Spotted!

Ladies and gentlemen!

I shall be performing in G hotel from the 4th of December till the 31st of January 2011!

6 days a week (Monday till Saturday)!!!!

I will write about it more asap!!!

Lots of love!

dl

Goals!

And so I am back in Malaysia!!! So good to be back! =)

The trip to Korea was indeed amazing and it took our breaths away. A little bit of a culture shock, since this was our very first trip performing out of Malaysia, but it was a lesson learnt and I think we handled it well enough.

Korea is beautiful. A big thank you to *Paul Augustine*, ~Oceans of Fire~, ^Aunty Ching^, !Michael!, )Simon(, Jerome dan lain-lain.

Anyway, back to the here and now.

With a few shows over and a few coming up, one can only say that I am a little busy. I know I have been asked time and time again when is my next public show in KL going to be, and I am keeping my fingers crossed for January! But before i go public again, I want to have written down at least 3 hand written songs to be performed live! I need this! I need to use what I have learnt and put it in pen and paper. Time to get to work and stop with all the stalling! And so, here I promise that by the end of this year, I would have ready 10 new and completely original songs!

So it has been blogged, so it shall be done!

안녕하세요 한국!!!!

Hello Korea!

YUP! Just one more day till our 4 month quest is put into motion and we (Ocean of Fire and myself) will be heading off to Korea to make our country proud!

Our very first international act is upon us and "excited" is an understatement! We want to do it all and want to have a blast and there is no doubt in my mind that we will!

This is what makes musicians great, loving what they do and having fun while doing it.

=) just gotta smile! Then get excited!

Step one, complete.

More surprises coming soon!

Yesterday and yesterday and yesterday.

And so the writing process is processing. Slowly, but something is definitely on the way.

After purchasing my very own traveling guitar (I call Bob Bailey), I find myself writing something new everyday. Mind you, I am still only writing with 3 chords and maybe adding in a small twinge of a difference here and there, but it always comes to a new song. Hey, if Paramore can write "the only exception" with 3 - 4 chords, then why can't I?

So I have made plans to do a little traveling next year. New air, new experiences and who knows what else I could learn while there. People to meet and musicians with a whole different insight on music, surely an experience I am looking forward to.

I have been digging into my past lately. Not to say that I have much of an interesting past, but looking at how life was so much more easier then and my only worries were exams and (ashamed as I am, this is truth) the boys who I knew. I found a poem which a guy I liked dearly had written to me ages ago. Back then the poem had scared me. But now I find myself looking at it for inspiration. Keep in mind, this was 6 years ago. Does not seem that long ago, but I was 16 back then!!! And now, that seems like forever ago.

Much has changed.

But the emotions still remain.

We learn from our mistakes. So I say, we should make more. And with that, we write. I learn, I write.

And thus, music shall be born. Hopefully it's good. =)

Pen and Paper

quiet nights of quiet stars,

quiet chords from my guitar

time to rest and write and sing

and see what inspiration will brings.

yeap I am taking a couple of weeks off to get down to the song writing. Tis a shame that I do not play an instrument at the moment which is proving to be a real pain! But i am picking up more and more from the guitar everyday, but of course i have to get out of the comfort zone of just 4 chords. slowly slowly, what I have done to get the writing working is buying re chargeable batteries for my voice recorder! And I have also found some old original ideas which I think would be cool to work on.

ALSO found in my voice recorder was a recording of my original track "would you be true" which I wrote 2 years ago! Just gotta re write the lyrics and get it worked on and I am sure it is something I will be working on more. Does any of this make sense? Hmmm I type too much.

Anyway, so this is to just let you know that YES I am writing my own stuff and all I need to do is get the guts to put them on a live stage!

Dream!!!!

So here are just some things I do everyday.

• check my phone
• check my mail
• read my book
• watch tv
• play my baby guitar
• try to write
• harass my manager with details on up comming events
• curse at Facebook

Other then that, i spend my day just daydreaming about the things I know i want to do. And that in itself is something I am thankful for; I know what i want. And darn it I am going to work to get it!

Know your dreams, you are the only one who can.

The music still pulses

I have drifted away from my blog slowly as time has passed thinking, why would anyone be reading this? Then a new friends, an unfamiliar face, came up to me one night during supper with a friendly smile and a camera asking if he could take a picture with me, and told me that he had just read my blog.

And that was all I needed to know that I was read. And that was all it took to get me back here. Thanks Steven. =)

It has been a surfing experience, I have been experiencing these past few months. I have fallen, picked myself up and tried again and again and sometimes, i have managed to stay up long enough to reach the shore. I have set so many goals for myself this year and slowly it seems to be coming together. The only thing that is stopping me is the occasional self questions and the frequent need to watch Avatar, the last air bender on my lap top. One step at a time, I guess. =)

The one thing that I have been slacking in is my writing. "WRITE!" I tell myself nearly every day. Everyday I have something new to write about. Everyday I fail to put them into words.

Experience.

This year is also proving to be filling me with experiences. Things have been happening which I have never dreamt of. Maybe my dreams are taking it a little bit too far for my reality, but why not put these dreams into words? Into song. I have been lucky enough to have woken up with music in my head! Twice this week I woke up groping for my recorder to record the song that was playing in my head from the dream I just had which thankfully, does not exist yet.

Anyway, this is long enough. Good luck to Lindsay Lohan. =)

Back!

I love to sing!

I love my job!!

I am preparing my set list for the show in Bagan this Saturday so that should be a blast. Back with the original old school band, we will be blasting the night up with an night of black and white. The theme? Well, I made it up myself. =p

"rose amongst the thorns"... hmm

dont know why though.

Anyway, with songs like "rolling on the river" and "gimme the night", who knows what the turn out is going to be. As usual, you never know what you will get in Bagan! =)

Why I do what I do.

In most jobs, well practically all jobs, there is some form of politics. Bosses with subordinates, employers and employees. Clients and managers, there is always someone in the way.

I have been asked time and time again why i have a manager, and time and time again I tell people the same thing; “I just don’t know how to handle business as I just don’t know how to say ‘no’ when people ask for things which I, in fact, cannot accept or deliver.” It’s that simple. My manager is good for me and is good to me. This keeps me out of all the politics as I would like to stay out of it.

I know I cannot be the liked one for the rest of my life and at some point I know someone is going to find something to say about me, if they have not already.

But until that day, I can do all I can to make sure that I stay as ME and not let the lifestyle of a business singer get in the way. My focus is music and making people happy. And though it is going to be hard for me to say no to people who approach me, well, that’s what my manager is for. To do all the hard stuff.

=) thank you daphhy waphy!

I'm Back!

Ah and now that my internship is over, I find myself livig the ideal musicians life! Working from 7:30 pm – 3 am is just yet another normality in my life. Don’t turn the green eyed monster on me!

After just finishing the F1 show, I am indeed filled with excitement to write and compose new stuff with help from my fabulous musician friends from penang and KL.

The F1 show was a lot of fun with backing up from Wan Gigi, Adil Johan, Jimmy Tan, John John, and Daniel Veerapen! What a line up! The performance was cool. =) better yet was the audience! Whooho!

With more to come, I invite you guys to join me in my journey to hopefully.. that stage.

Loving the days!

dasha