Last two weeks ago, my mum asked me whether I would like to go for the music concert on two different dates. At my first though was went 'Hmmm.....' as I though I was really interesting to join in with my dad for the evening concert since she not always so keen to see the concert very often. Then she past two tickets to me and asked me to go concert with my older sister, Esther. I was wondering about it and asked her: "Uh.... mum, then what about you and dad? Aren't you guys going for the night concert?" That when mum told me about their reason: they had invitation cards from someone for the wedding dinner on the actually day for the concert!! And not one but two different wedding dinners on the same dates which fell on 13 of Sept and 27 of Sept....The same date that they supposed to go for the concert so that was why we both of us as the sisters had to go and see the music concert..... ^_^;
On last Saturday(13/9/08) I was having review for the Math subject due to the porpoised date so I went back to school in the afternoon. After that, I went back home and changed out for the concert before going out with sister. At that point of time, we were in a hurry for it as it was started at 8:00 PM shape so we took the taxi instead. After a long trip through the expressway road as it was full with heavy traffic, we manged to reach the Conference Hall in time. Although it was just few minutes before started the programme, I went to the counter at level 3 to get the programme booklet. But..... uh..... I end up bought two instead of one because there was a box for others to drop money into when bought the booklet and nobody had the small change for me as I had only two dollar note with me so I dropped in the note and took two booklets with me. Geez.... sister must had mad at me for buying two booklets. ^^;;
For the concert, Zheng Elegance which was performed in set of 'zheng' series together with the Chinese Orchestra group. The main conductor guest was Quek Ling Kiong for the concert performation. Here are the list for the item songs
1)The Soul of Mount Tai
2)Mooring at Night by Maple Bridge
3)The Overlord-Xiang Yu
4)Wind of Falling Plum Blossom*
5)Melodies of Hanjiang#
6)Butterfly Dream
*Origin composed by Xu Jian Qiang
#Combine solo group without orchestra
'The Soul of Mount Tai' was just the piece of sound and poem music about the mount in part of China.This composer was impress about the mount during the visit trip.The 'Butterfly Dream' was based on an essay from 'On Equality of Things' by Zhuang Zi which was mixed of emotion of dreams through fanesty of the illsuiltion.The 'Melodies of Hanjiang' was the origin music composed of 'Han Jiang' and 'Narrative Song' thus it had named for the both music. The most favour which I liked so far were 'The Overlord-Xiang Yu', 'Mooring at Night by Maple Bridge' which based on the Kun opeara and the origin composed piece by China composer, Xu Jian Qiang's 'Wind of Falling Plum Blossom'. 'The Overlord-Xiang Yu', was composed about late army's leader, Xiang Yu. The 'Wind of Falling Plum Blossom' was one of master Xu Jian Qiang's work and it was based the Zhejiang folk opera 'Little Red Plum Blossom' which the story was about the Chinese ancient lady's longings for her lover who left in a faraway distance in a deep emotion of feelings and moods. After the concert, my sister asked me to call my parents to pick up us as we not had our dinner yet.
On the following week which was on 27/9/08, Saturday, we went out early for the concert this time, Music of No Boundaries. But.... the only problem was that we had to walk to the Conference Hall from the MRT station once we arrived by train. Because, there was happening on F1 race track that blocked some of the road junction so we had to find way to get there. When we finally reached the Conference Hall, we had to get into the concert hall before the performation started soon. Here were the items for the performation:
1)The Worship
2)Erhu Rhapsody No.4*
3)The Carefree Journey*
4)The First North West Suit
-3rd movement:Thinking of my Dearest
-4th movement:The Stone Slab Waist Drum
*Note:These were composed by the music conductor, Kuan Nai Chung
Althrough the concert was wonderful at that evening as the music was really great, at least some of the pieces were very long of playing so I guess I have to make this long story into short- 'Erhu Rhapsody No.4' and 'The Carefree Journey' were the longest pieces I ever heard before, yet I almost fell asleep during the concert. 'Erhu Rhapsody No.4' was base historical story,"Wei Ji Returns Han" which was story about a lady that filled with misfortune. It was played solo on erhu that was why this piece was so long as this contained four movements, Prelude,Chaos of War, Hatred and Love and lastly, Emotion and Responsibility.
'The Carefree Journey', was also a long play but at least had three movements- Mountains, Clouds and Market in the Mountain Village. This piece was recomposed about the wonderful place in the universal which date back as many as two thousand years ago.'The First North West Suite' has the four movement parts in this piece. However, for the night concert, they played at least the last two movements, Thinking of my Dearest and The Stone Slab Waist Drum. The most interesting pieces were 'The Worship', 'The Carefree Journey' and 'The North West Suite' Why? Well, worthy to listen them after all. Espleasing one of the movement pieces from 'The North West Suite'. 'The Worship' was the music piece of so called ceremony of worship in the countryside. During the inter-break, both of us had our sandwhichs with us for dinner. It was just homemake sandwhichs. And we had to eat at outside from the concert hall.
Well, after the performation concert, my older sister loves some of music so much, she asked dad about the CD of orchestra so that she can burn out into MP3 songs indeed. Ha ha ha ha.... glad that she's not so tried about the music after all. X>
Saturday, 27 September 2008
Thursday, 4 September 2008
Japanese Summer Festivest 2008
Last month on August (23/8/08) was the Japanese Association of Singapore(JAS) very own Summer Festivest. Each every year during the summer, the festivest starts at around 5~6 o'clock in the evening(sunset time). This last for few hours in the evening till 10~11 PM sharp at most. Sometimes, 9:30 PM is the latest to close the festivest. And this usually find in Japan during the summer. The only reason for holding this festivest is not only aim to the Japanese people who work and live in Singapore, is also to share with other Singaporeans enjoying the festivest.
Last year, I went out with one of my sisters and her friend to the Japanese school where the main festivest was held. But this year, I went alone to meet one of the friends of my sister at the school because my older sister had the birthday party to attend while my younger sister is now at the oversea for language study. Never mind about that, let's move on.
As I reached around 5 minutes before 5PM, there were alot of people quening from one point to the end of the line. As I had no ticket with me, so I joined the quene line. If I had that early, I would problemy get into the school. But, after waited for few mintures, the quene became smaller as many people went in after buying tickets so fast. OK, that wasn't bad at all. But..... the wost one comes when I joined in the line for 'Yukata' outfit!! EEK! Soooo...... many girls queuing up for the loan of 'Yukata'(more than the guys' quene, and just got their own outfit already), I just nearly drop dead. Luckily for me I had my own 'Yukata' as my birthday present early so I couldn't worry about loaning one. After waited for two hours, finally I got in for the change. By the time I got done with outfit it was around 7 plus in the evening. That was nothing time to lose so I hanged around for items, food and the games to play. I played the fishing net to catch the ball.Fishing net is one of the games feature for the Summer festivest in Japan in order to catch as many fish as you can. Only after you caught the fish into the bowl, you are allowed to bring fishes home. But in this case, I brought that mini ball back home. Following that, I played bowling pin and throw ball hold game. Just before that, I bought the Japanese chicken with rice for my dinner and a pair of cloak shoes. Later, I played the Yoyo ball(which is supposed to be diffencult to catch by just using a paper string that tied around the hook and hooking into the loop of stinges of one of the yoyos' that look like the balloon to you....) and I dropped off mine hook because of sudden break from the stinge. Well, in the end, I took yoyo back home. Then once more, I did try on my luck to play the bowling again. Still I got nothing prize for winning expect for mini gifts. During the festivest, there was raining going on that evening so the everyone on the filed had to move the indoor for the concert. Although that was nothing much for me to see, so I went round again and bought a cup of warm coffee(well I don't drink this much offen) and a stick of ice-cream(which I choosed green tea as my favour one). Later that, I met the good friend of one of my sisters with two other girls who were having mini picnic there on the dry spot so I joined them for some chit-chat. Just then, I spot the group of band that I never saw before my eyes. Although I haven't watch the band competition before so I went up to one of the band members which was their lead singer just for a small. I mean a SMALL talk. After that we had a group photo together with their friend within the background of the filed. Right after 9:30 PM, it was time for me to go home. Said goodbye to them and left for Expos by shutter bus to take MRT train which took me to the Changie Airport. I went back home in 'Yukata' outfit all the way home unlike last year(because I had to loaned that outfit for the festivest so in the end, I had to return it back before I went home)
That was fun through all festivest but only a mirror problem about the quene.... next year onwards that will be same festivest right same place at the same time but I not too sure if the outdoor stage will be there all because the bad weather these days. Hopefully, there will be more excite things coming ahead next year. ^^
Last year, I went out with one of my sisters and her friend to the Japanese school where the main festivest was held. But this year, I went alone to meet one of the friends of my sister at the school because my older sister had the birthday party to attend while my younger sister is now at the oversea for language study. Never mind about that, let's move on.
As I reached around 5 minutes before 5PM, there were alot of people quening from one point to the end of the line. As I had no ticket with me, so I joined the quene line. If I had that early, I would problemy get into the school. But, after waited for few mintures, the quene became smaller as many people went in after buying tickets so fast. OK, that wasn't bad at all. But..... the wost one comes when I joined in the line for 'Yukata' outfit!! EEK! Soooo...... many girls queuing up for the loan of 'Yukata'(more than the guys' quene, and just got their own outfit already), I just nearly drop dead. Luckily for me I had my own 'Yukata' as my birthday present early so I couldn't worry about loaning one. After waited for two hours, finally I got in for the change. By the time I got done with outfit it was around 7 plus in the evening. That was nothing time to lose so I hanged around for items, food and the games to play. I played the fishing net to catch the ball.Fishing net is one of the games feature for the Summer festivest in Japan in order to catch as many fish as you can. Only after you caught the fish into the bowl, you are allowed to bring fishes home. But in this case, I brought that mini ball back home. Following that, I played bowling pin and throw ball hold game. Just before that, I bought the Japanese chicken with rice for my dinner and a pair of cloak shoes. Later, I played the Yoyo ball(which is supposed to be diffencult to catch by just using a paper string that tied around the hook and hooking into the loop of stinges of one of the yoyos' that look like the balloon to you....) and I dropped off mine hook because of sudden break from the stinge. Well, in the end, I took yoyo back home. Then once more, I did try on my luck to play the bowling again. Still I got nothing prize for winning expect for mini gifts. During the festivest, there was raining going on that evening so the everyone on the filed had to move the indoor for the concert. Although that was nothing much for me to see, so I went round again and bought a cup of warm coffee(well I don't drink this much offen) and a stick of ice-cream(which I choosed green tea as my favour one). Later that, I met the good friend of one of my sisters with two other girls who were having mini picnic there on the dry spot so I joined them for some chit-chat. Just then, I spot the group of band that I never saw before my eyes. Although I haven't watch the band competition before so I went up to one of the band members which was their lead singer just for a small. I mean a SMALL talk. After that we had a group photo together with their friend within the background of the filed. Right after 9:30 PM, it was time for me to go home. Said goodbye to them and left for Expos by shutter bus to take MRT train which took me to the Changie Airport. I went back home in 'Yukata' outfit all the way home unlike last year(because I had to loaned that outfit for the festivest so in the end, I had to return it back before I went home)
That was fun through all festivest but only a mirror problem about the quene.... next year onwards that will be same festivest right same place at the same time but I not too sure if the outdoor stage will be there all because the bad weather these days. Hopefully, there will be more excite things coming ahead next year. ^^
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