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Mi Lu Bing
Mi Lu Bing (literally "lost soldiers") was a Singapore-based rock band who rose to fame after winning the inaugural season of the local band competition SuperBand. The band consists of three members, Chan WeiQi, Nicodemus Lee (Nic) and Samuel Wong (Sam). The band's first album sold 5,000 copies, but its second album sold only 2,000 copies.Kwok Kar Peng,Third Time Unlucky?, ''The New Paper'', Nov. 22, 2009. Members *Nic Lee (Real Name: Nicodemus Lee (), Birth Date ) Nic is the guitarist of the band. In 2005, he emerged winner for Original Composition at the annual nationwide talent competition, Talent Quest. He gave up a place in Diploma in Engineering Informatics for the closest to music production, and got a Diploma in Audio Engineering at School of Audio Engineering (SAE). *Samuel Wong (Real Name: Samuel Wong Rui Xiang (), Birth Date: ) Sam is the drummer of the band and plays the guitar when performances do not require drumming and is also a freelance drums instructor. He gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mi Lu Bing (album)
''Mi Lu Bing'' () is the first album by Singapore band Mi Lu Bing. Their debut album shares a name with their band. After eleven months of anticipation, their self-titled debut album was finally released on 9 July 2007. It has since sold over 6,000 copies in Singapore. They penned three of the songs, namely 泪 (Tears), 适应 (Getting Adjusted), Get Alive. And these became the top 3 hit singles of their album and 泪 was also nominated for best composer during the Singapore Hit Awards 2007. 百万宝, written by Zhang LeShengfrom Project Superstar 2, was the theme song for Mediacorp Mediacorp Pte. Ltd., doing business as Mediacorp and stylised as mediacorp, is a media conglomerate in Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the holding company of the Government of Singapore—it owns television, radio, and digital media prope ... drama 百万宝. Track listing # 泪 # 适应 # Get Alive # 天使眷恋 # 我为什么还爱你 # So Sad # 适应 (Acoustic 版) # 百万宝 # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south, the South China Sea to the east, and the Straits of Johor to the north. The country's territory is composed of one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet; the combined area of these has increased by 25% since the country's independence as a result of extensive land reclamation projects. It has the third highest population density in the world. With a multicultural population and recognising the need to respect cultural identities of the major ethnic groups within the nation, Singapore has four official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil. English is the lingua franca and numerous public services are available only in Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandopop
Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Standard Chinese, Mandarin popular music. The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; with later influences coming from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop, and in particular the School campus song, Campus Song folk movement of the 1970s. 'Mandopop' may be used as a general term to describe popular songs performed in Mandarin. Though Mandopop predates Cantopop, the English term was coined around 1980 after "Cantopop" became a popular term for describing popular songs in Cantonese. "Mandopop" was used to describe Mandarin-language popular songs of that time, some of which were versions of Cantopop songs sung by the same singers with different lyrics to suit the different rhyme and tonal patterns of Mandarin. Mandopop is categorized as a genre, subgenre of commercial Chinese language, Chinese-language music within C-pop. Popular music sung in Mandarin was the first variety of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Music
Warner Music Group Corp. ( d.b.a. Warner Music Group, commonly abbreviated as WMG) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the " big three" recording companies and the third-largest in the global music industry, after Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony Music Entertainment (SME). Formerly part of Time Warner (now Warner Bros. Discovery), WMG was publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange from 2005 until 2011, when it announced its privatization and sale to Access Industries. It later had its second IPO on Nasdaq in 2020, once again becoming a public company. With a multibillion-dollar annual turnover, WMG employs more than 3,500 people and has operations in more than 50 countries throughout the world. The company owns and operates some of the largest and most successful labels in the world, including Elektra Records, Reprise Records, Warner Records, Parlophone Records (formerly owned by EMI), an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SuperBand
''SuperBand'' () is a spin-off of '' Project SuperStar'', a popular singing talent-search competition in Singapore. Contestants are bands of 2 to 6 people. To mark the opening of the first season, a special SuperBand Big Jam where all the 18 bands made their debut at Suntec City's Fountain of Wealth, and was aired as a special at 8:45pm on April 9, 2006. After which, the show was broadcast at 7:30pm on Monday starting from April 10, 2006 for the first 4 episodes of Season 1. Subsequent episodes were aired at 8:00pm. The results show were aired 'live' at 11:30pm on MediaCorp Channel U. For Season 2, all shows were on Monday at 8:00pm from June 16, 2008 with the results show delayed at 11:30pm after an earlier recording at about 10:00pm. An exception was on August 18, 2008, when the main show was aired at 7:00pm due to the telecast of the National Day Rally's English speech at 8:00pm. The band with the lowest overall scores would be eliminated every week. The scores are determined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Andrew's School, Singapore
St. Andrew's School (abbreviation: SA) is a family of schools in Singapore, affiliated to each other as well as to the Anglican Diocese of Singapore. It comprises St. Andrew's Junior School (SAJS), St. Andrew's Secondary School (SASS) and St. Andrew's Junior College (SAJC). The schools are often referred to aThe Saints' Family Together, the three schools offer primary, secondary and pre-university education (otherwise known as Grades 1 to 12), having an enrolment of 4000 to 5000 students. SAJS and SASS are located in the Woodsville Campus, while SAJC is located across the Kallang River in the Potong Pasir Campus. Both campuses are linked to each other by the Jacob Ballas Bridge, forming St Andrew's Village (SAV). The junior and secondary schools have always only admitted male pupils, but female pupils were admitted to the pre-university or 'A' level classes when they were run from the senior school previously. St Andrew's Junior College has always been co-educational since be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chung Cheng High School (Main)
Chung Cheng High School (Main) is a co-educational government-aided autonomous Special Assistance Plan (SAP) secondary school in Singapore. Founded in 1939, it is one of the eleven SAP schools in Singapore. History Foundation years (1939–1947) Chung Cheng High School was first founded by Aw Boon Haw and other philanthropists. Construction of the school building started at 60 Kim Yam Road in 1939. The founding principal of the school was Chuang Chu Lin and the school's first school supervisor was Lim Bo Seng. Aw Boon Haw was the founding chairman of the school management board. Some of the founders were politically affiliated with Kuomintang and decided to name the school Chung Cheng after Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Chung-cheng, Premier of the Republic of China, to attract students and boost the school's reputation. The naming of the school was approved by Chiang. Chuang, wished to run the school without any political influence and frequently disobeyed instructions from Kuomin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanyang Technological University
The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a national research university in Singapore. It is the second oldest autonomous university in the country and is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in the world by various international metrics. It is usually ranked amongst the world's top 20 institutions of higher learning. NTU is ranked 19th in the world according to the 2023 QS World University Rankings, and has also been ranked 1st globally amongst young universities by the QS World University Rankings since 2015. The university is organised into several colleges and schools, including the College of Engineering, College of Science, Nanyang Business School, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Graduate College, National Institute of Education, and S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. NTU is also home to several Research Centres of Excellence such as the Earth Observatory of Singapore and Singapore Cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin (; ) is a group of Chinese (Sinitic) dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard Chinese, the official language of China. Because Mandarin originated in North China and most Mandarin dialects are found in the north, the group is sometimes referred to as Northern Chinese (). Many varieties of Mandarin, such as those of the Southwest (including Sichuanese) and the Lower Yangtze, are not mutually intelligible with the standard language (or are only partially intelligible). Nevertheless, Mandarin as a group is often placed first in lists of languages by number of native speakers (with nearly one billion). Mandarin is by far the largest of the seven or ten Chinese dialect groups; it is spoken by 70 percent of all Chinese speakers over a large geographical area that stretches from Yunnan in the southwest to Xinjiang in the northwest and Heilongjiang in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triangle (Mi Lu Bing Album)
Mi Lu Bing (literally "lost soldiers") was a Singapore-based rock band who rose to fame after winning the inaugural season of the local band competition SuperBand. The band consists of three members, Chan WeiQi, Nicodemus Lee (Nic) and Samuel Wong (Sam). The band's first album sold 5,000 copies, but its second album sold only 2,000 copies.Kwok Kar Peng,Third Time Unlucky?, ''The New Paper'', Nov. 22, 2009. Members *Nic Lee (Real Name: Nicodemus Lee (), Birth Date ) Nic is the guitarist of the band. In 2005, he emerged winner for Original Composition at the annual nationwide talent competition, Talent Quest. He gave up a place in Diploma in Engineering Informatics for the closest to music production, and got a Diploma in Audio Engineering at School of Audio Engineering (SAE). *Samuel Wong (Real Name: Samuel Wong Rui Xiang (), Birth Date: ) Sam is the drummer of the band and plays the guitar when performances do not require drumming and is also a freelance drums instructor. He gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
三人套餐
''Set Meal for Three'' (, ''sān rén tào cān'') is Singapore idol boy band Mi Lu Bing's third album. With a total of 11 songs, the album was released after months of production with their new recording label company, Dragon One Entertainment Group. The album consists of nine songs produced on their own and three songs that Nic sang for two different Mediacorp dramas. The composition for the first eight songs were all done by Mi Lu Bing themselves. Nic was also the assistant producer for the album. Track listing # chī xià yŭzhòu (吃下宇宙, eat the universe) # yĭnshí nánnǚ (饮食男女, food and drink man and woman) # méiqì de kĕlè (煤气的可乐, cooking gas cola) # biàn zhuāng kafe (变装CAFE, cafe in disguise) # lĕng wăncān (冷晚餐, cold evening meal) # yànshízhèng (厌食症, anorexia Anorexia nervosa, often referred to simply as anorexia, is an eating disorder characterized by low weight, food restriction, body image disturbance, fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singaporean Rock Music Groups
Singaporeans, or the Singaporean people, refers to citizens or people who identify with the sovereign island city-state of Singapore. Singapore is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-lingual country. Singaporeans of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian descent have made up the vast majority of the population since the 19th century. The Singaporean diaspora is also far-reaching worldwide. In 1819, the port of Singapore was established by Sir Stamford Raffles, who opened it to free trade and free immigration on the island's south coast. Many immigrants from the region settled in Singapore. By 1827, the population of the island was composed of people from various ethnic groups. Singapore is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian descent. The Singaporean identity was fostered as a way for the different ethnic gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
