I'm the aspiring musician you see. About two years ago at the ripe old age of fourteen I acknowledged what I had known for most the later part of my young life then, that music was my passion and was the one thing I wanted to do and could see myself doing. I picked up a guitar and started singing a lot. A real lot. It was a dream of course, and I didn't quite half believe it was going to happen, but I considered it.

Everyone over knows what musicians are here, they don't earn a living, its stupid and impossible to try or even dream about becoming one. Go study another 4 hours and become a lawyer or something. Everything I saw just reinforced it, I watched Singapore idol and I saw as one by one as the contestants faded from memory, even the winners themselves. No one did it. Singer-songwriter in Singapore? Unless your name is Dick Lee and you want to migrate to Japan, or you're skilled in Chinese and have no qualms about a stay in China or Taiwan then forget it. I'm not exactly going proficient in Chinese in the next one hundred years or so so that kinda was it for me.

A while back, maybe more than a year ago I heard Rule the World on 987fm and I checked it out online. I discovered your music and I realised that hey, someone was actually doing it. That there was someone in this small dumb island who was actually writing music of her own, on her own, really amazing music as well. It totally blew my mind and really really let me dream a lot harder.

And two years on I've really gotten more serious about it. Still not serious enough I guess. I've picked up the uke, after giving up on the guitar especially since I'm as good as I was two years ago, which is to say very bad. Might give it a second shot though. I've written about nine songs I since I picked up songwriting last year I think...out of which about 3 or 4 have some worth. Oh well. I play keys for my church's youth band now. And that's it. I've run into problems actually doing anything with any material I have, I don't know that many people who share my passion, and I know zilch how to get started, and I certainly don't like sitting on my ass all day. (some might say I go to school, but that's just a distraction)

Oh I've been ranting again, but I guess I hope you understand a little why I'm so uhm..."um-ish" around you, and you'll excuse it at least. Yeah, I know its incredibly weird but uhm, oh well. Thanks for the photos, thanks for the autographs the handshake and the high fives. Thanks for bothering to talk to us. Most importantly thanks for the music and thanks for being my inspiration and hope for the future.

I hope you don't mind.

Now to find a way to get this to you. Urgh. I swear Ian for all your cyberstalking skills you're a complete retard.