Chet
04-05-2006, 05:28 PM
It's Thursday morning here. In about 48 hours or so, I will leave for my trip to England where I will, among other things, attend the UK LRC organised by Rowy and Manchester.
This is a trip that began more than a year ago. When I first heard about the Living Room Concerts, I so wanted to be able to afford one, as I felt (then, and still feel now) that the Pearl Foundation is a very worthy cause and the LRC a great way to contribute (and get to see a great singer-songwriter-guitarist, too).
But to organise an LRC in Malaysia would cost at least twice the cost of an LRC, with the extra costs not going to the Pearl Foundation. So I had to contend with dreaming about being able to afford one.
Soon after I joined the Janis Ian Message Board, I read about the UK LRC. I wrote to ask if I could be allowed to attend, and I was.
Getting on the UK LRC attendee list did not mean I was going for sure. For one thing, I had to get an air ticket to go. Not just an air ticket, but preferably an inexpensive ticket. I got it about a month ago. But that still did not mean 100% go.
Another thing that would prevent me turning up for the UK LRC was my elderly mother who suffers from dementia and lives in a nursing home. Two years ago, I had a ticket to Toronto via New York, which I eventually had to cancel because mother fell and fractured her right wrist and I could not leave her on her own.
Last Friday, the way was cleared for my presence at the UK LRC. My niece, who had been battling leukemia for the last 3½ years, left us. Her condition took a turn for the worse recently, and I was prepared to cancel my trip and stay to be around and help my sister if she needed me. As it turned out, this was not necessary. Wien Yue left us on 31 March 2006, about a month and a half shy of her 21st birthday.
This still doesn't mean I'll be at the UK LRC for sure. Anything could happen between now and 16 April 2006. The only time I know for sure that I'll be there is when I'm physically there, waiting for the LRC to begin.
The UK LRC takes place on Sunday, 16 April 2006, a day after my father's first death anniversary. He left us on 15 April 2005.
This is a trip that began more than a year ago. When I first heard about the Living Room Concerts, I so wanted to be able to afford one, as I felt (then, and still feel now) that the Pearl Foundation is a very worthy cause and the LRC a great way to contribute (and get to see a great singer-songwriter-guitarist, too).
But to organise an LRC in Malaysia would cost at least twice the cost of an LRC, with the extra costs not going to the Pearl Foundation. So I had to contend with dreaming about being able to afford one.
Soon after I joined the Janis Ian Message Board, I read about the UK LRC. I wrote to ask if I could be allowed to attend, and I was.
Getting on the UK LRC attendee list did not mean I was going for sure. For one thing, I had to get an air ticket to go. Not just an air ticket, but preferably an inexpensive ticket. I got it about a month ago. But that still did not mean 100% go.
Another thing that would prevent me turning up for the UK LRC was my elderly mother who suffers from dementia and lives in a nursing home. Two years ago, I had a ticket to Toronto via New York, which I eventually had to cancel because mother fell and fractured her right wrist and I could not leave her on her own.
Last Friday, the way was cleared for my presence at the UK LRC. My niece, who had been battling leukemia for the last 3½ years, left us. Her condition took a turn for the worse recently, and I was prepared to cancel my trip and stay to be around and help my sister if she needed me. As it turned out, this was not necessary. Wien Yue left us on 31 March 2006, about a month and a half shy of her 21st birthday.
This still doesn't mean I'll be at the UK LRC for sure. Anything could happen between now and 16 April 2006. The only time I know for sure that I'll be there is when I'm physically there, waiting for the LRC to begin.
The UK LRC takes place on Sunday, 16 April 2006, a day after my father's first death anniversary. He left us on 15 April 2005.