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Later on, the audience were given 10 minutes to vote fort their
Song Composing
Song Composing two favourite songs via Google Forms while the judges were
Competition deciding on the winners. After voting, the event ended, the
emcees announced the results of the competition. Below are the
results of the audience vote:

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Victoria Hwang Jr1S(6) Feathers), in second, we had team ∞ (Infinity) who performed
Victoria Hwang Jr1S(6)
13th achieving a marginally higher 11 votes, and in the lead was
Rachel Koh Huey Shin Jr2Z(3) team 5
Rachel Koh Huey Shin Jr2Z(3)
team 5 – “Eight Independent Chinese Schools’ Essay Competition
Discussion Area”, winning with a landslide 23 votes.
To close the competition on a positive note, Mr Sim Wei Yih said he
On 11th June 2021, Kuen Cheng Music Composing Society felt very satisfied with the results of the competition. He did not
held a song composing competition. It aimed to showcase expect students to do this well whilst the pandemic worsened,
the enthusiasm and talents of students regarding their song as life would not have been easy for the students. Finally, he gave
composing skills, and all students from Kuen Cheng High some pieces of advice on song composing to all the participants.
School were encouraged to participate in the competition.
Members of the Newsletter Club held a short interview
The judges were Mr Ting Thiam Hock/Teh Thiam Hock, a session with the top three scorers of the song composing
Chinese teacher at our school and the teacher-advisor competition. Through this interview, a member from one of
for Kuen Cheng Broadcasting Club, and two other music the teams revealed that they were from the Music Composing
teachers, Madam Hee Siaw Fuey and Mr Sim Wei Yih. The Society and had gotten encouragement from their coach
latter judge was a graduate from UCSI University. The to participate. The team was very satisfied with their results
judging criteria were the song’s melody (30 marks), lyrics this time and they felt that their hard work had paid off.
(30 marks), composition concept (20 marks) and music
video (MV) performance (20 marks). The “Fifteen Adorned Feathers” team added that their
song “Appreciate Nature” was a spontaneous idea from
There were no shortages of impressive vocals, unique one of the Senior team members, but holds a much deeper
melody and MV presentations. Among many outstanding meaning to it. The team wanted to encourage people
compositions, the 乱炒曲 (scrambled melody) from the “八 to appreciate nature more, as the song title suggests,
独中作文比赛讨论区” (Eight Independent Chinese Schools’ and not to trap oneself within the world of technology.
Essay Competition Discussion Area) team has won an
extremely high praise among the audience for their cute Overall, winning teams have learnt the benefits of teamwork. A
music video and singing. Throughout the competition, the member of a top scoring team said, “if I were to participate alone,
audience was extremely supportive of the participants, I might not have won.” They saw how wonderful teamwork could
often leaving motivating comments in the chat. be and were ever grateful for their teammates. They aimed to
continue working hard and improving in future competitions.
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