Sucked by the Quicksand of Astro Star Quest 2009

 

Lately, I have been telling everybody that I am busy with Astro Star Quest 2009, and the first thing that comes to their mind is that I’m one of the contestants. Of course not! I wouldn’t be so foolish to join it, knowing what I am now. So, my business (busy + ness) is actually because I am supporting this amazing guy:

Alvin Chong

Initially, I only know that Astro Star Quest 2009 has started by watching it for a few minutes every Saturday night before I go out for dinner. It wasn’t until an opportunity arise that I get a million steps closer to knowing these future stars. The opportunity is as such:

Thanks to Kah Fai who made it into the Top 10 of ASQ 2009, Kar Mun who is my Foundation in Business classmate, invited me to go and support her younger brother, Kah Fai. So, I was more than happy to agree with her and went for 3 Semi-Final rounds out of the 4. On the 2nd round, I got attracted to Alvin Chong’s singing style and I took a photo with him on that night.

I guess it is fated that I started to support him and then even created a forum for him, which now became Alvin Chong’s Official Fan Club. This is the link: www.alvinchong.forumotion.com.

In the end, I have sort of lowered my support slightly towards Lan Kah Fai, though I still like him very much. I guess I should apologise to both Kah Fai and Kar Mun for being such a traitor. But thanks to both of you, I get to know Alvin too.

So, I started watching ASQ live performance from Top 10 to Top 5. Below are the photos of me at the Astro studio:

  Top 10

Top 9

(My parents didn’t allow me to go for the 3rd semi-final round. So, I missed seeing Justin’s and Billy’s last appearance on stage)

 Top 6

 Top 5

More photos of me during the trips:

 

3 Different Jojo Styles (Missed the golden one)

Dinner at Overseas Restaurant, thanks to Kar Mun’s Mum

 

With the composer contestants

 

Do you think the left guy on both pictures look alike??

Finally we have a group photo of Foundation in Business classmates!

With the siblings who I knew them separately (Meng Jiun & Sheen Yeen)

With Xiu Bao

With Wan Yi

Justin, the most friendly contestant who has the best vocal too among the guys

SPY, who has a very strong voice, able to compete with Jaclyn Victor’s

Chuu Chuu, found out that she’s a very good friend of Elsa Lam

 

Yean, who wrote a song to Nicholas Teo, named Shuo Ni Ye Yi Yang Ai Zhe Wo

Alvin Chong!! You should know who is he by now

Kah Fai, supporting him too in the finals

On 8th July 2009, the Top 5 had a Conference Session at Sungei Wang, and I was there to get their autographs and my VIP tickets to the Grand Finale tonight!

The colourful theme and the black theme of their exclusive photos

I went to Sungei Wang, Times Square and Pavilion on that day with Meng Jiun, Shan Lung, Alex Loh and Yew Wooi. Jeff Law Yew Wooi is the an Alvin's fan who I met in the forum which I created.

 

The 2 emcees that will appear on the Grand Finale

  

Top 5 singing their new singles one by one (Kah Fai, Alvin, Min, Ryan, Yoke)

The banner which Yew Wooi spent much effort doing for Alvin!

   

Answering question session

  Autograph session (notice Alvin’s head really look like a small boy here)

Session ends

  Alvin departing to China

Finally, I get to take 1 photo with Isaac!! And Justin too

After that, we went to Pavilion. These are some photos taken over there:

At the SALE display of Pavilion

 

This is Pavilion, which is a first time for some of us

 

The beautiful art creation in front of Pavilion

 

The Black Fours …

 

… including me

 

Final picture of the day –> The Silver Statue (It’s a man, by the way)

This is an extremely long post because I compiled all my ASQ experiences here, except for the Grand Finale which I’m going to attend later. So once again, congrats for reading this far. You are on your way to becoming a blogworm.

A Volcanic Blast of Fun at Awana, Genting

This brings back memories as it was on 18th April 2009 that we students of February 2009 Intake, University of South Australia spent great time together.

It was a one day trip to the base of the mountain by 100+ students of Taylor’s for Team Building. I bet you all can imagine how fun it is to play games and activities with hundreds of people and most of those people are your friends!

  

It is always usual that teenagers like us become amused with that harness which has an obvious effect on the appearance of “something”. As you can see, Khai Jake and Alex Loh were trying the reliability of that harness.

My group’s first game was Flying Fox, the name where most people will mistaken it as Firefox. The first photo is Shi Chi getting ready to take off; second was Wilson enjoying his 1.5 times of playing it when everybody only had 1 chance; third was the thing that I hated because I was standing there waiting for my turn and they get to play cards just because they were before me (anyway, it’s still acceptable since they are not playing in the Genting Casino but just at the base of Genting).

 

After that, I had some free time. Then, we started camwhoring. First picture is Xiu Bao, Christy Tan, me and Alex who are all my group members. Second picture is me with Christy and Yee Von (look at the stairs-like heights). Third picture is the two best pals, Brian Chong and Benjamin Michael who are my classmates for Semester 1. Fourth is us with Kaylie on the top. Last one includes Shan Lung.

 

These are some of my Semester 1 classmates who are all very friendly. Those haven’t mentioned in my blog are Teong Jin, Mary Yap and Veronica on the right. Besides Alex and Shan Lung, they were my S1 classmates. We were waiting at the indoor car park area for our next game. What a bad place to wait, right?

In this photo, we have Veronica’s hair, Brian’s head, Nicholas Yong, me, TJ, J-Tsen, Haw Yang and a person who is under that dark spot, making it hard to be identified.

These photos are our next activity, abseiling. 1st – me, 2nd – Yee Von, 3rd - Jo Jin, 4th Alex. We waited very long for this. And so, I have to satisfy myself by trying twice – once facing backwards like the rest of the people, and second facing forward which was really scary. I tripped on the more dangerous one, and almost rolled down. But I made it down safely!

Guess it’s not too late to introduce my group, Team 4. We have an extremely friendly and fun advisor, Ms Pei Chuin who is still very young, just like us. From the top left, we have Wilson, me, Jordan, Jake, Xiu Bao, Christy, Amily, Xue Wei, Jo Jin, Shi Chi, Ms Pei Chuin and Alex. I was the partially helpful team leader, and Alex was the one who helped me with the other half of being a cheerful motivator. Everyone was good and I seriously need to thank you all for working together and being united till we can get a lucky 2nd place among all the 10 teams!

First photo – Freestyle; second – FOUR; third – formal.

Why is this here? It’s because at the changing room, I got to know that some of my college friends were about to attend that concert on 2nd May 2009 which was my sister’s birthday too.  Coincidentally, Shan Lung was bringing Wei Qi to the concert, and Nicholas Yong said he would be alone at the Sony Ericsson section. Fortunately, I was also been offered a seat at that section, so we went there together. My dad accompanied my sister at the paid section.

Here, I would like to thank a very good friend of mine who was kind enough to sponsor me a ticket to the Lee Hom Music-Man Concert. His name is:

ANG WEE HONG

Without him, I would not be able to experience the best concert that I have been after Jolin Tsai’s and Jay Chou’s. Thanks, dude!