I met up with an anonymous singing enthusiast whom I decided to name as The Pouting Apple. The reason for the name is because she pouted alot when she sang out of tune for a couple of the songs even though those were such superficial mistakes in the overall quality of performance in her singing. Hahaha....
We met at Cineleisure Kbox level 8 for the Kbox Lunch package (which costs around 25 bucks) but it was a very enjoyable kboxing session. For nearly three solid hours, we sang as many songs as we could and although I am not very familiar with some of her songs, I tried to put as many of them as I can down here so all of you readers can get a rough idea of how the kboxing session sounded.
一眼瞬间 张惠妹/萧敬腾
爱情任务 蔡依林
不痛 张韶涵
你是爱我的 张惠妹
藉口 S.H.E
欧若拉 张韶涵
Open Your Eyes 张惠妹
真的 张韶涵
Super Star S.H.E
如果你也听说 张惠妹
珊瑚海 周杰伦/Lara
远走高飞 李圣杰
触摸 陈伟联
男佣 吴克群
最近 李圣杰
彩虹天堂 刘耕宏
我只是想要 陈伟联
心碎的冰咖啡 熊天平
流沙 陶喆
if 陈晓东
旋律 林宇中
When The Pouting Apple knew I would be blogging about the session with her, she insisted that I pointed out as many of her singing mistakes in my blog post so that she could learn from them. She was very determined singing enthusiast and went into deep thought just to reflect how she had sung immediately after our kboxing session at the basement foodcourt. Frankly speaking, she sang very well and there are only a very small handful of things that she needs a little bit brushing up on. Other than those, The Pouting Apple is definitely ready to take on the live singing stage. Since she is expecting my tips, so here they are:
1) Less Frowning: The Pouting Apple tends to frown too much whenever she tries to emote songs and I pointed it out to her earlier in the session. She is a quick learner and that wrinkling frown between her eyes disappeared for the rest of the session. The trick now is to remember that one can still close one's eyes to emote without having to frown so much.
2) Endnotes can be steadier : The Pouting Apple doesn't seem to be able to end her notes cleanly. She either ends too early and a little bit too suddenly. Perhaps she will need to know how to fade off her notes more steadily. Listen more carefully to how each line ends in songs.
3) Facial and Body Expression: Yes. Kboxing is about sitting down or standing up but The Pouting Apple has the potential and the enthusiasm to go on live stage and I did notice that she seemed rather rigid during singing, with only two expressions on her face for all the songs. Try to sing in front of a mirror to see how you perform. Gesticulation is very important and is to be coordinated with body posturing.
4) Exercise the stomach muscles: The Pouting Apple hopes to extend her singing breath and stamina but refuses to exercise. Well, exercise, especially for the stomach and chest muscles are very important because these provide the foundation for exertion of voice whenever difficult songs come along or when extended singing is done.
That's all. A couple of simple photos are taken today. Hope The Pouting Apple enjoyed herself today too!
The lunch tasted alright. Probably because I was very hungry then. Anyway, this is the lemon fish set with rice slightly sprinkled with pork floss, lemon fish (upper right hand corner), some fish sushi wrapped in seaweed and white sauce (lower left hand corner), cream puffs (middle left) and unknown vegetables in sour sauce (upper left hand corner). Oh yes, the place doesnt seem to have hot honey lemon, which sort of disappointed me.
The Pouting Apple loves to sing Amei's songs for kboxing and she is very good with them, nailing all of them with good precision and her highnotes were very impressive and sustainable even for hours of intense singing. I was more busy listening to her sing than take photos. Hahaha...
Movie Review: Hero 2007
After the kboxing session with The Pouting Apple, I had to rush off the attend a school alumni event, which offered a movie ticket at the price of 5 bucks. I have heard from The Holy Bitch that it is quite a good movie and morever, I get to meet some of my ex-classmates again so I went for it.
Takuya Kimura, the lead actor, was very good in depicting a highly-determined public prosecutor who was assigned to find out the truth behind a manslaughter case. It turned out far more complicated because the people involved in the case were also implicated in a high-profile corruption scandal with a top politician in the country. Faced against a distinguished defense counsel, mounting political pressure, and difficult and tight-lipped suspects, Kimura must find the key loopholes to win the case and at the same time juggle an elusive romance with his legal aide. Although there was very little action to speak of, the crime thriller kept me on the edge enough not to miss a single portion of the plot as I was just as keen to find out how to case would turn out.
After the movie, I quickly met up with two of my ex-classmates and their spouses before rushing off again to the library because I needed to prepare some notes for some of my lessons in the coming week. Looks like it's going to be instant noodles for dinner for me tonight. Boohoohoo...
Well, at least I have some instant noodles for dinner. The poor but super fluffly cat below (from Facebook Human Pets profiles) somehow lost its cheeseburger. Sad but so cute right? Haha..
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