the good ol days!

Jammed with SIP (my sec sch band) on Saturday after a nearly three-year long hiatus. It was a very last minute sort of thing, and it seemed that all the major jam studios in town had been fully booked. I looked online and finally found one in Katong Shopping Centre, Encore! Studios. So we met up, had Parklane fried wanton mee at the Katong Branch (very much pales in comparison, don't go there) and headed down to the studio. Apparently, the studio was owned by a guy and a girl, both of whom weren't in town. So guess who was there to open the studio for us? The girl's parents. A rather kindly old couple, I might add. The woman was asking questions about us like any old auntie would, like whether we were still studying etc. First time we'd ever received such a reception at a jam studio. The people working at these places tend to be hostile (shang studio at orchard) or hippie musicians. (tiet studio) The old couple helpfully added that they weren't musicians, and if we encountered any technical problems with the equipment then..well good luck to us! Thank goodness nothing went wrong.

The studio was rather new, the drums were in great shape, everything was in good condition, basically. Just a bit messy, that's all. I had a Line6 amp and a Yamaha guitar to play with. And so we launched into a few of our old songs, most of which Chee Keen and Yen Chin needed a bit of prompting to recall. We couldn't play with the facility we used to have, but had fun nonetheless:



Too bad the camera ran out of memory pretty early on. After running through our "set list" we went on to play various nonsense like we always do. Including a very cool christmas carol rock medley! Pity we didn't record that one.

Ice Cream Chefs was nearby, so we made our way down there for after-jam dessert. I was pleasantly surprised to find En Qi and her gang (Wendy, Toon Li, Le Jia, Bernice) there. Yen Chin also met a couple of people he knew. Small world. Anyhow here I was at Ice Cream Chefs, finally. It's this place which serves ice cream mashed in with your choice of ingredients on a cold-stone top . For the longest time I'd been dying to try out the deadly combination of choc hersheys ice cream, nutella, oreos and Kinder Bueno. Thank goodness in the end I - well, I pretty much chose that combination, only without bueno but with peanuts instead. Still, I'd hit on a murderous combination. I couldn't bring myself to finish it. Couple of pics at Ice Cream Chefs:



I'm going back there. Vanilla ice cream, Nutella and Kinder Bueno sounds good.