lebby's lodge: May 2009

I love this song! Gabe Bondoc, Filipino-American and covered by AJ Rafael. This guy is superbly talented... Love his vids, good voice and love the way he plays the piano. He's got it in him. :) And he's a student at Berklee! Seems to fun... Surprisingly, I love the song's melody. A little RnB, which is normally not what I would be inclined to. But this song touched me. :) I love the part that goes ... "but I know very well, gentlemen don't kiss and tell..." This is one of those songs where at times I wish I could rush home to my computer to turn it on and listen to it. It happened to another song by Eason Chan when I was in JC. The song would just keep playing in my head. Great compositions! :) awed.

-LeB-

There's this online radio/ music critic website called freshmusic. Its set up by a group of youngsters with a deep passion for music and its been around for 3years! Congrats to them :) Do visit their website for insights into music and support them! www.wretch.cc/blog/freshmusic
They are also a very energetic, funny and entertaining group of people who are very daring in their critics and words...

They held their annual music awards which happened last night... The Freshmusic Awards! The podcast will be on their website so do give it a listen. It was really fun listening to them :) I got involved in this 'cause Diya asked me to be the accompanist for herself and Carrie. It was my honour to do so... and it was fun and enriching! :) whats more... its a 颁奖典礼！So I had to play 7 songs for them, by the nominations of the "newcomers". It was my first time listening to some of the songs and we re-arranged some songs. Thanks Diya and Carrie for giving me pointers on my playing too... really appreciate that :) ... Our songlist included these...

杨宗纬 - 对爱渴望
林宥嘉 - 慢一点
蕭敬騰 - 收藏
伍家辉 - 无家可回
梁文音 - 最幸福的事
魏如昀 - 蝶恋
小宇- 终于说出口

Anyway, yesterday I felt so stupid... Haha, yeah... and embarassing! Why? Because Diya told me that its a music awards show. And how would that embarass me? This was what happened...

Yesterday night I will tabbing out the chords for the songs from about 6plus to 8plus. Then I bathed and waited for Diya and Carrie to come over to my place to rehearse. Diya said the show will be at 10.30pm. Venue, Bishan... "Oh, I see"... So its a 颁奖典礼 and a performance. I changed into my usual "formal-performing attire" and styled my hair for I think... 10mins? And I was very happy with the result of my hair! Woah! I'm ready to go... "Ding-dong!" "Oh, they must be here..." (I opened the door). First question they asked me... "Why are you dressed so nicely?" I said, "Aren't we going to the awards ceremony?" (Btw, Diya was wearing shorts) And they started laughing!!! Wahahaha... Actually, I too think it was damn funny. I felt so dumb. Why? Because the "awards ceremony" is going to be at their friend's house and... its a recording that we are doing!!! Online radio recording... Best! So why did I bother to dress up so nicely and style my hair... Arggh... I had wanted to spray perfume too! Good thing I didn't... Haha... In the end, I left my house with my formal wear and SLIPPERS. Diya was SO nice to repeat the whole incident to her friends at the awards ceremony venue. Wahaha... The conclusion is... always communicate when in any doubt. (Although I wasn't, I was just misled!)... Haha...

I am anxious to hear our recordings... And through the whole process, I could really see the passion of this young group of people who founded Freshmusic. I hope they go far :) I am reminded that passion drives people but it requires a lot of hard work and discipline too...

Some pics that I took...

In the midst of the awards ceremony interview and presentation...

Reading out the winner!

And this is how the "awards" card looks like...

Stars of the night... at a friend's place!

-LeB-