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Penang trip with family

Hung with my 3 sisters, sister's bf and mom. We attended Joanna's wedding and did the foodie thing around Penang. I'm enjoying my new Olympus camera :D I'll be doing a full food blog post later. Feebs, me and Dorcas Joanna and Joshua All of us  Waves on my red toe-nails At the beach the next morning. Mom being cute 4 sisters on the rocks Ain't it pretty? Hawker Food Goodies So hot...need a bool of refreshing cendol

The long ardous journey of this album.....

I like this photo. Depicting a journey... Jaben, Sam and I "It's been a long and winding journey" [quoting Guy Sebastian], and I really don't know when I will finally arrive. Sheesh. The day I can say, "And I'm finally here tonight" seems very far away. In the beginning of this year, I went through the tiresome process of deciding how I wanted to record my albums, particularly my Mandarin album. I often felt paralysed when different people suggested different  and usually opposite approaches. In the end, after countless conversations and prayers, I decided to work with Jeff and my American buddies instead of other top-end arrangers. I've always wanted to record an album with live people [not just the computer], and have everything as organic and natural as possible. The downside to the organic approach is that everything is done really really slowly. A lot of things are not in my control because I am not doing things in the standard 'professio...