Last Thursday

I just had to really blog this coz it was really such a day to remember... and in one short brief description, it was simply.... weird. Feels like some fiction story though haha.

All we wanted to do, was to jam.

Except... that it was probably not at the usual jamming hours.Of course, we learnt that today.... that jamming studios don't open that early (ok, call us stupid...) But we wanted to jam early coz we each had to run somewhere after that.

And so.. we tried our luck, by agreeing to meet at 11 at upper bukit timah for our anticipated 3 hour jam session.

I was late of course... live so far away.. seriously, I didn't know it was so far until I actually made the journey hahaha.

So when I got there, YJ, HX & An were already there at the coffeeshop waving to me and they seemed to have something to tell me... and of course, it was the most interesting revelation to me at that time...

that the jam studio had moved. apparently An saw a notice with a different address pasted next to their closed door. Well, the funny thing was that, we tried to call the studio as well as the boss... but there wasn't any answer (i mean, of course there wasn't, coz they were not opened! i admit it, we are bohdohs hahahah)

And so, since An had driven there, we decided to head for the 'supposed' new studio venue in her car.

Off we were around upper bukit timah, trying to hunt down that number 810. An ended up stuck in 2 very tight (literally) situations twice and had to drive her car out of the smallest spaces you can imagine for such a big car... and also with lots of men watching their parked cars afraid that a female driver with a P-plate will bang into them (of course she won't! maybe hx would hahaha)

But after much scouting around, thank you YJ!.. we found that there was only 810A.. and no 810. So where was the damn studio??

Anyway, it was already past 12 by then... and we just thought of going to the one in Jurong, as suggested by An's friend. Since her friend told her that the studio would open at 1pm.
And once again, off we were on the road... finding our way to jurong in a roundabout way, but at least without any wrong turns (kudos to hx and her 176 route haha)

Finally we reached the carpark next to JEC, greeted by many people dressed in bright luminous green vests directing us which way to turn in the carpark. The sight just seemed so amusing to us at that time.. maybe we were too high, and so we were just all laughing like crazy (probably coz of this, that when we left the carpark, the people still remembered us and smiled as we drove out).

We reached the place and An managed to find out from the studio's neighbouring shop, that the studio would open at 2pm. At that time you can imagine... our faces were all =_=

YJ was unconvinced and she just wanted to stay there till it was alittle past 1 (of course, it was a futile wait) before we left to JEC to find a place to eat and rest, which ended up to be long john silver's.

While we were eating and drinking (ok its me doing the eating really...), we were also trying to figure out our parts properly, as YJ the scout once again! keeps walking out to take a look up to see if the studio doors have been opened.

1.30.... 1.45.... 2... 2.05 (by then YJ was outside with An). And you guessed it, the studio was still not open!

Well, the best part was, they called the studio at bukit timah, and realised that we had just been fools... the studio didn't move after all. And better yet, they opened at 1pm (!!!!!!!!!!!)
Of course, without much hesitation, we decided to head back to where we came from in the first place... 3 hours later.

Stepping out of the car and finally facing an opened studio, we felt both relieved and exhausted from the excitement of the day. In we went into our room... greated by very blue lights, and soon to make another great realisation.

There was no keyboard in the room! Man.. in our haste, we had forgotten to book a room with a keyboard. You gotta imagine how terrible it ended up. We were already one guitar short that day... and without keyboards too... hahah, the 1st verse of lydia was just me and an on the drums. How much weirder could that have been...

We literally tried to seize every second we could in that 1 and a half hours that we had. Played our songs repeated. And even when the guy told us to play our last song, we actually did 2 (in the midst of it, tried very hard to cover up the silence by playing the next song quickly). Btw.. we also did our fastest version of wen rou that day hahhaha

And so our jamming finally ended, we left the studio, An dropped me off at the mrt and then proceeded to rush hx to nus straightaway with only half an hour left to collect her commencement gown.

At least she made it.. and I made it to work too.

You think the excitement ended here? No....

Later, only after Yujia msged me, did I realise that I had left her capo behind at the studio (good thing it was found later on). And as I was walking back to take the mrt home, I almost tripped over in the carpark that I had walked through countless times without problems.

Weird day? Yup, sure was... it was reinforced later on when hx told me how she had to carry vegetables all over orchard as well =_=

At least we did learn something that day... that we should just pick 24hr studios in future!!