My friend ML has two wedding dinner – one for his families and another one for his friend. I am his friend so I was invited for the 2nd night (by the way my friend, where was my invitation card?!). That was my first experience with a Western setting – pool side cocktail, live jazz band, and buffet dinner. I love the food and I love the companionship. The entire table was my ex-colleague. It was really fun.
My good buddy ML needed some practice on the song “The Way You Look Tonight” by Michael Buble so that he can sing to his wife during his wedding night. So I invited to my place, while my wife is in Japan, and set up my home studio just to jam with him. Man, he can sing. It took me some time to get all the chords right (have to detone my guitar) but it was overall an exciting experience. We have recorded three takes and I think he can make it nicely.
For the once a year Chinese New Year 10 Million Dollar draw, JT and I have decided to do it in a bigger way then last year (just bought one System 7 last year). This time round, we tried quantity and not buying an extra number. So JT suggested buying 20 tickets from three different outlets.
Last night, I spent half an hour matching the results with my 60 tickets. The most I have got is 3 numbers out of 6 winning numbers. The minimum to win is 3 numbers plus one extra one. Oh well, I told JT today that perhaps next year, I will just buy 1 ticket of 6 numbers. If you are destined to win, it doesn’t matter how many you buy.
It has been a long and hard day for me so I was in need of some destress. Retail therapy I did. After I made payment at HMV Orchard, I sensed that a lot of people were looking at my direction. I looked around and saw someone resembled Stefanie Sun. After some careful observation, it was her.
I texted my friends about this exciting discovery. Some of them wished to be there. Some of them asked me if I have bought a CD of hers and asked for an autograph (duh? why didn’t I?). Some of them asked me how she looked like.
Well, she is short, her skin is as what some may have already know – not that good, but she is sweetly adorable. I did a search at Yahoo! and found that she is even featured at an Encyclopedia.
And by the way, someone has told me that gold colour is the “in-thing”. Stefanie Sun was indeed carrying a big golden coloured handbag.
Cynthia loves to switch products. But she has sensitive skin so she ended up passing all the products that I don’t need and I ended up being the test subjects of many wierd products. The latest product that I have “assigned” to sample is Dove: Firming Body Wash (click here for official website).
After many weeks of being a test subject (it was a big bottle – way bigger than the one advertised in the website), I still haven’t seen any noticable difference on my skin. Well, I don’t think I have a not of sagging skin to start with but still …
I read the product descriptions again and it is supposed to improve skin’s elasticity in just 1 week. My skin is supposed to feel smoother, firmer, and looking more beautiful. Personally, I don’t think that it is working as intend.
I am not a big fan of sport broadcast but since young, I fall in love with high platform diving. With a high platform, the athletes are given enough time to chain the difficult moves together and yet land onto the water with the minimum amount of splash. Perfect ten is made of this.
Some argues that gifted people with talents are able to paint a picture, write a book, compose music, perform drama acts, and etc. naturally without the need of long hours of practice. Little do some knows that these gifted people devote much of their lifetime doing what they love best.
What prompted me to think of high platform diving was when I was doing recording for my new song (this is the one). It was frustrating trying to get the vocal recording right. Taking the song into pieces trying to make each piece sounds right is not unlike the moves within one high platform dive. Lots of practicing.
I was planning to compose the song as written the night before. Turned out that the chords, rhythm, and tempo did not fit the theme of the song. So I have decided to write another song instead. When I first demo’ed it to Cynthia, she said: it’s cute! Yep, it is a darn cute song. The lyrics as such:
Something In Your Eyes
This is the last time I promise myself
I will not give in to the look in your eyes
Spin around losing track of time
I want to run run run away from you
Won’t be the next time I promise myself
To let you break my life apart
You do me good till I’m barely alive
I want to run run run away from you
Something in your eyes corrupting my mind
Something deep inside contradict my life
Sometimes when you smile I feel so sublimed
Sometimes when you cry I feel so denied
In this lukewarm paradigm of a dream denied
I swim in this pitch dark black pool of mine
It is hard to find when I cannot open my eyes
I cannot think straight when you are by my side
Something in your eyes corrupting my mind
Something deep inside contradict my life
Sometimes when you smile I feel so sublimed
Sometimes when you cry I feel so denied
Copyright © 2006 by Wilfrid K. F. Wong. All Rights Reserved.
Just some useless statistics. You see, when I write songs, I write the lyrics and chords on a notepad. Usually I will type them out nicely into Words format as well as updating an Excel spreadsheet in order to keep track of what I have written. Over the year, I have become lazy and just put up with handwritten scores. Today, I have decided to do some housecleaning. I have realised the following useless statistics:
Wife was having conference call in the late evening so instead of composing music melody, I worked on the lyrics instead. The title of the song could be “Are You Feeling Lonely (Let Me Be With You)”. All comments are welcome. I have not worked on the music yet.
Are You Feeling Lonely (Let Me Be With You)
Are you feeling lonely, sick of what people cannot see in you?
Are you feeling tired of these standards, sick of what they say to you?
Do you consider to be different, someday someone may see the real you?
Do you consider leaving, find yourself another home?
Do you think it is fair, hurt by the ones you love most?
Do you think it is the norm, to take in all that they say to you?
Do you feel like hidding from the faces of your daily life?
Do you feel like running away from your kind?
Come to me, my love, I can take care of you
I see true beauty missed by the eyes of fools
I see how far you can fly though no one believe in you
Let me ease your pain, and see how much I love you
In this arid land you are looking for a sign of hope
You feel so deflated, not sure what to do
You are desperate and quiet, your energy is running low
Keep walking, though you wish someone is with you
Come to me, my love, I can take care of you
I see true beauty missed by the eyes of fools
I see how far you can fly though no one believe in you
Let me ease your pain, and see how much I love you
I was once broken not unlike the present you
I was once hurt way worst then you
There came upon an angel helped me to get through
Now my arms are opened, let me be with you
Come to me, my love, I can take care of you
Copyright © 2006 by Wilfrid K. F. Wong. All Rights Reserved.
With the recent Hong Kong trip still fresh in my memory, I find it hard not to compare the customer services experience in Hong Kong and in Singapore. Back in Hong Kong, one evening I entered an electronic shop not unlike Courts near closing hours. The salesperson was very helpful full of enthusiasm showing me the subtle differences between Plasma TV and LCD TV of various brands. Beyond the statistical information and general product descriptions that some Singaporean salespersons can’t even memorise, he showed me the TVs in the viewers’ perspective. In particular, he was pointing out the color vibrancy, the feel of realism, the comfort level, amongst many other key feathers that a viewer should look out for.
Today’s lunch time, I took a train to Raffle City and walked all the way to Suntech to visit the optical shop that I have purchased the contact lens from since 1995. I forgive the fact that as a salesperson, he has thick nose hairs sticking out of his nose (eeeewwww) but I can’t forgive the fact that after looking at my long record card, he said that the product that I have been using is a monthly disposable lens. I told him that no, it is bimonthly. He insisted till he has to refer to the one who sold me the lens (does that make a difference?!).
Excited by new toric lens, I asked this salesperson what the differences are. “Supposed to have more oxygen” was I think the only reply. “Stick with the lens that work for you” was I think his only suggestion. Fine, I have ordered a trial pair to see for myself what the differences will be. Don’t they know that they can easily solicitate customers’ feedback when the customers have decided to place an order after the trial period is up?
Walking back to the office, I stopped by Funan for lunch. Passed by the Nokia shop at ground level after my fish soup rice meal and besides me was a foreigner who was interested in one of the phone. He asked how much the phone is in US dollars. The friendly salesperson even borrow his colleague’s phone and did a live demo on what the phone can do. After the foreigner has gone, I proceeded to ask a few more questions and all his smile suddenly disappeared and gave me a two or three words reply like “It’s a designer phone” and turned his back to me. I am not kidding, he has literally turned his back on me! I asked another salesperson to show me one of the phone and she passed it onto me without a word. She was not even trying to sell me anything. Not a single smile. Like I was a waste of time. Even in Hong Kong, the salespersons are professional enough to give the potential customers a good impression