Wednesday, June 09, 2004

7th Fleet Band and more

The rock band from the 7th Fleet, United States Navy visited the SAF Bands today. It was quite an interesting exchange. First the Central Band played a selection of our "standard" repertoire for them. For Reader's info, our "standard" repertoire includes pieces like Princess Mononoke, Imagine and others familiar classics for any last minute performance we have. These performances are most of the time dining-ins.

A dining-in is essentially a military dinner where all the officers of a unit or formation gather to dine together. This had been a tradition since ancient times. Traditionally a toast shared from a common jug will be toasted to the king (president in modern days). This sharing of wine signifies the trust between them because poison was a very way to kill someone in those days.

Anyway, enough of side-tracking. The band was quite entertaining. I spoke to the trombonist after the exchange during the reception. He actually has a Masters in Trombone and will be leaving the service to continue his Doctorate before returning to the Navy. They were actually part of the US Navy Band which consists of about 15 bands. Theirs is a 32 man small diversion which is posted to one of the 4 US navy fleets around the world. This works out to 8 man per fleet, which explains the small rock band we had today.

This band will be performing this Sunday evening at Orchard near Hereem at 8 pm. If anyone is interested, please do make an effort to go down and watch! Support my fellow military musicians!

I saw this small boy at a foodcourt after work when I went there for dinner. He must be around 5-6 of age and he was dressed ENTIRELY in pink. Every piece of garment on his body was pink. Pink jacket, pink t-shirt, pink/white shorts, socks with pink strips, shoes with pink pattern. You name it, he has it. I think his mother was the "culprit"; she had dressed herself and the boy's younger brother up in pink too. I have nothing against pink, it can be a nice colour, but pink from head to toes? No sir, you won't catch me dead in that. I actually saw in a man in pink pants and white shirt before.

Just wondering, would anyone of you here actually do that?

The Mazda RX-8 is so nice! I think I had fallen in love with the car. I just love the way it's designed to be a 4-seater when maintaining the 2-doors look. Ah, my precious! Go see it here!

I'm feeling talkative tonight, I don't know why. Sometimes I wonder, how many people actually do read my humble blog on a regular basis? Is it entertaining enough to keep you, my reader, coming back for more? Is there anything I can do to make this place more interesting for you?

I actually had someone e-mailing me to ask about my oboe from Hong Kong! Apparently she read my posting about wanting to sell my oboe sometime back in April and made enquiries about it to me. So, this lead me to think: how many people go around surfing total stranger?s blog. I'm not against anyone whom I don't know reading this particular posting right now. on the contrary, I welcome more readers! I'm just very curious to know who exactly reads my blog. That would be so interesting!

So, anyne who reads this and is interested to chat to me online, please do drop me an e-mail. It would be nice to meet others with similar interest from around the world!
fjozn at 9:34 PM