C: pop

Yo guys. This is one of the nights which I will regret tomorrow.. It's been like that for the past 4 nights, and tomorrow will be my 5th day in a row dozing off in anything I do.

My cell group and I went to K-box yesterday (a first time for me) to....... I suddenly can't remember what for. But anyway it's got something to do with Theresa before she gets married but it's nothing near a sabotage. Anyway, it turned out to be Wen Ai's birthday so we passed around to card to sign in front of her (I wonder if she saw) and dedicated a Happy Birthday song to her. This song. I still remember it. When I was secondary 1, I went to karaoke with my godfather. It was a birthday celebration for one of his friends, and of course, they sang the happy birthday song. AND IT'S THE SAME CHEESY MTV WE SAW YESTERDAY. It was this teenage blonde girl's birthday and they had a cake in the living room of their white-ish bungalow, and guests started streaming in with gifts and all.. I'm sure some of you have seen this evergreen video before.

It was fun seeing everyone sing. And it's the love that kept them in the room when I was singing. Wen Ai's obsession with S.H.E., Shuwen's preference for oldies (Everly Brothers man.. even the MV was in greyscale! haha), Reuben's ability to sing any song, Sinlong's photography expertise, it was fun man. I'll see if i can get some pictures from Sinlong.

To my surprise, K-Box was a lot more fun than I had thought it to be. We sang lots of C-pop songs by jay chow, david tao, stef sun (all of which are artistes I used to like a long time ago, but also which I have forgotten to listen to amidst all the new(and old) music). Reuben and I attempted a H-pop(hokkien pop) song which proved to be as disastrous as it can ever get. haha.

Anyway all these C-pop artistes have very nice songs with very meaningful lyrics and very interesting arrangements. I should go get my hands on some of their cds this weekend. Jay chow, in my opinion, is the chinese "jay"son mraz.

He has a song called '(secret) signal' and it's interesting how he parallels a couple so in love and later on slowly losing steam to a handphone that's slowly losing the ability to receive signals sent to it. It starts with him talking about this couple not letting people know that they're together at first, how they're "walking in the tunnel", and then the girl eventually wants to "get out and feel the breeze", to let the world know that they're together. But the boy prefers not to let people know so that their opinions and gossipping won't crowd out or interfere with the signal they have between them. Anyway, then through a sudden twist of fate, the girl loses the ability to receive signals, and the boy is searching and searching but still he finds nothing.

Anyway since a video speaks a thousand words, here's the jay chow secret signal MV

F.I.R.'s Fly Away and Our Love, Stefanie Sun's Wo Yao De Xin Fu, and many other songs keep ringing in my head. I guess it's the Singaporean (or maybe just the Chinese) frequency that's resonating in my heartstring.

Anybody wanna go K-Box don't forget to jio me!!


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