Thurs

Thursday (2nd April)

Today is the exchange culture concert for us NP students (including the Chinese studies' students who are having their 6 mth attachment here) and the local university students & each group has to prepare some performances for the concert. We'd decided to sing a group song and play a skit about Singapore.

The song we decided to sing was Take Me To Your Heart by Micheal Learns To Rock, which was my mum's favourite song last year when she kept on playing it at home repeatedly, so i didn rly need the lyrics when we were rehearsing the previous night. Aziz and Fareez sang solo for the first few verses and all of us sang together for the chorus. & for the very long music part, Shakir represented us to express our feelings for the chinese people, the touching part is that he spoke in chinese.

For the skit , Aqilah did almost all of the background work, she searched for the pictures that represent Singapore, did the powerpoint slides and thought of the plots for each scenario. All the scenarios are usually seen in Singapore but not in other countries, like Kiasu Sgpreans chopping seats in Kopitiam, getting fined for smoking in public, etc. There were quite a number of scenarios so that each 1 of us will have a role to play.

I was the narrator for the skit, although i am better in Chinese, but it was seriously the first time that i present something in front of so many people in chinese. I was really scared that i might have misuse some chinese words, like what i usually do when i speak very fast and my friends will always correct me for the stupid mistakes. But luckily, i spoke quite slowly and tried to think for a few seconds before i rly shoot everything out.

I think overall the skit was rly well-played, Edward made the audience bursted into laughter when he spoke the 4 versions of the Yellow-Line MRT-stn announcement, and when ram played as a pregnant lady standing in the train, when he stuffed the pillow and 2 balloons in his shirt to pretend as fake boobs and tummy, it was rly hilarious.

And i could see that the other group of Np students who are in the Chinese Studies rly missed home, cos they've been staying here for months and when we showed them the ppt slides, they were all very excited. So our skit not only provided more understandings for the local students, we've only made some of the other sgprean students felt like they're back home for a moment. ;D

Reheasing for the skit for the last time.

The concert hall, while waiting for exchange culture program to start.

It's going to be our turn! Aqilah was reminding us our impt roles. ;D

Sit back and relax, concert is starting.

4 MCs. From left: NP Chinese Studies student, Local student, NP Chinese Studies student, Shakir NP EE student (our representative).