Was around eating "damn good food at a damn good price" (which is botakjones) at the quiet quiet canteen just beside SPH. I think the service there was very nice lor.. coz the staff kept asking is everything alright. And price was alright too, just that i got too full too soon.
After the heavy dinner on a rainy day, was on my way to scc. Was informed of a "surprise performance".. ya, the surprise was for us, not the audience. Actually was for the cfg of our previous instructor.
Played "Xiao Ding Dang" and "Japanese Graffiti 4" , both symphonic band version, and given almost the same few players, plus a few others, we sounded quite good. Of coz, we had a tuba player.. so it made everything much more concrete.
Especially liked the jap graf 4.. coz was with SWE when i first played it (actually i heard this piece long before) but i fumbled on the 1. part. Was maybe around 16 or 17 that time.. i couldn't remember. Hopefully i can deliver it this time round, especially for it is cfg. Must really inspire the people.
Was joined by my colleague and the horn section doubled its strength. Was quite a challenge to play with more in the section coz of tuning issues, but the sound was much much more than if i play alone. Plus, the different parts we played made the music less boring lor.
Ending, sight read a brass octet of 3 pages.. but i have no idea what the piece is about.. hahaa.. and a lot of empty slots coz our tbones are not around. A very nice sight read piece coz the the harmonics.
The coming practice on thursday at ICA, and i need to bring my baobei horn over.. a much more difficult instrument to tame than scc's but the tone is nicer.
Sunday 8/31:
Woke up early after 4 hours of sleep only to go to pasir ris to "drop prawns".. but i think i went there to drop money. Noobish me didn't get to drop any prawns after 2 hours, and the total haul was 9 by the other 2. Maybe too early le the prawns haven't wake up ba. But they also drop the rock and drop the net on top of the pond too.. hahaa.. the prawns didn't even want to bite my bait lor..
After that we bbq the prawns and though i didn't drop any, i ate quite a few.. hahaha.. but i had to do some "things" to the prawns. Fresh prawns seasoned with salt taste quite nice though.
Slept for the rest of my sunday after reaching home.. coz weather was too nice le.
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Nice scene, nice weather..
... but no prawns at the prawns pond.
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Haul of the day (with no contributions by me).
