Monday, May 08, 2006
10:48 PM
PART iokay. here i am to post about yest's escapade at esplanade. hm. nice. escapade @ esplanade. okay. so first we went to rj to meet. so we had the final briefing and that would have been the last we saw of rjco room for years.? mm. most likely. zongjin said. "backstage is like a maze. theres B1, level 1 and level 2. but then dont worry lah. the backstage is LABELLED. oh yah. if you REALLY REALLY get lost. go to level 1 and shout my name.. if you call from B1 i cant hear you." that's according to wenyun. i cant exactly rmb what he said. something along these lines. so actually before that we were going to help them move instrus. if they needed the help. so we went to the storeroom part and tbl comes. he says "dont block the way" okay we get the hint and go out and play bridge, listen to mp3 players and basically shake our legs. yes. THEN its the briefing. so we left.
the bus was cranky. so shaky. the seats so small. ppl with big butts like me going to fall off. haha. just kidding lah. AIYAH. too bad the ri ppl were in another bus. or else i would have disappeared and janice can enjoy her er ren shi jie with her dear dear. okay. so on the bus kwan was trying to take photos. and the juniors hid behind their books [amanda and wenyun] and i and janice hid behind the seats. so we reached the esplanade quite uneventfully. what's there to happen? oh. tbl and mingjie followed the lorry. yah. and um. some ppl called marcus and junjie. uh huh.
at the esplanade.
we headed to our dressing rooms. so seven of us [minus shengnan] gilly amanda wenyun amelia yingting janice me squeezed into the smallest dressing room on the level. like HELLO. eight into smallest? the ri ppl were next door. they had 6 ppl [patrick lionel DarreN victor eh this sec 3? guy. and bl.]. ARGH. nevermind. our room was.. CH-B09. AND AND. you know what. CH-B10 next door was empty. couldnt they have opened it too? considering that we're ahem guests and we had eight ppl at the max. and we didnt have a window AND we were the ones who stayed in the room the longest?? argh. nevermind. i sound like nothing but a complaining brat which i am not. well. let me tell you about the other rooms. theirs was like door. then passageway then room. on the passageway it turned into the toilet. ours was like. door -> room -> toilet. AND our room part is smaller that others'. im just commenting okay. im not complaning. as in. im glad for the chance to wander backstage already lah. AND perform at the esplanade for $2. heh. free lunch dinner and transport and shirt. there were five chairs. for seven ppl. and i think the dressing room was for three ppl only. cos got three spaces at the mirror. the mirror is those kind of you know last time theatres one very very bright lights one.
the whole place is damn freaking big lah. the govt waste so much money on this place. tsh. sometimes only a solo performer play at the esplanade.
and the place is so stuffy. i think i got a headache from staying in there for so long.. haii. and you know what. the backstage, as in the real one behind the stage where if you talk you can be heard, is Bigger than the stage itself. like. !!. hahaha. the concert hall's quite small actually. 1000 ppl. VCH is 883? right. im supposed to go at 11.15, now is 11.12. shall continue tmr. ciaos.
PART iiokay i stopped at the backstage. let me now continue. dressing room. mm. so we started playing cards at once. daidi for a few rounds cos we san1 que1 yi1 for bridge. heehee. only me gilly and amanda. then we played uno. with yingting's harry potter uno cards. haha. then it was like never ending.. so um ziming right? or was it bingliang popped in and said lunch before 12.30. okay so we went to the artists lounge for lunch.
it was horrid. rice with oily smashed egg, cabbage, and very dry drumsticks. and guess what. wenyun dropped her two drumsticks on the floor. they rolled off her styrofoam box. gilly says: "you just dropped the most edible thing in the box." like lol. haha im evil. amelia eats very fast. aii. then the ri ppl came in for their food. and aii too bad we didnt leave janice. then her dear dear can go and join her. oops. she just reminded me not to blog about her and her dear dear. ((: okay. so... there wasnt enough spoons and the guy reminded us not to throw ours away. gilly forgot so she went to rumage in the bin. she emerges holding up her plastic spoon triumphantly. hahaha. she washes it. it's a new spoon!. haha.
lunch over, we go back and try to teach wenyun bridge. succeeded very goodly. haha. i dont have to write a an instruction manual. YAY. next time we can play bridge in school. secretly, not getting caught. this is just a plan! we didnt do anything!! prefects dont book us! sheesh.
then sometime in the middle of everything we decided to go to the place where there was vending machines and plants, actually the green room. we pooled our money and bought um. cheezels, twisties, da cheese biscuits, lays, nachos, what else? and i took out my sultanas and hersheys. anddd. WE PIGGED OUT!! ahaha. janice brought some chocolate. what arh? like m&ms one. our bin at the end of the day was like filled to the top! hahaha. but the place was very clean and neat okay, exactly the same as when we went. thanks to me!!! *waves hand egoistically*
shengnan arrives, very delayed cos at first she forgot to bring her ic.
dinner! was rice, xiaobaicai, fish nuggets and some weird thing. no disaters. haha. we tried to get janice's handphone and it resulted in amelia and wenyun getting a video of me, gilly and janice looking like.. we're going to bang janice??? like HUH?!?! dots. amelia we await your photos and videos (: OH AND MINGJIE TOO!! mingjie's videos and photos of friday's prac (: heehee. nudge nudge. i wish i have my own cam too! ahh.
okay. i shall just get on with the performance shall i.
7.00pm doors open, audience start coming in.
7.32pm jin she kuang wu opens the concert. haha. as usual the suona was out. after what seemed like ages, it was finally our turn. okay. so we assemble at the real backstage. hmm. dont think ppl were like nervous or anything. more like worried we'll gan pai too much and cant play. or go luan. haha. which did happen. and zongjin was like "im the only guy on this side. ..." yah. on stage left there was tianjiao, yingting, wenyun, amelia, amanda, janice, me, ruilin, mingjie, zhaomeng, shengnan, annnnd ZONGJIN. ahaha. the other side like. oh only got bian gu 1 were girls and the rest were guys. (: lol. AIYAH. mum couldnt identify who was darren.. XD okay then last was bingliang who went up in that. thing? dunno whats the name. ahaha. it's like we were all wearing unironed unwashed shirts on stage at the esplanade with glitter and glue in our hair and bingliang was there in his very very formal and expensive. shirt?. the contrast is hilarious. as in the clash was.. aiyah. nevermind. in what seemed to be five minutes, it was over. and we exited off stage. oh i was wearing blue socks and a necklace under the shirt. couldnt tell could you. hee. why the perf was screwed:
1. gan pai like nobody's business. everywhere. although i think bingliang kept on warning us not to gan. it's inevitable! aiyah. think all the bian gu gan-ed. haha. oops. so the xiao yue qi got no choice but to follow also.
2. messy, esp. at xxxx xx xxxx xx xxxx xx xxxx xx xxxx xx /x/x/x/x ... part. if you know what i mean.
3. and we were already to fast there wasnt much to jian kuai at /x /x /x /x /x /x /x /x (x4) and i got a little lost cos i think ruilin was lost and i was affected i guess. lol. but im not complaining. it was lousy but it was shuang XD. cos it was so damn fast.
4. wenyun screwed her part. according to her but i couldnt tell. anyway.
5. the stamping part still got ppl forgot to stop! argh.
basically i think there isnt much to complain. i liked it (: the audience liked it (: my expectations are very low lah. but you see, it's OVER. even if it's not good, what can you do? whatever you say also cannot change what happened. so let it go. dont fret about which
bar you didnt play good enough. your own concerts are never good enough do you realise?
so after the performance we disappeared back to the dressing room and continued playing bridge! yay. no actually wenyun and amelia went back first. oh to bring bingliang's extremely expensive. shirt. back to the the room. then we (janice me amanda yingting) went exploring the various levels of the backstage and the dressing rooms. we found out that our toilet was very ugly indeed. ANOTHER COMPLAIN TO THE LIST!! haha.. oh. before shengnan left we took a photo, thanks to jiali who took it for us (: again amelia, we await your photos and videos! please remember to upload them!! heehee.
the rjdaji ppl gave us a big packet of marshmallows and bottles of dried/fake flowers/plants with a splinter of drumstick with the word "劲(jing4)". damn cool. and some white stuff which i cant identify.
then we decided to thank them and we followed them to the green room where they were posing for photos. to be taken by gilly. [there's something going on..] yah. then we took a photo with the rj ppl. the ri ppl had hastily left during the intermission. and darren had made an appointment with janice to meet at j8 the following day at 11.30am to return him his chem matters book. mm. and i went as the lampost [aka dian deng pao]. he was late. ahem. anyway. yes. ziming was like "um actually we have 30 seconds (before we need to go on stage again)" and we had not taken the photo. yes. so we finally took it. and the rj ppl dashed off. (:
so we went back and played summore bridge and uno and took some final pictures of the dressing room namely from the door, from the toilet, of the toilet, of the room, of the door, of the mirrors. then it finally came to the end of the concert and we left. without helping them move the instrus lest they ask us not to block the way again. we left without saying goodbye and now we'll never ever see ziming, zongjin, mingjie, gilly, tian yang, michelle, barbara, tian jiao, ruilin, bingliang ever again. aiyah except wenyun who'll probably see bingliang for the rest of her life.. i dont think gilly will come back. will she! OKAY gilly you must come back!! mingjie also!! if you're free lah, cos we know you got a levels this year.. shengy says she might come back if she has the time. you'd better! lol. i dunno lah. it's up to you after all.
so ends my loong loong loong post on escapade @ esplanade. add on if you wish, but can you blog as another entry? (:
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