Friday, June 23, 2006

whoa first time i'm so enthusiastic about writing in this li'l space.. but where there's time and thought, the fingers start punping! haha lamo. :P

Just reached home from yet another busking stint.. last one for the holidays but certainly not the last for this year!!! Got the principal's daughter's wedding at FULLERTON to play at in July, i think.. plus another one that came as a request only today!

Met several interesting people- a friendly caucasian lady who told her friend while passing that 'this group sounds really good when they play' (!!! WOW WE DO???); a guy who found yan shao extremely familiar but couldn't figure out who he was (sis and I thought the guy looked familiar too, but oh well i find too many people familiar anyway!); a well-groomed lady beyond her prime who claimed to be waiting for her husband, ex-RJC principal to come out of Isetan to listen to us play and who in the meantime told us her life story of how she was brought up with music, how the shoulder-rest used to be place above the chin rest, how she played at this huge gala where the concert master left the seat to attend to something else and she played instead 'can you believe it, i just took her violin and i played!' (we never saw the husband, though); the entire history department from national junior college (haha. guess how many?); and a mime busker who painted his face all white and pretended to be some cheap electricity-run clown (what do you call them, still art??). Yea, amazing day though we didn't earn nearly as much as the last time. More enjoyable though so i guess it was worth it. PLUS the group directly after us played somethingood out by calling in just minutes before their slot to say that they weren't coming! We filled up almost their entire slot anyway.. so we don't feel too bad about not getting much donations! (we were more interested in playign pieces that interested us than what the public wanted- how many times can you play pachebel and not bore yourself to tears?!)

BEST OF ALL, there was this really really interesting lady who came to approach us to play for he wedding- at the Asian Civilisations Museum!!! How cool is that! Funny though, she hadn't heard us play previously and didn't stay to hear us play. She even asked us to decide how much we wanted her to pay us!!! WAY COOL!!! hahhhaaaa this year's been so fun! can't wait for fullerton, can't wait for ACM! anxious about preparationand the playing, but woa we've actually got these two deals, just like that! i only hope that everyone else isn't in it for the money, cos it's really the experience that matters! of course, money does make things a lot sweeter- especialy for someone whohasn't worked all her life! yea yea spoilt kid, that i am. can't blame me for excessive parental attention though! just lucky i guess. (or not.)

woohooooo im so high (but tired and sleepy) that i can't make myself study right now. against my conscience, it seems :P might do a little more beading now that i'm fresh back from europe and brimming (well not quite so much lar) with ideas... dreaming of a webbie that i can sell these things on... gotta figure out the 'paypal' monstrosiy though.. technology is so not for me. apart fromt he brilliant inventions called the air-con though! hahha soooo Red-Dottish. Oh well. Maybe there is a national identity after all.

hmmm

starting to open up more and more to the computer (more liek to the world) now. must be habit. a dangerous habit. i'm pretty sure i'll never literally pour my soul out to this thing though.

oh well.

cya another time!
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