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This is weird, this is very weird. It seems like we don't need to upgrade our account after all. User and PW remain the same!

Anyway. I just wanted to say: JIAYOU FOR SYF!

SYF's only less than a month away... 28 days to be exact! So jiayou jiayou everyone and please put in your best effort! I'm sure we can do it if only everyone puts in their best! To our nice juniors, even though you all will have another chance to represent DHSCO Zhengzu in SYF, for us seniors it's our one and only chance to do so. Therefore, everyone really needs to put in our best in order to succeed at this SYF!

Please put in your best GAN JUE into the songs... you can even try to make up a story about the song if you want... anything that will add meaning to your playing. (: JIAYOU HOR!

If you can't think of a story... maybe this will help you. You can read it, then laugh, but please rmb it and hopefully it will add some meaning to the music. (Sorry if this is lame or corny. I think I've been studying too much Lang Arts.)

First song... "so..." at the start is the gentle morning breeze blowing across the garden. Then the solo: "mi do la do... blah blah" are dewdrops falling from the leaves etc.... and the gua zou's the breeze getting stronger. (:

Beginning of 2/4, zheng 2's "so so la so" or smth is the gentle fragrance of the flowers slowly ebbing outwards as dewdrops continue to fall (zheng 3's "do so do mi re"). Then as zheng 1 comes in, we start to zan4 mei3 the flowers. Think: gentle fragrance, panoramic view of a garden, soft breeze, blue skies... then the gua zou part with "so.... la do... " etc. is the flowers opening, as you all shd know by now. Then near the end of man ban, the camera (don't ask me why suddenly got camera) zooms out to show the peaceful garden. "mi so la do la fa mi re...."sorry I not sure of the notes cos I rmb it by tune..... then kuai ban. "So do do so do la so mi" signals the garden gate being kicked open by some AHEM dancers, then as the song progresses, who frolick in and start prancing around, picking flowers, sniffing their fragrance and dancing like siao kia. Then, the yao zhi part, "mi...so la so do la so mi so.... " you know, the melodious part where zheng 3 is in danger of gan3-ing... is actually the dancers running around the garden with flowers everywhere. (The reason why I included dancers is cos according to the programme booklet, the song's also about passion for life among young ppl or smth. go read it.) Okay then "mi re mi do re" is the dancers whispering to each other, then at the next part where we jian qiang is them giggling. And the remaining part of kuai ban is them dancing out of the garden... zheng 3's "so re so" is the gate closing.

OMG THIS IS SO CORNY.

Man ban starts again... now, the garden is serene and quiet. With the boisterous dancers gone, the flowers can exude their gentle fragrance in peace. Etc. refer to beginning. Then the last three notes with fan yin and our yao zhi is the gentle breeze blowing across the garden, bringing with is flower petals and, for some reason, sparkly thingys. (Think jap anime style.)

Phew! Now 2nd song.

The loud and lively beginning (kuai ban) is the village (among the mountains) celebrating some festival. Villagers dance around, banging gongs, kids playing, lion dance, ah peks and grannies laughing with their grandchildren etc. That loud seh part "re re re so" is actually the gongs and drums etc like WLS said last time. Then the man ban or what do you call it? Erm... The part where zheng 3 starts with "SO" and zheng 2 plays the high high notes and zheng 1 plays the melody... is more dancing and jumping around. Then the part where we enter into shuting's solo (so do do re do la so....) is all the villagers congregating in the centre of some square to listen to the AHEM wise village woman say smth.

Solo part is actually the wise woman singing a tale of the village's rich and glorious history. The ban zous ("so do re fa so SO" by zheng 2 and 3) are like the village ppl murmuring in awe as they discover their AHEM rich heritage. Then "re do re fa so so " as zheng 1 joins in is the ppl getting more excited. Then finally, start of yao zhi... "la so fa mi re..." is the villagers starting to sing along with the wise woman, filled with love and pride for their hometown. Think: very deep de FEELING and touching moments. Okay. Then sing sing sing... and then ophillia's part "re fa so so" is a villager announcing the arrival of some visitors! And as the other sheng1 bu4s join in, it's the villagers slowly "waking up" and getting into the mood... then enter kuai ban again, it's them beating drums and resuming their festivities to welcome the visitors, and also to celebrate their rich history! Yay! Then end! (:


Ohhh what a long post... hoped it helped in some way or other..... sorry for the er, lame and corny parts inside.

Oh wells. JIAYOUS! Bye! (: