Concert

I need sleep.

I am flattered that a friend thinks if I advertise about the concert on my blog there are people who will actually order tickets through here. Not sarcastically flattered, but really flattered that he thinks that way. Truth is that it don't exactly work. This blog isn't famous or anything and I believe most of my readers are my friends (which is very heart-warming, knowing that my friends do read my blog still), whom I would have had bugged to no end about attending one of the (yet another) concert I'm performing in. So to those whom I have already bugged and bugged and now come in here to read about something else, I'm awfully sorry because here's another promotion for the concert! =D


Ok, the Anak Baba Band and Ministry of Bellz concert, titled Babas h'and Bellz, the former playing peranakan music, the latter handbells, will be on the 26th December 2007, Wednesday (the day after Christmas), at either 3pm or 8pm. Tickets are priced at $15. Concert is held at The Arts House (The old Parliament).

Ministry of Bellz is a very new handbells group, started only half a year ago. We've just came back from HK for an educational trip (which I have YET TO BLOGGED ABOUT). We have performed at a joint concert with The emBellishment Handbells Quartet in Hong Kong and also at Disneyland Hong Kong.

Anak Baba Band is primarily a band playing peranakan music. They use keyboards, drumset and some percussion. Should be quite interesting. I don't play in it though, so I'm afraid I am not very sure about the details of the band.

So there are 2 sections in this concert - The Anak Baba Band playing peranakan music using keyboards and percussion, and the Ministry of Bellz playing Christmas and other pieces using handbells.

If you're interested in attending this concert, do contact me at my email ng.wan.jing@gmail.com.
I've never stepped into The Arts House and it's kind of exciting to think about how it is inside there. By the way I'll be playing handbells in Ministry of Bellz. It's my first time performing as a ringer and I'd just picked it up slightly more than a month ago. It's a challenge, but exciting and very different from percussion. What I thought of as simple bell ringing did not turn out to be so simple. There are techniques, ringing motions, damping, coordination, gracefulness and other stuff I have to know. Crash course in 2 weeks and then show time. It's quite beautiful, though, playing music with handbells. I'd very much appreciate if some of you would come down to watch! I remember the last time percussion concert, my friends went down to watch then I was so nervous and during intermission they told me to relax because they could see that I was nervous. It's a lot better now though. Stage fright isn't so bad for me nowadays.

Ok, hope I can sell all 20 tickets. It might be my last concert with this group, if I can actually bear to stop playing handbells (the group has 3 octaves of bells - very expensive).

Back but haven't blogged

All of you should smack me.

Touched down in Singapore 1.30am this morning, came back, finally had some semi-proper sleep till 12 in the afternoon when I could no longer stand the horrendously loud drilling. Had breakfast, relaxed and watched anime until now. And now I have to go back to studio for handbells rehearsal until freaking 12 midnight! Then tomorrow it's show at Changi Airport, at 7.15am and 9.15am and then another show at Science Park after that in the afternoon. Maybe I'll be able to finally blog when I come back.

Really apologetic! In the meantime go check out some other interesting blogs like Sibeh Sian's or chillycraps' or stickgirl's. All very nice!

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I miss Hong Kong.

On hiatus; Concert

Every semester during this period of time I am messed up, screwed up, very horny and very emotional.

It's the examination period. Seems as if everybody else is on blogging hiatus. Have not been blogging a lot because been simply too busy trying to suck some cocks with studying, projects and other school-related stuff, not to mention handbells practice. A frown is starting to permanently etch itself onto my forehead. So I think I'll be going on a hiatus too until 3rd December because I simply do not have enough time at all to blog.

Before I go off, here's an announcement for a concert put up by both the Ministry of Bellz which is a handbells group and The Anak Baba Band, a percussion-cum-electronic-keyboards band, playing music I promise you have never heard before. I think Anak Baba Band is playing Peranakan music. Argh! I'm playing in this concert and I do not even know! So embarrassing. Then again I am a ringer in the Ministry of Bellz, not Anak Baba Band. Do come down and watch us! It's my first time performing as a handbell player, should be interesting. You may come down to laugh at me. I promise I will not throw the bell at you.

Event: BABAs hAND BELLZ
Date: 26th December 2007, Wednesday
Time: 3pm or 8pm
Venue: The Arts House @ The Old Parliament
Price: $15

If you do not know, this is how a handbell look like:

Link

Think Christmas.

If you are interested, please do leave a comment on this post or drop me an email at ng.wan.jing@gmail.com with any questions, the number of tickets you want and your details. Will get back to you very very quickly because just about everything is linked to my email.

wet blanket

A wet blanket to the previous post.

Christmas is yet another over-blown holiday. Another excuse to spend and party, another public holiday on the calendar.

Oh all 3 sets of today's show was cancelled. So we got allowance for going there and sitting in the room to enjoy the aircon. Damien treated us to dinner at a Peranakan restaurant too. Fantastic dinner.

Didn't wish for Christmas to come because don't want 26th December, results day, to come too. Boxing day, indeed. I'm sure I'll get boxed by my results. Maybe should get a pair of sunglasses.

Pitstop cafe; show tomorrow

Went to Pitstop cafe with 2-four today. It's like mind cafe or settlers, only cheaper. They also provide a photo-taking service and gives you one free photo to paste on the wall as well as to leave a message (of some sort). Fun place to be at and one place where the staff don't tell you to lower down your volume when you get hyped up over a game. It was set up by students, by the way. Click on link above to take a look at how is the place like.

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Show outside Esplanade Waterfront Canopy tomorrow. Christmas Eve, meaning a lot of people if it doesn't rain. Unprepared and nervous, as usual. Kind of hope it rains.

Anyway do pop down tomorrow at 7 or 7.30pm at the Esplanade Waterfront Canopy to give me some pressure watch and give us some support. There are 5 of us on piano, drumset, vibes, marimba and some auxiliaries bringing you up to 20 Christmas pieces. It's 3 half-hour sets starting from 7 or 7.30pm till 10/10.30pm. There should be kind of an alternate show between us and another group at the Outdoor Theatre (the white, sheltered area). So the order's like us, them, us, them, us, them, till we've each done 3 sets.
Pray that I don't screw anything up.

Wishing all a Merry Christmas Eve eve! =)