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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Personality Test
「 dancing away 6:00 PM 」



I did this online personality test which has somehow been floating about online today. Found the results to be rather accurate. Here goes:


You have a very strong will, are not dependent on others and gives an impression of being a lone-ranger. You are extremely curious and sensual, living a clear-headed, modern life. At first glance you place yourself on a pedestal, and are difficult to get along with. But once others talk to you, they know that you are easy-going. And when the relationship develops, they realise you are affable. You have an androgynous charm, which makes you popular with all genders., But you don't like your weak side to be seen. You might look cook on the surface, but beneath it all, you are really Passionate. Only people who know your true self can maintain a long-lasting relationship with you.


I am not going to do any analysis of the results here. Just typing them out to serve as a form of reference that I was once like that at some point of my life. Haha. Well, no matter what I shall still stand by my opinion that who I am is really up to you to judge for yourself. =)




Saturday, October 07, 2006

random ramblings
「 dancing away 11:36 PM 」



Part #1: Why the creator behind Youtube should be immortalised.


Simply because Youtube rocks socks! If not for that wonderful free video-sharing website, I will never be able to catch the latest season of The Amazing Race (which stupid Mediacorp is not showing for whatever lame excuse they've come up with), considering that I don't have cable TV and hence do not have AXN or anything like that. Add to that the plethora of other programmes available there such as Ghost Whisperer, Lost etc. Ooooooh! :)


Part #2: PSI Index has a new peak!


So the haze is getting from bad to worse, with the PSI Index hitting 150 at 9pm tonight. That figure is almost double that of the previous peak, of this haze season, of 80 a few days ago. The visibility outside my room is terrible, the smokey smell which comes with the haze stinks like hell, and I am getting a headache from breathing in all that smoke. Thank goodness it's not my 'A' Level year or something. How to study when it's so smelly in the first place. Nonetheless, a small little sadistic part of me finds the decreased visibility rather interesting. Like what some of my friends say, it feels just like Genting Highlands minus the smell.


Part #3: Jay Chou


The more I think about it, the more I feel that it is because of artists like Jay Chou etc. who have been marginalising the entire market that talents like Shi Kangjun are banished to obscurity. It will be great if the focus can be placed on more lesser known talents to begin with. Anyway, I find the 5/5 rating which 8 DAYS gave for the "Yi Ran Fan Te Xi" album absolutely ridiculous. Granted that there are some good tracks in it, but 5 stars is just too much. A little conspiracy theory of mine: The reviewer (who incidentally is a female this time round) could very possibly have been besotted by Jay's bod into giving the 5/5 rating.


Part #4: Soda Green


Soda Green's album will be released on 20th October in Taiwan! I can't wait! Wonder when the album will reach Singapore shores though.




Friday, October 06, 2006

「 dancing away 10:22 PM 」



It's been such a busy and sucky week that I feel my hatred towards L coy going up many notches. Before long it's probably going to burst through the roof or something.

Nonetheless, I have to say that it's very nice to know that I have been missed. The people in plt 9 just rocks lah. :)



Tuesday, September 19, 2006

awesome band, awesome EP!
「 dancing away 2:55 PM 」





歌手團體: 蘇打綠 (Sodagreen)
專輯名稱: 遲到千年 EP
發行公司: 林暐哲音樂社
發行日期: 2006-09-18
類  別: 中文專輯 > 團體
包  裝: 單曲CDx1

如果你來不及認識蘇打綠
今年千萬不要再遲到了

蘇打綠最新單曲遲到千進
918不遲到發行【限量五千】

■ 關於遲到千年

文/青峰

遲到千年這首歌,寫的是對於慢半拍的人事物,所造成難以消滅的芥蒂的描寫。寫於我高三升大一的暑假,在一個心還在昏睡,而身體已在捷運站等候的場景,在台北車站等著南勢角線的時候,寫下這首歌。

感受是來自直覺的,事情毀壞了就一直停留在錯失良機的那一刻,就像心留在黃昏再也無法進入夜晚。在心裡想把那人事物毀滅、放棄、丟掉或乾脆吃掉,可是逃避只換來更多的不滿足和空虛。

因為詞彙來自感受,而感受來自直覺,用誨澀拼貼、直覺式,難以連結的結構,以及些許詞性轉品來寫這首歌的歌詞,加入與歌詞差異大,反而平易近人的旋律。

文/馨儀

第一次聽到遲到千年這首歌,是在高三升大學的暑假,青峰拿了歌詞,說要練歌,印象最深刻的是看到歌詞的第一個字,我就傻眼了!這個字怎麼念?(是底言春天嗎?)

模糊的記得,當時我們在某個同學的家中,用著有點中古的鋼琴,有沒有錄音,我也不記得了……

遲到千年,是當時青峰所有創作中,我最喜歡的一首,也是第一首我能從頭到尾唱好的歌!

大二的時候,青峰說他想把創作們錄成Demo,我們僅有的錄音設備就是一台MD和一個小麥克風,於是我們選了幾個週末,就在我遠在蘆洲的家進行這項工程……

第一天,我們吃飽喝足後才開錄,起了個頭才發現,要克服非常多的困難,第一,我家人的拖鞋聲,第二,電腦的隆隆聲,第三,冷氣轟轟聲,叫家人不要走來走去和關掉電腦是很簡單的事,沒想到我們最無法克服的是要關掉冷氣……

錄Demo的過程很特殊,因為不太會使用電腦編輯,所以從頭到尾不能出錯,主唱和吉他要同時一起錄,只要一出錯就得要重來,又因為只有一個麥克風,所以還要擺放在一個離主唱比較近、離吉他比較遠,又不會被震動到的位置,才會錄到比較平均的音量,錄出來的成品過到電腦裡後,我只會最簡單的功能,除掉部分空氣音,留下來的雜音似乎也將時空的氛圍與情緒一併記錄了下來。

2005年10月,我們又重新錄製了遲到千年,吉他、Bass、percussion、鋼琴、弦樂、Vocal、合音,這一次很豐富、很乾淨,兩種錄音版本,各有不同的味道,雖然都錄好了一段時間,但這張單曲的催生過程非常的特別,我們恐怕有說不完的故事……

資料來源:蘇打綠官方網站

*****
"遲到千年" 歌詞
詞曲/青峰

卮言春天 破碎鞦韆
踟躕不如停止抱歉
再過秋天 爛了蜿蜒
紅燈你擱淺

只是你遲到一千年
黃昏後就不會有夜
髮間在印象中被蔓延
你說你放棄了八月
其實不需要蜻蜓點水
打昏自己食髓知味
吞了你用力一口下嚥
捧起碗在倥侗增添

闔起厭倦 壓壞了肩
縮成了點還是一條線
接近直覺 溺死詭譎
最熟最爛你的臉




It's been such a fulfilling day! Firstly, I have to say that the feeling of being on off on a weekday is utterly awesome. Alright, I know that this is not the first time I am on off on a weekday, but still I have to say this. It kinds of creates a gloating feeling in me knowing that most other guys my age are slogging it out while I am slacking. Ha Ha Ha. Okay, I am done being evil here.

Went shopping with randall today! Ran into mr project-superstar-to-be teR (:p), as well as byrant, zhengning, jeremy and zhimin at cineleisure. So happens that so many people decided to stake out cine on off day huh. =x But anyway, I decided to get a new queen's couture tee after much hesitation over its rather exorbitant price. Though I finally decided that the tee is too nice to be missed out on! Anyway I so very much want the nice nice nice revoltage tee and berms, as well as the jean perrie tees I saw just now! I want more new clothes! :x

As much as I want better earphones for my iPod. :o

Met huimin after that for FORBIDDEN CITY. It was utterly amazing I tell you! So amazing that I wound up getting the soundtrack and the programme booklet. :) Though you could tell that there were a couple of glitches here and there (like that cloth which refuses to drop etc), but the cast managed to cover these glitches naturally by their impromptu acting. The lightings which Esplanade Grand Theatre have to offer are put into good use in the play too. Of course, the songs are so nice nice nice! Kit Chan is such a remarkable songstress-actress! The idea of having a live orchestra under the stage is ingenious too; the effect created as the sound supposedly reverberates off the walls of the theatre is awesome - it kinds of feels like DOLBY digital surround sound system. Haha.

However, some disappointments include gaps in the storyline which I feel could be covered by some explanation. The abrupt and rather illogical ending does not go down very well with me either.

But the entire play is definitely well worth the $74 I spent for the tix!

PS: I so very very much want to catch SANDY LAM's concert in December!



Monday, September 18, 2006

I'm such a movie buff :x
「 dancing away 10:55 AM 」



Unbeknownst to me (before this year arrived that is), I have this uncharacteristically huge 'movie buff' thing running in my blood. I just love watching movies, for some reason or another. Leafing through the stack of movie tickets which has been lying about in my wallet (and also because I have nothing much better to do on this rainy Monday morning), I decided to create a list here in my blog!

In parentheses are the people I caught the movie with, if I remember who they are in the first place, given my horribly ailing memory.

Here goes:

020106 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (chunyan)
100106 Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (audrey)
120206 I Not Stupid Too (zhikai)
080306 Final Destination 3
090306 Date Movie (audrey)
250306 Yours, Mine and Ours (adeline)
?????? Over The Hedge (zhikai) [tix too faded to see anyting!]
120506 Poseidon (ccc ppl! jieying jodi esther mindan etc)
010606 The Da Vinci Code (kelvin)
290606 Silent Hill
020706 Scary Movie 4 (audrey)
080706 Thank You For Smoking (ryan)
090706 Recycle (weiyang)
?????? Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (adeline) [tix too faded to see anyting!]
220706 Mortuary (weiyang)
300706 Nacho Libre (kelvin)
050806 The Lake House (ryan)
270806 Snakes on a Plane (kelvin)
310806 The Devil Wears Prada (peiqiang and kehjun)
050906 Click (audrey)
110906 Singapore Dreaming (yongqiang)
160906 John Tucker Must Die (kokwei and ben)

And this list does not include the huge amount of VCDs and DVDs I have been renting as well! (eg: Just Like Heaven / Click / Eight Below......)

Want to catch a movie anyone? :P



Saturday, September 02, 2006

「 dancing away 4:17 AM 」



The Devil Wears Prada?
Why not throw LV, Chanel, Gucci, Dior, Versace and the like into the mix as well?
But the title will probably lose its punch eh.

Okay at 4:16am I don't really know what I'm talking about. Woke up in the middle of the night all of a sudden. Don't know why either.

But anyway, The Devil Wears Prada is a really good movie. =D Thanks pq n kj for catching it with me despite the long (and tiring) day we had yesterday. And of course, lifting my low spirits up in the process.

It's always nice to feel cared for. Haha.