Its those red spots again...

Yea! The title says it all, my eczema is back. Sian... Thought it was gone for good already. Got it like a few days before the SCC chalet, which also happens a few days before the previous SCC chalet few months back. Perphaps, its the curse of the SCC chalet?

Anyway, during the chalet, Me and WeiMing gather like around 10 SCC members to explore the Old Changi Hospital at around 12am. Yea, the place is extremely creepy and eerie when we just enter the building. But when we're inside, it actually does not seems to be as scary as it seems. Perphaps its the vandalism of paint on the walls of the building as it makes the whole scene less creepy. And most of us got attacked by giants ants/termites during our exploration, except me. Muahahaha! Luckily I wore my mega big fat shoes which I bought from Korea.

After the chalet, my eczema worsen, so I had to stay at home for days to recover before school start in a few days time. And that day which I stayed at home is the 1st time I miss a SCC session in this year. Broke record again... And I do not have the time to record Johnny's vocals for my song which I intended to submit for SPOP. So I can only submit the one which my vocal was recorded in it. Unfortunately, my com caught spyware on the day which I wanted to submit my song, which is like the day before the dateline. Ya, and I can't get into the internet. So forget it, I'm not submitting, not fated, damn suay...

Not only that, now one of my Gerbil's ear got wounded and bleed through excessive scratching. There are mites in my gerbils' home! Maybe its also the curse from the Old Changi Hospital?

Anyway, my birthday is coming soon in a few days time, maybe my luck will be back? Hmmm... wonder wad SCC will get me this time? Gosh! I luvvvvvvvv being thick skin! LOL!

Lemme intro you a song which I admired alot. Its "Wake Up Call" by Maroon 5. Listen to the melody and arrangement, damn catchy and unique. If it is a chinese song, it will be hit within a day! Alright, maybe I exergerate too much...

Arrggghhhhh!!! I NEED A BREAK!!!

Ok, my life has been getting busy and busy. Never really had a good rest since last 2 weeks... That's maybe one of the reasons why I didn't perform my song in the Monthly Performance yesterday. But at least I had a song collaboration with Zi Qin and Wendy. And they sang well yesterday, really proud of them, and also Zhi Wei for drums when I called him to play the drums last minute. Lol!

With the making of the demos project for Estella gone, I'm left with a major money making song writing project that's worth doing it, Hui Hui's song arrangment, Qiu Yun song, a 3 day SCC chalet, NP Strings camp, and a demo recording for SPOP... OH YES! I decided to join SPOP after some advise from Wei Ming, Alex and Cindy. Maybe I should just give it a try, don't think I will get in anyway, cos some demos submited online is quite good. And I decided to submit 笔记的那一页 and maybe call Johnny to sing.

By the way, I've gain around 5kg since the beginning of last month. And I finally won Guo Long in our weight challenge which leaves him envious. Hah!

OMG! There's a beetle flying around in my bedroom now, gtg catch it. Gotta Catch Them All! Sounds familiar?

No inspiration... I'm HUNGRY for new INSPIRATION!!!

Shit! The next SCC Monthly Performance is coming and I still have not got a song of my own to sing. Yes, I have 3 songs for other people to perform this Monthly Performance, but I did not compose a song for me to sing. HOW HOW HOW!!? I can't break my record. My inspiration just stop coming anymore!!!

For this Monthly Performance, I'm thinking of composing a song like Da Chen Xiao Ai by Wang Li Hong and Ai Shang Wei Lai De Ni by Pan Wei Bo. According to Johnny, my vocals will sound better in that kind of feel and genre. Something RnB feel will be good for me. But the thing is I wanna compose a song which I can play the piano and sing at the same time... The challenging thing now is how to compose a song which is RnB and sounds good with only piano and my vocals. The next Monthly Performance is 3rd of October and time is running short. I'm still lost. I NEED INSPIRATION!!!


This is the song "Da Chen Xiao Ai"


This is the song "Ai Shang Wei Lai De Ni"

I look like a woman... Sob... =(

I did a test today about matching my photo to any celebrities that look like me through a website that Hui Ting introduced to me. Guess who I look like? NO! ITS NOT WANG LI HONG!!! ITS A BUTCH OF FEMALES!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Except...



Jet Li saved me...

Music is Universal...

Check this out, damn cute.

omg... omg... OMG!!!

OMG!!! WAD THE HELL!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!! I'M SO FREAKIN' EMBARRASS!!!

Ok, it all begins just now, which is early in the morning around 4am+, everyone in my house is asleep. Then, I went to take a bath. As I was bathing, I was reciting and trying to memorise the lyrics of one of the song which I recently like. But I don't really appreciate it as its a very common song composition, not much style and uniqueness in it. (I'm talking about the melody)

Anyway. I started singing the song as I was scrubbing myself. LOL! Miraculously, I managed to remember the lyrics without any trouble!!! WOW!!!(For those who knows me well, will know that I suck at memorising lyrics, especially chinese ones...)

Then, I started to become very high as I scrubbed myself faster. LOL! Sounds wrong... Anyway, I'm just joking, OBVIOUSLY! And so, I challenged myself to hit the higher notes of the song and went louder, WHICH I MANAGED TO HIT IT!!! WOW!!!

Ok, so after the shower, I wiped myself dry and open the toilet door. And to my surprise, my parents were standing right in front of me calling me to shut up. wow...

Omg, they actually heard me singing for the 1st time for after so many years from my baby days!!! And they said I improved. I was like, OBVIOUSLY!!!

No, they didn't said that, I was just joking again... They just looked at me in a very weird expression, something which is bad.

Immediately, I rushed into my room and locked the door, never wanna face them again till now, erm... which is like for 10 mins already. (Again, for those who knows me well, will know that my parents don't like it when I sing. See, its so beneficial for you people to know me well when comes to blogging, lol!) I think I really pissed them off, but anyway, who caRes? My mum is a singer herself in church anyway.

This is the song I'm talking about:

ENJOY!!!

3 years later from 17 Aug 2007, 11:45pm, We will be in America. Don't forget our promise...

Felt happy today! I always wanted to go to a country filled with ang mos! Wanna see how their lifestyle are like compared to Singapore. But the main problem is I'VE GOT NO MONEY!!! Going to a place like America requires me to prepare around $2000 to $3000!!!

Fortunately, Tingren, my "nanny" and our vulgar friend Xiao Zhi, are also desperate to go to America. And recently Xiao Zhi had return from Yellowstone in America through a programe which is cater for people who are not rich enough to go to America.

Through her advise and experiences, three of us had planned to save enough money for the flight and go to Yellowstone or West Coast after my National Service. I obviously have to save the money I earned from NS. Then, through Xiao Zhi's contacts there, we will get a job and earn back our money. Then, we will go to L.A. to visit Hollywood and Universal Studios with the price of around $200 to $300 ONLY for the flight there if we book our tickets early.

In conclusion, our planned duration of stay there will be around 3 months or 4 months. And we made a promise not to back out on the plan. So, to Tingren and Xiao Zhi, 3 years later from 17 Aug 2007, 11:45pm, We will be in America. Don't forget our promise...

Omg, I can't sleep, gtg play my pokemon pearl. Cya!

This is a video I found in Youtube which I find it very funny when they talk about how Chinese people got their names:

Life after attachment...

Ok, I shall start blogging, "due to popular demand". LOL! Basically, life just got more relax and bored for the past few days after attachment. More relax as I dont have to wake up at 9am for attachment anymore and bored as I have to write a 2000+ words report for my attachment.

Watched The Simsons and Transformer with friends a few days ago. Both are GREAT MOVIES!!! Simsons, being the funnist movie ever and Transformer, being the best action movie I had watched in my life. And I've gone crazy over Transformer ever since. Oh ya, wanted to say Harry Potter is getting worse and worse. Hope the final version of it will be better, cos I heard a lot of characters died in that story.

Oh! And I finally have time for SCC!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! But this time, SCC is not as enjoyable to me as compared with the life in SCC before my attachment. Got to hear some gossips about me which makes me feel so Yuen Wang. I'm such an innocent boy lor. LOL! I'm very irritated by people talking about me liking so and so or being bias to so and so cos I'm trying to benefit something from so and so, blah blah blah. Why are people thinking so much? Its just so childish to assume stuff without proper investigation and start gossiping around.

But hor, actually I'm beginning to like the feeling of having gossip about me. LOL! It shows that people are still having attention on me even after being MIA in the clubhouse for so long! OMG, I'm still as famous as before. The more famous the person is, the more gossip he will get, just like Wang Li Hong... Hohoho!!! =P Oh! Mandy is BACK FROM NS! He has told me stuff which really made my vision as a music director clearer. Thanks to him, I'm more encouraged to serve SCC for the sake of the club standard, not for the sake of the people.

Besides that, theres a audition for singers in SCC held by some outside music industry people and a SCC alumni during the SCC camp! I think it makes Johnny eyes glitter the moment their representative announce this as it involves TAIWAN! Hmmm... maybe I should try my luck... It will be great if they are auditioning as a band though...

Anyway, got to go, cya.

For those who keep asking how my mum look like, well, this is her a week ago.

Chicken Pox AGAIN!!!

Yea, the saga of my luckily days are back to haunt me! This time it has reached to the ultimate stage, I've got chicken pox again... I can't go for work for 2 weeks, have to stay at home for this period of time. Well, at least i can still maple... Oh! By the way, I'm back to Mapling again! Thats why I haven't been updating my blog.

A few days back, I went to collect my talentquestX prizes and Atrium's urn.
This is his urn:



As for the TalentQuestX prizes, I've got a Creative Prodikeys Keyboard (Its a PC-MIDI music keyboard attached to a typewriting keyboard.), a Sennheiser HD202 Headphones and a few vocuchers and VIP cards. The money will have to wait for a few more days. So, Tiffany and Wendy, if you see this, tell me what you want ok? I've ought to split these stuff to you two.

And also, Anna is back!!! She called me a few days ago telling me that she's in Singapore.

By the way, I realised that I forgot to introduce my two gerbils. I got them a few days after Atrium's death.


Can't think of a name for them yet though...

Lately, I've been composing a new song. Its called 世界另一边. Lyrics is written by Wendy, again. She's really good, I think she can offcially be my lyricist for all my songs liao. Lol! This is the 1st song that I'm able to understand the meaning and emotions protrayed in it. Probably its because its like the reflection of how I miss Atrium. Haha!

Think I got to go, I can see the sun rising slowly now. Cya!

Atrium is back!

TalentQuestX

Yo! Yesterday was the finals for TalentQuestX Vocal, Group and Song Composition Competition! So obviously I'm gonna write about my experience there as a contestant.

Its so great to have so many people that I know in the finals. People like Yu Pin, Sonia and PJ. Fortunately they are in the vocal category, so I'm not competiting with them. Haha! It great to be able to share and understand the nervousness we are going through during though times. Of course we did encourage each other. Its also great to make friends with so many music lovers there, and also the make-up artists! Lol! Oh! And they trimmed my eyebrown! AHaha! So scary... And also they made Tiffany look great that day. Oh! And everyone wore blazers that day, only me wearing that brown hooded jacket that SCC bought for me during my birthday. I look so kinda weird and extra, but I don't care! I have officially call that jacket my lucky charm and I will feel good because its a gift from my fellow SCC buddies.

Maybe I should talk more about the technical side of the show. Its actually worse than NP Idol for the video recordings of the contestants' interview and mic settings. But their stage lightings are MARVELOUS!!! Especially in PJ's performance. As for the program booklet, they really did it professionally well. I like my photo in the booklet, so shuai... Haha! Omg, I'm so thick skin...

Then, my SCC friends came down to support me, Tiffany and Yu Pin. I wanna thank Maxwell, Ivy, Guo Long, Wan Ting, Zi Qin, Fun, Xing Hu, and Wee Jian for supporting us and voting for us. Did I miss out anyone? Lol!

And so, its me and Tiffany turn to perform. I was very nervous and at the same time worried that the SCC keyboard will screw up on me by playing that retarded drum beat. Oh! I forgot to say I brought the SCC keyboard there. Another lucky object, er... actually not really... Sometimes, that keyboard will screw up by playing a comical drum beat unintentionally. Anyway, we perform and it was great! I didn't play any wrong notes, Tiffany didn't go flat or struggle. And the keyboard screw up by playing the comical drum beat, but it only did it when the song end and when Tiffany is bowing. Its was like THE PERFECT TIMING TO PLAY THE DRUM BEAT!!! (although that wasn't I what I intended to do) ITS WAS SO PERFECT!!! GOD REALLY BLESSED US!!! Oh! And Tiffany prayed before the performance. Haha! Everyone thought that I played that drum beat intentionally and said it was cool and funny. Lol! After our performance, its was the "God and Goddess" performances, the ones which I talked about in the previous blog post.

Its results time, and I really got super nervous. Its was a different kind of nervousness I felt from before. Probably its because this was my first time entering a competition. Then, the MC announced the 2nd runner-up, it wasn't us. Then, Tiffany kept telling me to visualize getting the 1st. She said its THE SECRET. True enough, WE GOT THE 1ST!!! Er... runner-up... The "God and Goddess" got the 1st. Haha! And for all the song writing trophies are so small and cute compared to the vocal and group ones. So bias... And the vocals category prize money is so much greater. PJ got 2nd and Yu Pin got the 1st, as expected. Haha! Everyone is so happy! Including our new made make-up artist friends. Then we go out and eat, party and chill.

In conclusion, it was a great experience. Kinda shiok actually. I hereby strongly urge SCC members to go try out these kind of competition, it really force yourself to improve for the sake of competition and experience you get from your friends support and on stage is really shiok! Ok! Time to stop writing. Cya!

Our TalentQuestX Photoshoot:


Atrium will be back...

Computer Crisis!!!

Its been a long time since I last surf the internet with peace. My Toshiba laptop was giving me a lot of problems last friday. I deleted my old virus scan software so as to install a more powerful virus protector software. But I didn't manage to uninstall the old virus scan completely, so I wasn't able to install the new virus protector software. In other words, I'M STUCK WITHOUT ANY VIRUS PROTECTION!!! At night, I was updating this blog when suddenly my computer screen turn into blue. ITS THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!! OH HO!!! My computer was invaded by Spyware. And I'm not the kind of people who watches porn on the net like Johnny, so I don't deserve such retribution.

Thursday:
So I went to school the next day to repair my computer. Unfortunately, the service centre closed when I reached the entrance. Then, I went to Maxwell's house to fix it. He's a computer pro! But the virus is so strong that Maxwell had to format all the data in my com to kill it. So be it. All my poor music data gone... =(

Friday:
The next day, I went to school again to install Windows XP at the service centre. This time, I managed to reach the entrance before they closes. They agreed to help me install the Windows XP but I could only collect it 3 days later, which is the 1st day of my attachment. Shit! I need a laptop to do my attachment and also I can't go to school to collect it on that day since I have attachment. What to do? I called Zhi Wei to collect it for me.

Saturday:
The next day, I went to IMM with my parents to get a new laptop. I can't stand my Toshiba laptop anymore, it keeps failling on me. I have 2 choices of laptop in mind. Sony Vaio or Fujitsu. I decided to get Sony since its cheaper and its Windows XP, however, the salesman told me they are made from China. So I go for the Fujitsu laptops, but they have no stock. Same goes for the other electronic shops. Then, one salesman recommand me Compaq. He said Compaq is now under HP, so their laptops will hardly crash. However, almost all the new laptops there are selling in Windows Vista version, and I prefer Windows XP because Vista is too new. It will sure encounter problems at this point of time if I am to use Vista. Sian... I bought that Compaq Presario V3000 laptop anyway, though its also running in Vista. No more time to choose, attachment is 2 days later. Then, I went over to Maxwell that night to install some cool softwares and to gain info about my new laptop from him.



Monday:
During the 1st day of attachment, Kah Leong told me that Kok Leong, who is my music lao shi aka the director of the company I went to, is having an unlucky aura. He also said its contagious and call me to beware. Haha! True enough, my new laptop can't install the music studio softwares that I need to install to do my work. LOL! Maybe because its Vista? So the whole day there I can't do anything but to play the keybaord, compose new song, and sing karaoke there. That night, Zhi Wei passed me back my old laptop and I have to pay him $21 for the computer service fee. After having another karaoke session at party world, I went to Maxwell's house to change my new laptop into Windows XP. It was like midnight then. Taking cab is super expensive but I had no choice. Unfortunately again, the wireless network is all lock at that time and Maxwell and I can't surf the internet to download the neccesary drivers for the process. So we can't do anything...

Tuesday:
The next day, I started recording some songs during work using my old laptop. Halfway through my work, my old laptop got virus again... But its under quarantine. Lucky... That night, Mawell came to my house to complete the installation of Windows XP my new laptop. Unfortunately again, Vista is so powerful that it disable the installation of Windows XP even when Maxwell have the Windows XP disc! Even worse, when I opened up my old laptop, I got another virus attack, and this time, IT FAIL TO QUARANTINE!!! AND THE VIRUS KEEPS MULTIPLYING!!! We faced 2 MAJOR PROBLEMS that night and we are about to give up facing 2 problems that we can't solve. The virus in my old laptop is so strong that after formatting, it still surviving. I heard from Maxwell its a Malware, much more FATAL than Spyware. Its the lastest version of virus, and I'm the 1st few customers probably... Damn unlucky. We spent the whole night to solve the problems but we still fail. And when Maxwell went home at 6am, I started to feel feverish. I myself also got infected by virus. Lol!

Wednesday:
I didn't went for work. Kah Leong misses me. Haha! Probably he's along there. I went to see the doctor and then rushed down to school with Maxwell for the service centre. We sent my old laptop for formatting again and went to another service centre in school for some Vista help. That new service centre we went to is more equiped with Vista knowledge as we heard that the new intake of students in Ngee Ann Poly have to use laptops that runs in Vista. And so, the computer guy there insisted that I continue using Vista and he managed to install the software which I have to use for my work. Then, I went back to the old service centre to collect my old laptop, and this time there's no more virus!!! YAY!!!!!!! FINALLY!!! MY LUCK IS BACK!!! Probably because I didn't went to work to face my lao shi that day. LOL! So I went home and passed my old laptop to my small brother and I'm using my new laptop now to write this blog.

Alrite, got to go to sleep. Don't wanna be late for my work later. Cya!

Atrium will be back...

Atrium is gone...

Yesterday is the last day of Atrium's life. I woke up in the afternoon as usual, let Atrium play with all his toys for the last time and told him that I enjoy taking care of him. Now I know that it is so painful to know someone important to you is going to die in a few hours time and its what you are planning for it to happen. Its cruel, but you have no choice...

As usual, I brought him to the vet again, this time already prepared to let him leave this world. I think the nurse there is getting very farmiliar with my face. She was like "consultation for your hamster?" before I can even say anything. Lol! This time, I finally saw people bringing hamsters to the vet, I always thought I was the only one.

Ok, its my turn, I went into the consultation room and the vet says: "You have 2 choices - put him to sleep or try another medication." I said "Atrium is getting sick and tired of taking medications and suffering, what's your advise?" The vet supported my decision and asked me to sign a form.

I went over to the counter and filled in the form. I filled in Atrium's particulars and chose cremation and have his ash placed in an urn and send it back to me. A male nurse brought me to a small room. He took Atrium from his cage and hold him still at his hand. I stroke Atrium's head for the last time. Then he poke the needle into Atrium's body and inject a blue liquid in. The sight of Atrium struggling from the pain of the needle really hurts. By the way, this process is painless, its only that the poking of the needle is painful.

Atrium ly on the table, staring at me and gasping for air. I told the nurse to get me a plastic bag for putting the cage in. While he was away to search for a plastic bag, I went over and used my finger to gently stroke Atrium's body as he was gasping for more air. Then, his breathing stops and he ly there motionless with his eye wide open. I feel so guilty and evil. Its like taking his only precious life away from him... But I have no choice, this is the kindest way I can do for him... And so I left the place and don't feel like doing anything else but to go home. Perpheps I will compose a song for him...

Lastly, I wanna thank Wendy for giving me this little creature for my birthday. Its the best gift I have ever had.

Rest in peace my dear Atrium... I will miss you =(


Died on 12-3-2007, Monday, 8.45pm.
From 1-6-2006.

Atrium will be back...

Updates!!! Updates!!! Updates!!! Read all about it!!!

I think I'm getting lazy updating my post. So I will be posting once in 2 weeks.

1st update, I went to LSCT graduating night in a Hotel in Orchard last tuesday for a performance. The food there is great! And the stage is super pretty, with those flashing lights and smoke machine! As me and my other SCC performers (Wei Ming, Wendy, Mandy, Jiamin and Maxwell), the LSCT students there are expecting for Tiffany and Johnny. Seems like Tiffany and Johnny is pretty famous in LSCT! Anyway, I went up to stage for sound check, and then one of the lecturers there praised me! I was so happy! LOL! I didn't hear good comments for so long liao. Hee hee... Before our performance we are treated with the buffet there. THE FOOD IS SO DELICIOUS AND TEMPTING!!! All the vocalists like me have to make sure we don't eat too much, no deserts too, or else it will effect our performance. Lucky Maxwell, he can eat all he like because he's just playing the guitar. It was performance time and I went the stage to perform "Shi Jie Wei Yi De Ni' by Cao Ge, "Tian Tian" by Tao Zhe, "On The Way Down" by Ryan Cabrera and "Searching" by me. I was quite satisfied with my performances although I know its not perfect yet...

2nd update! Same thing, about my dear hamster Atrium again. I brought him to the vet last monday and was thinking whether to end Atrium's suffering by putting him to an eternal sleep painlessly through an injection there because he was not showing any signs of improvement... When I was there, I saw a family there bringing a dog to the vet. The dog seems to be in great pain. He kept moaning in pain, and staggers around the ground. And he has a diaper on his butt too. Probably also because of diarreo? And so the owner decides to put her to an eternal sleep and plans for his funneral. I was looking and the dog and realised that Atrium is not as unfortunately after all. So I decided to give him one more try. I told the vet that about putting him to sleep but the vet refuse to do so. So ok, one more try lor.

Oh ya! I also found out something. Last time all my hamsters die of the intestine coming out from the anus after a serious of diarrea was because the vet last time gave me the anti-diarrea medication, which will harmfully clog up hamsters' intestine!!! Bloody idiot vet... So no experience... Luckily the vet this time know what she's doing.
So now, after days of medication, and cleaning of his infected wound, there's still no sign of improvement. I think I will most probably put him to sleep this coming monday through the vet.

This is the picture of his wound, after a month of diarrea (It may look disgusting to you but not for me) :


See his anus? That's the wound. So painful... =(



When Atrium is sleeping after his medication.

Been very busy the past few weeks

YES! I'M SO FREAKIN BUSY the past few weeks. First, it's my hamster's sickness, then my Industrial-Based Project, then the Chinese New Year preparation, then an outdoor performance for the elderly, then a performance for an environment event, then performing for TalentQuestX competition and then now Atrium got sick again, and he's getting worse then before!

I thought he's gonna be fully heal soon, unfortunately, the moment he finished his medication, his diarreo is back! Though is not as horrible as before, but he became very thin and weak. So sad!!! I have no choice but to continue his medication and feeding food again, hoping he will get well soon.

My sick Atrium... =(

For the outdoor performance for the elderly, I performed "Ai Wo Bie Zhou" by Zhang Zhen Yue. The organisers want old songs and that song is the oldest song I can go. LOL! Anyway, its just for a performing experience, the elderly there don't really care for good vocals or stage presentation. And so the me and the performers there had a great time improvising songs and anyhow jam on the keyboard up on stage with so many elderly watching us. Haha! And also, Zi Qin is the main highlight for that day, she really sound like Deng Lu Jun and the elderly can relate to her voice.

For the performance for the environment event, many students and teachers from different secondary schools came to gather for the event in Ngee Ann Conventional Centre. I have to perform 2 songs, "Ai Wo Bie Zhou" again and "On The Way Down" by Ryan Cabrera. It was the reahearsal day when I heard news from Olivia, my IBP group mate, said that the sound for our film "Yi" turn out well in the preview theatre. I was really happy to hear that. Ok, back to the actual performance day, as I was performing I saw Zi Qin and Project Superstar Wee Jian there. So nervous to perform in front of the 2 pros. Unfortunately, I was overly nervous and I CRACKED MY SINGING FOR ON THE WAY DOWN!!! AND ITS NOT EVEN THE HIGHEST NOTE!!! SO EMBARRASSING!!! Zi Qin is like "diao (-_-!)"... After the event, I don't even wanna face anybody and left school to prepare for my TalentQuestX performance later.

Ok, for the TalentQuestX performance, I had been told by the organisers that I've got into the finals for the song original composition category and I have to showcase it during the TalentQuestX vocal semi-finals, which is on the day of the environment performance event. So I went to Tiffany's house to rehearse my song. Stupid Tiffany keep complaining the key of the song too high. Lol! But she really did a good job singing for my song. And so that night of the vocal semi-finals, me and Tiffany went to the stage with the SCC keyboard (which is freakin heavy and its the only keyboard that I can get for plugging my CD player in...). We were shock to find the place in a pub and sonia is in the semi-finals too! So we were sitting together with Yu Bin (a very good vocalist) watching the others doing their sound check. We saw a contestant there who looks like Hor Wei Jian and Hong Jun Yang and sings like Cao Ge and Zhang Xing Zhe. Wahahaha!!! What a hybrid! Oh! We also saw a couple performing a jazz song. The man was a malay, playing the piano, more pro than Mark Yu Chun or Amos, able to sing as good as Micheal Buble and the woman was an eurasian, singing like some caucasian singers. They are DAMN FEAKIN GOOD!!! We was telling Yu Pin that they will confirm win the duet category. They are like those professional pub performers and they are in their 20s or 30s.

I have been told that my performance is after the duet performances. And after all the duets have compete, I went up onto the stage with Tiffany feeling very nervous and SCARED... BECAUSE I HAVE NOT SEEN THE FREAKIN PRO JAZZ COUPLE PERFORM IN THE DUET COMPETITION!!! Fortunately, there are no mistakes when we are performing my song. And the next performance from the composing category is THAT JAZZ COUPLE!!! Die la... No hope liao... Actually still got a bit, because their song is not commercial, not like guang liang this kind which most people like. Oh ya! And one of the 3 judges is actually a music school director that I helped for performing for her school opening ceremony!!! A girl contestant, RJ, from my course actually regconised me and call out for me and Wendy on that day. And Sonia really improve A LOT in her vocals based on the day I saw her in NP Idol. Seems like Wee Jian has been training her well. Oh! Wee Jian was there to support her too, he came down after the environment event. So cool, get to meet so many people I know...

Sonia, Yu Pin, and RJ got into the finals for the vocal category!!! The final showdown for all the categories will be on 31st March at ACS Barker!!! If you able to make it, come support me leh... Wahahahahah!!! For SCC members, support Yu Pin and Tiffany also! For NP Idol people, come support Sonia. This is so freakin scary since its my first time in a competiton...

I'll be back...

My hair is finally red!!!

I've been dying my hair 5 this week!!! Which cost me a total of around $100! Just to get my hair to the red I that I wanted all the time. By the way, I didn't copy Tiffany lor... I already planning to go for red because its valentimes and chinese new year! And red is an auspicious colour in this period of time. Lol! My first try was the day before yesterday when I went to the salon and asked for red colour. And it turns out to be orangy red. I looked so punk lor! (but at least its better than last time when I dyed light green...) So I insisted that I wanted a darker colour. I wanna look my best for chinese new year because I'm gonna meet some important people. And I can't wait to meet with my uncle (some of you will know what I mean). In the end, after adding darker shades of dye, my hair still look very bright. Let me give you an example:

So I went over to NTUC to buy dark brown coloured dye and plead my mum to dye for me. She agreed, but unwillingly. Haha! Then the result is that my hair became very black, with a bit of red shades on the tip of my hair. Look so awful lor! Then Zi Qin introduce me to her mum's friend, who is a hairdresser that charge dying of hair in a cheaper price. I went to try my luck again! She dye light brown on my hair, and the result is not much difference, only slightly lighter this time. Then I got quite fed up and I went to buy a EXTREME HI-BLEACH dye. I went home and apply a little potion of it and rub it onto the tip pf every part of my hair. The results, it finally turns brighter!!! And its not bright to the extreme too!!! FINALLY!!! The red that I wanted...

Anyway, I was playing with my hamster(Atrium) on my office chair one day when suddenly he stood very still staring at me when I was lying on my bed. I closed my eyes for a moment and I suddenly dozed off!!! This is so typical of me, lol!!! Then my mum passed by, saw something cute and took a photo...

Atrium actually fell asleep too the moment I dozes off!!! LOL!!! Saw that flurry little thing on the left of the photo? That's him.

I'll be back...

Been thinking about music...

I've been thinking for quite some time about this. It seems that the Chinese in Asia tend to prefer more on Mandarin pop or ballad than English songs. I've been composing quite a number of chinese songs in SCC so far and I realised I tend to use chords that is commonly used in Mandarin and Korean pop music. I've always been wondering is there such a thing as Singapore Mandarin pop? I've heard of Korean pop, Japan pop, Chinese aka Taiwan pop, but I've never heard of Singapore Mandarin pop songs before. Maybe the name sounds awful... Or perphaps, the Chinese in Singapore tends to follow Taiwanese pop style?

One of my sound lecturers (Mr Heng Han) once told me that Taiwan music companies tend to look for composers in Singapore because they believe that Singaporeans are influenced by the English culture, thus there maybe a possibility that the songs composed in Singapore will result in a different feel. Maybe that what I've been looking for all these times in SCC. I had been trying to compose a English song chords to a chinese lyric. One example is the chinese song which I composed "Lady." I used jazz chords for that song, but I think it doesn't sound appealing enough. I think I'm still too used to "Guang Liang's kind of music". Perphaps it's ok for those to think that this kind of combination may turn out weird. I just have to make myself and the others able to get used to this different feel hopefully.

I had came across this band called "Mute Math" some time ago and I went to view their videos on youtube today. I was totally amazed with the songs they composed! It's so freakin fresh (as in the style) and their choice of chords in some songs are freakin' hard to figure out! Best of all, they are christians too and the singer is a keyboardist/keytarist as well (like me!!!). I thought that it is quite impossible to sing and play the keytar together. But he actually gave me the encouragement to do so. Therefore, I'm gonna use my Hong Pao money to buy my very own keytar. And I will train myself to write English songs chords in SCC. I want to have my own style. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!



(I'll be back...)

There's hope!!!

Yay! I see improvements on Atrium's health! After bringing him to the vet for the 2nd time, I was told to stop all the antibiotics, cos its causing the harm, and its really true! I was wrong to listen Johnny telling me that its normal to diarreo after taking the antibiotics. Now that I think of it, he killed mouse by disecting them in his school labotary. Wahahaha! Anyway, I have to feed him with powder food mixed with water to get his body weight back on and his "yakult" to introduce good bacteria into his digestive system.

On the previous days, it had been an unlucky weekend for me. I'm so desperate to have my hair cut for my performance on last sunday that I went to the particular barber shop at Novena and it closes everytime right before I reached the place. And the vet closes the moment I reached that place last saturday when it was Atrium's most critical period. And the shops in Sim Lim Tower closes when I went there to buy cables for AOM's recording studio. Perphaps its due to my poor time management.

Oh! And I found out something today. I was chilling out with Kak Leong today when suddenly he mention a guy called Mark coming to fetch us to his house to play majong. I suddenly thought of a guy called Mark in SCC, someone that people in SCC termed him as one of the Legends... True enough, its really him. What a small world!

(I'll be back...)

On the way down...

Its been both a sad and a happy day for me today. Sad being that Atrium condition is getting worse. He's been having wet stools since yesterday till now. And he has slimmed down. I hope its due to the medication taking effect... Or maybe I should bring him to the vet again...

Oh! And I saw him sleeping in a very weird posture today:



Saw his head lying onto the bowl of nuts? He probably fell asleep while having his meal... Lol!

Sunday is drawing close, and I've got a song to learn to perform for The Art of Music roadshow on that day. I realised I still have trouble memorising lyrics even though its not in chinese. I finally managed to get a guitarist and a cello player for my song. By the way, the song I will be performing on sunday is "On the Way Down" by Ryan Cabrera. Die!!! How am I suppose to face the public when I can't get my lyrics right!!!??? Shit!!!

Anyway, SCC just had its last monthly performance for the semester. Really glad to see so many new faces on the performing stage performing my songs. So proud of my SCC juniors. Haha! And I'm also happy that some of the members are forming bands! Hope they really succeed in reaching their dreams and make SCC proud. The next "Audio Insanity" is gonna give birth! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Atrium is sick!!!

Oh no!!! It's been days since my hamster is experiencing pain on his anus area. So, I decided I shall delay no more and brought him to the vet today. Fortunately, I had been told by the vet that it's just an infection of the skin around the anus area, not really a serious case. Heng... But it's really a pain for me to see him sleeping in an uncomfortable posture just to prevent his infected area from touching the ground. Therefore, I had changed the entire bedding into a layer of those kind of tissue papers that is normally used in the kitchen for cooking. It's so much user friendly for my hamster, but I'll have to change it every two days. So, its quite troublesome. And also I had to clean and apply on the infected area with medication and feed him some medicine everyday. It's gonna be very troublesome based on my hectic schedule this week, but it's definately worth the trouble. I'll definately push away any appointments that comes in my way when I have to take care of him. I do not want him to experience the curse of what my previous hamsters had experience few years ago. Yea! For those who is wondering who is that "Atrium" stated on the title of this post, it's him. Reason being I got him from my school's atrium around 2 years ago.

Song Composing Club = My Home [14-1-2007]

It's 3.50am now and I'm waiting to upload a video to the web. I shall blog while killing the time for the upload. Just realise I haven't been blogging these few days. Probably I'm too obsessed with designing my blog page and my song. I've been working on my song for talentquestX. I've posted the video above. The title is 笔记的那一页. The loading will only be slow the 1st time you view it.

I came up the idea of this song with the help of this blog and a very talented lyricist, Wendy. I composed it during my emo days on the 6th of Jan. You will know what I mean when you read the entry for that day. I've even put in the lyrics in the video for some of you who are interested in. Hope you don't mind my poor vocals... Haha! Anyway, its the song that I wanna show, not the singing.

Hmmm... Life has been going the same as always. The only thing special is the main commitee members of my club, Song Composing Club, is gonna pass down to the next generation of members soon. As for me, I'm passing down my role as a public relation person to someone that the main comm and I believe in, someone good at communication and brave enough to venture out to seek for performance opportunities for the club. I shall not reveal the person until that very special day arrives. But I guess it would be obvious when I'm training him/her. After passing down, I will then take up the role as a senior mentor. Sounds cool right? Only year 4 students can apply. LOL! Some people thought that it sounds cruel for me. But I feel fine. The reason that I did not feel sad for staying one more year in school is becos of SCC. SCC have been my 2nd home since the day WeiMing brought me back to the club. I wanna help members in SCC like how SCC has developed me. Of course, I have to be bias in helping some people at times as there are too many members in SCC. Like what I've mentioned to Fun "I'll only help those who can't either do melody or play the keyboard if he/she asks for help and when I have the time." Yup, cos I believes that those who can do melody and lyrics shouldn't relay on others if he/she can use the opportunity to train himself/herself.

I've also been inspired by Mandy and Jason for their hardwork in teaching the members. Unfortunately, I'm not as free as them. I've to cope with studies and Final Year Project this month and attachments in the next semester. To think that Ren totally had no time to go SCC cos of attachments really scares me off. That is one reason why I'm giving off all my composed songs I did years ago to Evon, Jia Yi, Guo Long and Wan Ting as I know I may not have the time next semester. Yea, so you peeps make me proud for the upcoming monthly performance k? I believe in you all, so pls believe in urself too, especially Wan Ting.

As for Instrumentalists, I'm hoping that Larry (keyboard) and Maxwell (guitar) can rise up to assist members in their songs as keyboard and guitar is the 2 most common instruments people would want in their song. For drums, SCC have a very talented drummer and vocalist called Shannon, so we have nothing to worry. And also the guitar pro = Sean. Besides there maybe other good instrumentalists in SCC that I have not discover... Nvm, I still have one more year to do so. But ultimately, every SCC member should get to learn keyboard, guitar or bass as it will seriously helps in composing. Anyway, I think I talk alot about my feelings and views for SCC. May wanna talk about it more after the passing down. Got to go to dreamland now. Cya!

I'll be back...

It's gonna be a tiring day... [9-1-2007]

The time now is 6am plus. I've managed to keep myself awake throughout the night for school later at 8am. If I lay on the bed, even for just a moment, "that's the end of me" - quoted from Darren Neo Taolin.

I finally received a SMS from Anna yesterday afternoon. So freakin' happy! At least I know we are contactable now. But I still miss her...

Anyway, some of you may know that I'm joining TalentquestX 2007 song composing competition. The dateline for registeration and submission of demos is tomorrow and I'm still having doubts whether to join or not. I've heard rumors of composers' songs being stolen after joining the competition in the previous years and I don't wanna end up like them... How!? And the freakin' COMPASS copyrighting procedure and contract is SO COMPLICATED!!! They also need a few days to copyright the song and the submission of my demo is tomorrow...

This week is gonna be a busy week for. As usual, I'm a busy man... I had to compose and record 3 instrumental music pieces for my final year project film by thursday and 2 music pieces for Strifey Animation Production by sunday. And I still got to redo my scriptwriting step outline. STRESS!!! And... SHIT!!! I'M LATE FOR SCHOOL!!! Got to go, Cya!

(I'll be back...)

My 1st entry... [6-1-2007]

Yea! This is the 1st entry of my very own blog! So cool! Steve aka Stiff is FINALLY BLOGGING!!! So lemme start off with my 1st memory to be recorded down in this "memory harddrive".

Today had been a very emo day for me. Never have I been feeling so sad ever since my hamsters died 3 years ago. Today is the day that a very good friend & neighbour of mine who loves to act cute, left Singapore to return to her hometown in Indonesia - Java. Almost 5 years of having each others company ends today. I went to the airport in the noon today to sent her off. We took quite a number of photos while waiting for the departure time to arrive. I also gave her my baby blue sofetoy teddybear and it even has a name "Molly" LOL! Especially when she calls it with a high squeeky childish voice. So cute! Soon, the clock strikes 3.10pm and she has to enter the departure hall to catch her plane to Suribaya. Of course, everyone was in tears... SO SAD LOR!!! Like experiencing a typical channel 8 drama show... And somemore she still sent farewell sms to my hp just before boarding the plane. Wa lau! Oh ya, for Darren's sake, her name is Anna. It will be so much harder to contact with each other now... I'll miss you Anna!!!

After that, I had to go attend Wendy's birthday dinner. So contridicting lor! I have to experience something bad at the afternoon, and then to attend something happy at the evening. Actually I do not have the mood to celebrate, but I still attend as Wendy is a very good friend of mine. She did quite a lot of stuff for my birthday and so I do not wanna let her down. So thats why I was so moody when I just arrived. So Zi Qin, don't think too much k? Its not your fault, I just need to be quiet for a while and recover.

Anyway, I learnt a lesson from this experience today. I better start blogging from today onwards as I do not wanna lose any good memories I had with all my friends in my lifetime. Maybe what I experience today will happen in future again. Whether its happy or bad moments, its still worth remembering. Yea, thats all for today. Cya!

(I'll be back...)