And Christmas never fails! Every year, we have the most awesome Christmas parties!

We spent Christmas eve at our place this year. We had the whole Christmas feast - gigantic turkey, ham, roast beef, log cake etc. It was sumptuous! God I love Christmas food! We exchanged presents after dinner and I went to meet Mel and the rest at OLPS church for midnight mass! Midnight mass is another thing I look forward to everyday of my life! I love seeing everyone all dressed up in church. In Singapore, most of the time people just go to church in berms and t-shirts, but Christmas eve midnight mass is the only time where the guys are in suits and girls all in fancy dresses! I love it! And I love the carols, and the atmosphere. Beautiful!

Ryan and Mel came back to my place after mass for a little while for some leftover Christmas foods. And after they left, we had our usual drinking games.

The whole gang was there. My boss was there too. We had fun! I especially had fun watching Kane decipher my handwriting. It's some kinda personality quiz thing. I don't know how much of it I believe, but I do know Kane's predictions were pretty accurate! But I think it's a very generic thing. Kinda like horoscopes. I don't know. I'm a skeptic when it comes to this kinda stuff.

But the good part of the night came as people got more and more drunk. Or specifically, this one guy that drank 4 cans of beer and got so smashed. By the end of the night, it was just a couple of us left, and we all just gathered round and mindfucked the poor drunk boy by telling him various random things to confuse him. Lol! We ended up having drinks at a nearby coffeeshop before heading home.

We had sooo much fun! And if you can't understand how much fun we had, watch this:

Well, we had loads of fun. It was great watching the migrant workers enjoy themselves so much! They were dancing and singing along, and honestly, that was the best part! They deserve nothing but the best!

And of course, when we have waiting time, we do crazy stuff. Which would explain the video below. Lol! After the gig, Mel, Ryan and I went to a fencing competition organized by the YMCA! Yes! Fencing! Omghhkp! I never knew fencing could be so exciting! I was so intrigued by the whole sport! We stayed till the competition ended and went to meet Thomas again for dinner and coffee.

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Edwin tagged us in some of the 'professional' photos taken by the 'professional' photographers at IVD!

I swear, the Singapore Flyer et cetera in the background looks painted in! Makes the whole picture look so damn awesome! I love it! And click here to view more photos from IVD (includes Corrinne May pictures)!

And oh! Remember how I promised a outtakes video from IVD? Yes! I finally edited and uploaded it! So enjoy!

So I guess the fact that I need to wake up early this weekend shouldn't affect me so much. Lol.

Anyways, I actually just got back from a Christmas concert at OLPS Church! I met up with Mel, Thomas and Kirsten at Tampines after work. We grabbed some food, then headed down to OLPS for the Christmas concert that Ryan was in! Ryan and the rest of the boys - Josh, James, John Paul, Emmanuel. The concert was awesome! Or rather, the band was awesome! Ryan is truly my guitar hero! Haha!

After the concert, we went for supper, and now I'm here. Shagged and sleepy.

AND and and.... I still need to get up early tomorrow morning 'cause Ryan, Mel and I are going Christmas carolling! Woohoooo! Haha. We're visiting various malls and homes for the disabled! It's gonna be a blast!

And of course, Jimi aka Jimi Jumpersuit aka the apeman will be back from Sydney on Sunday. I can't believe it's been a year since we last saw him! Man... one year ago! 

One year ago, 4 of my cousins were still unmarried. One year ago, I only had 1 niece and nephew (now I have 2 more)! One year ago, that jerkface was still in our lives. One year ago, I was jobless. One year ago, I was band-less. Hahaha.

Ok ok, I'm not gonna get all soppy and emo over this. One thing that hasn't changed though, is that one year ago I was happy.... one year later, I still am! Praise God!

And just for nostalgia sake, this was one year ago when Jimi was in Singapore for the wedding! And of course, before Charissa and Melchor moved to Sydney.

So we're finally gonna be seeing Jimi again this Sunday! We're heading to Tampopo for dinner! Best ramen ever! Can't wait to see the whole gang! And can't wait to introduce Jimi to the new additions to our huge entourage - Thomas, Edwin and Val! Wheeeee!!!

Personally, I think my band did awesome. Honestly, we weren't the best sounding band. There were bands performing after us that had power vocals. Compared to them, we were amateurs. However, I think what we brought to the concert was energy, which is something The Accidental Wakeup prides ourselves upon. We want to bring energy wherever we go. And that applies to even private gatherings, where it's just the 6 of us and we make each other laugh so much we all end up crying.

So yes, we may not have been No Doubt or U2, but we were us! The Accidental Wakeup! And we had our very own little fanclub! Which was awesome!

If I Had You (Adam Lambert)
Vocals: Melissa

Use Somebody (Kings of Leon)
Vocals: Edwin

Waiting on the World to Change (John Mayer)
Vocals: Edwin

I Love Rock and Roll (Britney Spears)
Vocals: Stella

Vertigo (U2)
Vocals: Edwin

Thank you and a special shoutout to the Seet clan and company who braved the sun and made it down to watch our performance! Thank you for screaming the loudest, for singing along to our songs, laughing at our jokes (albeit being the only ones) and just having fun! Watching you guys enjoy the performance was enough for us! We have the best family and friends in the world!

And speaking of braving the weather, I would like to thank the Big Guy up there for giving us the best weather we could ask for! God knows it has been raining for days, endlessly. It even rained on Saturday, when we went for our soundcheck. But we all prayed. We prayed silently in our hearts, and also prayed at the venue, and lo and behold! The moment we started praying, the rain stopped! All in God's grace! And true enough, when Sunday came, not even a drop of rain! Praise God!

I had a little incident though. Before the performance, I was all psyched and pumped up. The moment I got on stage, I was nervous as hell. But once the music started, I forgot all about the anxiety and did my best. The moment our act was done and we got off stage, I had the worst tummyache! Must be all the nerves and butterflies in my belly. But I was good by dinner time! The entire bunch of us went to Seletar for buffalo wings!

I actually have another video coming up. Random videos that we took before and after the performance. But I have yet to view the videos properly and edit them yet. So those would have to wait! I'll put it up soon though! So stay tuned!

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So, yes. Speaking of soundcheck. Before our performance at IVD last Sunday, we had to go down to Marina Barrage the day before on Saturday for a soundcheck. And we met Corrinne May there! She's also one of the performing artiste at IVD. Val got so excited and I helped her snap a picture with Corrinne May. Haha!

But wait! There's more! We did our soundcheck before Corrinne May. So she was kinda like waiting for us to get off stage. When we did, Corrinne May's band came up to Ryan and told him that we did a good job! OMGHHKP!!!!! Can you believe it?!

After the soundcheck, we met up with Sherwin and Nat for dinner at Vivocity. Food Republic is a frickin' rip off. I just had to get it off my chest. FOOD REPUBLIC IS SO EXPENSIVE!

Anywayssss, after dinner, Nat and Edwin left, so the rest of us went over to my Uncle's house to chill. It was my little cousin's birthday party, and I had to be there. But I really wanted to hang out with the band and Sherwin, so I invited them to the party! Haha.

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Oh, and these are just random pictures from a couple weeks back! No wait, actually it's just last Tuesday. Haha. Ryan picked me up from my office after work, and we went to meet the rest of the band for dinner before band practice at Shin Studio.

And my Dad just bought me the new Flip Mino HD high definition video camera as an advanced Christmas present! So I brought the Flip camera along to band practice last Tuesday to test it out. I really like the quality! Actually my Canon camera takes HD videos as well, but it zaps up all my memory space and battery life. So I decided a separate video camera would be better. Plus, I saw David Choi using it, and it was kinda unexpected because the quality was so good.

Anywayssss... video!

(And I realise alot of people won't get the 'You ain't got no pancake mix!' reference. So watch this. HAHA!)

And since we're on the topic of youtube, I just found out that Natalie Tran was in Singapore. SHE WAS IN SINGAPORE! And you know what the thing is? The thing was that I knew it! As in, I suspected it! I mean, I subscribe to her channel on youtube, so when I saw this:

When I first joined this company, this was my very first project - producing Mathilda's music video. It took many months, but we finally filmed the music video. And just when I thought it was all over..... it wasn't. We had to plan a launch party to launch the music video. I couldn't sleep the whole of Monday night thinking of all the different ways this could screw up. After all, I've never planned a big scale launch party before, and we're not an events company. What did we know about planning events?

But hey! We pulled it off! Not only did we pull it off, the launch was a HUGE success! And I know this may not be a big deal to anyone else, but it is to me! To see something you've been working so hard on produce such amazing results is the greatest feeling ever! And to have people actually come up to me, pat me on the back and tell me that I've done a good job made everything worth it. Most of all, to have my boss go up on stage and say 'good job' to me in front of everyone was tear-jerking!

We had our launch at the Bellini Room, Mathilda performed, and we all had fun!

And what made my night even more special was the fact that I had my band there with me to celebrate:

The band was invited to be part of the launch party, and I was so happy to have them there! And much thanks to my band for all the support and words of encouragement! Love these guys so much!

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Had our weekly band practices this Wednesday. We were at Beat Merchants again for a second week. They gave us the most awesome room last week, but this week... bleh. Watch the video below and you'll understand why.