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25122005 IT'S CHRISTMAS!

2005-12-25T12:54:00.000+08:00

hey all!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
may you have lots of nice presents and eat lots of good food and stuff. oh but don't get fat. (:

the year's almost over and you can't end the year without partying!! so party party party! but people like me who haven't finished their holiday homework (or even touched it), should start NOW. oh, us naughty people. tsk tsk. nevermind at least santa was forgiving and we didn't get coal for christmas huh! hahaha.

okay i should go now. CHAMPAGNE TRUFFLES, HERE I COME!!

later!
-sara

mgchoir notice board.

2005-12-04T20:51:00.000+08:00

HELLO. haha. im blogging. yes. this is cool isnt it. i made a picture to give you an image of the mg choir notice board. how nice. :) but im not sure if i am capable of doing it exactly like so or even better. ok if its not nice to you then im all open for suggestions. or if you really think its hopeless then im sorry. im not good in art AT ALL. yes. haha. but hey i spent quite some time doing this picture. i think its not bad. this blog is pretty dead. nicole! have fun overseas. come back soon. ok heres the pic. dont you think blogger is better than diaryland?

2005-12-02T22:43:00.000+08:00

CHOIR- MINUTES FOR MEETING No 1

2 December 2005. Friday, 10 am (MGS)

Members present: Shernise, Melody, Joelle, Nicole, Eliza, Sara and Leah

Teacher-ic: Mrs Soo

Concert-evaluation

Thoughts and feelings: `most good comments

`Some left during intermission-not used to Daisy type

`Sing more spirituals

-anything we want to sing, speak to Ms Tham/Mr Tay/Denise/Librarian

DO IT! Don’t just talk.

`Horrible expressions! Face.

(try to get dance studio for them to witness it!)

`Raw, throaty voices. Should have warmed up more.

Committee Involvement: -Shernise to Delegate more.

-Certain others to be more driven. Not so laid back.

-Communication. Reasons for actions (Colours of the shirts)

-Talk more. Be more initiative

à not bad comm if we all do the same

-Show appreciation to non-comm members as well.

School Instruments: `Cowbell with Mdm Yong. To be returned to Mr Tay

`Windchime. Call Henry

Choir Timings for 2006

Schedule: Wednesdays. 2.15-Choir Run

2.45-Lunch

3.15-Choir

5.15-Announcements

5.30-Dismissal

Fridays. 2.30-Lunch

3.15-Choir

5.15-Announcements

5.30-Dismissal

à ATTENDANCE

one section: regular practices

another section: `Choir meetings

`Runs

`Performances

`Administration, money

(all money collected must be consented by Mdm Yong)

Comm roles and responsibilities + 6. Expectations for leaders

Shernise- Lias with Teachers

Make sure Choir’s on the right track

Joelle- Help Shernise

Take charge when Shernise is Absent

Look after runs and attendance

Denise- Music

Make sure warm-ups are carried out properly

Make sure girls are ready before any performance

SLs- Music

Attendance

Discipline

Attitude à peptalk people out of complaining mood.

BIGGER PICTURE-not just your own section.

Su Ern- Library

Ticketing

Eliza-SL duties

Welfare comm. (Choir camp, birthdays)

Leah- SL duties

Welfare comm. (Choir camp, birthdays)

Melody-SL duties

Ticketing

Sara- SL duties

Wardrobe/costumes

Performances

Choir concert Video. To be burned in school. Deadline-End January

Nicole-Welfare comm. (Choir camp, birthdays)

Communication between teachers and students/comm.

FEEDBACK to Shernise to get to teachers or email teachers yourself.

Mrs Soo’s working days: Wednesday, Thursday

Mr Tay: Less technique

Students not as comfortable/confident with him as with Ms Tham

Implementations: be more serious

Give him what you want (seriousness)

DON’T BARGAIN

Orientation 2006

Nicole: to laminate Certificates.

Get the logistics. (Easels)

Expectations for Leaders.(Please refer to above. No.3)

Others

PROGRAMME 2006 – Take break for Nov-Dec

Mini-concert for Familiar favourites

School Exchanges

Carolling

CIP as a choir.

TEACHERS-IC: Mdm Yong: Attendance, Money

Ms Wong; Logistics (Rooms, Keys, Schedule)

mgchoir!

2005-10-18T17:31:00.000+08:00

I AM BLOGGING

just trying to make the blog a little more alive!

OH! i've read the evaluations you guys did.. well, i think we'll need to do some follow up.. so well, i'll return them to you guys, and maybe you could meet some of them one on one to discuss and talk to them, maybe ask them what they think of themselves as choir members etc. If you don't know what i'm atlking about ask your prefect friends, somethingl ike that! hahahaha just not as scary lah. The purpose is to tell them honestly what they can improve on and ENCOURAGE them if they've been doing well, yup!

and do rememeber to help your section when they need help with music. esp with new scores and all, we have Nocturne coming up soon.. soo right now work on REQUIEM (wooohoo) and Close up of a Daisy.. as well as the songs we're singing with SYC.. don't forget old scores too.

toodles guys.
God bless

-shern*

Minutes of the meeting on 2nd September

2005-09-08T00:38:00.000+08:00

Date: 2nd September 2005
Time: 1730 – 1750 hours
Venue: Canteen
Present: Shernise Khor, Leah Hang, Joelle Tan, Sara Chong, Denise Tan, Eliza Soh, Nicole Lim, Lee Su Ern, Melody Ong

P.S.: I hope you all can see the minutes above clearly. I don't really know how to insert a table unto a blog, so I decided to save it as a picture and upload it. If you all cant see it, I'm really sorry. Alternatively, you could check the msn group...

:))joe

2005-09-06T21:23:00.000+08:00

Hey realised that the this blog's kinda dying... haha:) like shern said so i am posting... yAy.. anywayz... who's going to tic tac toe and ms tham's concert!! i wanna meet someone there cos' like none of the sec 2s are going right? i think i am not sure :) anywayz... i just went to ikea today and i 4GOT to ask Eliza if she needed anything for the choir library... sigh... such a failure... *paiseh* MINUTES!!! Su Ern could you please update the minutes for the last meeting... thanks... :) sigh... just asking a random question what's for lunch on thursday and friday?? hehe:) the sec fours were so nice though they gave us that lovely choir handbook... they did so much research haha:) read through the solfage stuff and the music stuff... :) opps... forgot to unitallic it.. ok this is kinda all i'm going to do the gradient now.... GRADIENT RULES!!!! :)
--written by the lovely joelle--

Minutes of meeting 12th August

2005-08-23T10:50:00.000+08:00

Choir

Minutes of meeting

Date: 12^th August 2005

Time: 1740 – 1810 hours

Venue: Concourse

Present: Shernise Khor, Leah Hang, Joelle Tan, Sara Chong, Denise Tan, Eliza Soh, Nicole Lim, Lee Su Ern

Agenda

Action By

Deadline

Setting up a choir committee mailing list/group

Collection of money for Tic-tac-toe concert and SYF photos

Planning of indoor games ie. simple teambuilding games to be played during breaks inbetween choir practices
Planning a system for choir runs or games
Create an effective system with will involve both running and other physical activities that will ease confusion
Schedule the activities in such a way that the choir will not be bored playing the same activities consecutively
Rostering of games
Forfeits (score chart)
Setting of a choir committee blog [A password system or anything system should be in place, so as to only choir committee members to access the blog]
Re-organizing the choir member evaluation system
ie. Come up with a new format for the evaluation form.
Decide on the length of time between each evaluation process
Check with Ms Tsien about choir library
Call Bernice and Yiting, respectively, regarding commitment to choir and third language arrangements
Collecting brooches from those who have yet to return theirs
Returning $9 to all those who paid for the Upbeat concert
Organizing the choir library (Eliza i/c)
Mentoring choir members, maintain good conduct in the choir, keeping the attitude of choir members in check

Su Ern

Nicole & Leah

Melody & Sara

Eliza

Joelle (IC) Denise

Su Ern

Shernise

Leah and Melody

Su Ern

Whole Committee

Sectional Leaders

15 Aug

19 Aug

17 Aug

19 Aug

28 Aug

19 Aug

17 Aug

Minutes taken by Lee Su Ern. Vetted by Shernise.

2005-08-20T23:24:00.000+08:00

haha..i didn't come here for so long and so many posts appear! how exciting! ahaha..anyway..the library thing right..we can get ikea boxes. then get twenty six dividers and put the scores in alphabetical order! if we like have no place lah. or something like that. just make it look more proper! yay librarian. haha..please sign off so people know who's the poster LEAH. yes. haha..
i can't go for the SYC concert cos i promised muriel i'd go with her tictactone. and she can't make it the day earlier. sorry! but i'll support you guys..in my heart! hahah (X. k see ya guys.

eliza(:

WHEEE!!

2005-08-20T17:57:00.000+08:00

okay jo! (: i understand what you meant by what denise meant. haha. I think Mr Tay hypes the choir -.- It's spastic. Ms Tham gives us the substance and the technique and the professionality. Mr Tay gives the.. laughter and the fun i guess, it's quite farnie.

About Wednesday, the games are courtesy of laoshi (the really funny one) and my talking. hahahah she suggested giving us a break in btwn! SEE, Laoshi rocks! pray that she'll still be helping us next year yah? pray for good teachers too! Yes! We will continue with indoor games EVERY wednesday. NICOLE and LEAH please maybe organise a roster of games too(: if not, you can plan other stuff during break, like you can have mini worships, or songs like PEACE LIKE A RIVER, YO MY NAME IS JO, crazy fun songs also.. or like just something different yeah. CREATIVE DIRECTOR! hahaha.

Btw, ELIZA! it'll be your duty to make sure people read this blog okay! haha i dunno how. Oh well. and remember to plan ways to clear the choir library! I don't think ew can move in a cupboard to the mep room -.- hahaha but we'll have to make do with the existing cupboard. Anyone want to volunteer to recee it? haha. LEAH and MELODY, have u checked with bernice and yiting respectively whether they're changing their 3rdlang? (: Please get back to me thanks.

Reminder that the evaluation system thing is due this wed! (: and the method to organise the choir library is due this friday!! okie! and GO FOR SYC CONCERT! we shall support it as a comm :P hahaha oh right.

CCAs break for exams 2 wks before exams= 1st week of OCT (:

Denise could you please change your options in the msn groups to receive messages to inbox? And LEAH please join the msn groups.
http://groups.msn.com/MGChoirComm05
YUP! SUERN PLEASE accept sara into the groups (: thanks.

Other than that, let's stay CLOSE and BONDED! (: there's like only 6 pracs till sentosa and very few to commendations. PRACTICES!! ahhh. okay we better spread the urgency okie! like i'm getting denise to organise OCTET groups. so they can prac on their own (: okay? yup!

TOODLES!

shern!

19/7 (:

2005-08-20T16:01:00.000+08:00

we finally did la cuccaracha properly with actions... :) so happy for us!! I really love those daisy songs... so cool man... !!! they rox.. cool trying different colour. haha decided to go back to black. by the way, sectional leaders remember to call for sectionals if your section needs k??Oh er Denise could you please send me your edited version of the evaluation forms thanks.. :) well.. :) take care and study hard. lotsa love joelle. (love the gradient)

leah and nic's indoor games rawk. :)

2005-08-19T19:41:00.000+08:00

wow.. this is cool man. the choir comm blog rawks. i mean come on.. this is team spirit! haha. okae cut the crap. choir was realli fun. thanks to me and nic's games. realli. i mean during warm ups that i led, the ppl look SO dead okae.. SO dead. they look like zombies. yes. but when they played the game u cld see everyone laughing so much. see? they need stuff like that to make choir more energetic. aniwae ya. the choir is working hard. mr tay helped cleared up alot of stuff in lacucaracha. especially the actions. yupp. haha. okae. thats all la. :)) my first time blogging in here. this is realli cool man. i bet our seniors never had a choir blog b4. oh and something else. u think suggestion box will help? last time choir also had a suggestion box but no one ever wrote in it i think. so ya. wheee..

hello hello! (:

2005-08-19T18:22:00.000+08:00

hello hello! this is my first time typing a blog entry in blogspot. it's so easy! you can even change fonts and add colour. man this is cool. i use diaryland you see. ah well. cutting the crap, choir today was good. or so i felt. at least im sure many of us are clearer about lacucaracha thks to the works of mr tay. ANYW, shern i hope you're feeling better with your grandma and all. oh and the new indoor games have really helped choir to be more erm alive? im not sure if tht's the word. but ya it's better. we dont have to have fun ALL THE TIME but at least fun brings life. if you get what i mean. :S ok well it's been fun updating. hah.
take care all!
-melody!

:)joe(:

2005-08-18T21:41:00.000+08:00

Joe here ... so fun i've never really blogged something before... haha:)
so fun. BTW... so we actually have a choir board somewhere. Because the one like near the canteen can't really be seen. And Shern... I think what Denise is trying to say is like... let's say Jan: The alto 2s will give a suggestion then Feb: sop2s than march : sop 2s something liddat i'm not sure... but you can double check with her.
Sorry about realizing that the blog existed so late.
I would have visited other wise... sorry. :)
For the choir right... i think we should work on the sound. like technique stuff... focusing the voice and breathing stuff liddat...
Bye

choir on wed 17/8

2005-08-16T13:25:00.000+08:00

Hey guys
I won't be at choir on wednesday because my grandma passed away and i won't be coming to school because of the cremation etc alright?
Joelle will be in charge of choir (: please make them behave themselves yah. haha
We will be doing games in the middle so i hope Nicole and Leah have finished planning the indoor games yah.
Combines, Denise will take yeah, Mr Tay is coming this friday so make sure like
Lacucaracha-music memorised
Sine- tell them to memorise by fri or wed next week (i'm not sure about this)
Let it Shine-memorised
esp, are fixed (: then work on CHISPA! MEMORISED!
Leah is doing warm ups and runs, do remember ya (: thanks.

after choir on wed, please update me with comments yah! can post on the blog and stuff too (: EVERYONE SHOULD BLOG YA! ahhahaa. yupyup. must make the blog super active.

minutes! Su Ern should print it and remind you guys about stuff, and JOIN THE MSN GROUPS so we can send minutes.
thanks.

toodles.

shern!

2005-08-14T15:00:00.000+08:00

i thought the blog was to post minutes! oh so both lah! ah..ok!
haha..ok whatever. ooh yes! eliza did it on friday night! i stayed up til eleven! hahaha..BIG deal right? haha..the password and stuff there so we can see what! why would hackers bother hacking an MGS choir blog anyway? too free lah. but the password to come in here a bit obvious! at first it was shernjodeesuleahelizamelsaranic but i realised it was too long! yup. so one day we shall agree on a less obvious new password! (:

the library thing! we can sort out like after choir during sept. hols right? so exciting. i can imagine myself being a librarian one day and making all the noise! (: haha..ok. retarded. yay..see you soon!

eliza(:

(:

2005-08-13T21:15:00.000+08:00

oooooh. (sorry i just made this no longer a black and white blog!)
OH MAN THIS IS COOL! (:
In case you didn't know it's the first time i'm using blogspot. i sound so ancient. YES!
THANK YOU ELIZA FOR GETTING THIS DONE SO QUICK!
and guys!

JOIN THE MAILING GROUP (MSN GROUP) okay!! THEN I CAN SEND MINUTES!

1! YES we must pray before choir. and every comm meeting too (: cos God should be the centre of it all! amen? haha. So sectional leaders, please do so.. but if you're not really comfortable, do let me know, it's okay!

2! eliza is spastic lah. putting the password and everything up. i think you shld delete it. cos hackers can actually come in -.- eh no joking.

3! Suggestion box! (: sure. that's when i get the board. hahahaa. i'll check that with mrs soo.
But i don't get your rostering of sections to give suggestions thing. er.

4! ELIZA! the password is asked twice !hahaha or is it on purpose? (:

5! just wanted to say that i'm excited for this new comm! (: hahaha TEAM TEAM. Yes. and we'll make this comm the most wonderful one ever!!!

shern!

denise was here!

2005-08-13T08:52:00.000+08:00

hello. okay im posting for the first time!
anyway. i just wanted to say.
WE GOTTA REMEMBER TO PRAY BEFORE CHOIR.
so all the sls doing warmups. PRAY BEFORE YOU START!

and can you all organise sectionals or smt for all the sentosa pieces. and dont just sing notes k add in everything so its gonna be alot easier for me.

and we should get a box! nic and i wanted to make one but we didnt know how to.
suggestion box.
and each section could have one with the sectional leaders and like each section will write once a month. so like
first week alt 2
second weeks alt 1
third week sop 2
fourth week sop 1

get it right? i dunno. just a suggestion to add into the non existant suggestion box!
oh and joelle's email is joelletanwq@gmail.com
joe when you see this add me on msn i cant add you i dunno why!
dee

2005-08-12T23:48:00.000+08:00

hello. for those of you who managed to enter.. well the html of the 'enter your password' bit is kinda screwed up so you may have had to enter the password twice. SORRY! i can't for the life of me figure out why. okay anyway.it's 11.53pm and i've been doing the stupid password bit over and over since 11.10pm. i'll try and fix it!
sara!

yay done!

2005-08-12T23:03:00.000+08:00

ok. um i guess i'm done. black and white is CLASSIC! haha NOT THAT NICE LAH! so if you guys wanna change then change k! ok!
um..i guess nobody can enter without the password right so nobody will see this! ok!

username: mgscc
password: mgchoircomm

yupyup! i'm so excited! (: haha..especially for the chart with the gold stars and black dots! ok!

ok. yup thanks!

eliza(:

first post!

2005-08-12T21:38:00.000+08:00

until i get the choir logo thing the blog's gonna stay like this ok! um..just move the cursor over the names..and then you'll get the email. cos melody's email is too long and can't fit in the whole thing! :) ok. ok. see you guys on monday!

eliza(: