randomly. TVC for the very last episode of 2击队 to be aired this coming Tuesday!
zomg last one already ;( oh we did so badly. but the other teams were reaaally good, so do watch it! :)
semi finals part 1: our song 让每个人都心碎 starts from about 11:45 :)
it's very funny!! HAHAHA. YZ's hand couldn't stop trembling cos of stage fright! must observe the close-up shots to spot it! LOL :D the judges couldnt stop laughing over it :S
semi finals part 2: 一眼瞬间 from 4:30 onwards...
i didn't sing so well for this song, started out very shaky and unstable and you can see my eyes going all over the place.. -.- but it ended quite okay i think :P
hope you like! :) and have an awesome weekend!!!
going out for another full-day rehearsal, gonna come back and pia emails tonight and tomorrow! ><
finally took some time out to fix a hair appointment with Steph at Salon Vim, my hair has been growing so thick and unmanageable, and the black roots were really ugly! :( my hair just looked very shapeless and my fringe was very heavy and messy especially due to the humid and hot weather lately, really hated it! :(
HOHOHOHO.
i finally plucked up the courage to cut my fringe into straight bangs again after years,
because every time i tried it previously, it just either looked very weird, or if not i'd look extremely juvenile like a 12 year old -__-
BUT this time round, i'm loving it!!! heehee. glad Steph & Gary persuaded me into the bangs because i love how it looks! i don't look so mature and boring now, and the new hair color is so gorgeous! <3 i love Salon Vim! now i'm wondering if i should keep the bangs for the next few months and maintain it, or just let it grow out naturally! what do you all think?
isn't the hair color lovely! i hope it doesnt fade too soon. love love love it!
JY and I because we attended a Biotherm event together right after my hair appointment! more about the event in the next entry!
and because of the dandruff and oily scalp issues i was experiencing, Steph got me these products: Loreal Professional's medicated shampoo and conditioner along with one of their best selling hair masks! just started using them, hopefully the gross dandruff and oily scalp will be gone in a jiffy! can't stand how my scalp and hair get so greasy and limp especially in the current humid weather ):
you know how some hair styles only look good when you leave the hair salon, and looks absolutely crap the next day after washing your hair yourself? just to show you all how my hair looked this morning, i didn't bother to style the ends and just did a quick blow dry but it still looks great!
paired with my geeky spectacles, i hope i look 18 instead of 28 now! knn people always think i same age as YZ :(((
once again, THANK YOU Steph and thank you Salon Vim for being my hair savior! ♥♥♥
i love you all very muchly. even though John couldn't stop smirking after seeing my new hair style.
i highly recommend Salon Vim really, every time i've been there, they've always done a fantastic job with my hair! sigh i feel so spoilt by them, i know my hair will never get used to the regular neighbourhood salon cut again (HAHAHA ok i exaggerate) if you'd like to book an appointment with Salon Vim, remember to quote my name YINA, and you get a 10% discount off all hair services :)
"Like" their Facebook page too because they hold promotions and contests regularly on FB and you don't wanna miss them! :)
i look incapable of swearing or cursing or anything vile in general. i feel like i had a personality transplant instead of a haircut with this cutesy fringe! LOL. but i likeee :D :D :D maybe people will stop flaming me now that i look so harmless :S just kidding.
and it's yet another long weekend ahead!!!! not that it makes any difference to me. need to go to the office on Sunday and Monday to work work work! i'm a workaholic! but that's only because i love my work! hopefully the rest of you all lovely people have a restful weekend. especially as most should have received the extra moolah $_$ shopping time! go down to FirstDay at Plaza Singapura if you're free because we stocked in lots of awesome items this week, including some self-manufactured pieces that's yet to be launched online and other shop exclusive items! ♥
oh also, i've uploaded the entire episode 8 of K歌2击队 so you can watch it on YouTube! link to Part 1 below! this is the epic episode that i cried on. my mascara ran somemore. super unglam.
想YY made its debut radio appearance last night, on Y.E.S 9.33FM!
if you follow my twitter, or facebook, you might have caught my tweets/statuses about our airtime, which was Friday night 9-9.30PM! us, together with Erick & Bernard of 小老板 spent some time together with Ivy 艾薇 and chatted a little about ourselves and about K歌2击队 :D there was also a segment of live music and we sang a short duet with the help of Erick's accompaniment! it was rather unrehearsed so i felt it wasn't very good on my part, but what's more important is that we enjoyed ourselves tremendously :)
it's not my first time on live radio, but it's been some time already! anyway, i always hate hearing the sound of myself talking so i actually quite abhor the idea of going on radio :( i hate hearing my lisp because it's so obvious! sucks to be me. God gave me a love for singing and a speech disability to go along with it. but regardless of my own personal dislike of my voice, it was still a FUN experience! :DDD Ivy the DJ is really chatty and cute, and 小老板 sang a wonderful song!
so, picture spam time! side tangent: new DSLR that sissy and i are sharing, so this is my first time bringing it out! still not adept at using it -.- my boy & i! say hello to Bernard & Erick, they're two very talented fabulous singers & musicians! extremely nice as well! :) while waiting for our airtime to begin.. that's Peifen & Ivy of Y.E.S.9.33! self-shot! :P Erick brought his portable keyboard along for the live segment! he's really amazing with it. Ivy's extremely cute :D YZ. his face very sharp now hor?
anyway, the session was over in no time at all, minus-ing off some commercial breaks and songs. haha! it felt like it only lasted 10 minutes! actually i do think it's fun to be on radio. i just dislike my own voice and sound! boohoo. never mind. 小老板 & 想YY!! these two guys are really super duper helpful. ever since our first episode together, they've been extremely nice and friendly! major respeck for their musical talents as well. they're very funny and humorous too! lol. took a picture together with Ivy too! thank you for hosting us on your show! 小老板 with Ivy! 想YY again ^-^V yay!
also, thank you Evonne for helping us to record the episode down! :D have listened to bits of it already. but i don't think i want to post it here because i really don't like how i sound when i talk. you know how it's different when you hear yourself on a recording and when you talk in person. i'm still able to accept how i sound like to my own ears in person, but not how i sound like on a recording which is silly, because that's how everyone else hears you as :( i really think i ought to see a speech pathologist. but it's like i've spent 23 years of my life like this already, and still managed to get along. sigh! :(((
last outfit picture. it feels like Sunday today already but it isn't and i have rehearsal later in the afternoon! randomly, i've been binge eating like crazy the past two weeks and i realllyyyy need to stop. my tummy looks about 5 months preggy. soup diet to the rescue.
going to crash now! have an awesome Easter weekend, y'all!
our two performances from last night's episode of K歌2击队,
will upload the entire episode when i'm free! (maybe tomorrow night)
anyway, you get to see my mummy in the first video clip. lol! i think she's super 上镜! she's been waiting for this episode to air forever already because she's secretly very excited to see herself on TV. LOL! also spot YZ's brother & sister plus Gina. not to mention all the XYY supporters! :D
so... 想YY's journey in K歌2击队 has finally come to an end! it's been a fun time that's passed by in a flash, and the weird thing is the TV broadcast is so slow it's not even halfway through the competition lol i feel like we're trapped in a time warp on air! (speaking of which, our next episode which is the quarter finals will be broadcast next Tuesday!)
anyways.. we didn't do very well for the finals :( but the one thing that will always have a very dear place in my heart are the lovely supporters who's been rooting for us from start to end, regardless of how shitty we performed or not hehehe because they're friends and family who love us! :) :) :) i must have said this a thousand times, but we're so blessed with such awesome people around us. THANK YOU ALL. i don't feel so much upset for myself than for letting down everyone who took time and effort to come all the way down to stay through a recording that only ended at 2AM, i'm so sorry we didn't do better :( :( :(
and to my dearest partner who's been putting in so much effort from the start to the end of the entire show, we entered this thing with no inkling of how far we could get, but i think it's been a wonderful time for both of us, and to get so far as well as to garner recognition and encouragement from respected musicians as well as our own family and friends, i think we really don't have anything to lament about :) i'm not sure if it's brought us closer or not hehe but there's definitely been emotions running high and low during this period, lol. but we somehow managed to pull through without killing each other during the more difficult times :D as well as shared lots of happy moments together! thank you baby :)
also having made friends with all the other contestants, it was a great journey to have shared together, and i'll definitely miss everyone! especially the finalists and all those crappy dance rehearsals we had. can't wait for that episode to air because i think it's really very funny :D :D hahaha. as well as the other groups who are always so very encouraging and friendly! :) i think all of you are amazing singers with so much potential and talent, regardless of whoever made it far (or not). time for us to zham our Partyworld vouchers! :D
i feel like i'm giving some thank you speech. but also honestly sincerely feel very much indebted to so many people during this show, including my Laoshi, the production crew, the hosts Yi Feng-jie, Li Teng & Wenhai, our very talented friend who accompanied for us on the piano, respected judges and so many more! i'm so thankful for this experience, really :) we will still continue to sing regardless because i really do love singing and music alot :)
haven't edited any of the pictures that i have on my camera and didn't really take all that many anyway, i'd just upload a few i snitched off FB (thank you woon!) and some from my iphone :)
K歌2击队; 谁让你心醉! yeaaaaaaaa i love my retro outfit! plus, the outfits were all Topshop sponsored. what's not to love. full afternoon rehearsals, just for that few minutes on stage.. ehehehe the end of our "dance" segment. SO funny. YZ & I :) did you know, YZ lost like 10KG from the start of the competition til now!!! i'm very happy for him! i didn't lose much weight though. pfft!!!
from a very sweet supporter :) thank you Evonne! :) 想YY到此一游!!!
so now my life is back to emails and parcels and photoshop :(
not complaining, but there are SO SO SO many emails waiting for a reply that i'm feeling pretty stressed out. we just spent yesterday and today packing two batches of backorders and carting them off to singpost, as well as running about for photoshoots for upcoming collections, and trying to settle the new office. new stocks have been arriving non-stop which is both awesome and stressful because we now have a brand new low in the account books and an amazing amount of stocks piled up at our suppliers' waiting to be launched! D: D: D: not to mention that LJ is currently a dysfunctional bitch and i'm not sure what we're gonna do for the next launch :(
will get to the emails first. i'm so so so so so so so sorryyyyyyyy if you havent received a reply since last week. still trying very hard to clear the backlog of emails! we will definitely try to get the inbox cleared by Thursday. JIAYOU JIAYOU!
so the first episode of 想YY on K歌2击队 aired yesterday :S
first things first, if YZ is 27, then i should be 23! oernfgaoldegfnakewfnaw. but they put my age as 24, damn i feel OLD.
other than that, i think it's one of the episodes (of us) with the best comments from the judges so far, haha! so it's not too bad as compared to another episode which i dread to see aired on TV. erm it still feels strange to see myself on TV. and of course we all look fatter and bigger which is bad. thank goodness i didnt wear anything sleeveless..... -_-
*picture credit to debs! hehe*
lots of friends and family members told me they tuned in to Channel 8 to catch our broadcast so i'm really happy! ^_^ thank you for the tremendous support woohoo you all rock and we are simply very very lucky and blessed to be surrounded by supportive family & friends. even my daddy called from Indonesia to ask about the broadcast, he's so silly he forgot it's pre-recorded and asked "did they get in?" bwahaha!
woon managed to get her dad to help us record it too, (THANK YOU BABE) so i'm nice and uploaded the entire episode on youtube! it's actually really troublesome to convert videos and upload them -_-
ps. re-uploaded part 5!
am going out to buy my first ever keyboard now. WOOHOO very very excitessss!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
the semi finals of K歌2击队 Power Duet was held last Wednesday, at Mediacorp!
we spent the entire Tuesday rehearsing and doing sound checks and run throughs to prepare for the long recording session on Wednesday because all 8 teams were to compete together in 2 rounds, which meant 2 episodes of recording back to back. it was really tiring! :(
so.. YES we got through to the finalssssss!!!! :D :D :D :D
but to be honest, it was our shittest performance yet :((( due to a combination of nerves and stress i guess, i don't anticipate those 2 episodes airing cos we weren't at our best at all. but we didnt make any major mistakes and managed to get through to the finals which is really exciting! hope we'll be able to pick ourselves up from the poor performance and do better for the finals. it'll be held in 2 weeks time, on the 2nd April, and we'll need all the supporters we can get!!!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
a couple of blog readers were really sweet and came down to watch us for the quarter finals and semi finals too, thank you so much for being so supportive!! ^____^ from the bottom of my heart, i really appreciate it!! please introduce yourselves to me next time okay because i had no idea who you were! :(
pictures from "back stage" and rehearsal day :)
studio 1 where the show has been recorded so far. the finals will be recorded in the big theatre which will sit many many more people!
YZ & I
some of the other contestants waiting around during rehearsal! whole day rehearsals are tiring.
Elaine from 上璇乐!
the 大字报 for 爱情的沙漠! bwahaha. it's the intro song for the semi-finals episode :D
the make-up artist doing my awesome make-up! been having terrible breakouts all over my face hai.
the hair and white dress makes me look damn 小龙女-ish.
YZ with Ben from 黑白配!
while waiting for our turn. we were the 6th grp out of 8 to sing for round 1, and the last grp out of 7 to sing for round 2.. by the time we got to round 2, i totally wanted to die already :( so so so tired. sigh.
hosts Li Teng & Wen Hai
some of our AWESOME supporters!!!!!! :D
thank you for coming down!!!
all 8 teams on stage.
Min! XYY's #1 supporter. we love you!
getting our results announced for round 1
lovely blog readers, plus Fel and Debs who came down to support too! dearest CJM also got come down. hehehe love you girls! :)
support XYY!
all our banners/posters are all lovingly handmade. super effort and i love all my friends :D
Edwin with a XYY hat! bhwahahaha.
Reenie!
YZ & I in our round 1 outfit. the dress is really lovely. hehe it's a collaboration with Megagamie :D i love YZ's denim shirt too, it's from Topshop!
with YZ's mummy and sissy who are super supportive as well!! :D :D
Felky who thoroughly enjoyed herself at the recording. bwahaha
with Minpoh!!! :D thank you for EVERYTHING. and of course Collin who isnt in any of the pictures because he was being the very fabulous photographer
YD left abit earlier but we managed to take a picture with SM!! :D :D :D these 2 busy girls took time out from work to come show their support too!
took a picture with Li Teng as well! didn't manage to take a picture with the other 2 hosts, Wen Hai and Yi Feng-jie. finals must take liao, last chance!!
YZ & Glynise with Qiyu Laoshi and Feihui Laoshi. i just realised i didnt take any picture with Qiyu Laoshi. SAD!
YZ & I with Feihui Laoshi :)
another picture with YZ's family :D oh i just realised i didnt take a picture with Gina alone. she's been coming to support for the last 2 rounds! thanks sissy!
with Jiaming Laoshi!
here's a very funny candid of YZ. “谢谢大家的支持!!!" like 明星 like that hahaha
and of us both! lol
backstage photo! congratulations to the other 3 teams that got in!! i won't divulge who yet so that it's more interesting for those following the show on TV. haha! honestly, everyone did really well that day and it was a pretty tough fight among the 8 teams. i really think all the teams were all equally strong in their own ways. winning doesnt mean you're the best. that's for sure..
Nancy took this on her iphone :D
and Min took this picture on her iphone!
fun ness.
time to 加油 for the last and final round, and it'll all be over!!! four teams will compete for the 2 top spots in round 1 & 2, while the remaining 2 teams will fight for 1st place in the last round. no regrets regardless win/lose. thank you everyone for all the support and well wishes thus far! it's really been an unforgettable experience haha. we're so blessed to have so many supportive family and friends around us! :)))))
i must say that this competition thingy has been consuming alot of my time and energy though :( i feel so bad that i've been slacking off TVD! haiiii. must buck up. we've actually got a new helper now (who also happens to be my good friend) so she's a great help. wouldn't be able to get through all the daily ops without her! and thank goodness for very accommodating and lovely customers as well.
oh oh oh and the first episode of K歌2击队 with us in it will be broadcasted on Channel 8 this coming Tuesday, 22 March at 8PM! remember to watch K歌2击队!!!! i won't even get to watch it myself. who wants to record it for me???
oh apparently the show isn't on xinmsn due to copyright issues or something, but someone uploaded an episode on youtube! no idea if the episode with us will be uploaded not :( but you can watch the 第一初赛 episode below! haha.
