Sunday, July 15, 2007 @7:14 AM
All hail the ever-so-responsible CO member! :D Namely, yours truly.
Ahem. So here's what happened on Friday. :D
Basically, I assure you, four hours of sitting in one position near the koi pond and desperately trying to keep yourself in the upcoming concert, with the conductor's threats of kicking you out of it still ringing in your ears, and wishing that you could be doing something more WORTHWHILE... ...it's no bundle of laughs at all.
So, when the 4.30 ten-minute break came, I hastened to make full use of it. At first, I hung out in the canteen with Leican and Lydia, but because I couldn't buy anything to eat (depleting wallet *coughpotonecklacecough*), the canteen lost its allure after a while. Then all of a sudden, I got this hunch that Joy and Gillian and Xinjia, fellow ever-so-responsible members of CO, might be prac-ing in the 307 classroom, as per their normal tradition whenever a dazu session comes rolling round. ("We're hopeless cases! We can't join dazu!" thus, takes refuge in classroom on the PRETEXT of prac-ing) So whaddya know, my hunch was right!
Upon entering 307, though, it was to discover, *gasps* that THEY WERE NOT PRAC-ING! HOW SUPRISING! :D Instead, to show that their hearts were all in choir rather than CO, they were holding a karaoke session instead, which they very generously welcomed me to join in. Xinjia had pulled down the screen at the whiteboard, and switched on the com so that the song lyrics were shown on the screen. Joy and Gillian were belting out Tong Hua when I entered (with water bottles and scissors for mikes), while Gillian was looking on half-amused, half-exasperated. Since it looked infinitely more fun than what I had been doing (just ask Zhimin the number of times she had to poke me with her gong to wake me up), I decided too, to show my singing talents (or the lack of it).
After repeating Tong Hua about three times, Joy decided that we should sing another song. AND GUESS WHAT WE SANG NEXT.
POTO, EAT YOUR HEART OUT, ZHIHUA! :D :D :D
Gillian hastily searched out the POTO song lyrics (like I needed them anyway) and flashed them on the screen. Xinjia suggested that one of us be Erik, and the other Christine, but we eventually decided to all sing it at the same time. Gillian, more self-confidence! She absolutely refused to sing at all, going on and on about "off-tune" and "wrong pitch". But anyway, for about the next twenty minutes (yes, ten-minute break be darned), the room was filled with loud and uh, MELODIOUS renditions of "THE PHAAAAAAAAAAAAANTOM OF THE OPERA IS THEREEEEEEEEE". Joy and Xinjia dropped out at the super high-pitched "PHAAAAAAAAAN", but the very bu zi liang li me persisted, to much awe and wonder at my ability to hit such a high note (or rather, to shatter windows). The very out-of-her-mind Gillian: "You should join choir!"
Anyway, remember the part when Erik goes "SING MY ANGEL OF MUSIC!"? And Christine starts going like, SUPER HIGH-PITCHED? We actually did that too. :D So Joy was like, "SING FOR ME!" and I did the screeching. Wheee. We also did the ghostly "He's here, the phantom of the opera! Beware the phantom of the opera!".
Then, change of activity. Seeing the com was on...well, you all know what I usually (or mostly, or even only) go on the school com for. And, hey, whatever was on the com would show up on the huge screen too! Now, how could I pass up a chance like that? So it was off to Rafa fansite I went, much to the delight of Xinjia (a fellow Rafanatic, THANK HEAVEN!), and the exasperation of Joy and Gillian (unappreciative people!). Of course, that sparked off the usual insults (which only my obsessions ever get). This time, though, it was with a difference, cos I had Xinjia to aid me in the assault on Joy and Gillian with water bottles and blackboard markers! Wheee. Xinjia and I dissolved into uncontrollable giggles, and there was this little exchange:
Yinfei: Once in my lifetime, I must go to Wimbledon or French Open!
Xinjia: Once in my lifetime, I must go to Spain!
After a while of this, I kind of realized that my ten-minute break had somehow morphed into a 45-minute break. WHOOOOOOOOPS. :D
And so I hastened to return to CO. Sigh.
SHALL DO THIS AGAIN NEXT WEEK! XD