12:30 PM
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Went and watched the christmas concert yesterday. a good mix of humour and stirring emotions, the performers were good singers and performers in their own rights. But it really reminded me that (1) i have not sang in a choir in a very long time (and i miss that terribly because choir in JC was like a sub-family that i had) (2) I have not had a real christmas for a long time. It has become just another public holiday. (3) I really miss some people. So when John Lee sang Come Home, and added geylang sipaku geylang inside, it went straight to my heart and I teared. the line "pulang marilah pulang, marilah pulang bersama sama" translated to the effect of come back, come back together. So yeah...
It was real touching to see Tan Kheng Hua singing with her daughter, Swee Lin came to sing with Kay Siu, and all the people on stage resembles a family that was brought together by their love of performing, with the common purpose of spreading the love and spirit of christmas. Of course there was the funny parts like Hossan's talking about chinese people and how they eat anything that moves, or having to eat frog's legs before sports day and pig's brain before examinations. it's remembering the traditional ways with a spot of humour; Pam with her disturbed rock chick who was traumatised when she saw mummy kissing santa claus when she was 9 and further traumtised when she saw daddy kissing santa claus when she was 14. Sebastian did a ge-tai/hokkien-ish version of Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer, telling the story of "pui kia" aka santa claus. That was totally hilarious. Then we have Selena telling the Christmas Story using musical songs we are familiar with. All in all, good fun and laughter with a reminder what Christmas is all about.
