haha i am finally blogging after exactly 1 week from md.
this going to be a long post.
as usual the luo suo me will write almost every detail.haha.
last sunday did not really start off very well for me.
i had to wake up like by 8 in morning so i can pack bag and reach sch like 10.
was suppose to meet mabel earlier to do the gifts.
but guess what!! both of us were going to be late for band.
i was suppose to go boon lay meet her and do the thing,
but i left something important at home and had to go and get it again.
got scolding from my father.
woke up he nag and nag and nag all the way till i finally took train to go school.
managed to reach school around 10 plus.
and not many were there yet.
slowly we started packing and shifted stuff up and load into lorry,
though i didn't help much.
ok maybe almost didn't help at all.haha.
Guess after 4 years in ij and sometimes in cj having have to shift instrument,
i didn't really felt like helping out that day.
oh no such a slacker.
after everything was loaded up, we went up the bus.
and off we head of to vch!
normally before concert, it is normal to feel excited?
but guess i was all tired and started to feel headache,
and of course with the scolding from morning,
just didn't felt good.
after we reached definitely we started unloading everything.
slacking as usual.
everyone started taking pictures when reached,
however i just didn't felt like walking around to take.
so i end up taking with evelyn and ym at where we sat.
and also pple who came to ask to take with.
slowly i began to feel better.
maybe is cus of the bus ride that why giddy.
not long we had to set up instrument and start rehearsal.didn't know when but sometime during the rehearsal,i started to feel cold and had headache.
kept blowing my nose and could not really breathe like half the time.
how to play if cannot breathe properly.
i was really very sad then.
of all things to fall sick on concert day.
totally felt like going home.
just happen ah seng was sick like before,
so he had like flu medicine. so i decided take it.
didn't take panadol although was ask to by a few others.
do not like panadol. hahaha.
lucky got flu medicine, at least not so bad. haha.
slowly got better after that.
didn't had much appetite for lunch/dinner after rehearsal.
shared a packet with eveyln.
that how little i ate. a bit shocking.
even with that little amount i felt full.
anyway both eveyln and i (including other band members too la) had very little time to change and get ready as we were playing for alumni,
as right after main band rehearsal we had alumni also.
then we rush here and there.
i felt so short of time that i panic and couldnt get my contacts in.haha.
anyway the whole band got ready everything by 430 as we had to be settled on stage.
by then i got better and started to panic for fantasy variations!!!
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh. what if i was out of beat,
what if i did not follow mr tan timing.
though it was alicia solo,
but still people can hear me.
what if i go super out of tune also!
and the worst thing was what if i forgot to play!
on the stage our whole band went.
it was quite empty as we saw the seats.
a bit sad to see so little people came.
surprisely the 1st person i saw was sok whee,
she like so small size yet i spotted her 1st. =X. oops.
but slowly the crowd came in.
everything just started like without any warning.
and soon our band started the concert with the 1st song,
hands across the sea.
the last part, tbones and trumpters had to stand and play,
and i forgot how to play after 4 bars.
hahaha! so i just tried to follow ah seng slide!
hope no one notice? which is quite hard,
but i may be using alternate fingering k. haha!
that was all i rmbed for the 1st song.
2nd song fantasy variations!
my heartbeat just got faster and faster.
and i could feel it beating like right in front of my face.
variation 3! that was what i was worried about.
i tried very hard to follow mr tan timing,
even with my hearbeat like forming the timing for me.
went well i hope?? as long as i did not make liek a significant mistake i should be fine with it, i think.
but have to admit i pitch wrongly for one set of "duah"(dunno how to spell. haha)
then it came the 1st tbone solo with jenny.
omg!! why of all days i couldnt pitch!!
just ran out of energy and breathe.
why!! out of the 3 out of 4 times(not sure?) i can pitch,
why of all days it had to be the 1 out of 4 times i could not pitch on concert day,
was wondering was it cus i sick.
maybe.
and i thought jenny manage to pitch. when actually she didnt which i found out only days later.
i think i really was not feeling well??!?!
was like complaining after playing during basson solo(which was the next song)
and wj also said ya lor why nv hit, nomarlly can one.
sigh!!!!!!!!! why!! it seems to be tradition tt i fall sick on concert??
like for those big one like md?
rmbed being sick for some concert also.
dunno la!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
i better not be sick for the next few concerts.
i did the best i could with my condition also.
the sad thing was i manage to pitch all the high notes for other songs!
argh!sad sad.
some of the high notes i manage to pitch was like star wars.
regain a bit of confidance after that. not for the fact that i could reach,
but is more of like i can do better that kind of confidance.
dunno how explain also.
anyway i did felt much better playing that.
the band nearly broke down in the front of star wars.
it was like the canon thingy at one point.
however we manage to get back.
phew.
after star wars was break.
vig and anne spoted me as i spoted sok. lol.
really glad that the 2 of them.
my very 1st concert that i really wanted them to come,
as it was like my so call 1st concert without them.
was really gald!
ming didn't manage to come.
sad that she didnt get to see all those people that i wanted her to see.
both bad and good. haha!
lay cheng fell sick, niva also.
just somehow all the excuses!
anyway love ya vig and anne for coming.
really appricated it! was really glad.
words just could not express how happy i was to see u 2.
and miss those days of band with u all!
and the fun days we had, though most of the time i was THE joke.haha.
but i had fun!
after break it was alumni turn to play.
i nearly forgot about it! haha!
it was tiring to play with alumni as i had to try play as soft as i could.
1st time i had to play sofT??
weird. shouldnt it be more forte.
anyway i played those 3 pieces before also.
winston had this like trumprt solo for this piece which i nv ever seems to get the name
and we used to call it vig solo?? was it this song. haha!
winston sound was just so nice!!!
how i wish i could sit down and enjoy.
anyway as winston played the solo,
and it reminded me of when vig used to take lesson from him and i think it was during tt concert that he played this solo.
i wondered how vig will sound now playing this solo.
wack like no one business? or play with much better tone whcih i thought it had become.
memories just came back.
miss playing with anne's "blasting"(forgot what the correct term. haha!)
miss vig playing on my right and following him. =X
though his irritaing leg hair!!!!
haha! but he really help me get my timing and calm me down when i needed it.
thanks vig a lot. guess u nv heard me really thanking u.
but u really made a difference in my life. being my confide,
being there for me when i cried and lost.
and i will nv forget the scolding i got from u that i becaome a bit scared of u! lol.
sorry if i taken u for granted also.
anyway after alumni played,
we played five variants.
manage to play and didn't really major thing happen as i could rmb.
then it was hobbits.
my 2nd time performing it.
the 1st time was with cj.
it went not bad!
after that we played disney fantasy.
i was worried for jenny.
i know she can do it!
when it came to dixie the 4 soloist had to stand up.
"go jenny! all the way" that what i could say silently inside my heart.
after a few bars or notes which i cant rmb,
jenny somehow could not rmb the notes?? or she just gto veyr nervous.
whatever it is i could have never done what she did!
the dixie part was repeated.
jenny somehow just stop moving her slide and calm herself down.
and there she go. playing during the 2nd time!
if i was in her shoe i think i might have just stop and
broke down and blame myself why why why.
and the best thing she still can play so loud.
it was also her last day as her being sl.
really going to miss her as sl and i have to admit
she has been a really nice sl, a really nice one.
last song was "yue liang dai biao wo de xin"
in eng is the moonlight represent my heart or smthing like tt.
at this part mr tan will say the name of the year 3s one by one as they leave the stage.
somehow i didn't felt any sadness.
wasnt close or close enough to any to feel sad they leaving.
section also had no year 3.
but suprisingly after reading fang yu blog for the md entry or some entry regarding the year 3s leaving few days back, i started feeling sad. i nearly broke into tears.
maybe i do miss them after all!
going home with ah beng and his stories and jokes.
juliet, stella, bran, chui hao and so on.
somehow it hit me, "hello steph! the year 3s are not in band anymore."
and before long the concert was over. tiime to pack up!
i hurry went around taking pictures with all i havent took with,
and of course even with people i took with.
vig called while i was waiting downstairs to go on the bus,
he ask if i wanted to catch a movie with him and anne at 9 plus.
it was alomost impossible.
by the time i go find them is like the show over?maybe.
but it was confirm impossible.
sad that i could not join.
off back we went to school.
when we reached school some of us started giving presennts to the year 3s.
stupid ah beng leave so fast! dunno how to give him his present la!
everyone was like taking pics here and there.
messy messy.stupid jm make me take with him!!
stupid la!
had lots of food which i still havent finish eating till today.
like the "card" juliet gave.
it was a card with all our click pic in it,
with a message at the back.
anyway we head to clementi macs after everything.
half the place was liek filled with our people.
we were like so noisy. lol.
went off at about 11 plus?
forgot. hahaha.
was really tired by then.
took cab home and wanted to sleep, but i was afraid i could not wake up.
but just when the taxi was reaching my house like at bishan park sec then,
i fell alseep!! haha!!
the uncle had to wake me up.
so much for trying to stay awake.
reached hame, bathed, settle everything and fell alseep.
left everything on a floor in a mess till even today? heee.
it was a really tiring day!
