Thursday, February 16, 2012
The Epitome of all YEC~!
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Oh well, time for part 2! -LONG POST ALERT-
Still remember the place-which-the-name-that-I-have-forgotten?
Yep, that was the place where I had tasted the best meal in Japan! So, presenting to you..!!
Tempura shrimpsss~!
Once again, the menu was ALL in japanese + no pics (maigod, not again?) But fortunately this time we were accompanied by our chaperone and a few yamaha staffs and they recommended to us this dish which happened to be the restaurant's 'jiu pai' dish. :D
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Moving on to YEC..!!
As a YEC participant, I was to attend this master class conducted by a certain electone instructor. According to the uncertain Pok, the instructor was the YEC champion from the year .. 2002 or 2001.. (or 1998?) aiyah dunno which year lah LOL. And yes, he is a Japanese, so we needed a translator, and kudos to the translator for such uberly good translation.
Yep, from left, Christopher Duke a.k.a. the translator, mr.PokPokPok, Iwazaki sensei(I just found out his name LOL) and me.
You know, on the first day, they even gave me the ticket for the finals in case I couldn't get in. But yes, I memang didn't get in lah, LOL.
And wah, the ticket is quite expensive eh, it costs 2k yen a.k.a. around rm80. So for those non-participants, they are required to pay another 2k yen if they are to watch the semi-finals. sakitnyee
Anyway, for these 2 days, not only do I have the master class sessions, but I also had hours of practising session(s) and here are some of the pics taken when we were bored as hell after practising non-stop.
I was actually quite fired up during practise. =x
Here is Pok sensei dying from practising. He has to practise too, for some teacher seminar that he had to attend for this trip, hoho.
You know, there actually exists this tradition whereby a 3rd party takes a picture of Pok scolding the participant, and vice versa, all for the sake of lame-ity, LOL. So for the past 2 years, these were the result.
last year's (uhh.. doesn't exactly look like scolding, but still considered scolding, roar)
my turn to have the honour of scolding Pok.
And what next? Revenge of teh Pok of course D:
And so sorry, I couldn't find the previous 2 year's one, the pictures went hilang in FB's endless abyss of codes already.
..
Okie, lame time over LOL.
_____
Next off, to the grand hall of Kioi where the event is held!
Yep that's the entrance of the building.
Mind you, the building is uber GIGANTIC.
Yep, can't take the whole of it LOL.
This is the hall/stage itself.
Yes, a very nice design, simple but grand. (this was taken during the finals)
And yep, me before entering the hall for soundcheck. and uh, that is a.. die-then-die-lah kind of face? HAHA.
During the actual competition (semi-finals), maigod, I was so excited, but I had to contain that excitement within myself lah, maigod, the other contestants were all super quiet + serious + focused + stone. Maigod one more time, I don't really dare to approach them lah, LOL.
In the waiting room, I am one of the noisiest. Not because I talk, but because I occasionally change my sitting position/turn around a bit/stretch. So the sounds are produced from all those frictions between my clothes and the couch. And yes, you can hear everybody's breathing, THAT quiet.
There was also one moment where I waited for my turn for soooo long that I actually fell asleep for a split second and I bet the girl that sat besides me noticed my head fishing =.=
So yes, I couldn't make friends with any of the Japanese participants nor take any pictures with them. (I am such a failure >.< ) I only were able to communicate with the other 2 contestants which are not Japanese. Only managed to take pic with the contestant from Singapore, LOL.
Thanks to this person here for being my translator during the semi-finals. He is a big shot from yamaha. *gasp
Yeah babeh, this was during the soundcheck.
FULL THROTTLE ONWARDS, ROAR
.. *silence*
_____
.. So after the whole day competing, couldn't get into finals, but the experience itself is worthwhile enough already :D
So since the 3 of us non-Japanese couldn't get into finals, we get to go for a very exotic dinner instead, together with most of the big shots from yamaha. 5 cheers for that~
This was one of the thingies I've had at this restaurant, and I ate the most, to be exact, I've ate 25 of this very thing. Chicken heart. LOL.
There were even chicken kidneys, chicken cartilages, chicken buttocks, and chicken whatnots LOL. Not so fond of those though, just the heart is nice, I devour them with style babeh, just like a killer =.=v okay no, the drumstick was the best.
_____
I attended the finals on the following day, and I here must sayy, maigod those 6 participants who've gotten into the finals are ALIENS. 1 of them was even as young as 16 years old maigod. Oh here comes the maigod frenzy again LOL.
But to be frank, I did fell asleep for a few times during the finals cause you know, those are all classical pieces :S Not only me hor, even my itu translator and a few others, I caught them fishing =x Oh well, just imagine that each finalist have to play for at least 20 minutes = ranging from 3~4 classical pieces. Altogether 6 finalists somemore, really can sien die.
Once everyone finished performing, we kena wait 20~30mins for the results but we couldn't bother so much, so me and the Singapore gang cabut from the place first and went shopping, really cannot tahan the boredom already lah LOL. Luckily I followed them as they brought me to this place called Okechimachi, towards a shop called Takeya, the stuffs there are SUPER CHEAP, as compared to any other places I have been to in Japan. (I got most of the souvenirs from this shop =x)
Yep, this is the shop.
And that concludes my trip in Japan.
_____
Lastly, presenting the certificate of participation :D
Still remember the place-which-the-name-that-I-have-forgotten?
Yep, that was the place where I had tasted the best meal in Japan! So, presenting to you..!!
Tempura shrimpsss~!
Once again, the menu was ALL in japanese + no pics (maigod, not again?) But fortunately this time we were accompanied by our chaperone and a few yamaha staffs and they recommended to us this dish which happened to be the restaurant's 'jiu pai' dish. :D
_____
Moving on to YEC..!!
As a YEC participant, I was to attend this master class conducted by a certain electone instructor. According to the uncertain Pok, the instructor was the YEC champion from the year .. 2002 or 2001.. (or 1998?) aiyah dunno which year lah LOL. And yes, he is a Japanese, so we needed a translator, and kudos to the translator for such uberly good translation.
Yep, from left, Christopher Duke a.k.a. the translator, mr.PokPokPok, Iwazaki sensei(I just found out his name LOL) and me.
You know, on the first day, they even gave me the ticket for the finals in case I couldn't get in. But yes, I memang didn't get in lah, LOL.
And wah, the ticket is quite expensive eh, it costs 2k yen a.k.a. around rm80. So for those non-participants, they are required to pay another 2k yen if they are to watch the semi-finals. sakitnyee
Anyway, for these 2 days, not only do I have the master class sessions, but I also had hours of practising session(s) and here are some of the pics taken when we were bored as hell after practising non-stop.
I was actually quite fired up during practise. =x
Here is Pok sensei dying from practising. He has to practise too, for some teacher seminar that he had to attend for this trip, hoho.
You know, there actually exists this tradition whereby a 3rd party takes a picture of Pok scolding the participant, and vice versa, all for the sake of lame-ity, LOL. So for the past 2 years, these were the result.
last year's (uhh.. doesn't exactly look like scolding, but still considered scolding, roar)
my turn to have the honour of scolding Pok.
And what next? Revenge of teh Pok of course D:
And so sorry, I couldn't find the previous 2 year's one, the pictures went hilang in FB's endless abyss of codes already.
..
Okie, lame time over LOL.
_____
Next off, to the grand hall of Kioi where the event is held!
Yep that's the entrance of the building.
Mind you, the building is uber GIGANTIC.
Yep, can't take the whole of it LOL.
This is the hall/stage itself.
Yes, a very nice design, simple but grand. (this was taken during the finals)
And yep, me before entering the hall for soundcheck. and uh, that is a.. die-then-die-lah kind of face? HAHA.
During the actual competition (semi-finals), maigod, I was so excited, but I had to contain that excitement within myself lah, maigod, the other contestants were all super quiet + serious + focused + stone. Maigod one more time, I don't really dare to approach them lah, LOL.
In the waiting room, I am one of the noisiest. Not because I talk, but because I occasionally change my sitting position/turn around a bit/stretch. So the sounds are produced from all those frictions between my clothes and the couch. And yes, you can hear everybody's breathing, THAT quiet.
There was also one moment where I waited for my turn for soooo long that I actually fell asleep for a split second and I bet the girl that sat besides me noticed my head fishing =.=
So yes, I couldn't make friends with any of the Japanese participants nor take any pictures with them. (I am such a failure >.< ) I only were able to communicate with the other 2 contestants which are not Japanese. Only managed to take pic with the contestant from Singapore, LOL.
Thanks to this person here for being my translator during the semi-finals. He is a big shot from yamaha. *gasp
Yeah babeh, this was during the soundcheck.
FULL THROTTLE ONWARDS, ROAR
.. *silence*
_____
.. So after the whole day competing, couldn't get into finals, but the experience itself is worthwhile enough already :D
So since the 3 of us non-Japanese couldn't get into finals, we get to go for a very exotic dinner instead, together with most of the big shots from yamaha. 5 cheers for that~
This was one of the thingies I've had at this restaurant, and I ate the most, to be exact, I've ate 25 of this very thing. Chicken heart. LOL.
There were even chicken kidneys, chicken cartilages, chicken buttocks, and chicken whatnots LOL. Not so fond of those though, just the heart is nice, I devour them with style babeh, just like a killer =.=v okay no, the drumstick was the best.
_____
I attended the finals on the following day, and I here must sayy, maigod those 6 participants who've gotten into the finals are ALIENS. 1 of them was even as young as 16 years old maigod. Oh here comes the maigod frenzy again LOL.
But to be frank, I did fell asleep for a few times during the finals cause you know, those are all classical pieces :S Not only me hor, even my itu translator and a few others, I caught them fishing =x Oh well, just imagine that each finalist have to play for at least 20 minutes = ranging from 3~4 classical pieces. Altogether 6 finalists somemore, really can sien die.
Once everyone finished performing, we kena wait 20~30mins for the results but we couldn't bother so much, so me and the Singapore gang cabut from the place first and went shopping, really cannot tahan the boredom already lah LOL. Luckily I followed them as they brought me to this place called Okechimachi, towards a shop called Takeya, the stuffs there are SUPER CHEAP, as compared to any other places I have been to in Japan. (I got most of the souvenirs from this shop =x)
Yep, this is the shop.
And that concludes my trip in Japan.
_____
Lastly, presenting the certificate of participation :D
