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Thursday, November 23, 2006

Rooming with Mr Chan

Grr, this is the second time im writing this, cus i have no idea why the first didnt appear on the blog,
As requested, i shall talk about the nights that i spent rooming with Mr Chan. It didnt turn out to be what i had expected, the kind of sheer dominance over me. In fact it is the direct opposite from the horrifying+no freedom kind of 3 nights.
One thing that i should let you all know before i start is that I must say Mr Chan is a nice person, maybe you guys should try to room with him one day, i mean i must count myself lucky to be the first and most probably the last person to room with him in the entire history of ACS orchestra. Woohoo
Nothing really happen during the first night, but i managed to get into he room before anyone else could as they need to settle the rooming list at the lobby while i went upstairs. He went on to meet Mr Andrew Bernadi downstairs and told me to shower and sleep whenever i like to. I was actually quite amazed at how neat the room was when i stepped in, nothing close to a room that has been used for quite a number of days, and the best part is that he apologised to me at the lobby about how messy i think it will be =.= Chris came up to my room when i showered and did some seating plan to be printed in the programme. All we talked about was news happening in Singapore where i kept him updated on the GST and so on, then we went to sleep.
Second night was better than the first, or at least i wasnt freaking out as much, and i wasnt as tired as before. Talked about random stuff, mostly music though and of course about the orch, how i felt about it. Chris and Eka came up to do the newsletter thing and discussed about the pieces we shall play for SYF next year, but i think i fell asleep when he played andrew lloyd weber theme and variations on his laptop, nice melody, but i have no idea he played that for what, hypnotise me sia. Bernstein is a wonderful piece to try though.
Third night we talked about one issue and one big issue only, about relationship. and i slept at 1am that night, and i must say that whatever he say is indeed very applicable to all of us, though some of it is usually what one will say in a relationship, i mean the whole topic started off with "do you have a gf". and he talked about his wife and past gf and whatever (secrets, haha, im not telling anyone else).
3 nights isnt a lot, neither is it vert short. I was sort of looking forward to the 4th night as i didnt really dare to leave the room. It sort of felt weird when i told him i will be visitng Bryan's room, then he asked for what, so i decide to say Bryan told me to go when i knew the answer was " to play lar" obviously. And the funniest thing is when mrs Li asked the whole orch to check if your room mate is here after lunch and all i did was wave to Mr Chan, then boith of us smiled.
At least everything fell into place, which could be seen on sunday's night dinner where we had a very long sessions before dinner...
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One thing i forgot to mention in my previous post was the art of taking photos myself. Most of the photos i took was by myself and by the third day, so many people were trying to master the art of it, and i was pro by then =P

Every beginning has and end, experience it throught the process and remember it through photos. Now we are back at home, lets just continue and move on, though these memories will indeed last forever

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