Yeah ok I know that's a pretty cheesy quote, but hell after sleeping at 3 last night and waking up at 9 to post this post today, courtesy of someone's msg, its the best I could think of, and it really sort of summed up the spirit of RVCO now..yeah..and it was really what Huang laoshi msged us alumni yesterday..so yeah. Ok so on to zhiyin yesterday. While I would like to give you a bit by bit review of each song and each part of the performance, the sheer technicalities of that would proabably bore all of you out, so I'll just focus on some of the important parts in RVCO's important day yesterday.

Went to S.C.H at 730 early in the morning, met up with Bena to re-discuss the stage plans and brief the helpers. Bought Allswell for both of us. It was going to be a long long day ahead. The helpers soon arrived and we managed to brief them and lag around for a little while before the buses and lorries came. Then it was unloading time and off to rehearsal. Rehearsal was good, considering all of us were nervous and cold and excited and high strung. The backstage was too slow, which was why we had training after the rehearsal, but overall rehearsal was a bit clunky..which is after all why they call it a rehearsal. Then after lunch at the balcony (as usual) it was showtime. The matinee show. While the performers put on their makeup (yeah even guys) the backstage got the stage ready.

Matinee was ok..for matinee standards. Of course everyone was nervous and a bit high strung, which is why I guess we didn't play to our best..but hey, its a 10 dollar ticket. Yeah so we just did the best we could and I thought it was pretty ok of course..but nothing compared to what we could do at our full of course. After that the excited squealing juniors went out to meet their equally excited friends for..er more excitement and squealing? Yeah while me and Bena and Enqi tried to control the situation. Ended up talking with dingding, our control room i/c, in the concert hall. Then it was dinner time, and night show time. Oh yeah!

Night Show was really good, I could see the orchestra improved alot alot, probably cause it was full house and alot of alumni had come to watch them. Can't believe my beloved CAB sat in the first row. The moment I ran out to clear chairs I got cheered.LOL. CAB will be CAB FOERVER! Yep ok I thought the backstage was faster this time, and we had a greater sense of urgency. And ok the night show was good. Dian Chi sounded fine, Huang He was good and Long Shang and Wuti were very sufficiently expressed. The seniors and I were cheering at the back while the orchestra played wuti. It is sort of deja vu after all. After 7 years, RVCO has returned to S.C.H. For our 1st zhiyin, we played wuti, and here we are, playing wuti again. I personally noticed something..that each batch's wuti performance is different in style and flavour...I guess its a RVCO thing, but yeah this batch's wuti certainly had their own style, which was good I guess.

Then came our encore, and we quickly loaded our stuff back, and made our way to the bus. While everyone was tired, we did our best to sing some songs..until I saw what I thought were some leftover "good buddies" outside RV..which I shall not elaborate on. Ok so bottomline we packed the CO instrus back to the CO room, and then me, jiawei, jacelyn, kennard, weiren, jeremy, melvin, davy, cheahjing, youwei, and a suona guy went for supper at JE macs. Was damn tired but we managed to talk cock for a while before cabbing home.

Ok so all in all, Zhiyin IV was good, it really lived up to the reputation of Zhiyin. RVCO played as one, bonded together and really showed the world our stuff. For me, well I got to play with the Walkie-Talkie along with some other stuff that made me happy I guess. LOL only a few will know what I'm talking about here, but yeah. HAHA so Zhiyin IV. A performance to remember and glorify. Before the performance I said, "RVCO! PREPARE FOR GLORY!" Now I say, "Congrats RVCO. GLORY has been earned."