Of the Trembling Fingers and the Honest Comments
As we close in on the end of the "Music Week" for me,i buckled up for today's lunchtime performance at the library.We were pretty late and we were rushing to and fro from room 4-31 and the library,busily setting up the equipments as well as the guitars.The number of people started to build up and my friends showed up as well.I was pretty pleased by the fact that they attended the concert and gave me their supports,thanks guys.Anyway,so by 1230,we were already seated on our assigned seats,ready to begin,which was probably when i forgot my lines for the song as i review it in my mind.As me and Ahmad desperately tries to recall the lyrics Russell walked up to the middle of the semi-circle and welcomed the audience to the concert.He got back,and we started playing our first piece.It was more or less rushed at the beginning,but i guess we were just not used to playing in front of such a big group of people,friends teachers and all.So we sorta rushed through the whole song,however,managed to end the song without much problem.Then came the solo performance by Yilin.She walked slowly to the centre of the semi-circle and sat down in front of the crowd.With a short pause,she started playing her song.It was a little soft to be honest,despite the dead silent library.I could tell that she was nervous,though i couldnt see her face.She struggled here and there but managed to pull through finally.Recieved a thunderous round of applause and it was my turn to go up and perform.Michelle told her classmate to come because i sing really well,and that seriously got my fingers trembling when i prepared the chairs for our duet.I sat down and took a deep breath while i waited for Ahmad to get ready."Hi everyone,i am weilien and this is Ahmad.And we will be playing Now and Forever by Richard Marx.".For some reason,that recieved a few gasps from th audience.I guess thats one of their all time favourites or something,which weighted down on me like a tonne of rocks.I took another deep breath,and gave ahmad the count."1,2,3.".And we started the song.I still couldnt recall the line,but i sang it anyway,turned out to be pretty good.Scanned the audience quickly,and caught a glimpse of Sam,Nisah and Meiling sitting on my left.Dudley and his class was sitting right in front.Mrs Lee and the GP teacher were sitting at the back,with my class beside them,and Terence and Samuel sitting by the windows on my right.The song went on fine and i managed to hit the high notes without breaking my voice,thankfully.Then came the solo part where i screwed up a little.Ahmad screwed up as well but however,we managed to cover it up soon after.When i make a mistake,my fingers will start to tremble and my mind will go blank.With no control over my mind i had to rely my gut feelings to play."Now and forever,i will be your man.".And with that,me and Ahmad plucked the last part of the song and we ended with a slow strum.Silence.Then came screaming and more applause.I was pleased,and i could tell Ahmad was too.I put my hands together and bowed to the audience and walked back to my seat.I turned around to ask how the performance was,and recieved pretty good comments from both Michelle and XinYu.Haha.Thanks girls.We pulled through all the way till the end of the concert,though Dini and Debbie messed up the saxphone parts but our thunderous guitar sounds managed to cover up the mistakes.There were tonnes of mistakes made,however,who can be blamed?We've never performed in front of a live crowd before,at least not me.So,Russell walked out once more and acknowledges the audience the end of the concert.Another round of applause and the audience began to leave.I jumped back to the clear up the mess and saw Terence.He said that i have a fan club,which i utterly denied.Russell accidentally broke Liping's guitar.Ouch.It was already cracked really seriously initially,and Russell dropped it and caused it to crack.The neck broke off and the strings bursted.The top of the neck separated from the rest of the neck and hung losely on the rest of the strings.I thought Russell smashed his own guitar,until he started apologising to Liping then i realised that it was hers.Ouch.She kept saying that it's ok,but she couldnt hold her tears and started crying.Im not sure if the guitar had any sendimental value to her whatsoever,but i wouldve broke Russell's manhood if he broke my guitar.Oh well,im sure it was not on purpose.Hopefully they can work things out.Carried the guitars back to the guitar room and everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief,that the whole thing ended.I myself celebrated over a packet of M&Ms from XinYu.Thanks!When i got back to class i asked them for some opinion.Some thought it was really good while Rachel in particular said the performance was OKAY.Which was what i thought anyway,since i have been singing for the past few days and i was really nervous.However,i didnt want to admit that i didnt perform as good as i couldve been.For some reason i perform chinese songs better than english songs.Hmm.Weird.Oh well,the crowd liked it,and Rachel for one has high expectations for me,in fact on everyone.I guess a true friend is the awfully honest ones.Haha.I have big humongous titanic and enormous ego.And opinions are often seen as insults sometimes.Sometimes.Anyway,so she said it was all right and,i didnt want to agree but what can i say?The perform was over,and finally i can concentrate on my Talentimes.After school today,me and Rachel stayed back in school to do a little practise on our song for the finals.We chose "Desperado" by Eagles,since we both agreed that its a great song,and she claims that it fits my voice better than Collin Raye's "Love Me".Oh well,so we went to the student lounge and started playing.There were a few people chatting there,while some others were studying.Michelle Wong was sleeping on the couch with her friend,and yeah,it wasnt a very pleasent sightConsidering the fact that she had one leg on her friend's thighs.But what the hell,i dont really care.I bet she cares nothing about anyone's opinions anyway.I already had a slight sore throat by then,and i couldnt hit some of the higher notes with the first tries.Oh well,i will probably lose my voice completely by the end of next week.Argh.For glory and honor!JiaYing thought my voice was airy,while Rachel wanted me to sing with "The Flow".Whatever that is.Haha.I will try my best for tomorrow's rehearsal,and hopefully we can pull through fine.All right,i need some good sleep now.NighTz!!ZzZz.

Song of the Moment---Open Arms by Clay Aiken(Not the original version but,i prefer this one.)