Desiree’s LIFESTYLE

First of all, I would like to wish Malaysia, my country, a very haPPy bIrthday……  !!!  Achieving 50 yrs of independence, it’s not easy to maintain, or even catch up with other more developed countries such as the United States, Japan etc..   

BUT, We have seen how our ministers worked so hard to make Malaysia a beautiful place to live in.  People of many different races live together, no matter how different our languages are, we just can live in harmony.  Despite some negative issues that we often talk about where racial harmony is, we still defend our own country because we simply love staying here. 

There’s a lot of cultural values we don’t find in other countries and we grew up in this culture.  I enjoyed my kampung days when i was still a kiddo, when my grandmother plants vegetables and rear kampung chickens.  (oh how i miss my ah-po<granny>, miss u lotsssss)..  And you know wat, i even treated one of the hens my pet!  Coz it’s incredible she would come to me when i call out her name "beauty".. ahaha… 

I had a lot of kampung neighbour friends, a mixed of chinese, malay and indian friends.  We played a lot of games like the 5 stones, congkak, and other lower cost games like blindfold, jumping over rope made with rubber bands (i dunno how should i name it, but we called it "tiao shen" in mandarin) and also "cooking cooking" using sand and grass as food. cute right? hehe.. 

And when i was in primary school, i had a lot of close classmates too.  Of different races too.  Oh and becoz our school is just beside the school for deaf and mute, we made friends with some of them too.  And till now, we still contact each other!  Amazing right?  Erm, i do not know sign languages, but they taught me sign language for alphabets from A to Z.  And i still remember how to do it!  hehehe…  so proud!

Every Sunday, my mum would come to pick me up from school (during my time, sunday is a weekday and friday is a weekend).  She would very often bring me to lunch in my favourite places like MCDonald’s, and Swensens, despite her tight pockets, and buy me my favourite food like Cheese Burger from MCD’s and Spaggeti Bolognaise from Swensens.  Geez…  So sweet~~~   Mummy i love u..

Oh well, it sounded like mother’s day now.. wahahahhaa…  Ok then.  What i wanted to say is, i love my country, i love my hometown, and i love my family and friends.  You are all my sweetest memory~  Love you all… and my Dizzies too.. Lots of you made from Malaysia.  hahahahha… 

Once again, HAPPY MERDEKA DAY everyone!! 

Cheers…

U know wat is efficiency??  This is it…  ta da~~~~  look at the flooring….. 

Before this, it was all carpet.. and remember?  drenched carpet…  And in only 2 days, everything is done!  Infact, the renovation just lasted for a day.. oh no.. it’s HALF a day…  it was fast!!

a day b4 renovation, all of us packed up all stuffs in the studio, including Dotz’s office, media room and the walkway.  Then the next day renovation starts.. in half a day, done!  And then we took about 2-3 hours to unpack and clean the whole place…..  And now, we are all so very comfortable with our working environment..  Barefooted..  Clean, bright, and beautiful… 

Hmmm.. i just love this place…  :)  It’s worth all my energy to sweat it all out… 

2days ago, 5th floor of this building caught fire and a lot of us were affected!  We in Tiny Box Studios of course, directly beneath this tenant, were affected!!  Luckily we were not in the studio at that point of time. 

When we arrived, we were all shocked to see a few fire engines and police cars outside.  Everyone seemed panicked, especially the building’s management, Jeannie.  Poor thing…… 

Of course we were also panicked, but Jeannie said everything’s fine already, only left with 6000litres of water from their sprinkler to drain out!!!!  GOSH!  That’s a lot!  Anyway she said it’s safe to go in to our studio to see, so we made our way up hoped that everything is fine….

But as we make our way in to our studio, we found out we were affected by the water!!  Water were gushing down from the ceiling in the media room and there was this burning smell from above.  Everyone panicked and hoped that all equipments are safe.  And thank god, all the important equipments in the studio were not affected…   PHEW~~  (coz that’s a lot of money man!) 

However, the media library was drowned with at least 4 - 5 pails of water!  Carpet drenched, lots of magazines drenched too, and 1 part of the false ceiling gave way…  This is how it looks like —>   

It was a scary moment but we were more worried bout the equipments…  So we stayed awhile to make sure that there will be no water flowing in to the recording studio and arrangement room. 

And there goes my recording session for that day. Hopefully there will be no more such incidents..  Oh by the way, all these were caused by the tenant’s fridge!  hahaha…  Pray for me everyone.. And good luck for my recordings today … 

我發現我的華語退步了…  為甚麼會這樣!!!

我覺得啊…  最近都一直在用英文交談.  也因為我的專輯而一直在參考英文歌曲…  有時候會發現我的口音越來越"巴沙"了..  Flat Flat 的!!  有時候再老師們面前很丟臉..  還因此警告我要把最基本的口音給練好!

不行!  我要從今天起, 開始練好我的發音…  可是製作班底和工作人員都很忙..  怎麼會有時間和我玩廣播據呢?  咳……   沒關係!  我還會有辦法!  你們才得到我會用甚麼方式嗎? 

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那就是…..  看台灣偶像劇咯..  (才對沒獎.. 不好意思)

其實看台灣偶像劇除了可以練好口音還可以學習怎麼利用一些我從來沒有聽過或用過的字.  (還可以娛樂自己呢, 哈哈)!  其實不只是看而已哦!  我還得自己對這鏡子說話, 或再睡前自己對話.  很噁心吧!  可是就只有這樣子啊.  況且老師們的華語都很標準.  如果我的口音Flat Flat的, 會顯得我很突出. 

不說了..  要練歌…  祝我錄音成功!  :)  加油加油!! 

這是我的工作室..

今天剛買了力宏的最新專輯 "改變自己".  很多很不同的曲風.  發現他在這張專輯裡很搞怪. PATTERN 很多!! 哈哈…  本身很喜歡落葉歸根. 雖然不是力宏親自動筆寫的, 可是他演藝得很棒!  這首歌的Melody雖然有點老, 就有點像望清水 (哈哈), verse第一句的melody也很像Kiss Goodbye, 可是我還是超喜歡這首歌, 讓我聽了又想在聽..

改變自己的groove和編曲我非常非常喜歡..  80’s rock的編曲讓我一直很想跟著節拍一起搖擺一起唱!  會很high…  有說過這張專輯力宏有很多的pattern.  這首歌不完整的旋律的idea很好.  詞也寫的很有意思..  人嘛, 總是不完整, 更何況是愛情…

其它的歌曲就有你們來說吧..  If i were to rate this album, i will give it a 5 star!  :) 

Support Lee Hom, Support Original! 

Love, Desiree

It’s a sunny but beautiful Saturday…  I have this craving to go for shopping today but Im scheduled to have my recordings today.  However, since recordings will start late, i got my sound engineer, Dotz to go BUGIS Shopping Centre with me. 

I wanted to get Lee Hom’s latest album <改變自己> for my "LEE HOM CD COLLECTION"..  BUT to my dissapointment, there were no CD shops at all in BUGIS.  There is 1 though, BUT they have only CHINA IMPORTS!  I also got to know that a lot of record stores close down in Malaysia (maybe in Singapore too) becoz sales are just tat BAD!  This is happening now and i felt that we are losing the music industry slowly..  It’s really scary.. I ain’t know how to react to this!  But i really do feel dissapointed and afraid ..

As you guys know, Lee Hom is my idol.. Christina Aguilera is my idol.  I really do think that it’s my responsibility to get their album becoz as a fan of theirs, i wan to see them continue doing wat they are doing now.  When the buying stops, our idol STOPS too.   

And becoz there are no buying of originals, this world will be "MUSIC-LESS"!  I cannot imagine that.  So, please…  Support original albums and support your idol.  That’s the least AND best we can do to keep the music industry going… 

Please forgive me if im being too long winded.  But i am too stressed out and angry with the fact that there are irresponsible ppl out there! 

Oh yes, i wan to introduce you to Lee Hom’s latest album

<改變自己>  http://www.sonymusic.com.tw/pop/leehom/p2.php

Here’s a link where you can watch his MV.  Enjoy ya!

It’s been so much fun in Singapore! I do have a very wide job-scope I think. From recordings to songwritings to helping out in the school (Tiny Box Artiste Academy) to buying takeaways for all the laoshi (producers) and the recording team, I have not had so much to do! My schedules are quite hectic but I am definitely enjoying it!

After all the trainings on my singing and songwriting, I finally sold my very first piece to an international artiste. That was one of my very first few pieces and I definitely liked it very much. This is a good start for me and I guess there are more to come.

Oh yes, did I tell you my Bobby is always around me? Well, yes he is. He is always there for me when I need a shoulder.. Erm, his shoulder may be a little small but I still can count on him when I need to distress. Here’s a pictures of me and him on my bed @ my loft.

Cheers,
Desiree