Speech day and such
I forgot to blog about speech day!!! So i blog now, and I have no pics so.. sad.
Anyway, woke up quite late, just in time for Gamelan, which begins at 9am. Had to shift the instruments upstairs to the concourse, and what's worse, our performance location was at one end of the school, while our gamelan room was at the other end. The estate people brought up everything except the drums, mallets, and the poles for the kempuls and gongs.
It was a whole day of gamelan.... And it's bloody hot coz of the weather, AND we had to wear jeans with our Gamelan T-shirts. I changed to skorts first, coz it's freaking hot. Lunch was a long time later, and Mr Iswandi had an ice-cream and two cans of coffee for lunch -_- How nutritious!
Well, overall the performance was good... though at some parts we had to rush rush rush. Lol. At the end of the day, we had to shift the instruments back into the room again. A few of us stayed back to arrange them.
The funniest thingo was the bonangs. We didn't realise that the frames had different hole sizes for each set of bonangs, so when we arranged them in the room, we switched the frames around, and in the end, we had to shift them back correctly again >_<
The kempuls caused some confusion too... Up or down? Lol. We mixed up.
Speaking of Gamelan, the nice drum Mr Iswandi ordered arrived today. The guy, supposedly Mr I's boss [and supplier of the gamelan set], came to deliver the drum and to collect back the other temporary drum. The temporary drum was the one used to initiate the opening tune of speech day, lol. The new drum's cool, nice carvings, intricate design. Good!
Alright, that's about it for now.... And thanks Irsyad for being a great Saron teacher! Whee!
Anyway, woke up quite late, just in time for Gamelan, which begins at 9am. Had to shift the instruments upstairs to the concourse, and what's worse, our performance location was at one end of the school, while our gamelan room was at the other end. The estate people brought up everything except the drums, mallets, and the poles for the kempuls and gongs.
It was a whole day of gamelan.... And it's bloody hot coz of the weather, AND we had to wear jeans with our Gamelan T-shirts. I changed to skorts first, coz it's freaking hot. Lunch was a long time later, and Mr Iswandi had an ice-cream and two cans of coffee for lunch -_- How nutritious!
Well, overall the performance was good... though at some parts we had to rush rush rush. Lol. At the end of the day, we had to shift the instruments back into the room again. A few of us stayed back to arrange them.
The funniest thingo was the bonangs. We didn't realise that the frames had different hole sizes for each set of bonangs, so when we arranged them in the room, we switched the frames around, and in the end, we had to shift them back correctly again >_<
The kempuls caused some confusion too... Up or down? Lol. We mixed up.
Speaking of Gamelan, the nice drum Mr Iswandi ordered arrived today. The guy, supposedly Mr I's boss [and supplier of the gamelan set], came to deliver the drum and to collect back the other temporary drum. The temporary drum was the one used to initiate the opening tune of speech day, lol. The new drum's cool, nice carvings, intricate design. Good!
Alright, that's about it for now.... And thanks Irsyad for being a great Saron teacher! Whee!
