{"id":1776,"date":"2008-11-22T18:07:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T10:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2008-11-22T18:07:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T10:07:34","slug":"fund-raising-anniversary-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/11\/22\/fund-raising-anniversary-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Fund-raising Anniversary Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1781\" title=\"blog-choir\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/blog-choir.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" \/>Last night&#8217;s anniversary celebration was a success &#8211; with\u00a0the host of VIPs, ex-principals, alumni, current students, ex-teachers and current teachers all attending the occasion. I&#8217;m glad that we finally pulled it through after months of preparation and rehearsals.<\/p>\n<p>The choir put up a good show and though the songs performed were not technically demanding, they were crowd-pleasers as such occasions require. I felt that the new choir gown\u00a0is lovely but some of my girls would tell you that it looks very gay. Well, its the overall stage effect that matters at the end of the day. This purple fabric has a electric blue tinge at a certain angle and has that royal\u00a0feel which in my opinion is uncommon and attractive as compared to other school choirs&#8217; gowns. I admit that the design is nothing to shout about though &#8230; we were constrained by time and budget.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m happy that the headache of sourcing for the tailor, gown design, fabrics and budget is all behind me now. :) It was quite an undertaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s anniversary celebration was a success &#8211; with\u00a0the host of VIPs, ex-principals, alumni, current students, ex-teachers and current teachers all attending the occasion. I&#8217;m glad that we finally pulled it through after months of preparation and rehearsals. The choir<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/11\/22\/fund-raising-anniversary-concert\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Fund-raising Anniversary Concert<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else","wpcat-644-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}