Saturday, June 12, 2004

Wah... finally back to the comfort of my own home... now den reached home lor... actually the performance ended at 8.15pm lor... but a lot of problems happened... result of bad planning (I guess)... so dragged till now... so shall start right from the morning...

Woke up at about 7am... was kinda in a rush... cause din pack my bag the night before... so had to try to recall wad I had to bring in a really groggy state of mind... den made it out of the house by 7.55am... in my bottom full uniform, the black shoes that was more comfortable than track shoes and my old Cat High polo tee (really couldn't find other shirts to wear!!)...

After that had breakfast with my parents in Chinatown again... ate that famous curry noodles again... I can never get sick of it... its so wonderful!! Everyone has to go try someday okie??

Anyway, after that my dad drove me to school... reached NJ pretty early... at about 8.50am... earlier than my reporting time by a while... think by 4 plus hours... not a lot of time really... den went over to TA something for the string bass and cello sectionals... cause nothin to do mah... den helped SC and Joyce to burn the end of their precut ribbons so that they wun fray... den just slacked until 10am... Jane very 'funny' har... always anyhow sae stuff... trying to spoil my good reputation!!

After that followed SC and Jane over to the Santuary... den waited for Joyce to go practise instruments together... pretty interesting lah... I practised my own parts whereas she practised her own... but mine really too easy liao... after a while could stop already... den decided to learn erhu from her... so I practised the erhu for like the next 2 hours or so... really interesting instrument... Joyce said I learnt pretty quickly... summore could already play "Twinkle trinkle little star" and "Red Valley Suite" (dunno whether its the correct name)... budden cause I din play the second piece so well... so I just kept on practising and practising... played the song like more than thirty over times... until Joyce got irritated... cause she feels very paiseh that I was playing in front of so many ppl in the canteen... the funny thing was when I went to buy cai fan... the auntie thot I was from CO lor... den ask if later got CO ppl coming to eat or not... so I played along with her... said CO dismiss at 1 plus... luckily I was not wrong... oh yah... saw Shufen also whilst going to the canteen... and she commented on my hair... I noe its short and ugly... but I din choose that style!! My barber just cut it liddat!! So have to wait for a while for my hair to grow back...

After that met up with the rest of the band ppl and den went over to Swissotel to prepare for the performance... think the alumni ppl really zhuan dao... cause they din have to move the percussion or the instruments at all lor... its us who had to move them... hahah... a bit unfair lah.. cause we had to help play for the alumni and yet still had to help them move the instruments there... reached there at late 2 plus... den the whole bunch of us had to go find the lorry to unload the instruments... but we walked and walked and yet still couldn't find the lorry... like walked for almost 20 to 30 mins I guess... den in the end found out that the ppl on the lorry had already unloaded the instruments... so efficient!! So we sorta walked for nothin... except that we saw the act put up by the Australians... the guys that lived behind the windows in the Esprit shop... pretty interesting lah...

Anyway, went back to the ballroom.. have to say that its really very grand... everything was decorated so nicely!! Summore there was a wedding dinner preparation going on on the adjacent ballroom... really elegant and classy... think next time can choose Swissotel for wedding... althou Fullerton's great too... back to the topic... saw the alumni ppl... recognised a couple of them... the euphonium player, the unemployed trombonist, the dentist flutist, the tenor sax player and a few more... as usual, I din talk to any one of them... really dun dare... well I did speak to one... but only a few lines... like "oh, its concert D flat", althou I seriously believe that he din trust me at that time... and "escuse me, sorry" when I needed to get out of my row... at least I said something... hahah!! Really dunno how to approach other ppl to talk to lah... esp older ppl (like in the 20s or 30s)... I will just turn to silent mode...

After that, had a short rehearsal with Mr Ho... my mouth was really tired lor... esp during the whole notes part... so no choice had to give myself some extra breaks and rests in the score so as to relaxx my mouth a bit... if not really cannot tahan... just horrible feeling lah... hahah!! Den after that we were dismissed at 5 pm to have our dinner... went to meet up with Tzyy Yih... den went to Suntec together to have dinner (well not so technically lah... cause I ate while he watched)... I actually went to Kenny Rogers... hahah... so extravagant of me.. and I din even enjoy it lor.. cause it was really not very much to my liking... as well as my wallet's liking.... think wun go there next time already... anyway we just kinda crapped lor... and then Cheng Jong came... however it was already like 6.40pm already.. so had to leave the place... den got changed to my black shirt... took me quite some time, cause my pants were really loose... and had to use a belt to secure it... anyway, it was just really uncomfortable to wear... so took a lot of time to adjust it... after that really had no time liao... so rushed to another toilet and got CJ to tie my tie for me... hahah... think his knot not secure one... I haven even put it on it already loosened already... den summore he so slow... and I was like pacing around trying to get him to hurry cause I was really late already... den once the tie reached me it would just loosen up... think he tied like 4 or 5 times still cannot... summore the ppl behind me were laughing lor... so paiseh... so end up I tied for myself... den realised that I would surely be late... so ran from Suntec to Citylink back to Swissotel... What a scene lor... I was like running in my full outfit and my pants were falling off cause they were too loose, so had to put my hand on the belt... and my bag was falling off my shoulders, and my shoes were beginning to get really uncomfortable... den there were 2 guys running behind me (CJ and TY)... think ppl must have found it really amusing....

Anyway, managed to reach the ballroom on time... luckily... saw a lot of really well dressed people... so stylsh lor... like right out of tv shows lor... really classy... and I noe how come Mr Gwee din want to go for the dinner already... cause the majority there were all forty, fifty plus people, and the minority younger people were like in their 30s... and they looked so clearly out of place there!!

The scene in the ballroom was really rowdy... and the poor compere (heard she is a mediacorp news anchor... think its Deborah something) was like trying to make everyone sit down so as to prepare for the guest of honour's arrival... apparently she failed... cause there were so many ppl standing up everywhere... so the compere had to stand on stage for like 20 mins... after that the VIPs finally arrived... DPM Mr Lee Hsien Loong, director of Temasek Holdings Ms Ho Ching, MOE Mr Lim Swee Say and Acting Education Minister Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam... they looked so cool when they stepped in lor... like superstars!! Quite proud to say that out of the four, 2 were from Catholic High... Cat High rox!!

Anyway, the performance was a flop... cause no one was interesting in listening at all... apparently food was more important to them and the people just chatted and chatted... so loudly summore...could only hear a few claps after the performance... the President of the Alumni delivered a speech after that... unfortunately for him, no many ppl listened to his speech... most were talking.... unfortunately for the compere, no one listened to her as well... ppl din even clap when the VIP went up to cut the cake and present some tokens... the compere even had to sing the birthday song... cause no one was singing at all... think it was really pai seh for the compere...

Shall skip to the end already... cause too tired... anyway we took a long time to load back our instruments due to some miscommunication problems... after reaching NJ received a scolding... den got dismissed and went home... my feet are now in so much pain due to the black shoes... think tmr will get worse... anyway shall end here... good night everyone!!