Saturday, August 19, 2006

Hi everyone! Before I go to the proper stuff, just wanted to blog about the concert.
I think we had alot to learn from this concert. It seems that a late afternoon concert is not a good choice. Although I admit I felt disappointed at first, I think we can treat this concert as a learning experience. I still was nervous on stage that day, so hopefully after a few more times, I won't be so nervous before a concert anymore. We wanted a post-concert celebration, right? I really wanted one too.. but I got to tell u now what we need to do by this month.

Firstly, I was STUNNED to know that the Teacher's Day Bazaar is starting on the coming Monday, 21/8. I was too preoccupied about the concert stuff that I chose to completely ignore about the deadlines about the other things. Luckily, everything seems to be in place now. I just to inform everyone of a few things.

The bazaar will be held for two weeks (21/8 -30-8) In case you don't know, 29/8 Tues is a school holiday due to Election Day, 31/8 Thurs is Teacher's Day celebrations and Friday is Teacher's Day Holiday! So actually, the bazaar will last only for 7 days instead of 10 days.

We will be selling cookies. A million thanks for Schezn who bought all 36 cookie cutters, from 'A' to 'Z'. For this coming Monday, it will be more on selling normal round cookies for the students to eat themselves and also them ordering the words that they would like. We will also provide some sampling for the first three days.

The pricing is as follows. Do give your comments if you have any.
5 letters: 50 cents each
10 letters: 40 cents each
more than 10 letter: 25 cents each.

Round cookies : 3 for $1

Stall duties:
We had only decided the duties for the first week. So for next week, Piano Ensemble will be in charge of the stall on wednesday and Friday and strings on Tuesday and Thursday. Monday will be both CCAs together as we foresee there will be some problems and we should have some representatives from each CCA to make the decision.

The stall duties are as follows:

Monday: Angela, Xinyu
Wednesday: Chu Ling, Yan Qin
Friday: Mufeng, Huei Li

Michelle will be doing the poster and Schezn has the most important role to play- that's baking the cookies! But feel free to visit the stall everyday, or rather, I strongly encourage everyone to visit it everyday! Just that the people in charge of each day need to take good care of the money and clean up after each break and lunch. And of course, providing good service. Time to see if you can be a good sales-girl! :-) Smile and go the extra mile. Or is it the other way round? Anyway, I remember it's GEMS. So figure out yourself what it stands for.

Next we are supposed to give a write-up to College Pub. for the annual school book or whatever it is called. (sorry I never bought it before ) We will need to submit a 100 words write-up by 1st September. I appeal everyone to give suggestions as what we want to include in this short write-up, so that Angela will have an easier time doing the final product.

As for the CCA best practice which we are doing a portfolio with the Strings, it is still in progress and I will contact you people when things are finalised. For the time being, Mufeng will be choosing 15-20 photos by tml night so that we can

So, when can we have a post-concert celebration? I seriously have no idea. Mr Seow will be having a workshop on 29/8 when we have no school. I shall discuss this together. Maybe we will have it after all these 3 events are over. Currently, I don't feel much different from the pre-concert days. I nearly choked when I know that the bazaar is on MOnday. Fyi, I was eating lunch when I got to know this news. Well, just got to think of the brighter side. The faster we do it, the earlier we can enjoy ourselves. So everyone, let's make this bazaar a memorable event for everyone! After that, we shall have a good celebration! After which, everyone need to STUDY DOUBLY HARD! Frankly, I am starting to panic a little. All thanks to everyone's support and encouragement, I am still surviving well so far. Thanks for all the laughter whenever we are together. Surely "Laughter is the best medicine" or should I say, immune booster? Even I was shocked myself when I woke up at 5 am today to complete both my Organic Chem and isomerism tutorials. I am starting to wonder where I got the energy from. Is it what YQ said, it's the power of Piano Ensemble that makes me so hyper the whole day or should you say, weeks? You need to exclude Economics tutorials though. I really struggle to keep awake during those lessons. Anyway, I certainly need this energy level till the end of October for me to survive Promos and PW WELL.

Lastly, Mr Seow really appeals to everyone to practise the piano at least 10-15 mins everyday. Or is it 20 mins? I really can't remember. Anyway, really hope everyone makes an effort to do so, if not you might have a really hard time when we resume proper practice during the holidays and especially the camp. u know, you will be sleeping just next to the piano, so you won't want to have nightmares during the camp. :-)

Just for everyone's information, we will be playing Liang Zu, Waltz of the Flowers and Bach's Brandenburg Concerto next Sat (26/8) for some Poetry thing.

Xinyu
THE PIANISTS. 10:09 PM
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