My solo session at harkmusic well rather well. I was not at my best condition as I was still coughing after a month. I guess thats also why Amos didnt 'tekan' me during the performance. It was definitely nice working with Amos and Yuhong as they were the best instumentalist there. I had fun and sang my hearts out, coughing and sipping water in between songs. I did not mention anything about my cough during the performance as I did not want the audience to think I trying to get their 'pity votes'. After the one hour, I went back down to join doug and co. at one of the tables and it definitely felt relaxed after the stressful hour. I was very nervous before the performance as I was not very confident of myself due to my cough. Well, I did the best I could.

The votes were fine.. I got 79% of positive votes and I was glad man! haha.. I duno if I still wanna try it but definitely not in the near future...

The recording wasnt as fun as I thought it would be, but still it was a good experience. First time in a studio was quite exciting actually. Recorded 2 songs in an hour. The demo will be sent to me in a week's time. Anxiously waiting for it now.. hehe

Oh, i think i did not mention anything about my performance at Harkmusic. It was fun working with guitarist and keyboardist. They were fun to be with and it made the whole performance fun! Sang with douglas 2 weeks ago for the first time. My sec sch mates came and support me! so sweet of them and so many of them! There were 7 of them! my goodness! haha.. but thanz dude!

Last week, one of the singer MIA and therefore they called me to replace her to partner with another gal, Meredith. I've seen her around but never heard her sing till the day we performed. It was her first time and therefore she was rather nervous but I do think she did well, even better than my first time haha... Well, second time, and so I didnt feel as excited and nervous. I think i did better than the previous time.

Its back to me and doug this weekend. Hopefully, it will turn out better than the last week. Oh! My solo performance is coming up next sat! Damn excited as the boss will be the guitarist and I heard he will 'tekan' the singer and in turn the audience will vote for me to be back next month or not... my goodness~~

Remember the recording package i mentioned earlier on? Well, they are unable to change the time slot for him and therefore they have decided to let me have a go at it. HAPPY!!! haha... well, i definitely do not deserve it, but in order to not let the package go to waste.. OF COS I will be going lah!~~~

Well, its this coming sunday from 3-4pm, I'll need to bring my own vcds down. Required to prepare 2 songs... So most likely will be Yanzi's songs again! haha.. well.. i seldom buy vcds and therefore.. no choice lah... only have yanzi's haha

Excited about it man! It will be done in a professional recording studio. KOOL~

I'll have my own personal demo cd soonz.... heehee^^

Good news! Doug is the March champion for harkmusic cafe's competition! ( http://www.harkmusic.com/cafe/main.htm ) So happy for him! And so he's got better prizes than me haha He won himself a guitar too but in addition to that, he's got a recording session where he gets to do up a demo cd. So kool! They have arranged for him to go down on 9th apr but he has to go on a business trip. So he's still trying to check whether he can change the date if not it will all be wasted.

Another good news is, both me and douglas have been chosen to be trainee singers at harkmusic cafe. We will be making our debut performance on tomoro. We will singing for an hour and we havent made any preparations yet! haha.. well, hope my cough and his sorethroat will not destroy the whole performance tomoro.. * fingers crossed*

We are also scheduled to sing on 16th, and 30th April. Oh! I also have a solo session on 22nd Apr. If anyone wanna hear me sing, just drop by okie? hehe~~

Its been ages since I last updated my blog.

Some short updates:

1) Genting Trip - The trip was good, the company was definitely better! Oh, BRODS came in first for the group category BE A STAR singing competition. We were there to witness their performance and were cheering on them like we were fans! haha... (BRODS are one of the finalist for SuperBand. Please give them your support too! You will impressed by their performance!)

2) I finally won a singing competition after joining so many of them. It’s a small little monthly competition held at a music café. I was the 1st runner up for January 2006. Soooo happy.
( http://www.harkmusic.com/cafe/main.htm )

The ktv gang went to Genting!! WOOHOO!! It was definitely an enjoyable trip as its the company that matters most... There were a total of ten of us.

Well, most of our time were spent in the casino as usual. I did not gamble much this time as I did not bring enough money for it. But I felt lucky! Matt and me were randomly chatting on the way up to genting. I was telling him to bet the number '9' as its my lucky number.

Once we reached the hotel, put down our stuff. We had our lunch at KFC becoz the chicken there tastes much better than singapore's KFC! Yummy~

After lunch, we set off to the casino and wandered around. I was wandering around to a "big small" table. I had no malaysian ringgit with me and therefore I could only watch... And then, the number '9' appeared!! OMG!! i missed my chance of winning! crap... oh well.. no choice...

So i continued wandering around... wandered to the roulette tables. Matt was nearby and he joined me. Then he said "ay, bet 9 lah.. " I told him that theres 36 numbers.. "so very difficult one lah... " then bloody hell!! really number 9!!! crap x 2!! sickening... no choice again lor...

After wandering around for quite awhile, i sat down to play some jackpot and lost 40ringgit in 30mins.. sianz... duno whether shud feel lucky or unlucky...

Its papa's birthday. We went to noblehouse (again) for dinner, yummy! 8 of us, including my 2 cousin, Shawn and Ian were gobbling down the food haha Great dinner! I bought emicakes' durian cake, intended to eat after dinner but we were all too full for it, so we brought it to our next destination. We went to ktv at shenton way and sang the night away...

*please go to http://ktvfreak.blogspot.com for our ktv session.

Sunday afternoon, a few of us smarkys gathered at HY's place to hang out and also celebrate SZ. Attendance was alrite, given that there were 5 of us to start with. Bought some fruits and tidbits and started holding a mini picnic at her place. We ended watching a dvd at the living while pigging out on the tidbits.

Matt came over to pick me up for dinner with his family. We had ala-carte buffet at UOB plaza's 60th storey. Cant remember the name of the restaurant haha.. Dinner was alrite, guess I still prefer Noblehouse.

Reached home at around 10plus, both my cousins were home on my bed! My god, my bed has became their hangout spot. Anyway, waited for my sister to come back after midnight. Took the cranberry cake out and started singing birthday at the top of our voices eventhough my parents were already asleep... haha...

It was a weekend full of birthday celebrations...

First was my cousin's, Ian 18th birthday. We held a small party on sat afternoon at my place, inviting some of his friends. My mummy cooked lotsa yummy food. We had curry, fried bee hoon, chicken wing, hotdogs, sotong balls, jellies, cake of cos! Some of his hyper relay friends came too and they all started calling me 'pigletz' becoz thats the nick I use to play the online game.. so embarassing... I wish they won't call me that on the streets...

Dinner was at marche HMV celebrating Peipei's birthday. We had pizza, crepe, rosti, caesar salad, sausage, and more! So filling! After marche, we proceed to coffee club for coffee. I ordered Iced Rambutan and it turned out to be PINK! why is rambutan pink?? Although I hated the colour, the drink was still good. After coffee, we walked around orchard but it started to drizzle. Then we realised that Glenn actually drove! Well, he should have said so earlier then we could have got out of orchard earlier. Went down to West Coast McCafe for another round of coffee and cheesecakes. Yummy and cheap too! Mc Cafe is the best!

Hey folks, here are the links to my UK photos.. I know I took ages.. at last I've got them organised haha...

www.mandyuk.shutterfly.com

the past weekend was spent mostly at home and hanging out with matt, sis and my cousins.

Was off on saturday and therefore decided to catch the repeat telecast of 100% Entertainment at 2am. Went to sleep at 3am and woke up at 4pm!! Shiok man! Its been some time since I last slept till afternoon! haha..

woke up, chill out at home, watch tv, surf net till dinner time. Went to the HK cafe at east coast once again with matt, sis, shawn. Had a very filling dinner and went off to beach road as my sis need to submit the photocopies of our passports to the travel agency for the genting trip. Shawn mentioned about the famous riceballs and then it was dessert at the hawker centre. back home at 10plus, chill out, watch tv and surf net again... haiiz..bored

Woken up on sunday by my mum informing us that it was grandma's birthday and we will be having dinner at TPY central. Kerk dropped by to pick up my CPU back home to repair it. Its done already! it was just the power supply unit down.. chey.. okie, i will be getting it back tonite and i will have to really get my UK photos done up and developed!! haha...

dinner wasnt good and i guess my cousins didnt fill the stomachs. so off we went to chomp chomp for our second round haha.. ate the famous beancurd.. yummy~~~ its was great!!! i wanna eat it again!!!

Aunt snail flew to HK on sat morning.. so now theres no one to MSN me while working... so bored!!! Aunt Snail, quick quick come back okie??

Damn sleepy today.. duno why also... was rotting at home the past weekend, reading harry potter, watching tv, playing online games.. watever... now can still be so tired... haiiz

Oh yah, we did someting really crazy on sat night... or shud i say sunday morning... My sis, cousins and I ate Mac breakfast at 4am!!! My god! Its insane, but its definitely fun and enjoyable. Me and my sis were reading harry potter.. but i kinda fell asleep at 3am.. shawn was already sleeping.. and Ian went down to buy our big breakfast and hotcakes meal at 4am! In case you are wondering... the mac below my flat opens 24hrs and they start serving breakfast at 4am. So the 4 of us were eating breakfast damn quickly cos we all were damn tired already!

After breakfast, we went straight to bed and we had to torture ourselves by listening to shawn singing all the ktv tunes... ARGH!!! But after awhile.. silence....

I have finally set my eyes on a handphone. Its the upcoming Sony Ericsson W900i. Saw this on the website ( http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=sg&lc=en&ver=4000&template=pp1_loader&php=php1_10333&zone=pp&lm=pp1&pid=10333) but I have no idea when will it be released and how much will it be.

I'm guessing it to be around $900 becos this is a 3G phone with 470mb memory for songs and it can be expanded to 2GB. KOOL!

The current W800i and W550i are selling at $668 & $538 respectively. I do hope the phone will be out soonz and I will wait till Mar 2006 before buying it cos thats when my $500 voucher will expire. So I will hope for the price to drop further by then..

pray hard for me....

Met up with smarkys yesterday to celebrate XT's belated birthday. Supposed to meet at 7pm but there was some last minute urgent work to settle before i could leave the office and therefore i only managed to meet them up at almost 8pm. Sorrie gals!

Had dinner at pasta mania, the food was not that good but luckily the company was great! I totally enjoy meeting up with smarkys for the stress relieving and gossip sessions.

After dinner, went to This Fashion to shop around. Well, i was not shopping cos i dun really have the mood to do it haa... so in the end i was loitering around the place encouraging them to buy clothes instead hahahaahaha

After that, i left to meet up with doug, mic, stan & co for ktv session once again!

Oh yah, I have started another blog (http://ktvfreak.blogspot.com) dedicated for my ktv sessions hahaa.. i tink im going mad very soonz, going to ktv so often nowadays....

But there will be pause for 3 weeks, as doug had gone to japan for training and will only be back end nov... duno whether i can survive anot!!! haha

I've been going to ktv so often till I ran out of songs to sing already!! ARGH!!! haha.. with who?? the same gang lah... stan & co, ed & jac, doug & mic and me!!

It's becoming a routine to go ktv at cuppage and take up 3 out of 5 tables at the hall. We have been going so often till the people there already recognises us!!! This is crazy man! But its fun!

I'll be doing it soonz again, i hope!

It was stanley's brother, edmund's birthday so we went down to his 'party' at a pub along mosque street. The pub was called WHITE HOUSE, and it was really white inside out. How appropriate....

Edmund has lotsa friends! Almost everyone in the pub came for his birthday.. cool! There were at least 30 of them man! So in the end, the group of us settled down at a table and drank out night away without the birthday boy (he was already high before 12am!) haha.. Its been so long since I last went pubbing and drinking that much. Its fun to do this once in awhile. I miss this kinda feeling... The gang was fun to hang out with of course!

All of them will be heading to genting to watch the finals for Be a Star. I don't have any more leaves after my trip to UK. They keep asking me to go and I wanna go badly! I hope my manager allows me to go.. haha

I did not have to rot for another saturday, instead, I had great fun!!

Its my birthday today and so doug, mic, veron, glenn, shawn, carol and of cos Matt went to dinner at noblehouse yesterday. The dinner is superb just like the last time.

After dinner, we went down to ktv at shenton way, the place where the competition was held. That means, I had been going down to the same place for 3 consecutive days! haha We wanted to book a medium room, but there was no room available and therefore we took the VIP room. As we thought the room will be huge, we called stanley and gang along. But the VIP was not that big after all. In the end, we had almost 16 person all in one ktv room. It was kinda crowded but it was still fun. Shawn started the ktv session with his favourite Aaron's song and the rest joined in the fun! But Shawn and Caroline left early as Shawn wanted to catch the england match.

We were singing at partyworld from 10pm, all the way up to 2am. We still haven't had enough fun and therefore we headed to cineleisure and continued our ktv session. Matt did not join us to cineleisure as he was not feeling too well.

So there were 9 of left who headed to cineleisure! I have broken my own record! I sang ktv for 7 hours! I really cannot believe it!!! Doug, stanley and gang were drinking and playing some stupid games while we watched and laughed.

Its been so long since I had that much fun. How I wished the day not to end....

Douglas did not qualify for the finals and there goes my genting trip. He did very well, but I guess the judges prefer younger people and good lookers. But he's still my idol! haha

Gabriel and Emerlyn both did not qualify too. Kinda sad, becoz all my friends didn't qualify. But still, they were all better than me becoz I did not even get through the auditions.. haiizz Gabriel sang pretty well, its a waste he did not qualify for the finals. He has this natural R&B voice which makes him very unique. He has got the looks and sang with much feelings.

Emerlyn has this really super ultra high voice. She sings stefanie's song plus 3 keys!!! God! She's really superb! But today, her song was disrupted half way as they played the song in the wrong key.

After the competition, we went supper at Mr Bean and chit chat for a while before heading home.

Today is the second semis for the Be A Star competition. I went down after work with my sis and Doug. Stanley and Bess were both in today's semi. Stanley did pretty well, but he kinda forgot his lyrics. As for Bess, I guessed she kinda laughed too much before her appearance and therefore her voice was affected. But overall, I still think she did well as compared to some others who were terrible. HAHA! Its been some time since I last heard Bess sing, and I think she improved quite alot! Way to go!

Doug and my sis were there to watch the competition too, together with some other friends who we got to know through Stanley. They also qualified for the semis will be competing tomorrow night together with Douglas.

Wish them luck!

I wanna thank my dearest smarkies!!

We went for dinner today at White Tangerine. Its a small little cafe located at Hougang. Their baked pasta is the best!! YUMMY! Well, as usual, some were late. I was the earliest this time! haha... aunt snail came after awhile and we went down to the cafe first. We played UNO while waiting for our orders. Its been so long since I last played the game, I almost forgot how to play it! haha

XT,MY and HY came down later. And we spent the night chit-chatting away as usual. I missed those time where we would hang out at the macdonald's so very often and gossip away. Those were the days....

Oh yah, I got an angpow from them too! Thanks smarkies! I will use the $$ to buy either a pair tennis shoes or a new bag as my current bag is getting old.. haha thanks XT for bringing the cake too! Even though I was already very full, I still insist on finishing it cos it was really delicious!

And lastly, thanks to them for the dinner, the cake, the angpow and of cos the company!

For those who were not able to come, its alrite. Thanks for the angpow still!