Singer-Drummer

Another long-awaited blog...

2009-08-12T08:01:00.005Z

Hwah, so long never update my this blog liao.... A lot of events going on....

Performance choir in CHC

Was chosen to be in the performance choir in church for various performances. My 1st performance with the Performance Choir is when Mrs Cho came to CHC to preach at Expo. As she is a singer, pianist and composer herself, she especially loved the song we performed that time, which is Handel's Messiah (AKA Hallelujah Chrous.) My 2nd performance was during our church's 20th Anniversary some weeks back and was received with standing ovation. Coming 23rd Aug I'll be performing with the Millenial Orchestra in our first public concert at Victoria Theatre. Looking forward to it!! Here are some pics for the performances...

During our performance... Can spot me??

Me up close on stage... Who took this??? Hahaha...

Strikeforce

Talking about Strikeforce, I get excited as I have fallen deeply in love with drumming. There were a few gigs recently, including the gig for 4 weekends for Orchard Central. I had fun doing random rhythms for 3 of the 4 days. And some of us were wet, wet, wet due to playing the UDM (Ultimate Drumming Machine). We will be having another gig on Friday (14 Aug) for a YOG event at Padang. Details at http://www.singapore2010.sg/1_year_to_go

More photo updates at my Wretch Album.

THAT'S ALL FOLKS! CYA SOON!!!!!

The cell phone and the Bible

2009-08-07T06:46:00.001Z

Got this from Amanda Faith's Blog, who got from another friend, Thomas Tay's Blog. I like this, read on...

Ever wondered what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phones? What if we carried it around in our purse or pocket? what if we flipped through it several times a day? what if we turned back to get it if we forgot it? what if we used it to recieve messages from the text? what if we treated it like we couldnt live without it? what if we gave it to kids as gifts? what if we used it when we traveled? what if we used it in case of emergency? This is something to make you go…hmm…wheres my Bible? And unlike our cell phone, we dont have to worry about our Bible being disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill.
Knock knock! i knocked on heavens door this morning. God asked me ‘My child, what can i do for you?’ And i said ‘ Father, please protect the person reading this message.’ God smiled and answered ‘request granted’
If you believe, send this to 7 people….
93% of you wont pass this on - are u in the 7% that will?

Quiz...

2009-06-10T06:03:00.001Z

Check this out....

The Five Love Languages

My primary love languages are probably
Acts of Service and Quality Time.

Complete set of results

Acts of Service:		7
Quality Time:		7
Words of Affirmation:		7
Receiving Gifts:		5
Physical Touch:		4

Information

Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don't understand our partner's requirements, or even our own. We all have a "love tank" that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.

Take the quiz

Fahrenheit in Singapore

2009-04-07T06:53:00.004Z

"Da Jia Hao, Wo Men Shi Fahrenheit Fei Lun Hai!" (Hi everybody, we are Fahrenheit!)

This is what Fahrenheit always say when they appear on TV shows, autograph sessions and other events.

On the 29th of March, Fahrenheit was in Singapore to promote their 3rd album, Yue Lai Yue Ai (In Love More and More). Their autograph session was at IMM and private party at St James Power Station @ Vivocity. Yours truly here, won the tickets to the private party @ SJPH. Let me tell you about my experience with the boys and their fans...

The night before, I stayed at my friend, Phoebe's house as she was not feeling well. Her mum had not wanted to let her go for the autograph session but when she heard that she will be with me, she relented and let her daughter go, with the condition that I'll be with her all the time on that day. I agreed and decided to stay at her house as we will need to reach IMM at 7am to queue (the auto session supposed to start at 3pm, but as they were late, the session started at 4pm).

Anyway, we reached IMM at 7am sharp and went to join our friend, Joy, who queued overnight for us (thanks Joy!) outside Pepper Lunch (outside the building). After that, Serene and Roselin reached and Roselin went to join her Fan Club. We were asked to go up to the Garden Plaza and queue. Then we were given Number Tag with HIM's Company logo so that we can go out of the barricade's. At 2.15pm, all of us were prohibited to go out, even for toilet breaks, so we had to stay in the queue. At 3plus, the host of the auto session, YES 933 DJ Jiahui, came out and chatted with us till Fahrenheit came.

At 4pm, Fahrenheit finally appeared! They sang some songs and proceeded to sign autographs on the album's lyrics book (both the 1st version, black one, and the Gai Ban version, the white one.)

After the auto session, me, Phoebe, Huimin, Serene and Joy had wanted to take a cab to SJPH but as there were too many people and the cab driver wanted one of us to go separately, I, being the big sister of the group, volunteered to take MRT to Vivocity.

When I reached, the rest were already queuing at the venue. I went to redeem my two tickets, passed one to Phoebe and went to queue with Huimin and Joy (Phoebe had the privilege to take photo with Fahrenheit whereby I don have. Too bad lor!) We went in and stood (and seated) at the left side of the stage.

At 8plus, Fahrenheit reached (the autograph session at IMM ended at abt 8pm but they did not manage to sign all the albums due to time constraints). They sang some songs and was interviewed by the host, YES 933 DJ Peifen (My fav DJ!!!) My fav member, Aaron Yan Yalun, teared when he recalled that during their Taiwan autograph sessions for their 2nd album, his grandfather died of old age, but his family did not tell him about it becasue they want him to concentrate on his work first till the last autograph session for the album ended. When he got home, he felt a sad atmosphere around the house. It was then his parents told him about the sad news.

Here are a few photos of the events. The rest can be found on my Chinese Blog.

FLH at IMM

cute Yalun smiling... (Sorry, its very blur...)

funny Da Dong posing the "LOVE" sign

FLH posing for pic @ SJPH (also very blur.. sorry...)

Yalun getting ready to take pic with fans at SJPH (the clearest of all!!!)

Happening 2009 so far

2009-03-18T15:40:00.006Z

Beginning of 2009 is the most, most happening times so far. Let me elaborate....

My Birthday

Yes, My "eggday" has always been a celebration since I started work in my current company. Since I've transferred department for the past 11 months, coming to a year, totally no one celebrate any birthdays in my current dept till the day we had a farewell lunch at Sakura International Buffet for my Contract Manager (Mr Chua BH), it was my another Contract Manager, Gladys, who suggested that the details of all Tender Team staff be collected so as to celebrate birthdays. I was very "thick-skinned" to mention that my birthday was around the corner. Only a few of them knew about it.

The united Tender Team.

My birthday came. I went to work, as usual. Work, work, work till lunchtime, I went to lunch with my usual lunch khakis (all from Tender Team). We had lunch and went back to work, as per normal. Suddenly, at about 3pm, Wesley, one of the Contract Engineers, asked me to go and open the door to let a "sub-contractor", whom he didn't want to see, into the office. When I saw the two cafe ladies, whom I knew from a cafe at Level 2, I was thinking,"how come your are here?" then I saw on of them carrying a Cheese Cake, on top was written "Happy Birthday to June!" I was touched to tears as I had thought that no one remembered cuz everyone was busy with work. When I took the cake back to the dept, all of them, including my AVP, were inside the small meeting room near my table. They celebrated my birthday for me. They sang it so loud that everyone in the office heard it and wished me happy birthday when they saw me. I thanked them, especially Gladys who planned the whole thing. Tks my dear colleagues!!!

My Bday cheese cake... Mmm... Nice...

Me! Heeheehee....

Pi Li MIT (Mysterious Investigation Terminator)

Yah yah, I know it was out for a while now, but I just got to watch the first episode in mid Feb. Hwah, very nice leh!! Exciting show. The cast consists of Aaron Yan Yalun from Fahrenheit, Gui Gui from Hey Girl, Xiaogui (100% Entertainment), Fan Wei Qi (aka Fan Fan, singer/songwriter) Lu Ting Wei, Zhang Shan Jie (both acted in Ai Sha 17 staring Angela Zhang), Tian Li (a famous model) and Hong Du La Si (Zhong Yi Da Ge Da). The show is about investigating killings/ attempt to kill / revenge in a school called Shen Ying School, which is a school with "White List" and "Black List" "White List" refers to students who did extremely well in everything, studies, CCA and well behaved in the sight of the teacher, Tian Shi Lao Shi (Ms Angel) and "Black List" refers to students who did badly in anything and Tian Shi Lao Shi refers them as "useless students". If you like mysterious stuff, you might like this show.

From Left: 747 (Xiaogui), 187 (Lu Ting Wei), Ms Cherry aka Cherry Lao Shi (Fan Fan), 007 (Yalun) and Tian Mo Xing (Gui Gui)

Da Mouth In Singapore

Yes! Finally can see Da Mouth in Singapore! but too bad I got Strikeforce that day and had to rush back to Bugis just in time to see them ending the autograph session. I was so happy to see my fav member, Huai Chiu, who is a Korean-Chinese mix. He is the male lead singer of the group and he is so cute!!! Pics are uploaded in my Wretch album . Do check it out..

From Left: MC40, DJ Zhong Hwa, Aisa and Huai Chiu

My Recent Dress Style (when I have the time to makeup, that is!)

I donno why, I am falling in love with Gothic style nowadays. Maybe its because its becoming a trend here in Singapore. Both me and Phoebe had the same feeling (she fell in love with Gothic too) and sometimes we go out together wearing Gothic. I am looking for nice Gothic which has my size. Any other recommendation other than 77th Street @ Bugis, Gothic shop at Jurong Point and another shop at Liang Court? Any recommendation?

My Gothic Top

Red Cross Charity Concert 2009 @ NTU

2009-03-18T09:19:00.002Z

This is a charity concert organised by The Red Cross Society and NTU. It will be held in NTU Nanyang Auditorium, 7pm to 9pm. Do support for a good cause. I'll be performing with The Strikeforce for a good cause. Do join in the fun and donate for a good cause. Thank you in advance...

Recent Events

2008-12-05T05:45:00.009Z

Hai, so long time never blog here already!!! Really miss blogging...

Asia Conference 2008

CHC organised the first ever Asia Conference on Nov 19 - 23. I served on all the sessions, 5 days, 10 sessions, 9 sessions in choir and 1 session in Strikeforce. There were a lot of guest speakers, special performances and guest P&W leaders in this conference. I can't describe it with words, so I'll let the pics do the talking. More can be found in my Wretch Album.

Me during the finale night of the conference. Look different?

Altos Section Rocks!!!!

Some of us with Sidney, our fav P&W Leader...

Zirui, myself and Nana getting ready to go on stage.... Billy's image look so blur....

My AC Tag. Did you notice something strange?

Me with my mallet sticks. That night we did "Crossing Over".

MFBBT New Didis

I know that the 2nd Generation of Didis have existed for almost 2 months already, but I have yet to blog abt it. Let me introduce them here:

(Left to Right) 1st row: Xiao Bang, Ah Liang, ICE, Ah Pang; 2nd row: WanZi, ABC, YouZi, Dada; 3rd row: Xiaohu (Eliminated), Xiaogu (Eliminated), Tanke, Xiatian (Eliminated); 4th row: Eason, Liang Mian, Dui Zhang, Yoyo (New); 5th row: JianTu (New), Huya (from 1st Gen), Xiaole (from 1st Gen).

Of course, I have my favs too...

1) Xiao Bang - He is really musically talented. He can sing and play double bass, keyboard, drums, guitar and bass guitar. He is the youngest of the class at 15 years of age.

2) ABC - He is a great singer born overseas. He's really an ABC (American Born Chinese) and thus working hard to learn the Chinese Language. He was in Xing Guan San Ban (same batch as Huang Jing Lun from Singapore) top 20 finalists. His nice smile has attracted lots of girls all over the world.

3) Xiao Xiao - Being the shortest of the class (167cm), he used his kuso (funny) dances moves and humble personality to shine over his weakness.

4) ICE - Another ABC, ICE is born in Taiwan but went to Brazil to stay for a while. He is the magician of the class and never fail to impress others with his magic. He impressed the pop band Boyzone with his magic in one episode. They were amazed by his performances.

5) Ah Liang - The leader of the class. He was in the same CCA as Weiyu and Huya in school. His sleek dance moves and outgoing personality raises him up to be the leader of the class.

6) Eason - One of the heartthrob of the class. Similar to Owodog from Lollipop, he looks a bit like Edison Chen. He dances Krump, which is a kind of dance that shows anger and the desire to fight using dance moves. Currently he is working in a well-known hair salon in Taiwan called EROS as a hair stylist. He is BBT's future professional hair stylist.

7) Yoyo - A new didi, came out from a new variety show hosted by Lollipop Owodog, Ah Wei, Xiaojie, Hey Girl Apple and Rongjia called Na Li 5 Da Cang. As his performance in the variety show is very good, the Overall-in-charge, Andy Ge, asked him and another guy, Jian Tu, to be in the class directly, without any audition.

8) Ah Man - The elder brother of Blackie Yao Yao and the younger brother of Hey Girl Apple, Ah Man is the most humble, hardworking, funny and nicest guy ever on BBT. At home, he is the "servant" of his two sisters, which confirms the fact taht if he can take good care of his sisters, he can take good care of his future girlfriend/wife.

That's all for now....

Long time no Blog

2008-03-24T08:56:00.007Z

So Long never blog arady!! So busy with things....
Easter Production 2008

This year's Easter drama is quite interesting. As usual, I was acting as part of the crowd. Being in drama is so fun! There are a lot of interesting and fun people in DM that makes my days fun... Thanks ppl!!!

Oh Yah, Some of the Crossroad ppl were in the drama as well! Here they are:

Chingay 2008

Chingay! A street parade not to be missed! This year I am representing City Harvest Church doing "Solid Rock". Needless to say, there are rehearsals upon rehearsals upon rehearsals at least 4 times a week for about a month. But our hard work paid off when the audience were smiling ever so happily when we start our "fights". Below is the pic of me still in make up after I reached home. COOL~~!

My Big Day~My birthday!

Yeah~ My birthday was just a month ago and it was before I transferred department. My sweet beauties of Building Dept bought me a bouquet of flowers and cake. After work, I went out with Phoebe and cuz of my birthday, in almost every shop in Far East Plaza I went into, I got a discount and even got a membership card free! That was so touching! To all the shops I went to on that day, Thank so much!!!

Me with my bday cake and flower

The lovely babes of Building Dept

Celebrations!

2007-12-28T17:55:00.000Z

Yes, yes, yes!!! Finally!!! Remember the Bintan Wedding I talked about?
Its finally going to be telecasted on Channel 8 in Jan 2008!!!!! So excited!!! Stay tuned for it! Check out http://www.channel8.com.sg for more details.... Can't wait to see myself on TV... Hahaha...

UPDATED!! Bintan pics

2007-11-14T01:11:00.000Z

YES!! FINALLY!!! My Bintan pics is updated, but not in Friendster, in my Wretch Blog .

My dear dear home PC got some problem, so most of the time I need to do everything either in the office or in a cybercafe. Haiz....

Crossroads WD

2007-10-10T09:06:00.000Z

I know I know, I am a bit TOO WOLS to blog about the Crossroads WD, since it was 3 weeks ago kind of thing... But due to busyness and waiting for photos, I can oli blog on it now...

Anyway, I had so much fun at Bintan that I nearly don wanna come back to Singapore. Since I am involved in both the drama and wedding choir, I went there on Friday (the actual wedding was on Saturday afternoon). Together with 90% of the cast, the jiemeis and brothers and the couple themselves, we checked in and boarded the ferry at Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal at 9am.

Upon reaching Bintan, we checked out and boarded the bus to our apartments. 4 rooms were allocated: Me, Erika, Liz and Pris in one room, the guys in one room, Thati, Rubez, Serena and Jasmine in one room and the rest of the girls in one room. We went for lunch in a restaurant at an outdoor kind of shopping centre. The food there was cheap and good. Guess wat I ate?

Ans: Fried Rice with REAL CRAB!!! Cost: S$5.00

I got a shock of my life as this was the first time I ever seen Fried Rice with real crab for S$5. I was actually expecting the crabs to be, you know, crabstick, lots of it. After that we did what Singaporeans always do all year round: shopping! I bought this cute and nice batik tube and I love it so much! It costed me S$17 though... I bought a dark pink sleeveless top for S$6. Then we went for rehearsal at the venue itself.

The place was near the sea and it was very beautiful. We had rehearsals with lots of changes in the script. We did a dry run and made changes pertaining to our standing positions, our going in and going out, dance, timing, etc. Then we went to the beach to play! To my amazement, the sand was very fine and very nice to step on, comparing to the sand at the beach in Singapore, which is not that fine.

After that, we went for dinner at a very cosy restaurant opposite the open air shopping centre. We were supposed to be there by 7.30pm, but due to the bus was delayed at Nirwana Gardens (the actual wedding location), we reached at abt 8.30pm. The lady boss and one of her workers was very kind as to wait for us till then. Not only that, when we reached late, they welcomed us with huge smiles. I was actually expecting them not to be too happy as they were having their fasting month and were supposed to close at around 7.30pm. We felt so bad to have them wait for us for so long. We had our dinner and proceeded back to our apartments to prepare for a full dress rehearsal in Joy's Supreme room.

There, there are changes again. My lines, which was originally in Chinese (as it was supposed to be in Chinese Church), was changed to English as the words spoken by me are not smooth at all. After it was changed, it was a lot better as I feel more comfortable to speak in English than Chinese (if you want me to translate it myself, that is!)

After the rehearsal, its time to BATH!!!! After bathing, we wento down to fellowship in Joy's room. Our handsome chefs, Vincent and Jiarong, cooked for us. I had no chance to eat the food as I was too tired and went up to rest.

Our chefs amongst the guys

The next morning, we woke up at around 6am and met at around 7pm. We had breakfast at the same place where we had our dinner the night before. It was buffet style breakfast and it was nice! After breakfast, we went back to pack our stuff and got ready to go to Nirwana Gardens for the actual thing.

When we reached, Mediacorp crew was already there. We prepared for soundcheck plus standing position before the actual thing started. MDC was recording our rehearsals, so the whole wedding (maybe?) will be telecasted on Channel 8 in around Nov. Telecast date is not confirmed yet...

They say pictures speaks a thousand words, so here they are

The cast and crew of Crossroads WD

More pics can be found at my friendster a few days later....

Finally!!!

2007-09-19T09:55:00.000Z

Finally, finally, finally! MDC came last night to film what we were doing - dancing to Bollywood Music. While we were dancing, various shots were taken and those chosen to be interviewed will be interviewed on Friday at Bintan, which means the whole event will be shot by MDC! Wow! A wedding event becomes such an event which will be telecasted on national TV! So Exciting!!!

Something else touches me. Isaac was talking to us after our rehearsal, saying what Don, one of the TV crew, had told him, he was actually touched by the friendship the whole drama team have with one another and this whole thing is not just about the wedding, but also the relationship between everyone involved. from some of us initially didn't know each other from the start of the production, till getting to know and care for one another in many ways, I dare to say that we have build very strong friendships with one another.

Crossroads WD cast and crew, Jia You!

Wedding Choir, Jia You too!

Everyone involved including our main zhu jue aka Isaac and Dominique, Jia You!

CROSSROADS WEDDING DRAMA

2007-09-18T02:23:00.000Z

4 more days to go....

Counting down to the CROSSROADS WEDDING DRAMA...

Good thing we finished the dance last night, just need more practice for the dance routine. To be frank, I feel that this dance is quite fun and quite an ok routine for me who has totally NO dance background, but have to have lots of practice. All thanks to Theresa, our dance instructor...

Lots of stuff to do before the trip: practise dance, practise the way I say my lines, which is in Chinese, pack bag, etc....

Really looking forward to the drama...

My fav topic... Boybands...

2007-09-14T02:25:00.001Z

Yes, Boybands... I love boybands and girlbands. I like 棒棒堂 especially 小煜﹐飛輪海 especially 亞綸, 櫻桃幫, S.H.E especially Ella ( I am the self-declared big sized version of Ella...), 黑澀會美眉 especially 大牙﹐小薰﹐丫頭﹐鬼鬼 and Mei Mei (They are just simply adorable!!!). For those who don't know who I am talking about, here are the pictures to help you to regain your memory of these people.

棒棒堂 and 黑澀會美眉

 飛輪海

My fav member in 棒棒堂, 小煜

Actually in 棒棒堂 there are more people....

(From Left to right)
1st Row: 小煜﹐ 王子﹐阿偉﹐小杰﹐敖犬﹐威廉 - 六棒
2nd Row: 毛弟﹐TERRY, 小馬﹐李銓﹐多多﹐MOMO (ELMO)
3rd Row: 小濱﹐牙膏﹐小 T﹐ 野獸﹐ 阿本﹐ 鮪魚

There are two more guys, Echo and Latte which are not in the pic as I don't have the pic in the uniform, but nevertheless, here they are.

Latte and Echo

Echo is the one whose strength is beatboxing. His beatboxing is really good till I have nothing to say. Latte is the one who can sing and plays the guitar, similar to 小煜 .

Busy but Fruitful

2007-09-14T02:03:00.000Z

Busy, busy, busy... Nowadays I am so busy with so many things, with Crossroads Wedding Drama-plus-Wedding Choir, Strikeforce, Church choir (as an assistant helper and member) and might go back to MPYC cuz I really miss them but couldn't go because of my current bad folsato voice for now... Plus i wanna spend more time with my partner (some of you will know who I am talking about). Cause of these I had to sacrifice MPYC for the moment.... Sorry guys!!! *Blush blush*

Anyway, these activities are very fruitful to me, especially having the chance to get to know my friends and partner better. And sometimes my partner get to know my friends too! So its killing two birds with one stone. And it widens my partner's circle of friends too... *Heeheehee*

Talking about Strikeforce, I am learning something new to honour a fantastic drummer. I am learning what he created and I am learning two parts of the sequence. Its so fun when you go from not knowing how to drum, to learning the ropes to playing a sequence for someone great. Now my dream is to perform on stage with the fantastic guys of Strikeforce. By 2008 beginning. Jia You to me!

Happy...~

2007-08-24T09:30:00.000Z

Y so happy? Cuz i suddenly got the privilege to sit on my Senior Manager, Junn's car with my colleague Cindy and Vice President of my department Mr Yeo! This is truly a good experience as this was the first time I got to sit in a manager's car ever since I stepped into the current company... We were supposed to send 3 boxes of documents to a certain company in Shenton Way to submit for a job, so we went with them to help. After that Cindy, Junn and yours truly went to Vivocity to have lunch. We went to The Asian Kitchen at Basement 2 for lunch and it was paid by Junn!!! Privileged right??? Then we went back to the office where most of the QS had gone home to rest (They worked till 5am that day! Wow! Tiring man~~). Way to go girls!

Surfed the Net and found lots of BBT pics, people like 毛弟&王子(I call then the Chiu Brothers cuz they are real brothers born in the same family)﹐鮪魚﹐牙膏﹐野獸﹐Echo, BBT 1st Batch... Tons of pics... By chance I came across 毛弟's new pics, looks so handsome! Very cool, really!!! I can show you...

This is 毛弟's new pic. See what I mean?

This is the wallpaper I did with a few new pics..

That's all folks! Meanwhile take care and enjoy your day!

Something interesting to share...

2007-08-10T10:57:00.000Z

Yup, after "resting" from blogging for so long, I am back with a vengence, i.e., with some interesting stuff to share.

First, check out Good Stuff Cannot Bluff (BSCB)'s blog, lots of interesting stuff inside. Check out the latest entry about Chinese-English translations. I guarantee that you will laugh till you drop, which i did everytime I read the blog.

Next, yesterday was National Day, so its a busy public holiday for me. Firstly, I went to help George and his fiance paint his new house till around 4.30pm. Them I rushed back home to have a big, thorough waskkup and went to meet CrossroadsWD drama people for dinner and fellowship. We had dinner at Bugis, then we walked to Douby Ghaut for games. We had lots of fun at the games arcade located at Douby Ghaut NEL Station. We played Dance Dance Revolvtion (DDR) and Para Para. It has been 5 long years since I played these games and I really felt like a secondary school student that night. After that, we went to Starbucks to have a drink. People on budget like me went to 7-11 to buy Big Gulp. I was served by this impatient girl (or is it a guy? I donno, as "she" is in a girl's body but a guy's voice...) but her impatientness was understandable as the queue was quite long and there were oli 2 counters. Liz, our little cutie pie, was shocked and amused to see "her" as this was the first time she came across this kind of thing. Seems that she learnt lots of things in one day.... Then we went home our separate ways at 11.30pm...

Lastly, as you might have read in my previous entry, I am into Lollipop 棒棒堂. Recently I watched the idol drama that they and 黑澀會美眉 star in, 黑糖瑪奇朵, on Tudou. Its so funny and interesting. If you like either groups or both groups, or you like those 校園偶像劇 kind of show, you will love this one.

Just to share with you my favs. Enjoy!

So Bored...

2007-07-21T22:00:00.000Z

Now at Sha Villa, at my friend's workplace. She wanted me to wait for her till 11pm, which is her knock off time. Here she is, working hard at the Front Desk, counting money to make sure it tallies with the paperwork. Seeing her work that way makes me feel that she has somehow grown. This is the first time I see her working so seriously. So serious that I don't feel its her at all.

Oh, by the way, her colleagues, who was working with her, said that I looked like Ella from SHE. Do I? Sometimes I wonder why some people said that I look like her. They even said I sound like her! I was like ^_^... Do I really look like her? Someone tell me!!!

Long time no Blog...

2007-07-12T09:19:00.000Z

Hah! So long never come and blog le. Don't worry, I didn't forget that I have friends who read my blog(s) (I have a Chinese Blog but I seldom update it). I have a few interesting events to blog about.

New Job, New Beginning

That's right, I have a new job now! I am doing Admin work in a construction company, thanks to carcar . She is the one who introduced me to this job. I got to know lots of nice colleagues and I really want to stay in this company for long term. Although I've never been in this industry but I am learning the ropes...

Michelle and Matthew aka Kheng Guan's Wedding

Thei wedding was a few months ago and yours truly was the "jie mei". We had lots of fun at the bride's house as we "sabohed" the groom and his brothers as they tried to get the groom into the bride's house to fetch the bride. After that the couple Jing Cha to the parents and the elder relatives (Michelle's side). After that we went to the groom's house and did the same thing, except that there is buffet lunch available. Then we went to the couple's new house to rest before the Holy Matrimony at night.

As I was the back up-vocalist for the wedding, I was very nervous as this was my first time holding the mic and sing Praise and Worship songs. There, I met Jasper(guitarist) and Yihua (Keyboardist). I was so happy to see them, especially Yihua as we have not met for some time. We chatted and I felt more relaxed. Tough there were some blubbers during the wedding, the whole wedding was great. I wish the couple Happy Marriage and Ever Lasting Love realtionship with each other.

The Jie Meis, brothers and the couple. Can you spot me?

Isaac and Dom (aka Ying Ying) Wedding

Yes, I am involved in their wedding as well, but this time as a dramatist. Their wedding will be in Bintan, which is unique as this is the first time a wedding is not held in Singapore island. Will update more on that....

Adios..

Singing two parts in two choirs and Musical Extravaganza

2007-05-15T21:00:00.000Z

What do i mean? It means I am singing Soprano in MPYC and Alto in CHC choir... Fantastic rite? Although its very tiring to have to memorise 2 parts most of the time, especially when I have a concert coming up on 8 Dec at Esplanade Concert Hall and most probably be on duty for church's Christmas Celebrations (no wonder I am having white hair now due to all the memorising... hahaha...), but I know that I am up to it (Yeah!). This is the kind of talent that God gives to me, having a "wide" vocal range...

Oh, the Musical Extravaganza concert! It was great and MPYC's item, West Side Story, received good response fron the audience, though we are the guest choir. This was the best concert I had ever performed in - as a guest choir. The Singapore Polytechnic Symphony Band is a good band... I had fun collaborating with them....

The December concert is entitled "He Comes At Christmastide" (Name subject to change). It will be at Esplanade Concert Hall, 8th Dec 2007. Further details will be updated later.

That's all folks! I need to rest my voice and my body now..... Zzzz....

Musical Extravaganza and Singapore Drum Fest 2007

2007-05-08T12:00:00.000Z

Ahh! I am losing my voice! I was so busy with Easter, Benny Hinn and Musical Extravaganza with IFC! In Musical Extravaganza I am singing solo in West Side Story! How??? But thank God for my mum, she prepared some herbal tea for me, so my voice is coming back slowly. I really hope and pray that I can get back my voice in time for my performance on Sunday 13th May 2007.

Oh another thing, to those who are into drumming, listen up! The first ever Singapore Drum Fest 2007 is here! There will be a drum challange as well. The auditions was a few weeks ago, but fret not, the semi-finals will be at Plaza Singapura on 13th May 2007! Don't miss this chance to see some of Singapore's most talented drummers battling against one another to be the first Singapore Drum Fest Winner! See you there! More details can be found at http://www.singaporedrumfest.com and http://myspace.com/sgdrumfest

Easter Celebration 2007

2007-04-13T10:47:00.000Z

Finally! Easter has come! After some 2 weeks of rehearsals at Jurong and Expo, this week is our performance week. We had to act for 5 services on Friday, Sat and Sunday. Here are some pics to share...

Me and Wee Lee (Jesus)

Me, Jermima and Edmund (John the Baptist)

Me and Zisen (Devil). Scary rite???

Me and Shunai (Jesus' Mother)

Me and Gary (Pharisee)

Me and the Directors, Sandy and Jaslyn

More pics and be found at my Friendster http://www.friendster.com/singerfreak

Benny Hinn, the new boyband Lollipop and Musical Extravaganza

2007-03-10T01:23:00.000Z

Lots of things are going to happen from now to May. Let me explain...

First, church stuff. There is this healing evangelist called Benny Hinn, he will be coming to Singapore for a healing crusade organised by my church. He will need a thousand people choir (Needless to say, I am involved as I am a choir member). The fun thing is notes reading, you know, tao geh (literally translated as bean sprouts, which mean musical notes in music sense.). As church choir seldom really get to read notes, this is a chance for me to be able to help others in sight-reading as I have been reading musical notes ever since 5 years old, from learning organ at Yamaha, to learning violin from Lee Yu Chuan, to playing clarinet in secondary school, playing the saxophone in ITE, till now while singing in MPYC. So you can say that I've been sight-reading all my life. So, this is also a good learning ground and an exciting experience for me. The attire? Guys: white long sleeve shirt, black pants and navy blue/dark blue tie while for ladies: navy blue/dark blue shirt/blouse and black pants/skirt. I've seen other church choirs in other countries when he was there, ALL the attire was THE SAME! Thus the same thing for Singapore this time. I'm looking forward to practice on Sunday with the non-choir members who are helping out.

Next, there is this new boyband called Lollipop 棒棒堂 . They came out from a competition in Taiwan. They consist of: Owodog aka Ow Quan (Dancer by training), Wang Zi aka Prince (the cutest, the most popular with the girls in the group, one of the better singers), Xiaoyu (the best singer and rocker of the group), Wei Lian aka William (the tallest, fittest and the most hardworking of the group, and always not in tempo...), Xiaojie (Dancer by training, PR of the group) and A-wei (the shortest, the most confident, the funniest and the best dancer of the group). Their debut EP+DVD received good responses from both Singapore and Taiwan.

Last but not least, its my honor to announce the colleboration of International Festival Chorus (IFC) and the MPYC in a concert entitled Musical Extravaganza, where yours truly will be part of. It will be on 13 May 2007, at Victoria Concert Hall, 5pm. This concert will feature the Singapore Polytecnic Symphonic Band, conducted by Leonard Tan. Tickets are selling at $12/$15/$20 (Stall) and $25/$30 (Circle). Interested parties can call after 5pm at 97882114 or SMS at 97877918 or 97844945. Alternatively, I can be contacted via MSN or email at tkd_june@yahoo.com.sg .

That's all for now! Till then, take care and enjoy everything you do!

Happy birthday to me!

2007-02-26T12:48:00.000Z

Sunday, 25th Feb 2006.

Woke up at 7.30am. And I realised that... Ahhh! I am super late!! I was to be at Singapore Expo Hall 8 by 8.30am!!! I rushed into the washroom, did my wash-ups and proceed to do my make up. then I rushed to church by cab, which cost me $20.00.

Upon reaching, I immediately went up to stage for soundcheck. Then I ran to look for seats with Isaac and Dominique. After serving, Taiwanese celebrity Liu Gen Hong came and entertained us with his fantastic band. After which was the sermon. the service ended at abt 12.30pm.

At foyer 3, I met up with some of the members and there, they celebrated my birthday!

The nice wallet and eye shadow given by CG. Tks so much!!!

Me with my bday presents. Tks to cell group members and Faith!!

And I wanna thank guys like Isaac and Dominique, Gisele, Yunfeng, Suann, Christina aka Nana, Tiffany aka Jingli, Hui Hui, Jasmine, Claris, William, Joseph, Weiliang, Kenneth, Zechen aka Steven, and Hui Qiong for the very expensive but my desired gift - Slim Diet cuz i really wanted to slim down and look more beautiful. Tks so much!!!

26th Feb 2006 (My actual birthday)

Was woken up by my beloved mum at 8am. But being the lazy pig that I am, I went back to sleep till 9am. I walked slowly to do my washing up and set off for work at 9.45am, which is quite early.

When I reached my workplace, Jenny and Ruth wished me a happy birthday. I was touched when Ruth bought steamed egg and duck drumstick for me! Following that, throughout the day, I received smses from friends wishing me happy birthday. Xiafen called me and said, "Yilei! Happy birthday!" I was "scareded" by her outburst that I almost fainted... Heeheehee... but I thank her anyway.... Heeheehee...

After work, I went for BP (Business Presentation) at Phoenix Hotel. There, Patrick informed us (the members) that BP will NOT be at Phoenix Hotel from next week onwards due to some unforseen circumstances. After the training, Isaac and Dom told me that Gisele and I are in Club100! I can't believe it! Its the best birthday present for me! Next month I'll be recognised as C100 in the Business Seminar! Can't wait for that!!!

W364's first Saturday's Svc

2007-02-11T01:30:00.000Z

Changes, changes, changes! Changes is constant and changes is always for the good. This time, my CG has been transfered from Svc 2 (Sun Svc) to Svc 1 (Sat Svc). As it was quite last min and I wanted to attend the first Sat svc, so i asked for off from MPYC prac on that day... (We were preparing for the CNY Performance at the Esplanade on 24th Feb and 3rd Mar at the Concourse, organised by Soka Association).

After svc, we went to Lau Pa Sat to have our super late dinner. It was great, being able to dine with them.... Here are the pics to temp you... Heh heh heh...

My dinner!!! Yum yum!

Satay!!! Mmmm....

Chicken wings!!! Delicious!!!

Happy 2007!!!

2007-01-01T23:50:00.000Z

Dec 31 2006, at 11:59:55 at Marina Square.... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Happy New Year!!

Yes, 2007 is here! Me and some my MPYC friends, namely Shize, Xu Yi, Shijing, Jianhao, Giflyn and her bf, Shiwei (Our Birthday boy), Cheryl, Jieying and Huixian were counting down there at MS. We saw the usual fireworks and the interesting sight was, balloons were being released not once, not twice, but THREE times in the span of 5 mins. This was something I personally have not seen before. (You can call me swakoo, but I really, really have never seen anything like that before!!!)

Anyway, after counting down, we went to the link between Marina Square and Millenia Walk to celebrate Shiwei's birthday. For the past few years, we are the first ones to celebrate his birthday. I feel so honoured... Heeheehee... ;P

After that, we went to BK for a drink and a snack, then we parted our ways home. I had to walk one entire round to the Esplanade to catch a Night Owl (5N) /Night Rider (NR5) home. When I got on bus no. 5N at around 1.45am, I found a comfortable seat and went to sleep with my MP3 player plugged into my ears. When I woke up, I was around my house area and the time was 4am! Wow! The whole journey took me around 2hrs, but I have to admit, I have had a good nap on the bus... When I reached home, lo and behold, the only cat left in my household, was missing! He was probably looking for his elder brother, who had ran away from home two months ago. My family and I were so worried that me, my elder bro and his gf went on a hunt for him on New Year's Day morning, but went back emptyhanded. Hope they will return soon... :'(

Merry Christmas!

2006-12-26T00:30:00.000Z

Christmas Day! The day whereby Jesus Christ was born!

Ever since I became a Christian, I never fail to enjoy Christmas Celebration in church. This year is no excepti0n. I absolutely enjoyed serving the Lord in choir for Sunday and Monday.

The choir opened the service with a special item "Deck the Halls" in parts, aka SATB (Sops, Alto, Tenor and Bass parts) with yours truly singing the Soprano part, which is the melody. It sounded great with parts and all. Then praise and worship began using carols.

Then came the best part - the drama. This year's production is a bit different. Other than the usual bilingual lines that the actors and actresses had to memorise, three of them had to speak in Cantonese, Japanese and Tamil! This was the first time that the drama includes these languages. The entire drama was funny, interesting, touching and simply too awesome for words. This year, the drama even involves the congregation, that everyone lights up the candles, signifying that Christ is the Light of the world. After that was the sermon and altar call.

After service, wennt for lunch with cell group members at Macau Express. Then, it was funtime at the Family Carnival at Hall 6.

Your Truly in my bumper car...

From Left: Yunfeng, Gisele, Penny and me!

Rae and Me!

Above pics thanks to Rae!

Death Note the Movie

2006-11-21T02:14:00.000Z

Recently Kurakat, Carcar and yours truly went to the new GV @ Vivo City to watch Death Note Movie. I must say, this is one of the best movies I've ever watched this year (Partly because I didn't watch too many movies this year... Hahaha...) Anyway, I am looking forward to Part 2 of this movie and had pre-arranged with the rest to go and watch once its out. Below are the pics..

Me and Carcar enjoying our "Starbucks" coffee...

Hmmm... Sedup! Heeheehee...

Our Cute Kurakat...

Nice....

Thanks to Carcar for all the pics above! :)

Death Note Part 1 Wallpaper

Death Note Part 2 Wallpaper

Death Note Wallpapers taken from Death Note Official Website

Thanks to Carcar and Kurakat for a wonderful time that day!!!

Best taxi ride ever!!!

2006-10-25T20:57:00.000Z

Why do I say that I have the best taxi ride ever? Ever sat in a 7-seater cab, with a quiet engine, with funny cartoon DVDs and a price so low that you will smile from ear to ear? I had such an experience on Sunday. Here's what happened....

As you know, I have MTT on Sundays. Normally, after MTT, I'll stay for dinner with my Strikeforce members and fellowship with them. After that we would go our separate ways. After our usual dinner fellowship at Parkway Parade last week, westeners, specifically me, Luke, Karen, Sara, Alan and Bryan, shared a comfortable 7-seater to Jurong East with the price of $3.85 per person. As I am not a car person, more info about the cab can be read in t-e-i's Blog . This is the most interesting ride ever, with the five of us (except Luke as he was sitting in the front seat) laughing our heads off while watching the Tom & Jerry DVD from the beginning of the ride all the way to our destination.

This is the best, most fun fellowship I ever had with my Strikeforce members. Luke Rox!!!

Long time no blog...

2006-10-14T11:55:00.000Z

Blogging, blogging, blogging... Missed blogging for a long time....

Recently I was busy with lots of stuff: work, CG, choirs, etc. Here are some of the stuff I was busy with:

Fahrenheit aka 飛輪海

Seen this scene before? Yes, they are Fahrenheit aka 飛輪海. This new boyband consists of 4 guys, namely Aaron Yan, Calvin Chen, Jiro Wang and Wu Chun. Their debut album, their self titled album, is out in the stores now. Have heard it and like some of the songs like I Have My Young, Summer Snow and Only Have Feelings For You (featuring Hebe from S.H.E). Fans of 飛輪海 Fans can check out this group: http://groups.msn.com/FirstClassFahrenheit .

Cell Group Guitarist

Recently, there was a calling for me to use my talent given by God to serve Him in CG, as a guitarist. This is one of the rare times whereby a sister gets to be the guitarist for CG. God has blessed me with this opportunity to serve Him other than in Choir and Strikeforce. This is really the favour of God that I have the opportunity to serve Him in this area. Thank You Jesus!

Aury VI and MPC Concert

MPYC had our annual Aury VI concert on 9th Sept 2006. It was a successful concert despite the fact that some of us (including our beloved conductor, Eng Kee) were not feeling well, I felt that we did well and received positive responses from the audience. Next up is the MPC Concert, which will be held on 26 Nov 2006 at Victoria Concert Hall. MPYC will be singing three songs from our Aury VI concert and will colaborate with MPC for another three songs. Do contact me for details...

That's all folks!

Aurythmics VI & Project Superstar

2006-09-08T01:25:00.000Z

Getting nearer and nearer to MPYC's annual concert, Aurythmics VI... 9th Sept 2006... Can't wait for it... So excited as this concert will be a concert to be remembered for a long, long time. This will be the first time in history that Eng Kee will be showcasing his voice for the first time in a MPYC concert. It's going to be a great concert, with special guest choir, Metro Philharmonic Chorus (MPC). Just imagine, two Gold Award choirs performing on the same stage! Its a concert not to be missed!!!

Another thing which happens on the same day as Aury VI: Project Superstar audition: Female Category. I've registered online and printed out the Registration Form and the Confirmation Letter that comes along with it. I'll be going down quite early in the morning to queue. Wonder how long it will take...

I heard that we'll have to prepare two songs, sing only the chorus part. The focus will be on vocals. Thank God! If that's the case I think I have no problem already as I "You Train guo de"... Heeheehee...

I just realised that a few of my friends are going for the audition too! All the best to myself, Huiling and Jieying!

Its going to be a busy Saturday for me, rushing here and there.. God, give me the strength to go thru this!!!

Singapore International Chinese Choral Festival

2006-08-19T17:14:00.000Z

19th Aug 2006. It has to be a day that I will never, ever forget. Because this is the day whereby MPYC joined a choral competition as a group (other than the Sing Singapore competition in 2002 as "Dvox" and getting 1st runner-up in the Groups Category). This event was participated by choirs from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan and China. It was separated into to segments: Performance and Competition. 20 choirs from the above mentioned regions joined the Competition, which was held on 18th and 19th Aug 2006. MPYC's timeslot is on 19th Aug, 3pm. We are the fourth group to compete.

In preparation for this debut competition, we put in all our effort into this, going for extra practices, doing our homework and really, really memorising the competition pieces, fine-tuning them, while also preparing for our annual concert, Aurythmics VI, to be held on 9th Sept at The Arts House.

The big day came. We met up at 11.30am at Ocean Butterflies Music School (Shize's workplace) and got into Dance Studio B to rehearse, make up, prepare our hearts, mind and body for the competition. We did some physical exercises, warm-ups and started practising and further fine-tuning the songs as much as possible. After that we went for lunch and proceeded to change and prepare for our big show.

At 3pm, we proceeded to Singapore Conference Hall (SCH), where the event is being held. We went into a waiting room where we saw lots of other choirs waiting for their turn. As this might make us nervous, we decided to go out for some fresh air and to calm our emotions down.

Soon, it was our turn. We were much more relaxed by then and proceeded to backstage to prepare to go in and perform our best. Before that, we had our traditional pre-performance encourgement of putting our hands together and going "MPYC, Jia you! Woosh!". We went in and sang our competition pieces and went out feeling happy that we'll done our best. then we had again our traditional post-performance encouragement of putting our hands together and going "We did it! Great job MPYC! Woosh!" This indeed has made us more confident about ourselves and our singing. After that we went to watch other choirs before us perform and went for dinner at a Korean restaurant. There, we decided to got back to SCH to watch and await the results after the meal.

We went back and watched the final round of competition before the finals. The results came at about 10.45pm. I am very proud to say that MPYC got our very first GOLD MEDAL! MPC (Metro Philharmonic Chrous) also got Gold Medal! The difference was that we did not get into the finals but they got in. We encouraged them and cheered them on for the finals on 20th Aug.

As the award presentation is on 20th Aug, Shuhui, our Chairwoman, will be there to accept the medal on our behalf. Congrats to MPYC and MPC!!! 2 award-winning choirs under the same umbrella! Jia You!

Aurythmics VI and MPYC Recruitment Drive!

2006-07-30T02:26:00.000Z

The time has finally come for MPYC's Annual Concert! As the poster has indicated, its about Love, Marriage and Lost Love. For the first half of the concert, our powerful Conductor-cum-Tenor, Eng Kee, will be singing a solo piece with piano accompaniment. As for the second half, we'll be singing songs of various languages, (including English and Chinese ones of course!)

Venue will be at The Arts House, Chamber (just behind the Victoria Concert Hall [VCH]). Tickets are selling at $20 (subject to a $1 ticket charge)

Tickets available at: The Arts House Box office, 1 Old Parliament Lane Singapore 179429. The Arts House Ticket Hotline: (+65) 6332 6919. The Arts House Ticketing Website: http://theartshouse.com.sg/tickets.html . Interested parties pls call the number or can contact me at 92377939 or via email at mpychoir@yahoo.com . Hope to see music lovers and lovebirds there at the concert!

In addition, MPYC is currently recruiting choral singers, preferably tenors and bases with choir singing experience, between the age of 16 and 35, to join us in 2006 Singapore International Chinese Choral Festival in August 2006 and our annual concert, Aurythmics VI .

Our practice is held on every Saturday, 3pm till 6pm. Venue is at 9C Sam Leong Mansion, Sam Leong Road.

Interested parties are welcomed to contact our conductor, Mr Ng Eng Kee, at 9650-1578(HP) or email to mpychoir@yahoo.com to arrange for an audition. Hope to see more people joining this happy family with a love for choral singing! To explore more about us, click on to http://mpychoir.musicsg.com .

Superband events and Grand Finals

2006-07-27T06:02:00.000Z

Time sure flies.... Its Superband Finals at the Max Pavillion next Saturday! Great bands like my fav band, Lucify (above), Soul, J3 and Mi Lu Bing will be competing for the Superband title. I hope Lucify will win!

This is the procedure: all four bands will perform 2 songs. Then two bands will eliminated, the remaining two bands will perform another 2 songs and that will determine the winner. Its 100% voting by audience so I must vote for Lucify for them to win!!!

The four final bands will be at IMM this coming Sat for a meet-and-greet session with the fans. After that will be the recording for Superband Preview II at Mediacorp. Its a reunion with the top 14 bands, so I'll get to see bands like Jade, Juz-B, Qi:noBi and Jing Bao Yue Tuan again! Can't wait!!!

My Makeover Pic & Chen Yi

2006-07-12T22:25:00.000Z

This is one of my makeover pics taken about 3 months ago. This is my utmost fav one cause I really like the background, my smile and the pic as a whole... Its one of my best makeover pics ever taken... I really wanna thank the make up artist cum hair stylist for doing this for me. Oh, and the interesting photographer who took the pics for me and Yunling. This is the first time I feel i look really good.

This is the heartwarming pic of the new singer Chen Yi and his mother. He comes from a single-parent family and his relationship with his mum has always been great (As told by him.) Recently he came to Singapore to promote his debut album Jing Ling. My fav song in the album is An Lian Wo (Falling secretly in love with me). It is a fast and catchy song with very interesting lyrics. Highly recommended (by me!) to support his album with his band, Jing Ling Yue Tuan. Its worth the money you spend, trust me!

This is Jing Ling Yue Tuan. Cute right??

Monday Blues

2006-07-03T21:58:00.000Z

This is really Monday Blues for me.

When I woke up in the morning, my backache comes back. I was literally walking like an ah mah, slowly, slightly bend and rushing for time as I was almost late for work.

In the office, I wasn't spared of the work of carrying heavy and bulky stuff. This had resulted in the backache coming back after letting me off for a few months. Till now, I still feel the pain when I bend down.

Another thing is my family. My brother, to be specific. He came in to talk to me today, which is very rare, he will only talk to me when he need something form me. Just as I had expected, he wanted financial help but i can't as I am having financial difficulty myself as my salary is still not into my account. Then he asked me abt my salary and my monthly expenditure and was shocked at that way I spend for last month. There and then, he used strong words that hurt my heart and almost made me want to leave this house for good. Practically ALL the words he said had no good things about me, only super bad things, and things that really broke my heart when it comes directly out of his mouth. His words really crushed my world now. That's the reason why the Bible said that the tongue is the most powerful tool a man can have. It will either bring you up to heaven or tear you down right into hell. His words really makes me wanna shut myself up to everything in this world, especially to him. I realised that since my secondary school days, his words to me are nothing good and everything bad. Seems like in his eyes, I am the bad sister, unteachable, anything and everything negative that you can think of. This is enough for just one day to make me so down.

I pray, pray, pray........ Prayer, pray, pray...

Strikeforce, Trip to Taiwan and Superband

2006-06-26T01:05:00.000Z

Hmmm.... Why so many stuff? Cuz I am currently in two ministries - Choir and Strikeforce.

Strikeforce is actually a drums ministry that specialise in playing drums and percussion instruments. This links to my upcoming trip to Taiwan with Strikeforce. This was how the story goes...

One fine day, while I was working, I received an SMS from Sister Jennifer (my Strikeforce head), saying, "Hi! Are you interested to go Taiwan for Emerge Conference?". I immediately replied, "Yes!". Then she replied, saying, "ok, will update you again".

Boy, was I excited! Then after MTT just now, Bro Boon asked the team to gather and gave a briefing about the Taiwan trip. It was then I realised that I had to learn other drum sequences other than the one I am currently learning now (Its called The Alpha Sequence, consists of interesting drumming like Space Jam, Q&A 1 & 2, Taiwan Storm, Wawanko and Half-Time Funky, just to name a few that I've learnt). Now I an looking for members who wrote scores based on what they have heard and practice so that I can practice on my own on my free time.... Time is running out for me.... Its confirmed, we are having gigs and performances in Taiwan.

Next, Superband. I realised that I was being captured again on TV. Even my Strikeforce friends knew! I was like, going, " -,- "... This is not good for my "reputation"... Haiz...

Anyway, I enjoyed Lucify's and Soul's performances. They are good! On quarterfinals 9 Lucify got the highest marks - 38 points! A straight 9.5 points from each of the judges! I was so happy that they did so well. Here are the pics I took with them...
Phoebe, Misaki and Me (very blur)

Me with Kuek, but very dark...

Me and the super cool Misaki

Me and the act-cool Vics

This is a nice pic... All smiling....

Remember him? He is Xiaolong from Jade.

Me and Samuel Lau from QinoBi

Seeing myself on TV...

2006-05-28T23:45:00.000Z

(Misaki Pic taken from Lucify YG FC , The rest Thanks to Phoebe!)

Urgh!!! Recently I was told by some of my Cell Group members that they saw me on TV, chanting, "Lucify, Lucify, Lucify"... I was like, "Huh? I was on TV???" I was not able to watch on Monday due to my final orchestral-choir practice that day till 9plus at RJC... It was when I watched the repeat telecast on Saturday then I realised that I was being shot! And its like it was so up close... I didn't even notice that day!

On Sat, When I got to Singapore Expo for choir practice, at least 10 of them told me that they saw me on TV! I was like, "Ahhh!!! My 'reputation' is sweeping the floor liao!!!"

Today, more people from choir who helped out for my team told me that I was spotted on TV... I thought to myself, "Since when I am so famous among my friends?" But felt nothing much about it. I really hope it'll stop when I get back to work on Monday... If not I'll get my Monday Blues...

Superband Revival Round

2006-05-22T05:30:00.000Z

Jade. My fav is Bryan, the keyboardist (Extreme right)

This is guitarist Kelvin from Lucify

This is my fav member of Lucify, Drummer, Vics

This is the ever cool Lead Singer of Lucify, Shinya

This is the cute guitarist from Lucify, Misaki

This is my another fav guy in Lucify, Bassist, Kuek

That's right, I was at the Revival Round recording last night. And I finally got to take photos with each individual member of Lucify and Bryan from Jade! Actually I took photos with them the week before but the pics are in Phoebe's camera and she haven't emailed them to me yet (My HP dieded on me that day.)

The Revival Round was the episode that I was looking for, especially when my 2nd and 3rd fav bands, Lucify and Jade respectively, were eliminated the previous week and some weeks ago.

The whole place was so high that during the last performance, which was Lucify, practically all the fans of various superbands jumped and sang to the music, which was an Energy song. I almost lost my voice that night but thank God it came back this morning so that I was able to sing in my church service @ 9am.

As my drumsticks are so bad that the tips have became sharp, I asked Vics for suggestions for a pair of good drumsticks. I showed him my super badly damaged drumsticks and he went, "Wah... It can't be used already, it'll tear the skin." When I told him that I was asked to hit on the road, he said that it was the very wrong way to drum. But no choice, I was asked to hit on the ground by my trainer... But for performances I'll use my good drumsticks, which definitely looks a lot better...

** All pics courtesy of Superband and FanG. Thank you!!! **

Fahrenheit and Tank

2006-05-17T00:40:00.000Z

I did mentioned that I want to comment on Fahrenheit's singing rite?

I've heard the soundtrack already, in which they sang 3 songs. Nice voices but still lots and lots of room for inprovement. There was a VCD which came with the CD. I watched it and they can be so crappy at times.... So like unfamous people like us...

There's another newbie who contributes 2 nice songs to the soundtrack, he is non other than Tank. He is a talented guy with a very smooth voice. Those two songs are also recorded in his debut album...

Superband, Easter Celebrations & Friendster

2006-05-16T23:45:00.000Z

Hmmm, lots of things happened these few days... First, I was being called up to help out in Easter Drama in April. I was to act as part of the crowd, to cry for Jesus. As I wasn't properly attired (the shoes I mean, I was wearing super shiny slippers instead of the normal sandals), I volunteered to help out for the two services on Sunday.

On Sunday morning, me and three other choir members took a cab down to Singapore Expo as we needed to report at 6am. When we reached there, we were asked to wait if there were extra or enough costumes to go around as there would be people not going to help out on that day due to their reasons. Thank God we had enough costumes to go round or else it would be a wasted trip for some of us (the help-outs are all choir members and some were not on duty nor attending services that day). We changed into our costumes and went for our final rehearsal before the first service began. At about 9am, some of the choir members, including myself, ran up to the choir platform for soundcheck in our drama costumes. The soundcheck took us about 35mins and we had to rush down to change our clothes before gathering at the space near Children's Church Room (You don't expect us to sing in our costumes, do you?).

The first service started at 10am. After Praise and Worship (P&W), we rushed into our locker to change into our costumes and ran to wait for our turn to act. Because of drama, I wasn't able to attend service. It was a good one nevertheless. Interested parties can go to http://www.chc.org.sg , click on "Video Sermons", then click on the various loadings beside "Why Didn't Jesus Save Himself?". You'll be able to watch the entire service. (I am one of the most prominent one; you'll be able to see me on stage for choir).

After the second service which started at 12.30pm, after returning my costume, I rushed to meet my members for a super late lunch, had fun catching up with them and went to People's Association (PA) for MTT, which started at 6pm to 8pm. As usual, BP sent me home (Thanks so much BP!!!)

The second thing that happened was last Sat. That was my first time going for the recording for Superband quarter finals. I saw my fave groups, Soul, Qi:NoBe and Lucify performing Energy's Come On, Six Plus's Part Time Study, Part Time Work and F.I.R's Ci Niao respectively. Their performances blew me and my friends away. I was standing at the front stage and I feelso "shiok". But when I watched the results show last night, I was shocked and sad that Lucify was out instead of Summer Breeze, who got the upmost lowest marks so far (19 out of 40 points). The whole audience was so astonished at such low marks given to them. Good thing the following week is the Fan Shen Sai (an episode for some of the bands who were disqualified before to regain their status in the competition.) Only one band will be chosen to regain their position in the main competition. I really hope Lucify will get in!!!

Recently, After I got my PC and internet access, I've been online a lot lately and had been logging on to my Friendster account, I've added all the members of Lucify (Vic, you have not added me in yet!!!), Jade and all five members of Soul (Thanks!!!). Oh, and not forgetting our Singapore Liu De Hua ( Samuel Lau from Qi:NoBe, the leader and only Chinese in the group.) There, I added lots of friends in as well, like Suqi (who helped us queue that day, arigato!!!) and her friend. I realised taht I have a lot of friends in my Friendster account... And that's a good thing...

Team B Outing

2006-05-03T12:35:00.000Z

Finally! My big day, or rather, our big day has come! 1st May 2006, Labour Day aka May Day. This was the day of my church choir Team B outing at Symphony Heights. Its also the day that the finals of the Showtime Talentime was to be held. Total there were 3 Soloists and 3 Groups. Soloists: Emily, Sofyan and Weiye. Groups: Dvox, which mean "The Voice" in Latin (Sorry Jieying (MPYC) that I "stole" the name! ;p heeheehee), JEW and LKJ

I am part of Dvox, an a cappella group that uses voices to showcase music. This pic was taken during the audition some weeks back. Dvox consists of (from left) Terence, Sofyan (he looks so much like Will Pan! But he is from Indonesia), Rouxin and me (there was another guy, Seng Chong, who wasn't able to attend the audition that day).That day I sang the soprano part as I had quite a serious sore throat. But on the actual day, I was the main lead.

On the finals, we were the first group to perform. The song we sang was Turn The Beat Around by Gloria Estefan. It was a very good song to showcase our vocals to the audience, we had parts (Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass parts, aka SATB) and beat-boxing with a soloist that made the whole song sound superb. Rehearsal was a good one, but on the actual performance itself, our performance was not that fantastic as the tempo was so fast that I was rapping instead of singing. I was very surprised that we were given standing appraisal. The comments by the judges were very good and we were relieved that our own performance is over.

The best part is, when the judges were making a decision in the other room, we were jamming in the room we were in. I played the accoustic guitar, Kelvin played the electric guitar and Joekim played the drums. We played and sang "Now That You're Near", just like what we normally do during church service. It was a very fun time jamming with people I've never jam with before (Normally I'll play the keyboard or sing).

Minutes later, the results were out. Winner for Solo Category, Sofyan! He deserved it was he has a fantastic voice and he didn't use a mike that day! For Groups Category, its Kelvin's group (LKJ). I wasn't surprised as I think they did well and deserved to win. After that, we had our finale item, a song called That's What Friend Are For. It was a very meaningful song about friendships.

After the whole thing, me, Weiye, Barnet, Suann, Ying Ying and Isaac went to West Mall Mac for dinner and fellowship. We had lots of fun chatting and our laughter filled the 2nd floor of the restaurant. At about 9plus, we separated and went our ways back home.

It was a day of fun, singing, laughter and jamming. These are fantastic memories and that's precisely why I penned it down and share with my friends...

New boyband/ Team B Showtime

2006-04-26T22:02:00.000Z

This is a brand new boyband from Taiwan. The name is called "Fahrenheit". in Mandarin its called "Fei Lun Hai". Fahrenheit consist of 4 super charming boys namely Yan Ya Lun Aaron, Wang Dong Cheng Jiro, Wu Zun and Cheng Yi Ru Calvin. They are currently acting in the brand new idol series called KO One (Zong Ji Yi Ban). So far I have not deard the soundtrack, which they sang some of the songs, but will buy the soundtrack and comment on their singing...

The above pic is taken with the class in the show. you might see familiar faces (if you are into Taiwan shows, varieties, etc.). The storyline is quite interesting and it reflects on various behaviours in schools in Taiwan. I am looking forward to the release of the VCD...

Anyway... 1st May... Labour Day.... Also my choir team's outing... Oh yah, the talentime competition. I am in the Group Category in the competition. (Originally also in the Solo Category, but ahd to withdraw due to my cough... Sorry Bro Bryan!) My group will be singing Turn the Beat Around by Gloria Estafen, a cappella style and I am the lead singer. I am still preparing for it and I almost memorised all the lyrics except for the 2nd verse (so much longer than the 1st verse!), but still can cope. There will be a last practice on Sunday, the day before our big day... Really hope that nothing will go wrong that day!!

Speaking of performances, my outside choir, MPYC, is collaborating with International Festival Chorus (IFC), City Choir and Raffles JC Chinese Orchestra for a concert on the 25th May (Thursday), 8pm at Victoria Concert Hall (VCH) Tickets are selling at $12, $15 and $20. Interested parties can call me at 92377939. I only have $12 tickets on hand right now, fyi. Do give your support, especially if you like classical/choral/orchestral music.

Superband

2006-04-21T01:12:00.000Z

Watched Superband on TV on Monday 7.30pm. Boy, Soul was good! So were Lucify, Jade, Juz-B and Qi:Nob (pronounced as Snoopy). Their performance really bowled me over, especially Juz-B. Their a cappella was so nice and so in tuned that even I was ashamed of myself for being so out of pitch sometimes.

During the results show, I was so nervous and afraid that Soul, Jade and Lucify would be out of the compatition, especially Soul. The elimination process was a scary one: choosing 7 out of 14 groups, 3 out of 7, 2 out of 4 and finally the one to be eliminated. This created tension among the contestants and the audience alike. Nevertheless, I was relieved that Soul, Jade, Lucify and Juz-B are still in the competition.

Had wanted to go for the recording on the 22nd Zpril, but couldn't due to my church choir's Team B outing. A telentime called "Showtime" was organiseed and there would be an audition for both the Solo and Group Category. Elimination would be for the soloists but not for the groups, thus I am quite nervous that I would not be in the finals as my voice is still not good.

Wish me luck...

Free but sick

2006-04-03T20:40:00.000Z

I'm so free here at work... Partially because my supervisor is on leave, that's why I am so free... Another thing is that I am down with flu, cough and sore throat. These are the standard illness I get after months and months of singing non-stop (everyday at least 1 hr, that is) and not taking care of my throat. Now I can't talk much due to my "sexy" voice, thanks to my tons and tons of vocal trainings, both individually and corporately as a choir (church and MPYC).

On Sunday, after sve, I decided not to serve for Chinese Church, like I usually do, and fellowship with my members. But before that, I had to meet my a cappella group to discuss about the talentime specially organised by Team B (Tks so much Jia Jia, Weixing, Bro Jeff and others!) Sofyan, the guy who initiated the formation of the group, met us up to have a chop chop 5-min practice. (He looks so much like Wilbur Pan Wei Bo!!!) Then I rushed to join my members for lunch.

We went to Bedok Interchange for lunch. After that, Me, Yingjie, George, Yunfeng and Jia Jia went to the cafe in MPH Bookstore Parkway Parade for a chat. On the way there, we laughed so loudly that I wondered whether we would create a mini fishmarket there. In the end, we tried to subside our laughter and succeed. If not we would be chased out of the quiet cafe. I have never fellowshipped with them for so long ever since I started serving in Chinese Church after service in Expo. Thank you guys and gal, for the wonderful and fun time together! ;)

Oh, btw, I went to the Project Superband BIG JAM on 25 March, Sat. The pic above is my fav group, SOUL. SOUL consists of 5 guys who are fantastic at dancing. They are: Awi (the only malay guy in the group), Alfred, Ishi, Andy and Justis. You might find Ishi very familiar: he was in the local drama, Rainbow Connection with one half of the group 2moro.

SOUL are great dancers and good singers. That day, they sang JJ's Number 89757. I think they did very well and brought the feel to the song. They had very good comments from the judges. The BIG JAM will air on 9th April, 7.30pm on Channel U. The results show will air on 10th April. Remember to catch me and SOUL on TV... ;P

Naughty naughty...

2006-03-04T01:12:00.000Z

I am at work now... very bored, nothing to do....

FYI, i am working in 25 Hours Watch Gallery as an Admin-cum-Accounts Assistant. It has been a great working place to be in.... Majority of my colleagues are Christians, are very nice people...

This is my 3rd week in this job, still on 3 months probation. So far it has been very good, I got to know the complicated structure of this company and now I pay more and more attention on watches. Now my colleagues are busy with stock taking stuff and here I am, nothing to do but blogging...

Bad, bad, bad...

New Beginning

2006-02-09T20:36:00.000Z

The New Year, a New Beginning for me. I was retrenched two days before Chinese New Year. At first I was quite down, but cheered up when I thought of it as a new beginning for me.

After the CNY celebrations, I set out looking for a new job. All thanks to the Classified Recruitment Ads the Church provided, I found quite a number of job openings for me. I went for 3 interviews on Tuesday and all had to wait for call. During the "waiting" time, I was either at home watching VCD or out with my friends for a meal or a chat.

When I was writing this blog entry... "wo xiang wo zhi dao, yan lei de wei dao... " My handphone rang. I picked it up. "Hi! Is This June?" "Yes, speaking" I replied. "Hi! This is Irene for 25 Hours. I am glad to inform you that you have been selected to be in our family. Monday will be your first day of work. come at 9am. we'll be waiting for you!" "Oh Thank you! See you on Monday!" I said.

Boy, was I excited! I can't wait.... to start work at a brand new place and in a brand new environment....

2006-01-20T08:03:00.000Z

Oh yah, almost forgot... My choir is recruiting members to join us for competition in Xiamen, China. Interested parties can call the number stated on this beautiful pic or email to the stated email. Even if we are not going for competition in China we just might go for competition in Malaysia... Above that, you'll also be involved in our annual series of concert, Aurythmics VI and other exciting activities. Aspiring singers, what are you waiting for? Call or email now!!

Tip: You should have a passion for singing and you should be able to read musical notes. For the latter, its ok if you can't read notes, you'll be taught by either sections leaders or other more mature members. Forget about the auditions dates stated on the flyer. The recruitment is still on!

So Lucky...

2006-01-19T01:35:00.000Z

Rriinngg... My HP rang. I picked it up to read. It says, "(IW) Contratulations! You have won a pair of preview tickets to watch Memoirs of a Geisha. Just show this SMS and your IC on 2molo 17/01(Tue) at Orchard Cineleisure in front of Hall 1 to collect the tickets and premiums". I was so excited! This is my first preview of a movie in 24 years of my life and its cast was a huge and one at that! Just I was thinking of whom should I ask to go with me, I thought of CM. without hesitation, I MSNed her and she agreed to my invitation. I was to meet her at Orchard Cineleisure at 6.30pm

Boy, was I late! I reached at about 6.45pm, met up with her and rushed to collect the tickets and premiums. The lady at the redemption counter was very nice and even told us that dinner was prepared for us. We were like "Wow! Thank you!" Then we went in.

In the cinema, when we were eating our bento (packet meal), CM told me that something happened to her family and I was like, "Oh no..." (sorry dear, I didn't know about it, but I hope you are ok now and hope that you enjoyed the show as much as I do! I sincerely hope that this trip will cheer you up a little at least...)

Anyway, the show lasted 2 hrs 15mins, but it was a good show. It reflects the true life of a geisha (Performer-cum-accompany in Japan).

After the show, both CM and I rushed to the washroom as most ladies do, and we parted and took our different buses home after that.

HP as calculator

2006-01-12T17:30:00.001Z

Riiinnngggg.... The office bell rang. Its time to go home! But not for me, I was to go for my third lesson of my CAT course. I rushed out and in my hassle I forgot to bring my pen and calculator to class! I went for dinner at BK, reached SAA, got into class, sat down and opened my bag, I realized that I forgot to bring all the necessary items, namely pen and calculator! Immediately, I asked my classmate for a pen and guess what? I used my HP as my calculator for the entire lesson! When I was doing calculation with my HP, the teacher thought that I was SMSing in his class, but the fact was that I was doing calculation. He was walking around when we were doing Trading, Profit & Loss for a question, he approached the place where I was sitting, with the intention of asking me not to SMS in class(or so I thought). Little did he realized that I was doing calculations using my HP! When he saw it he smiled and let me off. He couldn't stop smiling at me throughout the entire lesson. A few of my classmates were amused that he kept smiling at me throughout the entire lesson and asked me what had happened when we were walking to the MRT station. I told them that I used my HP to do calculations as I forgot to bring my calculator and pen to class. They were having a good laugh over my encounter till they reached their destination station. Remind me never to forget such important things again...

2006-01-06T17:25:00.000Z

Just wanna share with you my fantastic choir mates, MPYC and MPS (ladies in green top and guys in white top.) Did you see me? I am at the extreme left corner...

A good start to a brand new year

2006-01-05T18:02:00.000Z

December 31st... 10.. 9.. 8.. 7.. 6.. 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

This was the case when I was at the Esplanade with my Metro Philharmonic Youth Choir(MPYC) mates to countdown to 2006. It was full of people (as usual...) and we had to squeeze our way in and out of the place. It was extremely difficult to stick together as a group of 13. Good thing there is this thing called "handphone", so that we were able to contact the person who was missing from the group.

The crowd then proceeded to Padang, where we met the everloving couple, Shize and Xu Yi. That day, on the first day of the first month of the year 2006, we celebrated one of our faithful and commited our member, Shiwei's birthday! It was a birthday that he would remember as this was the first time that some of us celebrated his birthday for him in a such a place (The Subordinate Court) with so many people surrounding us. After that, I had to head home as I had to reach church by 9am that day as it was a Sunday.

I attended service on New Year's Day and went to fellowship with members after that. I was supposed to serve for Chinese Church service at Jurong West but had to turn it down as I would be having an interesting wedding function to attend at, guess where? SENTOSA!

It was a Holy Matrimony of my ex-member, Eugene, which was held at the beach near Shangri-La Hotel. This was the first time I attended a beach Holy Mat. When we were Singing praise and worship, the beach-goers around us were looking at us and watching us "perform". Halfway through, it started raining cats and dogs. Everyone rushed into the hotel lobby, some of us drenched from the crown of our head to the sole of our feet. Clothes were bought and changed before continuing with the ceremony in a small funcion room of the lounge. After that, it was buffet time! We had fun eating and fellowshipping as we had not been catching up with one another since we went our separate ways to other cell groups.

After that, Sandy, Mich(elle), Yingjie, Jasper, Michelle and myself took a shuttle bus to City Hall and went to Suntec City for a walk. Matthew joined us later. (He regretted not joining us in the shuttle bus as it was a last min thing that we decided to go for a short shopping spree.) There, we helped Yingjie to change his look (he wanted a new look for the new year.) Then, we went to Starbucks for coffee and a chat. There, we were giving suggestions on how to change his looks and suddenly Jasper got pulled into the picture. We suggested that Jasper should change to contact lenses as he had a nice pair of eyes or at least change his specs.

As for myself, my Certified Accountancy Technician (CAT) course finally started on 4th Jan at Singapore Accountancy Academy. Lessons would be on Wednesdays and Thursdays evenings, so for the next two and a half months pls don't disturb me ok... heeheehee... ;P

MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

2005-12-27T22:00:00.000Z

Yes! I had a very merry Christmas weekend in church this week. For the past two weeks some of us in choir (including myself, who were chosen by our I\Cs to be in this fun thingy) were practising for busking (singing Christmas carols) for the Christmas weekend. We had two sets of carols to memorise within 4 practices, which was quite a challenge to some of us who were not that musically inclined. We were told that a few of us would be singing for all 9 slots. And so we practised and practised and practised....

Saturday, 24th December came. Christmas EVE!!! We were very excited as well as nervous as we would be singing to HUGE crowds and did not know the exact locations of Expo that we would be singing... First, we sang at Attributes. That was a good try, but not a good place to carol as the members would be rushing in for the Christmas Service and not many people would stop to listen to us...

The second place was at Foyer 3, which is the area with the food and drink stalls. We were well received there, considering the fact that we sang a different set of songs for the first time for the second slot. The third slot was at Foyer 2, in the air con foyer. That was also quite well received but the sound was too echoy, so we were asked to sing at foyer 3 again for the last slot of the day.

Finally, CHRISTMAS IS HERE!!! On Sunday, we had to report at 8.30am at Expo. Me, for once, had to crucify my flesh to sleep longer and wake up to bathe, change, make up and prepare to go from Jurong all the way to Expo when I had only about 3 hours of sleep. For the first timeslot of the day, we sang at Foyer 3, but was stopped after singing 3 songs due to unforeseen circumstances. Since then, we had to act upon instructions after we gathered at the allocated times and place, which is in Hall 6, where the Christmas Carnival was. As there were changes to the timings, I was not able to sing for one of the new timeslots as I was attending service and had brought a new friend to join us. After service, I rushed to join the rest for the last second timeslot of the day. Before our performance, there was another ministry which is performing in the same hall. That ministry was.... (Drum roll....) Strikeforce! This ministry is the only one of its own kind and I am a pending member in it (Pastoral & CGL approval is needed before a member is officially in the ministry.) Anyway, we went to support and enjoyed the performances thoroughly.

The last timeslot was at 4pm, we gave our best shot and received fabulous feedback from choirs members who were amongst the crowd. After that one of my caroling mate and I went to play the rides. It was quite exciting but not much kick (for me...) I was thinking of going for the ride which spins while you are standing in a circle. When I saw the speed that it was spinning, I was like, "Wow! That thing sure spins very fast!" After the ride, I saw people coming down with jelly feet and I thought, "hmmm, I think I'll skip this one because its too scary..."

In the evening, I met my member, Carmen, for dinner at Outrum Park and went to have a walk round Chinatown. Then we went home, sleeping on the bus... Zzzzz

Fun + Tiring Weekend

2005-12-12T19:36:00.000Z

What a tiring but fun weekend I had! Especially on Sunday whereby I had to rush to at least 5 places in a single day...

Let's start with Friday evening. After work that day, I went for my outside choir chalet at Changi. Its a two-storey bungalow with 1 master bedroom downstairs and 2 bedrooms on the second floor. On the first night, only me, Xu Yi, Shize, Shiwei, Shijing, Jianhao, Shuhui and Kai Kun stayed over. Edwin, our ex-member, arrived at 1am and played with us. The rest arrived one by one the next day.

We didn't sleep a wink on the first night. All of us except Xu Yi were playing mahjong all night. [ Wait a second, you think playing mahjong must be played with chips or cash don't you? Well, in our case, we had two categories: with chips/cash or with our snacks food as chips (no money involved).]

After our overnight mahjong session, we went for breakfast at 7am. Shize treated us to the meal as he had won quite a sum of money during the mahjong session. After breakfast, we went to catch our beauty sleep for 4 hours. We woke up at 12.30pm and went for lunch.

Aftyer lunch, we rested for a while and some of them went back to play mahjong while the rest of us played games like improvised version of Ping Pong (no tables involved, we used the floor as tables), skipping and hula hoops.

In th evening, before the BBQ starts, we played the indoor version of Food Chain, translated as Shi Zi Lu Kou in Chinese. This means we do not need to look for the food and finish them but we just list out the food names on Chinese with the last word of the last dish and the first word of the next dish as the same word.

The next game was using straws and paper clips to build the tallest and firmest structure. this structure must be able to stand for at least 5 seconds. In the end, both teams lost as both could not stand firmly onto the table for 5 seconds. Then we went for the BBQ.

During the BBQ, we talked about everything under the sun (decent stuff of course!) like Harry Potter, Lord of The Rings, our choir practices, etc. We had lots of fun chatting and getting to know one another better. After that, we played Guess-Who-Am-I game whereby a person will try to imitate a person or and object and the rest gotta guess who opr what he or she is is trying to imitate. As Shize has a flair of acting and clowning around, he came up with most of the riddles and none of us could guess some of them as they were too 'chim'. After washing up, we went to sleep one by one.

The next day, which is Sunday, I woke up super early (much earlier than I usually do on a Sunday) and got ready to got church at Expo. After service, I and some other church choir members rushed to catch our shuttle bus back to Jurong premises for Chinese Church. After we sang for Chinese Church, we went for lunch.

After lunch, I went back home to put my heavy stuff and took a cab to Tiny Box Music School (opened by Li Fei Hui, one of the local xingyao singers ) it was a talent conpetition organized by NUS. There were various categories like Singing and Emcee, I joined the Solo Singing category. I was given quite positive comments from the judges but I don't think I am in. After taht, I went to People Association (PA) for my first Strikeforce practice. there was a welcome performance for us, the piece of music which they had played in Osaka earlier this year. Then Bro Tan Boon gave us an intro of the ministry and laid down some expectations for the members. This practice was a 'trial' for us new members as the official entry had to be approved by Pastor and cell group leader.

At 8.30pm we were released and we went home. On the way home, I saw one of my ex-cell group members, Zhiwen and I realised taht he joined Strikeforce too. WE chatted till i had to alight from the train as my parents were at Outram Park MRT station to send me back home.

When I reached home, I immediately went to dreamland after I showered...

Moving House & House Warming

2005-12-05T22:05:00.000Z

This morning my Operations Manager came in with a piece of paper in his hand. He gathered the people and announced that there would be a little "house moving" and "house warming" for majority of us. In the end, all of us except me and the people in the Marketing Department had to move from our current table to another table for "feng shui" sake : courtesy of my Managing Director. (Personally I don't believe in this as I am a Christian, but because he do, we'll have to follow his instructions.) As there are less than 10 people (excluding the Marketing Dept) in the office, we'll have to shift the currently unused computers onto the floor. The best part is, my supervisor used thinner to clean her table, which is causing protests among the office people due to the pungent smell.

Everybody whose place had been changed decided to do the shifting today, including my Operations Manager. Their thinking was "get it done and over with", so they are shifting to their "new" tables now...

Too Free...

2005-11-30T22:30:00.000Z

So bored, I have nothing to do now at work... Now my colleague is closing accounts. One of my colleagues who is in charge to Costing is on a one-week MC due to his swollen leg, so gotta wait for him to come back to close the Stock part the following week....

Had a very hectic week, I was out till late practically every night, including Sat and Sundays. You can say all my weekends are burnt. But then again, I have my weekends burnt for the past 10 years, so why am I complaining? Makes no sense....

Tired, tired, tired

2005-11-23T17:35:00.000Z

I am very tired after serving for BS last night. I was sitting on stage and this made my bottom very painful. During the break, when I stood up, my legs was cramped from my thighs to the sole of my feet, it was very, very painful... Ouch!

Nevertheless, we had a fantastic meeting but it ended at about 11.45pm, which was really very late as some of us live in the East or the North, so its very far from church, but thank God that there are shuttle buses to the various MRT stations in town. Although I live in Jurong, sometimes I'll also need to take a cab home as there were no more Bus No.99 buses going around the area...

After the meeting, some of my choir friends were looking for their Bibles and notebooks as they had returned late and were not able to go back on stage. But their Bibles and notebooks couldn't be seen anywhere. I suggested that someone might have taken it to the soundcrew staricase where our choir locker is. Hmmm, I wonder if they have found their precious Bibles yet?

Anyway, I am going to have a good rest after work today. My schedules have been very packed for the past year and I practically have no time to have a fruitful rest, So dun't disturb me for today ok... heeheehee... ;P

Wide Awake

2005-11-22T17:10:00.000Z

Yes, This is what I am feeling now, very, very wide awake, despite having slept late last night due to Business Presentation (BP) by this interesting company by the name of Omegatrend. It was quite interesting as this is considered as Network Marketing, but it doesn't require you to sell products and services, but their business concept. Interesting right? I told my mum about it but she dismissed it off as thay are cheating us youth of our money and time, whereby I don't really think so. Last night I saw mothers and fathers of my mum's age attending the BP and they had achieved relatively good results. I guess it really depends on your mindset about this business, it is what you think it is.

PTL! Finally I can serve the Lord in choir today for Churchwide Bible Study! I have not been serving for the past three weeks as they have enough people to sing. I am really looking forward to tonight's BS and I know its going to be very interesting and good as well....

Hmmm... I have nothing to do now, but later in the afternooon I'll be rushing work like a madwoman....

A New Beginning

2005-11-21T18:43:00.000Z

This is something very new for me! This is my first blog in my entire life!! I am so excited! But due to certain reasons, I can't post everyday was I don't have a computer at home and can only post in my office comp... ;P So sad... *sob sob*

Anyway, This morning I was accused by my operations manager that I did not do the export documents in time for the shipment from M'sia to UK. I don't even have the documents from M'sia side how am I going to do it?!

New I am super free cuz my ops manager is outstation!!! I am so happy!!! :D