Part 5: 30 July, First Alumni Prac, Raffles Re-winds

It was the first alumni prac for the new concert, Coda Raffles Re-winds. Been talking quite a lot with Peiyan, so we discussed and decided to meet up for lunch before the practice started. We had ban mian at S-11! Very nice. A good hot meal on a cold rainy day is heavenly. We talked about lots of stuff. From our futures to nothing and everything in between. It was a fairly comfortable first lunch I had with Peiyan, the mood was light, the weather was nice, the food was good.

Alumni practice was a disaster. There were so few people around and I didn't warm up properly. And that caused me to be tired quickly. The pieces that were tried were also crazily difficult. 7th Night of July (Tanabata), Highlights from Chess, Phantom of the Opera, some 9-11 piece (major trumpet parts), Carmina Burana, Alvamar Overture, etc. Really, really tiring for me to play first throughout. But it was fun to hold my instrument again after a period of inactivity since A Tempo.

Went to eat afterwards with Yahui and her seniors. I like Yahui (as a person), but her seniors were just a little weird for me. We had dinner at Thai Express and I ordered the pineapple rice (which was great), but it wasn't as good as the one Yahui ordered (olive rice and chicken, something like that).

We parted our ways soon after. Yahui came over to my place and I tried teaching her how to play Warcraft 3. But to no avail, she fell asleep instantly because she had like stayed up the past 2 nights playing World of Warcraft with Huawei. She slept rather long before we finally ate the prawn mee that my parents left me for dinner and then she went home.

All in all, quite a fun weekend. On to Part 6..I'm still way behind the present..sheesh.