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Just to get you ‘in the story’, here’s some background:

My brother YuJin’s wedding is next month. He’s been dating my sis-in-law Joanne since they were 15. He’s 31 now - do the math. Now that’s a love story, marrying your high-school sweetheart.

I told him I’d write a song for him and Joanne to sing at the wedding, and I’ll also play a song of my own composition. The one for the bride and groom is called ‘Till The End’, with lyrics by the YuJin himself. The second one (the one I was having a whole lot of trouble with) is called ‘When We Were Boys’.

It’s hard writing a song for your brother’s wedding. Especially if he’s your only brother.

Think about it, you want to say it all; you want it to be funny, nostalgic, happy, retrospective, introspective and un-cheesy, all at the same time. I guess you could write a Michael-Learns-To-Rock-ish type song, but in my books, that’s a total groan inducer for me.

So I did something a little off center. At least I think it is. I wonder what he’ll think of it. Or what Jo will think of it.

I like it though.

I’ll post it up closer to the wedding - it’s only about 3 weeks away!

The talented Hoong Bee and I scored the music for the movie, and judging from early reviews, It’s looking like people are liking it.

Here’s an excerpt from a recent review:

“It helps that the music was a top-rate arrangement. I felt that it really captures the feel of the scenes rather well. The music by Yuri Wong and Hoong Bee Lim is subtle, using low, soft riffs that adds a little sinister feel to the scenes. It’s very Chinese/unique/oriental in nature, which fits in nicely with the whole feel of the film.” (Thoughts On Films)”

Man! That review made my day!!

Anyhow, you can purchase the DVD at Indieflix or watch it for free this month at the Portable Film Festival

Oh, and as a bonus to you guys, I’m putting the closing theme music for Emperor for download/streaming in the Music Player on the right - Enjoy!

Here’s a pic from the shoot - ’twas good fun!

Yuri & Celeste

A lesson I learnt today from talking with one of the must successful insane people I know.

What are you insanely passionate about? What makes you stay up late, forget meals, disregard events to spend your time on?

I remember when I was a kid I used to build Rube Goldbergs. I’d spend hours on the things, making sure the last thing would fall and trigger that textbook to slide down the cardboard slope at the right angle, hitting the marble and finally turning the page. I’d forget there were TV shows, meals, even people. I was lost in my own world.

Then I grew up, and getting lost became a bad thing. You were told to be normal, not insane. Fit in. Grow up. All that crap.

I love music, but maybe I haven’t been as insane about it as I should. I want to be insane again.

I will be insane again.

This month, the 21st to be exact, I’ll be doing it solo with metal strings on a wooden bod at The Apartment in KLCC. Show starts 9.30pm and admission is FREE.

More details in the flyer below:

And if you’re on Facebook (pfah! -who isn’t?), here’s the event linky link:

Facebook Moonshine Event Link

See you there!

Ironically, what seems to be a guiding thought for this segment of my life is this quotation by Claude Debussy:

“There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.”

Well said, Claude. Wish me luck.

No, he’s not a rocker. He’s not a musician either (although he’s a music lover who started a label that didn’t quite go anywhere).

Seth’s a marketer. The kind that helps, not sells. The kind that builds relationships, not PR connections. The good kind.

Here’s his take (actually, more his mother’s) on Mother’s Day, and man, is it good:

Click this link to go to Seth’s post

Come!

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… is producing a movie!

Yesiree.

Gangsters. Blood. Drama. Guns. Car Chases. Sex (ooooo!)

In collaboration with J-Blockbuster, directed by Julianne Block and Adrian Lai (with soundtrack by Yuri Wong -me!- and music score by Lim Hong Bee)

It’s competing for a competition called FromHereToAwesome, where the winners get to have their movies distributed internationally!

All you have to do it watch the trailer below (trust me you’ll enjoy it - the guy getting tortured and singing in Hokkien is my brother!), comment/favourite/rate it on YouTube (click on the video once you’ve finished watching it) and we’re on the way to getting our gangster movie worldwide!