Musical!

The Year 4 music students held their musical in the auditorium yesterday. Apparently Berton was not feeling too well but he still attended it.

Their plot was based on the movie 'mindhunters', where people on an island get killed one by one by a murderer amongst them.

Their speeches and singing were a bit soft compared to my class' musical, but that was probably due to the distance between stage and audience. The singing was quite good; although technically, some of their singing were bad, I could tell that they sang with feeling which makes it - unboring.

To me, their mistakes made were quite minor. For example:

A: Oh you see there are 8 soldiers left! Ahh!! *points at 10 soldiers*

B: You are right!

*Lights dim, people clear the stage*

A whispers: There are still 10 soldiers!

B: Oh yea.

The ending where all the spirits of the victims gathered was quite comical. They kept on making eerie noises like some kasper the friendly ghost. lol.

Compared to my class' musical production, theirs' was really good. At least the music could make me forget about what happens outside that auditorium.

As for our musical...It is plotless, yet there is no synopsis. There is no discipline among team members, people just remove scenes when they forget to come out, or dialogs. And what about the flexibility? When I forgot one of my lines (and my only line) in a song, we did not have to skip the final verse, and instead just treat the piano part as a solo and wait until it ends, then we come in. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, the piano ALMOST stopped until it realised we were not going to omit the last verse.

Over here, I think flexibility is not the direct opposite of discipline. Discipline is following and sticking to what we want of the scenes, while flexibility is following the flow to redirect the diverting situation back to how we want it to be. And I then wouldn't have to walk around the stage in a car with no one coming out to start the conversation like a person who do not know what he is supposed to do!

Our team is stuck in the middle of two extremes. So many wants to lead, yet so many wants to follow. Many people shout for attention, and directing different movements which result in slight conflicts; on the other hand others do not even trust their own judgement and have to ask even the slightest thing like "Where do I stand?"

All in all, the year 4's musical might not have had the professionalism or skill, but it could create an atmosphere, one that made me forget about some unpleasant things.

Now that the exams are around the corner, I have less things to look forward to in school everyday, and with friendship problems, depression starts to creep in, slowly yet surely...