"Made In Singapore"
I've offically gotten the local music scene bug! Last time, I used to hate local music to the core somehow. I'll be sooo turned off especially when 987fm's Home session starts playing on air. Ahaha.. Things are different now I guess. Local singers are getting better at what they do. Go check out Max Shanti's "When I Get There" and Shirlyn Tan's "Newfound Jealousy". There's also a nice remade lovey dovey songs by Olivia Ong. And the song that's currently playing is by Astroninjas, which is actually a band made up from different group members like Electrico etc. Whew! Good to say that all these "Made in Singapore" bands are getting better. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that the live performance in Harry's bar at Clarke Quay is good lar the other time when I walked past the area on Saturday night. Great performance by this fellow doing the John Mayer's "Your Body Is A Wonderland".
AHHhhh.. Should I get Shirlyn Tan's or Max Shanti's album? Argh. Or both? Hmmm.. Support local music man! Well.. I'll see how my wallet goes.. Both are great singers worthy of my money...
Saturday, 25th August 2007
Every year, my family will attend the "7th month" dinner, whereby people bid for items at ridiculous price while having their dinner there. Whatever profits gained from the auction then goes to the charity, temple and old folk's homes etc. Aiyar.. Need to give a brief explanation of how this thing actually works.. Ahaha... Okay, firstly my parents get invited for this only last year. So it's only a 2-seats dinner thing. But if your purchase from this auction exceeds a certain required amount, you'll be invited again for either a 2-seater or an entire table one. So our case, my parents would usually bid until like 1k+ for one table next year. This is actually like on behalf of the company one, since the table is registered under my parent's company name, similarly for the other people's. There's quite a number of such events around Singapore actually.. The previous one I went last year was gone already, so they ended off with some Getai fiesta. Ahahhaa!!
Back to this one at Chinatown inside a shopping centre (it was the first for my family members - most of them were held in empty fields). My father placed bids for 2 red packets consisting of 4D/Big Sweep/TOTO, each at 680bucks. Insane you might say, but it's quite the standard price at which all the sales goes. Anyway, buying those red packets entitles us to enter this exclusive lucky draw that could win us $500 for first prize, $300 for second or $200 for third. In total, there was 30 red packets being auctioned off. Amazingly, we actually did won the first prize! Check this out - this is how 5 $100 bills looks like.. Hahaha.. So that covered like half the bidding price already.. Lucky us.
To keep the people from leaving the auction-cum-dinner affair, they actually have another lucky draw at the end of everything. The first three prizes were the Sony Ericsson's M600i phone, while the remaining five were microwaves I think. So each person who attend the thingy has a luck coupon with unique serial no. But after the dessert was served, quite a no. of people left throwing away their coupons. But some left them on the table, which lured the security guard to take them.. Quite smart wor.. Hahaha..! There's this auntie who had this whole table of coupons lar.. Wth. But anyhoo, we actually won the 2nd prize, which was the only white version of M600i. Sweet. How lucky were we that night.. Hahah.. Unfortunately, it was my dad who took the phone. BOOHOO! It's a cameraless phone, but it looks pretty by itself liao.. Somemore it's touchscreen. Useful for army wor, since they only allow no-camera phones if I'm not wrong.
Just before the ending of the auction, the auctioneer began to hasten its item auctions because everyone was leaving lar. Hahhaa.. So it's like "Okay, $100 for that lady.. Callings 1, 2, 3." in chinese.. Hahahh.. There's this suay women who wanted to call for bid twice but missed all of them since they have been closed. So damn funny to see the auctioneer do it lor.. My dad even joined in the fun and bid $100 for 10 big sweep tickets. Alright.. You can say alot of items went off at $100 at the last moment. There's some pretty nice items there actually, which could have gained more profit if they had been featured first. But what the heck. They got no brains.. Hahhaa.. Late night you might say.. Everything ended like about 12.30pm.. Lalalaa.. That's all my bullshit. Hate explanations.