Saturday

today was, as sholleh put it, the best practice day we had. we moved the piano.

the piano in question belonged to aloysious, or at least his house. wei hon had once again offered his assistance and pickup truck to us, and in the late morning, we, meaning wei hon, betty and I, transported all the equipment to mt vernon, and afterwards betty stayed behind while wei hon and i went over to aloysious' home where sholleh was already waiting. there was no one home yet, and we needed to wait till aloysious comes back from training to open the door for us. so in the meantime we went over to mcdonald's for brunch before coming back, where they arrived a few mintues later.

the moving of the piano was painfully slow. it took 3 people, wei hon on one side and sholleh and i on the other, to move it out onto the corridoor, where we still had to tilt the piano and let it rest on its side in order to fit into the elevator. good thing we had a dolly/trolley. not sure what it's called, but it's something the PID people had made to transport their furniture works.

when we got the piano up into the pick up, which was another challenge in itself, we drove back to mt vernon, just in time to see the storm clouds form overhead and cancelling our shoot. in the end we rushed to a nearby multi-storey car park for shelter, and rescheduled everything, again.

we say it's our best practice run because we wanted to hide from ourselves that the day had in fact been wasted. but at least the piano was out, and we would only need to transport it back to aloysious' home tomorrow.

-JY