:) I don't know if you're reading this but thanks, Amelia, for what you wrote in my guestbook :)
Suddenly not very confident about 200m...I was so tired on Sunday...so tired...even at 100m...and I was so far behind the rest....no matter how much faster I tried to swim I couldn't seem to move...why is it that I'm so far ahead of them in backstroke, yet so far behind them in other strokes? One look and my coach knew I wasn't a breaststroker :P
I think I sound a lot like Shimatani Hitomi in Amairo no Kami no otome...Gwen said my voice was 'sultry'...actually I like the way she sings, and the way the lead singer of Globe sings too... just thinking that with voice training perhaps I could sing like them too...but I admit, that kind of singing takes some getting used to for some ppl.
Since i was little I've never sung with my speaking voice. I've always sung with a singing voice lolx...
~Remembers an episode of Music Station long ago...a singer who had a rather squeaky speaking voice came on the show, and the hosts asked if that was her normal voice. It was, but when she sang...wow!! You wouldn't believe her speaking voice was squeaky at all!!
Then when I was in the choir ir pr sch...my voice wasn't powerful enough to sing solo, but I remember that Mrs Ng often praised me *hides* especially in P6 when we were singing songs from The Sound of Music.That same year I got to sing descant (super, super high soprano part) in a song...a bit of a strain but I was surprised I actually managed to hit the notes without slipping!!
I've always loved Karaoke...didn't sing karaoke for quite a few years until I went to Japan...(wish I could have sung more!)
There are some people who tell me I sing horribly, but actually I don't take that to heart any longer because the people who said I sing well far outnumber those who say I don't. It's just that sometimes I choose songs that don't reallyu suit my voice and it doesn't sound so good. (but I still like singing songs by male artistes....:(
Why is it that people don't like certain Japanese songs, but when you take the tune of the song and make a Chinese versiion of it, they love it? E.g Hirai ken's Gaining through Losing--> F4's Liu Xing Yu and Cyndi Wang's song which used the melody of Amairo no Kami no Otome...Moral goes that if you just listened to the tune of the song you'd like it. Music is about the melody after all, lyrics and words just play counterpart.
It's not as if i understood Japanese songs when I first got into them after all!