I'm a gal who's patiently waiting for the big 21 to arrive and basically a typical stressed-out student in Uni. Uni takes up about 50% of my life and thankfully the other half is taken up by God, my family and friends and my dearest sweetest, nicest "Teddy Bear, Clown, Entertainer and Lovable Sweetie".. Am thankful to God for everything and for the people around me... Loves sports and Life!!! CARPE DIEM!!!
hobbies
playing basketball
watching movies and tv programmes
collecting cute stuff especially star themed ones..
loves & hates
loves God!!!
loves family members (like duh!)
loves blue, brown, black, yellow, pink, light green
loves to eat and enjoy life
loves listening to music
loves dancing
loves sun-tanning
loves reading
loves sports like basketball and netball
loves shopping!!!
loves catchin' movies
loves drinkin' (lol. all sorts of beverages!!!)
loves makin' frens
loves hangin' out with frens
loves my galfrens
hates heartbreakers!! ): *humph*
hates liars and losers
hates hypocrites
hates empty promises
hates bitches who make use of ppl
hates things that make friends miserable
wishlist good health and happiness
get into NUS/NTU/SMU get chance to do Degree with Honors
graduate from University
get driving license lose weight to XX
a car (any model la!!!)
complete slamdunk series comics
go for nus union camp!!! C.A.P. 4 and above
a pair of birkenstocks a pair of levis
go on exchange to germany for dear to be happy
go on holiday with dear
have a great holiday
visit Zoo
set up a-day-with-us.blogspot.com have a great new year have a great 21st bday! new hp
set up patricialin.com
she sat there just waiting. waiting for the chance..
Her audience sat around her.. some stood there. Different ages, different faces but all of them seemed to have gathered at a common point. They were there to enjoy the music, to pass their time.. and even to be waiting for someone... perhaps waiting for her to start. Perhaps waiting for her to end.
Some faces were filled with enthusiasm, some had a frown and while some were just staring into space. The atmosphere was so stifling.. because it is late. People with their heads filled with stress from work and students with their thinking caps overused, were everywhere. They flooded the station.. they flooded her space.. they flooded the area that was supposed to be occupied by her audience.
Her face was emotionless as she sat there amongst the crowds. I was wondering if she was nervous. I was wondering if she regretted to be sitting there alone with a microphone, without any fans, without anyone beside her.
She was dressed in a simple white dress and her long hair tucked between her ears and her shoulders. She seem to be stealing glances at the crowd in front of her. To calm herself before the performance? I wouldn't know. Because I was hiding away from the people around. I was looking from afar.
She finally saw her chance. Just as a group of people walked past her.
The music finally started playing. The amplifier was desperately trying to make its sound aloud. But the noise around was overwhelming and the crowd was just too messy. As the music became louder, the audience gradually hushed down. They were brought into her world and were just waiting to hear the first notes that she was going to sing.
She delivered with poise. She sang with grace. A simple hokkien song with a tinge of fast beat tempo to spice things up. She tapped the rhythm as she sang. To make sure that she was in time. To make sure her audience was impressed with her performance and to make sure she was being listened to.
Her voice echoed through the station. She sang with emotion and all her heart. It was like honey to the ears. It attracted many to listen. She seemed to know this even though her eyes were tightly closed. Why were they closed? Because she was afraid? Because she didn't want to reveal her true emotions? Again, I wouldn't know.
I couldn't understand a single bit of the hokkien song. I didn't know what it was all about. But she was able to deliver it so well that I knew it was a sad song. A really sad song.
Her eyes swelled up with tears. She was overwhelmed and caught up in her song. That her voice was still lingering as she sang the last notes of it. She didn't break off completely. She left the notes resounding. In the station. In the people's ears. In my ears.
Her audience remain captivated. By her soulful singing. By her sincerity.
The station jumpstarted to it's bustling life. It resumed the noise and the activity within it. People started moving in and out of the station. I started moving. Her audience had to move.
As she said, Xie Xie to the people around, she looked hopeful. She hoped that her performance was good enough. Good enough for the audience who had bothered to listen to her for the past 5 minutes or so. She remained hopeful as the crowds went by. As her audience gradually dispersed. As her audience disappeared.
A little girl approached her and smiled. A tingling sound was heard from her hands. The girl then dropped a coin into the container and it sounded the empty barrel. Still, the singer said Xie Xie Ni with ample gratitude and appreciation.
As her hopes died off. As everyone left and dispersed. She felt she had failed as a singer. Behind those black tinted glasses she wore, her eyes were swelling up once more. Not because of the next sad hokkien song she was going to sing. But because the appreciation that was given to her not by anyone else but by a little girl.
I was looking afar. But I felt so near. Able to feel her disappointment. Able to understand her fear. Her fear of rejection, her fear of failing yet again.
As she prepared for her next song, again, a new audience have gathered. A new batch of people have sat around except for those who have been still standing since just now. Those standing are waiting, She is waiting, the new people sitting around are waiting..
Waiting for their chance... waiting for their future... waiting for it to happen.. every new second of their life.
Have you been waiting? Be it for someone or something.. or for me to finish this entry.
Stop waiting for things to happen. Seize every moment you have.
*sMiLezZz*
Take care and God bless. *queen pat*
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