8 months later

8 months later.
Life is as it is.
Major updates in between these 8 months ?

• signed by Warner/Chappell Music Taiwan as a songwriter.
• bought 2 guitars that costed me a 5 digit number (in MYR).
• am a better person thanks to my family and girlfriend. 
• gf had my face printed on my birthday cake, for the first time I found out it can be done that way.
• attended the magistrate court for the first time for listening due to overdue payment of traffic compound.  The judge is an ass.

Oh hey, this is my cover on Jay Chou's song weeks ago.  It kept on raining during the ungodly hours... I had to make one of these.  Take a listen. :)  Ignore the breathing sound caused by heavy flu :P

因为有你，所以...

我可以抱着暖暖的心入睡 <3 晚安 :)

Recently, things are...

Alright, recent updates :

love life? undoubtedly awesome possum. I'm still having an aftermath of such a beautiful encounter on her :) It's freakin' awesome!

and ...

Studies are busy as usual. Some of my course mates are surprised by my 'surprise visit' to the lecture hall/classes because my attendance is so bad that it actually misled my course mates to think that I already changed my major. Sorry guys, I do came here to learn, but, uh, not like that. Visiting professors and lecturers in their office is much more constructive, at least thats what I think.

and...

I don't get to buy the tickets for Bruno Mars (heartbreaks x infinity)

and...

I've written a lot of songs and am currently negotiating on another song after Favorite Girl :)

and...

watched HOP with wifey and its nice :) nice bunny! LOL :)

and...

I just done revising my Heat Transfer. Dozing off....

and...

mum asked me to help her to prepare her exam papers, but I'm yet to finish, argh!

and...

am trying my best to not to supper anymore.

and...

I selfishly dislikes the fact that the final year buddies I met in Wanderers are graduating soon.

Guess thats it for now... :)

I need a break

How can I not be affected when you are already a part of my life? :)

I can't help but wonder, and wondering was all I did.

I'm handling everything as good and as neat as they should be.

I'm trying to be a good student, a good friend, a good boyfriend, a good son, and a good teacher.

Somehow the insecurity still eats me up inside.

Or maybe its just because...
tiredness overwhelmed me.

I shall wake up to another beautiful morning.

Good morning.

I.L.Y

Good night

我爱你

(:

17032011

17032011

美丽的邂逅

美丽的意外

第一个,最后一个,唯一一个

:)

决定了

The Story Alley

Eu-Bo-Ly-Ars

From Left : Bowie, Lynette, Arsene, Eugene

Photo captured and edited by JACKHEN.

This marks the last performance

(which I hope its not and more to come in the future)

of me with

Eugene Ooi, Lynette Lim and Arsene Saw.

It was an honorable pleasure to have the chance to perform with you guys!!

Along with Zhen Yao and Fui Fui 秋慧. The sparks are always there whenever I'm performing with you guys !!!

I did not join nor involve with the preparation of The Story Alley from the very beginning, it was Yi Jing who messaged in Facebook, and told me about it. I remembered Ah Boey (An Qi) did told me about it as well, and it was her who led me to KONKOS, where they were like auditioning the programs that are gonna be included into the performances of The Story Alley.

I met Eugene and Lynette there. They were holding their entry form for their performance, I sat down and ask them what am I getting myself into, and they filled me in with the theme description of The Story Alley. As I took out my guitar and we played and sing some songs, we thought of forming a performance together by singing some famous english and chinese pop songs back in the 90s. And voila, we are formed! Arsene joined along as part of the performance.

Through endless headache moments of picking songs and linking each songs with each other, trying to bear a reason why this song should be linked with that song, changes of genres, dynamics and everything else, we finally came out with a medley that is balanced between both the dynamics and the linkage of the songs, where it won't bored out the audience, while we enjoyed it with our utmost passion.

Though I am not there to witness EVERY process of preparations made for The Story Alley, I could imagine the hard work, passion and commitment that each and every committee members and performers poured into. From the preparations of backdrop and its design, to the setup of microphones, props design and placement, understanding of the layout of stage lighting systems and sound systems, coordinations between performance, lightning and sound system, and most importantly, breaking the barrier between each other in order to communicate better and for the good of The Story Alley. To me it is totally imaginable as I've involved in the preparation of the concert of The Wanderers.

The process is astonishing, and it marks the end of another meaningful journey on the 12th of March, 2011.

I will try to mention most people's name right here, most, if not all.

Eugene, Arsene, Lynette - knowing that you guys are graduating soon, and it is, at my utmost sincerity, to thank you all for performing with me. I had great fun practicing and performing with you guys. Eugene maybe the largest influence, but 3 of you influenced me and 'unlocked' the restrictions I had while performing on stage. Improvements made on myself because of you guys. I sincerely hope that this is not our last performance. It may be the last one in USM, but one of our performance in many more to come in the future.

Chiew Fui & Zhen Yao - We were once again performing on the stage of DSP, together. The sparks are ALWAYS there whenever we perform together :) And I do looking forward to our performances to come in the future. And of course its mostly because we've been through the preparations of Wanderers' concert like no other, love you guys!!!

Ah Pao - Great job on coordinating everything... you did a really great job!! And it is really nice to have known you!!

Suna 淑娜 - Thank you for giving me unlimited moral support, and also accompanying me through the preparation like recording harmony lines late at night even though you were not involved in its preparation!!

Kah Yiing - aiyoyo 这位同学, thank you for accompanying me and willing to chat nonsense with me through my short short moment of weakness hehe. I'm still waiting for our dinner!

Caryn Leong Jen Wey - sorry for not picking up your calls or reply your messages at times, because it is always so 'ngam' that whenever u called me text me my phone wasn't with me!!! I don't mean to ignore u!! Thank you for giving me a lot of supports, and yes, the makeup as well. You did great!! :)

Ai Hua - Thank you for being a nice nice baby sitter for our performances and your support. Hehe. You are very nice la! :)

Jit Xiong & Chun Sheng - The control of the sound systems is a thing that I always worried whenever I'm performing somewhere, but not when you guys are the ones that handle the systems. Credits to you guys for the coordinations and everything else. Great job!!!!

Lee-san aka 副吟长 - Thank you for your support, and your treat on the eve of The Story Alley, and also your reminder of sleeping at 10pm. You looked decent in that sarung (though I know how much you hated it), and especially your hair! :) Awesome Possum! >

Kelsen Loh - I totally agree with you that its better for me to put up my specs instead of taking it off!!! hahahahaha. Thank you for coming dude!!!

BACKSTAGE STAFFS WHO SETUP BACKDROPS AND COORDINATING PROPS, CABLES AND MICROPHONES, YOU GUYS DID A WONDERFUL JOB! THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND HARD WORK!!!

Brothers and sisters from Wanderers! - Thank you guys for coming and support our performances!!! You guys are the best :) I LOVE EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU!

I left out a lot of people I know, but no worries, your name is mentioned in my heart :) Thank you, seriously.

Another wonderful chapter reached its end :)

Wanderers 20th Concert, here I come ! :)

Mainstage

...

每当站在槟洲大会堂的舞台上，就一直想再那里徘徊，迟迟都不肯下台。

Technical Run/Sound check, 每当在这里表演，这两个term就一直出现。

站在那舞台上有种很温馨的感觉，好多好多回忆，当然唤起的记忆也包括了表演以外的事情。

12032011又要在那里发光发亮了。期待 :)

TIME

The roads are wrapped around your waist,

they lead me, place to place.

I take trips from hip to hip,

in fact I've made a career out of it.

I've always thought the left was your strongest side,

but when it comes to you now I can't decide.

It's only a matter of...

TIME.

I need a product of your fears in the form of tears,

it's the only way I can survive.

It breaks my heart to see you cry and baby

It's the only way I'll stay alive.

Green eyes, blue skies,

natural disasters when she cries.

Green eyes, they're mine,

it's only a matter of time.

Like the climate you'll never know what weather you get,

no denying, you're the habit that I can't quit.

It's only a matter of mine.

You're tainted, I'm shakin',

I hope you turn around in time.

Tide's changing, I'm waiting,

you and I are one of a kind.

I've been a both of our fears, over my sore ears,

I still can't pick my favorite place.

The contour of your LIPS, they match your continents,

and I still love the way that you taste.

INCOMPLETE

This is going to be a post of my thoughts of negativity generating from the events that are happening around me right now :

T'was a very unusual reunion lunch, as my uncle was rushing his way to send my almost-dehydrated grandpa to Island Hospital yesterday afternoon. Of all I know, he's pretty sick and he couldn't drink or eat well, and he was having diarrhea. That caused the whole turning point of the supposed-to-be reunion lunch. Or I thought, a complete one.

He's been suffering from some infections on his trachea and has been pretty sick since last August, later in December we found out that he's suffering from cancer as well. Grandpa used to be very healthy and he could walk and talk with no sign of hinting the others that he's old and he's ready to take a break.

With all the chemotherapies and treatments, nothing seems to work, work in the sense of making things better. All it did was just stalling my grandpa's last moment and he isn't feeling any better.

I haven't seen grandpa for awhile, and I thought it was ok to put the activities of my varsity and my academics ahead of everything else because it is reasonable to do so. Until when I saw him yesterday, I regretted doing all of it. I regretted for not visiting him at the earlier moment when he could talk or listen better. Now I was wondering if he could even recognize it was me yesterday.

Making this post doesn't help... but I don't know what else does. This is depressing, and I'm releasing some of my depression towards this incident here.

I hope all is well.

*rain rain... go away... come again another day...*

Happy Rabbit Year.

Once upon a Tuesday (today)

初一除夕的除夕的早晨，

我坐在阳台的秋千，弹着唱着... 将近一小时了。

吉他弦的声音和雾气融为一体... 这种感觉很妙！

听到屋内的脚步声，大家好像都起床了，尤其是阿爸和阿妈...

估计弟弟和他的朋友们应该还没睡醒...

没关系，继续唱...

It's 7:35am and I'm missing you.

我在学着唱 Silly某某 的歌。

I love this song very much ! :)

*deng deng deng deng deng deng deng ... *

早安！I.M.Y :)

糟了，怎么我这颗不能吃的苹果也有点湿湿地了，我的诺尔曼吉他也是...

雾气很重的说。

打完最后一行，Publish Post.

闪回房里去。

VAB & Friends PRODUCTION !!

Nope, it should be called VAB & Friends' PRODUCTION.

As I was told by Anna earlier that Vivienne said, the New Year MV that we produced should be labelled as Vivienne, Anna, and Bowie's PRODUCTION cuz we are the main torque behind the whole thing, but then again, its the involvement of all of us.

Prior to what I mentioned above, Vivienne Oon came out with an idea of making a CNY'11 MV, for Wanderers, and by Wanderers. Both songs are written and composed in a very short notice, especially the arrangement, all the way from recording the vocals and instruments and mastering the tracks, its not perfect I know, but its the best that we could do in such short notice. Things are not slowing down until just now when I finished mastering the tracks and Anna put it up together with the video.

Patrick Ang suggested me to add some 'essence of CNY', e.g. sound clips of fire crackers etc. etc. When I almost agree with him, I remembered that the main objective was to create a CNY song that doesn't sound anything like its CNY. Suggestion ignored. Sorry Patrick, it will, and will stay as BLUEISH as it can be. But the intro part does sounded very 'chinese new year' already. Wait till all of u listen to it :)

新新诗 － 词：EricOne，曲：Anna Wong

兔年蓝调 － 词： Patrick Ang，曲：Patrick Ang, Bowie Ong

编曲：Bowie Ong

Casting Crew :

Vivienne Oon

Lip Heng

Wai Bin

Arsene Saw

Wei Hong

Lynette Lim

Patrick Ang

Rachel

Ah Min aka brother Grace

Khai Loon

Wen Sim

Yean Nee

Eugene

Yik Min

Can't wait for it to be uploaded and shared online!! :)

Happy CNY 兔 you!!

Highlights and Behind-the-scenes

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150094712521912

This is a story of a girl

I love it when you called me 笨蛋.

It makes me feel...

CLOSER :)

I miss you.

Have a nice 1 day trip.

A MUSICALLY-INDULGED FORTNIGHT

I'd say I am very much 'indulged' in music in these 2 weeks.

Performance for Wanderers's Song Composition Competition aka Internal Observation (内部观摩). I must say there are a lot of talented juniors and of course, with nice attitude! It's always easy to cross through to the barrier of communication by playing music. Music speaks just one language, and one language of its own only. It feels great and overwhelmed to see that the juniors are so eager to attend their group's song practice's schedule!! Some even 5am daily for this week!! Well I'm attending mine at 6am so guess what! hahaha.

The competition will be held at Penang's Wawasan Open University's auditorium. Can't wait :)

More over I joined USM Chinese Society's Civic Party (文娱晚会), an event where the story is based on a small town changing accordingly to the given time frame of between 70s till current.

The expression lies on the changes from different era based on art and music.

I went for the audition without having the knowledge of I need to relate my performance with the theme of the night. Meaning that if I were to perform a song, I need to have my reasons on why is it performed and what does this song have to do with the theme. I bumped into Eugene and Lynette and they told me about it. I took my guitar along with me when I was waiting outside of the meeting place of the Program Group. We jammed awhile in bossa nova and came out with some medleys and we totally dig it. And so happens, I'm performing for the night with 3 of them now : Eugene, Lynette and Arsene. Awesome :)

ANYWAYS, just a mild expression after my last post of jazz fest.

New semester, new assignments and projects, and am much musically-indulged :)

Varsity life is awesome, make it worthwhile while you're at it.

Good night/morning.