那些日子

Original words were written at 1 year anniversary after Tiananmen Square incident.
It was quite unpolished. Chatgpt amended beautifully for me.
 
如果和平有个方向 
就让它在这里停泊 

First Song

This song created after quite a few generations with the AI tool.

I am happy with it.

The lyrics were written in 1994. 30 over years.

Passed to chatgpt for its comments. 

It didn't change anything for me.

So passed to Suno, and eventually happy with this version.

Along the way, added the last verse to make it more complete.

So voila!

The first song on my YouTube Channel!

Youtube Channel

It's been a long time since I last posted.

Mainly due to laziness I guess. Whatever.

Anyway, recently I got into creating AI music again.

It's been so fun, not sure how long it will last.

Due to certain reason, I got into paid version of Suno.com, the platform that I was using. This paid version says I can share the music publicly. Free version is mainly private use, and within their platform.

Well, I paid to use it, so I used a little extensively lately.

I can't compose music, so this part is out.

I can write a bit of rubbish, and pass it off as lyrics, I would like to think of it that way.

So I dig out some of the things I wrote when I was much younger, probably 30+ years ago.

And voila! The songs came out. If not nice, I just regenerate according to the style I want. Just to find the right one, at least to me.

And because of this sharing idea, I created my YouTube channel. 

You need to request permission, and once granted that permission, you are ready to have your own channel. Just simple process.

So I used ChatGPT's help to work on designs and such, and here it is, my channel:

佳音政在听

With the songs created, I went on to see how to create music video.

I don't intend to make it complicated. Simple images would be enough for me.

Again, with the help of AI tools, I chose those that I like to go with the songs.

Using other AI tools, help to edit the video with the song in it, embed with images, and putting the lyrics in there.

Kinda tedious initially, trying to get the hang of it.

Overall, happy with some progress. Still a long way to improve... lol

So here's the first song uploaded 2 days ago:

你一定知道，and an instrumental piece 有个声音（音乐版） yesterday.

I guess it will be mainly Chinese songs, but occasionally might have English ones. 

Not sure. 

Who knows? It might just stop having new posts anytime too ... 😏

AI Song

I was watching some variety show earlier today.
In the show, they were creating music and songs using AI.

Kinda interesting.

So, backside itchy, went to google and wanted to try.

Then after a few searches etc, went on to create an account blahblahblah, and voila, created a song on the platform.

I only put these words to let it create:
"song expressing love for my wife Karinna"

Then it generated ... music and the lyrics!
2 songs were created.

Thus, must listen to the songs lah.

Wah! I can only say amazing!
AMAZING!

Do you like it? :P

没有女帮佣的第一天

我洗衣服忘了放洗衣粉      好笑

我上楼下楼来回无数次      好累

我看着冰箱食物无从下手  好饿

我带着小狗出去溜达溜达  好晒

我看着地板向我挥挥手      好懒

我想到有衣服要烫  头就    好痛

想着想着只好继续努力       好叻

Happy Retirement

The day has come. Can’t remember how long exactly she’s been with us, but the day has come.
It is time for Wajem to return home, after years of working as our domestic worker.
Probably around 22 or 23 years of service with us.

Due to her becoming 60 soon, the normal regulation would be that MOM will not allow renewal of her work permit.
This was shown in the last work permit renewal. Instead of the usual 2-year permit, the previous renewal shows that it will expire on her 60th birthday.

Anyway, it is time for her go back, retire, and enjoy her life back at home.

I told her my nephew Benjamin wants to give her a dinner treat at his home on 3 Feb, which was last Friday.
What she didn’t know is that my family was arranging a surprise for her. 
Her 60th Birthday cum Retirement surprise.

My sister arranged some food delivery for dinner. Ben’s home was decorated with some stuff. We prepared a big family picture for her to keep as remembrance as well. A cake was pre-ordered for the evening too.

That late afternoon itself, Karinna and I went to collect the cake at Parkway Parade. Together with the framed-up picture, we drove to Tampines and put at Ben’s home. Then we went back home to pick Wajem and Zyan so that she won’t get to see the cake.

There was quite some traffic jam that day. 

As we came back to Tampines, we made her to be the first person to enter Ben’s home.
Voila! My siblings, nieces and nephews were there clapping and wishing her well for her coming birthday.
Then one by one, those who want to bestow her with gifts and such, took their turn to present their gifts and took pictures.
Much like award ceremonies like that. Main character is her, the rest were just supporting actors and actresses for the event. LOL

Could see that she was indeed very happy that evening.

Fast forward to today.

Yep, this is the day. 
She was already all prepared in the early morning. Her luggage was ready, hand-carry was packed. 
All the document was given to her prior to today, the special pass required, her passport etc.
She then walked Penny one last time in the morning.
I guess the dog would also know that there would be 1 less person in the house from today. A lot of packing was done for the past weeks actually. :P
In total, she had sent back home 8 big boxes of items before today!

Went to airport. Few others went as well. 
Small little problem when check-in. I wrote her name wrongly as compared to passport! 
Malay ladies usually have “Binti” as part of their names. I spelt as “Binte”. 
Alamak. 
Luckily, they can just do some manual correction. 
Any issue with automated gantries at the immigration, she was advised to do the manual process with the officer available at the immigration counter.
Her luggage was also right to the tee at 30kg. No more, no less. Perfect!

Had some coffee and breakfast at the Kopitiam there. 
Then it was time for her to go to the custom.
With some heartfelt thanks from everyone, she left for her journey back home.

Wajem, thank you for the services provided for past 20 over years.
You have indeed served my family well.
Terima kasih.

Korea Day9

24 Oct, Day 9

This is technically the last day for us in Seoul. 

Originally, if came with Asiana Airlines, this would be the day to go home. But we extended 1 day. :P

Nothing specifically planned, but we would bring Zyan back to the Maple Tree House for the BBQ again. This time, we will do lunch. He wanted to eat again.

There are also some sets for lunch that we can try. Cannot do without the beef also. Last day, just eat!

We had the bulgogi set and beef and pork.

Anyway, it was a good lunch. Very shiok.

Before leaving Itaewon, we went to McDonald near there, as the milkshake Zyan had the other was good. Karinna wanted to try also.

However, there’s only chocolate flavour shake there. Still bought it for Zyan, and had coffee. 

Karinna wanted to go to Seoul Centre to venture the Lotte shops there.

Figured out we could take a bus from where we were. So exciting!

We took a bus and got to Seoul Centre there. Cool.

On Seoul Bus

Had wanted to go look for food court for coffee while waiting for Karinna. But then, not the kind of food court I expected. In the end, went to Starbucks, had a chocolate drink and cake to share between Zyan and me.

Guess who took the bulk of it. No prize for guessing right!

Then Karinna called. She needed help to carry the stuff. 

Not extravagantly a lot, but she can’t carry all by herself.

Went to help her with it. Then we made our way back to the hotel and rest.

Rested in the room till dinner time, then we go get our food.

Zyan wanted to eat McDonald, so we went to the one at Myeongdong. There’s vanilla milkshake there, ideal for Zyan and Karinna.

I think Karinna and I shared a meal. Burger wasn’t nice. Shake was. LOL.

On our way back, I went to buy a small set of fried chicken. Go back watch TV and eat fried chicken. Nice right?

On the last night, after all the meals and such, time to get all the packing ready. 

It’s time to go back home, and it’s a long flight.

Seoul to KL then to Singapore.

Flight from Seoul is 11am, and expected to reach Singapore around 10+ pm.

11 hours including transit time in KL. LOL