And this time I think you'll know

Blogging in the FASS computer lab before I do my tutorial because #procrastination


(why am I the only one making loud typing noises? this is awkward)


Week 10 has been really nice.


Sunday was Mayday Parade!!!! but extremely unfortunately, there was a hurricane in the Philippines before the show, so only 3 members of the band were able to make it on time, and we got an acoustic set instead...... :((( I was so bummed. Sure, the set was great, but an unplugged show is just not the same as a full band set when it comes to pop punk. I paid for smashing cymbals and driving basslines and solos, not the sam willows.


Unforeseen circumstances suck


But well, at least they played a lot of my favourites, so that's great. And we got to meet them after the show and get signed posters! feels bad though, that they looked so tired and all. I think they were in Singapore for less than 8 hours in total.


There was a bunch of other stuff that made the concert not as spectacular as it should've been. I don't like to be grumpy on my blog, so in summary:


1) reached the venue at 10am to start queueing because I really wanted front row. There was about 8 people in front of me then. And then at 7pm, someone came who was acquainted with the girl in front of me (I say acquainted because they didn't look like close friends), and long story short, a total of five kids just jumped queue in front of me? I was so, so mad. I would have told them to f off to the back, but the girl who reluctantly let her 'friends' cut queue was nice to me and I didn't want to put her on the spot.


But I made sure I put those damn kids on the spot, putting my bag in front of me so they had to sit outside of the queue a bit, and making sure to make eye contact with them. Best part is they got second row, centre (I was a bit to the right of them) and they didn't look enthusiastic at all?? Whenever I glanced over at them they were just stoning. Wtf kids these days.


But who cares, I had a great time singing my heart out.


2) The crowd could not sing. Half the girls behind me were just literally screeching. If you go to concerts you would know how amazing it feels when the crowd can sing, and how awful it is when they simply can't.


But anyways, on the bright side it was really nice to come into such close contact with one of my all-time favourite bands. I kept waving at the rhythm guitarist Brooks and he smiled and waved back at me -insert the happy emoji here, apparently this computer doesn't have emojis- but after a while his face was like 'okok I got it' hahahaha


And at one point I think the singer Derek was asking us how we were doing or something? And I gave a thumbs up and he smiled, pointed right at me and gave me a thumbs back. I dieded a little. He was so niceee.


The next few days was spent on school. Went to the NUS museum to do a group project on Wednesday evening where we basically had to go around and manually find the answers to the science questions we were given. Felt like primary school and prolly would've been a lot more fun if it wasn't a graded assignment.


Then I went to YIH (probably the one building that is my home outside of home #lianne will know) cos I heard there was free dinner there for all CAC members, but for some reason there apparently wasn't :((( well there were free brownies, but I'm not a sugar person.


Had to settle dinner by myself at starbucks like a lonely rich person (which I am not, I just didn't have a choice cos the YIH canteen is closed for renovation and I don't want to eat 7/11 food) and then went to the studio to watch some people jam jazz music (it sounded amazing, whenever I watch these people jam I feel so honoured to be friends with them) and then went home


Yesterday was Ad Lib! Wow I remember my own Ad Lib like it was yesterday. Back when I still actively played my Stagg, wore jeans and had to play pop songs cos we were randomly sorted into bands and my singers only sang pop.


It was really nice, like all internal gigs. Highlight of the evening was listening to Josh's band play You're Not Alone by Saosin, I was singing my ass off while standing behind N, sound engineer of the night, and halfway through he turned around and was like "wth I kept searching to see who was singing backup vocals onstage"


Oops I procrastinated for an hour (wth that passed damn fast)


Have a beer date with HJ later so I don't have much time oh no


Okay bye