Friday, September 24, 2004
alrite here are more photos for all u photo whores out there. Starting with the band competition.
Harrison on stage! Notice the empty space jus down in front of the stage..tt's the seating area..which doesn't have any ppl at all...tt's how empty it was.
Ah Soh/ Soh Sy Boo..one of the groupies who's not in Rockers. She's in one of her rare poses in which she doesn't make any wierd contorted facial expressions. Next to her is my phone, to give a rough estimate of how big her head is. yeah its bout the same size as my phone.
Cellyboo..the other non-Rockers groupie..she's a new addition, and tt day was her first time hanging out with us heh..she looks like she'll scare other potential groupies away..i'd better go talk to her.
CJ on the left, groupie from Rockers, and keyboard extra/ordinaire-y. and Ah Bang 'touching yooouuuu' Ghaz. tts in KFC, where we played our 2nd round of Name As Many Movies Starting With The Letter '_'. it was really a mind-boggling game.
Harrison up close without me. another pic showing how bored we were, with Surath and Victor checking out their watch/handphone.
Head groupie yinqiboo laughing at some lame thing which ghaz said. tts at Starbucks btw.
Ok then, on to our Rockers BBQ/Steamboat over at chairman keith's humongous house.
Here's half of us At The Drive-In (hoho lame joke) with the BBQ/steamboat spread. this was quite late into the dinner and i think the rest of us were inside the house taking out the dessert/shitting/slumped over the couch/looking at the fishes and god knows wat.
The Iron Chef checking out the well-marinated beef (honey, rice wine, pepper and the pre-marinate heh).
Dun u jus luuurrveee this photo..soft lighting, 2 girls, 1 couch, 1 camera...heh.
More of the living room. the door in the background over on the left leads to the TV room, which is big enuff for all of us to fit in.
Here's inside the TV room. there's a OSIM-like (i think it IS OSIM) massage chair over at the corner. which is popular among everyone. but i think it jus squashes the life out of my neck.
The beautiful glass chess set. the price?
40 ringgit. tt cheapo.
Tt's teresa feeding the koi. they're actually a special breed of piranha koi, which explains her lack of a right forearm.
Tze and Yijia over at some pool parlour nearby...nah tts jus keith's attic.
Alrite here's the Death By series of photos, featuring me in various ways to die over in keith's house. first up is Death By Computer Games. They weigh like tons man, im serious. yijia however succumbed to death under one game only. tt weakling.
Death By Telephone Cord. Notice the burst artery below my ear. and notice also the slack telephone cord around my neck.
One of my favs. Death By Staircase. This was the handiwork of the photographer, yinqiboo, who happily pushed me over the banister when i wasn't aware.
One of the worst ways to die. Death By Fart. i wun name my murderer, but it shldnt be hard to guess. if ur wondering how come im not writhing all over the floor, tt's cos this is jus the beginning.
ok i soon got tired of getting killed and so retreated to the dungeon tt is the TV room and watched DVDs till the next morn.
and so started the cycle of the screwed up sleep pattern.
Posted at 8:32 PM
Monday, September 20, 2004
Ok boys and girls, here are the pics form TGIO...dun u jus love bloggerbot? hah
yinqiboo - one of the less tak glam shots of her. if i'd put any other pic, she would have killed me. look at how pro a singer she is, the way she holds her mic, and the way she coils the wire over her thumb so as to not let it get in the way of her legs, thus avoiding an even more tak glam trip up, but dun ask me bout her singing tho...haha...ok shes good la heh...behind is yunjin and ivan, guitarist and bassist for my band, deep in concentration and into the groove of the music.
lin, or jiahe as some ppl would rather call him, one of the singers for my band. here he's emoting over Blurry i would presume, not Give it Away, cos his expressions in that song are jus so tak glam in the photos hah..but he's a real livewire while performing..jumping and moving ard on stage.
surath, Mr Bryan Adams himself, or sometimes he's Mr Jon Bon Jovi, looking real slick with the leather cuff and tinted shades. if u notice his left hand, he's holding something black. thats a stress ball for him to squeeze when he reaches the high notes...jus like Michael Jackson grabs his crotch, surath grabs his trusty stress ball..its a childhood technique he tells me...
nah i jest. tts jus an egg-shaped shaker.
Ah Pek Victor, guitar extraordinaire, into another of his numerous solos. we think, the hat, shades and boots are perfect, but leave the jacket on vic. issit jus me or does he look like a mad chinaman..no offense to all my prens in SoC..big up to u all ...aiight. for real.
keefboo, bassist er..jus bassist. see those white stains on his shirt? yeah those were caused by him spilling power all over himself...clumsy guy. did anyone say sweat stains? nah its jus powder...
ah the babes of rockers..belting out Dancing Queen for the finale item. teresa, sens, yinqiboo, joyce, ross and sherry, and sarah at the back on keyboards. seeing sens and her midriff made me recall someone else's midriff during last yr's TGIO, which had the word "ROCK" written across it. it was really outstanding..*cough.
Posted at 2:23 PM
Me is now $200 richer...
...after taking part in the Ole! Band Challenge organised by the Tampines Town Council, held at some open grass patch outside Tampines MRT. U can tell jus by the venue how big an event this was. Our band Harrison, consisting of Ah Bang Ghaz and Bryan Adams Surath on vocals and guitar, Ah Pek Victor on guitar, Keithboo on bass, and me on drums, decided to join on friday, cos tt's when we got to know bout this compettition. We went there today with frankly quite high hopes, and the compettition was really not stiff, save for one band who keith said was quite good. We managed to clinch 2nd spot, losing out to a band whom we thought we played better than, in many aspects. Most prob it was our song choices which made the difference..we did Since I Don't Have You by Guns N' Roses, and Long Train Running by The Doobie Brothers. They did The Reason by *duh* and Swing Swing by All American Rejects. hm..altho i must say that the judges (jus 2 of 'em) looked quite old. anyway, the choice of song made up for 25% of the criteria so i guess they didn't appreciate the old skool stuff (dun ask me y, even tho they looked like they belonged to that era). but anyway, i'm glad we won something...$1000 in such short notice is a good thing heh..
we were joined by our newly found groupies, CJ, yinqiboo, ah soh, and celina, who were the only fans who cheered for their band, and who took great photos of us on stage. did i mention what wonderful groupies they are? heh...yes...u girls can look fwd to a treat..but sorry..no backstage passes...and definitely no free ride in the tour bus. we all hung ard tampines mall/century square to have lunch and while the time away while waiting for the results..and while the time away we did man. we were in 4 different places within that couple of hours...first lunch at pastamania, then off to starbucks, then to coffeebean and our final stop was at kfc. and we didnt spend our time chatting and talking cock..noooo we were playing an extremely intellectual game called Name As Many Movies Starting With The Letter '_' , thanks to ghaz who came up with it. so there we were, 9 uni students, occupying space in the various outlets, jus sitting down, keeping quiet and pondering really really hard. i swear we attracted many wierd stares from ppl expecting us to make lotsa noise. they must have been thinking like 'y in the world are these kids taking such a long time to decide wat to order'. but like wat yinqiboo said, it was a "braincell-killing" game. i dun think i have thought so hard about anything ever since entering uni.
anyway, i tried to upload photos of TGIO cos some ppl complained that they got cut off from the picture la, that the picture so small la, cannot see the ppl...but it jus screwed up...im using the bloggerbot by the way....will get pictures of today's proceedings once yinqiboo sends it to me...and hopefully it wun screw up that time.
Posted at 4:26 AM
Saturday, September 18, 2004
Wish me luck
Friday, September 17, 2004
alrite so its been a really long time since i last blogged. almost seemed as if i had stopped again heh..i've been real busy the past 2 wks, preparing for TGIO, attending meetings, having suppers. in fact, im not exactly that free now for that matter, mid terms coming up, but dunno where to start haha, jus checked out my schedule and realised its not really that soon.
TGIO was a blast. sweated like mad but it was all worth it. playing in overalls in a non-airconditioned venue isn't exactly very 'cool'. the crowd was so much better than last yr, all thanks to A blk who danced about on the tables...yeah i think it was all of them..cld see some others headbanging (well at least they did bob their heads a little) now and then. Lotsa talent in rockers, especially Mr. Bryan Adams/Don Henley himself, Surath from C blk, who literally made the crowd go wild...and not forgeting yinqibooo haha..yes hidden talent..not sure if she's the first female JCRC member to be in rockers as well? hmmm must find out. Victor was as usual mesmerising with his guitar solos and tze, well..nothing happened to his sound this time..y? cos he wasnt using an effects pedal haha. lin was the most energetic, jumping around almost the whole time, and Sens, the most emotional heh..
yeah sorry tze can't really be seen heh.
ok off to sleep..at 330pm haha...
Posted at 2:25 PM
Sunday, September 05, 2004
i went for someone's 21st bdae party on fri and quite pitied the bdae girl. wat was supposed to be a joyous occasion with her close friends and family turned out quite ugly for her. i guess it was her bf who single-handedly spoiled the day for her. firstly, he came late, like 3 hrs late. i wld have tot a bf is supposed to or at least wld wanna be ard to help out and set up the bbq or something. he might have valid reasons la but i dunno....another thing, the cake was too small to be shared among the guests..im not sure if they bought it or one of the guests did..but they sort of realised this when they wanted to cut the cake, and so he left to go and find another bigger cake....i really have no idea where he was going to get a cake on a fri nite at 1030pm...ok this might not be his fault but im sure its quite disheartening for the bdae boy/girl to feel tt he/she hadn't been a good host...tt's not all, after taking a couple of photos, her digicam ran out of batt, cos her bf didnt charge it the nite b4...and to make things worse, no one had a cam to lend her....all this had a snowball effect on her and she eventually broke down. really sad man.
our blk welcomed the new comm on fri after a 3 hr long process of speeches, Q n A, more speeches and voting. we had altogether 12 nominees who accepted...a really huge number compared to the other blks..it was not really that easy for me to vote for the yr 1 comm members cos many of them seemed really capable and enthusiastic bout being in the blk comm..i think we really have a good batch of yr 1s in that sense, nvm tt they dun excel in sports (not for the moment at least). anyway, hope that things will go smoothly for the new comm under our new blk head, waterboy..whom i really think shld start addressing himself as wen keung. i dun think it reflects well on himself to have ppl calling him waterboy. the other members, kaiwen (senior), jacqueline, rina and kelyvn all have their own good points (this reminds me of some joke but nvm i wun elaborate) and it makes for a good mix of talents within the comm. sigh..anyway i wun be in the loop of the going-ons within the blk now since yanyan and prabs arent there anymore..it was really interesting to hear bout the politics and problems which everyone doesnt get to see. yeah interesting to hear but definitely not fun to be smack in the middle of.
anyway..drove to serangoon gardens jus now for dinner at cafe cartel with my mum..drove ard quite a bit to look for parking lot and finally got one some distance away..when i sat down in the restaurant, my dad called and said tt he was standing outside our house without any key cos he jus came back from m'sia..and so i had to go back to fetch him..argh...u really dun feel like vacating ur parking lot immediately after spending some time looking for it, and after puting 2 coupons on the dashboard. anyway, i ordered grilled chicken and was greeting with a dish which looked like biz ad's chicken chop haha..mainly cos it was served with pasta and a mushroom sauce..but it was way better heh...tho i must admit that everytime i put the pasta in my mouth i half expected the taste of stale tasteless cold pasta.
"Order chicken no paaasta...next please!"
"Next please!!"
"Hello sir?! NEXT PLEASE!!!"
Posted at 1:15 AM
