Saturday affair: SCO concert + Soju Bong
Weekend is here! Started off my Saturday with my colleague and off we went for Chinese Orchestra concert organised by Pathlight school. So excited to see our students performing for the Principal/ Staffs and their family members.
Check out the video here, some behind scenes of our students practicing hard for this performance.
A little background of how our school was funded by Deutsche Bank for this performance.
Singapore Chinese Orchestra is now into its third year of partnership with Deutsche BANK (DB). Our collaboration has successfully demonstrated the power of music to transform and to inspire, with the DB-SCO music programme for the music ensemble (percussion) students of Pathlight School.
"Designed for children with special needs, this COLLABORATIVE programme aims not only to develop the musical capabilities of the students, but more importantly to encourage them to increase their levels of social interaction, build resilience and thereby give them confidence. The students have been training since April under the guidance of SCO musician, Mr Ngoh Kheng Seng, and they put up a stunning performance with the SCO at a concert last Saturday. Gain an insight into this programme and feel the profound impact it has on these students."
They even have free popcorn and candy floss booth for the audience. One would enjoy the show and popped in few pop corns into our mouth. My colleague and I would really love to pack back some home.
Sadly no videos around, I couldn't record the part that they performed. But I was moved to tears after they finished their play. Its like their effort has paid off after so much of practice and rehearsal. When I was in the general office, I could hear them play their songs. Each piece of music resemble their sweat and tears. Its not easy to have them to stay in the music room for 2.5 hours but they made it through with the guidance of their teachers and instructor, Really a thumbs up performance. I wish I could share the video of their performance, hopefully my department could find it. *pray hard.
After the whole performance, most of the people stood up and round applause to them. Even the VIP stood up and cheer for them. I could feel tears on the side of eyes. Im sure the parents are really proud of them (:
Good job my path-lighters (:
After which, few of my colleague walked over to Tanjong Pagar to have our dinner. Since Tanjong pagar was well-known of their BBQ food. We, definitely go for their Korean food although I was raving for Cafe food, Ain't a fan of Korean BBQ buffet because of the fatty meat that they have.
We stopped by 2D1N soju bong and was glad to see that there isn't any crowd when we entered in. It was peacefully quiet with 2 tables occupied. We choose ala carte over their buffet style because I hate leaving the place with a foul BBQ smell. And a person who doesn't eat alot shouldn't aim for their buffet (Its not worth it!).
Free flow of cold side dishes for us! That's one of the reason why I'm willing to spend my money here. Though the ala carte food were over-priced.
4 of us girls had this Dakk Galbi (chicken, basically) which comes with rice cake, Tangsuyok (sweet and sour pork), and an egg roll, with 2 bowls of rice - the servings were hugeee and together with the (refillable!) side dishes, we had much difficulty even trying to finish it because you will get sick of it after long.
2D1N serves the BEST Kimchi Pancake I have had in Singapore. 2D1N pancake does not have a lot of flour like several other eateries do. It is crispy and definitely taste of kimchi. At certain places, I could taste only flour and felt like eating plain pancake with occasional kimchi pieces.
2D1N Soju Bang
Address: #01-01, 44/46 Tanjong Pagar Road, Singapore 088465
Nearest MRT: Tanjong Pagar (on the green line)
Price: around SGD 25 per pax
Remark: Level 2 is for BBQ Buffet & Level 1 is for A-La-Carte
Dinner was good but of course we needed some beverages so we decided to head down to Group Therapy to chillax. People chill while drinking beer but not for us! We had coffee over wine which could probably cost the same price. Coffee nowadays are so expensive you see!
But nevertheless, had a good bonding time with my colleague, spending half of my day with them (;
Till then.
