning, but yeah our attention gets diverted sometimes. I know it's normal of girls and I talk a lot too but WEF today, please concentrate during practices!! LET'S ALL TRY TOGETHERRRRR TOGETHERRRR TOGETHERRRRRRRR~ then we can end earlier and eat more beijing dumplings. -cues proclamation of '我是个北京人!!!!'- from shijia :) Oh and ytd's dazu.. you know like almost 1hr was spent on us.. :( i need to lian the freaking xiaodi.. but take note of kuaiban and guangban, mainly the second and third page of yaotian! when you're rotting on the bus/car/mrt/at home/in the coffin(?), and you have absolutely nothing to do, just think of yaotian and zheng and how you would play each bar in the pieces.. I do that in my dreams! haha seriously! so I believe we all can do it and we've come a nong nong way so what's another few more days of hardship? 先苦后甜 right? if we get the result we want, we'd be 'as happy as a lark'. haha primary school english. with the fluffy marigold clouds drifting across the azure blue sky aiya whatever lah JIAYOU GUYS!!fennie PS THIS IS A SHOUT OUT TO YIXIN AND JOAN TO STOP ABUSING YOUR SENIOR'S CHEEKSEDIT: THE SCHOOL COM IS SO ANNOYING TO THE EXTENT THAT PARAGRAPHING BECOMES SCREWED SO IT'S NOT MY FAULT TYVM
虽然古代音乐总共有十二个音，但一次只会用五个或者是七个音来组成曲子。运用五个音的叫“五音调”，运用七个音的叫“七音调”。五音调中的音称为：宫，商，角，征，羽。七音调中则加了两个音：宫，商，角，变征，征，羽，变宫。宫与商之间永远相差一个全音(major 2nd, e.g. C to D, 1 to 2 on C diao)，角与征之间永远相距一个小三度(minor 3rd. e.g. 2 to 4 on C diao, D to F)。
