Cos of Miao Jia Shao Nu... The Maiden of Miao... I had this dream of doing this song again with VJ Choir... But VC will suffice... It all started back in the "choir loaned" room back in TK some yrs back... Tenor sectionals... Marcus teaching and me? Slacking at the back as usual with Dennis... Ai ya... Most of the tenors can't get the "la las" right... But I guess I was kinda confident enough to let my mind wander... Hmmm... Commissioned by Nelson Kwei for VC... Wonder if I would sing it in VJ Choir... If I get into VJ Choir in the first place... If I get into VJC even... If I get 8 pts and below... If I stop slacking and start working... Right! And then of course Marcus told me to stop dreaming... So I showed him how it's done... And after tt I guess he stopped targeting me and helped the other weaker tenors...
Right seriously... I didn't join chorale cos of tt reason... I'd admit tt was 1 of the reasons... But there are soooo many reasons for joining too... Of course the repertoire had to be interesting... And it was... Familiar songs like Deus, Janger, Lux, Il Coro and of course Miao Jia... Nice ones likeYume mita, Sleep, Tu Es Petrus (OMG it's such a nice song!), and hard ones like Stabat (Starbucks for tt matter!), lok sui ten, and the bloody madrigals!!! Bring em on... Ooookkkk... Let's not be too enthusiastic here... Maybe the words will be too much to handle...
Of course, the more vital reasons are this syndrome called the ORD mood... It's time to do what I would want to do if I were totally free... No amount of suppression can stop me now... It's not like last year... This year... I rule... Which leads to the main fuel that drives my motive... The Passion for singing in a choir... That interest in making the score come alive... The desire to learn new songs, master them and perform them... All these became clear during the Christmas week... I realised that it was time to unleash the passion, to recoup what I had been missing last yr... And what better way than to join VC...
But wait, there's more... Personally, it's time to regain my form... Brushing up the skills and techniques that were lost in the Tekong jungle is one thing... Surpassing the peak that was reached in JC 2 is another... But first... Back to basics again... It's kinda uncool when once upon a time, I'm sure I could sight read merry minded and fa lalaing... And so until I regain that skill, forget about surpassing anything... Right look no further... G is just on the horizon... Now how to reach it?...
And of course some guilt for backing out halfway last yr... I mean it's not completely my fault... Stupid CoD... But yeah... That hurts...
So what if there are some internal conflicts? So what if we're not up to standard? I say we still have a long time to improve... Hell we haven't learn all the songs yet... We got SOV as a gauge... We just got to blend more... Everything else will come naturally... Call me naive... Call me stupid... Call me ignorant... But I know one thing's for sure... I'm going to do my part... And no one, not even any semi- omnipotent organisation is going to stop me... Nothing in My Way!!!
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