Hello.
There will be sectional practice on this coming Monday, 26.o7 at 3.30pm.
SLs are to confirm the practice timing with your respective instructors.
CO Practice will only step down after Monday's sectional practice
till the last day of our mastery reviews on Friday, 13.o8.
Also, CO will resume on 13.o8 as per normal.
Study hard & Good Luck for all. ;DD

CHEERS,
Benjamin.

Hi all, i'm repeating this in case any of you missed it.

This friday, all who are not going for the 'BOOM' play by our school's english drama are expected to turn up for practice. Please be seated and have your instruments tuned by 3pm sharp. As for those going for the play, you are still expected to turn up for practice and are only allowed to leave AFTER 4.15pm. Thanks!:)

Ban Xu:D

Farewell dinner 16/07/10

On behalf of the Sec 4's,

Thanks for the

mini-farewell dinner. (:

Hello.
There will be sectional practice tomorrow at 3.15pm and please be punctual.
If you're unwell and unable to attend for practice, a MC should be given to your SL the following day.
As we will be conducting the re-photograph shoot for our concert booklet tomorrow, everyone should be in their school uniform during the photo shoot.
For SLs, please find 3 suitable places around the school compound to have your group photo taken tomorrow by us.
Thanks.

Homecoming preparations

Homecoming 2010

Hello!!!
As we all know, this year's homecoming took place just yesterday, and it has been another fruitful homecoming for CHSCO. Thanks to all who donated, and put in effort to help out.

And so... the total amount we collected this year is $1254.60 (yay!). The 60 cents kindly donated by our generous Assistant-Secretary, Gibson.

Thanks again to all for chipping in, and let us now turn our focus on our upcoming concert.

Jiayou!!!

Ivan :)

- EXCOs 10/11

Hellos.
The Excos 10/11 were announced yesterday,
and they are :

President
Joshua Tay

Vice President
Benjamin Chua

Secretary
Ling Ban Xu

Assistant Secretary
Gibson Law

Quarter Master
Ivan Yang
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Section Leaders are :

弹拨乐SL
Ng Hao En

弦乐SL
Wilson Lee

弦乐ASL
Chan Ruo Wei & Darren Tan

笛子SL
Nicholas Tan

笙/唢呐SL
Ming Zhou

Cello / Bass SL
Shawn Lee

打击乐SL
Zhang Hao
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A few announcements :

Firstly,
There will be no sectionals on Monday, 5/7/10 due to Youth Day Holiday.
Thus, combine practice resumes on Wednesday, 7/7/10 from 3.30 - 5.00 .

Secondly,
We would like all CO members to donate $5 min. for the cost of the drinks that we will be selling for Homecoming on the next coming Saturday, 10/7/10.
Although it is optional, we hope that all of you can participate actively as we the profits earned on Homecoming will go directly into our CO Fund which will be used for activities such as our annual camp. Remember to sms the amount you are contributing to Joshua, Benjamin or Ban Xu and pass the exact amount to us during this Wednesday's practice.

Lastly,
If you are unwell and missed practice, please pass your MC to Ban Xu / Gibson.
Excuses such as tuition, project, etc. are not accepted.
If you have any extra lessons, tests or retests, please inform your SL/ASL beforehand.
You are expected to turn up for practice after your extra lessons, tests or retests.

CHEERS(:
Benjamin .

dear chsco

this is your secretary, martin. this post is just to serve as a reminder that our bi-annual concert has been postponed to the end of the year (around November) because of many factors. however this does not mean you all can take a break. within the next half a year, the sec 4s will have already 'stepped down' so now its up to the sec 3s to take the lead and ensure that we are fully prepared for our concert. i believe everyone wants to end the year with a bang right? so hopefully, we would still stay strong and practise hard for the upcoming concert. go chsco! we can do it! :D

Hello guys! :D

Hello everyone again! :D

For those who do not know who am I,

I am XuanMing, Secretary from batch '09!

You can ask your green, blue and red badge seniors if you dunno who I am haha.

I know this blog is kind of dead so here I am TRYING to revive it LOL.

Anyway, concert's approaching so please work hard k!

I know it will be very tiring for the next month, with practices and schoolwork.

But when the going gets tough, the tough gets going ok! :D

JIAYOU I'M SURE YOU GUYS CAN DO IT! :D

I'm sure your Sec 4 leaders are very stressed about this too.

Lend them a helping hand if you can alright? (:

It is not an easy task to run a CO, so try to help them in as many ways as you can.

Yupp!

Just wan to say something too.

For the Sec 4s,

you guys are approaching the end of your term.

It's been a tiring journey, but nevertheless I hope that it has been a fun and enriching one too.

Hope we played a crucial part in your 4-year journey in CHSCO! :D

You guys have been fantastic juniors and I personally enjoyed working with everyone of you (:

As seniors, I'm sure you have made a certain level of impact too yeah!

End the concert well, lead the CO to greater heights in this final month!

You guys have done a fantastic job and the batch of '08-'09 is very proud of you all ^^

Well done guys! The effort put in has been extraordinary and I am sure your fellow members can see it too!

All the best for O levels alright! :D

PRESS ON!!!

I'm sure the concert will end well!

We'll be watching...! (: Haha.

For the current Sec 3 batch (If you are reading this),

it is about time for you to take up leadership positions already.

The route is never easy, be it SYF or concert.

To me, both are equally important.

I was fortunate to be part of a team which worked hard together and put our differences aside to achieve our target of Gold-with-Honours last year.

There comes a time when we have to heed a certain call.

For those who didnt notice, last Thursday (22 May) was the one-year anniversary of the day we successfully defended our GwH.

As part of a team who was involved in SYF,

I have to say that it will be a tough journey ahead.

Guarantee plus chop.

However, instead of fearing, we hope that you guys will be able to step up to the challenge and do your best to attain it again alright! (:

No stress there, but I think it's a tradition to speak to you all about it before the SYF batch takes over.

So at the meantime, focus on your concert, do it for yourself, do it for CHSCO and let's do it for Catholic High School Aesthetics! :D

I'm confident that you guys will be able to showcase to us what CHSCO has achieved in her short 10-Year history.

CHSCO RULES ALRIGHT! :D

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE! :D

See you guys on 23rd May!!! :D

With best wishes and regards,

XuanMing, Secretary of Batch '09! (:

P.S. Music is the strongest living magic in this world. Believe me! ;-)

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Hellos.
For those who aren't aware, the CHSCO performance attire comprises of:
1. Blazer (Made by tailor, paid by school)
2. Pants (Made by tailor, pay yourself, around $20+, PRICE TO BE COMFIRMED)
3. Long-sleeve collar white shirt (Please buy this yourself.)
4. Black leather shoes and black socks. (Please buy these yourself.)

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Also.
The prices for the tickets of our concert have been comfirmed.
$10 and $15.
Each member has to sell AT LEAST 10 tickets.
Let's try to start selling the tickets early kayys? Then hopefully we can get a fullhouse or something. HOPEFULLY.

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Next.
We only have 48 days to our concert. D:
Please reflect on our stage of preperation.
If we don't buck up now, it'll be a One Way route to depression, embarrassment...
How would you be able to life your heads high as a CO member after this?

Time to wake up people.

If you do care, and count, we only have 10 practices for Da Zu left.

Time's running out.

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And there will be a duty roster starting from Wednesday da zu.

I know it seems a little late to implement this.

But each baby step we're taking is to bring us closer to our goal, yeah?

Current plan: The duty roster will go in rotation between 3 groups :

1. TAN BO

2. ERHU

3. guanyue + daji + cello bass

Things you could do to improve on our CO room's cleaniness :
1. Please throw your litter away into the dustbin outside CO room.

2. Please do not bring any food or flavoured drinks into the CO room.

3. Please (especially erhu) place your instruments neatly when you pack your instruments into the storeroom.

4. Please keep your scores properly at designated places if you wish to leave it in school. Although bringing it home would be ideal. You can still practice the song mentally in your head, and take the chance to memorise the score.

5. Pack the chairs back after every practice to make it a better environment for everyone, and bring about convenience for the group that is cleaning the CO room.

6. Groups on duty can sweep the floor (2 brooms available), pick up litter, arrange the furniture in the CO room, etc.

Do your part for CO, even though it may seem insignificant.

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After the concert, it means that the Sec4s can finally step down.

It also means the new EXCOs and SLs from the current Sec3 batch will take over on the day of our concert.

Thus there will be a voting exercise that would take place on Friday before or after dazu.

Please think through who you would like to vote for for the 5 exco positions : President, Vice President, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Quarter Master.

Vote based on the person's capabilities, don't vote for him just because he's your friend.

More details will be given on the day of the voting.

I don't think I'm making any sense now already.

In short, time is running out, so start practicing hard now, kay?

CONCERT!

23rd MAY 2010 CONCERT!!! 

Happy Chinese New Year

And today marks the end of term 1's MR and Prelim.
Happy Chinese New Year to all (:

Do have fun, but please remember that practice resumes on Monday, 22nd February.

Also, please take note that there may be a CO Secondary One Orientation held on a Friday, 19th February. To be comfirmed.

Ah yes, remember to practice too (:

歇斯底里 is actually derived from an english word : Hysteria. LOL.

2010 CCA Roadshow

Happy New Year everyone (:

We will be having our 2010 CCA Roadshow Performance for the secondary ones on 7th January, Thursday.
We will be excused from lessons at 11.10am to move the instruments to the Auditorium for the performance at 12pm.

Details to be comfirmed during Wednesday's Da Zu practice.

Cheers. (:

CO Camp stuff

Hi guys.

Xuanming here...

This one basically goes out to the Sec 4s...

From what I heard, CO Camp will be held from 19-21 Nov.

And on day 1, there will be an outdoor programme for sec sch ppl...

So yeah, there are 3 choices.

Archery, Lazer Quest(=DDD LOL) and Inline Skating.

Archery and Inline Skating will be held in school while Lazer Quest will be held at Sembawang.

Umm. Sec 4s who are interested please contact me or Jason by tmrw (Monday)

School will sponsor half the cost.

So this means that Lazer Quest will cost $12.50, Inline skating $4 and Archery's cost will depend on the number of ppl going.

Current and past SLs pls help spread this too ASAP... Thanks! =D

So far only 5 ppl have responded, and 4 are going.

Please help spread this msg!

And sec 3s, all the best for your O level Chinese! =)

Thanks guys!!! :D

Xuan Ming signing off...