Yvonne Foong

“Happy Birthday to me, I wasn’t born on the tree…” Yes, yesterday was my birthday. Nothing really much… I got back from Ipoh yesterday at 4pm and was pretty exhausted. I only manage to come online today with a bunch of birthday wishes bombarding my ICQ. Sincere thanks to Swee Hong for the lovely birthday card, Aaron and another fella in form 3 for the E-card, Tremayne for the birthday wish, others not mentioned (since they won’t be reading this) and also a few other prezzies that I’ll receive when I return to school. Sadly but true, people in the choir didn’t know it was my birthday…*sob*

Okay so let me go on ranting about my Ipoh trip from day-one till my birthday, okie?

!st June
Izzed called up at 12am and we chatted till 2am when I decided that we should rest. After 4 hours of sleep, Izzed called me up again. This time, it was pass 6am and everyone except me and Esther, were already in school. We were supposed to leave by 6am but the stupid bus did not come till 7:30am. The bus ride went through fine, but the driver was really slow we only reached Ipoh at noon, just in time for lunch. The bus sent us straight to City Ballet after food and that was where we met the other adult choirs including those from the Tarcisian Convent. There was a short 2 hours practise and we went for lunch at the YMCA. After lunch, we were given our room keys and was told to check-in. We were in a lot of trouble, being in the wrong building, going up and down staircases. Clumzy me and my junk of luggage, I stepped the wrong foot and I went tumbling down like Jack & Jill who went up the hill. Joel, who was very nice of him, saw me falling from the other end of the stairs, crouched down on his legs and knees to stop me from crashing against the wall. (awww….) *thankie* he also helped me with the load to my room. “room service” he called it but there was no form of any tip though. The rooms were in much better condition than I expected. It was like a 1-2* hotel. With twin beds, (some have 3), tv set, dressing table, shoe rack, carpetted, and room service. Very different from the National Sports Institute and the Penang Sports Institute. After checking-in, we went to the hall, also located in the YMCA for another practise until 6:30pm. Then, we had dinner at the restaurant in YMCA. We were served in 2, chinese, ten-course-dinner. It also tasted far better than my expectation. After filling up, we bathed and headed to City Ballet again with our costumes. My day ended at 1am.

2nd June
Woke up at 7:30am and practised at the hall until lunch. The rest of the day was to our own. The Subang choir, us, went to visit the turtles, and Ipoh parade. There was not enough sufficient time for us to venture more of Ipoh so we went back to the YMCA for dinner. That night, I had a lot of fun playing cards with Hanizah, Melvin, Esther, Sara and Wei Qi. But the game wasn’t for long. We started gossiping about “love in the choir” For Goodness sake!! I was the last to know!! The entire choir, everyone in 5 Adil and most the school already heard about it but me! Damn! okay so the heroe of the story is Joel and the heroine is ofcourse, Cia Ee. So, I wasn’t observing enough. But who would guess? She’s such a girl-next-door. But I don’t care lah. After all, I thought it was Kok Kin and Cia Ee. Oh, Yvonne, you’re such a looser for not being right.Oh yea, Kok Kin’s nick is Scrotum-Boy. Haha!!

3rd June
Tiring day… woke up 7:30am. Ate breakfast downstairs and headed off to City Hall (the auditorium room-stage) for full rehersal. Then we went off for lunch at the YMCA restaurant and then the bus took us to the make-up artist branch. It was a great deal seing the choir boys in make-ups. Hehehe!! But Kok Kin was really cheeky. 7 girls were in the room with the artists and everyone was as still as statues when Kok Kin came in, went one round and then “moooooo!”. Everyone burst into laughter and the make-ups were smudged. Returned to City Hall at 4pm to have another rehersal with our costumes on this time. That night’s show started at 8pm. That show was specially done for the charity homes which funds raised will be donated to. It was hazzardous backstage. There was very limited space compared to our very own Civic hall and the little children were blur throughout the show, some even cried. You see, when the lights go off there at City hall, it means the whole area’s entirely black. The adult choir got a piece of cross-lecture after the show which was really heart-shattering. I went out for supper at an ice-cream restaurant with Cia Ee, Sara, Melvin, and Hanizah. The people there were slow-pokes. After a while, we started warming up our voices by going “hungryyyyy…hungryyyyy….hungryyyy” in few different tones like we always do before performing. Still, our ice-cream was not served so we picked up our fork and spoon and started hitting the table “we-want-food!” “we-want-food!”. The shopkeeper heard and served us with plain water and cashew nuts. *snigger* Scary aren’t we?

4th June
Ate breakfast downstairs and then headed to City Hall for rehersal. Then we went for lunch at KFC and have ourselves make-up on at the Beauty Centre again. This time, the guys were given sideburns and mustach. *snigger* they look macho! Then we return back to City Hall for practise. They realised the bookseller in the Beauty & The Beast is an old man. Instead of a distinguised nerd, Joel had to be an old man. And really old! I remembered very well, the shock he gave me when we were performing the Tavern scene. On first look, I thought “okay…there’s an old man” then “”but he looks familiar” looks again “”it’s Joel!”” Then he started approaching me, knowing that he’s coming to pull me in front again, didn’t bother talking to him, I look as though I was giving no respect to the old man. Okay so if he does that again in Sitiawan, I’ll remember to welcome him and make sure he doesn’t topple over. Cuz you see, we’ll be going to Sitiawan again on Saturday for the same show. Gosh, Joel does look good being old!! This time, they acknowledged the SMK Subang Jaya at the end of the show and we were proud, cheering like monkeys. Cuz they did not do it for the previous night. That night, we had supper with the Ipoh adult choir at a restaurant. Me, Sara, Esther, Cia Ee and Jamie were on the same table talking about, ofcourse, the old man. Cuz we were very-very-very amuzed with his act!

5th June
Happy Birthday, Doey! But no one knew. We were told to wake up by 8am and leave Ipoh at 9am but the stupid bus did not come till 11am. We had a quick lunch at one of the rest area along the highway and the food there sucked so much even my own cooked food tastes much better. We arrived back in school at 4pm and I came home with grief cuz my uncle in my house died on Sunday and my 10 years old cat was enthanized on Tuesday.

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