ReCAPing

Lately, quite a few of my thoughts have been about what topics to choose. It's like the theme of the week. I've had a lot of situations where I had to sit down and think deep about what topic to go with for (insert circumstance here). So, yes, in a way my brain cells have gotten a bit of exercise. Decisions, decisions, decisions.

For one, there's been the dilemma of choosing what I should talk about on my radio show. Don't get me wrong, I'm no employed DJ, but as part of my coursework, I'm required to record my own 30 minute radio show. It's very, very cool, but also very, very pressuring especially after you learn about the amount of things that goes into making a show run as smoothly as it normally looks. So, back to the subject of what to talk about. My script is due next week (Monday, actually), and I haven't typed down a thing yet. My half-baked excuse is that my netbook has been sent for repairs since the beginning of this week, and as it has yet to come back I don't really have the right medium to get down to work. Ah. But here I am still kicking back and bathing in 50s-60s nostalgia radio. Haha. I belong in the wrong decade, obviously.

The other topic decisions are mostly minor, like the time when I had to choose which place to cover a news topic of our choice on our very first news reporting assignment. That reminds me...this is kind of a week for first times too.

And then there's the actual main purpose of this post - CAPS (Creative Arts and Performance Society). It's the club I've always dreamed about, where everybody is creative, passionate and talented. And now that I am a committee member (I'm on the music team), I couldn't be more stoked. But as I attended the very first meeting involving the newbies yesterday, I found out that there's also a lot of work to be done. Not that it was something I didn't expect, but I'm just saying, the times ahead sure are gonna be busy. As long as it's not too busy to the point where it does harm to my CGPA, Imma liking the workload.

The first event the club has to submit performances to is Teachers' Day, which is on May 16. I saw this event scribbled out on the club whiteboard and went all o.0. It's only been less than 2 years since I left high school, but it feels like it's been a long time since I last celebrated that event which I never ever truly resonated with. Any Teachers' Day that I feel genuine towards would also have to be Mother's Day, so yeah.

Anyway, we need to give one singing performance in front of the lecturers (precisely. Now that we're all in college, they're called lecturers. NOT teachers.). With my fellow music team committee members slash partner-in-crimes, Amanda and Claire, we deliberated on the right song to sing for them. I don't know what I was on; maybe it was the fear-tinged excitement of meeting the newbies mixed with my ever present sarcasm, but the first choice that came to my head was Gives You Hell.

Yeah. That's right. It's perfect actually --- if you wanna spite the lecturers. Basically, the song takes a dig at an old bully/ex who is still stuck in his/her rut while the person singing it has moved on to bigger and greener pastures. Like I said, it's a great IN-YOUR-FACE song choice. And as a bonus, Lea Michele as Rachel Berry did an addictive version of it on Glee recently.

Here's one part of the lyrics that hooked me:

'And you're still probably working at a 9 to 5 base/I wonder how bad that tastes'

Still. As much as I was sold on that, it wasn't a realistic choice (insert d'oh expression of choice here).

In the end, after more deliberation (and even more time wasting), CAPS's newly installed president, Angel proposed the resulting choice - Christina Aguilera's I Turn To You. At least I think she brought it up. I've pretty much forgotten about the process. But I did push relentlessly for the song to be chosen.

Sure, it's a choice that doesn't score high on the originality factor (heck, it's perfect for any occasion that needs to give a message of love without the sappy romantic feeling), but in other ways it's completely perfect. Also, since I've been magically put in charge of teaching the newbies to sing, this is the ripe opportunity to torture their vocal cords. I say: Ha. Ha.

Ending this obscenely long post is the official music video for I Turn To You. God, Christina is so pretty.




Ignore ze Spanish lyrics, this was the only one I found which could be embedded. Something about this tells me that my friend Claire would be pleased though.