Silver

Hey everyone. Yes, RJ chorale got silver 2 days ago.

Naturally we would all feel really sad. I do, in a way, when the results came out. It was like this big hammer knocked me on the head and i was like OUCH and i just like numbly clapped. I didn't really know what to think at that time.

And then we went and gathered outside of VCH.

Seeing everyone standing there, with sad looks, some trying to smile. Geoffrey eating his pizza as if nothing happened. Somehow i felt yes, we didn't make it, but we tried, and in trying, the whole process and all the past 4+ months putting in all those hours and effort for concert and SYF was just all .. just so much much more important and invaluable compared to the results from a 15 mins performance.

Of course we felt sad, duh. But we stood as a choir. Taking our photos, and eventually getting high as a choir when we went out for dinner. How we just talked and laughed and joked at bennett's video. Afterwards, we moved to the steps outside and just sat down and talked. It was a wonderful. Really. Just enjoying the night with ourselves, with this feeling of ONE and togetherness. And what's more is that we continued to sing and despite having fallen, we still had the spirit to sing and laugh and everything. Many of us didn't want that spirit and feeling to leave us. Which was probably why i didn't feel like going home at all. I wouldn't have if my dad didn't call me at 11.

I think the whole experience has really moved me and i really don't regret a single thing in the past 5 months. If anything, i wish it wouldn't end. Yesterday wednesday afternoon, i came home and felt so depressed because i wasn't used to coming home early. Chorale, and the entire singing experience, of music making, of friendship, of laughter and joy and hours spent together making art, is just something that i wish i could have all my life. These are the things that are really so much more important than getting a gold with honours. They are the things that really touch the heart and seep into the mind and body. Nothing any award or material thing can provide.

Quotes Hui Lin: "We lost, but we gained. And perhaps what we gained really outweighs what we lost." And i think she's right. It is only the beginning of great things to come.

Yes we got a silver, but i think in all our hearts, what we got was a million times more than that. I LOVE YOU CHORALE! =) We are indeed born to sing.