Hi everyone,
After a long break from updating this site, I would like to announce that I am giving ukulele lessons at Ukulele Movement, Singapore!
Do contact Glyn or Simon at Ukulele Movement, or find out more at http://www.ukulelemovement.com/um-ukulele-programme
Cheers!
Hi everyone!
I’ve been receiving some emails regarding some new ukulele enthusiasts, wanting to purchase ukuleles within Malaysia.
Perhaps this can help~
The first online ukulele store in Malaysia specializing in all things for ukulele.
From what I can see on the site, prices start at RM220.
So check it out~
In conjunction with visitors of www.ukulabu.com, Ukulele Movement in Singapore will be holding a jam session on Saturday, 28th February 2009 at 7pm.
In addition to a huge group jamming and sing-along session, this is also a great chance to meet up with new ukulele players, meeting an ukulele teacher from Singapore, watching individual player performances, as well as a possibility of buying a new Kala ukulele, which will be sold at the event location.
So grab your ukulele and head down to the event location on the day itself. You may click on the link below to get details on how to get to the event location.
CLICK HERE for details to event location.
Looking forward to see you all there~!
Ukulabu’s 3rd meeting session took place at ‘The Ukulele Music Co.’ on Friday, 16th of January 2009, and it was a huge success. The members from Ukulabu.com and The Ukulele Music Co. came together for a night of fun ukulele strumming and learning~!
Although I was unable to make it to the meeting session, due to last minute work commitments, I do feel a sense of accomplishment, as I see that Singapore is slowly showing signs of having an ukulele community. And with the help from the friendly folks at ‘The Ukulele Music Co.’, I’m sure the community has a great future ahead, and will continue to grow~!
With that, I will end this blog entry with some pictures of the event. You may view the other pictures on Facebook by clicking here. For videos, click here. Pictures from Glyn and Simon, from ‘The Ukulele Music Co.’
After Chinese New Year, I will be going back to Kuala Lumpur, and probably won’t be able to take part in any meetings in Singapore for quite some time. However, I will try to make time and come back. Hope to see you all soon! Take care everyone!
- Alan Soo
For those of you who would like to try out some new ukuleles within Singapore (apart from Maestro from Esplanade and Peninsula Plaza), you’re in luck! Our latest visitor, Glyn & Simon, are from The Ukulele Music Co. Ukulele Movement and they have opened a shop which carries Kala ukuleles!
Well done Glyn & Simon!
They are located in Little India. Their address are as follows:
20A Beatty Road,
Singapore 209947
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the area, I’ve looked up on the address on streetdirectory.com, and here’s the direct link to the place.
http://www.streetdirectory.com/asia_travel/travel/travel_id_1/travel_site_18652/
For those of you who don’t drive, you can take the bus, after getting off from Bugis MRT. Below is a URL from SBS Transit to get to the nearby bus stop from Bugis’s Victoria Street.
Alternatively, you can also go to www.sbstransit.com.sg and look up on the route for bus service number 130, to see which stop is convenient for you to board from.
Be sure to check out The Ukulele Music Co.’s Ukulele Movement’s newly built website at:
http://www.ukulelemovement.com
I’m planning to check out the place, before Chinese New Year, and before going back to Kuala Lumpur. Anyone wants to join? Drop a comment, and perhaps we can go together!
Cheers!
Hi everyone,
I’d like to wish everybody a very Happy New Year for 2009~!
May everyone stay happy, healthy and improve on the ukulele~ Do make ‘improve on the ukulele’ as one of your new year’s resolutions, if there’s still space to squeeze into the list!
Just for your info, I’m still in Singapore, all the way until the Chinese New year. So we should be able to meet up for the third jamming session!
Meanwhile, I’ll leave you all with a nice video lesson by Aldrine Guerrero. It’s Alicia Key’s - Ain’t Got You. Very nice song. Hope you guys enjoy learning it, as much as I did. You can also visit his ukulele website at www.ukuleleunderground.com. Have fun~
Hi all,
Ralph has offered to let us jam at his place for the next jamming session. His house is located 5 minutes away from Tanah Merah MRT Station. A total of about 17 minutes from City Hall, where we would originally jam at.
Any objections?
Lets’ discuss on a date to meet up then…
Hi everyone!
Here’s the official blog post for the 2nd Ukulabu Meeting event.
The 12th of December 2008 marks another milestone for www.ukulabu.com, for we have managed to meet up for the second time within a short period of time, and we have new faces as well. I would like to introduce the 2 new faces…. Wongyy and Celine~
This time around, Kenny booked the jamming studio at Peninsula’s Guitar 77. The time was from 7pm till 10pm. I only arrived at 730pm, as my work only ended at 630pm. Everyone else reached on time (Sorry guys, but I really don’t have a choice)..
The new comers Celine and Wongyy were a bit shy at first, but it was really soon that they got into the mood and started volunteering to sing.
Both Ralph and Wongyy brought along their song books and there were many songs~! We were just flipping through the pages and playing the all time favourites. Some songs that we played were Imagine, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, You’re Beautiful, Stand By Me, Hey Jude and much more~!
Ralph showed us some of his skills with the keyboards, and I was quite surprised that he could play the keyboards. Way to go Ralph~!
I was surprised to see songs like “The Final Countdown” in Wongyy’s songbook. Perhaps we need to bring in the electric guitars from the jamming studio to really rock that song~ Haha…
To sum up, here are the group photos of the people who attended~
Many thanks again to you all, (Kenny, Celine, Ralph, Wongyy) for coming to the meeting. It really means a lot to me, having setup Ukulabu.com and meeting all you nice people through there. And whats best is that we all share the same love for the ukulele. I sure did have a fun time, singing more than I usually would..
From the bottom of my heart, I thank you all~!
Until the next meeting then~~
For now, take care~!
-Alan
Hi everyone!
Here’s the official blog post of our first ukulabu.com meeting, which took place on Friday, 14th November 2008. Once again, I can’t thank everyone enough for taking time off to come to this meeting. Now, I’d like to introduce the people who attended the group meeting!
As for details on the meeting, read on~
We met up at Peninsula Shopping Center at around 7:30pm. Ralph and Shermin reached early, while Kenny and I were stuck in the ‘rather bad after work hours’ traffic. Nevertheless, we were not that hungry, and decided to have food after the jam session.
It has been years since I last stepped into a jam studio, the feeling of having a drumset, 2 guitar amps, 1 bass amp and the microphone just brought me back to my old days, when I was in a band and jamming away. But hey! This is different now. It’s the very first time I entered the studio with not one, but many ukuleles, as well as people who play it!
Most excellent~!
We didn’t plan anything before hand, and we ran out of ideas of what to do within a short period of time. Being an ukulele player myself, I didn’t really play much ’strum and sing’ songs…. Shermin was quite a new player… In the end, it was Ralph who saved the day! He started recalling songs from his song book and with just a few chords, we were able to jam songs such as ‘Somewhere over the Rainbow’, as well as other Beatles songs. Ralph is also a good singer, and we had a good laugh when he started playing ‘Rock Around the Clock’, one of Elvis Presley’s rock songs. Very soon, we were back on track and having more fun!
Very soon, it came to 9pm, and we had to leave the studio. Ralph and Michael had to go elsewhere to pick someone up. Kenny, Shermin and I wanted to go for some food. So we all exchanged contact numbers and bid each other goodbye. We also agreed to meet up next time!
All in all, we all had fun. New friendship, bonded together with music and ukuleles!
I’d like to end this post with 2 seperate group pictures, taken inside the studio. As for videos, I will post them up, as soon as I get them from Ralph. So stay tuned~
Jake plays a short version of his signature tune: While My Guitar Gently Weeps at an Australian Gameshow~