Hi Choir!

For all who are going for HK trip, Please update T-shirt size,dietary requirements ,send according to the t-shirt sizes above.
-Daisuke

Sat 28 Jul Practice NYJC

Hi Choir,
Just in Case any of you were sleeping during briefing,this sats practice would be at NYJC.
When: by 8:30
Where:Nanyang JC
128 Serangoon Avenue 3 Singapore 556111.
What to wear:  Choir Tee(COMPULSARY) + Pants/Skirt
How to get there?

By MRT

From	Choice of transportation to Nanyang  JC
Ang Mo Kio MRT Station	Bus Nos 22, 24, 73, 133, 135, 136
Bishan MRT Station	Bus Nos 53, 58
Serangoon MRT Station	Bus Nos 22, 53, 105, 534, By foot (approx 8 = mins)
Lorong Chuan MRT Station (Circle Line)	2-minute walk from the station to NYJC. The station is 1 stop from the Bishan MRT Interchange (which is = connected to North-South MRT Line). The station is also 1 stop = from the=20 Serangoon MRT Interchange (which is connected to North-East MRT=20 Line).

By Bus

From	Street name	Bus Nos
Ang Mo Kio Estate	Ang Mo Kio Ave 1	22, 24, 45, 53, 58, 133, 135, 136, 534,
Ang Mo Kio Ave 3	73, 133, 136
Ang Mo Kio Ave 5	45
Ang Mo Kio Ave 6	45, 133, 136
Ang Mo Kio Ave 8 (AMK Interchange)	22, 24, 73, 133, 135, 136
Ang Mo Kio Ave 9	45
Ang Mo Kio Ave 10	45
Yio Chu Kang Road	73, 136, 534
Bedok Estate	Bedok North	45
Bedok Reserviour	22, 58
Bedok South Ave 1	853C (Sun/Public Hols)
New Upper Changi Road	24, 45
Upper East Coast Road	45, 853C (Sun/Public Hols)
Bishan Estate	Bishan Interchange	53, 58
Braddell Road	105, 73
CBD	Bras Basah Road	133
Fullerton Road	534
Grange Road	105
Orchard Boulevard	105
Outram Road	534
Robinson Road	534
Scotts Road / Stevens Road	105
Suntec City	133
Victoria Street	133
Whitley Road	105
Changi & Pasir Ris Estate	Changi Airport	24, 53
Pasir Ris	53, 58
Upper Changi Road	24
Eunos & Marine Parade Estate	Eunos Link / Eunos Rd 8	22, 24, 45, 58, 135
Geylang Road	135
Marine Parade Road	135, 853C (Sun/Public Hols)
Siglap Road	135, 853C (Sun/Public Hols)
Sims Ave	24
Tanjong Katong Road	135
Ubi Ave 2	22
Ubi Ave 3	58
Hougang Estate	Hougang Ave 1	53
Hougang Ave 3	45
Lorong Ah Soo	45, 53
Jurong Estate	Boon Lay Way	105
Jurong East Central	105
Queenstown Estate	Commonwealth Ave	105
Holland Road	105
Queensway	105
Sengkang & Punggol Estate	Punggol Central	136
Seng Kang East Way	136
Serangoon, Aljunied & Paya Lebar Estate	Aljunied Road	135
Bendemeer Road	133
Kallang Road	133
Lavendar Street	133
Circuit Road	135
Paya Lebar Road	22, 58, 135
Serangoon Ave 2	45, 58, 105, 133, 135
Serangoon Ave 3	58, 105
Serangoon Central	22, 53, 105, 534
Serangoon Garden Way	73, 136
Serangoon North Ave 4	73
Upper Aljunied Road	135
Upper Paya Lebar Road	22, 24, 45, 53, 58
Upper Serangoon Road	22, 45, 53, 58, 133, 135, 136
Tampines Estate	Tampines Ave 10	58
Tampines Central	22
Tampines Road	53
Toa Payoh Estate	Toa Payoh Central	105
Toa Payoh Lor 2	105
Toa Payoh Lor 4	73, 105
Toa Payoh Lor 6	73, 105
Yishun Estate	Yishun Central	853

 Thanks for Viewing!
-Daisuke

nEbO Birthday Bash

As you may know, nEbO is turning 5 years old this July! And we've big plans to celebrate nEbO's birthday with a series of exciting programme and performances on 21^st July 2012.  

Henceforth, we are looking at inviting Chung Cheng High School's students down to take part in this special event in the following ways:

·         We would like to invite Chung Cheng High School’s choir down as part of our special Singing Flash mob. (More details at the end of the email)

·         At the same time, we would also like to invite Chung Cheng High School's students down to participate and enjoy themselves with the performances and activities during nEbO 5^thbirthday bash.

Please refer to below for a brief summary of nEbO's 5th Birthday Bash:

Event	nEbO 5th Birthday Bash titled nEbO 5.0
Date	21st July 2012
Venue	Downtown East Pasir Ris
Performance Timing	1pm to 3pm *Flash mob starts at 1pm *Full day bazaar from 11am to 6pm at The Alley (Where KFC is located at)
Performance Plan (Singing Flash Mob)	Plan is to plant the choir singers among the crowd and they will sing along with our signal There will be 4-5 key singers from nEbO pop vocal group who will be initiating the singing flash mob CCHS’s choir will join in during the chorus
Rehearsal (For Singing Flash Mob)	CCHS’s music room / Downtown East Facilities

With added details,anyone interested,please inform Me on facebook!

-Daisuke

Hey Everyone,Fwd Announcement From Mr Ek:
Attn: Teacher(s)-in-charge of CHOIR
Dear Sir/Madam,

We are EVOKX, a non-profit choral group which seeks to involve the youth in community and social service through choral singing. Since our formation in 2010 by local conductor Terrence Toh, EVOKX has held successfully raised both funds and awareness for various charities that we adopt every year through our annual concert series, Evocation: The Art of Giving.

In line with our mission to involve the youth in community service through choral singing, we will be holding auditions for interested singers to join us. The auditions will be held on the 7th and 14th July (Saturday).
We hope that you can encourage your students who are keen to sing with EVOKX to contact us via http://evokx.org/join to register their interest.
Please do not hesitate to contact us at outreach@evokx.org should you require more information about EVOKX and our past and future projects.

Thank you for your time and we look forward to hearing from you/your students.

Best Regards,
EVOKX




Daisuke

Hey ppl, this are the roles and the grouping for the upcoming choir camp ok!! Members who do not find their names on the list please inform Tiffany/Yan Hui by tmr (10/03)

Group Leaders
Group 1: Jacintha
Group 2: Liu Chang
Group 3: Daisuke
Group 4: Gwyneth
Group 5: Aloysius

Picture & Video In charge :Tan Mei Hui
HM: Isabel Tay
Gross Factor: Brian Pek
Entertainment Relay: Claudia Yee
Drop of Death : All G.Ls to be briefed and conduct this themselves

Group 1
1. Choo Yen Ee (A)
2. Tea Zhi Yuan (S)
3. Foo Ke Xuan (A)
4. Dorothy Teo (S)
5. Teo Bi Tian (A)
6. Soon Hui Qi (A)
7. Ma Miao Miao (S)
8. Thiang Soon Wei (T)
9. Sheryl Chen (A)

Group 2
1.Estee Ng (A)
2.Sean Leong (S)
3.Lim Jia Xuan (A)
4. Phua Hui Xin (S)
5.Nadia Tan (A)
6.Celeste (A)
7. Jolene (S)
8. Daniel Soh (S)
9. Joseph Yap (T)

Group 3
1. Evelyn Ong(A)
2. Grace Mak (S)
3.Ang Shao Ren
4.Chan Jun Ho (S)
5.Ng Rui Min (A)
6. Li Zi Ang (T)
7. Poh Siew hui (A)
8.Regina Soh (S)
9. Alexander Tan (B)

Group 4
1.Jemima Huang (A)
2.Chan Xin Wei (S)
3. Lucas Ho (T)
4.Allysia Liau (S)
5. Kailin Qin (A)
6. Lim Jing Wen (S)
7. Augusta Ng (A)
8. Melvin Lim (T)

Group 5
1. Neville (A)
2. Ernest (S)
3. Tian JiaYing (S)
4.Ryan Tan (T)
5. Lim Le Xuan (A)
6.Lim Zhi Wei (S)
7. Amelia Chng (S)
8. Ivan Foo (B)

Cheers,

Jiachen

Ppl!!! Pls write your name on a piece of paper and bring tmr (14/01). The paper will be used to paste on the back of your chair. Therefore from tmr on, everyone will hav a their own chair and it will be fixed.
Also, pls be reminded to bring $10 for choir fund tmr and bring suit/gown for the Wednesday(18/01)photo shot. (if you want to bring on wed also can...)
Thanks!:D

Cheers,

Jiachen

Evocation 2011: The Art of Giving

Hello everyone!

Believe some (if not most) of you have heard about this already, Evokx is having a concert on the 17th of December Saturday at the NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music Concert Hall! Tickets are going at $20 (free seating), and there are two shows - 4pm and 7pm.

The concert will also feature the NYJC and PJC choirs, and conducted by Mr Terrence Toh.

Proceeds will be donated to the Singapore Chee Hoon Kog Moral Promotion Society, so please come and support! It's for a good cause!

You can order your tickets with Tiffany, or directly through Christina or Asaph (those ancient kids will know who they are).

The Chung Cheng Choir Spirit!

Hi guys!

The younger ones might not have heard of me... but I'm Christina, formerly the choir's student conductor and alto section leader who graduated in 2009. :)

Just felt really urged to come here again after almost 2 years to post something after watching you guys sing at the Sing For Japan concert last night. I have to say the few of us seniors who were there were truly touched by the fact that the choir has definitely been improving. I shouldn't say that the performance was perfect in case you guys start feeling overly contented with yourselves, but watching you guys sing made us really proud of you. This is something that doesn't come by that often in the past (we used to screw up many performances), and I'm glad that such challenges put in our way over the years has grown us indefinitely, as individual singers and as an entire choral body as well.

I think this is definitely a great start to a new chapter of the CCHMS Choir story with the new exco and Mr Low. Please continue to develop your passion for singing and grow collectively as a family, and let the legacy of this choir continue on with generations to come.

Once again, you guys have made us proud!

Sing For Japan!!!!!

Yo people, tomorrow will be our performance!!! :D

Things to take note:
--Meeting time:1240h
--Meeting venue: Concourse
--Meeting attire: Half Uniform
--Remember to bring $2.50 for dinner

Performance attire checklist for guys:
--Blazer
--Black shirt
--Black long pants
--Black socks
--Black shoes

Performance attire checklist for girls:
--Gown
--Sash
--Black court shoes
--Black hair accessories
--Simple makeup

AND REMEMBER TO BRING A BLACK FOLDER FOR SCORES!!


Cheers,
Jiachen :D

Tmr (25/06) no choir, ppl.

People, the tentative date for the school combined concert is 8 July at Marine Parade Community Centre Theatre. Thanks!

--Jiachen

Presenting Our Choir Committee 2011/12!!

Management Committee

President - Tiffany
Vice-president - Yan Hui
Treasurer - Ling Jun
QM - Mengyue and Shiu Yee
Room IC - Jia Hui
Information IC - Jiachen
Secretary - Jia Min


Music Committee

Student Conductor - Denise
Soprano 1 SL - Denise
Soprano 2 SL - Debra
Alto 1 SL - Man Ling
Alto 2 SL - Zheng Yi
Tenor SL - Liu Chang
Bass SL - Yi Fan



Once again, congratz to everyone that have been appointed a post this time round!
It will be a challenge for all of us, but we will work together and do it great! :D
Jiayou!

Cheers,
Jiachen

Hi everyone,

As the sec 4s have stepped down to concentrate on their 'O' levels, we have to come together to pick our new exco members.

This coming Wednesday, please report to the choir room at 2.30pm so that we can do the voting. The contenders for President and vice-president are:

CHOO YING XUAN, TIFFANY

GIAM YAN HUI

CHENG MENGYUE

CHUA SU FANG, DEBRA

DONG JIACHEN

LIM ZHENG YI

TEO JIA HUI

WONG MAN LING

DENISE TEO WUN XI

ANG SHIU YEE

KONG LING JUN

LEE JIA MIN

YANG YIFAN

Every member will have 2 votes to cast their preferred member. For these contenders, please prepare a 30 sec to 1 min speech to 'sell' yourself. You have to impress the choir why must they choose you as their president. Same rules as GE2011, no bad mouthing of other candidates!

We'll see you then on Wednesday, 2.30pm in the choir room.

Mr Ek

Recordings of SYF

These are the reason why we get GOLD

The Wind

https://www.yousendit.com/download/VnBxQ3R3aFJGOFEwTVE9PQ

云飞天不动

https://www.yousendit.com/download/VnByeW4rZDV0QTFFQlE9PQ

Kaleis

https://www.yousendit.com/download/VnByeW44cklBNkh2Wmc9PQ

Enjoy

Mr Ek.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN ON SYF DAY?

TIME WHAT TO DO?

6AM GIRLS ARRIVE AT CHOIR ROOM *

6AM-6.30AM CHANGE AND MAKE-UP *

6.30AM BOYS ARRIVE AT CHOIR ROOM *

ALL MEMBERS HAVE BREAKFAST

7AM ALL MAKE-UP AND COSTUME UP *

START OF FINAL CHOIR PRAC *

8AM LEAVE CHOIR ROOM *

8.15AM BUS LEAVE CCHMS FOR SOTA

9AM ARRIVAL AT SOTA

9.45AM SYF

11.30AM BUS LEAVE SOTA BACK TO CCHMS

12.30PM LUNCH

1PM DEBRIEF

5PM ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESULTS

* VERY IMPORTANT TIMINGS!

LOOK HERE!!!

SPECIAL DATES TO TAKE NOTE BEFORE SYF

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7th APRIL, THURSDAY

• Extra practice in Choir room from 2.30pm to 5pm
• Mr Low is coming in for combined practice

8th APRIL, FRIDAY

• Costume check
• Gowns and heels for ladies, black shirt, pants and suit for gentlemen
• Black hair bands for ladies
• Rehearse walk-in with full attire
• Keep the attire in the choir room (Bring hanger!)

9th APRIL, SATURDAY

• Usual choir practice in the morning from 8am to 12.30pm
• Choir exchange at Hwa Chong Institute at 3pm
• Bus will arrive in school at 2.15pm
• Dismissed from Hwa Chong Institute

13th APRIL, WEDNESDAY, EVE OF SYF

• Report to choir room at 7am
• warm-ups and practice until 8.30am
• Mr Low will arrive at 8.30am
• Dry-run of SYF performance at 9.30am
• Practice after dry-run
• Students excused from class the entire day

Types of Court Shoes

Hello Choir (girls), so these are the types of shoes you should be wearing :

But first, here's an example of what NOT to wear, unless you wanna fall on your pretty face on stage. Which is a bad thing, I'm sure. (:

Okay, you can wear these kinda wedge shoes, with a much shorter heel length (height) of around 2 inches, because it's equally discomforting and dangerous.

Black flats, also allowed :
Like the 2nd design, with the ideal height, and PLAIN, with none of that weird ribbon thing on the front. (:

Ideal types are like this, which can be found at any Bata shops (Tampines etc. )

PLEASE NOTE :

- Shoes should be PLAIN BLACK design, no patterns, no yellow or silver or whatever colours of the rainbow you can find.

- NO STRAPS or BUCKLES. If you're afraid that the shoes may drop off when walking (remember to test them before you buy), ask your mom to get you heel grips or those cushion thingys for the soles.

- Shoes should be COMFORTABLE. It's best if you try standing in them and spouting a few soft notes in the shop, they should not block your blood flow or hinder your ability to use support in any way.

From now on, bring your shoes for every choir practice (no need for the ones in the early mornings) so we can practice and get used to singing in the shoes for SYF.

Girls, please try the shoes with your costumes when you get home, you shouldn't be in any danger of stepping on your dress or you dress being too short. If it's too long/short, please tell me or Denise or Ms Chong IMMEDIATELY, and we'll see what we can do. (:

SYF IS IN 2 WEEKS. GET PLENTY OF SLEEP! DON'T EAT CHILI, CURRY, SPICY STUFF, OLD CHANG KEE STUFF, KUEH etc! (: ADD OIL!

Who was here :

Yun Shi :D

SYF Venue: SOTA

One of the stairs where you will be exiting the stage


Risers where you will be standing on


View on stage towards the audience


The risers where you will be standing


The holding room before walking on to the stage

These are the pictures of the concert hall where you will be competing in on the 14th April. The acoustics of the concert is made in such a way where the slightest mistake can be easily heard so there must be NO MISTAKES!


Mr Ek.

Learning points from the SSO Rehearsal

I was reading through the reflections that you guys passed to me after the rehearsal and i am very glad that most of you learnt many things from the rehearsal, from how a choir should work and even commenting the techniques and sounds of the choir and the orchestra. Among all the well written reflections i want to highlight some of your learning points for others to see. Most of you have almost the same few points however that also means that most of you see the lack of such points in your choir. So here are what some of you reflected....

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I think the choristers, the orchestra and the conductor are putting in 100% effort, potential and focus in the rehearsal, which is something we sometimes lack - Tan Mei Hui

The musicians are listening to the other members of the choir thus their tonality blends with other musicians - Joseph Yap

Professional musicians do not procrastinate and start to rehearse straight away with the conductor - Alexander Tan

It is impossible for a choir to sing well without teamwork - Cao Aoying

I learnt that teamwork is essential in a choir - Jolene Koh

We still lack the accurate pitch, unity and harmony in singing. They produce a '3D' sound everytime they sing (* a sidenote.. meaning you guys produce a 2D sound when you sing?) - Lee Yee Teng

In this rehearsal, there are many instances whereby the performers take their own initiative to take notes and improve. We should learn from them and be more disciplined as a choir - Isabella

I was very inspired by this performance. It seemed to be telling me to strive hard and do my best like all the performers, to create mesmerizing music like this - Gwyneth Thong

When they sing, they stand straight with their feet apart and chests out. This gives them the support needed to project their voices - Tan Yun Shi

They are enjoying what they are doing and they sway naturally - Soon Hui Qi

Another thing i learnt is that 'eyes on the conductor at all times!' - Jacintha Tay

When the conductor is speaking no one is talking and gives him their 100% attention. Only like this can they achieve this level and standard of professionalism - Keziah

They seemed very confident of singing their notes out. I think our choir members need to build this confidence as well - Meng Yue

The scores were just like a reference. This may be why their sound was so cohesive. Free of scores, they did very well in listening to other sections of the orchestra. I think that is what our choir should improve on next - Yang Xiya

The choir maintained a ram-rod straight posture throughout the entire rehearsal. They exemplified self-discipline and there was no chattering among the musicians - Wong Man Ling

I think that since we are a secondary school choir, and our teachers do try to treat us as adults, then we ought to act like adults - Sophie Lau

We must instil self-discipline to know our parts, always look at the conductor and take down details of what to do or what not to do on our music scores - Sherrie Chew

I realised the importance of maintaining discipline whenever the conductor is talking. The rest of the choir needs to be quiet in order for the message that the conductor is trying to convey to be brought across. Also, we need to take down what the conductor tells us, any little detail like pronouncing the words clearly or holding the note longer, for a more productive rehearsal..... We need to have the correct attitude whenever we go for sectionals or combined practices - Denise Tan

Although it was a rehearsal, they respected the time and effort everyone gave and treated it like a real performance - Denise Teo

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There were lots more and i will put up all the reflections on the choir wall so that everyone can read the reflections in full, even for those that did not turn up for the SSO Rehearsal. Ms Chesed Wong will pick up the best reflection for each level (Choir + Music program students) and they will recieve a free CD.

I really hope you enjoyed the rehearsal and learnt about how a professional choir should behave. Reflect back on your own choir practices and improve.

Time to work together and work hard for SYF!

Mr Ek

SSO Concert Rehearsal on Friday

These are the names of the students that had NOT passed me their reply slips:

Thiang Soon Wei
Liu Chang
Gwyneth Thong
Daisuke
Yan Hui
Mengyue
Debra
Ling Jun
Jia Min
Yifan
Man Qini
Jesslyn
Mei Hui
Hsin Min
Clara Chong
Milton
Wei Shan
Keziah
Kyle
Ernest

Total - 20

Since there is no reply slip, i am expecting you to be present for this rehearsal. There are 39 students who had passed me their slips and thus i will be booking 1 bus for 41 only. The other 20 students you will make your way down to the Esplanade theatre yourselves. We will be taking your attendance at 6pm at the Esplanade.

If you're absent for the SSO Rehearsal, you will get ZERO for Friday's attendance. You will need to get a MC to submit to me.

If i do not receive your MC, your parents will be called and detention will be given.

The teachers are very frustrated that we have to go through such trouble to get you to submit forms. This is NOT the first time that we have so many students not submitting forms in time even though ample time was given. We will take disciplinary actions from now onwards.

Mr EK.