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Saturday, November 18, 2006

Day 2 - 09/10/06

Breakfast was at the ballroom again.

got my fav american breakfast: scrambled eggs, ham, etc
but of cos, got cereals, vegs, kimchi, fruits... kimchi?

yah every single meal, surely got a big dish of kimchi there...

After breakfast is our 1st display rehearsal without our instruments. most of us havent touch our instrument for about 1 week since we packed and shipped it over a week b4 we fly to korea.

in this band, all of us knows when we're suppose to be serious when we're at work and when to play when it's the right time~! ^_^v

Photo Courtesy from Song Wee

After the rehearsal, the wonju organizers arrange a day tour and brought us to visit the wonju town market.

It's like walking a town centre's shops and wet market.... got sell clothes, shops selling cosmetics like sasa...

In between there are some alleys which houses the wet market stalls.

Phot Courtesy from Song Wee

There's a lot of shops selling the same things... like so many shops selling their traditional dress...

some shops selling preserved food stuffs, some veggies n fruits stalls, there's even some shop that specialized in selling pig's head... i wonder what the korea buy n use it for? cook n eat? or they also got "ah-longs" there? hee~ watch too much "my wife is a gangster - korean movie"

got quite few handphone shops... i heard that their phone dun comes with interchangable sim card slots... the phones comes with built-in sim cards. so changing phones is quite troublesome..

Samsung is also known as Anycall there, LG is also known as Cyon

After spending 2hr+ exploring the town centre, we went to the tattoo stadium to get some of our instruments back to the hotel.

Due to the volume of instruments and offstage items that the bands brought with them, the storeroom couldnt accommodate all of it, so we decided to take some of it back to the resort.

There was a rehearsal going for the opening ceremony... so we stood n watch, some of us saw that 1 of the girls was holding a flag in the wrong way, it drew roars from those of us who noticed it. cos she was holding the flag of Singapore in the way direction.

so we told our translator 'kay'(that's her name in short) to inform the trainer for this item about the mistake.

i wondered how could the trainer overlook on this matter... but i dun really blame them, this is the first time singapore is taking part in this event. And how many times, during the period of our national day celebrations, u see houses, shops, hdb flats hanging the national flag, u see flags been hanged out in the wrong way too?

Anyway, most of us decided to take our instruments back to the resort, except euphoniums, tubas and percussion are left at the stadium.

while waiting for the percussionists to arrange their equipments, Benny took out his trumpet and played some warm-up. which attracted the attention of a cameraman. thru-out the wonju tattoo events, there are many teams of cameramen going around the various performing grounds to take snippets and ask us to crowd together and give our thoughts on the out experience of the tattoo, and we also had to shout out the wonju tattoo's chant: "WONJU TATTOO, FIGHTING~!" we found out later that "fighting" kind of means "Let's Go!" or "Jia You"...

after sorting our the store, we proceeded back to the resort and prepare our uniforms for the 1st show tml~

almost every night u can see a group of saf bands pple visiting the cyber cafe to check their mails and log on to msn messenger to chat with their frens n love ones. the charges was abt S$2.50/0.5hr... which was much cheaper then toking on the phone... a 3-5mins call on the public phone is about S$10....

Coming up next... Day 3 - street parade, opening ceremony~! ^_^V

Temperature: 14.5'C at 11:59pm, Wonju,Korea

Labels: Wonju Tattoo 2006

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