It's over...

It's over. It really is. After 3 or 4 months of intensive training, it just left. From a big event to a small portion of my memories. The Chingay 2006 event is over. The event where we perfomed at was the last...in the whole of Singapore for the rest of the year. Nope, the colourful floats won't be back till another 365 days or so.
Now, allow me to take you back to 50 hours ago, when it was the final moments of the largest contingent of dragons in Asia's grandest street parade. Basically, as ia would be a long wait, we had the comfort of waiting in the ai-conditioned hall for an hour. That brings us down to 49 hours. A few hours back, I saw the first few groups of friends who had crowd control duty. Ypu see, the performing grounds was close to the school, and most of our classmates lived close to that area too. So, it was about 30 minutes later when the first "plainclothes" classmate appeared. Now, back to the hall 30 minutes later... there, I met another 5 more "plainclothes" classmates. Who were the six I met... they should know.We even practised and revised for the coming Math test on Monday...that's tomorrow, with one of our teachers.

It was just so accurate. We were performing right in front of the minister and the principal. So afterthe next half an hour of performing, it was all over. The whole thing just got so much smaller. It is now just part of my memories. However, the good thing was that, for the second and last time for Chingay 2006, we got so much closer to the floats, i think there were 14 if i was not wrong. A driver even gave me a bottle of mineral water... Well, at least help came... no water for the last two hours...(actually I refused to drink the bottles teachers gave, I had to perform... no hands for anything else). Another ten minutes gone...it was 10.54 Pm. The costumes have been returned(99.9%), that is. There was this small ribbon that did not require me to return to the instructors... in case you do not know who, those very skilled people(seriously) who stood on the black, tilting platform the whole time we were performing. I feel the whole credit should go to them, not us on the ground. If not for them, the other 33 groups of 10 would not know anthing at all. So from now on, even if there is a new CCA staring soon in its name, I won't be joining. There just isn't any time to squeeze into my tight schedule anymore. So from now on, I have no intention of even performing(except for crwod control duty) along Orcard Road, or worse, Corporation drive for the next 10 or so years... the wait to perform as the finale item is just getting more and more unbearable... since they had added in more performances for the Taman Jurong event than the one at Orchard Road event. So, from now on, there is so much more time after Chingay, for me to go back to those days where I could study and play more, and also, spend more time with my family at home, watching the programme live from Tv, instead of performing live on the spot... It could get very tiring, but it's good to enjoy performing for the large crowd once in a while, but not all the time...