Thursday, September 5, 2013

My Chinese Orchestra SYF Journey

I have taken part in 2 Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) Judging Competitions when I was in this co-curricular activity (CCA) for 4 long years in secondary school. After achieving a Silver Award in 2011, I was discouraged by the fact that we did not get the Gold Award but was elated at the same time for maintaining not dropping our standards of Silver.

Finally this year 2013, Chinese Orchestra achieved Distinction. All our time and efforts had paid off. I was very delighted and fascinated when I heard the results. I started to jump up and down in my classroom, feeling extremely excited and motivated. People started to congratulate us and I could hear screams of joy from the other classrooms.

Acknowledgements:

I would like to thank the school for supporting us. The school has helped us in many ways by buying us new and better-quality instruments and arranging public performances for us. For example, on 20th January 2013, we performed at Bukit Panjang Plaza, level 2, at the garden. The event was called the Northwest Arts Roadshow. I was extremely enthusiastic about this performance as it would be my very last time performing in Chinese Orchestra in public. We performed 4 songs:  Rhythm of the Rain, 恭喜 (gong xi), 小拜年 (xiao bai nian), 花鼓 (hua gu diao). It was a wonderful and enjoyable experience for all of us.


I would also like to thank our Chinese Orchestra instructors and teachers whom have put in their utmost effort in helping and motivating us to press on to improve. Without them, we would not be able to get Distinction. They played a very important role in this Singapore Youth Festival Competition. They gave us a lot of encouragement and boosted our confidence level. Yup, that's my reflection. 

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