JB Trip - Invaded to JB ASQ!

Last weekends were crazy weekends for us, Me, Joe and Joanne. How crazy? All I can say is…. Exciting and a little bit of miserable… Joanne and I invaded to the ASQ (Astro Star Quest) in Johor Bahru. Of course, we went there not only because of ASQ, we were planned to have our holiday at the same time.

If you are friends of mine, you know I love to sing a lot… (Although my singing sucks a big time but I still enjoy singing so much!)

Actually I’ve entered ATQ (Previously the contest named Astro Talent Quest) twice in 2005 and 2006. Don’t need to ask, I totally failed on that. The first was still fine, at least I got selected to the 2nd audition but still, I didn’t go through it. I knew it I wouldn’t be that sucks if I wasn’t too nervous. So I try again on the 2nd time. Yea…. I still had stage fright… I failed again….

I was too shy to face the audience and camera. I just can’t be as natural as usual. I think this we call stage phobia. I realized I am not like those previously ATQ winners, they were born to perform…. They can’t wait to show up in the TV, unlike me, I just know how to shiver when facing the camera and judges. I’ve totally lost all my instinct of singing.

I really can’t accept it… Am I really that sucks? I kept asking myself….

I can’t let this happen on me again, I have to be confident to myself, and I have to train more… so I entered again this year…

We left KL at around 7pm… Taking about 4 hours to reach there…






It was super jam at the subang exit...




The traffic went smoothly after Subang exit...


We stopped by at the Seremban R&R to have our dinner. We went to a KFC that is slightly different than what we have in KL. It’s called Kong Fu Chow KFC Express.




It’s really express because the foods were ready earlier and you just pick it up by yourself.





Because it was something fresh to us, so we took the foods like it's free of charge... weiii!! need money 1 lar!









Like we never eat for 3 days....





Someone says he cannot eat meat already 1 hor? haih~!


We continued our journey to the north after dinner…





The sky was already turned dark when we got back on the road…






This is the irresponsible bus driver who drove like a mad dog ! He simply cut here and there and speed up like the cars in Fast and Furious...


We arrived to JB around 11 pm then we started our “amazing race” to look for our hotel.


Fortunately we are smart enough to find the hotel without a hitch.


We stayed in Compact hotel which is near to the convention centre (Where the ASQ held). It cost us only rm130 a night… The most stupid thing is they charge the room for only rm100 per night if we check in at after 12am and we checked in at 11:40pm…. Could’ve just save up 30 bucks more!

















We got a night view from our room =D

Lazy Joe straight laid on the bed with his sweaty and dirty body!



Joe.... I reckon your pose was as same as the FurongJieJie (芙蓉姐姐）....



Ah beng and ah lian practice their songs before they get to sleep…

Here’s Ah lian version of 背叛 <--- click to download if you wan to be deaf...

Here’s Ah Beng version of 寵物 <--- click to download if you wan to be deaf...

Don’t say anything, I know I am sucks! HAHAHA! We were just practicing softly in the room because it was late… so.... we should be better than there =P (EXCUSES!)

The next morning we woke up early in the morning to get prepare for the audition. It says its start on 10am. We had a comfy night but the only problem of the room is the toilet… cannot be flushed!! Luckily we didn’t boom the toilet hard!

Our camwhore sessions before we left the room....









We missed the free breakfast due that we were late….

The coolest thing of the hotel is their parking! 1st time my car entered a lift.


This is the trivia parking… cool!

You know lar... we are ah bengs and ah lian mahh... never see this kind of thingy before!

We reached the convention centre at 10am and i started to get nervous....

Can ah beng and ah lian make it to through the audition?



Frankly, i didn't expect much since i am lack of confident and i just wan to take it as a trip.... but the atmosphere was tense... We saw many of the contestants were all well-prepared and full of self-confident. Of course they are still some strange people (奇人異士) aka people from LALA land... Some of them dressed like Chan Hou Nam with leather sleeveless and some thick thick chains hanging on their body... I think they went to revenge for their gang but not for the ASQ...

We camwhore abit to calm ourselves.



My mood swings... from nervous to scare, from scare to calm, from calm back to nervous again and again....

We filled in the form and every of the contestants will receive their queue number...



Mine was Wawasan 2020 and Joanne one was 2022.

That means i was the 20th and Joanne was the 22nd.

We thought it will be very soon to reach us but it took us nearly 3 hours...

We were glad to met some new friends from the audition, 1 is from KL too... He looks like 楊宗偉... then the other 2 were brother and sister from Melacca... But the stupid thing is... we never get their contact.... so what for we make new friends? hahaha =P anyway, it's fate... if we do have fate...then we will meet again...

The brother and sister made it through the audition.... I was really happy for them too... and the way they present themself on the screen was really presentable... After they got selected, what i heard from the crews was they wanted to look for 1 more winner only... I rather i did not heard that because it caused me loss more confident to myself... It was only few more contestants to reach my turn after the 2 winners.

When it's my turn.... My heart beat increased... I was really really scare... I keep telling myself to calm down...calm down...calm down.... but my heart beat just didn't get to slow down...

I briefly introduce myself then i start singing...

I just close my eyes while i was singing because i was scared and i wanted to feel it 1st....

After a few sentences, only i dare to opened my eyes... i took a peek on their judges expression..

They were nodding their head like they were satisfied with my performance... So at least i gained back some confident....

At this moment, Vivian (One of the judges from My FM) suddenly "ding"(hit the bell) me... ask me to proceed to the next song which i know i've failed.. I started to get nervous but i still have to proceed because it was on air... I knew my movement was totally strange and unusual... She(Yes, Vivian) "ding" me for another time again.... I was stoned...i feel so pai sehh... Then she asked me to show my talent which i filled in earlier... Because it was so suddenly to let us know that we gotta show our talent in order to gain extra marks from the judges... As i wasn't prepare anything, i wrote that imma going to imitate donald duck voice...

I imitated donald duck as i filled-in there.. After i finsihed, they don't seemed to be satisfied... What i performed was only the voice but they want me to talk with donald duck voice...

I told them i don't know how as i didn't practise before... Then Vivian said "it's fine if i don't perform then, she thought she wanted to give me a chance but i don't want". I have no choice and i just told them "alright, i will give it a try"....

Of course i don't sounds like donald at all... Then she took up a sign and asked me to read it... It's
"勉強沒幸福 (There is no happiness if you force yourself)".... I was stoned...again... I felt so angry instead of scare... I realised all the while they weren't listening to my singing at all...all they were waiting was my silly donald duck voice? They were looking someone to entertaint them... to bring sillyness to the tv show ... Although i am not an artist but i do know what is "professional (敬业)".. i have to proceed...i read as they wanted me to read... I told the world 勉強沒幸福 (I don't know how to sing)....

What makes me more angry was they asked me to read it again with donald duck voice!

Sorry... i seriously not that "pro" then... i just told them i can't , sorry...

I thought i could've learn something from the audition ... but i've learnt nothing... i did not prove myself....I was just the laughing stock on the tv.... I felt so shameful... I lost all my confident.... I felt like i don't wan to sing anymore at the moment.... I understand I love to sing but i don't sing well...

If you do laugh at me when you see me on Astro... at least...i've successfully to became a joker...

Hopefully...they just delete all the scene that have me inside....



to be continue...