New Tune Music Composing Camp

On 19-20th, I went to Bukit Tinggi (Pahang) for New Tune Music Composing Camp with the theme 音乐方程式. The main purpose of the camp is to encourage song writing among newtuners, while the rest purposes are to strengthen relationship between newtuners, to scout talented people in music and to encourage members to perform.

This camp, for me is a success, as I gained something from it. Well. Coincidentally, I was in the process of song-writing. Coincidentally, I met my obstacles and was damn going to give up. Coincidentally, the theme for this camp is about song-writing as well. So coincidentally, due to the camp, it pushed me to face my obstacles and BOOM! There goes again, I'm on my trail once more! ^^ *feeling damn high as I manage to born a full song tonight!*

Back to the topic. I was one of the committees last year, but this year as a senior, I went as a camper. This is my final year, so I really tried to enjoyed the camp very much, and I did, happily. I got the chance to play the games, which I didn't last year. The juniors successfully organized the programme flow well, and I successfully played the games with my full concentration and commitment, that in the end, my group won! Yay! Had so much fun while playing the games with my dear group mates.

My group mates

I got the chance to perform too, unfortunately. Because that was scary! There were to parts of the performance, one is song-writing in which I concentrated more, another is group performance, in which I screwed. I didn't perform well in my part, as I was in super blur condition at that time, sorry dear group mates!!

In the song-writing section, I spent about 4 hours (from 12am to 4am) to produce a simple English song with 2 version of melodies but same lyrics, which written by Sze Pei, my group mate who writes poem. This is my first time to fill in melody based on lyrics. But I finally got the chance to experience the easiness to have a partner to write songs, phew~ How good to have a partner like Sze Pei, too bad she doesn't write Chinese, too bad NT songs are in Chinese mostly.

Thanks to junior Edmund, I managed to get things right with the chords, which killed me hard X( And big thanks to senior Guo Hao for the guitar lesson on how to find chords, which kills me hard too X[ , I seriously need to improve this for my own sake! For about 4.30 in the morning, Sze Pei and I finally done the song. After like 2 hours sleep, we managed to spend a little time to finalize and practice the song with the rest group members. I unfortunately had to show off my lousy guitaring in front of seniors and juniors, Oh My God! Really paiseh for the mistakes!! So in the end, we performed it, and from the review of senior Jian Lee, the song was like a straight line, in short, boring. XD really paiseh, I felt sorry for the lyricist.

One of the most special event of the camp was the talk and performances given by seniors Jian Lee and Guo Hao. I've learn more about writing lyrics, maybe I should just write my own lyrics instead of waiting for the no-response friends, who help me to fill lyrics. I wonder why, perhaps my songs aren't too good for them anyway *sighs* I seriously need to improve more and more.

There is a part from the talk that wet my eyes, that Jian Lee said that we really need to feel appreciate to NT for giving us the chance in song-writing, in performing on stage, to play music, to dance, for the friends, for the moments in uni, for everything. This made me thought of the moments I spent with NT, the moments I left spending with NT, my tear glands just couldn't help it. This is saddening. Maybe it's time for me write a letter to NT, like the one I did to SS, before I forget about it again.

I'm going to write another post on our trip to Colmar Tropicale, French village at Bukit Tinggi. There are 4 days of Raya break I left, OMG!! I still left many things to do, 6 assignments, 3 midsem exams, and songs for NTLP!! Bless me. ^^"

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UKM Pesta Tanglung Carnival 2009

Traditionally, UKM Pesta Tanglung will held a carnival outside UKM every year in September.

This year, they held this event at Dewan Persatuan Hokkien at Kajang.

Being UKM student for 2 years already, I went to this carnival for the very 1st time, and the last time too, as this is my final year. I went there two days, first day went with coursemates Woon Mei, Mei Yong and Ah Tung, and the second day went with New Tuners, who performed in the event.

To attract people, the usual and popular food stalls from Pasar Malam will be seen during such carnivals.

Meat balls that bomb in your mouth~



Lok Lok.



Mei Yong with her food, forgot what's it call..



Fried Chicken, my favourite.



Desserts. And many more..

Besides food, there were others attractions towards kids and adults.



Clown, who said "Yoorrr.. Why take my photooo? Sorry Mr. Clown XD



Who gave out cute balloons to kids only.



捞金鱼.



Beautiful latterns decorations.



Cute stuffs, which sold by my coursemate June's sister.



And I couldn't resist, so I bought these two.

And special for coursemates, June's sister gave me one extra free! Yay! Thanks!! XD

Balloons. And many more..

There are stage performances as well.



For example lion dance, which attracted alot of kids! ^^ but not to me, it was noisy!!



Drums performance from Yu Hua kids, they were so cool!!

In the exhibition section, lattens, traditional chinese cultures can be seen, and I took some photos of them.

Antique camera, I think my dad still got one at home.



Antique clock.



Antique iron.



Antique gramaphone. And, many more...



They have chinese traditional calligraphy show.



Their tools. And again, many more.

The end. I spent these two night happily. Met a lot of friends, who haven't seen for some time. And New Tune performances were a success, the junior singers were good, Siew Suan and Chee Huan, and also the interesting keyboardist Wu Jing. Dance was always good as well! We also had a little so-called farewell dinner with Allan Hoo, a New Tune member who's going to take his degree in German, walao~ German!! Gonna miss this nice guy too.

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A letter to coursemates - "When The Day Comes"

Dear coursemates,

When the day comes, what will happen to us?

Some may continue taking master in university, some may get the chance to work in the same field which we studied, some may work in grape yard(menganggur), some may work in an environment which totally unrelated to what we have studied (this may occured to everyone most probably), some may get married and have kids, some may further studies in overseas, some may continue their family business, some may just goyang kaki at their house, some may just disappear..

No matter what will happen in the future, I will miss everyone a lot! This is one of the level in life, moving ahead and never look back. But when you turn your head over your shoulder, you look at the past, and smile.

However, I wish the day never comes.

Regards,
Tracie

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Greed

Greed, one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Whoa! Well, the greed of mine, isn't that serious as you thought kay? =) The reason I think that I'm greedy, is that I always wanted more. I always have the strong desire of possessing many things or doing different things in one time. Does that sound greedy to you? Or maybe I should say that I have too many wishes! >.<

Here it goes.

I have a desire to get a DSLR. That's because I want to capture all the memories I have. Cehh, lame! Well, it's because I like art so much! I like beautiful things. I want every photos that I took are in best quality, that you can tell the stories behinds those photos, that you can feel the air in the photos.

I have a desire to write great songs. That's because I want my songs to be sung in the next NTLP. Hell no!! I just hope that one day, people will remember me by listening to my songs. I want to be responsible to want I have started! I want to continue the dream that I have since years ago, the day when I was bathing in the shower, humming the melody out of nowhere, and realized that I wanted to make songs like those songs Dad played in the player.

Finally I started this song-writing thingy after being inspired by one of an idol of mine YUI, after meeting New Tune in UKM, after being encouraged by friends and seniors. I made out many melodies. However, I have been given up so many times, that I always walk into the blocks ahead like lame vocal of mine, no lyrics, no chords, roommates are around, melody not nice, not confident.. these blocks are all shit! I'm not talented to do such things, I don't know how to play music instruments good. I'm lack of everything. It's sad when you have to stop in the middle of the way of something, it just couldn't move forward! Maybe I'm not meant to do such thing after all. But yet, I still wanna finish this. Because I have greed.

I have a desire to play guitar well in front of people. It's kinda heart-breaking when I realized that I don't have enough time to learn my guitar already. I have left less than a year of university life now. I feel like wanna cry that I realized that I have wasted two years to learn guitar. Excuses are many, and I'm sick of them. How can I improve my knowledge and skill in such a short period of time, I just can't! Can I turn back time?

So far these are some of the greed I'm having. Some I would like to make them as secret. A friend of mine said that the posts in my blog are fulled of complaints. I think they are. I used the posts to tell people about my unsatisfactory towards the things happening to me. Maybe I should change my way of blogging into a happy and funny blog someday. I want to make my blog interesting. See, am I greedy again?

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I'm officially 23

On 7th September 2009, Monday, I'm officially 23 years old. I don't have much feelings on this. I have received many wishes and greetings from friends and family. Some wishes were quite unique to me, I'm not saying that the wishes others friends gave were not special, they are all meaningful to me.

So, one of my friend said: "大個女啦, can marry already."
Respond: Still young lar, and still single how to marry so fast leh..

One said: "Wish you can write your songs smoothly."
Respond: I really love this wish, thanks Louise.

Another said: "Make your wishes sincerely and they will become true for sure."
Respond: Frankly, I didn't make my wishes really really sincerely and with full concentration in the previous years, no wonder some of my wishes still not yet come true. This time, I made the wishes in full concentration nyahaha.. What wishes? Secret.

Mum said: "Wish my girl have a nice birthday."
Respond: Thanks for giving birth to me Mommy!

and Selangor said: "Today is public holiday."
Respond: It was Nuzul Quran. I have no idea what's it all about.

Thanks for them who had wished and greeted me, and also those who celebrated with me, they are:

Dear coursemate sisters: Woon Mei, Xiao Yi, Wai Bing, Mei Rong and Sheh Na.

Had a wonderful and funny dinner and movie together.

Ex BSMM comrades and dear new roommate: Yan Shiang, Siew Ling, Yong Fen, Pui Yee, Hui Xin, Jimmy, Zhi Xiong and Jia Wen.


















Thanks everyone for the cake and the bunny, Hui Xin.

New Tuners: Jie Ru, Zhi Tatt, Fai, Xiao Yi, Ali, Yi Xin, Edmoon, Siao Zhen, Yee Kuan, and Balia.


















Had a wonderful birthday combo celebration with Yi Xin and Yee Kuan. Thanks for the Japanese doll, it was spooky to me, but I do like it!

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