The SST Show Choir Experience

I remember when I was still in P6, I went for SST's open house. Since my CCA at that time in primary school was choir, during one of the Q&A sessions, I asked something like "Is there a choir in SST?" The speakers that day said that the school had too little people to start a choir, and mentioned nothing about the interest group managed by Ms Pat Ng.

So imagine my surprise when I heard about the auditions to this interest group. After thinking really hard about it, I signed up. That's when I first met Ryuuki, but we didn't become closer until Sec 2. I sang Ariana Grande's version of Love the Way you Lie to Ms Ng and the group of seniors carrying out the auditions. Back then, I was an uber skrub singer who had zero confidence in my singing. And I could not dance at all, not even to that Justin Bieber song. oh yeah Joshua was there too lol

Basically, I sucked so bad that I had to reaudition. So for the next audition, I sang Taylor Swift's Safe and Sound while playing the piano. And somehow, somehow, I got in. Looking back on that, I can say that choosing to audition was one of the best decisions I have made in my life.

our conductor Mr Khoo is awesome lol.

My first performance as part of the SST Show Choir was a school performance, Moves like Jagger, choreographed by the super talented seniors.

We decided to become a full CCA I think at the end of Sec 1. So this became my second CCA. Of course, it wasn't all good. There were definitely times when I really didn't want to attend practice and things like that. But overall, it was awesome.

I joined the sopranos and I had wonderful seniors. Whenever we had practices, I would look forward to sectionals, where we could work on our parts together (I miss the seniors hahaha). and never did I imagine, at that point of time, that I'd one day be the sectional leader of our very very wonderful part.

We all had other CCAs, but becasue we needed the time to prepare for our very first competition as a show choir, (now called Bdazzled but used to be called the Singapore Show Choir Competition or something like that), we all had to pick a CCA to drop. And although I loved and I still do love Taekwondo, transferring from that to Show Choir was another decision I don't regret.

so we worked on DJ's Got us Falling in Love Again as well as Edge of Glory with Ms D. That was tough because I completely sucked at dancing, but I tried really hard. the seniors helped me a lot with singing and dancing. We were all really sad when we didn't even get the chance to present Edge of Glory, but of course, there were always other performances like the ship thing and of course, in school to our ever-supportive schoolmates.

CCA days flew past. we performed at the esplanade, and at our school's opening ceremony (it's a celebration hahahaha), for SST celebrations... our small choir participated in our very first SYF with the set piece Singapore our Home, Light of Night and Ritmo. and we got distinction.

we did Rumours with Mr Justin and Mr Amin for our second bdazz and Lights/Stronger with Ms Melo and Mr Zhupz for our third. we participated in all Chingay and stuff. I won't forget the random pullout events too made possible by our show choir, like that time when Ryuuki and I did the Happy Syn thing :D and sing for passionarts thing and the CNY performance. all the happiness and the sadness... those would be times that I'd never forget.

this week wednesday, we participated in our second SYF ever, with our very first French song Dirait-on, SYF's very first jazz piece + special scat Lullaby of Birdland, and SYF's very first taste of pop, Firework (with Ms Melo's choreo woots). we did well. results on 22/4 I think.

my SST Show Choir experience has come to an end (until the next bonding camp hahaha). but for everyone still journeying, I hope it'll be as wonderful and fulfilling as mine was. or more.

Special thanks to Ms Pat Ng for making us possible, and to the school for always believing in us.

Good luck juniors for the next BDazzled! this time will win ;) ;)

Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting the SST Show Choir.

farming potatoes

what do I wanna be?

this is a tough question.

I like some things. I like biology/biotechnology. I like music. I like variety.

I don't really dislike anything that much.

I would prefer it if my job is about what I like.

I don't want to be a school teacher, a lawyer, or an accountant.

I may not want to be an engineer.

I may want to be a doctor, like my brother. he's currently specialising in psychiatry.

I may want to be a piano teacher.

I think I'll just be a potato farmer.

OKAY. today I'll be talking about

Lucid Dreaming (the scientifics)

sorry, 2 days late for the week, and a disappointingly short post as well.

I have to write about this for an actual book, so yay, killing 2 birds with 1 stone yeahhhh ;)

though this won't be exactly what I will be putting in lah

the outline that my teammate Angeline has so awesomely typed out (with a bit of modification) is this:

• What are dreams?

• Occurs during the REM sleep
• Lucid dreams
• Difference between a normal dream and a lucid dream:
• A dream in which one is aware that they are dreaming and is able to make conscious decisions and control his dreams
• Examples (from speaking to people)
• Lucid dream experiments
• Uses: Dream therapy for nightmare

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Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/

Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind, usually during REM sleep (characterised by continuous movements of the eyes during sleep) when brain activity is high and resembles that of being awake.

A lucid dream is any dream in which one is aware that one is dreaming.

In normal dreams, events are generally not within the control of the dreamer. However, in lucid dreams, the dreamer has greater chances to exert some degree of control over their participation within the dream or manipulate their imaginary experiences in the dream environment.

It is shown that there are higher amounts of beta-1 frequency band (13–19 Hz) brain wave activity experienced by lucid dreamers, hence there is an increased amount of activity in the parietal lobes making lucid dreaming a conscious process.

-insert Lucid Dreaming Interviews-

-insert lucid dream experiments-

sorry bad post.

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