Monday, March 31, 2008

Missing grandpapa Alex Abi~

31 March 2008

Awww~ Cowy u make me miss Alex so much.
For all NPS guitarists, if you haven't already read it yourself
http://stupid_cowy_02.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html

Only NPS guitarists would understand, la, i think :)

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Mr Alex
I wish for your good health
I thank god for letting me meet you at some point of my life
because we once crossed paths but nvr met at that time

I thank you for the love and passion for music that you have in such abundance
for the love and passion in music that you have opened our hearts to
for all the different kinds of music and detail that you had taught us to appreciate
and for all the magical pleasures of playing and listening to music, that you had shared with us...

Earlier today, I read a cow's blog about you
i closed my eyes in search of hidden memories
i remembered, i saw,
this old man sitting in front of us behind a desk
this talkative man, reminiscing his past to us
or talking about the origin of a piece of music
or looking at a music score, clapping his hands in rhythm
and singing "di di di di~" when conducting us
laughing heartily with pleasure whenever we manage to play a particularly enjoyable song

i remember us amused, laughing, while this indian old man
wearing colourful socks with musical notes imprints

thrilled us and played songs like "月亮代表我的心" to our amazement

I remember this old man we all respect so much
with his eyes closed, in hard concentration, playing the guitar
while the rest of us, we sat listening, eyes on him
pleasantly surprised at the music we were hearing from him
our hearts filled with admiration, sometimes in awe, sometimes disbelieve, thrilled, enthralled
looking at one another, and thinking
"this song can be expressed like that?! Wow!!"

I remember myself learning all the guitar parts for our practice songs
suddenly i could appreciate what every guitar part had to offer to a piece of music
then i sat in his position
and conducted group practices when he was not around
proclaiming myself as "Hengbisheganaden"
i could feel my every cell in sync with each vibration of the music
i sang or played or clapped along while the rest played their parts
i talked crap and joked with the rest
and i really enjoyed myself!
And all that, i learned from you

For all those happy memories
for all the pleasures and magic of music we had learned to appreciate from you
for the everlasting love and passion for music that you have instilled in us
for all the warmth and happiness you had given me, given us
for every single note of music we had learnt to express from our hearts the way u do
and for being my music santa claus
With all my heart, i wish to say

THANK YOU
We love you, Grandpapa music-santa ;)

Sunday, March 23, 2008

The Leap Years

22 Mar 2008

Watched this movie today!! Some say it's quite ok only, some say it's really nice. Hmm~ i think it's really nice!! I guess it's nice for people who's really sensitive and sentimental ba~ waahaaa~ :)

First thing i wanna mention about the movie is... the part where they said something like "it takes a lot of courage to stay single for so long waiting for the right person to come along and not get into a relationship for the sake of getting into one". Not sure what's the exact phrase, but remember myself mentioning this same theory to someone or some people quite some time back!! Few months ago ba... can't really remember when or who but i definitely definitely had mentioned it before... Hahaa~ These words are so true!!

Feb 29th... what an extraordinary day it is~ feels even more so to me as i've learnt about the culture of the "having to accept a girl's proposal" much earlier on, before i watched the movie. The version i heard of is not merely a fine, but "bad luck for 4 years" if you dun accept the proposal though!!! Much more scary huh~~~ Wahahaa :p

What do i like about the movie ne...? The parts with Li Ann and her mum... Speaking in a mixture of cantonese and english. These scenes emit so much natural warmth and bond between mother and daughter...... The scenes where Li Ann was with her gal pals...... So funny and heartwarming!!! ^^ And also the last part where KS was reading Jeremy's letter... Touching!! Some people say the plot is really predictable... But still, i really like the movie cos there so many scenes which really touched my heart. Like i say... A movie for the sentimental people la!!! ;)

Half thinking i might get the DVD for keeps and maybe after re-watching it, edit this post to make it a much more justifiable one for this movie!! :)

I really wish that i'd watched the movie earlier on as previously planned with u should know who u are earlier on though

"O ........... K"

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Irritating day today :s

15 Mar 2008, Saturday

Originally, post number 99 was meant to be more sentimental, lots about my memories. The past few rainy days had brought back so many memories and sentimental feelings to my mind and heart. I wanted to write about how much i missed some people, how much i wish to wake up one morning finding myself in those times again... How much i loved those times and people. Alas!! It was not to be!!!! BECAUSE OF TODAY!!!!!

Was actually looking forward to today since last week...
Originally plans for today:
12noon - 6pm --> Mahjong with colleagues
7.30pm - 9.30pm --> NTU Guitar Concert with NPS fellas
11pm - whatever time --> KTV with NPS fellas

Whole day of fun planned!! Had found myself in a super good mood since wednesday.
Who knows, who knows who knows... Something happen yesterday and we had to work OT, and also go back to work today. Originally was forecasted that we'd only need to work till about lunchtime... BUT!!!! Who knows who knows who knows who knows who knows...... We were told to wait for a sample to reach us for some testing, waited and waited and waited and waited and waited for the whole day long, waited till i had to give the concert a miss. Called some of the NPS ppl to see if i could give them my ticket, but those who wanted to go had all already bought their tickets!!! Sigh~ wasted.

7:45pm
Just when i thought things couldn't get any worse, we received a phone call from the other workcentre informing us that they couldn't send us the sample today anymore as they'd discovered another problem. WTF!!!!!!! Means all that wasted time and wasted ticket and wasted fun ALL for nothing!!! Sibeh dulan... But also bobian, cheong home to bath and have dinner and wait for kuang they all to call me after the concert see where we going. Can still go ktv!! :)

9pm
Finished dinner, washing up and changing. Read newspaper, played handphone games, watched abit of tv... ... ... Looked up to see the time 10pm++... ??? How come no news from them yet sia... Thought the concert ends 9.30pm? So smsed them, after which, received their call telling me they were waiting for sheena. More ????? appear in my head... Huh? Was thinking can go sing first mah, since night ktv normally starts 11 or 11.30pm. So said ok, once ready to go, call me. But after hanging up the phone suddenly feel very tired from today's work and abit of frustration..... More waiting, after all the waiting in the day. REALLY!! Know whatever happened today was not anybody's fault.. but really cannot tahan liao. Aiyah dun want to wait liao la~

Stay home instead to watch Arsenal vs Middlesbrough!!, Hahaa :p

Suay like shit today la
God damn it
Allah Damn it
Guan Yin Niang Niang damn it

I still wish i'd written something more sentimental and meaningful for post number 99

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Letters

Hihi!!! Here i am again~ Hahaa :)
AIYO, haven't been writing cos i'm getting kind o' restless and lazy lately, here's some updates anyway~ I'm making this post easier for myself by posting something i'd already written days ago.... Waahaaaa~~ ^^

(Extracts from parts of 2 email letters to a friend!!)

Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 18:36:57 +0800
Yesterday was at Sentosa for my squadron's anniversary celebration. 29th Feb!! Happens to fall on a Leap Year day, Hahaa~It was quite fun! Had a number of activities going on, beach soccer, beach volleyball, some kind of "Gladiator" game, Girls dressed and dancing in Hawaiian style, Whole tables of coconut for us to pick and drink anytime,free airbrush body painting (like, temporary tattoos la, i got myself a really nice phoenix double-coloured "tattoo"!!! ^^), and finally a big feast (grilled beef, lamb, chicken, ham, prawns, fried rice, western style soup, salad, etc etc!!!) and some interesting programmes, games and singing/dancing and stuff.

Then there was this segment where we had this "Ah Kuah" emcee,and he/she was really funny!! And the (real) girl dancers are so chio~~~ Waahaaa~ :p

And today being a weekend, i went for another mahjong game with my colleagues, i won $25!!! Well i lost $17 the last time on wednesday, so now... Happy lo~!! Hahaa ^^
Glad to know you're settling down quite well there, as it seems so for now... Must take good care o' yourself ok!! ;)

Write back!! Hope you're having fun!! :)
Yow Heng

Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:47:36 +0800
We've gone into the last day of CNY as i'm writing now, the past 2 weeks were really enjoyable and eventful! All the visits to homes of my friends, yours as well, and i had NPS fellas visiting my home too.. All the mahjong-ing and "tuan-yuan-ing" and noise!! Really love tat feeling... Hahaa! And guess what? I'd actually bought myself a set of mahjong and mahjong table last weekend and i'm still feeling happy about it now, hahaha~

Then at work, there's all the New Year celebrations and dinners and toto Angpaos and stuff... And i went for this Outstanding Serviceman of the Year award that i was nominated to get interviewed for... I didn't manage to win the award though!! Probably am just the worst of the best, hahahaa :p

I also managed to get free tickets to a preview of an airshow, that's planes doing flying stunts formations and stuff, it was quite nice but sadly due to weather they didn't appear to have done a full-fledged performance.. Pity la!! So many things of the past 2 weeks on my mind now!! Gotta stop writing now though cos soccer match's gonna start in a moment, Make sure you write back with a nice long account of your life there huh!!! Waahaaa~ :p

Keep in touch!! ^^
Yours Monkeyly!! :)