I’m now listening to my neighbour’s “we wish you a merry christmas” repeated too many times. All these x’mas songs are starting to drive me insane - thankfully it’s only a couple of hours from the day itself, after which I should be able to get a bit of peace (now they’re playing “noel, noel, noel noelnoelnoeeeeel!!!”

But maybe it’s a good thing that I get used to ubiquitous music perpetually ringing between my ears, since it won’t be long before they the x’mas and new year deco Chinese New Year ones, along with the far more grating music.

Saddam Hussein would confess to crimes he didn’t commit if he had to listen to Chinese New Year music for a day.

But, it’s way too early to look forward to CNY, so let’s come back to present season.

I was at Borders yesterday when a flute quartet performed. It started off fine, but it became weird. I’ll just paste my MSN conversation with a friend (who’s into singing) describing the event (with minor edits):

Me:
i was at borders in the evening

Me:
there was some performance by some flutists

Me:
playing xmas songs, and asking for donations for cancer society

Me:
anyway, for their last 2 songs

Me:
they had a vocalist to sing along

Me:
the vocalist was a sop - the voice damn power
[sop - soprano, the ones who sing the highest notes, sung by females or boys. My friend is also a sop.]

Me:
but….

Me:
u know wat the problem was???

Friend:
what????

Me:
make a guess 

Me:
it was a problem for me at least

Friend:
she’s too ugly

Me:
hahahahahhaha

Me:
good try ;)

Friend:
haha then?

Me:
the problem is

Me:
the vocalist was a GUY!!!!

Friend:
oh no!!!!!!!!!

Anyway to prove that I’m not lying, someone else has written about it:

met jody after that and we headed to borders to watch ed perform in his flute quartet. truth be told, i cld barely hear or appreciate the music cus the surrounding noise was just overwhelming. BUT the lead vocalist sang opera-style and sounded like a girl, when he was evidently not..

I don’t want to hear another x’mas song again.

Now playing: Silent Night