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Tuesday, September 28, 2004 Merchant Court Hotel It was a fantastic evening, full of energy and spunk at Merchant Court Hotel tonight. The bride actually downloaded and used my piano recording of My Sassy Girl's Love and Longing theme for her video montage, so we decided to make it the "theme" song of the evening, and played two different versions of it during the course of the dinner, a modified solo piano version during their champagne pouring, and later on, a full quartet version of it. Then we played I Believe during the groom's speech, and I did the ebb and rise effect again on the piano with great success, quite a number of guests asked us for our namecards, which was a really great pat on our backs :) The best thing of all was that my gang actually decided to stay on with me, even though they were not supposed to. And we played till we ran out of quartet arrangements! Unbelievable. And the couple was very kind to let us have food from the dinner menu too, with our very own table! Needless to say, it was another enjoyable performance, we only wish we had more like tonight's! # posted by Paul @ 1:17 AM

Sunday, September 19, 2004 Back to Hilton's Vista Tonight marked another special milestone for STRIIIINGS, the birth of the violin-cello duet. I took the page, and did everything I always do with my left hand when I play as part of the piano-violin duet on the cello instead, and it turned out pretty effective. The wedding couple tonight were extremely nice people, full of smiles and laughter. And the icing on the cake? They've found in each other the perfect salsa dancing partner! It was fantastic watching them dance in front of an appreciative audience, myself included, and my feet were aching to do some salsa steps myself. The groom sang a perfect rendition of an abridged version of La Vie En Rose dedicated to his wife. It was a good thing we've a few versions of La Vie En Rose in different keys, as the original version was a tad too high for him. But all's well end's well, and it was marvellous. Though it was a bit cramped in our "musician corner" this evening, it was very cozy, and again our group had a great time performing together.There's nothing like rapport building similar to performing music together with great people. And for great people! # posted by Paul @ 1:55 AM 0 comments

Thursday, September 16, 2004 Watching STRIIIINGS live in action We have had requests from our prospective clients asking to watch STRIIIINGS perform during our wedding and corporate events that are lined up. It does get somewhat inappropriate for us to ask our current clients to give permission, so perhaps this entry will help everybody to exchange information and ideas about their events. Feel free to post requests to attend the events from one another. We hope that this service will be useful! # posted by Paul @ 1:23 PM 0 comments

Testimonials Testimonials from our clients! If STRIIIINGS has recently performed for you, please post a testimonial for us! # posted by Paul @ 1:14 PM 0 comments

Friday, September 03, 2004 Top of the world in PSA Building The string quartet was hired for a very small dinner for highly distinguished guests. We were very excited, for in certain ways, corporate events allow us to perform an even wider range of repertoire, for example, emotionally moving songs that may be deemed unsuitable for weddings. Thus, we launched into my arrangements of The Butterfly Lovers (Liang Zhu), Theme from Mappy and Mario, and Suteki Da Ne with gusto. We were especially delighted with the Theme from Mappy and Mario, for who cannot resist smiling and tapping their feet to the lively bouncing music from the video game featuring a cute and rotund plumber? :) The view from the 40th floor was breathtaking and picturesque, and the acoustics suited the string quartet very, very well. We only wished that the dinner had lasted longer so that we could have performed more of our favourite arrangements! # posted by Paul @ 1:05 AM

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