Happenings of Last Saturday

On Saturday I did the following.

1. I managed to nearly finish updating the company accounts. Next month end will be the end of the financial year and therefore the bosses want to see the draft net profit figure to see how much they can spend between now and then to decrease the tax to be paid to Inland Revenue Department.

2. I had the car service at the workshop below the office. For a long time the windscreen wiper had been making sound whenever it was being switched on when rain came down. The sound is quite annoying and therefore I decided to get a new one. Now the new wiper does not make any sound.

Last year the mechanic suggested to me to put a layer of window tint at the top of the windscreen but I did not ask him to do that until two days ago.

3. I left the office to come home at 3p.m. The house next to our house was bought over by new owners and since three weeks ago, a contractor has been doing renovation. The noise has been quite deafening for me during the weekends that I have been home with the sound of drilling and hacking going on. That’s why I did not want to come early during the past weekends unless I was too tired to go elsewhere.

4. I watched the Russian team won the Sychronized Swimming ahead of Spain and PRC at the Beijing Olympic before having an hour nap.

5. That night my sis-in-law Ros drove her parents and mum to attend a dinner at Ocean Seafood Restaurant while both us went to Yayasan Sabah Auditiorium to listen to The UK South Norfolk Youth Symphonic Band organised by the Rotary Club of Kota Kinabalu. On the way to Sabah Foundation, there was massive traffic congestion at the Coastal Highway.

The programme is as follows.

First Session

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace – John Williams arr Michael Story

Highlights from Moulin Rouge – Eden Ahbez arr Michael Brown

The Children of Sanchez – Arr Tom Milford

Selection from Chicage – John Kander arr Ted Ricketts

Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder arr Naohiro Iwai

Miss Saigon – Claude Schonberg arr Warren Barker

Second Session

The Cowboys - John Williams arr Jay Bocook

Queen in Concert – Brian May arr Jay Bocook

Selections from The Lion King – Elton John arr Paul Lavender

Irish Party in Third Class – Gaelie Storm arr Richard Saucedo

Pirates of the Carribbean – Klaus Badelt arr Ted Ricketts

Third Session (Combined with Tshung Tsin Secondary School Band)

Four Norfolk Dances by Philips Sparke

Asian Selection II by Mitsuo Nonami

Since the concert was performed by youths, my expectation was not that high. Nevertheless these young people did a good job. The conductor was Mr. Mike Booty, who is also a Rotarian. At the end almost half the people in the hall gave the band a standing ovation.

When we arrived home about 11p.m., mum and Ros’s parents were not home yet. They only arrived home at 11.15p.m.