Nobody Come For Practices
Choir practice for Christmas started last weekend. As usual, during these early stages, the attendance was really poor, with only us faithful members.
This pretty much puts a damper in our practice session. I think even the most passionate person will feel the sting of disappointment when they see the handful of people who really made the effort to show up and practice.
The attendance will only improve closer to the date when people will make more effort to come for practice.
It’s just that when these people do come, we have to spend the time to get them up to speed first, when we could be using that time to polish up our act.
It seems to be the same thing with our belly dance practice. With barely 2 months to our performance date, the number of people who do show up for the practice sessions sure is disappointing.
Yeah, we understand that some people need to work and may have other plans during the evenings. That is why we have the practice sessions twice a week so that we can accommodate as many people as possible. Yet, it’s always same bunch of people who do come for practice.
If we can make the effort to show up, why can’t these people?
I wonder if it’s that very familiar syndrome of people winging it at the last minute? You know, digging that proverbial whole only after you have shit?
Sigh……
Sure, we can practice on our own, but it is still important to practice with the group as well so that we can get used to the group dynamics. Otherwise, people will be able to see that there is no synergy in the group performance.
There is also the issue of our costumes. I know that E and M have been going to practically every tailor they can think of to see which one can give us the best price to make the costumes. But there will be people who complain that it is too expensive.
I did tell them that you can’t please everybody. Besides, they are not the ones who have to face the frustrations of bargaining with these people.
Time is running out and with the festive season around the corner, it will be very hard to find tailors who will be available to take up our orders. The only other option is to get the generic costumes from R which will probably come to about the same price anyway.
Hopefully, we can come to an agreement during the next class 
By the way, I noticed that the new Friendster blog no longer sends out email notifications when our friends’ blogs are updated. Not good 
