The 5 most influential people to Takahina in 2009 - Part 2!

3rd on the list:



She's kinda here for the 3rd time I guess? I ever since I know her or something, every year she's in here, every year for kinda either the same, or for different reasons.

Miss Tan Shuqin, or Mrs... (I don't know her husband's surname)

Yup, she's married. Or engaged to be specific.

To answer the question on most people's mind who read the blog, what is she on my mind now?

She's definitely not my girlfriend.
She's definitely not my wife.

I will call her... 最收悉的陌生人。

Reason being, I'm holding a "put her away unless neccesary" policy. I don't pick up her calls whatsoever unless really needed. This is needed cause unless I do say, I dare bet the strings between me and her can't be broke, and she can't be a married lady if so.

I can't totally ignore her, cause if I do so, her trump card of committing suicide will pop up and I'll be totally screwed in that case, which I don't want to happen. Be it she's kidding, or not kidding, or half serious half boiled I have no idea, that thing in the slightest sense, cannot happen.

So why is she in the list this time round again?

Well, I have no idea. All I know is that during this year round, 25% of my troubles come from her, even school doesn't give me so much problems. That itself is influential.

It made me realized 1 thing about myself. Some feelings about me which I didn't want to admit. Somethings which I either had, or hadn't told anyone about.

There's still something between me and her, this very weird relationship which I don't want to tell her. This year I had an "official" relationship with her in which I declared that I have a girlfriend. In the past I didn't say it, but during that time I did and everyone knew, including my parents.

I don't know I'm being noble to her or not, neither do I know whether she gets me or not, but she has to understand that my intentions for her were never out of malice. She spends a huge amount of time in my mind, perhaps even more so than the number 1 in 2008 now.

So my hope for her is that she gets happiness and lives a happy life, something which I can't promise her now currently.

She could also be the reason now that I don't feel like getting into a relationship just yet.

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2nd on the list:



The band "Child's Play".

However if I wanna tone down specifically... it's...



Edwin Toh

Child's play is a milestone for me as I was first time, a leader. I may or may not be a good leader, that leaves to be answered by everyone in the group, which I think Haze will CONFIRM answer negatively, but other than that I hope I did a good job of it.

It made me understand, the ropes, and the ways in which a band should be managed and led. I believe these skills will lead me down continuously as I continue my life on, with my own business, with my own family, with my own life. And with Child's Play being somewhat a "serious" band as I initially planned, and it's downfall with the gradual dismissal of it after the only gig done by us, I realized the fragile nature of being in a team itself, and the commitment really needed by everyone, with the same dreams, for a team to progress forward.

Main lessons to learn for a band: To have the same commitment, to have the same goals, to understand the band's route and nature.

It doesn't matter what's your influence, what you know, how well you know it (well of course you need a basic knowledge of your own musical instruments), as long as the band is united, things can flow.

Then with Child's Play, I get Edwin as my keyboardist in a very lucky nature. It's thanks to Soft I get it.

Be it fate that I studied in the same primary school and in the same class as him, or we managed to click so well together in the band and personally, I'm grateful to him in many ways.

Firstly, Edwin is the one who managed to make the band work and function so well. His musical talents are vital to the band as I have always said before, and seriously he is the best keyboardist I have ever seen currently. And since he is 21, freaking young, I believe his road in life will be even more impressive and fruitful.

Secondly, Edwin sparked back my musical dreams. I got pretty occupied with work and stuff, and neglected my music dreams. He brought it back, when I work with him, I feel really happy, relaxed and at the same time creative. Musically, he helped me improved. In the past I was stuck in my drumming skills, whereby I didn't felt like jamming was improving me whatsoever, Edwin's playstyle and creativity in his music made me come back to the time whereby playing drums was fun. And playing with Child's Play in a whole made me really excited and perked. Unlike playing with EvE or any other bands I had been with, I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Child's Play.

Thirdly, Edwin being a budding musician, had a lot of contacts with him in the music industry. In a sense he was my lobang, whenever he needed a drummer, I would be in his contact list. I'm very honoured to say the least, because frankly although I won't say I'm a lousy drummer, there are tons of drummers out there better than me and I'm sure he knows some of them. However, he would use me for his music projects and gigs. In a sense, it made me feel hopeful, hopeful that I can be a musician on a similar caliber as him, and on a professional basis. I've learnt alot from the many sessions/recordings I had with him, and I cherish it.

Fourth, Edwin had a musical dream, and it influenced me. To set up a music industry in Singapore for budding talents, for youths, to manage them, to nurture them into the mainstream/music industry.

I did say before, that I wanted to be a successful business man. In what manner I do not know. In a sense you could say it's a dream which had no proper idea yet. But now I do have, and it's for the music industry. A talent/music management agency To nurture and develop this obscure industry in Singapore, and develop out the talents who failed to nurture their true potential. Be it this is for Singapore, for myself, or for anyone. I had a sense of belonging and I knew instantly,

"This is the final route and ending point which I know I want to reach."

I don't dare to have any lofty dreams, but for once I know, this is a dream I will want to fulfill.

And Edwin is the one who dawned on me, and exploded this feeling of dreams within me.

That's why he's number 2 on this list. And I doubt he'll ever know the effect he had caused on me. Perhaps both he and me, will work again in the future professionally. Who knows?

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Number 1 will be on the next post. :)

The 5 most influential people to Takahina in 2009 - Part 1

Here you go, this will be the list which I always make annually. No hard feelings to anyone not on this list, cause simply, this is a list in which how much a person can change me. To be frank most of the time it'll be people close to me, but then there could be exceptions like how Robert Kiyosaki's novel managed to change my perception towards money.

Without further ado...

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Number 5: My university friends.



The group is quite big actually... so I'll tone down the few to which I'm closer with.

The one 2nd from the left is Kasumi Chai.
The girl beside is Serene Lee.
The girl in pink is Manluo Guo.
The guy beside me on the right is Charles You.
The guy beside me on the left is Desmond Chan.
The girl on the right of Manluo is Justina Koh.
The girls beside Justina in black and white inners is Liting Neo.
To the right of Liting is Shuchen Yeo.

This is the standard group I kinda hang out frequently with now, although we kinda segregate further more in 3 branches, with Kasumi, Serene, Desmond and me together, Liting, Justina and Shuchen together, and Charles kinda jumps around the OG or even the whole lecture group. He's popular.

To be frank it's not until recently when I start to talk more with the liting, shuchen, justina group, A.k.a the cheerleader group. They are a fun loving bunch.

And of course there's tons of rumors surrounding me and Kasumi. In fact rumors are flying between me and Serene and Manluo too. So it's kinda like... whatever.

These people here, are what makes university fun. To the extend there was a point of time in life I like school, even though it's demonic timing of 8.30am everyday. Of course I experience more in life thanks to them, even though we're still not that close yet... as in will like always hang out, but we're pretty pretty close I guess. Desmond has been with me since JC, so it's even better.

I used to hate studying, even though NS made me changed that viewpoint. After I enter university, I still didn't really like it as much. I appreciate studying, but I didn't like the notion of needing to study for the sake of paper. Friends make studying and going to a place fun, and they made it fun for me, so it's like the 2nd part of my this year in university is much more fun.

Thanks for making my uni fun guys. :)

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Number 4: Alan Dawa Zhuoma



To be frank, I was hesitant in putting Alan in this list. Cause to be frank, I won't say Alan affected my person a lot. She's just a Tibetan Singer from China who goes to Japan under Avextrax to further her singing career.

She's talented alright.

But why do I put her in my list?

Actually, I have heard about her from like mid year this year. Grew addicted to her even, and started looking for her stuff in Youtube, to the extent she managed to kick down Matsu Takako 1 rank from my idol ranking. So currently, my idol ranking is...

1. Perfume
2. Alan Dawa Zhuoma
3. Matsu Takako
4. Tokyo Jihen
5. Do As Infinity
6. Ayumi Hamasaki
7. Utada Hikaru
8. F.I.R
9. Shibasaki Kou

Perfume being Perfume, will be there. :)

I searched up a lot about Alan, knew about her history, know about her stuff. And her music... I like a lot.

Unlike Perfume, Alan's music doesn't bring you out of this world, Alan's music blows you away with her voice. I refuse to admit she's similar or inferior to Yuna Ito like what Sam said, cause they use different techniques in singing and you can tell. Alan's voice is more crisp and sharp, plus her Tibetan wail can push her up and of higher key than Yuna Ito's or any artist that I have known. Till now, I have never seen any artist able to hit Alan's key in Ashita e no Sanka clearly. If they did, they are using Opera singing technique which is different. I'm not saying Yuna Ito pales in comparison compared to Alan, but they are just different. If they are similar, I would have fallen in love with Yuna Ito long ago.

If I look through the most check video in youtube for me for this year, I dare to say Alan will be the highest. Somehow some of her music never grow old for me. Perfume's music however, did grow somewhat stale. Ok who am I kidding, there is no music that doesn't grow old, but Alan's song brought me through a period when I needed the feel she has, coupled with Perfume, both of them made me through this year.

The only thing I'm feeling a little sad though, is similar to Perfume, Alan is getting her big break and is getting bigger, albeit not as big as Perfume yet. Perfume's success was 1 hit phenomenon, Alan hasn't achieved that yet. She's still not an A-lister, but maybe close.

So why is she in this list? Cause I listen to her music so much, she has accompanied me through almost half of this year and adjusted my mood when I need to. And unlike Perfume, I'm still very much addicted to her stuff, plus she releases new stuff much faster than Perfume, this is the one thing which made her win over Perfume in a sense.

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Ok, that's all for now. Number 3 and 2 will be up on the next post.

The 2009 Takahina going 2010

Hokay...

It's been about and almost exactly a year since I last posted here. I seem to have a weird habit of returning her every once a year.

The True Takahina is huatness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok la ok enough of boasting myself.

2009 is a seemingly uneventful year. Hmmm boy was I wrong. Quite a few things happened in 2009, especially in the 2nd half. It's like machiam a soccer match at first only a few things happened with maybe 1 or 2 yellow cards.

Then in the 2nd half you see tons and tons of red cards coupled with alot of goals. (GO ARSHAVIN!!!)

I won't say I'm reviving this blog again like last year. Cause my stump for writing has been apparent ever since I went over to LJ, the lan jiao place. Rightfully, I'm still a blogspot person, used to blogspot. And with Takako and Naru as the banner here... there's no way I'll leave this spot lar.

Conducively I don't have much to write. If I really wanna write, I'll write about how Chin Han has been feeling it about his family financial prob, how Ben, Chin Han, Me have differing views about money and lifestyle, how AVATAR actually fares, how the Singapore economy is growing too fast (YES, TOO FAST, YOU HEARD ME TOO FAST!).

With so much to write, and a perpetually tired body from the data entry work, I need some rest. So yeah sue me for not writing a proper post for close to a year here.

But then seriously, other than that time Sam telling me he still visits here once in a while, my guess is this blog is more or less like a ghost town.

I'll transport over the top 5 influential people into this blog. And at the same time, follow in Edwin's footsteps and write on an "event" list in which I feel has affected me someway or another. Sure to make some people pissed like what Takahina has always done.

Anyways, an early happy new year first, before I'll get onto the few final post of this year on this blog.

My other blog... hmmm view it if you want. A note though, it's meant to be an emo blog. yes an EMO BLOG, whereby I pour my feelings out like a 12years old girl truthfully and unhesistantingly.

To those who still knows and reads about this blog, cluedos to you. Takahina loves you.