this post was actually typed out on the 2nd of January 2009
haha yet another nite of caroling, this time i was playing the guitar together with kin yip......good thing i bought/brought the guitar strap for my ovation.....its really useful when caroling from place to place, then u wont havta worry about ur guitar slipping down off ur body, esp mine cos the back of my ovation guitar is actually rounded, (if u didnt noe already) for betta sound projection outwards/frontwards onli.....pastor eddy brought me to buy it for $500.....i like it quite alot heh.....its jus special to me, and not even the most expensive or rare guitar can replace it cos this one's mine.....
well mabel asked me to play guitar when i was having our dinner/supper with ivan and the jamir sisters, dats like super last minute la.....but its ok la jus dat the onli thing is i'm not dat confident about playing christmas carols cos i noe from some experience dat christmas carols are quite hard to play cos come the chord change is jus uber fast, some the chords are quite unfamiliar and havta switch between them all dat......but i agreed to play despite my lack of confidence in my playing skills, i've been rusty as well, haven had time to touch my guitar baby for awhile somemore, well at least i was playing with kin yip, which made it slightly betta cos i guess he can play christmas carols betta........
hmm i was very late to meet them in church cos i took too long on the comm, jus checking facebook and my mail and stuff, how time flies argh.......so sorry i was late guys, if u actually read this......well the first place dat we went was some old folks home, (All Saints Home, i remember now) uncle michael drove us (ying quan, alethia, rachel, sarah, ruth, kin yip, chris wu, tim sng and i) in the church van.....we actually got there earlier than mabel who was driving a car and she left first......haha she got lost again heh, oh so typical of her......we sang to onli about 4 or 5 residents......we didnt play much difficult songs so i managed to play jus normally lol....
after dat we went to....(i cant remember where at first, but i realised i still have the email they sent out in my hotmail inbox so here goes......) Tan Yew Seng and Angie Tan's house heh....this is the home of the ever so generous Tan family, with clare (one of the singers in the "Its A Christmas Thing"), the other sarah tan (not the sarah tan bee hui the runner in my ag) who is also an 87-er who jus got back from overseas, and brian.......they are the heirs to the Tan home la haha.....well we went there last year too and we had a feast as well, which was like the bulk of our dinner and stuff......hmm i really thank God for their generosity and kindness for them to invite us to their place to carol with/for them and their hospitality as well......hmm pastor david played on my ovation on his favorite carol at their house too! (wait i went to find the pic dat ruth took with her cam & posted on facebook).....oh ya sarah (bee hui), ruth and rachel ng performed "we are the reason" in sign, while the rest sang and kin yip and i played for it......can tell we quite died playing it la, those unfamiliar and normally untouched chords.......the onli part we played the best for dat song was the chorus cos it was easier........
well after the very good meal at the Tan's, we proceeded on a very long journey to NUH to visit a Patricia Chou, who had leukaemia and had been warded for quite some time i think.....anyway cos i was late so i was kinda sitting in the front of the van, kinda alone, with chris behind me, and the rest sitting facing each other, talking crap and joking......i was kinda alone cos the only person i could effectively talk to was chris and its not like i have absolutely so much to talk to him like i can talk with andrew or titus like dat so we jus ran out of topics to talk about after awhile.....so i spent most of the time jus fiddling around with my guitar, playing the bass notes of "dare" by gorillaz or trying to play some of the harder carols while trying to read them in the dark, after awhile i was bored so i whipped out my trusty mp3 player and continued my movie of ultraviolet which is kinda an old show but since i hardly watch movies, its new to me.......we got to NUH shortly after.......kin yip decided not to bring out his guitar cos we had to be quiet in NUH, plus he didnt have a strap......it felt jus tons of wierd carrying my guitar into a hospital la, like i was breaking the social norm dat hospitals are meant to be solemn and uncheerful, emotionless places......but i guess it must have been wierd seeing so many people wearing formal and all, plus a violinist and a guitarist bringing their instruments into a hospital, travelling together......soon we reached her ward and we were told not to make so much noise so as not to disturb the other patients......end up chris played for most of the songs, some i onli did lite strumming (dat was if we were playing on the same key in the first place), it was hard to coordinate cos the song sheet dat i had was in a diff key from the songbook chris was playing with, so initially chris wanted me to start then he follow in the same key and all but it failed so chris played violin for most of the songs lol......the most champion thing chris did was show me the songbook with all the 'dao gay' and he said "i forgot my theory already.....is this in D?" i went like "eh! i dunno 'dao gay' u ask me for wad?!" LOL......good thing alethia was next to him and she like confirmed it was in D....almost died in laughter and unbelief lol, but socially speaking u cant laugh in a hospital, much less in a ward so i didnt laugh.....but dat being said and all, i saw the state Patricia was in and my heart really went out to her, she was on teh oxygen mask and the density of the air (i asked chris about the display of the machine) was actually quite low, much lower than an average oxygen density for a normal person.....and she was like gasping for breath, breathing very labouredly......chris was saying dat with the mask it was low density already, without it would be much worst......i cant imagine exactly how much pain she was in.......my heart went out to her and her husband, like i could feel jus a little bit of the pain they must have been feeling......
well after dat episode, we headed back to bishan (i think) or was it elder chou's house im not sure......anyway we also visited elder chou at his place where we were treated to a wonderful green bean soup made by our host's family member herself, i had 2 bowls of it, wonderful fruit cake some konnayaku jelly and alot of drinks......we also visited rowena and her mother at their home....i was kinda reminded by mabel's memory dat rowena's mum did say sumtin at one of the (now-abolished) yw sessions, speaking about rowena's condition and i remember she is our age too.......we had lots of stuff to eat there as well but we had no time to eat there cos we had to go to our last house, it was like 2300-ish already, so we packed some food along the way, some buns and a few packets of drinks.....the girls did their "we are the reason" 'item' again for both houses, woah hard stuff....
well our last stop was to this guy named john's house......i dunno if u see him around church before.....well he is the guy dat walks around with a limp and most of the time he walks around using a walking stick.......he teaches tuition to some little children......i think kevin got tutored by him before......well yeah dats the one......we went to his house as our last stop at about 2345 thereabouts....super late lol.....but i think he stays alone so not so bad i guess......but anyway he offered us wasabe peas which i so geniusly took and realised dat they were more potent, i think i gave some to ruth and i cant remember who else.....we didnt completely finish the packet and it was thrown away by tim i think oh wells......haha ale caught some couple making out in their car by the road or sumtin heh.....she went like "eh get a room la" qing yuan : "technically they already have one....." ale: "no! but they should at least like park in some secluded place away from the main road...." then they all started discussing wad ale should get off the van and do like teach the guy how to kiss and make love i think......"you should do (this) in (a certain way)......" lol.......
when we reached the church, (pastor david had left slightly earlier and reached his home before us) the church gate was locked, could be expected........so i climbed in but couldnt find the caretaker anywhere lol......kin yip climbed in too, saying there was some lever we could release to manually pull open the gate.....but we couldnt find it in the dark (even in the day oso cannot find cos i dunnno wad to look for heh)......so i had to go up to pastor david's house to ask him to come down and help us open the gate cos uncle mike had to park the church van and aunty lily had to get her car which was parked in the vicinity of the church.......end up aunty jenny (pastor's wife) came down to open for us, pastor david was in his pjs quite a funny sight heh.....when we were all done, mabel very kindly sent me back home, of which im very grateful......haha somebody made a comment "daniel and ruth should not sit together in the same car!" haha i mean its true la, she stays in the west while i stay in east but they put it in dat way sounded abit funny heh.....i think lucas sent us both back before....woah man, the amount he or his parents must spend on monthly petrol fees must be quite abit.....im gonna treat him to a drink or sumtin for sending me home so many times more than one......well for mabel too of course.....and andrew......next time when i have a car i'll send ppl in my ag and my frens home too i guess WHEN i do get a car.......haha mabel is one kiond of a joker.......tell her directions havta tell her like 3, 4 times before she actually registers it......and another 2 times before she actually reacts heh, (i'm saying this for fun onli, not dat im not grateful for her sending me home)......super funny la.....but somehow getting sent home in her car is quite different from lucas sending me home, mayb cos i noe lucas betta in some guy ways i guess, we did grow up together, well come to think of it mabel and i did grow up together as well but she disappeared from our lives after around p6 i think, back then when we jus went into yd classes........good thing she had sarah in the car with her, if not i really dunno how she is going to get home from my place, she'll jus get lost la.......
well dat concludes the nite of caroling with ag 16........i slept at 7am dat nite cos i was doing nonsensical nothings jus checking my mail and facebook.....dunno how the time passed so fast lol.......oh wells i got up jus about an hr or so before to get ready to go for caroling at food for thought, another last minute request to play guitar by ruthless jamir.....
post ended on 02/01/09 1956hrs
tracy kee: hi mop....yeah i always had a blog since not sure when......nice of u to drop by haha.....
sarah ang dao hui: did i get the correct sarah? haha.....erhm yeah same as the above.......
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