Char kept asking me these days:

 

Tianning, what's wrong with you?

Flu?

Oh, no, i dun want flu to take my happy TT away.......

 

Thanks, Char, you are the one,

the only one

who detected it

who pointed it to me

who helped me to awake......

 

 

 

I put on esctasy to veil my sorrow............

........................................................U, just thought i was mad or deranged......................................................

昨天达达提议去吃川菜

我也正愁着没地方混顿正常的非BS餐

又想到在过去的半年里

自己吃辣的水平大大提高

所以欣然同意去了

 

两个人吃多孤单啊

又想到我和苹果这两天一直想一起出去

却没去成

刚巧她来问我什么时候去NTUC

所以当然就一起去了

 

到了那家店

点了四盆菜：

水煮鱼，回锅肉，鱼香肉丝和芙蓉蛋

水煮鱼超级辣

确切地说是麻

但是为了不再两位吃辣专家前显示我的“菜”

我硬憋着

狂吃饭狂喝水

虽然嘴里又麻又辣又烫

但是真的吃的很爽

 

后来，在我硬撑了很久后

april冒了一句

这水煮鱼好辣……

 

后来april说要拍照

放到blog上

于是我们就拍了

应该会在她地方吧

把我拍那么丑

我当然就不放了

 

后来我觉得自己的胃在燃烧

再加上那天真的很热

于是我们决定去吃ice-cream

吃到撑死

 

于是我们去fair price买东西加散步

最经典的一幕是

我和april在前面推着车

达达突然很悲惨地叫了一声，要我们帮忙

只见：她一个人抱了四大瓶牛奶冲过来

 

后来我在卖巧克力和饼干的地方迷失了自我

只听她们在我后面说：

为什么吃了多，她还能买那么多?

汗……这不是五十步笑百步吗？

 

后来我们到车站后下了大雨

可爱的猪来给我们送伞

爱死她了

 

下午讨论

IH seminar discussion

开始比较正常（除了小敏）

后来weiwei和xiaomin去买东东吃

之后不正常的事又发生了

我，xiaowu，耗子，xiaomin，weiwei

五个人吃了

6小包twist

1桶pringles

3包菠萝蜜干

1包芝士圈

本人还另吃了个苹果，一包饼干

吃到要吐了…………………………

 

我可怜的胃啊

今天饿一天吧

否则去年六月的悲剧又要重演了

 

 

 

 

“Nanyang Girls’ High School, Gold with Honors!”

 

When the announcer finally released the result of our SFY competition, the whole SCH hall burst, burst into cheering and happy shouting. For me, I shouted and clapped as loud as I could. I shout, for I wanted to prevent the happy tears rolling down from my cheeks.

 

From November last year, we have started to prepare for the “coming” SYF. At the beginning of this year, the no. of practices increased dramatically. And practice was always so boring since we only played two songs—molihua and jiankuaideliangfeng. I still remember the 2 weeks before SYF, our CCA time has exceed 24 hours/week. What’s more, I have not been able to have a proper lunch for so many weeks due to the lunch time practice. How I hated CCA at that time! I felt it steal, or grabbed my precious time, or, my second school’s life has been totally destroyed by CCA. 

 

However, as the day of competition approached, my attitude towards CCA gradually changed for some reason I even do not know till now. It seemed my love for NYCO increased directly proportional to the no. of practices and also the pressure from the competition. I came to start to realize what NYCO means to me. Though I continued to complain about my CCA to my family and friends, I knew my love was belied by these complaints. I was exhausted, yet I was so happy. “NYCO, Rocks”, the phrase was deeply itched on my heart.  

 

Mrs Ee, our dear teacher in charge and conductor has not only once told us, our aim was far more beyond “Gold with Honors”. We were not only competing for that title, but performing the best music, perfect NY style music. Our major enemy was not Duman or HCI, but ourselves. Improving, improving, and improving, until perfect.

 

On the morning of that day, 03/04/07, which I would never forget, the whole school cheered for NYCO since we were the first group representing NY to take part in SYF. Cheering should be a way to cheer us up so that we could perform well, but somehow, I felt more pressure falling on my shoulders.

 

Nearly forgot how we got to SCH and how we got on stage……like a dream. The one thing I remembered was that, when we stepped into the entrance hall of SCH, the hall was suddenly glittering with glorious sparks. “Nan Zhong Lai Ye!” Yes, we were coming; NYCO would rock you down with the best piece of music!

 

After the result coming out, a lot of people were crying. Crying the happy tears for the result, and also for the efforts we have put in for the past 6 months. Yeah, we need to cry out all the feelings which have been hidden inside us for such a long time. Yiling and Maureen, our president and vice president, were the first two I have noticed who were crying, and followed by Chin Sian, our sectional leader. They’d better cry, for they must have been extremely stressful for a long time before the competition. Especially Chin Sian, she was kept telling to calm down, was in fact the most nervous one in our section.

 

Later, we got out of the hall. Chew Fei suggested us to cheer for NYCO, cheer for Mrs Ee.(we were not allowed to cheer in the hall, hehe). Indeed, we need a cheer at this moment to stop our fellow CO friends from crying cuz it was the time to laugh out loudly!

I cheered, first time, I cheered from the bottom of my heart.

 

On our way back, there was no more crying face but only crazy ones. On the bus, we sang molihua and liangfeng exultantly. Yong Hui (hehe, do not know how to spell her name properly), together with some other people from Xianyue went crazy! They waved to the every passenger, every car and every bus on the road and shout: “hello, we got GOLD WITH HONORS!”  When our bus passing by the botanical garden, they shout: “hello, botanical garden, we got GOLD WITH HONORS!” NTUC and numerous bus stops and MRT stations received their greetings as well. Crazy, man!

 

The Cello Bass people were no less crazy. Singing, shouting, laughing, and even want to jump into the Singapore River to show how excited they were.  When we pass HCI, they shout: “Yo man, we got Gold With Honors!” (HCICO was one of the best and was believed to get gwh, however, the result turned out they only got gold). The whole bus burst into laughter while suddenly someone said: “Wrong side lah, ei yo, it is JC part, not reaching the secondary part yet, shout again lah!” (HCI is made up by two parts, left side is JC part and the right side is the secondary school) So funny!

 

Later that evening, Xiaowu, Haozi and I went to Bukit Timah plaza to celebrate. (It was Tues, school day, we dare not to go back too late in case we would be severely scolded by matrons).  Nothing special but pizza and ice-cream, hehe, we really need ice-cream to cool ourselves down.

 

Back in hostel, I made a call to my parents to share my happiness with them. My daddy began to babbling that I should now begin to focus on my study and how I could put this kind of passion to improve my marks. Such a good CME teacher, hehe! But he’s right, I should focus on what I ought to focus on from now on.

 

“NYCO, Gold with Honors!”

 

I remember this forever.

 

PS:

People to thank:

Mrs Ee, Lim Laoshi, all the other sectional teachers and CO teacher in charge

Danhong, Haozi

Chin Sian, Zhuo Da, Hui Ying from our section

Elise, Li Fern, Chanyi, excellent soloists

Yiling, Maureen,   president and vice president

Yu Qin, Xiu Fan, Hui Ting, Yi Ping, people I do not know how to spell their name, sorry…….

 

Xiaohong, Shawn and all the others dear seniors

And every member of CO

 

Every one puts in an effort, the best piece of NY music can be produced.

 

PS:

I feel quite kongxu these days since there is no CCA practice. As Charlotte said, “so irionic!” Haha……………..!

We got GOLD WITH HORNORS!

Yes, we finally got it!

 

Today must be one of the most memorable days of my whole life, NYCO rocked SCH!

 

今天，是SYF

早上全校cheer for CO

 

顶着昨天有两所学校拿Gold With Honors

四五所gold

中正又在我们前一个上场的压力

We’ve finally made it!

NYCO ROCKS!

 

今天我们总体都发挥得很好

一开始Cello Bass声音没出来

但是我们后来越奏越好

到《渐快的凉风》后面我完全兴奋到想把笙报起来吹

茉莉花嘛

虽然之前也奏过

但在大众场合下

这是最好的一次

也是最近练习里算最好的了吧

不过也许这其中也参杂了我个人的感情因素

 

更巧的是

这是我们第一次在公众场合演渐快的凉风

效果，，凉风阵阵，轰动全场

这也是我们最后一次在舞台上演茉莉花

效果，完美的谢幕，花香永存

 

下午公布结果前是最紧张的

当emcee报出：

南洋女子中学校

Nanyang Girls’ High

Gold with honors

 

瞬时

所有关心南洋的人都大声欢呼

对于我来说

这一声饱含了太多……

……为了比赛每天吃不成午饭

……一个星期多达20小时的CCA

……为了简简单单的一个小节而练上千百遍……

 

此时，辛苦的付出终于获得回报

脑子又萦绕着凉风那一段最感人的乐章

我有种狠狠地哭一场来发泄心中复杂情绪的冲动

转头一看四周，

发现已经有太多太多的人哭成了一团

 

出来之后，我们又cheer了几次

这是我有时以来最大声最发自内心的一次cheering

 

回来的路上，大家都疯了

尤其是弦乐和cello bass的

不停向车外招手

大喊，

Hello! We got Gold With Honors!

（还好没穿校服，否则多事的路人又要向学校举报我们的improper behavior了吧）

发展到后来：

Hello, Botanical Garden, We got Gold With Hornors!

Hello, MRT, We got Gold With Honors!

 

经过HCI

有人喊

Hey, man, we got gold with honors!

(HCI 在我们后一天比赛)

一群人笑晕的时候

有人说了一句

Aiyo, wrong side lah,

It’s JC……

Shout again lah……

 

晚上，我，耗子，小邬又出去吃了一顿

庆祝了一下

但是

我突然又想

CCA一下子不忙了

空闲的日子一定会很不习惯吧

比赛前虽然忙到不成人样

但是毕竟很充实

或者根本的原因就是

我已经深深地爱上了NYCO！

 

GOLD WITH HORNORS!

We Deserve It!

We Deserve To Win!

Cuz NYCO Rocks!

We Are the Best!

 

的确，我们太应该得这个殊荣了

想象多少人为之付出了多少心血

尤其是Mrs Ee

各个section的老师

热心的seniors

每个成员

每个关心NYCO的人……