I'm literally dozing off at my keyboard while typing this, but it's a post now or never kinda situation you know.

WE WILL BE TAKING A TWO WEEK BREAK!!! From the 30th of November till the 14th of December! Alvin's heading to L.A to go visit his awesome buddy Kevin Au, I'm going to NYC and Tokyo with the boyfriend and a couple of other friends and Wan and Bani will be staying at Rasa Sentosa for a few days cause Bani can't go on holiday yet and Wan is saving up for a major holiday in 2010. That means they might still be around to do a couple of the gigs without us, and I know for certain they're doing 11th Dec (Fri) with Mang from the Goodfellas!

I'll leave Alv to tell you about his L.A adventures, and I'll bring my lappy along to update everyone on what we're doing in NYC.

Okay, now time to sleep.

We'll see you all in 2 weeks!!!

Peace.

saleeloo.

But I just did my eyelash extensions!!! =)))))))

Very girly post, but I'm really loving it this time. She made my lashes damn thick and not too long (that's what she kinda said?) so I don't really need to do any eye makeup now. I'm a very low-maintenance person and I really hate having to come home after a long day of teaching and gigs and still have to remove a whole face of makeup, so this really is the lazy person's alternative to looking good everyday!

I know most people are used to seeing me with quite a bit of makeup, and it used to annoy me when people would ask why I'm so made up all the time. It's a very conflicting issue for me, because I'm very pro women's rights and not believing in how "sex sells", but I do realise that for entertainers, it is as important to be visually appealing as it is to be good at what you do. So if you ever do see me without makeup, please don't run in the opposite direction, just get over the shock and pretend like you're completely unfazed by my eyebags. HAHAHAHA.


Okay, end of girly post. Back to the music.

Peace.

saleeloo.

First things first, I'd like to say a big THANK YOU to all the folks who came to hang out with us at Timbre Substation on the 6th of November 2009. EPIC!!! I've never seen a whole crowd of locals get to their feet and dance with us, and I must say I'm very very very happy! INSEAD played a big part in getting everyone into the mood, so Kim, Ibrahim, Philippe, Mauricio, Thomas, Michael and gang, you guys rock our world. Huibin and Amanda, you guys are very cute dancers. hahahaha!

The band's been doing a whole bunch of interviews/photo shoots lately, and it's definitely been loads of fun. Stuff to look out for in the coming months:

- Bani and Sara at bus stops ad screens and on bus walls.
- Bani in CLEO magazine
- Sara in Men's Health magazine
- The whole band in August Men magazine
- Sara in HotStuff magazine

And most recently, our spread in ST's weekly Digital Life section (wednesdays). A big hello and thank you to Sherwin Loh for the great spread and interview AND MY SISTER FOR THE HOOKUP, everyone who saw it said it was really really good. =)

I also recently discovered an interview we did quite a while back for inSing.com, I remember having to answer all the questions via email at 4am after one of our gigs, so you can tell I was a bit loopy. 

click HERE for interview.

And just in case you didn't get to see the ST Digital Life spread...



Remember folks, we're ALWAYS AVAILABLE!!! Follow Sara, Bani and Alvin on Twitter! (Note to Wan: Time to start tweeting.)

=)))

peace.

saleeloo.

Hi All!!

Come Join us this Saturday at the Padang for some great rugby action and live Music with 53A, EIC and several other bands!  GEt your tix from SISTIC!



AlfV, Bani, Irwan and Sara

Hi guys!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Words can't describe the shock/horror/amusement I felt seeing everyone in their costumes, but it was a whole lot of fun. Alv and Bani were playing at Acid Bar, so I went to hang out with them for a set before heading down to watch the Goodfellas. Wan was nowhere to be found, he went on a movie date with Raaj.

TSK.

 Thank you all for your songs requests!!!

Some of your lists were LOOONG and some were just funny (THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!!!), but we're gonna take all of your lists seriously because at the end of the day, you guys are the ones that make us matter. Okay so we don't leave anyone out and we don't overwhelm ourselves, we're gonna do 1 song from EACH list so everyone's happy! I think that sounds fair enough. =) 

On a separate note, look out for us in next Wednesday's (nov 4th) issue of Digital Life in Straits Times, we're doing a smartphones feature and I think you're gonna have a good laugh at our poses and stupid faces. We just had our shoot yesterday in the superbly complicated building that is SPH (hello Sherwin!), then all 4 of us rushed down to Timbre Old School to eat and sing. haha!

Photos from Wed at Timbre Mobile, if you were there, see if you can spot yourself!

This is gonna be a short one.

We still always have trouble deciding what songs to do at gigs, so please tell us what you wanna hear, or we'll just keep playing stuff we wanna play!

hahahahahahaha.

Love,

saleeloo.

BANIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



22 already. So old. But we still love you!

Love forever and ever,

Elpeen, Shara and Huan. 

We played Timbre Mobile for the first time tonight and it really was a novel experience:)  The place looks insanely chilled out and the only word I can use the describe the venue is organic. You guys should really come down to check it out for yourselves.  I meant to take a picture but I forgot coz' I was busy trying to reschedule some stuff.  

It was brilliant to see Kenneth, Joyce and the rest of the boat people there coz' as always, they make the nights pretty fun wherever the venue. 

SAra came over today and we did some work on our album.  It was brilliant and maybe we might put up some leaks soon  if the recordings sound good enough:) 

I think i'll not do any music just for tonight and just really relax.  Been having weird disturbed sleep patterns of late but I'm sure it'll be over soon.

Alrighty, nite nite.
AlfV

HELLOOO everybody!!!

Sorry, I realize it's been more than a week that we've checked in, but we've all been crazy busy the past week. I really should be sleeping now cause I gotta wake up for church in the morning, but who am I kidding, I can't sleep at this time. Whoever told you musicians are nocturnal is telling you the truth, we can't sleep before 5am. So this is what's been happening so far..

We've left St James Lobby Bar on  Wednesdays, the gig on 7th Oct was the last gig for us. They're gonna be moving everything around again, ie Barnone back to Marriot Hotel, though I'm not entirely sure what's happening. So if you wanna keep up with the St James schedules, let us know and we'll try to help you find out more information about their changes. Alternatively, you could go check out their Facebook pages and online site for details. And with that, we're moving to TIMBRE MOBILE on Wednesdays starting 14th Oct!!! 

Timbre Mobile is the newest Timbre outlet to be opened, and why it's called "mobile" is because the outlet is on wheels and will change location every 6 months! It is now located at East Coast Park (beside carpark C1), so if you live in the East or you have a car, no excuse for you not to check it out!

On a different (but somewhat related) note, do keep your eyes open for certain familiar faces on the walls at bus stops and in buses starting November. And by certain familiar faces, I mean Bani and I. We just did an exhausting 6 HOUR shoot on Monday for Timbre, but I won't go into detail until the "thing" has been launched. The photo shoot  was a kickass load of fun for the both of us, and I have to say, Bani is really really photogenic! What was really unfair was that my hair and makeup took a total of 2 hrs while Bani's took 15mins. Why do the men always have it so easy?! I think you guys will especially love the shots we took together. It was kinda odd shooting them cause we felt very "couple-ish", but the pictures turned out amazing.  Oh man, can't wait to see the posters!!! Hopefully they use some of the shots at the Timbre outlets so we can have our "excuse me, are you a model?" moment. hahahahaha!

Okay time to sleep.

Btw, I don't mind being called an auntie if it's in reference to me feeding the stray cats in Singapore, as long as it's not mooncake related.

Peace.

saleeloo.

Click HERE to view full picture. 




peace.

saleeloo.

We're a very very conservative country, be it our principles and morales or behaviour. I was at Timbre @ Arts House watching the Goodfellas last night, and there was a group of ang mohs dancing in front of them, a very common sight at Timbre Substation nowadays. Whether we're playing "American Boy" or "Viva La Vida" or even "Always Be My Baby", you can always count on them ang mohs to get up and provide the rest of the crowd with visual entertainment. Sad thing is, I have never seen a local Singaporean in the midst of that dancing group. Even I'm too shy to go join them.

But why? Why're we so shy to dance in front of other people? 60% of Singaporean youth club on a regular basis, so why can't all this dancing at clubs be brought to a different venue? It's pretty much the same thing - alcohol + music.

I say we start being more adventurous and let loose once in a while. We don't have to run to the front of the stage and dance there, let's just stand up where our tables are and let that music take us from feet tapping finger snapping to full on hip-swivelling gyrating!

WE NEED TO STOP BEING SO DAMNED SHY!!!!!!!!

peace.

saleeloo.

edited one day after:

here's proof of me and Fandy trying to start being more proactive!!!!!

I wanna say A MAJOR HI to the dude/dudette that was at Timbre at the old school today:) YOu mentioned that you were a reader of Settle The Kettle so HELLO!!!

Sara and I played the airport again today but I had almost no recollection of what happened in the two sets that we were there:)  I had a bad but quick bout of food poisoning and to be honest, was delirious during the sets.  But just as fast as it came, the pain went away after the 2 charcoal pills.  That's some magical shit dude..

Anyway, I tried to puke in the airport toilet.  Have you guys ever puked in a public toilet when you were sober?  Man, it really sucks ass.  When you're drunk, I guess you're kinda numb to how bad public toilets smell.  However, when you're lucid, the public toilet bowl is the last friggin' place you wanna stick your head near to.  At one point of time, I wasn't sure whether I was trying to puke coz' of the food poisoning or the bad smell! hahahha  

In retrospect, its hilarious! But it really sucked earlier:) 

All good now!  gonna continue watching How I met Your Mother...

okie..there's a typo error...its st james @ the lobby bar..guess i still need my medications...

 so me alv and sara were at st james acid bar last nite and while we were on our first break..i was liking to the song the DJ was playing...




irwan:"eh!!...who sing this song ahhh????"

alvin: i dunno dudeee...u shld go check on the playlist .."

SARA:(with 120% confidence..plus eksyen a bit..)"ohh!!...i know this,its the guy who sings souljah boy!??"

irwan: "huhh????....souljah boy lah...-_-.....



TAHU TAKPE...

Dammit.

I'm on twitter.

And I'm not sure what I'm doing.

But Pat Metheny's on twitter, and Katy Perry? Aye..

Till this date, we've played gigs at countless hotels, function rooms etc.....but some of the places we've played have really stuck in our minds.

One of which was the new 360 Marketplace supermarket at the ION.  We were in between the Alcohol and organic food section and that's just gotta be slightly crazy:) 

Today, we got to play a few sets at the Airport, both at T1 and T2.   At T2, we were situated at the waiting lounge where we could see the aircraft taxiing in, and I was hoping some of my pilot frens were in them but as far as I know, nobody called to say they saw us yet....

At T1, we played on a stage just in front of the customs...I gotta say, it was pretty cool looking at all these tourists and locals alike doing their passporty thing while we were singing.

Sara and I are hoping to get us a gig at the Zoo and birdpark soon coz' that'd be awesome!...so if anybody has a way for us to gig with the animals and birds, let us know!  

E-mail us at 53aband@gmail.com

WE REALLY WANNA PLAY AT THE ZOO haha

AlfV

 


WHERE HAVE MY BOYS DISAPPEARED TO?!?!?!?!

 Just found these off http://shiroang.deviantart.com/














Love the shots man.

Peace.

saleeloo.

This is gonna bug me for the rest of the week, seriously. In case you have no idea what I'm talking about, we had a debate on radio on wednesday about whether I'm "auntie" or not. I brought mooncakes for DJ Harry and Alv, nicely sliced into bite-sized portions, stored in a small tupperware. According to Alv, it's already very auntie for me to buy mooncakes in the first place, and to slice it and tupperware it just makes me even more auntie.

Okay lah, I admit the tupperware bit is slightly auntie-ish. In my defence, I put them in the tupperware cause they came in individual wrappers, so when I opened them to cut up the mooncakes, I had to store them in something. But how is buying mooncakes auntie?! Obviously I have to cut 'em up into smaller pieces, if not how to eat right? I'm not gonna bite into something that's already been bitten into by someone else! (maybe guys are just more gross that way) Alv claims he bites into the mooncakes like a burger, but not all of us can finish a whole big piece by ourselves. Besides, Alv always eats like he hasn't eaten in 10 years. Very charming.

Anyway, being the good sport that I am, I allowed Alv to make it an on-air poll for listeners to choose whether I'm an auntie or not, and some of your responses were hilarious! MOST of you said that it's not auntie and that I was very sweet to go to all that trouble while some of you said yes, it's very auntie of me to do all that. Then there were the sms-es that said I'm a "sexay auntie", "if my neighbour did it then it's auntie, but if sara does it then it's not auntie", "quite auntie of sara to do that, but then she'll be a hot auntie." But Paul's (AGAI) really hit the spot when he said "I bet sara's one of those aunties that feed stray cats under the block." Alv and I just majorly cracked up halfway through a song when that sms showed up on the computer screen because I really do feed stray cats under the block, and I keep the catfood in a huge tupperware (with a handle) in my car boot. 

Harry, being the nice guy that he is, tried his best to be neutral about it. haha Poor guy kept reiterating that it was very sweet of me to bring the mooncakes for them, think he was scared I'd get upset from all the teasing. Alv was just loving every moment of it, that ass. Jon Leong and Chor How (both newsreaders for Power 98) said I'm very auntie, but then Chor How later changed his mind and said I'm motherly.

Oh well, even if I'm auntie, I'm a hot auntie.



Peace.

saleeloo.

p.s: the snowskin mooncakes from BakerzIn are damn good, esp Pink Champagne.