DuckieDroplets

It was two days ago when I went for lunch with Aik Khai, Darrel, Shan, DeXin and Jun Yi where a girl sms’ed Aik Khai and asked him if he knew any girls that can sing english. And Aik Khai asked me immediately. Since, I had nothing better to do anyway, I of course, said yes "I do" to the offer, regardless the price lar. I just needed something to do.

So after a few arrangements, we settled that the recording was to be on 2pm today at their studio located in Jie Fang Jun Yi Shu Xue Yuan, Zhong Guan Cun. I took a cab there and reached around 1:30pm, but when I succeeded locating the studio’s EXACT location, it was 2:00pm sharp.

I greeted the studio mixers, and they asked me to wait for the composer. I didn’t know exactly what to sing. All I knew that it was in English…. and they want me to sing American-ish. Not hard… I already sound American-ish without trying. Lolx. Around 2:15pm, the composer arrived. His name is He Tian (Something), I dun remember… I think it’s He Tian Fa… And he’s some head of the chinese army perforamance and art team or something (Something big)… He showed me the score and my jaw dropped.

Nope, it’s not hard. It’s pretty easy, and I sang it with one look. Like DUH. My standard… HOHOHOHO. Gee… perasan. Why did my jaw drop???? Because… here’s the starting of what I have to sing:

Hello… Los Angelos, L.A.!
We are Fu Wa of Beijing Olympic!
Bei bei, jing jing, huan huan, ying ying and Ni Ni!

My mind went NUTS reading it… you mean, I’m RECORDING FOR THE BEIJING OLYMPICS 2008 REPRESENTING THE FIVE LITTLE MASCOT???? OH MY GOD! HOLLY CRAP! I nearly died of heart attack! I’m SINGING for the OLYMPICS! WUAHLAO~~~ WAKAO~~ WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

After they heard me sing once through cin-cai-ly, they said: "Ha! Great voice you have there! How long are you going to be in Beijing?" And I told them five years, then they said… next time if they need people to sing in English, they’ll call me up. WAHHHH~~ HOW NICE!

Then the recording process was kinda long (8 hours)… turned out that I will be heard in three of the largest cities in USA: New York, Los Angelos and Washington D.C. WAHAHAHA. Another great shiny mark on my resume… Eeesh, perasanNya~ Lolx. Cannot ah? People tengah HIGH sini. Lolx.

OoooHOHOHOHOHOHO.
MY VOICE IS GOING TO BE BROADCAST IN NYC, WDC & LA!

List of exams:
1) Sight Reading/ Hearing/ Singing (Theory) Pt1
2) Sight Reading/ Hearing/ Singing (Aural/Practical)The End
3) Harmonization Pt3
4) Piano Pt1
5) CONDUCTING Pt2
6) Orchestration + Score Reading Pt3
7) Art and Philosophy The End
Chinese Folklore History The End
9) English (Oral) Pt1
10) English (Test) Pt3
11) P.E. Exams Pt1

1) Sight Reading/Hearing/Singing - Taken 09/01/07
It was a frightful Tuesday morning, as I woke up at 8am sharp… with nothing much to do except to keep myself awake. Because it’s sight reading/hearing/singing exam day, your brain must be fully awake. So, to do so… I had to get up extra early since the exam starts at 10:10…. To my greatest relief, it was actually quite okay. Because teacher didn’t pick anything too hard for me… HEHEHE. I practiced mar! Of course lar~ Lolx. So, one of my greatest fear has been overcome…

2) Art and Philosophy - Taken 10/01/07
This is a HORRIBLE test. Great to learn, horrible to take. Because you have to write what you "feel" and "think" about certain things. And the list of things you have to memorize is @#$%^&*()*&^%$#. Yeap. Thanks to Benny for writing the second essay beautifully for me to memorize and thanks to PM for translating the first essay for me… although in the end I had to re-do the first one because the whole format I first did was wrong. Was totally tensed because there was SO much to remember… although I started studying like weeks ago, but still…

3) Chinese Folklore History - Taken TODAY
If you think Art and Philosophy is a horrible test to take, this one is ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING. We have to memorize FOUR chapters of CRAP. Well, the moment you see "history" it’s crap larr…. no matter what history lar. At least Art and Phil is a nice subject. THIS ONE we BARELY study in class… and the NOTES are FILTHY long. "What is folklore music?" "How many kinds of folklore music are there?" … and so on… it’s worst than memorizing all the names of the Sultans in sejarah. LOL. And the paper we had to sit for, was EXTREMELY SHORT. Well, FINISHED it in 40 minutes time… didn’t know quite A LOT. But didn’t cared because FINISH EXAM LORRRRRR!

FINISH EXAM LORR~~~~
YABBADaBaDOOOOOooOOooO~~~~~!

Hahaha…. YAY, I’m going HOME lor~!!!Malaysia HERE I COME!

List of exams:
1) Sight Reading/ Hearing/ Singing (Theory) Pt1
2) Sight Reading/ Hearing/ Singing (Aural/Practical)
3) Harmonization Pt3
4) Piano Pt1
5) CONDUCTING Pt2
6) Orchestration + Score Reading Pt3
7) Art and Philosophy
Chinese Folklore History
9) English (Oral) Pt1
10) English (Test) Pt3
11) P.E. Exams Pt1

1) Harmonization - Taken 27/12/06
Harmonization was taken early in the morning… and I did something stupid the night before. I had this MP3 alarm clock on my desktop where it’ll play any MP3 songs that I insert… a very good way to wake myself up. Because instead of the sudden loud songs that starts off with choruses on my handphone, this one I get to choose soft songs that goes slow and easy before going louder and louder, and I get to choose from my wide range of song choices in my computer. Cool eh? THEN, there’s this "AM" and "PM" thing on the clock, and the "clever" me forgot to tune it to "AM" when I set the alarm. SO… I was supposed to wake up at 7:30am as the exam starts at 8:20am. BUT… since I didn’t set the thing properly, of course it didn’t RING. THANK GOD I opened my eyes and remembered that it was HARMONIZATION EXAM DAY, wondering why were the sky so bright already. I spring up and realized that it was 10 minutes away to exam time and sped up to everything. GOD. KILL ME. Then as I panted down the hallway and turned a sharp corner, I met my friend who was wandering outside the classroom. He smiled at my state and said: "Exam’s starting at 8:30am. Teacher’s not here yet." I heave a sigh of relief, grinned at myself and ran back to the hostel for a cup of hot milo, feeling great after that. LOL. The exam was kinda tough, long question with many solution that my mind found but couldn’t mark out which was the best one… Hopefully I don’t do too bad. Because if I get below 85, I might be expelled from my department…. crazy rule.

2) Orchestration + Score Reading - Taken 29/12/06
Another one of the exams where I have to score 85 and above or be expelled from the department. But I’m not too worried about orchestration score reading, because this one all you have to do is practice enough. There isn’t spontaneous things that you have to do on-spot. So, as long as I practiced everything, it should be fine. And thanks to HuangYi, who had asked me to help him with his score-reading, I did pretty well… LOLX. Because by the time he learns a particular piece, I’d be memorizing already. WAkakaka…

3) English (Test) - Taken today 08/01/07
These China people have a funny way of taking english exams. During our last few english lessons before this exam, the teacher gave us 6 sets of questions that contains: Vocabulary, Cloze passages, Comprehension and etc… And we were asked to memorize as much as possible because all the questions are going to be base on what’s inside. Or to be exact, during the test, the questions on our test paper will look EXACTLY the same as part of the questions in what we are given to read. So, er… you call this a test? And well, I did read through the 6 sets of papers once… and helped some of my friends (malaysians from chinese school) in understanding the comprehension question. So when I sat for the exam, I could practically do it blindfolded. LOL… no lar, blindfolded kinda impossible… but I really didnt do any extra reading, just circled the answers. HAHAHAHA. And finished 65 questions in 10 minutes. Sweat right? It was a one hour exam, and I spent 10 minutes answering, 15 minutes coloring the answer sheet black, 10 minutes double checking my answers just in case I colored wrongly… and then I was out. LOL. With the whole class’ eyes on my back.

Oh well, now I’m down with the easy one, I have 3 more hard ones to go…and then MERDEKA!

07.01.2007

I just had a nice big piece of choco cake! Thanks to everybody on the 5th floor who tipped in for my birthday cake! My hostel friends are the nicest~~~ =]

Happy birthday to myself… Goodbye 18 and welcome 19. My last year that starts with 1…. next year it’ll start with "2" OHHHH….

Let’s see… Here’s my WISH list: Since I’m a 7 baby… I’ll make 7 wishes! HOHOHO!
1) Reach 45kg on the weight scale!
2) Do well for all my studies!
3) May Midnight Puppet Generation 2 be a huge success
4) Earn more extra money and get lots of angpau
5) Grow an extra inch taller
6) Look EXTRA gorgeous! No more PIMPLE attack!
7) Fall in love!

Special people in my life:
Mom and Dad: Thanks to them, or they’ll be no "me".
Rong, Angie: Naughty monkeys. You guys owe me present!
Bugger Bee: HOI, Never say happy birthday to me YET
Kimbee: Hehehe, love you always! Muacks!
Mozquito: You missed the time! HOHOHO~! Thanks though
Benny deary: Stop obssesing over your weight lar! And where’s my birthday wish? Ehehee…
LittleNoise: Love you guys~
Everybody else: THANKS FOR ALL THE BIRTHDAY WISHES!

Last but not least: HappEee BirThdAy

2006

1.) Where did you ring in 2006?
> At Chiew Yuin’s house…Well, on the hill in some mamak stall NEAR Chiew Yuin’s house to be exact. Too bad I didn’t get to join them this year…

2.) What was your status by Valentine’s Day?
> Single. Single. Single.

3.) Were you in school (anytime this year)?
> Of course.

4.) How did you earn your keep?
> Thought piano part-time, did some part-time data entry, performed here and there part-time… and yea, part-time.

5.) Did you ever have to go to the hospital?
> This year? (thinks hard) … Errrr…. I can’t recall, nope.

6.) Have you ever encountered the police?
> Nope.

7.) Where did you go on vacation?
> What vacation? No vacation…. unless you count going back to my dad’s hometown — Penang…

8.) What did you purchase that was over RM500?
> Er… Air ticket to Beijing.

9.) Did you know anybody who got married?
> My cousin bro is getting married TODAY! WITHOUT ME! Nevermind, he owes me extra angpau money.

10.) Did you know anybody who passed away?
> A few, but not close ones. Friends of friends.

11.) Have you ran into anybody you graduated high school with?
> YEAP.

12.) Did you move anywhere?
> Yeap, I moved from KL, Malaysia to Beijing, China … if that counts.

13.) What sporting events did you go to?
> Cheer 2006?

14. what concerts did you go to?
> Quite a few… too much to list.

15.) Are you registered to vote?
> Nah

16.) If so, did you do your patriotic duty on Nov. 7?
> I’m in Beijing.

17.) Where do you live now?
> Beijing, China.

19.) What’s the one thing you thought you would never do but did in 2006?
> "The Polar Effect".

21.) What’s something you learned about yourself?
> That I can actually still miss home.

22.) Any new additions to your family?
> Nope.

23.) What was your best month?
> July

24.) What pop culture event will you remember 2006 by?
> What?

25.) How would you rate this year with a scale from 1 (crappy) to
10?
> 7

2007

1. Will you be looking for a new job?
> Nope

2. Will you be looking for a new relationship?
> Polars are everywhere, but not mind… yet.

3. New house?
> Nope

4. What will you do different in 07?
> LOads of things.

5. New Years resolution?
> I don’t do resolutions.

6. What will you not be doing in 07?
> Things that I don’t do

7. Any trips planned?
> Some small get-togethers when I get back to KL.

8. Wedding plans?
> With Lee Hom?

9. What’s on your calendar?
> Dates

10. What cant you wait for?
> Now? Can’t wait to go home…. OOH. I can’t wait for August to re-stage Midnight Puppet.

11. What would you like to see happen different?
> I don’t know

12. What about yourself will you be changing?
> My streak of purple hair’s color… lolx.

13. What happened in 06 that you didnt think would ever happen?
> Too much. I first thought I wouldn’t get into CCOM, but I ended up in it. Then I thought MP wouldn’t be much of a sucess, but it was a blast. Then I thought I’d never see my buddy again for some very long time, but I’m gonna see him very soon… yea.

14. Will you be nicer to the people you care about?
> I’m nice enough

15. Will you dress differently in 07 than you did in 06?
> Well, depending on the seasons.

16. Will you start or quit drinking?
> I’ve been drinking for ages. Why stop?

17. Will you better your relationship with your family?
> Yea.

18. Will you do charity work?
> I just did a few back during Christmas.

19. Will you go to bars?
> Err… with who?

20. Will you be nice to people you don’t know?
> No. Unless they are useful to me, or unless I’m bored.

21. Do you expect 07 to be a good year for you?
> Who doesn’t?

22. How much did you change from this time last year til now?
> Quite a lot.

23. Do you plan on having a child in 07?
> Hahahaha…

24. Will you still be friends with the same people you are friends with now?
> Of course

25. Major lifestyle changes?
> Well, different seasons, different times, of course.

26. Will you be moving?
> To and for Beijing?

30. One wish for 07?
> That there would be chemistry between Polars and Ducks.