心情溶剂

The picture is a little far here but what the heck.

This annual mandarin song-writing competition organised by King Edward Hall of NUS ended just hours ago.

Gekleng, the person who took part in this competition, walked home with 500 bucks and 2 trophies: Best music arrangement and the second runner-up prize.

The performers for his song are in this picture. Benny on the bass, J doing the vocals, Diya on the drums and Yaoxian the keyboards. Considering we had negligible practice, we managed to come up with a really decent performance that we were pretty proud of.

We were the minimalists of the show with just 3 instruments and vocals. 10 different groups. Some with dancers, some with saxophones, some with backup vocals and most of them practising the whole time, throughout rehearsals and full runs. I guess the 5 of us had a good time chit-chatting, sleeping, playacting, singing and irritating the other contestants.

I was surprised by my rare composure on stage today. Maybe because its a really big crowd and a really big stage. It feels like holding your own concert with the place mimicking as a smaller version of Indoor Stadium. It feels good to be doing a song live in front of a huge crowd and this stands out as one of the biggest gigs I've done so far. Benny, Diya, Yaoxian and I really enjoyed ourselves on stage, it was some night to remember.

And thanks Gekleng for giving us a chance to do it.