seeing caroline's band photos on facebook. seeing her with her band. seeing her joining that asian beats band comp. thingy. RAHHHH. :( they got through the first round. i saw their video. call it jealousy, call it sour grapes, call it being competitive, call it whatever you want dammit. but i honestly think Soul Fusion<3 would have and would still be able to have done SO much better. would've totally trashed them. because we are so awesome.
i still remember the first jamming session SO clearly. i was sitting in my little corner, right next to the door, feeling so.. odd. hah. and all those songs that they were playing sounded either.. unfamiliar, or i couldn't catch up, AT ALL.and i so didn't know these people. they all simply seemed like strangers to me. besides the ahbang kental, of course. like durhhh, innit? i only remembered our oh-so-powerful vocalist, our bassist with long hair that didn't suit him, and the drummer guy who wore a helmet. (cause he rides lah.)
one more session, and intensive crashing. then we had our auditions round. Evanescence- Call me when you're sober.
The audition day. i bus-ed down after teaching. wearing that all black outfit, supposedly "goth". might've scared a little kid or two on my way. hah. so glad bernie and i had the same thinking, that all blacks was not something we wanted. and we had that same moment of wanting to burst out laughing, when we saw that ahbeng carry that polka dot bag which was part of our free goodie-bag. its still so clear, how my hands trembled so badly. how i was the only one with a score for a keyboardist. how my hands failed to regain normal temperature for so long even after we'd sat down and had some drinks.
that was our first time on stage.
following jamming sessions were in the bigger room. and the 2nd week was especially rushed, cause i was having intensive love's labour's lost rehearsals. we went to the ahbeng's place, where i was introduced to the keyboard that i would be able to get used to. then to his other place at tampines, where we had our last practice before the semis, and we all started blabbering nonsense cause we were all so tired.
The day of the Semis. Skipped teaching that day. i think. can't really remember honestly. it was outdoors this time around. and they all commented that i looked ahlian. T.T
(cause bernie and i made them all dress in colours. :D haha.)
i still remember the ahbeng was so beat he totally was falling asleep before it started. but the semis were the awesom-est. we did gimme one reason, which went into duffy's mercy. it was so beautiful. our band cohesiveness was flawless. and most importantly, i enjoyed myself so much on stage that day. its just a shame we all had to rush off somewhere after that. i was off to the full run rehearsal for love's labour's, and the ahbang kental had to teach i think. ahbeng had to go back to school. sigh.
AND WE GOT INTO THE FINALS. hah. ultimate awesome-ness, no? a band which was formed, barely a month old. and we beat so many bands and got into the finals. hah. we SO rock. that week's jamming sessions were stressful honestly. even though it never really felt like that. i think it was more of a fact that i was busy with my comms project hand in, and organising of the 809 bbq. (which turned out to be much fun, btw.) we continued jamming, and finally decided to do away with aretha franklin's "Respect" and Wheatus's "A little respect". i think i missed school almost the whole of that week besides maybe monday and friday? hah. and of course, late night suppers at macs which i so wouldn't forget so easily. with rats lurking and that silly ahbeng throwing pieces of food to them. =.="Friday was the day i would so not forget. i had school in the morning, where i was kinda still having that slight bit of awkward-ness with yiwen cause i'd quarreled with her over the project meeting. and i'd to meet up with cockroach, mich, lyn, aisyah, jean and uncle jade to get the food stuffs. it was busybusybusy the whole time. and we finally got to the pit. dom arrived, liz arrived, and i had to go off to jamming. hah. last night was stressful. but i'd proven my point that i could get my chords down. ahha. silly mat was doubtful. HAH. :P jamming ended with that doubtful and heavy feeling hanging in all of our hearts. or at least, mine. i went back to the pit after that to find some unhappy things, but we had fun and hung out till bout 4+ before going home anyways.
THE DAY ITSELF. OUR FINALS. the ahbeng picked me up, and we did a sound check with the previous week's songs. hah. bernie was obviously very nervous. haha. i tried out my chords and she was like :" shhh! don't play! later they know." HAHA. cute lah she. the keyboard's sounds were giving me problems. and that check really didn't do much to be honest. it only made me more nervous than ever. bernie's family was there that day. so was the ahbeng's sister and friend. domdom came to see the ahbang and i. hahaha. we were the last group to play dammit. and i had to sit through all the previous band's. when we finally went on stage without our shoes, (WE WERE SUPPORTING BERNIE, WHO HADN'T WORN SHOES DURING ALL OUR PERFORMANCES! heh.) it was nerve-wrecking. i could feel my heart pumping so loudly. my nerves, and all that adrenaline pumping. first song, You had me, Joss Stone. went fairly alright. then on to the next, a medly of ABC and I want you back by Jackson5, which the previous group did as well dammit. they did ABC, I want you back and another song. Ben or something i think. i screwed up. :( the keyboard was suddenly effing loud. but we managed to pull through without much major glitches i guess.
results were terribly nerve-wrecking. and i DO mean the sitting on the edge of your seat kind of nerve-wrecking. WE WERE THE TOP 3. hah. we got 3rd in the end. but it was still great, considering we were only a band which was formed for less than a month. or at most, a month. hah. we took photos, (which no one sent btw. =.=" ) and we all, once again, had to leave for one reason or another. the ahbeng was going for dinner with his family, bernie was leaving with her family as well. ahbang kental was rushing home to teach, and the mat.. i can't remember. hah. but i was flying off to kallang for my final match. i almost lost my trophy on the way and i got so flustered. luckily i found it back.
its been lying on my bed all these months, accompanying me to bed. hah.
i really miss the band.
so here's presenting to you,
Soul Fusion
we so rock innit. ;)
its been a looonggg and wordy post. for those who've read up till here, i thank you for reading about our journey. or at least, my journey in this terribly awesome band.
otherwise, if you've just scrolled all the way down, i'd say you've just lost out on getting to know this great band better. you might wanna just take a look at the vid. ;)
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