SAT fever

Predilection = natural tendency.
Exculpate = exonerate.
Enervate = weaken.
Apocryphal = fallacious or esoteric.
Hackneyed = commonplace = trite.

"Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation." - Norman R. Augustine.

Amen, Lord. Amen.

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Listening to the choir alumni sing today in the afternoon just reminded me of why I am here in the choir in the first place. Not because I need the leadership position, not because I need something to extend my pathetic CV, not because I have nothing else better to do (trust me, that is so not true.), but because simply, I love singing. I enjoy making music with other people. And it's quite disheartening to know that people around me don't seem to appreciate how difficult it is to achieve a good sound, how beautiful choral music can be at times. Even my mum banalises choral music. Sheesh. What more have I got to say? Then again, amongst like-minded people in the AVT today, enjoying the extremely good sound and very musical performance by the alumni, I knew that was it. I still enjoy singing. But what happened to all that burning excitement at the start of J1? I wish I knew. For now, I'm just going to work on getting that rich bass sound - like that bass solo guy. Oh man, his voice just fills the room and he makes it look so easy! Almost effortless. What an irony.

Singing is much more difficult than what other people think. It's not like playing an instrument. You don't just practise and somehow "get it". Just look at me. Flippin' poignant example of a person who hasn't "got it" even after close to 6 years of singing. BAH. I rest my case.

My new spectacles rock. Yep, they absolutely do. *nods*

Off to finish off my book.