Ailee - Heaven

I'm back with a cover for Ailee's Heaven, with a little twist! ;)



You can download the mp3 of this cover here. More of my piano covers can be downloaded here.

The iPhone app I used to make the beat is Garage Band. Initially I just wanted to make a piano and vocal cover like my previous covers but I felt that it sounded really empty without the beat. Even though I have a drum set at home I am nowhere near being able to record something, so I decided to make it on my phone instead, and I think it worked pretty well!

I know you guys would love to have the sheet music but I'm so sorry that I don't have time to write it down. If it helps, the chords are C - G - B - Em in the key of E minor. If you listen to the song you'll realise that most of the instrumental is just the same chords repeating over and over.

Enjoy! :)

Of Wedding Dresses

On Sunday, my best friend and I went to High Street in Armadale for our very first session of wedding dress shopping. We went there with a specific shop in mind that we wanted to visit, but when we got there all their change rooms were full and there was no one to available to assist us, so we left our number for them to call us back when a change room freed up.

Because we didn't make any appointments, we decided to explore all the bridal shops on the street and have a quick browse through. We entered some shops and had a look at their dresses but there wasn't really anything that caught my eye.

Until, I went into this particular shop. As I was looking through the dresses on the rack I saw a really simple yet elegant dress. It had everything I was looking for, classic, light, flowy with not too much bling. I asked the shop assistant if I could try it on although I didn't have a appointment, and she said we could just make an appointment in 15 minutes time!

So when I finally tried on the dress (the first one I've ever tried), what can I say. I fell in love with it. It was so beautiful! I also tried on another dress in the same shop just for the sake of it since I had gone through all the trouble of undressing already, but I still loved the first one more. So much that I had to try it again. I got the name and price of the dress and told them that I would consider after checking out a few more shops.

I went on after that to try on another four dresses, two of which were pretty nice, but my mind just kept drifting back to the first one. It was really funny because before we started shopping, my best friend was telling me, "You know, I heard that most brides end up buying the first dress that they like / try on. They'll go on to try 40 other wedding dresses but eventually end up buying the first one." And I think that is exactly what's going to happen to me.

We also never ended up going back to the first shop we left our number. So next week, we are going to Brunswick to look at more shops and dresses, but as my best friend said, I'm probably only going there for a peace of mind to make sure I've covered everything. It's mostly likely I would end up buying the first one. I am pretty sure I will!

I wanted to take some pictures to show you guys but unfortunately none of the shops allowed us to do so, but hopefully I'll be able to post up some from the wedding day itself!

New CDs From YesAsia!

On Friday a package was waiting for me at home, and it turned out to be my YesAsia order I placed about 2 weeks ago! I didn't expect it to arrive so early because I was meant to wait 7-14 days for one of the albums to be ordered in. It was my hubby who actually just wanted to get Gigi Leung's 2007 album, but since we needed $39 to qualify for free shipping I decided to add two CN Blue albums to our shopping cart!

I got the Bluelove minialbum (my favourite song has got to be Love Light!):

I also got their first full length album - First Step:

If you guys haven't noticed I am a big fan of CN Blue! I had already decided that I would want to collect all their albums one day, but never got around to ordering them. Now I have started my collection with two of their albums and hopefully I will be able to get my hands on all the others sooner or later! I've got to break up the orders so that I don't feel the pinch too much!

Song Ji Eun - It's Cold

Hi everyone, I just posted a new piano and vocal cover for Song Ji Eun's  - It's Cold from Take Care Of Us, Captain OST!

Watch it here:

You can download the mp3 of this cover here. More of my piano covers can be downloaded here. 

I'm sorry it's so short! I really like this song though, so I may do a full cover in the future. :)

Fresh Out Of The Garden

 

I did mention that I am a little into gardening, didn't I? If you didn't know, I have added gardening to my list of gazillion interests since I moved into my new home. We have a small outdoor deck overlooking a small grassy area and a vegetable patch, and we have been filling it with many, many plants!

I am by no means an expert in growing stuff, basically I just chuck the baby plants into the soil with my fingers crossed and hope they grow. It's weird because it seems to be working so far! My garden family now consists of lettuce, spinach, mint, parsley, coriander, lemongrass, chilli and strawberries and I am hoping to add more in the future till I eventually run out of space. 

The harvests have totally exceeded my expectations so far. For $2.49 we got about 20 cos lettuce baby plants and they have all matured and are ready to be eaten. For another $2.49 we got 6 'perpetual' spinach plants, and when I read its description tag saying the more you harvest the more it will grow, I was skeptical. After harvesting enough for so many meals (and still going) I have learnt never to doubt the tags! 

When we bought our strawberry plant a few months ago, it started to shrink in size for about two months. Then we decided to transfer it into a larger pot and put it directly under the sun, and that did wonders! We started to see so many flowers and subsequently many baby strawberries. I made a mistake leaving the ripe strawberries on the plant, and a few days ago when I checked all of them had been eaten by the birds. :(

I've noticed that we are now rarely buying veggies from the grocery. There's nothing like eating veggies and herbs fresh out of your own garden, it's so fun to run outside to the garden, snip some lettuce or spinach and then cook it for dinner!

Music I Call Mine

One week has gone by so quickly! I suppose it's true, what people say about working life, you barely have any time left to do anything else. These two weeks I have been waking up early, going to work, coming home to shower, cook, eat, sleep and then start all over again. Once in a while I may catch half an episode of Big Bang Theory on Channel 9 or watch half an episode of Running Man and that's about it. By 10pm I feel like I should go to sleep yet I feel I haven't done much at all. Soon I will need to make time everyday to study and although I have no idea how I am going to manage, I'm going to worry about that later.

One of my dreams has always been to write and record my own piano album, but even though I have a few original compositions here and there I've never actually gotten around to finalizing and recording any of them. I always get inspired and motivated really easily but it dies down really quick, usually due to my lack of confidence - what if it sounds like something else, what if it sounds terrible? But yesterday, hubby said, " It doesn't have to be the best song in the world, at least it's something you created. Maybe we could use some of your songs at our wedding. *insert smile*"

So I shall make it another of my new year resolutions, this year I will work hard to write all the sheet music and record my original compositions into my very own piano album - even if it's not the best, even if it sounds terrible, at least it will always be very special to me. :)

Eye Candy Calendar

A while ago, I caught up with a friend who had just returned from her trip to Korea. *jealous* Look what I got as a present!

It's now living in the music/mess room upstairs so I can always pretend to forget the date and then stare at it happily. I was thinking of putting it on my bedside table but no, I shouldn't be creepy. *droops head*