JJ Timeline Concert 《時。線》

I'm in the hype to update asap. Indeed, a very exciting night. I have to say, I'm happy to convince my JJ concert partners to pay more and come with me to the front to see him so clearly! :DDD I was at the 6th row from the front! In the segment where the most important guests were sitting so he was near us most of the time! Heh!

Our tickets~!

S.H.E Together Forever

I thought of going to the concert for the longest time. (okay, actually the longest was Amei. haha!) But I did really want to go this time. But the tickets were long sold out, and when they release that last few tickets, either the seats are not those I liked or they are just too expensive (Cat 1). I even held the tickets in my Sistic cart for a few times, contemplating. I gave up in the end. My principle behind is, if I don't even spend that kind of money on my favourite artistes, I shouldn't do it to the ones I'm not so hard core about. Which means to say, I have never spent that amount on JJ before lah. I thought 'it's just too bad because their tickets are really too expensive for me'. I'm saving up for more things since Christmas is most 'chor' period on money. And I have decided.

Next thing I know, the very next day, my sis whatsapp me and I was totally delighted. In fact, I replied immediately and was smiling to myself. HAHA! Okay, a bit drama but that was totally what I did at that moment I saw the text. I went OMG! YES!

You cannot imagine my excitement. I was sad because I missed my bus by seconds. But after this it doesn't matter anymore! And it's FREE!!!! :D

And then I had a BKK trip in Sept

I say I'm kind of lucky. To have the luxury of all these. Again, it's kind of an impulse decision to go along with the friends. But it was a happy one. :) Went to Bangkok with some of the Beloveds. First time 6 of us plus 3 went overseas together.

It's very hard to have so many close friends going out at the same time. And we are all glad of each other's company (I'm sure). Haha! It's a bit impromptu, and I had so many choices I chose this over the rest. But excitedly we had all the flight and accommodation settled. :)

It's a crazy trip of eating and shopping.

We reached there early afternoon, so soon after we dropped our bags at the hotel, we went out for lunch at Platinum mall, it was an impromptu decision for the fuji restaurant lunch and shopping indoors because it was raining after we finished our lunch. So we decided to shop where we were.

To be honest, BKK is like HK, 買東西、吃東西，買東西、吃東西。With an extra option of massage. It's like the best place to go get new clothes blah blah blah.

Went to do Pedi and mani too, but I don't think I will do it again next time, because they really took toooooo long. HAHA! I only did cutting for both hands and feet and drawing for toes only and it took me 3 hours. I was so going to die sitting there (almost).

Massage was awesome as ever! Every night without fail :) Shiokness. Even met a friend/ex-colleague there. We don't even meet in SG because we stay in different parts of SG. haha!

Weather was a bit crazy. It's either too hot and it's raining. LOL! We had to stay indoors on one of the days because it rained when we were about to go out. The other times we had some difficulty getting back to the hotel dry, even though we had ponchos. And luckily we had the ponchos.

Despite that, surprisingly we had enough chances of roadside stalls food. Glad that we always have a street of food right below the hotel. Though they don't sell till late like 1, 2am, but I have to say we had a lot of good food here and there. Some of which I didn't even know or tried the last time round. :)

Spent most of my money, buying things only for myself. HAHA! Okay, a few items for other people, but seriously, not much. I don't know how I really am able to buy so many things, just for myself. Oh wells....

It was really a good trip with the closed ones and I really look forward to going somewhere else with them again! :D

Broadway Beng - Back to the Basics.

最近和朋友一起去看Broadway Beng. 本來陳瑞彪就是我最喜歡的舞台劇演員，加上在Broadway Beng 裡非常搞笑的他，是我真的期待的作品。可惜我只看過了上次Esplanade 的，和這次的。雖然這兩次我是totally enjoy, 可是好像就有那麼一點的遺憾，但我也知道，那種遺憾的感覺會讓我不會再錯過他以後的演出。

人長得不錯，歌聲佳，搞笑功力了得，演技也很好，中文英文福建都行。我覺得沒有什麼好挑剔的。HAHA! Okay, that would be quite a bias comment.

We all know most of the part would be funny. And indeed it was really funny, we all had hard laughs throughout the show. And the songs! They are the one and onlys. Where do you hear people sing the songs in chinese and hokkien, in english and hokkien mixed? The Broadway Beng does it. :) And the translation are always so funny, you can't help laughing. He made jokes out of the simplest thing you can find: his mother, his siblings, the audience, the stage, the supporting cast, even his father who has passed away.

I have to say that I was touched when he sang 《阿嬤的話》(He changed the lyrics to 阿爸), as a dedication to his dad. The only part in the whole show that wasn't at all funny. But he changed the mood so fast to joke that he is talking towards the ceiling not because his father is sitting at Circle 2. -.- And if the audience at Circle 2 sees his father, must say 'hello' to him. -.-'''

I love the part he speaks to the audience and the Justice Bao part. They are too hilarious. Tea parties, Ronald McDonalds, Grease, all so funny. I have a great time and thinking back now, some of the scenes still made me smile. :)

Little Broadway Beng is so cute. And at his age, he's really good in speaking the language. Acting was really good too. Plus, he has a cute face. haha! But throughout I was thinking, is that really the thing we want to teach this child? Is he too young for it? Or he has the 'bestest' idea what he's doing? I don't know, and I'm curious! 這樣真的好嗎？連邊緣的話他都用上了。但以他的年齡來說，我是很佩服他的。因為他太棒了。

Overall, have to give this show thumbssss up! :D I love Sebastian Tan and will continue to support him! I hope he makes a Broadway Beng show every year! PLEASSSSSSEEEEE! :D

我愛台灣 (2013年版, 第二篇)

Yup, the anticipated trip since the friends started become closer in SYCO few years ago. It's a pity that those people have already left the orchestra for various reason. But still, I was still looking forward to it, because there's won't be anymore chance. HAHA!

It's not an easy trip to come by for this one. And I appreciate every effort. I would love to ask if this trip had happened last year or the year before, would it have been very different from what I have experienced? Answer is most probably! Why? The people, maybe the repertoire, the end result.

我愛台灣 (2013年版, 第一篇)

I have to admit that every trip has something memorable, each one has its own value.

I have gone to Taiwan (Taipei) twice in the past 2 month, i.e. one month once in June and July, for different purposes: Play and then SYCO.

第一篇
台北: 木柵台北市動物園, 台大商圈, 師大夜市, 十分瀑布, 十分風景區, 九份老街, 士林夜市, 台五分埔, 饒河夜市, 北車站地下街, 西門町, 台北小巨蛋.

Work's treating me.

Been too long, I hope this is not going to be an overdose. Ytd my colleague and I realised that time has really passed so fast that we already almost halfway into this year and 2 months ever since the new contract started. To think about it, I felt I was a bit too timid to ask for more. Nonetheless, I know that's not exactly what I cared for although it would have helped a bit more now that I need more money for trips and concerts. haha!

Btw, new term has started for the talent programme and I'm kind of skeptical about it, having new instructors, new students I haven't had a chance to talk to all of them (I hope I do in time to come). Starting anything new is never easy (well, taking over wasn't easy too). But new challenges is something we just have to go through in life. I never like too much changes, but I've grown to accept that they will just keep coming after all these years of the unexpected(s). I guess life has taught me through the hard way. 

I don't know how long I will stay here. In fact, I like the place and the people if not for some factors. It's a pity but we all know that we will not be able to stay forever, not even long. This is quite sad, but I guess the colleagues are really people I will continue to contact. We are more like friends than just colleagues which I was quite thankful for. Plus the team is really good to the point that sometimes I feel so clueless and they already have everything done nicely. My team colleagues are so nice they are always trying to take care of us and help us in any way they can, like just random chat, sharing food, offering to drive us out/back after work. Really greatful to meet such nice people. Just today (1 June), I had a great chat with them over working at the band orientation programme. Next session onwards, I'm gonna be alone there again. But well, accept and take it with stride (my moto now).

For the other team, I am thankful that the students, or rather, members, are really kind of nice. They are experienced, and sometimes too outspoken, but I'm glad they could talk to me, and not treat me like some transparent. And in fact, I was quite touched that a few of them actually thanked me for being there for the rehearsals and going through all these. Honestly, music has always been my passion, doing an orchestra work has always been my dream (just that I'm a bit clueless here sometimes because of the inconsistency), and here I really still have a lot to work on. But I've also told my other colleague doing the youth sinfonia, that I know it's going to be difficult, but I will take it with stride and do whatever I can. Actually I said this only to encourage her because she was feeling uncomfortable with it at first. And probably she's going through what I felt last time - i.e. not liking changes. But sometimes we just got to change, and I'm getting her to accept that, I think she is and I'm happy for her. 

It's hard work lately, so much so I haven't had chance to get myself a weekday off day even though I worked for a few saturdays. I'm so gonna have it next week. Accumulated too many hours, I think I have enough for my TW trip, without the need to take any AL. HAHA! 

I think I should sleep soon. Been falling sick too much lately. Started with the sore throat and fever, then the swollen blistered up bites, and then some blocked nose. Okay, I haven't slept so late ON PURPOSE for a long time. I said that because I was forced to - due to the blocked nose, and the itch on the bites most of the time. Other than the nights I had the drowsy medicine from seeing the doctor, the rest of the nights were pretty bad. In the sense I totally have no mood to put on any make-up in the morning because my thought was I want to get to sleep faster when I return home at night. Some days I really looked terrible my colleagues asked me what happened to me. But still, everyday I went through the same torture of having new mosquito bites, scratching them a bit here and there, and having some with awful blisters. It was the blisters that forced me to the doctor because the first few turn really bad I couldn't even walk properly. My arms and legs (mostly the left) are covered with red swollen patches from bites, time to time. It's kind of gross and I have done all I can to prevent bites but still, in the end I had like 4 on my face. =.= I really need all these to stop like soon or even, right now! It's damn unfair, I'm the only one who gets all these bites wherever I was. Some are really painful and/or itchy, I hope they are not leaving scars. TSK! And I already finished the cream given by the doctor to kill the bateria. 

Yup. So that's it. I have to get back to good health condition and skin condition before my dearest cuzzie's big day. I HOPE! 

CNBLUE, JJ and Sodagreen = the Favourites!

最近無可救藥地迷上了韓國樂團CNBLUE. 並且很慷慨的砸錢買他們的商品。Ok... 也不是算很多，不是非全部都買的那種，但不會想的太多。我會像支持林俊傑一樣想支持他們的音樂，i.e. spend money to buy their album. 我總是覺得他們跟其他的韓星不同的是，他們不需要賣弄包裝，華麗的舞台或服裝，更不需要賣弄不必要的‘姿色’就可以攏絡很多人的心。真誠，帥氣，歌唱實力，舞台魅力就是本錢。

 Cutie Jungshin! Loving him more and more now. He's so cute! But still... Yonghwa is my love! haha!

I could really see his face! He's so charming when he sings and actually all the things he do! Even the little funny dance he does. And when he smiles. Totally melts. <3

In our fan-mode while queuing for the merchandise! Might as well since they are there along the queue. Haha! So in love! Hehe. 

崇庆 Last Day! :(

现在听着周崇庆主持着他在Y.E.S.93.3fm的最后一次的节目，脑海里浮现一个个以前听着他的节目时的画面。常常会有笑到失控的时候。今天，我却是泪流满面的。绝对会想念陪着我渡过小学、中学、高中、大学、工作的这把声音。也许你不相信，但我从很小的时候就跟着姐姐听933，而且是整晚开着电台睡觉的听着，到现在还是如此。也是这些日子让我有当DJ的梦想(知道是不可能实现了)，所以还是继续听着广播吧。

对于崇庆的第一印象是‘双周末夜’，他和周汉民在周末的节目，每个星期我和两个姐姐会一起听，一起笑，还常常笑得太大声被妈妈骂。还记得他们的外号和节目的‘主题曲’和Rap。还记得我曾经写信到他主持的‘弦歌寄忆’是因为很喜欢他那时在主持那个时段。好像他主持的节目我都隐约有听，近几年是记得Mr and Mrs Chew，傍晚班，还有他在主持午班的时候特地会听他每个星期一11点的‘周一有慧(诗)’。

这一天，他将要离开933，电台会少一把我从小听到大的一把声音，陪着我长大的一把声音，我真的会想念的声音。很感伤，但我祝福他，就像祝福灵芝和玛丽一样。加油! 虽然打过电话进去点歌、聊天，他应该不会记得我，但很谢谢这几个月有他在晚班节目。

今天大变动了啊！丁志勇也将move on，当上节目副总监，不再主持早班节目。对他来说是好事，所以很为他高兴。当然也很高兴以后早上会听到家发的声音，真的像他上次离开午班说的：会有机会的。听志勇的声音的机会也多了，因为他将主持中午10－12点的节目。:)

I will still support Y.E.S93.3fm! Jiayou! :D

End of Batch 2012

Very happy that my kids completed the programme and put up a good show for the concert.

My responsibility with them is almost done, except for the post concert reception, which was sad because the school teacher wasn't very supportive. However, I'm happy to see my students so happy and excited for the day, and some very nervous ones. But they are so cute! HAHA! Omg I will miss the kids I think, the primary school ones are really too cute already, even though they are very naughty. Secondary school ones are very nice students though, very funny some of them, and although a bit irritating sometimes, I still love them the same. Haha!

Actually I felt the day was almost gone in a flash. I don't even really feel the day gone. I was only worried for some things that didn't go the way I wished it did. But luckily it was resolved in the end. And I was glad that I actually had time for dinner, at least! Hehe!

It may not be the best concert you can get, but it's still the hardwork of the students, the conductors and the tutors. But something to reflect for next year: not to let them anyhow change repertoire. haha! Heart attack to listen to some of them.

For myself, a lot to learn from this concert. Happy that I run my first concert ever. Like in control of almost everything, although not exactly. But I felt it and I kind of enjoyed it. :)

And now it's my colleagues' turns to get busy and nervous. hehe! I wish them all the best though, I will they will be good anyway. :)

Looking back to 2012

If I had to recall some things in 2012, the first would be that I didn't even finish my summary of 2011 post! HAHA! it's still there as a draft. But I tell myself, I have to finish this one on 2012.

2012 has been a rather eventful year, with some ups and downs in my life. Well, probably more downs but I have to say that it was better than 2011 at least and I hope it (my life) will only get better.

跟蘇打綠一起走過的演唱會

I was really excited to know they are having a concert in Singapore. Quickly gathered my concert khakis. Actually the usual ones didn't really want to go, so had to extend to the main group. Eventually I went with Siyih, Qin and her brother.

不記得是什麼時候開始喜歡蘇打綠,但愛上了就停不下來.哈哈! 也許是從一些他們專輯的主打歌起, 也許是那一首《無眠》。真的很喜歡那首歌, 只是這次它不在演唱會的歌單裡, 有一點小失望. 哈哈! 但是, 點歌的階段第一位點歌的觀眾就點了這首歌, 也讓我興奮不已.

很多細節都不記得了, 但是一定能說我完完全全在享受中度過. 每一個環節都有自己的魔力, 身材嬌小的青峰真的很了起, 唱功也太厲害了吧! 所有的歌曲都在他的掌握中, 就算是現場點的歌他都能唱好。但他也太好笑了，通常歌手讓觀眾點歌就會‘來者不拒’，就算聽到不想唱的也會當作沒聽見，就直接跳過。青峰他卻很直接的說‘神經病啊！’、‘才不要’、‘最不想唱的就是那首’（小宇宙），等等狠狠拒絕的話。可是很真實、很可愛，大家聽了都只會笑得很大聲，效果滿分！

好笑的是，工作人員很困難的控制站起來的觀眾，青峰卻喊了一句‘全場站起來’，大家都樂的！站起來狂跳，狂喊。還有就是青峰搞笑的虧贊助商位子上的觀眾，說他們沒勁，以後不要給贊助商那麼好的位子，也太大膽了吧。

讓人激動的是他們在台下的時間也太長了吧! 倒是家凱來到面前是讓人興奮的！哈哈！後來青峰也有走到我們的區塊，算是有看清楚。在2012年看來，也是我期待以及滿意的演唱會之一！

看過了演唱會，我更清楚我會繼續的愛蘇打綠，繼續支持他們。有些歌我更是從演唱會重新認識，從頭愛起！很驕傲我看了這一場，很高興我實現了自己的諾言，有一次我錯過了，說道：‘下次蘇打綠來新加坡，我一定去要去看。’ :)

One of my most crazy and high concert of the year. Truly enjoyed. :))) And you won't believe I'm actually thinking of going to HK to watch their concert in April 2013. But I think I will be busy during that time. How sad then.


BTW, this post is VERY outdated I know I started the post long ago but seriously I don't know why I don't have the motivation to finish typing it. So there it is, done 3 months after the concert. The concert was on 19 October 2012. HAHA! :D

First Post of 2013

隨便一晃，一年就過了。想一想，那三十岁的目标已经立了两年了，完成了多少，我们回顾一下吧。

[直接轉過來的]
1. 完成出国留学/工作的梦想. 「沒成」
2. 在最短的时间内考取驾照. 明年华人新年前可能有点难, 但尽量吧. 「駕照拿到了，但沒機會開車」
3. 存钱买车, 因为上班真的很累. 听说姐夫会买辆车给二姐架. :) 「沒成」
4. 希望可以找到心仪的对象, 不像一个人过一辈子. 看到太多的例子, 不想和他们一样. 我希望有自己的家庭, 也可以让父母不必为我担心. 毕竟他们也不年轻了. 而且, 我也不年轻了. 「沒成」
5. 去一些我一直很想去的地方. 「寫的太廣，很難決定是否做到了，下面再說明」
6. 希望我可以一直坚持梦想, 做我喜欢做的事. 「算是還在堅持中」

第一項應該是不可能了，暫時沒有任何行動、計劃。也沒什麼好說的，只是覺得人生好像應該做其中一件至少一次。現階段應該不會了。是我渴望的。希望以後還有機會，但讀書應該有點難吧。

駕照是去年的8月拿到，但到現在在路上開車的次數一只手大概可以數完，所以好像說我會開車又很牽強。哈哈！也因為沒錢買車啦，所以當然第二項和第三項是緊緊相連的。

第四項，不知道今年有沒有機會，但很奇怪的是，突然有幾個人都想為我幹「相親」這件事，告訴我有朋友可以介紹給我，有告訴我同事很適合我，媽媽說要為我介紹？也太神奇了吧，就這幾個月，真的是這樣。我也不排斥，只是不敢相信，畢竟沒有一個做到啊。哈哈！但是，我知道青春寶貴，當然坦誠的希望那日子不遠了。加油吧！

很幸運的，不知道為什麼2012年下半年出了三次國；珠海／澳門，北京，曼谷。而且都不是和朋友一起出的國，都是和家人一起。珠海澳門跟姐姐們一起去的，雖然因為天氣差沒做什麼，但三人一起還是第一次。北京是全家出動，二姐結婚後也算是第一次。曼谷就和二姐兩個人去，多年前去的通通都忘了，真糟糕吧。也是第一次和二姐兩個人出動吧。全都是第一次，還算不錯了。北京也是這些年我很想去的地方。說一說我一直很想去的地方，也太多了！美國，英國，歐洲就要多久的時間才可以完成啊！

最後一項，至少到現在還在堅持著，這一年裡當然也有茫然的時候，想放棄的時候，但我知道，走出這個圈子我也不知道我對什麼還有興趣，所以也一直不敢離開。知道有些時候是吃力不討好，但也找到裡面的樂趣。希望至少還可以一直坐下去，多幾年也好。

既然有做到了一樣，也是最容易的一樣，就換掉它吧。哈哈！而且是超難的。重新組合一下：
1. 存錢，也許在眼前想買的是車子，但最終要買的是房子。如果沒結婚，35歲時可以存夠錢買房子搬出去。
2. 希望可以找到心仪的对象, 不想一个人过一辈子. 看到太多的例子, 不想和他们一样. 我希望有自己的家庭, 也可以让父母不必为我担心. 毕竟他们也不年轻了. 而且, 我也不年轻了. 「這個就不改了，我對這個的心還沒變。不排斥任何人介紹朋友給我認識喔！哈哈！」
3. 去一些我一直很想去的地方. 像前面說的，美國，英國和歐洲，也不是說其他的國家不能去，但以這三個地方為目標吧。要在30歲前達到的目標 － 至少一個。
4.  希望我可以一直坚持梦想, 做我喜欢做的事.
5. 不玩音樂後可以完成更多想做的事：學跳舞、重新參加運動（的俱樂部）
6. 多點時間給家人，也希望在乎的人能多點時間給我。一年至少請家人吃一次大餐！

就這樣了，新的一年，我們開始吧！最大的願望就是運氣變好。以現在運氣的指數，好兩點也不為過吧。加油咯！

新年快樂！:D