interesting day

today was very interesting. not to say it was VERY good, but it was interesting.

first, church. arrived there at 9am and saw a bunch of the chinese group people standing outside. so i assumed they have their own activity or something, which was true, later on they were taking photos for some reason. anyway, and then, went up to the main hall. AND THERE WAS NO POWER. yup. the fan wouldn't on, the organ wouldn't on. didn't panic yet cos it happened before and it was fixed in no time. so, anyway, in the mean time, used the piano (more on the piano later). anyway, then, later, andrea and elvin came in. and elvin informed me that there had been a power outage since 8.30 that morning. and it was sudden to the point where they conducted a fire drill just in case. so here's us thinking, oh my god!!! so crappy. and...guess who an important group of people who were not informed about the power outage. the lectors. so there was me telling the animator that IF the mic has no power then we won't cantor the psalm. and he's going, huh? there's no power? and this was 5 minutes before mass was starting. so the whole mass no power, no mics, no fan, no light. do you know how hot it is in there without the fan? lucky it wasn't like blazing outside.

and...the piano. now i understand that maybe the power outage caused the heater of the piano to not work either. but the way the piano behaved just now was as good as the heater not existing at all. it was practically impossible to play that thing. it was out of tune (not very badly to the untrained ear) and the keys stuck. like we'd press a note hard and the key doesn't bounce back up. you know how annoying that is? so i stood at the side and helped daryl to 'reset' the keys after they were pressed. the poor guy apparently had a hard time trying to help me when i did the "happiness is the lord" apparently cos i was playing the left hand very complicatedly for him to reset. the bloody piano. if we have to use it on a regular basis, i volunteer to call in someone to fix it and i volunteer to cover the cost. geez. can we be a little professional? on hindsight, at least the piano, albeit screwed up, is there. imagine if there was totally no music at all? time for me to start bringing my pitch pipe on a regular basis again.

anyway. that was the morning. then later, went to the esplanade to sing at vocal consort's concert. that was FUN!!! the concert was a blast. think about it. full house at esplanade concert hall. woah! wish we could sing there instead. hehe. cost a bomb for sure tho. had serious case of deja vu in the dressing room. i swear i dreamt that place before. it was a very small room, probably supposed to be for 3 people (judging from the number of mirrors and dressing tables). nice place tho, just like a hotel room. only thing missing was a bed. there was even an attached bathroom with shower. how cool is that?

the stage was a little scary. adyll was right, you can really hear yourself practically loud and clear. and it didn't help that suddenly i could hear kirsten very loudly and clearly either. i kept thinking and hoping, please let me stay on key, please stay on key. especially for 'walk through the valley'. that was the really s-c-a-r-y one. cos it's slow and soft. i kept thinking i was singing too loud. hopefully not. adyll said it was good. so. :D 'te deum' was not too bad. I SCREWED UP. shit. i coughed out loud in the middle of the song. NOT GOOD!!! and i was standing in the middle of the row. AND i was in the freaking front row. fuck!!!!!! damn i really gotta get rid of this pesky cough asap. but lucky nelson didn't seem to react to me so...*fingers crossed* hate it when i screw up like that and i was trying real hard not to. sigh.

was forced to stay back and attend the rest of the concert. i mean...it wouldn't have been so bad if we had been allowed to change back to our normal clothes. it wouldn't have been so bad if we were given seats that were not so exposed. i mean, we were allocated seats in the gallery BEHIND the choir and stage. so it's like, the audience sees VC and right behind them is us. *jaw drops* so we all had to be on our best behaviour. which is not to say that a few people fell asleep during the concert. the 2nd half concert was better than the first as in, they had livelier songs. the john rutter collection, the choir came out wearing little cutsie childish outfits and carrying toys. even nelson came out carrying a teddy bear which he carefully placed behind the podium making it face the audience. damn cute lah. zofia had a solo! nicely done.

alrighty. moving on. i discovered this interesting site yesterday, (slide.com) and i was playing with it. it allows you to create picture slide shows to put on your website. take a lookie at MYSPACE to see it.

ok, all for now. haven't done much work this weekend. *guilty feeling* back to school tomorrow.