I am the accompanist for a friend during a function organised by a university. It's a sort of mini-talentime thing. We've decided to perform a medley comprising of Fly Me to the Moon and For Once in My Life, the sequence which we formulated the night before.

So we're due on stage. I stand at the keyboard to prep myself while my friend announces our programme.

So this guy, who's quite high up in the organising committee and also a musician (he was in a act before us where he strummed and sang) walks past me at the same time my friend introduces our programme and shoots me an incredulous look: "You're playing Fly Me to the Moon!"

I nod my head.

"You want to kill yourself arh." He still maintains that incredulous face.

That last statement really irks me. Of all the time he has to do it just before I'm about to play. I don't know and I don't want to know his motive, or whether he has none at all. But as a musician and performer himself he ought to know what a REHEARSAL is and one of its functions is to make sure that you know what the hell you and your fellow performer(s) are doing on stage.

I am quite pissed, but it pushes my determination to prove him wrong. "Watch me." Arrogant snob...

Eventually we win first prize out of a total of six teams. I never bother to look for that guy to see his expression but I am happy that we won. That's enough.