Braddell Heights Symphony Orchestra

I thought I reached early but I was not the first. BT, Jason and YuRi were the first. Heard that they went to eat earlier on that's why they were early.

YuRi was the in-charge for the day as BT say he wanted to train him. How I wish I can be trained too. I want to be a good in-charge. I do not know why but I do not have a good feeling about what's going on.

The placement was alright as the people know that I do not want to be posted together with someone. As there were not any ushers from Bradell Heights Community Club, recognising the VIPs were a little difficult. I was very lucky that the guests that night were nice people. I stopped them and ensured that they were the guests before allowing them to pass through. None of them gave me trouble or scolded me.

The music pieces played were nice! Guess this is the first symphony orcheatra that I have watched performing live. Their presentation of music was good except for one violinist who looked lerthargic. The orchestra was small but they were good. I was rather surprised to see one of my classmate performing. For a moment I worried whether some undesirable people were present. I was really glad that there was no trouble created.

The event ended and I rushed to get the programme booklet and helped with the routine house checks. There was an interesting news during debrief. There was actually written ticket. This will happen when a patron requests for replacement of a lost ticket and teh sistic counter was not able to generate the ticket in time. Cool.

Furthermore, sistic made a mistake by selling row BB tickets when the BB row was removed. I wonder why tickets for that row were sold when the crowd were of so little people. There were a lot of other empty seats around. I don't think patrons get to choose where they get to sit.

After punching out, I then made my way home. I wonder why my lower back hurt so much. My right legs was kind of shivering while the concert was going on. I really hope I will be alright and can survive more events to come.

NAFA Convocation 2010

BT was shocked when I reached there. I was shocked after he told me that it was full strength. Things were finally settled after Eeyin appears; I was replacing another usher. I really do not want to go home after making an effort to wake up so early in the morning.

I was so tired that I actually signed at the wrong row while I withdraw the security pass. Great. There were 4 new ushers. It took me some time to remember their names. Hope I will still remember the next time I see them.

I was kind of not happy with the NAFA staffs as they kept crowding around the walkway. They even crowded around door three, the place where I was deployed to. Their decision to place to cameras were werid too, blocking the walkway. It was a better job done last year.

Things were way more easy after the presenting of certificate commenced. BT suddenly called me outside. I thought I was needed to do something important. It was actually some chats. It was regarding the steamboat outing and the upcoming annual meeting.

I slacked outside as it was rather boring inside. Rare of me slacking during work. Chatted with a new girl as she was my door three partner for the day. According to BT and YuRi, many things happened while I was not around. I just said I did not come back for a month due to YOG which in fact was 2 months to be exact.

Lunch together with the ushers at Amoy Street again. We did the hosue check before going out. I found a phone. The owner came after a while to claim it. To verify that he is the ownner, I used my phone to call the number he gave. Silly me. Too nice of me to help BT as he was rather slow in retrieving his phone. I shall not do that again unless I am the in-charge. I do not want to leak out my number unnecessarily.

At Amoy Street, I ate char kway tiao and I was kind of disappointed with Uncle's standard. His speed was however very fast. I got my plate in about 2 minutes and I was rather stunned for a moment. We then took BT's car back. Four girls squeezed at the back seat. We managed to finished squeezing as Jason and Faith were to stay behind to look after the guest reception.

The second shift commenced and on graduate came to ask me for help. She wanted me to pass two tickets to her parents. I agreed to help but her parents did not turn up. Quite nice of her to thank me after the whole event when she took her leave. Guess she is disappointedd that her parents could not make it in time. For such a big event of a lifetime, I would really want my loved ones to be there to witness my achievements.

I had more chats outside than the previous session. Slack. I know it's bad and not professional. Too bored I guess. The shoes was making my heels hurt too. BT kinf of brought up YOG a few times. Eeyin asked me about the food that I ate. Guess it was kind of a big issue as that is the first thing that people would ask me with regards to my involvement.

The event finally ended and we got to have some rest before punching out as the same two ushers were required to guard the guest reception again.

I went to take a drink at the graduate reception before setting off to meet PeiFen. I wanted to grab some desserts too but there wasn't any. Wanted to have a meal at the buffet with Jane but I only remember after I reached there. I set off immediately after that cup of cordial drink. At least some thirst quenched.

NDP 2010 Theme Song - Song for Singapore

Enjoy this song written and sang by Corrinne May. The lyrics is kind of meaningful. There is still however, a big room for improvement for the video.

I kind of feel that there can be a switch of theme songs between NDP 2009 and NDP 2010 as that would really be a better match the the respective themes.

Anyway, enjoy the songs and show your love for Singapore!


source of video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGY5ff831B8

YOG 2010 Theme Song - Everyone

This is the theme song for the first youth olympics games. This short and simple song is sang by five artists that represents the five different continents.


Here are the lyrics:

Walls are down
Hopes arise
Rings of the world unite

Every child
Has a wish
To glow like the stars above

Lift our voices as victories blaze
This is the day to win with grace

Chorus
Raise your hand for our generation
Fly the flags of every nation
Reaching out for that moment in our lives
Raise your hand for our generation
Living out your aspiration
Time to fly way beyond the skies
A world that shines for everyone

Be the best
Go all the way
Friends beyond the race

Cheer the joy
Share the tears
The journey remains our pride

Lift our voices as victories blaze
This is the day the world will shine on for everyone


source of video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&v=hHrnaGJ8ckg
source of lyrics: http://singapore2010.sg/public/sg2010/en/en_multimedia/en_theme_song.html

Bishan Stadium BBQ Get Together Session

Sharon was late so Peggy and I waited for her at the Mosque beside Bishan Stadium. When we reached the reporting area, there were already a lot of people eating away. It was really fast that the coke went out of stock. Being in a state of shock that it was not what we expected, we started on the buffet since there wasn't any queue.

The food were catered by Old Chang Kee. It tasted way better than what I got for my dinner as a performer.

We then gathered at the blue sector near the sports hall for the briefing. It took Sharon and I some time to find where we are supposed to report to as the person holding the signboard was resting his hands. Taking our seat, we listened to the person talking. We went really high as we were told that we will be given two tickets each for the Opening Ceremony combined rehearsal four that will be held the next day.

A girl came to sit beside me. I made friend with her. The tickets were being passed down as we chatted. Everyone got two tickets each. Seeing that the person distributing the tickets still have many left in his hand, some volunteers asked for more. Being kind, he distributed one more ticket each. More were then asked. He finally distributed all the tickets in his hand. Guess how many tickets did I grab? Six!

Sharon and I walked home after we were released; we were released after the tickets distribution. We did not wait for Peggy as she has things to settle. We took numbers of the new friends we made before setting off.

I wanted to grab a few more eclairs before leaving but all were already gone. I gave up the idea on second serving as I was really very full. The food was really nice.

POCC's "Pope Joan" Movie Preview

The movie "Pope Joan" will only be released on 12th August 2010 in Singapore. As a winner of the movie tickets, I get to catch the show first. I was a little reluctant to attend the screening as the show seemed boring to me. My initial plan was to get the tickets first. I can give it to my friends if I am not interested. However, after knowing that I have to be present to collect the tickets on the day that it is being screened, I asked Auntie Mui to accompany me to watch the movie.

I reached there early. The people were late due to a traffic jam. It was kind of the person to message me, reminding me about the screening and that I can contact that person through that number if I have any query.

The booth was finally set up after some time. Almost 6.30pm, the time they indicated the cut-off. I expected a rather grand event but it was obviously not. The people seemed so unprepared. It seemed that there is some miscommunication between nuffnang and POCC.

After grabbing our goodie bags, a lady took a photo of Auntie Mui and I for marketing purposes that the cervical cancer is the only cancer that can be prevented by a vaccine. After taking the photo, she stuck it onto a board, asking me to write down 5 names of the ladies that I would like to protect. Names? I wrote the addresses instead; mother, sister, grandma, auntie, friends.

She was not familiar with the camera. I tried to tell her but she ignored me and kept asking to her people. Great. It kinds of gave me the feeling that "hey, only officers of this event knows". We were kind of jammed there for a while as we were the first to collect the tickets.

Proceeding into the hall, we get to choose our seats. Great! Auntie Mui and I chose the top and middle seat. Good view! The seats were not in good condition I would say. It shakes and there isn't much space in between the roles. My head was almost resting on the legs of the peson sitting behind me.

After some time, the show finally commenced. NC-16. It was my first time watching a movie with this rating. I thought that there were just some additional gross sexual scenes as compared to PG. I was wrong. There were lots of other disturbing scenes too. Violence. The sexual scenes were disturbing too.

The actors were great. Those acting the bad guys, I really felt like walking right up and punch them in the face. I hate male chauvinist to the core. The wits of the female lead was just great. How I wish I can be that smart too.

The story of the show was good. But I really dislike the disturbing scenes. I guess that are the things that make a movie comes to life. This movie is "very literature" I would say. The poster for the movie looks kind of scary. I then understood why after watching the show.

All the people left after watching the movie. I did not really see the significance of the screening of this movie with the POCC campaign. There was no talk to elaborate what's going on. This definitely need improvement. This event, seemed to be rather, cold.

YOG 2010 Water Stage

The third combined rehearsal was over. As it rained earlier in the day, the water on the stage seemed way freezing than the previous rehearsal. Anyway, I strongly believe that the water was pumped from the Singapore river. My skin was irritated by the water. I do not agree with the idea that the water from Singapore river should be used.

I understand that water is precious. Since everyone is going to dirty the water, what's wrong with using water from Singapore river? The fact that using the relatively clean water would protect the performers from infections. There are going to be a few more combined and component rehearsal. What if performers were down on the actual day of performance? I believe that there are way lots of micro-organisms in the Singapore river as compared to water dirty by performers.

Honestly, I felt that YOG performers in many aspects were not sufficiently well taken care of. I seriously wonder if I can survive till the end of this event.

The freezing cold water is causing me to feel pain in my joints. The smell is so awful that it cause my body and clothings to have a really bad stench. Last but not least, the water is an irritant to my skin.

I am not the only person that is facing with all these problems. I really wonder where I can voice out all these issues. Knowing that the issue of coldness hard to be solved, I am just simply hoping to have some clean and odourless water.

It's not a mystery whether those people sitting so high up will even listen to the voice of the "small" and "unsignificant" performers. I really doubt that there will be any actions done to improve the situation since performers for NDP09 chapter 6 were denied of the small request to see and breathe.