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the main event

but before i get to todays main event, i'll start with lunch.
i went down to bugis to exchange my bag. now instead of horrible green its not-so-horrible yellow. yay. daddy couldnt join me so i lunched at BK. It was only like 1 plus, meeting the rest at tampines only at 3.30 so i ate lunch REALLY slowly. i forced myself only to eat a few bites, then read one entire chapter of my book before i ate again. not that the book was boring and hard to read, just that i needed a way to slow things down alot. i finished my book! but more about that later.

as i chewed, i also ruminated. i sat facing the outside, watching the busy people of bugis hurry by. watched the old men watching the office girls walking by. they sat eating that weird fruit, its pink, shaped like a pear, that one, and letting their eyes trail office girls in short skirts haughtily prancing about.

the book was good. Catch-22. when i first started reading, i totally did not understand it, i was incredibly confused. but as i pressed on, the book turned out to be a magnificent monstrous story, superbly crafted, characters so real you could smell them.

it annoys me sometimes when people ask me "so, what is it about?" they dont seem to understand that most good books arent really about the plot. like the life of pi. what is it about? the story of a boy who got ship wrecked and what happened to him. but that does the book no justice! it actually explores themes of the perception of reality, the role of religion, the darkness of man, the strength of the human spirit, the survival instinct etc. same with Catch-22, which, now that i've finished it, i feel is a work of brilliance.

but thanks to the internet, nobody reads anymore. DEPLORABLE WORLD! just take a look at friendster, under favourite books so many put "eHz... i DuN rEad lEhz.."

yes v, i find that kind of typing excruciatingly annoying too

ANYWAY.
that STILL wasnt the main event. i'm coming to it.

at 3.30 i find myself at the station. alone. predictably. Tien en is late and ben says take a bus. no prob, i go off to this shopping centre to look for the toilet. Got waylaid by the cash converter shop. I've always had a fascination with second hand shops. other peoples used junk, the stories of their lives. i saw a set of garden gnomes next to a laughing buddha statue. HEH. i found it so amusing. an old exercise bike, useless curios of old furniture, watches, rice cookers, typewriters, a giant decorative junk boat (for what purpose i do not know). and of course CDs going for only 5 bucks each. bliss...

other than the CDs, was also tempted to buy this set of really funky retro drinking glasses with the Sarsi logo and "have a pepsi day!" printed on them. 2 packs of 6, going for a dollar each, a song. but didnt want to carry glass around in me bag, knowing that i'd probably forget they were there and treat my bag with the abuse that it is used to.

and now... the main event

TP TALENTIME!

went there to support ben daniel aezoh kel and kenny who formed the group Jabez. I went there believing that they were the best (cos in my mind they were, i knew no other). but i also went there feeling abit self-conscious. I felt... really uncool among all those poly people. they were probably my age, but so much more confident and fashionable. i felt... like a loser... just a bit, and wondered if i had spent my days as fruitfully as i should have. but lets not dwell on that and get all depressed.

i arrived there at 4 something... the thing only started at 6!! and worse still, their hired soundcrew only decided to show up at like 6.45 leaving the show to start apallingly late at 7 something. GARGH.. the sitting there and waiting in that cold cold auditorium bored me out of my mind and i started to go all crazy, tormenting my listeners with my babbling and whining.

shall not go through the entire evening, that would make this post WAY too long, but i thought the last band was fantastic. Subrosa. i think thats how you spell it. so cool... almost fell in love with all of them. and this other band had this really cool girl drummer!!! impressed! respect!

its not that i thought our guys wouldnt win.... i really did think they were the best before i heard the rest. HONEST! im being defensive cos aezoh jokingly accused me of being disloyal to the band and threatened to attack me with his drumsticks. but the competition WAS stiff... and it was a 50-50 chance at second spot for them. But im so happy they got it!!! the first went to subrosa, they were undeniably the best there was. the lead singer sang hunched up cos he was too tall for the mikestand, played lead guitar (he was the only guitarist), fiddled with his effects and manuvered with precision his wah-wah peddal all while singing. AMAZING. the bassist continued playing completely unfazed with a steady bassline even when his girlfriend leapt up on stage and savagedly pounced on him and kissed him. im not exaggerating... it looked violent. and the drummer!!! FWAH.... the song was an original composition and it was so funky... had a great groove. i am bowled over.

wish i could sing, play guitar, play bass as well as all the ppl there did... *sulk* why am i so lazy...

posted by beckyboo @ 1:05 AM