Saturday, October 22, 2005

there's ALWAYS sunshine after the rain!!!

phew! its over! :)

a 5min performance (yes i know i walked noisily.. cos my shoes were too big due to the contraction of my feet thanks to the cold backstage and so they slipped out before i could even take a bow) that required an entire holiday of practice! i so wanted to SQUEAL and LAUGH OUT LOUD in delight once i finished playing both pieces but i knew i couldn't do so in front of the audience. ;)

i realised that performing on stage.. (especially for piano, and not as much for band), usually means that a lot of ACTING and FAKING is going on. -.- even when anyone makes a mistake.. we still have to confidently play on and not wince or shake our heads or anything like that. to put it simply, we have to be CONVINCING. like having to convince people that we are pros by looking like one. =P well. even the most egoistical of people could hide their nature by being SHY.. so what else could i say? HAHA. ailay said my fingers never stopped moving and they looked like they were prancing and dancing around on the piano. o well. i suppose they were jumping from one octave to a few others all around the piano at some point of time! and woohoo! the piano was l33t. its the echo i'm talking about, as well as its price. a 6-figure sum i heard. hefty!!! its a concert grand by Steinway & sons, one of the most expensive/best brands in the world.. so there u have it! we all sounded good on it. LOL.

all in all. i had a funny hair day.. and the hairdo was SO EXTREMELY DIFFICULT to wash off.. cos the auntie used her hairspray sparingly.. as though her hairspray was totally free. PLUS. she used my hair as the rubberband and twirled it around along with those super thin kind of black rubber bands. OUCH. it hurt BOTH when she tied my hair and when i was untying my hair. and a single bobby pin was poking the back of my head the ENTIRE time from 1+pm onwards! AND of course. HORRIBLE make up! cheryl claimed that i look super white on stage due to the lack of make up.. but she already shadowed my eyes with tons of baby blue!! wahaha. another "SPARING" woman. my poor pimpie was bleeding or something as foundation was dabbed all over my face. i bet that pimpie on my chin was overly-irritated AND aggravated so its on strike today. it DOES NOT WANT TO MAKE ANY EFFORT TO HEAL ANYMORE! - although it was already healing before this! so this morning, i woke up with a pimple with 4 heads. yes. FOUR YELLOW DOTS. i've never seen anything like it before. now isn't that sick?

and after sacrificing an entire holiday, they still expect me to work on the next one.. whereby i'll haf to go through this audition thing to be able to be one of the performers for our next recital at NAFA. of cos, they're EXPECTING me to do a duet this time round.. but i hardly have any time to get ready for anything (is 1 month enough?). *gets reminded of the fact that they want me to use my free days to practise the piano in school - especially possible duetting with cheryl*. =/ u should've guessed that i'm sulking by now and i'm NOT looking forward to next semester AT ALL. my only free days have to be given to them. yucks.

aniwae. the lan zi (that's his fav word - it means basket) president thinks we did well for this performance ;) so all in all its alright i guess. i'd still prefer to perform as a group more than anything else. playing alone just seems so.. lonely and attention-seeking. LOL. dun get me wrong. i'm not scolding lan zi president with any thing like "basket".. is just that he likes to call us lan zi men (basket people) -.- for some reason or other so i decided to nickname him the lanzi president.

i love the 7 latin duets and hungarian dance. haha. hungarian dance is an EXCITING song. the notes just run up and down the piano n i'm so glad gloria and hernying performed their BEST on stage! :D

aniwae time to go back to sch to settle ticketing issues.

i really wanna thank those who turned up.. funai and gang, shereen & company, rebecca n her friend, ailay and her friend, doo doo and unknown, jiahui and han, mom and dad, huiying + eling, charlene + friend/bf and i'm sure i missed out lots of other people but know that u're not forgotten & that ur presence was deeply appreciated!! this sounds so flowery but o well - some things are simply true and have to be said in this manner. lol. u guys made this all possible :) and i'm really sorry for not having enuff time to entertain everyone.
bee at 4:08 AM