Shalom's 25th Anniversary Musical

The Anniversary Musical finally came and gone. I booked out in the morning and thankfully didn't get the Saturday guard duty. was praying real hard too and did my best not to get called down for the guard duty. thank God that only Eugene was called back for guard duty while the rest of us were let off for that day.

So i reached mainland, chionged home and made a mad rush to go prepare stuff whilst still having to clear the normal stuff like laundry and unpacking. sighz. that was quite a crazy day if i think bout it. went to church in the early early afternoon for practices and all. It was still quite mad coz the practices were still not really up to standard... well for one, i cracked on my high note. i freaked after my song. i was like. oh sheeet oh sheet. it's tonite. i jus cracked. oh sheet. i KNEW i shouldn't have sang so many army songs during the route march and shouted the commands so loudly. argh argh why!!! haha... but yeh, i was really scared i'd crack on the actual day itself even though i hit the note on all the practices before. just not reassuring enuf. However, it was quite funny and nice for all the people to start giving me tips.. they were like... if you crack that note then jus crack all the way... since it's an emo song... and it's the most emo part of the song, you can jus crumble to your knees and act like you're crying... they'll think the cracking is on purpose.. very professional one. HAHA... then i was like.. yeh, i gotta crack the whole chorus... august will jus slaughter me la! haha... but it was funny, coz i was thinking that was going to be my safety net just in case. HAHA

so as showtime started inching closer and closer, my nerves were a bit on the high end... so before i was confined [urg, i hate this word] in the vestry, i sneaked out to the mph and jus threw away my shaky feet by singing my song in the mph not caring whether i hit the note or not. thankfully i hit it everytime in the mph giving me the much much needed confidence boost... then i made my way back to the vestry knowing that all i needed to do was try it and whack. do or die. if i crack then crack. as long as i tried. :) it was really interesting though... asking God to use me to show His glory and help the audience feel Him more... it's like a normal daily prayer in army to get me thru training and here i was, askin him to help me sing a note. so different. haha.

Anyways, the musical went off smashingly well. thank God everything went well. Aunty Dawn was jus splendid lor.. she looked me in the eye and delivered just the right amount of frustration, irritation and sympathy that was required of the character. really, if anyone thinks i acted well, it's only coz she did better than me and that helped me reach my character deep down inside. I was so glad she did so well... thank you aunty dawn... i can't thank you enuf for trusting in me and delivering your lines with such a professional aura. :) So yeh, the acting was all good, the singing was great too... it really makes a diff that the audience is there.. it makes everyone give their 110% la.. really.. that.. "oomfh" as my mum calls it. :)

Thank God that everyone did well and it was all a success. really thank God for so many people i can't start to mention here otherwise there'll be too much to write. really. but here are a list of people of special mention coz they really put in tonnes of effort.

Sab, August, Eunice, Lorraine, Jodi, Ivan, Shawn Tiang, Adrian, Aunty Dawn

After the musical, we had dinner. nice! but didn't have much coz we came down late... ate 7 of that corn cup dessert thing though. it was nice can! :) oh and of course i've been dying to type this ever since i started the entry...

WANYI AND MINI CAME! :) yayz yayz

so happy can... was like. woohoo! spent quite a bit of time jus chilling with them and catching up... making sure that i wasn't wasting the time they were here.. showed mini my slippers. haha she was like jealous... weren't you? ahha... but yeh, i still think the other flip flops are nicer... but that's why it's not mine. haha... nonetheless, was really glad they came and stayed to fellowship with all the church people and stuff. :) [han looks like paul frank].
Talked to Auntie Charlene and Uncle Alfred a bit too. thank God for both of them... really will miss them if this continues.. managed to just get a bit of a sharing from Auntie Charlene la. so i was really glad coz i barely am able to spend proper time talkin to her and stuff... praying for her and hope that things will work out soon. :) i miss the puas.

With that, it concluded the night and people started slowly inching out the gates to home... i was just mentally dead. really really tired... route march the day before and everything... wah, was just ready to pengz on the bed. so was real glad to get home, shower, unpack and hit the sack.

p.s. the anniversary mag is just so fantabulous... Rachel is a genius.

Thank God for Shalom's 25 years of existence.
only reason why i'm here praising God is coz of Shalom.