I don't think I have ever held a trophy and felt this triumphant before.

It's like..

The joy and pride when you realized that your hard work and sweat paid off. So well.

Before I continue further, let me start by saying that I've discovered a new passion during my first term in SUTD.

Aside from studying, I had long ago planned that I should join a club and do something I have never had a chance to do in my whole life.

So, when an OG mate friend of mine told me that he was gonna join this show choir club (something like what Glee does), I thought it sounded good.

I absolutely have no background in both dancing and singing (except for maybe few fail attempts at moonwalking and singing in the shower), so I thought learning something that is a little bit of both would be a fine start.

Well, I soon found out that it was not 'a little bit of both'. Rather, it is literally BOTH.

This show choir group, which soon after got renamed as Livfesync, was in a rush to form a decent performance for a show choir competition that we were registered for.

Believing that we were put up against show choir teams from other tertiary institutions, 2 weeks doesn't seem like a long time to choreograph something proper.

But unbeknownst even to me, we were included in the 3 teams who made to the Finals.

Which was REALLY surprising, considering I am one of the soloist for the song and both my singing and dancing were obviously bringing down the performance of the whole team.

And so another 2 (longer, and more hardcore) weeks later, we finished our second performance, and was at the Finals, brushing all our every move even on the performance day itself.

Especially since we had to change the blockings and some positions because there are no movable microphones for the team. There were only condenser mics available at the front of the stage.

I was really pissed by then, because as a PA crew, I knew that this is NO WAY that a concert should be run. You never, ever, ever run through with the performers an hour before actual performance. You DEFINITELY screw up their whole performance.

All of which worsened my mentality because for a moment I thought that all of our effort might go to waste.

But no, thanks to our mentor, quick changes were implemented, and I kept reminding myself that our hard work cannot fail us.

Actually, I just wanted to perform the second time in the second round of the Finals. That was all. Haha.

Believe me when I said it was all so smooth during the actual thing. Summer Nights were practically over in a flash.

And I was one of the five representatives (5 of us were the soloists for the 2 songs) who were at the stage during the announcement of who would be eliminated among the three teams.

When I heard that it wasn't us, I practically wanted to jump but apparently I was the only one who didn't keep my calm on the stage. Haha.

And so, I tried to mentally prepare for my part in the second song.

But I didn't need it! I felt so natural on the stage and I knew that this is what I've been practicing for.

Before I knew it, it was over.

We went out of the stage, and waited for the announcement.

It all suddenly did not matter any more! We (or maybe only me) were just glad that we could perform both our pieces!

We went back to our holding room, blasted up party music, and danced like there's no tomorrow!

When it was time, 5 of the excos represented us for the announcement of the winner on the stage, while the rest of us waited in the backstage.

When we were announced THE WINNER, all of us couldn't contain it any longer.

We all just jumped in excitement into the stage!!!

In triumph!!

I actually lost my voice from screaming in happiness rather than from performing. Hahaha XD.

That glorious feeling I would never forget for all my life :)

Thanks so much to SUTD peeps who came and gave us your support too!

Photo credits: Ian Ho and Kwong Shi Min of SUTD.

Visit us at our Facebook page to know more about us, behind-the-scene footages and our upcoming plans.

http://www.facebook.com/Livfesync

THANKS A BUNCH! :)

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Well, I guess it's time to catch up with my super-lagged academic.. :/

And I thought that I wanted to achieve my dream so badly.

Until I entered university for real.

I had an epiphany that there are two kinds of things I cannot major in.
One which requires so much photographic memory, and one which needs me to compute and calculate stuff.


Then, life is trolling me again.
Just when I finally put myself into a mode where I am prepared to change the course of my childhood aspiration,
It is taunting me again with the same choice.
But I am actually kinda glad that it did.
'Cause then I realised, even I am doubtful about accepting the offer.

Yes, I have already liked it here in SUTD.
Yes, and I remember that if I doubt the choice to study medicine, I shouldn't even take the offer. A friend of my Dad once reminded me that I have to really, really want it because I'm gonna sacrifice a lot of things.
Not that other courses will be easy, but it won't be as hard as how it will be if I choose that path.


I guess all in all, my own values changed.
And my perceptions of the world changed my decision.



Maybe now I finally know.
Maybe it's time to let go of what shouldn't be mine.
It's better to not be a doctor at all than to be an uncaring, undeserved one.

22:27
Up, up, and away!