The last post i made was my Valentine post back in February and it has been i guess, 8 months since anything has actually happened? KK is now officially in the army, he enlisted in as a commando since August and i never once saw him again. But hey, i still had a great catch up with him none the less before he left, with a whole bunch of people.
Goodness gracious i am never going into a KBox THAT cold (I am watching you Boon Lay) with Lenon and Paxson again because when they drink, they really drink. And it isn't them who gets drunk, it's just the extreme cost of it and what happens after the entire thing at like 3:45am. Bad idea, but it was worth the experience. KK nearly died in there because it was too cold but hey, it was a day worth spending with him because i am pretty sure he's having the time of his life in NS right now. Good on him.
August was also the month i made friends with Shiori and found out that she is literally the same age as me, we're both 20 in case you thought we were 18 or some shit like that.
GRANDIOSO (PAPA G) MARCH - MAY
Nothing really happened in the first half of the year except for Grandioso that happened alright. Grandioso was just an amazing experience altogether. From making new friends, new bonds, to actual drama and putting in 300% for everything. Also the fact that i became really mad during that period but everything was worth it in the end because we all kind of fought hard for what we wanted to put out there which i feel is really incredible of my Sophomores to do so. The G period was also the period in which i became really close to my baes (Ginger, Erra, Jia Xuan and Amanda) who are now everything to me. They are pretty much my family from here on because they are people whom i can talk about anything to. Talk about secrets which i will STILL keep from other people but them. Yeah, that's pretty much my definition of a friend family in any case.
We came together and worked hard on 'XO' by Beyoncé because we all really wanted to do that song so badly (and also, it's Beyoncé, we haven't done one of her numbers yet, at least during my time til then). One thing's for sure, if it were 2010 and below Joe, we wouldn't even be able to do ANY Beyoncé numbers because he was that strict in the past and now ya'll better appreciate him. So i am just really grateful for present Joe as of now because of his open mindedness to different kinds of Genres. I am not saying that BoyzIIMen or Justin Timberlake is bad, no tea shade. Arrangements had to be cut down short and simple because apparently Jia Xuan and Ginger couldn't handle arpeggios at that time (I don't know about now). So they had to be cut down to straight chords and all which was really easy to handle so we had time to work on the backing chorus.
Now let me tell you how much of a mess i had/i was/we were while working on the backing chorus. Since most of the A Cappella groups were really busy with their own pieces/items, we didn't had the time to actually gather everyone and teach them the parts until like literally a week before the big G. Figuring the parts out weren't even easy, trust me, even if it sounds like it is. That's how much Joe actually trusts me into attempting to replicate the same sound note by note for the backing chorus. Definitely a big obstacle i had to overcome, which was telling everyone about it. You see, not everyone in A Cappella learns fast and that's pretty much one of the main reasons why we had a lot of trouble teaching everyone their parts. It was also because there were a lot of overlapping singers due to the lack of manpower and everyone had a lot of notes in their brains, thus, not being able to cope well? Then came the choreography that Joe wanted. I remembered how i kept asking him about the choreo and how it was supposed to be done so that he wouldn't scrape the song of the list. I even remembered how nervous i was and he kept telling me to consult the dancers whom i felt were really busy as well ('Move' was awesome by the way).
'XO' worked out so well in the end and we received pretty much good feedback on the entire performance so kudos to everyone for putting in the effort. 👏👏
XO wasn't the only item i was in, i also had to plan with the others and do backing for 'Find You' by Zedd feat. Matthew Koma. It was this EDM piece which i had A LOT of fun planning for it from the color scheme, to outfits, to lighting and staging planning. Oh and staging happened to be the most interesting part because Ryan and Jia Xuan spent a lot of time being too cute together and making jokes out of it which was funny 😂😂
Truth be told, i was actually planning to make this song a huge item since Joe wanted grand and we all had to give him grand. So i was actually thinking moving lights, background changes and just epic-ness also considering the limitations of everything but however in the end, 'Find You' didn't really came together as how i imagined it would? But none the less, even though Find You was honestly one of the more forgetful pieces, we all had fun doing it and the outcome of it is all that matters.
That's pretty much Grandioso for me and everyone else's numbers were just as wonderful. So that's where most of my time during March and May went to, this.
Not forgetting my memorable duet with Noella, Lao Shi and her student on my favourite childhood piece, Nella Fantasia 😌😌 during the choir segment of Grandioso!
Some amazing pictures with my beloved Little Mix Queens and Firdaus during our loft stay😌
SCHOOL & VBC2014 MAY - JUNE
School started in April and it was pretty weird because some people from my class and some people from T21 had to go for Internship and that just meant that i was left with the remaining people who were mostly from T21 and some from my original class, in a brand new class. It wasn't so bad to be honest starting out, we all made friends pretty fast and well, throughout the semester we bonded quite well because of lecturer faults and other reasons but it's just mainly cause we're that awesome. We were given case studies to work on as different assignments for that one module i hate and my work obviously didn't turn out as how i wanted it to be overtime but oh well right, what's done has been done.
Auditions came for Voices and i wasn't actually excited to see who the new faces were because as a senior, Sophomores are usually the ones getting all hyped up like how we did back in 2013. Unlike last year, i wasn't sick this time round so i was able to attend all three audition days and it was pretty fun watching the auditionees sing and get all nervous whenever Joe asks them to freestyle or do whatever was needed to be done during the aptitude test. They were all so cute but most of the auditionees actually picked wrong songs for themselves most of the time, songs that don't suit their voice types and so they kinda sounded weird, too strain-y and all round funny. Hey, it ain't called teasing when these are facts alright. There weren't many standouts from the girls which got me a little disappointed because i expected this to be the all girls year just like how it was every other year. Turns out that 2014 is the year of the guys because there were just so much talent that flowed through that door from boy after boy, 90% in which all sang 'All of Me'. Shoot me if you ever start playing that song again. Great voices none the less!
First practice wasn't all that either, it was rather much just jam whatever needs to be jammed and please interact with one another. They all did and it was pleasant to see how fast all of them made friends with one another.
VBC2014 was the main highlight of the first half of the year. See how much of a social life i do not have? I was SL for VBC2013 along side with Rowena (who went for Internship and never came back to Voices until recently, miss her.) and it was hell lot of fun because we had a great bond with the other SLs like KK, Paxson, Erwin who are all great friends of mine today. Never forgetting that moment! 😌 So this year, we all thought to ourselves, how great would it be if we all came back together as SMs instead of SLs. Great idea wasn't it? Nope, half of the gang weren't interested or they were just plain busy to bother so it was just down to Xin Yu, Amanda, Paxson, Me and some other Sophomores like Tammy and Louisa who didn't had most of their time to come down and help, or so i think. VBC2014 was honestly not as exciting as VBC2013 because of reasons, though i thought it'd be better because the haze wasn't an asshole this year. What reasons i will not tell because it's late so, why bother.
I did not actually interact much with the juniors then because they were all mingling among themselves and plus also the fact that Melody came back from Australia and i had to see her, and talk to her. I remembered the first junior whom i actually had a proper interaction with was Azra when she was playing the guitar. Her guitar playing skills and that voice was everything, pretty much what made me attracted to her as a friend. VBC2014 did not end too well for me because i had to go back for i am old and i need my sleep, so Tammy and i headed back and crashed in hopes that we could wake up again. Taking taxi rides are never fun when you're dead tired. I do not know how the juniors could stay up all night that day.
Thanks Isa A.R. for taking this pictures as well, they're delightful.
FINISHING SCHOOL AND GETTING INVOLVED AGAIN JULY - PRESENT
Oh boy i cannot wait to get this post done with. The month of July and August was just plain hell. Hell because school is also known as hell in which we all burn midnight oil in. Except i can't cause i don't have a desktop. That aside, nothing really happened except for school and everyone was pretty much quiet because the end of July was the 'near-exam-study-period'. So we were all just basically rushing through our assignments and somehow, drama started to rise within our class and the lecturers. Well, it was actually our class against a certain lecturer whom although i love being straight forward, am not going to expose against. He was just basically being an ass towards everyone and no one really liked him. It was funny because the hate kinda spread all the way down to the year 1's and this situation actually kinda bonded us as a class even more which was just really weird. Shan't go into further details about why he was/is so hated but our entire last assignment for his module was just a mess. Rais and i both got to feel the pain of not being able to complete it on time and it was just a whole mess.
But it was all alright in the end when we got to go to Ariel's house for a BBQ and before that, watched Guardians of The Galaxy for the first time in 3D IMAX because this is what you get if you join DVFX. Looking at you future kids. The BBQ was such a great time for us all to chill and get to know one another a little better. Yes, we're all year 3 but you'd be surprise.
July was also the period in which i somehow got closer to the juniors because i couldn't keep the promise that i made to myself about how i would stop coming back. Didn't work out and this lead me to making friends with the juniors. Turns out that they're all very friendly and super extremely adorable! I don't know how but the juniors from the beats section were one of the few people whom i thought i would ever get to interact with. Luke and Amit are both very interesting people in their own ways especially charming Amit. I do not know how but we just started talking like we've known each other for quite some time, the first time we texted each other. Very friendly people as well. Shout out to Amit for being one of the best and apparently one of the closest juniors!
July flew by and August came real quick. I do not know how, but it just did. We ended the semester with a bang and that is in no relation to Bang Bang that was released on the 25th of July. We had to present in front of the FSV year 2 kids and i kinda forgot that Wan Yi was in there too so when i saw her i was like oh hey! Oh yeah, can't wait to see you present. They were a whole bunch of cuties and we have to present in front of the year 2 DVFX kids as well. Clients whom Graham think we would work with in the future. Um, not too sure about that.
August came to a end and my birthday soon drew by. Let me just let the next few pictures talk for me.
We went to his house and oh my god does he live in a palace or something. His cat Toby is amazing and so is his house and him himself. His noodles are amazing, i already wrote a review about your indian noodles Amit, if you even bother reading this haha 😂 Had a great night and then we went home at like 6am and Amit's paper was 10am.
I can end my essay now and i didn't even bother turning off the bold feature. Goodbye and i will update my blog in the near future if possible.
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