DM's Blog: 2nd is best

Today was choir competition finals. We made it to the final 5 for the first time in 3 years.

Sigh, exams next week and yet we form 5 are busy focusing on delivering in the competition. Mdm. Tee told us to try get Top 3. Wow, at first we thought it was a hard task to complete, since the other 4 schools are Convent Bukit Nanas, St. Mary's, SMK Saujana and also SMK Wangsa Melawati.

One school we love to see perform is Convent Bukit Nanas. Last week we saw them performing Katy Perry's "Hot and Cold" as an introduction song.

7: 10 a.m, teacher asked us to go to the music room to prepare and do final practices. Matthew wasn't feeling well, down with fever. Sam and I even joked that Matthew is down with swine flu. ;)

So here's some pics in the music room...

Matthew resting.

Yu Kin being a douche.

Sam and Santosh.

Today was the day we had to give our very best for the last time for choir. This is the last year for me, Santosh, YiVonn, Matthew, Angeline, Eve to contribute something for the choir.

Ok, so after the last practice, we went down to the school hall where the finals will be held. As we lined up to the hall, Pn. Hajah Halimah our headmistress gave us a speech to congrat us for making it this far. She was so happy for us, she was close to tears. Awwwhhhh..........

The choir finals started with the primary schools. SK Convent Bukit Nanas 1's choir was nice, SJK (c) Jalan Davidson's choir was cute, SJK (c) Taman Connaught's performance was ok, SJK (c) Tsun Jin (my primary school from 1999 to 2004) was quite soft.

Then, teacher asked us to go to the geography room to give us final briefings and final preparations. 10 :30 a.m we have to be at the backstage ready to perform.

Judges were late for the second part of the finals, the Secondary school group. We were standing at the backstage for 10 minutes, patiently waiting for the judges to be in the hall. Slowly the hall was filled with the primary school choir groups and also the secondary schools, with a class of SMK Seri Mutiara students sitting at the last row giving us some support.

Eve and Yi Vonn went up stage, bowed, and then Eve starts the music. For our introduction, we used part of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". Both sides were busy making animal noises. Matthew was the donkey of the choir, also known as the ass of the choir. Santosh was the cow, Yu Xin's sister was the bird, and I'm the pigeon.

Starting part, Santosh and I will walk first before the rest follows. As we both walked out, we were surprised by the loud applause for us. Thanks guys!!

Selamat Pergi Pahlawanku was the first song. Halfway through the song, the hall's students, teachers gave us a round of applause. Another morale boost!!! Then, second song was our time to shine, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".

Yi Vonn gave the signal for the girls to sit, and the boys to continue standing. We boys would then act like we're sleeping. While we're at it, both boys and girls will make animal sounds to give the audiences a jungle-like feeling. Then at the second bar of the song, we boys would then stretch ourselfs and wake up. Boys will start the song, then the girls will slowly 'rise up' and sing along too.

At one part of the song, "In the village, the quiet village...", we all would slowly give the 'what the heck?!' face expression and turned to Jet Yee, which she would do a mosqitoe sound. Then after a few seconds, I would give a pat on Santosh's shoulder and point at Jet Yee's head. He would then prepare to clap on top of her head, to let the audience know that there was a nyamuk. The audience burst into laughter.

At the end of the song, the last part of the 'weeeeeeeee weyum bam bo weh' (what the heck?!), we boys would stop singing. Then when Yi Vonn signalled us to 'ummmmmmmm', Yu Kin would do a Tarzan chant.

When the music stops, we were greeted with cheers for our performances. Good job.

I'm really impressed by the other school's performance. Convent Bukit Nanas was abit off tune but overall they were great.

We then went to the geography room to eat. Santosh again, took 2 packets of chicken rice.

Ok, while waiting for the results, Santosh and I went out to go to the loo, one of the prefect who saw the results bumped into us, and told us the news. Santosh and I wanted to scream so badly. But she asked us to keep quiet about it.

We both went back to the hall, smilling. I shook hands with Eve, she doesn't even have a clue about what's going on. So for the next 30 minutes and so, Santosh and I couldn't stop smilling. Mabel and Weng Xiong thought we were mad.

After the judges speech, headmistress speech, some goverment servant speech, finally results time.

Guess what? 2nd place. We all screamed like mad people, macam dapat nombor 1. The bad thing is that SMK Saujana was sitting behind us and have to bear with us celebrating infront of them.

But what surprises me that St. Mary got 4th place. 3rd place goes to SMK Wangsa Melawati (more on that school later), 2nd place is us, and 1st place goes to the usual winners, Convent Bukit Nanas. Look, if every year Pineapple school keeps on winning, what's the point of the other 22 schools competing? Mind as well just give the trophy to Pineapple school and start a competition for schools to battle for 2nd place? Just kidding,

Sam told me, we lost to Convent Bukit Nanas by a vote and a point. Kicking myself now.

They say our headmistress was full of tears of joy. Then we all went up on stage for photo session after getting our trophy. Oh yeah, each one of us got a certificate and a small trophy.

So after the photo session, time to release the joy. All of us decided to go out to the assembly ground and scream. I know, sure gonna attract alot of attention.

3,2,1........WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! YESSSSSSSS!!!!

Yu Kin, he swore that if we made it to the final 5, he will cut off his manhood. He swore!! When we made it to the finals, he diam diam already. Sam and I branded him as a pussy already. Thank goodness he didn't promised anything if we get 2nd place.

So, Sam, Santosh and I decided to carry Yu Kin and take his shoes off. We did it, played American Football with it. Yu Kin be happy that Santosh didn't do a touchdown with your leather shoes ok?