life of a secondary school student

An Evening With The Stars '09

Last Saturday, I covered my school's 'An Evening With The Stars' musical event along with James and Brandon.

Here's just a brief overview of the night, along with a few photos. Don't mind the watermarks, it was just easier to pick from the already selected batch for submission.

The event start at 7pm sharp. Everyone was seated, and the emcees announced the opening programme. jeng jeeeng.. wonderous. The string orchestra started things off with a few famous snippets from The Sound Of Music.

The orchestra is made up of students from Lodge International and National school.

Next was the group called 'Gelato'. They performed Cater to You. No idea who's the original artist.

This guy caught my attention. Haiyahh!

After that, the guys from International School performed Drops of Jupiter. Very nice song, haven't heard it for awhile. Psst.. I never knew this song was by Train!

So tell me, did you sail across the sun?Did you make it to the milky way to see the lights all faded?

Oh, the next performance really drew attention from the crowd, ESPECIALLY the guys.

O...kay..

Had problems freezing their movements coz of the low light.

Good performance anyway, maybe just not so appropriate for the kids. They'll be fantasizing bout dancing like that too.

Choir performance by the Primary School. Ahh, perfectly safe and angelic. They were a bit soft though, people at the back musta had to strain to hear them.

Ijaz was up next, he sung Live High by Jason Mraz. Definitely one of my favorite performances of the night.

Another item from the International School, Rainism! I envy them, not for their moves, but for them being able to stand to wear 3 layers of clothes that night. Real heaty.

Rekindling the fires of the last year's hit musical, High School Musical were the students of the Primary School with their recorders!

Mmh! Close-ups.

Not a performance for showing faces, this one. They needed to huddle around the microphone.

Another one of my favorites. Just For You performed Lucky(Jason Mraz ft. Colbie Caillat).

It's so hard to play while singing. Stephen's doing a great job of it.

Next up, little Jordan Chin performs Rainy Day/Sha-la-la.

An audience favorite, surely. He always plays a lot of happy tunes!

Snap!

Up next was my favorite performance of the night. East meets West by Sarawak Fusion. They used many traditional instruments as well as modern instruments.

Where to get a percussion instrument like that? They played the simple yet famously lovable tune, Rasa Sayang. Then, they did a transistion into Viva La Vida!

The drums were so epic! It added a feel of powerful-ness in the song.


I think it's easy to tell that they were really enjoying it. They were smiling the whole way!

Following up after that was You Say It Best by Adrian Chai and Jonathan Law. Umm, I'm not sure which one was which, but the one who was singing.. *wow!* his voice sounded really close to the original artist's! Deep..

Johnny, Jordan's older brother, presented 2 classical pieces.

This one was interesting.. and a little creepy. The International School students opted to take us Around The World In 12 minutes. Visiting places including New Zealand, Sarawak, Korea and Spain.

The Korean dance wasnt too fancy, just a lot of fan-waving. Maybe the dresses were supposed to impress.

More fans. Any idea what are those red things they're holding?

The dance was quite repititive on the moves. Anyway, right after that they started the Finale!

Sarawak Fusion was providing the music for the Finale. Again, they made it feel very epic.

The lighting during the Finale was MUCH better. Why couldn't it be the same through out the show?


The whole show ended at about 9.15pm. Honestly, I liked only a few performances. Maybe there were fewer good ones who auditioned this year.

Good experience for me. I guess it isn't our fault that we were wet with sweat after the show, we had to move around a lot. I bet if we were sitting with the audience, we'd be comfortable with the mist-blowing fans.

Anyway, time for me to sleep soon. Gotta wake up early tomorrow again, and I think I better start with revision too. Have a good night!

posted by jordan @ 10:12 PM