Mandarin lyrics resurrection: go or no go?

Posted by lefhen at 12:30 PM on October 28, 2007.

As a warm up, I tried to upload a couple of lyrics just now:

• F.I.R. - Yue Ya Wan
  
• Yang Cheng Lin, Rainie - Ren Yi Men
  

I was really struggling the new tabulas management format. Somehow, I didn't feel comfortable with the new arrangement. Editing the contents took me quite some time.

I have been thinking of moving the lyrics into a new site. The space would not be a problem, I guess. I already know someone who can help me with that. However, it would be impossible for me to develop and create the site. Although there are a lot of templates can be used for creating a site, modifications are definitely needed to adjust to my needs. I don't have the time to meddle with the codes and study them all over. The main thing is the site would keep it easy for me to administer the contents, in this case like uploading lyrics, editing, etc.

So, the options are: stick with tabulas (which will definitely wear me off) or move to a new personal site. Any suggestion or help?

Feeling: frustrated

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Back from... err, hibernation?

Posted by lefhen at 06:45 PM on October 21, 2007.

Wow, look at the date! It's been a while, isn't it?

Well, the deal is I just got myself a internet cable connection two days ago. Pretty cheap and the most important thing is that it's UNLIMITED! Hehehe... From what I know, many people have also registered due to the price. I don't know how it will affect the speed when it'll be a lot of people using the service. At the moment, the speed is ok. Not to slow, yet not too fast.

So, that means I can go online much frequent now. And I've been thinking of updating my lyrics collection, but I'm not sure whether I should go for it or not. Since there's work and stuffs. I should be mentally prepared if I'm going to do this all over again, shouldn't I? :P Ah well, we'll see about that later.

Rats!! I just realized. The holiday's over. ARRGGHHHH!!!! >_<

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Web Counts (update)

Posted by lefhen at 03:09 PM on June 15, 2006.

I'm trying out a web counter from Neoworx. I saw it first at someone's blog, and it is interesting to see which nation your visitors are coming from. I've tried to search for other free web counter but couldn't find one that categorized the counts by the country. I guess Neoworx is the first and only one for the moment.

Though it doesn't offer much features but I guess it is great. Other than being different from the usual web counters, I get to know which countries visits my site the most. We'll see how the numbers turn after a few days or so...

Update:
It seems that the 14-day trial period is over. Without the premium version, I cannot publicly show the summary statistics although I personally can still access that information with certain limitations. Also I cannot change the counter's appearance. It's still interesting just to show who's currently online based on the country. But for more detailed statistic, I should consider another free counters...

More update:
Rats!! It turns out that the non-premium Neocounter version can't do anything but showing online visitors. No statistics accessable. Dang!

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Thank you (the storm has passed)

Posted by lefhen at 10:07 AM on January 12, 2006.

Thanks to those who kept on bugging me with the question for all this time.
Thanks to those who gave me hope and support throughout the process.
Thanks to those who have been there when the slaughtering happened.
Thanks to those who made all the evil planning and finally got to settle with an egg.
And of course, thanks to the godfathers (and godmother, I suppose) who have been kind and generous.

Thanks y'all! It wouldn't be happening without all of you. This storm finally ended. Now it's time to go through another one...

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JJ's Karaoke VCD

Posted by lefhen at 11:01 AM on December 5, 2005.

Well, I've got this VCD about a week ago. After the long search that I'd done, finally gave up and turned to my cousin. She was going to Singapore and I figured that since JJ is a Singaporean, there should be lots of stuff about him over there. So, I handed over the mission to my cousin to search for JJ's karaoke. She got me this one.

I'm pretty much satisfied. It could've been better if it was produced in DVD format. It can carry more contents and it'll definitely have a better picture quality. I'm not saying the picture is bad for this VCD. It's pretty good actually. But DVD can give better results.

24 songs taken from all 3 of JJ's albums. Not all songs is covered, of course. But it's complete enough. There's one songs that should've been in it that it's not. The song called "Bu Dong". It's a good song that was another version of A Mei's song called "Ji De". Too bad...

Overall, I'm good with it. Very glad that I finally can watch some of JJ's MVs that I've never seen before. The picture's good, the karaoke works, the sound's nice. Yup, I have no regrets buying this VCD. Thanks to my cousin, Henny :)

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Stefanie Sun's Newest Album: A Perfect Day

Posted by lefhen at 04:40 PM on October 12, 2005.

The newest release of Stefanie Sun Yan Zi's album is called Wan Mei De Yi Tian (A Perfect Day). I was not planning on writing about this album. But the album is so great that I just cannot not-mention about it.

As usual, Stefanie Sun's great and unique voice will indulge your ears. There are 10 songs in this new album. I highly recommend her slow songs in this one. All of them will just drift you away with the flow of her voice.

And one song should be mentioned in particular. It is called "Meng Bu Luo". This song is very energizing. It has a marching band as the background music. The drumline just takes your breath away. Exceptionally great music!! Try listening to this song with a good headphone and turn the volume all the way up. It'll definitely blow your mind. Makes you feel you're in the middle of a vastly football field.

Well, the review is short. It's entirely because I'm out of words to describe Stef's new album. You'll just have to listen for yourself. Words won't be enough to tell you what's in the "A Perfect Day" album. One thing for sure: Totally perfect!!

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A Trip to SK Radio

Posted by lefhen at 09:00 AM on October 7, 2005.

Yesterday, I went to SK radio to pick up a prize that I've won. I got the prize for joining a contest from one of SK's programme called Trafieska. Trafieska is a radio show based on English. It encourages people to call-in and practice their English. Basically, it's a fun and crazy show. The mastermind is the American guy named Uncle JC. He's done the show like years before and has switched to several radio station until settling in SK... well, at least for now :P

Now, about the contest that I've won. 2 weeks before, they held this Josh Groban's "You Raise Me Up" singing contest. The prize is quite intriguing. For first prize, a free english course at EEC worth for over 1.5 million rupiahs. For the second prize, free meal at Cafe Batavia worth 750 thousand rupiahs. Third prize is voucher for Cafe Seven (?). And fourth-fifth prize is a pair of shoes, given to the worst singer :D

So, I figured that I should give it a try. The prize was not bad. And I thought I had a pretty good chance. So I called, just to join the contest. The rule is you must sing only the refrain part of "You Raise Me Up", anyway you like. It can be sing beautifully, weird, funny or anything, as long as it is good or creative. I insisted singing from the beginning. Kinda nervous, but I managed to do it.

I ended up winning the 2nd prize (Yay!! Free meal! :D). But things didn't go as smooth as I thought it would be. There was a little mix-up about the winner identity. They misidentified me with another caller called Jin. I had to make few phone calls over to the radio station to clear the mess. I started to doubt that I really won the prize. The problem is that it was annouced clearly that my name won the 2nd. But when I called, they said it was a different person who won. Well, I don't mind if the person happened to have a same name as mine and turned out that the guy won the prize, but there was nothing similar with the names. So, I decided to make a final call to Lily (sorry to bother you, Lily) because there's no use arguing with the management. A day after I called, they fixed the misunderstanding and declared me as the eligible winner. Oh, goody goody!!

Well, about the winning part, I don't know about it. My singing is not that superb or sumtin. Probably there were not as much callers who willing to try the contest. That's why, at the first place, I think I would have a very good chance to win :)

So yesterday afternoon, I went over to the radio station. And it made me realize, walking from the Mampang-Kuningan crossroad to the Adhi Graha building is quite a long walk! It looked so close when I was on the bus :P Finally, I got there. I met Uncle JC in person for after these years only hearing his voices from the radio. And I also met his co-hosts: Lily and Andy (accompanied his beautiful gf: Mandy). Lily handed me the voucher and I stayed there a while to see them doing the show. It's the first time ever that I've seen a studio where they air radio programmes. The studio where they do the show, it turned out so much smaller than what I've had expected. It was like only a 3 by 4 metres cubicle! I didn't stay until the show was over. I took a couple of pictures with them before I finally went home.

It was a nice experience. Now, I have to make plans of how and when to spend the voucher :D

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Phoenix A Date With Aceh

Posted by lefhen at 09:45 AM on April 20, 2005.

Last nite, my auntie got this invitation to a charity night for Aceh and asked me and my sister to come along. There were my uncle, my aunt, my sister, me, and my two cousins. I knew Jackie Chan (Chen Long) will be there but I don't know what it's all about. I thought there were going to be a lot of singing. I was wrong...

The event was at Balai Sudirman. I've gone there for my friend's wedding not long ago. We arrived at 8pm, a bit late from the scheduled time. But the event was just about to start. We ended up sitting at the back row. And could only see Jackie's face from the big display on either side of the stage. Not long, we moved a bit closer to the front sitting on the left wing of the hall but still too far to see the stage. But eventually, we managed to sit close to the front at the end since people are leaving early before the event ended :P

The show started with an Aceh dance, followed with a word from the promotors(?) of the show, someone from the Social Department and The Phoenix Television Network. Then, a chat with Jackie Chan and Eric Zeng Zhi Wei, conducted by the MCs from MetroTV and Phoenix presenters. And also chats with Miss World, Miss China, Miss Indonesia, and a guy who won the gold medal for the Olympics. There was also Sherina singing 'Indonesia Menangis', IIRC.

Jackie Chan sang one song. A duet with the Phoenix presenter which I forgot her name. It's something with Xiao Li in it, I guess ^^;;
Jackie was funny. He's truly the main attraction. He healed my disappointment that I was expecting a lot of singing from HK artists. He's really good with jokes and makes a perfect combination with Eric Zeng.

And there was an unplanned auction happening last nite. A moment before that, children from Aceh who lost their parents to the tsunami disaster, stood on the stage carrying a candle while Sherina was singing. There are five of them, 3 boys and 2 girls. After the singing, the children was given an opportunity to speak their heart and tell it to Jackie. So, one of them, a girl, said to Jackie that she can't go to school anymore and wanted to continue studying. And so Jackie promised to cover all of the education fees for all 5 children standing on the stage.

And that triggered the auction. Eric Zeng said that Jackie didn't bring a lot of money to fulfill his promises to the children. Then he joked, saying that Jackie's clothes would be enough to pay for the children's education. Everybody thought it was a joke, even the presenters did. Jackie said he would do anything he could to help and that includes if he had to take off his clothes at that very moment. So he auctioned his clothes. Eric opened the auction at US$100. People hesitated for a moment and the auction started slow. But in the end... Jackie Chan's clothes was sold at US$30.000. Wow!! Go figure...

The charity night ended at about 10.30. So, we went back home. Pretty impressive night, although it's not like what I had in mind. Thank you Jackie Chan et al.

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