Renaissance

For me Renaissance gave me mixed feeling, different feeling for the first half and second half.

But before all of this I was already very stressed, looking for my classmates to take attendance. I had been running around in circles looking all over for them. On the Way running into friends from my CCA, from other classes and even from other schools. Seeing some of them even helped me get destress slightly.

After about half an hour, most of the people who had come to watch Renaissance were already inside, I was telling my classmates, "Go in first, I'll go look for the rest". Just as I finished those few words the last person came. What a relief! But one person forgot to bring his ticket so I was still pretty stressed D= I ended up messaging my form tutor and getting no reply.

After all of us got into the hall we took our seats, I had told my classmates that they could switch their seats among themselves. My actual seat wasn't too bad, you could see part of the bad and screen... I think. But then Andrew(my classmate) came over, wanting to sit in my seat thinking that the one the seat belonged to wasn't there, but actually i had got his ticket due to some unforeseen circumstances. Anyway being the nice guy that I am, I am nice, I gave my seat to him for a seat which was absolutely...Horrid. I could barely see the screen, I could only see half the band and that was when I was leaning over the edge.

Well I guess that was for the better, the first half was absolutely agonizing for me, not that the performance was bad,on the contrary it was great. I actually felt quite happy I couldn't see much of the band, watching them was heartbreaking I could almost feel my imaginary heart cracking. I felt as if I was in the wrong place, that I should have been backstage or on stage. Guess part of an old performer's spirit is still in me, A choir member and a novice actor. Not used to be in the audience I guess, since usually I'm a performer on stage, due to being in Choir in St Michael's School. If you're trying to see if you can remember who I am, I'm the one who always 'stood out', towering over everyone else. Being in the audience instead of on stage, it just killed me. )=

As they continued my sorrow turned into anger. There were a few boys on a lower level from me, all fooling around. There was one even bouncing up and down in his seat, when I asked him to stop he said he was just enjoying the music. Looking into the huge group of boys at the back of the hall, I saw handphone lights, a Kallang Wave, sorry, not just one. They say boys will be boys, but I wish they were more mature D=

The Emcees were really entertaining. They really made the audience laugh, when they told us of the order of performances, I was delighted to hear there was going to be a choir performing =D

Other than all of that At the start they had the Josephian March, which they were changing to the Generation March, due to it taking like three generations to perfect it. I think the Generation March sounded a lot cleaner, but I don't really like the title, Generation instead of Josephian? It just makes it, non-Josephian.

When the first half ended, I just walked straight out of there, I wanted to find my friends and talk to them. Instead of just walking around, which I still ended up doing while looking for my form tutor. So after the twenty minute break, everyone was back in their seats. They continued on with one Emcee missing, but as they say in show business, the show must go on.

But I don't really want to elaborate much on the music, I actually couldn't really be bothered. My attention was being drawn to something else. But I enjoyed this part much more than the first part, I think my mood was lighter now so I could enjoy the performance better. =D

My favourite piece throughout the entire Renaissance, was played by the Alumni Band. The theme for Pirates of the Caribbean, it brought back memories. First thing that came to my mind after I realised what it was was a SMS my friend had sent me. We had somehow watched Pirates of the Caribbean 3 on the same day, And one of the things she said about the movie was, 'I love Jack Sparrow! So hot so hot.' That was like the first thing that came to my mind. As the song progressed, I imagined Will and Elizabeth dancing on the stage in front of the band. They were like just there in one pose, Will holding up Elizabeth's hand with his hand stretched out behind him with Elizabeth doing the same.

When St Ant's Choir performed, it was kind of a let down for me. Through most of the performances I've been to and performed at with my Primary school's Choir. There was at least one song which was more upbeat and fun, So listening to this choir was quite a let down to the point where I found them dull. Even though they were performing in harmony and sounded angelic. Weird, I prefer an amateur primary school choir to a professional adult choir.

But overall, through the heartache, the stress and the music. I would have hated to have had missed this special event which stirred up all sorts of emotions.