Con Brio

eee such an unoriginal name. I wonder who came up with it.

Dhruv: "I can't wait for Saturday. Because then it'll be over..." Of course I wanted to smash him up when he said that...

But anyway it's concert day. And what better way to start it off than to come for band prac late?

Jump to rehersal rehearsal. That stage was small! Note to self: bring a pack list, and use it to pack everything to fit in the stage. Besides the humiliation (right in front of sec 1s) and the multitude of scoldings, we got a laugh during WWYW rehearsal.

Ben: "Welcome to No Brainer"
Mr Oura: "No wonder whistle so lousy. I don't blame you..."

I wonder why we didn't practice Small World. I wouldn't have screwed it up due to memory... lapses.

Dinner quickly passed. Jerald you still owe me $1.20-50c! I fitted into my undersized coat, and we headed out...

Premature entrance? We were stoning there for like 3 minutes, while watching the audience come in. It was super tense! When I saw seniors like Paul and Aaron I was like, omg... not that I didn't expect them to come, but it was their hopes they had for us. And judging by what Mr Oura said earlier on, we're probably going to let them down.

We start Carmen off with a bang - Ferdian's snare drum timing was off. Eep. But anyway. Carmen. The song that the Sec 4s have been playing since Sec 2.

Ben: "Next year we shouldn't play Carmen"
Jerald: "About time!"

Mononoke. The song that I don't remember playing before.

Mr Oura: "Who sung Mononoke WWYW?"
Some guy: "Snow White!"

Snow Caps!!! =( If there was one thing that night I'd really wanted to hear us play Snow Caps well, and bowl over the audience, and to make Mr Oura happy. That clearly did not happen. We screwed up big time. I screwed up too. And at the end of it all I was really sad. I really hope there'll be a second chance to perform this.

Dunno who: "This author likes perc solos"

Ocean... dates all the way back to SYF '07. Seems so far back, doesn't it? Then we played it out really well. But it's a different story now. Perhaps we've lost the emoness of the song. Anyway during the June hols I went on a cruise... where around you was water, water and water. So like David I wanted to take a picture of a sunrise out in the ocean. On that fateful day it rained, we were forced to stay indoors. Anticlimatic.

Forgot who: "Lets create an ocean on the stage"

Interval was the peak of the night. Ventured out there, to be greeted by Zhuf, Jianwei and Brian. Awww... another reason why your seniors are so great. They're behind your back supporting you every step of the journey. Everyone recieved a flower and a pencil. Flimsy flowers =S but it's the thought that counts, as always.

Then after retiring back to the backstage, I realised that this was going to be my last concert with the sec 4s. In particular, Kinchun, since this is going to be the second time we're going to be separated. If things go well we'll get separated a third time (irony, irony). Anyways investiture is looming around the corner, and before we know it leadership will be in our hands. But back to the Sec 4s... as so many seniors have said, treasure them while you can.

Okay nothing much else happened in the other songs xD Me Kinchun and Jerald were gagging backstage with every crash Si Kai made. The Double Encore featured Small World, which I believe took the audience away. Even the audience started singing! So touching =) that probably was the main part of the night. What a wonderful ending.

Mr Oura: "I got rhythm, I got rhythm..."

Supper with Kenneth Jerald Daobo Matthew Eric. *yawn* hey people need to sleep you know.