Back to blog more about SMU’s Starry Night VIII.

From what I know, Starry Night has been a tradition since the start of SMU and it marks the last day of classes for SMU Students. A night where we can let our hair down and forget about mugging for awhile (though alot of stubborn people were at library mugging while we party our hearts out.lol)

From last term’s experience, it wasn’t very enjoyable because

1) The bands were not very exciting.

2) It was very humid and people were drunk.

3) The only reason I went was to support Nair because he was the emcee.

4) The BE seniors were there,so I tagged along.

This year,it was different because we had an “objective/mission” and it was our very own BE band, TLP ’s debut gig.

We went down to the Big Steps (where it was held) and the whole BE gang took up the front seats (I told you we had a mission) around 7pm. Our dearest new emcees, Marcus and Seema were doing a pretty good job in warming up the crowd. (I’m so proud of my VPH “babies”, just caught Hui Ying and Michelle on MTV on the Wang Lee Hom coverage as well. *sniff*) Ok, back to starry night.

The featured band was no other than Timbre’s Goodfellas who was awesome. They totally got the crowd moving and everyone was rather high by the time they ended their set. I managed to record their first 2 songs and my handphone died on me afterwards…boo!

The Goodfellas #1 from Ingrid on Vimeo.

The Goodfellas #2 from Ingrid on Vimeo.

After almost 5 songs or so, it was time for the SMU bands to shine. We had

Chordless - Elissa

T Wrecks - Alvin

The Spunkies

and of course our very own TLP !

TLP - Ivee,LN,Lynn,Paul,Jinfu,Anthony,Yi Hui

The atmosphere was awesome. I did not exactly drink and I was quite high already =x Drinks were on sale, thanks to the Treehouse and you could see empty beer bottles everywhere after the event. It was chaos (shall not go into that). So back to the gig, it would be better if the bands knew they won’t be playing repeated songs but it went fine. The crowd was crazy by the time TWrecks was out and there was this indian uncle whom Kelv and Ken nicknamed “Muthu” who drove the crowd insane. He was hilarious !! Till now,we’re still unsure who the hell he was and we couldn’t understand a single word when the gang sabotaged him up stage for a game segment. You may catch him (in white) dancing on stage in this clip.

TLP performance was awesome ! I’m so proud of the guys. They took old school to a whole new level. We had Don’t Say you love me from M2M, Aqua Medley , All Star and the surprise from Yi Hui who sang on that day for encore!

But I think most importantly was the special song from the band/LN to Jacjac =) Yes. Our dearest “grandmaster” proposed !!  (you can watch the proposal in the video) It was soooooo sweet ! All of us wanted to cry and I think LN has become the latest marketspoiler by bringing the girls’ expectations up. HAHA ! Nobody can use the same trick twice – to propose during starry night !

LN's Proposal to Jacjac

Congrats to the couple and we’re really really very happy for them ! The BE people spent hours blowing up balloons and keeping this “open secret” unknown (hur.we’re BROADCAST and entertainment afterall. It was hard for everyone to hush from the female lead) I feel very blessed to share this special moment with the two of them and suddenly, I feel like there’s still hope for true love =) *awww* LN & JACJAC, BE LOVES YOU =) May the two of you have a blessed future together. Don’t forget to invite us to the wedding *DUH*

Alrights. I shall end here. =) Would really love to write in details but I’ve got to rush my term paper =(
I had a great starry night and it was the best night ever spent in school so far. haha.

I don’t know why ain’t my vimeo videos showing and I’m not sure if you guys can view the facebook videoes =\ But try clicking on the link ?

(pictures thanks to Jun Kwang, Anna Vanessa and not forgetting Shah’s FB videos)