i thought i had been seeing her name around, but channel five did a music review when she was in town (so odd for them to do indie, but great!) i checked her out. you do too. emmy the great (thanks to Tashed)

cover of the week

we celebrated the july babies @ shashlik - the cutest old-sch psuedo-russian restaurant circa 1980's. we sang the birzzday song, had really good shashlik and odd russian salad, distributed presents and watched fire.

my biggest pet peeve is not incompetence; it is dealing with incompetent people who are being paid for an expected level of competence.

i wish i didn't have this pet peeve because the encounters are just too many and each time they occur, a part of my soul is sucked dry.

phrase of the month is defined as the phrase used the most number of times in any given month.

phrase of the month for Jun 09:

this is riiiiiidicuuuuloussssssssss.

Look what i found!
http://gallery.ntu.edu.sg/videos/v/convocation/2008/c15/C15_part6FLV.flv.html

When I say stuff like that, I do mean it.

Yet the truth is that, for most of us, home is a compromise.

The majority of people inhabit a particular region because of an accident of birth (our parents’ dream house is, for an average of at least sixteen years, our own home-base), a necessity of relocation (the pursuit of work or love) or the simple logistics of the housing market and mortgage system. We would ideally like to live in A (if we can afford to), B (if there was a company branch there), or C (if our partner’s family ties were not five hundred miles away) or, increasingly in Britain, in A, B, or C if we could sell our bloody house in D. But, alas, for any of these reasons, D is where we are stuck. Yet call D dull in public and you will discover that each of the D-siders resides there apparently from choice. They live there because they love there

- Mark Lawson's The Battle for Room Service: Journeys to all the Safe Places

do a movie about them pls!

if you haven't heard of zee avi - well.

she's brought pride to s.e.a, or at least, as a "member of ASEAN" i'm proud that we have such talent in the region (she should sing the next ASEAN anniversary song or something like that!)

getting signed by jack johnson's bushfire records could possibly be the dream of every guitar-strumming-female-songwriter, and zee avi scored that dream.

get a feel of her bitter heart (link from untitledrecords.com)

she has other fab tunes, "kantoi" being one of them, so deliciously malaysianzeeavi, and a cover of Morrisey's First of the Gang to Die (link from acquiescetomusic) - prepare to have your hearts melted.

jon and i had a conversation last night about sg music and the neverending story of how we have yet to define the singapore sound. we have yet, but perhaps, one day, someone would come along, and would bring pride to singapore the way zee avi has for malaysia.