Time for some serious thinking...

K, this may be the longest post ever written in my blog. Let me begin by the experience I had when I attended the SPOP finals in the Singapore Indoor Stadium with my friends last week. I tell you, the sound system there is MARVELOUS!!! Any average singers sing on the mic will sound heavenly there. LOL! Serious! The lightings and stage are as great too. Oh! And the instrumentalists there, POWER!!!

After sometime of listening the composed songs there, things start to get a little boring, which can be considered very boring to some people there. The disppointing thing is that people who attended the concert went specially to support their idols, not for the Singapore Music. And its very rude for them to leave the place immediately after their idols had performed. The place was filled with people leaving after each particular performances end, so distracting and such a disgrace to Singapore when the foreign performers saw it there. The worse thing is even my SONG COMPOSING CLUB friends started complaining of feeling hungry and bored. Complaining for a moment is understandable, but complaining endlessly till the performance end is irrrrrrrritating. Please, I was already hungry before attending the concert. Imagine if the same thing happens for SCC concert.

And finally they wanted to leave. I was quite upset and disappointed during that time, but I know its wrong to make them stay and continue watching when they don't feel like it. So I just kept very quiet and leave together until the point when I saw Ivy hesitating to leave the place also. Finally someone who appreciates music! And so me and Ivy suggested for them to leave 1st while we continue watching. But they insisted to stay, so nvm, up to them. And btw, I'm not pissed during that time, I'm just disappointed. Haha!

Enough about that. Few weeks ago, I had an urge to learn a new instrument. Something that is not a common instrument in a band. Firstly, I tried violin last year, but its abit hard to play and I'm stuck at the basics. Wasted my money buying it. Next, I thought of learning the saxophone. However, saxophones are extremely expensive instruments which I can't afford to buy. What happens if I can't learn it well. LOL! Finally, after analysing the different instruments on the web, I came across the instruments harmonica and ocarina. Ocarina sounded quite disturbing to me, and so I chose the harmonica since its a cheap and easy instrument. I bought it the next day and begin practising till now. (I'm sure I did mention this in my previous post and so I will not go into details of the difficulties I faced while playing it) Oh! And I was very inspired when I watch this clip:



Yesterday, me and Winston was having a conversation about our dreams. What we wanna be in future and how to accomplish it. It was then when I suddenly came to think that I did not have a specific aim to go for. I did mentioned under "My Ambition" on the left hand side of this blog, but thats not specific enough for me to aim for. Winston had already strategised his way towards his aim and I'm still stuck without a proper aim.

(Warning! For the following messages are not mainly for reading purpose actually, its more for me to keep it in my blog like a diary. If you wanna read, you're welcome to do so, cos it only talk about me, me and ME! LOL!)

And so I went home to think about it. I always wanted to perform in big stages. I'm addicted to performing, composing and arranging songs. However, I do not like the feeling of performing alone on stage. I tried it before and I feel very uncomfortable to have all the focus on me alone on stage. Afterall, I'm a very shy person. LOL!!! I want to form a band, performing and touring around places like Wu Yue Tian. I want to be a keyboardist cum harmonizer. I totally doubt the idea of me being a main vocalist as I HATE memorising the lyrics and my high notes.

For me, I don't believe that professional instrumental skills are the key factor for a good performace. I strongly believe in being outstanding and able to work well together. With those factors, being able to perform it simple and stable is good enough for a band in my opinion. Think about it, how much can the average audience appreciate when you are showing off your high level skills. You can just simply make your guitar or keyboard volume louder during the interlude and move with the music and people will think that you are a PRO! Haha! And I also believe that good harmonizing and vocals is a must to make a good performance.

Anyway, this dream of mine starts to fade away when I'm having so much difficulty finding the right people to form the band with. Another thing is that it seems that the only way to achieve it in Singapore is by joining Superband, but I will not join it unless I get the right people to work with. However, the 3 favourite bands of mine never fails to keep me going. They are Yellowcard, Mute Math and Melee. For those who do not know who they are, I've embed their video below:

Yellowcard:


Mute Math:


Melee:


Knowing that I may faced the danger of failing, I actually have to plan a backup plan. My course diploma isn't going to help me with it with such a low GPA to get to work in media related companies like Mediacorp, unless I used an alternative way...
Having much thoughts, being a music producer like Timberland may be what I will be interested in having as a backup. That is why I tried so hard to compose different genres. I can't just survive on mainstream songs to achieve that. Hard to achieve, but not as hard as the earlier aim which I mentioned just now. For those who do not know who he is, he is a music producer who made songs for various artists in America, mainly for Hip Hop, R&B, Dance and Electro songs and sometimes featuring in MTVs. This is one of his songs (he's the guy singer):


Hai... I totally lost the mood of play cabal online suddenly. So much think to ponder about... Have to worry about superband also. Somemore, have to worry about an upcoming collaboration band competition with Ben. K, gtg play cabal online, cya!

I need to earn money FAST!!! NO MORE late night sleeps for me...

Yes! Its time to get healthy!!! Recently I went for checkup and found out that my body is very heaty. There's alot of toxic in my body and my body absoption of food is very poor. This is due to all my late night sleeps, eating at McDonalds, lack of vegetables and fruits intake, and eating too many biscuits and cookies. It all makes sense why I can't get fat as I have been doing all these since I start my poly life. So I decided to stop those stuff. Just as I'm able to sleep early at night, Dixon and Gary intro me a game called Cabal Online. The graphics is so mesmerising that I can't take my eyes off my computer screen very night. So, resulting in late night sleep again... Hai... And I gotta work for more money to buy suppliments to regain my health fast so I can gain weight asap. Shiok!!!

Anyway, I bought a harmonica a few days ago and decided to try learning it. To my surprise, it is very easy to learn and I can play it without trouble according to the key of the music which my harmonica is build in. The difficult thing comes when you have to blow and suck, and maybe lick to produce different notes. Its easy to produce chords, but it very hard to produce single clean notes as the holes on the harmonica is designed very closely to each other. Sad...

Oh... And the superband application dateline is drawing nearer, and I still can't find a singer. Double sadness...

Ok, gtg play cabal online, its so addictive, cya!

I'm so sad...

SCC gala dinner is a BLAST!!! Although its not as emotional as last year's, not to mention the poor technical side. But its still as great!!! Got to see so many people that gone through extreme makeover just to attend the dinner. So cool, all so shuai and pretty, made me feel so under dressed. Luckily got johnny and fun wearing T-shirts there. LOL!

Yup, and I'm so happy with the results and feedback I got when presenting my "movie". For those who wants the CD, you can come and get the CD from me. Ask me quick as I dont have alot of copies to spare. Need you all who got the CD to help burn copies for others too. Its rather impossible for me alone to distribute to everyone single SCCeans. LOL!

Oh! And recently, someone who I dunno added me on msn. And he sent me a song called "bi ji de na yi ye". I was like "OMG!!! Why is my song with him". And the reply he gave me is that he also dunno. Die, someone must have been sending my songs around cybernet...

But of course, there's a down side of my life which I'm currently experiencing now. It seems that its getting more impossible for me to join superband now that one of my dreamed band member decided not to join... How am I gonna find a vocalist who can sing and charm xiao mei mei for the replacement? How am I gonna find someone who can work well with me. Sob sob... =(

Now the thing is I may need to go to the extent to find a stranger to join, but that defeats the point. Sian... howhowhow... I'm stuck...

Anyway, I gtg continue burning copies of "SCC The Movie". Cya!

Busy week at home and full of thoughts...

It has been a busy week for me, as usual, but this time I'm staying at home for the week. I had been busy editing the SCC "Movie" video in my com and it takes up alot of my time and hard drive space. Probably around 22.5 GB... The video is so large that I had to back up all my files in my com to DVD-R and CD-R to make space for my hard drive to import those videos. And I can say its the lamest video I had ever made. LOL!

Meanwhile, another thought that keeps bothering me is whether to take part in Superband or not. By the way, the alumni who I mentioned in my previous post are Ken for guitar(President of SCC 2006, Jocelyn's bf), Sultan for bass, Andrew for drums and Tiffany for vocals. For those who dunno who they are, they are the former band members of Hor Wei Jian's band few years ago. Recently, Tiffany had rejected their invitation as her Taiwan trip clashes with the Superband audition date. As for me, I rejected their invitation as I feel more comfortable in joining another band of mine which consists of, Johnny for vocals, Timothy for violin and guitar and Tze Chow for drums and guitar. I will be responsible for keyboard and harmony though. We will be focusing songs which is not as heavy as the normal band, something like shi liu shi ji de qing jian, and something that suits Johnny's voice.

Sounds exciting! BUT!!! Me and Johnny is still wondering whether it is the right time to join this kind of competition or not. Johnny has also been thinking whether he should give up his Taiwan trip to make it for the audition. Besides that, me, johnny and timothy should be receiving the NS enlistment letter anytime. Good thing is that Ken says that we can defer, ONLY IF we are the top 18 or so on. Another thing is that according to some friends, we are not really up to standard yet. But in my opinion, why bother about standards when we have our X-factor Johnny Tan Chia Soon to charm all the xiao mei mei and gays. LOL! Joking Joking... But then, we dont have anymore time to waste, it may be too late for us to think about this kind of competition after we complete NS. And also I hope that this competition can give me the experience for higher chances in entering the Music and Drama department in NS, although I've got a PES B. However, the danger of joining this kind of competition is that, once you are out of the game, you'll be comdemned FOR LIFE!!! LOL! Not so kua zhang la, but you know what I mean right? So ya, I seriously dunno wad to do...

Oh, recently, one of my friends said that the MTV which I'm inside has been screened in SCV channel 55. OMG!!! That's so embarassing! The worse thing is that I have not seen my performance in the MTV yet!!! Scary...

Next, I'll be having this vocal competition audition (Stardust) this saturday. Its not really a priority in my mind now though. My friend joined the competition, so I just tag along. K, gtg back to edit the video. Cya!

By the way, the video below is the MTV of the song "Stan" which Tingren aka Elvenlights spoke of in the tagboard below. I think the rap sucks. But the melody damn NICE. And the arrangement gets quite boring after sometime. Imagine listening the song without the MTV, LOL boring!!!