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Sunday, September 05, 2004

Hi all...

i'm sorry i didnt blog for like 3 weeks liaoz
...

was rather occupied in my work n new laptop...

so i do a brief of wad happen during this 3 weeks...

15th Aug was my colleague's Jonathan's wedding... went for his dinner...

then the weekdays was routinal...
wed n thurs evening was trombone choir rehs.... almost every nite i got rehs n only met elsie for once a week....

then the 20th aug, fri evening ... i after work went to support my fren's concert...
no he's wasnt one of the performers.... but he's the conductor..
he's none other then Mr Yap Soonsoon...
he's conducting pierce sec sch band for an in-house concert...

sat, wad i do...?

sun went to bhso reh....
then elsie came to my house in the morning... so she stayed in my place while i went to pract from 3pm-6pm...

mon-fri(23rd-27th aug) rehearsals for today's performance at the orchard mrt park... the 50 hrs music marathon... saf bands took 2 of the time slot.. 3pm-4pm is the SAF Stage band n combo band.. 4pm-5pm is the SAF Central Band.... ...

wed, thur the trb choir practs....
wed nites.... we booked the function rm at adrian's condo for our practs....
cos now closer to concert..
we cant just have the normal once a week practs...

then thurs is back at the cc for reh...

then fri took pm half day off... 27th aug...
went to comex with shannon.... check out the computer fair...
bought a 80gb external hard drive, a all-in-1 printer, a portable tv as special price from shannon's printer offer...
tempted shannon to get a mac powerbook with me~
then i got a cab to...

nyp...
cos they got a combine arts group thingy..
but it's mainly the dance n drama pple... then band or rather the nyp orchestra... was quite extra there...

cos the orchestra stoned for 20min from the start of the show.... then play 1 piece.... then stone for another 20mins... then play a medley of pieces... and they are band pieces.... hahahaha..... with the strings playing some of the woodwinds parts... hahahahah~! ^_^~then they stone till the end of the show...

here comes the best part...
eileen... my jr in nyp trb...
sms mi and ask mi whether can i play for the sat show...
fri's was the gala nite... they playing for 2 nite... fri n sat...
fri gala nite, the invited guest was former Chief Denfence Force lor... LG lim chuan poh lor...

so she say one of the trb got an alumni concert to play on sat nite so can i sit in for her for the nyp 2nd nite of the show...

i say ok lor... boh pianz....
heng i said ok..

cos the trb section suppose to b 5 playing...
2 1st, 2 2nd n 1 3rd...

i was suppose to cover for the 2nd trb ger....
but on sat nite...
the orchestra on stage waiting for the audience to come in liaoz...
the other 2nd trb guy not ard... cant contact him at all...
lucky got mi, or else they no 2nd part for the 2nd nite lor..
hahahahahha...~

then b4 this 2nd nite thingy..
had an audition for 5 companies of recruit from tekong..
auditing to join band...

then afternoon i went for bhso's last reh...

cos sun... cos hahahha...
in 3 nites... i attended 3 concerts...
1 as audience... the other 2 as performer..
haiz..
now u noe y i so busy...

practically no time to go home n update my blog...
go home also tired.....

so sun 29th aug,
shannon went back to the comex on sat to order his 12" powerbook...
so i went this morning to order mine... a 15" mac powerbook

then i went over to clifford pier to wait for jinxing to fetch mi to s.c.h. ...
bhso's concert...
an evening of brahm's...
at Singapore Conference Hall..
was surprised tt they booked sch... i tink it's their first time there also...

so concert started...
1st half i only play the 1st piece...
then can leave the stage liaoz..

cos the 2nd piece... also the last piece of 1st half....
is a violin concerto - played by a guest violinist...

then intermission..

2nd half....
also 2 pieces... but this time both pieces i playing...

and encore was hungarian dance no.5...

took mrt to orchard to meet elsie aft her work...
then journeyed back to yishun together...

then i went back to camp...

mon-fri(30th aug-3rd sept)
routinal with practs for the 4th sept music marathon...

mon after work, went with ronnie to collect my new 15" mac powerbook at funan...
oh yah, i forgot to mention.. i bought a 40gb ipod together with my powerbook..

and i trying to sell my 8mths old 30gb creative jukebox zen nx mp3 player...

wed reh at adrian's place for the trb choir..
thur went to esplanade recital studio for soundcheck...

soundcheck was ok...
had some stuffs sorted out..

can say it's our first run thru of the concert also...
then aft the sound check, we agree to have one more run of pract at nafa on tues evening...

OH Yes.... the trb choir concert is a sold out concert..
all tickets have been sold~ yeah~!!!!!

then today.... sat, 4th sept....
cos i was on duty yesterday...
i was at the office from 7am onwards...

the band reporting at 1245pm..
so i just bump ard the whole day....

then the chartered bus came n we board up the buses..
went over to orchard..
reach there abt 2pm..
set up the 2nd stage for the stage band set up...

then loiter abt till 2.50pm..
the big band kicks off the first performances by the saf bands..

the stage band, the normal set up for an jazz band... 5 sax, 4 trpts, 4 trbs, n the electric guitar, bass n keyboards... n percussion...

the combo band, add vocals n dancers minus most of the blowers...

then the central band tarts the 2nd segment at 4pm till 5pm...

aft the performace, i request to book out from there.. approved..
then i stayed with my "daughter", cos she's my successor to the nypSB's bass trombone...
to watch the philyouth performance...

aft the philyouth thingy, went to have dinner with karen n some of the philyouth pple..
then i left first, cos tired....

then i took train to tpy to collect my comics...
then took bus 73 home..

and tt's it for now~
^_^~

hee~
sorry abt the 3wks break...

hmm..
i tink i might need to declare a blog break soon~...

ok, till next time...
i'll c u again when i c u again~!

Blasted by a Bass Trombonist @ 1:05:00 AM

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