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.

Aichi Meiden High School Band

A very tiring day for me so I decided to take on the post of being outside the house though I wanted to watch the performance. Furthermore, I thought it was just another band performance.

Standing outside, I realised that what I thought was wrong. From the TV, I can see that the band was superb! I had the urge to go in. However, work inside the house would be more demanding. I can see how much effort they put in to make the whole story of super mario with both the skit and music. Cool!

The bright side of the things was that I got to sneak in near the end, catching the encore pieces. The band is just so cool! The audience actually was allowed to encore three times.

A pity that there was no extra programme booklets that I can take as souvenir. It was the special perforamnce after the band "competition" that was held a few days ago and the booklets were only available on that day. I saw the same emcee that I do not like. I wonder if it's from the same company again. His presentation on stage was commendable but I still do not like his attitude that all about an event is nothing else but money.

The choreography of the musicians, the dancers, everything was just so great! How I wish that I can watch them perform more pieces. According to the conductor, it was their second trip after so many years. What a pity that I missed the performance. Hope that they will be invited again soon and that I will be ready to work in-house for the event.

Media Preview of our Singapore 2010 YOG Documentary

I took leave from the supervisor and rushed to cineleisure to attend this event with Auntie Mui. As I was told that the event starts at 1pm, I have only 5 minutes to rush there after my quick lunch.

Reaching there, there was no signages to direct me. Glad that there was someone around whom I can ask. Reaching the registration table, the person at the reception looked at me blankly. I felt as though I went to the wrong place and that I am an intruder.

I finally got my tickets after introducing myself. I said something wrongly. I said "media brief" instead of "media preview", a little embarassing I would say.

Auntie Mui and I entered the cinema after getting our free popcorns and drinks. We have got a rather good seat at the back of the hall. It was quite nice of them to provide some refreshments. It was totally like a movie screening. I did not expected this to be held in a cinema. I thought it was going to be some talks given by someone in a room.

We waited for about thirty minutes till the screening begins. The show was quite alright though there were some of the things that I thought can improved on.

The documentary was basically about the journey to the games from the point of views of three athletes of different sports, judo, cycling and fencing. The only female athlete featured is in fencing. The three athletes were at the screening too. What leaves me an impresison about that girl was that she is very tall.

Seeing how the judo athlete trained, I somehow had certain thoughts. I wonder if this has brought me any motivation to push myself further in wushu. Though both may be of different sports, they are both martial arts.

The documentary also included the journey of the production of the mascots. Suana! Those people under the mascot puppets looked as if they just had a swim after they came out from their costume. They spent lots of time practising their dance movements so that the mascots will look genuine and lively. It's really tough on them!

My mystery to whether the person under the amscots were males or females was solved. The funniest part was when the person in the Merly costume said that Merly was part of him. It's kind of a good thing to know that his hard work and effort had made him grew feelings for Merly and fused with her.

I find the countdown to 99 days celebration familiar because I was there! That was the only thing I felt close to. A little disappointed that I missed out all the other events. Guess the publicity need some improvements.

From the factsheet given to me, this documentary is one of the two that is going to be broadcasted. The broadcasts of this firat documentary will be on 7th August and 14th August on channel 5. After seeing the timing of the broadcasts, I was so glad that I attended the preview as I will be away at the floating platform performing for the world!

After the screening, I had some thoughts while I rushed back to my workplace. The athletes are stars, what about the other volunteers? Though volunteers have roles that are small, they are the ones that make a very big difference. Maybe a documentary of people holding difference posts that make no matter how much contribution to this event can be made. This is one of the things that is going to make them feel like they are part of the first ever inaugural Youth Olympics Games.

Release of YOG 2010 Costumes

The long awaited costumes were finally released. After much guessing of how they are going to look like, we finally get to see the final products!

As expected, my jaws dropped. I hoped that what I saw was wrong. It was however verified on the first combined rehearsal that what I saw is true. I do not like to wear caps or hats. I feel uneasy when there is something on my head. Hairpins would of course be exceptions.

I heard that the costumes were designed by a batch of Lasalles College's students. Final year project?

Anyway, I am going to wear a guy's costume. It's kind of a discrimination that martial arts is solely for guys. Anyway, I find the Silat costume way nicer than what I am going to wear. I wonder how the wushu costume looks like. It was not posted on the web. I am guessing that they are going to be way nicer than mine. I guess the wushu costume is red, a favourite colour of mine.

I like blue too, but not in this manner. Anyway, in my opinion, I think that some of the things doesn't mean that the more sophisticated it is, the nicer it is. Sometimes, simplicity is beautiful too. I do not deny that the costumes are colourful. The combination and design can however be improved.

There is only one costume that I thought it looked alright; the one in red that was rather simple and looked like it's for a gymnast.


Photos of the costumes can be viewed at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=634729208&ref=ts#!/album.php?aid=224914&id=89465677245.

Taiji For All

Dad drove me to HongWen early in the morning to meet the rest take the bus to Jurong Stadium. I never knew that HongWen is so near my house. It was just a 15-minute ride. Since I reached there early, Dad asked me to sleep in the car till the rest of them arrive. Thanks to XinFeng for giving me the information.

Reaching there, I got my shirt from WenYeow coach. We then boarded the bus after some moments of waiting. After getting a "fengshui" seat, I commenced my adventure at lalaland. I was just too tired from attachment.

Shuting and I ran to the toilet to change into the shirt given. Quite glad that we managed to make it in time. As we were the last two to join our group. We stood at the back of row 48.

I do not really like the way that the emcee talked. From what I see, this event is very "RC-styled". Listening to what he said, I encountered the first cheat of the day. It was a Singapore records instead of a World's records. I was wondering how can we be recorded in the world's records when China can do better. Now the mystery is solved.

We rehearsed under the hot sun and waitied for the arrival of the guest-of-honours. My black pants started to heat up during the wait. The guests finally arrived to launch the event. We rehearsed together with the guests once and we did once ourselves for the guests to enjoy. Here's the second cheat of the day.

After we did the thirteen moves routine that we learned, the emcee said that the twenty-four moves routine was next. Shuting and I dropped our jaws. This was the third cheat of the day. Many people have retreated into the shade to watch the rest do the twenty-four moves routine. After much pondering, Shuting and I decided to stay on and try to imitate the moves. The results that we got were not bad, we managed to follow most of the moves. I like the right “金鸡独立” as I was able to do it.

Finishing the last routine, it was the announcement of the offical records of what wehad done. There were 1995 people that took part in the event. Fouth cheat of the day. Anyway, I wondered how they made the count.

Breakfast was distributed as we left. The food was alright. Took one out of the three bags of leftovers home.

I took the bus provided back to HongWen with Shuting and XinFeng. As usual, I dozed during the ride. Some memories came back as the bus passed by YuHua. Walking together with them to Boon Keng MRT station, I bid them goodbye and went to take my sleeping bus ride home.

Metiér VIII

I guess this is the most energy draining event that I had ever worked. This is the first school event that I worked with so many students that do not behave themselves. I see that the teachers were kind of tired too.

The performance was quite good. The principal's talk was so dry and boring that I almost fell asleep. The students that wasn't behaving themselves got to restless and created lots of trouble because it was boring. The speech sounds like some propaganda too. The bright side of the situation was that there were teachers that helped to discipline them, sharing a small portion of my workload.

It was a small relief when the performance commences as it draws the students' attention and made them behave themselves for a moment.

More trouble were created during the intermission. Food and drinks. I had a thought that maybe the house rules should be told to schools that are going to rent the place and the the rules are to be told to the students beforehand. Those irritating stares from students that were informed of the house rules sure is annoying. I really dislike people who do not respect the music and the concert hall.

It was a relief when the event was finally over. One female teacher said that I did a good job. It kinds of brightens up my day. "I think you did a good job. Usually when you nag and nag they won't listen..."

There were three new ushers but there was not enough time to icebreak with each other. Only one of them talked to me. There was another one that I saw who looked quite experienced; it doesn't look like it's her first time doing this job.

It was so long since I last worked with Crystal. Heard that she has been asking for me! So sweet. I never knew that someone is looking forward to work with me. I was so happy when I heard that!

I did not attend the debrief after the event as I found out something after going to the washroom. There was some issues that I wanted to bring up but it was some same old issues as the other events that can never be solved even though it was being brought up. I dropped the idea in the end.

I then took a relaxing bus ride home after settling all the administrative stuffs.