Do you remember?
Friday, May 18th, 2007Do you remember the first day you receive a strange phone call with this really loud and noisy person on the end of the line telling you: "Hoi… Let’s sing!"
Do you remember the first time we gathered together at the small little room after our standard six graduation and sung little octaves together?
Do you remember the first time we staged during Simshen’s annual concert and sung "Worm Worm Fly" (Lolx) in ACAPELLA, and was loved by almost all the audiences (and ourselves)?
Do you remember the first time when we named ourselves and had our own first concert dressed like milkmaids and milkman and black?
Do you remember the first sarong we wore?
Do you remember the first time we went for competition and it was already a HUGE INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL and we brought home a gold and silver medal?
Do you remember how we yelled and screamed like morons, jumped and danced like monkeys and made everyone "sweat" when the MC announced the results?
Do you remember how we don’t care what people think of us and do all sorts of CRAZY things like sing on the street (Masjid Jamek), on the stairs, in the field, near the pool…nearly in the toilet?
Do you remember our BBQs, birthday celebrations, Merdekas, New Year Count-downs, and every event that we could celebrate together, we … celebrated together?
Do you remember the first medley we sang?
Do you remember our yellow tee-shirt that has an angel and devil printed on it that we proudly wear and walk around as a group, not afraid that people will laugh at?
Do you remember our very own first scripted musical made of all sorts of chap-palang music and had a crazy script to follow it?
Do you remember the laughters and tears that we went through together?
Do you remember every member that left and why they left?
Do you remember the place where we go for practice every Saturday (some times sunday) and some of us have to go extra early to sell hot dogs?
Do you remember the applauses and smiles on all our audiences, because they were touched by the music we so loudly and generously share with all our hearts?
Do you remember that you sung because you love to sing and not because you NEED to sing?
Do you remember the best of friends that you met and made and are greater and closer friends with them ever since?
Do you remember our very own musical that made audiences cried?
Do you remember how we all squeezed like sardin in that little recording studio and sung Hold On Tight together?
Do you remember our song?
Do you remember?
Do you remember?
Do you remember…The LittleNoise Choir?
If you don’t remember, maybe you should start remembering now…
If you cannot remember still, then you should start making some memories to remember.
"You may always leave the LittleNoise Choir, but the choir never leaves you."