Chinese "Niu" Year Celebration

Friday, January 23, 2009

It was a rather enjoyable day today, and as you can guess from the title of this post, today we had the annual Chinese new celebrations today...rejoice :)

Although today is suppose to be a day of celebration, it is also a very tiring day for me as I am one of the performers for the Chinese New Year celebrations-Chinese Orchestra!


You all had to select your CCA last year, so what did you choose? Uniform Group? Performing Art? Sports? Or Clubs and Society? Whatever CCA it is, I am sure you have truly enjoyed your past one year with your CCA members and forged new friendships with others. Well, I’ve joined table Chinese Orchestra, together with my classmates: Clifford, Charley, Darren Gan and Kai Hui. I am so glad I have made the right choice. Although I must admit I am not a good player, my tempo is extremely atrocious but at least I have found joy and laughter there, making close friendships with the other friends and seniors. My friendships with others have developed to a deeper level and we have learned to understand each other better, undoubtly because of the time we spent with each other and the memories we shared that cannot be achieved between classmates.


So anyway, back to the topic. We were released at 9.00am (after D and T) and had our recess. Then, I went up to the CO room to practice my ‘zhong sheng’ before the performance.

This is a picture of kai hui (in the centre of the picture) playing his 'Zhong Hu'. He is one of the best player in his section, "Sian Yue" There are different sections in CO. They are mainly "Guan yue", "Sian Yue", Tanpo Yue", percussion, Cello and base. I am in "Guan Yue" and I play "Zhong Sheng" It is very very heavy...sigh:( Kai Hui please do not come after me...

At 10.10am, we carry our instruments to the hall. Now you may be wondering who in the right frame of mind would go down so early went the performance start at 10.45am? If you guess that we went down so early for fun, you are wrong! The reason is we were the first one to perform so we must be prepared and you must also know that if we went in later, we might collide with students that were moving in to the hall.


So yeah! As you know we were the first one to perform. Now you may be wondering what song did we performed or want to listen to the songs that we played again. Here’s your chance. The two songs that we performed were “喜洋洋”and “贺新年” respectively.


These two short clips were taken by my good friend, Marcus Tong


喜洋洋


贺新年


Isn't the video cool right? The guy playing with the golden pipes is me! And the golden pipe thing is actually "Zhong Sheng"

After we performed, we went back to CO room to put our things down and headed towards the back stage of hall as we are going to sing chinese new year songs! It was quite challenging as we play songs and not sing songs.


While we were waiting at the back stage, the winners of the competition were announced. We won the second prize in the cohort! We had won a reward for our hard work! Although not everyone got a share of the prize, actually we did, but most importantly, we all had learnt that with hard work, you will succeed. As the class motto go “42 Minds 1 Spirit”, while decorating the classroom, we had developed an even closer relationship with our classmates, learning to work as a team.

It was a great time, although I hate the singing. Maybe I am unable to highlight the spirit so much, I mean it's something you already experience for yourself, don't you agree? Of course, I've tried my best, so let's just all soak in the experience of the new year and get into the festive mood...yeah!

I took a blur picture of the hall while the rest were singing...LOL

Thanks to Marcus for helping me to take video at bakstage=D

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