SN CHOIR

SWAN SONG

2009-12-10T22:23:00.006+08:00

hey choir.

we've decided to create a new blog. so this will be the last post here.

please visit the blog regularly for updates and messages.

keep it alive! :D

the new blog is: http://stnickschoir.blogspot.com

and we have a choir email too. so you can contact us if you need anything or to send photos or whatever. its: sn.choir@hotmail.com

bye!!

REMINDERS FOR TOMORO'S CCA PREP!

2009-12-09T21:23:00.001+08:00

Hello choir!

it's been a while since we updated so since activities are starting we will start posting pictures updates or reminders as often as possible! so do take a look and visit the blog periodically:D

for tomoro, we will have

sop1s and alto2s doing the banner

sop2s and alto1s doing the souvenirs.

we drew lots so its a fair allocation!

we hope as many as possible can make it unless you have very valid reasons like you are overseas or some prior commitments.

so this is what you need to bring:

--> 1 day's worth of newspapers each. this is so that we can line the floor and do the banner on the newpapers so we will not make a mess on the floor and also the newspaper will harden the banner when it dries. this is just a guideline! but if you are being fetched it would be nice if you could do us a favour and bring along more newspapers(: haha.

--> scissors. we need to do cutting tomoro. so please, do bring your scissors unless you have a better idea of how we can cut ribbons.

-->markers. they can be of any colour(:

-->paint brushes. to paint the banner! so there isnt a need to bring those super thin brushes we use to paint our art pieces. prefably bigger thicker brushes!

--->a plastic container or two each if you can. those transparent disposable microwavable ones like when we buy takeaway noodles soup? yeah. used ones are fine. as long as they are dry! cos we need to use them as palettes for the paint. we're not painting out of the cans:)

so yeap that should be all. bring water to drink! see you tomoro 9.30 at the canteen! :D sleep well.

THANKYOU.

2008-12-18T23:06:00.004+08:00

Hey choir

Mr Wong has provided the link for the pictures of the competition in bratislava.

enjoy...

5.12.2008 | Bratislava Music Agency | Bratislava Music Agency

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and choir

i must say.

we absolutely have to thank the FOURTEEN COMM MEMBERS who painstakenly spent time to do the cca fair gifts.

they have sacrificed their precious time and we owe them.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING THE SOUVENIRS FOR CCA FAIR.

WE TRULY APPRECIATE YOUR EFFORT AND HARD WORK.

Only Fourteen

2008-12-17T17:15:00.010+08:00

I'd really like to post up interesting/amusing pictures from Bratislava for us to laugh at and do some belated, lengthy ~~rambling~~ debrief on the trip but I guess everyone's gotten enough of that and we all just know it was a wonderfully enriching experience. 8D

Anyway I have no time to do so since I'm flying to Japan in a few hours so I shall just publish this... newspaper report about the Comm Meeting on Monday.

(Pictures on Denise's blog. We had to have fun before we died from the boredom of repeatedly pouring glue on hairpins. Singing and whatnot, but still...)

Only Fourteen.

Monday, 15 December 2008

It was an awfully pathetic and pitiful sight that greeted the fourteen Comm Members who lugged themselves to school at the wee hours of 8am this gloomy morning.

The initial 20~30 strong committee had been reduced to such minute proportions that the fourteen students had to work their guts out to complete the CCA fair preparations. The president, Shinny, had confirmed she had informed every committee member of the meeting, and to pass down the message to their undercharges to come as well, but alas, half of the committee was absent anyway.

Burning their fingers with swimming globs of elephant glue, painstakingly cutting tiny pieces of felt and foam, meticulously squeezing out the last of draining glitter glue from tubes onto slim sticks of hairpins, bending over the banner to touch up every inch, burning holes in their pockets to purchase the necessary items for preparation (around $70 in total) and staying in school for a gruelling 8 hours, the small number finished posters, putting up the banner, and doing the 400+ souvenirs in the span of today.

Efficiency would have been greatly increased if there hadn't been so few people, but sadly, the scene of 30 students working diligently wasn't one these 14 Comm Members faced.

It is true that most of the absentees had real excuses as to why they could not make it, but how good were those excuses, you wonder? How much truth did they hold? We cannot, and will never know.

These fourteen members consisted of, in no particular order:
Sec3s: Leh Lin,
Hazel,
Joey,
Ying Tong,
Angeline,
Deborah,
Shinny Woo (who could only come for half an hour in the morning)

Sec 2s: Celeste,
Clara, (who came despite having to go overseas later in the afternoon)
Denise,
Jeanette,
Amanda Chai,
Lynette,
Sarah

These 14 students completed what the whole choir would have done as a whole, like the previous years. Sadly, an extra choir practice was not allowed to be held, and the deadline for the preparations is this Friday, 19th December 08, so there was little that could have been changed.

There will be a $2 fine for every comm member who did not have a proper excuse for their absence.

It was truly a lamentable scene to have surveyed, and it is with sincere hope that this would never happen again.

VERY LAST MINUTE REMINDERS AND TIPS! =D

2008-12-01T11:10:00.004+08:00

Hello dear dear dear choir! i wonder if anyone of you will read this, but i shall post anyway! =D

I'm sure after what we've gone through so far, all of you in SN CHOIR would want to make this a very fruitful trip, to fully enjoy it and come back with a high gold (98% or something! =D) yep! so we mustn't let ourselves down last minute! REMEMBER, ST NICKS WILL ALWAYS RISE TO THE OCCASION, AND 'WHEN WE'RE AT OUR BEST, NO ONE EVEN COMES NEAR' (quoted from Mrs Goh) and yea! we must prove to ourselves what we really are, and achieve the gold that rightfully belongs to us, SO JIAYOU DEAR CHOIR! WE KNOW THAT WE CAN DO IT AND WE WILL! =D

hehe, and now the tips and reminders;

hahaha, i know you all are very excited and everything about the trip (and so am i! hahaha! I LOVE THE VITAMIN C! DRINK IT IN A CLEAR CUP OK! ^^) BUT REMEMBER TO KEEP YOUR NOISE LEVEL DOWN! At Vienna and Bratislava, we won't only be representing St Nicks, we will also be representing Singapore, so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF YOUR VOLUME DEAR CHOIR! we all don't want Miss Lim to scold us in front of everyone in the airport or in public right? and also, we need to PROTECT OUR VOICES and SAVE OUR ENERGY!(i suddenly got reminded of the law of conservation of energy, but that's very far off and irrelavant ._.) we have to only sing out loud and do our best and maximise the potential of our voice on the competition itself, so before that, DO NOT SHOUT/SCREAM/YELL/YELP/TALK LOUDLY OK? =D

and another thing is that, PLEASE ALWAYS KEEP YOUR PASSPORT AND ALL MONEY BY YOUR SIDE! and of course, you must SPLIT YOUR MONEY AND KEEP THEM IN DIFFERENT COMPARTMENTS! so that if you so unfortunately lose your money (choy choy), you will still have money left to eat with and shop with! =D haha, i do personally recommend for you to split your money in terms of how much you'll spend in one day, so just carry the amount you need for a day (around 30 euros or so?) in somewhere convenient, and the rest you keep in a waist pouch inside your winter coat or something, cause the European countries are fairly infamous for their professional pick pockets, so its better to keep the bulk of your money in somewhere you can feel, and hard to be pickpocketed =D haha, and very very very importantly, KEEP YOUR PASSPORT WITH YOU AT ALL TIMES (note the darker orange? HEHE! ^^) In a foreign country, your passport is the BEST AND ONLY FORM OF IDENTIFICATION YOU HAVE, without it, people can just treat you as some illegal immigrant, so yea, YOU MUST ALWAYS ALWATS KEEP YOUR PASSPORT WITH YOU, AND NOT LEAVE IT SOMEWHERE WHERE YOU'LL EASILY FORGET AND LEAVE IT BEHIND! please try not to take it out and play with it while travelling, cause you may just drop it without knowing, so be mindful of that ok? =D

Also, in hotels, please DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR WITHOUT KNOWING WHO'S OUTSIDE! make sure that you know who the person is before opening the door (or look through the peep hole before opening, and chain on the thingie on the door before opening if theres no peep hole), EVEN IF YOU KNOW ITS YOUR FRIEND, ITS STILL BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY! for all you know, your friend might be threatened outside to make you open the door ._. and DON'T EVER LEAVE YOUR DOOR OPEN WHEN YOU ALL ARE GOING IN/GOING OUT (e.g using your luggage to stop the door from closing for a while, while you all check out the hotel room or something). ALWAYS LUG IN ALL YOUR LUGGAGE, CLOSE THE DOOR, BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE! this was once reported on the news, when 2 air stewardess were raped in some country because the 2 rapist chionged into their room while they used the luggage to stop the door from closing, and it was for only less than a minute my dears, ._. so always be careful, cause we really have no idea how the culture and security is like there, take care ok! and of course DO NOT DISCLOSE WHICH ROOM YOU'RE IN IN PUBLIC, if you have to, just whisper, you dont want to have some random person just coming and knocking on your door in the middle of the night right ._. you all need your sleep! =D so yea! take note ok!

and before i forget, Mr Lim reminds you all NOT TO TAKE ANYTHING OUT OF THE MINI BAR IN THE HOTEL ROOM! the things provided in the mini bar are NOT INCLUDED IN YOUR STAY PACKAGE! so if you take, you have to PAY for it! and the prices are horrendous, it can be like 5 euros for a bottle of mineral water (which is around SGD$10._.) so do not waste your money like this ok! if you ever need to get something, try to borrow from your friends first, or if you really cant get it, inform your group leaders, ok? =D save your money for shopping and eating! =D

and MOST IMPORTANTLY, ALWAYS STICK TO YOUR ROOM MATE LIKE SUPER GLUE! and STICK TO YOUR GROUPS LIKE VELCRO AT ALL TIMES! always remember that we're all now in a foreign country, and if we get lost, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO FIND OUR WAY BACK! cause for one, we neither speak fluent German, Slovak, Czech, or Russian, so the people there WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE HEADS AND TAILS OF WHAT WE'RE SPEAKING! and also, since even your group leaders and teachers do not know the place well, you can just call us and say "um, i'm in front of a bakchormee stall with a fire station beside it along Tiggerisorange street" but we won't be able to find you, cause WE WON'T KNOW WHERE IS TIGGERISORANGE STREET OR EVEN IF THERE WAS REALLY A BAKCHORMEE STALL (which may most probably be a shop selling spaghetti with extra shredded meat)! so always stick close to your group mates ok! =D

also, you all must TAKE NOTE OF THE TIME AND VENUE! Remember, we're constantly travelling in a foreign country, so if you miss the meet up place and time, and the bus goes off, you may not be able to find us again! cause for one, you don't know the address of our next destination (or if you're so blur, you won't even know where's the next destination!) so remember to WEAR A WATCH AND ALWAYS LOOK AT IT! and those of you with ipods and mp3s, please take them off for a moment when your teachers, tour guides or leaders are making announcements! do not always depend on your friends to repeat the message given, for they may just miss out some part or be daydreaming/not listening as well! you all must be independent, and be responsible for your own safety and well being ok? we don't want to see anyone missing or hurt and i'm sure you all don't too, so always always LISTEN OUT FOR INSTRUCTIONS OK!

yep! that's all for the nagging! =D hahaha! remember its 10.30pm TONIGHT AT THE EMIRATES COUNTER (on the far left) AT CHANGI AIRPORT TERMINAL 1 OK! see you all there! =D bring enough jackets and cardigans in your hand luggage my dears, as well as your gloves, scarf, winter hat, and lip balm! TAKE GOOD CARE AND SEE YOU!^^

oh! and please take one vitamin C tablet right after you read this =D (take it in a transparent cup cause then you can see it fizz out pretty orange bubbles! =D and you can try putting it in warm water if you want, it will squirt out like a mini fountain! hahah! though i still prefer drinking it cold =D whee! i love vitamin C! ) TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEALTH TOO OK! ^^ LOVE YA CHOIR! <3

- <3 shinny!

[edit: OH AND I ALMOST FORGOT, PLEASE CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK AND TRIPLE CHECK AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE YOUR CHOIR UNIFORM, BLACK COURT SHOES AND BLACK STOCKINGS IN YOUR LUGGAGE MY DEARS! we won't be able to fedex it over if you forget to bring it or something! =O!]

***[[EDIT2: and choir, those of you who have bought long johns that cover up till the neck, as a last minute resort, please bring along a BLACK TEE SHIRT to wear over it (as the neck line of the choir uniform is black) so as to make it not-so-obvious. also, please bring along safety pins to pin down your long johns as much as possible so that they dont peep out much from your uniform ok? THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT, SO TELL AS MANY CHOIR PEOPLE AS YOU CAN ONCE YOU READ THIS! thanks very much! =D ]]

today is the day!

2008-12-01T10:13:00.008+08:00

hey choir.

today we will embark on a journey

to bratislava,

to compete,

to attain a good result,

most of all

to ENJOY.

I'm sure all of you really want to enjoy this trip.

So, i really hope we can all make this work.

In order for this to be a happy trip,

we have to be very disciplined.

And that means listening to our group leaders,

listening to the teachers

and of course

MS LIM.

choir,

we are representing

our school and singapore

therefore we have to make a strong and good impression.

we are like ambassadors.

so just be careful.

1) Watch your behavior.

Beware of noise level.

(there was feedback that on saturday, we were VERY NOISY. every time we were asked to move, there would be this huge mumuring which would slowly rise up to a high volume)

YES. so just be more CONSCIOUS of EVERYTHING.

UNLESS you

want to BE embarrassed;

WANT to embarrass the choir;

or just simply LOVE to hear complaints about us.

IF NOT,

Then when you are asked to move,just do it quietly without talking....

(especially if you see that the teachers or leaders are very stressed out trying to organise things.)

2) Be cooperative

Just listen out for instructions and follow them and everything will be fine!

3) Do Not Get Too Excited

We know its VERY exciting to be going on this trip to travel with our beloved friends.

BUT! in order to be disciplined, we have to keep our excitement under control.

so please dont like exclaim at stuff that catch your eye and all that.

ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS:

KEEP YOUR COMMENTS TO YOURSELF!

WE WILL NOT HESITATE TO LASH OUT AT THOSE WHO SIMPLY CANNOT COOPERATE AND CHOOSE TO BEHAVE IN A WAY THEY DEEM FIT.

so lets not make this an UNPLEASANT trip[:

okay i guess that's about all that we need to help us enjoy this unique experience.

please bear all this in mind at ALL TIMES

THANKYOU!

see you tonight!

1 DAY TO BRATISLAVA; Hope

2008-11-30T12:22:00.001+08:00

Crystal's spots are fading.

I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY HOPE SHE'S ALL RIGHT, let's all pray for her...

2 DAYS TO BRATISLAVA; Health/Trip

2008-11-29T17:50:00.007+08:00

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.

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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.

6 DAYS TO BRATISLAVA; Reminders

2008-11-24T21:09:00.005+08:00

I apologise for the late post, but here's some last minute reminders in case you've forgotten/somehow did not check your handphone for the choir messages and randomly decided to hop along here to check out the blog (The case in which you are wonderfully dedicated and I credit you for that!)

REMEMBER TO:

1) Bring your court shoes

2) Bring your CHEQUE MONEY

3) Bring your JACKET MONEY ($28)

4) Bring your REPLY SLIPS (the money one, and if you haven't handed it in, the HCI workshop one)

Drink water, memorise and go through your dynamics/details, and you can even practise hobbling around in your court shoes and testing out the Jaakobin actions by yourself at home first.

Have confidence in yourselves. Sing out, never shrink back, never show your fear. Don't let it affect your singing.

Only 2 more practices and a workshop to go.

Tomorrow, show Miss Lim we're not scared of her, we're not going to hesitate, and we're ploughing on, trying as hard as we can.

Let's do better than the last practice; this time, really put in your heart and soul. Because when you enjoy yourselves when you're singing, when you move with the song, when you hear your voices soar as one, in unison, you will truly feel,

and then we will finally be making music.

12 DAYS TO BRATISLAVA; Winter Clothing/ Black Stockings

2008-11-19T20:03:00.005+08:00

heyhey choir! =D for those who need to get winter clothing, you all can go down to PARKWAY PARADE's Winter Time store to get them cause they're currently having a winter wear extravagant sale till 30th Nov!

and also, all Winter Time outlets are having a up to 60% off discount! =D yep! You can find them at Vivocity #01-141, Centrepoint #02-20, Marina Square #03-159, East Point Mall #03-06, Northpoint #02-50, Jurong Point #02-04, Hougang Mall #04-16, 605 Macpherson Rd #01-16, Parkway Parade #02-21/22 and Suntect City #02-049! yep!

Or if you would rather, theres a warehouse sale at the outlet at 605 MacPherson Road from 10am to 8pm daily, till the 30th Nov =D

and also, for your black stockings/leggings, you can get them from Robinsons, you can find them at Raffles City or Centrepoint =D haha, but i think all megastores like Metro or John Little should have them too. =D yep! so make sure that you all get your winter clothing and stuff ready on time k! It's going to be very cold there, so make sure you have enough to wear, and bring extra in case you need to wear more than expected, ok? =D

Lastly, make sure that your long johns DONT COVER YOUR NECK, cause otherwise it would be seen peeping out of your uniform when performing ._. yep! so make sure your long johns are wide collared if possible yes? =D

TAKE CARE DEAREST CHOIR, AND JIAYOU ALL THE WAY! YOU ALL WILL SHINE IN BRATISLAVA LIKE THE SIRIUS! =D (im not sure if im right, but the sirius is the brightest star in the universe! ^^)

2008-11-19T11:39:00.019+08:00

12DAYS TO BRATISLAVA; Checklist!

Hey choir, below is a rough guide of the number of things you need to bring for the trip! ALL THINGS MENTIONED ARE SAID BY MS LIM, SO ALL OF THEM ARE COMPULSORY, otherwise stated (:

The agency might be giving us one checklist too, but nvm, just in case (:

Alright, here's the checklist: (copy paste to microsoft/notepad/blah. print it out if you need. )

** OKAY, YOU ALL NEED NOT HAVE EXACTLY THE NUMBER OF THE ITEMS

`COMPETITION
1. Hair Ribbons ( red and white ones, we'll give them to you)
2. Black Court shoes
3. COSTUME!
4. BLACK STOCKINGS
5. Hair pins/clips/rubber bands (if necessary)
6. Hair gel (if necessary)
7. Competition Song Scores

` CLOTHING
1. 3-4 pairs of jeans
2. 6-7 pieces of clothing
3. 6-7 sets of undergarments
4. 3 sets of night wear
5. 4-5 sets of Long Johns
6. Jumper/cardigan(if you are afraid of cold, bring more!)
7. Big Winter Coat
8. Ear muffs (optional)
9. Cap (optional)
10. Super thick GLOVES
11. Super thick SCARF

`FOOTWEAR
1. Sport shoes
2. 6-7 pairs of thick socks (or more)
3. A pair of slippers/sandals..

`PERSONAL
1. Lip Balm
2. Moisturiser
3. Face Cream
4. Make up set ( BASIC ONES: LIPSTICK. BLUSHER, FOUNDATION)
5. Toiletries ( toothpaste, toothbrush, shampoo, shower gel, towel & facial foams blah blah)
6. Comb

`OTHERS
1. Your own medication ( VITAMIN C! panadols, flu tabs, stomach ache pills, motion sickness)
2. Electrical kettle (confirmed)
3. Water bottle (can bring 2x500ml)
4. Heat pack
5. Thermal flask
6. Portable iron (at least one per group)
7. Camera (optional :D)
8. Adaptors! The transformer thing! The plug thing! :D (confirmed)
9. Watch! (remember, 1 euro!)

That's about the checklist :D Tag on the board if you have enquiries? (:

If you guys need any clothing for the trip like long john, scarf, gloves, caps etc etc,
go to this website and check it out!

Its really good, go and browse through the website, it teaches you what to wear, how many layers blah blah.

JIAYOU CHOIR! <3>

16DAYS TO BRATISLAVA; Jacket Design

2008-11-16T17:21:00.001+08:00

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW FOR SOME REASON, THE JACKET IS COMPULSORY FOR THOSE WHO ARE GOING FOR BRATISLAVA as we will be wearing it to sing for our outdoor performance, atop many many layers of clothes you can wear underneath so we'll look cool, neat and synchronized in our lovely fat jackets.
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So after Crystal and Abigail tweaked the colours around and made it really beautiful, the front design of our jacket should look something like this:

And this is the design for the back. The string the girl is holding in the front design will be connected around the jacket to the back. Also, it's supposed to be horizontal, so flip it over in your mind:

Any comments, please feel free to hurl on the tagboard!

The weather forecast for Bratislava for today seems rather bearable:

7°C

Current: Mostly Cloudy
Wind: W at 21 km/h
Humidity: 81%

Sun

11°C 5°C

But take a look at the estimations for the next couple of days (It's not even December yet.):

Mon

8°C -1°C

Tue

6°C -2°C

Wed

2°C -2°C

So we're SERIOUS ABOUT THE WARM CLOTHING.

And yes, 16 days. I hope you're singing the competition songs in the shower everyday and practising as much as you can.

Also, please be reminded that choir starts at 12.30 on Tuesday.

Take care, drink water, and have confidence in yourselves that we'll bring that gold back. Never , ever give up. If you give up on yourself, choir's going to give up on you. And then our voices will never soar in unison, to reach that gold, and we'll be shackled to the ground forever.

So give your all. Just a little over two weeks left; let's make the best out of it.

18DAYS TO BRATISLAVA; Jacket Sizing

2008-11-14T17:39:00.000+08:00

HELLO CHOIR.

This is our new blog to inform you guys about choir and important stuff, so do remember to drop by often! There isn't much time in choir to discuss these kind of things, so we had to do it the online way.

Do not worry, we will be changing the template as soon as possible. (We're going to make our own cool one really soon)

ANYWAY, on to business. Please TAG AT THE TAGBOARD at the side, and indicate the size you want your jacket to be, together with YOUR NAME. This is applicable only for those who are going to Bratislava.

The jacket's a pullover, not a hoodie, because the design looks nicer on the pullover. Pullovers look like this:

Estimated Sizing:
XS - Size 36 for PE shirt
S - Size 38 for PE shirt
M - Size 40 for PE shirt
L - Size 42 for PE shirt

(XS is loose for Abigail, and M fits Crystal. You can do the maths~)

It's unisex, btw.

Please take this seriously, and YOU MUST SPECIFY no matter what. We will be counting the numbers.

Those whose friends are overseas, please sms Abigail to tell her what sizes your friends are because we need the sizes in by Sunday night.

THINGS YOU MUST DO PRIOR TO BRATISLAVA(more will be told this Thursday)

1) Prepare your Long Johns (IMPORTANT) or borrow from someone! Remember you need to wear them for 9 days. Take a look at the HORRIBLE WEATHER FOR TODAY. Lowest 3DEGREES. Imagine how cold it'll be when it's later into winter. ._.

8°C

Current: Mostly Cloudy
Wind: N at 10 km/h
Humidity: 93%

Fri

10°C | 3°C

2) If you have trouble finding Long Johns, find Abii (91186582). She ~~should~~ might have the contact. Whoo baby, efficiency! 8D

3) MEDICATION. If you have any special illnesses, you must remember to bring your own medication as we do not have special stuff for you other than panadol, motion sickness pills (Abii's finding!), pi pa gao, and more panadol (menstrual).

Remember to practise and remember every single detail your leaders, Miss Lim, Miss Teng and Louisa told you. You MUST take time out of choir to practise,

or we won't be able to keep Miss Lim.

Drink water, and stay healthy. YOU'D BETTER HAVE MEMORISED YOUR SCORES BY NOW. SWALLOW them as much as possible. @_@

You can do it.

Love, Shinny&Debbie