Taiwan!

Gonna be goin away to taiwan for training from this Saturday! Bday in taiwan during training? huhu hope it would be nice.. who do i miss? who misses me? =P oh wells..

Wake up call

Latetly my mind has been in disarray. What's worse is that I almost killed myself or another guy. I know i shouldnt be blogging about NS stuffs here but I did almost killed myself with the r.i f l e during live fi-r.ing exercise. At that moment I just realised how precious my life is and i shouldnt be living for someone else. Ive gotta wake up and do whats right. Just wanna live my life in the way that i want.

im so cold

my weak heart is tearing apart..
could this be the end?
im sorry..
im tired of fighting

Gotta get thru this!

The idiot

I guess im just an idiot staying up until the next day just to wait for your reply..
but sadly u dont even bother..

forgotten

It seems like dont know how to live in the real world anymore..
who do i look for?
what do i do?
I thought to myself, maybe I should get used to this life..
as the fact is.. im no longer needed..

emptyness

I feel really lonely when i book out this time.. why should i even book out.. nobody cares.. just..

My bunk mates

I gotta admit that during the 1st day of Advance Section Leader Course(ASLC) i was kinda sad to know that im gonna be seperated from my buddy. Whats more is that it is kind of an unexpected thing coz we were told that we're gonna be with our buddies again. TO be honest, i think that my buddy was the best buddy in the world. He is the type that supports and motivates others. He always makes everything fun and i've really learned a lot from him. I think he has the ultimate power of socialising. He can basically blend with any type of people and not forgetting the ones closest to him. Plus i find it amazing how someone would be as selfless as him sometimes. Well i guess its time to move on and work with new people.

At 1st i didnt really care about my new bunk mates. I just wanna get everything to go smoothly. But i know trainings gonna get harder by the day. Buy Hey! what the hack! Up till now, ive come to realise that they are some freaking awesome people la! Hope that we can really work well together. The support that we have given each other made us closer now. SA KA LIAO!

My Semi Acoustic Guitar

This is the guitar that i'm using now which is the SD 1 Meastro guitar. If u don't know, Meastro guitars are Singapore brand guitars and are locally made. The one that i'm having is a cut semi acoustic version of it. Even though the strings are quite hard to play, the soundthat it produces makes me love it so much.. whoohoo i love my guitar!

I wanna perform!

Recently Sgxpress group went to perform at the lock and key mess.
Being part of them i went to support but ended up performing as one of the performers was feeling unwell.
Getting up to perform makes me realise that I really really miss performing so much!
argh! wish that there are more opportunities to do so!

I need answers

I've never really expressed any of my deep inner thoughts in the internet, neither through blogs nor other means. As I’m lying in bed all alone thinking a lot about things, I really feel the want of pouring out what’s within. Lately I’ve been feeling really insecure and depress. Over what? To be honest, that i don’t really know. It seems that I can only see the happy and confident me from afar. But what I do know that because of this, it’s really affecting everything around me and even my health. In order to ease the pain and make myself stronger, I’ve been praying very often, begging for happiness and to distant myself from sadness. What am i actually longing for?

Lucky Live Performance

You have heard the cover version..

Finally!! its our 1st ever performance at Tampines Mall Open Plaza.. =D

Song cover 3

Candles by Hey Monday Cover

Fell in love with this song and decided to do a cover of it.

Can u hear my pet bird sounded at the start?

This happens everytime i start to sing and then it goes quiet.. haha

Hope viewers will like it =)

Lyric
The power lines went out
and i am all alone
i don't really care at all not answering my phone
all the games you played
the promises you made
couldn't finish what you started only darkness still remains

Lost sight
couldn't see
when it was you and me

blow the candles out
looks like a solo tonight
I'm beginning to see the light
blow the candles out
looks like a solo tonight
but i think ill be alright

Been black and blue before
there's no need to explain
i am not the jaded kind playbacks such a waist
your invisible, invisible to me
my wish is coming true erase the memory of your face

Lost sight couldn't see
when it was you and me
blow the candles out
looks like a solo tonight
I'm beginning to see the light
blow the candles out
looks like a solo tonight
but i think ill be alright

one day you will wake up
with nothing but your sorries
ans someday you will get back
everything you gave me

blow the candles out
looks like a solo tonight
I'm beginning to see the light
blow the candles out
looks like a solo tonight
but i think I'll be alright

Lucky cover -SGXpress

Here's a cover that have been long waited for...
Done by me and jacklyn..
it was a one time last min record b4 i was booking in to camp..
enjoy! =D

Song cover 2

Since bein in ns mean that i will not be singing enough
i figured that I should do a song cover every week! heh heh
So this week is another emo chinese song titled: xia yu tian by nan quan ma ma..
hope who ever's watchin likes it =)

Song cover

YO YO!! SAY hello to my botak hair! HAHAHA
decided to sing song a bit in the early emo morning of sunday..

Song titled ni bu bi ai wo.. by fan jiong bin..
xi wang ni men hui si huan! =)

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你留下的雨伞 我舍不得还
ni liu xia de yu san wo she bu de huan
那是我们之间 仅剩的相关
na shi wo men zhi jian jin sheng de xiang guan
但把回忆撑开看 需要多勇敢
dan ba hui yi cheng kai kan xu yao duo yong gan

感情在风雪里 流逝得太快
gan qing zai feng xue li liu shi de tai kuai
快得就连再见 都没说完
kuai de jiu lian zai jian du mei shuo wan
抓紧彼此的手 我们却还是走散
zhua jin bi ci de shou wo men que huan shi zou san

你不必再爱我 你尽管放开
ni bu bi zai ai wo ni jin guan fang kai
反正时间总会把爱冲淡
fan zheng shi jian zong hui ba ai chong dan
至少我学会了 爱情就美在遗憾
zhi shao wo xue hui le ai qing jiu mei zai yi han

你不必再爱我 谁也别为难
ni bu bi zai ai wo shui ye bie wei nan
让我怀念一会我会离开
rang wo huai nian yi hui wo hui chi kai
转身对你挥手 不让眼泪流下来
zhuan shen dui ni hui shou bu rang yan lei liu xia lai

你不必再爱我 我学着释怀
ni bu bi zai ai wo wo xue zhao shi huai
原来相爱总比想念短暂
yuan lai xiang ai zong bi xiang nian duan zan
至少我记住了 你的笑有多灿烂
zhi shao wo ji zhu le ni de xiao you duo can lan

你不必再爱我 谁也别心软
ni bu bi zai ai wo shui ye bie xin ruan
你留下的什麽我都不换
ni liu xia de shi mo wo du bu huan
拥抱所有温暖 就像你还在身旁
yong bao suo you wen nuan jiu xiang ni huan zai shen pang

那一句我爱你 我们都说得太晚
na yi ju wo ai ni wo men du shuo de tai wan

Just words.. doesn't mean anything..

Botak Performance

OMG LA, EVERY OF MY BOTAK PERFORMANCE IS %$&#$%^^#$*&^*(###)(&
Please dont let it be a trend..
Gotta admit that this isnt my best coz we were unprepared and i was flat many times..
Niza's voice rox man! dont u think??
haha..
the sound system went BOOM the whole time though..
Anyways enjoy if its nice.. wahaha

HEEELLLLLLLLLLLOOO my super wonderful blog!!! whahahaa.. OK i know this phrase that im gonna say have been said by millions
of blogs.. nevertheless im gonna say it.. ITS BEEN AGES SINCE IVE BLOGGED!!! OMGDER!

The previous post mite really sound emo and all probably because of the tot of losing 2 years of my life
by surrendering it to the Tekong World and the Army.

WHOOOHOOO! Finally i can proudly say that the hell weeks of Basic Millitary camp are over!! But theres still 6 weeks more to
go to complete it though.. wahhahaa

To be honest i miss SINGAPORE so much.. every happening and boring things here rocks man!


Oh ya! yestersay a fren of mine happened to remind me of a song with is damn nice! so i tried singing it..
A malay song though.. wahahaha.. let us hear me sing together.. =P

LOL.wav - afiq

I know this is kinda late but HAPPY NATIONAL DAY to all SINGAPOREANS n to the country itself!!

HAVE U EVER WONDER!! WHY MUST WE SERVE??
BECAUSE WE LOVE OUR LAND AND WE WANT IT TO BE FREE, TO BE FREE YEAH!!!
(because we have no choice, and we lan lan have to serve, have to serve..)

I'M GONE....

low self esteem (singing is supposedly for me to have fun)

After some bad performances i had, after emoing and everything, i have lost the confidence in performing seriously anymore. So....! For this saturday's performance, im gonna 'perform'... no... perform is a wrong word to use.. Im gonna whack a song which i can never sing..!!! im jus gonna shout and stunt everybody with stupidity!! YEAH!!! THATS WHAT I CALL FUN!! watch me do it!! OH YEAH!!!

SINGINGs Part 2

I've just gotten thru to the finals of showquest singing heaven knows. I'm not gonna bitch about how bad the performance was because there is always room for improvement for every of my performances. But i gotta say that i was really shocked to see many sad faces when i was performing coz i think they really felt the sadness of the song when i sang it.. haha. I would like to thank all those who supported me and made my day. You guys rock.

John aka pokemon, really played a big part in giving me confidence with his words. Yes i do lack of confidence in myself coz i know my own weaknesses. On the other hand i know i should always aim high for myself.

Another dude that saved my life was the organiser who got me a good karaoke version of the song. I was sufferring like mad trying to find a good minus one track for it but failed. All i had was the bloody youtube verison which is an imitation karaoke of the song. The organiser couldnt take the quality of it and got me a good one. yayness..

Another person that i really respect save my ass as he taught me a good singing technique at around 2am in the morning through skype. Doctinair, a vocal coach.. He's really good. If it wasnt for him i wouldnt noe what im singing about.. what impressed me is the fact that he is willing to teach without something in return and treat it as a learning experience for himself when he helps to overcomes other's weaknesses and that he enjoys music...

Jae sifu's words during lesson really helped me a lot. Im more focus and well-planned for my performance.. Believe me when ur well-panned, its hard to do badly.. plus there will be a certain amount of confidence as you will know what to expect urself to be doing on stage.

My grp also won the best grp of the round. I was so happy coz our meet ups and practices really paid off.

Nowadays, every time when i advance to the next round, i would always look back at the other contestants who didnt make it thru. I know how they feel and was many times in their shoes.. I really wanna comfort them.. Its really sad and heart piercing to know that ur not good enough for the next round..

For the finals, it is definitely gonna be really tough coz the other finalist, their talents are really up there... Its really an honour.. No matter what, I'm gonna do my bestest and have a great time =)

SINGINGs

Surprisingly, i got thru the next round of showquest singing my girl. I will not post the video here as i sang very badly. HAHA. but if anybody wants to watch it then i shall post it. The interesting part of this competition is that in the next round, there will be two performances for me. The 1st one will be in a group of 3 with another 2 contestants chosen by the judges. Another one will be an individual performance. It's gonna be on this sunday and personally i think it's too rush for everyone. Hope dat i will do well for it.

For Singout, the lastest update that i know is that there will be a photoshoot on the 16. Don't know about the date of next round though. I think currently there is the wildcard round going on. Hope that noelle gets thru semis with everyone else..

Im still waiting for the results of garage battle.

Anyway a familiar face of previous competition called me up to join the arcapella group. And i got to know that we are from the same music sch. haha. They planned to have an on going practice to create a strong group and go for competitions together. I hope that i will learn alot from the experience after joining them. The trainer who came to train us was one of the members of the superband group called JuzB. His name is Hafiz. Yup as u guys have seen them on tv, in person, believe me, they are a lot better.. So that means they are better than good. yup.

There are many other competitions, big or small that i have forgone as i tot that i mite not have the time to go for them. Hopefully i have more chances to take part in the future in order to improve myself. Jia you for all the singers out there! continue to entertain! =)

The 2nd round of show quest

"Hi~ my name is Afiq... The song that I'm gonna bring to all of you today is..."
" da jia hao~ wo shi Afiq, jin tian wo yao tai gei ni men yi shou ge jiao..."
Those are actually the usual phrases that i use to start a singing performance. HAHA

This Sunday, I'm gonna be singing My Girl By the temptation.. What's so good about the song? Even though it's an old song, it can be sung in a modern tone as well as I can have fun on stage with it. I've gotta lose myself more on stage and just have fun.. this kind of song is best performed in a cheeky and cook manner. So i need to smile more and input in more gestures to entertain the crowd.

Actually I've performed this song twice b4 and the reaction from the crowd was positive! I'm talking about audience which are of a stranger to me.. When the crowed loves me or cheers for me, I'm would be so happy and enjoying myself rather than thinking of winning the competition..

For me i think, performing on stage is like being a salesman.. If u can influence and convince the customer that ur product is good, they will react positively... Same goes to how the crowd reacts to my performance.. I've gotta own the stage and be the lime light... In other words nothing else should be as shinier or more entertaining than me..

Joycelyn once told me that there's no such thing as failure. What you produce are results..
Anne Marie said that i should picture my performance b4 i peform and make it happen..
Jae sifu told me that singing is not to hao lian to others but to make myself and others happy.
And most importantly i learned from Mattie, Ye lun and others that i should have fun..
I should own the stage coz it is mine for the 5 mins.. Gonna give my best. Jia you to me! =)

Look at the sudden mic drop.. damn DOPE!

A true entertainer entertains.. check out the impromptu song

GALA DINNER!

Getting Ready

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Not hunk enough? Try the push ups!

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Hair check!

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All good! ^^V

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In case things don.t go too well..


Let's get emo..

Introducing the remedy...

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The magic milk bottle

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It can make u a baby..

or even a singer...

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a powerful singer!

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everyone's grabbing it!

Don't ever get lock out..

When no gals are interested in u, make love with the balloon

tasty..

burst the balloon by sitting on it.

and show ur sexy backside to them..

OR you can just have fun =D

7th Management Committee

MISS Y"ALL!

Part-time job Part 4

I seriously miss working as this even though it is tiring!

especially with cool colleagues like them..

SINGTEL PROMOTION @ PARKWAY PARADE! =D

People have been asking me if i got lobang for this.. if i have i'll tell u all la..
but pm me 1st that u want to work =)

From Mattie's blog

Just 2 idiots who love to sing..

Part-time job Part 3

Was working for Singtel again.. This time new faces of colleagues were present.. and i was late for work coz had vocal lesson b4 that.. Definitely tiring but had fun.. This time it's at parkway parade.. Gonna be working again tmr..

I have to say that in order to appreciate ur job, try ur best to make it as fun as possible in anyway that u can.. by the time u noe it, it will already be knock off time.. and u've completed the struggle and hours of work that u thought was long..

Singout quater-finals

Spot me sleeping. hah! .coz it was after work..

started it off emo

slowly show expression

show them how sad the song is

checking if my belly is still fat.. haha

build rapport with audience

Then got thru next round! =)

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Green means get thru, purple means revival round, red means out..

Part-time job Part 2

My 2nd job at changi airport.. 8pm-8am

Terminal 2 south

Being a ninja?? haha nah..

Being a screener for swine flu

If ur indicated in red, ur in touble!

All green and blue so far so its safe..

ok thats just the coffee being hot so its red

as a screener we should chit chat...ehem i mean discuss the plan

With these u can buy things cheaper

my hair stood up upon reading the map

At some point of time i collapsed haha

and collapse again..

yay! I have readers

Sometimes i just wonder if my blog has readers.. Due to my "rarelyblogs" trademark i guess people would have the impression that I dont update often.(which is true haha)

For every 100 hit counts of my hit counter, i would always reset it to zero again so that it's easier for my lazy eyes to see my blog traffic.. =P and recently im happy to say that I've been resetting it many times! =D

It's so cool to hear my frens telling me, "eh i got read your blog!" or my fren's fren telling me "afiqrarelyblogs.com!! haha i got read ur blog!"

I hope many people would be interested to read my blog in the future.. coz sometimes I just cant block without inspiration or if i had a boring day.. haha

Anyone have part-time job?? intro me please!! I need money =)

Part-time job

I've spent my whole weekend doin part-time job for Singtel.. Definitely had fun struggling with the rest.. How cool it is to know new people in a short while and able to clique with each other well.. SINGTEL PROMOTION!!! =D

Fun @ Music Garage

Went to my singing sch, Music Garage today with Edwin to use the facilities.. The place is SO DOPE!

Here are the gym facilities..

There's tv and fan in the facilities!

Channel 5 haha

Dunno what he's doin haha

Brand new equipments

He's trying to run away from camera haha!

Jacuzzi!

Water Trees!

It's like sun tanning at the beach

water cooler and vending machine lol

jacuzzi @ work

The swimming pool

view from on top

so tempting to swim in

Smokey room!

So that's y the place is so cool and i can come anytime for free..

and can bring outside frens too!
So Cool right?? hahha

My 1st vocal lesson

Right now, im currently learning vocal at Music Garage. My instructor's name is Jae. He participated in superband b4 and did very well. He has won and judged many competitions and also has an album. Even writes song for singers. Vocally trained and talented. I'm learning with my new fren, Edwin from music story and both of us has our own areas to improve on in terms of our vocals. I really believe that through the lessons i can improve and sing a lot better than b4. Come to think about it, it was the best vocal lesson that i've been to. Jae's really good.

Surprisingly, my homework is to find a way to blow a piece of paper and make it stay on the wall as long as i can. It's pretty tricky but it really helps a lot in training my diaphram and preventing from straining the throat when singing as well as to control the usage of air when singing.

It's gonna be pretty tough to change my bad habits in singing but i shall strive to achieve the best that i can! yahoo for me!

Tomorrow im gonna check the place out coz my singing sch has swimming pool, jacuzzi, spa, gym and many more. And check this out, no! ur not ready for this,... ITS FREE haha.. if ur a student there that is.. hehe =D

Randomness

Once upon a time, there's a guy named Afiq whose ear was itchy so he scratched it =)

what song to sing?

I have two 2nd rounds of singing competition which are the music story's singout and w3m's showquest. But the problem is i have no idea what song i should ideally sing. A question always pops out in my mind when im in the premilinaries of any competition. Should i be choosing an ultimate song even though its just the 2nd round? coz sometimes i wanna make the performance as though it is my last. but then again, another important thing to remember is to sing something im comfortable with and to have a good time. ya... nothing is more important than to have fun. =)

oh ya i think im slightly recovering.. yayness.. hope that i wont get so sick again.. whoa i cant believe it's so fast that im gonna be graduating already. what have i learnt? what have i equipped myself with? who noes.. hahaa.. next stop.. ns.. gonna have to be in shape for ns.. and i have to have as much fun as possible b4 the torture.. yupz..

Recently saw the malay tv singing competiiton, anugerah details on tv. wonder if i should be joining coz i've never performed a malay song b4 in my entire life.. plus i wont even noe what i will be singing for the auditions.. hmm.. wonder if my siblings are joining.. or if my malay singing frens are..

hmm.. think im gonna sing xiang tai duo by li jiu zhe for music story's singout.. hope im gonna do well.. and hope noelle does well for her round tmr too.. Jia You to us! =)

Sick~~~

These few days I've been getting sick non-stop and it's so terrible. Feel like cutting my own head and throw it in the dustbin. Can't even do much things to myself. No working out, finding a job and can't even eat much food. Oh ya, if anyone doesnt know I've changed my number already. Hope that my number has been recorded in ur phonebook. I cant wait to get better and be happy again. Hope that this is a blessing in disguise. Ok i shall be optimistic and put my head back where it belongs. (have to clean it first though)

New Hair

Before

And After

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No Matter what others would say..
I will Love my hair..

Coz I love myself a lot...

Medley @ Cola Club KL

Ling Chen San Dian Zhong & Gei Wo Ni De Ai Cover.

Not so on form haha..

ALways online cover

Im yours cover

To be honest, my performance at the cola club KL at that time wasnt the best and there are so many mistakes. I was so surprised though becoz the boss wanted to hire me to be a singer in the cafe. So they took my number... I think i cant be an excellent cafe singer coz i cant sing requested songs as my repertoire of songs is limited. Plus I don't go to KL so often, Was happy to sing there though..yupz.. the ambience's was not bad..

What song is me?

There are always singers or aspiring singers saying that this song or that song has their name written all over it coz either it suits them or they can nail the song and make it their own. Well talking about my own repertoire of songs, I can't even assure myself that any song when I sing it, people will go, "OH, this song, Afiq can definitely sing well if he sings it". I know i shouldn't judge it through other's opinion only but I look at it as my capability level so far. I know of many poeple who have the potential of singing so well as they has the techniques, range and tone of voice. That for me is essential for the vocals and presentation is another issue.

Apart from being able to find a song for myself, i might say that I need to improve on my vocals too. I have been trying to catch up on my healthy lifestyle in order to sing better and to maintain the stamina of my singing which is detereoriating. Someone once told me that i should put myself high and give myself a high standard. It is important to have an idol to look up to.

Now im neither here nor there as im singing chinese songs which is to my disadvantage and also english songs which I've not been really in to them nowadays. I have to be good! I have to have my own style.

For starters I muz keep myself updated with latest songs and vocal styles. Find my most ideal repertoire of songs. And practice more to improve and find my own style and strengths.. I'm gonna get better no matter what. People are gonna go wow on me.. No matter what song i sing..