Leadership Night.
A big congratulations to all installed profects! It really was our night, and I think we were shining brightly throughout. Can't say much, other than it was an amazing event - dinner and all.
To everyone, keep an eye out when you return from your holidays back to school. You might just notice something different.
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Bend down, please.
Friday, 24 October 2008 - Cempaka Beat, Cempaka Cheras' percussion troupe, has practises twice a week.
Usually we would practise with the chinese drums (duh), but today we didn't. Let me explain.
We conduct our practises in the North Hall, the drums are right outside the hall if you haven't noticed. They're these big, hulking stacked up red and white things that look like pillars. Don't touch them.
The North Hall is currently under renovation for West Side Story, Cempaka's latest box-office production, so we have no access to it. In the past, we would play in the avenue when the hall wasn't available to us. Just so happens it rains after school almost everyday - and you can't expect us to lug the drums down there again.
So when this happens we would go to the Dance Studio 1 at CPAC. And that was exactly what we did.
Usually we would hit the floors or chairs and rehearse our usual patterns. We took it up a notch.
Massive Body Percussion, as you've never seen it before.
There we more than 10 of us in the room and practically all of us were playing different things. But everything mixed together and flowed so well. It was amazing.
And saying all that isn't even going to cut it.
Tuesday, 21 October 2008 - I spent the last hours of school in the school's Sick Bay - it was my first time being treated there too.
Yeah, you probably guessed it: Major Cramps.
Cempaka Cheras is one heck of a huge school. To get to pretty much anywhere you would have to walk for about 5 minutes or so - or probably climb flights of stairs. It's the latter that led me to cramps. I always knew one day climbing those stairs I'd get some sort of injury. If you've seen the stairs at Cempaka Cheras, let alone climb it, you'd definitely understand.
They brought me to the Sick Bay on a wheel-chair. They had to carry me there with all the darn stairs about. I seemed to have lost weight whenever they lifted me, and they probably suffered loads. (:
So at the Sick Bay, I just sat on the wheel-chair for about half an hour. I made a few new friends there - and realised how many people get sick in a day. Then the nurse insisted that I lie down on one of the beds and take a rest. To tell you the truth, I really didn't want to.
Right then, I felt useless. I couldn't do anything but stay in the bay. I really wanted to limp all the way to N2 and at least watch them dance - I did the same thing up Mt. Kinabalu, I can do it in Cheras. But the nurse wouldn't let me.
So after talking to some of the boys there, I did listen to the nurse and went to lie down on the bed. I just lay there, staring at the ceiling. Then when I turned to the left, on the wall were these etchings. I couldn't make out what any of them said but there were the numbers 17351 right in front of my face. And underneath it some weird symbols that looked like "lucky" or something. Odd.
So from around 2:34 I slept all the way to 3:27.
Then I really wanted to go somewhere then. Anywhere other than the bay. So I grabbed my bag and limped out - not before thanking the nurse and saying my farewells to my new friends, of course. But I had no where else to go. Going up to N2 would've been a waste of time: the practises end at 4.
So where did I go to next? The Orchestra Rehearsals.
There's that whole factor when you get goosebumps - that you can't force, you can't fake it.
Once I was sitting down with the orchestra, they were playing the theme from The Pirates of the Caribbean. Then the music started building to a crescendo. I looked down at my arm and actually caught myself getting goosebumps. And that says a lot.
Check out the Orchestra: here
Just don't mind the other miscellaneous background sounds.
A big thank you to Laura Oh for uploading the video.
Real dark - not so much on the scary.
It's the sound design that will have you jumping out of your seat and sending shivers down your spine. Very real, freaky even.
I haven't even tried turning off the lights, turning up the volume and playing it yet - I read it'll make you wet your pants. Seriously.
Gah, my hair's way too long.
