I HAVE NO IDEA WHY! I just can't fall asleep... Goodness. Is it the chocolate fault /: anyway, whatever might be the reason, I'm gonna blog to try and tire myself out so that I can have kind of like an "early" night. If that is even possible...
Well, anyway, yesterday was a Monday. So like all Monday, I had chorale today! However, today I left the house at 4pm although chorale starts at 6:30pm. Reason being me and Priscina has already set that we were going to meet at Tampines 1 at 5pm to buy the materials for Sophia's cars :D
Sophia, my Exclusive sister-in-law's sister, birthday is on 19th September which happens to fall on a Wednesday. So Priscina was saying that why not we do something for her to celebrate her birthday. And I'm like why not. As we weren't be meeting up on Wednesday, hence we plan to give the card on Tuesday instead. Hence, common sense would tell us that the card must be done by Tuesday. Hence, me and Priscina decided to meet up earlier to buy the materials for the card.
However, I left the house planning to reach Tampines 1 by 4:30pm (which I did.). The reason was because I wanted to drop by Daiso@T1. Reason being that in 2 weeks time, it's going to be Children's Day celebration for the kids. And I felt that it would be sweet/nice if the teachers gave their classes a gift separately. I mean, if I was a kid, I would totally love it if that happened. Well, it so happened that this month, I'm on teaching duty. Hence I felt that it was super apt that I give each primary 1 and 2 kid a gift to celebrate their childhood (: cause at the end of the day, when the kids look back, they will want to remember all the happy times they have. And for me, I always feel super happy when a teacher gives us a present regardless of the occasion. Unless, it's homework. -,-
So I went and walked around Daiso@T1. Combed the area and rationalized what gifts to get for those 10 kids or so. I pretty much got an idea of what to give. But I still gotta discuss it with my co-teacher/helper. But at least I have the rough idea... So it's good (:
Well, after awhile, I met up with Priscina and went to Urban Write to buy the materials for the card... It took awhile to finalize on the materials and originally was waiting for the arrival of Wei Min so that we can hear her opinion. However, she was 44mins late. So we were forced to just purchase the items.
Once we paid the things, we had to immediately rush to school to meet the rest so that they can write a note for Sophia. However, we did not have much time to do that as we reached school pretty late... So all we could do was just try to complete as much as we could before chorale. Then the rest will just be completed tomorrow.
So we headed up for chorale. And I recieved my first present from my dear. A bottle of honeylemon <3 HAHA! Super sweet of her. Keke! My throat is better. But I don't want to risk irritating it making it worsen during today's practice, so I bought 2 bottles just incase. My dear tweeted to me on Saturday(?) that she would make for me honeylemon to soothe my then terrible sore throat. Haha! I thought she was kidding, so I bought 2 bottles on my own. However, turned out, she really bought one bottle for me. Which I'm super happy and grateful for. (: at least my dear cares for me(;
(for the photo of the bottle of honeylemon. Check out my Instagram @ilovetomatoes)
So anyway, started warm ups before splitting into sectionals where we covered Luk Luk Lumbu and Northern Lights. Tighten up certain areas and cleared up certain doubts. When we last saw Darius, the choir kinda got a scolding for Darius for Northern Lights. Cause it was really all over the place. Well at least for the altos...
Do you realized that in a choir piece, usually the sopranos have an easier time mastering theirs whereas the altos have a more difficult time. When this was brought up, my seniors said it was due to the parts we are given. Usually altos are given all the parts with the weird weird notes. That's why it's harder for us to catch the tune and all. Honestly, is this the truth? Je ne sais pas. But I got to agree that sopranos do have an easier time. And I theorize it's so as its easier for us to go (sing) higher. But for us to go (sing) lower, it takes effort.
However, it's not impossible for the altos part to stand out in the choir. It may be difficult to make our part more audible (in the sense that our part can be clearly heard but the different parts voices still remain blended) but definitely not impossible. All we need is practice and confidence. Altos FTW!
Anyway, once Darius came, we started combine practice. We begun with Lik Luk Lumbu followed by Northern Lights. Once that was over, we went through the pronunciation of the non-English part of the new score titled "the Conversion of Saul" and once that was done, chorale was over and I gladly quickly headed home.
Once I reached home, I ate my "second"dinner and than started to search for the song - the Conversion of Saul - on YouTube. And unlike some pieces, this was relatively easy to find. However, like MOST pieces it was difficult to follow the video. It was especially challenging during the first half of the video as it was firstly, quite fast paced and not to forget, in a different language! So it was really super hard to follow especially when they are singing so fast and in 8 different parts. Goodness gracious me. And like all other choir videos, the only outstanding voices that you can hear are the sopranos and the guys singing. Altos part, is pretty much MIA during playback ):
This makes it super hard for us to prepare cause we can't hear exactly how our part is like from YouTube since our part is more or less buried under the other parts. ): #thewoesofanalto
HAHA! As of now, we have 16 practices left and a total of 10 songs to learn. Leggo leggo! :B
So far, the songs already learnt are
1) Puppets Dream
2) Luk Luk Lumbu
3) Siyahamba
4) Northern Lights
Super excited for next practice (which is today)! Okie dokie! My eyelids are starting to feel heavy. It must be timefo sleep! Goodnighty!
Till we meet again! JYANNNN!
CHLOÉ
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