Please help to vote! :D

Alfred Sim was one of the winners at the POSB Everyday Champions Award!

This award seeks to recognise individuals, coaches and organisations who have consistently contributed time and effort, beyond their call of duty or responsibilty, so that others can enjoy sport and grow in sport.

The event was held at the St Regis, graced by President S R Nathan and Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister of Community Development, Youth and Sports, organised by Singapore Sports Council and POSB.



More about Alfred -
He's a National Track and Field coach specialising in sprints and hurdles,
and he recently coached Singapore's fastest youth Calvin Kang,
who was the only Singaporean representative at the Beijing Olympics 2008.


Channel NewsAsia interview of Calvin and Alfred

Calvin might be more familiar to you, as seen on your Milo tin.




As you all know, sports and music are all careers driven by passion,
he works very hard in training these young athletes,
and we should support local coaches, born and bred in Singapore!

Please help to spread the word and vote for Alfred!

He is in the Coaches category :)
http://www.singaporesports.sg/Posbchampions/home.aspx

If he is in the Top 3, he wins $2000,
his nominee (ME!) wins $1000,
and the lucky voter wins $1000. :)





much love,
kewei

i miss school productions

I caught the 1st half of Impresario,
and spent the 2nd half backstage hanging out with RazzlePlay and Yet Ye Dunhong :)


they are great fun!

I would next be performing with them at the Singapore Entertainment Awards
this coming Saturday, at the Preshow! :p

We would be singing a medley of old-school stuff everyone is familiar with - that would be interesting :)




NTU Auditorium backstage was exactly the same as it was 5 years ago
when I joined Impresario 2004,
brimming with laughter, excitement, stress, packed food, makeup artists and hairstylists,
dancers, singers, musicians,
taking photos,
warming up,
playing stupid group games.


i miss school productions.


The next day I was the guest performer for NTU Hall 6's Cultural Night at the Esplanade Recital Studio,
together with Ein Ein on keyboard (my music buddy since NTU days!!!)
and I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

As with Impresario,
the production committee, the audience, the contestants,
everyone is here for a good time,
everyone puts in their best for the show,
many times the sincerity and effort is even more than a commercial production.

welcome to the real world! ARGH!


Shoutout to Steven, Peiwen, Yuan Rong, Samantha, Yu Ting and many others who have been kind to me at Impresario :)
Also Jingjing and Jimmy for taking care of me at the NTU Hall 6 production! :)


Thank you to Steven Da Dai Lou of Impresario 2009,
and for this gift! :D


I sang a song that meant the world to me at Impresario -
more on that in a bit :)

Impresario Finals

I was one of the judges at the Impresario Semi-finals,
and the contestants were EXCELLENT.
i enjoyed the process tremendously :)

I would say,
most people can make a good judge.

After all, we sit in the comforts of our own home,
my sister and I,
shooting biased, judgemental, cruel comments across the sofa
at American Idol-esque shows,
and also professing sincere declarations of love and admiration for those who shine.

There are some people, who simply win the world over.
It's not that hard to judge that.


I hate to be a judge though.
or even, to JUDGE anyone according to any fixed standard.
Everyone has so much potential.
Many times, someone is ousted from a competition simply because some little thing went wrong in the situation
- they chose the wrong song
- they were a little too nervous
- someone else was a little better


Singing, performing, is more a style,
about finding a comfortable niche that suits you best,
and to be so confident in your own skin that you make everyone love you and your performance.



So what if you don't win?


I'm speaking for myself. Hurhur.
I never won any solo singing competitions.

But that doesn't mean you can't work hard at trying to win over the world.





Check here for more details on the Grand Finals this Saturday :)






it was a warm afternoon and i happily dressed for the occasion :)

i miss touring.

no tours this month.

been busy with album.

i miss touring!!!


good editing always sends chills down my spine.

25 things.

i caved in, it seems like everyone cool is doing it, and i want to be cool.


1. i am a relentless, self-persecuting perfectionist. i do think it borders on destruction and a perpetuates a general disdain on mediocrity.

2. i can't cook, and have no interest in learning.

3. i swing from loving matte black nissan skylines, to having a baby pink laptop with a TwinStars puffy sticker on it.

4. i like robitussin honey cough drops (the one with liquid honey centre!) but can't seem to find it conveniently :S

5. i am a bad storyteller (i think).
everytime someone asks “So, tell me! What interesting/memorable/funny stories do you have from touring for 3 years with DT/Amei/JJ/Leehom?” and my mind is a blank.

i can answer questions like “So, what are they like?” but I don’t have a good story, sorry folks.

6. i spend an insane amount of time online.
many times i'm happier staying home exploring new things than hanging out with people.

7. i suck at keeping friends.

8. i don't enjoy the taste of alcohol, i'm boring when i'm drunk.
i just become gentler (i think).

9. i like living life like in movies.
sometimes i don't know what to do with the boring bits of my life which are not showed in movies.


10. i’m taking this very seriously –notice how I’ve tried to be VERY random.

11. I hate to sms. i find it an obtrusion to whatever I’m trying to do. I often ignore it, sometimes I look at it, and if it’s not urgent, I reply only when i’m in the cab/waiting for something. Urgent smses are usually quotations, where are you?s, etc. Smses requiring me to say , “wait let me check and get back to you” are usually ignored till I check and after which I reply with the requested answer. Which explains… no. 7. So… sorry guys!!!

12. dettol instant hand sanitiser is great for travelling.

13. I’ve never had a pedicure.

14. I am NOT A FAN of horror movies. I make it a point to keep scary images out of my head and prefer to wear a smile on my face.

15. I love the smell of Neutrogena rainbath, and the Palmolive one in purple.

16. I struggle very hard to keep the balance between my business brain, and my artistic core.

17. I DO NOT like soft toys. small ones are okay, I have some, but some is enough.
When I receive random gifts of such, my OS just goes “OH. MY. GOD.”

18. i’m not a gadget freak.

19. Lately, I have had little interest nor motivation in shopping. Too many consumer goods, too little meaning. Too much waste. Especially when I shop at wholesale outlets, the thousands of ugly bags, horrible looking clothes and jeans etc scare me. Where are all these products going to end up?? What about all those dying kids in 3rd world countries who need them?? Resource allocation is seriously misaligned.

20. I was inspired by www.storyofstuff.com . It’s a 20 minute video, but watch it.

21. when I was young, the Buddhist doctrine of “Do not let your possessions possess you” stuck in my head. I was never the kind to mourn the scratch on my phone/watch/laptop/car.

22. I wear my emotions on my face.

23. I play the erhu, piano, guitar, violin. In order of excellence.

24. I believe in karma.

25. I’m now working on my EP (potentially 6 track), aiming to release by July. I hope you'd be curious enough to take a listen. :D

Store Bought Love!

look ma i'm on tv!
with a chicken on my head!


i'm involved in a final year project for a group of Film Sound Video students from Ngee Ann Poly,
a musical called Store Bought Love!


it's been a while since we ended our shoot though... i miss them!


i'm the female lead Jamie, with Benjamin as my love interest Ah Mann!
here with director Chin Hwee who wrote the script :)
check out Chin Hwee's looong eyelashes...


with Catherine as Mdm Bao...
she is soo funny and bubbly to be around!


at the scene of crime... Meidi Ya supermarket!
Ah Mann the nerd with fruits sprouting out of his head, has a thing for Chicken Girl!


Chicken Girl can look cool too


with Gillian the cashier


alot of daydreaming on set


and phone calls while waiting... :p


Ah Mann and I sing a duet as the finale song of the musical - pretty cool!

More pictures soon! :)