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.Monday, August 13, 2007 ' 4:50 AM Y

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Agh, ok. I'm a self-confessed hopeless person. Reason? Meh, I'm obsessed with my own blog now that I've revamped it. I mean seriously, opening the blog every few hours just to see the picture and the layout? And now writing a blog entry at like, what, 4.50AM? Seriously!

I was just reading through some of my old posts (from being narcissistic about my "new" blog) and feelings of nostalgia rushed back to me. To borrow a phrase I've used earlier, it's the "rivers meeting the seas (or oceans)" syndrome. For the longest time (ok, maybe not that long, but anyway), I have been suffering from the withdrawal symptoms from quitting choir. Nanyang Choir, to be exact. Nanyang Choir is just, a league of its own. Perhaps people might argue that their choirs are so much better, with whomever and so-and-so *and rolls eye at Nanyang Choir*, but you see, everybody's existence in a choir makes a difference, and it is such differences that makes a choir that choir. Even then, having the same "platform", what each choir is to its (her) members is different. The experiences, the people you meet, the section you're in, the bonds you form, the things you choose to do and choose not to do. And Nanyang Choir has an irreplaceable place in my heart. Much as I miss it, I also know that it is time to move on and to not dwell in the past. After all, what good would that do? People come and go; those I know are mostly not in Nanyang Choir anymore. Qui Jun, Yuru, Soh Ee, JieHui (I wonder where she is now, anybody knows?); they're all in universities now. Cherie, Angeline, Ligeng, Vivian, Liyi; they're all pursuing their individual paths now, and starting college soon. Then we have Lilin, Melissa, Yubai, Miaoqin, Meisi, Suet; they are all finishing J2 and thinking about their options already. Next we have my batch. Ahh, to think we were all just Sec1s entering choir, being timid and scared of everybody and anybody in choir. Then Jacqueline and Jiamin. I think they're all going to handover soon too. Goodness, it seems that my batch had just handed over not long ago too! Everybody's everywhere now. I wonder if it is ever possible to gather together again and sing. Once again, as the group that I once know, as the Nanyang Choir as I know it.

I remember, I used to bug everybody at random times to sing Ants Summer (that's how this blog got its name, in case you haven't noticed that - Haha) and Gloria (less just because it has so many different parts). And I remember all those random little things. How someone once told me usually alternate batches are closer to each other. How Miss Lim scolded us when (after, actually) we had that Czech guy (I think) come over to give us a workshop. How our singing always will warrant a "Bronze or COP" right before SYF. How we sounded "kanasai" (Haha Miss Lim). How I sang "Ni Wa Wa" right before SYF 2005 when in the line-up outside of the hall we were going to perform/compete in; I remember I was standing next to Miaoqin and she told me to "shut up" (Haha Miaoqin). How Cherie gave me a tuning fork and really motivated me and taught me so much. Thank you Cherie. How JieHui conducted us with her hair "chopsticks" after a twirl during one of our own FOA rehearsals (I think it is actually the FOA day itself - the afternoon/night). How Miss Lim scolded us about our poor discipline and sound during FOA 2004 (I don't think it's 2003; I don't know, my memory is failing me - that is also kind of why I'm writing this). How Cherie and I would tease Cheryl. How Miaoqin and I always compare our heights. How there was this joke about Sop1 SLs getting shorter and shorter over time, with Qui Jun at the top, then Cherie, then Miaoqin, then me. How Maria and I "fought" over the butterfly necklace at Prague, only to find out that the stall has two of them (after I bought the first one over which we fought - Haha). How Maria and I are shopping buddies. How Maria and I share one room (I think; see what I mean? I'm starting not to remember things). How Angeline wrote "Meaty" (Haha!). How we ran around the hotel in the morning when we were at Prague. How Miss Lim thought we were weird because we sounded better in the cold of the outdoors. How Miss Lim had a scarf and we got her a hat (or was it the other way round?). How we got only a Silver in Prague. How I had to miss our 2004 concert because I just came back from London that same day (crap, I don't even remember the name of our concert). How Cherie was the "goat" in Odelayhee Odelayhee Odelayheehoo. How Tricia was the "girl in pale pink coat". How the "goat" is still in the library of M301. How we'd silently and subtlely fight with String Ensemble for practice space aka. M301 back when we had Saturday practices. How our practices used to be Fridays 330-530 and Saturday 1030-1300. How Maria and Sylvia would hide the shoes of whom were not properly placed (here I was tempted to use "stowed" - Haha, too much Airplane dramas) on the shoe racks outside the music rooms. How we'd all sing on the bus (and how I begged everybody to please sing Ants Summer and Gloria) on the way to Esplanade (I believe, though I don't remember why). How Rachel Ong told me that we're the only few people left who still know how to sing those songs (because We're sec3 then? But I don't think so, considering she went NJC in Sec3) - we learned those songs in Sec1!. How we'd have extra practices by the fish pond/pond/koi pond (I don't even remember what we used to call it) with Melissa teaching us "La Cucaracha" with the tape recorder playing the "original version" - that was back when they were "building"/renovating the science labs on the first floor and how the middle area used to be blank space with all those showcases of preserved stuffs (wait, maybe that's level2 or maybe both floors - I don't remember, I think that might have been when I was going into Sec3? I don't know!!!). How Miss Lim said something during my Sec1 audition that made me so happy (I only remembered this as I was reading through my old posts; I wouldn't have remembered it otherwise - really ironic, considering I myself wrote that I'd never forget what she told me forever). Chieh! Forever, it's only been 4 years, and here I am, confessing that I don't remember. What is this?

The Nanyang Choir I know is no more. And even though it's gone, I hope I will remember it in its entirety and keep all the memories choir has given me throughout those (I was very tempted to write "these") four wonderful years. I just hope as choir regenerates itself with each coming batch, choir will be just as special to them as it was to me. Choir has definitely affected me in a way I never thought it would. For that, I am very thankful. I was SC but I didn't do a good job, yet the choir still accepted me and helped me and taught me. I guess I wasn't quite ready to take on such a role. Yet, now, after more than a year, as I stand from another point and look at the past, I can't help but be very thankful for everything. Choir has helped me so much, has given me so much, I just hope my being in choir has somehow benefitted the choir and other people too. Other than that, I don't quite know how else I can contribute back at the moment. If I could, I would turn back time and do a better job. But I can't. Yet I don't know if I actually would do that even if I could. Because maybe then, I wouldn't appreciate choir as much? As they say, you appreciate things more when they're gone. I guess that is very true. So here, I'd just like to say "sorry" and "thank you!" :)

I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank all committee members as well as members of the choir for making choir choir. And good luck and jiayou to current members and future committee members as well as new incoming members every year. Choir is as only splendid and special as you and your fellow members make it to be. Choir is a community that is an individual but does not exist individually.

I miss choir.
Mariaaaaa~ *whines to Maria*

c'est moiY

Corinna Kasiman
Eighteen
Cheshire, Connecticut
Northampton, Massachusetts

Oh oui, j'adore la France!Y

les choses que je veux:
+?
les classes que je veux prendre:
+Music
+Neuroscience
+Japanese
+French
Smith
:: English
:: Calculus
:: Biology
:: French
:: Ballet
la musique que je veux jouer:
+Mozart Piano Sonata in A Minor
ceux pour qui je veux travailler:
+Ghibli Studio!
+piano? a concert pianist? perhaps? perhaps?
mes intérêts:
+Piano
+Music
+TV dramas
(mainly Japanese and Korean ones)
+Surfing random websites
+identifying puns
(and other literary wits)
+lenguajes (haha!)
+LINGUISTIKOS!
+singing
+囲碁
+storieesss:D
mon veut:
+Finish my play!
+make a Flash video out of my play/story and drawing the scenes and composing the music for them
je veux être comme:
+梅沢由香里 for her 囲碁 awesomeness
+新海元 from "Good Luck" for
remembering himself in spite of
everything
+Vitus from "Vitus" for being a brilliant
genius
+カイ from "ピアノの森”

projets en cours
+Cell Division (Yale Med Ob/Gyn)
06/07~08/07
+Project "Angelic Layer"
on hold
+Play/Story
05/08~current

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