Born in the wrong era? No. There is no wrong era.

so i am at rehearsal.
i enter and big e says that he needs me to play something from the comp.
"ok, that's easy. just plug in loh. oh? wait, where's the cable that is usually there? hmm...it's gone."
ok....so i search and i cannot find. am abit frustrated because this isn't the first time a cable goes missing. even my cable from home that i bring to there also disappear.

fine, nevermind. go to chinese side to take first.
so down to office.
take key.
unlock and go in.
everything locked up. guess that option's out.
oh well go back upstairs and try and pull off some magic loh.
magic happens. and a wire appears(albeit short, but have is have la....rearrange the lousy layout loh)
haha. tada sound.

next set up the mics and let them carry on.
they start practising singing.
everything sounds fine, well, almost. back up abit soft, but they ususally are anyway, sometimes it seems like they expect a mic to transform whatever mouse voice they have into divadom. well, here's a newsflash ladies: mics work firstly by having sound enter them. i.e. no sound = no amplified sound.
alright. so all set up, job's done.

things get pretty boring, as usual, so chat with hsing joo for most of rehearsal.
almost 2 hours later...
"um...ernest ah? can make the back up singers abit louder?"
hmmm? well, they are a bit soft, but that's normal what. anyway, from hsing joo's angle they also like not talking into mic.
but job's a job, so up the volume i will.

make big e softer,
make back up mic's louder(to try and hear some distinction),
up the master volume,
up the amplifier volume,
up the back up singer gain,
mess with the back up independent frequency thing,
mess with the equaliser thing....

"can u hear the back up singers?", i ask hsing joo.
"no leh...."

ok...so it kind of bothers me...
time to check things out...so to the front i go.

hmm...wires are right.
they are still standing too far, but thwat the heck?
i look closer.
ah. i think i've got it.

there on the mic, "on/off"
....so i flick the switch then suddenly,
AIYEEEE!!!
feedback. haha.
SO THEY NEVER TURNED ON THE MIC IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!
GAH!!!!!!

all that trouble!
i go back laughing.
thought i saw big e shake his head...
well, u must admit, it IS funny.
i guess he thought that was a silly mistake of mine.
well, it is. of course i dun see why the singers couldn't check themselves. but what the heck, let's just make it my fault.
it's a funny thing and i could care less what he thought.
haha!

more practice...and then...PANG GANG LOH!
heh, welcome to my life.