Straight from the burrows, H.F. Badger (alter-ego of singer-songwriter, Bob Ooi) is a bi-pedal creature that has zero physical resemblance to a Honey Badger. However, they both share two common traits - they both like to live alone (to an extent) and they’re notorious for their bad temperament. This particular (and rather peculiar) badger kept on digging through life’s struggles before he uttered these words - “Enough is enough”. 

He crawled out of his deep, dark hole and went back to his first love, music. Drawing many musical influences in his life (including Dallas Green from City & Colour and Josh Tillman aka Father John Misty), HFB channeled his thoughts of his personal battles with love, life and religion through hill-billy, folk music that people seem to poorly categorise it as ‘hipster music’. Let HFB enthral you with his folk guitar playing, his smooth yet robust singing voice and the occasional yodelling. 

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Anson Ong has been actively serving in the Christian music ministry for about 25 years or so, and added to that, ever since picking up the bass guitar 20 years ago and thereafter "embracing" it as his main stage instrument, he has also been occasionally involved in the industry circuit, whereby he used to be a replacement bassist for some other famous bassists who did hotel lounge gigs in the Klang Valley in the past. Added to that, he was also involved in a few private functions backing other famed and upcoming commercial musicians around the Klang Valley.

Added to that, he has also embarked on a music arranging career since 1999, being part of a jingle production house for a little over six years before moving on into his own outfit, F-Clef Chronicles Music Productions in April 2006. Amongst music arrangements he was involved in include TV and Radio Commercials of Enfagrow, Kao, Canon, Naza, Kayu Sugi just to name a few from many other commercial projects he was involved in. He was also involved in music arrangement for Capricorn Connections' Christmas Albums in the years 2000 and 2002.

Within the Christian music front, he has also been involved in bass playing, music and choral arrangements plus songwriting for DUMC musicals, namely "Love Lights Up The World"(2001),"A Christmas Tail"(2002), "Peace Child" (2003), "Shanghai Reborn" (2004) as well as two album recordings ("In This City" and "Savior Friend in 2009 and 2011 respectively) with DUMC's worship ministry named Resonate. On the secular front, he also recomposed a few songs from the Canticle Singers' Musical in 2006, "Refugee: Images". He also twice musically directed DUMC's Campus Youth Zone's Christmas Caroling parties. Added to that, he also participated in the year 2005's Malaysian Revival Songwriting Contest in which he won the first runner-up spot in the Inspirational Vertical Category through his song, "There's Abundant Love" which was also featured in the gospel album, "Carbon", published by Star Maker Enterprise. He has also since late 2005 been involved with another international Christian Music Ministry, the Children of God Ministry (COG Music) in the area of album recording (his grooves can be heard in the 2006 album, "To Walk Along With You" as well as 2009 album, "On The Green, Green Grass") as well as occasionally touring mainland China to train and equip Christian musicians there for praise and worship purposes, besides live Christian music sessions with COG Music in Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Amongst names of professional musicians Anson has worked with in the past:

Keyboardists: Aubrey Suwito, Jason Geh, Christopher Yoong, Clement Siow, Andrew Tan, Charles Wong, Isabella Pek, Ooi Eow Jin, Mohd. Khairil, Johan, James Yeo, Chuan Chiou Yun (Singapore), Timothy Lee, Wilson Jong and Richard Hoon.

Saxophonists: Salvador Guerzo, Razak Rahman, Azmi, Kevin Choo, Julian Chan, Azam (RTM).

Guitarists: Hillary Ang, David Patrick Juis, Julian Low, Joe Loy, Jedidiah Wong, James Yee, Jonathan Koh
(Singapore), Eric Liu Huai-En (Taiwan).

Violinist: Charmaine Lai

Drums and Percussion: Elliott Koon, Charles Wong, John Thomas, Razak (ex-Headwind), Philip Phua, Michelle 
Phua, Andrew William, Martin Ngim and Lim Kok Yen.

Lead Vocalists: Jeanie Lee, Jaclyn Victor, Cozzy Lee, Yen Ping, Rosanne Lui Shan (Hong Kong), Izlyn Ramli,
Juwita Suwito, Patrick Leong, Esther Rebano (Maria Angela), John Moi, Chuck Hong (USA/Taiwan) and Elvis YaoYao Hsu (Taiwan).

Other noted affiliations include Regal Chinese Orchestra for numerous live events which include primarily wedding dinner sessions, as well as being part of the core judging team for Sri KDU Secondary School's Paramount Championships in 2011 and 2012 as well as My Challenge 2012 by Musicast Productions, showcasing competitions for secondary school students' artistic talents at the combined state levels of the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.

Anson can be contacted via mobile phone at +60 12 2157237 or via email at valjean24601@gmail.com.

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