I am going to write down every single thing that happened today during speech day. Brace yourself for a very, very long post.

Anyway, my day started of with a seriously retarded dream I had. I was staying awake the whole night, nervous about the next day’s performance, and did not sleep properly, then when I woke up, I glanced at the clock and I realized that I had overslept and was like super-duper late. Jumped out of the bed and then like ran to school in my pajamas.(Yes, I Know how crazy it is that somebody runs 8km in their pajamas.) Then, I reached like a minute before we were supposed to go on stage, and then like ran out of the curtain onto the stage. Mysteriously, I was no longer in my pajamas but in my costume. Then the dance started and halfway through, while dancing, I fell asleep coz I was so sleepy, and then when I woke up, I was in my bedroom.

It was only 7.00. nothing in my dream was actually true. But, my dream felt so real, you know, sometimes when I am nervous about something big is going to happen the next day, (e.g. . PSLE, performance or exam) when I sleep, I have these seriously ridiculous dreams, which feel very real.

Then, I got ready to go to school, and my dad dropped me. We were supposed to reach the dance room at 8.30, because we were not sure whether there was going to be any back-up rehearsal. It turns out that there was not any. So, we were like 4 hours early. Anyway, we practiced a bit more, and tried to synchro our steps. Meanwhile, we got to see the men put up all the decorations. Especially the helium balloons! They were very beautiful. The men put up all the decorations super-fast and actually finished putting up near a hundred and fifty balloons(I think, my estimation is very bad.) in around 45 minutes.

We were like fooling around in the dance room, doing all the stupid things, and practicing at random. Then, we went to put on our costumes. After that, Angela came! She was actually backstage, checking all the instruments for the Chinese Orchestra. She came into the dance room and just wiled away time with us. You know, she told me that the CO members left their music sheets in the hall with their instruments and in the morning, half the music sheets were gone. So sad, wonder what they did.

Then, soon after, all the students assembled in the hall, and the noise level began creeping up and up as more and more people filled the hall. Along with the noise level, even my heart rate began going up. I was like feeling very nervous you know.

Then, too soon for my liking, the time for us to go onstage came! Since our dance was the opening performance, we stood at the side of the stage, listening to the MC’s welcome the guest of honour, and then they began talking about our dance, telling us things about the dance that even we did not know. Stuff like that the dance was supposed to show the struggles of life, portraying perseverance, fighting spirit…blah, blah, blah.

After they stopped crapping about our dance, we ran into the stage to take our starting positions. My heart was beating even faster and I was trembling like crazy. So, at the starting part, I was like very nervous, not smiling etc. But, after a while I realized that this was just like any normal rehearsal. I was feeling very nervous for no reason. I was not really looking at the audience, so I had no reason to be scared of anything. So, I suddenly was not nervous any more and just tried to dance as well as I could. I did not majorly screw up any part, I guess. I think it went quite well. But, since I did not see the dance myself, I cannot assume anything.

After the dance was over, the feeling was just indescribable. It was not a really tangible feeling. It was just sub conscious feeling. And I felt like something was bubbling out of my heart. (Yes, I know it sounds all weird.) It was every possible feeling mixed together, relief, anxiety, happiness, sadness, frustration, excitement etc, etc, etc.

Then, after the last bow, we made our way offstage, and like practically ran to the dance room. Once in the dance room, we were jumping up and down and were muttering stuff like,’ It is over, It is over! Only SYF left!’ Then, Dong laoshi came into the room and we were asking her questions like,”How was the performance? Was the lift okay?...yadayadayada.” Then, we were saying stuff like “Somebody stepped on my cloth! My cloth was stuck! I tripped on my cloth!” (oh and umm, Aisha, sorry, I think I was the one who stepped on your cloth.)

After that was the usual post-performance stuff lah, taking out make-up, releasing hair from the bun, changing costume, taking out eye contacts. Haha, you know, I counted that I had put 16 hair pins in my hair! At least not as bad as Gaya who had stuck 27 hair pins in her hair. (Did I mention that my bun was like super huge?)

After all these stuff, we went to eat at the canteen. After that, we went to the theatratte(sp?) to watch the live feed of the performance. Only got to watch the CO and the choir performances. (I saw you on video, Angela!)

Then, went to buy mango madness, while all the students were released. Just stood there chatting with classmates. Then, I went to watch the exhibition. It was quite ok, lah. The, me, Angela, Kelvin and Justin went into the library for the dinner held for the award recipients. Sorry, correction, me and Kelvin sneaked into the library for the dinner held for award recipients, like Kelvin and Angela. Lol. Enjoyed the air-con and just chatted a bit more, slacking and dilly-dallying, wasting time.

After that, went home, and was wondering how nice it would be if I had a Time-out to eat, then opened the freezer door, and lo and behold! There was a fresh, unopened, new packet of time-out! Lol! Wish comes true. Then, sat down at the computer and wrote this upper-duper longt post

Ta Da!