I initially wanted to sleep super early tonight (or rather, yesterday night), but I decided that not going out on a Sat evening would be quite pathetic. So, I called up my buddy and we headed down to Esplanade.

Claude Diallo Quartet 

It so happened that there was a free outdoor performance at the Stage@Powerhouse, and the band performing in that evening was the Claude Diallo Quartet. Their genre of music is jazz, with much rearrangement and improvisation.

Claude Diallo on keyboard

Soh Wen Ming, the drummer, was exceptionally interesting to watch when he was strutting his stuff. The complex rhythms and beats totally wooed the crowd. Claude Diallo was fabulous on his keyboard too. I always hold high respect for jazz musicians, I think it takes a lot of skills and effort to do jazz, and be versatile enough to improvise the pieces.

Angelita Li

This singer has a very beautiful and powerful voice! My buddy and I were really mesmerised by her vocals. She’s lotsa charisma, I must say. After the second set ended, we left, satisfied.

I should’ve gone home and slept, but we stopped for coffee instead (of all things).. Which explains why I’m still awake now. 2.5 hours of sleep left before my half-marathon.. Great.

Anyway, nice blend of colours for a $7.50 drink yah? Haha. Coffee with some red bean bits at the bottom. Ok, this is getting random..and I better get to sleep!