Ching Cheong Chiang

Its now 6:30am in the morning ... supposingly to write my entry before i sleep . Guess im too tired , i fell asleep while waiting for the Windows to start . Just woke up , because sleeping in jeans is just too uncomfortable .

Wu laoshi , a Chinese Opera instructor , or performer , called me earlier on . She's from TAS theatre , " YiShuZhiJia " . Its been a long time since i last played with them . Today , i went for recording . I travelled to Chinatown by bus . Reached around 4:30pm . She asked me there so early for nothing . I sat there under the air-con , listening to Opera music . Then i went upstairs to their storeroom , to help her listen or check the instruments . There was a YueQin , but this one only has 3 strings , and a SanXian , a Ruan , and a LiuQin , also 3 strings one . All their instruments are in bad condition , cant really use for playing ... So i had early dinner with them at TAS . Ate chicken rice ... XiaoZhang came later , he is the Omni-Arts , WuGuoWen's Orchestra , Concert Master . So we went there by Wu's car . It was kinda small ... I had to hold my Pipa , so imagine ... three person at the back with a Pipa , after fetching WeiFeng from SCH . WeiFeng very bad ... How can u say such a thing !

The recording area is at this old building , previously the old MOE building . The recording room looked so nice ... the table cum stand is so unique ... We played through the pieces . That old fellow keep saying i play wrongly , when i played correctly . WeiFeng was like telling me , " its ok its ok ... its like that one lah ... " Funny ... WeiFeng had to play YueQin , Ruan and SanXian . But , in the end , he didnt touch the YueQIn at all . Firstly , the YueQin sounds like shit , and secondly , its so damn hard to press . The recording was kinda fun , but scary . Because , when u play wrongly , everything have to start from top again . There was only one sheet of score , we've to come up with our own accompaniment . Im not really familiar with Opera music , so i played almost everything on the score . There was one ... damn scary , full of semi-quavers , but no choice , i played all ... Poor Dizi , he had to play almost everything too , because he's so called the " main lead " . He was so thirsty after blowing that " XiaoFangNiu " piece . The most horrible piece was the one where WeiFeng and i have to accompany a JingHu . How i know what to play ! After playing , they complained that we were a little bit too ' stiff ' , too hard sounding . They want more of the ' Lun ' ... so we gave more ' Lun ' , but how are we supposed to ' Lun ' !? So in the end , we recorded the song with the usual accompaniment , because the one that we tried using ' Lun ' sounds ghostly ...

After recording , Wu gave us a cheque . So little money for that piece of shit !? But its still fun ... nevermind ... We managed to squeeze in that small car till Douby Ghaut . Before was 3 behind , on the journey back , its 4 at the back . I was sitting in front because i was ' bigger ' . Mom came to fetch me , then we gave WeiFeng a lift back home , because we were on our way to Malaysia , for ' dinner ' , i was damn hungry .

I feel like vomitting ...