I woke up around 10am today.. Then I finished off (almost) all of my Excel homework before I got myself ready for my KLCC trip to another MPO concert.. This time it was still under the same conductor as last week, Justin Brown, but with different songs..
I planned on commuting from KLCC to Dang Wangi, where our chess club members were playing today's tournament, as soon as I arrived in KL.. Of course, that was because I thought we would arrive before 2pm.. It turned out I only made it to the KLCC LRT station by 2.15pm :P So I had to rush/walk/run as fast as I could so that I could still make it before the the concert starts at 3pm..
When I arrived at Dang Wangi, I was sweating bullets.. Me and J went to ask Gregory Lau about buying chess sets and clocks from him and also his fees for training and becoming an arbiter for our upcoming invitational tournament.. All the while, I was talking like a bullet train because, well, I did have a 'train' to catch :P
As soon as I finished all four (4) questions I wanted to ask, I zoomed back into the Dang Wangi LRT station, weaved my way through the KL crowd and managed to get into the MPO hall just as the orchestra members were in the middle of tuning their instruments.. phew.. A few more minutes and I would've been disallowed from entering :P
This time, it was worse than last week's concert.. I practically started to doze off 10 minutes into each piece.. The only redeeming factor was, of course, the encore.. And the cute violinist.. Well, at least my friends R and A think he was cute.. They were practically swooning over him.. Then during the interval, they decided to ask for his autograph..
But the funny thing was, as soon as he was standing in front of us, both of them went totally speechless! He must've been thinking 'Why the heck are these girls blocking my way?'.. So I stepped in and broke the ice.. I did the asking, they both did the giggling.. Then he said 'But I'm not famous!' and they both went silent again.. So I said 'Oh, it's because you're so talented'.. bla.. bla.. bla.. Anybody could see I was bluffing my way through this.. But I can't say 'Oh, we think you're cute'.. I mean, that's soooo bimbo-ish!
But anyway, we got the autograph.. Found out his name was Sebastian, lives in England, has a German father and a Malaysian mother who used to live in Ipoh.. Pretty cool info for a 2-minute tete-a-tete.. Then after the show, I bumped into the man who played the timpani (some percussion thingee) and I started some small talk with him too.. His parents are from Grenada and he's living somewhere near Jalan Tun Razak :) It was as if when I meet all these fascinating (and talented!) people, somehow just talking to them makes you feel so proud already.. As if you're amongst an elite group of.. well.. elites.. :P
Then we did our usual round of shopping.. There was this chocolate pudding which I used to love so much until my neighbourhood supermarket stopped selling it.. And I found it this afternoon! I'm writing this while indulging in sinfully delicious bliss.. mmm..
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NHA at 3:28 PM ::
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