稻香

Jay Chou 周杰伦 - Dao Xiang / 稻香 / Fragrant Rice



YEAH! Jay's new song! Wow it's this time of the year that many of us will wait eagerly for the album, and then listen intently to the songs being released 1 by 1. hehe... I like this... the good old Jay is back.. nostalgic feeling...

crowd lu

scary..

My mum just came in and told me abt some other poisoning in instant coffee powder (donno wat brand though). really wonder wat the world is coming too... the things that we eat everyday, there can be so much unknown ingredients in them.

then there's the financial crisis, the bombing in Pakistan, the milk powder scare, the most recent killer in Singapore...

then here I am in my own world.. or.. that is why I need to escape from the real world to my own world.

Crowd - 大庭广众 = 广仲

Now I know why he's called Crowd - 大庭广众 = 广仲！ahahhaa....

Anyway, went to his showcase @ Bugis Junction Toastbox, and it was great! Enjoyed myself & was grinning so much after the show, cos he's really funny and the songs were great!

Luckily my sis & frens cld get a table inside.. otherwise can't c a thing from outside.

So, his singing and guitar playing live was really superb! he can sing fast & slow songs equally well! 好想要挥霍 was surprisingly very good. was rather impressed by the 海豚音 at the end of 好想要挥霍。He cld hit it so well..wa...his guitar playing also.. fingers move fast, strumming/plucking patterns more than badminton. then in 早安！晨之美, he sang, whistled and imitated a trumpet　(oops or electric guitar?)hahaha...

even did a "rock & roll" version of ode to breakfast. he kept stressing on the importance of breakfast, and 早睡早起 haha...

his signature towel's also present. i laughed when he used it to wipe his face after singing.. it's funny to see him do that on stage lor..

will definitely attend his concert @ Esplanade in Feb next year!

nice instrumentals

sodagreen's recently busy with a musical 向左走向右走! gasp haha...

but this is from Qingfeng's blog la.. he's sharing the songs from the musical. quite nice some of the songs.

just the instrumental alone already very nice.

向左走向右走

相遇在一場嘆息的雨

被雨傷透

低低星垂

distracted...again..

Trying to study antibiotics now, but just feel it's too difficult to conquer.. sigh...the antimicrobial spectrum, the dose, the max dose, the possibility of combinations, it's just too tough... So much to know, so little time..

But i think it's also cos I can't prioritise... just went karaoke with my frens this afternoon. can't help it! gotta relieve stress! haven't been karaoke for a long time! But it was really fun. Really can relieve stress. And it's really great meeting up with frens after a while...& when we meet up, we complain about work. How time flies... now we complain about work, & not abt school..

Sometimes I really thank PSS for those SAturday sessions, so that i can see my fellow pharmers, although it's quite tiring la and cannot sleep in haha..

while my guitar gently weeps...

I don't know how i came about this song.. Oh I think I first heard the Korean boy genius Sungha play it... then search on youtube i suppose.. but it's a nice song...there's even a ukulele version hmm... but i like this the most. Cleanest.

George Harrison - While my Guitar gently weeps

George Harrisson, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Phil Collins and Elton John

The Beatles version

Sungha's acoustic version

Jake's ukulele version

12 Lotus

Can you believe it? I watched 12 Lotus last night. Not only that. I watched it with my mum and sisters! The last movie I watched with my mum was 黄金甲... haha...

12 Lotus - actually, I was quite impressed by the movie. and of course by Royston Tan as well as the cast, especially 刘玲玲. I left the cinema with a heavy heart - it was a tragedy from the beginning to end. But also I left the cinema thinking I've watched quite a good Singapore-made movie. Reminds me of that film module I took back in NUS. COme to think of it, it was really an interesting module. Made me ponder more when watching movies haha..

My mum & sisters didn't really like it. In fact my mum prefered Money no Enough 2 (which she just watched the past week with the aunties - so happening right? more happening than me lei!). I guess it's cause it's filmed in a more "artistic", more abstract, less "heartland" manner. I didn't watch 881 so I can't comment. But it's definitely different from Jacky Neo's films.

The storyline may be a little cliched, but yet the movie seemed unique to me. Although there were moments of comic relief here and there, especially the scene with David Gan haha..., it's a tragedy right from the start as i've mentioned. It's ironic that the father actually asked the daughter if she understood the meaning of the song, and her reply was just so true. She thoroughly understood the meaning and even experienced it when she grew up. It's also tragic that she had to seek solace from inanimate objects - 观音菩萨 & 苏打饼, after being "mentally tormented" by the tyrannical father & heartless lover.

I felt that it was filmed rather nicely, the way events unfold. There were quite a lot of symbols here and there as well. 观音菩萨，苏打饼 etc. The HDB flats that kept appearing as the backdrop for the song and dance was very Singaporean haha..

The music was moving. The main theme, the pitiful Hokkien song "12 Lotus", the guitar solos, the string ensemble instrumentals/pieces...It's also quite cute that they will suddenly erupt into song and dance - typical of musicals I suppose.

Finally, 刘玲玲's acting's superb. A schizophrenic woman living in her own world. Her voice's really good too. heehee...

K I better get back to reading up for Friday's discussion.

Sidetrack sidetrack - 卢广仲要来新加坡宣传了！！！好期待他的到来！！虽然他不帅，但觉得他的live 表演一定很棒，而且看了会很开心，所以很期待！对啊对啊，对啊对啊！！记得吃早餐哦！！