Sucessful ! Fruitful ! Emotional ?

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Hey people , if you've missed our performances yesterday and today , you've really missed something good ! Thank you to the audience who actually spent their time watching our performance at The Chamber Arts House . We've practised for like 3 weeks and these two days were really our day to show off what we've got. It seemed easy to sing but actually the whole choir was divided into three groups , Soprano , Alto and tenor. At different points , different groups were supposed to sing their own part. Well , it turned out to be nice. I loved the rapping part. The girl who rapped is actually the composer of the rap itself. It all started with Oliver asking if anyone of us can do rapping about the acronyms of Singapore as he find that quite interesting and there you go , there is the rap.

One clarification on this choir is that we went there with the mindset of complaining in a creative way through singing. We are not into political issues or against the government. It is really so upset to get even own friends who misinterpret on the whole concept. It was just another form of Art presentation. The best thing of this Choir is that there are no audition ! People like me who does not have natural beautiful vocal can actually sing in this unique choir and definately the experience I had in this choir was really memorable. We had fantastic conductor , Wai Lun and a always so cheerful pianist , YunQi and our two new friends from Finland. Now I missed the time we spent during our rehearsals.

We are all anticipating for our videos to be edited and sent to us. Here are the lyrics of our beautiful song :

The Complaints Choir of Singapore

We get fined for almost anything
Drivers won't 'give chance' when you want to change lane
The indoors are cold , the outdoors are hot
And the humid air , it wreaks my hair
Those answering machines always make you hold
Only to hang up on you.

When a pregnant lady gets on the train
Everyone pretends to be asleep
I'm stuck with my parents till I'm 35
Cause I can't apply for HDB
We don't recyle any plastic bags
But we purify our pee

*chorus*
What's wrong with Singapore?
Losing always makes me feel so sore
Cause if you're not the best
Then you're just one of the rest

My oh my Singapore
What exactly are we voting for?
What's not expressly permitted is prohibited.

"Ooh".........................................................
"Ooh".........................................................

When I'm Hungry at the foodcourt I see
People "chope" seats with their tissue paper
To the aunty staying upstairs
Your laundry's dripping on my bed sheets
Please don't squat on toilet seats
And don't clip your nails on MRT

Stray cats get into noisy affairs
At night my neighbour makes weird animals sounds
People put on fake accents to sound posh
And queue up 3 hours for donuts
Will I ever live till 85
To collect my CPF?

*chorus*

Singaporeans too kiasu(so scared to lose)
Singaporeans too kiasi(so scared to die)
Singaporeans too kiabor(scared of their wives)
Maybe we're just too stressed out(Even the kids)

"Ooh".........................................................
"Ooh".........................................................

Old National Library was replaced by an ugly tunnel
Singaporean men can't take independent women
People blow their nose into the swimming pool
And fall asleep on my shoulder in the train

Singapore's national bird is the crame(the one with yellow steel girders)
Real estate agent's leaflets clogging up my mailbox(en bloc , en bloc , en bloc , enbloc)
Why can't we be buried when we die?
No one wants to climb Bukit Timah With me

*chorus*

There are not enought public holidays
My neighbour sings KTV all night
Wedding dinners never start on time
My Hair is always cut shorter than I want
Channel 5 commercials are way too long
Why do men turn bald?

*At first it was to speak more mandarin
Then it was to speak proper English
What's wrong with my powderful Singlish?

People sit down during rock concerts
We have to pay for tap water at restaurants
ERP Grantries are everywhere
But I can still see traffic jams on the road
Why do bus stops have tilted benches
Cannot access playboy.com

*chorus* x 2

Do you agree with the lyrics? I bet you would !!! Most probably , you can't figure out the tune if you've not watched us perform. You just have to wait till the editing of our recording has completed and watch the recording online. Great people , great show and year 2008 actually began with a big bang ! I am glad that I am part of the choir ! Hopefully our alumni (aluminum) group would be formed soon !

Thank you to all my new-found friends ! I'm glad that all of us had the "One for all and all for One" mindset though we've met with the obstacle. We are just kewl , we are just great ! (Some self obsession here though).