yesterday was the opening concert for hwa chong arts festival 2005, due to the number of friends performing, i went to give my support by paying $3 for the ticket and stay back in school for around 7 hours to watch. haiz, the audience turnout was..only one word to describe and it is pathetic. there're more people performing than watching la. haiz, a benevolent estimate of the number of people watching will be a hundred, though i doubt there is more than 70 people in the audi even.. i felt injustice for the performers.. it is like they spent time practising hard and preparing for the concert, staying back on an officially declared half-day to perform, then so few people turned up to watch.. really, if the school wanted to show that it is also art-orientated by organising such a festival and putting up the concert, the least that can be done is to publicise more and encourage students to go and support what. haiz.. never mind, shall stop rambling liaoz.. haiz.. despite so, i'll be going for friday's closing concert to support my friends once again, hopefully the audience turnout for friday will not be disappointing again..
anyway, back to the concert. it started off with the chinese high drummer display. although the loudness of the drums is quite deafening and uncomfortable, it was quite a interesting item probably because i've never watched such an item before ba. next up is the strings turn, and as usual, i was entranced by the music they played, it was really a pleasure to just sit, close your eyes and listen to the melody played. mingtse looked just as pro with her violin and as focused when playing; as for jaspar, he looked comical just as usual la, haha, just joking, he looked pro la. then came the interval and something happened! haha, nothing alarming or disastrous la, just that a teacher's toddler suddenly came up to where me, yunz, pork and pow were sitting. the toddler's soooooo cute!!! he keep smiling to us!!! haha, as he was moving about, we were very worried that he would knock his head against the table so we were quite preoccupied with watching him and protecting his head from any harm, haha. there was a time he fell on his buttock and sat directly on top of yunz bag la. i guess that position was pretty comfortable because he sat there for quite a while and stared up at us with a blur blur and cute cute expression on his face!!! haha, so our interval was spent entertaining the boy boy or being entertained by him lohz, haha.
after the interval, it was chinese orchestra! haha, it was more engaging and happening ba. why leh? hmmm.. i guess it was because there are a lot more people i know of in CO and they had a great variety of instruments, therefore, both your ears and eyes are kept busy during their performance. ear busy with listening to the great pieces and eyes busy with watching your friends play. got zhixuan, jiankai, ningfei, liangcheng, qinghua, set, hoohoo, eugene, alice, eileen, damian, engeng, alexis, naifen etc. then it was guitar's turn, got erene, lowlow, soonsoon, choonsiang, weicong etc. and lastly was band's turn with weisi, john, junjia, chuanyuan etc. the finale, or just xie mu, was very disorganised and hectic, thus it ended pretty ugly. the emcees were very lame and very cold that night, i almost froze to death as the air-con also freezing lohz. anyway, it ended and i can only say i am satisfied with the concert despite everything, all the efforts of everyone who performed were appreciated, hard on you all le. haha, hope friday will be a better concert? to people who missed the one on tuesday, do go for the one on friday ya? dont let it be as sad as tuesday... haiz...
5:48 PM
Yours Truly
A little girl
learning to live in a big big world
and trying not to give up things she believes in despite everything
