27.09.12 - We are slugs

THURSDAY - 27.09.12

Our future juniors better not learn how to slack their asses off just like us today, in Voices. We literally did not do anything today other than planning out the lightings which took us only 30 minutes or so? We spent the rest of the night in the store room making iPhone voice recording covers and jamming to other songs other than the songs we're suppose to jam to. We did 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together'. Wow, that's why i don't like this song.. The name.. Too long la.. Haha. Bohemian Rhapsody and other songs. Today's session was more of a bonding time together rather than a practice time. Although we did manage to practice Price Tag and If I Ain't Got you together. And yes, Jesmine came when we did the two songs. Coincidence at it's finest :) We didn't have any mentoring sessions with Joe today, he focused more on the seniors today than the juniors. I heard the boys got a scolding from him too. Dang Joe.. Dang. We just left while he was still talking to Beatrice, Jia Hui and Kinnon. We were kinda scared that Joe might kill us the next time he sees us, but, ah, i don't think he really cares. Haha. 


XOXO
Shaun

26.09.12 - Auditions!

WEDNESDAY - 26.09.12

So Amanda came back from France! Was hoping she'd buy some stuff back for us, but noooo... Haha! Just Amanda~ Melovox met early today to discuss some stuff about Price Tag and to change some things about the song. We added in harmonies to the second verse and sorted out the guitar parts too. Yun Tong came around 3:30 and we got to hear her lovely not warmed up voice which was so darn powerful! Like, how can anyone sound so good without warming up? Well, that's Yun Tong for us :P Zakir came next and then Sun Ian and then Jia Hui. So the circle got bigger eventually.

Beatrice told us that we were gonna have auditions later and i, we pretty much got a little bit more nervous than we already are. Those who were auditioning later didn't eat much i guess, like Phoebs, Kellie, Firdaus, the girls and i. Well, i ate quite a lot though haha. Just can't stand eating light dinners or un-proper meals. I then went up with Phoebe to practice our own individual parts. Firdaus came along with us and we all went to the lobby to practice. Time came, and the first half of our proper rehearsals were dedicated to auditions for the lead parts. Joe really made sure that the auditions were like REAL auditions. Meaning that he expected us to treat the auditions as though we were performing. Which.. Many of us didn't. lol. Kellie and i were the first ones to audition and we were pretty nervous i guess. Kellie had to do the whole story and introduction to herself. She said 'My names Kellie and my song is... My story is..' Which pretty much disturbed Joe, because for the rest of the auditions, everyone came in with the 'my name is, my song is, my story is' sentence and Joe kept giving poor Beatrice the 'I thought i asked you to coach them not to do this' face. Yep, poor beatrice :( Well, we did pretty fine i guess. The seniors gave us constructive criticism like how i sounded to tenorish, we were too stiff, we needed to stop making the audience feel as though they're the third party, our blending etc. and the list just went on. Wow. Lots of stuff to work on. Joe also said that i needed to learn how to dance. I mean, what the heck. I think what he meant by 'dance' was to move around the stage like how Usher would. Well, i guess working the stage would be fine.. But i ain't no Usher. Hah! We sat down and enjoyed the others auditioned. I noticed that everyone seemed to stay on the same spot and not work the 'stage'. I guess what Zakir said was right. Awkward~ Haha, but i guess we have to overcome that. 

After the auditions were over, we were asked by Joe back into room to do Price Tag. He just randomly asked us to harmonize the guitar part and Jesmine, who was doing the backing 1 to cover up for Amanda, was like whut... I mean, Joe is just so sudden.. and we he didn't even say that last week. Well well well.. -Que Kellie's dramatic music- So we went out to do just that. I guess that Jesmine was the only backing 1 that can blend well with me for the guitar part, because i know that Amanda will never be able to. Not being bad or what la, just saying. Haha. We did just that and somehow we started singing Britney's songs and then Sun Ian joined us. Then Heem Lim joined us for a while. Jesmine started talking about some boy girl relationship problems and how this happened and that happened. Well, everyone was so involved in the conversation except me. Haha, kinda blur about what they just said and all that. We digressed so much that we ended up talking about lots of irrelevant stuff too. Interastingggg! :D We didn't go back into the room for Joe's consultation but i guess we're good to go with a lot more practice :) Just that if Joe doesn't give us more stuff to do haha. 

Voices ended and Phoebe, Jesmine and i went to Macs to have our supper. Both of them didn't eat much and we sat with Joe. How nice right.. I mean, it was like DAMN awkward. I don't know why, but it seems as though i have only known Joe this year when in fact, I've known him for like 6 years. Haha.. How awkward right. Yup. Anyways, i cabbed home because i was too lazy and it was already too late. But i still eventually got home. LOL. 

OH RIGHT! X Factor Australia! What About Tonight went home and I'M SO SUPER HAPPY. They can't sing and they resemble 1D so much. UGH. Good thing they're out. Just saying :D

XOXO

Shaun

24.09.12 - Feels like broadway to me :)

MONDAY - 24.09.12

I was suppose to meet Melovox today, BUT, most of the girls were way too busy. So i decided to just head down to school today and meet the boys. Who, are still called 'Joe's Hoes'. Well.. I met Dominic and Jason first who were there already and then went through their parts for 'Whatdya Want From Me'. Dom really needs to work on his pitching >< But we still had fun singing it though :) Zakir came a little later and so did Firdaus. We then discovered a passage way to the back of music box's stage, which, was pretty cool! I have never been on that stage more than one time. It felt like an actual broadway stage! The stage had two random upright pianos facing each other back to back and so we took the time there to make a fool of ourselves. Hah! We pretended the stage to be the X Factor stage and Dom was super hilarious about the whole X Factor thing! We jammed a few other songs like Bohemian Rhapsody on piano and the acoustics was just amazing! 

I think we really got a feel of how it's like performing ON the Music Box's stage. The boys did a little stage plan and then We did 'Whatdya Want From Me' and omg. Although Dom was a little off, we still managed to sound great together :D Hope we sound this amazing during the concert >u< Although.. I'm not in their group..

We left Music Box and had our light dinner together. We said our goodbyes to Jason and Dom and it was just us.. Zakir, Firdaus and i. We then went up to the fourth floor again and used one of the unused lobbies to jam. The same lobby Lenon, Amanda, Kellie and i used to jam at.. Those good times :'). The acoustics there are fantastic by the way.. So we decided to record our harmonies for Whatdya Want From Me using Firdaus's iTouch. We sounded great :) We did a little Isn't She Lovely.. and also some other songs like Every Breath You Take. Or something like that.. Can't really remember the name of the song. We had a great time anyways. Zakir left and Firdaus and i just chatted for a while before i headed home and he headed to NRA. 

TADAAAAAAAAAA~!!!!

XOXO

Shaun

Alicia Keys - How Come You Don't Call Me [Male Cover]

~Heyyo guys! Just wanted to share my latest cover that i did sometime ago!~



-  For those of you who actually care to stop by my blog to see what's going on! -



XOXO
Shaun

20.09.12 - Too cheesy!

THURSDAY - 20.09.12 

It was a great thing that Kellie came back today, but then again, today's session wasn't so great because Melovox only had Kellie, Phoebe and i. Phoebe came a bit later because she had dance class. Jesmine had dance sport so she couldn't come down today, Nicole and Shynne were sick so yeah, that only left the three of us. Amanda is still in France and when she gets back, she'll definitely have some serious learning to do.. 

So it's just me and Kellie. We worked a little on If I Ain't Got You with Michelle and Jia Hui for now since Phoebe wasn't there yet. We sounded pretty well i guess. Maybe it's because they were seniors and their blending skills has always been perfect. Haha, well, near perfect. Kellie and i then worked a lot on the concepts and all that for Price Tag. We really wrecked our brains out just to get pleasing ideas for Joe. LOL. Well, we wanted it for ourselves too, but well, Joe is just so damn demanding. Haha. We had our Macbooks out and we were discussing it together with Michelle and Jia Hui. We went in to do a little Price Tag and like what Joe said yesterday, we had to work together with the bass and the beatboxer just that the bass was at choir rehearsals haha! CJ!! So we had You Li do the beatbox. We decided that performing If I Ain't Got You as the duet version will be so much more interesting because we had so many great ideas for the concepts and all if it were to be a duet. So we had Firdaus do the backing 3. We were a little worried that Firdaus wouldn't be able to learn the song in time, but we were obviously proven wrong when he already knew the backing 3 part. SMART MOVE SHAUN! SELF 5! :) <-- retard. We were more or less ready for the duet but Beatrice had to fill in for Michelle who was busy in the clubroom working on the seniors piece. You know, sometimes i really pity the seniors who have to run here and there to help the juniors as well as work on their pieces. It's not wonder why Beatrice told everyone to message her ASAP when the aca message is sent out to everyone on Monday. We worked a little on our songs before having to present it in front of Joe. And every time we perform in front of Joe we get a little too nervous, we sometimes forget what we are suppose to do. We did Price Tag first and when Joe said, can we start from the second verse with the harmonies , WE WERE ALL LIKE D:. Exaclty! Jaw dropping. We totally forgot about the harmonies! Damn it! Kellie was blank obviously because she wasn't in Voices yesterday. So it was only me and Phoebe who kinda knew what Joe said about the harmonies for Price Tag. FCUK!

We freaked out a little and then Joe got kinda pissed and then he cooled down again and just asked us to do it normally, except with more confidence this time. We did ok i guess. We really really need lots of practice for Price Tag especially. You know what's real funny? Joe said we needed to work on If I Ain't Got You yesterday when we mic'd up and now it's Price Tag. Damn it! 

We did If I Ain't Got You next and like Joe said again, can we start from the second verse.. We didn't really panick except that everyone was confused about their notes. We sorted it out a little and then when i gave the queue, we officially started. I was kinda nervous about my solo part because all eyes were on me. Especially Heem Lim who had such high expectations for the Usher part. You know, his very diva about it and all.. haha. I tired to work out some cheesiness in there, like try to act as though i was into Kellie which drifted off from the topic we were discussing about earlier.. Alternate Universe. Damn it. That topic for If I Ain't Got You worked out so well when we were talking about it. After our performance, everyone cheered for us and they were so excited about it EXCEPT.. Joe. Yes, Joe said that i was too theatrical and i needed to tone it down, in which i agreed 100% on. Kellie was being too much of herself that Joe wanted her to tone it up. He also said that the backing needed to be more confident and louder which i somewhat agree on, and that was all he had to say about If I Ain't Got You. Does that mean that the duet is already confirmed or what? I need an answer now. Because the duet works great plans out. Anyways, once we were done, i really needed air. The air-con was off and everyone else was sharing oxygen in there so my brains kinda got fried in the process. The seniors performed their chinese song next and it was just.. UGH. I just wanna be like them one day.. Their blending skills and all. Just, simply amazing. 

Phoebe, Kellie and i after the practice, agreed that we should meet on Monday and later on Phoebe sent us all a message. I really hope we can find the time to meet up again and just work on our songs like there's no tomorrow. Ah-hah!

XOXO

Shaun

19.09.12 - Mic up!

WEDNESDAY - 19.09.12

You know.. Sometimes i feel that my blog should just be a blog dedicated to Voices. Like updates ONLY for Voices. I really need to get a life.. lol.

Updates updates! 

I decided to take a cab down to school today.. AGAIN. Just like last thursday, i spent another useless $13 or so because i was just too lazy. Buck up Shaun! You're getting fatter! Yes iam.. And i'm not proud of it. I reached the clubroom and i noticed the mic set up thingy. Like there were mics around the piano and i was like awwww shit. We're gonna have to perform in front of Joe. Well... Shit. Kellie didn't come today so that was kinda sad. She had her family gathering dinner and if she didn't go, she said that she'll most probably die or something haha. Phoebe, Shynn, Nicole and I were the only ones there.. Jesmine came a little later. We didn't really spend much time with Joe. Only that we had to come up with concepts and staging etc. for Price Tag. We practiced Price Tag a little then went into the other room to mic up! But before we mic'd up, we bugged Jia Hui and Michelle to do a little 'Lucky' duet. Omg! They sounded so so so good! :) I was really impressed by their blending skills! Su Ian, Yi Min, Beatrice and Laila also entertained us with their lip synching skills of the contestants from 'The Sing Off'. Omg, Su Ian is just GOLD. She, is just super hilarious! haha! Jesmine came shortly after and we were ready to mic up! Well, Jesmine needed some coaching of her notes before that too.

We mic'd up and to be honest, i couldn't really hear myself. So Beatrice told us to sing a bit louder and way into the mics if we couldn't hear ourselves. We did that and well, we sounded a bit better until we had to mic up in front of Joe. Well done Melovox xD He gave us the head shake thing which could go both ways.. Really good, or really bad. But of course it's Joe.. So that only means one thing.. LOL. Jesmine then told us that we didn't really blend well as she was part of the audience for Price Tag. I was like... Damn it. haha. We did If I Ain't Got You with Nicole as the solo since Kellie wasn't here today. Well, Joe said that Nicole sounded a bit kiddish which was like BUUUURRRNNN. Kinda sad :( and he also said that we needed to work more on our timing and the coordination. Yeap, we really need to work on our coordination especially. The rest of the groups sounded fine especially the seniors. Damn they were good! Like their blending skills and harmonies and all that. Wow. 

Today just showed us how much we need to work on, on our blending skills and all that. Really tiring day.. Hope tomorrow's session will turn out just fine :)

XOXO

Shaun

16.09.12 - Dad's birthday dinner

SUNDAY - 16.09.12

So my sister suggested we go to this beach restaurant at Pasir Ris Park for my dad's birthday dinner. The restaurant was called 'Beach Culture' and it was just.. Just fantastic. The food, the scenery, everything :)

 Yep! We brought Shiki along! :)

 We look badass in blue

 We took Shiki out for a walk after dinner!

The playground that we used to play in when we were kids ;')

XOXO
Shaun

13.09.12 - Keep working on it..

THURSDAY - 13.09.12

Nothing much had happened today actually. I was frickin' lazy to take a bus and then the mrt and then the bus again to school, so i just took a cab down to school. Reached the clubroom at 4:30pm and we had a little jamming session before starting our practice of 'If I Ain't Got You'. Dominic joined us even though he was in the all boys group. BUT. There was only him in the group at that time, so he had to join us. We really needed work but time wasn't on our sides and we had to have dinner by then. Til 6pm. So we had our usual dinner at Munch again. Damn, i'm getting sick of Munch. haha! I have to try the Sake Sushi just outside FMS sometime soon! Xin Yu and Rowena had already been there and their bill was $32 altogether.. Meaning $16 for each. Hmm.. Gotta save up and try it someday :) 

Voices started with Joe looking REALLY weird. Like he had his weird yellowish black glasses on which made him look like a cute goldfish in some way.. HAHA. Joe started with Mercy first which was kinda like a good thing i guess. We had a clearer idea of what we were suppose to sing for just the 8 of us, You Li, Kellie, Phoebe, Nicole, Shynn, Chuan Jing, Me and Su Ian. Joe guided us a little bit and we went out to practice. Yep, we did practice.. But it soon turned into a 'Let's jam some more Disney songs to kill time' kinda thing. And we didn't really had much practice. Also partly because we were getting sick of the song. But, NO. We shouldn't be :) Oh well, we got called back into the room to perform for Joe and we still needed a lot of work to do. The parts were kinda messy and some parts were off. I even forgot the key to my guitar solo part. DAMN. Joe fixed it a little and we sounded just ok. Yup. 

We heard the other groups perform. The girls were especially good today! Especially Alyssa. haha! She sounded kinda like Charice at some parts of the song. They did 'Louder' by Charice and Alyssa sounded great, except she had somewhat of a problem hitting the high notes. turns out that the notes weren't high at all after Nicole, Phoebe, Kellie did it. HAHA. Ok la, i feel so bad now >< But she could definitely work on it :3 The guys came in and they were suddenly called to sing their song 'Whatya Want From Me'. HAHA! Joe called them Sec 1 students because Jason and Firdaus had their backpacks on when they were going to perform. Lmao. They did okay i guess. Zakir really needs to work on his high notes, well, he has the potential to be like Adam! :)

That's all for tonight though. Nothing really to talk about.. X FACTOR USA PREMIERE! WOOT!

XOXO

Shaun

12.09.12 - Hani's half birthday celebration/YOMAMA

WEDNESDAY - 12.09.12

I really wanted to celebrate Hani's birthday for the whole day but i couldn't, because i had Voices at 4:30pm. So i only joined Keith, Jas, Danial, Cherie and Hani for lunch. BUT. Keith came up with this last minute surprise plan for Hani. He told me to tell Hani that i will not be available for the lunch with her and the rest of them, and the rest of the whole day. Duh. Well, being the naive girl that she is, she obviously believed me and she was really just innocent. Like, the plan worked so well with her. HAHA! Keith had me hold the three little small cakes (each with it's own flavoring) and i had to present her the cake with a surprise. So i just decided to sing the birthday song in the Beyoncé style with Keith. lol. She was genuinely surprise to see me there, she was like "OMG! I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU COULDN'T COME." I LOL'D. Like, really lol'd. She really liked the surprise i guess! :) We all had lunch at the Banquet @ Vivo. After that, i had to head off to Voices, so Cherie accompanied me to the busstop and told me what bus to take and all that.

Reached the clubroom at 3:15pm and omg. I was too early! Like the only people who were there were Beatrice, Yimin, Siew Chen, Laila and De Yun. And it was like damn awkward. Like REALLY awkward haha! I just sat there for a while then when Beatrice and Yimin practiced 'One Day', i decided to join in, because i was just too bored. LOL. I helped with the backing three and it sounded kinda nice? haha! Except for the fact that we keep slipping notes cause we were sight singing. Phoebe and my peeps came in later, well, on time, and we did a little Mercy with MY arrangement, which later did not work well with Joe. Hmm.. Time passed really fast today and before we know it, it was already night. Well, late evening. We practiced Mercy together with Su Ian filling in for Nicole since she was at work. We worked some things out and it was amazing how fast we learnt our parts well. Shynn got the solo for now because, well, HER VOICE JUST SUITS MERCY SO WELL!  She sings it like really well.. She just needs to spam the song everyday and she'll be good to go! 

After much learning and rehearsing, the all boys group (In which their group name is deproving. Some Joe Hoe's at first and now it's Hairy Monsters. I gave them Ad Lib District cause it represents them as an R&B group and they changed it to Hairy Monsters. WTF HAHA) went in to rehearse with Joe, so we had the whole of the room beside the clubroom to ourselves! yay! haha. We practiced a little of Mercy for a while before going into the 'Yomama mode' Which basically means that we spent the rest of the time in the room reading off Yomama jokes. Mainly me, because they said i had the ghetto accent which made it so much more funnier. haha! :) We were all laughing out loud and you know.. haha. 

We then went back to practice and then attempted once again, to come up with the ideas for staging and all that. That we really need to start work on. But we still failed haha. Anyways, we were called back to the room to perform for Joe and like i said, he didn't like the arrangement i made. He found the synthesizer parts to be too 'choral' and he told Kel and Phoebs to bring it down an octave lower. Personally, i found it very weird, but after he turned the vowels from 'doo' to 'nah', i was ok i guess haha.. Made it sound more fun and likable. He gave us a lot of parts to do which i found it hard to understand. Like how one person had to do three roles or two roles or something like that. Confusing, but i guess we'll get used to it? 

We went home looking all confused, like what the shit just happened. Haha.. Oh well.. X FACTOR AUSTRALIA RESULTS TONIGHT! WOOT!

XOXO

Shaun

10.09.12 - TEDDY!

MONDAY - 10.09.12

So i was bored today, as usual, and decided to watch 'TED' with Cherie! HAHA! Yay! It's like the movie most people are talking about. And i see Ted on Twitter like, a lot of times already. lol. I initially wanted to watch 'Step Up Revolution', but since Hani and Keith couldn't make it today, i decided not to. 

Cherie and i wanted to have lunch at 'The Ship', but we realized that if we were meeting at 1:30 and the show starts at 2:50, we wouldn't have time. Damn it,  you know how long they take to serve the food and all that in 'The Ship'. Anyways, we just settled on Food Junction which was pretty okay, without Keith.. haha, i know how much he hates Food Junction because of the pricing and all. But it's a good thing Cherie doesn't mind eating there! 

That's just me :) Taking pictures of my meals outside. And in case you're wondering, yep, that's my lunch :) haha

Bought the tickets and the cinema hall was pretty empty. We got the best sits i suppose.. well, maybe it's because of school and stuff. You know, school just started for the secondary and primary people.. sad right. 

Bought the Nacho's combo for the movie! Nachos.. Ah.. I'm in heaven.. (^.^)

'TED' was a pretty good movie, although the plot was like most of the typical plots you see in typical comedy movies.. The bad guys, the good guys, the cheating.. Yeah.. Typical plots..

But what i really loved about the movie was how each scene was so unexpectedly written.. Like how you think this things gonna happen after this scene, but noooooo, the directors have a different way of thinking and a different way of twisting each scene so it makes it more interesting. Wow. Just. Wow. I like Ted too.. His so cute x3 haha!

After watching the movie, we went to the Lan that is just next to Shaw Theaters. DAMN IT! I wanted to play L4D but there wasn't Steam anymore. Like, there used to be Steam on the com there in the Lan.. But now it's all just the weird games that i don't even know about, or play.. Like, NEX LAN, Y U NO MORE STEAM HUH?!

Kinda pissed by that, so all i could play was AuditionSea. Haha. With Cherie that is.. Lame right.. Got bored after a while and left the Lan with like 20 minutes left or so..

What a great day i must say, a day well spent :) Although i spent $30 in total. Damn.. Hope to watch 'Step Up Revolution' as my next movie! GRRR

XOXO

Shaun

07.09.12 - Shecret!

FRIDAY - 07.09.12

I suppose i'm not suppose to tell anyone about what happened this afternoon just incase she reads it o.o We just went shopping. Don't need to know who are the 'we'. But you'll know soon :) 

After some intense shopping at Bugis, Cherie had to leave for Voices which started at 4:30 but we left at 5:30. How cute right? So i decided to accompany her to choir since i had nothing to do in the night. X Factor USA hasn't started yet.. haha.

Choir was great as usual.. After we came out from the lift and headed towards the room, Jia Qian came out and greeted me with some appagios. HAHA! That's how we roll~

We went in and they were doing the Beauty And The Beast dance moves which i found hilarious to watch. Jia Qian and i were laughing at the back for some reason. I know i shouldn't.. But still.. HAHA. They had sectionals and as usual, i just joined in. Jia Bao kinda 'embarrassed' me a little when he told Zack to kinda scoot off i guess? Not say scoot off but just asked him to move away so that i could take over the piano and play it for them. The accompaniment i mean. I feel like really bad because Jia Bao mentioned that i was grade 8 and all that. You know.. That feeling when someone is scooted off because another person says you're better than him? garh.. Poor Zack.. He can also play the piano what! lol. I feel so bad now. oh well.. I couldn't really play the accompaniment that fast too.

That's pretty much about it.. Choir was only until 8:30pm and then Cherie and i went to Mac for our dinner. hehe! Oh ya, we also saw this really weird group of people who were dressed up as greek people, like you know those greek soldiers and some of them were fairy's.. ok..

XOXO

Shaun

06.09.12 - Werk it gurl!

THURSDAY - 06.09.12

Beatrice messaged us that we were having a photoshoot today. A Voice's A Capella photoshoot. Kinda interesting, and since i was meeting Phoebs at 1, why not? 

Phoebs had the Red Camp SL interview today, so she decided to meet me at Munch like way earlier.. I showed her the arrangements i did yesterday.. 4 arrangements to be honest. and it was a relieved that she liked the one that i liked the most too. So we had lunch after that and we just talked and hung outside the level 1 clubrooms waiting for the photoshoot to start. I was teaching her the backing 2 part when Xin Yu and Rowena came and told us that they could hear us from the other side of the clubrooms. haha! We sat with them and sung a lot of Glee songs. We were that bored. yes. 

The photoshoot started around 3.30pm+ or so as the photog team had to set up their equipments and stuff. The NP Photography club that is. While waiting, i found out some stuff about the auditions from Beatrice like why some people had to sing two songs and whether we could see our audition tapes as well as next year's batch's audition tapes. Unfortunately, we were told that we couldn't see the audition tapes for next year's batch unless we were part of the committee. Umm, yeah. no. 

Firdaus, Jason, Phoebe, Beatrice, YiMin and i were at the photoshoot and it was pretty fun i guess.. We did solo shots first. So we had to pretend that the set was the stage and we were suppose to WERK IT GURL! Yeah, the ghetto way.. How they always say.. WERK IT GURL! WERK IT REALLL GOOD! That sounded wrong, but yeah, you get my point. Beatrice was up first and she was SO AWKWARD haha! So cute! As what Firdaus always says.. :D

Firdaus was up next and he was WERKIN it.. like WERKIN it. haha! I was up next and the songs that i sang so that the photos looked more natural was 'Proud Mary' and 'Mercy' haha! I could tell that i was doing pretty well from the look of one girl's face. She was like Damn.. Damn Damn.. yep. ^.^ Phoebs was up next.. She dressed really professionally today. Like a real pro. She wore her mom's shirt dress kinda thing in which the skirt was short in the front and long at the back and the shoes that she was wearing were... omg. It totally matched her outfit. I can now say that Phoebe has great fashion sense. LOL. Jason and YiMin were up next. The group photo was next and it was pretty messy haha! We all sang 'Price Tag' and we were told to jump around here and there which was really really fun :D and tiring at the same time..

Practice was kinda good i guess.. We learnt a new song altogether called 'Back To One' which was an old R&B song. I only heard Bryan McKnight's cover of it.. Was it a cover or the actual song that he wrote? Oh well, it still sounded nice.. We were singing it half way through when Joe corrected my siting posture and called me mediocre singer. I don't really like the thought of being called a mediocre singer but .. but .. JOE .. HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT. You know it hurts right? D: Oh well, his Joe.. What can you do about it.. But i will definitely prove him wrong when A9 comes back.. You know what i can do Joe.. haha..

Heem Lim took lead for this song and he sounded great :) After 'Back To One', we had to show Joe our Mercy.. AND KELLIE WASN'T THERE YET! D: But it was a good thing that when we were asking about Kellie's whereabouts, she came through the door.. THANK GOD!  We thought Kellie her part for only about 2 minutes and we had to go back into the room to show Joe.. Our lack of practice maybe. haha. Well, Joe was able to see the lack of practice from our performance, but well, we can always work on that.. He also asked us whether we could hear any of the oo's and ahh's in the song. and we said no. well, we gotta be original right? pfft. well, Kellie calculated and she said that we needed at least 9 people to do Mercy including the lead vocals. Okay.. Now that's something.. haha! 

We all dispersed ourselves into our own groups to learn our songs and Phoebe was really practicing hard for that 'Price Tag' solo. Now, beatrice came out and told her straight.. That her voice was whiny.. *Please apply cold water to the burnt spot* 

Well, i mean, that's the harsh truth but being so direct towards Phoebe.. Aww poor Phoebe.. But that's that.. :\ So we learn from our mistakes :) Nicole had to leave earlier for some reason and that leaves just me and Kellie to do the backings.. So we had to ask Beatrice to do backing 1. HAHA! I'm guessing Beatrice is kinda like our back up plan if any one of our people goes missing. lmao. After Rehearsals, we had to perform for Joe. Now that's pretty scary o.o The first group that went up were the seniors who did 'Back To One'. Sounded really nice! The blend was really strong and their harmonies were spot on.. Just.. Just.. Damn nice.. haha. The girls were up next and they did 'Raise Your Glass'. One of the backings were out of tune but after Joe corrected her notes, they were good to go :) We were next and we kinda had fun singing it with Phoebe doing lead. Now, when Phoebe did the last long note, and then the high note, the seniors were pretty impressed by it. haha, i could so see it in their reactions. Joe's as well.. 

That's a wrap! We all went our own ways and damn it, i can't wait for the next Voices practice. We had lots of fun these past two days. ^.^

XOXO

Shaun

05.09.12 - Jam me some good old jam

WEDNESDAY - 05.09.12

Voices.. a reason to escape the house and free myself from my bed. Ooh i'm too lazy..

Yep, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday WASN'T fun at all. All i did was just lie on my bed, use my com, x factor, sleep and that would make me bedralyzed? i guess? Paralyzed and bed? Ok, i'm just being lame. But really, i did absolutely nothing for the past three days and boy am i glad to be able to come out of the house again and sing. Yes, sing with the people i love :) Which is kinda like a bonus.. 

We honestly didn't do much today in Voices.. All we did was just sing a few songs, i mean, revise our parts for 'Price Tag', 'If I Ain't Got You' and we learnt 'Set Fire To The Rain' today! I mean, yay! The parts were kinda tricky but once you get it, it kinda sounds nice. Sound really techno for backing 3 0.0 Beatrice told us later in the evening that the juniors were suppose to jam in the other room some new songs to present to Joe tmr. TOMORROW?! His definitely got to be crazy. We jammed a few songs, most of it were Glee songs and HSM songs which didn't really interest me, except for the Glee songs, i was so into it :D But you know Joe.. So petty, doesn't want to cover Glee cover songs. So we just sang lots of random stuff and we were really high and all that. We looked like we were on drugs somehow.. We finally came up with Duffy's 'Mercy' and Beyoncé's 'Halo'. Tough songs yeah? 'Halo' was kinda like out of the question cause we needed someone to do Beyoncé's big voice and we can't find any.. Although i was thinking of asking Yun Tong to do it.. Our senior. She definitely IS a power house. No doubt. We formed a little of 'Mercy' which didn't sound nice so i decided that i should just do the arrangements at home for Phoebs and Kels.. 

Kellie, Phoebe and i went to Mac and then we saw Jesmine there.. So we decided to just have supper with Jes :) Jun Hong sat with us too because he said that there were two groups among the seniors somewhere near us.. The planning group and the gaming group. He didn't belong to any of those groups so he decided to join us. Well, i guess it was great to have him with us because he's leaving for NS tmr and yeah, we'll miss him :| Such a cute bear as a beatboxer haha. Yep, we labeled him as a bear cause he's so cute and he's also shaped like a bear. HAHA! 

Came back and formed a little arrangement for 'Mercy'. Hope Joe likes the arrangements i made for 'Mercy' tmr! -Fingers crossed-

XOXO

Shaun

01.09.12 - A refreshing start to the month of September

SATURDAY - 01.09.12

Goodbye August.. Hello September!

I can't think of anything cheesy to say right now, but i guess September 2012 started out pretty well! I started the month to a refreshing time of youth fellowship. Sang for worship today and i felt really good right after that :D Everything's alright i guess.. Except that i didn't get to see Alex.. AWW damn it! I miss that dude so much X) But hey, at least i got to see Kenneth and the rest of the people whom i haven't seen in years. Well, not years.. you get what i mean don't you.. 

I had a little jamming session with the younger ones..

Kenneth, Brandon, Thomas, Sean and i went up to the roof awhile later and had some free buffet dinner there .. There was apparently some marriage seminar going on and they had this free buffet outside the room.. So why not? I myself obviously did not take it as you know.. The food there wasn't that nice and it was kinda rude to do so. haha. We went up to the roof, sat, ate, talked and then saw a beautiful sunset.. Here are some pictures 

We stayed at the roof and talked about lots of interesting stuff.. 

Brandon and i left earlier since the both of us were just sitting there, letting Kenneth and Thomas chat.. AWKWARD TURTLE MEEP.  haha! 

Brandon actually accompanied me all the way to NEX to accompany me for dinner. AWW! THANKS BRUH! And he lives in Eunos.. Which had a direct bus from Bartley.. AWW! 

Anyways, we talked about lots of stuff in our lives and it was great catching up with him after so many weeks! :) I also found out lots of stuff about Brandon that i didn't knew before. wow. yeap. He then left after i sent him down to the MRT. 

And that's about it. Have a great day ahead people :)

XOXO

Shaun

31.08.12 - The Ship, Is THE shit..

FRIDAY - 31.08.12

Let me tell you this.. The Ship, Which has only 1 outlet at Serangoon's NEX because it's a new restaurant, IS. THE. SHIT. HAWLY. SHIT. YES. SHIT. I mean, it is THE SHIT. I said it..

Although they serve only 4 dishes for at a student price, the food, is ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUSLY BEAUTIFUL!  I mean, student price is at $10 and you get all of this:

AH-MAZING RIGHT?! I know right?! Yeah, Keith ordered the Lamb Chop and i ordered the Chicken Chop haha! It tasted so good i'm telling you..

Anyways, that's what we had for lunch.. we didn't really had anything much to do later on, so we decided to give Keith's mom a visit at Ollie Mollie pub and then do some karaoke there.. 

Went back to Keith's house as he needed to prepare his stuff.. to go somewhere after Ollie Mollie.. I don't even know his motives anymore even though i'm his best friend haha! Keith only need 5 minutes to pack his stuff and after that, we were doing all sorts of crazy ass stuff together like trying to imitate Beyoncé, Jennifer Hudson and all the other divas in which we obviously failed to do so. haha! We really are retarded. 

After all the madness, we headed down to Ollie Mollie and did some karaoke there.. the usual songs that is.. Keith's mom decided to treat me to dinner as a belated birthday present! She ordered a huge portion of fish&chips from some nearby western stall which tasted SO GOOD! Anyways, i was really hungry and i had no money at that time. So yeap! :)

We noticed this guy who sang pretty decently, looks like a malay or a Philipino but sang like a chinese dude. haha! I mean, his pretty awesome considering the fact that i don't always see young dudes in the pub.. yeap. Lots of old and drunkard old man there.. haha! But there are nice ones too.. Don't get me wrong :) I sang my finale song which was 'And I'm Telling you' and Keith's which was 'She's Gone'. This is becoming more of a routine where we start out with our soft songs and then built up to these loud, banging, dramatic songs. There were more people today.. So the applause was louder i guess. Not being BHB or anything but ya..

We headed back to my house and Keith was slightly tipsy by then.. But we went back to get his ice lemon tea bottle which was kept in my house for like 3 days? HAHA! I KEPT TELLING HIM IT WAS DECOMPOSING BUT HE KEPT DELAYING THE DAYS WE WERE SUPPOSE TO MEET TO GIVE HIM THE BOTTLE. THE. BOTTLE. HAHA.

Couldn't remember whether it was him or me who kept delaying the days, but.. oh well. It probably smelt like dead fish and onions.. haha. Yes, i made that up. :]

That's all that happened today. Hope you guys have a great night ahead..

XOXO

Shaun

30.08.12 - It just gets better from here

THURSDAY - 30.08.12 

I'm actually kinda glad that there are now 2 days of Voices because then i can get to bond with my buddies even more haha. I think that Lenon isn't coming back anymore because of some personal reasons i guess.. I asked him whether his coming today since he didn't come yesterday.. no response.. :\ I guess we're really gonna miss him now..

Back to my post.. Met Kellie today at 3 for lunch and did some warm ups before heading up to Voices for practice. We were really early so we decided to practice our cover of 'Beauty And The Beast'. Well, our cover.. yes our cover. You heard me :) 

I guess you can say that we are more or less done with 'If I Ain't Got You' & 'Price Tag'. We kinda sound good i guess haha! So we decided to help the all girls group with their songs 'Raise Your Glass' and 'Fix a Heart'. We didn't really help them with 'Fix a Heart', but it was more of 'Raise Your Glass' haha! We really need to work on our enthusiasm and blending skills, most of us were really dead when we did the one on one backing thing.. That's just that but we can definitely work on it :) 

Joe decided to have us do one of the already done songs, 'Rolling In The Deep' which was kinda weird because it was already done before so i really wonder whats the damn point in doing it again if we're not gonna perform it in november.. oh well, that's just joe. lol. I was apparently called into the room to do a song.. so i asked Dominic who was also there what the heck they were doing. He said.. a korean song. -.- Damn it.. I definitely am not a k-pop fan and i will NEVER be one. But the song they were doing kinda sounded nice :\ It was 'Baby Steps' by Girls Generation.. Stupid name right? I really wonder what these korean people are thinking sometimes.. what goes on in their brains and all that. Well, this song kinda sounds nice. It's a ballad and not some dance dubstep weird ass song. Which was ok i guess.. it has a nice melody to it, so why not? I'm not really sure why Joe asked me to take on Dominic's place.. meh, he probably wanted another backing 2 to do it.. I like to think that way. 

After Voices, we decided not to eat mac because we were afraid of missing the last bus, becoming fat and Kellie could not go to mac... o.o yeah. We parted different ways after practice and that's that :)

XOXO

Shaun

29.08.12 - A new start in Voices

WEDNESDAY - 29.08.12

Voices starts again today! Well, except this time, we have to come back every wednesday and thursday for extra training from 4:30pm to 10:30pm! I know right.. 6 hours with only a 30 minute dinner break. How exhausting haha! 

In the afternoon at around noon, i had to send Cherie to ITE College East to have her hair blow dried by my friend Kenneth. He needed a model for his exam, so i suggested Cherie to him, since i THOUGHT her hair was at shoulder length when Kenneth told me that her hair was a bit too long. lol. But i guess all went well when Cherie came out looking fabulous haha! But before that, Kenneth had Tina accompany me while he did Cherie's hair.. So all i did was just hang around the library with Tina while she talks to her friends and all that.. The exam lasted for about an hour and a half. After blow drying Cherie's hair, we headed back to school since i had CCA, and since i wanted Cherie to accompany me there. We literally travelled all the way from the east to the west and it actually didn't take that long.. Well, maybe i was talking to Cherie all the while.. maybe that's why.. 

Reached school and headed to Voices for practice.. Cherie wanted to tag along in practice too.. Which.. i don't know why.. and i don't wanna know why.. 

Practice was fun i guess.. we did 'If I Ain't Got You' again and 'Price Tag'. Those two songs were the easiest because when we presented the songs to Joe, he said we were concert ready.. i was like oh wow? As in, Kellie, Jesmine and i.. were 'concert ready' according to Joe.. He was probably high on ice lemon tee or something like that.. 

Our seniors Yun Tong and Heem Lim came back to see us and i didn't know Heem Lim behaved this way.. So.. hyper.. lol. Well, i mean, i saw him like 2 years ago when he was year 1 i guess. I remembered he fetched Jac, Zaza, Keith, MC and me to Voices back in 2010 when we went there to just visit Joe. So, he came back with the power house, Yun Tong, the girl who sang 'Fallin' for Grandioso.. She. Is. Just. PERFECT. Her voice is so powerful and most of the juniors kinda envied her a little. haha. I kinda see myself just like Heem Lim when i reach year 3, minus the.. Heem Lim moment jokes haha. He has a heavy voice like me and he is into all the divas and that kind of stuff.. Which iam interested in too. Oh, we could be best friends. HAHA. 

After Joe said we were 'concert ready', i guess we had our own little celebration next door.. Melovox that is.. Nah, we didn't really celebrate. We were all there to give our suggestions on our identity and how we should portray each song in a story. But we failed and ended up talking about all kinds of weird stuff lol. But we did manage to get a few new songs we could learn for sometime later.. Suggestions i mean, song suggestions for Joe who will most likely not consider it and then give his own songs for us. Yup, that's just Joe. 

After slacking around til 10:30 or so.. We headed back to the training room and then saw what the boys came up with as their identity.. 'Joe's Hoe's' HAHAHA.. 

I'm so happy i'm not with the boys now haha! 

Training was pretty fun overall :) Headed to Mac with Phoebe, Dominic and Kellie. Kellie and i left earlier as we didn't want to miss the last bus. Well, she missed the last bus which was 151 and we decided to head back to Serangoon mrt where she could walk home from there.. Which, i didn't know why she did. 

Yup, that's about all! Hope all goes well for our upcoming Prelude concert :D

XOXO

Shaun

27.08.12 - Birthday Outing With SP Friends!

MONDAY - 27.08.12

Ya ya yipee yipee ya ya! 

Today i celebrated my 18th birthday with my friends, no, i did not drink and smoke as a sign that i have already reached the legal age. No.. just no.. Keith had Jasmine, Danial, Cherie and Hani meet us at NEX at 3pm for lunch at Pasta Mania! I didn't really know Jasmine that well.. Since all of them, except Cherie, was from SP's Vocal Talent. Yeah, you can say i knew Hani and Danial through Keith. Well, he is THAT sociable when it comes to friends his comfortable with, so yeah :) Met up with the rest at 3:15 or so and then headed up to Pasta Mania.

 Keith!

 Me!

 Cherie!

Hani!

 Danial!

 Jasmine!

 Hani looking like a man here. haha!

After lunch, we headed back to my house to jam. You see, my house is like a open place for everyone to come in.. LITERALLY.. to do their own stuff. Like when my friends and i have no where to go, we'd head to my house for a jamming session for those who sings and just a slacking session for those who don't. Interesting eh? haha! 

So yeap, we headed back to my house, did a little a capella here and there and they also sang along to what i played on the piano :]

After a whole afternoon of jamming with these guys, we headed down to Keith's mother's pub at Serangoon Gardens :] We had such a blast there, alternating our solo debuts and playing darts and what not...

Sang lots of songs, i did manage to get a video up on Facebook, but i don't think i can share it here.. The files kinda big haha :) 

Anyways, Had a really great night and i felt that something was a missed when all of them suddenly becamse quiet.. They started to leave the pub one by one and then Keith told me to wait a while back there. Well, I knew that it was gonna be a surprise was it gonna be? 

Yep! Free dinner and a $30 ang pao with some birthday wishes that came along with it!

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW :D

the wax was suppose to say 18 but it burned out too fast and became this haha!

I'm so happy these guys did this to me :') So memorable :) 

Supper came after the surprise and we decided to eat as much as we can, because we can :]

Well, it was my birthday right? and as much as i hate to use the word YOLO, i had too haha.. I WAS HIGH AS FK LOL

Supper was really good i guess. I had my free dinner which was Mac and then i had a bit of hani's satays and i had my oyster omelette. FATNESS OVERLOAD! 

 SATAY!!

 Smile Hani! :)

 That huge ass sugar cane drink at Chomp Chomp.. -SLURP!-

 Epic faces here guys..

 SHO CUTE! :3

 So Hani committed 3 sins today.. She ate pork, drank alcohol and she's underage. yep.

Had so much fun with my SP buddies and Cherie today! Like seriously fun.. and funny..
Hani and Cherie were apparently gonna get killed by their parents since it was so late, so they decided to just take a stroll to the busstop and then head back home to get slaughtered. 

LOL

XOXO

Shaun