Oops

Not been updating for the past few days. Lazy. Haha.

Last Sunday I was one of the many performers at Jurong Point, hoping to raise funds of the Children's Cancer Society. Saw Jeremaine there, an old friend of mine, who's now at Lee Wei Song School of Music. It feels great that the group of us who love singing, are able to do so on a different stage now. Rather than singing in the rooms or the halls of Partyworld, we are now doing it on a stage with a different meaning, which is to persuade people to donate generously. I don't know if I was able to touch anyone with my singing, but it felt really great to be able to be a part of this. It just made my life feel more meaningful, that I'm able to do something for those in need. Even if I didn't manage to persuade anyone, at least I'm grateful to be a part of this event.

After the charity performance, it was off to Global Sounds Cafe for our Echo Music Student Gathering, where students are supposed to perform and showcase what they've learned at Echo over the past few months or years, and to receive their certificates of recognition. I forgot my lyrics during my performance! OMG! I allowed myself to be distracted by Jake. I'm going to kill him! And congrats to Danick for winning the SGD100 for being the best performer for the night. You did well, and thanks for the dinner after that haha :)


I'm currently in the midst of transforming into a 宅男, one who always stay at home instead of going out. But this week is really busy for me. Yesterday I had soccer trials in the morning at 9.30am, and after that I had a badminton session at Serangoon with my classmates. But due to bad weather, I had to play soccer under heavy rain in the morning. Twice, to be exact. Already felt feverish while having lunch and playing badminton, and totally knocked out once I reached home.


Today is to go Zouk with Neo and Cash for a SMU bash. I'm not a clubber, and I've not been to Zouk for more than 5 times in my 24 years. But I'm just going there to accompany the 2 of them, to have a good time with the guys, and to see if they can hook up any girls in there, especially Cash who I think has the ability to do that.


Saturday morning is my 2nd photo shoot for my portfolio in Echo Music, and it's going to be an outdoor one! It's going to be the first time I'm doing an outdoor photo shoot, and I believe it's going to be really fun! Hope that the picutres will turn out fine, now that my teacher has given the photographer a set of photographs as a reference to the image that she wants to carve out for me. A bit of sweet looking and yet rebellious. Something like this one:



After the photo shoot, it'll be music lesson, and then rushing down to Mandai Crematorium to pray my secondary school classmate. It's a pity that she passed away when she was just 14. She had so much talent, and she was such a sweet girl, and yet she was hit by a mysterious virus and left us so suddenly. 11 years on, and she still lives in our heart.

After that it'll be down to Dungeon, as I'm invited to their 5th anniversary celebration. Haha.


And on Sunday I'll be having a performance at White Tangerine Cafe, performing with someone called Ivan, who I heard from my teacher is a regular performer at 爱琴海. Although I'll feel the stress performing beside such a seasoned performer, I do hope that it will push me to make sure that I improve and perform well at the same time. 加油!


And in the midst of all these events, I've been busy packing my room and prepare to move house. Will officially hand over our house to the new owner on the 15th of Sept, and will officially take over our new house on the 28th of Oct. In between, I'm homeless. Anyone having any room/apartment on rent for 2 months? Please let me know immediately if you have one. It's kinda urgent.

Updates

Thursday

Was in school for my first FYP consultation with my project supervisor, and I was shocked to see that Chris had the same supervisor as me. It's funny that I was the one who won the bid for my project while Chris had to choose another project title, and we end up having the same project supervisor, doing similar projects. Duh.

Had Neo's birthday celebration at Dungeon after that, and it felt great to see a few of my friends that I've not seen for quite some time. People like Kev, JF, Jessie, Luke. If Neo did not insist on drinking all of his lambo and half yard all by himself, he might not have been that dead drunk. But sadly, that was what he did, and within 15 minutes, he was gone. Totally gone. LOL. Was kinda happy for him that so many people turned up for his birthday celebration. I don't even remember when was the last time I had that many people celebrating my birthday with me. Maybe when I was in primary school?

End up, even Cash was drunk too, and we had so much trouble getting him into Jason's van. Oh, and Red, send me the video which you took while Cash was pee-ing behind the power box at the road side. Hahahahaha.


Friday

Met up with Jessie, Sheen, Neo and Chris for a KTV session at International Building. It's been such a long time since I last had a KTV session with them, considering the frequency of our KTV outings in the past. As usual, it was fun, and there were plenty of updates on one another's lives. Great to see you girls, and Sheen, you've really slimmed down a bit.


Monday

Was a school holiday, and thus no teaching for me. Had my quarter finals for "Be A Star" at 7pm, and I got eliminated. But as this is the first major competition that I've taken part in, I'm kind of satisfied with my performance, having get to the QFs. And moreover, out of 25, they only chose 10. I heard those 10 sing, and they were good. I've done my best, and therefore I don't feel sad having being eliminated. One of the judges came up to me after the competition and said that I did not perform up to the judges' expectations, using the previous rounds' performances as a guideline. It was just an opportunity to test myself and see how far I can go in such a competition, and I've gotten my answer.

Overall, I had fun in the competition, and I've also made a couple of friends who are going to be new additions to my list of KTV kakis :)

Thanks to those who wished me good luck. Fiona, Alex, Caleb, Taiwei, Rick. I didn't include Neo's name inside, because he was busy having fun at his SMU camp with all the hot babes ><

Qualification. With A Scare.

Yesterday, I had my preliminary round audition at Partyworld, International Building.

When the results were announced, my number wasn't in the list of the qualifiers. I took the souvenir from the MC, and was about to walk out of the room when suddenly the 2 judges stopped me and said that I'm supposed to be one of the qualifiers. The staff then double checked and said that my number is not in the list. So it's either a mistake made by the 2 judges, or a mistake by the staff.

So there I was, in front of all the contestants and audience, standing stranded, not knowing whether am I eliminated or have I qualified.

After they double checked with the 2 judges again, the staff noticed that they have made a mistake, and that I qualified for the quarter finals. What a scare! I'm very grateful to the 2 judges who recognised me and immediately pointed out that there was a mistake made. Thank you :)

And thanks to those who morally supported me. I made it =D

Yes!

Dear Yong Meng,

We confirm that the project title you have chosen: Online Web Assessment System has been assigned to you.

Your Project Supervisor is Mr Shimoga Lakshman

The role of the Project Supervisor is to give you guidance and feedback as you work on your project. Please take the sessions with your Project Supervisor seriously and strive to complete the project as scheduled. We would like to see many of you do well in this programme and pass all subjects with flying colours.

Your first project consultation is scheduled on

07 August 2008
SIMHQ Rm 3-11
7:00pm

Best regards
Cynthia Asio
Higher Education 2
DID 6248 9193


Woohoo! I got my FYP! Finally!

For Laughs

This is damn funny.