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Lake garden outdoor performance

 Sunday .17th of August . Our collage is invited to performed at the lake garden festival . So the three vocalist and one flutist are asked to perform . I am not vocalist , I'm  just piano accompaniment  .We totally don't know what event is that , who is the organizer . Totally in blur condition .  

Early in the morning we take lrt back from Subang . We are asked to gather at school and the Van will pick the performers to the garden . After everything is settle , we realize one oboist not coming yet . Is already 10.00 and the performance will start on 11.30 . So we quickly call his phone , call whoever can contact him . We call to his housemate and he told us , the oboist fall sick so he is not  going to performance . We immediately set off because we are going to late for the performance . The place are flooded with people . We quickly set up the keyboard and sound check . When we are almost done setting up the keyboard , one of the organizer came and told us our performance change to the main stage . We need  to carry all of our stuff and reset the keyboard . The performance postponed . 

The worst is when I go and test the keyboard , I feel like I don't know how to play the whole accompaniment . First , the keyboard do not have enough octave for me to play . So I decided to alter the octave higher part to one octave lower , so that it could be play . What happen next is I don't know where is the middle C and the bass clef start to get blur  , don't know weather the "E" is in which octave . At that time I was like , what the hell is happening to me , is just like I totally don't know how to play the accompaniment . I start to think how am I going to performed later ? The feeling of insecure keep overcoming me . 

The peformance started . We are the fifth to perform . There is no other audience , except us the performers . When came to our turn , we just go up and perform . My view form the stage , I couldn't see any of the audience watching at our performance , all of them just walk pass by . After my friend finish singing,  one of the couples form overseas told her , I love your "Ka kooo" Bravo !! 



After the performance we straight away go back and  put the keyboard back to school . Then our senior pick us to festival mall . We have our lunch at Pizza  San Francisco . We saw the bonzai ice cream . To our curiosity , we go and ordered and see the how they make the ice cream . Is totally like a pot of flower . Later have a movie with them . We watch Ninja turtle ! Is so so funny . The Five of us laugh so loud in the cinema . Everyone thought us we are crazy  @_@

This is how the ice cream look like . The "soil"
actually is the Oreo . 























This is a great experience for me to learn . When you come to performance , you need to know how to alter yourself and know what to do when you come out with the problems . I usually practice the accompaniment with piano , but now suddenly you have no piano you need to play keyboard . So that's what I mean . I not a professional performers yet . So uhmmm . . .  a pretty good experience for me !



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