22 Sept: An Evening of Chinese Classics
22 September, 7.30pm, Esplanade Concert Hall, An Evening of Chinese Classics.
Thanks for all the flowers/food/chocolate/notes/wellwishes, and for coming down to watch the concert. Hope you guys enjoyed it, because I sure did as a perfomer. (: First time performing in Esplanade, heart pounding at the speed of kuai ban in bao wei huang he. Masses of black seated in front of you, rows and rows and rows which never seem to end. Staring up ahead speaks the same, was a near full house. Overall the concert went quite okay, and liangzhu sounded better than the normal pracs, so yay. Bao wei huang he was slightly messy I guess. Had to encore hua hao yue yuan twice, and I dont like playing it zz. (emcee: 我们再奏花好月圆吧！me to zhanglaoshi: 什么???????? D:) Haha but all's fine in the end I guess. (:
Esplanade's a pretty cool place too. Great acoustics, and each section comes out clearly. The dressing rooms makes you feel like you are stepping in a hotel room (zhanglaoshi: 只需要加多一张床"). Even the place itself brought back memories of June, of performing with shicheng in a foreign (in both meanings) place.
After that went back to Dunman to move instruments. Intended to take a cab home from Ghim Moh, but ended up going to Eunos to hail one. Was quite a stupid thing to do since I stay at Bukit Timah, but didnt want to make things difficult for Jiada (since hes responsible for my safety haha. But felt a bit like a kid -.-) or Yuxiang's dad. Rather go somewhere further then trouble her so yeah. So at 12+ am, all of us were standing at Eunos Mrt trying to hail a cab to no avail. In the end felt quite bad for taking the first cab home, but thanks (:
Liuqin/Pipa (+ Shiling) in our dressing room! (Missing Chun Chen laoshi and Lin Na)
Seems like after every concert there will be withdrawal. Its always, during pracs before the concert, you would imagine yourself at that particular venue performing. But before you know it, everything would be over. Quite interesting how after performing for so many concerts, the feeling of withdrawal is always the same. This time there were alot of mixed feelings, like regret (how 3 pracs might not be enough. But thinking about it now, think that it somehow trained my ability to push myself to improve more within a short period of time.) and slight 痛苦 at times (thanks for your influence Jiahui haha, okay joking yo). But nonetheless, the great sense of accomplishment, and also the enjoyment with mixing with people (doris, huiting, huili, huiyan, shiling, zhanglaoshi, chun cheng laoshi, huizhen etcetc!) still make everything worth it. There's just good and bad points to everything, at times I would think, perhaps if I never chose this path, there would be less worries and unhappiness. But lets go by opportunities determinism, and we should seek the joy out of everything we do yeah. (:
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Short one on the past few days! Thursday was a really long day. Options from 11.00 to 1.30 (Shining City, watched Amistad. Was an EXCELLENT movie. Teared twice, super touching!) then Entrepreneurship from 3.30 to 6.00. After that met Nina and Jiahui (who ended school at 10.30am, vs my 6pm. Thanks man 8D) and went dunman for prac. Felt super weird in our rg uniforms, and I felt quite lame walking in and out haha. Friday had Entre from 11.30 to 1.45 and we went fareast 77th street to check out prices. Didnt get to meet Elim the owner of 77th, but instead visited her first partner Jon at some hair salon. Oh and we had class party too, & watched 200 pounds! Makes people want to go for plastic surg hoho.
Yay tomorrow is Huiwen and my eating day.
Thanks for all the flowers/food/chocolate/notes/wellwishes, and for coming down to watch the concert. Hope you guys enjoyed it, because I sure did as a perfomer. (: First time performing in Esplanade, heart pounding at the speed of kuai ban in bao wei huang he. Masses of black seated in front of you, rows and rows and rows which never seem to end. Staring up ahead speaks the same, was a near full house. Overall the concert went quite okay, and liangzhu sounded better than the normal pracs, so yay. Bao wei huang he was slightly messy I guess. Had to encore hua hao yue yuan twice, and I dont like playing it zz. (emcee: 我们再奏花好月圆吧！me to zhanglaoshi: 什么???????? D:) Haha but all's fine in the end I guess. (:
Esplanade's a pretty cool place too. Great acoustics, and each section comes out clearly. The dressing rooms makes you feel like you are stepping in a hotel room (zhanglaoshi: 只需要加多一张床"). Even the place itself brought back memories of June, of performing with shicheng in a foreign (in both meanings) place.
After that went back to Dunman to move instruments. Intended to take a cab home from Ghim Moh, but ended up going to Eunos to hail one. Was quite a stupid thing to do since I stay at Bukit Timah, but didnt want to make things difficult for Jiada (since hes responsible for my safety haha. But felt a bit like a kid -.-) or Yuxiang's dad. Rather go somewhere further then trouble her so yeah. So at 12+ am, all of us were standing at Eunos Mrt trying to hail a cab to no avail. In the end felt quite bad for taking the first cab home, but thanks (:
Liuqin/Pipa (+ Shiling) in our dressing room! (Missing Chun Chen laoshi and Lin Na)
Seems like after every concert there will be withdrawal. Its always, during pracs before the concert, you would imagine yourself at that particular venue performing. But before you know it, everything would be over. Quite interesting how after performing for so many concerts, the feeling of withdrawal is always the same. This time there were alot of mixed feelings, like regret (how 3 pracs might not be enough. But thinking about it now, think that it somehow trained my ability to push myself to improve more within a short period of time.) and slight 痛苦 at times (thanks for your influence Jiahui haha, okay joking yo). But nonetheless, the great sense of accomplishment, and also the enjoyment with mixing with people (doris, huiting, huili, huiyan, shiling, zhanglaoshi, chun cheng laoshi, huizhen etcetc!) still make everything worth it. There's just good and bad points to everything, at times I would think, perhaps if I never chose this path, there would be less worries and unhappiness. But lets go by opportunities determinism, and we should seek the joy out of everything we do yeah. (:
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Short one on the past few days! Thursday was a really long day. Options from 11.00 to 1.30 (Shining City, watched Amistad. Was an EXCELLENT movie. Teared twice, super touching!) then Entrepreneurship from 3.30 to 6.00. After that met Nina and Jiahui (who ended school at 10.30am, vs my 6pm. Thanks man 8D) and went dunman for prac. Felt super weird in our rg uniforms, and I felt quite lame walking in and out haha. Friday had Entre from 11.30 to 1.45 and we went fareast 77th street to check out prices. Didnt get to meet Elim the owner of 77th, but instead visited her first partner Jon at some hair salon. Oh and we had class party too, & watched 200 pounds! Makes people want to go for plastic surg hoho.
Yay tomorrow is Huiwen and my eating day.