Let's learn 天天想你!

Wow... my favorite online guitar teacher finally put up a clip on how to play Cheer Chen's version of 天天想你! I'll be right on it!


Let's learn 天天想你!

Happy Dan's Day!

This weekend, we had an unprecedented two-day celebration for Mr Dan… We had a surprise party for him on Friday at Café Iguana (which was really fun!). Strangely, Joo was more confused and surprised than our birthday boy! I guess it was one great excuse to set up a happy hour for our gang… we had great food… great drinks…. everything was perfect!


A happy Dan at Cafe Iguana!

Saturday, I had my 4th month eye checkup… everything (my eye) is still working fine but I was advised to wait out another 9 months before considering another lasik surgery. After reading in the papers that one unlucky guy got permanent quadruple-vision after a twice botched lasik surgery… I think I’ll wait any amount of time! (maybe even not doing it after all)

Later that evening, we were activated by Mr Dan and his darling for a last-minute majong session cum birthday celebration! We even turned off the lights, lighted a candle on the cake and sang a birthday song for him… lucky guy! (he won a lot of money too bbtw!)


A Happy Dan at an undisclosed illegal gambling den!

Back to driving school (again and again and again and again......)

After four years of riding a motorcycle and one year of driving, I came back to Singapore… and failed my Basic Theory Test! It almost felt like me going back to school again and fail my Primary School Exam… or my ‘O’ Levels… or my ‘A’ Levels (which are all entirely possible btw!). Embarrassing as it, I have to book another test date again (which is going to be another few months’ wait!)… I realized in Singapore, common sense is just not enough to get you through a test… you have to memorize everything ten thousand bazillion times! Lesson learned!

Lonely (还是会寂寞)

The creative bug struck me again on this lonely Sunday… I decided to record a short clip of myself playing Cheer Chen, 陈绮贞 ’s 还是会寂寞 (Still Be Lonely). I guess I need more work on myself and my sad little webcam!


还是会寂寞… I guess I’m still lonely...

Love's Like the Tide (爱如潮水)

A sudden dose of creativity inspired me to make a short recording of my singing and playing… After an hour, I only managed a short clip of me singing 爱如潮水 (the direct translation is "Love's like the tide")... I guess I need a lot more work to be any good…. But it was fun messing with this Audacity software I've downloaded!

I had to convert the song clip to a slideshow using Microsoft Movie Maker to host it on Youtube so I hope you guys like those photos of me having fun at Monterey, California, back in April! I actually chose the pictures because the words 潮水 reminded me of those turbulent-looking waves rolling into Monterey Bay.



Enjoy my 爱如潮水!

Happy Pauly Wallnuts’ Day!

Finally we had our yearly Pauly Wallnuts’ Day last week! I really appreciate everyone for making it a very special day for me. I could only hope it’s a Friday instead… that would mean a lot more drinking! (Of course we can never drink pots and pots of beer like Kiat!)

And what a great Paul Wallnuts’ weekend we had at Genting Highlands too! We had a very interesting road trip to Genting Highlands, Malaysia, 5 hours away from Singapore. Great food, great gambling (maybe not so great for me)… I was lucky to be in a car instead of the minibus… I heard it was rough for them!

We had our fair share of adventure on the way back to Singapore though… we got lost in Kuala Lumpur… we even got a ‘trick or treat’ (it’s really called ‘ticket or lesson?’)... we got pulled over by a cop in a sad little patrol car without even the siren lights on top of the car! Thankfully, our experienced Xiong got us out of trouble with a little ‘lesson fee’ to the cop.

Finally, I won the November session of our poker tour at Kiat’s house. That was a sweeet victory! Thanks everybaadee!!!