Sara's Wedding 9th Oct 2005@The 3rd place

Finally it's Carl & Sara Rogstad's final wedding reception. It was held at the 3rd place to host relatives and friends of both the bridegroom and the bride. It was a warm and cozy afternoon and i though it will be great for the bangsters to the songs that we have been practising for the past 2 saturday. It would be great that the songs can touch both the couple.


7days' performance
The reception kicks off with a few chinese numbers from forerunner's very own 7 days band. Wow, i was telling myself that we (the bangster) were in the presence of greatness. The band was so good and tight and they sounded so so so pro. They made the chinese numbers like Ai Chuan dong and xi huan sounds better than the CD. And you know what, the guitar legend Tony just simply could not fail to leave my jaw hanging wit his cool and tasteful guitar licks. The bangs' discussed to drop our performance lah....7 days spoiled market liao.

7 days' induced stress - the presence of greatness!!!
The bangsters all look stressed after watching 7 days performed. It was so clearly dictated on our drummer Daniel. He is a calm and easy-going person, never stressed or felt nervous before any gig. However this time round, he took my mp3 player and disappeared to listen to the songs that we were supposed to do later thoroughly. Sia la.....the rest of the bangs also, began to take the charts out and start to run thru the songs mentally. I was also super stressed....Somemore there's alot of guests also, many of them were top musicians. Sigh!!!

Who want's to be a "millionaire"
After the encore song by 7days, Pat( 7days Acoustic Guitarist and of cos, my beloved mentor) and P'Joy took the stage to host a quiz show!!! It was extremely entertaining as Pat began to present the quiz questions with his hilarious sense of humor.... Wow, I was suprised to hear that Sara actually did dance for the legendary Theresa Teng( Yeah, Teng li jun....My mum's idol) and Hong kong' heavenly king Jacky cheung (Zhang xue yong) in their separate concert. Wow!!! Being beside Sara makes me feel so close to the legends!!!

The MTV
Next up is a video show of Carl and Sara's actual wedding at the Istana park. Their wedding was simply magical!!! Like living in walt disney!!! No...better than that!!! I was extremely touched when the couple exchanged marriage vows, when Sara spoke her heart out to Carl. Then the end of the video shows Tony playing jazz guitar....I was blown away!!! Sia la....how can i ever be able to learn how to play like him....

The Bangster's paradise
Yeah, it's finally our turn to take the stage. Hestitantly, we slowly made our way to the instruments when Pat invited us up. We did a quick sound check. I looked at myself....Hey, i am holding the guitar and stepping on the pedal that were used by Tony....Better dun sia suai!!!
William intro-ed the song Angels by Robbie william...Before i knew, we were already playing almost to the guitar solo part. I was glad to see pple singing with along with RJ and of cos, Sara and Carl's nodding with the music!!! Then i told myself: " Whack lah...Whack then say!!!" The solo was done quite nicely, i think... hee, at least everything sounded on. A bit like jamie walter's licks again...all thanks to Sindric....made me listen to so much of him, can't get his style out of my head!!!

Then we carry on to do Inside your heaven, the Bo Bice's version. RJ pulled it off very well...very engaging singing!!! When the last chord were strummed, "great" i told myself!!! Everything ended. But just as i was about to put down my guitar, the crowd shouted for 1 more....Then Big bang, Manson and RJ requested for "Regular Friend" - by David Tao. Siao!!!! They want me to play this song in front of Tony who is the master of this song. No way man!!!! Then Big bang told me, " Be a man, do the right thing!!!" Aiya, Whack lah!!! Just dun look at Tony can already!!! I began with the intro...it sounded quite ok...I was super nervous!!! and the bangs took over after the "Knock Knock!!!" Wow...It was great!!! The crowd loves it despite the song was so in prompt to. Never practise just whacked...After i put down my guitar, i told myself i will not do such crazy things again.

Sharon's powerhouse singing
Wow wow wow, P'sha sang so marvelously well. This was the 2nd time i heard her sing since our Turt days when she excellently covered Christina Aguilera's I turn to You..... Come on, do u noe how hard it is to sing an Aguilera's number.....When she ended, we cant help but to scream for encore...This was when the real show began. We were treated with a great feast when Sharon invited Kheng(Sharon's husband to take the stage with her. I didn't know that Kheng can play the guitar so well. All along, i thot he is a great bassist who is teaching my disciple bass. Never realised that he can play guitar so well. The couple reminds me of the japanese husband and wife band Le couple!!! So sweet and blissful!!!

A legend's encouragement
Time flies, we have come to the end of the reception and helped to pack up the stuffs. We went for supper together at Geylang Beancurd and You tiao. This was when something great and unbelievable happened. Tony smsed me and told me that he like the stuffs i played for the songs we did just now. I was screaming in jubliation in my heart but has to restrain my emotion becos alot of pple around. Come on, it's a Legend's Compliment leh.....You have no idea how much this means to me....It boost my low self-esteem by alot!!! I dun think i will ever delete that sms.. hee

This marks the end of such an eventful day. This is one of those days that i will find it hard to forget.