Shern Wong, Singapore’s upcoming rock instrumentalist

Shern Wong is an upcoming rock guitarist who has recently released his EP titled “Bloom”. With melodious tunes and fast guitar riffs packaged in one, guitar and instrumental fans will be excited to check out what Shern has to offer.

Here are some of his worth-drooling songs (ok, it’s in my opinion drool-worthy. )

Overcoming my flaws

Never felt so insecure or fearful in my life. Or perhaps this is the time when I truly felt the full force of these two emotions that have longed struggled to surface within me.

Struggling against the fears of screwing up my job, which I concluded to myself after much thought that I cannot depend my enture life on this job. The industry of which I am in is one of my interests but the environment and how things are being done, I can’t seem to get myself to reconcile to that. I hate to be labelled as a bummer or failure in life so I will try to sit through the full term of my job before proceeding on to my bigger goal in life.

And why I would be so fearful of such a trivial thing (as compared to say people who are terribly affected by poverty, violence and unemployment in other parts of the world) is probably my insecurity, another conclusion I came to. I find myself admitting to the cold hard truth that I need some form of recognition or approval from people in life because I never had that from my family. In the things that I did when I was younger, it was fraught with disapprovals, setbacks and loneliness, which after a while, a fear of such repercussions set in and bringing that fear into my adulthood.

It is a struggle with these feelings in me, and I want to overcome them. Of late, I’ve been turning back to the religious devotionals to get my perspective, self-confidence and fearlessness back on track. I won’t have to handle all these alone, someone higher up is looking after all of us. This journey won’t be easy and at many times, discouraging. But I am not going to give up the fight and I am going to focus on the bigger things that I want to accomplish in life. Confidence in living the life that I believe in for myself and to accomplish my bigger goals (hopefully based on a less selfish platform) in life.

Friends, if you are reading this and if you are experiencing something similiar to what I am going through, I pray you will not fret and know that there is support out there.

Reflections

Too much heart-pumping events for the past 2 weeks. Equivalent to an emotional roller coaster ride.

Cut things short: I have settled into the new job…not the new job but the OTHER new job. Twisted a vein in my left shoulder, spent a bomb on the Chinese sinseh and medicine, and today I twisted ANOTHER vein but this time on my RIGHT shoulder. I simply couldn’t resist messing myself up.

While my fragile heart muscles are still pumping away (albeit more slower now), my grey mass above has to do plenty of catching up.

Procrastination and fear (of many, many things and the effects of my actions) have never been my best of friends, yet they permeate every being of my body until I’m paralysed and unable to move.

Now is the time to shrug them off and catch up on those that I have lagged behind. As much as I admit man is selfish by nature (and so am I), I cannot put other people’s happiness after my own. I am just a small being on this humongous universe and there are people out there whom I can seriously help.

I once said this of someone whom I previously worked with, “It’s not that she’s not capable, she’s just not focused.” Now I find this very same sentence glaring back at me.

As my fellow Muslim friends are observing the month of Ramadan, I also seek forgiveness to those that I’ve hurt through my thoughtless words and selfish behaviour.

Time is short and there is much to be done.

On French Street Booming

Street Booming in Singapore, the French way!

Participated in Phillipe’s video for Street Booming late May. It was a fantastic experience and a cool video.

Hope to see more from you, Phillipe.

http://www.streetbooming.org/2008/06/street-booming-from-singapour.html

 

P.S.: Those who appeared in this video are some of the folks from the French street theatre group, Ilotopie. They were the ones who brought you the wonderful opening show at Boat Quay for Singapore Arts Festival 2008.