Greenwave End

What an interesting day today was. Today concludes my 2007 Greenwave Project with Jinghui, Zhiyi and Benwee. To recap, our project product was an album of 5 songs, all of which aim to generate awareness (which has been mass-generated over the past few months) among the masses.

The 5 songs were entirely composed by us, and all the lyrics were written by us.

We submitted this product, and we won the Merit Award, which earned us $1000, of which $600 goes to the school and $400 goes to us, and thus each of us gets $100. Due to my inability to donate this $100 to environmental causes (because of disagreements within the family), I have decided to use this money to fund my next music producing project for this year's RE work. I hope it doesn't come into use though - there are people that I have to treat :). Well, to lunch, movie, anything. That is if someone in the family permits. (Aw...)

Meanwhile the prize presentation held at Marina Manderin today started at 8am, and I had to wake up at 6am. Very rare that I wake up that early. In any case my alarm was set at 6.30, which meant that the alarm started ringing when I was leaving the house.

How about THAT.

Was driven there (groans) and saw Jinghui at the lobby, waited for Zhiyi and Benwee. Took our seats and waited for the guest-of-honour. The guest-of-honour for the day was Mr Khaw Boon Wan, and we did the usual thing of shaking hands and receiving the prizes. After that, we proceeded to stand by our booths and talk to any interested people. We were approached by a Miss Koh, who talked about a competition held by the NEA called Songs of/for? the Environment, which is in fact our project title [Green Crochets - Songs for the Environment].

An embarassing thing happened earlier in the day though, when the MC pronounced our group project title wrongly. "Green Crowsheys - Songs for the Environment by Raffles Institution."

So much for all the deciding of the title and the fear that someone would pronounce in wrongly.

Back to Miss Koh, she talked about this NEA music-environment competition, of which the winners' songs would be sang by professional singers, and then distributed to schools around Singapore. Then she approached the subject of copyrights, of which we were not sure who owned the copyrights to the songs - us or the school? Well I was not ready to talk about that, because we didn't know that copyrights would be an issue. Copyrights are indeed such a complicated thing - the statement was enforced by the Deputy Headmaster of our school later when he approached our booth and we told about it.

Anyway she gave us her namecard, and we would probably be hearing from Miss Shen about how this thing will go ahead.

The minister skipped our booth, which was not ok because we spent hours trying to coordinate our demo. -.- And arguing with Miss Shen.

Well in the end of this 12 months we learnt alot, yada yada yada googoogahgah [add reflections that can be thought about personally and that are too long to be placed here.]

See you on my next post!