As the title of this post suggest, I have been struck by a sense of fatigue.
Last night, we had rehearsals at the Prince George's Park Function Room, which is many kilometres away from our regular rehearsal venue. Our regular rehearsal venue is now under renovation.
We were supposed to start at 7 p.m. But in the end, we had to practice the art of patient waiting. The lorry which was supposed to transport the larger instruments (e.g. the double basses) from the instrument store (which is also many kilometres away from last night's rehearsal venue) was late. Furthermore, it was too small to carry all the larger instruments in one single go, so three trips had to be made. To add to the woes, the function room had no chairs when the room was opened at about 7 p.m. Eventually, we could only start at about 8 pm, when all chairs and instruments were in place. This incident is quite a test of everyone's patience and cooperativeness. Good thing that we showed sufficient patience and cooperativeness, and was able to proceed with the rehearsals despite all these.
There was quite an amount of carrying of instruments last night for me and my colleagues in the orchestra when the instruments arrived. In addition to that, we had to transport the instruments back to the instrument store at the end of the rehearsals. You bet we had worked out quite a bit of our muscles last night by just carrying the instruments.
When I woke up this morning, I was feeling tired. I tried to urge myself to press on, and beat the fatigue. I shall have an earlier sleep tonight.
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