Friday Night = Guitar Hero Night!

Showbiz isn’t easy, we’ve been working around the clock. I’ve been kept busy and in fact,  the whole of Saturday was spent rehearsing with my team to make sure we’re all set for Sexy Magic/ Urban Illusions, our brand new 1-hour show which plays this 26 to 30 Jan at St James, The Boiler Room. Get your tickets okay! *grin*

Show aside, J C & I are attempting to predict the winning 4D numbers for next Wednesday’s draw! Our prediction is currently hanging for the public’s view at St James, till about 6:45pm on 27 Jan. Do join our Facebook page because we’ve got an on-going contest happening where you can WIN $888!

Check out J C’s blog Backstage Business for the most updated news on all of that 😉

As you may have suspected… all work and no play makes Magic Babe a really sad gal, so I’m really glad to have truly wonderful friends who I can always count on.

These buddies have been with me through thick and thin, and I’m really thankful that they accept me for me… quirks and all. *grin* Here’s the bunch of us over at my apartment on Friday night, chilling out with, you guessed it, guitar hero world tour!!!

After all, like they always say… WORK HARD, PLAY HARDER! *drum-roll, clash of cymbals* Hurhurhurhur…

Singapore's latest all girl band... The Queenies!

Yours truly on bass, Jas on drums, Spanky on guitar!

We met up at 11:30pm, after my work wrapped up... good thing the neighbours didn't complain!

Kudos to Kris (the sweetest guy friend ever!) for bringing the gear over!

Jas was good on guitar but totally wicked on drums!

This was apparently Spanky's first time playing, she rocked!

I was trying to concentrate but the cheeky BFF kept gleefully snapping away

...Like this super unglam picture of Kris for instance...

We had so much fun, we were all laughing and giggling half the time... one common trait we all share is really, no one takes themselves too seriously! 🙂

We all took turns trying our different instruments and discovered we had way more fun with the mic plugged in... though I did pity my hapless neighbors *snigger* Thin apartment walls, remember 😉

Jas confiscates the BFF's digicam and we delegated the busy shutterbug to play the drums. Seriously, the BFF used to play drums (for real) in a band some time back, so don't mess with the pro 😉

This was taken around 2AM... all of us were all still amazingly perky!

....2:01AM...

So yep, this is us on Friday night, er, Saturday morning... 5AM!

I so love my friends - Spanky, Jas, Kris, Nats, Luke & Pam... you guys ROCK!

It was a truly awesome 5-hour session… it’s just wonderful when you can clown around with friends, poke fun at each other, be in your comfy t-shirt and shorts, and simply just chillax with no mention of work, whatsoever!

Jas was so cute on vocals, seriously. All of us will never hear K C and the sunshine Band’s “Play that funky music white boy” the same way EVER again *grin* She’s completely changed it for everybody. Oh man… I so miss you already Jas… how’s work in Shanghai!?

LOL. Spanky darling  was the coolest… besides holding her guitar like she was playing the pipa, she could actually sing better in German than in English! I think we’d make a really cute team with Spanky/Jas on vocals, the steadfast BFF on drums, and Kris/yours truly on bass with Nats/Luke on guitar!

Anyway, the bunch of us took a ton of videos as well and they were all completely HILARIOUS and amusing!!!! Playing them back, tears just sprang to my eyes because I was laughing so damn hard. I actually giggled so much that my abs ached!

My friends are just the cutest, I swear *grin* If the BFF gets the go-ahead from the rest, she’ll put them videos up. However, I suspect there will be  violent disapproval from the girls, but till then, ta for now, more later… 😉

“My friends are my estate.” – Emily Dickinson

Friday night is Guitar Hero Night!

After this evening’s IBM (International Brotherhood of Magicians) Ring 115 gathering, my closest bunch of friends and I will be hanging out at my pad to chill out after a hectic week at work 🙂

I’m really proud of all of the Queenies… they’re doing so well in their careers and personal life, which is no easy feat! Jas will be flying off to Shanghai in a couple of days for work and she wouldn’t be back for months. I know for sure we’re all gonna miss her and her corny/lame/”cold” jokes 😛

Only just last weekend, all of us met up at Laguna for seafood and later headed off to an ice-cream place for dessert… here are the pictures of yours truly and her wonderful friends at East Coast!

Yours truly, Kris and Nats with our new babies!

Spanky comes in sexy glasses and Jas wears a tee with a funky slogan 🙂

The BFF & I arrived after our friend's solo concert at the Esplanade

We drove over to an ice-cream parlour later...

Sharing the sinful pleasures in life... yum!

Before that, the BFF & I had dinner at a Japanese restaurant just prior to Su’s concert “It’s Not About Love”. Our charming doctor friend is also a very talented singer, and she performed for a full-house for one night only, at the Esplanade Recital Hall.

Picking up our tickets at the counter, we saw it flash on the TV monitors

Us and our food... I so love Japanese cuisine!

Foodies R us... we always bring a camera wherever we go!

The BFF had a black pepper salmon rice bowl

I had a half portion of their Japanese curry noodles

Bacon wrapped prawns... Drool!

What's a full meal without dessert?!

Us at Su's gig... pity we couldn't take any pictures or videos, but it was a blast!

Check out my blog post last week on Su’s concert at the Esplanade – her debut CD is also out in good music stores 🙂 I really love the stuff in there because it’s solid, good, “old-school” material!

And speaking about “old-school”, the BFF & I recently met up for breakfast the other day at Colbar @ Portsdown Road. A family-run business, it’s a really quaint place that’s been around for ages and its name is short for “Colonel’s Bar” as it served British officers based here a long time ago!

The BFF = Miss Sunshine in the early AM

Check out the ancient light switches too!

Waiting for our food to arrive...

...we take pictures to amuse ourselves...

(HUNGRY!!!)

And finally, our food arrives!

Chicken Merryland is so huge, we just had to share it! Check it out… chicken cutlet, crispy bacon, goreng pisang, egg, homemade fries, bakes beans… the works!

We popped by Laurent Bernard’s chocolate shop after, since it was a minute away. Our favorite French chocolatier wasn’t around, but we shared a hot chocolate anyway. There were laughing kids playing on the nearby swing… ah, to be at that young, carefree age again when all you had to worry about was homework!

I think we’re really foodies. Nothing makes me happier than good food and fab dessert *rueful grin* Afterall, work hard but play harder right?

After I received the inaugural “Hall of Fame” award from my Alma Mata, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, we celebrated by going out for… you guessed it… ice-cream! 😛 So yep, that’s us with 3 delish sinful scoops of Ben & Jerry’s, with a whole lota toppings!

Who can resist Ben & Jerry’s lethal concoction of chocolate chip cookie dough, new york chocolate fudge & strawberry cheesecake?

Besides the official plaque above, I was also given a little token. As you can see, it’s a useful gift, but since the BFF’s the coffee drinker (at times, guzzler) between the 2 of us, I passed it to her so she can use it at work.

I’m sure the Queenies will be taking tons of pictures later tonight during our World Tour party on Playstation 3 *grin* Drums, guitars, bass guitars, microphones, the works… oh yeah, it’s gonna be FUN!!!