Highly Anticipated! 《你最珍贵》Duet Between Teresa Tseng and Chen Weilian on SPoP

Chen Weilian, Teresa Tseng, Quan Yifeng and Fang Zhonghua onstage during the duet. Teresa, in a white dress and a new hairstyle, looking fabulous and enjoying the song with Weilian.

Hi faithful supporters of Teresa!

A faithful supporter of Teresa found out for himself some of the upcoming events of Teresa so I suppose there is no way to keep some of these events unannounced. So here it goes:

1) Teresa will be scheduled to appear on national television very soon

2) Teresa will be scheduled to appear on the SPoP Competition in early November.

3) Teresa has been invited by Chen Weilian to sing on the SPoP Competition.

4) Teresa will be performing a new song on the S... C..........

5) Teresa will be performing a duet with Chen Weilian during the SPoP Competition singing 《你最珍贵》.

6) Teresa will be a..... in one or two e....... of a t......... d.... in early J......

Well, all the faithful supporters of Teresa can finally rejoice because Teresa will be singing songs on national television once again and this time, with PSS 1 Overall Champion Chen Weilian!

I can already see the waves of anticipation coming in because both of their voices are already very good. Imagine how they will sound together in one of the classic love ballads of Jacky Cheung, 你最珍贵!

For those who have not heard this song before, you can go ahead to my blog at http://heaven-earth-human.blogspot.com/ and click on song number 37 for the original rendition first.

There is still more though, with two more events still unannounced, meaning more good things to come along for Teresa and her supporters out there! In the meantime, stay tuned to SPoP competition if you can to catch what is possibly the most beautiful duet of the year! Woohoo~~

(Image source: an anonymous, a faithful supporter of both Teresa and Weilian onsite at MediaCorp Studio on 30 October 2007)

十月二十九日：爱琴海《听众之夜》三场令我满意的演出

十月二十九日：爱琴海《听众之夜》三场令我满意的演出

吸取了上一次的经验后，昨天的星期一晚上，我是带着一颗“无争的心”去出席爱琴海的《听众之夜》。

结果是三场有一定的水准，让我感到雀跃的演出，我是带着一颗“领悟的心”离开了爱琴海。

我用了颗“无争的心”去挑战三首蛮有难度的歌曲：王力宏的《落叶归根》，张学友的《如果。爱》和李圣杰的《眼底星空》。果然，把歌曲练好后，要把所有的心理障碍全部放下，才能发挥我应有的水准，更能享受唱歌的欢乐，并为大家带来歌唱的欢乐和享受。领悟了，我深信以后在台上我会更有自信地把歌曲呈献得更好。昨晚的心情是愉快的。

我想借次机会，谢谢昨晚为所有的听众伴奏的学峰和盈盈。他们俩真是辛苦了，不只得伴奏，又得忙着找歌词，又得临时应变，想出如何伴奏新歌旧歌。我本身也想特别谢谢他们为我伴奏我那三首不容易演奏的歌曲。学峰和盈盈不只能唱，伴奏的功力更是了得，大家有空也得捧捧他们各自的档，亲自体验他们台上的实力喔！

October 29th: MusicDreamer Live Cafe "Audience Night" - Three Satisfactory Performances

After learning from the previous Audience Night fiasco, I attended last night's Audience Night with an entirely different mentality - a completely carefree one.

The end result was three very successful and satisfactory performances and I left the place with great joy and contentment about how well I had done.

Using this new mentality, I successfully performed three relatively difficult Mandarin contemporary pop songs. Indeed, in order to perform up to my desired standards, after finishing practising on the songs before I leave home, I need to completely let go of all my worries onstage. With the new way I treat my onstage songs, I am also able to better enjoy my singing and performances and subsequently bringing fun and enjoyment to the listeners as well. Gaining this valuable insight about live singing, I believe I can only get better in my future performances. Level up for me! =)

I would like to make use of this opportunity to thank the two musicians, Xue Feng and Ying Ying, who helped everyone last night with the live music accompaniment. Both of them are really competent, playing their instruments, looking for lyrics, giving impromptu accompaniment to some of the really new or really old songs chosen by the performing audience members. I would like to express my special thanks to the two of them for helping me with the music accompaniment of my three difficult-to-play songs. Frankly speaking, their voices are actually very good whenever they were asked to sing with the performing audience members and I would really encourage my blog readers to go down and support them whenever you can and see for yourselves how good they are!

Learning How To Sing 2 New Songs: 《牛仔很忙》By 周杰伦 and《落叶归根》By 王力宏

《牛仔很忙》By 周杰伦

呜啦啦啦火车笛 随著奔腾的马蹄 小妹妹吹著口琴 夕阳下美了剪影
我用子弹写日记 介绍完了风景 接下来换介绍我自己

我虽然是个牛仔 在酒吧只点牛奶 為什麼不喝啤酒 因為啤酒伤身体
很多人不长眼睛 嚣张都靠武器 赤手空拳就缩成蚂蚁

不用麻烦了 不用麻烦了 不用麻烦不用麻烦了 不用麻烦了
你们一起上 我在赶时间 每天决斗观眾都累了 英雄也累了
不用麻烦了 不用麻烦了 副歌不长你们有几个 一起上好了
正义呼唤我 美女需要我 牛仔很忙的

我啦啦啦骑毛驴 因為马跨不上去 洗澡都洗泡泡浴 因為可以玩玩具
我有颗善良的心 都只穿假牛皮 喔跌倒时尽量不压草皮

枪口它没长眼睛 我曾经答应上帝 除非是万不得已 我尽量射橡皮筋
老闆先来杯奶昔 要逃命前请你 顺便餵餵我那隻小毛驴

不用麻烦了 不用麻烦了 不用麻烦不用麻烦了 不用麻烦了
你们一起上 我在赶时间 每天决斗观眾都累了 英雄也累了
不用麻烦了 不用麻烦了 副歌不长你们有几个 一起上好了
正义呼唤我 美女需要我 牛仔很忙的

不用麻烦了 不用麻烦了 不用麻烦不用麻烦了 不用麻烦了
你们一起上 我在赶时间 每天决斗观眾都累了 英雄也累了
不用麻烦了 不用麻烦了 副歌不长你们有几个 一起上好了
正义呼唤我 美女需要我 牛仔很忙的

Afterthought: It's a very humourous song because of the lyrics and I really like the fast chorus, which adds to the traditional mood of cowboy songs. It's not easy for me because I keep missing a word here and there but I am trying hard. Hopefully, I can get it in a couple of weeks. =P I think this will be a really amusing song to have fun with friends during KTV sessions. Hahahaha...

《落叶归根》By 王力宏

*舉頭望 無盡灰雲
那季節 叫做寂寞
背包 塞滿了家用
路就 這樣開始走

日不見 太陽的暖
夜不見 月光的藍
不得不 選擇 寒冷的開始
留下 只擁有 遺憾

命運 的 安排
遵守 自然 的邏輯
誰都 無法 揭謎底
喔～ 遠離家鄉 不甚唏噓
幻化成秋夜
而我卻像 落葉歸根
墜在你心間
幾分憂鬱 幾分孤單
都心甘情願
我的愛像 落葉歸根
家。。。唯獨在你身邊*

Repeat * Once

但願陪你找回 所遺失的永恆
當我開口你卻沈默
只剩一場夢

我卻像 落葉歸根 墜在你心間
幾分憂鬱 幾分孤單
都心甘情願
我的愛像 落葉歸根
家。。。唯獨在你身邊

Afterthoughts: I like simple ballads at times and I am really impressed by the simplicity behind this song. It is exactly written as what the title wants to convey - back to roots of music. Simple tune, simple lyrics and simple way of touching the listeners. I am almost close to finishing learning this song. Another ten more practices should do it. Woohoo~~~

Teresa in MediaCorp's Christmas Album 2007! Woohoo!

Hi faithful supporters of Teresa!

This is one of the two events that I spoke of! Finally I am allowed to speak openly about it!

Channel U website has officially released news of the album and even two group shots with Teresa and three other CSS 1 Superstars such as Renfred, Geraldine and Alejandro as well.

The URL link is http://u.mediacorptv.com/storylanding.htmIn the Christmas album, Teresa will be singing a group song as follows

组曲：Medley: Deck The Hall + Feliz Navidad By 曾咏霖、黄业伦、史心莹、侯卓荣

and according to Thomas, here are some more exciting news about Teresa coming right up but I am given the gag order again! -_________-

Some of you must be wondering why does poor Sean have gag orders all the time? Well, it's because Teresa wants to make sure everything is in order before announcing any news but I think all these news are worth getting excited already. She's the kind of person who does not want people to get ga-ga over things when the final piece of the work is not completely put into place.

Another common question I faced is: Why do they only tell Sean about those first-hand updates? Well, I suppose it's because they trust me enough and believe I am not the kind of person who will spill the beans prematurely under temptation, lure or threat. I am also a more organized person, familiar with publicity and such so I get to prepare the groundwork before any piece of update becomes official news. The good thing is I know some things earlier than the public. The bad thing is I must keep my mouth shut until permission is given to release the news.

Anyway, I managed to get permission from Teresa's family to write about the following exciting events in another indirect way without officially spilling any beans on anything yet. Decipher it yourself. Remember, I didn't say anything ah!

Here it goes...scream if you can decipher them all! It's good news all the way!

1) Teresa will be scheduled to appear on n....... t......... very soon
2) Teresa will be scheduled to appear on the S... C.......... in early N.......
3) Teresa has been invited by C... W...... to sing on the S... C..........
4) Teresa will be performing a new song on the S... C..........

And for those who are observant enough, there is something else hidden within one of the lines of the article in "陈凤玲穿上性感白色小礼服、白薇秀的俏丽绿色丝质连身裙、曾咏霖的优雅贵气的黑裙". Go figure out ba. I am not telling. =P

(Image source: MediaCorp Singapore Channel U's website)

Facebook Game: Warbook, Book Review: Tuesdays With Morrie, Song Recommendation: 《旋转门》 By 苏慧伦, Tarcy

Facebook Game: Warbook
Warbook is one of the many application games in Facebook and both The Changed Man and I, being ardent gaming fans of strategy games, plunged in and tried our hands at the game. The verdict: It was far more challenging than it looked and both of us are still struggling to consolidate our kingdoms.

The game itself revolves around the player trying to expand his/her kingdom (measured by acres of land) and expanding it through exploration (which costs money) or conquest (which costs troops). The kingdom generates income hourly, based on the amount of land, the number of mines and the number of trade agreements one has at the end of each hour.

The amount of land a player has can be further used to build mines (which generate gold), forts (which increases physical defense of kingdoms), training grounds (which increases physical attacks of troops), barracks (which reduces training costs of troops), amplifiers (which increases magical attacks of magic-using players), and barriers (which increases magical defense of kingdoms).

The available troops are normal soldiers (which are pretty useless unless you have them in the millions), knights (primary attack troops), pikemen (primary defense troops) and elites (versatile but expensive troops).

What both The Changed Man and myself have difficulty in is defending our kingdoms because there are so many powerful players with tens of thousands of elite troops and every time they invade our small, fledging kingdoms, they kill valuable troops, take away valuable gold and land, thus weakening the overall strength of our kingdoms. The Changed Man and myself have just suffered another round of losses in our absence (there is no manual control of the battles themselves as the game automatically runs and calculates battles around the clock 24/7). He lost around 2000 acres of land and I lost about 500 acres and 500 elite soldiers.

Haiz..I had expected my army to successfully repel any attacks since I had built quite alot of forts but I supposed I had underestimated the tenacity of those powerful players. Oh well, war is hell and there is no quarters given or taken between any non-friendly players.

I am still an experienced enough strategy gamer so I am not about to let today's horrific losses daunt me. I'll just go busy myself with other things until the next hour's income is inside my kingdom coffers and I'll spend every single coin inside building up my elite army. Hopefully, it will be sizable enough to help my young kingdom survive until the next morning. There are, of course, big sharks out in Warbook but I just hope I can somehow evade under their invasion radars. Wish me luck!

Book Review: Tuesdays With Morrie By Mitch Albom

I was reading this book called "Tuesdays With Morrie" and I find the book worth mentioning in my blog because it covers quite some pressing issues about the human world today.

The following are my most favorite extracts from the book. See if you can grasp whatever wisdom between the lines of those extracts?

"Wherever I went in my life, I met people wanting to gobble up something new. Gobble up a new car. Gobble up a new piece of property. Gobble up the latest toy. And then they wanted to tell you about it. "Guess what I got? Guess what I got?" You know how I always interpreted that? These people are so hungry for love that they were acepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expcting a short of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship." - pg 125

"Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning." - pg 127


Song Recommendation:《旋转门》 By 苏慧伦, Tarcy

I always liked Tarcy's songs. Although she does not exactly have the best singing amongst all the female singers but her songs are always imbued with a sense of beauty and innocence that rings so clearly and differentiates her from most of the songs. The following is one of her latest songs but I feel that it is quite well-written. The tune is a bit bland but it's still nice anyway.

某个早晨感觉冷风卷起灰尘
心刚学会疼第一道伤特别深
船头的灯复制不了熟悉的体温
还有什么人会有什么人

那一个人随附我心跳会沸腾
坚定的口吻点亮我热切眼神
可惜我们最终随着誓言一转身
开始害怕天变冷在爱里受困

这分钟命运的旋转门 进来的是否是住下的人
都搁置幸福可不可能 渴望时间停顿
下分钟谁推动旋转门 是路过还是以恋人的身份
我不忘有时候真爱需要等一等

醒来的人这些年是同个灵魂
睡得不安稳只为一个开门声
因为我们如果爱的用力和认真
上天因此会逼真更接近永恒

这分钟命运的旋转门 进来的是否是住下的人
都搁置幸福可不可能 渴望时间停顿
下分钟谁推动旋转门 是路过还是以恋人的身份
我不忘有时候真爱需要等一等

这分钟命运的旋转门 进来的是否是住下的人
都搁置幸福可不可能 渴望时间停顿
下分钟谁推动旋转门 是路过还是以恋人的身份
我不忘有时候真爱需要等一等

Japanese Funny Game Shows: Silent Library 3, Wake Up Pranks and 张学友《如果 爱》Home Performance

Japanese Funny Game Show: Silent Library 3

Here's another dose of humour from my blog - some funny game shows from Japan and I must say they are really daring in trying out some of the pranks, especially the tarantula on face library prank and the horse-pulling wakeup prank. Enjoy and happy laughing!

Japanese Game Show: Wake Up Pranks

张学友 《如果 爱》Home Performance:

Well, the following home performance video was made after I recorded my song gift for Teresa. I did not choose this as the gift because I am not sure if she liked Jacky Cheung. Moreover, I only have had three full practices with this song so I am not confident if I got the song's essence correctly.

Anyway, since there are a handful of peope who find my home performances palatable, I hope this song will provide enough entertainment as well. However I sound, I think the song was beautifully written and excellently sung by Jacky himself. =)

给曾咏霖的一份简单的生日礼物：《你是爱我的》

咏霖，这几天实在病得太重了，体力实在有限，也没有办法准时地替你准备好礼物。

今天的咳嗽刚好开始稍缓，就决定把迟一天的礼物给你，希望你会喜欢。

选了一首张惠妹的《你是爱我的》，因为是她的新歌，也是你欣赏的歌手，希望我不会把歌唱得太烂。有唱得不好的地方，也希望能海涵。

我刻意把脸遮住，因为我想信你应该能记得我的样子吧。

祝你幸福快乐，开开心心！

Teresa's Latest Message To Supporters on 19 Oct 2007

Dear All,

Thank you for your kind wishes today, is the day that I'm born. I would like to thank my mum for bringing me into this world.

Next, I would also like to show appreciation to all those precious gifts that were being sent to me by Michelle. John, thank you very much for your kind thoughts. Michelle, many thanks for bringing all these precious gifts to me, it was really sweet of you, and also thank you very much for your present as well. To the rest of the gifts which I had received from Michelle, there were no names left behind. I really appreciate all your kind thoughts.

The exams had finally ended. I will be leaving Singapore for a short while. Thereafter, Mediacorp had some activities line up for me. Till date, I am still not sure of the activities mentioned. I will update or Thomas will update you guys. So, stay tuned.

As for myself, I will continue to work hard and horn my singing skills. Should there be a chance to present my vocal to everyone out there, I will give my best. Am really looking forward to such a day if there is.

Finally, I would like to wish each and everyone of you all a bright and successful days to come in your lives.

With Love
Teresa Tseng

(extracted from fanclub forum at http://idollic.com/teresa from thread "Happy 17th Birthday To Teresa!" at 05:15:06 PM )

Teresa's Remixed Song in Latest 881 Dance Track, Exclusive Photos of Ang Mo Kio Wet Market Fire

Teresa's Remixed Song in 881 Dance Tracks Album:

I am so proud of Teresa (her photo is at the bottom centre of the album cover, right alongside her favourite singers, Zhang Hui Mei and F.I.R) because she has yet again manages to surprise everyone with her song paricipation in the latest movie dancetrack album of the famous local movie 881. Teresa's song inside the album is the last song known as 爱昧 (funky remix version) and although she has only one song in the album, it already speaks volumes of how her singing is appreciated by even movie and album producers.

Way to go, Teresa! A Campus Superstar who continues to shine again and again and again! Stay tuned to her because I am expecting more good things coming from this girl!

Exclusive Photos of Ang Mo Kio Wet Market Fire:

I was in the vicinity for work when I heard a lot of sirens wailing past and before I knew, Xiangrui of TFC smsed me about the fire. When my work was done, I headed in the direction of the Ang Mo Kio Wet Market and took the following exclusive photographs with my camera phone. The shots were taken faraway because the police cordoned off quite a big area but still, I managed to slip in these two:

What you see is just a fraction of the number of heavy duty fire engines and numerous police patrol cars completely surrounding the wet market. There goes my favourite BBQ chicken wings stall and my nasi lemak stall. Haiz...
This shot is special because you can still see fire burning inside the charred wet market (see the red spot at the right-centre of the photograph above). The angle was taken through a HDB flat towards one of the long rows of food stalls, which sadly are now completed gutted. As I ploughed through the hundreds of onlookers, I could still hear the explosions coming from somewhere inside the wet market. What a fire!

Teresa's Winning Entry For CHIJ KC Chinese Composition Writing Competition 2007

Well, Michelle of Teresa's fanclub has informed me of the following and I think it will be nice to share another piece of good news with all the supporters of Teresa about how she has done in the intra-school Chinese composition writing competition this year.

Have fun reading! =D

Position: 第一名
Title: 尴尬往事
Name: 曾詠霖 Tseng Yung Lin (Chinese & Eng)
Class: SEC 302
Stream: 普通学术

“哇！太好了！今天这个特别的日子终于到了！好兴奋啊！”早晨一起床，看到美丽灿烂的阳光，我真是恨不得立刻就到傍晚。　　

其实，今天晚上是我们班一年一度举办的化妆舞会。班上所有人都迫不及待，都想快点到舞会的时间，欢快的心情，就像树枝间吹拂的清风，一整天，我们每个人都开心地准备晚上要穿的衣服、化妆品、首饰等，忙得不可开交。每个人都心花怒放。我呢？当然也是又高兴又紧张。时间总算一分一秒地捱过去了，再过半个小时舞会就要开始了。所有的人都已准时来到了目的地，等时间一到，我们大家就可以开始狂欢了。　　

“五、四、三、二、一！舞会正式开始！” 大会司仪高声倒数着。时间终于到了，音乐开始响起了，每个人都开始疯狂地跳起舞来，有的还跟着音乐唱起歌来呢。我好紧张，怕自己衣服没有其他人的好看、亮丽。但谁知道，当我一踏进礼堂，所有的目光都盯着我，注视着我，那眼神中有羡慕、有渴望、有惊奇、有赞叹……每个人一看见我就好像整颗心都溶化了。我好高兴，好开心啊，整个人就像飘在云朵之上。　　

突然，有个人大声喊着。“哇！大家来看!她的后背！她后面的拉链没有拉！”乍一听到时，我吓了一大跳。我慌乱紧张的样子大家看得一清二楚。我立刻冲进厕所，把拉链拉好，但我已根本没有脸出去见任何人，似乎感觉到外面都是嘲笑声，我忍不住哭了出来。我一个人就这样静静地躲在厕所里，把门锁上，不让人进来。只要一听到笑声，就会让我想起刚才发生的事。这是我有生以来最丢脸最尴尬的事了。我忽然间觉得好后悔来参加这个舞会，早知道会这样的话，我就不来参加了。我居然变成了笑柄让大家嘲笑！心里好难过，好寂寞。没有人来关心我，我也不想让人来关心我，也不敢出去。盼了一年准备了几个月的舞会就这么被我度日如年的捱过去了。

舞会的时间已快结束。听了一整晚的嬉闹声，每个人都玩得很开心，而我却一直待在厕所里度过这漫长的舞会。结束的时间到了，每个人都玩累了，一个个回家休息。等到完全没人了我才从里面走出来，走下空荡荡的楼梯，一个人孤单单地回家。　　

纷纭往事如烟飘散，只有这一件事，却深深种植在我心中一般，我永远都忘不了。它将时时提醒我做事要细心，认真，这样才可以站在快乐的峰颠。

张桂花老师点评：文章写得曲折有致，跌宕生姿。　　开篇蓄势很足，作者用大量笔墨来写自己对化妆舞会焦急的等待与渴盼，以及进了会场之后的陶醉“所有的目光都盯着我，注视着我，那眼神中有羡慕、有渴望、有惊奇、有赞叹……每个人一看见我就好像整颗心都溶化了。我好高兴，好开心啊，整个人就像飘在云朵之上。” 紧接着故事急转而下，“哇！大家来看! 她的后背！她后面的拉链没有拉！”前面的兴奋和飘飘然为下文自己的颓丧懊恼做了很好地铺垫映衬。　　对比手法也很好的起到很好的表达效果，比如开始时的快乐与后来的沮丧对比，大家的欢乐与自己悲伤的对比等等。

Movie Review: Resident Evil - Extinction, Funny Videos: 《欠我十块》- 《千里之外》的搞笑版 and Japanese Game Show - Silent Library

Movie Review: Resident Evil - Extinction:

Yesterday evening, I was watching the movie with one of the fanclub supporter, Xiangrui and even though it was my first time watching a Resident Evil movie, it was quite a spectacular movie of sleek zombie-slaying moves and spine-tingling scenes of zombies gouging on hapless human beings.

The movie revolved around the female protagonist, Alice, who seems to have a special type of blood that can be a possible cure for the T-virus, a world-decaying and zombie-creating disease that was rapidly wiping out the rest of the world. Alice is one kind of a heroine, with very dexterous limbs, wielding mean-looking guns and knives, slicing zombie limbs here and blowing zombie brains there. She even possesses a remarkable and very powerful special talent, which makes her the perfect heroine to save the world.

Although I am not exactly a big fan of horror sci-fi movie (the movie is an adaptation of a series of successful computer role-playing games), I really liked the part where Alice helped a convoy of survivors struggling near-death against a throng of flesh-eating and kamikaze crows in the middle of a desert. Her moves were, in a short phrase, jaw-droppingly impressive.

Make sure you have a stomach to watch people and zombies die though because there will be plenty of such scenes, with enough blood splattered to fill a good-sized desert. Well, I was still holding onto my dinner of Japanese ebi and beef after the movie whilst Xiangrui was busy squirming at the scenes of zombies jumping out from the walls. Maybe I have survived movies like The Exorcist and Doom so this movie did not scare the skin out of me but I still enjoyed the action tremendously.

My review:

Story: ***

Action: ****

Direction: ***

Visuals: ****

Overall: ***1/2

《欠我十块》- 《千里之外》的搞笑版

My thanks to Munich for sending this very funny rendition of the song. I decided to share the video with all of you readers because it's really creative. Warning to the younger readers though - it still contains phrases of violence and bloodshed in some of the amended lyrics so take heart.

Japanese Game Show: Silent Library with Ernesto Hoost

The video was posted more than a year ago and has garned over a million hits. I don't know if some of you have already seen this but I suppose really hilarious game shows won't go stale, no matter how much times one has seen them. Warning: Do not try watching this video with a full stomach or you will risk indigestion from laughing too hard. Do not also try doing some of the forfeits or you may risk injuring your friends or yourself. XD

Latest Update On Teresa Tseng: Teresa's Song in 新加坡金曲獎2007 (Star Awards) Tabulation Full Results Yay!

Hi faithful supporters of Teresa!

I have found out from an anonymous faithful supporter of Teresa that Teresa's song was amongst the results of Most Popular Female Singer 最受欢迎女歌手 category. Hurray~~~~~

Although Teresa is ranked at position 31 with the following song:

31. 曾咏霖 1.5
代表作: 说不出的浪漫 [1.5]

I believe this is actually a GREAT piece of news for all faithful supporters of Teresa because our dear Teresa is ranked amongst the titan level singers of Mandarin contemporary music in the region!!

Although there is no official word yet if Teresa is going to be officially nominated in the upcoming Star Awards, I would like faithful supporters of Teresa to help in the following things:

1) Publish this piece of good news on the fanclub friendster!
2) Publish this piece of good news on the fanclub blog!
3) Publish this piece of good news on your personal blogs!
4) Find out as much as you can on your ends about how the Star Awards nominations are going on and update the other faithful supporters of Teresa about it!

Other notable local female singers in the list include:

1. 孙燕姿 660
代表作: 雨天 (2周榜首) [209];
逆光 (2周榜首) [123];
我怀念的 (3周榜首) [207];
咕叽咕叽 [121]

6. 何耀珊 232
代表作: 还是会想他 [54];
春天的微笑 (2周榜首) [162];
拥抱 [16]

8. 石欣卉 165
代表作: 从台北到北京 [84];
你给的 [81]

10. 蔡健雅 105
代表作: Beautiful Love [35];
障眼法 [70]

24. 陈迪雅 16
代表作: 触摸 [16]

29. 龚诗嘉 3
代表作: 放不下 [3]

Go on! And spread the great piece of news that Teresa as well as a number of our local female singers have made it to the list at the Star Awards! XD

Information Source: http://forum.g-music.com.tw/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=6033

Birthday Celebrations, Videos n Songs Recordings, and Updates To My Blog

Birthday Celebrations For The Married Soldier:

Yesterday was The Married Soldier's birthday and her wife, whom I decided to call The Thrower of Plastic Dogs (you will know the reason behind the nickname later), had organized a surprise birthday dinner at Mellben Seafood Resturant, as well as a board game session at Settlers' Cafe.

The Changed Man and I went to the Mellben Seafood Restaurant at around 6pm and started an hour's worth of wait before we finally got ourselves a table for four. We ordered the house special's claypot soup crab, a black pepper crab, some vegetables, fried beancurd, BBQ chicken wings and chicken satay. It was quite a spread and all four of us tucked in heartily.

After dinner, at around 8.30pm, we went to the Settlers' Cafe at Holland Village because it was one of the favourite activities for The Married Soldier. The Thrower of Plastic Dogs initially suggested KTV but I was still nursing the sore throat so we had to settle for games, which turned out to be a good idea too. We tried out as many board games as we could at Settlers' Cafe and the following photographs showed some of the more memorable ones that we played last night.

This is the food and beverage menu of Settlers' Cafe. Quite unusual and eye-pleasing.

We tried playing this game about planning a 10-day journey across Africa but it was too much brainwork for the four of us, especially after such a heavy dinner. We gave up after two rounds because The Changed Man won two consecutive rounds without manoeurving because he had such good cards in his deck.

This was one of the interesting games that we played called "Walking The Dogs" where we had to get as many dogs in line as possible to earn points. The Changed Man won one of the rounds marginally over The Married Soldier's wife, whom the latter threw a few plastics dogs at the former in jest. Hence the name The Thrower of Plastic Dogs. Hahaha... XD

This was a reflex game about getting the correct dinosaurs with the correct background pictures. Although I was slowed down considerably by medication for my sore throat, my auto-reflexes were actually to my surprise much faster and thus I was the winner in this board game.

The Settlers' Cafe gaming session ended with a delicious brownie cake as a mini-birthday cake for The Married Soldier who insisted on sharing with the rest of us. Compared to the iced coffee and the iced honey drinks, the brownie cake was much tastier. Highly recommended.

Video Performances and Song Recordings:

Ever since Campus Superstars Season 1, I have received occasional videos and audio recordings of songs and performances, which singing enthusiasts have recorded and sent to me, hoping that I can comment on them. I hope I have been providing constructive enough comments for these brave individuals. Although I am definitely not an officiated person to comment on music, but do keep those self-recorded performances and songs coming in and I'll do what I can to help. After all, one of the objectives of this blog is to help people in their singing in whatever little ways it can.

I have read the tagboard comments about posting my own performances up and I will seriously consider doing so - recording audio performances using Youtube so that people can listen to my renditions of songs and have some fun laughing and learning through those as well. However, recent intense work has drained my voicebox and I am still nursing a sore throat (with heavy medication). When I recover, I promise I'll get to work on those audio performances and upload them here.

Updates and Modifications To My Blog:

I have put up more new songs (okay, some of them are not so new at all but nevertheless beautiful songs in my opinion) on my blog's main playlist for the listening pleasure of all the music enthusiasts and kind visitors to my humble blog. I hope everyone likes the new songs and continues to participate constructively and actively on the tagboard or comments section.

Frankly speaking, I do hope that this place will grow and nurture into a place where music lovers can come and share their thoughts and feelings about songs and music-related events.

Here are the new song additions on the main playlist:

01. 飞儿乐团, F.I.R. - 月牙湾
08. 陈伟联 - 火柴天堂
11. 孙燕姿, Stefanie - 雨天
20. 陈绮贞 - 还是会寂寞
24. 陈绮贞 - 旅行的意义
34. 张惠妹, A-Mei - 你是爱我的
35. 王力宏 - 落叶归根
40. 林忆莲, Sandy - 为你我受冷风吹
47. 苏永康, William - Sorry

Song Recommendation: 《你是爱我的》By 张惠妹, Teresa Tseng's Fanclub Friendster and Blog, Successful Home WebcamVideos

你是爱我的
歌手：张惠妹

同样的一场日落 同样你还是没说
只是抱紧我 时间一到就松手

你用一万个理由 都比沉默还温柔
为什么爱我又不断退后

你害怕的是什么 你想要的是什么
站在你背后 我连呼吸都痛

我要相信你是爱我的 我要相信你是勇敢的
我烦时间是最残酷的 我怎么等

我要相信你是爱我的 不要当我每次唱情歌
眼里总有太多泪 不停拉扯

我用一万个答案 解释我们的距离
到最后发现我全都猜错

你害怕的是什么 你想要的是什么
站在你背后 我连呼吸都痛

我要相信你是爱我的 我要相信你是勇敢的
我烦时间是最残酷的 我怎么等

我要相信你是爱我的 不要当我每次唱情歌
眼里总有太多泪 不停拉扯

你怀里有太多问号 告诉我怎么依靠

我要相信你是爱我的 我要相信你是勇敢的
我烦时间是最残酷的 我怎么等

我要相信你是爱我的 不要当我每次唱情歌
眼里总有太多泪 不停拉扯

Teresa Tseng's Fanclub Friendster and Blog:

Besides the official fanclub and forum at http://idollic.com/teresa and my blog here, supporters of Teresa Tseng （曾咏霖） of Campus Superstar Season 1 have come up with a fanclub friendster and a fanclub blog for the talented and beautiful young Superstar singer as well. The fanclub friendster is at http://profiles.friendster.com/28484157 and the fanclub blog is at http://www.teresaloveyou.blogspot.com/. So for all those people who are keen to drop a message of support to Teresa Tseng，you are most welcome to visit any of these places!

And yes, Teresa's birthday is on the coming 19 October 2007 so come on down and get your birthday wishes across to her!

Successful Home Webcam Videos:

After the Monday night's fiasco performances, I went home with a vengeance and on the very next morning, I used my desktop webcam and created a total of six homemade performances of my singing of the following songs:

1) 《苏丽珍》By 方大同

2）《最近的距离》By 陈晓东

3）《Sorry》By 苏永康

4）《记得》By 张惠妹

5）《雨天》By 孙燕姿

6）《爱的就是你》By 王力宏

Well, although there are some mistakes made in the videos (I was laughing at myself when I saw the replays), but I was glad that they came out pretty alright (at least much better than what I did on Monday night) and comments made by those whom I sent the videos too was generally positive.

The verdict - I am capable of doing better onstage so I am going to try harder the next time I get to sing with live music again. My thanks to all those friends who have encouraged me over the MSN and the blog's tagboard.

爱琴海观众之夜 - 我的两场很烂的表演 哈哈

两个小时前，我的心情是差到不可以再差了。为何？因为我在爱琴海民歌餐厅的《观众之夜》的两场表演唱得很烂很烂，简直是我唱歌二十年来最最最烂的一次。

我现场唱了两首我非常有自信的歌曲∶ 陈晓东的《最近的距离》和方大同的《苏丽珍》。结果却是残不忍度的表演，让我对自己感到非常失望。这两首歌曲我也唱了不下五十次，而每次唱都有一定的水准。虽然我唱得并非绝世动听，但是也不致于难听到作呕，

可是今晚我却两成的水准都没有，唱得一塌糊涂，歌曲入门不对，拍子不对，感情处理也不对，转音也不顺，假音也拉不好，尾音也收不好，简直好像我从来没学过唱歌似的。

相比之下，今晚的观众都唱得很好，美音飘扬，而我则变成最难听的青蛙在乱叫。刹那间，我有放弃唱歌的念头，辛苦了二十年，却把两首一直都唱得不错的歌曲唱到连我自己听了都要去撞墙。

离开爱琴海时的心情是糟透的，是沉重的，是完全失去信心的。我反反复复地自责，因为我在唱歌方面，对咏霖，对向我讨教唱歌的朋友们，是如此苛刻，自己今晚的表现，却让我觉得自己已经没有任何资格去批评他们的歌唱了。我那时还在想，是不是我已经老了，没用了，不能再登台唱歌了，也许应该封嘴了。

就在这是，走在我前面的正伟，突然向我挥手，并和我一起走去搭地铁。正伟也是参加刚才的《观众之夜》，也许他注意到我深深的怨气，并开始和我聊了起来。和正伟聊呀聊，发现他是为了唱歌的乐趣而慕名前来唱的，也发现原来自己今晚的得失心太重了。他也说唱不好不一定是功力不足，有很多因素要考量。

想呀想，正伟的话也有道理。我必经有二十年的歌唱功力，唱了近几万次数的歌曲，歌唱技巧熟练，实力应该不成问题呀！道别了正伟，我花了近一个小时去思考今晚为何唱得那么失水准，结果终于明白了∶

1） 我今晚的得失心太重了，越是想把歌唱好，越不能完全放松，导致歌曲发挥不出来。虽然技巧重要，我得在开唱时把重心移到零的位置，方能发挥出来。在家里练唱和在朋友K歌时，我只顾尽情一唱。我得把这心情带进现场歌唱里。

2）我每次入歌过于依赖标准音乐，现场唱歌的伴奏一出偏差，我的拍子就乱了。这也许是我现场于乐手配合的经验不足吧。我得在这方面多多练习，不过份依赖原声带，要更灵活地处理现场伴奏的变化。

3）以后唱歌之前要戒口。今晚我还天真地以为吃晚餐后应该能挤出嗓子唱歌 - 我错了。笔记∶唱歌两小时现严禁进食，以方便开声带。

今晚学了不少东西，心情也开朗起来了。

我要借此机会谢谢学峰和坚立今晚为我伴奏，辛苦你们了！

我要加油，把所学的歌曲，尤其是现场歌唱，唱得更好！

SPoP Competition, Leg Cramp and A New Beginning

SPoP Competition:

This is actually a songwriter competition held by MediaCorp Singapore where songwriters can submit their song demos for judging and if selected, even get their songs sung by celebrity singers.

You can click on the subtitle above to go to the official website and even listen to the 15 seconds demo clips uploaded by the songwriters. Although the judging is done privately without public opinion, I personally think it's still fun to listen to those clips because one can hear what the songwriters are doing about music.

Yes, admittedly, some of the demo clips did not really use good singers (maybe it's budget, maybe it's availability of good demo singers) but it's even more challenging to try and listen beyond the quality of the singing to find the quality of the song instead. Lyrical content, song tune, song variation come into play instead of singing techniques and quality of voice.

So, for singing enthusiasts who wish to have a look at what these budding songwriters are writing, do take a look!

Leg Cramp In The Middle of The Night:

It's been years since I have a leg (more specifically, calf) cramp and last night, it felt like a grenade has imploded inside my calf. The result - excruciating pain beyond words. I was totally jolted awake by the pain and because it's already 4 a.m. I kept my mouth shut for fear of waking up the whole family and struggled on the bed to stretch the leg out. 15 minutes later, the pain finally subsided and I eased back to sleep. I hate cramps because it drained my sleep and fouled a perfectly good Saturday morning. My calf was still throbbing even as I walked around trying to find breakfast for myself. For emphasis' sake, I hate cramps.

A New Beginning:

Ah, a piece of good news to brighten up the Saturday! I have finally received official word that I am invited to become a trainer for some holiday enrichment programme. This will mean a whole new experience beyond home academic tutoring because I now get to interact with students on an intense programme context. Hopefully, I can bring along whatever skills and experience I have acculmulated over the years to the enrichment programme and do a good job of it.

If everything goes on smoothly, I may become a trainer for such programmes or even camps on a more permanent basis, which means another income source, more experience and hopefully even more interactive and fun learning processes.

Wish me luck! =D

陈绮贞 - Why does she have five encores?

Yes, I have heard that Chen Qi Zhen's concert was a big success with the five encores. I suppose some of the readers will wonder who this singer is and why she deserved the five encores at all. I can only say that she is a very hardworking singer with a very interesting array of songs. What impresses me is some of her songs are so simple and yet so the lyrics of those songs are so meaningful and flavourful.

Enough talk. It's best to just listen to her songs and decide for yourself about whether she is good enough to be loved by her fans. I am not a fan of hers but I am a lover of good songs so I am including those which I believe to be some of her best. Hope you can enjoy them too!




告诉我
歌手:陈绮贞
专辑:还是会寂寞
词 曲:陈绮贞

看沉默的电话 它什么都不说
看电视的画面 它无声的闪动
看街上的行人跟我擦肩而过
整个世界太冷漠 我没有力气再往前走

看你紧闭的嘴唇 它什么都不说
看你飘忽的眼神 它无情的闪躲
看你和我的回忆跟我擦肩而过
你的改变太冷漠 我没有勇气大声地说

告诉我 你不是真的离开我
你也不愿这样的夜里
把难过留给我

告诉我 你不是真的离开我
你是要惩罚我的爱让你失去自由
告诉我···



还是会寂寞
歌手:陈绮贞
曲:陈绮贞
词:陈绮贞

早已忘了想你的滋味是什么
因为每分每秒都被你占据在心中
你的一举一动牵扯在我生活的隙缝
谁能告诉我离开你的我会有多自由

也曾想过躲进别人温暖的怀中
可是这么一来就一点意义也没有
我的高尚情操一直不断提醒着我
离开你的我不论过多久还是会寂寞

别对我小心翼翼 别让我看轻你
跟着我勇敢的走下去
别劝我回心转意 这不是廉价的爱情
看着我对我说真爱我



旅行的意义
歌手：陈绮贞
专辑：华丽的冒险

你看过了许多美景
你看过了许多美女
你迷失在地图上每一道短暂的光阴

你品尝了夜的巴黎
你踏过下雪的北京
你熟记书本里每一句你最爱的真理

却说不出你爱我的原因
却说不出你欣赏我哪一种表情
却说不出在什么场合我曾让你动心
说不出离开的原因

你累计了许多飞行
你用心挑选纪念品
你收集了地图上每一次的风和日丽

你拥抱热情的岛屿
你埋葬记忆的土耳其
你流连电影里美丽的不真实的场景

却说不出你爱我的原因
却说不出你欣赏我哪一种表情
却说不出什么在场合我曾让你分心
说不出旅行的意义

你勉强说出你爱我的原因
却说不出你欣赏我哪一种表情
却说不出在什么场合我曾让你分心
说不出离开的原因

勉强说出你为我寄出的每一封信
都是你离开的原因 你离开我 就是旅行的意义

Song Recommendation: 雨天 By 孙燕姿

忙了几天，终于可以休息一阵了。

今天算是我的休息日，所以去了健身室后，吃了午饭，就留在家里，练练歌。

并觉得孙燕姿的《雨天》蛮适合我的声线，并决定下一番努力去练唱，希望会有所成。

此歌我想是应该以轻柔的声线去唱，歌境应该是以感伤无奈为主。唱了两遍，对歌曲渐渐有认识和感觉，我想再唱个五遍，应该能唱出些味道吧！我要加油喔！

为了方便那些对这首歌不熟悉的朋友们，以下是孙燕姿的音乐录像和歌词，祝大家都能听歌愉快！



孙燕姿 - 雨天
词:小寒
曲:李伟菘

站在十字路的交点
该怎么走
我却只剩回头
除了你给的伞我再也没有
别的借口去拥有你的什么

你能体谅我有雨天
偶尔胆怯你都了解
过去那些大雨落下的瞬间
我突然发现

谁能体谅我的雨天
所以情愿回你身边
此刻脚步会慢一些
如此坚决
你却越来越远

牵手和分手来自同一双手
做回朋友我却悔恨不懂挽留

你能体谅我有雨天
偶尔胆怯你都了解
过去那些大雨落下的瞬间
我突然发现

谁能体谅我的雨天
所以情愿回你身边
此刻脚步会慢一些
如此坚决
你却越来越远

是否太晚 路已走远
我的眼眶泪太满走不回你身边

你能体谅我有雨天
偶尔胆怯你都了解
过去那些大雨落下的瞬间
我突然发现

谁能体谅~~~~我的雨天~~~~
此刻脚步会慢一些
如此坚决~~~~
你却越来越远

唱后感想：

想要一个人完全去体谅另一个人的悲伤，

是一件不容易的事。

雨天，如同撒满一地的情怀

雨伞，如同挡住复杂的内心

雨天，如同天地万物的洗洁

雨伞，如同触摸雨露的屋檐

每一次的雨天其实都不一样

每个人对雨天的体验不一样

你的雨天又是哪一种体验呢？