so OMG.
when i reach there, the lobby was crowded.
i cant even find laurine.
=.=
good thing i saw wei kiat, tall enough.
lol.
i thought i was late but am not.
met up with laurine, man thing, ai ling, a few more trombonists, wei kiat and yi wen.
=)
even in the lift, too many malays squeeze in with us,
we all inhaled. haha. and lift was overload.
lol.
and i was being so bad. i counted the people who were not people we know,
"omg. so charm. 1,2,3,4,5.. uh.... "
and laurine understood what i meant.
=p
all the way, we laughed so much.
while waiting in the ballroom, jes called and said need our help.
but laurine and i couldnt get out cuz our tickets are not with us.
so jes got in before wei kiat come.
and i asked for our tickets and he thought our tickets are with laurine
and we all thought our tickets are with him.
=.=
so concert started with some tradisional music to welcome the guest.
then i felt the guy mc's voice is so familiar.
i was gonna ask jes and the female mc said "i'm fluorence tan" "saya ang..."
pop! i remembered. it's mr ang, my tuition teacher.
well, used to be lah.
lol.
next was sggs members played national anthem.
faint jor.
=x
after haswani conducted a few songs, it was nakamura's turn!
so excited.
their sound were so OMG.
you'll not believe it is live.
most of the time, you'll feel like you're hearing the mp3 you download from web.
they are truely one band one sound!
they even became choir.
sweet sound they have.
they're so talented!!
but too bad they are all small size.
they would be really pretty if they're taller.
i love all the songs they played.
the part where the mallets have solos, the trombone solos, trumpet solos and bass clarinet solos.
hehe.
they were so good!
especially the piccolo and flute soloist.
so omg!
she's so cute, have sweet smile and always played good solo.
i'll show you her pic, later on.
when it ends, everyone cheered for encore.
and mr ang so lame.
he kept stop them from playing.
keep say stuff like it ends here...
and the audience kept shout for encore.
so they encore about 4 to 5 songs.
they prepared so much.
=D
oh! and i like the disney songs which they wore the cute hats that bought from tokyo disneyland.
so cute.
there were stich, tiger, daisy ducks, minnie mouse etc etc.
it ends around 10.50pm.
we went and find mr ang.
he looks like agong with the malays costume on.
well, like wei kiat said, more like ah gong.
=p
cuz he couldnt recognize me and jes.
he just know we look familiar.
i said i'm amanda.
he was still blur.
he only remembered when i said i'm alex sister.
=.=
then it's very very long until he remember jes.
cuz he thought for so long and suddenly "oh! jesmine..."
=.=
we were waiting for the lift.
but crowded. plus js members wanna bring the timpani down.
so we thought of go to the front lift.
but worst.
crowded til sot jor.
and not allowed to use the staircase.
so we ran back to another lift.
not very long it was our turn ad.
we went in, and there were members from chung hua kuala lumpur in it with us.
the girl kept press the button non stop.
and the lift sot jor.
when it got to B2, we were stuck in the lift!
o.O
everyone was shock.
dont know who to call for help, plus handphone stated no network coverage.
and suddenly, the lift moved again.
frighten us.
and those people pressed B2, we got to basement.
and they wanted to go back up again.
but good thing i made decision to get out of the lift.
yay! we were safe then.
hehe.
got up the staircase and ran to the lobby.
phew!
what a frightening incident.
then i saw shayne there.
speaking about shayne,
he didnt recognize me.
=.=
i was sitting at the row behind him during concert,
and he sms-ed me.
but we decided to fool around cuz we thought he were fooling too.
but i got bored of it and felt wasting money.
so i sms-ed him to ask him to turn to his right and look back.
he looked very very far away.
=.=
until i called out and he was like so shock.
LOL.
and when he showed me the msg in his phone,
sort of frighten me.
=.=
so i got home around 11.45pm
i sms-ed laurine, called her didnt answer.
then only i remember her phone dont have battery ad.
i sms-ed her mum's hp but no reply.
i thought she'll call back or so.
but she didnt and i fell asleep.
too tired.
=/
__________________________________________________________
WORKSHOP DAY
by 4.30am, i woke up.
i checked my phone and i saw wei kiat's msg.
i didnt get what he meant at first, but after thinking for a while,
i understood.
i felt like killing shiling at that moment.
haha.
but, still i didnt have the full details about the workshop thingy.
and i couldnt sleep.
so i waited til 7am and called laurine.
but she didnt asnwer my calls.
i called like around 10 times.
=.=
whilie waiting, i sms-ed wei kiat to ask him to lend me his sticks cuz i dont have mine with me.
then i couldnt wait anymore.
i decided to call her house.
cuz i called the others and no one answered my call.
felt so sorry for disturbing so early.
finally i get to talk to laurine.
but, then, no one is going to the workshop.
which means am alone.
i succesfully contacted shiling after many calls with different numbers.
cuz she's at her relative's house.
phew! she said okay when i ask her to go along.
but one thing, i have to went all the way down to new jetty to pick her up.
luckily we weren't late.
they didnt start at all until 9am.
but we were so charm.
dont know where to sit.
wei kiat wanna put us with js since there's only two of us.
but seats full.
he asked us to sit with chchs, but we didnt want to.
while waiting, shiling did not have any drum pad or sticks.
funny.
she got drum pad from wei kiat, sticks from tee yeau.
luckily it started and everyone is divided according to sections.
while standing there and wait, shi ling dont wanna hold on to her bottle anymore.
we went put on top of tee yeau's car.
haha.
then i helped shiling to sms-ed him to let him know.
very funnily, he replied me " 'on' my car? "
soon, the session starts.
it was introduction 1st.
we felt so shy.
=/
they asked which school are we from.
there were pei hua jb, pfs, chchs, js, chung hua kl, union, and when it was our turn,
tee yeau helped us to answer.
oh thank you so much!
then it's individual introduction.
started from pei hua johor bahru to pfs to bm high.
then it's gonna be our turn.
shiling and i were so nervous.
and tee yeau were saying cold jokes.
lol.
luckily we were loud enough, did not asked us to repeat again.
=D
and it's the nakamura girls' turn.
they're nazuki, yuki, mika and the other one, i forgot.
=(
then we were divided in to groups again.
chung hua kl, union and us, pcghs were one group.
our instructor was Yuki!
=D
she taught us a lot of stuff.
but we sort of have communication problem.
lol.
she told us she's not very good in english.
but somehow, we did communicate well.
=D
see, this is what we call music is our language.
haha!
when words fail, music speaks.
=)
she is so geng.
there's nothing she dont know.
but somehow, all those stuff she taught, shiling and i ad know all.
so no questions were asked from the two of us.
and we sort of feel boring.
but after we got to latin percussion, it was quite fun,
with yuki kept laughing so much.
then haswani came and stopped us all.
cuz it's gonna be combine time!
woot!
while waiting for them to arrange the chairs and brass and woodwinds to get back to the hall,
we took picture with yuki.
hehe.
actually i wanted her email only.
but then since she was so nice, i asked for a picture too.
=p
this is my instructor for the day, Yuki Arimizu.
=)
then, while still waiting, Mitsuo Nonami have got nothing to do,
so we decided to take picture with him.
asked wei kiat to be our cameraman.
haha.
and he helped us to ask nonami too.
i thought he's those strict type one.
haha.
after that, they combined.
cuz there were too many percussionists and not enough instruments.
most of us just sat down and listen.
omg. like haswani said,
"with different races, age, sex from so many different bands, you guys played as one band one sound"
yes, seriously, it was really one band one sound
well, only if you dont fuss about those little tiny mistakes for this session.
it was damn nice and good.
i was sitting behind nakamura's trumpeters.
so nice!
=D
then, nakamura performed for us again.
and it's all different songs from those they played in yesterday night concert.
they really do prepare a lot.
while waiting for them to get ready,
shiling and i were searching for seats, then wei kiat called out to us.
he have saved two seats for us beside him.
and this shiling, damn charm.
she purposely sit on outer one.
let me sit with wei kiat and say "must one"
=.=
luckily both wei kiat and i are chincai people.
and we're always sort of on this xi-guan-jiu-hao situation.
so like we say, let them continue to say.
as long as we do not have anything like them say,
just ignore.
cuz definitely will meet such things one.
haha.
but i really wanna whack shiling.
haha.
actually nothing one.
but because of one message she sent.
luckily someone complain to me.
haha.
by then the nakamura is ready.
they played another version of disney songs again.
with all those cute hats again.
let me show you.
well, shiling, me, wei kiat and yi wen were sitting in last row.
exactly by the wall, so we stood to watch.
and stood on chair to take pics.
lol.
they played lion king too!
and song from merry poppins!
so nice.
was sort of swaying along to the music with wei kiat.
haha.
cuz shiling only stood and watch, yi wen was standing on the chair taking videos.
at last, they wanted to play a very last song for us.
mr ishizaka said we cant have anymore encore cuz they needa head to jitra.
sad.
but then they changed their mind.
they didnt play the last song.
instead they sang us two songs.
edelweiss and white christmas.
oh so nice!
so it ends and while waiting for people to clear off 1st,
i told wei kiat something.
hahaa.
laughed til charm.
oh and i wanna kill shi ling at that moment.
then they were starting to pack things.
while waiting for my mum to pick us up.
tee yeau, wei kiat, yi wen, shiling and i were chatting.
and tee yeau acted like a kid.
haha.
when we take pictures witht the nakamura members,
he will faster run to us and use his cam to take for us.
then it's his turn.
lol.
this is the cute piccolo and fulte soloist i've been telling you all.
she's Aya Uemura.
she's so sweet.
but if you see her during the practice session,
haha! she's fierce.
she scolded her member for doing things very slowly.
oh! dont bother bout me.
i'll get another one from tee yeau.
he took for me in his cam too.
next is this girl, i do not know which instrument she play.
but she's the tallest girl in the band.
if not mistaken, her name is Arisa Suenaga.
and tee yeau took with her too.
and he was like luckily she's not taller than him.
=.=
lol.
while waiting, we sort of bullied tee yeau.
=p
yi wen showed her a pic,
it was quite near his face but not very near,
but he back off so much so that he can see it.
and we all started to say he's lao hua ad!
haha.
then wei kiat say let's give him face, say he has long sightedness nicer.
lol.
oh and i took picture with my new friend,
yi wen.
after we took the pic, i asked her what's her name.
she told me it's yi wen.
and i was shock.
cuz she's the one that wei kiat gave me her number before.
just that i do not know her.
lol.
here, this is yi wen.
she's bagan jaya's vice president.
=)
okay, back to nakamura gakuen girls wind orchestra.
they were not affected by anything!
even the audience clapped along and their tempo is still stable.
they have all these 360 degress styles.
but the volume and quality of their sound never got affected.
and they dont look tired at all after playing more than 13 songs plus singing.
and, they're all small size girls.
but the energy they have, the speed they breathe in air into their body,
the knowledge they have, the friendlyness they have,
they're never arrogant!
if you were there, i'm sure you will keep on shouting encore and dont want the night to ends.
the running notes they played, semiquavers non stop but still clear and loud enough.
the cymbalist played semiquavers, dare to muffled the cymbal with enough strength on the body, etc etc, they never played once with any air in it.
which means feng sheng laah.
they're incredible.
they're amazing.
they're fantastic.
they're awesome.
they're stunning.
they're marvelous.
Nakamura Gakuen Girls' High School Wind Orchestra,
i love you girls!
haha.
especially to yuki.
thanks to her so much.
she tried her best to teach us as much as possible even though she cant communicate well in english.
i pitied her so much.
she was like suffering to understand all those questions that were asked by chung hua kl.
but she never feel frustrated to teach us.
and at the end, she even asked for my name.
and she remembered me and smile to me when she's heading to the bus.
=)
too bad i didnt take pic with mika.
i knew this from tee yeau, mika is 17!
but she is shorter than shiling and me.
too bad.
nakamura, gambatteh!
hope to see you girls in penang soon again.
they're heading to jitra now.
=)
btw, merry christmas everyone!
loadsa loves to all my friends.
=D
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