Friday, November 13, 2009

上五楼的快活- 3. 多少




我用尽所有方式
找个人给我安慰
度过寂寞的黑夜
我问守候的天使
也许她能够体会
这无助让我很累
走到无路可退
我还能相信谁

用多少天
用多少年的跌跌撞撞才找到终点
用多少伤痛的心,爱才不离开身边
用多少谎言去掩饰彼此的不完美
要用多少个世纪让我看透一切

我走在这个城市
熟悉又陌生的脸
有谁能给我安慰
我问守护的天使
也许她能够体会
这无助让我好累
走到无路可退
我还能相信谁
用多少天
用多少年的跌跌撞撞才找到终点
用多少伤痛的心,爱才不离开身边
用多少谎言去掩饰彼此的不完美
要用多少个世纪让我看透一切


我没有任何防备
没方向到处地追
没翅膀却好想飞
我努力顺风跟随
黑或白找不到个绝对
全都是灰






Saturday, November 7, 2009

Mika. We Are Golden. Happy Ending




From Mika's latest album>Boy Who Knew Too Much, I really think that "We Are Golden" is one of the best tracks.
The lyrics is somewhat inspiring, cheeky, young, vibrant.
What about the music video ( I hate to say this but I can't post the video here so pls click here to view it. ) ?
Aha, it just made me smile ^_____________^
Mind you, I'm not talking about how a half-naked swinging and jumping and spinning around man makes me smile.
It's the idea of the vid. The concept. The direction of the song and the video.
The toys, the colours, the atmosphere, the decors, the room. YES THE ROOM.
And MIKA. I think he did great in the music video. It was so carefree. Very much sink into the mood of the song I'll say.
Just like the song lyrics:
We are
not what you think we are, we are golden, we are golden.
Young and teenage-like.
The moment the song starts, I felt that this video is gonna be something worth watching. And indeed it was. It is.
From how it starts,, at 0:28, ( arrgghh can't post ah the vid... T T )
And 1:05, I definitely see traces of Jim Carrey!! ( Count Olaf, anyone? ) Well in fact there is lots of traces of Jim C. in this video huh?
1:58, just make me grin grin grin! ( love the action/dance/swing/move/watever is it )
and gosh, I just the idea of 2;10, don't you? and NO ONE ( read: unless you are visually-challenged aka blind :P ) can even miss the scenes how pink lasers coming out of his body!!! it's EVERYWHERE! bluek :P
and his vocals do give me goosebumps sometimes. it's a good thing! >.<
Do check out the rest of his songs in this album, Like: Toy Boy, Blue Eyes, and Good Gone Girl. Catchy tunes and really worth listening to ..
I got his previous "Life in Cartoon Motion" album, and guys, if you havent heard of the song "Happy Ending" (nice music video too!) , I would assume that you landed in the wrong planet. And check out his "Any Other World" and "Over My Shoulder". Something different for the taste buds. ( no no, in this case, your hearing buds? is there such thing? lol.. XD )
Anyway, hope you'll enjoy! :)

Thursday, November 5, 2009

When Randomness Struck..

When randomness struck.
When I look at the night-sky.
When the moon hides behind the mist of all.




And I just want to say that I'm exhausted.





Tell me. Am I breathing? Am I still breathing?




Sometimes, I need a hand to hold...


I need a shoulder to cry on....



Hugs. Yes I need hugs. I love hugs.




An occasional peck on the forehead. Or the cheek will do too.

Can I have love?




Yes, I love you.




GAN

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

UCSI University Choir Concert

*pics courtesy by Kendrick Ng. ( Click me! )

Faculty of Music, Social Sciences and Design
- School of Music -
presents
UCSI University Choir Concert





After weeks of practices, ( choir practices and respective sectional practices ), music students in UCSI University would now be able take a break from choir :)
Just like the tradition in UCSI's School of Music, the end of semesters would usually be marked with the choir concert. And in this choir concert, all music students ( namely from junior concert, senior concert, and concert choir. ) up to certain semesters are required to perform in the choir, as it is part of their final assessment in the particular subject - CHOIR!
As for me, just graduated from high school last year, I'm taking Foundation in Music ( currently 2nd semester ) and being a freshie around the University, this is only my second choir concert that I had participated.

So frankly, this is really something new for me. Grades awarded and assessed through choir performances, whereby we are to performed in front of a hall-ful of audiences.. ( as all the students are supposed to bring a friend or two of theirs to the concert. ) It's just spectacular.
Nevertheless, this choir concert is very much like a big gathering for many music students in the university. We get to meet some friends that we don't really get to meet everyday.
This time around, I've joined the Concert Choir ( from the previous Junior Choir ) , conducted by Mr Ian Lim, a well-known vocal and choir teacher, as well as the Artistic and Music Director of our Malaysia's very own Dithrambic Singers. While on the other hand, both the junior and senior choir are conducted by Ms. Rachel Tan.
What about the song choices? Yes yes, rest assure, the songs were definitely interesting enough to keep the audiences listening. Ranging from Japanese children song "Hotaru Koi" - ( by Junior choir ) , to some traditional Spanish carol " Fum, Fum, Fum " ( by Senior choir ) , and even some early Christmas songs " Christmas Glory Medley " ( by Senior & Junior choir ) .
As for our Concert choir, two songs were chosen: "Requiem Aeternam" from "Requiem" by John Rutter, and "Three Australian Bush Songs - Dawn, Birds, & Sunset" by Iain Grandage. *kah koo kah koo kah koo koo kah koo kah koo kah*
Performing 10 songs in total, the three choirs definitely did a great job.
Just like the popular Chinese saying: Ten minutes on stage, ten hours off stage. ( or did I get the translation correctly? ) After weeks and weeks of practices: repeating phrases, catching the melodies, hitting the notes, controlling the dynamics, and memorizing the lyrics as well as the performance directions, the concert was the peak at the end of the day.
It was satisfying, I would say. I did my best, we ALL did our best. And the best part of all, we had the time of our life. We enjoyed the music and hope the audiences enjoyed as well.
At the end of the concert, Mr. Ian even told us that he heard someone from the audiences actually thank us for the performance, after we sang the "Three Australian Bush Songs" . Again, as I said, it was satisfying. The appreciation from the audiences towards our performances are priceless.
And the thing with being a music student is that, it's not only about playing instruments, it's not only about making good music.
It's all about how you discipline yourself, how you learn new things ( and keep them with you for a long time .. ), how you would want to interact with the others.
Or how you would want to interpret music, how you manage your time and work (perform) under pressure.
For the record, being a music student is NO piece of cake. *shakes head vigorously*
Many would have the misconception that music students only play music all day long, and no exams and it's such an easy job.
And many would even think, music students aren't academically-capable.
Tell this to any music student.
And get ready for the dramatic disbelief expression ( okay or maybe a faint head-shake of disagree, and a small laugh of sarcasm.. ) and a looooong sigh and looooooong speech of what are we, music students supposed to do.
You know what, not any ordinary people can manage to excel in this field.
You need extra-s.
Extra hardwork.
Extra talent.
Extra determination.
Extra confidence.
Extra discipline.
And For yours truly here, I'm doing my best.
I've chosen this field, regardless of numerous opposing objections towards my "mistake" made.
It's not a mistake. It's a choice.
And I'll need to prove myself in this fiels.
To be an aspiring musician.To be an aspiring singer.
Music is part of everyone's life, it's just that music plays a BIGGER part in my life.
Quoting the recent MPO's advertisement tagline:
"If music be the food of love, we'd be seriously over-weight!"
And I couldn't agree more.
So that wraps out the night. The concert.
And let the pictures do the talking! ( well in fact I've talked alot! )
* Picture Courtesy by Kendrick Ng.
The Senior & Junior choir performing "Let The Whole Earth Stand in Awe" by George Frederick Handel, and "Christmas Glory Medley" arr. Lari Goss.
Both songs were conducted by Ms Rachel Tan.
*Picture Courtesy by Kendrick Ng.
Concert choir performing "Three Australian Bush Songs" -(Acapella. )
Conducted by Mr Ian Lim. ( fondly known as Lao Shi - teacher. )
Me, together with best friend Ng Hong Liang and Mr. Ian Lim ( middle ).


With the members of Junior choir.
From left: Emily Low, yours truly, Soh Rou Yen, Amelia Ng ( behind ) , and See Tsuey Yun.


Best buddies: Vincent Choo, Amelia Ng and Ng Hong Liang.


Together with Phaik Sim! *wondering what'll happen later during choir?*

For more pictures and videos, pls check out the album at my Facebook page. ( err, though "the use of unauthorized recording deivces is stritly prohibited. " oops! )

Friday, October 16, 2009

Breakfast at Vincent's. And a Workaholic's Confession.

Well the title sugests it all. Breakfast at Vincent's. Nope this aint got anything to do with Breakfast at Tiffany's. Haha~ Take this literally, would you? :)
Yup, after aural dictation midterm, i had like one and an half hour of free time before getting to work ( yes, i'm officially addicted to work too, but i will get to that later.. ) .. So I went to Vincent's house, and yeah, he cooked breakfast! *thumbs up and wink wink*
I totally tried to help, but no doubt, I failed miserably lar. >.<
okay let's look at the pics~ ( hehe vincent, didnt know i'll blog about this right.. )
Milo!!! with oatmeal~ but reaaaaaallll NICE! Thanks Vince! ;)

Cooking kolo mee... I think this is the correct name for it >.< Vincent in action!!!!! hehe I really really tried to help ok? but yeah, I helped taking pics too :)


There you go! the kolo mee ( with minced meat and eggs~ ) and hot milo~ yummy!!! Thanks again vincent for the wonderful breakfast.. ( still can't believe you cooked! )


MAKAN TIME!!!!


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WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


yes, if you are real close to me, and you'll know, I'm a workaholic. Well, in the sense that I actually work at the marketing department of UCSI. Surprise? No? ok,, for some reasons somehow ( read: scholarship ) , i'm required to work at the department, 65 hours every semester.
And at this very moment, I'm totally so addicted in working! Like today, I worked for 5 hours.. and this whole week I actually managed to clear about 14 hours. Practically, I'm like a part time staff in the marketing department. I key-in datas, I photostat stuffs, etc etc... And everytime I count my hours cleared at my scholarship form, I just feel like i'm counting money~ *drama queen's hyper look*
And at the end of this year, I'll be going to help out at various education fair, trying to clear my hours.. ( ok, the confession is that, I've exactly no problem clearing my hours. It's just a mere excuse for me to escape my studies and WORK! for this sem, i've cleared almost 40++ hours. And it's only October. :P )
This might not make any sense to you, but it makes great sense to me. I enjoy my work/job. I like my supervisor > Ms Wati, and my so-call "collegues" ..
In the office, syok sendiri-ing. >.<
Well i gotta take the chance to camwhore when the boss aint looking! *look around*




p/s:
to you, pls don't get mad at me.. Just remember the promise I made. I won't break my promise.... and I'll take care of myself ( of all the workload) , but dear, u need to take care of yourself too ..




GAN








Monday, October 12, 2009

Of Bejeweled Blitz and Regina Spektor


You know you are addicted to Bejeweled Blitz when:
(i) the ultimate purpose of facebook is no longer stalking people but to bejeweled-blitz. ( yes it's now even a verb.. )
(ii) you are supposed to finish up your assignments or whatsoever but you're only to find your cursor heading the Bejeweled Blitz bookmark at the bottom of your FB page.
(iii) you are constantly seeing Bejeweled Blitz.
(iv) you see white toilet tiles, you see coloured bejewels. and your mind can even work on how to win scores.
(v) you can't help to play Bejeweled Blitz even in the lecture hall, as your lecturer is babbling in front. and...your friends can't help either to look on and whisper excitedly: " there! the red colour one! "
(vi) as you're blogging this few words your mind is STILL on Bejeweled Blitz. ( AND played a few times..)
yes.
these are the symptoms.
if you are having these symptoms, you are then, officially addicted to Bejeweled Blitz.

one of yours truly's high scores. well if you look cloooooose enough, you can see i'm at the 2nd of the list. with 232,750 high score. yeah yeah shoot me pls i'm being so narcissistic. I'm an addict. I need my daily dosage. But I'll never be over-dose that's for sure.
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You know that you're addicted to a song/singer when:
(i) Your youtube page is nothing but the song/singer's music videoSSSSSSS



(ii) Your player couldn't be anything else better but just that song/singer's songs. In fact, you downloaded the whole album or you got the whole playlist. -and still collecting-



(iii) You even started searching for the photos of the singer. (stalker? no. )



(iv) You search for the song's chords or music sheets. And when you found it, you got so hysterically hyper, you play the song immediately, even it's 1 in the morning.

(v) You memorized the lyrics of that song in just one night. "repeat" is on.


Then yes, again, dear, you're officially addicted to that song/singer's songs.



And, you ARE reaaaalllyyy addicted to these stuffs when you actually decided to blog about them at 2 in the morning (when u gotta wake up at 6 the next day ) , just that you believe that you need to pay a tribute to these ultimate pleasure of life.