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O Holy Night

Christmas Midnight: This was an impromptu arrangement of this beautiful carol, done but a day before Christmas Eve. Kudos to Aloy and Josh for being super brave to take this on, last minute. =)

Ding Dong Merrily On High

Christmas Midnight: Medley of the Year, 'Ding Dong Merrily on High' and 'Good King Wenceslas', graciously brought to you by Irene! =)

What Child Is This

Christmas Midnight: Joshua on the solo part, a haunting counter melody called...

O Come All Ye Faithful

Christmas Midnight: Very grand rendition of O Come All Ye Faithful.

All Man's Labour Can Produce

Christmas Midnight: Old skool offertory hymn, Clifford's favorite. This was supposed to be combined with another song, but there wasn't a need - wasn't as packed as it usually is during Christmas Midnight. =(

When A Child Is Born

Christmas Midnight: Yet another impromptu solo, this time, from Steffi. Irene on the emotional soliloquy, and Steffi again on the ending.

Hark The Herald Angels Sing

Christmas Midnight: Another grand rendition of this timeless classic. So nice to hear the whole congregation behind us!

Joy To The World

Christmas Midnight: Bringing Christmas Midnight 2009 to a joyous end!

Carolling 2009

Carolling 2009: Caroling with Jubilate on 12, 13, 19 & 20 Dec 2009. Madness, but in a nice way.

Happy 2008!!
Posted by Clifford @ 5:53 PM | Monday, December 31, 2007

Thanks Auggy and the spontaneous Yam family for the great party.
Your disco lights did wonders.
Club 72 rocks!

Let's do a countdown to 2009 monthly.

For an exclusive preview of the entire album, all photos have been sent via email.
Anyone else interested in the Video of the Night - get from me.
None of it will be published publicly in here. I promise.
(Cept' those sane few above)

More on X'mas thanksgiving (part 2!)
Posted by Clifford @ 9:20 AM | Thursday, December 27, 2007

hmm.. just felt that the previous entry was lacking one more person that needs mentioning.. and that person is of course none other than......

DAWN!! **CLAP CLAP**
when it comes to dedication and commitment, I believe that no one can ever come close to you. For all the tolerance and perseverance you've put into this choir, tirelessly conducting warm-ups for us, wanting to make us sing better; and to 'feel' the songs we are singing - making us sing softly, as well as loudly when we need to... you're a true leader and inspiration to the choir, and I don't think we could have sung as well at the houses or at midnite mass w/o your guidance. I'm really glad and thankful that Jubilate is lucky to have a choir mistress like you who is so musically talented & passionate towards this choir. The tune for the midnite mass psalm (a.k.a. Dawn's psalm) was really beautiful. And yes, no worries abt the Alleluia mistake. haha!

Special mention shld also go to the solo-ists - Zac, Yvette, Aloy, Masta, Randall & Andrea for their wonderful voices and effort put in. I still think that our version of 'The X'mas Song' beats any other version that I've heard HANDS DOWN. =) And then there's Auggy, our favourite drummer boy.. (pa rum pa pum pum)

And of coz, not to forget my fave group in choir - none other than the BASSes! You guys are wonderful man - Zac, Fonz, Andrew & Ritchie. even Brandon too. (glad you and Elise could join us for caroling this yr again.) juz love it when we're doing parts or hitting the low notes together. smth that Tenors can't do. HAH. Basses rock always. YEAH!!

Without a doubt, it has been one helluva X'mas experience for us this year, that 'feel good' feeling all-too-familiar when we come a-caroling, singing at midnite mass...

How in the world are we going to top this yr's X'mas next yr?!?!

More on X'mas thanksgiving..
Posted by Clifford @ 7:52 AM |

Housekeeping + Photos
Posted by Clifford @ 7:51 AM |

Hi all,

One more thing.

Thanks to all our hardwork, we managed to raise $1,500 for the Church over the past 3 days.

I know some of you have some expenses to claim as of date, so to those who took cabs after each last Caroling rounds, please pass me all your receipts by THIS Saturday. (Disclaimer: Only those living far from our end locations are allowed to claim. Far as in Tampines, Tanah Merah, Yio Chu Kang)

Till date, I only have transportation claims from Nick, my family and Ritche (who paid cab fare from Alexandra to home on 20 Dec)

Lastly, if you still havent paid $2.50 for your files and $2 for Santa hats. For the last time - please pay up by this Saturday to Andrea, if not inflation will definitely take place w.e.f. 29 Dec, 8pm

AND all the photos have been uploaded here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/83577952@N00/sets/72157603560778375/

Happy viewing.

Christmas Thanksgiving...
Posted by Clifford @ 7:48 PM | Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Hi all,

Just wanted to leave a note of thanks and appreciation to each and everyone of you for your dedication and commitment, your endurance towards my otherwise unpredictable mood swings, your voices whom I know at least 60% of us lost it by the end of Christmas mass. Thanks for your willingness to come for practices after practices doing the same thing over and over just so we can get it all perfect.

It's nice to see everyone bonding once again, in our 3 days of Caroling together. Our $210 spent on the bus charter was a gd investment after all. Hehe.

I hope you feel it as much as I did, that all the hardwork put in has been all worthwhile.

A few mentions here:

Clifford - For your endless nights of preparing beautiful music arrangements for us, perfecting your music chords and getting high on hitting every right key, right strum... Yes, you are extremely talented and we all couldn't be more proud to have you accompanying us once again for Caroling. Don't leave.

Daryl - Haven't apologized to you for my mistake made during the Celtic Alleluia and got you lost thanks to my confused expression. Ha. Glad you picked everything up nonethess and your Offertory hymn was beautiful. Thanks for your hardwork and willingness to support the choir with your music dedication all the time.

Andrea - It's nice seeing you big-sister-ing the new ppl in the Choir and watching you take charge. Thanks for easing an otherwise tension-filled practices by giving all the support you could ever give to our forever-stressed team. Hehe.

Andrew - For your efficient help in doing the slides for us, and changing most of them at the last minute.

Nick, Na & the Starbucks boys - You know what you all did and I sincerely thank you for making that difference.

Natalie, Yvette, Joshua, Aaron - Your presence has been a morale boost for us and I'm glad to see you enjoying yourself in the last 3 days of caroling. (I'm assuming you guys enjoyed it, right?) This is the Christmas high we get year after year and I'm glad that we are able to share this joy with all of you this year.

To everyone - I hope you're proud of yourself over what happened in the past week or so. All those uncles and aunties who have been watching us 'perform' Christmas after Christmas, all couldn't resist telling me they have never heard us doing this so well b4. We were good, now - we're even better.

Be proud, Jubilate!

Here's to Christmas and Caroling 2007 - CHHEEEEEEEEEEEERS!

Updates from 16 Dec Practice
Posted by Clifford @ 5:48 PM | Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Hi all,
Just a few reminders:

(1) Finale Song - It's Christmas Time Again
Appointed soloists - please ensure you memorize your respective verses and emote. We are suppposed to touch ppl's hearts with this song not sing like a robot.

(2) Santa's Hats
Andrea has purchased hats for us. Pls give her $2. Those who still owe money for anything, pls pay up by this Thursday. We are using our own money... Choir no money.

(3) Thurs' Caroling
We just got another invitation and we will be heading 2 homes this Thursday. One at Whampoa West, one at Mount Faber. FYI: The ex-choir mistress for this Choir invited us.
Rmbr to meet at 4.30pm. Don't be late. We got a lot to run through.

Dress code - RED

(4) Joy To The World
Cliff - Please type out lyrics to Joy to the World.

(5) Bus Charter
Transport for Sat and Sun has been booked and confirmed.

(6) Others
Those who missed out on practices on Sat and Sun - please catch up with your respecitve sections B4 4.30pm on Thursday. I DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR REVISIONS THIS THURSDAY.

(7) Orchard Christmas Chill
Pls meet at Far East Plaza bus stop at 7.30pm this Friday. We'll be meeting for dinner b4 heading off to the streets for caroling.

(7) Welfare
Pls take care of yourself. If you're falling ill, please have ample rest.
We will have the busiest CHristmas from Thursday onwards. The choir needs you.

(8) CAROLING 2007
Dress code - RED top; Bottoms: Guys - Jeans; Girls - Anything that is decent.
Everyone must have a file.

Stuffs
Posted by Clifford @ 6:44 AM | Thursday, December 13, 2007

Updates for this week!

1) This coming saturday these are the ppl coming:
@ 4-9pm
- zac
- andrew
- daryl
- ritche (5pm onwards)
- natalie
- yvette
- steffi
- andrea
- dawn
- cliff
- aaron
- nick
- aloy

@ 7-9pm
- tessa
- verena
- colleen
- fonz (might be a little late)

pple that cant make it this sat:
- Benedict
- celestine
- auggy

those of you who haven't confirmed your attendace please tag or inform your section leaders.

2) Santa's hat. I managed to source for the santa's hats and narrowed down to 2 types. The first type is a plain hat, that has a velvety texture, with a fury white part (not very furry, but more fury than our previous hat), that hat cost $2.00. The second type is of the same velvety texture but has silver snowflakes on it, the white part is as fury as jessica's hat (the one she wore last Christmas), thats $2.50. The thing about these 2 hats is that i'm not sure if it will fit everyone cause the white region is not that expandable. If i'm not wrong the poor quality ones are the only ones that are expandable because of the thin cotten material. Now that we're going to 'upgrade' our hats i'm not sure if it fits everyone. so what do you all think, stick to the poor quality hats that fit everyone or new hats that some of us might need to squeeze our heads into???

3) Outing! Since we didnt manage to carry out hte last outing to ECP, we're thinking of having a sing-along as we walk down the streets. Its similar to the one we did a few years back. Tentatively the date has been set on the 21st Dec (friday). The plan's like this we'll meet at newton and go for dinner first before we start singing along the streets. So pple lets be enthu about it and feel the christmas chill before we really go into full throttle for our caroling.

This saturday
Posted by Clifford @ 7:31 AM | Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Hello everyone, regarding this saturday evening, please be in church by 6.30pm. We'll be having our short caroling session for the evening congregation after the mass. Dont be late! If you can't make it, please inform us, either your section leaders or myself.

Secondly, please PLEASE do come down for the next few practices. It is really extremely critical for each and everyone of you, who want to make good music this christmas, to be present. Think of it this way, you want to decorate a christmas tree with all sorts of ornaments, and it has been bought. But what's the use of it if you dont have a tree? Similarly, with files, talented people, bongos, guitar, houses on our list, choir members, without proper practice, its not going to be of any use, because when we go out, we cannot make good music. People from our church already have a certain expectation from us when they requested for us to go to their house last sunday, so let us do our very best this year, or even better.

We ourselves know how good music makes us feel and, all we need to do now is to combine all efforts from each and everyone of you for the next few practices. The ornaments and lightings have been settled. All we need is to get the tree together! COME ON PEOPLE, LETS GO!

*I felt the christmas chill today, did you? I caught the christmas chill too, ahh chooo!*

There'll be good and bad days...
Posted by Clifford @ 9:04 AM | Sunday, December 2, 2007

Firstly, I'd like to apologize to everyone and especially Da Masta Endru, for playing crap organ today. =(

No excuses, I simply coz I woke late, and was unprepared for the 'newish' parts of Mass today, so sorry Endru, my deepest apologies for putting you on the spot.

Secondly, just wanna say thanks everyone who came, today. You made us feel extra good, coz it's really uplifting for us, coz we're trying our best to put everything together, given the short time span of this year's caroling practice period, and it was really trying on us the past few practices, because there so much to cover, and so little time. So really:

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!

And my apologies to everyone for raising my voice abit. Hope you all understand that we have a limited span of time, and if you're here making noise, it takes MORE time to teach others. All of us here are mature enough to understand this. Fun is fun, but would you rather we have fun now, and f*ck up later, or be serious now and have fun later? Pardon my French.

I would love the Choir to be all fun and no scolding, all laughs and no black faces, but please understand what we're dealing with. We have 2 more, at most 3, practices before caroling, and more importantly, the big Christmas Eve and Christmas Day masses.

I'd really appreciate it if everyone could be more conscious of your surroundings and how your behaviour affects the practice, and the people CONDUCTING THE PRACTICE. Like it or not, you've agreed to be part of the Choir, and with that comes a bit of discipline on everyone's part. Simply, show some respect man, for Dawn and I. We're in the business of singing, not talking.

Wanna talk, go join lectors.

(Ooooh. Awkward.)

I'm gonna say a final THANK YOU to everyone for putting up that performance after Mass today. For me, it was a first reminder for me that singing and playing in THIS choir, is what I've been craving for, all this time I've been away. And it's also the first time in a long time, I've felt so friggin' good about Christmas. Thank you all!