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Filming and Events

2010-10-05T03:16:00.005+08:00

Yeah, busy but fun week. I seriously have STM. I can't remember what I did earlier last week. I only know I went for filming. This time I'm a bad guy from bangkok. I get to shoot a real gun with fake bullets though. Ohh~ It was a fun shot, except for the scorching hot sun. I think its gonna be the coolest gun fight scene in the whole history of MediaCorp dramas. Haha.

最后的战役 Jay Chou song? Lol. I tot since I had a fake tanned makeup for it and wore this kinda clothes ppl won't even think I look like him. But I guess I can never shake off the resemblance eh? Haha.

I like this pic alot. While they are shooting other scenes. I'm busy cam whoring with the help of the makeup artist Vincent. Haha.

Think its gonna be a 9pm slot drama series. Forgot the title of the show.

Went for Kenneth's birthday at Butterfactory. First time being STOMPed. Lol. Not really STOMPed. But did appear in their stomp clubbing pics.

With some of the guys.

5 10 anyone?

Bernard, gonna be my photog for my album cover shots.

I could only hold 4 bottles. Gross eh?

But this is more gross! Lol. Our lips didn't touch. Took lots of shots for it. Cos we kept laughing. HAhahaha!

Sunday afternoon. Woke up, hurry myself down to Dragonfly for Radio 1003 Birthday Party. Thanks for the VIP seat DJ Kemin!~

The fans from the VIP area.

Kemin performing!

Radio 1003 生日快乐!~

Kemin and Me

Went for some small drinking with Ivan and Ah Shun. Mr Shun caught me this soft toy. First time in my life someone caught me a soft toy. Lol.

I'm really really gonna focus on my music this time!! Lol. I know I keep delaying it. But there are always events coming up. I'm gonna push them all aside now.. Record my songs, train up my body to take a really nice artistic sexy pic for my album cover. Anticipate it? Haha. God Bless!~ =]

Going into recording soon!

2010-09-23T20:54:00.005+08:00

I love this song alot. I simply love the lyrics to it too.

Yeah! Finally I will be going to record my songs soon. 1 at a time. Been busy with my performance stuff as usual. And of course hanging out with friends. I'm enjoying this moment. Taking it slow. With my music. Cause I have always not been so confident of my songwriting capabilities. It's always been a "is it good enough for an album?" kinda thing for me. But finally I'm taking the step to recording it proper in studio. I wana film up and MV for it too. Have got a good video editor for it. Really thank God for putting in a team for me without me having to do much.

Yesterday was performing at Queenstown area. The Mp for tanjong pagar was there.

The sound system was one of the worse. But thank God I managed to deliver a good performance. =]
Thanks everyone for the drinks made for me to recover from my bad cough. From the bitter tea, herbal medicine to almond drink. Haha.
Oh, and Jerry who is a "fan" of mine. Says he wana give me a free trip to Hongkong. Oct? Lol. Of course shopping expenses will be paid by myself.

Anyway, wait patiently for my songs and MV alright? Thanks for those who really support and believe in me all this while. Appreciate and love you guys lots!
God Bless! Peace out!~ =]

Done with the concert!~

2010-09-07T08:51:00.012+08:00

One of Jay's song from his 1st album! 10 yrs ago!~ =]

Yeah, finally!~ Done with the SG concert and Muar concert. Damn I do miss doing it already. This are some pics taken backstage for the SG concert. 1st day was so pack with audience some had to stand at the side of the auditorium while some were rejected entry. 1100 tix all sold out within days of sales. Praise the Lord!~

Jerry and Kemin

Kemin and me

Your 100.3FM DJ with a very sweet voice, Kemin

Me on the grand piano. Haha.

Still slacking backstage.

Lead guitarist, Andrew

菊花台 with dancers. Decided to drop the king's robe as I find I might blend too much with the dancers. Nice dancers I have!~ =]

Caught playing FB or Sms-ing.. Haha.

Stupid pose for the camera, but apparently quite a few ppl like it. Haha.

Muar concert!~ It was fun la!! But the downside. The driver lost his way on our journey there.. Imagine a 2 1/2hours trip was extended to 6hours road trip!! Lol. Anyway, Muar, this place. I used to go there very often when I was a little kid. My father is from Muar, so he would always bring us there to visit my grandma. And Namewee aka the Msian rapper who is made famous on youtube. He is my next door neighbour... Small world eh? We used to do all sorts of silly things young boys would do. But I saw him recently, he didn't seem to remember me when we looked at each other. Neither do I recognise him, he put on weight and definitely looks older, I won't have known its him if my brother hadn't told me.

Anyway, Muar trip.. If I didn't have to endure the long butt aching road trip plus sometimes super horrible small streets with absolutely no street lights, speeding at 100Kmh, it would have been a great trip. Lol. I reached the concert venue at 9.10pm.. The concert was ongoing for your info.. They managed to drag the show by abit, I tried to calm my nerves and loosen my body from the 6hours of stiff ride. Went up on stage and performed.. It was a pretty good performance.. I nearly forgot some parts of the lyrics as my brain was tired out from the journey. But I guess I handled the situation pretty professionally.

The venue was bigger than I had expected. Total of 152 banquet tables.. Wow!~ Nice, I love performing to big crowds. =]

Autograph signing in the dressing room.

Autograph signing.

Take pictures with kids must act cute ma. If not how to match them!! Haha.

Kemin couldn't resist taking the pic with the little gal too. So cute! Lol.

Wah kaoz!~ Stayed at hotel, couldn't sleep!! Nightmare!! Whole night surfing on my keyboardist's laptop..

I just felt like taking the pic of this dog. Didn't even bother about me when I went so close to take it's pic. Superstar sia!! Must be common for it. Lol.

The Muar host really treated us so well. Every meal was awesome and filling.. Filling is actually an understatement.. Lol. They fed us like pigs! Haaha, so generous and humble they were. Breakfast was heavy, lunch and dinner is usually a 9 course meal. Love them to bits!! Thank God for such loving and warm hospitality. =]

Finally, all concerts are done. I'm missing the team already. I already know where I wanna record my songs. Now I'm back to focusing on finishing up my songs. Done with the melody and music arrangement. Now to focus on the lyrics and I'll be done!~ Anticipating my works? =] Hope you are. Thanks for all the new fans!! Love you guys, new or old! God Bless!~

PS: Please join my new fanpage, especially those 1800 people who are still in my old fanpage. Haha. Thanks. MY NEW FACEBOOK FANPAGE!.

Filming, practise, rehearsals, CONCERT!

2010-08-24T00:06:00.006+08:00

One of the most beautiful thing is to love again. Don't be afraid to love again no matter how much you were hurt. =]

Wah, packed week. So many stuff to do lately. Finished performing for KSS Finals. It was fun. Did an impromptu 3rd song cause requested for. And I just found out my Aljunied MP added me in FB. Haha, how cool is that? I wonder what's more cool, MP adding u in FB or MP regularly updates her FB. But I think it's a good thing. Socialising with the community eh? =]

Meeting up with friends. Performances, practise, rehearsal, upcoming concert for this saturday! Have yet to try out my costume. Hope it fits nicely... Last minute filming for Ch 8 again. Been so long since the last time I accepted it. Cause I find it's time consuming, the pay isn't good. I did it basically for the fun and experience. Acting as a bad guy again. Haha.

Have yet to memorise my Ju Hua Tai lyrics.. 1000 tickets sold out just days after it went on sale. Praise the Lord! =] So many things to do, I'm just going to enjoy myself and slowly prepare for my EP after all this hectic stuff.

Gotta wake up at 5.30am later.. Why such an early shoot?? OMG! Never had them so early before.. 5 hours of sleep.. I'm a pig..

Oh yeah. I'm watching this K drama called I am Sam! It's a pretty old drama. But a friend recommended it. I think if you like Hai Pai Tian Xin, you might just like this too. The main actress kinda remind me of someone though. Hmm.. Enjoy~ =]

Performance for Kovan Superstar Finals 2010

2010-08-18T21:22:00.003+08:00

I wanna watch this show man! Very nice music. Lee Hom is finally back to doing proper music. Haha.

Busy with all the performance stuff and rehearsals.. Went for practise with Sheryl at Music Clinic as I'll be doing a duet with her for KSS Finals. Decided on 屋頂 as its a very easy KTV song. Haha. Finished at 7pm... Decided to look for Ivan at his workplace. Met some of our sec sch friends there. Had some catchup sessions in the Adidas shop. Lol. Wanted to watch a movie alone. Always wanted to do it. But always back out. Now that I'm finally gonna do it. No time slot for me.. Had dinner with Ivan and went wondering around and do some window shopping.. Ended up buying a keyboard.. Haha, I decided to pick up this skill as it will be much much easier for me to write songs in the future. Having a break now. Fingers getting sore with all the practise.. Didn't even have time to practise for this Saturday's performance.

Oh yeah, this Saturday performing for Kovan Superstar Finals at Kovan Mall. The other song I'll be singing is 说了再见.. Just gotta remember the lyrics. Easy!~ =]

Next week is another performance. Then the week after will be the Malaysia Trip. Never tour a foreign country to perform before. Haha. New experience.

I'm 72 yrs old..

2010-08-06T18:35:00.004+08:00

Yeah~ 好久不见 I love the sweet MV and the nice soothing melody.

Click it while you read. =]

Ar! Been 1 month since I last updated my blog?! Lol. Been super lazy.. Yeah, I'm 72 yrs old.. Since I'm born in the yr 1938.. Ah, my fav number 72. Anyway, been busy with some stuff. Prepared for a lousy competition. Don't really wanna talk about it anymore. Lol.

More important stuff is, I'm preparing for a Christian event. Well, it's some performance held in Singapore, Muar and KL. Ohh~ It's been centuries since I last went up to KL. I'll be singing some Jay Chou's songs. 菊花台 and 说好的幸福呢. And some Christian songs. For 菊花台, I get to wear a custom made Emperor robe. Had some rehearsals with my live band. Shiok. Nothing beats singing with a live band.

We get to jam in a warehouse! It's much bigger than this picture. Aircon, huge space, comfortable chairs. Everything you need, for free! Wahaha, the power of God.

Yeah, I actually went for rehearsal on my birthday. Lol. Luckily managed to run off on time to meet up with Ivan and friends. Just a simple dinner with close friends. =]
Guess I'm really over the age of partying in nightspots to celebrate birthdays.. I got an old soul I guess.

I guess this Christian event will be held till Sep, then I'll most probably do a duet with 100.3FM DJ Kemin. And after that, I'll focus back on my album.

Yeah yeah, I know.. I have been dragging the album for like really long. But, I'm always seeking perfection in my work.. It seems like they are never good enough for me. Maybe I asked too much from myself.. Music is suppose to be enjoying, not a torture. I wonder why I keep torturing myself with it.. >.<"

My Best Man, Ivan's Birthday~

2010-07-10T01:46:00.010+08:00

Hi there,

Thanks for dropping by this blog that has no name. Haha. Few days back I went for a minor lip surgery. Ahh~~ It was a new experience for me. They cut up my lips and sew it back. >.<" Nothing serious though. I even went to Yishun with Joe to catch "Karate Kid" after that. Haha. My lower lip was so swollen that I had to buy a mask to cover my face. Eating stuff was difficult cause of the bad swell.

Anyway, this few days besides hanging out with the usual suspects, I'm just at home preparing my songs list. Made up a new list for 星光 competition. The songs to sing during the SG audition and hopefully songs to sing during Taiwan competition. >.<" Please God help me!! I wanna win it so badly. =[

Jogging late at night, play badminton with Sal and Cat at midnight? Lol. It was fun, went to Sal's house after that to slack and watch movies. Stayed till 10am! Lol. And rushed to Tampines Mall to get something my sis wanted so badly. She was in Genting and asked me to go Tampines Mall to queue up for this..
ISHI KOIBITO

Yeah. This is the big deal that she is willing to sacrifice her lil bro for. Reached there at 11am. And they are about to be sold out!! Seriously?!?

The sales is so so good... Cat went with me. She kept saying yeah, its really good.. So in the end, she herself was tempted to buy a small box. Mine's considered the big one. It cost $27.80 for a box of this.

There are like 6 slots and in each slots there are only 3. So total is 18 small pieces of cookies. But I tasted it. It's really good. Bought 3 boxes of that. 2 for sis. 1 for me.

The days passes by, I don't really recall much what happens on days. Lol.

But I recall yesterday clearly! Ivan's Pre Birthday Celebration!

Wah, this one costs me a bomb. Didn't wanna buy him a present, so decided to treat everyone everything for yesterday's outing.

Ivan was suppose to meet a friend before meeting us. So Joe came to fetch Sal, Cat and me to JB for our Ba Kut Teh lunch~ Shiok la! Even with this bloody lip issue. I still enjoyed the meal. Lol. Going into JB so often. My passport is really getting way too many chops. Whether with Sal, Cat n Ivan along or just me and Joe. I'm getting tired of filling up the white card form too. Haha.

I love the fish more than the Ba Kut Teh. Lol. I think most of us too. =]

Then Ivan came in JB by himself to meet us at City Square. Went to buy movie tickets. And since we had 1 hour time in between. Went to play in their rundown arcade. Haha.
I just hate it that they can smoke in aircon rooms. Been so long since I smell smoke in aircon places. Lol.

I so wanna watch this movie next. Anyway, we watched Predator. Not big a movie, but could have been better for me. I prefer Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Msia's popcorn is super sweet la! Lol, so sweet that I think I might contract diabetes after eating them. Their drink bottles for combo have this twilight collectible bottles. Sal had 1, so I gave mine to Cat.

Went to Taman Sentosa area for dinner. Another big meal, we weren't really hungry, but still order alot. Haha, bad habit. But managed to finish it all. Didn't take pic, as I remember we forgot to buy birthday cake. Rushed off to buy the cake with Joe. Came back just in time for dinner.

Went to KTV after that. Took a big room. Too big for 5 people actually. Lucky 1 car can only fit in 5 people. Otherwise I think I would have spent more. >.<"

Celebrating birthday with friends overseas. Must be a first for you right? Haha, got champagne somemore.

Looking at Ivan smile always makes me laugh. Lol.

Haha. >.<"

What can I say? Lol.

Alright smiling with Joe seems much better eh? Lol.

Birthday boy with birthday cake. It was pretty tasty, couldn't find a smaller one for 5 people.
Casper the friendly ghost took the picture for us. Thats why he is friendly ghost ma~ Ok, cold joke. *Shudders*

Tiramisu~

Champagne for us.

Wah, sang till 4am! Went back to SG tired! Especially when I only slept for 2 hours the previous day. >.<"
Sent Ivan home. Sal invited Cat and me to her house again. But I got so tired that while she was setting up to watch movie, I fell asleep..

The gals carried on watching while I slept. I woke up at 11am, found them sleeping. Woke Cat up easily, cause actually she can't sleep over. And its odd for me to sleep alone with Sal? I'm a decent guy ma~ Sent Cat home and went home to sleep again..

Spent quite an amount yesterday. But it was worth it. Putting a smile on my buddy's face. Though the smile is awkward? Wahaha. Smile properly pls, next time.

Ok, my life is pretty much stuck like that. Lol. Hopefully 星光 will keep my life moving forward, but sometimes its good to be stuck in certain moments for sometime right? =] Savour the moment before we move forward?

Anyway had a few performance offers for event. 1 D&D event, 1 public event. Hmm. I'm seriously thinking, maybe I should consider really going into the event performing thingy. The money is good and it's super relax. 1 night 2-3 songs. If I do it for 2 nights a week. I get 3k a month? But right now, I just wanna focus on the upcoming competition. Practise the songs, and see how it goes. A few more song request, but all have to wait, at least till my lips are completely healed. =]

God Bless Everyone~ God Bless me! =]

Random stuff

2010-06-28T08:25:00.010+08:00

Ha~ I'm back!~

Alright, just to update what I have been up to for the past week or so. Eh~ Too many stuff, can't remember clearly. Lol.

Hmm. The nearest date I could remember was few days back. Anyway, here are the pics for the Jay Chou Competition. =]

This guy got 5th. For not dressing up as Jay. Hahaha~

But even the contestants were shocked with the results. Cause they really like his singing.

And so after the results were announced, they came up to him one by one and said he sang really well.

Ivan went to take the pic with the Final Fantasy Cosplay Girl while waiting for the competition to start. Haha.

I forgot the name of the character.

Ivan, Sal and Cat. Thanks Joe again for taking the pics~

I dun really like to join imitating competition. Was only trying to get the tickets to Jay's Concert. That's why I didn't ask friends along. Went for great steamboat and movies after that. Awesome day spent with awesome friends~

The guy on my second left got 1st. Look at the effort he puts in to dress up like Jay. Even the beard!! Lol. He spent alot of time doing that. Kudos!~

Eh~ Recalling... Ok, Few days back, went night cycling with Ivan, Cat, Sal and her nephew. Cute la. I meant the nephew. Cheeky of course, but fun to hang out with. And he wasn't a slow cyclist. 7yrs old and I'm having fun chasing him half the time. Haha.

Cycled from ECP all the way to Changi Village to have their famous Nasi Lemak. Picnic at the seaside. And cycled all the way back to ECP. Half way through. Nephew got tired. Told me he don't wanna cycle anymore. Ivan "tongbang" him, while i cycled holding on to his bike the rest of the way back. Like circus show~ Lol. 1 guy with 2 bikes. I'm just too pro. We had the worse butt sore after that. Man~ The rented bikes have got really hard seats. Haha. Sore butts for the next day. Ate breakfast at ECP Mac and got home~

NExt day~ I had a performance at TECK GHEE CC. Met Ivan for a light dinner. Did my performance of 2 songs. Imitating Jay in 退后 and 想太多 by Li Jiu Zhe. Managed to impress the elder crowds and some youngsters. Happy with my overall performance. Performance fee got to cover my bills. Community event, so I didn't wanna quote much. Time to give back to the community ma~ Haha. Charity people.. Do some charity~ Make the world a better place. No matter how small your charity can be. =]

Went to have the famous Hokkien Prawn Mee after that. It killed Ivan.. =[
HAhaha.

Nice looking plate of Hokkien Mee. I was tired and sweating from my performance. So I asked Ivan to order. He came back with this amount of Chilli on each plate.

See his happy face? Lol. He said the auntie gave him 1 tiny xtra teaspoon of chilli. Asked him if it's enough. It seems little to him. So he said no. So she asked him to buy the chilli at 50cents xtra for a bigger serving.

I saw the amount. I laugh. Challenged him to stir it. I only stirred half of mine. Lol.

Half way through the plate. He finished his Coke, and ordered mineral water. Hahaha.

Ivan with his sexy "HOT" swollen lips. Lol.

Sucking on ice doesn't seems to help. Haha.

Went to AMK to trim my eyebrows. My first time!! Haha. Ivan went home so I went to meet my ex. Shino Wen and her friend. Supposed to be drinking at Clarke Quay. Ended up going PartyWorld at Liang Court. >.<"

Hmm, ex lovers to close friends. Hao de. I hereby promise you to spend more time building up this friendship with you ok? Haha.

Please ask Weiliang along for the meetups la~ Don't always say people busy~

I'm only lazy not busy~ Understand? Bimbo Wen. Oops!~ >.<"

Yesterday.. Went to watch soccer with Sebas and friends. Went into Msia for supper again. Finally. Been 2 weeks or so, since we went in for supper. This time round, only me and Joe.

Still we ordered quite alot of food. Haha. Managed to finish it.
Went back to SG, met up with Cat, Sal and Xuan to watch another soccer match. Argentina and Mexico. Well, predicted the 2 wins easily. Happy with the results and the gameplay was fantastic. Both matches are interesting. =] Went home a happy man. Haha.

Oh yeah, received another msg from Jinglun the other day. Quite a few days ago actually. He told me 星光7 coming to SG to audition. So happy la!! Just when I thought of not going over to Taipei, they are finally coming to SG to audition. OMG!! My last chance. I'm putting aside all my songs recording and stuff. Choose songs and practise till they come. Which is the 25th of July. So anyone interested. Just join!~ Going with all my singing friends.

PS: I read up some abortion stuff. I was wondering when a girl aborts her baby. Does she misses her baby all the time? Everyday? Does she carry on her life and soon forgets she had done the abortion? Abortion is a scary thing isn't it.. Are human really so inhuman? Haiz.. Humans lack of love.. Sad thing isn't it. =[

Wonder Girls Showcase

2010-06-21T01:14:00.004+08:00

Yup, it was friday and I went for the wonder girls showcase held by Sony Ericsson. Thanks Sony~ It was held at the Marina Sands Bay, exhibition hall.
Went with Sebas. Didn't have a camera with me, otherwise I would really want to capture their performances. Haha. Suppose to start at 7pm. We had to wait for an hour before they finally hit the stage.. MC for the day was Jamie Yeo. The waiting was horrible.. But once they started their performances. I thought it was pretty worth the wait. They were really good. I thought they were just pretty faces that lip sync. But they did an Acapella of "So Hot". And their new single "2 Different Tears" is really catchy too.

No idea why they sang PCD's "Doncha" But their rendition was good.

Sebas and I were stupefied. Didn't know their english was so up to standard.

Throughout the whole showcase, they conversed in very good english.

Sohee, my fav in the group. Know why? Just cute. Hahaha.

And girls with long legs. No wonder all my ex have nice legs. Except 1. Oops~

Sat, Jay Chou Competition. Haha. As usual. Not a good year for competitions. I came in 5th! But I'm happy. I got some goodies like Jay's CDs and caps and stuff. And free vouchers from Parco Bugis Junction. Most of the contestants were surprised that I didn't get at least a No. 2. Hey, when they keep coming up to tell me that. I already felt I won. Definitely the best vocals among them. Or even sound the most like Jay compared to them. I dropped alot alot of points for not dressing up. Hahah. Pics are with Joe. Well, seeing the effort most of them put in to dress up. I really look like I could have dressed up much better. Judges were disappointed with my dressing compared to my semi finals. Well, Jay do dress like that, just that its not his signature dress up. Oh well. Finally ended all competitions.

Anyone remember this guy? Haha, yup. Jinglun. Doing very well now. Damn. I look like a kid in this pic. Taken when we were in taiwan. He was my tour guide for a day or 2.

Well, he facebook-ed me. Didn't expect him to still remember I asked about 星光大道 auditions. Told me there is 1 upcoming one. I have been contemplating for the past few weeks. Finally said I won't be going. I really have to put an end to my competition days. So, yup. I'm really taking my time to write my songs. Writing all sorts of genre now. Genres which interest me alot. Like rap, pop, r&b, dance, rock. Yeah, I'm rojak. A true singaporean music lover. Haha.

Been going out and having fun with the same few people. Sal, Ivan, Joe, Sebas, Cat. And attending this and that. Too many stuff to post. >.<" Gotta stop enjoying and get back on track. Wait for my updates yo~ In the meantime. God Bless! And have a nice day. =]

Just some thoughts

2010-06-13T17:55:00.006+08:00

Hey ya all~

Nothing much going on, I'm getting into some rap songs. Haha. I have always been a rap fan. So decided to do some rap songs. Going on well. Eminem still at the top of his game. =] Enjoy the video while reading.

I just love this song. His beats are kept simple, using his lyrics and melody to bring out the song. Nice~

Anyway, few days ago, while I was doing my stuff. Ah Shun suddenly msn me. "You there? Urgent" I was like huh? And he sent me this link. I got kinda embarrassed seeing it.

Steven Lim.. Everyone in their right mind knows. He is a joke eh? Lol. I mean why would people be so careless and still audition for his modeling agency... I showed it to Cat few days back too. She gave me one comment. Looks more like auditioning for Japanese AV idol. >.<" Appear on TV? What TV? I wonder if the audition only have Steven Lim there. Oh yeah. I dono how Ah Shun found this video. But I think the group of them always like to make fun of him. If I remembered correctly, they once hired him to someone's birthday. And just make fun of him. Would you wanna audition for someone who is a clown? "Hi there, I'm so and so, my boss is a clown"...

Kids~ Please~ If you really wanna model or something, go to more established modeling agency.. And where is that audition? Held at his home or something? That's kinda shit.. Anyway, just remember, there are alot of well known modeling agency. If you are new to the modeling industry. Either join one established one. Or don't join at all. There are always news of young girls being mistreated or raped or molested or something. Grow up. This is a real world. Don't be so naive..

Anyway, I'm from Shine Models. Was approached by them last year while walking around AMK Hub with Sebas. They are pretty good. Had major clients. So if you wanna model, why not join them? I'm just lazy to show up for their advertisement auditions. When they find you suitable for a certain ad, they will call you up. =]

Bought a new phone recently. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10.. Just love it. Haha. Iphone is so boring eh? =]

Anyway, busy lately. Always have song request videos from youtube or facebook. Haha. Most popular request is 说好的幸福呢. Will try to make the song video this coming week, before my Sat competition. Will update my blog again after my competition. All the best to whatever you do. But remember, please be careful. Especially when you wanna be in the entertainment industry. Cheers~ God Bless! =]

Jay Chou competition

2010-06-07T15:43:00.009+08:00

Oh, so lazy to blog. So many things to do and stuff. Busy~ Haha.

Sat went down with Joe and Ivan early to report for the Jay Chou competition. Lost some pics. Hmm.. Most of the competitors don't really behave or sing like Jay. I wonder if I have a super high chance of winning. Oh well, 1 shouldn't be too confident eh. Should just go about doing my own stuff and make sure I do it to my best. =]

I was the 5th contestant up. Oh yeah, thanks Derick for coming down with us too. And Jayice for dropping by without me knowing. Should have came up to say Hi~ And I dono who else. Lol. Everyone likes to come down and support in silent. I thought I said I won't bite? Haha. Ok. Anyway, here's the gift from the anonymous supporters.

2 Salvatore Ferragamo belts and 1 wallet.

Thanks alot~

But seriously, I still have got 1 Gucci Belt I have yet to even punched holes in it yet. 1 Burberry Black Label wallet from Shino. Which is also unused yet. Haha.

Please support me with simple stuff, like spamming to your friends my videos or fanpage. Coming down to support me and LET ME KNOW YOU'RE THERE! =] Or buying my albums and telling your friends about it. I do appreciate the gifts though. But I don't really need so many belts and wallets right now. Haha. Thanks again. Appreciate it.

Ok, back to the Jay competition. I couldn't hear the feedback monitors on the stage. Oh well, just sing with my feelings. Couldn't really hear myself. But halfway through my singing Joe saw the Iweekly Editor taking my pic with her iphone camera. Halfway through the song, I was the only one with applause from the crowd. Hope I really did a good job eh?

The judges are iweekly and 8days Editor. And Sony Music marketing executive.

I thought I dressed in a too simple manner, so we went over to Bugis Village to buy the shirt and jacket. >.<" Took just 5 mins. Haha.

Same hand movement over and over again eh? Lol.

Though the MC said the results are not called according to who got the highest points, I was the first to be called up, wonder if its real eh? Haha. Maybe I got the highest points. Oh well. Hope I win the VIP tickets. Who to bring who to bring who to bring along.~

Rushed off to LWSSOM to refund my money and register again for another competition. They decided to make it free. Then rushed off again to my cousin's house. How convenient, everytime I went over. I feel like killing him. Cause I'm super jealous la. He stays just opposite Le Bar. And 1 min walk, and he can reach the pubs in Tanjong Pagar, 5 mins walk to Maxwell Food Centre. And I haven't even started about the facilities in the housing estate. Lol.

Endure with me. It's a pretty long post today.

Went up to the Sky Garden with my cousin and sis. 5 mins too late. Otherwise the sky would be in a much more beautiful color. My camera phone didn't do it much justice either. Haha.

50th floor, Nice view of the surrounding. You can see pretty much anywhere, from the top. I have been to Equinox at Swissotel, this view can be compared to there. Just that it's in the open whereas, the Equinox, you are looking through glass windows.

So many pics to upload.. I still feel sleepy now.. While uploading them.. >.<"

This is a rooftop, can you believe it? Haha.

This too. All the roofs are connected, making it the sky garden.

They have different themes for different roofs.
Thats a pretty good seat. Overlooking the city and a clear view of the sky. Looking at the stars and the view below. Nice for couples eh? How I wish.. Oh well. Haha.

Thats the ground floor. Only took a pic. They have basketball court and stuff. All super nice looking. And alot of other nice looking benches.
Had a pig dinner over there. Always ate like a pig when I'm here. Cause there is just so so so much food, when we gather. Chilled and watch tv while they mahjong away.

Thought I did sleep but "Star" was feeling down, so Moon and me "I'm Cloud by the way" wahaha, Oh well, went down to look for her. Chilled till 7am!! I wanted to go to church after that.. But couldn't wake up in time.. 1 hour late.. So I went back to sleep. Woke up to meet Kenneth. A friend's friend. He needed my help to sing at his lounge, it's called Players. Located at Carpenter's street. Just opposite, Clarke Quay MRT station. Its 2 storeys high. Have yet to set foot there. Went to a music cafe, to see how they do their stuff over there. I went up to sing a song, 安静. The singer seems to know me before I even went up stage. Knows I write songs and stuff and that I can sound like Jay if I want. I know something about u too!! Lol. He was a guest singer for one of my competitors. He came out with his own EP album, he was actually there to sing for just 1 night if I'm not wrong.

Oh well, tried to help Kenneth with his business. We'll see how it goes. Most probably going to help him on Wednesday nights. As his Fri and Sat nights are for English bands. They are the resident bands for Bala Clava, if I'm not wrong.

Rushed off after that, Joe came to fetch me as usual. Nice guy isn't he? Haha. And we went in JB again with Sal, Lijuan and Ivan.
Went to our usual Lok lok, its those street vendors who sell their food in their own lorries. Customize to put all their food and frying pot in it. There isn't really any in SG. If I remember correctly, there is 1, but I've never tried it.

Went to our usual Lok lok, but the lorry didn't go there today! Lol. Funny eh? Anyway, it was already 12pm when we reached the woodlands custom. Yeah, going into JB just for supper has been our hobby for the past 1 month. Haha. So we went to this other place for Lok lok, cause not all places taste good yo~

Its malaysia, so obviously, I dono how to describe the road name. Lol.

Ok, its freaking dark. Couldn't see much. But this lok lok doesn't have tables! So we went to the pub just infront of it. Ordered some beer and soft drinks and ate our lok lok there. Anyway, lok lok is just whatever food you ordered in sticks. And they fry it for you. Haha.
Reached home at what? 4am I think. Who wanna go in JB and have supper with us~

Hmm, felt like staying home today, but guess I'm meeting Norman and friends.
I was approached to sing a christian song for a christian album. Asked me my rate. I said free. Lol. All for God! He will bless me with much more. No time to do my own music. Gotta record my Ep before Jay's concert. Time, time, time.. Is running out~ =]

Jay Chou Competition

2010-06-04T08:29:00.005+08:00

Yeah, got selected for the Jay Chou imitating competition. Might be able to win a pair of VIP ticket to his upcoming Singapore Concert. =]

Hmm, too many things to blog about. I'll keep it short. Celebrated Sal's simple birthday with just the few close friends. Cat, Bel and Ivan. No pictures yet. All taken with their camera as usual. Haha.

I got a gift from fans! OMG. 2 branded belts and 1 wallet. Thank you so much, anonymous fans. I'll post the pics in my next entry. I'm super duper tired right now. Haha.

I uploaded the video of from the last blog post into Jay's fanpage. Guess how many "likes" I got from it. Haha. 30. And none of it is my friend. All truly Jay Chou fans. And lots of nice remarks from those who comment. Only 1 or 2 with funny remarks. =]

Just recorded an Original song written by my friends. Thought we would share it with all the Jay fans.

Enjoy the video. Will record the song in studio next week. =]

Join my new fanpage at

If you're free this Saturday, drop by Bugis Junction during 4pm-7pm. I'll be there by the fountain for the competition. =]

Ep Album in the making

2010-05-30T23:16:00.003+08:00

Alright, I had sometime to do a song video for this song. 周杰倫 - 说了再见.
Personally like it alot. So I decided to make a fast one. Haha.
Gonna get back to my lyrics writing for my own songs. =[
Hopefully I'm selected for the Jay Chou Imitating Competition this coming 5th of May.. Still no news from them. Argh~ My VIP concert tix. Oh well. Last day of submission is tmr. So we shall see in the next few days.
Happy with life, happy with friends. Happy with family. =]
God Bless! =]

Stardust2010 Finals

2010-05-24T03:05:00.009+08:00

This song pretty much sums up my life right now. I'm quite happy with my life right now, just going about doing my own stuff. I learnt 1 thing, it's really important not to announce you are attached. You really will lose some fans. =[
Not that I'm going to get attached soon anyway.
Sorry Bel, once again, I wanna say I made the wrong decision regarding something. Wanna apologise again. =]
Have a listen while you read up this blog entry. =]

Last month Hp bill was 300bucks.. Crap man.. Wasted those calls for nothing. Zzz.
Alright, few days back, went to have KTV session with Shino, Weiliang and Ivan. He came awhile and left. Asshole left his house key at his workplace, had to rush back to get it. Lol.
Was suppose to be a nice simple fun day, but kinda spoilt by something which I don't wanna mention.

Always this Lin Da Lang post. >.<"

Long time friends. =]

Weiliang.

Always so happy to take pic with me. Wahaha.

Who put the remote control there? Blame me again? Lol.

She was suppose to go Powerhouse or something to do an event. Those events girl kinda thing, and she could have got a BACKSTAGE PASS to Jay Chou's concert..

Instead she stayed to sing.. Wah kaoz. Bimbo. Missed me too much right? Wahaha.
Went into JB again with Joe after that for supper. Haha. Another nice meal. I think sooner or later my passport is full of Msia chops.

Have been trying to be discipline by staying at home for the Stardust2010 finals. Yesterday rehearsals wasn't good. And today when I went for full dress rehearsal, the sound engineer forgot my plan for my performance. I was suppose to sing the chorus once without music, then comes in the music after I finish my last sentence. Luckily all went pretty well for my actual performance. Sad thing is even though I got good feedbacks from the judge, 黎沸辉 Laoshi. For good vocals and quite a good performance, just a lack of showmanship, I never won anything. Haha. Not even 3rd. Maybe its the voting system again.

Winner~ Nice performance~ Miao ru.

2nd place, Michelle.

3rd place, Indonesian guy~ Agung.

Indra.

Arthi Farthi. Lol.

Jacklyn.

Faliq, also a great dancer from Freekzy Nutz. One of the best dance group in SG.

Cherelle.

The dressing room is much better than most places I have been to. Including that of 星光大道 or MediaCorp. Spacious and nice.

I had to reach at 2.15pm. From that time to 7pm... I. Was. Just. Sitting. There. Watching. The. Gals. Doing. Their. Makeup!!! They could see I was so bored that they had to entertain me..

I realised without knowing, that I have been trying to challenge myself with bigger songs during competitions. 世界唯一的你 this kinda songs is already a normal song for me. I realise that I have been challenging myself, not with others, but not just do safe songs and try to win it. But do songs like Superwoman, big numbers and try to win it. Still not able to perfect it for a live competition performance. Doubt I'll be doing that anymore. Haha.

Alright though I didn't win. I'm glad my singing competition days are over.. Finally have time to focus on my Ep Album. Half done. Arrangements and stuff, just need to change some lyrics and I'll be recording it in no time. Oh, and the 2 Jay Chou competitions. Which I won't have to put in much effort to practise. ^^ Hopefully win the 2 pairs of tickets. Heehee~

PS: Thanks for those who came down and I didn't really talk much with. Thanks for coming without asking. I had fun. Hope you guys too~ =]

Trip to JB

2010-05-18T04:45:00.012+08:00

Start of this post with a video.

A Jay Chou fan wrote this song hoping he would either hear it or someday sing it. They approached me through my youtube channel and asked to sing it.
Such wonderful fans of his eh? And its a pretty good song. Have a listen to it. Imagine Jay's voice or at least me imitating him singing this song. Haha. Won't it be nice?
I really like how they wrote some parts of the lyrics.
So yeah, I might most probably be singing it after my finals. Jay Chou fans FTW!! =]

Went to Focus Music to practise for Stardust2010. Finalist were to rehearse once with the music teacher, our very own Jeff Teay. Hahaha.

First time that he actually gave opinion about how I should go about singing a song. Cause usually we just go and sing and I do it my way. But now he is the vocal teacher. And it's a competition after all. So it's nice to hear someone else's opinion.

Was actually rehearsing 新不了情 but decided to change it when I heard some of the finalist singing "power" songs. Haha. So I picked "Superwoman". Really wanna win this competition as this will be the last singing competition I'm gonna take part in. Time to focus on my Ep Album and stuff. Hard to concentrate on the songwriting and stuff when I have competitions going on.

After that Joe came to pick me up and we went to fetch Sebas, Cat and Sta to go for our JB trip. Sal was to meet us at the check point with her friends. But we didn't really click well with her friends so we decided to go for our Makan trip on our own. I prefer the slow and steady pace of having the ability to choose where and when I wanna eat. =]

This was our last stop. We actually had alot of food before we stopped by this place for desserts. The pics are with Sta. It was a feast and as usual we forgot to take pics till we're done eating them. Wahaha.

Happily looking at the menu while Joe took some pics.

Sebas with his "steam" look. Digging into his Yam Snow.

Thats my Banana Ship. Lol. I thought its usually call Banana Split?

They said I posed like a happy kid with my Ice cream. >.<"

That's Joe's Fruit Snow. Lots of fruits in it.

Cat and Sta got too full eating the BBQ food and stuff, so they decided to share this Chocolate Snow.

Sebas got tired of eating it bit by bit. So he stir the ice (which is something similar to Ice Kachang) into a puddle and drank it. Lol.

Overall, it was a fun day spent with funny people. Especially when Cat and Sebas keeps making fun of each other. Wahaha. Entertainment~

Went to have a Japanese meal today with Joe. As usual he came to pick me up. Such a nice guy. Yesterday we picked Sebas up at AMK, Cat at hougang, Sta at Tampines before heading to JB and he was ok with that. Cause we were craving for Ramen. Haha, we were late. Reached Central Mall (the one at Clarke Quay MRT right?) There's actually this place called The Helipad. At the rooftop of that mall. A chill out place with an open top looking down at the clarke quay nightspots and Singapore River. We went to take a peep, but decided I prefer to eat my Ramen. Haha.

Went to find my Ramen, but both the restaurants I wanted to eat were close. Left with Ajisen Ramen. Bleah~ Decided to go Clarke Quay to see if they have any other nice Japanese Restaurant.

At the end of the last bridge which is near Attica, there's this one called Tomo Izakaya. We were really hungry and ordered quite a few items. Haha.

There are different type of seats. The one with a more Japanese feel or

The normal tables and chairs which is what we chose.

Their dinner time is from 6pm-1am. ^^

The Menu cover is made of wood.

Soft-shell crab sushi.

Lotus Root Chips. Tastier than potato chips, healthier too. Not too oily. Haha.

Unagi Handroll.

Burdock Chips. I really dono how to describe the taste. Its kinda crunchy?

I forgot what its called. Lol.

My usual tempura udon.

They serve free flow of greentea, hot or cold for just 2 bucks. Or you can order soft drinks which cost around 5bucks?

End it off with greentea ice cream with red beans as toppings.

The price is pretty much the same as most Japanese restaurants. =]

Molested in Thai Pub.

2010-05-14T21:13:00.003+08:00

Haha, Have been drinking everyday since Monday. Kinda relieving those moments before I got attached. Just having fun and doing my things. Writing songs at home and going out to unwind after that. As a songwriter, it kinda makes u depress when you wanna write a emo song. Cause you have to feel emo to be able to write better melodies or lyrics. And when you're done with it, you need to go out to unwind to cast out all the negative thoughts.

Went to Mango ( a Thai Pub ) with Cat, Sal, Joe and Sebas. And 2 of Sal's friends. I have been to so many Thai Pubs. Ratchada, Atlantis, Nana blah blah blah.. This one might be smaller in size but the crew does make you feel more comfortable, they are more friendly. Singers and Band members will come down and drink and chat with you.

Then they started to play a chinese song. Guess which song? 说好的幸福呢? Lol. Cat dared me to go up and sing. So I took the challenge. And was led on stage. Sang the song managed to impress people, and even their friends. After that Eugene asked me to drink like a few times? Lol. I gained a new fan. He'll be coming to support my Stardust2010 finals on the 23rd.

I got 120bucks of "flower" for my singing. Lol. Great supporters. I really appreciate it man.

He bought me the 100bucks blue "flower". Joe.

Salena.

Didn't expect her to buy me a "flower" too. Lol.

The one who dared me, and bought me a "flower" too. Hahaha. Cat.

My new friend/fan. Haha. Eugene.

While Sal accompanied Cat out for a smoke. A thai girl made an advance on me. Which I tried to brush off. Kept asking me if I have a girlfriend. I answered Yes! No use.. Then her octopus hands starts to do funny things.. She actually licked my ear and forced a kiss on me! Diu~ Sebas can't be bothered to help. Lol. Then came Cat and Sal. Even when she told her she was my girlfriend, she keep asking again and again, and even though she told her again and again she still hug me infront of them. Lol. Bei tahan. The reason why I hate going to Thai Pubs. Either the come grinding you like no tomorrow or something else.

I've come up with a nice song. Probably choosing it to be in my Ep Album. Totally something you guys never hear me doing before. Not your normal ballad.

I just wanna do a shout out to those who have stuck with me through thick and thin, through the tough times and never leaving when I really need you guys the most. Thanks alot. I shouldn't have wandered off from you guys everytime I have a girlfriend. Haha. I realised the most important people after my family is my close friends. And those that were so close to me, I shouldn't have let you guys worry for me. Even to the point of crying for me when I'm sad. That really touches my heart. I know along the way, I have hurted alot of people's feelings unintentionally. I will be strong from now on. I'll be Superman! Keep on fighting for my music too. Cause I'm also fighting for those who believes in me. I'll keep going! 加油！ =]

Don't have to cry for me anymore. I'm happy now. You guys know who you are. Haha. Friends forever. Oh~ So cliche. Lol. And for those who smsed me or msned me. Don't worry for me anymore. I'm fine now. Its amazing. How I ignored you guys when I've a girlfriend yet you all will still come and message me when I'm alone and sad. Really appreciate it alot. =]

Ok, gotta stop writing the songs and focus on my finals. If you wanna see me in my finals. You can either msg me in facebook, msn or sms me if you have my number. It'll be held on the 23rd this month at Republic Poly. Or you can just head down there on that very day and purchase the ticket on the spot. It's 12 bucks a tix. Let me know if you're coming. So I can say Thank you personally for supporting me. Keep on fighting! Let's move forward together!

Gonna go out for a drink again with Jeff and Sebas tonight. Chill~ Omg. Monday to Friday.. What will it be tomorrow? Lol.

Happy Mother's Day~

2010-05-10T02:44:00.012+08:00

Mother's Day won't have the same meaning to me anymore.. Now, how many of my readers are mothers here? Happy Mother's Day to you. =]

This is a long post. So I thought I'll put a music video for you to listen to while you read. =]

He/She thought he/she could find another person to replace the One.. Even with someone else, their heart is still with the old one.
Song title- Another You/ John Rich
You can watch the video again after you finish reading the blog. =]

Yesterday was the saddest day of my life.. Thanks Joe for the company and all the treats. You really made me felt like a king.. He fetch me from my house, to treating me to a very filling and delicious dinner.. I haven't been having the appetite to eat.. The most was one meal a day.. Can't sleep too.. All the things in life stacking one on top of the other.. Couldn't choose a better time to leave..

Thats the dinner treat. Haha, I dig in and after finishing then decided to take the pic.. Thats stingray, frog porridge, chicken wings for you!

Then he ferried me to my nightmare.. To a place that killed me slowly.. After that, we went boat quay to have a drink. I was the only one drinking as he still needs to drive. I felt bad for all the things he had done for me.. Thanks dude. Really appreciate it. I'm not used to being taken care of.. No wonder gals like to be treated like a princess. So this is what its like to be king. Except for the terrible nightmare.. Then he sent me to meet up with Cat and Sal.. Taking a big detour to do so.. What a nice fellow.

Thanks Cat and Sal.. It's kinda embarrassing to let you see me at my worse state for hours.. Just kneeling there and ***ing.. Haha.. Heart wrenching moment for me.. Thanks for the comforting words.. For trying to cheer me up..

Today is Mother's Day! Another few hours a day sleep for me.. Woke up from another nightmare.. For the past few days, I've only been able to sleep 2-3 hours a day.. My eyebags are popping out, from all the ***ing and lack of sleep. Why am I such an emotional person.. Maybe its for me to write better songs.. HAha.. I wished I could just walk out of something so easily..

To cover my eyebags, I bought this spec yesterday..
Guess I'll be wearing it for quite sometime, till i stop ***ing and cure my lack of sleep.

Jay Chou's new song. 超人不会飞。。 Even if I'm Superman.. I'm just a human..

Went to Parkway Parade for dinner celebration with my family and relatives..
Paramount Hotel to be exact. It was quite difficult to find that place. Though its just actually beside Mercure Hotel.. Paramount restaurant is under the Tung Lok Group.. Behind it, are all the sleazy pubs with those filipino ladies.. A whole lot of them. Yucks..

The food was so so.. Maybe its Mother's Day and its super pack, thus they couldn't prepare it well..
We ordered about 20 dishes?!! WTF?! I nearly died trying to stuff myself with the food.. *PHONE*.. Haiz..

Started off with this soup

Scallops~ Prawns~ Soft Shell Crabs~ Pipa Duck!

Fried Garoupa~ Nice!

Cold Dish~

Salmon, Sushi and Fish with gravy~

This is just a start.. Then come all the salty dishes..

Bee hoon~

Minced Meat Pork~

Fried Squids~

Cereal Prawn, it wasn't as good as I hoped it would be..

Thats not all.. Much more to come.. I was already pretty full by then.. Even the pig in me is screaming too much!!

Lemon Chicken~

Another soup..

You tiao with fish meat in it, and the Taiwanese delicacy, its spicy and salty, pretty good chicken.

Think we're done? No... MOre to come.. Is this really how the Chinese people eat?!

Salted fish with vegetables and I dono what else in it. Spicy and salty again.. Tasted pretty good if I have a bowl of rice..

Pork ribs.. Too full.. Didn't even touch a single piece of it..

Another soup!?!

Tofu, I only ate a slice..

Finally desserts..

Mango with sago~

Cute jellies with longan in it.

Seriously, eating so much, you think I would be happy.. They had KTV system inside the private room.. The songs my cousin chose to play doesn't sit well with my emotions.. =[
All the food I got to eat for the past 2 days, couldn't exchange for a simple meal of home cooked food... Ba Kut Teh or any simple dishes that I can enjoy with the one I love.. I remember the urge to eat Hokkien Prawn Mee at AMK, our favourite.. 15 mins into catching a movie, we just can't be bothered.. Rather go and have it and rush to watch the movies.. That meal or any meal taken at home taste 10 times better than restaurant food, is more filling than the food I have today..

I've been destine to live a single life. I think somewhere along Sec sch some bimbo cursed me or something.. Haha.. 1 thing I know, is never accept a girl who likes your singing, the lesser points she likes about you from the start, the more she'll like you as time goes by.. Who am I going to call with my house phone now. No one to act as strangers with.. So many things I have never done before, I did it.. But I won't get to do it anymore..

Never leave someone when they got nothing, when everything just came crushing down on them.. It's the worse time to leave a person.. When they don't really have anyone to turn to.. I'm only human.. Superwoman lyrics.. I'm only human.. I can only take so much... Sometimes I think God thinks I'm Superman.. Maybe He wants me to be Superman.. So that when I make it.. I can be an example to others.. That whatever shit comes my way, even when I have to walk this music journey Alone.. No matter how tough life is, I'll still see the rainbow after the storm... I wanna inspire people.. I hope to inspire people..

Through my music and through my testimony in life.. Hopefully, one day, I'll be able to do just that.. Be strong Willis Loye! Even if it means fighting alone! Glad for the friends God has given me.. Though I don't really like to confide to anyone..

Be happy, treasure the love one you have now. Be happy! =]

Bye~

2010-05-07T04:56:00.003+08:00

Hmm, I have a few songs here. After going to k session with Sal and gang. K box has got new rooms. Very nice interior. Woohoo~

I selected this few songs as I find it meaningful after listening to it just now. =]

This song is probably the favourite in this list. Cause it speaks of how I felt about relationship and breakups. Once you broke up, its best to stop contacting. Treat a breakup like a divorce. Once its over, move on. Who usually remarries to the same person again? Lol. Seldom.

The chorus also says, after I left, you must live on well and stop crying. =] After the breakup, keep the good memories and move on. Didn't we promise to stop contacting?

Super touched by the speeches made before the song. Nice acting too, almost brought me to tears. HAha. ALMOST! In the show the guy gave her everything he could yet she still choose to go back to the other guy.. One of the verses says "I thought when I appeared in your life, I thought you and him were breaking off/broke off. That you no longer have further anticipation for him, and will not tolerate the pain he caused u.

The whole chorus lyrics just seems so touching. That the guy thought by giving her everything, that she will appreciate it.. Word of advice to all. Be satisfied with the smaller things in life. Don't be greedy and want everything. =]

After listening to the dialogues made by the actor.. And at the end of the song when he spoke.. My heart went out to him.. Superb acting.. And those words he says.. I think I just made it the no.1 song in this list. Lol. I just cant bear to see people cry.. It always melts my heart no matter how pissed I am. Haha.

真的我沒事, So many lies~ Listening to you.. I'll be fine~ =]

Keep listening to this songs again and again will probably set you into depression. Haha.. Be satisfied. Sometimes you have to give up certain things to make a relationship work well. If you really love someone, why cant you change your bad points? It won't be hard. Cause you don't wanna see the one you love get hurts by your actions, no matter how small it is. =]

Cat just suggested this song to me. She wanted to sing it just now. Too bad 5 hours of k session also failed to sing it. Lol.

I love the lyrics to the whole song. Cant promise I won't return. Not turning back, move on forward.
Its for someone who wanna say goodbye, will treasure the memories, cant promise he won't return but not turning back and moving forward. =]

Hope you guys like my list of song. Which talks about relationship. Don't get too emotional. Life is still good without that someone right? Hopefully it will be for you guys. Cheers~

Been awhile..

2010-05-03T16:23:00.002+08:00

I kept listening to this song. The meaning of the simple lyrics.. Hope you guys like it too..
我知道妳的痛　是我給的承諾
妳說給過我縱容　沉默是因為包容
如果要走　請妳記得我　如果難過　請妳忘了我...

Talentquest finals and Stardust2010 Semi finals

2010-03-31T04:53:00.003+08:00

Woohoo~ Been awhile since my talentquest finals. Sorry for not updating here earlier. Haha. Cause I thought I should wait for the pictures to be upload by my friend. Thanks Salena for the pictures.

Whats a blog without pictures? =]

The finals for Talentquest. Ah~ Another voting competition. I just hate it. No offense to the organisers though. But I think that the one who wins it might not be the most talented singer or performer. So I did what I thought was right for it. I asked all my friends who came to support me, not to cast a single vote. It is impossible to win if you don't have a vote in the finals. Especially when everyone is pretty strong to have gotten into the finals. So a 30% votes from the public will be very important.

After I sang, the MC of the day, Peifen from 9.33fm. Said one thing that really makes my day. She said when I was singing the song "Superwoman" the people below the stage all had one similiar expression. =O yeah. Jaws open, astound. Impress! Whatever it is. Thats good. And she said even Gary Cao would have been proud of my performance.

Its the first time I sang on a club's stage. The venue was held at The Arena, by the way. The judges all gave good comments. And i was on cloud 9. Haha. Results were announced. The results for vocal group and solo category pretty much stunned the crowd, cause of the public voting system. The winner weren't who they thought it would be. I didn't expect to win though. Cause there wasn't a single vote. Winning isn't that important to me anymore. I know very well where I stand in a singing competition. Not because I'm cocky or proud. I still remain humble, but I'm doing it more for the experience and being able to perform on stage and impress people. I'm contented to sing and entertain and make people love the song more. To tell a beautiful story through singing it.

Of course, after the competition, we spent more money on drinking. I think we spent around 300bucks? Lol. It could easily gotten me 1st. I would have love to keep the trophy though. =[

But one more thing that got me all happy was, one of the judges, came up personally to tell me, I did great, better than when he saw me in Singapore Idol. I didn't perform well on Singapore Idol cause I was super tired and english songs just isn't my forte. He could see that. And he said, if my friends had voted for me, I could have gotten 1st or 2nd easily. That was great! I guess he felt so guilty that he had to tell me that personally. And I thank him personally for that.

But I should have allowed my friends to vote for me.. Since all of them paid the bloody entrance fee of 15bucks to support me. And quite alot of them came. I'm so touched.. I should have won it for them. And again, they felt guilty that they didn't voted for me. While i feel guilty that I didn't allow them to vote and didn't win it for them. Who would like to come support your friend and see him lose? Lol.

Sorry guys! But seriously! Thanks for coming! And "celebrating" after that. Haha. Love you all to bits. =]

Cat & Joanne

Joanne

Cat

Belinda

Norman And Tiffany~

Take so many pictures still so shy! >.<"

Salena & Ivan

My sexy pose~ Hahah.

My number 1, 2, 3 supporters! =p

Aloy And Lincoln~ Thanks for coming down guys!

Ivan & Ah Shun~

Most pictures are taken at Shanghai Dolly. Expensive drinks. Bleah~ Haha.

I hope I didn't miss out anyone in the pictures. =X
Too many pics to choose. Thanks alot for coming down to support me and drinking after that. It was an awesome night. =]

Have I been busy lately? Sort of. I still have one semi finals for Stardust2010. Its held this saturday at Bishan Junction 8. The rooftop area. Singing a 3 min version of 世界唯一的你. Yup, didn't have time to practise. So I just picked a familiar song. Haha.

Suppose to guest judge for Kovan Superstar2010 too. Audition round. But the timing clashes with that of my semi finals this saturday. I'm going to try to win this last competition. Because I started my first singing competition and won it. So I would like to end my competition days with a win too. Competition is strong. So all the best to me!~ =]

I doubt my Ep Album will be out on time.. What with my competitions and random stuff.. Will try to get it done ASAP. Sorry for the wait. Hope it is worth it for you~

Thank God for the voice He has given me, hope I put it to good use. Have a nice weekend! God Bless! =]

PS: Thanks Cat for the honey lemon and pipagao sweet!
PSS: Thanks Joanne for coming, even without company!

Busy and lazy~

2010-03-09T22:35:00.005+08:00

Well, last week was spent preparing for my semi finals for Talent Quest which was held at Millenia Walk. Started asking alot of friends to support me as it requires some voting.. Zzz. Don't you just hate voting competitions? Winning will be all about who's got the fattest wallet. Right?

Started the day with the soundcheck at 12pm. There were alot of feedback from the mics. It was quite terrible.. Adding to that misery was having the stage at the centre of the mall, where the ceiling was super high. Like 20 storeys high at least. So you can imagine the echo when you sing. HAha. It was something like singing at the 7th Month Festival. So since things were going so bad i decided to sms all my supporters not to show up. At least those i know were coming.

The competition started with the group category. The judges from SOMA were kinda irritated by the sound system problems throughout the singing. So they had to take a break to fix the sound themselves. Haha. Very bad inexperience AV..

Finally the Vocal Solos. I was the first. Luckily the sound was done properly by then. So i managed to sing well. The only problem for me was my dry throat, so i was been extra conscious when i was hitting the high notes. Which the experienced judges managed to notice i was focusing more on the vocal techniques of the song rather than the emotions. Haha. Other than that, i passed with flying colours. Everyone sang, and the votings began. It was pretty horrible. I only had 55votes. And this Malay girl had like 900+ votes. The family just came and threw money expecting her to get through to the finals..

Results were out, though i had the lowest votes, i was the first to be called~ Of course thats cause i was the first contestant too. Haha. The girl didn't get through to the finals. 2 of my friends did. Finals will be held at The Arena Anyone wanna go? 15 bucks a tix. After that you can club inside with your friends. HAha. Timing will be 7-10pm.

Special thanks to Ivan and Sebas for being there for me all the while. And for those who came down without telling me. I couldn't inform you not to come. Haha. Thanks anyway guys. Appreciate it, really. =]

Had a talk with my manager yesterday. We will be coming up with my EP Album, which consists of 4 songs. 2 will be done by some big producers, 2 will be done by me. So total of 4 songs will cost you just 5 bucks. This is definitely not a money making deal. Haha. He is gonna lose money doing that. But its our way of showing the supporters what my full length album might be like and as a show of appreciation for waiting and supporting me through this slow times.

Are you going to pre-order it? If so, join the waiting list at Click here to go to the page

I'm pretty excited about it. But then again, things always screw up for me somewhere somehow. So I'm actually anticipating something bad might happen.. >.<"

Hopefully everything goes well..

Going to NTU tomorrow, to be a judge for Stella Eccellente 4 (it means super star in Italian) Its an inter-hall singing competition. Going down with Ivan and Cat. Let's hope its a fun event. =]

Ok do join my fanpage in facebook if you havent already. Fanpage

Wait for my Ep Album, hopefully get it done by mid April. Will post it to your doorstep for free. Our way of showing appreciation for all the endless wait and support. Love you guys~ Cheers!

Waiting for so many things...

2010-03-06T03:38:00.003+08:00

Haiz~

I'm waiting and waiting for so many things currently. And people who knows me knows that i hate waiting for things to be done.. I'm currently waiting for my songs to be arranged so i can record them for my EP album. Competition dates..

Yes, in the meantime i should write more songs and brush up my chinese to write better lyrics. So seriously, whats so bad about waiting?

I guess i have always been avoiding the issues that really bothers me. I have avoided the girl i love for like 23 days now.. Been having sleepless nights ever since!! Situation forces me to leave her, which i think is for her good. Oh well.. Even had to lie to her i have a girlfriend. Tsk tsk~

All this bad stuff i have been posting on my blog and facebook recently. Have been making my friends damn concern.. Haha.. Even those that i never thought would bother sms me or msn me to ask if i'm ok. So touch~

While writing this post, she sms me.. Good luck and stuff for the competition later on.. Haiz.. My voice seems to be in a bad condition.. Otherwise i think i will nail the song easily..

I think one of the steps to becoming a celebrity is to never let people know your love life? And here i am always posting emo stuff on my blog and fb.. I decided this is the last time i will ever let my feelings be made known publicly.. It also worries my friends too much..

So this is the last post you will ever see me talking about my r/s problems~
But i'm really happy you guys are reading it. Happy that there are so many people who cares for me.

I'm really excited about the songs im doing now. Hopefully, i will make you guys proud~ Let's go for it~

Time to try to sleep again. Haha. I took like half a bottle of Pi Pa Gao and my voice is still bad.. I need rest.. But cant seem to get any.. Its alrdy 4am right now.. Gotta try again!! See ya guys tomorrow for the competition. And for those who cant make it. Wait for the good news!

Enjoy your day!

别人的天长地久

2010-02-25T16:52:00.004+08:00

I'm so envious that you can possess other's eternity.. This sentence in the lyrics is the most meaningful.. Envious that someone you love is in someone else's eternity..

And all you can do is suck it in, and move on..

Another part of the lyrics wrote this - As I smiled by, the sourness of love and hate becomes a poison in my memory.. I really admire the lyricist for this heartfelt lyrics.. Cant be more true..

Relationship only bring problems.. How come i can never see myself having something like this old couple?

Took this picture when i was in Taiwan.. Just love it..

So totally gonna remain single for as long as possible. Stay away everyone~

I'm still waiting for my song arrangements to be done.. Seriously hope that you guys will like it.

PS: Who's number is 83549413? Can you don't sms me randomly and call me dear? At least let me know who you are?

我不是你想像那麼勇敢

2010-02-21T23:17:00.003+08:00

幸福 left me 9 days ago..。。没能将幸福留下。。

I just love the song title.. Haiz..
Kinda lost my smile too.. I hate to blog about emotional stuff..

Been awhile since i dream of her, but this time, i dream of the 2 of them.. And it turned out to be a nightmare.. Been so exhausted for the past week or so.. Unable to sleep, having insomnia. And while i get to take a nap just now.. It turns into a bad dream..

Had left them alone for 9days now? Feels like shit.. Everyday, wondering how they are getting along.. Though i know they aren't doing good.. The reason why i left was to hope the group of friends would be close again.. But seems like there seems to be unhappiness dwelling among them.. How I wish i hadn't appear in their lives..

I remember she likes this song quite alot, and would want me to sing this to her when she sleeps.. I would sing for u forever till I die if I could.. Zzzz.. Now everything is gone.. Everyone is suffering.. Hope she moves on well, and get back close to her bf.. While the other she gets back close with the group of friends and forget about me..

My song arrangements are still getting done.. Feel kinda sucky.. Thinking maybe I'm not going to be such a good songwriter after all..

What is Love?

2010-02-16T22:03:00.005+08:00

Sometimes, leaving the One you love or care about is the best way to love them.. By leaving the both of them, I'm able to be sure they will still remain best of friends..

I always see myself as one to bring sorrows to the one I love.. Would I dare to love again? The more I think about it, the more i feel, I'm not able to be a good lover.. How long was my longest relationship.. 6months.. How can i promise to love someone forever when i always screw up.. Who would feel secure about that.. Its better to leave them. At least I know both of them will be feeling better after sometime.. Time heals all wounds.. Doesn't it?

But the scars i carry will remind me, the pain of falling in love again... Always under weird circumstances, I have to make a decision to end things.. Don't think i would wanna think about love anymore.. Maybe its a good way for me to write emo songs.. Cause I'm always constantly living in the state of heartbreak.. Haiz..

This time round i even have to let people think I'm the jerk, fooling around with their lives.. What the hell man..

As if I'm really happy.. Just to let the both of them have a peace of mind..

Just like with my last r/s.. I had to act like a jerk to her so you will stop contacting me and focus on her current r/s... Always have to endure all this pain alone.. Tough life Willis..

Having my Semi Finals for TalentQuest. The venue will be at Millenia Walk on 6th Mar 2010. 2-6pm. Hope to win 2 competitions this year, and release my ep.. 1st song is almost done.. 3 more songs coming right up~

I feel like going over to taiwan to stay for a few months and forget everything here.. Just like what i did 2 years ago when i ended my longest r/s.. How come its only been 2 weeks and i feel the same misery i felt 2 yrs ago.. Haiz..
Heart pain, heart pain, heart pain...

A wonderful evening spent with wonderful people.

2010-01-25T03:19:00.011+08:00

Even though I have been rejecting invitations to go out to unwind myself with friends. I don't know why I chose to go to Cat's birthday BBQ at East Coast Park. Haha, 1 thing is I don't really know her. But I told her, if Ivan, our common friend goes, I should be going.

So ended up, i went down with Ivan. Never regret it abit. I get to unwind myself. We reached about 7:45pm and immediately was offered to eat.. We just had our heavy dinner before going down..

Ivan stayed for awhile, and i felt weird leaving so early.. I don't really go to a birthday event and just chill for awhile.. So ended up, i stayed there alone.. But never once did they make me feel bored or anything. There's always chat and games to fill in my time.

After awhile, i went to the beach to listen to the sound of the crushing waves against the rocks and shore.. Super relax.. Thinking about some stuff, and surprisingly, i felt an inner peace.. Salena came over and we ended up looking at the stars for awhile and each other drifting off into our personal thoughts. Once awhile, they will come over to make sure I'm fine and won't try to jump down. Haha. Yvonne sms me while i was there, asking where i was. I told her ecp having bbq. She said one of the girls told her i was there and doesnt' look too cheerful. Till now, i still dono which girl it was. Anyway, small world. =]

When i still wasn't so open up, and thats the birthday girl, Cat.

I just sat there playing games and stuff, didn't help to bbq at all. Haha, which was something i actually do in every bbq. So when there wasn't so many people around, I went to bbq some stuff for the rest to eat.

A better pic with Cat, the birthday girl.

Bbq half way, they started to take lots of pictures. I only took one picture with them, still uncomfortable I guess. Haha.

Ended up, I helped to clear things up and left with them at around 2:45am. Haha.

And just when I totally give up on the love thing due to some reasons, i came home to check my email. And one email was sent from her.. Zzz.

Hello Vanessa Loke! Do you not understand to stop contacting me whether through handphone, msn, facebook, or email?

I have something to tell you.. Seriously.. Please.. I don't know what is going on between you and your boyfriend.. But I'm over you.. Really over you.. Don't try to send me this kinda email.. Zzzz.. I told you, once its over, its over. Do you not get it..? I even stopped reading your blog. And maybe you also did.. Thats why i rather blog about it than reply you.

In a relationship, the worst thing you can do is, notice the small flaws of the one you love.. I mean, for me personally, every flaws in the person i love, i accept them easily.

Never once did I complain to my friends about anything about you.. Hello?! I think you are asking for too much? Your past isn't very beautiful you know? And i accepted it wholeheartedly. You remember? Sometimes i sent you home, sometimes i send you to the bus stop and wait for the bus with you, but you told me this, you need to send a girl home everytime she goes over to your place. You think I'm a super rich kid? I paid for the meals and movies and cab fares too.

Cook for you, complain to people say i cook too spicy. How would I know how spicy can you take? There are other dishes to choose too? And I also tried to make it not as spicy as I usually eat? Can't give me time to know what level is your spicyness so i can compromise? I even wash the dishes?

I chatted with alot of people, and seriously, I dono why I thought i was a bad and lousy boyfriend. I think you don't just wanna be a princess, you wanna be a queen? Lol. I did everything I could, even writing you sweet nothings and notes. Look at your own flaws and your past. Did i ever say a thing?

You complained about your job and just wanted a listening ear, I gave my opinion, this you also wanna complain to my friend? Hello?! How the hell would i know what you want from me? When i don't talk much, you say I'm too quiet, when i spoke up, you also complain. What more do you expect? You're self contradicting, you know?

And whats this shit you told me about keeping everything to yourself? Bullshit man. Now then i realise, when my eyes are finally open. You complain to my friends about me, you complain about your bf to me. You probably complain to your boyfriend about me when we broke up, right? =]

And all the bad stuff you told me about your bf, maybe he isn't as bad as you said he is. Maybe you said it just so you can gain sympathy from me and others. I don't know if he reads my blog or not, and i seriously don't care. You 2 should leave me alone. I'm so happy for the past few days. Like seriously. =] No stress. It reminds me why I was so happily being single for 1 1/2 years.

And to end this note, I'm proud of being with all my ex, except you.. I feel disgusted that you made it to the list.. Why the hell did you contacted me when you were still with your boyfriend?

Come on, if you have problems with him, solve it or get over it. Stop going to jumping from one guy to the other when things don't go your way, and behave like a flea bug!

Get a life, seriously! And now what? Heard from Germaine that she read your blog,( which i didn't ) that you seem to have a worse life with him now? Lol. I already said, you made the decision, you gotta live with it.

If you can't take it, i rather you go end your life or something. Just don't come mind fcuk me again. Cause you know what? Even if you die, I don't give a shit. =] You are not perfect, don't expect a guy to be perfect, though I think i nearly am. =]
Emailing me that, hoping I will reply you and start again? Don't want to break up with him without a backup plan? How sly can you get.. Love is not a game. Get this into your mind!

PS: Sorry guys, hate to blog about this, but i need to clear it up once and for all.

Beginning of a new chapter!~

2010-01-20T00:33:00.018+08:00

Sang this song cause the lyrics is very meaningful to me..

I decided to clear all posts about my r/s. I find it kinda depressing for my readers to read. And if they read a few more posts like those, they might probably end up in depression themselves. Haha.

And especially since i post this with a title like Beginning of a new chapter.

I think when you're trying to heal a broken/shattered heart, its like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle. And just like a jigsaw puzzle, the higher you place ur hopes in the r/s, the greater the fall and the greater the impact will have on shattering your heart.

Piecing them back together is definitely much more difficult and takes a longer process if you're inexperience in doing so.

The best way is to have friends do it with you. Friends who are willing to spend time doing it with you. ( I really want to thank Shino, Yvonne, Joel, Nicole, Yeetze, Felicia and many other friends for showing your care and concern, even inviting me out to help me unwind, though i rejected all. Haha. )

And the end of the healing process is pretty much like a well done jigsaw with little cracks in between. But what we focus on is the whole picture is presents.

The beauty of the perfectly pieced heart. The bigger the heart for the r/s, the bigger your jigsaw. So the longer you might take to piece it up. And with all the complications of the r/s as with some jigsaw that has complicated design. It all adds up to having more difficulty in piecing it up.

Well if it really is that hard, you can always tell yourself,

This picture really is true for my case. I have managed to get over it real soon because i really think of it this way. =]

No more posts about my r/s in my blog anymore. I'm going to keep it light and cheerful.

Smile, even if you have to force yourself to. Sooner or later, the smile might just be real. =]

Days of filming

2010-01-15T20:41:00.006+08:00

Havent been updating my blog recently or had any music achievements.. I have been rejecting calefare roles in channel 8 series for quite sometime now. But decides to give it a try again.

Few days back, i acted as Alamak aka Hui Ge's gangster subordinate. Filming that small scene was tedious as we had to film it at a multi story carpark that seems to have cars passing by very so often. Hui Ge is a joker in real life, as funny as he is on tv. Lunch break was wanton mee with Chen Hanwei, Hui Ge and another calefare at the popular tanjong pagar market. My mission for that day was finding Hanwei and beating him up and get caught by the police. =[ Drama title is 五副到. Ep. 15

Freelance actors are usually stereotyped for roles like gangsters, ah gua or some other hideous characters. Haha.

Today's filming was done at IMM building, one of the chinese bridal shops. Actors include Tay Pinghui and Lin Meijiao. Met Jae Leung there, he was acting as Pinghui's shop assistant. My role was as a customer. I was suppose to have only one sentence. Haha. And i was suppose to have a fiancee with me. Ended up, i went shopping for bridal package alone.. Whoever goes to a bridal shop alone..? Drama title is 红白喜事. Ep. 10

So i had a few sentences with Pinghui. NG-ed quite a few times. Sometimes i wasn't loud enough, sometimes i stand too far from him.. Sometimes i shift my weights while talking.. So many mistakes.. Director wasn't pissed, the one that got pissed was the camera man. Lol. Should have done it a few more times and see wtf is he going to say.. Oh well, i definitely prefer being on stage than acting..

Been listening to few songs repeatedly the whole day.. 我不配，夜曲 and 心跳..

Till this very day.. I nv did once get to spend Valentine's Day with someone special.. Maybe it just isn't meant to be..

Gonna focus on my songs again.. Sorry for taking so long.. Wanted to give up music to have a normal love life..

Might be joining a band of uncles aged 40s to 50s to perform in gigs. Haha. Will be having my first jamming session with them soon. Once i learnt the old songs they wanna play. Signing out..

The Day I Became A Cowboy~

2009-12-29T04:39:00.007+08:00

Yeah Ha~~ The day i had to become a cowboy. Xmas day. It was Anthony's wedding and the theme for the morning gatecrash was Cowboy attire.

I didn't get to sleep at all as the previous day was Xmas eve, DUH! I went to countdown with some friends.

Cowboy Leader A.K.A The Groom

Cowboy Treasurer

Cowboy Kid, Yeah, I look like a kid wearing this...

How to snatch the bride if you look like this..

Cowboy Lau Pek Pek.. Dono why he smiled like this. Wahahaha. SiaOLiaO looks like Lau Pek Pek here.

The process for getting into the bride's house was abit tedious and long.. Its always the same~ I didn't took pictures of the Sisters. Haha. They were wearing their cowgirls uniform. Its always the same eating bad stuff that is made of wasabi and chilli padi.. >.<" And doing stupid stuff like dancing.. Oh well.. If not for the groom. Haha.

I wanted to sing to them, 不要麻烦了, 不要麻烦了, 开门就好了!~

Our Attire for the night

Black jacket with purple tshirt.

Purple is the colour chosen for the wedding.

SiaOLiaO with his super tight skinnys. Wahaha. But it looks fashionable la.

Felix trying to strike a nice pose. Looks decent.

There were 3 more brothers but i didn't take pictures of them as they are not so cam whoring as the 3 of us. Haha.

The night event was better. I was suppose to be one of the receptionist. But ended up, the girls decided to take control of it. So i was left ushering random people in. I had a few calling my name and i didn't know who they were till they said they were in my facebook fanpage. Haha. It was so awesome.

The night went by smoothly with little hiccups or none.

As brothers at a chinese wedding. One is assume to take on the role of helping the groom to handle drinks when the guests invites the groom for a drink. Some brothers help Anthony to drink the red wine, some the beers, but sadly I'm the only one helping to drink the Johnny Walker.

And since my face gets red super easily..

I ended up looking like a red lobster...

It was fun though...

At the end of the wedding, when most of the guests had left. Some friends stayed back to drink and get drunk. Ended up, some of them puked the whole toilet red.. Vomits of red wine on the basin.. Poor cleaner.. Haha. Of course, i went home sober. I hate to get drunk. I don't even like to get my face red. So I would like to ban alcohol on my wedding day~ WoohoO~

XYZ Fund Raising Lunch

2009-12-20T18:02:00.006+08:00

I'm back~ Attended Xyz Fundraising Lunch yesterday, which was held at the Civil Service Club at Bukit Batok. Didn't expect it to be so grand. Haha. Was expecting something on a smaller scale.. So i was pretty surprised when i saw how it all looks.

Spacious ballroom with high ceilings, filled up with about 60 tables.

There were 3 performing acts that day. Fengyao, Karen and me. The event started off with a cheerleading group. Which i thought were really entertaining with their stunts. And how high up they managed to throw the girl. Lol.

There were games and performances throughout the event with some speeches made in between. They managed to raise 26k before we ended the event. I got 2 sing 2 songs. 想太多 by Li Jiu Zhe and 退后 by Jay Chou. Was glad that the main sponsor liked my performance and some of the other guests came up and gave good comments too. So happy to feel appreciated. =]

Picture taken with Ce Jie, one of the key organiser of this event and most events of XYZ.

Didn't really take much pictures. Haha,

How about this new picture of the prince has arrived?

More of such pictures in my facebook page.
Can't wait to have my song and MV out.. Please keep anticipating in the meantime. =]

What a competition it was~

2009-12-14T04:46:00.003+08:00

HAha, this is definitely my worse competition experience to date. In terms of the stupid money wasting voting system. And the many filler acts in between. And the random judges that is probably judging for the first time.. And whose performance are really pretty much the standard of normal contestants.

Ok, I'm being a sore loser. Haha. I only had 2 days to practise and memorise the lyrics. Which is actually something i'm really bad at. Which is also the reason i got booted out of Singapore Idol 3 for.. Lack of sleep + bad memory = booted out of the bootcamp when they were narrowing down Top50 to Top24. So close and yet so far.

Ok, let's not get sidetracked here. HAha. So yeah, i had things to do in between the 2 days of practising the song, 王妃 by Jam Hsiao. So in all, i didn't really had 2 days, maybe slightly more than 1 day? It's been so long since i got nervous during a competition. Awwman~ The feeling is just horrible, running the lyrics through my mind repeatedly did not help me one bit. So in the end, i went up on stage and just tried to sing the song without doing much actions or having much stage presence. Cause I was running the lyrics through my mind while trying to sing it. HAha. I forgot quite abit of lyrics and filled it with random words. Got to the end of the song, was going to end it with a high pitch kinda scream, something higher pitch than what Jam Hsiao did in his original song. But just when i was going to do that, the feedback monitor went blank, all i heard was the sound of the music blasting without my vocals. My voice wavered and because i couldn't hear my voice and i ain't familiar with the song.. I ended the note way too flat, so flat that i wanted to jump off the stage right after i ended it. Wahaha. Omg!~ My most embarrassing stage moment..

So many of my friends came to support me, in the end, i had to show them such a sucky performance.. Zzz. Anyway, the sound system is pretty screwed up. Alot of feedback problems were encountered. And they were supposingly late for their set up too.. We're suppose to arrive at 2:30pm for sound check, and when i arrived at 2:30pm, they were just barely starting to set up the sound systems.. Which took them an hour plus to do so..

And came the power of the votes. HAha. Which is like saying, who's got the richer family member and friends, who shall get through. Or shall i say, who is the most desperate to win? Just for this 1st round of the finals.. There were at least 8 contestants who threw in like 300bucks for votes?! Haha.. What the.. ?! Most of the 8 contestants with this ridiculous amount of votes, obviously, got through to the next round. But 1 or 2 of this poor souls didn't.. Imagine throwing in 300bucks to go home like me.. Haha. It was funny to see, lighten up my mood for sure.

When the last contestant out of the 15 finished their song. My friends took their time to walk to the voting system to cast their votes for me. But when they reached there, they were told it was close. Haha. Shouldn't they have a longer time frame after the last contestant finished singing so the public can take their time to choose who they want to vote too? I find it kinda unfair for the last few contestants.. I mean you have so so so many many many filler acts to fill in the time to allow more time to cast the last votes.. Why hurry?!

Ok, so my friends didn't get to vote. I still had quite a number of votes from i dono who. But thank you very much if you voted for me.. I'm very thankful my friends didn't get to vote though. Cause it helps to save their money.

The last round is for the Top8 with the best accumulated scores.. I didn't bother watching it. Went to have dinner with friends. Some singing was so mediocre.. No comments. Please say I'm a sore loser... The comments came not just from me but friends and random people who was walking past me.. When the competition was about to end, one mum was fighting with another mum, via voting system.. Looking at each other's voting board to see who's child got the highest votes.. I believe when i last saw it. Few of them had at least 500bucks of votes on each individual one.. Wah Lau eh... Project SuperStar meh.. Such fierce voting.. Please tell me its not desperation to win.. In the end? Both mums didn't win. I heard they got 2nd and 3rd? Hahaha. A 13 years old girl with votes that is almost equal to theirs won.. At least the little girl had a much better vocals than theirs. The strong contenders i felt were a threat to me, of course. Lose out.. Cause of this horrible money milking voting system.. I'm so happy I didn't get through the 1st round. Otherwise my friends will probably just lose more money.. >.<"

Ok. Lesson learnt. Never take part in any more competitions that requires voting.. Talents = lose, Money = win! Unless you say a long term competition like Superstar or Singapore Idol.. You get to garner new fans every week. And it will edge over those stinky rich family contestants who votes just cause they are so rich and their child is in it. Of course, not all rich family are like this.. But sad to say, today, i witness alot of it..

Oh yeah, before i went out this morning. I made this for Sylvia. Our Singapore Idol Top 2 Finalist.

Please vote for her in the finals. She is my friend. And is really a talented singer. Whom i think, can represent Singapore!~ Vote again? Haha.

Cheers and Lotsa Love~

Willis Loye

PS: Thanks to all my friends and fans who came down to support. I'm really sorry i didn't manage to do a good performance.. Really big lack of practise for the first song.. If only i had gotten the chance to sing the 2nd song, I could have make it up for you guys.. Thanks for all the votes too. Will make it up when i join a competition that i get to sing songs i like. Or if i had any performance? =]

Showcase at Cineleisure Kbox Event Hall

2009-12-07T01:42:00.003+08:00

Yeah, the showcase for all finalist of the YouthBox Singing Competition was fun. I enjoyed my performances alot, though i had to slip in a small burp in the middle of the song. Haha, didn't expect myself to sing so early, so i went to get some snacks to eat. Ended up, it was my turn, right after i stepped into the hall again.

Performed Jie Kou by Jay Chou and One Night In Beijing by SHIN. The crowd was very cheerful and fun. Enjoyed my performances thoroughly and it really makes me want to do this more. Perform at every given opportunity, not just for the money but for the pleasure of being able to sing to people who enjoy music.

Next week, will be my finals at Far East Plaza, 5-9pm. I will be performing at least one song. If not maybe two. First song should be wang fei by Jam Hsiao. At least thats what im thinking of singing. Might make a change. And if i get to sing the next song. It will be the wonderful song by Gary Cao, Chen Mo Wan Ju. =]

Please drop by that day to show your love and support. And if you do, i would really appreciate if you vote for me and chat me up. I'm still going to keep fighting for my dream as this is really something im really passionate about. Haha.

Its been so long since i had another one of my own song composition coming up. It should be out by the end of this year. With the lyrics provided by my best friend, Jeff Teay. Wonder how he will do it. Cause i have never let someone touch my lyrics before. Haha. Stay tune for more updates.

Lots of love and God Bless. =]

Through to the finals~

2009-11-22T00:57:00.002+08:00

Ok guys, I'm sorry sorry, for not updating the blog for like 2 months? Lol. I think its more than that. I haven't been busy with anything much, but writing songs, and meanwhile, i joined this singing competition. Youthbox Star >.<"

Had the semi finals today at Far East Plaza. I didn't really invited anyone down. Thanks to those who came down without me asking. =] Appreciate it alot. =]
The reason why i didn't wanna ask anyone down was because its only the semi finals. I want to save it for the finals. HAha. And also because i didn't expect some contestants to throw money and voted their ass off.. 1 vote = 1 dollars.. Some had at least 150 dollars of votes on their board.. Is there really a need to do that.. Singing competitions nowadays is really all about the money.. At least in Singapore, it is..

And the votes count for 20% of the results.. Finals will be worse.. 30% will be on the votes.. Meaning who is richer, who will win.. Why why why must they make a singing competition be all about money.. Haiz.. Popularity or money contest?

My blog is quite stupid, cause i don't really take pictures.. And some readers like to see pictures instead of read. Its all words in my blog. Haha.

Currently i have only 300 plus fans in my fanpage.. Would love to see the day it hits 7000. And my dream will materialize.. Wanna add me in my facebook fanpage?

Thanks alot, Spread it to your friends if possible. Cheers!

Finals of Youthbox Singing Competition will be held on the 13th of dec at Far East Plaza. Do come down to show your support. And let me know you better. =D

VIP Treatment and dinner in Taiwan

2009-08-17T12:22:00.002+08:00

WooHooO!~~ I wanna start off this post with this statement. I'm SO RICH I FLEW TO TAIWAN JUST TO HAVE DINNER!
Yeah, now i got it off my chest. Feels better.. Lol.

The above statement is true, in every sense of the word. Lol. I really did fly over to taiwan just to have my dinner. And definitely got VIP treatment too. How did it happen?

Well, i took a flight there, like any normal person would. While in the plane, this 50yr old uncle sitting beside me, decided to chat with me cause he was bored. So through the conversation, i came to know this facts about him. He is proud he has 2 sons, and a wife. A business job that allows him to travel overseas frequently, especially to Taiwan. He also told me about, having a taiwanese gf in singapore and one in taiwan. Telling me how great they are, and i should get myself one, if not just for the convenience of having a free lodging place and companion while i visit taiwan. Lol. I didn't really think he was telling the truth about that. But he offered to gimme a free ride to ximending after landing, cause his gf was driving over to fetch him. I still didn't believe him, though i didn't tell him that.

Upon landing, he was the first to shoot out of the plane, i followed not so closely behind. When we went to the checkpoint to get our passport chopped. He was the first, of course. And me in second place. Once he was done, he turned to me and said, he will be collecting his luggage first, and ask me to meet him there at the luggage pickup point. Now, i believe he has a gf waiting to pick him up. Lol.

Here is where the fun begins!~ While i was getting my passport chopped, the officer chatted with me, asking where will i be staying and stuff. And seemingly interested in my travel plans. And ViOla!~ Out pops another officer! Asking me if i have a visiting visa. Lol. Officer 1 says i'm holding a Singapore passport, why will i need a visa? Officer 2 told him, my visa rights was stripped off for a year because i overstayed one day last yr. HAHA! Supposingly ban will be lifted in 09/09/09. Just a few weeks time... Nice date right? =]

I was led aside and questioned, how i forgot i got ban for a year. And all the shit. I realise i am going to be deported back to Singapore, like a Bangala... So they arranged the next possible flight for me. Which was half an hour's time.

And so, this is where the fun begins. I went to have my dinner alone, while cussing and swearing, what a waste of my time and money. Was so happy to get off the plane, now im going back in again.. Zzz. Lol. So when i had my dinner, i was escorted to the waiting area.

Didn't really have to wait, cause upon reaching, they called out to the passengers who will be sitting at the back rows to board the plane first. And my VIP treatment starts from here. I went in through a special door, without having to queue, while everyone was queuing. I can feel their eyes looking at me and wondering if i am some Singaporean minister's son. I was seated in the front row, those with more leg room. Lol. Ride back home was fcuking boring.. Don't wanna talk about it. Still cussing and swearing a little.

After a grueling 4 hours plus ride. We arrived in Singapore. Again, you know how people are always so gan chiong to be the first to alight and stuff like that. Pulling out their luggage and standing at the aisle trying to be the first, second or third to get off the plane. Again, my name was called. "Mr Willis, will u please kindly follow me" HAhaha. This time i felt their eyes piercing me, wondering who the fcuk is he? Doesn't he need to queue for anything?

I lazily picked up my luggage, and followed the air steward and found 2 officers waiting for me at the door. Wow, more VIP treatment! They escorted me out of the tunnel, and i found myself looking at the limo. HAHA. You know those long luggage car you see zooming around the terminal?

The passengers followed closely behind, and of course. While i was sitting myself down. I turned and glanced at their expression. Priceless. "Huh? Really minister son ar?" kinda look. Hahaha.

And down we zoomed, to the exit of the departure hall. The officer at the counter handed me my passport and documents in a small nice brown envelope. Scanned my thumbprint and I'm free to go. I went out through a side door meant for officers and staff. Even pilots had to queue up to scan their passport, while i scan mine at the counter. HAha.

And there you go. My dinner at Taiwan and VIP treatment. I wasn't lying, was I? =]

PS: If you ever come across a rich person who say they fly to this place and that for dinner or lunch or something like that. Pity them, don't envy. Cause its kinda tiring and time wasting just to do that. Lol.

PSS: But its still a fun experience! HAHA.

Portfolio pics

2009-08-06T03:53:00.006+08:00

Yeah, Finally went down to get the photos from the photoshoot. Am please with the results. Nice!

Oh yeah, I just got the email from Super Idol Taiwan. Will be flying over on 16th this month to audition for the competition. Yeah! Everything is going to be smooth this time round.

My blog will come alive again after that! You may start following regularly again and don't have to say your blog update once a month only? Lol.

Here are some of the pics.. More to come!

Should have gotten back to the gym before i do this, HAha!

I don't really like the hairstyle for this. =[

SweeT! Love the hairstyle! Only for phototaking though. Looks weird on the streets. =]

2009-07-26T06:24:00.010+08:00

Didn't have much time to prepare for the finals of Kovan SuperStar.. Everyday i had something on, and only managed to practise my 3 songs during the past 2 days..

Because i picked the rock genre, I decided to go with One Night In Beijing.. It was suppose to be a good song choice, considering the fact that my forte is reaching those high notes and falsetto.. The only thing that is bothering me is, i only had 2 days to be very familiar with the song lyrics and not screw them up on stage.

Well, i did screw up abit of the lyrics on stage, and it was kinda obvious. Lol. I tried my best though.. Because i was trying to remember the lyrics, i didn't really had much showmanship for this song, which was the main reason why i chose this song.. But i still think i did pretty well for 2 days of practise..

The next song was a duet with Ambrose, except for the hiccups of the sound system at the start of the song, i think we did pretty well..

Results were announced and i managed to squeeze into the Top 6, who will have to sing their 3rd song, which will decide who will be crown the winner..

I sang my last song, Superwoman by Gary Cao Ge.. I really shouldn't have done that song.. If i had known everyone will be sticking with safer song choices instead of whacking their most vocally challenged song in the last round.. Peter Laoshi said i was able to handle the vocal techniques of the song, but wasn't good on the expression of the song.. Which i have to admit, because after singing so many rock songs for the past few days, Superwoman was kinda hard for me to sing today.. And so i wasn't able to concentrate on the expression of the song..

Results were announced, I got 1st runner up. Well, i guess i was used to being the winner, that 1st runner up was like an uncomfortable position for me to be in.. Lol.. Well, Adam Lambert is damn good and he got 2nd place too, so i shall seek comfort in that. Hehe!

Well, everyone seems to disperse damn fast, after the prize giving. PoOoffFf!! Everyone is gone. Lol. Didn't manage to take pictures with the rest of the contestants.. Only pictures of Peter Laoshi, Nat, Jeremy and SiaOLiaO..

My 1st runner-up trophy!

Board of Well Wishes and Trophy!

Our own CD, with only one song in it. Lol.

After the competition, SiaoLiao, me and Germaine went to meet Felix and his gf at Ion for dinner, But seriously WTF!! Their foodcourt has quite a variety of stalls, but the number of seats they have is pretty pathetic.. Lol. We went to Wisma instead, and ended up paying 70bucks for 3 dishes. Lol. WTF!! Foodcourt is never the same again.. Haha.. Ouch!

Didn't waste much time to head down to BEDS at Mohd Sultan.. For the Westin gathering.. We were one of the early birds.. As expected.. Who wanna turn up early for drinking sessions..

And the group gets bigger..

And bigger..

AND BIGGER!

Me and my Bro, Long time since we last took a picture together.

SiaOLiaO and I camwhoring while waiting for Germaine to wash her hand. Lol.

PS: Quick Shoutout to all those who have came down to support me, especially my bro for taking all the pictures, without me asking!

Thru To The Finals.

2009-06-28T04:06:00.005+08:00

Went down to Kovan today for the semi-finals of Kovan Superstar.. Havent even been practising my songs at all.. What was i doing this past few days.. Zzzz..

Went down early to catch Alan's performance. And waited for my turn.. I wasn't really nervous, thank God.. I went up introduce myself, the song im singing and just sang.. Saw Darwin waving at me, nearly smile.. Had to get myself back into the emotions of the song.. I think i did pretty ok, considering the fact that i went drinking the night b4, till 3am.. Sianz.. No discipline.. Bad lifestyle.. I forgot a small bit of the lyrics, but managed to cover up with random words.. HAha... No discipline again.. Never practise at all..

Results were out at 7pm.. Lucky i went home to rest b4 going back down for the results.. Nick Shen called up the finalists.. Introducing me as Singapore Jay Chou... Lol.. No comments..

There will be a simple photoshoot for it, and recording of an album for the competition, for all the finalists.. Plus Singapore Idol 3 bootcamp.. Ahh... Too many competitions can be tiring.. Especially when u have to switch between English and Chinese songs.. Well, i should be thankful for them..

Need to put in lots of effort this time.. Cannot let the same mistake bring me down again..

PS: Will post the video for this one in facebook..

The Singapore Idol 3 Journey Begins!

2009-06-23T16:34:00.005+08:00

Aahh, as you read the title of today's post. Its quite obvious right? Haha, don't wanna keep u guys anticipating. From 4000plus people.. to 100.. so scary..

Woke up very early today again.. 6am.. I'm so used to sleeping late and waking up late, and yet everyday for the past 1 week is early day for me.. But every early day i had was amazing, so i can't whine much. =D Going to church conference and this..
Met up with Sebas, bought some light breakfast from City Hall Sublink Breadtalk and headed down to the Floating Platform which is beside Marina Square.. Was slightly early, and was told by the crews to come back later..

Went to Marina Square to chill and make full use of their aircon.. Weather nowadays is so impossible to endure.. Wonder how those new NS recruits are going to endure this heat. Haha.
Anyway, we went back to the place for audition. Had to queue quite a couple of times.. Maybe its been too long since i last blog.. Haha, didn't really remember to take some shots.. Finally, they led me and a few contestants up to another level, i thought there was still a chance to unload my bladder b4 the audition.. Turns out, there isn't any.. And i was the next few.. Couldn't go down and use the toilet again.. Sad...

So as i was waiting as the next in line, Hady Mirza came up and chatted me up.. I didn't say much.. Just that my bladder is too full. Haha. Gosh! He ask me to TAHAN!!
It was really hard to sing with a full bladder.. If you sing too hard, u might just leak a little.. HAHAHA, ok, im just JOKING!!
Of course my pipe won't leak..

When it was my turn, i stood infront of the judges. Kinda weird.. First time seeing them in real life for the first time. Ken Lim, Dick Lee, Florence Lian.. Just like the first time i saw those 星光 judges..

Dick Lee asked me, so you are more into singing chinese songs, then Ken Lim asked me why the switch.. Wah, didn't even think of this question b4.. Haha. Obviously for the competition.. And he threw another question, can't really remember what.. Something to do with singing english songs again..

So i started singing when i was told to.. Sang ok.. Not bad, but definitely not impressive at all.. Lucky half way through, i saw Dick Lee nodding his head, thats one vote. At the end of my singing, he said he likes my high pitch.. Haha. So i just need another nod of the head.. Florence Lian seems to be convinced. They asked me to sing a chinese song, dono for what reason. I sang.. Didn't impress Ken at all. Haha. I just suck at singing without a mic.. Dick likes my hoarse voice, Flo says it sounds more rock, nice touch. I was like, wah.. Not having enough sleep and i get to give u the rock feel.. Not bad.. Haha, they ask me to remain hoarse then.. Lol.
I thank them, went out the room with Gurmit waiting outside, with Sebas. I walked out empty handed.. They were saying aww.. Then i slipped my hand behind my back, pulled out my Congratulation Slip from my jacket and surprised them. HahAAHa.. Nice one to myself!

OK, we did a short interview, and i was led to somewhere again, did a few more short interviews. I think i suck at them, too tired to reply lively. Haha. So hopefully they don't show any of it on tv.. Then again, was led to the floating platform stand. Where the hot sun is shining ever so brightly.. Wah.. Heat stroke.. Wearing my jacket, i had to sit there pose to camera and sing "Home" the national song made famous by Kit Chan.. It was a torture and glad it was done..

Sebas

Me with the Congratulation slip.. Yeah, i cut my hair the day b4.. So short..

Now, i have to prepare myself another few english songs.. Guess im going the slightly rock route.. Haha, any rock songs to recommend?!

12th of July to 18th of July will be BOOT CAMP And Theatre Audition! at the Orchid Country Club..
And we have to bring swimsuits too.. I don't really feel like flaunting my body lor.. Lol.. 7 days of bootcamp.. Wonder what it will be like..
Adios and God Bless! Praise the Lord!

It Has Been A While

2009-06-14T20:45:00.003+08:00

Well, finally updated my blog, after exactly one month. =D

This week sure was a busy one.. 3 different competitions auditions coming up at the same time. Just a few weeks ago, i was pondering which competitions should i commit if both of them have an audition on the same date. I won't have to make a choice now.
Start of with friday. I went to take part in this small competition in my hometown. Kovan Superstar. Haha. Ok. I joined it cause Ivan wanted to have someone else to go with him. I asked him to take part in it cause he needs the experience if he gets into Singapore Idol 3..
Well, we both did get through to the semi finals.. Quite a breeze. Hehe.. Guess I'm getting very used to standing on stage.. But till now, i have never been able to do a splendid performance " by my own standard ".. No idea why, my throat is always acting slightly funny..
Well, next competition I'm talking about is, Singapore Idol 3. YEah! I made it through the first round. Ok, its just the first round. Nothing much to be proud of. I mean if you intend to go far in the competition, you should believe and know very well, you have to get through the first round with ease.. Haha, lucky me, i didn't queue up for it either. The sun was too hot for me, and i just can't queue for hours. I will go crazy.. So i didn't join those midnight queues or "under the hot sun queue"... A real kudos to those who did, their dedication.. In fact, i was stressing myself, thinking which competition to join.. It was between Singapore Idol 3, or 星光5 Singapore PK team.. Well, i kept praying for an answer. =P Today, i got it. Hoho, I was in the semi finals for the PK competition today, but was disappointed with the way they base their judging criteria.. They said matter of factly that X-Factor is a very important point of their judging opinions.. Well, to me.. This is a PK competition.. I would expect the judges to focus more on the vocal capabilities than the way we dress or look.. ( IF I HAD KNOWN I WON'T HAVE GONE IN A PLAIN SWEATER JACKET!! ) Or maybe i just don't have the X-Factor. Which i would really like to disagree with.. Haha. They had to select 20 for the finals, out of the 75 semi finalists.. It seem pretty easy for me to slip into the 20. But i guess plain me, missed it. Instead someone who sings half the lyrics wrong got in.. With another 10 ppl from previous TV shows competitions. Like, Carrie and Diya from Project Superstar. Sly from Singapore Idol. Some project superstar finalist, and winner, like Huang Zhiyang.. ANd blah blah blah.. So its pretty much, made good for tv ratings contest. Haha. Ok, some of them were good, but really.. I doubt some of their abilities.. I do see Carrie going to Taiwan to PK though. She sure looks like the real deal.. JIAYOU!
Ok, another small competition coming up, ONE LOVE GOT TALENT! Yeah. Its actually a church event. Open to everyone and anyone. As long as you got talent, you can take part in it. The prize is 1.5k if i'm not wrong. I always forget the prizes, unless i take it. Haha.
So now, i currently have 3 competitions this month.. Continuing my Singapore Idol 3 journey and 2 lower scale competitions! WOoHoo!

PS: Dudes with whom i had 麻辣火锅 yesterday! It didn't really affect my vocals.. Ok.. Maybe just a little bit hoarse. Hahaha..

More Photos Of Martin & Karyn's Wedding!

2009-05-14T04:07:00.004+08:00

Nothing much to say, just more pictures..

Preparing for the Gate Crash at Karyn's House.

Martin coming up on stage to sing "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz for Karyn.

Me, SiaOLiaO and Nat.

Me and Martin.

Me and SiaOLiaO.

The Blissful Couple.

Liu Yidao and Yueniang.
Coincidentally, their 50s Wedding Theme is dressed like Little Nyonya. Haha.

Me and Nat.

The trying to act cute pose. -.-"

The officially married couple!

Karyn Marching In With Her Dad.

Martin & Karyn's Wedding

2009-05-11T18:57:00.004+08:00

I could say most things went according as plan, except for a few small upsets.
The theme was The 50s Wedding.
Have yet to get most of the pictures from them, so i'll just upload those that i have currently. =]

Martin and Karyn doing their champagne pouring.

Anthony standing beside the Car of the Day! Omg, Nice right? The bridal car.

Mavis and Mandy. Martin's sisters.

Brothers Of Martin at Karyn's House for the tea ceremony!

At Martin's house for his tea ceremony.

Brothers and sisters after the wedding!

Sisters with the NewlyWed!

More pictures from the wedding soon...

What a waste...

2009-04-18T01:05:00.003+08:00

I just found out there is a 星光大道5.. And it has started.. zzzz. Read somewhere in the newspaper, few months back, and saw this comment from one of the producer of the shows saying that they might not be having the same theme for the show.. Meaning they were going to improvise it, doing it like America's Got Talent.. Yes, a mix of different performance.. Be it dancing, singing or whatever shit you can think off..
Had i known that there would be a fifth season.. I would have went back there to compete.. Argh!! And this time round i would have chosen the songs i want to sing.. Instead of picking random songs, and being accuse of sounding too much like Jay Chou.. ZzZzzzz... Back to writing songs for now..

CONCENTRATE WILLIS!! STOP lazing around..

And i saw a few familiar faces who got knocked out in the same round as me.. =[

Friday Performance At Far East Plaza

2009-04-05T11:01:00.003+08:00

Ahh, as usual.. Everything was pretty much a last minute decision for me. Lol. Change my songlist as i woke up on friday feeling slightly hoarse. As i was practising 想太多 the previous day before.. And only got to sleep at 9am in the morning.. Woke up at 4pm, made up my mind to sing 想太多，搁浅，借口. First 2 songs were fixed because i had already promised my friends i will be singing them. Last one was because it was easy to sing. HAha.
Made my way down to Far East Plaza, reached slightly before Ivan and Tingren for our dinner. Thanks Ivan for your cap, i just found out its too small for my head.. Looks funny.. Lol, do you want it back? Thanks Tingren for coming down with your camera. Sean for being the cameraman. Nicole for dropping by specially to see my live performance. And Shino for staying around after your meeting to see it.
This was the first time i performed 3 songs. As the previous 2 performances i had, i always told them at the very last minute that i can only sing 2.. Always coming up with the excuse of having a bad throat day. And they were kind enough not to deduct my fee. Haha.
Don't really know how i performed, as i didn't get to see the videos yet. Hope it turns out right.. Now that i have officially quitted my job as a fitness instructor. I can focus fully on my songwriting and performance. Wait for my news!
Videos for yesterday's performance will be uploaded by tonight, most probably. =]
Woke up early just now and went for early lunch with mum, sis and her friend at this chinese restaurant in Intercontinental Hotel. Its located at the second floor. We had dimsum and some other dishes. Most of the items tasted normal. But those with prawn fillings in them tasted pretty good. The other plus factor is that, the young service staff are quite good looking. =p Rushed through our lunch and went to VicoCity for a movie. Shinjuku Incident. Overall ratings from me would be 4/5. Played on a much cliche script. Mobsters betraying one another. Its like the Godfather, but made it the Asian version. And you get Shinjuku Incident. Even though the plot is pretty much overused, the movie is still a good one to catch. Do check it out too. =]
PS: I still do freelance personal training, anyone wanna signup? =D

Meaningless Life..

2009-03-25T19:06:00.003+08:00

What is life seriously about.. I felt that im getting closer to my goal.. Reaching my passion..
Yet, i don't feel a sense of joy or overwhelming happiness.. I wonder to myself, even if i make it as a singer-songwriter, will i be truly happpy.. Somehow, i felt an emptiness inside of me.. A thief creeped silently in the night, stealing my heart and left me here to live like a zombie.. That was a year ago.. But i'm still going through the flashbacks..

I'm suppose to be going around teaching students the right technique of how to exercise. But here i am, sitting at the gym counter typing an entry for my blog.. Am i in depression or what? End of this month, i will be jobless again.. I quit my fitness instructor job.. Planning to focus on writing songs on a full time basis.. I know it sounds stupid.. But my life is already in one stupid bundle.. Never been thinking straight since last year..
Just bought a new motherboard, processor, power supply and ram from Sim Lim.. Going over to SiaoLiaO's house to get it done.. And together with my newly bought 22inch LCD monitor and speakers.. Another $1000 gone.. I have an almost new set of computer.. Can my life be this simple too?! Just rebuild it..

Its time i live and breath music.. I'm afraid to go into another relationship because firstly, i cant seem to like anyone i know of at this moment and secondly, im afraid of trying out a relationship. What if few months down the road, i find that i don't really love her.. And she is deeply, emotionally attached to me.. That would be hurting..
So, for now, i rather sulk alone every night in my room.. And pray that God will throw my future wife at my feet one day.. (Imagine i'm walking down a road and suddenly this pretty and demure looking gal tripped on her heels and landed on my feet. HAha..) Oh Lord, Please do..

PS: Having a performance again, 3rd of April, Friday. 7:30pm-9pm at Far East Plaza.
Most probably imitate Jay Chou for one songs and singing 2 songs with my own voice..
Anyone can recommend me a Jay song that i have yet to sing?

2009-03-16T19:37:00.008+08:00

Work, shooting and performing has been whats keeping me so busy lately.. Didn't really have time to put in a new entry.. Came back home always feeling so tired and drained..

Work is taking a big portion of my time and besides that, i happened to be called up by Channel 8 to act as an extra, in not one, but three of their upcoming drama series. "Ultimatum" being one of them.. There was this one particular scene that i managed to catch them acting. Tay Ping Hui and Li Nanxing face off. Tay Ping Hui tying up Li NanXing with a rope and attaching him to the ceiling of an abandon warehouse. Ok, skip the stuff. Don't even know if im allowed to say them.

Didn't really feel like taking pictures.. Didn't take any pictures for today's role.

Anyway, besides the 3 short acting experience. I also started performing at an event call CLAP. Performed last saturday and i really enjoyed the experience and am craving for more! While i was having my soundcheck at the venue [ Amk Central ], some girls cheered for me. Lol, feels kinda funny, then they ran down from that particular block and gave me some good comments. The actual performance was nice too, as the crowd at AMK was pretty heartwarming and responsive.

Will be having another performance this saturday, at Bukit Merah Central from 7:30pm-9:30pm.

One thing that has been circulating my mind recently is that i have been neglecting my actual goal.. Of writing songs and coming up with some kinda of an EP.. But my job and everything else is taking up all my time.. I need to readjust the situation im in.. Will update about my plans soon..

Oh ya.. Since Jay Chou couldn't make it for the acting role of the legendary Bruce Lee, i decided to hit the gym to get a better body so i might audition for the role.. LOl, just joking..
Been hitting the gym for the past 3 weeks.. Trying to get my ideal body, well-sculpted and all.. Just taking this pictures to see my progress. =]

PS: I added some videos in youtube, the links are at the right side of this blog..

Ah, The Grand finals is over.. Finally..

2009-03-01T23:41:00.004+08:00

Woot.. Got over it.. OMG.. Had to take a leave from work to go for such a short rehearsal on friday.. And after that, went down to Marina Square to meet Martin and Co. to plan for his wedding.. Only reached home at 2plus...
Woke up at 8.30am on Saturday to prepare for the Grand Finals.. Omg.. Was feeling so sleepy and yet having to drag myself up to choose my performing attire (YES, I usually choose my outfit on the day itself..) Since i wasn't going to be a contestant for the Vocal category i didn't want to overdress myself, so i decided to go with a ballad looking rocker style. Haha. Since it fits my song too..
Reached just slightly b4 12pm.. Everything was slow, SLOW and SLOW!!!
Makeup and hair was done by The Hair Secret and Xquizit Hair Design respectively.
One of the makeup artist was my most recent ex's friend, Adeline. We were both pretty surprised to see each other. Chatted abit about nothing in particular and skipped the taboo name and subject. Lol.. She did a good job for my makeup, considering the fact that i had severe eyebags, Lol, and the hairstylist was great too.. Very professional..
Hair wasn't done when i took the picture though..

All the rehearsals were completed at 4.30pm.. By then, im already starving to death, waiting for the promised lunchbox.. Well, actually its dinner, since its suppose to come at 5pm.. And it came.. And i nearly cried.. Food was horrible.. Since i have been eating 6 meals a day since i started my Fitness Instructor job, i wasn't used to eating so little and so "often"..
7.30pm arrived and if u don't count the opening song for Impresario 2009 as the first song, then i'm the first one to perform! Yeah, by then, i was dying of hunger, fatigue and the blistering coldness was chilling my spine.. While waiting for the cue to appear on stage, i was practically trembling like a vibrator.. "Handphone vibrator la.. Don't think dirty pls..."
I went on stage, DJ Ah Ken from 100.3fm introduced me and i felt a warmth.. Ahh, not angels upon me.. But the warmth and heat of the spotlight! Haha.. SHiok man.. Surprisingly, i had totally no stage fright, i sang at peace, doing what i love doing best, and just when i was about to end my song, someone from the audience cheered, and i forgot the lyrics. Wahaha.. I mumbled my way like Jay Chou, and managed to remember the last line.
Overall, i was very satisfied with my performance. Will try to upload it when i have the video.
The holding room for the vocal solos, duet and Original Composition category

Yeah, pretty messy..

双J is the name for this vocal group. I see them as a very marketable group, able to sing well, looks good and well.. I dono what else.. Oh, yeah, dedicated. The guy took part in quite a few competitions, thats how i know him. He took part last year too. Great to see them win a 1 year performing contract with Ocean Butterflies.. Was suppose to stand between them, but decided not to, in case they are a real couple.. HAha. Now I look more like their manager standing beside them. >.<"
I didn't win anything, as expected. Since i already knew and foresee that i won't win anything, i didn't have any disappointment too. I only wanted to have more stage experience. =D But i will also do well to remember that i have to write songs that are more commercial.. So if my future songs sound too Jay Chou to you. You know its for the market, not for me. Haha..
Tomorrow is a filming day for me. Another first. Suppose to act out a few lines in an upcoming Channel 8 drama series, 想握你的手。Only a few lines, but who knows where it will lead me. =D
Tuesday will be a meeting with a producer who might be interested in signing a songwriting contract with me.
Let's see how it goes.. Soar with me! To greater heights, to greater achievements! Cheers!
PS: Good job to Impresario 2009 committee. Great work you guys have done, especially in keeping us happy! =D
PSS: Oh yeah.. Our poor merlion got struck by lightning..

The place where i felt could hold all my dreams.. I told Mr Merlion my dreams, of marrying someone and my passion for singing.. Now it got struck on the HEAD!! Wah kaoz..

How was ur Valentine's day?

2009-02-21T15:23:00.010+08:00

ahh, I know this entry is at least 1 week late.. Lol.. But i didn't wanna just post a short entry.. So anyway, how was your valentine's day? A friend of mine, broke up with his gf before that.. Must be a pretty sick feeling... Gals.. Sometimes u just don't understand them at all.. I spent mine in church. With God, haha, and some church friends, of course..
We had a very nice dinner and after that, had a very nice programme going on.. I sang a song, 害怕. But too bad, it wasn't recorded or something, just love to sing to a crowd.. Getting addicted to the feeling.. Haha. Got a rose from the audience.. so sweet of them.
The box of chocolate was for the singing, rose from someone who appreciate my singing.. and the candy was a door gift.. =D
After that, went to chill with the usual suspects at a pub in the Red Dot Building. Was really chilling, as there was just us and some customers. So we shifted to Plush Bar.. Really need to find a new place to hang out..
Nothing meaningful happen this past week.. Working as usual at Republic Poly.. Saw the main actors of the upcoming Channel 8 drama series about table tennis. They were there to film a part of their series in the table tennis court and locker room. Dai Yangtian was reading a script about some betrayal. Lol.
Went to the radio interview at 100.3fm yesterday.. Quite pissed with the amount of time i was on air.. Bad time management.. No comments.. Anyway, it was for the Impresario songwriting finalist to showcase their song.. Whatever.. Had quite a few pictures to post, thanks to the Impresario organisers for taking the initiative! 星光2 梁文音's interview was directly before ours, so we managed to catch her in the lobby. Very friendly person, greeted us from far with a upbeat Hello, but none of us replied her. I don't intend to shout, otherwise i would have greeted her definitely.. The rest were probably just stun to see her. LOL. Looks petite in real life, but she has a bounce to her footsteps. Didn't went up to take a picture with her, cause I'm not a fanboy, unless the opportunity arise. I don't think i will ever run up to a celebrity and snap photos with them..

Funny how i don't feel nervous going on air... Look at my hand posture.. Im the only one sitting so comfortably i guess. Haha.

Hong Junyang will be one of the judges for the finals.. I didn't went for the individual workshop he was holding for the finalist.. What a waste.. Could probably catch some comments about my song.. Well, since i know i won't win anything for this competition, i decided to save the time and trouble of my friends' by not inviting anyone to it. =D
So just check the updates here, this coming sat! Cheers! God Bless!
PS: i posted a video of my singing in last yr's impresario semi finals.. Click here!

Impresario 2009 Finals!

2009-02-08T23:56:00.005+08:00

Went down to Junction 8 with Alan. Reached there at around 1.30pm. The Impresario 2009 semi-finals was held at lvl 3, an outdoor event. Bad choice... It was usually held for autograph session and all, but i really dislike it, as it is humid, humid and HUMID!!!
The show started off with the solo vocalist, 11 of them in total, a mix of guys and gals this time round. So there will be only one vocal champion this year, instead of the separated male and female champion last year. Most of them were pretty good. Saw a few familiar faces, one of the gals was a finalist and she managed to got into the finals this time round again. One half of last year's vocal duet champion also got into the semis, but got booted out today. Some pretty good group singers got into the finals too. The dance part was a mixture of good and bad. The last street dance group to perform was pretty sleek with their moves. Impressive moves and music arrangement. Nice! They got into the finals of course. Impresario 2009 ambassador Kewei sang one of her originals, which supposingly will be out this year mid. And the last results to announce were the original composition category. Which is the one i took part in. I managed to got into the finals. Thanks for all who voted for me. Though it doesn't require any money to vote, it still take effort to vote. So thanks again. But I doubt i will even get into the Top3, as all the finalist have pretty solid compositions themselves.
Will be busy with a photoshoot for the finalist, appearance on radio show and some music workshop. I forgot when is the radio show going to be, and i suppose it should be 100.3fm, since they are the official sponsor.

V day is creeping up on me.. I felt that i have been cursed, either by some childhood lover or some little girl who used to like me when i was a wee kid.. Cursing me never to be able to spend a single V day with anyone.. I have been on this rotating earth for 25yrs, never once had i get to spend it with anyone. Jinx!
This year will probably be the same.. JINX!!! Never mind.. I will spend it with GOD, in church! There is a church dinner on V day. How cool is that! =D

PS: On when i will be on the radio show, i probably won't blog about it but leave a message on the chatbox.

YEah! Champion!

2009-02-01T04:37:00.006+08:00

What a long day it has been today! Woke up early again, for the competition. This time around 10am. Had myself a quick breakfast at home and rushed down to meet Ivan and friends, who accompanied me to Mediacorp. Thanks guys, for spending ur whole day with me!
Reached Mediacorp and while waiting for everyone to be there, and start the sound check and rehearsals, i wandered around the backstage.
Suddenly, i heard a gentle voice calling me "Willis". Sounds familiar and i turned to see Huang JingLun. Lol, i was pretty stun to see him there so early as most of the guest singers i know came not at 1pm, mind you, they usually come at around 5pm the earliest. Talk about discipline. Lol. If you think he's a small star, thus the "discipline". Sorry to inform you, he is already damn popular in Taiwan. Coming back to SG this week to do full-powered promo for his album. And of course to celebrate Lunar New Year with his family.
We chatted for awhile and then i left him to do his own things. Shortly after, rehearsal started, i sang badly as usual, dono why i never do them properly. HAha.
And since Jinglun and i haven't got our hair and makeup done, i didn't ask to have a picture taken with him.
Rehearsals done, Ivan and co, and me headed for our lunch and i got flooded by the God of Fortune kids at the canteen. Haha. One of them came up to me talking about his football manager game. Telling me weird players with weird football skills. Lol. While the other on my other side, keep trying to fake punch me, with "Ah Bish" as his sound effect. I had the worse Chicken Chop of my life, so if any of you guys ever go to the canteen at Mediacorp, you might wanna skip it. It would be better to go on a hunger strike. =D
Since i heard from Martin, the sandwich selling at the vending machine at the taxi stand tastes pretty good, i decided to try it out. Indeed, it lives up to it's fame. Haha.
Went straight to the makeup room to have my hair done. Didn't really see anyone you might be interested in. But Ivan did tell me Felicia Chin walked past the makeup room. Ahh... I wanted to see how beautiful she looks in person. Lol. Too bad..
At this point of time, quite a few people started to sms me, "Sorry, can't make it, with some excuses.." Wah, seriously, if they needed to pay for the tickets, i say they would have come no matter what.. I hate last minute changes..
Ok, skipping those moronic moments, we went back to the theatre and people started flooding the theatre. I was suppose to have a section for my friends and relatives, but kind hearted me, didn't have the heart to tell those strangers to move and not sit at my allocated seats. Ended up with my friends sitting separated seats far away from each other. Some even went to sit in other contestants' allocated seats. Haha. Anyway, thank you guys for coming! Thanks alot.
Sean came with Marcus and 2 of Jinglun's friend, and i end up bringing them up to his holding room to have their album sign by him.

Managed to take a quick group photo before going back to standby for the start of the show. Look at JingLun's signature. Pretty nice right? Look at the writings he wrote. Lol. Like a totally different person. >.<"
Went back down and a Fortune God kid ask me to take some pictures with him. Image me cam whoring with a God of Fortune. Haha. Sweet!
The show went smoothly, and by now, you guys should have known i got first for the competition. Thanks again for the support! Most of my friends and all my relatives stayed back to cam whore with me again. Lol. I guess i took at least a hundred pics today. Is that cam whoring or what?! Most of them are not taken by my camera, so make do with what i have now, will upload the rest once they sent it to me. =]

Ok, and this is the Champion's trophy! It is damn grand. Weighs at least 4kg. OMG, Looks like some Golden Horse Award trophy, even weighs like one. Haha. Nice..
I even had a first today. Someone came up and ask for my signature! Yeah! Lol. I hope better things will come this year for me. Good luck!
And please, for those who has yet to vote for my song in a songwriting competition. Click Here! go there and vote for my song! One Email address = 1 vote. Don't need to spend a cent. Ok?! Thanks in advance! =D
HUAT AR!!

Im So Lucky!

2009-01-17T23:42:00.008+08:00

Wow, been a very exhausting day for me today.. Woke up at 10am to practise singing the song a few more times and try to figure out some simple moves to accompany the singing. Rushed down to Mediacorp straight away and reached just on time. But as usual, on time usually means early. Whether u're in taiwan or singapore, i think the production team never really starts on the time they want you to come. They just want you to be there early so that you won't be late when they start.

Anyway, did some sound check and rehearsals with the rest of the contestants and i really thought the other guy was pretty good. As usual, once our rehearsal was done, we headed down to the makeup room.
Open the door, and the first person i saw was veteran actor, Huang Shinan and Xiang Yun. Shinan was just there to chat, while Xiang Yun was getting her makeup done for the Little Nyonya publicity outing at Tiong Bahru and Malaysia. Shortly after, came Yueniang herself. Yes, Jeannette Aw. Polite smiles from them, but besides that. Nothing. Lol. Joanne Peh came in next, with a big megawatt smile. She seems very friendly, but i didn't ask for their photo because i didn't wanna attack them, especially in their santuary. Lol. Since guys don't have much hair styling and makeup to do, the other guy and me went to have our late lunch. When we came back, Allan Wu and Michelle Chia was just about to leave. For their Calsberg outdoor show, if im not wrong. Michelle Chia looks real good in person and Allan Wu, obviously looks fitter than i saw in those magazine. >.<
Anyway, this guy who came with one of the other contestant let us see some pictures. He had managed to take pictures with Jeannette Aw and Joanne Peh.. Wah.. Sian 1/2.. Lol.
Few minutes later, Fiona Xie walked in. Ahh! She saw me! ?? on her head. Lol. But she smiled as politely as most celeb when they see a stranger in their vicinity. Lol. She glance over quite a few times, having no idea who and what am i doing in their makeup room. So i decided to walk over and ask her for a picture taking. Hehe.

We were standing closer than this.. I think the photographer took it before we could adjust our pose.. Sad man.. lol. She continued with some polite small talks like, you guys are here for some competitions? I know she's just been polite so we back off as soon as we answered her.
Went back to the super cold theatre to torture myself.. Shot a 3secs intro for the show. Every finalist have to do that.. I think they will play it over the next few days till the 31st.. I think im going to look like shit. Cause i had to repeat over and over again because it wasnt good enough for them.. So you will either see me looking like an idiot or robot for the next few days..
Took some pictures with the other contestants, but none of them was with my handphone camera. Haha. Only these pictures of me with my GOD OF FORTUNES.. Wahaha. THIS YEAR IS GOING TO BE SUPER 旺 for me! YEah!!

I didn't force them to take pictures with me, for your info. Lol. Even their mum ask me to take pictures with them. HEhe.
The theatre just keeps getting colder. Even the host and others started to comment about the temperature.. >.<"
It was my turn to sing, and of course, in such a cold place, my throat dries up faster than expected. I kept drinking more water, but also felt like peeing more.. Anyway, i think i suck in my performance as usual. I walked off feeling worried about it and didn't hear Kym Ng saying she likes my singing or something and a pity she isn't the judge. I only learnt of it later when my friend and mum told me. Cheers to her! Maybe her comment affected the judges' opinion.
I'm quite sad actually.. Can't take picture with Genie, the taiwanese singer. As she only arrived shortly before her singing, and left immediately after that..
Good thing is, I'll be seeing my Taiwan Tour Guide in the finals.. Mr Huang JingLun. HAhaha. He will be the guest singer for the next one.. I wonder what he will say to me, if he sees me there. OMg. SO lame la you, this compy you also join? >.<

Yeah! What a day.

2008-12-20T23:17:00.006+08:00

Surprised i got into the next round. Lol, my throat was dry by the time the show started. I was in mediacorp studio since 1.30pm for rehearsal, makeup and hairdo. Went into the makeup room and saw Dawn Yeoh, and a few other artiste. Dawn Yeoh looks real cute. >.<" Anyway i was given the thickest makeup i ever had and the hairstylist just love to keep spraying my hair. Spray away. In the end, this is how i look

At least i can still recognise myself after that. Ha.ha.ha. I did some cam whoring with myself since i got lots of time to spare in between. And met MiLuBing at the backstage. Cam Whored with them too. Haha.
The girl is another contestant who also manage to get into the semi finals.

Though my rehearsal went very smoothly, my actual performance wasn't as good as i wanted. Luckily i still got through to the next round. >.<" Next outfit for me will be hiphop A.K.A 给我一首歌的时间. Thanks for all the congrats from my friends and family members.
Since its been a long time since i styled my hair, i decided to cam whore when i went home again. Haha.

That's a pretty short entry. Since people always say i blog too much and show too little pictures. This should be refreshing then.

Anyway, yesterday i went to volunteer as a bell ringer. Was posted to Heeren HMV. OMG, crowded place on a friday evening. Suppose to do a shift of 5-7pm but i decided to stay on till 9pm since they only had 1 other volunteer. Was very disappointed with my first hour. Only $10 worth of donation from 3 people. I wanted to cry. I might as well have forked out the money myself.. Luckily more singaporeans and foreigners decided to be generous with their money. One guy parted with $100. OMG. God Bless HIM!!

Was happy with the amount i managed to achieve during my 4hours stint. Was pretty tiring though, having to ring the bell so often and smile at passer by who wouldn't even give a shit about charity. Anyway, its Salvation Army i'm volunteering for. Their money is for those needy children home kids.

HELP THEM WHEN U WALK PAST THEM THE NEXT TIME!! JUST GIVE ALL YOUR COINS AND WE WOULD BE VERY HAPPY!! Would probably volunteer again on Xmas Eve before i head over to greentea's house for the gathering. GOD BLESS THOSE KIDS!! < And those donors! >

Huang JingLun's debut album

2008-12-04T22:57:00.005+08:00

YEs, i know im way too late to blog about this. After all, his album came out like almost one month ago. Well, his album is totally off from what i expected, which was pure ballads like Jeff Chang. I thought he would have really done well if he stick to those. But well, i'm not complaining about this album though. It's definitely different from most of what we hear on the radio daily and its fresh. He could probably make it his signature genre if he stick to this for the next 1 or 2 albums.

It still seems kinda weird looking at someone u know in MVs, and i'm still getting use to the idea, cause afterall, he came out with his album in a very short period of time. While i'm speaking, the winner of season 3 is still probably choosing the right songs for her album. lol. 月光 his first promoted song has been hitting our airwaves very frequently, i usually catch it at least 3 times when i listen to the radio. It's good to see him doing so well and stop playing my tour guide. Lol.

So glad to see at least someone i can call a friend make it into the music industry.
If only i hadn't screwed up when i had that chance. zZzz.. Wonder when will my next break come. Anyway, Jinglun told me he joined lots of competition and was actually going to give up but decided to give one last try for 星光. Lucky for him to try that last time. Otherwise we wouldn't have another singaporean singer to represent us. When can i represent singapore?! Lol.. maybe i should also say this is my last time joining competitions.. Though i have only joined 2 of them till now..

Internet Scam Alert!

2008-12-01T15:52:00.002+08:00

I always receive emails from strangers to make friends, or chat about taiwan stuff. Since they chance upon my blog and seem have the idea that i know how to go around taiwan having fun. So usually i reply their email, out of courtesy or friendship.
I received an email few days back from this girl. Below is her message..
Hello.My name is tracey wilson,i read your profile todayat sgclub.com it was so good to me.i feel you are the only one missing in myentered life so i decided to stop on it and let you know that i aminterested to be a friend first.i also believe that coming to you willbe a probabilty of meeting that very thing that has been lacking in myentered life.please contact me at my email adress (traceydebor01@yahoo.com)i am a girl with respect and responsible,i respect people and believeme, if you contact me i will give you a full introduction of my selfokay. i hope to hear from you soon. Remember, all the darkness in theworld, can-not put off the light of a single candle as long as thelight of love shines bright in your heart,and alwayscares for my future love,TRACEY.
yeah, as i didn't read the email thoroughly i just replied her a short message saying yeah, friend, no prob. something like that. And ask her to stop calling me dear, of course.
So i received her reply today or yesterday, im not sure.
My Dearest Love

Thanks for your mail,I know this mail will not come to you as a surprise since this is my second mail to you, please bear with me.I really like to have a good relationship with a man like you, and i have a special reason why i decided to contact you.

Please My Belove one i shall be delighted if you could grant me an assistance.In brief my name is Tracey Wilson iam the only Child of Dr Michael Abubakar Wilson,Who held most of the governmental contracts in my country liberia, Before the rebels attacked our house one early morning on Wednesday November 24,2004. and killed my parents in cold blood.iam 24years of age now.My Beloved one my late Father deposited the sum of ($3.7 Million Us Dollars) in in a private fianance company and my name was use as the next of kin to this deposit .

This money was deposited by my late father with the intention of investing abroad but unfortunately my father and my mother was killed during political crises in my country may their soul rest in perfect peace amen.Then when the crises in my country grew up beyond human control i have to run for my dear life to people who were less privilage,( war is real evil)that is when i ran to Dakar senegal in west africa were i resides now in the united nation refugee camp.

I have got in contact with the private fianance company where my late father deposited this fund and let them to know about my plan of withdrawing this fund and i have also made them to be aware of the death of my parents which they have confirmed,however,they need a very responsible trustee or my foreign partner who will stand on my behalf due to my refugee status in the present country where i resides hence their law does not permit people in refugee status the right to operate in any form of bank transaction in the country.

Personally i contacted you now for a long term business relationship and investment assistance in your Country.However you will help me out in an investment and i will like you to stand for me as my foreign partner so that the bank can transfer this fund to your bank account in your country,Then you will help me out of this refugee camp to meet you over in your country and i will like to complete my studies, as i was in my first year in the university, when this problem started.It is my intention to compensate you with 20% of the total fund for your help and the balance shall be our investment capital.This is the reason why I decided to contact you.

Please My Belove one all communications should be through this e-mail address only for confidential purposes.I shall also appreciate an urgent message or telephone call from you through this telephone number of the Rev father in charge of our morning pray here in the camp.moreover,l will like to hear from you first before l will release the bank contact information to you so you will write to them and confirm the true existence of the money,l have great respect for you believeing that you will not betray me after the money have been transferred to your account.
moreover,i will like you to have the phone number of the pastor of our church here,his name is Revrened Johnson peters,(+221 767 442 487) if you call tell him that you will like to speak with me,he will send someone to call me immediately in the hostel.i will be expecting your call anytime please try to call me.
on getting your reply indicating your willingness to assist me and stand as my trustee/foreign representative,i will give to you the finance firm contact information for you to contact them your self to know how to transfer the money to your account.
take care of yourself,
with love and warm regards,
TRACEY

I got suspicous after reading this, so i checked on the net. How good for netizens like us now. Able to check for various info using the net. But of course, the net nearly got me conned! Ha,ha,ha. Anyway, this is what i found,

Scammer Jane Mabou from Ivory Coast, Africa
The link that expose her scam
So yeah, after making sure i was right, i sent that asshole an email, giving a hell of my fury, lol. But pretty much just for fun of it, doubt they will read it once they saw the opening line i wrote. HA,ha,ha. So beware my fellow netizens, you must. Believe in this scams, you must not.. Talk like Yoda, i have... Enjoy your day, you shall...
PS: this scams have been around for as long as we can remember. Doesn't matter the name change or scenerio. Just don't believe it. Especially when it involves your personal info.

Quantum of Solace Review

2008-11-22T03:34:00.003+08:00

AhhH.. Finally, went for a movie night out with SiaOLiaO. I have been asking him to hold off watching the movie so that he can watch it with me. Yeah, thats how gay we're. LoL. Well, it just seems that my movie kaki is him and gang, but gang usually come as a couple, for example, Martin and Greentea, Felix and Shuhui, Anthony and Peili, or even Liling and Louis. What the hell, might as well it be just 2 guys. Lol. At least we can check out the girls while we're at it. Anyway, all this couple are probably going to get married next year. WtF!? Its going to be a big blow to my wallet if they all get married at the same time. I was talking to SiaOLiaO about it just now, i wonder if it would be a good idea if they get married on the same day, same hotel, same ballroom? Maybe in the raffles ballroom in Swissotel? Where they can easily sit a hundred and fifty tables. Lol. That would be a First! haha.
Ok, back to the review,
Actually, if you really compare the older days James Bond to the current Daniel Craig version, i would definitely choose this more down-to-earth, masculine and modern Bond. It's more real, rather than rely on those high tech gadgets. The current one concludes well with several excellent action set pieces, and actore Daniel the monkey face sits well protraying that role. Well, i used to hate his face when the trailer of Casino Royale came out, but im definitely satisfied with him playing the role now, haha. The plot for Quantum of Solace is pretty thin, relying more on action scenes. So viewers who are looking for the action-oriented movies are going to leave the movie theatre pretty satisfied as most of the scenes are of Bond getting bombarded with machine-gun fire, engaging airplanes, boats, cars and scores of enemies. But since James Bond has been out for quite sometime, I assume, like SiaOLiaO said, we're the late bloomers for the movie. Haha.

The Unavoidable Decision

2008-11-17T02:16:00.004+08:00

After all this months, i waited patiently, hoping that one day she might come to her sense and change for the better. Guess i was wrong.
Chance upon her blog, and the images reminds me of the part of her that i dislike so much. I guess i only fall in love with her when i saw the more innocent side of her. The part that cared for me so much and wanting to make me happy. Maybe its the way she showered her love and do those little things for me that makes me want to love her more. And indeed, i did love her more. But i guess i have always been waiting for something that is pretty unrealistic, after all, she is still young. We have 2 totally different mindset right now.
So now, i make my unavoidable move. That is to carry on, to focus on what is best for me. With 2 competitions coming up for me, i should be working on them, rather than isolating myself to my thoughts. This void that i had created around me, seems to pull me further away from all my friends. My mind has been cleared, and just like a magic spell that has been lifted upon me, slowly the effect of her image doesn't gives me that same lovey-dovey feeling anymore.
I would say, i go more for the feelings than the looks. Definitely.. At least, thats a pretty good thing. I won't fall for every pretty girl i see. Lol. I do still feel for her, and i still couldn't throw away those pictures we took. Such memories.. A relationship expert would probably tell me to dump everything related to her out of the window. That is pretty logical. But when it comes to love, who actually follow the logic way out? Few more days would have been our 1 yr anniversary. And we have already parted for like 5 months now? Lol.
I was thinking of really, really throwing everything. I guess it takes time, so i'll give myself sometime and hopefully, on that midnight, i'll throw it away. I plan to go to the place where we used to go when we finish our work. And throw away the disc, where i stored all our beautiful memories in. And on the 12/12 i shall start to live my life to the fullest. No strings attached.
Everyone seems to be living their lives for themselves. Why should i be any different?
Word of advice, if you really wanna move on in a relationship, make sure you really stop it, no point dragging it on. Remove everything that reminds you of the person, delete all the contacts and don't isolate yourself. Have fun, spend time with your family and friends. Don't dwell on it. Make sure you keep yourself busy, get busy. Pick up a new hobby or focus on your passion! CHeers!

Rest In Peace 黎礎寧

2008-11-14T01:55:00.004+08:00

Very sad.. Such an amazing voice, attractive features.. Such a bubbly character, with the ability to liven up the atmosphere surrounding her.. But because of a troubled romance, she chose to end her life.. I totally felt for her.. Would you really say a person who committed suicide is a coward? I won't.. It really is a painful process for a person to go through and sometimes i just wonder, maybe even the most strong hearted being will crumble to it.. The pain that goes directly into one's heart, there is no armour thick enough to shield the pain.. Like her, i loved deeply and wanted nothing but a family of my own.. And having to lose it all, means shattering the very soul itself.. When we sing love songs that says without you i'm incomplete, or being as one, it actually means something.. If you really love deep enough, you will know whats it like to lose the other half and not being whole again.. It's like a big chunk of you has been ripped away.. Not being able to function properly anymore.. I had a screwed up relationship and was booted out from the competition even before i had some real tv time.. It really makes me feel even more dejected and felt the meaningless of life.. Have you ever wonder, whats it all about? Life and everything around it. Is it just party and have fun and wait to die? Lots of time i spent pondering by myself and i still do not have a clue what is life all about.. But i know what i really want.. Not a wonderful singing career, or something big in the music industry.. But to be able to work and build a little family of my own with the one i love.. Thats the most blessed thing i could ever wish for.. Such a simple dream, i hear you say.. But sometimes, the most simple dream is the hardest to fulfill.. Whatever it is, please treat your love ones nicely, you might just not know when they might leave the world, either through some sickness or other means.. Life is short.. No one believes it will happen to them all the people around them.. Don't be naive.. Spend more time to be a listening ear to your friend, you never know what is on their mind.. Thanks to SiaOLiaO for being there for me when i needed you.. Does the picture of 黎礎寧 bear a resemblance to someone we both know.. Maybe its just me.. I hope the image will stop haunting me.. Its been months.. And i'm trying to convince myself, somehow she left the world before me.. Man.. I need to take a walk right now.. http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=hykGqKumWCM the link for the news of 黎礎寧... rest in peace girl.. please bring with you the pain and suffering that you know im going through..

Sorry dudes..

2008-08-24T19:32:00.003+08:00

Went for the rehearsal yesterday.. Was suppose to be there by 11am. I thought everything would start on time, but they dragged everything and gave us 便溏 to eat first.
It was only till 1pm that they let us check with the music teachers the key we wanna sing, and to make sure the song was within one minute. When it was my turn, i asked the music teacher which part he advise me to sing. Cause i thought the song "黑色幽默" has a very nice start. And i thought that part has a better build up and i can sing it in a very technical way. But i was also thinking that the chorus have the impact and at last we came to the conclusion of singing the chorus.. As i singing and checking with him, he said i should be able to sing well, which i thought so too. Because i sang it in my own manner and did all the pitching correctly.. So we all gathered and waited for our turn to rehearse on the stage.. I was the first few, and when i went on stage, the contestants begin calling me 周杰论. I never thought i bear any resemblance to him.. But they said they sense the aura. Anyway.. I was joking with them while waiting for the musician teachers to check with each other the key to sing. So i was obvious i wasn't nervous at all. Which surprise me.. I could feel my throat getting drier by the second, i do not know why, like i said, i wasn't nervous, so i assume its the dry ice effect.. When i started to sing, my throat just keeps getting drier and drier.. And since i wasn't used to the feedback of the mic, "meaning, the way my voice is feedback to me" i just had to sing with my feeling.. End up my feeling is singing like Jay Chou... I have been practising this song and singing it in my own unique way for the past few days.. I don't know why i still switch back to singing like him, which was how i would sing that song in the past.. Rehearsal was only allowed to sing twice. Both times i sang like him, and when i got down the stage, obviously i got f*cked by the co producer.. She said we don't need any Jay Chou. I tried to explain myself of course, but it doesn't matter.. I didn't even waited for everyone to finish their rehearsal.. Went back to the hostel and got out again. I wanted to make sure i will be singing my own way on the actual day, which was today..
So today, i was placed 5th.. I thought i had it right this time. I lost all my confidence last night. I was always confident of my vocals.. If i didn't have the rehearsal yesterday, i would say i was confident i would get in today.. when it was my turn to sing, i got on stage. Looked at the judges, i wasn't nervous again. I can't explain why, i know i should be.. When the intro for my song started, i thought back to yesterday's rehearsal, today's show will be shown to everyone, including singaporeans.. I was introduced as a singaporean, so obviously, they would want me to do singapore proud.. This and the fact that i screwed yesterday's rehearsal, made me feel the sudden stress.. When i opened my mouth to sing, i forgot about all that i practised and again followed the way i had been singing that song for years.. Followed the old bloody habit.. Throughout the song, i couldn't concentrate, and because i couldn't hear myself singing properly with the live band drumming behind me, i totally lost my way in the song.. Singing it only because i had to.. When i finished, i just stood there.. Looking at the judges, then the floor, cause i know i screwed it real bad.. I think i went off pitch too.. Im not sure.. But they didn't bother to criticise that. They just said, we're already in the top50.. You shouldn't be imitating anyone anymore.. I wanted to say, the stress of the whole singapore is on me.. I mean, Jinglun had so many singaporeans with him for the first few stages.. If he fail, he's only one singaporean contestants out.. There are others to keep it up.. If i fail, means 星光4 will not have any more singaporean contestants.. And the fact that i screwed yesterday's rehearsal made me even more worried about singing it right.. Of course its all just lame excuses.. Im disappointed with myself.. Won't be blogging anymore.. I will carry on my music path.. Just not on 星光.. Writing songs probably.. Should have asked 小胖老师 if he would like to hear my demo.. Zzzzz.. Everything wasted.. I know i wasn't well prepared.. Should have put in my effort.. It's over.. Sorry for letting you guys down.. But i will make sure i have my songs on the radio. One Fine Day...

Hilarious news on tv

2008-08-23T00:42:00.003+08:00

Ok, its not really hilarious but you'll probably laugh about it. Yesterday, this hawker guy was watching olympic at his own foodshop and because he was so excited while supporting his taiwan sportsmen, he made a crude comment when the taiwan sportsmen wasn't doing too well. This comment was heard by a passerby, who just happens to walk past his shop and thought he was taunting him. Passerby got so pissed that he picked up the chopper and actually did manage to do some damage on the poor hawker guy. Lol. Would a comment or even someone just scolding you make you wanna pick up a chopper and chop him? I guess he probably already had a very very lousy day. All the anger bottled inside of him, and he vent it all out at the poor hawker guy. n_n" Saw the graduation of 星光3 on tv just now. Managed to catch myself in there a few times. There was one close up of me, which made me realised my hair looks horrible already. Lol. But i'm advise not to cut it.. Cause it will make that easier for them to give me a makeover if i managed to get into the top 20. Man.. I really dislike my hairstyle.. And i cant wear a cap for every show.. Hmmm.. Gotta sleep early.. Tomorrow gotta be at the studio for rehearsal at 11am, meaning i have to wake up at 8.30am!~ 0.o"

星光3 Graduation show~!

2008-08-17T23:58:00.003+08:00

Went for the recording of their graduation show. It was to send them off to their future endeavours while letting the viewers get to know the 4th batch better. For the past 2 days, i had to skip lunch and sit at the wooden bench for at least 5 to 6 hours straight. My butt hurts so badly~! I wanna cry.. Quite a number of us, got called up to introduce ourselves and sing a couple of lines. They had different category to be called up actually. For eg, songwriters, overseas contestants and yuan zhu ming. I was among the overseas contestant, but i went to the toilet when they got on stage, so they proceeded without me. Lol. So it's a good and bad thing. Good that i don't have to sing, cause my throat is still in a bad shape. Bad because it means i lose the chance to shine on stage. At the end of the recording, Jinglun asked why i didn't went to stage to perform. Lol.. ToileT BreaK~! The other 3 overseas contestants who were introduced were all from korea. There is this korean girl who went to PK with the song 回家 during the season3. So the viewers had a strong memory of her previous performance. There were also quite a few contestants who had PK-ed in the season3 but was unsuccessful in their PK. So now you see them in season4. 2 of the contestants who were also introduced, actually had a manager. Both females. And one of them sold 990,000 copies of her CD when she was 9 yrs old.. Apparently the song is very famous, which is sang in their native language. 990,000!!~ We were like OmG! Haha. Ok, so there were quite a big number of strong competitors.. This weekend will have a knock out of another 20 contestants.. Will i make it through.. Songs that i can sing is still not confirmed.. So i will have to wait.. Probably write up an english song for it.. Show them my songwriting skills. Lol. If i suck, too bad. I'm out.. Saturday will be rehearsal, Sunday will be recording.. Good Luck! Peeps!

Sad... Why like that.. First performance..

2008-08-16T21:16:00.004+08:00

Sad.. I waited so long for today.. Hoping i would do well and wow the audience.. Instead.. I think it was one of my worse singing of the song 最长的电影.. The phlegm starts acting up in my throat again.. And i keep drinking water and going to the toilet.. Out of the 140 contestants, i was the 89th and i had some waiting to do, so i went to the staircase to warm up my vocals.. The throat got too dry after 2 tries and i decided to give it a rest, hoping it would be much better during the actual singing. When it finally got to my turn, i was looking forward to standing on that stage and nervous too. Unlike the previous seasons where you get your points immediately after your singing, we were told to go on stage with 5 per group. Each taking turns to sing, and once the 5 finished singing, they will decide who goes to the next round. I thought that was pretty good, cause it means that if out of the 5 im the better one, then i stand a pretty good chance. But was i wrong.. In some groups, they rejected all 5 of them.. And there were actually alot of groups that are totally rejected.. It was demoralizing to see that.. When it came to my group, i was quite happy to see they judge it this way too. Cause some of the better singers are in my group, and by this manner of judging, at least i stand a chance to go to the next round. Lol. The mic they use is definitely much heavier than the ones im used to.. When it was my turn to sing, i wasn't as nervous as before.. But the problem was the feedback of the sound system.. I couldn't really hear myself singing that well.. So i just had to go with my instinct.. Sad.. Throat was dry like F*ck! Although i didn't crack, but i felt i didn't sing well at all.. I thought i could wow the audience in the first round.. Instead i wow myself with this lousy performance.. When the 5 of us stood infront of the judge, XiaoLing Laoshi announce that 3 of us made it through to the next round. 2 guys infront of me got in, so left me and Number 90. I was like, ok, so my journery starts and ends today. Lol.. Then when she announce my name, yeah, i gave a pretty shock impression, i totally don't deserve it.. I looked up and saw XiaoLing Laoshi, she smiles and gave me a slight nod of her head.. Maybe she was able to hear that i can still pitch the keys properly and think i deserve another chance.. No, they don't know im singaporean, so i wasn't given a chance base on that.. I hope i start weak and end up very strong! Please throat pls.. Heal up quickly to show your true power!! GgRRrR~!! So in the end, since they rejected too many.. Only 30 were selected out of the 140.. They had to select another 20 from the rest of the 110.. So the top50 is up.. After i was selected, i had to make a small speech to the camera man.. And i actually just wanted to intro myself and stuff.. But he asked me to say, season 3 got Jinglun, Season 4 got me to represent singapore.. Now if i don't do well, i'm sure alot of people will be saying i was trying to wear too big a hat.. Haiz.. Suddenly the pressure is weighing down.. If i don't perform as good as him, i will probably go back to sg a laughing stock.. Anyway there's another problem here.. I'm not sure if im allowed to blog about the show.. Since tomorrow is the graduation show for season3 contestant, which we had to be present for, i'll ask them about it tomorrow.. Gotta rest early for now. Bye peeps! =D

First encounter with Taiwan ah beng!

2008-08-13T17:57:00.002+08:00

Ahh, this few days was spent in a peaceful and homely manner. The only time i went out and took the MRT, was when i went to Shida Nightmarket to have pizza with Charlie the French, Peter the Canadian and Alex the ABC. Yeah, they were in the same room as me. And we were somehow craving for some pizza. Lol. And just like Harold and Kumar in search for white castle. We were searching for a pizza place named Alikart Pizza, supposingly, one of the best in taipei. But after searching for an hour and a half, we gave up, and decided to get into one of the local pizza house. We ordered ourselves a 10inch pizza each, and i was the slowest to finish them off. Not because i'm the only asian!! Lol. Asian Pride! Its because i had an ulcer on my tongue.. My first time.. WtF! Peter finished first, one slice infront of Charlie. Charlie was one slice infront of Alex and yeah.. You guessed it.. Alex was one slice infront of me.. But i had the biggest appetite! i went to have more snacks, while they were satisfied with what they had. We went back to the hostel, and i dwelled myself into the world of anime and drama series.. I just finished watching the Great Teacher Onizuka. Man.. What a classic.. Now i rememebered why i fell in love with the main actress in that drama.. Her character is so sweet and cute!! OmG!! Nanako Matsushima~!! And the best part out of the movie? The main actor and her got married!! Omg!! Kudos!! I just love such a nice romantic real life story.. To SiaOLiaO, don't you think Vanessa, the pub waitress i was considering before i worked in the pub, looks slightly like her? haiz.. Too bad, she is attached.. And the sad part is, i found out she quit everything, got a daytime job and is happy with her current bf.. Sad!! Lol.. I have come to this conclusion. Figure and looks can never match up to a good character. It definitely turns me on more than anything..
Ok! The encounter with those ah bengs was last night. I couldn't sleep and i thought maybe i should try to sing and warm up my vocals quite a bit before saturday. So i went to this park near my hostel. After getting my vocals warmed up. I headed back to the direction of my hostel. 1 guy with a motor helmet on, and 2 guys walked towards me. Obviously the guy infront with the helmet was the leader, but i didn't know that. I thought they just got off their bikes and that idiot didn't take off his helmet yet. Then when they were almost infront of me, Mr helmet head removed his visor and really took a close look at me. Which actually kinda pissed me off, cause at that moment i was still singing and warming up my vocals. They didn't seem interested in me though, so they walked off, and i was still singing to myself. Walking about 10feet behind them was another few guys. This idiots are more obvious in letting you know they are ah bengs. One of them was carrying a baseball bat, while the other was grabbing on to something at the back of his shirt. The way he tried to conceal it, makes it more obvious. They are definitely noobs in this stuff. Lol. I guess they didn't get to find the prey they were looking for, cause in less than a minute, they were walking behind me. And i was thinking, ok, so now i'm going to be the prey? haha. I remained calm, of course, i mean i'm a black belt karate expert, right? I could probably take them down with my bare hands. Lol. Nono, i'm not a black belt or even a brown belt. Just kidding. hoho. Just when they were getting close to me, they decided to walk at the roadside, because that's where their bikes were parked. Haha. Don't worry guys, if anything happened to me, i won't be blogging about it now. Police cars started to patrol the streets 10mins after they left. And you know what? The police station was just around the corner.. Very close to the place i first met them.. Lol. What the hell..

In Taiwan!

2008-08-09T19:36:00.004+08:00

YEah.. The flight to taiwan was one of the smoothest ride i ever had. And as it was a cloudy day, i get to see the most beautiful cloud formation in my life. If only i had a camera with me this time round.. Such a magnificent view of it, i had. When i reached the hostel, i found out Charlie, the Tom Cruise lookalike is still staying in the same room as before and went to greet him. His chinese vocab is still better than mine. Lol.
Went for the sound test today at their office, the place where i did my audition.. Most of the contestants i saw, are females.. Maybe this season will be the same as the 2nd season, where most of the finalist are girls. Hmm.. I think the only season with more guys than girls is actually season 1. Even season 3 had more girls than guys. Anyway, i had to dress up today the same day i would be dressing on the actual recording, which is the 16th of August. So that they can have my picture taken for some purpose.. While waiting for my turn, i managed to hear quite a number of them sing, its makes me slightly more confident, as the guys i hear are a bit weaker than i had expected.. Some of the girls were pretty amazing though. After i did my sound check, which was pretty fast, as i already knew what to sing and i would be singing in the O key, the keyboard laoshi said i had pretty good key pitch and said i should do quite ok. Since i didn't hear him saying it to others, i assume he was praising me, and maybe see that i would make it quite far. Lol. I really hope so.. I'm quite confident of my voice.. Just that my voice is still not in tip top condition. And the keyboard laoshi could hear that too and recommend i stop singing till the actual day itself.. Just keep thinking of the theory instead of doing the practical stuff. Thats what he said.. So i guess this one week, i would be thinking of how i want to present the song and not be singing at all. The nannies were quite nice to me, since i'm one of the few foreigners. YEah, they are known as the "nai ma" because they will be taking care of us during the competition. I really hope to make it far, please keep your fingers cross for me guys! I gotta go buy a taiwan sim card now.. So i probably wouldn't be using my Sg one.. So if you guys wanna contact me, just do it here, the msn, or friendster. =D

一路向北.. 星光大道第四屆 begins..

2008-08-08T02:20:00.003+08:00

Finally.. The day has come.. 08-08-08.. NO!! I'm not talking about the Beijing Olympics.. Though it happens to be the same day.. Lol.. I'm talking about my journey to taiwan for 星光大道第四屆. Been busy this few days, with my jogging to build up my stamina and trying to get rid of the cough and phlegm. Feeling much better than a few days ago, and my confidence is getting back.. Been watching the performance of the past few seasons, trying to catch the way they judge the contestants.. I was feeling quite stress after i saw the way they judge them.. I couldn't really understand why some got knocked out, while some get to stay. Lol. So after i had my shower just now, i just remind myself to do what i can do and leave the rest in the hands of God. =D
Just finished packing my bags and I really can't wait for the journey to start.. My first big step to my dreams.. OmG!! 16th August will be the first recording. Yes.. I will get to appear on international tv.. Lol. If i screw this up everyone can see it too. Like i said in the previous post, i have only one shot, one opportunity, i will make sure i make the best out of it. =D Just like the movie, Initial D.. I don't have a relationship anymore.. And now i make my choice to focus on my music.. Take Care my dear friends.. 一路向北!

超級星光大道4 HEre I ComE!! Woot!

2008-08-02T09:31:00.004+08:00

Finally I'm able to tell everyone i made it in something. Yeah. I got selected to participate in 超級星光大道4. Will be going over to Taiwan in a few days to start choosing my songs to sing and then start the recording. Yeah. International Television! Lol. Am so glad i was able to share the news with all my friends at Plush Bar last night. Haha. Some were shock and happy while most expected i was in. WtF!?! They said they never doubt my talent.. Yeah.. Guess it wasn't much of a surprise eh?! Lol. At least they were sincerely happy for me. I got pretty drunk yesterday and headache was getting quite bad... Had to vomit twice to make myself comfortable.. All the red wine, martell and beer. What the hell were they thinking.. Giving me such a multiformity of alcohol.. Nice mixture.. Red wine with martell?! Lol. I was quite shy when they started to sing the birthday song with the mic.. OmG! I had listen to the song being sang for other birthday babies when i was working there, and thought nothing of it, but when it was turn to be sang to me, i felt shy. LOl. I'm really happy that most of my friends were able to share my joy and happiness with me there last night. Thank You Guys! Now its time to really take care of my voice.. No moroe drinking or late nights.. Have to drink cough syrup and honey water regularly to cure my stupid cough and hoarse voice. -.-" I guess my friends will all have to turn to this blog to know how i'm doing in taiwan again. But this time I'm really going over for a cause. To capture my dream of making it in the music industry. Pray to God I'm going to perform well for every performance, and then, even if i lose out in the end, i know i did my best. Thats all that matters.. This is the first time I'm being so serious about something. I'm not going to screw it up. Like Eminem said in his "Lose Yourself" song, if you had one shot one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted, one moment, will you capture it or just let it slip? And success is the only motherf*cking option, failure is not! So guys support me morally, thats all i ask. Thanks to Shino for your very expensive gift! I have told you umpteen times, but i guess its not enough. You really didn't have to. =D Time to get prepared, Love you guys! WooT!

Good things are meant to be shared. Specially brought in from Japan. I don't dare to use it liao.. -.-"

HeeheeheeHeeheehee

2008-07-29T12:48:00.002+08:00

OMg.. Something big just happen in my life.. Something very big to me.. Am i finally able to do what i want seriously?! I woke up at 8am in the morning.. Feeling unrest.. With the top left eyelid twitching continously.. I thought back of the old chinese saying. If your eyelid is twitching see which eye is it and top or bottom of it. Its as follows.. Left top means something good, right top means nu, something bad i tink, my chinese isn't that good. left bottom means ai, not love, but suffering i tink, and right bottom means le, happiness or something. So since my left top eyelid was twitching, i thought maybe something good is going to happen. But i cast it to the back of my mind. Cause i never believe in this type of things.. Well.. Something just changed my view about it.. Maybe you guys should believe it too.. I will let you guys in on it this coming saturday.. Which is my birthday.. In the meantime.. HeeheeheeheeHEeheehEhe =P

A Time For Solitude

2008-07-24T20:04:00.007+08:00

Going into solitary mode, to recharge myself like i did in taiwan.. Can't believe just a few days of emotional turmoil can set me into such a state.. What am i getting into..
Posed like a nerd today as i couldn't get into sleep, and took some stupid pics..

Am sick, can't think straight.. Been a long time since i got sick, and i tot i was fitter than a marine. >.<" This blog is going into hibernation too.. Just like me.. How long will it be this time..

The Bewildering Affairs Of The Heart

2008-07-23T07:26:00.003+08:00

Eating away my soul by bits,
My tattered heart can only bleed,
Enraged and yet, defeated within,
Oh moon, oh moon, please shine for me,
The place, my life, now seems so bleak,
Darkness empowered, hovered over me,
I cried and knelt in the silent darkness,
Praying for strength, to fight this sadness,
Enrooted there, i saw no sign,
Of any help to get me by,
So then i must carry it on,
Bringing my pain and tears along,
I'm fighting for the strength to leave,
All the past and memories,
How aching sweet they were to me,
But i'm leaving it all so that you can see,
You were once cheerful, without me,
If you will hate me, then let it be,
For the things i do, is not for me,
But for you to live and be happy,
Thank you so much for your tender care,
For loving me, for being there,
Now is time for us to part,
But you'll always be here, in my heart.

Willis Loye

Blogshop is now open!

2008-07-21T01:57:00.004+08:00

Hi guys, please do visit my blogshop now. Finally opened it. Selling tshirts!
Click Here!

Went for a walk just now to clear my thoughts, and it started drizzling.. It does makes me feel refresh and much more at peace with myself. I deleted all entries related to my love relationship as i don't want any stupid quarrels between anyone anymore. Since its all in the past, then i shall just let it remain in the past. From now on, i will blog about anything but my love relationship ( if i have one, that is ). The walk i had just now, did help to give me the drive to do the things that matters to me most "MUSIC". I think i should put up a daily walk in my daily routine.. >.<" Cheers to everyone, and congrates to Martin and GreenTea for their engagement. Please get married asap.. Its like 7 years already!? LOL. And Felix Heriyanto for getting his PR. Woot!~ And SiaOLiaO for being single with me. Its been so long, we should start getting gay as you suggested, since we're the only 2 always staying single. HaHa.

Japanese AV audition?!?

2008-07-14T19:06:00.007+08:00

Ah... Past few days were spent hanging out with Wenbin and Marcus.. On friday, i woke up very late, at around 6pm... So the next thing i did was arrange with Wenbin where to have our dinner. Had some crap which i can't even remember.. Getting bored of the food here, don't mistaken me, there are some very nice food here. But it gets kinda boring after a while beecause the selection is so limited.. Can't wait to touch down Singapore tomorrow and have myself some Hokkien Prawn Mee! After our dinner, we head out in search of a clothes store selling erotic pictures of girls. Its a starting trend here. And i heard from Wenbin and Marcus, they have some selling in Far East too. So we finally found the shop, which was located just at the end of Ximending busy area.. The main shop we wanted to visit had a sign saying out of store, will be back shortly. Upon seeing the sign, we peered into the store and guess what?! Saw a stupid head just over the counter. So we knocked on the glass panel and after noticing that we saw him, he walked over to the glass door. He told us that he will only open in 15 mins.. Stupid horny shop attendant.. Must be masturbating while looking at the pictures on the tshirts.. Since the shop beside it was selling the same ideas in their tshirt, we went over to take a look. The attendants were both girls, with tshirts with the sexy pictures of taiwnaese girls printed on it. In the end, Marcus bought on from them and Wenbin went over to the masturbating shop and bought one too. Verdict = too expensive for the unique design. Both cost around NT$2400 for one. >.< Of course, Marcus's one would be more worth it as i prefer his design to Wenbin's. And they only limit 4-5 pieces per design. It's a local brand, and i think they have to pay the model quite some money, which is the reason why their prices are set quite high.
The "open leg" pose is the one Marcus bought. After the borng shopping spree, we did something more boring.. Bought a watermelon, some cup noodles and headed back to their hotel.. Yeah, everyday walking around at Ximending can be quite boring too..

Yeah, their love hotel is much neater than before.. They shifted back to the bigger room, cause the small room is really "small". Lol. The watermelons in Taiwan is much bigger than ours. I heard the locals saying that they have really sweet watermelons here, and when our surgeon finally managed to dig to the middle part of the melon with his plastic baby knife, the really sweet part was fantastic! Sweet! The motive for staying in the hotel was to watch 超級星光大道. So while waiting for 10pm, we were switching between channels and Marcus decided to stop at some stupid channel when he saw some girls. Then slowly we came to understand its a japanese porn channel. They started with a group of girls, around 50? With their clothes on, they stood in rows infront of a panel of judges. Like they were auditioning for the Next American Top Model. But theirs was the Next Japanese AV Pornstar. The next thing they did was stripe. Yes all 50 of them and now they were sitting there naked. On the benches. And one by one, they took turns standing infront of the panel of judges and was interviewed. They were told what kinda pornstar they could be. If i read the chinese subtitles correctly, that is. Kinda stupid idiots if you ask me.. Is money so important to them? I don't really believe that they are in great need of money to do that.. Msybe these bitches just enjoy getting screwed and being filmed for it. They cried when they were told they couldn't get in.. Maybe its their dream or passion to be recognise as a porn star.. Whatever.. Anyway, Jinglun's performance was good. Top 3 spot for the first round of the final contest. The next day was boring for me again, the guys decided to go to the private event held by the sex tshirt shop. Since the girls "invited", why not?! I didn't feel like going cause i was sick of that lifestyle. Anyway, i didn't live to regret it though, they did. Haha. Yesterday, they told me that most of the people there were young guys. Pretty much like going Canto, the percentage of girls was so little. I think Marcus is pretty unlucky in this area.. He went to Club Lava alone, not much chicks was attacking him, and the place got raid by the cops. Hahaha.. Its so uncommon for cops to be conducting spotchecks in this medium size clubs right? And he got it.. And now this. Well well. There is an upside to it though, for NT$400, its all-you-can-drink night. But again, he don't really drink, he just goes clubbing for the girls.. Lol. Too bad for him.. Ok, yesterday. I woke up early!! Cause we had to be at the TV station by 3.30pm!!~ Going over to show Jinglun our moral support!~ We had our lunch at the Japanese restaurant in Ximending, upon highly recommendation from the 2 guys.. But was i disappointed.. Their handrolls couldn't be compared to the one i had in the buffet restaurant which i went with Kenneth.. The rest of the food wasn't that good either.. In every busy part of Ximending, Coke have some event in it. Blasting their Always Coca Cola song through speakers. Giving out free Coke. which you have to join a long queue for. It wasn't worth it for us, so obviously we didn't queue for it. They also have some bands performing on a stage in the heart of Ximending. Singing Coke inspired songs. Lol. When we finally reached the TV station, we had to wait to be allowed in.. Met up with another of Jinglun's singapore friend and waited again.. Waiting with the fans made me uncomfortable.. I don't like to be a fan of anyone.. Weird feeling waiting there. Got our "close friends and family only" tickets and waited again. We managed to get into the front of the queue just by waving our ticket in the air. Which was done by Wenbin. Haha.. But when we got to the front of the queue. We saw that they also have the same pink color tickets as us. So i guess we aren't that privilege anymore.. >.<" Finally, we were allowed in.. And the size of the recording area surprised us.
I was sitting at the exact middle of it. Direcly behind the judges. And the guest judge of the day was Fan Weiqi. Yeah, she is really slim in person and her personlity seems geniune. Bubbly and talkative. The host Matilda, is definitely very entertaining throughout the whole show. Even while they were setting up props for the next perfomance.. Yeah.. A lot of props were being used in this episode.. Bed, window frames, benches and all.. Jinglun did badly for his solo performance.. His voice crack in the middle of the song. And i could understand how he felt throughout the whole show.. Very very miserable.. He is still in the third position, tied with a girl with the same sir name as me. You go girl~! Li Chu Ni, luckily its not Li Pei Ni, gotta remind me of someone. Haha.. The whole show ended at 8+pm.. My butt was getting sore, having to sit on the hard benches for so many hours straight.. Can't wait to see the whole show on tv! We went to Shilin Nightmarket after that. Marcus wanted to buy a pair of shoes, so since Shilin have the most shops selling shoes in taipei, we went over.. He bought a pair of Royal Elastic shoes which cost around NT$3600 after a 10% discount.. Walked around somemore and went for our Ice again at the shop Jinglun brought us to. Wenbin was greedy and have 2 of it, which we had to help him finish in the end. If you ever stop by it, try their Mango flavoured ones. I think they only have it for summer though.. It wrote "season" in chinese, beside the name in the menu.. Ok, gotta pack my bags and head home to singapore tomorrow.. Time to be a movie buff SiaOLiaO!~

Jing Lun as my tour guide >.<"

2008-07-10T08:27:00.013+08:00

Lol, getting so lazy to post entries nowadays. Was so glad when Wenbin AKA AK SiaO said he will be coming in a few days time. Anyway, that was last week. He and one of his friend got here a few days back. Was so happy to have someone to entertain me. Haha. I met up with them 2 days ago, and brought them to Wufenpu to buy some clothes. His friend, Marcus was daring enough when we suggest to him to buy the sky blue colored berms. And in fact, he actually wore it that evening. We went back to their hotel to leave behind the clothes and Marcus changed into his new berms immediately. Lol. We were joking about how gay he looks in it.

Their hotel looks more gay though.. It seems to me that the management is trying to get the image of a love hotel. Lol. Heart shape cushion pillow!! This room cost S$90 a night. Looks kinda small and i don't really think its worth it to pay that amount for such a small room.. They are going to downgrade to a much smaller one that is going to cost them S$50. I wonder how small is it going to be. >.<" After changing and getting ready, which took quite a while as Mr Marcus is quite the vain type.
In the evening, we met up with Wenbin's friend, aka Mr Huang Jing Lun from the current 超級星光大道第三. At first, i thought he would be kinda stuck up, like most "almost there but not there yet" semi celebrities. But when he saw us, he greeted us immediately with a smile and hello and humbly introduce himself and shook hands with me and Marcus. Why did i say he was my tour guide? Cause he brought me to different parts of Shilin night market. Introduce me very very nice desserts and finger food. We had our dinner at the part of the night market that sells food. Had ourselves Beef Chop and Marcus who is a Buddhist couldn't have Beef so he got himself a Lamb Chop, which was NT$250, NT$100 more than ours. I didn't know lamb is so expensive. >.<" After the heavy dinner ( which wasn't eaten in peace ), as his facial features is quite outstanding, Jing Lun is recognise easily by TV viewers..
One was taken while we were thinking of what to eat, while the other was when we went into the busier part of the Shilin Nightmarket. I think taiwanese fans approach their idol or someone they admire more commonly than singaporeans.. While singaporean fans are more laidback. After the heavy Beef Chop, he introduced us to some very delicious onion rings and beef rings. OMG~~! The beef rings are wonderful, the best food i have ever eaten in taiwan. We got extra portion as the vendors, who are young people, watch 超級星光大道 quite regularly. They recognise him, but were very polite and didn't ask for any photos to be taken. The portion is really extra.. Overflowing from the little packet that was given.. >.<" So generous! Then we went for to eat ice. Yeah, ice which doesn't look like ice ka chang. The texture is not really like those ice cream but not like ice ka chang either. It tastes good, very good indeed. So many flavours to choose from, and though i have always walked past this stall every time i drop by Shilin Nightmarket. I didn't bother to go in to check it out. And again, the busy part of Shilin Nightmarket, we were stopped again, even though we asked him to lower his head and walk. I think it's his nose, makes him so much more easy to recognise. >.< After chatting with him for quite a while, i found out that he took part in NTU Impresario too. For both the solo and duet category. I dono what happened. But he told me, he didn't even made it through the first round for the solo category and only made it to the semi finals for the duet category. He remembered i sang Shi Jie Wei Yi De Ni for the semi at Causeway point. Even though there is only 5 groups for the duet on that day, i didn't really remember seeing him on that day. Maybe i was too nervous about my own performance and the contestants in the solo category.. Funny how singporean judges cannot see the talent sometimes. Like him, didn't even got through the first round but made it to the top5 of 超級星光大道3 and chances of winning it is quite high too. And the other girl from Project Superstar, got booted out but went to HongKong won a competition and is now a famous singer. Rong Zhu Er is the name, i think. Anyway, i was more surprised when he said he remember me singing 最长的电影 for the singapore's first round 超級星光大道 audition. Even remembered my audition number, 42 or something, which even i forgot. So Wenbin and i was joking that he is gay. Haha. Of course he is not. >.<" Thought i would get in and come to taiwan, but i guess i screwed it up for the second round. ArgH!! Wny must my voice always cork up when i am having auditions!! Is it stress that makes a person sick easily?! I guess so. So after, stuffing ourselves with all we can eat, he took us to the back of the night market which is more for playing with those "Pasar Malam stalls that gives you soft toy when you win some kinda games" area. We went into the building and played some pool. Which cost about NT$150 for an hour. All the pools in taiwan have very nice looking balls. Lol. So bright and colourful like the clothes they wear. Unlike the dull looking ones we get in singapore. >.<" After an hour of pool, we all got tired and decided to head home..
Yesterday, i woke up at 5pm.. Half my day was gone, and i rushed through my shower and brushed my teeth. Called Wenbin immediately to meet up. Just nice, Marcus and him finished shopping and is back at their hotel. So we met up for an early dinner. Boring food as usual.. Singapore's food is definitely better for me. Taiwan's main dishes isn't as nice as singapore's, but their finger food is definitely the better one. After dinner, they said they wanted to check out Luo Zhixiang AKA Xiaozhu's clothes store. So we went looking for it. Yes, though he is famous in taiwan, not many people know where is his store.. We asked around and finally managed to find it.. Its not in Ximending itself.. But 10 minutes walk from it. He makes so much money, his clothes are selling at sky high prices, i wonder why is his store in this area.. Totally out of place..

The design is pretty good. The store is very very small. And the tshirts they are selling only have like, 15 designs? Lol. And most of the tshirts are selling at NT4800. Thats S$218? wOW!~ I think only a die hard fan would spend that amount to have the one STAGE on their tshirt..
Marcus was craving for clubbing, and since it was wednesday night, i introduce him to Club Lava, which is NT$600 for all you can drink. Wenbin didn't want to go and i can't believe Marcus could actually still go alone.. I mean i have never went clubbing alone.. The feeling must be weird.. So he went back to the hotel to get ready while Wenbin and i called up Jing Lun to find out where he is. He just finished some recording for XiaoZhu, AKA Luo Zhixiang's show. So we decided to meet at Miramar shopping centre.. Its a damn wulu place.. The Metro is still being set up there. And the nearest station at the moment is the one at Shilin NightMarket.. And from the station to the shopping centre, it costs NT$200plus, which means that it is quite far away.. I dono why there is even any buildings around there. So wulu.. The reason why we went there is because we wanted to take the ferris wheel. Yes, singapore also have their own right now. The Singapore Flyer. But its quite ex in singapore, compared to this one..
And its build on top of the shopping centre. Nice. Jing Lun came, but somehow we didn't bother to take the ride anymore.. Cause he introduce us to baseball!!~ I thought he was getting too stress from the competition and was talking crap. Baseball now?! In this area?! Yeah.. Just behind the shopping centre, is this baseball centre. NTS200 for 6 tokens. 1 token is allowed to play 21 balls.. The balls come out a machine and you can choose the speed your ball is coming towards you. lowest is 80km/h to 140km/h. The ones with the lowest speed had quite alot of people queueing up, so we decided to play the one with the speed of 110km/h.. It was too fast for us.. I missed alot of the shots..
Its very cheap and very fun.. Jing Lun didn't expect such a crowd there so he didn't really bother with wearing a cap or something to disguise him. So while queueing up, fans came up and took pictures with him again. Lol.

Decided to take some silly pics ourselves too. The famous pose of his. Looking at the sky, like Bae Young Jun. Wahaha.. And thats Wenbin. =D After playing for quite sometime, i dono why, we went to his hotel. Wulu!!~ How come they are staying at such a wulu place. Lol. The room he and Sugie share is very very messy.. Everything on the floor and couch. Lol. A guy dominatiing room. Sugie wasn't around, so we just slack in the room and watched some tv and listen to some of his edited version of minus one tracks. Some which he will be singing and some that he already sang. only 2 and 1/2 mins per song. So editing the right part is very important. He said he sang a dance song with some dance moves for the upcoming episode. Lol. He doesn't look like the sort that can dance, so i asked why he chose that song. He chose Nicholas Tse's Bu Ai Tiao Wu.. So meaningful.. Cause he doesn't like to dance. >.< Anyway, staying inside the room got boring for me after awhile and i suggested DOTA. LOl. Like most guys in singapore, they couldn't stand the invitation of playing computer games, so they agreed. Jing Lun wanted to play somewhere nearer to his area so that going back won't be such a problem. In the end, we went to the cybercafe i always frequent and played till 7am in the morning. Haha.. We got owned throughout the night. HAhaha. I think he is going to be cursing and swearing. So many things to do today and he still play DOTA till this morning. Lol. Getting owned is boring, i really hope my DOTA is good one day. Lol. A beautiful chinese chess set his fan gave him. Just because he said something about chinese chess or something.. I wonder if he says his lappy is an old and lousy one. Will they get him a new one. Haha.

I'm a Rocker!

2008-07-06T23:07:00.010+08:00

I'm starting to become very social and making friends everyday. Lol. 2 days ago, i brought Mike the US guy to Taipei Main Station to get his HSR ticket to Hua Lien. The east coast of Taiwan. There are suppose to be nice views of mountains and everything, like the Taroko Gorge. One way ticket there would cost around NT$400.
While i was waiting for him inside the control station, i saw this group of kids with their childcare teachers coming in through this gate. They were measuring their height for the free entry option. Haha. So cute.
Today, was spent with Charlie. This guy in my room now. He has been here for quite awhile too. French guy who is better at mandarin than me.. He stayed at China for 3 years before coming here to study mandarin for 2 months. We went to have our lunch at one of the chinese coffeshops and they handed us a chinese menu. Those with traditional chinese, and he read it out with ease, while i was stumbling with every other word.. Haha. After our lunch, he asked if i had anything on, i said i was going to MaoKong Gondola, he seems interested and ready to leave his homework behind, so i asked if he wanted to tag along. Of course, he agreed. Lucky, the weather was really smiling at us, not blasting sun and stormy rain. The ride for the 3 stations the gondola took us to, cost only NT$50. The ride took a total of 20 minutes ( really long ride for a cablecar ) and it was only a one way ride. The highest it got was 299.3m off the ground. >.< You can see quite a big part of Taipei from the top. There were nothing much up there.. Much to my disappointment.. Only shrine temples and semi-restaurants.. Sianz..

The roads really look tempting for a racer. Haha. Those Initial D moments keeping replaying in my head. Even Charlie who knows nuts about Initial D were saying there must be some kinda racing here at night. Lol.
The walk down was very long, we decided to walk down the flight of stairs which we weren't sure where it led to. Even the flight of stairs was long.. Neverending.. Took us a long time to walk down the stairs, i wondered if we just walk along the road, how long would it take us.. Actually you can get on a bus that drives you down.. But we just wanted to test our patience and endurance. haha And to stop every once in a while to take nice pictures of the place. Thats Charlie. He kinda looks like a younger Tom Cruise, a skinnier one too. Lol.

Walked for 2 hours and finally got to the Metro again..
So tired.. And ready to hit the shower.. Another half hour ride before we can achieve that..

And when we reached the hostel.. The receptionist asked us to try on the new wig she got. Haha. I am a Rocker!! haha. But the winner is Charlie. He looks more like one, no? lol.

Results of the audition

2008-07-04T15:49:00.009+08:00

There past few days, i wasn't really busy, yes, busy buying clothes for my online blogshop thats selling very nice and fashionable guy's t-shirts. But not so busy that i don't have time to blog or something, in fact, i had nothing to do last night and went to play DOTA till 12pm today.. GosH! When will i ever learn. =D SiaOLiaO, i miss playing it together. LOL. Ok, so what had happened? I went to buy some clothes for the blogshop and been going around Taipei with my new room-mate. No, not a gal, a 23 yr old guy from the US of A, Mike is his name. Very friendly and easy-going chap. Unlike the other guy from Holland, whom i went clubbing with, Peter. Peter was always whining about wanting to eat his crossaints. Is it spelled this way? Anyway, he doesn't like chinese food and thinks it is so dirty and "fu*king sucks" ( his exact words ). So after that day, i didn't bother to go out with him anymore. Image a 21 yr old western guy, acting like a kid, saying i want crossaints, i want crossaints. Irritating and immmature.. >.<" 3 afternoons ago, my phone rang, and woke me up from my sleep. I looked at the caller id and it shows like 10 numbers. I answered it and this girl on the line, asked me if i am 黎辉丰, i said ya. She said she was calling from 星光大道, asked me a few more questions and said my audition will be held the following day, which was 2 days ago. And so i decided to sing the song made famous by me in Plush Bar. Haha. You guess right! 最长的电影! lol. The office of the so called 星光大道, isn't big and glamourous, if that is what you were thinking. There were fellow contestants like me, who had queued up at the actual day, and didn't get the chance to sing. I'm not sure if they auditioned everyone who wasn't given a chance though. Some others had sent their forms by snail mail ( yes, only snail mail, email cannot! ). I reached early, like 3.15pm, and they asked me to go and have a walk.. The sun was like the hottest ever since i was here. So i had to go for a "walk" for 15 mins, cause the audition starts at 3.30pm. When i got back, she was really on time and led me, 1 gal and another guy, into this small waiting room. The gal was the first to be led to the audition room, which was a very small room actually, her vocals were quite opera-like. Maybe they would take her, cause it is unique. Who knows. After her, was the guy, can't remember what song they sang. But this guy was mediocre. No attraction or impact on me. Then other contestants started to fill in the small waiting room. >.< And it was my turn. The so-called audition room has a small backdrop, and infront of you is the lady, holding her camera, and she will ask you to stand infront of the backdrop and introduce yourself. I was very nervous and when she asked me to smile to the camera. My face kinda cramped! lol. I had on the fakest smile i ever produced in my life. Kinda lop-sided and twitching a little. haha. I don't really feel any pressure singing on a stage with audience. But somehow, when i come to an enclosed area, I always feel uncomfortable and stress. Heart was beating quite fast, so i had some very natural "dou ying" and breathing was in short and insufficient breathes. Sang the first song, "the longest movie" and another admin, came and looked through the glass door. Maybe cause my singing was horrible and everyone in the office were thinking who the hell is wasting our time with the audition.. There is no sound proof door or walls. Everyone can hear you sing very very clearly.. Thats another reason why i was so nervous. She asked for a second song, in any language, and cause my voice was kinda hoarse, i decided to skip all the Gary Cao songs and ballads. No, i know i have lots of excuses for not singing properly.. But its real. I drank quite a lot of their tap water unintentionally.. When i was in the hostel, few days back, i refilled my bottle with the already boiled warm water. It was too warm so i decided to add in tap water to reduce the temperature.. The more i drank, the more my throat gets dry.. I forgot that you can't drink their tap water at all, cause they are totally unprocessed.. So, too bad.. Anyway, i decided to sing 愛是懷疑 by Eason Chan. Fast song doesn't matter if you sounds like shit, as long as the groove and pitch is correct, its ok. I actually planned to do a bit of simple beatbox before i sing, but ended up skipping it and going straight for the chorus.. I mean im a totally noob in beatboxing and i only learnt it from youtube like the other day. And since, the workers in the office can hear me clearly, i had to skip that.. Overall, i think i suck. But who knows.. I thought i suck when i went for the Impresario audition and even told Felix ( who is a nice soul, for accompanying me over ) that i sounded like Ah Du singing An Jing, and didn't expect to hear from them again. But they did contact me for the semi finals. Lol. I have high expectations for myself when it comes to singing, most of the time, i think i suck.. >.<" Thats how you get better..
And actually before the audition, i woke up early go out and find some place to warm up my vocals and practise my beatbox.. Since it was near, Mr Sun Yat-Sen Memorial, i went to the park to do my warming up. After warming up for quite sometime, and feeling my throat going too dry, cause of the dry atmosphere, i went to the air-conditioned memorial building. This is what i saw.
Around the whole building, there are youngsters learning and practising their hip Hip Yoyo dance. It is indeed a big hobby in Taiwan.

I saw this in an underground metro link. It has become a common sight, nothing to be surprised about. After my audition, i went back to the hostel for a shower. It was so so hot, that Mike, who went to Danshui and was going to take the ferry to Bali Island, came back after going out for only 4 hours. So we decided to slack in the hostel till the evening and went out for our dinner and some shopping.
Again, like every night in Ximending, there is something to see. Different people busking.. The mysterious piper, and the puppet guy making the puppet dance to retro music.. Mike is unlike most, western people. He went to Singapore before he came here, and the few days he was there, he had durians everyday.. Loves the smell of it, and when he came here, i brought him to a store in Ximending that sells Smelly Tofu. He loves it. Again, every night he would find some to eat.. This delicacies are suppose to smell funny to them. And he is your typical western guy. Blond hair and blue eyes. I don't think i will like their food though. Imagine red beans with beef.. I caan't imagine how they eat that.. Beans are like desserts to us, and they have it with their meat.. No thanks.. Since he wanted to buy cheap shoes, we headed down to Shilin Nightmarket. They sell cheap branded shoes. Like less than S$50 for a pair of Adidas or Nike. They don't seem to sell fake brands around here. I asked around and seems to get the same reply. Dono where it is. We walked around and came to this food stall ( not those street stalls, but actuall foodstalls ) and these 2 young guys, trying to be funny, waved at us and said in english, "Hey hey, come and try our food man, yo yo!"
Obviously, they were trying to be funny, so i went up to their stall, looked at their food display and replied in english, "Do you have your mum's fried pussy inside out with some mayo"? They looked at each other and before they can reply, i said, "Nah, don't think you have it, thanks". Mike was trying so hard not to laugh at their dumb-fu*ked expression. We walked down the streets somemore and saw the 2 new korean gals from our hostel. They said hi, and we said bye. The first day they came, Mike and i was sitting in the kitchen, watching some tv shows and they came in with their beers and instant korean instant noodles. So i asked if they were korean, they asked how did i know. I said, all the koreans i see, like to drink beer. I have seen quite a number of koreans in the hostel and all of them, even the nerdy looking ones drink it everyday. Especially during dinner time. It is definitely a culture for them to drink it. This other korean guy in my room, nerdy looking too. Had 3 brands of beer on his bedside. >.<"
Anyway, back to Shilin NightMarket. We were tired from walking and the afternoon sun having drained all my energy, made me wanna go back and rest. So we headed to the Metro. I went to the toilet and when i came out, this 2 kids aged around 12yrs old, walked up to Mike and said, our english teacher wants us to talk to westerners so that we can improve our english. So Mike was like, "Ok, what do you wanna talk about? They replied, "No talk, just sign. We just need your signature to show that we spoke to westerners". And the whole list of names on the paper were english names. Lol. They were really cute and funny. We reached Ximen Station again, and i, being sick and tired of the food in that area, decided to try their instant food from the famous "7-11, never close, always open", thats their slogan here, by the way. I tried their "liang mian" those noodles, though in the semi freezer, don't need to warm it up in microwave oven type. And the Pi Dan Ji Si porridge.
The noodle is cheap, costing only NT$37 and the porridge, NT$ 48. The noodle tastes good, but i wasn't used to eating cold noodles, and the porridge was pretty good. Except that Mr Jaws kept looking at me, and wanting to snatch it away from me..
Continued watching tv programmes in the kitchen and saw this variety show about transforming "zai nan" geeks, with some makeover. The show is hosted by Patty Hou ( Jay Chou's famous ex ) and 2 other pretty celebrity. Geek no. 1 has a girlfriend and it was his girlfriend that submitted his name for the makeover. So they were talking and joking about how he can just stay home for a whole week, without stepping out of the house and play computer games. Even when his girlfriend goes over, he would just play and not bother with her even when she asks him to go out or simple things like buying food with her. Lol. Poor girlfriend. And the way he dress was like untidy and dirty. And the girlfriend doesn't look ugly, in fact, she looks like she could probably get a much better boyfriend than him. So the host asked her, why didn't she leave him and get on with another guy. She says she doesn't believe in giving up so easily. So sweet!~ And of course, she was lazy to start another relationship. Haha. Geek 2, looks good without the makeover, same problem, stays home for 2 weeks without having to step out of the house. His meals are bought by his parents and they sent it to his face, he eats it, they clear it. Lol. No, he's not paralyse or something. He is busy playing his computer game. And guess what? He looks Hello Kitty and pink.. OMg! So his elder brother decided to submit his name. And when they asked his brother to go on his stage with him. They thought that maybe his bro needed the makeover just as badly as he does. LOL! Geek 3, same old story, doesn't mind not going out. Only go to the movies with his friends twice a year, and its almost impossible to ask him out. His sister submitted his name. But the one who went on stage with him was his close platronic girlfriend. They had known each other since secondary school, and have been close friends ever since. The show ended with Geek 1 being the winner. There were no losers though. Geek 2 was very happy with his makeover, and Geek 3? When the show was about to end, they asked him since he and his "girlfriend" was so close, why are they not together? He replied that "it's not up to me to decide". So the host asked the girl, "do you want him to be your boyfriend?" She nods her head shyly and smiled. What a nice scene to behold! I'm such a sucker for romantic moments. Lol. And they looked so good together anyway. Ok, enough of my crap. =] Wish everyone here, a happy day. Yes, only for today. =D
PS: Ivan, im fine over here, sms is expensive. HAha. And no, i don't wanna take part in WCG, cause i'm a fu*king noob now, and don't enjoy losing, even if its for fun. =D