Snaps of Life

Many of you may know that I am a huge fan of the The A Cappella Society Youth Voices training programme. Its a programme where youths meet weekly to sing and jam A Cappella music together. It fosters great teamwork and life skills into the youth through the various activities they do such as singing in small groups, managing the Youth Voices itself through their committee, giving shows at various venues such as malls.

This May, they would be given the chance to perform at The Esplanade Recital Studio for their own concert and they are pretty excited about it. Everyone, go on down to give them your support!

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Just came back from the preview of a cinema by one of Singapore’s newest cinema chain Film Garde. This cinema is the 2nd one for the chain and is located at Iluma, ibe if the newest mall in town which is opposite Bugis Junction, beside Bugis Village.

It is a great cinema with great sound, great projection, nice ticketing and food area and best of all Great Seats!

Yes! Great Seats, for tall people like me above 1.8m, I treasure the extra legspace given as compared to other cinemas. I think it has the most legspace out of all cinemas in Singapore.

Personally, I think this cinema would give Shaw cinemas a run for its money as their cinema at the opposite Bugis Junction is of NO FIGHT! This new cinema is one of the best in town, and can rival that of the nearby cathay offerings which are already very good. Plus with the promising mix of tenants in Iluma itself, it would be a great place for your free time to go shopping too!

Ok, enough rambling. Go and see to belive. Opens today! 28th March 2009.

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Many would have noticed i have not posted for a long time. I will not be posting(not much if any) at the mean time due to a very packed schedule. I will begin posting hopefully in march when my schedule should clear up much more.

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On the 15th and 16th of October this year, we had the honour of the great sounding German Group Vocaldente Sing in the 1st A Cappella Festival at the Arts House organised by The A Cappella Society. I have there for snaps the first 2 days and was doing the sound for the last two nights for the local groups. Here are some photos I took. Reflections will come when I have more time

Vocaldente - Wide Shot - International A Cappella Festival 2008

Vocaldente - Wide Shot - International A Cappella Festival 2008

Vocaldente - Closeup Shot - International A Cappella Festival 2008

Vocaldente - Closeup Shot - International A Cappella Festival 2008

Vocaldente - Closeup Shot - International A Cappella Festival 2008

Vocaldente - Closeup Shot - International A Cappella Festival 2008

Vocaldente - Closeup Shot - International A Cappella Festival 2008

Vocaldente - Wide Shot - International A Cappella Festival 2008

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Hi all,

In my previous post, i advertised about my friend selling accessories online, this time round, she is conducting a round of mass order for a film camera(looks fun dunno how to classify it as).

Goto http://chainless-brain.livejournal.com/2974.html#cutid1 to take a look

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An old classmate of mine has started an online shop for some accessorie such as ear rings necklace etc.

http://chainlessbrainchap1.blogspot.com/

Seems to be interesting items. Those who are planning on ur next model shoot, maybe u could consider to get some

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Got my result. Not as good as i wanted though……

so many things happened like Imagine Cup, Grandpa passed away during exam period etc……

So its quite decent for this semester I have to say. Missed the directors roll minimum by 0.4 though.

JJ and SB and Fazli did better than me this time. JJ has the best result this round with dist and A onli(hint gpa 4.0).

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So what have I been busy with recently?

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The A Cappella Championships.

btw, photos on the poster are taken by me last year

A little background information on this competition. Organised by The A Cappella Soceity annually, it is its sixth installment and is growing bigger by the year. This year, the competition has been held at both the esplanade and Republic Poly Cultural Center (its the best equipped and designed hall in any polytechnics. SP is FAR lagging behind it.)

A new category called the pop choir category was started this year and saw a mix of primary school kids, secondary school students and even adults compete in it.

For the college and open ensemble categories, the tickets were guess what? SOLD OUT!!!

Yes it was filled to the brim that night and I personally feel that the singing standards have been raised to a very high level. To share some photos of that night:

If ur wondering why all photos are from the same angle, the reason was that esplanade only allows photographers to shot static from one location

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One reason I have always loved Mackie mixers can be seen from this video. Its a pity brand Y didn’t survived though as I also like it as much as Mackie. I personally never even trust brand B ever though.

note: any people who do enough live sound will be able to figure out what brands they are talking abt. Brand A is a giveaway though.

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Many times people ask me how can one minimise feedback in a live sound scenario. There is one thing which many people including me constantly overlook.

I was mixing at The A Cappella Festival organised by The A Cappella Society, and was wondering why was I getting so much feedback, and I finally found out what was causing the trouble.

See that red arrow in the picture? The monitor Speakers are pointing towards the partition, And the partition was reflecting the sounds from the monitors STRAIGHT into the performers mic, causing me significant loss of allowable gain/volume.

After moving away the partition, the system works far better.

So the tip is, speaker placement plays a large role in minimising feedback. Do not hesitate in taking remedial steps where possible.

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