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Okay, Heng and I had another idea a few weeks back before the exams and so we took the opportunity of us hanging out at Heng's house to film this and yeah here's what we made. Credits to Heng for the cool editting. Good job mate. =D

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Teacher's Day 2009 Opening Show?

I want to thank Loke Hsin for taking this video of me WITHOUT ME KNOWING UNTIL THE END OF IT. =_=" Oh and that's Steffi's ukelele by the way.

This was right before our performance at this year's teachers' day at school. We were the opening act. This video was taken when the students and teachers were moving into the hall. We were all just calming each other's nerves and having fun. You could see everyone practicing and getting ready. =D If you watch carefully, you can see the dancers practicing at the back, and I think I can hear Claudia going "One Two Three Four!" xD

Okay, in this video: Practically everyone involved in our musical thing. Haha. Anyway, this is supposed to be somewhere over the rainbow. But I kinda messed it up though =P

Just thought I'd share this, brings back lots of nice memories and good times. Learned a lot through that experience. Plus I learnt how to play the F chord on a uke that day. xD

Goooooooooooood times............ =D

My little MJ tribute?

Just a little tribute. Haha. A bigger better fuller tribute might be recorded with some friends =)

MIGHT

Okay I finally got to record my own lousy solo version of "I'll be there" by Michael Jackson. It's sorta like a tribute? I made up my own arrangements after I heard the song. Very simple chord based arrangement. Very easy playing. Just keeping it simple people! xD It's beautiful and I kinda spoiled it I know but yeah. =P

The sound quality's kinda bad but at least it's audible. Can't hear the nice echoing sounds though. And I'd like to thank my camera girl. This video is taken by a professional camera girl, my little sister, Sheela "Unshakable Hands" Wong. =)

"I'll be there" by Michael Jackson

Rest in peace dude.

Fingerstyle Master

Now that I'm moving towards finger-style guitar, this has just gotta be one of the songs I really gotta learn man. It's "Man in the mirror" and it's been played by lots of really good guitarists out there. And our local guitar maestro and someone I really look up to, Roger Wang has this song in his repertoire too. And MAN DOES IT SOUND GOOD!! =D

One day, I'm gonna play this man. I'll get there soon. =) Watch me!



This is Tuck Andress. He's really old now. With a head full of long white hair. Haha. But he still rocks the Archtop guitar. And I think this dude does this song best. His style is amazing! =D

Wanted

Does anyone out there know the title of this song?

I seriously need to learn this man. It's sweet. =)

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Look, I don't even have to say how amazing these two guys are together. Fellow guitarists out there, don't you just wish you could still have that much fun jamming even at Tony's age? =) And to those who thought the ukelele was just for Hawaiians at loo outs... In your face! =D



Wow...

Teachers' Day Rehearsal Day 1

Today's rehearsal..... was definitely not a day to remember. =/ It's a very long story and series of unfortunate happenings but yeah our performance could have been a lot better.

It's amazing how small mistakes can add up to a huge malfunction =/

Two of our band members, Steffi and Loke Hsin were busy with their violin and piano exams. So they couldn't make it. And so Ronald was gonna sub Steffi at bass for our opening song while I play lead. But then we discovered that Ronald's cable wasn't there so his bass guitar was out of the picture =S Alex and I were shocked but hey, it could have happened to anyone. We made a very important decision not to play that song live. The vocalist couldn't make it today either. It was HORRIBLE! =/ So we used the audio file from the laptop.

And then even more blunders.. =/ There were some miscommunications and lots of mistakes. The script got changed in a short notice to fit the 10 minute duration given. All in all, it was a very bad performance =/ The bad music and PA left the dancers and actors very disorientated on stage. Everyone was blur. I even missed my dancing part because I was too busy setting up my keyboard for the next song, I had to sub Loke Hsin at the keyboard. X(

There were some technical problems with the PA too. The staff in charge didn't even show up. So the prefects in charge of the programs were having some trouble with the mics. We had to go on with our performance without mics. Seriously I could write a "A Day I Would Like To Forget" essay man.. But I hope we don't get cancelled. We all worked so hard for this and if we were to be cancelled, everyone would be devastated.

Oh and p.s. I cut my right hand nails really short so now I can't play finger style properly. =( I need a thumb pick. =_=" Like NOW!!! Or tomorrow when I go to Damai =P

8/6/09 Wedding performance =)

Looking back at Federick's pictures of our 8/6/09 wedding gig photos at Sutera reminded me of the awesome experience. =) Check out some of the photos at Fed's blog.

http://www.federickgnrs.blogspot.com/

And I kinda agree with Fed about the wedding deco chair spoiling my "stage look" XD Check this out.

Now imagine if I was sitting on a nice wooden stool.... That'd be so much better. Haha. Check out my weird facial expression. =P I think I was playing the really fast parts so hence, the face. =_="

I wasn't happy with my performance that night. I missed some important notes and I didn't get to add in my own guitar tapping part because I don't think it was a good idea. =S Seriously, that was the toughest crowd I've ever performed in front of. They were all old fashioned Chinese music fans. They were mostly really good karaoke singers from Tawau actually. =) And there I was with the acoustic guitar. I didn't fit! xD You can't expect me to go: "Let's make some noise!" Can you?

The other pics are still with Shanice, I'll post em after I get em. And here are some others I have =D

Note the serious face... =_=" I look stupid man..

This was taken during sound checking. I couldn't hear myself, it was bad. =( And the PA system dude arrived late! We all only got to do sound checking when some of the guests have already arrived. =( That was sucky. But at least we got to test the sound. =)

Federick's got the other pics. Check them out on his blog. =) I want to thank Ronald again for his sweet Ibanez guitar and Shanice, Susan, Kingston, Federick, Jason and everyone at the wedding for the awesome experience =)

Asturias!!! =D

Whoa.. Okay I promised I'd blog more but then in comes a barrage of activities and priorities and POOF!! There goes that free blogging time. =) But hey, here I am, finally free and in a mood for blogging. I had a nice day today =D

School was okay, good news: We made the cut for the Teachers' Day performance next Saturday morning!! Bad news: Choir finals are on the same date at night and my class isn't ready yet. There's not much cooperation going on man. =/

And oh yeah, we had our first volleyball competition match today. And I was supposed to play as a substitute due to my knee injury and I'm not a good volleyball player. =) But to my h,orror, pleasure and surprise, Captain Larson had tuition so he couldn't make it, and the rest of the subs were nowhere to be seen! Except Keith, I heard he was sick at home. Get well soon Keith! =)

So I ended up as the only sub for the team today. Oh and I beat Alex at 3 straight games of snooker today! xD (Random but yeah, you had better days Alex.) (He's a good player, better than me. =D) And then... More surprise! They wouldn't let Max, Welton and Siung on the first team at the same time, so I had to stand in for Max, with an injured knee.

But hallelujah man, we won the match in straight sets. But the opponents, S1 Ai played well. And when I shook their hands at the end of the game and said "Good Game", I meant it. =D Good job S2 Ren. Or RENdezvous! =P Our slack keeps us on track yeah?

I went to math tuition straight after that in my volleyball jersey, (Jordan's actually, mine was in the wrong size, too big for me. =P) Got home, showered, and then had dinner. And now here I am, blogging and holding my guitar on my lap. I'm taking a break from practicing this really intense classical spanish piece called..... Asturias (Leyenda) by Isaac Albeniz. Here's John Williams playing like it was Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. =P



I'm still trying to get the sound just right. =) Some of the people out there might say that this song's kinda out of my league, and I agree, it's gonna take some time for the whole song. But there's something in the song that's got me so into it. That respect for the dude who wrote it 123 years ago, the beautiful story that plays in my head when I listen to it. I can't put it in words man, I just HAD to give it a go. =) And I think I'm making good progress.

And I think that's it for tonight. I'll try to blog again soon. =)

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By the way, the gay dancing part at the end was Heng's idea. =)