sleep is overrated

been in and out of towns for 2 weeks, thought i'd get a day off tomorrow but my plan was changed by 1 email i've got a few days ago at 3am.
was contracted to play at the Jeff Beck/Eric Clapton show. i think it's only the Beck part. without a doubt, i said yes to the email at 4am.
then the next couple of days i had to reschedule my students and a client meeting to next week.
this gig better pay well. or else i'd lose so much money, and sleep.

thought it wouldn't be a pleasant trip this time, but i felt renewed.
first off, i left my foundation kit at home. so spent $65 in shoppers to get replacements. turns out the Vichy stuff is pretty good. i think i'll keep on getting it. it's cheaper than the mismatched shade i got from mac.

then the rehearsals were tiring. i didn't look at the stuff beforehand, and found out we're playing Symphonie Classique... first thing in the morning after a 2 hr drive.
good that i've had my breakfast this time.
Alain Trudell was guest conducting. he's such a nice person and conductor to work with!
we were all confident about our entrances, the concert sounded awesome!
normally that doesn't happen, with... yeah. this place is too public to name names.
only positive stuff goes on my blog about work.
back to Alain.. he made me miss Andre! hope he'll be in Montreal in june when i visit. but i highly doubt it. must be either extremely busy with students or off to festivals.

k, now i gotta figure out how to get to the ACC without costing me an arm and a leg.
leaving in... 6 hrs?
that'll give me 5 hrs to sleep.
hurray!

day off freedom

showed up at the hall for a coach bus pick up half the orchestra for the Chatham run out concert last night.
there was no coach, only a mini airport bus and 3 limousines waiting.
but i saw some orchestra people loading into the minibus, so my carpool and i went to the driver.
he seated us into one of the limos before discovering that they don't have enough limos for people who are still coming.
it was about 15 mins pass our normal departure time when we left London.
ended up with 1 minibus and 6 limos.
it was nicely warm in the car, roomy, and luxurious.
except it was only a luxury sedan, not those stretchy ones.
we still don't know why there was no bus.
heard 2 versions:
1) from our driver - that some 300 odd people got stranded somewhere at a greyhound station so they needed to reroute our bus to transport those people.
2) from others - they don't have enough buses to transport crew and athletes at the olympics, so our bus is on route to Whistler.

either way, i'm totally fine with riding in a limo for a 1.5 hrs commute.
as long as i don't have to pay for it.

today is my day off.
i was looking forward to being a couch potato in front of the tv and maybe catch some of the olympics.
but the hostel is changing from rogers to bell, so all of their digital cable and internet services were cut.
not only i have no tv, i also have no internet.
so i'm now being cold at Starbucks, enjoying a green tea latte and my 3 hrs free wifi.
i wondering when they upgraded from 2 hrs to 3 hrs...?
and why is it always cold at Starbucks, no matter which one u go to???

anyway, gonna go back and watch 2 more episodes of 彊屍2. should've brought more episodes.
and maybe i'll go catch a movie or something tonight.

痛

喉嚨痛, 頭痛, 經痛, 背痛, 肩痛, 腳痛....
人老了, 機器都不靈.
最難頂的莫非是頭痛.
是時候去睡覺了, 解痛一下, 希望不會發惡夢了吧...

明天一定要起早, 那就可以去做 facial.
我有 10 次 facial credit, 一定要在那店關門大吉前全用掉.
之前 BoBo 買了 credit, 還剩 2 次它就閉業, 浪費了幾十完...
肉痛哦!!!!!!!

做一個好孩子

今天 Fan 媽媽大出血.
話說 AhFan 接送 Fan 媽媽辦年貨, 到 First Markham 的海味舖買東西給老襯.
只有一個感覺: 乾貨 = 很貴.
我也不甘示弱, 趁火打劫了一點... 只有一點...
我的戰利品包括:
一大包乾菊花
一大罐胎菊花
一大袋紅燒魚柳
3 個髮夾
嗯... 大部份都是吃的.
最近不停的吃韓式烤扁魚片 (自己烤的黑黑), 所以喉嚨痛 (T_T...)
而且睡的晚, Ikea 床褥又開始變形導致我腰酸背痛, 所以今晚一口氣喝了一壺胎菊蜂蜜茶.
好! 今晚早點睡!
明天開始每晚早睡, 再每早跑步!
我要今年好好完成新年願望~

p.s.
剛剛發覺戰利品 #1&2 跟 #3 有很大的衝突...

p.p.s.
不知道 BoBo 今晚在龍宴被人謀了多少...
明晚的團年飯要八些新聞回來.