Tuesday, November 06, 2007
The 12th Newsletter - To bring us some November cheer!Jon's latest newsletter is here! And to top it off, Jon’s Mandarin single Qing Qian 25 (情牵 25) is now out in the drama compilation album of the same name. The album is available exclusively at CD Rama for now. So grab it and show your support for Jon!
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Hello all!
I hope you guys had a good month, in the blink of an eye the end of the year will be upon us. Lots of you are probably planning or have already made plans for a year end holiday to unwind from the daily routine. If so, I hope you all have a good holiday ahead of you. Be sure to be on your toes in a foreign land though, most Singaporeans take safety for granted and look so "soft " that they are easy targets for crime... I am a bit the paranoid kind when i travel, just so I won't run into any trouble.
Anyway, this month has been ok for me, lots of ups and downs but mainly everyday is about working or trying to get work done (ups are productive days, downs are unproductive days), my hours are centered around learning about the studio and the basics about recording and song writing... thats about my day in day out life for the past month.
I have been getting a lot of the "why is your work taking so long?" kind of questions from most people that i meet and the other day I was thinking to myself that in fact it has not really been a long time.It's been a year since I came to be known as a "singer" but I actually took a break from everything to go back to school for the first half of the year. I also kind of forgot that I have only started the real work in the music business only for about 3 months, tops? Reservist took up the better part of july as well.. so in fact, thinking back, I haven't really had much of a chance to delve into the whole creative process until very recently. But in the few months that I have been in this new environment, everyday i learn that there is so much more than what I thought I know, much more to learn, much more to find out... "I think it's going to take awhile" is a real euphemism in this case. We'll see what happens, yea? There's a really hard battle up front for me.
I managed to take some time off to watch a film called "the heavenly kings", it's a hongkong production about the music industry and I thought it was really well done. Very much the reflection of the industry, it has many interviews with established people in the business and they were quite frank with their opinions. I would recommend that you go rent it if you are interested in knowing about the business. It stars Daniel Wu, I think he directed it as well.
Oh, someone I know happened to tell me about the new forum skin, the new look is really nice, I just took a quick peek at it just now.
Take care,
Jon.
@ 11:32 AM
