New Years Concert, 25th Single, and my upcoming solo!

Soooo last night we performed at the 2014 countdown concert, and then today at our own New Year's Encore. It was quite a day...night...day? Time. It was quite a time!

The countdown concert featured many famous artists, and started from 8 pm until 1 am on the first. SERA00 had New Year’s appearances on TV during the day, and we just wrapped up the New Year's Encore. The luckier members, including me, were able to catch a few hours of sleep. 

There were a few developments for me personally. For example, nowadays I’m usually under for Maya, but I got to fill in for Sassan at the New Year’s Countdown!!! Isn’t that amazikoUIEFI89;nooOoooo dontlisten to her yessididssfakj ITWAS ONLYF OR SIX SECONDSSSSSSSJK’\AW839\SIO%@AS

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Yeah...some of you might have guessed that that was Rome fighting for control of the keyboard. I’ll leave it in the post for fun. Okayyy fine I admit that I only subbed in for her for a couple of seconds at the beginning of the song but that’s okay, I’m still proud of it, although they were six very nerve-wracking seconds. It was the first song of 2014 and it was timed to start right at the end of the countdown when “ONE” turned to “2014”. Sassan was at the podium with the hosts and MCs, so for the time it took for her to wrap things up there and make her way to the centre of the stage, I was supposed to fill in the tip of the formation. Who filled in for me? Yumichan did. She’s an amazing idol (even though she’s still 00 rank omg her skillz) and I’m honoured that she’s my under.

Let’s see, what else? At the New Year’s Encore, I was chosen as the centre of Lollipop, part of Team Aurora’s stage. The members are all mixed up at these special occasion concerts, so the cast members of Lollipop weren't just composed of Aurora girls.

Afterwords, Ms. Tallan told me that I did well and would be given a solo time slot in the Winter SERA00 Concert!! OMG!! I’m already feeling both excited and nervous. The song hasn’t been decided yet. Ideally it would be from a Team Angel stage, since I’m in Team Angel...but Ms. Tallan said that management is wondering whether a cutesy Aurora song like Lollipop would fit me better...but of course it couldn’t be Lollipop anyways because it’s not a solo song. Omg I would actually love so much to sing one of Luraland’s songs...ahhhh can I just dream about it~

The official cast of Heartbeat is not actually out yet even to the members but I was talking with Angel and she hinted as to who would be part of it...not telling ;) So why was I talking with Angel? Well, first, extra lessons have been squeezed into my schedule to prepare for the solo debut- okay fine, solo performance. I can’t actually claim it as a solo debut because I will be singing a SERA00 stage song written generally for any soloist in SERA00, unlike, say Sassan who has solos written specifically for her and debuts a CD with it too. Second because management has scheduled several trio/duets for me during the following SERA00 Stages in preparation of my solo in the Winter Concert.

So Angel and I were discussing basically the details of the performances. First, she said that I would get my own earpiece (yeah, very impressive). So she was like, what colour earpiece do you want? And I was thinking, WAIT I can choose my earpiece colour?! And so she said, yeah, black or white. And I went...oh *little sigh* (sorry for the terrible grammar, and the over-usage of “so”). So, what’s the difference between black and white, you ask? Well, I automatically went for white, because I thought it would be less noticeable, but Angel said that it actually has the opposite effect. Because the white is less noticeable, but not invisible, people do notice it. And they can’t really tell what it is as it kind of blends in...but then again, not really. Whereas the black one people can really see and immediately tell what it is, so they don’t pay much attention to it. Plus the white one has the springy wire going around the ear, where as the black one is slightly bigger but wireless. So in the end I chose the black one. If you’re wondering why I don’t already have an earpiece, only the more frequently performing members have earpieces. This is because in songs, only really the front line needs earpieces. The earpieces allow us to hear clearly how we sound when we sing, and usually only the front line member’s mics are turned on. The rest of us are singing into mics that aren’t on. So those members don’t need earpieces. For the times that they do, they use the “public” earpieces that are shared by SERA00 members who don’t have their own. Yes, of course, they are sanitized after every use. As are the mics, for those who wonder why some singers are literally kissing the mic as they sing.

So please look forwards to Hearbeat, our 25th single, a “medium speed dance number” (as released to us by management).

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