And the Christmas season is underway!!!
That’s right, only a couple days until Christmas, and not surprisingly, only a handful of people are running around getting Christmas gifts. Though the real reason of celebration is not known here, the Christmas season does take Shanghai by storm. You can pick up your Christmas tree, lights, decorations all at very cheap prices and wrapping paper is still being sold at non-inflated prices!
What will I be doing this holiday season? Playing piano. Yup, they’re runnin’ me ragged playing the ivories for various choral and solo pieces, as well as congregational, but it should be a blast this Sunday. Last Friday I performed a song from 雪狼湖, a Cantonese musical that was most recently performed by Jacky Cheung 张学友。It was a most nerve wracking performance that I managed to pull out, since memorizing lyrics, Mandarin, Cantonese, or English, is definitely not one of my strong points. Perhaps one side of my brain has been lying dormant for too long of a period?
Some of the more memorable performances included a Korean fan dance performance by my PR colleagues. They danced to the theme song of 大长今, an incredibly popular Korean soap. You can read more about their preparation and see some pics here.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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