SYF is over today! Yay! Finally some free time. Will miss all the nice SYF moments. During all the training sessions i grew really close to all my friends. So, the performance, well.... tell you the truth.... nevermind, i will just start the whole story from the beggining.

*clears throat*

So, anyway, we were supposed to be in the dance room by 7.00 am, 15 april, wednesday. Well.. 6.30 actually. For those who live near enough, 6.30, but for those who live somewhere far far away, somewhere like tampines or something, 7.00. But anyway, since i was a very poor thing who had fever, i reached school at 7.00. Actually, I left home at 6.53(my dad dropped me so it was ok.)

Then when we reached the dance room, we began putting on all the make-up and blah blah blah. While we were putting eye shadow, mascara etc, we could here the rest of the school singing the national anthem. Apparently, for ACE they were having level bonding session. A mass game of chop chilli chop or something. Anyways, I was putting on my contacts lenses hastily so i could claim the toilet cubicle before someone else took over my territory. It was a very epic thing. Since i was in such a hurry, I did not even wash my hands before putting them on. First, i put on my right contacts, then my left one. then i got up and began walking all around the danceroom, picking my things which were strewn all over the place. meanwhile, my eyes were constantly tearing. Then all of a sudden, i realised that i could not see clearly! My right contact lense had dropped out of my eye! Aaargh! so i began a wild goose chase to search for. it. luckily, i found it just before somebody was about to step on it. after i put on my right one, 8i realised that my left one had dropped off tooo! anyway, i found it and wore it happily ever after.

After we were ready, we went to the concourse to run through the dance one more time. We practiced many times and were sweating ike xiao. Then when we were looking all unglam with those sweaty face, smudged make-up and all, this man comes and starts taking photoes of us. Unglam, Unglam. Worse still, that was the time when ACE got over and some of my classmates were in the concourse and actually saw me. I wonder how funny i looked. Then, we went to dry ourselves, using tissue and all.

Finally, the bus came and we rode till UCC. Till now, i had not felt anything. But then, suddenly, i began feeling nervous and all. i remembered all the super pro SYF performance videos we had seen of the other schools. Then, i compared it with our school's performance and i was like, oh no! Why did i think that we could get a gold. now it seemed like almost impossible.

This feeling worsened, when we got to the venue. For one thing, the first thing we saw was that all the other participating schools had absolutely BEAUTIFUL and stunning and striking costumes. i looked at their costumes, then looked at ours and it was like, ours was super simple costume, just a top and a bottom. Also, their make up was Gorgeous. all their hair was also tied up neatly. our make-up was minimal, and our hair was just tied up in buns. We also had the smallest team of 13 people.

Looking at the level of competition, i sort of lost hope of ever getting a Gold and decided that we must try our best to get a silver. Our dance should be good enough for a silver, even if our costume and etc is not good enough. Since we were the first performance of the day, we sat in the holding area, and began doing light warm-ups and stretches and touched up on our make up. then, at 9.35, some people came up to us and led us up till the stage. we waited at the sides of the stage, waiting for the judges to arrive so we could perform.

At 10, the judges arrived. So we stood and got ready while the announcer was announcing something. I was praying that everything will go on fine and no mistake will happen. So, the judges then took their seats, everything was ready and the lady backstage told us," girls, you may take your positions now."

So, that was it. we performed. At first i was not so nervous, then as i was doing my third step, then i saw one of the judges write down something. Then, i immediately got all scared wondering what she wrote. so i paid more attention to all my steps. But, i just gotmore nervous and more nervous. I stumbled in one or two parts. So, it was basically just screwed-up. I was just super disappointed in the way i danced. Because, according to me, i did not think I did well.

But after the performance, we met wang lao shi. she said that we did quite well, the best so far but still, i am not happy with how we danced. Then, when we asked ms dong how we did, she just shrugged and said, you guys did your best that is more than enough for me. This depressed me like crazy. I was emo-ing and was saying things like oh, i screwed that part up, i screwed thhis part up. blah blah blah. (Sorry Nar, Gaya and Aisha I was really being a wet blanket at that time. Sorry for being so stupid)

After our performance, we went to watch the other school's performance. At this, i just got all the more depressed. They did just so darn well. They pwned us like anything. Seeing their perfrmance, i was like oh no! if this is the standad, How well will we do? I immediately lowered down my expectation to a bronze.

So, actually the dance was not a very well done dance. I think it was 100% not the 110% that was expected. Hopefully, we will get a bronze award.