Wow. I reached a new record in work life.

Five shows from 9am to 9.30pm.

I tell you, I am bloody shagged.

And one more to goe tomorrow (luckily it's only one).

I seriously need a soak in a tub.

O-sashiburi.

Feels like I'm posting finally after one long year, ha. Rehearsals... are really on the roll... I totally have no more life left... as predicted... I'm already close to dragging my feet to the rehearsal venue. Muaha.

I'm giving everything to the opera. My free time, oh, my work time even... and this time it got even more serious? Coz I'm going for contacts. Yeah, that came from me. Since there's no pretty Espirit frame in Paris 1889, and I figured I shouldn't walk and act like a blind mice on stage... contacts are the sole solution. Sigh. I used to hate contacts yanno... coz to me it looks total troublesome. Kinda weird for Wednesday to come. Oh, performance period is this Friday to next Tuesday (minus our break off on Sunday). Meaning almost a week on contacts. I like not.

Check out our rehearsal studio anyway. (Not the performing venue duh.)

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More updates when I find more online time. Or perhaps after the performance period, when life returns to the dull and I leave this strange dream of January.

Nyahh... When was the last time I felt the need to take time to chill out?

It works simple for me. Good J-pop music, Internet, silence in the house and nighttime. Easily appeased? Ahaha.

Erm, which I'm doing now? Kimochii~~~

Wokay. Glad I survived today. It was passionate teaching today. The whole day - no idea why I was so enthusiatic today haha. Choir rehearsal at a school in the afternoon. Omg... the kids like... remembered and missed me? It was like all chaotic in yaaaaaaaaays disrupting the choir practice when I entered the room. I was not overwhelmed at all; I just went WTH is going on @___@???? Lol.

Nyaahh... Feeling so relaxed now... but for how long...? Now something boggling me at the back of my mind. Act Two is not yet memorized! Arrrrrgh!!!!!! I FINALLY got the words right for the opening number (it's fbloody so wordy!!! >:EE) but still not fluent enough! And it's only the opening number of Act Two... So in deep shit. Tomorrow's rehearsal is still on Act One, but come Friday and onwards... the dreaded Act Two. Shit! Coz I understand there's gonna be a lot of movements... T____T

I can't even sleep in trains or buses, I'm always tearing the score apart while waiting for the buses... blah blah... I think right after work tomorrow I should return home to burn and drink the music before evening rehearsal... instead of dining with Mum? Bleh. Obviously, eat sleep La Traviata; anything else - there is no life.

[Crazy work rehearsal schedule, yet I'm posting crap instead of pics! Gomen ne... You'll have to wait till Feb? Or at least till after 29th Jan. Whaha.]

So, dress rehearsal tonight. Cz... I feel so lazy even to move my butt.

Sigh.

Anyway, I would pray so hard that that soloist better recover before tomorrow, I don't wanna be the one to sing and play at the same time. Er, well, unless the director lets me sing an octave higher - but it's gonna sound operatic and all, so I doubt so.

But her part is bloody low! A low A! You ask a Koloratursoubrette soprano to sing that? Next life, dear.

Nya~~ I'm sleeeeeepy...

Empress finally went to a MacMillian rehearsal today. *ashamed* I managed to learn the whole work within this afternoon before heading to the rehearsal venue in the evening. *gulp* Wow, MacMillian gave all the nice sounding movements to everyone except sopranos, and when the sops need to sing, we got ourselves in atonal mess. >:EEE

I lost control over my voice, dammit! I hardly hit a B-flat. :( But this is normal since my period is just over. So thank my lucky stars the boss decided to postphone the re-audition for Sop I till the majority of the section is present.

I will be away next week~~~~~

This week is the performing week, and I'd missed the previous two rehearsals. I went to the last rehearsal before the combined one with the orchestra, and I wasn't reprimanded, nor was I given any kind of warning; I was just allowed to sing for the concert.

Ich bin sehr erstaunt. Utterly surprised.

*does a dance*

It's quoting-Herr-Lim time!!!!!!

Legato... it's like porridge, with honey in it...

*everyone gave weird stares*

The music director tonight was a big bully. Lol.

Just because I get a day off tomorrow, I'm staying up late... Sigh... Feeling so awake and hungry! My resolution to get to bed before 2am COMPLETELY FAILED. And this has not been the first time. :(

Poor attendence for tonight's rehearsal, but it was still fun as usual. Mark Herr Lim's words:

A whole-tone scale is like an apple - you cut it into half and you get equal halves; it is the spirit of democracy.

*palmface*

Well, I could try to explain how the events lead to this. He was trying to get those choristers without music theory background to understand how tritones work and ended up talking about whole tones, and in turn managed to kill me mentally with this unexpected quote. LMAO.

Lol. Tonight's rehearsal kicked off with... me coming in three minutes late! Me, late for the very first time. *hides*

What did they do to our conductor? He was full of lame inspirational speeches today, lol! There was one about walking fast on the street, another about reading magazines, another about someone being handsome (I'm going to get into trouble for even posting about this one) and something about putting words into our pianist's mouth.

*palmface*

What's wrong with him today? I think he was feeling really talkative today, no? I'm not lamenting; I found tonight's rehearsal funny and hence not boring, but still... That's so OOC! ^_^;;

[Edit: Someone fell from the backstage stairs and got a rather deep cut on his/her forehead, or so I heard. Also something about an ambulance coming? Hmm. I didn't hear any commotion though though I was sitting (on the stage) quite close to the stairs area. But anyway, it kinda reminded me of sometime around last Christmas when Elias (Annika's son) gushed his forehead too. :(]

I even surprised myself. Tonight was the start of a choir's Christmas season, and I fear I'm working myself to death on Wednesday.

I work from 8am to 10.30pm on this day.

And... I thought I will under-perform for this choir's rehearsal, since it was the first night and everybody (including me) got new scores. New scores only mean sight-reading. The conductor has much to ask from me this time. It's my sixth season with this choir and every start of a season was the conductor's demands (from me) increasingly demanding. This time round it was assumed I can read four staves at once (the usual SATB choir scores), and hence I have to do it. Conductor's the boss you see?

And I managed, very very well. Rather proud of myself; my SATB sight-reading has unconsciously improved before I realised it. And that I'm not sleepy and distracted is another unexpected factor.

Very very happy with myself. Wonder why I feel so high tonight. Ahaha. These years of sight-reading during work; I think this might be my peak yet!

And happier still, the rehearsal ended early tonight. Which means I was panting at my door steps at 10.58pm. Yay for Gankutsuou!

Quoting our conductor when asked why he conducts with scores:

"Because I can read music."

Oh gosh I love that man! XDDDDD

Now I can reason prefectly on why I don't want to memorise my piano pieces. Ahaha.