Smack That!

Akon's real name is

Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam.

I'm serious

And that's pretty cool, because he goes by the very short stage name of Akon. Which would probably bring you to question my sudden fascination with Akon. Well it's like this - a few weeks ago, Ari, Sansan and Yuhan were singing his apparent smash hit called Smack That. They were talking about how Akon went around smacking booties of white chicks during the MTV Awards. And this discussion didn't go on once or twice, it'd go on for weeks and I inevitably got pulled in when Yuhan sent me the song. So after listening to it on repeat mode for 20 times, I must conclude that I have been Konvicted. It must be voodoo, but I frickin love Smack That.

Ok Evelyn, ENOUGH. #$%. A real update: We had a great time playing at Street Clap! 3Dash1 were awesome and it was even more awesome covering the Foo Fighters with them. Nassir and Ashik, thank you. Also, thank you all for coming to our show and even standing in the rain - it meant alot to us and we appreciate it wholeheartedly. Hans, thank you so much for filming our performances all these years - you should start charging us you know. Jabez, thanks for the interview, we've learnt alot about ourselves through that documentation! Pushpinder, thank you for ferrying our instruments to Al-Azhaar, you truly are a BPian. Oh yes! And we'll let you in on something juicy.. We've been recording our old songs and writing new ones. I can't wait to let yall hear them out. =] Please stay tuned to the ArPee channel.

On a sadder note, Ari has left us for An Ass. He enlisted for BMT on Thursday and we'll be picking him up on Friday. I hope he brings back souvenirs like an "I love NS" keychain or a "Got Hair?" cap or a "Warning: NS Man on board!" car decal. Kidding. We'd burn them if those things existed, yes we would. Come back soon Ari!

WAIT DON'T BREATHE JUST YET BECAUSE WE'RE PERFORMING AGAIN THIS FRIDAY!

Event: Street Clap!
Date: 5th January 2007, Friday
Time: 7.30pm - 10.00pm
Venue: Far East Plaza (outside Burger King)
Cost: FREE LEH

Apart from our set, we're collaborating with 3dash1 for 2 songs, so that should be pretty interesting. The event starts at 7.30pm with performances by The Nerves, Black Forest, Audio Breakout, and 3Dash1!

ArPee Love You Long Time Deep Deep!

Evelyn is so much better at this than I am but I figured that I might as well take my chances and try my hands at this. It would be nice to say, 'Firstly' right now, but since I already tried to absolve myself of any wrongdoing in the first part of this blog, I'm just gonna settle for 'Secondly'. But I really want you to know that by 'Secondly', I really mean 'Firstly'. And in no other way would we at ArPee want it. Cause that's the way we want and need it. All night. Every night. So... Ok. Let's get this fire started shall we?

Secondly, ArPee would like to say honto arigato to the MOSH Comm for letting us be part of such a great event as MOSH'07. We look forward to working with you guys and girls again! We would also like to give a supercalifragilisticespeallydocious shout out to all the bands that were involved in the event like (Ok, this goes in no particular order of preference or merit rather alphabetically as far as I can recount and spell.) A Vacant Affair, Caracal, Charles Lim, Chicosci, Kate Of Kale, Kiosai, No Direction, Super Illegals and The Vinyl Summer.The atmosphere was really great cause we felt that the bands were there for each other and like gave each other not only morale boosting support but also logistical support (like the loaning of drum kits and cables and what not).

Though realistically, it is not possible for me to say all the above and what I'm about to say in one single breath, I'm gonna say that I did it that way anyways cause these days it's really cool to be trying to do that and end up choking on your lines. I know. So emo right? So.. And in the same breath, we would also like to say a big thank you to all who came for the show and showed us your lovin! It's been so long since we last performed, close to 16 months already and we really appreciated the fact that you guys were the most electricfying crowd that we have ever played to in our gigging history! I'm not really good with names, so I'm gonna rattle some that comes to mind. If you feel that you deserve to be on the roll call, give us a shabooya and some spirit fingers and we'll add you in! =) Cause we really don't wanna be missing out on people that we should be saying thanks to. So... Thanks Carmen, Kev, Rico, Jeremy, Jabez, Bianca, Jasmine(?), Ana, Zul, Egane, HeroicNoAvail, Yuhua, Timothy, Randall, Fairoz and Roslan of SevenFalls, Khai, Charlene, Mudz of DYL (Did I get it right?), Jialing & Co. (Sorry we couldn't catch all your names), Faizal, Jo and Alphea of Scream Front, Amanda Tee, Rachel... Ok.. mind's kinda running on empty right now... But yeah! ArPee-gato!

Ok. There. All in one breath. Cool huh? So anyways... Thanks once again to all of you guys! We are having a gig this coming Friday with 3dash1 at Far East Plaza and would love to see you guys again there! We'll update with more details soon! Meanwhile, feed your cravings for some audio feeds of ArPee via our MySpace and PureVolume accounts!


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