Atrocity

The time of year is here again.....to sing CNY songs! Yay. Well, in choir we are doing some pretty popular Chinese New Year songs to sing for the elderly, for example, 恭喜恭喜, 贺新年 etc. Anyway, we started doing 大地回春, and so many people found it extremely difficult and unfamiliar that we ended up having to take it out! WHY? i really like that song, and thought it was rather suitable to sing, with its cheeriness and all. I remember it distinctly because we would always sing it in Henry Park during CNY, unless you were P3-ish to P6, when you were usually "too cool" to sing. The point is, we were all taught the songs, and i recall, using the powerpoint slides with the fireworks background, and CNY celebrations were always festive and spirited.
Then we did a Singapore-themed song - Singapore Town. And some people had no idea what song it was!!! GASP! They had no inkling of the actions, too! Which would NOT be the case if they were Henry Parkers, because once again, in HPPS, the teachers bothered to teach us the actions and get us involved.
That's how we know our heritage and culture and be proud of our country.

Sighhh.....
how atrocious is that? do these people even know a thing about where they come from? have they no childhoods? what is this world coming to?
Tsk.

I miss you, Henry Park!!!!!!!!!!!!!