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Gakkai Song Fiesta 2006

Saturday, January 06, 2007

As I've said, I had participated in the Gakkai Song Fiesta on 30 December 2006.

We sang Eagles of a New Beginning, a song composed by me and lyrics written by Kui Bao, a little more than 2 years ago. This song was a dedication from my batch of TPSD students, to our juniors during our graduation. I still have that photo as evidence:

We eventually got it recorded, with the initiation of Liang Ngee our IIC then, Ting Chien on the lead, rhythms and vocals, Liang Ngee's friend Freddy on the drums (he was the one who did the recording), and I think Jeffrey, Ying Jie, and icantrememberwhoelse helped too.

We sent that recording to Ikeda Sensei, with his reply, "Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart. Please send my best regards to all of you. "

When GD Mr Ong asked for newly composed Gakkai songs, I submited this song, without the the limit of the skies. I went through ups and downs, worrying about the performance of this song, and its tight deadlines.

Thanks once again to everyone. Thanks to Kui Bao, who willing helped me wrote the lyrics 2 years ago, and continuing to support the perfomance of this song for the GSF.

Thanks to Fabian, who willingly helped to sing and played the lead, although he very much didn't want to play and sing at the same time, and cracked his head when the others weren't on time or weren't there for the practices, as he is always the earliest.

Thanks to Ee Sin, for being willing to play the drums initially, and eventually played the rhythms very well, and sacrificing the CIC outing for the success of our performance.

Thanks to Kenneth and Bryan, for willingly playing the drums and bass respectively for us, despite the fact that you both wern't from TPSD, and you have your own composition too. You both had played wholeheartedly for us, despite it being a competition.

Thanks to Raymond, who so happen was in charge of the GSF, and him being an ex-TPSD student, giving me all the pressure to perform at our tip top condition.

Thanks the Natalie, who handled the GSF as well as Raymond did.

I cause the whole band to make an irrevocable mistake. And there was a "live" recording. I'm not sure how it'll turn out to be. I'm just looking forward to the release of the recording.

I'm also quite regretful that I didn't take any photos although I brought my camera (which is spoiling soon..). But I do received some photos from Johnny and ZhiRhong. Here they are:

That's all. I'll update on my visit to the Singapore Garden Festival next time, when I finished uploading the photos..

LA~mour @ 12:42 AM