Anyway as time passed, I felt choir no longer can fulfil my intention. I never feel moving forwar in choir. I guessed things need to change. So i tried to be a Worship Leader in GIFT. Yeah, doing this really boost up my confindence to sing in front of the crowd. Sorry Lord I never meant to use Praise and Worship session as my practice stage. I appreciated it so much.
But then i come to realized that my voice in out of my controlled. i couldn't make use proper vibrato, High notes and all the professional skill. Its true... I never knew this until the I was in end of year 2. But i did nothing to it.
In year 3, the only highlight for my singing passion was the MJCC battle of the band. We called our self "In the Name". I still remember I received a loud claps and cried from the crowds but not the judges...the judges simply don't like me. First my band name was critic as "in the name", should have only three members as in the holy family-Jesus, Mary and Joseph, but my band have 5 members. Second, the judge don't like my acting, my expression by body language and so on. I couldn't accept these in for months.
The only comments that i guest relevant was by judge-mark anthony: You are good in attracting people attention but your voice need to be done something. Thank you so much Judges... My band lost- BIG lost to other band. I feel bad caused I had brought my band for intensive practice, you know- money and time wasted so much. what's more disturbed me was the other bands who won the battle band 1st to 3rd place did only few times of practice and they won happilly. Ok Ok stop it, I am not condemn the judge but myself for ruinning my band's effort and hopes. Sorry Guys.
But still I would like to express my thousand thankful to my Ex-band member-Guitarist: Roland, Bassist:Raymond, Bernard:Keyboardis, and Drummer:Daniel. Sorry and thank you. I hope we can be together again. The video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTPDm4YE7YI
Ok, this is my good intension actually. I had a feeling that some of the Juniors have the passion on musics too. and it could be easily identified when the Gift Music Ministry(GMM) found them and recruite them to play for Weekly Mass. I guess they also interested to form a band.
then come the month of August when by the Pesta Convo will be held. I contact my previous band (In the Name)- only contacted roland actually. He told me he cannot make it cause he have to go back to his home town during the break. Ok, Band In The Name erased from my head. Erm I did contacted Daniel too, but I have to dropped him cause I found new direction for the battle.
I was lucky to find Eric-Guitarist from GMM. During WWF, I found Andreas-Drummer and Lorna-Vocalist to fill this new band. I knew I can do something about this. Then I insisted Bernard-Keyboadist to join this band and also Filipi-the well promoted bassist by Roland. hehehe to complete the band.
It was a great moment for me while in this band. i get to know them especially juniors. I wanna highlight here that even Eric seem to be very cool and quiet in the real but when messaging he seem to be a very kind and warm person. Hahaha...I put him a the golden boy in my friendster picture because i feel that he is the one who gave the golden idea of the chosen songs with cool improvisary.
Ok, For the band we got Hilang-Garasi, Gemuruh-Faizal Tahir and Standing In Eyes-Ella with little rock version for the musical part. It's not that easy for us to enter the competition. I have to reveal that the organizer did not allowed for female singer in the band. They did not state it in the rules and regulation. We were frustrated but still came out with plan A, B and C. I prefer plan A which was to see the Student Counsels and ask permision to allowed Lorna to participate the battle, plan B was the worst which to let me sing alone...NO NO NO then Plan C is to choose new singer in the eleventh hour-Karlvin was in our mind.
So about a week before the competition, to tell you our songs was not perfect yet but we wer very sure join. we (me, Eric, Lorna and Gu- I still remember lorna was wearing very formal, and Andreas were wearing sandals which frighten us as the Student Councel was a very strict area) went to the Administration Buidling and look for the guy than can help us with this appeal.
to cut short, the guy (forgot his name la) allowed us. Yeahoo! so practice continued. oh yeah, we named our band as G.I.F.T and we all agreed to it. Our practice video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwailsYuX2Q
It was on the 17th of August, our group have to wait until the instrument arrived and one more bad news the organiser did not prepared keyboard. Bernard keep on telling me there were no keyboard on the stage while other band we battling. I had ask Didi's help to fecth me to take my keyboad in my room. Fuh...! Just before our turn, we make a short prayer while holding tight each others hand. Thank You Lord, we managed to performed greatly, the preliminary was fun-almost perfect. check this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SgDfgCN55Q
Not waiting for the result cause it take long time for the preliminary to finished. So most of us went to Filipi's room to check for the video taken with Eric camera. yeah, Jackson was there too. we watched our performance and quite satisfied with it. Then after few hour i received a call by the organizer. He asked my band to come for final. hahaha...my group member laugh out loud
During final, I can many people watching the competition and the organiser used sms voting method to choose the winner apart from the judges marks. I was happy to see a lot of GIFTers and even MCG came to support G.I.F.T band. We were second to perform after the Houdinix band. check this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcCeMSs4OZQ
So, from part,I did badly in my speech-urghhhh! my voice? i did not do it nicely, I had voice changing again! Lorna did it perfectly although she told me she almost forget the Hilang lyric. Filipi? there's problem with the technical part that night. I can hardly hear the perpective perfector factor - bass sound. Eric forget to turn up the volume for Hilang most wanted intro, Bernard finger can't make the melodicful part but Andreas did it well better than the preliminary. To say overall, is still good. not bad and satisfying.
The other band performance were good too. but highlight to Houdinix and Kerepek Pedas. there were cool, I heard from Bernard that they were the winners for previous Battle. I knew Kerepek peda vocalist - He is Christor...most GIFT knew him cause he performed during GIFT night and battled during MJCC battle of the Band. Check on houdinix and kerepek panas band performance:
Houdinix
Houdinix - Itu kamu
More on houdinix
Kerepek Pedas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBaadCjdwZ8
thanks to the person who upload it.
the Result. ok we were just relax from the outside but feel nervous but when all the consolation prizes was given away, we were release a bit, and ready to walk on stage. So the third place belongs to us GIFT. Thank you Lord. Second goes to Kerepek Pedas and the winner is Houdinix. Congratulation to the winner.
for us, we were satisfied. we won something. Thank you all for supporting us. to my band member thank a lot, hope we can do this again next time.
