~The Story of Gregory and Grace~

Monday, July 28, 2008

26th July 2008, Saturday

Today has finally come. I'm going up on stage to perform a Chinese song tonight. Last night was on duty, so this morning after handed over, was damn tired and went to sleep straight after showering. When my phone finally rang at 2pm, it was the rehearsal before the actual thing in the evening. I woke up, and rushed over to where everyone else was at the MPC. When my name was announced and it was my turn to run through the song, I cocked up everything... My voice box was totally dry, closed, and couldn't project my voice at all. At that very moment when the Sound Engineer told me 'Mister, can you sing louder and project you voice please?' , my heart sank... morale totally gone. All along, I've been singing and practising on this song and then now I'm unable to sing it, due to the high pitches which I couldn't reached due to my tiredness... =X

After my song ended, commander talked to me, encouraged me... everyone encouraged me with some really nice words... but I myself know that it sucked alot!! How would this be? What am I going to do?? Ran all the way back to bunk, search through the folder for another song... time left was like 2 hours before the actual thing start... was almost on the verge of escaping reality... then I chose Chong Lai eventually as it somehows goes to mean 'restart/ all over again' , which perfectly describes me and her... Didn't had time to practice on that song at all as I need to shower, change into my performing clothings and styling up... But the heck cares bout that... Just gonna go up on stage and make a fool of myself in the end I thought.

Then Baby sent me an sms just before the actual thing, just before I was about to go up on stage and perform... this is what it says...

'Baby... Jiayou for ur singing performance... even if ur singing sucks, I still love it... =) '

So sweet of her... and it worked... at the end of the day, I enjoyed my performance, it was near perfect. No running out of the melody, no voice crack due to high pitches, and best was, my movement on the stage was so stunning. The usual me would have just stand there from the start till the end... but, I managed to walk around the stage, interacting with the spectators... won applauses in between breaks of the song... Wrapped up the whole this with a series of my usual humming of melodies... =)

Her sms really had affected me alot... I actually won the most applauses among all the other performers... So happy.... Baby, Thanks.... I Love You~

After the whole event, people start telling me how well I did... Great Job... things like that.. I guess they were really surprise by the difference of my voice during that final rehearsal in the afternoon and on the actual thing itself.... =) Most proud of all, is when the event is over and people starts leaving... Commander thanked me for putting up a very good performance, chief said I did a great job... and it shocked me alot when Commander Lancer actually stop me and shook my hand, talk to me and ask me some questions as follows...

Q1) Why do u like to sing? Is it a part time hobby or something?
ans: No sir, it's just that music's always been a great interest of mine. And I love to sing... because when I sing, people enjoy as much as I do....

Q2) Your vocal range's really wide... did you undergo any professional training?
ans: Yes sir, I went thru some basic singing training lesson by a famous teacher/song writer in singapore..

He wrapped things up by saying he'll be looking forward to seeing me perform again.... lol.. So proud lo... the others must be thinking of what were he telling me... haha =x

Was really tired after the whole thing, because the day after, I had to get ready, because I had another performance to go, this time the Lion Dance... Went back to room, showered and then brought my laptop to office and MSN with Baby... webcam and chatted the whole night till morning...

Its so great to be able to see her, hear her voice through mic and speakers... She actually stayed up to accompany me... because i had to wake up early but i decided not to sleep -_-" So nice of her to stay up just for me, so sweet of her for the things she said, messaged me... Loving her more and more each day, missing her every moment....

ps. If Baby's gonna read this, I just wanna say, I Love You.... and Thanks for the smll lil things you do for me... in the eye of others, they might be nothing at all, but in mine, its already everything!! Love u....

~Jun Tai~

PiNky sOtoNg 7/28/2008 05:35:00 PM