南門社授證

I let them talk me into singing.

It was 南門社 (Rotary Club of Taichung South)'s Anniversary dinner celebration. They asked me to sing a song with Jack who's ROTEX and his dad's a rotarian from that club.

The last time I sang sang a proper song in front of an audience (Rasa Sayang doesn't count because I had background music and there was someone singing as well) was when I was 8 or 9. I froze on stage and forgot all the lyrics of my song. Yeah, horrible basically sums it up.

This time it was a Taiwanese song. We spent quite a bit of time preparing for it, and both of us sang it as a duet and he played the guitar as well since we couldn't find the Karaoke version of it.

On that day, Jack came to pick me from my house to practise. My face was practically frozen when we reached home cause it was super cold that morning and we were on a scooter. Me having a perpetual cold didn't help either..was becoming more and more afraid I was going to sound like a duck being slaughtered when on stage later that night.

The anniversary dinner was held at this very grand place called 中僑會館 in Taichung City. It was where the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival was being held.

We were there early for sound check and after that I just remembered having to keep telling myself not to be too nervous. lol.

The dinner started with the usual speeches and stuff and what they had that was quite special was that at the begining, they had all the past presidents and their wives doing the 'red carpet' walk. XP and they were all holding balloons- the men held swords and wore crowns, while the ladies held a flower. When I saw that I was like..eehhh I want one too XP Just kidding lah

After everyone has made their way onto the stage, suddenly they play this birthday song and a freaking cake comes rising up from the stage!! SIAO or not?! I'm thinking this Rotary club seriously has too much money too spare.

Food served looked very yummy but I couldn't really eat much of it cause most of it was seafood and plus the butterflies in my stomach made it almost impossible for me to shove anything down my throat.