A Day of Awesome Fun

5th Febraury, 2005. My first performance for NTU outside the campus. I was thrilled to go sing elsewhere, and that too for a noble cause, Tsunami Relief fund raising.
All dressed in "ethnic wear"(as Anto put it), we cabbed our way to the place where the event (we thought) would be held, only to realize we had come to the wrong place and went about searching the tiny streets and malls of Singapore before actually finding the actual venue.
I went in and had a peek at the place we were about to sing. Gosh, it was huge! I was excited. A nice, wide stage and a big room to seat hundreds of people. (How many actually were filled is a different matter...)
After all those setting up work was done, Vijetha and I peeped into the audience seats from behind the screens...God, there were just about 80 or 100 people filling up the seats randomly here and there.(I'm quite sure they were parents of all the students taking part in the event!)Never mind, we at least didn't have to sing to empty chairs.
So started the song. No fears, I was surprised, as I happily waded through the song with Vijetha.(I could have been a trifle bit louder though, putting the mike closer to me)With all our performances from NTU's Sruthilaya over, we went on to fill the seats and watch the others perform. And boy, what a show it was....There was absolutely no touch of the show being performed for a fund raising for relief for a tsunami....All loud and jarring noises and dances, and I was thinking why we chose to perform subtle songs and keep it low. I would fairly conclude that ours was just the one performance that was meant for a dignified crowd. (How the crowd was, is another issue...)
The ten minute interval made us happy as it brought us closer to food. Some packets were being given away and hungrily, we took them and settled down to eat them. And oh dear, the food...It was some plain sevai to be mixed and eaten with coconut and some orange powder, which none of us understood what it should be used for.And after struggling to push at least some of it inside, we escaped out to enjoy some good food. Off to Serangoon, and there we ate some amazing tandoori food, leaving our plates clean. Oh man, what a striking difference it was to the food we had eaten just an hour back!
And one of the funniest experiences there was the "Chennai vs. Bangalore" fight. I was really stumped to know there was actually another person in NTU as mad about Chennai as I am! I listened on, giving inputs at times as Vijetha and Vikram were getting into a really heated argument, and Sreejith and me enjoying the good show. And after some random shopping and looking around in Mustafa, we were ready to leave.
As we cabbed back to NTU, I was thinking of all the fun I'd had this day....Being the first such, I'm eagerly waiting for more such days!