Tabletennis

I dont think there's a sport that the whole of Spore really likes to watch but yesterday 7.30pm, everybody was glued to their TVs for what would be the biggest competition in Spore's history. Guaranteed that it will be written down in Spore's history.

The Spore Females Tabletennis team finally got an olympic medal. The highest accolade any sportsman or woman could ever dream of getting, regardless of its colour.

Well the final score is 3-0 and Singapore did its best to get fight face to face with the Ping Pong giants themselves..CHINA.

They went, they fought, they lost but we're proud of them. Spore got silver. Not bronze! Silver this time!

Maybe int he next olympics we can get the gold! or maybe we'll need to wait 48 more years. By then our 1st olympic recipient would most likely not be around...I hope not. I hope this is a start of Singapore dream to be stronger. Now its cast in silver, next year the gold is ours!

Still alot of disputes on Spore's foreign talent issue...its true..at the finals of this match...it more or less seemed like China was fighting against China...only difference...the jersey colour. Event he coaches.

A joke I heard yesterday...if this year it dont work, we could always buy more next year...emm not very funny...



Speaking of dreams...Ive been reinspired by a NOISE Singapore performance yesterday afternoon at Suntec. Excellent bands with tricks up their sleeves that just made the performance so satisfying! Original songs, lovely rythmns and excellent shomanship. Im not an expert on this but I loved it so much...made me really wish I could be in a band so anyone looking for a singer? ME ME ME! I want!

Theres a really good band called Monochrome. Doesnt sound fantastic at 1st, looked impressive with e rocker chick as the lead. She's got the attitude and all really but she had to strain her voice a few times htat by the time she was done..she couldnt reach her high notes and her voice broke. Not to good for a band that wants to do well in the long term. HOWEVER, another impressive or unique character to this band is it boasts of its bilingual abilities. YES! Mandarin!

Mandarin singing band?!?!? The lead singer steps off and lets her eletric violinist take over. A chubby, at angles mainland looking chinese guy takes the stage and speaks with a small boy type of style but belts out the highnotes with skill. Not missing one note! Close your eyes and you see SHIN! Im an sooo daaammmnnnn impressed!!!

Pity though..it woud lead me to pay attention to only their chinese songs.

Another band that was interesting was Blind meets Mute. An almost all malay band except for their english songs. The singer is a small pint-size malay girl with a bright strong voice, dressed with a tudong. Dont see tudong rock singing girls often yah.

Their songs were....okay...okay because the lyrics werent fantastic and the band wassnt skilled enough and they more or less sounded like their sounds we're all crashing together to become one gigantic big sound (note i didnt say noise)..so I can only say I like the girl's voice

The 2 bands I loved the most...SPONGE and Stentorian (is that how its spelt?) Damn they're good! Did I also mention that the Stentorian's lead singer is uber cool?!?! AND HIS VOICE!

Im am truly impressed! k more like bowled over! Damn! K u know how high I was over people like Reshmonu and Idan Raichel? Yep I think we've got a sporean representative. :)

Next to this dude would be SPONGE's lead and then King Kong Jane's lead? Anyway if you wanna listen to what I mean...go to myspace.com and look for SPONGE & Stentorian

Lastly..Bless is a local rapper who's got good works. Nothing to religious or racist or politically sensitive for now..all true to life experience pieces and I like his work. catch him on myspace too.

Thats what Ive heard so far and you can bet that Id be around to watch their other gigs.

Speaking of dreams...

After the performance I left feeling satisfied but feeling empty...

I think since the last time Ive gone for such local gigs, my eyes had once again been veiled by harsh reality...or reality as I make of it...I wanna sing..I wanna be in a band and I want to perform. Am I the only one who has this urge to do soemthing so bizzare? Apparently not because all those on the stage now have the same urge..Yet why am I still offstage?

Yet the more I think of this..the more a voice deep inside says, "Ur too old for this kind of thing..its pass your time..dont spend needless money..what can this do for you?"
And the weird thing is I never realy heard these things from my parents...aside from when I joined Spore Idol and my parents both asked me "why you wanna do this for?" or how they didnt really thought my performances were worth going...its really more of "dont waste money"
I think I got the idea when I put this all thogether plus body laguage and their beliefs and their lifestyle....

In fact I dont think the "waste money" idea was meant for me to not go into all this music stuff....but that the music stuff could potentially cause me to spend money take time which could affect my studies....So all those "waste money", "go and study"....transcended into me telling myself that I wouldnt wanna sing...to risk all these thigns from happening. Sad eh.

So as I took the escalator down to the new underpass from suntec..I pondered upon th eidea of stepping out of this mindset...should I? Is it really too late? could someone in the mid 20's still dream? or has work, money, time, family, invisible load of responsibilities or imaginary need to be the "good girl" really pulled me down to be like the usual old fogs who go through life like normal working class adults?

Do I really wanna grow up get a job,
help out in the family physically and financially,
get a family,
sustain that family,
have a baby,
till death do me part?

Looking at my life..I think the one thing I did wrong...was realize how impt dreams are too late. Growing up in a family with strong ideas of grades, no late nights, no concerts, no friends parties etc.. Parents scared that id hurt/injure/get kidnapped/get etc etc and parents scared to contradict each other...
Maybe I should have fought back...should have put more importance on my dreams instead of putting money and time as more impt and stuffling it.

I think the only one who ever really lived in my family...is my cousin..who got to work amongst horse (her interest and maybe her dream) and got married to a jockey etc etc..now with a beautiful little girl..at the right times of her life. I must admit that Im envious. :)

So if I ever ever ever get a kid...I will teach the kid to be independent, then to follow his dreams and then by the time he/she hits 23, he/she can start settling down and having a family...

Okay enough on my side..Im still in reflection...Even if I wanted to do this....how the hell do I get myself a band?!?! And what about my interest in sign language? $...singing lessons? $

okay well thats my entry...something in me wishes my parents read this but its abit too late by now. As my elders would say...you're older now..should be wiser. Well im starting to believe that wisdom is a relative term..its also subjective and its up to me to decide on how my being wise is...

till then...

God Bless