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4:21 PM - Sunday, April 02, 2006

friday was a rather interesting day in VJC for me. firstly, it was a super short day which i end school at 12.10pm. secondly, there was artery launch in the afternoon where sax on the beach and i will be performing. lastly, there was musicfest at night.

throughout the day, as zuhao was absent due to a fever, ian and i were planning an april's fool joke to prank zuhao. i was zupposed to memorise the lyrics of "wonderwall" and later perform it at the artery launch, where ian will announce the end of zuhao's "carreer" as sax on the beach's lead singer and i will replace him. we practised for a while but everything didn't happen in the end... haha, everything ian plans always turns out like that! but it was fun jamming with sax on the beach, and i found out that i can actually sing "collide" with zhilin quite well!

the artery launch was quite successful in my opinion. the crowd was slightly more than that at candyfest, primarily because of the lucky draw i guess, of which the prize everyone craves is the musicfest ticket! to my surprise, i actually won the first ticket they gave out. to think i actually bought one from steph just a while before that. sold it to roy at $5. just don't feel like taking advantage of friends. what's the point of making profit from the sale of musicfest tickets? will that be your future career? anyway, my performance at artery was alright in my opinion, but i guess chinese songs always don't seem to appeal the the mass. so i guess "unwell" probably has a better response. it even had a special effect of the thunder just after i finished the bridge and was reaching the last chorus.

now for my opinion on musicfest. musicfest was quite successful actually, despite all the screw-ups and problems encountered during the auditions and semi finals. however, it was evident that the standard was rather low(this is a valid point, as i surveyed quite a couple of audience).

just look at the solo category. what in the world was irvin singing? haha, who cares if he's feeling good or feeling horny? his "singing", lousy dance steps, combined with inappropriate entrance and exit (what's the use of the bpxes anyway?) certainly made me feel good that i'm not supporting him for the contest. debbie, on the other hand, was rather impressive. i supported her after her semifinals performace of "how do i live" and i'm glad she didn't sing a slow song this time. i was rather impressed by her composure and movement on stage, totally natural and confident. however, a few of us felt that she didn't really choose the correct song to sing. perhaps "toxic" might suit her better, haha! lastly, christabel's performance was slightly better than irvin i think. but her entrance was rather weird. since when do contestants say "testing testing" before they sing??? haha. and somehow, halfway through the song i started to get drowsy, wonder if it's her or izzit the pizza i ate for dinner??? i would say her singing was probably slightly better than average. but anyway, my prediction of debbie winning the solo category was spot-on! and surprisingly, christabel won the most SMS votes award... i wonder why?

next up was the dance category. i was supporting escnad because steph and jing were in it, and i know they're really good! first up was blaze, a somewhat 2nd generation of the legendary black five last year. their original indie-pop dance steps were captivating i must admit, but it isn't hard for a dance-idiot like me to notice their rather messy dance steps a few times during the performance and probably lack of practice. but they were definitly the most entertaining dance group that night. next up was risque, an all girl dance group from VJC dance. i was quite surprised to see debbie inside risque as well, someone who can sing damn well and dance at the same time??? i'm impressed. they were quite similar the last years big footed rhino as well, somewhat a combination of cheerleading and hip hop with lots of sexiness as well. could see that they had lots of foundation and dance practices so they were comparatively better than blaze. escnad was up next and i could hear so many people cheering for jinglin lahz. my eyes were glued on jinglin and steph and maybe a bit of ruth throughout the whole dance and really in terms of dance they were the best group. however, to tell the truth, it was something that perhaps you'll see in various dance concerts without much surprise. but it was better than last year's dance actually and i really enjoyed their performance. my guess was between risque and escnad and it turned out that risque won it, which means debbie is a double winner. however, i know escnad wun be too disappointed by the result because they love performing, and they have fans who enjoying watching them, like me!

i would say the group category was the worst category, or rather the one with the lowest standard. i hoped hong sheng's group will win it because their performance is always full of surprises. for the first duet, ka hei and joel, i was very impressed with joel's voice, deep and attractive. nope, i'm not gay, but it was really good. but somehow, he and ka hei shouldn't be performing on the same stage as i felt that their voice didn't go together. u have "ka hei's nice voice", "joel's nice voice", but u don't have "ka hei AND joel's nice voice" so i thought it was rather disappointing. next up was hong sheng's group doing a mdely of three songs. have nothing much to say about them excepy that hong sheng's voice is really good and jeremy shouldn't have sang so loud to cover his voice. hong sheng's the lead singer after all. rayner and jasmine were perhaps the weakest group in this category. singing was so-so but stage prescence was quite good. i heard they were supposed to rub backs with each other but it didn't happen. nonetheless, it was an interesting way of presenting as they got zhini and rayner's cousin to play the guitar and drums for them. as expected, hong sheng's group came out tops and i'm happy for them.

the band category was perhaps the most anticipated group. and definitely, the camels were the hot favourite judging from the amount of cheering they had. i predicted they will win it too. daniel band was first up and in my opinion they were really just average. it was no difference from their usual boring performance except for nigel's slightly clearer singing. liang hong's drum solo was quite interesting though. the bandits were quite popular as well as they did "bring me to life". they had great face paint on them which added a lot of entertainment to their song. however, a whole lot of technical error led to a somewhat unimpressive performance. i think ramses would have done much better if not for the technical screw-ups. however, i think their singer just couldn't bring out the feeling of the song. the camels drew lots and lots of cheering from the crowd just by announcing that they'll be doing "have a nice day". it was one of my favourite songs as well. i guess they were rather smart to choose this song, as it turned out that almost the whole PT was singing "have a nice day" along with them at the end of the chorus. in my opinion that was the best performance for the whole night, maybe it was saving the best for the last. everyone thought the camels would win it, but somehow, the daniel band won the best band award. the camels didn't even win the most SMS votes award despite the enormous support they had from the crowd. i think there were lots of people like me, support and don't vote. but i voted thee votes for escnad lor!!! haha.

in conclusion, musicfest was really uncomparable to the previous year, and it's standard is really not there. one commendable point would be the 2 emcees, imran and priya. probably they were the best performers for the night, providing us with much laughter and entertainment. but all the stuff mentioned above are my own opinions and they're really what i think from the bottom of my heart. probably everyone who performed that night deserved a high five for a job well done. but i guess it was something that even if u missed it, it wouldn't be much of a loss anyway.