SYF Closing Ceremony

Hello Pipa Liuqin,

Ytd's syf closing ceremony was our last moment together as hcico 09, the gwh team. Hcipipaliuqin has given me so much, and im so grateful to each one of you for making it so enjoyable.

Here's a recap of what happened. The night before, i smsed liuqin what to bring and so on, only pingxi replied, at 12.05am, wished him happy bday. I couldnt sleep, i was thinking about the concert and how everything's going to end so soon. Went to school, yanliang, long peng and i, we were all so excited we couldnt concentrate in class, i was super impatient for lessons to end. My lessons ended at 2 plus, went to eat with my co classmates. I didnt care about revising for my tests the next day haha.

Went to co room, took out all the blazers i had kept in the cupboard the day before, to let liuqiners try them on. Erhu left earlier than us, for their rehearsal for the finale, at around 4.30. By 5pm, benedict and jiawen were still not here. Jiawen was supposed to be on mc, but he didnt want to miss the concert so he came haha. Benedict had gone to his fren's house to study for chinese test, i actually told him wrongly that we had to leave at 5 plus. We were supposed to leave at 6.30 so we had some time before dinner then set off for esplanade. Tanbo zi dong again went to our usual spot behind to practise together, and tangc was saying good things about tanbo haha. Dinner was next. Before that jiawen was having a little difficulty finding a suitable blazer. For dinner, most of the tanbo ppl were sitting in a circle, but tangc was kind of blocking the way haha so liuqin sat and ate together. After dinner, we practised again, kenneth and benedict were putting chalk on their knobs. Almost everyone went to toilet before boarding the bus. The bus journey wasnt as bad as rehearsal's, probly bcos we were used to not making any noise in the bus.

At esplanade, we had to sit in some loading area for quite long, very warm. Liuqin were practising our solo part again and again haha. Honestly, i was quite gandong, cos u could see that they were trying their best and how much they wanted to do it well. Reunited with xyz, cellobass and chuida ppl in the fourth floor waiting room, ran thru kentucky. Then went to first floor to wait along the corridor outside the backstage. Waited very long there, somemore got to wait for 20min interval. Px and ken were sitting on the floor haha. Wu ls gave us the programme booklets to view. We were all laughing at the description of our co and our syf photo. Then zhentao ran down the corridor, and the whole hcico, everybody lining up along the sides, were laughing, quite mean lar haha. Went in to backstage at around 9.20pm. Quite a few scary things happened there, px dropped some strings from ben's file, px's and ben's liuqin zouyin, and the most scary was we only had one spare liuqin yixian left, cant afford to break any strings. Lucky their liuqins were tiao'ed zhun in time. Waiting backstage was quite nervous. Ben was the first to enter for our row, beside cello, so he was holding his liuqin in a way that was quite nice, diff from the rest of us haha. Then we walked onto stage, heart attack. Our gada was definitely better than our kentucky. Altho it wasnt our best, it was better than our usual dazu. And for gada last part 1 55 part, i was super impressed with benedict, i could see his huanba and mine were totally coordinated, he played it so so well. I saw my parents, but i didnt realise ben's mum and my mum were sitting next to each other haha, they were talking to each other, and my mum told me they both thought liuqin only had two of us. Ben also managed to spot px's parents haha.

Walked off the stage, so relieved, everything's finally completed. Got back to salt centre, erhu stayed behind for finale. The rest of the co were released first. Tangc declared friday a break. And yijing officially handed the co to the next comm. Our job has been done, it's now on to you guys. Took some photos together as hcico tanbo 09 at our favourite spot at the back of co room, where we had extra fenzus, pracs before syf and concert, where we always put our bags, and our storage cupboards, and with the spoilt liuqin's cupboard door haha. It was a memorable spot for us. The photos are below.

To pipaliuqin, thank you for being such great friends. To my fellow liuqin juniors, i am super proud of you guys, you all have been superb juniors. You all have grown up, i still rmb u all last time quite slack and bochap about co one. Chiuyin, take good care of them. May you all always stay together!

Yao Zhang

30th July

Ok, this is my first ever blog post and i want to make use of this to thank all of you. What started out as one of the most sian school day turned out to be enjoyable and special. I was'nt really happy when i found out that the performance night was on my birthday, but now it's a memorable and unique day for me.
Cutting a long post short, i really want to give tanbo and Yao Zhang a big thank you. If it weren't for Yao Zhang, our section would have died as we were lacking motivation. Tanbo has also turned into a fun place to be in, my view of CO has also changed with that.
Lastly, on the behalf on Kenneth xD, who would like to go watch a movie next friday ?(National day celebrations) If yes, choose one or suggest another show: -G.I Joe -Up

PX!

SYF Closing Ceremony

Hi Pipa Liuqin,

We had our rehearsals for the closing ceremony today. It has been a long day for all of you, so much waiting, so much standing, so much of wasting time. All the best to those of you having tests this week also, hope you are able to cope well with co pracs, any problems with ur revision, zhunsong and i can help you. Liuqiners, rmb ur order for lining up, benedict, yz, pingxi and then kenneth. If you think the chair is quite low, like i do, u can unscrew the liuqin stand a bit so that ur liuqin is higher. If your palms are sweaty, let me know, i'll bring tissue paper. If your hands easy cold, maybe u can put ur hands inside ur pockets i help u hold ur liuqin, then before going onto stage then u take back ur liuqin. If u feel ur hands not 'seasoned' yet, then practise before we go to the backstage as warm up.

Tmr co starts at 4pm as usual, be early. Pingxi u will have to change ur yixian. Kenneth, hope you can come, get well soon. Benedict, tmr treat it as a real performance, try to play everything with no mistakes, i know you can play everything perfectly one, just that sometimes u too nervous or ur hand not warmed up yet. Pipa, today's rehearsal u all were good, dynamics for gada were good, rythm for kentucky was better than dazu, keep it up. Chiuyin was especially clear, i could hear him from my seat haha, but pipa must still play louder esp kentucky got some pipa solo parts. This week going to be quite tiring for everyone, but give ur best, it's really rare to get this opportunity. Put in more taifeng on that day, make sure u lift ur hands the way we agreed on in xiaozu. Hopefully you all will be able to go overseas for concert next year.

Three more days and it's all over, freedom. No more extra prac, no more forcing u all to practise liuqin or pipa, no more forcing to bring back ur instruments, or forcing u to come for co all the time. Quite sad. I still rmb the time i was asking nigel to come over to liuqin. Liuqiners, perform well for the concert, so that my promise to nigel will be fulfilled. And everyone, it's our last performance together. Jiayou!!

Yao Zhang

Extra make-up xiaozu by Liu ls

hello everyone.

this is one of the few times im posting.haha.liu ls needs to have make-up xiaozu on tues.maybe from 2-4pm.just before xiaozu.but i know ken, zheng xun and I have lessons until 3.20pm.pingxi, when does your lesson end? and who else cannot come for make-up xiaozu? pls write in the tagboard.thanks(: maybe it doesnt have to be next tues.it can the one after since some of us dont have instruments with us.write it in the tagboard too if you dont have your instruments with u.thanks.

chiu yin