18th Singapore Hit Awards 2013 (第18届 新加坡金曲奖) Live

Something to keep me looking forward to that Friday night.

Thanks to F&N Fruit Tree Fresh, I have the opportunity to attend the 18th Singapore Hit Awards 2013 (第18届 新加坡金曲奖) which was held at Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre Level 6.

Are you there as well?

If yes, I'm sure you enjoyed it as much as I do.

If no?

Don't worry, let me bring you through some of the highlights of the awards ceremony.

For the very first time, the 18th Singapore Hit Awards was held at a brand new location, the newly renovated Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre.

I was looking forward to the star-studded night and good music performances.

Christin and I. 

Love hanging out with me, we had so many things to talk about. 

The 18th Singapore Hit Awards began with the opening performance by Wilber Pan 潘玮柏 - 24个比利.

Credits to Xinmsn.

Wilber Pan was one of the big winner that night, together with Alien Huang. They bagged home with 3 awards each.

The audience were treated to a visual and energetic dance performance. I enjoyed watching Wilber's performance, we were actually grooving along with his music.

The host for Singapore Hit Awards was none other than the DJs from Y.E.S. 93.3FM. They looked so great that night.

The hosts mentioned that although Hallyu wave had swept the world, we must not neglect and continue to support Chinese music.

Media Recommendation Award: 

MICappella (Here We Go )

Best New Artiste Award:

 Bai Ann (The Catcher in the Rye)

Congratulations to Alien Huang (Xiao Gui) for winning his first award.

MeRadio Top Downloaded Hit Award (Male Artiste): 

Make Sense (Alien Huang)

MeRadio Top Downloaded Hit Award (Female Artiste):

Happiness is not Difficult (Serene Koong)

Credits to Xinmsn.

Versatile Male Artiste Award: 

Wilber Pan 

Being able to sing and dance, Wilber indeed won the title of versatile male artiste.

Versatile Female Artiste Award:

Denise Ho

F&N Fruit Tree Fresh Stylish Artiste Award: 

Alien Huang

Yeah, second award for Alien.

Alien was one of my favourite Taiwanese celebrities, I was here for him.

Performance by our local singers - MICapella, The Freshman and Ruth Wei Miaoru.

They had brought us a series of 怀旧 songs like Jacky Cheung 吻别, Sandy Lam 至少还有你 and Stefanie Sun 我不难过.

Outstanding Regional Artiste Award (Singapore)

Olivia Ong 

Outstanding Regional Artiste Award (Malaysia) 

Penny Tai 

Outstanding Regional Artiste Award (Hong Kong) 

Denise Ho 

Outstanding Regional Artiste Award (Mainland China) 

Hu Xia 

Hu Xia was supposed to attend the awards ceremony. However, he was awarded to the hospital and could not make it for this ceremony.

Outstanding Regional Artiste Award (Taiwan) 

Mayday

Best Band Award 

Magic Power (Marksman) 

Best Group Award 

S.H.E (Blossomy) 

Most Popular Group/Band Award 

Mayday

Congratulations to the MP魔幻力量 for winning the best band award for the second time.

Credits to Xinmsn.

You guys were looking rocking good. Their black and white combination outfit looked great on them.

Charismatic Male Performer Award 

Wilber Pan 

Charismatic Female Performer Award 

Karen Mok

Atorrege AD+ Favourite Music Video Award 

The Story of Billy (Wilber Pan)

Magic Power had put up an awesome performance  - Marksman 神射手.

The best part of the performance was that Magic Power wanted everyone to groove along with their signature dance moves for Marksman. 

Credits to Xinmsn.

They invited Alien Huang and Karen Mok up on stage to join them for the dance as well.

Look at their amazing collaboration, with just a minute of learning, they were both doing so well.

Credits to Xinmsn.

Global Eminence Award 

Julian Cheung

Channel U Popularity Award 

Julian Cheung

Everyone was happy to see Captain Cool (Julian) in Singapore. He was still as charming as ever. 

Credits to Xinmsn.

Most Popular Male Artiste Award 

Alien Huang 

During his speech, Alien had review that he was happy to receive the award. People had always know him as a host rather than a singer. Thus, the awards were important to him. It's a recognition for his singing. 

Most Popular Female Artiste Award 

Jolin Tsai

So nice to hear Xiao Gui singing live again, this was my third time seeing Xiao Gui performing live. I enjoyed watching his live performance.

I took a short video of him. Here it goes.

Wooo, Zoe Tay was one of the awards presenter.

Best Female Vocalist Award 

Karen Mok (Somewhere I Belong) 

Asia Influential Artiste Award 

Karen Mok

Credits to Xinmsn.

Karen had brought us an English song - While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

Captain Cool had charm everyone with the once familiar theme song of "Triumph In The Skies" - The Years like Song. I used to listen to it everytime I watch the drama. The song is so nice.

Credits to Xinmsn.

The Honorary Award 

Grasshopper

Best Male Vocalist Award 

Jay Chou (Opus 12) 

Best Album Award 

Unexpected (Penny Tai) 

Best Album Producer Award 

JJ Lin (You N Me) 

Breakthrough Artiste Award 

Derrick Hoh

Thank you F&N for the tickets. I have a super great night watching the performance live, cheering for my favourite singer and knowing the result first hand. Congratulations to everyone (:

Win tickets to 18th Singapore Hit Awards 2013 (第18届 新加坡金曲奖)

Hello everyone, F&N Fruit Tree Fresh is back with some good deals for us again.

Do you want to know what it is?

This is for all music lovers. 

F&N Fruit Tree Fresh is sponsoring the 18th Singapore Hit Awards 2013 (第18届 新加坡金曲奖) on 22 November 2013 and they are giving away 50 pairs of tickets.

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Put your hands up.

18th Singapore Hit Awards 2013 will be held at Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre Level 6 on 22 November 2013. 

Here are the artistes who will be attending: 

潘玮柏、戴佩妮、何韵诗、MP魔幻力量、韦礼安、白安、胡夏、蔡淳佳、龚芝怡、MICappella、插班生、邱意淋、魏妙如.

Not only that, according to Channel News Asia, Hong Kong's Julian Cheung and Taiwan's Alien Huang will be coming to Singapore for this year's Singapore Hit Awards too. 

Yes, I wanna see Alien Huang again!!!

To win the tickets, all you need to do is:

1. ‘Like’ F&N Fruit Tree Fresh (Singapore) page 

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**Giveaway ends on 3 November, 11:59pm. 

Winners will be picked randomly and announced on 4 November 2013!

Giveaway details can be found at https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=682335795112081&set=a.208305845848414.57384.201161099896222&type=1

Good luck and all the best (:

Hope you all will win the tickets.

12th Global Chinese Music Awards 2012 (第12届 全球华语 歌曲排行榜颁奖典礼)

Finally, the 12th Global Chinese Music Awards 2012 was here in Singapore.

Talented artistes from different regions (Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and Singapore) gathered at Singapore Indoor Stadium on a Friday night to grace the awards ceremony. Mandarin-pop fans would be treated to a night of awesome live performances by favourite and familiar singers.

A total of 40 awards would be given out to recognize the efforts that the artistes had put in for the year.

Let us take a look at the list of winners of the night:

Most Potential New Artiste Award:

 Wanting Qu 

Shane Cao 

Kimberly Chen

Outstanding Regional Artiste Award:

Wanting Qu (Beijing)

Dong Shan Shao Ye (Guandong)

Fiona Sit (Hong Kong)

Anson Hu (Shanghai)

Aska Yang (Taiwan)

Olivia Ong (Singapore)

Wu Jia Hui (Malaysia)

Best Lyrics Award:

Giddens Ko - 'Those Years'

Best Music Composition Award:

Tanya Chua - 'Shuo Dao Ai' 

Best Music Arrangement Award:

Michael Lin - 'Shadow Puppetry'

Fiona Sit 薛凯琪 brought us the song 《Better Me》. 

Revealing the Top 20 Hits of the Year:

Valentine’s Day - 阿杜 

海枯石烂 - Olivia Ong 

学不会 - 林俊杰 

别找我麻烦 - 蔡健雅 

我们怎么Love - 伍家辉 

花千树 - 容祖儿 

孤独患者 - 陈奕迅 

3650 - Twins 

那个男人 - 杨宗纬 

我们都傻 - 杨丞琳 

My Love - Hebe 田馥甄 

诺亚方舟 - 五月天 

有我在 - 罗志祥 

Maybe的机率 -大嘴巴 

我的歌声里 -曲婉婷 

那些年 - 胡夏 

好不容易 - 张靓颖 

只是太爱你 - 张敬轩 

好难得 - 丁当 

好朋友只是朋友 - 郁可唯

The 18 years old Kimberly Chen took the stage, the potential newbie.

Most Popular Band Award:

Mayday 

MR. 

Sodagreen

Most Popular Duet Award:

《你被写在我的歌里》- Sodagreen and Ella Chen

Credits Xinmsn for the photo.

Mr. is a rock hard from Hong Kong. The members are Desmond Tam, Tom To, Alan Po, Ronny Lay and Quincy Tam.

My first impression of them was: "Er, one of their hairstyle look like G-Dragon!"

Do you think so too?

Rock band performance.

Most Popular Group Award:

 TWINS 

Da Mouth 

Super Junior-M

Twins was back in Singapore. Both Gillian and Charlene were busy with their solo career, Singapore's fans were lucky to catch the girls live in action.

Credits xinmsn for the photo.

大嘴巴 were in their brightening outfits. It lightened up the whole atmosphere of the indoor stadium. 

Aisha is so beautiful!

Most Popular Composing Artiste Award:

Tanya Chua 

Shane Cao 

Penny Tai

Best Album Producer Award:

Mayday - Second Round

Best Lyrics Award:

 Giddens Ko - 'Those Years' 《那些年》

Best Music Composition Award:

Tanya Chua - 'Shuo Dao Ai' 

Best Music Arrangement Award:

Michael Lin - 'Shadow Puppetry' 

Outstanding Achievement Award:

Kit Chan

Baboo by 大嘴巴.

Come on, put your hands up!

Lively and energetic performance by Da Mouth.

Best Stage Performing Artiste Award:

Show Luo 

Joey Yung

 Most Popular Male Artiste Award:

 Show Luo

Most Popular Female Artiste Award:

Joey Yung

Top 5 Most Popular Female Artistes Award:

Joey Yung 

Li Yu Chun 

Jane Zhang 

Rainie Yang 

Hebe Tian

Rainie Yang is my all-time favourite female artistes from Taiwan. I had been a fan of Rainie ever since her drama - Devil Besides You.

Rainie has become more matured in both appearance and music production.

Top 5 Most Popular Male Artistes Award:

Eason Chan 

JJ Lin 

Show Luo 

Hu Xia 

Aska Yang

Charismatic Voice Award:

A-do

Ding Dang

It's Ding Dang's turn to perform. Super love her song - 好难得.

好难得你遇见了对的人 

难得你很认真不想太多去奋不顾身 

好难得你爱上了对的人

可惜他不是你的可能

Most Talented Artiste Award:

Rainie Yang

JJ Lin

Meet JJ's dad and mom.

They were one of the V.V.I.P. at the awards ceremony because many atistes thanked them in their speech. They were so random and funny. Show Luo was the first to get it started.

Best Album Award:

Eason Chan - ? 

JJ Lin - Never Learn

That's Joey with her board. 

Go JJ <3

Indulge in his lovely songs. JJ is one of the male singer that I like, all his songs were so nice that I would never get tired of listening.

Yes, finally met my idol that I had gone crazy with when I was younger.

Rainie Yang - 《我们都傻》

Media Recommendation Award:

TWINS

Miss the pairing performance.

Twins was one of the biggest winner of the night along with Tanya Chua, JJ Lin, Eason Chan, Show Luo and Joey Yung.

Wth the lovelies - GF, me and Zerika.

Outstanding Achievement Award:

Kit Chan

Kit Chan's contribution to the music industry was being recognized. I loved her old song -《喜欢你》and《心痛》

Joey also thanked JJ's parent for having such a talented song who wrote for her a song - Is this love.

Xiao Zhu is another reason why we were here.

Best thing always saved at the last.

Show Luo's dance performance rocked the whole stadium. Everybody grooved with the music.

Do you know why I love Show Luo so much?

One of the reason is because we shared the same birthday. Remember to pop by my blog on 30th July to say happy birthday to me (:

Show ♥♥♥

Too engrossed watching his performance. Everything about him is awesome!

Great show but 2 songs was not enough. We want more!!!

Best Male Artiste Award:

Eason Chan 

Best Female Artiste Award:

Tanya Chua

Thanks William for the photo.

I had an awesome night with my friends. We had a night of great music and watching our idols' performance live. Watching live was so much difference then watching in front of television, we can cheer together with the fans.

Once again, congratulations to all the winners.