Today is Friday and some how it's a nice day to me as i'm going to Esplanade again lo! Today Esplanade will have Rock Band performance by some Band Competition winners at the Waterfront Outdoor Theatre. The attractive part of it is that the show is totally FOC (Free Of Charge)!
Woke up quite late in the morning (10.30a.m.)as i slept at 4 a.m. yesterday. This is all my laptop's fault, i was defragmenting it's drives yesterday and dozed off half way through. When i suddenly woke up, i just realised that the defragmentation failed and it's already 4 a.m. Damn! Wondering why my com took so long to defragment, fed up! Haha~~ Anyway, woke up and chatted with some friends until afternoon without any breakfast or lunch or brunch.... as if i'm on diet. Haha~~ Set off on my journey at about 5 like that. For the first stop i went to Bras Basah Complex. Boarded the bus without knowing my ez link credit dried up, the reader beeped....so embarassing, used cash in the end. Actually i went to Bras Basah to get a reed (a piece of vibrating 'wood' that creates sound for woodwind instruments) for myself. The reeds at the club are too fragile and easy to break so i wan to get one for myself. Bought it at Swee Lee (famous for it's music stuffs) and browsed for some instruments there. I'm drooling for the saxophone and the keyboards but they are all $1000+ SD, too expensive for me to afford. Probably get one after i got my job, haha~~ I'm quite angry with the staffs there as they have no efficiency. I paid them but just for me to get back my change, i waited for more than 10 minutes. They were busy with other stuffs such as some one who bought a 1000+ electric guitar so just ignored some one who just bought a piece of reed........unfair...... After that i went to the Mc Donald's next to Bras Basah Complex to have my brunch / linner or whatever. Carried on with my journey to Raffles City after that.
In fact, my destination is Marina Square and just passed by Raffles City. Oh my...Marina Square is so 'complex'....i almost lost my way in there. That's probably because they are upgrading and a lot of paths are blocked. It took me some time to find the Music Dreamer Live! Cafe （爱琴海民歌餐厅). It's another music cafe in Singapore other than the Ark Cafe at the Apollo Centre. Checked out the details on hiring singers and instrumentalists and i found out that the nearest audition is on the coming monday (10th Oct 2005) which i will not be able to make it as i will be in Malaysia at the time and i did not have my dear guitar with me. Anyway, i'll just wait for another session when school reopens, hoping that i can get myself a job as soon as possible. Oh.....i'm so money-minded, hiak hiak~~
Crossed over the road to Esplanade after the 'spying' session and went straight away to the Outdoor Theatre. However the show was still in preparation. Therefore i went 'lepakz' at the Library @ Esplanade. It's nice and comfortable inside (good for nap......bleargh). I simply browsed through some books on Jazz (however i'm not really familiar with it) then went down to the theatre again. The show finally started with a band called 'Bismuth'. I didn't actually enjoyed their performance as it is too......i don't know how to put it....just too noisy and doesn't suit my taste. I almost slept although the music was so loud. A bit disappointed but expecting something better from 'Audio Insanity' later. Repeated my the same thing at the library just to get rid of the interval. Then at last, it's 'Audio Insanity'!! They are really great and they have a quite complete band (drummer, keyboardist, bassist and guitarist) with a strong and poweful voice--the singer. If i have not mistaken, 'Audio Insanity' arose from the Song Composing Club of Ngee Ann Polytechnic and one of it's members is the Project Superstar Finalist, Derrick Hoh Wei Jian (Fans! Don't scold me if i spelled his name wrongly, haha~~). They are insanely great and quite professional i think. The female singer even sang Hero from Mariah Carrey which is an extremely difficult song to sing. Her skill is undeniable, great. People even encored for another song after that.
Hoho.... i'm so long winded huh. Paiseh la....i really enjoyed today. I'm going home to Malaysia tomorrow lo. Bye~~