It is Singapore's birthday tomorrow! This time of the year gives me flashbacks of those days in NDP 05 when I went through the whole preparation as one of the conductors of the NDP choir. You will not realise the whole magnitude of it all unless you have been a part of it. It was gruelling alright...what viewers see on TV is the the culmination of a lot of hard work put in for months and months. Weekends burnt, I burnt under the hot sun, students burnt and perspire, smelling like sour milk left around for days under layers and layers of costume, people faint, tempers flare, and all you can imagined in that hot months of July and August.
But through it all, NDP 2005 was an event to remember. The four of us (the conductors) had so much fun. These are some memories we had as NDP conductors 2007:
1)Our matching white costumes which send students walking pass singing to the tune of the Wedding March
2)Who can forget the vietamnese inspired cheongsam that looked made us look a little like high class dimsum waitresses?
3)Running after the milo cart in eagerness for cups and cups of milo in all of our glory
4)Laughing at each other's makeup and hairdo (some trials ones looking like characters from Simpsons)
5)Running in to the show halfway in front of thousands of people with heels and all because the show couldn't wait for our hair to be done
6)Braving the sun and rain...and smiling despite it all
7) Inching our way with our students to get a picture of Taufik Batisah (Singapore Idol then)
8) Sharing jokes with students, taking pictures with them.
9) Being treated like divas every weekend.
10) Having KFC every weekend!
Can you spot me in front of the choir? :)
2 comments:
hey are you attending NDP? Apparently we were featured in a magazine which is distrbuted at NDP. can help me keep a copy think it is given out tog with goodie bag or something..called Family magazine
I am not attending but my friends have the bags. Will get a copy.
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