This is a long post. Thanks. A beautiful building without good people feels empty. The people makes it a happy place, full of joy and hope. ♥️ I just wanted to express my deepest gratitude to the friends and customers who have visited us at our very new @timbreplus.eastside and your presence has brightened our days. 🌻 My deep gratitude is for Team Timbre who has worked so hard and sacrificed so much to get this project started and moving. It was truly mountains to climb, but together we are at a better altitude and lived to tell. Even though it’s still work in progress till our grand opening, I am confident we will get there, because we have each other’s back. 💪🏽 To our food partners, suppliers and sponsors, we are forever thankful for your faith in us. We will continue to work hard for you and build up this beautiful space. 👍🏽 Keep the faith. 🙏🏽 #timbre #timbregroup #timbresingapore #foodpark #supportlocal #supportlocalsg

This is a long one so please bear with me. 🙏🏽 Yes it has been really difficult, yes it has decimated industries I work in and love from event management, entertainment to F&B. Yes many of us are tired. But NO we cannot give up. We must carry on and work hard to get back up. I am blessed to work with someone I consider a warrior in our industry. @davidebenex and his team at @ebx.sg worked with team timbre producing the #KeepMusicAlive livestream series early last year. When Covid hit, our backs were against the wall, but like how we have been for years we have known each other, we spoke on the phone and found a way to wiggle our way and faced the pandemic front on. His determination during this crisis is highly commendable and inspiring. I am honoured and thankful to have David as our production trainer for my course “Advanced Certificate in Event Management and Entertainment” at @sgsmu Academy, which now includes a production site visit at his studios at Scape. I am personally happy to re-start physical classes as well. I really missed the class and nothing beats seeing and engaging them face to face. Let’s all keep moving, let’s take one step at a time towards our recovery. Stay kind and keep inspiring each other. We will get through this. 💪🏽 #singapore #smuacademy #singaporemanagementuniversity #eventmanagement #entertainment #education #skillsfuturesg #skillsfuture

Happy birthday to the living legend @therealbuddyguy and thank you sir for being an inspiration for so many of us. I first met Buddy in Singapore when he performed for Singapore Airlines’ promotion of their Singapore-Chicago direct flights in early 2000s. We played a few songs, and then he passed me his name card, and inviting us to visit his bar “Legends” in Chicago. So I wrote to him to meet in 2002, after Ublues was confirmed to compete and represent Singapore in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis. After that, we went to Chicago, and not only met him, we got to perform a short jam set for him at Legends. Years after together with @peterbnoble and @bluesfestbyronbay we got Buddy to Singapore to play at the inaugural Timbre Rock and Roots not once but twice. He killed it both times and had the crowd in his palm. He played, on and off stage, walking through the crowd and back, and was just amazing. I will always remember him telling me “Son everybody has the blues (showing me his hand), we all have 5 fingers and all of us can lay our feelings down on our guitar and say what we feel.” It’s that simple. Perhaps this is something which is more relevant these days, when the world is hurting and when music has quieten. Perhaps it’s time to share the hope and message again. He is a living legend and I hope to bring him again one day. Soon. When that day comes, we can feel human again, we can feel hope once more. #blues #legend #musiclegend #musiclegends #bluesfest #bluesfestbyronbay #buddyguy #buddyguylegends #singapore #timbregroup #timbregroupasia #timbresg