The Debut Album (DA) is moving along, we've had five minus ones inserted with vocal lines - which qualifies them as 'songs'.

The sessions so far:

Date??: Iceball - her compositions The Incredible You, Live Can Do More Than You and The Young Ones at HYPE Records (Singapore Idol judge Ken Lim's recording company)

29 Jan: Iceball - OTDOYH lead (OTDOYH is a duet backed by a vocal ensemble), at HYPE Records (Mike bro's studio not available that evening - it was a hasty arrangement because Iceball would be flying off to Melbourne in about two days after the planned session)

26 Feb: Su-May - OTDOYH lead (2nd part)

13 Mar: Hui Ling - Letting Them Go (lead)

14 Mar: Su-May and Vivy - alto parts for OTDOYH, Keep It Simple, The Power of Now, Ehipassiko and Live in the Present. They like the "du-du" part so much that we're considering bouncing out a copy without the lead singer, just "du-du" then "Keep it simple if you can..."

Okay lah, quite simple

We have the Vesak show coming up... STRESSSSS AAAAH!!!!!

Singing off,
Aug

Prata Memories

Monday night, in preparation for our CD recording, some of us had a run-through in the Soracco room: Su May and Vivy for the alto part, Hui Ling and Ai Ling for the soprano part, and of course August the coordinator (certainly indispensable since had to learn the songs from him! =))

Practice plus chit-chat (plus lateness -- er, that was me...) took 3++ hours (me no sense of time, around that lah). As August put it, first relaxing rehearsal session after a while, considering recent last-minute Moonlight rehearsals... heh. Guess we all missed this kind of practice ya. ^_^ (Insert message from sponsor: please remember to turn up for practice this Saturday, folks! ^_^)

Anyway. It was then that we found out Su May would be leaving for London on Thursday, earlier than originally planned. Wah!!! We've wanted to hold a farewell session for her this Saturday actually, but obviously now cannot huh.

Well, no time for a proper farewell session, but after practice we decided to hang out a while more. Eng Chin joined us too, she'd been accompanying us (from the office =)) to lock up after we're done. (So sorry for the trouble ya..) Hui Ling needed to go home though. The rest of us who had more flexible (work) schedule then headed for kopi which Aug claimed he needed. (Someone needs to keep this guy from overworking and undersleeping!)

Yep, the above guy. (Actually he ended up taking tea. The waiter mistook the order and he was too kind to ask them to take it back. -_-) The photograph was taken by Su May. Purely by chance I happened to bring my camera with me that day. Lucky! Er, would be luckier if we'd remembered to take pictures inside the Soracco room (which we'll be leaving and missing soon...) or during daytime, but forgot ler, what to do. We made do with flash lor.

Of course must also have the photo of them two together to take to London! Now that I notice, there was an incidental arrow sign pointing to them eh. (Click on picture to view the larger size.) The lights in the distance were in such strategic positions too. *sparkle sparkle* (Just my past-midnight rambling.. ignore..)


And five bright smiles altogether. Don't be fooled by the empty table, we did indulge in a nice prata (and one mee) supper before that. For my part (Su May's and Eng Chin's too I suppose?), just found out that "almond susu" meant almond (?) cookie crumbs in milk. Quite yummy.

So that's the story. Su May had entrusted us the task of keeping this blog alive while she'd be away, hence my writing here. =)) We wish her an exciting future and a great time in the next stage of her life!