A Day To Remember..
Went for a Karaoke session with ShwuYun after my Economics tutorial yesterday.. Met up at around 7pm at the bus stop outside Canteen A.. Took bus 179 to Boon Lay Interchange before taking the MRT to Jurong East MRT.. Went to the KBox at Jurong Entertainment Centre.. Reached there at around 8pm.. Was allocated a room and we went on to select almost all the duets we can find on the menu.. Went through each and every one of the songs, skipping those which we deemed impossible to sing, and taking note of those songs which we could consider.. After going through the songs, we decided on the song "Guang Dao Zhi Lian" by Zhang Hong Liang & Karen Mok..
Decided to record down the song as we sing, so that we can improvise while listening to it at a later time.. The first recording was a major disaster.. Cause we failed to realize that our microphone volume was set to too high.. In the end, we got ourselves a song with a lot of screeching, a result of the recording volume exceeding the threshold volume.. Decided to record again when we were about to leave..
In the midst of singing duets, we sang some solo songs.. ShwuYun really likes songs by F.I.R, and she can sing them with such credibility that I was really very impressed by her singing.. Her voice is really good.. In fact, she is so good to the extent that I feel like a novice singing beside her in our duet.. But don't worry.. I'm trying to improve my singing.. Hopefully by the time for our audition, I can match her singing and produce a wonderful duet together.. A dream and something to work towards to.. I'll see how much I can improve over this period of time..
We sang all the way until around 11:30pm.. I was quite surprised both of us can actually sing for so long.. Towards the end, we decided to try and record the song one more time.. This time round, ShwuYun suggested that maybe if we sing without the microphone, perhaps we can avoid the screeching.. Decided to give it a try.. True enough, this time round, there was less screeching.. Still, there were some screeching cause her voice could reach such high notes that she actually went over the threshold volume, even without the microphone.. Decided to leave after that.. Before we left, I decided to take a photo with her.. Managed to take a photo, but the quality was not very good, a little fuzzy, perhaps due to the fact that it was very cold inside the room, and my hand was trembling.. But still, at least I have something to remember this day..
Offered to send her back to her hall, but she said she will be fine, cause she's taking a taxi back.. Didn't insist further.. Saw her board a taxi before I took the MRT back home.. Halfway through my way home, I SMSed her to see if she reached her hall safely (I know I'm being overly worried here, but I seriously need to make sure that she reached her hall safely).. Listened to the recording which we made earlier.. Compared it to the original song.. Found out why I feel that I was the weakest link in our duet.. Finally know why I seemed to have spoilt the whole song.. It was all because I was singing in a lower key that it should be during the chorus.. The male voice should not follow the main song during the chorus, which I did.. It should be sung in a higher key.. At that point of time, I realized why I was not able to bring my feelings across during the song.. Cause I was singing in too low a key.. Guess we might have to meet up again after the exams to finalise things before the audition.. The next time round, I think I will be able to express this song better.. Hopefully..
Despite singing in the wrong key and also some errors here and there, at least we managed to record down our attempt at the song.. This song will be kept inside my MP3 player, to remind me of my first duet with her.. Really hope there will be many more to come, cause she can really sing very well.. As for now, this version of the song "Guang Dao Zhi Lian" which we've recorded, will remain in my mind as "Our Rendition of the song"..
Really don't want to think too deeply into this, but I simply cannot help myself.. I will take things slowly, one step at a time.. I'll see if there is any future.. For the moment, things are fine.. I feel comfortable talking to her.. We have a common topic: Singing.. We can go on and on about this topic.. There doesn't seem to exist much awkwardness between the both of us.. So I guess I'm quite comfortable with her.. Well.. The future is still unknown.. We'll see what happens next..