Yesterday was SYCO audition. I think a few of you already knew what had happened, but I thought I still wanna leave a memory of it here. (",) Okay, yesterday reached tanjong pagar at 12pm to have lunch at Hans. People, you may wanna refrain from ordering Penne with Sambal Prawn. It's rather yucky. No taste of sambal to me loh although it's really spicy. In case you don't know, sambal and chili should taste a bit different. After that reached SCH at 1pm. Me n ying were really damn early. Nothing to do so walked around and go visit our favourite place there- the toilet. okay, so after that went to register and realised our audition time was pushed rather back. But I still got to go for my sight reading first. At one glance at the score I thought...Wan Dan Le! haha! but after I tried it's really not difficult. People listen up... I practise in C diao. Waited outside for an hour and finally went in at around 3.30pm. That's place was really pro loh. Basically what you played are recorded. So I started with my erhu solo- Chun Shi. My gosh! first line only already got mistake. Out of tune n wrong direction of bow. Haiz~! but heck lah...cont. btw, in between I did pause loh. really quite lan. I was eagerly waiting for them to ask me to stop, but I played the whole song. After that had to play the gaohu set piece. Laoshi initially asked me the play the second piece(more diff), but in the end he changed his mind and asked me to play the first one. He must be afraid that my tempo will be off loh! haiz~ Then for the scales he also ask me to play the simplest one. so obvious that he'll helping me loh. here comes the exciting part in case you think what I'd written previously were the standard procedure and nothing special. okay...the sight reading. As I had mentioned earlier I think the sight reading was easy and should be able to handle it rite. I played the first 2 note and was asked to stop. Gosh~! laoshi asked what am I playing manz. My mind really cork up liao. Don't quite understand initially.He asked what's C diao kong xian. manz...i said 6 3. Laoshi, Mr Quek n Lin fu qiang was like..."HUH??!!" pengz~! wrong answer. In the end I counted and realised it's G diao erhu so I said 5 2. damn~! That score write C diao rite? I really played C diao but that's erhu fingering. pengz loh! Anyway they asked me to continue and I just struggle to skim through that whole song loh. Really feel like dying. After that Lin fu qiang started to asked me questions. First ques... Why you wanna join gaohu? I pause for quite a long time and replied " because my fren(wanying) in gaohu". Such superficial answer. Second question was "when you start playing gaohu?" I said sec 3 then laoshi went by saying "you also played zhonghu before rite", then I went " ya ya, I played zhonghu before". so dotz~!~! so lin was wondering how come I played gaohu for so long liao still will mix erhu and gaohu up. Then he went " how are you going to survive in orchestra when you need to keep changing all the diao". manz~! really really don't know what to say loh somemore he's looking so serious! so in the end low and quek tried to lighten the atomphere by saying my gaohu sounded not bad and I have a sec sch student look, don't look like one who had finished A level. That's from quek. After I left that place, I msg laoshi to thank him for helping me. I think he helped me alot by siding me throughout loh. What he did to help me was really obvious. Hm... after that I realised our relationship wasn't that strained. really glad. Let me type his reply... first reply... What...very ashame to b my student meh!!! U got in anw! So long nv prac erhu of coz not that gd nw. But overall acceptable. second reply... So U must thk me, gv me a treat then... Btw glad to c u there for audition. Glad to c u picking up ur instru again! Quite touched actually... That's all folks! What a loooonnggg reply.
