We only got to book out of camp at 7pm today. Not to mention that camp is in the middle of nowhere and we have to come back in tomorrow night. And I have to go down to beach road army market to get my ID tag tomorrow, so basically I don't have a weekend which totally sucks. Is it me or is this worse than active NSF days? I suppose I won't be compensated for the extra time spent in camp on weekends.....
Good news though is that I passed my IPPT fitness test again this week (although barely). Which means I don't have to take the test again till my next window closes in august 2008, which is a really long time away heheheh!
Whats up for the next week? More card playing (I'm a dai dee expert now), more mosquitos (hopefully more mosquito coils will counter that), more poking (hopefully I won't get poked), more cursing, less nights off, and hopefully it will be all over soon enough. For once I actually think I'd like to get back to the office!
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Sunday, October 22, 2006
NAB for the "has been" crowd....
So there was this famous UK DJ in town recently and he was playing progessive at New Asia Bar. Except that the New Asia crowd only wants hip hop and R&B and didn't like his music so they kept booing him and shouting for song change until he got real pissed off and told them to go jerk off (or something like that). And then he left early. The NAB management says it was stated clearly on the posters, flyers etc that this DJ would be playing progressive and so they couldn't do anything.
My take:
1) DJ has to take some blame. Foreign talent or not, he has no right to shout at the customers. After all he is a freaking guest, its not even his club, so go on back to UK and don't come back again! We don't want you here! I've organised events before where the crowds didn't like the DJ. DJ's only choice is to reflect to the management, DJ's don't scold the crowd. But of course we have a case of an arrogant Brit who thinks he can do what he wants. Try doing that in UK, shouting at the half drunk crowd! Or even in USA! You'd probably not make it home alive! Trust me, I've seen what a mad drunk crowd can do to you.....
2) The crowd should just go on home if they hate the music. What absolute losers booing the DJ like that. I mean, take a hike, the posters and flyers said it was progressive night, so just shut up and dance! It's not like the famous UK DJ would have any R&B and hip hop on him, he can't change the music you idiots! Not to mention the NAB crowd is mostly executives and bankers, so the DJ was right to cuss at them that hip hop and R&B is so out for this class of people! Hip hop and R&B for an executive (mostly chinese) crowd wearing their nice business shirts? Hello, wake up to the 21st century!!! Oh I forgot, these are the same people who were grooving to Mambo Jumbo just a few years ago when they were in college...... It reminds me of the 3 well-heeled girls who were in the middle of Zouk dancefloor on New Year's eve covering their ears. They paid 28 bucks to be seen in the "happening crowd" but had no idea who was playing or what trance is all about, despite the big signs outside advertising one of the top 10 trance DJ's. It's people like this who would end up booing the DJ, what LOSERS!
3) Obviously NAB management is the most at fault here. The events manager should just be fired. I mean, after all these years he should know that NAB crowd only listens to hip hop and R&B (and perhaps Mambo? haha). Despite that he is probably a little more educated in what executives should be grooving too, there's no mistake that NAB totally screwed it up by pairing a progressive DJ with a hip hop crowd, double thumbs down to that. Zouk would never bring on Armin Van Buuren on a Wednesday night! Otherwise those 18 year old "yo-ah, yo-ah" would be totally freaked out and maybe start fighting hahahaha......
You know what? This entire incident reflects on the state of the country right now. Perhaps the report could be the "state of the union" address haha! In one corner we have the arrogant foreign talents trying to tell everyone what to do, while pissing everybody else off even though they are way way overpaid. In the other corner we have the ugly Singaporean. While in the 3rd corner we have the people who brought both sides together, never really figured out how to manage them, and ended up in one whole big mess.
What a wonderful world isn't it?
My take:
1) DJ has to take some blame. Foreign talent or not, he has no right to shout at the customers. After all he is a freaking guest, its not even his club, so go on back to UK and don't come back again! We don't want you here! I've organised events before where the crowds didn't like the DJ. DJ's only choice is to reflect to the management, DJ's don't scold the crowd. But of course we have a case of an arrogant Brit who thinks he can do what he wants. Try doing that in UK, shouting at the half drunk crowd! Or even in USA! You'd probably not make it home alive! Trust me, I've seen what a mad drunk crowd can do to you.....
2) The crowd should just go on home if they hate the music. What absolute losers booing the DJ like that. I mean, take a hike, the posters and flyers said it was progressive night, so just shut up and dance! It's not like the famous UK DJ would have any R&B and hip hop on him, he can't change the music you idiots! Not to mention the NAB crowd is mostly executives and bankers, so the DJ was right to cuss at them that hip hop and R&B is so out for this class of people! Hip hop and R&B for an executive (mostly chinese) crowd wearing their nice business shirts? Hello, wake up to the 21st century!!! Oh I forgot, these are the same people who were grooving to Mambo Jumbo just a few years ago when they were in college...... It reminds me of the 3 well-heeled girls who were in the middle of Zouk dancefloor on New Year's eve covering their ears. They paid 28 bucks to be seen in the "happening crowd" but had no idea who was playing or what trance is all about, despite the big signs outside advertising one of the top 10 trance DJ's. It's people like this who would end up booing the DJ, what LOSERS!
3) Obviously NAB management is the most at fault here. The events manager should just be fired. I mean, after all these years he should know that NAB crowd only listens to hip hop and R&B (and perhaps Mambo? haha). Despite that he is probably a little more educated in what executives should be grooving too, there's no mistake that NAB totally screwed it up by pairing a progressive DJ with a hip hop crowd, double thumbs down to that. Zouk would never bring on Armin Van Buuren on a Wednesday night! Otherwise those 18 year old "yo-ah, yo-ah" would be totally freaked out and maybe start fighting hahahaha......
You know what? This entire incident reflects on the state of the country right now. Perhaps the report could be the "state of the union" address haha! In one corner we have the arrogant foreign talents trying to tell everyone what to do, while pissing everybody else off even though they are way way overpaid. In the other corner we have the ugly Singaporean. While in the 3rd corner we have the people who brought both sides together, never really figured out how to manage them, and ended up in one whole big mess.
What a wonderful world isn't it?
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