When you thought public apologies was a anglican thing.
True, since the days of Dr Boon being in power, public apologies have become a common part of Anglican High Morning Assembly culture. And i do remember one occurance when boon made 2 alumni boys’ brigade members (one of which i rmb to be Jonathan Tan, my batch) apologise to the school for locking up the backgate with an external lock.
(Apparently i heard rumours that they were made scapegoats…?)
Well today (yesterday effectively), 7th June 2008 was SYCO’s annual concert, dubbed as usual “March of the SYCO”. So the public apology thing plays in when i had to apologize for my pretty serious lateness for the rehearsal on friday. Apparently i was working in the morning then returned home from a nap, when i overslept and woked at 6.50 pm (10 mins before rehearsal at sch…).
So here was my speech i gave to the staff and SYCO members, its in chinese (the reason is obvious why its not in english…):
各位及此下的SYCO伙伴们和SCO的老师和长辈们，我是唢呐小组的李廷丰。昨天，二零零八年，六月六日，星期五的重大彩排当中，本人因工作后的午觉无意间睡过钟，造成我迟到了整整五十七分钟半。我的这一番严重失错带给我们的指挥老师，工作人员，和所有其他的SCO老师们难以原谅的烦恼以及不安。
虽然我这一番的马虎，不负责任的态度，无可原谅的疏忽，可说是造成了不堪设想的后果，姚指挥老师却依然允许我在这一场演出上继续演奏。对此，我无比的感激。
我想再次向所有SYCO的伙伴们，SCO所有的老师和工作人员们，诚恳道歉以及请求贵人无比的宽容和大量，原谅我这次的疏忽，希可让我能重返SYCO的大家庭中学习以及成长。也想利用这机会，在此希望今天的演出能够完美，一帆风顺地完毕。谢谢大家。
Apparently the SYCO people laughed and clapped (not a bad speech, i hope you agreed, especially e 57.5 mins part lol), and Ms Lum over at administration got angry and reprimanded the CO lightly for not taking this public apology seriously. Well at least i’m glad everyone was at least sort of entertained by my speech? It was just before concert anyway, we shouldn’t be too stressed up. Forgot to mention that we had to arrive at SCH at 5.30 pm for the concert, after e apology was some admin briefing and stuff, regarding SYCO re-admission exam criterias and score distribution for people playing for beautiful sunday (i suppose i won’t be playing).
Then concert started at 8 pm with minor issues. Reed was abit irresponsive and sounded damn flat during “The General Command”, fixed that quickly and things went fine.
Apparently during 古槐寻根，Jun He started to cough uncontrollably and Liu Jiang had to get shurong to help him off the stage. Wasn’t well played by the other suonas anyway i guess, rhythm wisem, it was somewhat choppy i felt.
Then for 丰年祭 (in my opinion the best played song), everything was pretty much well done, suonas was very well in tune for this piece.
Then Chang Le’s solo 关中情 after the intermission, definately not bad, full of emotion and dynamic variance, but i guessed nervousness kicked in and took away the top honours as compared to his performance during the rehearsal? Though he has this really thick and harmonically colourful tone, that can really touch the hearts of the worse suona haters.
Didn’t really listen to the guzheng solo though, can’t comment on this one.
Then came 嘎达梅林交响诗. Though the suona parts are pretty straight forward (very western orchestral and rhythmically simplistic, mostly variations on a main theme, though many different key changes challenge the chinese orchestra somewhat). Mr Boo was on my left (it was an SCO and SYCO combined effort performance), and he was loud enough to deal with my mistakes (if any, lol). And gada meilin has always been the piece i was most confident with anyway.
After which, sean and eldric came to meet me at SCH and apparently cherine tagged along with us (she came to support Li Han at the SY Concert) and we had supper at Lau Pa Sat. I and Sean ordered Ayam Penyet. I’d say the only half-successful part about the penyet was the chilli (sweet and spicy enough), though the batter was obviously not very penyet-like. Jonathan Tan would use the word “Fail” in this case. Apparently the entire lau pa sat did not seem to feature even a single vegetarian stall (perhaps closed at these hours) and eldric was fine with 2 plain pratas with sugar. Cherine had average tasting Carrot Cake (i’ve not really tasted superior carrot cake to be honest, i don’t love it).
Well lau pa sat might be a tourist attraction, and even more with one entire road closed beside it for Singapore Food Festival (transformed into a Satay Lane), the food, i would say, really isn’t all that to be raved about.
Lets see, whats the next food trip going to be? Pig ear’s sashimi at Mimigar (okinawan, yeah it sounds disgusting, we can always order their soba) or perhaps some North Indian cuisine thats restaurant quality? I was thinking about a good Dim Sum buffet somewhere… If you’re interested in eating out, look for me.
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