MY CELLO!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My cello, went like super out yesterday night.

I was practicing, and was playing a piece when suddenly I heard a "piak" sound...and I was like, wa-aat?????

And the first thing that came to my mind was,

THE STRINGS BROKE.

(Because, teacher told me that the A string especially, is going to break...haha...XD)

Then I checked, but no, the strings were still intact...

What could it be???? Then I strummed the strings???? AAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Goodness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What sound is that!!!!!!!?????? What note is that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????? AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

The D string went to like goodness knows what note...I think it was like F? And not the F above the D ok. It's the F BELOW the D. lol...Crazy huh????

And the A went higher...lol...to B! Usually it goes lower not higher...dunno what happen to my cello yesterday...

So I had to turn the pegs, and nearly forgot to loosen the fine tunners first. XD

And I got it at the right note, when, just as I expected, the pegs started RUNNING!!!!!!! They ran away!!!!! ahaha...those pegs are very very very very very fond of running...must scold them! =)

And I kept turning and turning, until finally I gave up because my hands were too painful to turn anymore. So I called my mummy...and she also turned and turned, and turned, until FINALLY!!!!!! The pegs were "kuai" (good) enough to stay put...=)

Phew, I hope it won't go all out again...

Charissa

MPO Cello Essemble! ~Pics

Here are the pics of the stage and the cellists and conductor and etc...

The colorful stage...

See how many decorations they put on the stage?????

Some deco hanging down from the ceiling...

Us Cellists, and Teacher!

Me, looking goodness knows where...=)

Me again...(Btw, the girl next to me, with specs??? She's Laura...whom touch the Marshmallows and said, "It's real!") =)

Sound checking...

Teacher's sis took over the "sound checking conducting" for awhile...

11 Cellists on the stage...Can you see how jam crowded and small and cramped is it???

Group pic...sorry but not all of us were looking into my mum's cam at the same time...simply because there were too many cams to look at...=)

Hunchy Me!!!!!! lol...

Ok I think that's all...enjoy!!!

Charissa

D-Performance!

Wheeee!!!!!!!!!!!! The performance is over!!!!!!!!!! lol...

Had a short last-minute-rehersal first, and then proceeded downstairs for sound check.

After rehersal, we had to leave our cases and stuff at the room, because Teacher said that we better not bring it downstairs, because who knows, somebody may just "steal" it...lol...

So we had to carry our cellos, our bows, and music, all the way downstairs.

Not to mention, we had to climb up a few escalators and stuff. Oh dear! haha...I was so scared I will trip on my skirt. XD

The stage was so TERRIBLY CRAMP AND SMALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAA!!!!!!!! How we mangaged to fit 11 cellists and a conductor on it I really don't know...

The whole center court of the place in KLCC was decorated with Christmas Stuff...the stage was all red, and had candy and stuff. The marshmallows were real!!!!!! lol... Laura, poked it with her finger, and said, "Oh! It's real!" lol...

Anyway, the sound system wasn't good, it was so terribly soft, even I could hardly hear us playing on stage, what more the "audience." I think they were all struggling to hear us...especially those on the higher floors...

Sigh...it would have been so much better if the sound was louder...=(

Anyway, there were 5 pieces. I played only in the last 2.

The pieces

1) Love Me Tender
2) Oblivia or something, some tango piece...
3) Tanah Pusaka? Something like that
4) Tritsh Tratch Polka (not sure how to spell)
5) Radetsky March

I love the tango piece, it's so like ahhhh!!!!!! lol...XD

Ok, I guess that's all for now, my mummy took some pics, maybe I'll upload them sometime...XD

Charissa

D-DAY!

Tomorrow is the peformance day...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sooooooo fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!

Have to go there at 5? For a last rehersal...and then proceed to the CHRISTMAS TREE downstairs...

5 is JAM TIME. So daddy said we have to leave at 3:50 pm. lol...so early...=)

Phew, phew, phew...scary la...lol...

Charissa

Last Rehersal!

Had a last rehersal yesterday at that mpo place again...

Instead of Teacher conducting, it was her sister this time...because, Teacher wasn't feeling well, and went off soon after...

We had a bit of problems finding the right room...simply because, as I've said before, the whole place is like a maze...and teacher's sis, who also said she sometimes still get lost in that "maze" was trying to fit the key into this door and that door, finally, she managed to fit it into the right door...and the correct room! XD

You must be thinking, why didn't Teacher come with us then because she knows the way? Well, she had to wait for another girl to collect her cello from her mother. So yeah.

The room was how we left it last week. It was in a bit of mess. I thought that people will come and take all the chairs and stands away after we were done last week. But I don't think so now. XD

The room this time, wasn't FREZING! Which was fantastic! haha...

Anyway, yesterday's rehersal wasn't as good as last week's...don't know why...haha...maybe different conductor...=)

Charissa

TAVBS ILLNESS...

I'm SICK. Having the TAVBS Illness...Don't know what it is?

It stands for, THE-AFTER-VBS-ILNESS. XD...

The main reason I'm having it is also partly I haven't had like enough sleep. Simply because, for the two days of VBS, I didn't have enough sleep, Sunday also, then from Monday to Wednesday, also. So yeah...

Sigh...haven't had such a bad flu for such a long time...if I'm not wrong, the last time was when I had bronchitis...yeee...scarrry....=(

Bad cough, bad nose...=(

The past two days, woke up in the morning with my throat all "caked" up with phlegm!!!!! Eeewww...it was like, I can't even talk, I have to get out the phlegm first! XD..

I used to think that phlegm is spelled "flam." Hey, it makes sense right????? But then I don't know how, but I saw the word "phlegm" on some medicine box or something, and then I asked my mummy what it was, and she said it's phlegm la! Then I was like, har? Oh? You mean that's how it's spelled? Then she said yeah...lol...XD...

Ah well, anyway, I seem slightly better now...good...

Charissa

Retreat-edited

I've edited the previous post, so if you wanna read it again, do so...

I'm back from HARVEST HAVEN!!!!!!!!!!

Wheee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm back from the retreat at Harvest Haven!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Phew!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, somehow, when we are going to a destination, for example, our retreat place, the journey is like HORRIBLY LONG!!!!!!!!!!! But coming back, it's like SUPER DUPER SHORT!!!!! Why is that so, can somebody tell me please? =)

The journey there was, long, and I felt carsick...=)

First of all, it's not like a HOTEL. It's a Christian Ministry? Anyway, we have to set the table, clean the dishes, and take off the dirty sheets after the last day and put clean ones, and etc...

Putting the sheets was DIFFICULT. Also because they had bunk beds so it's abit difficult to put it nice and smooth...=) But I managed it! XD

The bunk beds happen to be metal ones, so they squeak and creak whenever, you move on it. It's so SQUEAKY!!!!!!!!

Aunty Darlene, had to share a bunk bed with Unlce Ian I think, so when she heard it squeak and creak, she said, ok, you're going down on the floor, lol...so they put the matresses on the floor instead, haha...because she said she won't be able to sleep! Same here...

Second, they have THREE DOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *runs for her life* I simply am NOT AN ANIMAL LOVER...and one dog is bad enough, but THREE!!!!!!!!!!! Oh goodness!!!!!!! The whole time there, I DID NOT step a foot outside, until we had to leave. =)

2 of them were some blackish dogs(females) and the other one was white(male). The female dogs are, JELLY AND JESS. And the male is, JOSAY? Ok, I'm not sure how to spell their names so yeah...

Ok...most of the time, I was hanging around doing nothing. lol...they had alot of sessions, which were too deep for me, so most of the time, I didn't stay through the whole thing.

Yesterday, I had a good nap...it was between after breakfast and before lunch...VERY GOOD.

Anyway, I'm finally back home. HOME SWEET HOME. Somehow, I feel the most comfortable at home...=)

Charissa

4 HOURS ~ Rehersal...Frozen...

I had 4 hours of cello playing today...=) Had my Cello lesson today since tmrw I can't go because of the retreat...

Lesson was at MPO there this time...like Jie Sarah says, the place is like a MAZE!!!!!!!! I had to go through this door, then this lift, then this escalator, and this door and that door and this corridor and here and there until I was sooooo LOST AND PENING! haha...

Had a rehersal too...for a "performance" at KLCC 2 Tuesdays from now...=)

My sight reading is sooooooo BAD!!!!!!!!! lol...had abit of problems with reading the 2 new pieces for the first time...lol...problems with the timing...=) It's sooooooooo FASSSTTT!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, I was FROZEN COLD in the whole place, my hands were AS COLD AS ICE, and I think my BRAIN was also COLD!!!!!  XD...

Ok I have to sleep now, retreat starts tomorrow!

Charissa

Last Day of VBS!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today was the last day of VBS. I'm sad and happy at the same time...=( =) lol...

Sad because, of leaving all those cutieeee kids...happy because I won't need to be tired out. =)

Anyway, today was worse off for me compared to yesterday...I felt better yesterday...don't ask me why...XD

Today, both Rachel and Ann Hui were SUPER CHEEKY!!!!!!!!!!!! They kept GIGGLING, and giggling, and giggling on and on and on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And their laughter is so contagious, that you will also tend to laugh too! And Ann Hui, is famous for playing with her FEET and SHOES. She's so DIRTY!!!!!!!!!

And since I'm on the subject on laughing, Nikki and I nearly died of laughter today! ahahaha...it was in the Glow Rock Hideaway station...(cave science lab)

Some father was helping his own kid for something, and Nikki and I both found it so funny! Because of what he was telling his son!!!!!! It was just plain HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Took me so long to stop, and some kids were like why you laughing, and we can't answer them because we were laughing too hard to answer! And then finally Caleb kept asking us, why? Why? What's so funny!? Finally Nikki managed to stop long enough to tell him to listen to that dad...lol...haha...my stomach was so painful after that...so much for laughing...xd...

Ryeanne, Rachel's sis, is so cutee....haha...Rachel too! Rachel had a red-left-eye today when she came...=(
Aunty Dawn was VERY GOOD today...due to stations finishing their lesson or games or etc sooner than the allocated time, the kids have to wait alot. ALOT. So waiting means they will be naturally RESTLESS, NOISY, MOVING ABOUT, etc...so Aunty Dawn did some things with them using their hands and actions, and it worked pretty well, I must say! 3 cheers for Aunty Dawn! lol...

The top 3 winning groups today were,

1) GREEN ELMS
2) SILVER PINES
3) ORANGE ASPEN

So far the youngest group has never won these 3 years...well but what to expect? Sometimes, they are restless, because they can't understand and being young kids, it's just like them. And I must say, these year they were VERY GOOD! Most of the time, the groups making so much noise are the older groups not our youngest group! haha...I actually can't blame them! It's just them. But sometimes people have a different mantality...so yeah...

But Blue Sprouts(youngest) weren't like the last team...the OLDEST was actually the last team I think....shockingly...=)

Ok la...that's all for now...

I'm dead tired now...have to wake up early tmrw also because Jie has a practice at church...

Charissa