Bevlyn Khoo

I can’t believe it. I just went for a sorta New Year Eve lunch with my jap company people. During one of the conversations, one of them asked me how I celebrated Xmas eve. I just said I hung out with my girlfriends. My Jap boss who sat beside me burst out laughing then tried very hard to quickly contain it. At first I was bewildered. Everyone else was bewildered, like, “what? what was the joke?” He continued to try hold back his laughing.

After 3 seconds, I quickly clarified, “Oh no, I’m not a lesbian”.
He shook his head and said in a thick Japanese accent,  ”No no…. Hopefully next year… you will spend your Xmas… better “.
I got what he meant, and more like an attempt to pacify him, I said sheepishly, “Yes yes, I will get a boyfriend next year ”

I couldn’t believe it. He actually laughed at me! I could so feel his love for me.

Blue Butterfly interviewed me via email for a China magazine recently, regarding my views on love, and marriage. It’s so irrelevant to my music, but I thought it’ll be nice to help him out if he needed ’subjects’, and he wasn’t sure if it would be published anyway. But it was, and before he could inform me about it, a friend of mine who was in Beijing read the magazine and saw the published interview in the plane! He snapped this picture on the plane

The world is really very small these days. Can it be anymore smaller?

It’s all in Chinese, so for my angmoh (red-haired) friends, sorry about it. If you ask, I will answer, just that I’m lazy to translate everything to Eng here. There’s one line in English though, so at least you can take a guess for that particular question.

Sometimes I do wonder why I am so blessed with all that happened in 2008. It’s so far the best year of my life! I’ve always thought that I am a late bloomer, or it could be I never really allowed myself to be the living dead. Life is complicated, but I realised it can be as simple as you imagine it to be.

I launched my EP album, and I’m proud to say I did all the planning and management myself. It’s a herculean task, but I realised the limitless potential of a person - you are limited only by your own mind. I guess the Law Of Attraction works well for me so far (it wasn’t conscious for me most of the time, I just try to remove fear from my mind and stay positive). I am still amazed by all the opportunities that came my way, and I’m grateful to each and everyone who has helped  to take my music to another level. I’m really touched by people who went out of their way to help me out - favours are hard to repay, and I will definitely keep them in mind…

The shift of my work priorities is what makes me a really happy person this year - being able to say no to wedding bookings on certain dates, getting my cute and capable PA to help me out with admin (it’s a she, for the millionth-time - I will never get a male PA cos that would be so weird!), expanding our band members two-fold to know more talented musicians in Singapore, it’s simply awesome.

And, who would have thought I would be signed to the label of my dreams, and prepare another album at the end of the year? My story is just too surreal to be true, and it’s all thanks to Dean. And to sing with Aiza!? Who would have thought?

Looking back on the year, I’m glad my French has finally improved such that I can better understand movies/real people talking, and express myself slightly more spontaneously. I love my current class, and it’s hard to imagine what happens after the course ends in 2 mths. Hopefully the german house parties remain heh

I can finally dance waltz! Not fantastic but good enough to dance round and round the whole ballroom. Now I just need a more permanent partner ha.

I’m going into the recording booth next Mon, and I’m scared. But I’ll do my best, for sure. 2009 is gonna be exciting, with or without recession. Happy New Year!

Yesterday marked the start of a string of Xmas parties to come!

It was the first Xmas party for me at my Jap boss’s house. What greeted me when I first step into the house (other than the family of course), is a Yamaha Clavinova piano, along with a mic on a mic-stand, 2 electric guitars and 1 bass guitar and an amplifier. WOW! It’s like my dream house

And actually other than the family members, family photos and some japanese accent, there really was nothing japanese about the house. That, to me, is interesting.

It was also my first time meeting some of the staff in S2S, and I like the fact that it’s so family. I discovered many interesting facts about the boss, and it does put my mind even more at ease that I’ve made a very good choice of signing on to this label. And the dog Kty is a darling!

Merry Xmas everyone. Enjoy the sexy French accent by Phoebe at 3:30:

My site went down under over the past few days because the company which hosted my site was American. AMERICAN. Yes, you get the picture. Now I gotta reconstruct my blog (with the help of my super 2nd PA “Yan” haha), and though most of the entries could be salvaged, the comments are lost for good, so that is making me rather sad now. Also, if you had subscribed to the blog, you’ll need to do it again

But everything will be okay. Life moves on right

The best Xmas present I’ve so far is from Genevieve, who gave me a French storybook she had bought from Paris; she even met me at Alliance Française to pass it to me. I am so HAPPY!

Merry Xmas everyone!

No she was not drunk for sure; she was scatting, improvising, and on key for the whole thing (even her musicians were lost).

I wish I have 1/1million of her talent. SIGH. Sometimes it can be so demoralising.

I’ve been learning french for coming to 4 years now, and there’s still so much I can’t speak! SIGH.

I want to learn everything, FAST. Starting from today. Piano, Guitar, French, Waltz. They kept me alive. But it’s time to breathe them now. I’m so slow