Live Interview on RED 104.9 FM:

Catch the solo on guitar 9-10am Friday, Mar 11, 2005 !

See Denise perform live:

• Mar 11, 2005 9:30pm @ Alexis Bistro, Ampang
• Mar 12, 2005 9:30pm @ Alexis Bistro, Ampang
• Feb 24, 2005 9:30pm @ Alexis Bistro, Ampang
• Feb 25, 2005 9:30pm @ La Bodega, KL
• Feb 26, 2005 9-10pm @ Backyard Pub, Hartamas
• Mar 10, 2005 9-10pm @ Havana, KL

*For maps to these locations, please click on the respective links above or email info@deb-ong.com for more details.

Post-Gig Special:

Naked And Undone CD @ RM30, a one-night-only special so get your copies after the performances!

Pix & Videos:

Log on for updates after each show! Check out the latest:

• Alexis Bistro
• La Bodega
• Backyard

Links:

More on Denise at these sites:-

• Juice Online
• Malay Mail
• Kakiseni.com
• MusicCanteen.com
• Tower Records
• La Bodega
• Backyard
• CD Baby

Welcome to SoHo!

A Very Happy CNY (Gong Xi Fa Chai), wishing everyone good rest if not fruitful catch-and-cache. This is after all the year of double fulfilment. Journey mercies to all who are away, fly safe, drive carefully and pain-free easing back to work.

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News

Local Flavour Denise Freeman is back in KL for a roadshow blitz this February - March (2005), featuring favourites such as Bada and Farid Ali, to launch her much anticipated album with cover songs that'll entertain the night away!

Guarantee: plenty of kicks and serious jamming to heat up the floor. Admission is free so check your calendars and pleeeEeeaz make yourselves available. What's it about? A time to get yourselves Naked And Undone (lah)!

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Talented couple Patrick Lim (director) and Jennifer Liew (screen writer) were among 6 Malaysians chosen to participate in the Berlinale Talent Campus for a series of seminars and workshops from Feb 10 to 20, 2005 in conjunction with the Berlinale Film Festival international.

Also an entry in the 9th MVA Fest 2004 (Malaysian Video Awards), their piece Echoes was nominated based on a short script and 60-second video. Of noteworthy projects and adorable young un's in tow, theirs is the prime of determination, hope and love that'd make one proud.

In support of their work, if you or anyone you know is interested in funding film projects then please write to pyjenn@yahoo.com.

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2005

Playing catch-up.

I would've liked to share a great many things but the beginnings (and endings) rendered all else trivial given that our world was undeniably fraught with danger. To have the ground beneath our feet shift so violently puts into perspective the nothingness one may aspire into, being, something.

Last year was one of lost hope, senseless deaths, grave uncertainties. It'd seem nature conspires against us. Though it is only through the best and worst of human nature, naiveté, the price of humility that you see the world open up from under and secrets implode from inside another. Every day is a fight against self, circumstance, people… against all odds, for survival.

Truthfully none of that matters when we have our individual problems. Bigger, far worst, because we own them. Our worlds are so different, our realities differ so greatly that no one could ever possibly understand the crux of it, until they have lived it through for themselves. The hardest thing to admire, in the face of adversity, is the indifference that everyone else goes on. But it is living. You do life because it is the only choice you have.

I learned crossing out done-its in red ink and moving on to the next is pleasure better left for grocery listing but in it I discovered the feeling of being full, the notion of progress so satisfying, even if it's merely an illusion. And finally, that to give up dreaming means being dead to the world.

This is what I know.

That I did not know one could only ever hope to be reasonably happy. I did not know what it was to be. How I searched for meaning outside self, and found none. Nothing we do here on earth guarantees long life, a good one, or happiness. Or success.

Where's the finality then of having arrived? It is where you want to be, how you live it today, the vision you push for tomorrow and the dreams you hold on to in between. Fulfilment, to whom it finds and continues to elude, is a matter of principle.

Why tell you these things, you may wonder. So that you can take the grievances, the mistakes, the troubles, the hurts, the failures, ultimately the triumphs, of one life and make something of it.

Make better choices.