8) Drifting around

Our group got together to practice as often as we could at Vincent’s house in Ashby Road now known as Jalan Hospital. As a matter of fact, the General Hospital now stands on the land where Vincent’s house used to be. I was busy practicing with the band and seem to have forgotten about the upcoming LCE examination or somehow pushed it aside in my mind. I just to seem to be so happy being able to play in a band and perform. Of course my family was never too happy about the whole scenario.

One day, our manager Peter decided to take us to his sister’s place in Sungkai, a small town in Perak not too far from my hometown, Ipoh. We were there for a week to practice for an upcoming gig. We treated the week away from home as a working holiday of sorts. We were pleasantly surprised on our first practice in Sungkai because the town folks gathered there to listen to us and we felt like celebrities of sorts. The townfolks were deprived of entertainment and we had the pleasure of a good audience. The first practice in Sungkai became a truly memorable one for us as we had a really good crowd to cheer us on like we were already performing on stage. That one week there did us a world of good and we were felt ready for our gig and many others that came along later.