- Da jia hao
- It's a nice saturday afternoon and I'm bumming around at home, kinda. Saw that the module listing for this year is out on myaces and excitedly went to look at modules. For some reason I'm always super excited to plan timetables. I think it's fun, don't you??
- but then i saw that one of the mods i wanted to take clashes with a core mod, and then it wasn't so fun anymore.
- can't believe it's my fifth time planning my timetable. -cries- more than halfway through my uni life already.
- life has been great, the past week was pretty busy because i went for all 3 days of baybeats. it was soooo fun! tbh the foreign bands didn't really stand out for me. but i heard Unclose (JP) was great, sadly i didn't catch them. i thought koji was amazeballs, but not many other people seem to be raving about them, maybe they're not as appealing as disco hue or cashew chemists. (but i must admit eugene is really charming, reminds me of alex turner with that velvety i-will-sing-blues-love-songs-to-you-over-the-phone voice.) another band that really did it for me was the summer state, that amount of energy was insane.
- wednesday was cac camp finale night gig, the crowd wasn't very high despite the gig being at zouk, but one of the dance cac groups (was it funkstyles?) showed some love by dancing to our music which was nice :') a few hiccups here and there during the day, but it was all good.
- sometimes i think we're really at a huge disadvantage compared to other cac groups. dance and acapella groups are so much more popular with concert planners because there is practically no logistics involved- all you need is a simple PA system to blast trendy pop songs. with amplified, there's expensive, bulky equipment, transportation costs and manpower costs for the shifting, plus all the equipment also takes up precious space backstage. not to mention our equipment is not only burden-some to the gig producers, it also costs a bomb to rent. and to add icing to the cake, edm music and dance items are all the rage now. the general youth population doesn't really listen to good bands anymore, it's all kpop groups and flashy moves and fleshy moves and synth and electronic beats.
- sometimes i feel bad for some of my friends in the club, they're trying so hard and it's not really their fault that amplified isn't that big. just gotta admit that we're really suay, and about as trendy right now as bell-bottomed jeans are.
- and on an unrelated note, the cac camp estrella comm really sucked? nobody was there to supervise us or tell us where to go, what we could do during the entire afternoon, except for the logs guys who were really nice and helpful. the whole day, we (the cac groups + logs guys) carried everything over and set up everything ourselves, rehearsed and soundchecked ourselves and prepared for the gig ourselves. we had no idea who was in charge or where they were. it almost felt like we were running our own gig at zouk. best part is when someone contacted a comm member to ask why nobody was there, the reply was "i expected better from the performers," meaning that we should have known how to do everything ourselves and we shouldn't need anyone from the comm there with us. makes me mad all over again just thinking about that horrible attitude. just because they signed up for this one-time camp comm thing it doesn't mean they can behave like that? i sure hope they feel good about themselves writing about how much they contributed to this event in their resumes.
- haha ok didn't intend to elaborate on the hiccups. but ah well.
Saturday, July 2, 2016
Twenty ways to start a fight
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