Ode WE are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. With wonderful deathless ditties We build up the world’s great cities, And out of a fabulous story We fashion an empire’s glory: One man with a dream, at pleasure, Shall go forth and conquer a crown; And three with a new song’s measure Can trample an empire down. We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirth; And o’erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world’s worth; For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth. Arthur O’Shaughnessy. 1844–1881 Saturday morning, I was super excited as I took the MRT from Clementi to City Hall. I was meeting my new bandmates, whom I had never even met before. We had spontaneously decided to form a girlband on twitter. This is possibly the first occurrence of such a thing in Singapore. We got along swimmingly. They had been meeting for (some of them) nearly two years to do nanowrimo, which I had been doing on my own with an American friend (I had met her at college while I was at Harvard). Nanowrimo is this movement where you write a novel in a month. I am so glad to have found a support group for my novel, AND a rockband! We sat on the grass outside the MRT station, playing ukeleles, looking up our lyrics on our ipads and iphones, singing wildly and loudly and proudly. We sang Lady Gaga's Bad Romance, we sang several national day songs, and I was filled in on the backstory of the name of our band, Cherry Chocolate Caramel Pop! Watch this space for more! https://www.facebook.com/CherryChocolateCaramelPop http://judithhuang.com/blog/?p=1078