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Saturday, January 24, 2009
金牛贺岁~恭喜发财 Golden Ox Wishing You A Happy Chinese New Year!

Dear all,

Chinese New Year is just a few hours away. I will like to wish everyone (existing members / seniors/ SSS choir "anestors"/ new members/ anyone who would like to join Choir/ whoever is reading this post) a very happy chinese new year and bless with good health!

take Care!

cheers,
mdmJ


7:58 PM By SERANGOON CHOIR BLOG!YEA!=D
"Take These Wings"
hilo folks!

I've found 2 videos from youtube.com on "Take These Wings". (this is 1 of the scores that you've received on Thursday, 22 Jan)

If you do a search in youtube.com, you will find many choirs have sung "Take These Wings"! Some have sung it on Graduation Day and we're going to sing on Speech Day (9April) and Musical Nite. :)

The 2 songs you're going to sing are "Castle in the Sky" and "Take These Wings".

I've posted 2 versions of "Take These Wings" in this post. One is sung in English by Iowa Valley Women's Honour Choir and the 2nd one was sung in chinese. There is no language barrier when comes to music. Music is an language itself. :)

These 2 are the nicest versions i've found so far. This song was inspirational and I love the combination of flute and choir together. :)

You can sing along with your scores in front of you - that is what i've done just now. : )

Enjoy~ Hope you love it.

The English version:



The Chinese version:


2:18 AM By SERANGOON CHOIR BLOG!YEA!=D
Thursday, January 8, 2009
WELCOME TO SERANGOON CHOIR!
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Hello!!!!!! A warm welcoming from US = CHOIR!

1st of all, a very big Thank you for your enthusiasm during the Aesthetic Awareness Programme in the hall today! You've been a very spontaneous audience!

We want you to be part of our family!
We've received quite a number of responses from you. Now let me answer your questions.
1. Q: "I like singing but then not sure if i sing gd or not. Can I still join choir?"

A: OF COURSE U'RE WELCOMED TO JOIN CHOIR! Our conductor and seniors will teach u how to sing. No worries ...

2. Q: "I am not sure if I wan to join choir leh... "
A: DON'T THINK TOO MUCH la! Just follow your heart and put Choir as your 1st choice in your CCA form. Then submit to your form teacher on 12Jan.

3. Q: "Why must I join Choir?" A: You can be the NEXT SINGAPORE IDOL! Or Campus SuperStar!
A:To improve your social life.
A: Make more new friends.
A: Learn a new skill - singing. It's a skill that can't be taught in your 8am- to- 1pm lesson.
A: Singing can relax you.
A: Singing trains your right - brain. So that you can focus better in your study.
A: You learn all kinds of songs.
A: Choir organised Sec1 welcome party, Camp, outingS, watching concerts together, etc etc

4. "I m a boy. Can I join?" Come on! Of course can la! Who says boys can't join? Look at all these super stars!


"Who says boy can't join Choir? Look at me man! U all like me sing rite?!" Jay Chou says

"Singing is my life!" - our Singapore Idol.

5. Q: "If i don ve music background, can i join Choir?"
A: No worries. Some of us don have music background when we joined Choir in sec1. But now we noe how 2 read the musical notes!

6. Q: "Do u ve any activities fotos that i can see?"
A: Click HERE or copy and paste the following URL:
http://flickr.com/photos/juliana2608/collections/72157605362490106/

There's another set of photo:
http://flickr.com/photos/corcovado20/sets/72157606717067003/

And 1 more!
http://flickr.com/photos/corcovado20/sets/72157606717067003/

There are 13 sets of photos! Meaning more than 1000 FOTOS!

Have fun viewing~

Last but not least, we look forward to seeing you on this coming Saturday - the CCA Open House. Check out our booth! We want you!

C u!

Cheers,
Serangoon Choir

5:38 AM By SERANGOON CHOIR BLOG!YEA!=D
Sunday, January 4, 2009
make your own musical notes!
Dear Choir,

Welcome back to school.

I've sms almost all of you on Sunday about the making of musical notes. Remember when we went to ACJC Open House and we saw someone pinned those colourful musical notes on their shirts?

YES, THAT IS THE ONE I'M REFERRING TO ...

I've tried creating some musical notes/ words and it's pretty fun doing it.

The main thing is don't think too much about the design. JUST DO IT!

Here are some of the samples:

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Sample 1 - 1st creation.

It's obvious that this is my 1st attempt as it is shown clearly by the ugly black outlines.

It's perfectly fine if you use permanent black ink as outline. Don't try to wash it. It will get worst.

My hand is pretty itchy after cutting the pink felt and I felt it's pretty empty so I tried sewing 3 unused buttons on it.

It's perfectly OK if you don't sew/glue anything on it. The choice is yours.

If you want to make your musical notes shiny, UP TO YOU. There's no limit to your creativity. After all, it's going to pin onto your choir T.


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Sample 2 - yellow musical notes sew onto the blue felt


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Sample 3 - blue onto pink background

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Sample 4 - using the spare felt to sew the words "CHOIR" together

The background of each picture is black as i'm trying to show you how it looks like when it's completed. Remember, our choir T is black?

Btw, it not a must to sew together if you've never sewed anything before. I don't want you to sew your hands together with the felt. I don't have glue to join them together so I sew. It's NOT compulsory for you to sew.

Have fun!

Cheers,
mdmJ

2:34 AM By SERANGOON CHOIR BLOG!YEA!=D