Gives me that nice feeling watching it.
kenangan terindah
Rehearsal started at two, and by that time I've already got chills.
My hands were icey cold ever since, til the time it was my turn to sing.
While on stage, my thought was, "So this is it! I've practiced and I'll just do it anyway."
My observation is that generally the participants have average singing skills, if not poor. The three winners were just okay.
I didn't win anything, so I can take it as a description that singing is not my forte. Oh, not my pianissimo even. Hahaha.
Anyway.
The crowd really cheered and some of them say that I really can sing.
Hm. As long as the crowd enjoyed it, huh.
Still got a looooooooooong long way to improve, especially when my friends who coached me say that I lack of feeling while singing.
Not to mention the nerve-wrecking stage fright while on stage.
One of the juries, a famous local singer, commented-
"My advice is that please be more confident when on stage."
Ouch?
Well, that was an experience.
Will I shy away from the microphone? Maybe not for long.
My hands were icey cold ever since, til the time it was my turn to sing.
While on stage, my thought was, "So this is it! I've practiced and I'll just do it anyway."
My observation is that generally the participants have average singing skills, if not poor. The three winners were just okay.
I didn't win anything, so I can take it as a description that singing is not my forte. Oh, not my pianissimo even. Hahaha.
Anyway.
The crowd really cheered and some of them say that I really can sing.
Hm. As long as the crowd enjoyed it, huh.
Still got a looooooooooong long way to improve, especially when my friends who coached me say that I lack of feeling while singing.
Not to mention the nerve-wrecking stage fright while on stage.
One of the juries, a famous local singer, commented-
"My advice is that please be more confident when on stage."
Ouch?
Well, that was an experience.
Will I shy away from the microphone? Maybe not for long.
happy chinese new year!!
The long weekend would be quite a loooong one for me,
But I was rescued by a few mates still hanging around here in PJ.
Stuff that I've done to spend my time-
1) Went to Mega Mall and I see that only two or three out of hundreds of shops are open. The rest were closed for Chinese New Year. That's scary, if you know what I mean.
2) Bought Siti Nurhaliza's latest album! Will write my opinion later.
3) Spend the days slowly at my friend's office (they've got to mark student answer sheets and prepare notes for the next term). I was busy trying to pluck the guitar for "More than Words", and practicing singing for the coming competition, and also struggling to hit out all the high notes for Superman. Yeah, the Istana Budaya Youth is going to play this. Woo hoo!!!
4) Bought a new so-called cordless water heater to replace the spoilt one at my house.
5) Window shopped with my friends. One of them is considering to buy either a CRT or an LCD. So nice!!
Okay-lah. I'm not going to stay long, I'm starving here in the cyber cafe.
Should prepare better posts from home next time..
last respect.
Last Friday, after a jazz band rehearsal in my university, I dashed back home, packing up my stuff and wait for father to pick me up.
We were going straight to the northern part of the country, to join the rest of the family of my mom's side.
The lights were still on at my grandmother's house, and there she laid on the bed with the batik cloth covering her whole body. A thin piece of cotton scarf was laid to cover her face.
All relatives were clearly couldn't sleep that night.
This would be the first time I directly got involved in a funeral, especially when it comes to a close family member; my mom's mother.
With other cousins, we together helped lifting her carefully from the bed into the bathroom, where the ladies would help bathing her gently, before covering her body with white cotton.
The saddest moment was when all the relatives gathered and gave her the last kiss on her forehead, before finally they covered her face with the kafan and have her prepared for the final shalat.
At the cemetery, I saw the men slowly lifting her, bringing her into the grave where she finally rest.
It's a reminder, when it's time for my call, I too will be put into the same chamber, waiting there til judgement day.
I will be questioned by two angels, asking who is the God that I've served my life to, and who is my prophet, and what is my faith.
May her soul will be showered with the love of God.
May I always try and try to be a well-mannered, polite and good person in this life.
Amen.
We were going straight to the northern part of the country, to join the rest of the family of my mom's side.
The lights were still on at my grandmother's house, and there she laid on the bed with the batik cloth covering her whole body. A thin piece of cotton scarf was laid to cover her face.
All relatives were clearly couldn't sleep that night.
This would be the first time I directly got involved in a funeral, especially when it comes to a close family member; my mom's mother.
With other cousins, we together helped lifting her carefully from the bed into the bathroom, where the ladies would help bathing her gently, before covering her body with white cotton.
The saddest moment was when all the relatives gathered and gave her the last kiss on her forehead, before finally they covered her face with the kafan and have her prepared for the final shalat.
At the cemetery, I saw the men slowly lifting her, bringing her into the grave where she finally rest.
It's a reminder, when it's time for my call, I too will be put into the same chamber, waiting there til judgement day.
I will be questioned by two angels, asking who is the God that I've served my life to, and who is my prophet, and what is my faith.
May her soul will be showered with the love of God.
May I always try and try to be a well-mannered, polite and good person in this life.
Amen.
had fun.
Last Friday's jazz band rehearsal was really fun.
Playing was awesome, laughed while listening to people's jokes,
I just sense the warmth and comfort out from nowhere.
Perhaps I am already completed with the past.
I did what I had to do, and I'm ready to move on.
I'm bringing a bunch of advice and lessons given to me,
and I'll create a new path from now on.
Today's National Youth Orchestra practice was also productive.
After a few months of hibernation, we're starting to warm up our engines.
This coming concert, I could foresee, will be a lot of fun.
The venue is nice, and the song list is interesting!
I have a few exciting plans for myself too-
but I'll tell them later.
Can't wait!
Playing was awesome, laughed while listening to people's jokes,
I just sense the warmth and comfort out from nowhere.
Perhaps I am already completed with the past.
I did what I had to do, and I'm ready to move on.
I'm bringing a bunch of advice and lessons given to me,
and I'll create a new path from now on.
Today's National Youth Orchestra practice was also productive.
After a few months of hibernation, we're starting to warm up our engines.
This coming concert, I could foresee, will be a lot of fun.
The venue is nice, and the song list is interesting!
I have a few exciting plans for myself too-
but I'll tell them later.
Can't wait!
current project - laaaaaaaaaa.
I am now in this cyber cafe- it's a cool and cold one (due to it's very strong aircond).
Friends visited my apartment just now, with an intention-
Singing lesson!
My friends are GREAT singers, so I asked their help to teach me sing.
I bravely took the challenge to participate in my company's singing competition,
end of this month.
Practicing under their coaching, I realise that it's NOT that simple to able to sing well.
Although I have been playing the trumpet for years,
the breathing technique for singing feels tricky.
The first time I sing with them, my childhood disease came back to me- asthma.
I was literally wheezing.
Had to stop after only fifteen minutes of singing.
But for today's practice, I feel much much better.
Salute those who know how to sing.
Friends visited my apartment just now, with an intention-
Singing lesson!
My friends are GREAT singers, so I asked their help to teach me sing.
I bravely took the challenge to participate in my company's singing competition,
end of this month.
Practicing under their coaching, I realise that it's NOT that simple to able to sing well.
Although I have been playing the trumpet for years,
the breathing technique for singing feels tricky.
The first time I sing with them, my childhood disease came back to me- asthma.
I was literally wheezing.
Had to stop after only fifteen minutes of singing.
But for today's practice, I feel much much better.
Salute those who know how to sing.
rain rain go away, come again another day.
Rain rain go away, Lil' Johnny wants to play.
Today I realised that there are still friends who stood beside me, and the believe that I could still turn myself from a beast into a respectful human being.
I've got a lot of advice on what to do next.
Seeing that my reputation is already tarnished, I almost wanted to delete this blog and create a new fresh one, closing the past and opening a new chapter.
In fact, I've already prepared a new blog, and this is the first post that I've typed on it-
"I guess this is the hardest part I'm going through in life.
But then again, I went through difficult times too when I was in high school.
Only that this time, I deserve the blow, because I was the cause of it.
How do I feel, being the bad person and all?
Can't deny that I was sad, full of guilt and regret.
I could just let myself cry and knock my head on the wall til I bleed,
but what's the use?
Sometimes broken friendships have to be left that way.
Learn from it and avoid interfering with their peaceful lives.
We had nice times together.
Life moves on."
So here it is, this blog still exists, and I'm gonna delete that "replacement" blog.
THIS blog is my identity, my baby.
I will learn to become a better person,
put the past in the past, vow never to talk about it again,
and create the new future.
God willing.
Today I realised that there are still friends who stood beside me, and the believe that I could still turn myself from a beast into a respectful human being.
I've got a lot of advice on what to do next.
Seeing that my reputation is already tarnished, I almost wanted to delete this blog and create a new fresh one, closing the past and opening a new chapter.
In fact, I've already prepared a new blog, and this is the first post that I've typed on it-
"I guess this is the hardest part I'm going through in life.
But then again, I went through difficult times too when I was in high school.
Only that this time, I deserve the blow, because I was the cause of it.
How do I feel, being the bad person and all?
Can't deny that I was sad, full of guilt and regret.
I could just let myself cry and knock my head on the wall til I bleed,
but what's the use?
Sometimes broken friendships have to be left that way.
Learn from it and avoid interfering with their peaceful lives.
We had nice times together.
Life moves on."
So here it is, this blog still exists, and I'm gonna delete that "replacement" blog.
THIS blog is my identity, my baby.
I will learn to become a better person,
put the past in the past, vow never to talk about it again,
and create the new future.
God willing.
last goodbye.
(Dear readers,
It was a dumb thing for me to comment and the whole world could see it,
and I've made everyone uncomfortable.
Friends who are affected,
I'm sorry that you had to witness all of this.
The ship is sinking, the last candle is dying, but I have to accept it.)
Dear friend,
I am sorry for the extreme actions that I've done.
During the past year I was a bad irrational person, and there's no way to eliminate the past.
Now I have to use that cliche- if only I could turn back time.
Now I truly understand that this is it, it's just meant to be.
Being rash and wanted to do all out was not the right thing to do.
I should respect you, and peace and silence is now I am offering for you.
If I really want to make you happy,
Instead of trying to contact you anymore,
I should now do what the others advised me to do,
and give you what you want.
Retreat, and don't ruffle with the peaceful moments that you have in your life.
All the best, old friend,
You will have a good life.
There were so many nice things that you've done for me.
I'll remember.
a fresh 2009
During the last month of 2008,
I had three different roles in different conflicts in life.
First, I was the bad person and I lose friends,
after unintentionally hurting them by my jokes, complaints, and comments.
Then, on the next few weeks,
I was the observer who watched a group of friends avoiding one particular person,
after he gave hurtful remarks to the rest of the whole group.
Finally, soon after that,
I became the person who is directly affected by the complaints and ramblings of a friend.
Looking into that, I pondered on the lessons that were given to me.
I realized that gossiping is not the best way to settle things.
It kills relationships, and it sustains the bad image of the victim of the gossip.
I also learnt that friendship is a two way thing.
Just as much as I need the acknowledgement from my friends,
I myself should appreciate them and take care of their delicate feelings.
Such a little joke or comment or even useless ramblings, would make someone else upset.
Recently I and my new bunch of friends spent the 1st of January at the beach in Port Dickson. There were so many people at Teluk Kemang, so we opted for Tanjung Tuan instead.
I was unofficially elected to decide on the theme and program of the picnic, so I said that everyone may wear green top- to celebrate a fresh new year, to appreciate the environment, and also true friendship.
I bought eight lunch boxes, and I gave them one each, as a step to encourage people to use a long lasting container rather than using non bio-degradable polystyrene that would harm the nature and animals that would accidentally eat it.
After that, I passed small cards to everyone, and we had a nice time writing about the good things that we appreciate about all the members of the group.
These cards were compiled together and handed to the particular person that we write about- as a celebration of him as a friend.
In life, we always talk about the disadvantages of our friends, and things that needed to be improved on, but we have forgotten to acknowledge and appreciate the advantages of our dear friends. That very activity was a chance to acknowledge everybody.
Then of course we jumped into the sea!!
It was memorable.
I had three different roles in different conflicts in life.
First, I was the bad person and I lose friends,
after unintentionally hurting them by my jokes, complaints, and comments.
Then, on the next few weeks,
I was the observer who watched a group of friends avoiding one particular person,
after he gave hurtful remarks to the rest of the whole group.
Finally, soon after that,
I became the person who is directly affected by the complaints and ramblings of a friend.
Looking into that, I pondered on the lessons that were given to me.
I realized that gossiping is not the best way to settle things.
It kills relationships, and it sustains the bad image of the victim of the gossip.
I also learnt that friendship is a two way thing.
Just as much as I need the acknowledgement from my friends,
I myself should appreciate them and take care of their delicate feelings.
Such a little joke or comment or even useless ramblings, would make someone else upset.
Recently I and my new bunch of friends spent the 1st of January at the beach in Port Dickson. There were so many people at Teluk Kemang, so we opted for Tanjung Tuan instead.
I was unofficially elected to decide on the theme and program of the picnic, so I said that everyone may wear green top- to celebrate a fresh new year, to appreciate the environment, and also true friendship.
I bought eight lunch boxes, and I gave them one each, as a step to encourage people to use a long lasting container rather than using non bio-degradable polystyrene that would harm the nature and animals that would accidentally eat it.
After that, I passed small cards to everyone, and we had a nice time writing about the good things that we appreciate about all the members of the group.
These cards were compiled together and handed to the particular person that we write about- as a celebration of him as a friend.
In life, we always talk about the disadvantages of our friends, and things that needed to be improved on, but we have forgotten to acknowledge and appreciate the advantages of our dear friends. That very activity was a chance to acknowledge everybody.
Then of course we jumped into the sea!!
It was memorable.
new year's eve
Happy new year!
So how did everyone celebrate the new year?
I took leave for one whole week, and I got the chance to rehearse for a few days in a live band.
It was fun-
I was either on my own guitar, trumpet or just plain singing.
My friends, they took turns singing and playing their classical guitars.
The real performance-
it was crazy, full of hiccups.
Sometimes we took a long time to find a particular score because they were already jumbled up.
Sometimes we pushed each other to sing a particular song at the last minute.
We even got confused- we thought it was already time to announce the countdown for new year, when suddenly a customer shouted- "Got two minutes left!!"
Insane but I had a good time.
One member google-ing for guitar chords.
Practice, practice! So that we'll screw up less! Lol.
The band.
So how did everyone celebrate the new year?
I took leave for one whole week, and I got the chance to rehearse for a few days in a live band.
It was fun-
I was either on my own guitar, trumpet or just plain singing.
My friends, they took turns singing and playing their classical guitars.
The real performance-
it was crazy, full of hiccups.
Sometimes we took a long time to find a particular score because they were already jumbled up.
Sometimes we pushed each other to sing a particular song at the last minute.
We even got confused- we thought it was already time to announce the countdown for new year, when suddenly a customer shouted- "Got two minutes left!!"
Insane but I had a good time.
One member google-ing for guitar chords.
Practice, practice! So that we'll screw up less! Lol.
The band.
take a look before make a move
Once a while I would go and visit my parents' place at Ukay Perdana.
Only that day, after going out from their house, I went further up to Bukit Antarabangsa, where the deadly landslide happened and collapse a few bungalow lots.
There's nothing much to be seen, as they have blocked the area with yellow police tapes, but I saw a few workers drilling into the ground, maybe to take some samples of the earth, or to strenghten the structure of the already weakened hill top.
As I ride along the road, it's quite scary because I could see the view below me- buildings and roads which seem so tiny, as if I were on a plane.
Just before the entrance of the landslide, I saw a few unfinished blocks of apartments, perching at the very edge of the hill, with very thin beams supporting the structure. Any slight earth movement, these beams will break, and all will fall down.
I couldn't take pictures though, the people in charge were looking suspicously at me.
So off I went back home, going the lane down hill from Bukit Antarabangsa.
Only that day, after going out from their house, I went further up to Bukit Antarabangsa, where the deadly landslide happened and collapse a few bungalow lots.
There's nothing much to be seen, as they have blocked the area with yellow police tapes, but I saw a few workers drilling into the ground, maybe to take some samples of the earth, or to strenghten the structure of the already weakened hill top.
As I ride along the road, it's quite scary because I could see the view below me- buildings and roads which seem so tiny, as if I were on a plane.
Just before the entrance of the landslide, I saw a few unfinished blocks of apartments, perching at the very edge of the hill, with very thin beams supporting the structure. Any slight earth movement, these beams will break, and all will fall down.
I couldn't take pictures though, the people in charge were looking suspicously at me.
So off I went back home, going the lane down hill from Bukit Antarabangsa.
a quiet holiday
December 25th, 2008.
Everyone was not around.
They were everywhere in Singapore, JB, Penang.
I knew that I am going to be bored.
So I took my swim bag, my bike hat, and my new toy along.
I'm off to Bukit Bintang!
First trip is the Pavillion.
I went window-shopping and ended sitting in Starbucks at the fifth floor.
Ordered ice blended choc chip, and a bun.
Played wifi with my new toy puas-puas, and off I went for a swim near China Town.
It was a peaceful day.
Everyone was not around.
They were everywhere in Singapore, JB, Penang.
I knew that I am going to be bored.
So I took my swim bag, my bike hat, and my new toy along.
I'm off to Bukit Bintang!
First trip is the Pavillion.
I went window-shopping and ended sitting in Starbucks at the fifth floor.
Ordered ice blended choc chip, and a bun.
Played wifi with my new toy puas-puas, and off I went for a swim near China Town.
It was a peaceful day.
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