Voices Past and Present
Friday, October 26, 2001
Wedding Singers
Last Saturday, Testimony performed in our first gig - we sang "My Jesus, I Love Thee" in a wedding in San Francisco. The wedding was joining two Testimony alumni - how cute is that??! :) It was a very touching ceremony, and the performance went well, so it was all good. We had fun playing around in the back chapel room, singing random hymns and making stuff up and just having general musical hilarity. Then most of us stayed in the city to have dinner. All in all it was a great day. :)
Sunday, October 07, 2001
Testimony A Cappella 2001-02 consists of the following wonderful individuals:
Sopranos:
Kari Doyle (soph)
Megan Donahue (jr)
Connie Chan (fr)
Kristen Del Rio (fr)
Altos:
Katherine Vu (fr)
Chi-En Chien (fr)
Wenfei Xie (fr)
Tina Wong (soph)
Tenors:
Steven Ngai (jr) a.k.a. The Director
Gavan Kwan (grad)
Jeff Russell (fr)
Basses:
Eric Lowe (soph)
Bryan Lung (soph)
Justin Kao (fr)
Jason Sierra (fr)
Post-Audition Retreat 2001
I just had the most wonderful two days!! Last night (Friday), Testimony A Cappella had our overnight retreat at a nearby church in Palo Alto, where we had use of their youth fellowship/recreation room. It was great fun to play foosball and air hockey, but I stayed away from the ping pong table. ;) I also had absolutely no interest in the let's-blow-up-a-lot-of-stuff game, but that's no surprise. After Bryan joined us after his fellowship meeting ended around 9pm, we had some praise and worship time. Two of the freshmen, Jeff and Chi-En, can play the guitar, so that was really awesome. Then, Kari had the idea of having everyone sing what they auditioned with, including the old members. It was a lot of fun to hear people sing by themselves. I think my personal favorite was the self-duet of "A Whole New World." :) :) I'm serious! :) While I myself was singing, I stumbled on the lyrics like 4 times even though it's a praise song that I normally know inside out, but oh well, I just suck like that. =P We never got around to playing Taboo, which would have been a blast I'm sure, but we just didn't have enough time to do everything. We spent the rest of the night playing "Fishbowl," which is a get-to-know-you game where each person comes up with a question or two to put in the "fishbowl" (in this case, a blue cup), and you pick out a question and go around the circle having everyone answer the question. There some really funny light-hearted questions ("What animal does the person sitting on your left look the most like?" ... I was deemed mouse-looking, in case you were wondering) as well as some good serious ones that let us really get to know everyone else in the group a lot better. God really blessed our time together last night, and I know He brought the group of 15 of us together for a reason. I'm feeling great about Testimony. :) :)
Quotes::
"Get ready for HERD-TO-HERD combat????" - Kari
"I have no legs!! I have no legs!!" - Tina
"But you express your happiness *vertically*!" - Tina to Eric
"I think Bryan Lung is the most attractive member of Testimony." - Kari ... "OW!" - Bryan
"But that's ANTI-CLOCKWISE!" - Jeff
"Bryan, we can both fit in that sleeping bag, can't we? Especially now that you've taken your pants off." - Kari
