Quiet is the New Loud
About
Friday, March 12, 2004
long, long ago.
for a recap of the past 2 weeks..
the first week i dun really rmb much. only just that it was another hectic wk.
tues drama went for the 'phantom catz' performance @ kallang theatre. the sec 1s and most of sec 2s went, and 6 sec 4s went. when we went there, me and jasonw. were abit embarrased coz there were alot of lower sec and we were like the few with long pants. but inside the theatre there were more upper sec *phew*. the performance: starting it was abit blur as their voices cannot really be heard, esp when some 'cats' used the french accent. the play was like 4/1's class play, the phantom of the opera. the 'phantom catz' had alot of songs and dances for sure. the most interesting part must be those little pickpocket-cats. overall the play was interesting with elaborate props, though i did slp at some parts of the play.
sat was the high five youth award selecion interview @ the hdb hub @ toapayoh where the CSCDC office was. i tink i was sorta late but not really (they asked us to report 45 mins earlier before our actual time of interview). there were a few ppl.. most of them are part of the alumni. there was this guy from beatty sec sch and we chatted for a while before another of his friend, a girl, came. den i was left alone while they chatted. and after a while, a gal from nanyang came in. didn't really talk much coz after a while was my turn. the interview could kill. i was sitted in front of a row of interviewees of like 5 ppl. the main man was assuring. but the woman sitted next to him really fired qns in her high use of vocab which really got me fumbled. having sore throat i was talking quite lowly, she asked 'what kind of events dat u can organise make u interested?', and i said my part, but she replied 'well u dun seem interested.' [wad??? duhx.] i left and one of another interviewee told me to take care and take some cough medicine. lol. left and the new wk came.
the second week which was the last week of sch was much better.
monday was the netball north zone finals. both the 'c' and 'b' div girls were playing for it. got the whole sch in a frenzy. like last yr ppl were sent to support and the councillors did go to cheer. it was raining thruout the journey to the yishun sports complex.
'c' girls played first and the starting both teams (vs northland) were at par.. northland did get some lead at times so did we.. but it was fated that northland beat us by 3 pts. so heart-breaking. [but one ting was dat the 'c' girls of our sch managed to win the sorts sch by 1 pt, so amazing] they got their bagpipe wadsoever grp to play and they were like banging away while cheering.
BUT we got back at them by winning the 'b' girls champion (vs northland, again~) !!! we won them by a whole 14 pts!!! put them to shame. we were like madness. 2 yrs running consecutive champion of the north zone. undisputed champion!!! so kewl.
i must say this. the councillors went there to cheer and earlier on we were told to let the cheerleading ppl lead and they will tell us wad to tell the crowd to cheer. alot of classes went down plus voluntary ppl so the crowd was real big. but still, northland cheered some sort louder then us. vp cheong was there and she was real pissed off dat the councillors and cheerleading ppl were not doing anyting, making the crowd so quiet compared to the small grp of northland. she sort of like called me over and was urging me to go on without the cheerleaders. den there were teachers who only complained and did not really encourage the crowd to cheer. u noe wad the real prob was?
1) never get a grp of ppl with pom poms to lead the crowd. they do better in a small grp.
2) never have a big crowd of hundred plus ppl, esp when they aren't enthu about cheering. it will just put us to shame. i rather have something like northland. small but loud and enthu.
3) never come up with too hard cheers. many of them won't noe wad is going on if they dunnoe the cheers.
4) always prepare enuf materials for the cheering: cheer scripts, loudhailers, flags, banners, lots of empty water bottle to make some noise.
5) always prepare some loud bangers to celebrate victory: the band to prepare drum roll and so as to egg the crowd to be more enthu and cheer.
following those, i will not end up with a wors sore throat.
sad to say we didn't have a free day holiday to celebrate like last yr. but still the holidays has come........ but will fade fast. *
the first week i dun really rmb much. only just that it was another hectic wk.
tues drama went for the 'phantom catz' performance @ kallang theatre. the sec 1s and most of sec 2s went, and 6 sec 4s went. when we went there, me and jasonw. were abit embarrased coz there were alot of lower sec and we were like the few with long pants. but inside the theatre there were more upper sec *phew*. the performance: starting it was abit blur as their voices cannot really be heard, esp when some 'cats' used the french accent. the play was like 4/1's class play, the phantom of the opera. the 'phantom catz' had alot of songs and dances for sure. the most interesting part must be those little pickpocket-cats. overall the play was interesting with elaborate props, though i did slp at some parts of the play.
sat was the high five youth award selecion interview @ the hdb hub @ toapayoh where the CSCDC office was. i tink i was sorta late but not really (they asked us to report 45 mins earlier before our actual time of interview). there were a few ppl.. most of them are part of the alumni. there was this guy from beatty sec sch and we chatted for a while before another of his friend, a girl, came. den i was left alone while they chatted. and after a while, a gal from nanyang came in. didn't really talk much coz after a while was my turn. the interview could kill. i was sitted in front of a row of interviewees of like 5 ppl. the main man was assuring. but the woman sitted next to him really fired qns in her high use of vocab which really got me fumbled. having sore throat i was talking quite lowly, she asked 'what kind of events dat u can organise make u interested?', and i said my part, but she replied 'well u dun seem interested.' [wad??? duhx.] i left and one of another interviewee told me to take care and take some cough medicine. lol. left and the new wk came.
the second week which was the last week of sch was much better.
monday was the netball north zone finals. both the 'c' and 'b' div girls were playing for it. got the whole sch in a frenzy. like last yr ppl were sent to support and the councillors did go to cheer. it was raining thruout the journey to the yishun sports complex.
'c' girls played first and the starting both teams (vs northland) were at par.. northland did get some lead at times so did we.. but it was fated that northland beat us by 3 pts. so heart-breaking. [but one ting was dat the 'c' girls of our sch managed to win the sorts sch by 1 pt, so amazing] they got their bagpipe wadsoever grp to play and they were like banging away while cheering.
BUT we got back at them by winning the 'b' girls champion (vs northland, again~) !!! we won them by a whole 14 pts!!! put them to shame. we were like madness. 2 yrs running consecutive champion of the north zone. undisputed champion!!! so kewl.
i must say this. the councillors went there to cheer and earlier on we were told to let the cheerleading ppl lead and they will tell us wad to tell the crowd to cheer. alot of classes went down plus voluntary ppl so the crowd was real big. but still, northland cheered some sort louder then us. vp cheong was there and she was real pissed off dat the councillors and cheerleading ppl were not doing anyting, making the crowd so quiet compared to the small grp of northland. she sort of like called me over and was urging me to go on without the cheerleaders. den there were teachers who only complained and did not really encourage the crowd to cheer. u noe wad the real prob was?
1) never get a grp of ppl with pom poms to lead the crowd. they do better in a small grp.
2) never have a big crowd of hundred plus ppl, esp when they aren't enthu about cheering. it will just put us to shame. i rather have something like northland. small but loud and enthu.
3) never come up with too hard cheers. many of them won't noe wad is going on if they dunnoe the cheers.
4) always prepare enuf materials for the cheering: cheer scripts, loudhailers, flags, banners, lots of empty water bottle to make some noise.
5) always prepare some loud bangers to celebrate victory: the band to prepare drum roll and so as to egg the crowd to be more enthu and cheer.
following those, i will not end up with a wors sore throat.
sad to say we didn't have a free day holiday to celebrate like last yr. but still the holidays has come........ but will fade fast. *