Hi!

Hmmm lemme do a recap of this week.

Set piece distributed, very "Singaporean", "Singapore Sunrise, Night Safari"? Probably taking things too far~ And Kinchun loves scaring us, so he proved to us that there is a semi-long perc solo. Full Day Sectionals. So We Practice The Set Piece. Well not "we". Yuchen was still (lagging behind) at Carmen. Sikai is trying out his marimba part, and always falls out of timing. Wow my snare drum part suuure is tough! Horrible rhythm to play with. And OMG Jerald is taking the toms *gasp*

Wednesday was our only performance for the entire holidays. With only 5-6 hrs of practice with our new set piece, we had to perform in front of a live audience. And I assure you, it's scary knowing how much you can screw up. Luckily Winston saved us by asking us to play only till the ad lib portion. No need to play Safari :), or to improvise. Oh, and now Kinchun traded his part for mine, so now I get the bass drum. The only motive was to continue Kinchun's streak of not playing da tambourine for a performance. :( Why, why did I switch parts with him?

TODAY! First concert with Mr Oura in a long while. It would probably be the boringest one too, if not for the wacky and comical Mr Oura o.O And he screwed up the trumpets nicely, together with Sikai. *gasp* Sikai is soooo out of timing. If he was trying his best to follow "big brother #2" and Mr Oura, it wouldn't be a problem. Apparently he (Sikai) was very much exhausted and out of energy. So he pretty much screwed up our section, and Safari. Not to mention the sec 1s' incessant talking. Throughout concert. Wonder why Sikai cannot get the timing right... and I still wonder why I swapped parts with Kinchun :(
So the tambourine seemed broken, the bass drum wheel came off, and a whole lot of fun playing ad lib. Did Mr Oura mention about playing either Sunrise or Safari? If we played ONLY Sunrise then we won't have to worry anymore~

Hmmm.... I shall leave Mr Oura's wacky jokes to be told by some other perc.