Monday, October 12, 2009

APAD 97 - 十月駐唱時間表

每逢星期五
炫民歌餐廳-輿燕芬

每逢星期日
KL WINGS MUSIC CAFE - 和鴻杰(不定)

每逢星期一

得空來坐坐!

APAD 96 - Hou Hong + Kai Lee's ROM pics



After a year, finally found the memory stick contained the few pictures of Hong's ROM last year in putrajaya :) haha see, dont give up when things go missing. It will eventually turn up. Its a matter of time. Be patient and you will be rewarded.

Heres wishing my bro a happy life ahead too.


APAD 94 - Today I worked in the office till....




YES! 12 20AM IN THE MORNING!!!! PREPARING FOR AN INJUNCTION HEARING TOMORROW. HOPE EVERYTHING GOES WELL.........


Sunday, October 11, 2009

APAD 93 - More Pics! Re Wai Chee + Cat (Part 1)

More pics uploaded for Wai Chee and Cat's wedding (Part 1)! Enjoy!













APAD 92 - Sue Hooi


This old friend of mine at last had a blog up and running!

Brave young (ok, old) lady whis, she is a typical "banana" ie non mandarin speaking chinese who had her education in a "national school". In Malaysia, you have the option of sending your kids to (a) a national school where lessons are taught in the Malay language and English primarily; or the respective Chinese or Indian schools (the other kind is fir the rich and privilleged ie the internatinoal schools). Back in the old days there was a perception that national schools are better in terms of quality and prestige, but that has since changed , and especially with China emerging as a major economic power in recent years, knowing how to communicate in mandarin is an added bonus. As such, quite a number of people have always expressed regret that they never had a chance to learn mandarin. Sue Hooi is one of them.

But I did not expect her to have the courage to take this bold step to step right into China - Xia Men to be precise - to learn Mandarin. Kudos to her. She will be spending 6 months there, and since China has banned almost every single free blogspots around, Sue Hooi had to set up her own domain in order for her to be able to publish updates and pictures. Looks like this time, she is serious :) Hopefully after her 6 months stint she will be ab le to post a blog entry in Mandarin!

We'll wait and see :) Good luck there sis!

APAD 91 - Congratulations, cousin Choon!



Here is wishing cousin Ik Choon all the very best and congratulations on your marriage! A new chapter begins for you now :)

Ik Choon is one of the three "goats" in my family - ie 3 of us cousins born in 79 the year of the goat. Although the youngest, he is now the first goat to be "slaughtered" haha....Cousin Gan will be next! As for me, hehe...Im married to m 300+ precious so yah im well satisfied !

PS: Sorry for being late Cuz...being your MC and all shouldnt have made you sweat haha...but luckily everything went well. Means you are blessed!


APAD 90 - 有時想念。。。


今天和燕婷在kuchai wings唱歌,被通知要幫忙宣傳這張專輯,還滿高興的。 看看曲目,很有親切感,因為裡頭都是一些陪我長大的歌曲。熟悉我的朋友應該知道我時常都會用我駐唱的機會向大家推廣一些經典歌曲,不要只是聽聽現在(我個人認為)超商業沒味道的流行曲(個人意見)。 裡頭的個我還真只有一首不會呢哈哈。

駐唱第二環節有個小遊戲,要顧客協商一小段《有時想念》這標題會令他們聯想到的事輿物,寫的最好的2位顧客能各自贏取CD一片。可惜,可能真的沒有人在意這些歌曲了。竟然整晚才收到2張“參賽”單。還是要咱們倆半求半推才“騙”到的單。。。可憐啊。。。

沒辦法,音樂就和別的東西一般,是有時效的。一旦“過時”了就自然會被淘汰。但是我就是這點固執,希望藉著自己小小的能力幫這些歌曲延長壽命。當然我也不是天真無知的。但想說能延長多久就多久吧。。。。

大家如果想回味下,記得去買來聽哦。

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專輯名稱:有時想念
歌手姓名:合輯
製作發行:馬來西亞滾石唱片
發行日期:2009年9月3日
專輯語言:國語

專輯曲目:

Disc 1
01.愛的代價 -張艾嘉
02.味道-辛曉琪
03.孩子氣-萬芳
04.捨不得把眼睛睜開-李度
05.你怎麼捨得我難過-黃品源
06.夢醒時分- 陳淑樺
07.最浪漫的事-趙永華
08.寂寞難耐 -李宗盛
09.夜太黑-林憶蓮
10.很愛很愛你-劉若英
11.寫一首歌-順子
12.他不愛我-莫文蔚
13.還是會寂寞 -陳綺貞
14.心太軟-任賢齊
15.星星堆滿天-楊乃文

Disc 2
01.新不了情-萬芳
02.領悟-辛曉琪
03.好想好好-李度
04.讓我歡喜讓我憂-周華健
05.掌心-光良品冠
06.勇氣-梁靜茹
07.後來-劉若英
08.Lemon Tree- 蘇慧倫
09.自由-李心潔
10.無心傷害-杜德偉
11.溫柔-五月天
12.愛的初體驗-張震岳
13.浪人情歌-伍佰
14.戀曲1990-羅大佑
15.北京一夜-陳升&劉佳慧


Source: http://forum.hkdream.org/thread-23214-1-1.html

APAD 89 - Surprise! Pos Malaysia Boleh!




Bavk in June I conducted a bulk with this ebay seller Striker with Berserk and Keith. After almost two months of non appearance, I requested the seller for a refund, which he could not oblige but offered to ship 3 new kits at no costs to me which i accepted. Great responsible seller.

Now, 3 months after the date of order, the parcel MYSTERIOUSLY REAPPEARED! It was delivered to me today. Looking at the tax declaration form, it was only cleared by Customs on 19th September 2009, barely a few days ago. So that begs the question, WHERE THE HELL DID THE PARCEL GO????

Dont think will be able to find out the answer at all. Anyway just glad it came, and I have duly informed the seller that I will pay him for the parcel too (since Keith and Berserk have said they will take the kits).

So guys, 2 lessons here: 1) Use mailing with tracking!! 2) Please don't complain to Pos Malaysia if your parcel is missing a few days. They need 3 months to deliver :P

APAD 88 - BACK TO WORK...

Its back to work after a 4 day raya break... ithad been non stop fun and it just feels wrong to stop the fun as yet.

Well, next up, Deepavali in a months time. Cant wait!

Back to work now...

Monday, September 28, 2009

APAD 87 - Wai Chee & Cat wedding Part 1 - 22.9.09




After long last, Wai Chee and Cat finally tied the knot!
Not gonna blog much now as I have yet to receive any pics yet from Han Liang or other "cameraman". But do wanna share some photos i took ...







......and this video prepared by Cat to wai chee!(22.9.09 is Wai Chee's bd too btw) hahaahahah cant stop laughing especially at Kevin's clip!!!!!!!!



Will blog bout this after the Seremban reception on 3.10.09 and when I get the pics and videos ready :)

APAD 86 - Shin Chan no Oto-sama, RIP...


RIP - 臼井義人 Yoshito Usui - 謝謝多年來蠟筆小新的陪伴!


一路好走。。



APAD 85 - Mr and Mrs Fish







Congratulations Fish aka Kar Shian! Will you treat Mrs. Fish in the best possible way you can afford and liver happily ever after?


You better keep to your promise! haha

Best wishes from all of us from 5 Ramin 96!



APAD 84 - sayonara, aunty-sama


有點感傷,下個月開始應該沒能和aunty唱歌了,因為時間安排不上。

不知道下次几時有機會再合作。只想說這7個月來,多謝關照:)真的收益良多。

后會有期!

APAD 83 - Selamat Aidilfitri!


To all muslim friends, Selamat Aidilfitri, and to all the rest, Happy holidays! At las, I am gonna get to enjoy a long deserved (i think) break :)

Just gonna laze around doing nothing for four days - wohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


APAD 82 - Brother Bear has started blogging!


Brother Bear has caught the blogging bug hehe.

Let's see how long will it take before he stops :P haha joking la, hope to see more posts from him!


Sunday, September 27, 2009

APAD 81 - Bye Bye Carlsberg, Hello Stan-Chart!


Just got news that Liverpool parted ways with their shirt sponsor of 17 years Carlsberg and signed a new 80M GBP deal with Standard Chartered which will commence in the 2010/11 season till the 2013/14 season.

Some supporters upon hearing of the news said good riddance to Carlsberg as they claim that the club has been jinxed and by the company as they had not won the premier league since Carlsberg sponsored the team. But I dont think any blame can be laid on the sponsor - though it is a fact that the money offered by Carlsberg does not come close to the figures offered by Standchart. Thus it is reasonable to expect that Liverpool FC would be in a better position to bid for better players in the near future.

For me personally, I kinda gre fond of the old Carlsberg logo on my liverpool kits (no offence to my Muslim mates, just a personal feeling). Would be sad to see the sponsor changed after such a long service. On the bright side, fellow muslim JCs will now be happy that they can proudly wear kit of their beloved club without fear of embarassment etc.

Well, lets all hope that Liverpool will move up a notch from this good news and - finally - bring back the much awaited holy grail - the league title which they have not won since 1990.

For me personally, cant wait to start collecting the Stand Chart kits!

In the meantime, time to complete my Carlsberg kit too cos i have a feeling they are gonnabe pretty pricey soon :P




APAD 80 - My NIKON D90 went dead??!!

Yup - for no apparent reason!

After attempting to sync photos taken from Eric + MayMay's performance yesterday, the iveView screen went dead. It was still possible to take pics but the live view screen just show a dead black screen everytime i press the "playback" or "menu" buttons. Shit, no choice but to send it back for warranty servicing. Fingers crossed everything will turn out ok.


APAD 79 - 肇均 +MAYMAY @ Heaven





我的偶像,肇均和maymay的表演片斷和相片。不用多說,好好欣賞這首bossa 版的《分手快樂》吧:)








PS:今天其實是神祕嘉賓約了我來幫他和肇均錄製一個片斷。這片斷是甚麼東東?哈哈遲些會揭曉。敬請期待!







APAD 78 - Byr byr, 長髮。。。


At last, after 9 months (yup since before CNY!), i got rid of my long hair haha.

Yup, no prizes for guessing who cut them:P

well, guess i have to start all over again before my hair grows back to my favourite 30cm lentgh:P

APAD 77 - 新搭檔


好久沒有和新的歌手搭檔了。剛“出道”時還不認識人的時候,每次有機會和新的搭檔駐唱,都會很緊張。會想 - 歌手要唱的歌我會不會彈?會不會有脾氣?能不能勝任?但所幸的是,一路都很順利。我本身其實沒有象一些歌手指定要“固定”搭檔。我倒喜歡常常換partner,這樣才會一直給自己新的motivation新的,避免快變“悶”,也不斷的能和不同搭檔有不同火花,這樣唱歌才不會悶:)

這天有機會和serena在炫唱,真的不錯。serena的歌聲洪亮,技巧穩定,會得歌多,歌路廣。還不敢相信她只出道了1年而已。前途無量,後生可畏:)

希望下次有機會再合作吧。

APAD 76 - 四大天王?哈哈

看到朋友在FACEBOOK 分享這個clip這個,乍看以為四大天王終於有合唱一首歌,還真的期待!哪裡知道。。哈哈看了就知道甚麼是啦:P
還滿象的!其實唱歌的都是模仿比賽的優勝者,湊在一起圓了真四大天王歌迷的夢:)

For those familiar with the 4 Heavenly King, they have finally release a single together! - or not. The singers below are actually winners of imitation competitions - real good eh? haha

APAD 75 - 绥兴 @ Wings










今天約了绥兴到甲洞回音石看慧姍和徫杰表演。






當然少不了要他上台秀秀陳綺偵的歌:)




這麼多駐唱吉他手中,本人認為他彈陳綺偵的歌最有味。關鍵在於绥兴也是陳綺偵的歌迷。我指的是真正懂得欣賞陳綺偵的歌曲的人。他會把陳綺偵的歌都細心研究,把最好最真的本事和把歌的精髓表演出來。



下次看到他記得多點陳綺偵(或盧廣仲!)的歌,保證不會失望:)

尤其以下《太聰明》,真的彈的不錯:)



PS: 最近發現駐唱歌手(除了我哈哈)都有點“白癡”怔。不信?看吧。。。。






APAD 74 - 歌的感動

今天,竟然有顧客聽咱們唱歌,到最後一首歌,燕婷常“回家”時,竟然淚流滿面。看見這一幕,瞬間自己覺得好感動,原來真的還友人認真聽咱們唱歌,而且咱們也能以歌聲/琴聲感動到別人,真欣慰。

這位顧客,謝謝你讓我再次對唱歌有“火”。

歌手們,加油吧!或許有時候,會覺得唱歌很辛苦,因為現在已經沒有當年聽歌的風氣了。很多時候大家都當歌手是“點播機”,或只是可有可無的背景音樂。但在那台下某個角落,還是會有知音人的。記得,咱們對這些知音人有責任要唱好歌的。加油!

APAD 73 - 漢良 + wing






今天抽空去看老友漢良和wing表演。

漢良是個超級積極的男人。作他女人應該很幸福吧有這麼會賺錢的partner哈哈。其實我認識漢良的女友 - 淑婷在先。當時我們都是wow wow的歌手,合作數十次吧,是位很認真努力的歌手。可惜沒有耳福聽她唱歌了,因為她已經退出江湖。

但漢良這老將還再唱,哈哈熄不了那團愛唱歌的火。這仁兄也是個beyond迷,而且和我只差一歲,所以很自然的大家接觸的歌曲都是同屬“同一個年代”的歌曲。記得有一次和他唱,翻翻他歌簿竟然看到一首沒有想到除了我歌簿還會出現在其他人的歌簿裡的一首歌 - 叫“是雨還是淚” - 沒聽過吧?哈哈。當年郭富城一首歌。當然當場就給它唱了哈哈。總之,咱們兩一起唱的話一定會來個老歌之夜的 :)




a Wing呢就是一位我常在heaven聽她唱歌的朋友。當時還沒認識她但常常都會去聽她唱歌。有一次在wings和她partner,我先到餐廳set-up餐廳,過後看見她提著鍵盤走進餐廳,看到我set-up了鍵盤時就把他的鍵盤放回車裡,說甚麼不好意思彈了。拜託啊大姐,您老人家的鍵盤已經很好了啊!哈哈以下的clips能作證:)



大家有空不妨也看看吧:)