Every week, I just can't wait for the week to come by quickly, especially this week. It's a rather demoralizing week for me. Well, I can only say the incentives of working aren't as attractive.
Anyway, I met up with Siandy and Gary last night and we indeed had a good chat. I never felt that such meetups are a waste of time as we can catch up with each other and update what we have been doing. And also we managed to catch up the lives of other friends. For instance, now I know that one of my JC mates has become a jounalist with Bloomberg. Unbelieveable right? Haha!
Anyway, something to share with you guys. If you want to rip DVD to your Ipod or Iphone or PSP, you usually have to purchase a software to do it. But now Winx DVD is giving it for free till end Sept, so grab it before the end of the month.
Meanwhile, enjoy the weekend.
PS: It's the F1 Singapore Grand Prix weekend, but I don't feel the mood besides the loads of people in town. How I wish I have tickets to the race, or any of the concerts or be invited for any of the parties. But then again, I am just a nobody.
I think most of my friends know how much I love music and singing, and so being bored on a Sunday night, I decided to youtube and found some clips from the most recent The X Factor auditions. Some of them are really good, like the one with the crazy hair and the teacher. But some, eh, you shall judge them for yourselves. Though it's a singing competition, I think what makes this show different from American Idol or Pop Idol or other talent shows is that it also brings in the emotional factor by telling the stories of the contestants. I think America's Got Talent or Britain's Got Talent also used the same tactics, to make the show more interesting.
Here are the some of the really good ones.
My Favorite!
The Not So Outstanding Ones
And Even You Are Not Good, It's Doesn't Mean You Have Lost Everything
What I liked about these singing competitions is that besides hearing good singing and nice songs, it is also to learn from the good ones how to sing better.
Haven't been updating my blog. Partly cos I am lazy, and partly because I seldom at home, and I don't really like to blog at other places, eg office.
I just came back from reservist's last week, which lasted a dreadful 2.5 weeks. It's a crazy unit, not because it's a guards unit, but also the welfare, or the lack of it, that was given. The morale of some of my army mates were hence rather low. And since this time, our branch wasn't assessed for ATEC 1, we were actually quite free, other than occasional last minute building of sand models, issuing of maps, acting as enemies, and own initiated running and gym sessions. I shan't elaborate further on why morale was low, just in case someone 'big' spotted my blog and charge me for God know what reasons. I am just glad I am out of it as of this year, and made friends with some of them.
Friday was Reso's mini concert, Resonance: The Inside Edition. It was really great to be back and engrossed myself in A cappella music again, and it was then that I realised how much I missed singing and being with the Reso peeps. The concert was pretty decent, with a few moments of memorable acts. My favourite would have be Love Addict by the Aca Champs group, and personally I thought they did better than during the competition. I guess this song requires that kind of relaxed feeling and mood in which they achieved during the concert. The other song that caught my ear was Simon and Garfunkel Medley. It was a nice arrangement previously performed by Naturally 7, and I thought the guys blended quite well, and the group were able to bring out the intended feeling somehow. Good job. Overall, I must say it was quite an enjoyable concert and get together! I miss Reso!
Few weeks back, I met up with my usual primary school gang, and there was an invited guest, another primary school mate whom all of us haven't seen for quite some time. There were quite a few awkward silent moments, as he was very quiet himself and I guessed since it was the first time we met since a long time, it was quite hard to break the ice. Moreover, I wasn't very close to him during the primary school days. Anyway, after dinner at MOF at Marina Square, we headed down to Harry's Bar at Esplande for a few drinks. This was the first time my primary school gang went for a drink together. It was a nice experience at the bar and I wouldn't mind going back there again.
Caught a few movies recently too. There was Up, which had a great story and nice colorful moving pictures. I also caught Final Destination IV (in 3D). I didn't really choose to watch that but oh well, I caught that movie eventually. I think the 3D effect made the gross scenes less surreal and therefore, I wasn't that grossed out after the movie. I caught G force last week, and it was quite a nice, funny show, but it was also that kind of movie that once you stepped out of the theater, you don't really talked or remember much of the movie.
Been running too. Just took part in Army Half Marathon before my reservist's , and the Mizuno Wave Run. In my opinion, the Mizuno Run was really bad, with bad planning and all. First there was very few water points, and every time I reached the water point, there was already no water. The route was quite bad too, with many narrow paths and occasions where we had to run just beside fast moving traffic! What was really bad was they got old uncles and aunties to be marshallers. I know it's good to involve senior citizens in young activities, but asking them to stand under the hot sun and along the roads just isn't the way man. Was quite pissed off after the run.
Yup, all the updates I can remember since the last post. I think my blog is getting a bit boring with only updates of my life and nothing much else. Maybe I should do something about it...if I am not lazy.
