Tuesday, April 28, 2009

KBOX + Gathering + Birthday



女生上了大学,男生入了兵役之后,大家都个忙个的,很少有时间聚在一起。上个星期六,这个机会终于来了,真是开心。

拜六早上,我,MJ和LX先去了附近的NTUC买菜,以准备在晚上食用。过后,我们坐车去Clementi跟WL和MY回合,然后去那里的KBOX唱K。本来也叫了TY来的,谁知道他临时告诉我要留在兵营值班,所以出不来。晕...



我们从下午两点半唱到6点半左右。我记得以前是一点开始的,不知道为什么现在改到两点半了。难道地方不一样时间段也不一样?其实MJ有提议过要不要去玩点别的,不过除了唱K以外我想不到其他好玩的东西...(是我孤陋寡闻还是新加坡生活就是这么无聊?)而且大家也有一段时间没有唱K了,所以我说干脆就去KBOX吧。



其实我这个人比较适合去唱日语的Karaoke。我知道的日语歌的数量跟华文歌的数量根本没法比,而且华文歌每次唱来唱去都是那几首,没有新鲜感。当然唱是唱得痛快啦,不过还有很多别的歌是我想尝试的...



忘了说了,上个礼拜我的口腔里一直有很多毛病。一是舌头起泡,而是不小心咬到自己而起溃疡。直到星期五,我嘴巴一直痛得说不了话,吃不了饭...其实星期六的时候还是有一点痛,不过已经好多了,没有碍我唱歌。幸运啊~至于为什么舌头气泡,我也不知道。可能那几天热所以上火了吧,不过我是那么容易就上火的吗?



某人不敢出现在镜头里,所以我只好偷拍...



Magic: Floating iPOD

WL因为晚上要去看黄城所以中途就走了。本来我以为过了时间也可以再唱一会儿的,谁知道一到时间他们就把我们点的所有歌给删掉了,而且也不能再点了。于是我们就一直按“下一首”,看随机播的MV里面有没有我们会唱的,谁知道播来播去都是同样那几首。咳,现在KBOX的管理员变聪明了...

唱完K过后,我们一起回到了我家吃火锅。过不久HX,ZW,和ZH就来了,于是我们就开始准备料理。女生们负责剥皮,切菜,男生们负责...给他们打气。用兵营的话说就是所谓的"eye power"吧,哈哈~我开了一罐午餐肉,不过挖出来的时候没有弄好,结果弄得乱七八糟...还好后来MJ及时挽救,把午餐肉切得似模似样的。



两位小厨师



准备菜料

没过多久我们就开始吃火锅了。因为ZW不吃辣的,所以我们给她准备了另外一个锅。要是当初买一个鸳鸯锅就好了,不过那种锅似乎很贵...早上买菜的时候,我还怕买少了,后来才知道我是过于担心。桌上那么多盘菜和肉,到最后几乎一半都没有吃完...下次我应该多叫一点男生啊~



这是什么pose...?

虽然我们用的是重庆麻辣火锅的底料,但不知道为什么我不觉得这次的火锅辣。我是一直在擤鼻涕,一直在冒汗,不过我还承受得了。当然白菜那些事吃不了啦,不过其他菜我还是吃得津津有味的。这要感谢准备菜单的MJ!



收拾了吃剩的菜之后,就是吃蛋糕的时间了。前几天MJ因为考试而没庆祝生日,所以那天算是补过吧。她应该是第二个在我家过生日的人。生日蛋糕看起来很普通,而且好像在哪儿吃过,不过这些都不重要啦~最重要是大家有机会聚在一起嘛~



为什么ZH每次都没有看着镜头...

许了愿,吹了蜡烛过后就开始切蛋糕了。不过还没有切完就看到两个馋嘴的人不停地在旁边偷吃,而且被我拍下来了...哈哈。聊了一会儿过后,他们因为第二天有事所以回去了。要不然我们可以玩通宵的...不过算了吧,能找个大家都有空的时间,一起玩一玩,吃一吃饭,已经够开心的了。女生们现在是放假期间,个个都要回国了...所以可能我们这些当兵的男生要寂寞一段时间...不过没关系,以后还有的是机会嘛~况且我自己还有那么多事情要做,时间是永远不够用的...

其余的照片:http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=89965&id=545686096&l=e634d6d0db

PS 顺便给韩路宣传一下他的新videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zj4AYp3Rfo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7YzjUB_z-8

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Castle in the Sky - Innocent (Piano)



Innocent

Music from
《天空の城ラピュタ》 (Laputa, the Castle in the Sky)
Taken from the Album
《Piano Stories》 by 久石譲 (Joe Hisaishi)


Basically this song is a rearrangement of the main theme song, 君をのせて (Carrying you), but is much easier. The main melody is the same, and I like this melody a lot. I also like the piano version of Carrying you, but that one is a bit harder to learn, so I learnt this one first. I should be moving on to Carrying you in the near future.

Again, it took me a lot of time to film it... The song is easy to learn, but filming it is another thing. After about 10 tries I finally got it right. The dynamics part somehow cannot be shown in the film clearly, or rather with this piano and camera it's very hard to catch the dynamics (not that I played it very well, though...).

I think this piano of mine is really old... I hope to get a better one if I have the chance.

And I just realised that many people have played this song and posted on youtube already... Many of them play better than me (of course), haha. But never mind since I've already posted it. It's sort of gaining experience, you know.

I've also watched the actual movie some time ago. I believe if I were a kid, I would be touched by it, but watching it now doesn't give me a lot of feelings. The idea of a castle floating in the sky for many many years is very interesting though, and the music is also very nice, just like all the songs composed by Joe Hisaishi. When he composed the Soundtrack for this film, I wasn't even born yet! LOL


Took IPPT today. For those of you all who don't know, IPPT is sort of Physical Fitness Test in army. Last year I got Silver, and this year I am aiming for Silver again. However, just after the test started to rain. And the rain got heavier as time passed... We still took the indoor stations, but the last station, 2.4 km run, had to be carried out outdoors. Hence we waited, and waited, and waited for the rain to stop... But God was so harsh that he didn't blow the rain clouds away... So, the IPPT today was void and I need to come back to take next time...My one day off and the $100 that comes with a Silver is also gone... for now.

Tomorrow I will be booking in for another round of 7 days. After this round a new batch of Sea Soldiers will be joining the platoon, so there will be more manpower and duty will be less siong. Yes, just a bit more to endure...

Ok, I shall go and tidy up my room now... I have not done that for...hmm, weeks? Haha...


Here's a funny video I found:


Tuesday, April 14, 2009

空手而归



本来我这次参加星期天的Toa Payoh East Weiqi Competition,是为了拿奖杯的。谁知道到了最后,我竟然空手而归,连前五名都没进。而且这次比赛几乎没有什么强手去。咳...是我老了呢,还是我棋艺大退?反正这天,我明显不在状态...



第一盘我输给上面这位叫Zhang Yimo的仁兄。他的名字似乎跟那个著名导演一样,但他棋力应该比那位导演强。以前我跟他下都是赢他的,谁知道这次一上来定式就走错,直到后来我也没有发现形式已非。只能说明我对定式的了解和判断能力大大的出现了问题...咳...



在第五场我又输给上面中间那位。他叫李超,刚从中国过来这边读书,在上海有5段水平。上次在棋会跟他下过一盘,那时我那黑,赢他半目。谁知道这次竟然这么巧,他拿黑赢我半目...其实这盘棋内容还不错,从中盘到收官的时候我一直领先。可是到了后来我看我的时间快到了,所以没有怎么思考就把棋子拍上去。但这一拍就损了大概4,5目棋,把胜利也把奖杯给葬送了...

忘了说了,这次比赛是每方25分钟的快棋。如果是在中国,这种比赛可能算做超快棋了...25分钟看似很长,但其实一下子就会过去的,由不得你大长考,也不会有时间判断。这也是我不喜欢快棋的原因...



输了两盘棋之后呢,我已经知道没希望了,所以干脆拿出我的宝贝相机Canny到处拍照。第六场和第七场我几乎都不到10分钟就把对手解决掉了,所以有很多时间拍照。本来我下棋是主要,拍照是次要的,现在却反而颠倒过来了...来这边拿奖杯的结果变成来试拍。况且这也是我第一次带我的Canny出门,所以要让它多见见外面的世界。拿不到奖杯,拍很多照片回去,怎么说也有点收获吧~(真的变成take nothing but photographs了...)而且这次比赛又没有什么奖金,赢不赢也无所谓。对,我就是这样安慰自己的...

至于拍出来的照片呢,我觉得还可以吧。有些拍得还不错(我个人认为),有些一塌糊涂。在这种有一大堆人的地方我真不知道该怎么去拍。而且不知道是不是灯光不好,不开闪光灯的话拍出来的照片很多都是蒙的,只有多拍几张才拍得到比较清晰的。有一些人怎么focus也focus不了,也有一些人拍一张就focus对了。可能是RP问题吧...或者是因为我拿相机的姿势不好,还是手抖得太厉害了。传说中的image stabiliser也不是说很厉害啊...

其余的照片:




对了,没想到杨老师竟然有Canon的EOS 40D!他说是两年前花了两千多块买的,不过我从来都没有看过他带出来用。他说太重了,所以带起来不方便。我觉得那么好的相机,如果不拿到外面去拍摄的话太浪费了。希望下次可以摸一摸他的相机...