My cell group was designated to do a presentation in church yesterday for Father's Day. Somebody severely lacking in foresight decided to tell us about it ONE week earlier, and since my whole cell was kind of busy working throughout the week, we only got to meet up for our one and only practice on Saturday. Night. At 9pm. Ok, so a bunch of us met at McD's for dinner at 7.30pm and chit-chatted for longer than we should've... bygones.
Somehow or another we ended up deciding to perform Eric Clapton's "My Father's Eyes". I was on acoustic guitar, Gavin played the guitar solos, Theng Terk was lead singer and everyone else just had to sing "Look into my father's eyes" twice during the chorus. And Gav didn't have a proper slider to do his guitar solos with, so he decided to improvise!
Ah yes, the amazing things you can do with stuff lying around your kitchen. He didn't actually use the 'celery slider' during the real performance, of course, though I think it would have made our performance a bit more entertaining. After looking through the lyrics of song, I realized that it's actually very meaningful... but I fear the meaning was totally lost on our mostly Chinese-educated church parents. Plus, none of our fathers in our cell group actually come to our church... so our performance was only for other people's fathers.... -_-' Oh, the irony. Oh well, at least we still managed to pull off a decent rendition of a classic song after only 3 hours of practice. At least, I hope it was decent, as opposed to horribly mutilated.
I'm assuming no one reading my blog is a dad, so hope all your dads had a good Father's Day yesterday. :)
4 comments:
Hey, what happened to ur tagboard? Or my internet too... slow, that it didn't load on my browser.. -__-
I got rid of my tagboard coz' no one was tagging me and I was getting spam on it, so I figured might as well ditch it. My readers are a very quiet bunch. :P
For a very short prep and practice, the performance was pretty good. A bunch of us were singing and "backing up" at the back of the hall... :)
Haha, thanks Su Ann. :) I was kind of busy trying not to mess up the chords, but I managed to notice Ann singing at the back. Nice to know we had some backup. Hehe!
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