Thursday, April 29
long time no post. i am gonna change my blogskin to william hung. haha. it wud most prob be a site against hung.. haha..anyway, i got fever past few days. missed alot of schools. den thursday, today go sch. tmd avalanche of tests. 5 test in a row. ahhh..
- DEAD
Sunday, April 25
oh migawd. i love straits times. i just found a straits times article about william hung in
this website. haha. if u lazee u can read the highlights and gist of the report in my blog..
WILLIAM HUNG, 21-year-old Asian-American anti-hero, has just done what some thought was impossible
He has released an album. And sales, to the horror of his detractors, seem to be soaring.
The album, Inspiration, has sold 72,000 copies since its release two weeks ago in the United States, landing it in the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Independent Albums Chart.
The album was launched in Singapore on Monday and sold 3,000 copies then. Sales figures for the rest of the week are not available.
When Life! contacted him through e-mail in February requesting an interview, he responded: 'My time is money right now. So only if you're willing to compensate me for my time. Sincerely, William Hung'.
When reminded of this, Hung hesitates before saying: 'No, I don't remember that at all.'
He adds, trying to crack a joke: 'And anyway, I never received any money from you guys. Straits Times, right? I would have remembered.'
Hung says he sees himself as a role model for the new generation, and says that his mother is present to make sure he does not 'go over the top and get too sexy'
'It's not that I'm not willing to try new things. It's just that I shouldn't expose myself or something,' he tries to explain.
But he has exposed himself - bad singing and all - to the world so many times already.
So it's a little late for that kind of statement, Willy.
1983: Born in Hong Kong.
1993: Moves to Southern California with his family. Father cites 'better chances of getting into university' as reason for the move.
2001: Enters the University of California, Berkeley, as a civil engineering student.
JANUARY 2004: Audition for American Idol 3 is aired. In it, he happily massacres Ricky Martin's song, She Bangs, and is told off by judge Simon Cowell. Hung responds: 'I already gave my best and I have no regrets at all.'
Media blitz ensues and he appears on numerous talk shows, is invited to the MTV Asia Awards 2004 (which he declines, citing a busy schedule), and gets voice lessons from the Goo Goo Dolls' voice coach. Hung-inspired art and T-shirts appear on auction sites like eBay.
FEBRUARY: At a men's volleyball game at UC Berkeley, he is offered a US$25,000 (S$42,000) record deal from independent label Koch Records, whose stable includes artists like Stereolab and Ringo Starr.
MARCH: Hung accepts record deal. Inspiration is made within five weeks.
APRIL: Inspiration, which includes songs like Elton John's Rocket Man and, of course, Ricky Martin's She Bangs, hits the shelves.
You can't call this music
INSPIRATION
William Hung (Koch)
It's not so much because of his tone-deaf, screeching massacre of Ricky Martin's She Bangs and Enrique Iglesias' Bailamos, but because of the immeasurable magnitude of his generosity and/or ignorance.
He makes so-so singers Martin and Iglesias sound like Pavarotti.
In the inspirational thoughts littered throughout, he confesses that he 'may not be the best singer in the world', but adds that he sings from his heart.
While it's initially hard to be cruel, after listening to the entire album, it soon becomes very, very easy.
As expected, he executes sensationally off-key renditions of the Elton John classics Can You Feel The Love Tonight and Rocket Man.
If we ever needed to fend off hostile aliens on earth, playing these versions at maximum volume is guaranteed to decimate all the nasty green invaders.
The best song here? His jaw-dropping take on R Kelly's I Believe I Can Fly - all wavery and gossamer - could well have been the theme song for the now-extinct flightless bird, the dodo.
So here it is: Inspiration is a Grade A clunker from start to finish - its only good sounds are the beautiful moments of silence in between tracks.
In other words, this CD is perfect as a coaster, a frisbee or a birthday present for your dearest enemy. Half a star for sheer audacity.
- DEAD
ooo. sunday morning. haha. had a craze william hung downloading session. love it! haha. listen to this song. dun go close this window before he sing finish. his last 45 secodns is his best.. haha
had a queer night.. talked to guan kang lyk as if i never did before. hehe. like i just knew him lidat. nice guy le.. hmm.. mebbe its abt time i broke some silence..
- DEAD
Tuesday, April 20
sinful. sinful. got dragged by alvin chia to suntec so he can buy his deuter sling bag. haha. kinda nice le the bag, honestly.. felt lyk buying, den only me and him same bag. haha. but oh well..
it was like only just now den i eralise lyk alot of friends i kinda stray away from, hardly talk ler. haiz. tough sia.. different class, different places we hang out liao..
anyway we were still our spendthrift selves. went to indulge in gelare. phew tuesday waffles halfprice. whee~ had this large waffles with Chocolate Overload ice cream with syrup and whipped cream. whee~ delicious!!! haha.
- DEAD
Monday, April 19
boring. alot din blog nowadays. ah ya. hope she doesnt tune to my blog.. read angela blog. duno la. owas got thise high sense of jealousy. like there are people soo popular around with others of some sort. benny marwin those kind.ah ya. heck.
saturday had a wild seafood buffet. i was eating oysters by the dozens with my binging mom and sane dad. haha. not bad la. cheap.
squandered sunday away.. now trying to do 2 miserable essays.. blech. thinking too much about unrelevant shit. time to improve my marks. ee harh!
- DEAD
Friday, April 16
disaster! only class that presented in uniform. the others had at least something different.. and we had the limbo dance, that was totally horrible. not horrible la. haha. but damn lame. stupid pang yu anyhow shake lyk having sex or something. haiz, shoudlt have lowered the bar one more level lower lo.. blech.
nothing much la today.. seriously i dont give a damn anymore. be like ginger man.. be cool about it.. think i gonna compose a poem liao. blechh..
once inseparable, now torn into bits.
times changed and now everything is shit.
days that passed, words thats written.
null, it meant and ouch, i'm bitten.
whatever i say its a flat.
too sensitive, damn.. cant regret.
treasured you once but not so much as before.
get over it and lets go party outta the door!
dedicated to dearest mr bee. too sensitive to do anythign anymore..
- DEAD
Thursday, April 15
fuck larx!!! arrrgh! i going nuts.. had badminton training.. wasnt improving fast enough, as what the lousy coach said. and somemore, i 8 plus den JUST reach home. and i got a TONNE of work to dooo!!
first shit. friendship day shit. we were given one fucking month. and we only started doing smth decent 1 and a half hr before the final rehearsal. imagine trying to talk and organise something with pang yu, guo quan, pein chuan, alan ng, kok peng, xiao hui, li xia and jonathan with krishandi who wanted to go band badly? haiz.. screamed and shouted. ppl all kpkb one. tmd. all dont wan do this, only wanna do that. sickening.
friendship day shit haven finish. the script was lost so i had to re write a script now. the powerpoint isnt detailed enuff. we got no costume. and i hafta do everything. haiz. might hafta sleep at 2 plus tonite.
still got! 50 pages of geog from the crazee esther ng. and i got sooo much ipw work to do coz kok peng, wei ming and alex arent doing anything. WAD THE FUCK! why is everything pushed to me?? argh!
- DEAD
Wednesday, April 14
blogging late night. gonna sleep soon. hehe today PE so shiok. fail 2.4 but play badminton with michelle. hahaha. i so pro~ duno after yesterday three pieces of prata after school, i was full until today. recess ate one papaya. haha. lasted me whole day.
oh well.. after school was a terror. screamed and shouted and quarrelled with lotsa people for the presentation for friendship day.. blech. finally got it la. got that satisfaction. haha. but we din perform. stupid zalinah lost our script. by the way zalinah is a tcher. so, shit u ,bitch!
eeek stupid guo quaN! wah lau! i was doing maths during night class. den my mother call me. i was talking mah, den i loko outside the window.. den turn back talk somemore. i say bye bye ler go and look at window. wah lau guo quan dere! i din noe le. he was so short, the only thing i saw was his HUGE eyes staring at me lo! from all black den got one patch of brown skin and 2 huge eyes. AHHH i scream. mr tan kept laughing. wah lauuu!!!
- DEAD
Tuesday, April 13
oh. blech. waited in vain for a friend. kena lied to. stuffed myself silly. comp hang 3 times. wow weee. lovely day. blech
last night slept on my geog book. din help much.. haha. tomorrow got math test. arghh. how boring can life be man.
pity ms salha! sooo poor thingie. kena our class. she herself not fierce enuff. we dun respect her enuff. haiz. i wunt bother teaching this class lo if i were her. i prob leave them to rot.
- DEAD
Monday, April 12
well. boring day again. surprised i got energy during classes. argh bosi is V V V IRRITATING! eek cant stand him. pertend he knows what the lesson is about and in the end he is like a few pages away from the one we are covering. blech. he keeps talkign and talking and talking. accusing and crapping and just OHMIGAWD waste time man! tmd.
ah ya. nothing much la today. after school hung arnd den go home..
- DEAD
Sunday, April 11
nth to say today. was kinda pigging my day off. slp so long. play abit gb. do abit hmwk. lidat lo...
- DEAD
Saturday, April 10
sian. watched hellboy last nite. not bad la. the way she fry those eggs are cool. den hellboy is lyk a man lo. not exactly a man l. an embodiment of a male being. those clumsy, egoistic but filled with love and all. haha.
watched this dumb show. this guy went hotel jaccuzzi on high power. super high suction. den somehow he got his dick stucked in the ultra high power suction. hahaha. poor thingie. call police to free his dick. den he was like rubbing it frantically. hahaha.
haiz. dao me lo. everyone does that..
- DEAD
Friday, April 9
haiz. me wrong la me wrong la.. blech. nth to say. but its one thing lo. u wan play solo den play it well lo. i noe i cant handle a muscial instrument. thats y i nvr joined band. and she does really choose a nice time to play wrongly.
- DEAD
Thursday, April 8
sian. today speech day. totally boring. somemore no dinner provided for stage crew. i hadta kope myself. blech. den still got a math test today. blech.
speech day got one solo trumpeter kok up. . sounded badly on stage. . the saxophone solo is good though.
- DEAD
Monday, April 5
well. nth to say about today. got back progress report. red marks everywhere. i got 10. wow. i was said to be a Responsible English Representative. oh well. thats new. then i also got a Very Good Improvement. never seen those in my progress reports before. then the usual "aim higher" or those "time management" and the "puts in effort". oh well. this comp i might not even be able to save. dad's getting angry. blech.
well. boring day la. haha. cept for the time with aishah, masturah and alvin. lol. crappers united.
- DEAD
Sunday, April 4
bahh. why i go msg people? stupid sia. should keep quiet. haiz. busy den don reply la. busy dont on msn la. busy ler ppl msg u u scold ppl.
nothing to say la. boring.
- DEAD
Saturday, April 3
a stupid thursday. a boring friday. badminton on thurs was kinda boring. but coach was kinda impressed at my improvement.
friday sian. got one math homewerk more then half the class never do. collected $13.50 altogether. 50c per person. lol. next birthday boy, kiat wei, song liao.
bahh. since no one reads, can start screaming here. I DONT WANT YOU BACK! yea. blech. dont want him back. her back. everyone also dont want. life of solitude and isolation is so calming. for once i am damn quiet, which i suddenly fell in love with. whee~
- DEAD
