Gossip of the week

If you haven't heard, Glenn Ong and Jamie Yeo have split. And this is causing a huge uproar in the whole of Singapore, trust me.

I woke up at 12pm on Saturday (the latest I've ever woken up in months, Mich it's your fault...), and the first piece of news that greets me from my mum was: "You know Glenn and Jamie have split???" Ok, so my mum reads The Straits Times earlier than me (and she was also the one who announced on an earlier Saturday morning that Ben Nadarajan my good friend reporter was featured in Scholar's Special I).

Although my hair is undone and my teeth are unbrushed, my eyes actually manage to pop out and I manage a gasp. Glenn and Jamie??? The ones who go baby-this, baby-that...the super lovey-dovey lovebirds??? I am in shock. I am in utter disbelief. I actually feel a little sad.

In the next few hours and days, people around me are talking about it. Even backstage in church the next day, when the music team was done with the first worship set.

Mich, some hours earlier, even texted me something along the lines of it must be Jamie who cheated on Glenn. For someone (and that's me) who'd ordinarily go "must be the guy lah", I actually think that this time, for once, it could be the girl.

Fast forward to today, my mum is still on the topic. And that is also because a bleary-eyed me snatched a copy of this week's 8 Days from the news stand at 8.51am in the morning, when I saw the blurb on Glenn and Jamie. Hiyah, must follow up on the goss mah... even if none of them got interviewed!!! We can also read friends' and anonymous interviewees' takes on the split mah...

Mum: "You know I heard that pretty and sexy girls usually cheat on their husbands...I think it's Jamie lah..."

Me: "Actually I also think so..."

Mum: "But I think, Glenn is also very temperamental. So maybe Jamie cannot take it. From listening to his radio show, I know lah..." [Wah, my mum very on close terms with Glenn, I see...]

Me: "Is it???"

Mum: "Eh, let me read the 8 Days leh...I wanna see..."

I hand mum the 8 Days. A few minutes later...

Mum: "She was cosying up to a Caucasian colleague you know!!! Must be her lah..."

And I know in my mum's heart, it's "Poor Glenn".

And so, that's the goss of the week. Hope you enjoyed it too. No ill intentions towards the protaganists featured. We are just concerned parties.

Space

It has been a great week.

I have had space - to breathe.

Happy :)

Aye aye Captain Lu

I watched Crowd Lu Guang Zhong live at the Esplanade on Saturday. He was fab. So funny, quirky, dorky, smart and super talented. I really wonder how he processes stuff in his head. His songs are inspired by the most everyday things in his life, he says. One song (not in the album I have) was inspired by his college housemate forgetting to wake him up for class. Another song (which he says is pretty crap but that he might possibly compile in one album with all the other crap songs he has written when he first started composing) was inspired by the noodle seller forgetting to put an egg into his bowl of noodles. How cute. Quotable quotes of his that really cracked the audience up:

“吃早餐是一個很搖滾的事情！” (Eating breakfast is such a rockin' good thing!) He raised both hands up in the air with the rocker "I Love You" gesture and ROOOOAAARRED!!! Hahahahahaha. This was his introduction to one of his songs about eating breakfast. In yet another funny intro, before he sang this song that required him to hit a really high falsetto note, he said "當我唱到海豚音時，躲！” (When I reach the part where the falsetto is the highest, HIDE.) In singing jargon, we call that a whistle, the kind of really high note that Mariah Carey is famous for hitting. And you know what? He did it so excellently. But the funniest part was, he launched into this whole philosophical parallel of his singing with Life. Let me just type that in English:

"Life is like hitting that super high note. As you get higher and higher in life, you get scared that you can't hit the note. So you try your best, and before you know it, you're already there. Somehow." Yeah. I think so too. So dear all, remember to eat your breakfast and try your best in life. Somehow, you'll get there! Love you Captain Lu!