Preparations for Performance

Practice Makes Perfect

      Hi, members of Teh Tarik Group are going to "captivate" you with their melodious traditional Chinese songs this coming Tuesday! We are going to sing five different traditional songs of different festivals such as the Chinese New Year, the Moon - cake festival and also song that symbolizes the power and dignity of the Chinese.

      Actually, our group is a melting pot of students from three main races in Malaysia. We have six Chinese, two Indians and a Malay. We decided to pick Chinese traditional songs as our performance so that we can learn it more easily for majority of us are Chinese.

      Since there are three members in our group do not actually know how to read Mandarin, we first translated the lyrics into English. 

      Then, we listened to the songs from Youtube to get more familiar to the lyrics and melodies of the songs. In order to understand the meaning and the story delivered by the songs, we did some research online and also asked questions from our elders. The song "Descendants of the dragon" is actually a sign of ethnic identity. Next, the song "Gong Xi Gong Xi" was sang during Chinese New Year which depicts the starting of a whole new year. There are also songs like "The Round Moon" and "Moonlight in Town" which reminds us about not forgetting the legends about the Lantern Festival and encourage people to pass down the tales to the next generation. By getting all those information, we are able to get a better understanding to those songs and get the basic idea on presenting our performance.

      In addition, we decided to give out eighteen red packets during our presentation. Of course we will not put in money, but we decided to insert a small piece of colour paper in each red packet with some wishes on it. We wish to deliver our happiness to others. XD

      Although some of us might have a tough to learn all the lyrics and melodies of the songs, we enjoyed ourselves very much in getting know of others culture. We were really happy to spend our time together and practices camaraderie between people. We hope to make our performance a success!