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hihi...
thur's field trip to esplanade and the national library at Bras Basah was rather interesting. We first set off on bus at 8 and reached esplanade at around 830. From den on, it was fun all the way.

We first went to the theatre. The theatre was really big like those in the opera houses. It can seat 1600 seats and is shaped in a horse-shoe. This makes the audience more intimate to the performers. Also, the first 5 rows of the seats can be removed and replaced with a stage so that the stage will become bigger. Also, there are a total of 207 fly bars which are used to hang props, decorations, people (to show as if they are flying) etc. Also, there were things like acoustic curtains to absorb the sound and not cause echo.

Next up was the concert hall. Haha. Having performed twice and "audienced" once here, I was rather familiar with the concert hall. It has a seating capacity of 1600 excluding the choir seats. Like the theatre, the concert hall also has 3 rows of seats that can be removed and be replaced by a stage if the orchestra is BIG... Also, there is a 15mm isolation of the concert hall with vacuum which prevent the vibrations from MRTs and outside to come into the concert hall. This improves the sound quality. Also, there are pipe organs and "doors" which can be opened and closed to either make the music sound more like in a small room (closed and usually for solos or ensembles) or in a church (open, orchestra)... Then, there are acoustic curtains as well which absorb reverberations.

Then, next, we went up to the cafe in the library where we were served pasta (spaghetti) some sandwiches, lychee drink etc. It was DAMN nice. haha. yummy, im loving it... haha. After that, we proceeded to the library @ esplanade where we were introduced around. I never knew there were so many facilities there. Must start making use of them sia... There are...

1. Screening room (4-seater = $6/hr , 8-seater = $8/hr) ==> used to watch movies/films
2. Printing services (forgot price) ==> Only 10% of a book or score
3. Project room ($6/hr) Whiteboards, com are provided
4. Self-study area ($0/hr) Very gd for studying esp. cuz esplanade library is damn quiet
5. Practice room ($6/hr) Piano and electone provided for u to prac. Also have a gd scenery of the sea and the merlion
6. Performance room ($10/hr) A place with a grand piano for u to showcase your talents

The library was divided into 4 parts. there were film, theatre, music as well as dance. For music, there were many score books. These were not onli piano scores but also percussion scores, violin scores, voila scores and even guitar and pipa scores!!! haha. The dance section was also quite interesting with a whole corridor for u to practice the dance moves from the videos or books which use symbols to indicate what to do and when to do it. The film and theatre section is also very nice with a variety of movies and plays to choose from.

Den, we walked to the library at Bras Basah. We were walking thru city links and were getting "U think u RI u very pro is it?" looks. haha. i think i saw a few of them. haha. it was quite ok though. Nothing much happened den. Den, we reached Raffles City where we saw the RI monument. It was rather nice except that some of the trees had been screwed out from the models and stolen i guess. hahaha. quite weird. Den, another thing weird happened. Just as we were about to cross the road, there was this ambassedor who was coming by so a few of them were stuck on the other side of the road while waiting for the car and the policemen nearby to finish crossing the road first. There was a bug argument about human rights after that. haha.

The library didnt have much interesting except for the fact that the top 2 levels were restricted as they were books from the past. Also, there was this machine which can read tape-like stuff which contained old newspapers from the past. These tapes are used to store loads of information and compact them into a small dot. Yup. Think that's all for thur...

den, 2dae, fri... history, geog, sci, maths = usual stuff... nothing much to tok about...

Den, discussion on RIweiqi future was quite ok... we plan to play at least 2 matches a week and in a league system.

RICO was fun. Joshua, Cui Cheng, Chu Ming, me, lionel, yin kwan, victor, zhao jie, guan yu n tse ern came for prac. That makes... 10 ppl which is quite ok lah... we played lemon tree, ma lai ge, huan xin, dong hai (boring), long, naner, hua hao etc. Yup. quite ok lah. den, i am starting to learn a new ensemble piece where i am supposed to be the soloist. must perform this on thu so must start prac-ing hard liao. dont wanna screw this up. haha. okok. gtg. bye

Patrick