Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Bodhi Night - as a choir member

participated in the Bodhi Nite on 30 Aug 2008
Last year i was the receptionist, this year i was the choir member. it was kinda last minute tho.
*i m never an active member of unibuds* _*
didn't manage to go for weekly practices so i sorta memorised the songs before hand on my own.
and juz went for the rehearsal on the performance day itself. sang 3 songs in total..
i surprise myself by memorising the Sutra song " Jaya Manggala "
which consists of strings of malay sounding words which i don't comprehend till i read the explanation in English. it's hard to memorise songs when you don't understand it and the tune was repetitve with many small variations
funny thing was that when i was memorising it in Bankstown i can slowly turn horizontal with the song still looping in my earphone.

the day was action packed.
early in the morning i was still like a zombie from the late night last minute memorising
i continued memorising with my choir friends in the morning

in between rehearsals we goofed around
the programme master


after 2 rehearsals and 2 nice meals

Lunch
dinner

The vegetarian meals were superb

the moment finally arrived
check it out it's FULL HOUSE

First Song- Jaya Manggala(hi level of difficulty)

i never experienced stage fright till that night when we sang our first song-Jaya Manggala.
i seriously SHIVERed - you can fill the chill down my spine. In my mind i was like " oh shit, are the audiences goin to see that >_< check out the outta the world lyrics on the screen!!!! and it's a 8 min song

in btw the 1st song, the reverend came up to bath the buddha statue

2nd song-Karma

our Last song is the Unibud songof course they have the sketch and many other musical performances

Emcees of the night ( Bilingual presentation)
the quartet

the fortune teller

the retarded brother

kungfu master


check out the apple tree man....i can't imagine this is still being done nowadays. so primitive:D
the finale - unibuds birthday cake

in the process i made many new friends as well as hang out with old friends
the badminton people
and then the bodhi night was concluded. Kudos to the committee and all those who contributed

the food people

the receptionists

the backstage
the archivists

the committee



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