Susan Boyle

What is wrong with me??? I cry each and EVERY time I watch this.

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Love is easy

I was inspired by an instrumental video I found on youtube to make the song below. I have always wanted to write a love song but everything else seemed corny untill now.

What do you think? Cheesy?

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so lazy…no really

I wish I was already on holiday from work.

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Am I gangsta?

This is not the first time but someone told someone that  ’Audrey is so gangsta ya’. Is this true??? I thought I was the epitome of class, beauty and all that is pure?

Have I been living a lie?

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Avatar the movie

Guy, now words can’t describe the emotions that this movie has evoked in me as I watched it with my eyes wide open and my mouth gaping like a fish as I am assaulted by the visuals, the characters and the storyline. Granted the script was not that fantastic but the acting and visuals made up for it in truck fulls. Everytime I looked at the Na’Vi I am reminded of home and the Pandora jungle reminds me of Borneo and the countless times I have trekked in it with my father and grandfather. It creates a sense of awe that although my ancestors might not have lived so grandly or worshipped and thanked the earth as beautifully as they did in the film. They did live on what the earth gave them and had rituals to give thanks and only took as much as they needed.  It make me feel that in times like this humans should try harder to integrate the life of the earth into our lives. We want too much, take too much and give too little.

Technology and mother earth together, I’m not sure how that works but I think in order for us to survive and leave this beautiful place intact for our childrens childrens childrens childrens children then we need to work now to make it a reality.

I love the movie!!! I can’t explain, I really can’t! It’s so good that it makes me want to be a tree hugging Alien. Hobos and Greenpeace mixed into one blue gooey goodness with a dash of extraterrestrial/human love.

I got this from the official website of Avatar

If you haven’t watched it, please do if only to gawk at the amount of time it must have taken to make the awesomeness that is Avatar.

Now a friendly community service sign up to say no coal plants in Sabah

Link: http://www.wwf.org.my/?9940/Sign-Up-And-Say-No-to-Coal-Plants-in-Sabah

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Canine love

Brought the terrible twins and Snowpuff to the vet yesterday amidst a scare th at they had some terrifying disease th at would take them from us.

All three dogs have been sneezing their heads off so I thought I should just google to see if dogs could really have colds. Wh at I found was the mother of all colds. Continuous sneezing is one of the signs for distemper and in puppies it could lead de at h.

JENG! JENG! JENG!!!!!!!

Went to the vet all frantic but we came out ok (and I mean the humans not the dogs). They stuck a meter up their butts to assess if they had fever (the canines ya, just in case your wondering) and all 3 was clear of it but the puppies did have a terrible sore thro at while Claire’s was inflamed but not as bad as the terrible twins. The vet told us it was a virus and they are ok but once they lose their appetite we have to get bring them back. Hmm, no worries in th at department both puppies e at a lot! Just to help you understand this we brought the puppies to get their jabs last Friday and they weigh 6.8 and 6.3kg respectively now the male is 7.1 + the female is 6.8= growing puppies yo! Thank goodness and God bless.

Some puppy goodness to share with you on a Friday.

The entry above was what  was suppose to share with you the moment I got home except that it is now 2.04am. Rainer came into the room just as MOH left to have dinner with the family unit. We chatted for over an hour and then she made me dinner (aww!) then we chatted some more. We fell asleep and when I woke up it was already 1.30am! There goes my Friday but having said that I feel pretty damn good now!

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Hello Kawan

A happy song inspired by chatting with friends from high school whom I haven’t met in many years.

It was a bittersweet feeling writing this song. Brings back memories of my time in primary school and high school. I am kind of afraid how fast time has passed.

To friendship.

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Hello! Yes, Hello you :)

Skipped band practice yesterday as I was not in the mood to be in a room full of metal instruments and the incessant banging of the bass drums.

Meizi was suppose to come over tonight but no such luck since she has been brought down with a bad case of sore throat and fever. I did half day at work and the other half was spent waiting around at a reserve as an extra for Y0gi Bear the movie. Most of the time we were either waiting in the marquee or in the old school jeeps the production team had hired for the shoot. I got to meet pretty interesting people today which made the day bearable. I do wonder at how thorough the film crew can be. I mean they were pretty anal about my pants “Navy blue will register as black so you will have to change” said the stylist. So I changed into the ugliest shorts that I have ever seen and proceeded to spend the whole time in a car which meant that I didn’t get much air time  much less get to show off the ugly shorts. Bleh. I really do believe that to become a movie extra one must really  love the movie industry.

By the way, I wrote a fun song last night and  hopefully it will come out ok after I practice a bit and nut out the lyrics.I do love listening to my songs over and over again. I like looking for mistakes, and just being in awe that I actually recorded the song and posted it up. Most of the time I am the ‘just do it’ type of person, only after completing the task do I step back and think ‘wh at the hell was I doing’? After I post my songs up do I realise th at my singing isn’t as fantastic as I thought it was, the guitar playing is pretty mediocre and bad at times and the lyrics aren’t all th at great . But oh well, since it’s up I’ll leave it there. Meh. Oh well, Christmas is coming and for the first time since I have been here in Auckland I will not be going back to Malaysia to celebrate the festive holidays with my family. I am quite sad about it and it is making me a bit melancholy but oh well, one more decision I have to live with.

So to stop myself from feeling sorry for myself I have organized a party on the 24^th with the whole she-bang of fairy lights, egg nog ( I have no idea how to make this), decorating Christmas cookies with chocolate chips and all those sinful toppings. I have also organized a mini golf tournament at a mini at ure golf course around my area which is only 5 minutes away. I am getting so excited and I hope it turns out ok and will be as fun as I imagine it would be. We will be having a ‘secret santa’ session and I reckon some people will forget so I have created a punishment which I call ‘The dance of failures’ I can’t wait to buy the props and choose the music for this!

I miss my family…don’t dwell on it!

Season Greetings and have a Happy New Year From the Chin-Chongs! (ha ha ah aha ha geddit? Chin-Chongs!)

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I had so much fun today!

Woke up late today with a slight headache after attending Alice’s graduation party last night. I had so much fun! we played the dice game and chugged beer the whole night.

This was taken before we left to have a HUGE supper.

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So yes, woke up late today. I did some chores and Rainer came to accompany me then later in the evening Meizi came over for to learn the guitar and just have a good run on the guitars. It was a really lazy Sunday and we were all chillax.

After dinner was when the fun started. I played a song I just written, Meizi went to the piano and started playing a melody, then MOH came over and started playing on his electric guitar and suddenlly the song came to life. I am so happy! The sound is not that fantastic but the feeling it gives me is just pure happiness. To be able to finish a song I wrote with the help of friends is just so cool to me. I dragged Rainer from the room and forced her to play the tambourine for me. She was so reluctant but nice enough to stay. I think for the first few takes she was really nervous and halfway through she said ‘I quit!’ and started putting the tambourine into it’s box. we manage to persuade her to stay and she did! So we recorded a couple of sessions and they were all just pure fun. The first video is the funniest but I think i’ll be nice and show the last and one where everyone is behaving themselves.

Enjoy! The song is called ‘Lies’ and I wrote it based on my sisters life and her friends or should we say ‘frenemies’?

Yes, the piano is out of tune but it does add a certain charm to the song doesn’t it?

Lyrics on my youtube, I can’t seem to post it here on word press properly.

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Pyscho babble and more

Good morning,

There is something wrong with the time on this blog and am not sure how to fix it. Anyone have any ideas?

So, last night Caribbeanz Steel Pans performed at a corporate event and it was such a beautiful day. We were situated at the edge of the swimming pool and the view was just fantastic. I am not sure what floor we were on but it was pretty high up. On our left was the port and on the right was an amazing view of the city at dusk. We played for two hours and then adjourn to have dinner at the restaurant downstairs. Food was so-so and I had a pumpkin ricotta ravioli which did not inspire a choir of angels singing overhead as I chewed my food. However, the dessert perked my interest when I saw it on the menu so I ordered it. Chocolate cake immersed in plum soup, some sort of berry jelly cut in cubes with infused plum surrounded the cake and topped off with a dollop of cream. It was interesting the plum soup was quite nice but I was not too keen on having the texture of the cake and cream interfere with the clear, sweet but slightly tangy taste of the soup.

Went home late and tired but manage to have a round of gossip with MOH which is unusual as the man is tight lipped when it comes to gossiping. I came home and saw a fantastic announcement in my email! I will wait for the lady herself to announce it before I mention anything here. Congratulations Sweets! What a wonderful way to do it, D your the man!

Wrote to a contact (courtesy of Darren, thank you!) at Astro hitz who told me they were having an audition and ask me if I could make it. The audition is/was on Tuesday. I am not sure as he sent me the email on Monday and I was only able to check my emails on Wednesday so looking at my knowledge of the days in a week Tuesday has come, waved goodbye and disappeared into the week. Aiks! Passed already kah? So I told the guy la kan, just keep my contact details for this talent pool and let me know if there are any gigs coming up. I gave a short Me! Me! Me! biography. I hate doing this sort of thing self promotion always makes me feel like an ass.

Had a conversation last night with a contact for a spot on TV3 in Malaysia. Pity that I am in Auckland at the moment and he seemed quite interested to let me have a go and do a mock run to see if the ‘camera loves me’. I got some good tips and he did say that their doors are kinda open to people who want to try their luck. They just have to meet some criteria’s which were:

Can speak Malay and English fluently
Look presentable
Look good on camera
Be comfortable in front of the camera (apparently this was high on his list)

Well, it seems pretty simple enough, I am sure there is more to the selection process but I guess these are the basics. The interesting thing here is that I got his contact from an email sent to me by MOH ex girlfriend. How random is that? When I saw her name on the email I was a bit hesitant as the day for me was going well (so well that halfway laughing at a joke your colleague made, your thinking ‘Wait a minute! Today has been really nice I wonder why??? Is shit going to hit the fan soon and bomb me from out of the shadows?). I took a deep breath, click on the intriguing piece of internet goodness and saw that she knows someone who is looking for a host who can speak Malay and English and was wondering if I was interested.

Random AND nice!

Of course I was interested and in her second email was the email address. I was going all gung ho when I realized that I skipped the part where she said ‘Chinese host wanted who can speak Malay and English”. I thought “Damn! I look Chinese but I can’t speak the language unless I am dying of hunger and thirst even then it would be like one character at a time like, ‘MAN TAU!’,‘SUI!’, ‘KWAY TEOW!’ is that even Chinese?) I can definitely speak English and Malay and at the same time! “Kak, satu lemon tea ais dengan apa tu….you know…ah! ayam goreng tiga stick ya”. Ok, sorry I digressed. So I wrote back to her and said that I couldn’t speak Chinese and she said it doesn’t matter. Jackpot! So yes, an email from MOH ex lady friend a nice email at that, halfway writing to her contact I was thinking “This could be a punked moment that she has been waiting for and I’m following through with it like a well trained orang utan”. “Ah! Feck it”. Along the way I felt compelled to keep her updated with my progress. Don’t ask me why la! I don’t know why I just feel like I have to and want to.

For you to understand this a little bit more, I guess I got into blogging because of her. Before I met MOH, my life consisted of sports, music and books. Computers and the internet was never in the equation that made me, me. So when MOH went through his nasty break up I would stalk the ex everyday so what ended up as a need to know if she has been talking smack about MOH and me turned into a genuine interest in her life, her thoughts and her opinions on everyday things. It came to a point where even if she did write smack about us I wouldn’t have really cared. She knew I was stalking her and I knew she knew and it was all ok until I made a comment one day (I can’t remember what it was) on her blog and I received a long email from her which essentially said to leave her alone. So I did. Simple as that, like a light switched off. But in truth I really did enjoy her wit and bouts of narcissism so I would visit her blog once in awhile. So, hmmm…not sure where this is going it just all came out as I was typing this. Oh yes! So, I enjoyed her blog so much that I thought ‘Heck I should try to have one as well and see how it goes’ and here I am today 5 years later. Weird.

Re-reading this makes me look like a stalker but in truth I was! The whole thing about internet, blogs, photos online and forums were all so new to me and she was like the first person I knew who kept an online journal and I thought that was fascinating. Granted we didn’t like each other but that didn’t stop me from admiring what she has done. It was also a little scary how one can access another persons online life so easily. Just.a.click.of.a.button. Click.

So enough gossip and soul sharing for the day! All in all good things have been happening, made a few baby steps and it looks like the climb up is gonna be a long one folks. I just thought to share with you what has been happening to me during the past two weeks and I ended up having some psycho babble in the mix as well. If it doesn’t make sense don’t worry about it too much as I still don’t understand it myself. I’m just going to take it with both hands, give thanks and hugs profusely for the help and see where this takes me.

 
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