Blog Entry From AJCO 14th Batch President

Taken from Tan Hwee Yee's (AJCO President of 14th Batch):

Blog Address (http://tanhweeyee.livejournal.com/40749.html)

so it was my acjo teacher-in-charge's （陈老师）retirement dinner on friday. he will be leaving the school after 20+ years in education and 14 years in ACJO. it was an evening of gratitude and a walk down memory lane.

ajco was a 'chance eca' for myself. i had no CO background knowledge and my interest in classical chinese music was limited to the occassional hongkong serials with a catchy tune.

I applied for 2 other ecas, but by some strange twist of events, i ended up in ajco and devoted much of my time and energy in it. thinking back, ajco could easily account to be a place where i spent most of my jc years in. the 华乐室 was like a hideaway. the comm would practice, eat, nap, play and copy homework in there. i remember i would open up the music room with my illegal pair of keys (sort of like a 'heirloom' from one batch to the next) for CO people to gather before school starts every morning.

its a pity the old music room has been converted to a lab and the new 华乐室 seems to just lack the warm comfort (and the loose ceiling panes, leakages, insects etc) of the old room.

so, the old fogies like us (the current batch is 10 yrs younger!!) were just talking about old times on friday....like how the ex-comm would go back on saturdays from 10am for the jc1 practices and stay through to 10pm after our concert prac (suprisingly, no one really complained...=p) , the long, boliao and often laugh until can flip meetings,the used to be jubliee foodcourt's tomyam 版面was our staple for saturday lunches, the '天书' where we wrote all the CO bitching (and how our conductor went red after he read the very 1st entry and complaint of him, by ME....), how we went to the other jcs and sec schools to sell our concert tickets,how the ex-comm went all out to convince and '骗' juniors to join CO, our lack of 音准 and 节拍, the 几只小猫 attendence during practices, how we felt a sense of emptiness after the concert, creating the first alumni newsletter 心玄in wenyin's amk living room and of cos, THE concert at the '老人剧场' kreta ayer theatre in chinatown.....

it had been a fun 2 years. even though our level of participation may have dwindled, we do hope that ajco will continue to be the playful and energetic group as it had been 10 years ago.

cheers.

After reading your blog, I really miss the old times we had in the old, stinky, torn down CO room. Sob Sob Sob...

Anyway, "Love is STILL in the making"... I need more photos from those couples from CO... =p Haha

Zhiliang