Avalon

Trapped in between

Thursday, January 20, 2005

How wrong I was to be blinded by my injudicious and naive thinking that we will have sufficient juniors in both choir and Huang Cheng. I was proven sooo wrong. Choir wise, we had a lack of choristers. Correction, it's major shortage of GUYS. Everything works in a demand and supply theory in real life and I must say that for choir, the demand and supply for guys and gals differ in such an exaggerated way. It's really miles apart. Maybe lightyears. On one hand, we have this batch of super, top-quality girls hand-picked and sieved out from a ready pool made up of mostly ex-choristers from individual choirs spread out over Singapore. So those who were selected are really the cream of the crop, the best of the best. I can vouch for this after hearing that only one girl from my junior class 04A12 made it to the choir family when at least 6 went for auditions. (and the shocking thing is most were ex-choristers) On the other hand, we have a serious deprivation of capable guys. Capable here is already a word seriously undermined now that there is this crucial problem of having an all-girl's choir. But it seems that even by these standards, we just couldn't get good enough basses and tenors. The last I heard, we have just five new guys joining the club. In relativity to the 23 girls with solid choral background and trained voices, the choir can be so unbalanced. Then today I actually found out that a guy who got selected for a lead role in Huang Cheng got through the final round of auditions after quitting Huang Cheng. No comment on that except that I probably have to face him for the next few months. But that really put me once again in that sticky situation because while I am quite certain that guy will most probably end up as a bass, (and a Bass2 maybe) that doesn't make me any happier because of an uncertainty in his commitment. Hopefully, I won't hold him in doubt for too long.

And then spent a whole week being the Cui Chang. Really enjoyed laming and crapping and acting stupid. Invented funny songs and really cracked my brain searching for interesting ways to hurry and shepherd them home. Also, mixed around with the emcees and found them very nice to talk to. Haha it had been a tiring but interesting week. This year although we had very little time to rush through the preparations for the show, I am confident we can make it. We have to. We will. Same for Choir SYF. That gold with honours will be ours if we can cooperate. Remember the thing last year when we were only hoping we get into the finals... I guess dreams can really come true.

Envoy of the Stars @ 10:47 PM
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