nick's farewell dinner

Hello everyone! If you missed prac today, we are having nick's farewell dinner on tues night... meeting 7pm at holland v... having dinner at some dim sum restaurant i think :D please RSVP ok :D thanks! ALL THE BEST NICK!

yuk :)

happy new year

Happy new year LIV! hope 2009 will be a great year for LIV :)

yuk :D

emo post #2

/edit 2:48am: Removing this post by request (can't figure out how to delete, so you get an edit...)

I did ask someone (non-LIV) to double check what I'd written before I posted it, 'cause I wanted it to be obviously non-serious, but. yeah. didn't work out. It wasn't my intention to scare anybody & I'm sorry. :/

I never intended to take this seriously in the first place, so I won't continue this despite what I promised one of you on Sunday; it turns out I'm painfully shortsighted, which is my own fault lah. lol I really am the little kid of LIV in every way, huh. I won't post on the LIV blog anymore, it's not ~meant to be~; will stick with my own from now on.

Sorry once again.

emo post #1

This is dedicated to Keegan's lov-- I mean, OSM, who derives some sort of sick pleasure from continually making fun of the previous post I mistakenly wrote on this blog. I promised her I'd write 26 more emo posts here (1 for each letter of the alphabet). Anyway this blog is all boring and dead since everything posted on it recently was messaged to us on Facebook too, so more boring stuff shouldn't hurt y/y?!

One thing though - I thought for 5 minutes and couldn't come up with anything for A, so it's going to be 26 random posts instead. Well, if I don't give up halfway first. XD

Crap though this is hard; I don't feel emo about anything now. I guess this means I have to make up some emo things about myself today, which will end up contrived and sucky because I suck at lying, and you guys will make more fun of me behind my back than you already do. SHAN MING THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT.

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On the bus home from prac today, I kept thinking about Imperial College. And that maybe I wouldn't mind going to Imperial College after all. But it's going to be what, a whole load of Singaporean students competing for those few spots Imperial offers for Singaporeans? And okay, I admit my grades aren't bad by any means, but I don't know if they're good enough either. Not to mention there's a lot of luck involved in the selection process.

Sigh but it's not like Imperial's my dream college or anything. Fine, I'll be honest - today's convo with a few of y'all made me realise that I'm... not so over Cute Boy after all. (For those who weren't there - basically there's this Cute Boy who's 5 years my senior and attending Imperial right now.)

I know it's stupid to decide on something as important as this based on things like a passing infatuation with C.B. but ahhh I know I'll be disappointed if I can't make it to Imperial. Even though I'll probably never see C.B. again, somehow it seems like the right choice to make.

The worst thing is, tomorrow I'm meeting Kan Ah Sai for a hot date, but now I'm not sure if I can go. Not when I can't be honest with him. Relationships must be built on honesty and trust. Right? But how can I tell him that I want to go to Imperial because of... that?

I don't know what to do now. I feel terrible. :(

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OMG I GIVE UP. "Relationships must be built on honesty and trust" OMG LOL LAMEST LINE EVER. Just so you know, 1) I've practically forgotten about Cute Boy by now (though he is kinda cute *cough*), 2) I'm not dying to attend Imperial, and 3) "Kan Ah Sai" is (rather obviously) an inside joke, not my actual boyfriend/husband/whatever (despite what Facebook says) and I'm just meeting the friend who's behind the whole thing.

If somebody doesn't ban me from posting on the blog first, emo post #2 soon :P

No love,
the one who posted the other emo post.

caroling meeting time

hello islanders!!! we will be meeting at 7pm at heeren tml (20 dec). Caroling will start at 8.30pm but we need to warm up and everything :) anyway, some of us will be meeting at 6pm at orchard mrt for dinner!

and there will be liv practice on sunday at 1.30pm before the caroling!

yuk :D

Flashing this Christmas

Every December we are haunted by carols. Carols, carols everywhere. Toilets, shopping centres, elevators, radio, you name it, they deck the halls it. Perhaps even more worrying, or annoying even, is the phenomenon of choirs charging exorbidant fees for a caroling session. How much does it go for? It runs into the hundreds of dollars and honestly, it isn't worth it is it?

 

For this reason, and boosted by other more unsavoury incidents from my own experiences, I have always tended to view caroling as a necessary evil. I don't particularly enjoy doing it, given a choice I wouldn't, but I accept that it has become a means of survival for smaller choirs. The income generated from the festive period (italics and sarcasm mine) funds entire projects for some of us.

 

So anyway, what's my point? A rambling about the unhealthy nature of the performing arts here in Singapore from my lowly perspective is for another place and time. I think we can all agree, however, that Christmas is a time of charity, peace and goodwill to all. Let's stop the money-performing. You want to be an artist, stop being so practical. Yes yes I can hear the derision beginning. But hey I've always been too idealistic for my own good so let me propose something to all you fine folk.

Introducing…. FLASH CAROLING!

 

Bet you've heard of flash mobs. Well, if you haven't, this is wikipedia's definition.

"A flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse."

 

Let's adopt this idea to fit what we love to do best, that is to say, sing. Basically, singers shouldn't think too highly of themselves. No one is worth a couple of hundred bucks and hour. The logical antidote for this modern culture is this. We will sing in the streets and we will sing for whoever wants to listen, regardless of who they are. Singing, and caroling in particular considering its context, is not for the rich and privileged alone. It is not simply for people who can afford a stay at a 6-star hotel. It is meant for backpackers who can't afford such luxury. It is meant for people who cannot give you anything in return for it.

 

And so, starting this December, we will experiment with flash singing/caroling. The concept is to sing in a public place, sort of a performance where anyone can join in. Flash singers will do what everyone has been doing in their bathrooms. So it will work like this: people will gather at any location and carol as they would for a shopping centre or something. It is not busking, so we don't collect money or whatever. It is completely for the hell of it. Do you need a license for this in Singapore? We're not actually performing, see, we're just singing, so I guess not.

 

It doesn't have to be good. It doesn't have to be, and I mean this as cynically and sarcastically as possible, a sound that will win a gold award in some random competition that silly Singaporeans take part in without actually knowing why. Rather, the idea involves;

 

• Pushing the boundaries of performance spaces and redefining what a performance is,
• Challenging the myth that singing in a 'prestigious' environment like a 6-star hotel is the grandest thing one can do;
• Challenging the idea of money-performing.

 

 

So this starts with us. It is always fun to try something new and we will try to construct a fuller and more concrete system for this. But let's go get shamed. This is open, remember, to everyone and anyone, so spread the word to everyone.

Ice Cube

volunteer and liv xmas party

1) hi friends! i know we are not singing for SGH but anyone of you want to help out on the 12th dec? :) all you need to do is to fetch patients from their wards to the SGH void deck for the concert then you can enjoy the concert. after the concert you just  need to bring them back! oh and since its december, they have an appreciation/xmas dinner... performance is by handbellz ensemble and kent ridge hall choir...

anw you will need to be there at 530pm and if you are interested please get back to me before 3rd dec so i can reply them in time!

2) and 2nd thing! we will be having a liv xmas party on the 21st dec at nick's place! i have to post here cause nobody reply me on facebook :( anw, any objections???? haha... we will be exchanging presents on that day and budget for present will be $8-$12... but i dont know if we are drawing lots before the party first or not... oh and we have caroling on the 21st so the party will be after caroling! :)

hotdog :D

to keep this place a lil livelier

hello all!!

i just finished an online test in school in 25min, out of 1 hour! woohoo.. so im on a short break now.. actually it feels quite long already.. haha..

anyway hope everyone's doing fine with their papers.. ppl like mark, joey and jazzy should be done by tomorrow. so good for you all! but we'll still be having cramming sessions a little study group after LIV this sunday! ok yuklum! i got tests nx week.. actually not really that important but i've got mid term test like nx NX week.. :'(

so anyway, my break is ending soon, like in 5min time.. but it's ok la.. just wish all those having exams luck!

oh ya, xmas can we just draw lots see who's buying present for who 1st? then like easier to buy presents for exchange, though minus the excitement, according to mark..

CHRISTMAS IS COMING THE GOOSE IS GETTING FAT! PLEASE PUT A PENNY IN THE OLD MAN'S HAT..

haha, sorry, just simply random.. tatax~

-milo