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Hiya.

Jus a quick note to say that two new songs are up. One is inspired by two of my friends who are going through really tough situations... The other is about the dinner I had with Billy Y. Please do go through these two songs... You can access them by the RSS feed link to the "New Songs" on the right side of this blog site.... :D

God bless!

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