Yesterday we had the Paramount Championship for upper secondary. For those not in KDU, this is kinda like a interclass competition. The variety is very wide with stuff like culinary, debate, skit, singing, speech, band and dance.
Basically we had our preliminary rounds earlier this year and yesterday was the finals. Our class was lazy this year so joined very few events compared to last year. This year's finals was supposed to be more 'bergaya' cause we had an opening number where the solo singing finalists joined all their songs together. Then before intermission there was a dance performance. Also, we had external judges come in. Unfortunately, there were like 8 female judges and 2 male judges. May not sound like a big deal but this is something significant.
Everything went pretty well despite the fact that the emcee's weren't as good as they should be. For modern dance, 5A did really well. Their dance was very amusing. They had 3 blind mice and the chicken dance in it. Quite entertaining to watch. Singing events were okay, most people could roughly guess the results so no surprises there. Just before intermission, 5E did their winning skit. It was HILARIOUS. If I find a video of it I'll upload it for every to watch. Cause it's seriously funny. I've watched it four times already and I still laugh at it.
Band was after intermission so we band members were super nervous. Second band to go up. Played the song. Which I think we did pretty okay. I mean, we sounded not bad. Amanda even did her movements and Ch'n Wen & Anne did their movements also. Out of all the bands, I think only our singers had some dance-ish moves planned out. So when the results came out, we were to say the least dissapointed. I can honestly say we weren't that great but we definitely did not deserve the placing we got. Last if you must know. As Tricia later pointed out, she thinks that the judges were biased towards guys. And if you see the band events, the more girls a band had, the lower their ranking. We had 6 girls and got last. 5A had 2 girls and got 5th. 4G had 1 girl and got fourth. So the top three were all guy bands. To a certain extent this is all a coincidence but still don't think we deserved to be ranked as the worse. At least let us tie with another band. Not being sour grapes or anything here.
Kinda proud of the band as this is the first time we've ever been in a band. Much less the only all girl band in the history of Sri KDU. With a guitarist and bassist who don't really know what they're doing and a not very experienced drummer I think we did pretty well and had enough guts to do it in front of the whole school. Will post the video up so that you can be the judge of it.
Today was the lower sec's turn. They didn't have external judges and had 4 male judges and 3 female judges. I think the points were given out quite fairly. But there was at least two incidences where you could see a little unfairness in how some of the participants were treated. Something happened in duet singing and also mandarin solo singing.
Oohhh....forgot to mention an incident yesterday. For solo instrument piano, there was a contestant who did a difficult song technically. The song had absolutely no expression whatsoever. Halfway through the song the contestant stops. Not cause there was a mistake or anything. But the contestant stopped to BLINDFOLD himself/herself. Mistakes ensued and many students thought that the contestant so such a showoff. So you can obviously tell that this did not go well the judges and the marks were less than satisfying. Just so you know, the person's not from my class.
So for yesterday, my class managed to nab a bronze in group singing, english solo singing, duet singing and gold in solo instrument piano. So only BM solo singing and band didn't get anything.
Ballet concert in 2 days time!!!
5Mozart's All Girl Band.