Performance at Marriott Hotel, wait a moment… sounds familiar
Tuesday started off with me skipping music appreciation (once more) and reaching NAFA at exactly 3.30 pm, right on time for the open rehearsal for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony concert (actual concert on wednesday, today effectively).
Zechariah Goh Toh Chai only did a very short warm up with us, not more than 10 mins, and when the basses were told to sing alone, i and sanjoy discovered we really could NOT sing properly. Hutch was going:
“Wah lau, you all really any-o-how zham siaaah”
Okay true, i’m certainly not a choir type of person.
Rehearsal began at 4.00 pm, and since the ninth symphony had 4 movements, and only the last movement required a choir to sing. The first 50 mins were devoted to sitting down on the paquet floor and waiting. Today they had a contrabassoonist (for those not musically informed, a really low-voice and huge double-reed instrument, i think its lowest Bb is sitting rite beside the lowest A on the piano…), some girl (i think from china, no offence).
She played more intune than the japanese guy in Osawa Seiji’s performance video i think.
After the rehearsal, i was informed abruptly (reminded) by Laurel that the Marriott performance was up next at 7 pm. And he was flustered as well as he forgot to inform us about the change in attire, but it was fixed quickly as Goh Toh Chai just told us to wear what we were already in (black and black, supposed to be white and black with a suit).
Accidentally missed the warm-up rehearsal while stuffing (not eating really) down lunch at fong seng nasi lemak stall with the other access course friends. We took a chartered bus over to marriott. As we approached e banquet hall at the 3rd level, i realized….
Hey! Isn’t this the place we had our Sec 4 prom?!:
I remember i went severely underdressed from work at sim lim (in the company blazer), when everyone else were dressed in suits (till this day it puzzles me, even pass batches had people not wearing suits). And sean was the ONLY person, along with me, not wearing a suit. Then i could remember yinzuo and his “confessional” song dedication to brenda ong. Apparently after that incident he was nicknamed “20 balls”…
Ok nevermind lets get back to NAFA buisness. I was scheduled to play only 1 song piece, the NAFA anthem in swing form, arranged by Zechariah Goh Toh Chai.
We were expecting some form of dinner, but all we received were about 2 pieces of high-tea sized sandwiches (you know, small triangles). And then one other NAFA guy went abit violently angry and adams had to do something to stop him. Eventually i figured that they gave us a $20 voucher for marriott hotel as a conpensationary act. Better than nothing, i already smsed cherine and jiaxin about whether they would like to have cake/coffee with that voucher. Then again, this dinner was organised by NAFA themselves for the NAFA committee. For the instrumentalist to be neglected, well, it tells us abit… No offence. Hartung (orchestra conductor) was quite fed up about it as well i heard.
After i finished the piece, i went off to meet my mom over at takashimaya. She took awhile, so i went to cold storage to check out pasta pricing (jasper’s chalet). Apparently san remo brand pastas were going at $1.80 per 500g, i would say affordable. If cold storage can sell at $1.80, certainly elsewhere it must be cheaper!
Then i saw the $2.98 per 100 g tiger prawns. An overkill.
Today was late dinner at mos burgers. Not very healthy. Furthurmore, the yakiniku beef rice burger, had really tough and not very savoury tasty beef. The fries were starting to deprove, perhaps it was the hour when it was served?
Anyway, see you soon.
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