The Ark Cafe

I think I really learnt my lesson about mugging last-minute.

Anyway, disappearing from this space for close to a week didn't seem very significant to me; I'm still trapped in this horrible mugging cycle. Just when one nightmare ended with the submission of the annotated biblio, I realised that the arrival of the mid-term break is going to be another week-long nightmare to endure. The amount of readings piled up over the past two weeks are threatening to break my back, and projects are just going nowhere. I think I'm simply not concentrating hard enough.

The first visit to The Ark Cafe, or what we know affectionately as MuChuan, yesterday was lovely, although the sad fact about passionate music lovers dwindling in numbers continues to harp on me up to this moment. The cosy cove was... empty. It was 8.30pm when we arrived, and the place was stark, disregarding the singers and the service crew. I remembered Kailing telling us that the singers perform for absolutely no fees, and I felt that it was only for the very love for music and performance that those very talented singers were willing to sacrifice their nights there, sometimes singing to nobody.
And I totally salute them for that.
The visit totally debunked my initial thinking that Muchuan singers are pretty haughty, after finding out that they're absolutely friendly and, as long as you don't come up with weird song dedications like techno or dance tunes, they're more than happy to perform the songs you picked. Oh, and did I mention that we have a Geyao senior performing there as well? She was in Kailing's batch, so the amount of fun and laughter we had yesterday was unimaginable. I was totally fixated on her fingers dancing on the keyboard while she belted out songs I could never have attempted before, and her accompanying singers were of a pretty good standard as well. Their singer's version of Chong Bai totally thrashed the version I did at SuperSnacks last semester. Of course, being the "descendents" of NUS Geyao, what's a night without juicy gossip and mindless jokes about Geyao seniors? I bet someone's eyebrow must have been jerking for the whole of last night.
*Laughs*
I particularly liked the joke by our Geyao senior a.k.a Muchuan resident keyboardist that some Geyao senior (who used to be resident keyboardist at theArk) had such perfect pitch that if he heard a car screech he'd say "that's a C sharp.".
*Laughs*
And the cappucino was good. I don't know what happened to Jack's and Kailing's and Eugene's drinks.

Anyway, just a short advertisement for Muchuan, simply because I think they totally deserve this:

The Ark Music Cafe
45 Boon Keng Road
ArkHub@Kallang
#01-04
Kallang Community Club
Boon Keng MRT Station - Exit B
www.theark.com.sg

I swear I'll go back there soon with some other friends.

And it's tragic when I can hear the exploding fireworks from the LAntern Festival celebrations at the Chinese Garden but I can't see it from here.

*Sighs*

Bye bye world, it's back to mugging.

Oh, and did I mention that Zikry gave a pink flower he made himself? He said that it was my birthday last week, so it was my belated present. And the my Primary 3 class threw this pseudo surprise party for me during class. Now you know why I can't tear myself away from them.