Dj origin of Shin?
If I were to boldly claim to be a successful musician and begin to tell the legendary story of Shin's struggles, you wouldn't believe that it would begin with a talented dj who was only two years old.
At two years old, I did have this special ability to find the beginning of the first note on the vinyl records at home and play it correctly. Was this destined to be a life-long career in music? The answer was no until high school.
I remember in elementary school, when I wanted to join the school choir, the teacher asked me to do vocal exercises, and when I opened my mouth, my voice always sounded strange, and it didn't match the voices of all the students.
My family's singing is horrible. My dad used to sing only one hundred and one old Taiwanese songs (中山北路走七遍), and no matter where he went, he only sang this particular song, and he would only sing two lines, and then keep repeating the only two lines he could sing. Mom, on the other hand, sings a lot of songs, but she can change the key from beginning to end, following the sheet music in her mind, and in the end, no one can hear which song she is singing. My sister's singing voice was horrible, and I was worried about how her kindergarteners would stand singing lessons. So my sister often complained that my mom gave me all the singing voice and suspected that my brother was a carryover, or else how could my family sing like that and yet we had a son who could sing so well. But after I released the movie, my mom and dad learned all the songs on the whole album and worked hard to help me play the songs.
It's really hard for them.
(I) Primary School Crush
Because I moved around a lot, I changed three schools in elementary school alone, but I was always the first in my class.
By the time I was in the fourth grade of elementary school, I had already read Old Village Elementary School, Nangang Elementary School, and then transferred to the newest Hoosier Elementary School, and I had read almost all the elementary schools in Nangang District. And the year I arrived at Hoosier National Elementary School, the school had just been established, and the campus started directly with fourth grade; there were no first, second, or third grades.
When I was in fifth grade, I had a crush on a girl in the next class, and I followed her home and even wrote her a love letter, but in the end, I didn't get it, and she was chased away by someone else, which put me in a very bad mood.
The child's love is always in accordance with the steps, like the first to understand each other's dynamics, investigating where her home is, where she will go out to school every day, I have to go how to go with her on the road "accidentally met", although her face I can not remember now, but also remember that she lives in the village of Tran.
(2) The Lure of Tatung Department Store
Twenty years ago, when I was twelve years old and studying in the first year of my country's education, I forgot why I was angry with my mother and decided to steal the 20,000-odd dollars that she had put on her desk, and ran away from home with my two friends. We bought the most luxurious train tickets early in the morning and took the train all the way from Taipei to Kaohsiung, with the destination being the amusement park above the Tatung Department Store, where the three of us agreed to have a good time.
The three of us are still small children, saw the train lady pushed a cart of snacks, the body of the huge sum of money I am bold: all to be! I bought a whole car full of all kinds of things and ate all the way to Kaohsiung. The moment the train arrived in Kaohsiung, my friend couldn't wait for the train to come to a complete stop, and stood in front of the door with the handrail ready to get off. As soon as he saw the platform, he was so excited that he jumped on it, but the speed of the train made it impossible for him to stand still, and he rolled around several times holding his hands full of snacks, which fell all over the floor. The image is very funny, and I still can't help but laugh when I think about it.
When we got to Kaohsiung, we found the Tatung Department Store and climbed up to the top floor playground to have a good time. The kids have money, so it's hard to resist the temptation to go on any rides. After a few rounds, I realized that my money was getting low, so I started to plan for the future with a sense of worry.
I left my two friends at the amusement park and went out on the street by myself, asking a few spots that had "Apprentice" stickers on them, trying to find a job to settle down in Kaohsiung. The bosses saw that I was a first-year student, so young, and had just come down from Taipei that day, so how could they be so stupid as to hire me, so I asked for a few jobs without any hope. Then I had an idea that we could sell gum, so I used the rest of my money to buy some Green Arrow gum, then went back to Tatung Department Store to find my friend, and the three of us went to the entrance of the underground street, which was the most popular in Kaohsiung at the time, to sell gum.
We sold a piece of gum for 10 dollars, and many people thought it was too expensive, but two kind girls in their early twenties came over to help us sell it, and they said they were from Hualien and came to play. To this day I don't remember their names, but that kindness still makes me believe that there are many good people in the world.
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2 The autobiography of the band Shin believes that rock and roll can live forever--Ashin
So we hung out in Kaohsiung for a day, and when we got hungry at night, we ate the piles of snacks that we bought on the train. We wanted to nestle inside the underground street to sleep and just muddle through the night, but the underground street patrols found us and kicked us out.
Then we wandered into the streets of Kaohsiung and wandered over to the neighborhood of Kaohsiung's Milk King by the Love River, where we met a very aggressive homeless man who snatched up the only remaining suncakes we had on us, and even stoned us, thinking that we still had money on us and wanted to ransack the place. We couldn't beat him, so we fell off in three directions and ran to another open community center to hide, and when we found it was full of homeless people, we followed everyone there and slept until dawn.
But when we woke up in the morning, we realized that all the homeless people were staring at us. The uncle who woke up early to exercise was also very concerned about how we came to be in the middle of this hobo country, and seeing that the three of us were so young that we would be wandering the streets and dirty, he called the police to ask them to come and take us away. Of course, the police notified the parents of the three of us to come and take us back, ending our day and night on the streets. In fact, I wanted to go home at that time.
After returning home, my parents didn't say a word, neither beat me nor scolded me. But the two companions can be miserable, one of the friends is a military family, dad hanged him on the balcony and beat him badly. He signed a fifteen-year contract to be a soldier after graduating from national high school, and is probably still in the military .
(3) A Life of Early Independence
When I was twelve years old, I skipped home and went to Kaohsiung for a day and a night of fun, and my parents didn't scold me for my behavior, but only said, "Don't do that again.
Because my sketching, painting, and watercolor skills were pretty good, I was accepted into the art class at Chung Cheng High School after I graduated from our junior high school, but I didn't want to go there, and instead went to Hwa Chong Art School. Instead, I went to the Hwaoka Art School based on my interest. I started at Hwaoka as a theater student, majoring in lighting and stage design, and then I switched to music, majoring in voice and minoring in piano, because I liked music.
At that time, Hwaoka was a conservative school, and students were strictly prohibited from taking part in performing arts, and were penalized if they were caught singing and shooting commercials on TV. The fact is that the students were not as well educated as the girls at Hwagang nowadays, and they were not as well organized as they are now. However, I still broke the school rules and got involved in the movie and theater industry, and acted in a commercial for Cheetos with some of my classmates. Huang Yunling was the main character, and in the commercial, I threw Chitosi at Huang Yunling. After the commercial was aired, the school found out about it, and I was given a demerit, which ended my short-lived career as an actor.
When I was at Hwa Chong, I was so "in love" with school that I took the three-year graduation course into a six-year course, with one year's suspension, and paid the tuition fee for five years in total. Because tuition is so expensive, I had to work to earn some money to subsidize the extra tuition, but luckily my cousin came along and introduced me to the world of pub performance.
Back then, my cousin was still in his twenties and was working as a keyboardist in Zhao Chuan's Red Cross Orchestra. He saw that I was very interested in music, so he took me to the pub to perform, and found that I sang surprisingly well, so he helped me arrange for a formal performance. At that time, I attended classes during the day and sang at the piano bar until the middle of the night. I was so tired that I dozed off in class, but I gained a lot of experience in performing.
This is the first time I've seen my cousin perform in a band, and I'm sure he's still rocking out.
At the time, young people loved to go to pubs and dance in dance halls, so I frequented a popular dance hall, the Penthouse, not to dance, but to serve as a waiter, and the Penthouse had a lot of tricks up its sleeve, such as opening the roof skylight at midnight, which made it a sensation in Taipei. It's not easy to be a waiter there because the owner designed a very strange uniform, the upper half of the body is a silver blouse with large shoulder pads, the lower half of the body is green pants, and when the time is up, so the waiters have to use one hand to carry the plates and dance, it's really embarrassing. In order to make money, I also gave up.
When I was seventeen years old, I wanted to go on the road, and that's exactly the age when I can be an idol. I also took a selfie of myself dancing with a V8, and I realized that I was too tall to dance, and my hands and feet were too long to feel stupid, so I decided not to be a song and dance group idol, and I strongly believe that I should go on the road to make a record and become a singer.
At the age of 18, in 1988, my classmates and I organized a group to participate in the yamaha second hit music contest, and Zhang Yusheng was the first champion, and my classmates and I organized a student band all the way to the finals, which was the only amateur group in the finals. The other contestants were all professional bands, and it was good to be in the finals, and in this contest, I got to know michael. michael's band also won the "Best Group Award"
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3 The Autobiography of the Letter Band: Rock 'n' Roll Lives Forever--Ashin
At that time, the record industry was in the midst of a huge boom in the world of music. The most popular record in the recording industry is Corden Records, and the most famous teacher in the industry, Mr. Chen Fuming, probably thought I was pretty good and helped me with my audition, so I thought I was about to become popular, but then I received a draft order and had to go to the army. After the army came back, found that the record has been the end of the Koden record, until the real publication of their own special books, has been fourteen years after the thing.
With the strength of my pub singing, I should have been able to enter the art team when I was in the army. In the training of new recruits, the art team really came to draft members, after picking off a lot of people, the last remaining me and another soldier, so decided to use the lottery to pick people. My luck must have gone downhill from then on, because there were only two balls in the barrel, one white and one red, and the other one and I would be one of the ordinary big-headed soldiers and one of the Artistic and Industrial Corps, and luckily I drew first and still had the right to choose.
Touching a ball in the box, I considered for a long time, or put down, picked up the other one, the results of the take out a look is a white ball, on behalf of me did not choose the art team, and the next day only to realize that when the big head of the soldier to be assigned to the Kinmen service, can be said to be a world of difference in the treatment, and the record of the things because of the distance between the war is inconvenient, but also hopeless.
After I was discharged from the army, I thought about changing careers because I had always been interested in the restaurant industry, and I was apprenticed to a Sichuan restaurant, but after washing dishes for a whole month, I decided to go back to the music road, and cooking vegetables was still a hobby
(4) The Fire Singer
Starting out at the age of twenty-two, I began to work as a singer again, with a small pizzeria in Tainan as a starting point. The store was similar to a Pizza Hut, and unlike a performance venue, it felt more like a restaurant as the audience was eating while I was singing. But it wasn't the venue that mattered, it was the fact that I was able to sing, and that started my singing career all over again, and the musicians who sang at the same pizza parlor included Power Rangers, who later became very popular.
Of course I wanted to go back to Taipei to sing, because the circle of pubs is very small, and as soon as a decent performing group comes along, word of mouth spreads fast, and pubs all over the province will make invitations. But ten years ago, my performance style was rejected by some pubs, such as the famous EZ5 in Taipei, which felt that I was not in tune with them, but I didn't care, I couldn't sing in this one, but I could still sing in another one.
The first time I saw the EZ5 was when I was in a club in Taipei, and it was the first time I'd seen a club in the city, and it was the first time I'd seen a club in the city, and it was the first time I'd seen a club in the city, and it was the first time I'd seen a club in the city, and it was the first time I'd seen a club in the city, and it was the first time I'd seen a club in the city.
Because they are peers, we often get together to drink and chat, Tomi's Mandarin is difficult to understand, I always have to organize a long time to understand what he said. Xiaohua, because he is an Indonesian Chinese, speaks Mandarin very well, and he always yells: "Let's all come together to make a record. I didn't realize it would take nine years for a joke to materialize.
This pub career was a great training for us all, and we all learned more than 3,000 songs in it, and improvised in perfect harmony. But what we learned more than anything else was the reality of the community.
I've seen too many drunken and disruptive scenes in pubs, and they usually hire security guards to keep things under control unless it's a serious situation. I've seen a couple of drunks get upset with each other and threaten each other with guns, and of course, we'd immediately look for a pillar on the stage to hide behind, after all, bullets don't last long, so it's good to be careful.
There are also guests in the pub inside the inexplicable confrontation, both sides have more than a dozen people, and is a drop cups and tables, the atmosphere is very hot. But it's times like these when we all keep singing if it doesn't seem too dangerous, because it would be even more awkward if the scene was quiet.
During this period of pub singing, I ran through Taipei, Taichung, and Kaohsiung, and gradually the bosses all over the world knew that my singing voice was very good, and that I was able to make the atmosphere very hot, and was very good at attracting customers, but they all knew that I was very unstable, and that I might sing today, and then disappear tomorrow, and that didn't help me to cultivate a loyal clientele. I've been wandering around Taiwan for a while now because I can't stay in one place anymore, and most of it has to do with a lack of money, and the more enemies I have, the more debts I have to pay.
During that period, I was very bad-tempered, and once a pub in Kaohsiung issued a ticket for me to travel south with a group to sing, and the pay was good, and when I arrived at the venue, I felt that the music was very bad, so I was in a very bad mood, and after singing, I deliberately slammed the microphone to the ground. The audience found my behavior very exciting and thought I was as high as the lead singer of a foreign rock group, so the reaction was particularly intense. I also felt very happy and high, but after getting off the stage, the bouncer of the group dragged me outside and beat me up, and I was also deducted money.
Now think of it is very funny, I was thinking 'this song should be sung this way', because singing is nirvana's song, the lead singer will always end up messing with the instruments, but I fell, but instead of being beaten up, think of the difference between the irony of it, can not help but painfully laugh.
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4 The autobiography of the band Believe in Rock and Roll to Live Forever - Shin Chapter
nirvana's lead singer Kurt Korban, who was a big influence on me, committed suicide after he became popular. Throughout his life, he hated those so-called 'pop stars' who kept appearing on TV every day, and he used to watch TV and get so angry that he would blow up the TV with a gun. But one day he saw himself appearing on TV and becoming a pop star. Suddenly realizing that he has become the person he hated the most in the past, he raises his gun and kills himself because he can't stand this ironic development.
For a while I was very unhappy and y affected by this tragedy. At that time there was always the possibility of a movie release, but every time I was disappointed, and I had wondered more than a hundred times if I was just going to sing in a pub for the rest of my life, and spend the rest of my life looking at people on TV who couldn't sing very well and didn't have any musical aspirations, that they could ever become popular.
When I think of Kit's story, I can't help but curse at the TV and complain about how unfair life is, but because I'm not famous yet, there's no reason for me to be the Kit who shot himself in the foot. I was in such an unbalanced mood that I felt depressed, and I didn't want to talk to anyone all day long after I got off the stage, and I became a weirdo
(5) The hot pot restaurant that was eaten by my friends
I've been on the road for a long time, and I still want to settle down. When I sang in Taichung, I seriously wanted to settle down, but also stayed in Taichung for four years, desperately trying to make money, singing every day from 10:00 p.m., and in the middle of the two hours of folk song performances, a total of **** a day to perform for six hours, an hour of six hundred dollars a day to earn more than 3,000 yuan, singing the last hour of the day, the sky is also bright.
Singing this hard can really inch down some money.
This is the first time I've ever seen a person with a high school diploma, and I'm not sure I've ever seen a person with a high school diploma.
I have a lot of friends, the new store of course, we have to invite friends to dinner, and then friends continue to support the scene, but also embarrassed to ask people to pay, the store looks like every day full of people, and eat hot pot with whiskey, but does not mean that the income is rich, because a lot of them are I pay the bill.
Every night I still go to a few major pubs in Taichung to perform, and when I'm not at the store, my friends are responsible for watching the spots.
One day when I was performing on stage, I saw my friend actually running to the pub, and when I got off stage, I asked her why she didn't care about the store. She said, the store was smashed. I rushed to the store to see, inside the beautiful glass clattered all over the ground. My friend said that time a few big men ran to eat a meal, and then the money is not paid, the origin of the trouble also somehow smashed the store, she had no way to stop, only to close the store, looking for me to ask for help.
With my hot temper at the time, of course, this account to find back, but because I can not find clues, do not know where these people come from, I can not figure out whether they are in order to ask for protection money, or peer to peer jealousy, so out of the warning, my hot pot restaurant in Taichung can be said to be the best decoration, inevitably because of the competition for business and the conflict, I know that these people will definitely come back.
Then this group of people did show up again, just when I was in the store. I was at the store, and as soon as four or five of them arrived at the store, they saw the menu and said, "Everything on the menu! I immediately sensed the hostility of the other side, and secretly told my friend, "Get your stuff ready, we're going to have a war.
Sure enough, once the food arrived, the other side of the table with hot soup hot pot all to lift. I took the stick, my friend with a kitchen knife rushed out, we are four, five friends are very strong, through rushed up to beat people, the other side but let us scared silly. My personality at that time is to have revenge, will definitely seek justice, naturally, they taught them a lesson.
But then the hot pot restaurant business is getting worse and worse, perhaps because the guests feel that the store often violent conflict, so they would rather go to eat elsewhere than want to come to my point to buy the risk, and finally lasted half a year or closed, and lost a lot of money. I continued to sing and sang harder because in addition to being broke, I was mooching off a ton of debt.
In order to make money, I used to sing at Friday's Cowboy Shop in Taichung before I left the city, and well it was a small three-piece band, and sometimes I had to play the piano and drums, but it was very simple singing. When I sang, I would walk up to the customers with a wireless microphone and ask them what song they wanted to sing, and after I finished singing, the customers would give me a drink and a tip of 2,000 to 3,000 dollars, as long as I drank the drink, I would get a tip. I was so poor at the time that tips were a great source of income.
But after my debut, this experience became the focus of a magazine's digging, and they thought I was working as a cowboy in a cowboy store; but in fact, to put it bluntly, I was so fat at that time that I didn't have what it takes to be a cowboy at all.
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5 The Autobiography of the Faith Orchestra Faith in Rock and Roll to Live Forever - A Faith Episode
(6) Wearing Leather Under the Sun
I ran away to Kaohsiung for a year, and technically there was no income at the time, and I didn't dare to sing inside the pubs because of too many enemies, and I couldn't just show up. I couldn't just show up. At that point I stopped thinking about making a record, and let myself eat and drink, and got fatter, so I was even less confident and didn't believe that I would ever make a movie in my life.
I remember one time when my friend knew I was in Kaohsiung and dragged me to Kenting to sing at the "Spring Scream".
A friend once dragged me to the Spring Scream in Kenting, which was the most important rock event of the year, and almost every band in the country would come there to sing and compete with each other to see who had the hottest show.
My friends and I thought we were a rock group, so of course, we had to wear leather jackets and boots to get down to Kenting, and it was so hot that we had to tear our eyes out. After the first set, all the members of the band ran outside to a street stall to buy T-shirts and shorts, and then took off their leather boots and went barefoot on stage. The first show sang very hard rock, the second show changed to reggae for the beach, never dare to rock in the sun.
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(7) Diplomacy
Diplomacy is the oldest group in Taipei, having been around for almost 20 years. Every pub singer would think it would be too diao (I can't type this diao) to join Diplomacy. One of the lead singers of Diplomacy, keith stuart, besides singing, is also a famous producer in the circle, I know he is very good, and I have been trying to introduce myself to him furtively, but he has no time to pay attention to me at all, and has never listened to my songs.
In the most bitter days of Kaohsiung, one afternoon suddenly received an unfamiliar phone call, it is the director of the Diplomatic Choir, Mr. Cui Kequan called.
"Mr. Cui, what is it?" I said respectfully.
"Our lead singer left, I heard you sing well, are you interested in coming back to Taipei?"
"How urgent?" I still said politely on top of my mouth, but I was actually thinking in my heart:? "Are you kidding? Who wouldn't be interested?"
"Tonight!"
So I immediately hitchhiked back to Taipei and joined the Diplomatic Choir.
I went back to Taipei that night and sang lead for the first time in the Diplomatic's corps, and it was the first time keith had heard my voice.
After singing for a week, I got off the stage and was having a drink when keith finally relented and came over to me: "Shin, do you want to sign with us?" (He is a foreigner but speaks very good Chinese, also look back ---) (Taiwanese symbols at the ellipses, can't read)
It's been a year since I made a gross recommendation to keith, and I felt really good on the spot!
He said he had been in Taiwan for more than ten years, and had never heard anyone sing rock like that, and with such a wide range of sounds. He said he had a whole bunch of songs in his house, but couldn't find anyone who could sing them, so he wanted me to try them out, and I sang them, and every song met his requirements, and he was so happy to hear them. From then on, we hit it off and became destiny **** same body.
I was in the Diplomatic Choir for two years, and that experience had a big impact on me, because keith, the producer of Shin's first album, was another vocalist in the group, and ringo, the keyboard player for Diplomatic, who wrote One and Done, was the other producer of the album. At the time, everyone got together to talk about future albums to be made.
After a while, keith, ringo, and I put so much time and effort into the album that we often didn't have time to sing on Diplomacy. We thought it was not a good idea to continue like this, and the band couldn't keep looking for a replacement vocalist, so we automatically retired; at the time, the other vocalist, Eileen Dai, was working on a new album with Keith, so she left as well.
Diplomacy lost three vocalists and a keyboardist, but after replenishing their staff, they remained the most experienced band in Taipei.
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(H) forgot to add salt to the scribbled curry rice
In order to fulfill the dream of music, keith has long been creating a lot of music, after working with him, for the wonderful in addition to Diplomacy's performances, but also often with other bands, michael, xiao hua, tomi with jam. everyone to buy a bottle of whisky, michael to a bit of a drums, and then ride a pairing with a pairing with a pairing. We buy a bottle of whisky, Michael plays the drums, and then we mix and match to come up with more and more creative ways of doing things. A song from 8 pm to 6 am, can be done, the creative speed can be said to be the speed of God.
Although I've been talking about releasing a movie for a long time, I was signed to a three-year contract with Rolling Stone, and I recorded a few songs, but I never got around to it. At that time, Rolling Stone only wanted to release my solo album alone, but for some reason, the music that cost a bunch of money to do well was never released, but I'm always grateful to Mr. Duan Zhongtan of Rolling Stone.
During this period I was not only singing at night, but also thinking about how to make more money, because if I really wanted to release a movie, I would not be able to perform for a while. This is the main reason why a lot of singers in pubs are afraid of releasing a record, because if you don't have the means to work during the preparation period, you'll immediately go from having an income to not having an income financially, and it's a very high risk, so I started to sell curry and rice at lunchtime on top of my performance work, to make a bit more money.
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6 The autobiography of the band Shin Rock is immortalized - Shin Chapter
I've always been very confident in cooking, and I've also practiced the skill of pan tossing and stir-frying on my own. Although it seems simple to make curry rice, but I follow the recipe personally develop new flavors, buy a few large and deep pots, also bought a fast stove, cooking rice also use a real barrel cooking rice. The curry is cooked for 300 or 400 people at a time, left overnight until the meat is all flavored, then heated up on the stove and pushed out to the side of the road to sell.
I have been selling curry and rice for more than a month, and I have designed my own look, which is a sleeveless tank top with shorts and a towel around my neck, which makes me look like I'm working hard.
The first day of the cart out of the mood is very high, do not know where to place is correct, pushed to the street, I dawned up to think of him! I'll set up at the intersection! Then I started selling at the exit of the alley, the most crowded street. All the neighboring businesses came out and pointed at me, they were concerned about what I was going to sell there and if it would affect them. Then the police rode over to patrol, unlicensed business I do not know how to react, do not know whether to withdraw, but I did not expect the police high hand, pretending not to see me, just so from my eyes rode past.
On my first day of business, I only sold a few curry lunches, and I pushed a pot full of curry and a pot of rice out the door, and pushed a pot of rice and a pot of curry home. Luckily, curry and rice is one of those things that's good for not selling, because carrots and pork are left in the curry and rice overnight, which creates a chemical effect that makes the pork softer and tastier, so next day's curry is better than freshly made curry. I usually make two pots at a time, one pot to put a pot to sell, if not sold out today, you can continue to sell tomorrow, there is no worry about overnight flavor, the risk of failure is relatively small.
With the breakthrough of the first day, the back becomes much easier. The next day I continued to push to the same point, justified there to sell, and also ordered a plastic transparent lid, covered in the curry pot, so that you can see the inside of the material, but also be able to isolate the road sand. Later customers also know I will appear there, and one three five curry is home to the coconut milk Thai curry, two four six is Japanese curry, every day there will be green sliced cucumber as a side dish.
Next I ordered canopies in order to get out of the rain. I was brainstorming about setting up a small table next to it when the police came to the door, so my plans for a multinational curry chain behind me were halted.
Selling curry and rice while singing is the biggest challenge. It takes a lot of willpower to pick up a kitchen knife and chop onions and boil potatoes in the wee hours of the morning after you've finished singing and you're half-exhausted. Sometimes when I get drunk, I feel like I'm full of creativity, so I take strange seasonings and add a bunch of them, and the next day I'm still selling them.
Soon after, Keith and I got so crazy about making a record that we lost sight of our regular jobs performing in the Diplomatic Choir, and we ended up leaving Diplomatic together with another producer, Ringro. Without Diplomacy's steady income, curry and rice became my only source of income.
Although I had a lot of bad luck at that time, the curry rice business was always good. In the area of Keelung Road and Xinyi Road where I set up my stall, the restaurants are not cheap. The curry bento sold by the opposite Lu Meat Restaurant costs 75 yuan, and my curry rice with onions, mashed potatoes and coconut milk, plus cooking rice in a real wooden barrel, looks really good, and it's only 40 yuan, which is really cheap by comparison.
So soon after I started setting up my stall, all the nearby office workers lined up to buy it, and sometimes there would be a big customer who would say he wanted 20 bentos, and that he would go to the convenience store next door to buy a drink, and come over to pick it up later, but I had a one-person store, and I couldn't keep busy just serving the customers in front of me, so when he bought a drink and came over, he couldn't even fill his rice bowl with the 20 bentos, and thankfully the office workers who were lining up were kind enough to lend me a hand. The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
My business style is casual, I cook and sell.
It's a good thing that I've been doing this for a long time, because I've been busy packing lunchboxes, and I haven't had time to collect the money.
Sometimes white rice ran out, I also have the cheek to run to the nearby buffet to buy white rice with curry, a few times later, think of yourself is not good, because I use the low-priced lunch box when they rob their guests even if, not good to buy rice with them to steal their business, so the rice ran out of me on the close of the stall; or that old saying, the more the curry sinks, the more fragrant, not afraid to put.
At that time, I was living near Keelung Road, selling to the late stage, no diplomatic performance work and income, lost love, lost ambition, plus unemployment, the curry rice often forget to add salt, but still sold out. The curry rice that I forgot to add salt to reflects my loss of interest in life, and I don't care much about anything.
On a rainy day, I wore a raincoat and pushed a pot of rice and a pot of curry out the door, with a box of cucumber slices on top, which I had just cut up myself. It was so rainy and slippery that the cart went sideways on the sidewalk, my pot tipped over in the downpour, the gherkins on top rolled all over the place, and the lunch box fell in the mud and water and got dirty, so there was no way to sell it. I bent down to pick these up