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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Yesterday I had a casual outdoor jamming session with my 2 guitarists outdoors (Ren and Faiz).
First off, I was 45 minutes late in meeting one of them. If you know me, I have a really hard time meeting people or attending classes on time. And then the other guitarist was slightly LATER than me. Then we walked towards the Esplanade direction, we passed by the big underground open space and there were BMX bikers? there practising some stunts. I didn't want to hear their bikes continually crashing on the floor so we decided to walk on and find a quieter place for jamming. We passed by the underground corridors where there was a long row of pictures on one side of the wall. Supposedly to bring out the artsy side of Singaporeans. Then we arrived at the Esplanade, Ren wanted to jam on the normally empty open stage but it was all set up on that day. So it meant a band was going to perform there later. There were already groups of youths sitting around on the lounge-like chairs provided in front of the stage. When we passed by the area, we felt eyes on us and Ren said they probably thought we were the performers. SO we walked outdoors after that and do you know the huge bridge a little distance away from the Esplanade? Well apparently, they've installed a mist-making device there, so we had some fun walking through the thick mist and chilling out there for a while, feeling all refreshed. Two people even took photos of the 3 of us playing around with the mist.
Then we found an abandoned tent to sit and play under, near the tall war monument. There were like, hundreds of mosquitoes who took the opportunity to bite us like nobody's business. It was a lovely day to be jamming outdoors, but Ren had to keep tuning his guitar after playing a song once through every time because of the humid weather. Some tourist even secretly tried to take a picture of us, and I didn't know until he walked off, and Faiz told me.
After playing for an hour or so, we walked over to the former city hall building i think. They had a red carpet rolled out at the entrance and people were hanging around there. And there were banners advertising the Binale, so I guess the place is open to the public at the moment. While we were waiting to cross the road, I saw workers setting up some structures, and was told they were going to be the F1 seats!! What. I then looked down and saw that the road looked newly paved and smooth and was stunned for a moment. And like, whispered in awe, "the F1 cars are going to race over HERE in a few week's time right?". Haha, come on. Tell me you would be excited too! It's going to be Singapore's first time hosting an F1 event later on this month and it's going to be F1's first night race. Is it not cool or what?
So moving on to today. My parents are out now to Chan Brothers travel fair and they are looking to book a tour package to Egypt for the whole family in mid-December. They told us to give them other options in case the Egypt package had no more vacancies. Turkey/Greece was thrown up. And I examined the globe at the piano table, thinking where else we might be interested in going. I wanted India but no one was really interested. Well I'm not interested in Egypt, all sand and sun and history. But since the whole family wants to go, I have to quietly settle for that. Anyway, like i said, I was looking at the globe and my dad was mocking me. And then I suggested, 'West US, Hawaii' and then he said 'US in the winter? are you using your brains?' something like that. And I got all mad and said, 'i don't think it snows in the west of US'. does it? and then, 'you told us to suggest some more places, there's my suggestion.' And then he said, 'well, i don't need your suggestion' and i was like, 'fine! eff you. i leave it to you now. whatever.' I didn't actually say the F word (cuz then i'd probably get beaten up) but I was really very angry with his stupid childish comments and insinuations. Whatever. Let it go. He's the one paying, he can boss around all he wants.
I really am not looking forward to this next family vacation. I have stories to tell about my family vacations over the years but that will be another blog entry for another time.
Oh, my parents just called home. It seems we're going to Turkey on 15th Dec for 10 days.
For now, Happy Lunar festival, everyone! I know people are celebrating only because my home is situated in front of the Chinese Gardens and there was a long line of cars going in there for hours last night. And tonight as well i'm guessing.
2:07 PM