TJC Guitar Club

I have always been attracted to music.
It's just the mom sent me for computer classes instead of music classes. Which is just as well, it isn't easy to make a comfortable living out of music in Singapore anyway. And I don't really believe in the whole struggling musician thing.

So it was a natural thing that I ended up in the TJC Guitar Club. Before that, I didn't really know any friends who played instruments. The teacher was Mr Tomas, and he really amazed the shit out of me at that time. He still does. Today he has his own company at http://www.tomas-music.com/ . This guy can really play man. And if you are able to spare huge bucks for wonderful classical guitars, he is the man.

However, it was this fellow TJcian, Yixian that really made me want to play guitar. He could play Emil Chou songs and accompany himself. After playing the boring classical repertoire in the guitar club, we would play and sing along to super bala chinese favourites like 让我欢喜让我忧 ，你这么舍得我难过.So I would hang round him and ask him every thing about guitar.

Zhihui, another guitar club member, was another guy who inspired me to play. I think he probably inspired the "angmoh" side of me by introducing me to guitar-friendly eagles songs. I think till now the songs I write all kinda folk/country sounding. Probably because of him.

So being an introvert, I would lock myself in my room with my 80-dollar yamaha classical and play till the wee hours of the morning. After a few months I tried writing my own song. I remember the chords were derived from a chinese song called Lian Ai Zhen Hou Qun. I can still remember the song's melody, so it must have been not bad, huh?

So after 1 year of playing being a closet guitar player / songwriter wanna-be, I had a chance to perform at the annual TJC Guitar Nite. At that time, Xiong Tian Ping was pretty famous. Now he's just fat. Anyway, I massacred his lovely song "Huo Cai Tian Tang" at that show, but surprisingly some people liked it (these are my friends man !!).