you heard me.

you heard me.

it's been ages since i've sung in front of people. when you're in that position, you start becoming a lot more self-aware of yourself. you also start noticing little things, like the two MCs being the only people who know who marvin gaye is (fists in the air tell more than they have to). and who tell you, after the show, that you were the hot shit. even though you know they're being nice about it, you still can't help but smile and be modest. unless they seriously meant it, which then, would already see a string of compliments go to our heads. yea, well.

it was a tough crowd. it usually is, but when you're playing music to people who probably don't appreciate maroon 5 as much as the lecturers (who were more than happy to sing along), who walk out during a norah jones cover [done rather well, may i add], and who have absolutely no fucking idea who marvin gaye is (except for our two MCs), you know that it's a tough crowd. granted, this love was pretty alright, with it being the lead-off song and all, but the crowd was dead. some clapped [okay, fine, so it was the committee who decided to sing along], but the least they could've done was to...y'know...live a little.

props must be given to the group of indian girls who seemed to be the only ones who knew the words to the lyrics (besides committee members). mmm. i guess they must've found sunrise to be boring. props must also be given out to those who clapped during the song. shite. paolo and i haven't played this well in ages [that's a white lie, coz paolo does his service for God every other week...then again, he never gets to sing]. so...was it good? we got some to register, and at least things went off without a hitch.

besides the fact that a laptop is missing from the department of business studies that someone could've taken when the excitement was building up.

but yes, it was good. the hard part is keeping up with the momentum that we've found ourselves blessed with. dead crowd? quite. but i suppose that we were anticipating that. it would've been interesting to see what would've happened if we'd gone on for one more song. here's the final setlist for today.

1. maroon 5 - this love (oooerrr...the best)
2. norah jones - sunrise (sinead's nothing compares... was skipped because it would've been too, too boring)
3. marvin gaye - what's going on (which stands as a testament to our days)

free food? tea? all for us. everyone walked out after we were done. does that mean that they were only being polite to us?

i hope not.

ian moment for today: a conga solo gone very wrong during what's going on. past ian moments have included dancing like an idiot on stage, and dedicating sacharrine love songs to attractive girls with boyfriends [and getting roses from them!].

accolade: that we did it just like marvin, and that this love was a perfect acoustic rendition. the liars. also, genuine surprise that i can actually sing. how touching.

main con: i think i'm getting a swollen head over performing at the launching of a scruffy talent contest.

help me.