Friday, March 28, 2008.

yesterday was a BLAST. as in like a rocket blast.

3rdlang was as usual, except at around 3.30 the door closed on its own accord.The rain was seriously so heavy we could see it being blown into our class :O

After that was the mentally unsound bus ride to singaporeflyer from RI. That was when gohyuchen and chesterchen were playing charades. Yu Chen gave me a word ("requirement") - how does anyone do charades on that?

The flyer was STUNNING. As in, we were lucky that 1. the rain stopped. 2. it was at 6+, which meant that the sun would be beautiful and the surroundings not too bright. So we (aka quite a big group, including: Jeremy Sia, Yu Hsuen, Barry, me, Aaron, Fong, Yong Sheng, Daniel Tan, Daniel Lim, Ren Yan, Shing Bo, Wen Jie - all the RA freaks) had quite a bit of fun camwhoring like nobody's business (you pay $25 to camwhore mar.).

The pictures we got ranged from the obscene to the obscenely beautiful. Will show when I finish uploading.

Then Jeremy and I rushed to Marina Square (where I wolfed down a Carl's Jr. burger set (in full) while walking from Marina Square to VCH), and managed to get our seat just in time for the concert (YO concert if you didn't realise).

The first note was 1 tone sharp. (an A C# F# chord and an A C# E chord are like miles different), but Shostakovich's Festive Overture was nice (although the truth is that somewhere in the last desks of the 1st violin section someone was faking the runs). I thought that was the best opening I heard for quite some time.

Haydn was quite stale. It honestly bored me to death, even with the soloist being on form. Haydn is like that - either it rocks a lot or it sucks to the core.

Tchaikovsky's Symphony 5 in E Minor, Op. 64. Personally the 2nd mvt was a little too fast (If it's too fast it kind of loses the Andante part in it) and the horn solo, while quite accurate intonation-wise, was quite the wrong tone for such a solo. I felt the tone was a little sharp and glaring, which didn't suit my taste very well.

Faking as usual.

Last movement was good. I loved the extreme dynamics and some solos (bassoon solo's high A a little sharp), and the faking was done convincing enough.

Encore surprised me. It would have been better if they started from the beginning though. Still, the best piece of the day ending off the concert was a good choice.

I guess I am still in a daze. Love the Festive Overture theme a lot.

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