2 DAYS TO BRATISLAVA; Health/Trip
All right, chicken pox.
I just heard from Crystal that recurring cases are not uncommon. She herself might have gotten it, because she has small red spots on her arms, back and legs now, and the last time she got it was when she was 4 years old. For her, it's too early a stage to determine whether it's really chicken pox, but I just ripped from the internet that there are cases of chicken pox in which the fever and sore throat and dizzy spells are not involved, so there's a possibility our student conductor has contracted the virus... T_____T
(A POSSIBILITY WHICH I DESPERATELY HOPE DOES NOT EXIST. I get random red itchy spots on my skin sometimes too, scattered all over my body, but turns out to be some gross allergic reaction to my bedsheets -when they are dirty I suppose, I do not know why ;_;-, so I hope it's just a scare...)
Which means the chicken pox virus must have been floating around among us for quite a long time, and any one of us might have the disgusting thing lurking inside our bodies right now... Just that most of us who've gotten chicken pox before are immune to it. But there's the possibility of us all being carriers of the blasted virus.
Even Crystal might not have been spared.
So please, please, please, just do these 5 things from today onwards:
1) Drink a lot and a lot of water. Constantly hydrate yourself.
2) VITAMIN C. Drink twice everyday. (Urgh this means Shinny and I need to restock on our rapidly declining number of tablets since she adores drinking it so much >_> But don't drink too much even if it tastes heavenly, Vanessa said it'll go to waste, so just one in the morning and one in the night.)
3) Eat a lot of fruits and healthy stuff. Don't eat crap; do not be tempted for these last two days (and the rest of the trip; you can eat crap when you come back safe and well and healthy).
4) Don't scream, please protect your voice so you won't get a sore throat which might lead to fever which might lead to chicken pox. Also, don't exhaust or overexert yourself. It will lower your immunity and that distardedly virus will attack very easily.
5) SLEEP A LOT AND A LOT AND A LOT. Tonight, if possible, sleep at 10 or earlier. Rest well, let your body have time to refuel itself, so when you wake up you'll be energized and... healthy.
To The Group Leaders: Please check with your group members that they are fully equipped and they're taking good care of themselves. You shall be their parents. 8D
1) Edits to the trip booklet; Shampoo and Body Soap can be more than 100ml, sorry for the mistake. X_x
2) *IMPORTANT* PLEASE MAKE SURE AT LEAST ONE SET OF YOUR THERMAL WEAR IS WIDE-NECKED and doesn't cling to your neck because it would stick out of your choir uniform at the top if it's tight around your neck. If only a bit is exposed, please try to fold the neckline of your thermal wear underneath your uniform. Please check at home. If you can't fold it and pin it down or you don't have wide-necked ones (skin-coloured ones will still be conspicuous), I'm afraid you have to find and bring along a wide-necked, long-sleeved one for the performance.
Also, even though our sound was considered a 'gold' today, we all know that we didn't really deserve it. Please do not be complacent and think it's the best we have done already. Don't lose the drive and effort we've been putting in for the last few practices; at Bratislava, we'll have to put in twice as more.
I'm sure we all know this isn't our best.
You know you can go so much further; this is not where we're going to stop. Our standard is much, much higher than what we have achieved today.
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TO THE SOP1S
Also, to any Sop1s who frequent this blog (I kowtow to your dedication), I think we all know that we're the ones dragging the standard down.
Don't shrink your voices back! Raise your cheekbones and eyebrows when you sing (DON'T BE AFRAID OF LOOKING STUPID, EVERYONE DOES IT), open your mouth damn big, and just blast it all out. If you have a voice that's deemed good by Miss Lim (you passed those scary auditions, remember?), flaunt it.
Don't be afraid or scared of making mistakes because nobody can be perfect, and mistakes are what we pick ourselves up from and what we improve from. Our main problem is that we don't focus enough, don't concentrate enough on our notes, and we keep going flat or sharp or switching to autopilot.
Watch the conductor, listen out for the other sections, and really, really focus. Please don't be scared! Everyone just PIAAAA. Really do your best to create the atmosphere, feel the emotions the song empowers, and we'll be able to do it and rise to the standard. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US HAS TAKE MORE INITIATIVE TO ENTER, TO HIT THE HIGH NOTES, TO SING AS BRAVELY AS POSSIBLE. Don't rely on the louder voices and stronger people because every single one of us has to put in 101% effort to make this happen.
Also, BITE YOUR WORDS FOR EBESUKEDONDONESSASSA AT THE SQUEAKY HIGH NOTES. We sound like... twittering things who can't make heads or tails of what they're saying.
Sop1s have the potential to do it, so believe in yourselves... Let's do our best for the rest of the choir, for Miss Lim, and show her what we can achieve.
---
Just 2 more days and off we go to Bratislava, where we'll rise to our very best.
Jiayou, good luck, and take very very good care of yourselves so we'll come back with "GOLD" written all over our beaming faces.
I just heard from Crystal that recurring cases are not uncommon. She herself might have gotten it, because she has small red spots on her arms, back and legs now, and the last time she got it was when she was 4 years old. For her, it's too early a stage to determine whether it's really chicken pox, but I just ripped from the internet that there are cases of chicken pox in which the fever and sore throat and dizzy spells are not involved, so there's a possibility our student conductor has contracted the virus... T_____T
(A POSSIBILITY WHICH I DESPERATELY HOPE DOES NOT EXIST. I get random red itchy spots on my skin sometimes too, scattered all over my body, but turns out to be some gross allergic reaction to my bedsheets -when they are dirty I suppose, I do not know why ;_;-, so I hope it's just a scare...)
Which means the chicken pox virus must have been floating around among us for quite a long time, and any one of us might have the disgusting thing lurking inside our bodies right now... Just that most of us who've gotten chicken pox before are immune to it. But there's the possibility of us all being carriers of the blasted virus.
Even Crystal might not have been spared.
So please, please, please, just do these 5 things from today onwards:
1) Drink a lot and a lot of water. Constantly hydrate yourself.
2) VITAMIN C. Drink twice everyday. (Urgh this means Shinny and I need to restock on our rapidly declining number of tablets since she adores drinking it so much >_> But don't drink too much even if it tastes heavenly, Vanessa said it'll go to waste, so just one in the morning and one in the night.)
3) Eat a lot of fruits and healthy stuff. Don't eat crap; do not be tempted for these last two days (and the rest of the trip; you can eat crap when you come back safe and well and healthy).
4) Don't scream, please protect your voice so you won't get a sore throat which might lead to fever which might lead to chicken pox. Also, don't exhaust or overexert yourself. It will lower your immunity and that distardedly virus will attack very easily.
5) SLEEP A LOT AND A LOT AND A LOT. Tonight, if possible, sleep at 10 or earlier. Rest well, let your body have time to refuel itself, so when you wake up you'll be energized and... healthy.
To The Group Leaders: Please check with your group members that they are fully equipped and they're taking good care of themselves. You shall be their parents. 8D
1) Edits to the trip booklet; Shampoo and Body Soap can be more than 100ml, sorry for the mistake. X_x
2) *IMPORTANT* PLEASE MAKE SURE AT LEAST ONE SET OF YOUR THERMAL WEAR IS WIDE-NECKED and doesn't cling to your neck because it would stick out of your choir uniform at the top if it's tight around your neck. If only a bit is exposed, please try to fold the neckline of your thermal wear underneath your uniform. Please check at home. If you can't fold it and pin it down or you don't have wide-necked ones (skin-coloured ones will still be conspicuous), I'm afraid you have to find and bring along a wide-necked, long-sleeved one for the performance.
Also, even though our sound was considered a 'gold' today, we all know that we didn't really deserve it. Please do not be complacent and think it's the best we have done already. Don't lose the drive and effort we've been putting in for the last few practices; at Bratislava, we'll have to put in twice as more.
I'm sure we all know this isn't our best.
You know you can go so much further; this is not where we're going to stop. Our standard is much, much higher than what we have achieved today.
---
TO THE SOP1S
Also, to any Sop1s who frequent this blog (I kowtow to your dedication), I think we all know that we're the ones dragging the standard down.
Don't shrink your voices back! Raise your cheekbones and eyebrows when you sing (DON'T BE AFRAID OF LOOKING STUPID, EVERYONE DOES IT), open your mouth damn big, and just blast it all out. If you have a voice that's deemed good by Miss Lim (you passed those scary auditions, remember?), flaunt it.
Don't be afraid or scared of making mistakes because nobody can be perfect, and mistakes are what we pick ourselves up from and what we improve from. Our main problem is that we don't focus enough, don't concentrate enough on our notes, and we keep going flat or sharp or switching to autopilot.
Watch the conductor, listen out for the other sections, and really, really focus. Please don't be scared! Everyone just PIAAAA. Really do your best to create the atmosphere, feel the emotions the song empowers, and we'll be able to do it and rise to the standard. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US HAS TAKE MORE INITIATIVE TO ENTER, TO HIT THE HIGH NOTES, TO SING AS BRAVELY AS POSSIBLE. Don't rely on the louder voices and stronger people because every single one of us has to put in 101% effort to make this happen.
Also, BITE YOUR WORDS FOR EBESUKEDONDONESSASSA AT THE SQUEAKY HIGH NOTES. We sound like... twittering things who can't make heads or tails of what they're saying.
Sop1s have the potential to do it, so believe in yourselves... Let's do our best for the rest of the choir, for Miss Lim, and show her what we can achieve.
---
Just 2 more days and off we go to Bratislava, where we'll rise to our very best.
Jiayou, good luck, and take very very good care of yourselves so we'll come back with "GOLD" written all over our beaming faces.
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