Merci à tous pour un joyeux après-midi.

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The concert hall before it all started. The chairs were neatly arranged in rows.

Shing Yi rehearsing while nobody else was around.

From left : troisnyx*, Louisa. Goodness knows what I was looking at.

Me and Louisa again.

(I forgot his name, but I know it ends with Jie, and his surname is Toh) and Shing having a light moment before the concert began.

This, my friends, is our music teacher - Ms Susan. Now, please don't turn round and tell me she looks like Amber Chia - because I've had some people telling me this.

The emcee du jour. Me ! It so happened that the real emcee actually drove up to Kelana Jaya... but fell sick. He caught the flu. So when Ms Susan was in dire need of an emcee, I took his place - and I enjoyed myself. But trust me, with all that running, chasing after performers, talking and standing, I was tired !

And this is me, rehearsing the programme and thinking of what to say at the front mic. I was frantic, I tell you ! I think Shing took this - I'm not sure.

Half-time.

The members of the floor, from where I stood.

And this was a must in our photo collection - Kayla and Hareena, two of our juniors, dancing to Abba's "Dancing Queen." They did their routine perfectly, I'd say. And they were just so cute ! I was awestruck ! (Only thing is, as I said earlier, I haven't got a camera sharp enough to record the action.) Kayla looked exactly like one of the cast of Mamma Mia the musical (because of her outfit).

From left : Louisa, Shing, troisnyx*. I look so evil. I wasn't even smiling.

Louisa, Shing and I struck a final pose before we parted ways.

I enjoyed myself immensely during the concert this afternoon. Today, I wore my so-called "lucky skirt" - the one I wore to the C1 exam and to college, before the results day - and my favourite black top with shimmers. I arrived at Ms Susan's place at about 10-something to pre-record my performances, and Shing Yi arrived minutes later. When it was almost time to go downstairs to the concert hall, I frantically put on my toner, moisturiser and make-up. Well, apart from the last-minute preparation, everything went smoothly.

The only sad thing was, I didn't have a camera sharp enough to record the action. I entrusted a friend, Louisa, to be the photographer for the day - and despite the fact that she faithfully held the camera in place (albeit with a few interruptions), I found that I trusted the wrong person nonetheless.

Anyway. My pieces for today were Good Enough (Evanescence) and Impromptu Huit Vingt-Sept - my composition (or, as English-speakers may call it, Impromptu 8.27). Before you even proceed to watch the vids of my performances, I must tell you that all of these were taken from the wrong angle, so for the uninitiated, it seems like I'm getting horny on the piano (with only one moveset - up/down !). And because the blockage in my ears couldn't be removed just yet, I did all my performances with a Beethoven complex, as they say - I had to turn up the volume because even at that point in time, I was hard of hearing !

So get your headsets ready, people...

This one is the video for "Good Enough". Trust me, I suffered singing this. I tried my best to sing from the stomach - like how I always do these days - but I faltered at some parts, I went out of breath at some parts. And just as we all know, voice parts are always marred by AMR or 3GP codecs. Well, at least I didn't go off key. I made several faults ; nevertheless, the audience enjoyed it. :-)

And this one is a trimmed version of Impromptu Huit Vingt-Sept (8.27). Louisa told me that she attempted recording, twice, when I had begun my piece, but she found that the first two recordings were blur. She proceeded to record a third time, but the video was just as blur as the first two... well, she went on with it anyway.

What do you think, guys ?

All in all, it was an enjoyable afternoon. Well, whenever I post under "Performances", I do so like, once in a blue moon. I'm glad to have another post under this tag - this time, for real.