Last Saturday, 7 July 2007, was a very special day. Not just the digit from the date is tripple 07, it was our SSA 070707 Commemerative Performance at Singapore Indoor Stadium (SIS).
The evening before the actual day, we had our technical run -through at the SIS. We were told to gather at 7pm. I took half day leave so that I can reach on time. As I do not know the travelling time, I went out like around 2 hours plus and in the end I reached the SIS at around 6.15pm when I walked around Kallang MRT Station to search for bus-stop with bus 11.
The technical run-through was delayed and so we only finished at 10+pm. It was so tiring. My dad wasn't coming over to fetch me so I followed Elvee. Her friend, Maggie's boyfriend send us back home. By the time we reached home, it was already around 12am.
At first we were told to gather on the actual day at 10.30pm. Subsequently, were informed to be 10am and in the end, 9.15am.
Earlier that morning, when I woke up, it was drizzling. Not a good start, especially when we had to wear stocking from home. In the end, Elvee called and asked if want to take cab there with Mag. So eventually, we took cab there.
Once there, we had our short run through then we went back to our holding area. Our runner always got wrong information since the technical run-through the night before so we were always called to go out way to early. So most of the time, we had to run back to our holding area again. Every rooms (holding area) were guarded by a few uncles (Soka Knights). Our uncles are so nice. They would clap and cheer us when we went out for run-through and actual show and when we came back. Oh ya, they even gives us 'high five'. Cool right? LOL.
They would open the door for us also. They even went to search for a fan when we complaint that there seemed to be no air con (actually i believe it's due to we keep doing some warm-up exercises). They are so nice. They also carried waters, foods for us.
We had 2 rehearsals that day before the actual show in the evening. The first rehearsal was still quite on time. But the second rehearsal was pretty delayed.
Both rehearsals, we did not do well, we kept doing the same old mistakes. We were pretty worried as there is no way to redo the whole show. Somemore the music, the song were all lived. So we must be able to feel for each other.
The gates were opened at around 6.15pm. There is some performance at that time for those who came early. The actual show started at around 7.30pm. There are some prize presentations (not quite 'some', it's about 70+). Our 1st item is the 2nd item to start the show. Yet we got delayed. Very long delayed. Till we were all very tired.
During this time, we get our chief, section I/Cs to entertain us. They want to make Gina sang along, yet in the end, the keep dragging till kind of all of us sang. BUt it was fun. We cheer, we laugh, we sang. But soon all these came to a stop. And so we were back to our drained out mood.
We chanted together when we had time before our actual show and and off we went, the performance seemed to go smoothly. So happy!!! We got 2 performance, 1st to the music, 'The Flower Duet' and the 2nd to the music, 'Nella Fantasia'. Both went on well. We were indeed very happy. After the Finale, as we went back to our holding area, right before we reach the door, we all thank the uncles.
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