Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
Author unknown...
In loving memory of
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Saturday, May 15, 2010
Yay! 棉花糖 has a new album coming up!!! They are 1 of the few groups that make me still enjoy Mando pop. Love the girl 小球's voice. Went for their mini concert at Esplanade the other time and enjoyed it a lot. Felt really touched when I cld hear them sing live. Don't know why. From street singers in Taiwan to holding mini concert in Singapore... They are another group of people who dare to and are trying so very hard to fulfil their dreams.
棉花糖_katncandix2 小球x聖哲 | 再見王子 |
Next are Flumpool's songs. Theme song for Bloody Monday 1 & 2.
Recently watched Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge, Samurai High School and Gokusen 3. All are great in their own ways!!!
Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge ヤマトナデシコ七変化 is abt this grp of 4 "ikemen" who are supposed to turn this eccentric girl into a lady so that they do not need to pay their house rents. This "hen" Nakahara Sunako walks around in a black cloak, enjoys horror and hates bright things i.e. very good looking people. SO as they interact more with one another, they find out abt one another's "complex" i.e. problems and also find out more abt "BuSunako"'s personality. Not forgetting the 暧昧 between the lead actor Kyohei (Kamenashi Kazuya) and Sunako (Oomasa Aya).
The show at times may seem exaggerated since it is adapted from anime. But I like to see Sunako when she is so immersed in her "horror" self. Really eccentric hhaa...The little boy as Takeru is really cute too! Can fight with Xiao Xiao Bin from Taiwan haha...
Next up was Samurai High School. I didn't know what I was in for before watching it. After the first episode, I cldn't stop as it was super hilarious, and the soundtrack was cool too.
It's abt this doesnt-take-things-seriously high school kid who has a courageous samurai as his ancestor. (They share the same name). Obvously the 2 characters are 180 degrees opposite - one is weak,meek, playful, cheeky while the other is strong, brave, serious and man. So when the weak self encounters difficult situations, his DNA changes and becomes the strong alter-ego samurai and saves the day!
I was surprised that Miura Haruma did quite a good job in portraying the 2 different characters. The samurai speech was funny, especially with the girl! SO direct hahahaa.... His father was funny too. He is more of a friend than a father. Even joins in the samurai role-playing. Interesting show.
I quite like the soundtrack. Has the samurai-in-modern-era feel. Bamboo flute with electric guitar....haha..
Last for now was Gokusen 3 for me. Slow la... cos it was aired in 2008. Always didn't get down to watching it. Finally finished. How I wish I can have a teacher like Yankumi. SO passionate abt her job. And so strong too! Physically haha...The theme of friendship is really strong in the show. I especially like the scenes when Yankumi sits down with her family (not related by blood) and have a heart-to-heart chat. She will always find the strength to fight on after their encouragement. So heartwarming!
So Miura Haruma acted in 2 out of 3 dramas which I watched. It's not coincidental. Purposely chose these 2 dramas cos of him. Embarassing to switch to fan-girl mode cos he's so much younger than me. But I believe he has the potential to make it big. I find that he has grown and acting has also improved.
Also I didn't know Miura Haruma can sing so well.... He actually acted in a musical. Nice song by Exile wor....
EXILE／愛すべき未来へ 三浦春馬「星の大地に降る涙」
SO after my Japan trip, my 哈日craze is back. Still hesitating to sign up for classes again though! DOn't want to go through the interview!
Aiya forgot to add in that Yoga Lin's new album is great!
Wow just saw on youtube almost all his songs have MV.
I especially like 说谎 and 感同身受. I think he's a very versatile singer. Can sing many genres. Voice is unique too. Can be mysterious at times, 'lazy' at times, very emotional/touching at times, very 'rocker'/strong at times. 难得的好歌手.
Here is a playlist consisting of 8 songs from his new album.
First live music of the year 2010 I watched was katncandix2 棉花糖 at the M1 Fringe Festival. It was just like when I first knew about sodagreen. Only heard a few of their songs, and decided to buy tics to their live show. And indeed, no regrets.
It was at Esplanade Recital Studio. I love this venue. It's such a cosy place, and it allows musicians to be face to face with the audience, and with only their instruments at hand. Wonderful venue for live performances. The other time Captain Lu performed there too. Amazing venue.
棉花糖 was great live! Didn't know 小球, the female vocalist, was so "vocal”！She talked so much and was hilarious. Luckily she was present to spice up the show haha...At 1 point when 圣哲, the guitarist broke a guitar string and went backstage to re-string the guitar, she just went on and on to talk about their experiences as a busker. 圣哲 was so different from her . He doesn't talk much, is seems rather serious about things. That's why they are a group - there is the contrast and regular banter between the 2, which was funny too....
SO they sang songs from their debut album, and in between would talk about why they wrote the songs. And then there would be slideshows accompanying the songs with lyrics, prepared by 圣哲's brother. Not to forget the keyboardist 小杰. He looked more like a hip-hop dancer than a keyboardist, but could play the keyboard with so much feeling, and at times so gentle! Amazing...
小球'svoice is warm, and rather strong at times. Nice! Her rendition of 林侑嘉's 心酸 was good! Don't know why I felt rather 感动 when she sang 陪你到世界的终结。I think it's great that they are able to pursue their dreams, and even bring their music from the streets of Taiwan to out of Taiwan.
IN the end, a 40 minute show became a 1h 40min live music and sharing session. INteresting. There was even an autograph session, where everyone just chitchatted with them. Cute.
This weekend had been really exciting. F1 and related concerts, all thanks to my sister who managed to get the tickets!
F1 Rocks Concert was held in conjunction with the F1 Grand Prix SIngapore 2009 at Fort Canning Park. Obviously, I went for the 1st night with the Mando-pop big shots Jacky Cheung, A-mei, sodagreen and Da Mouth. Their performances were fantastic, but sadly, the technical glitches galore marred the otherwise spectacular event.
That was my first outdoor concert and the ambience at FOrt Canning Park was great. I like it that it was a slope, so that people behind won't be blocked. It was hot and humid, with ocassional breeze, but it was torturing for the feet.
About the technical faults. They were all clearly written in the newspapers. I thought that reflected rather badly on Singapore, or the organising committee. These things should not have happened at such a world-class event.
When Da Mouth sang, the singer's voice couldn't really be heard. I don't know if it's cos of the singer. They finally reported that it was due to the mic, and not cos of Aisha's poor singing. When sodagreen came on, the mics were working fine. As usual, Qingfeng's voice was clear and loud and perfect. But when they were singing Kuangre halfway, just before the chorus, there was total silence on stage. The mics, guitar weren;t working at all. I thought it was on purpose, but a few minutes passed and Qingfeng and band looked amused, bewildered, and they were called off stage. Cldn't believe such a thing happened. The emcees only came onstage after a few minutes of the stage being left empty. Then finally read on Cruz Teng's blog that they were forbidden to go on stage. What! Lousy. They finally resumed after abt 10min with sodagreen performing Kuangre again.
Next was Ah-Mei. Poor Ah-mei's first song, cld not hear her voice at all, only her back-up singers. But 2nd song onwards was ok. Powerful vocals and great stage presence. She admitted that she had to cut down on a few songs due to time constraints and only sang 1 English song, Keane's Somewhere ONly We KNow. It was a strong rendition. Then she left the stage rather abruptly. Probably being chased down due to lack of time.
Then this was the worst. The transition to Jacky Cheung's performance. We waited a good old 40min before the Ge SHen came on stage. He even apologised on behalf of the organisers! That was terrible! The organisers didn't come up to explain and in the end had to let him apologise. No wonder they were angry. But my friend was saying the singers are really really professional. Cos when they came on stage, there were absolutely no signs of anger or frustration. They put in their best effort to perform and had to endure the heat and lousy sound system.
Overall, it could have been more well-planned. More sound checks, and better transition between acts. They had a large crew on stage but the transition was still so slow. But it's great that I cld watch 3 of my favourites in 1 night.
Next was the F1 race itself. Went for the qualifying rounds on Saturday, cos of Travis! My first time watching Travis live. The F1 event was rather exciting as you can hear the cars zooming past and the race track was very brightly lit. It was however very loud (can't survive without the ear plugs) and the smell of burnt rubber was strong. The night landscape was quite pretty too. The merchandise was too costly. Not fan of F1, so didn't buy anything. The cars were nice, especially the red Ferrari, but other than that I don't know who's who haha...The atmosphere was good and all in all it was a good experience.
Our main purpose was actually to watch Travis live @ Padang which started at 11pm. So we wandered around and then went to Padang at 10pm to 'chope' space. There were not a lot of pple and I was so happy that we were so near to the stage! So we waited for the show to start and ironically watched the race on the big screen haha.. Then when I came back from the toilet, Fran Healy, the vocalist came out and took photos with fans! Went to the toilet at the wrong time ha..
They finally came on stage after the qualifying race ended, performing Writing to Reach You first. It was good feeling watching them perform live so up close and personal. Fran's voice is good, and the band's very tight. Fran even used a 12-string guitar. And the banjo was used too, by the lead guitarist. Szesy said the bassist, Dougie, has a cheeky grin. haha...He was quite funny, and he swayed along when playing Why Does It Always Rain On Me ( last song). The busking version of Flowers in the Window was great. Halfway through the song Fran lifted up his songs and the Dougie strummed while Andy held the chords. Quite cool haha...Btw I didn't know they also had a keyboardist ha..
Great concert, but i kept perspiring profusely, it was terrible! The band too.. cld see sweat dripping when they jumped hha...But Fran's so nice, he kept asking the security guards in front to pass the bottled water to us, the front row pple! So sweet............. Oh.. he actually fell a little.. tripped over the monitor speaker.. poorthing..
Fran even jumped down the stage and mingled with the crowd, having one guy hoisting him up on his shoulders. the poor guy haha...
I hope they come again for their own solo concert.
I like the arrangement of this song. It has some form of "new age" feeling.. Especially the violin & the flute part.
。《愛異想》首波情歌強主打《又圓了的月亮》是由名作曲人李偉菘及名作詞人姚若龍量身打造的情歌。編曲加入了帶有歐陸風情的笛聲，讓這首內容描述在失去了愛情之後，不要只是在原地逗留，還是要繼續積極地抱著希望，期待下一段愛情的情歌，看似即將崩潰的情感但卻能用勇氣堅強面對。藉由壯闊的曲風當中表達這樣的情感，不僅開拓了新的音樂視野，也讓人聽見郭采潔Vocal張力的表現。 from http://www.crimsonrain.com/2009/04/music_14.html
And this 徐佳瑩's voice's really good. very clear. her songs are worth a listen. Feel like getting her album. First time I saw her was this.
100種生活 徐佳瑩+盧廣仲
Her rendition of this song is great too. Very special.
Havent blogged for quite some time. Been doing the later shift the past 2 weeks, quite tired. Nowadays, ever since started real work, haven't been listening to much music. Lost interest? I hope not!Oh no loss of interest is 1 symptom of depression! haha...
Came across this song on radio 1 day, and was wondering who's this singer? Quite comfortable and soothing, her voice. So finally found out it's this new group - 棉花糖. The song I heard was this.
棉花糖-陪你到世界的終結MV
According to yesasia.com, this guy-guitarist and girl-vocalist group were street musicians and have just released their new album - 小飛行. Am now listening to some of their songs on youtube - their songs are just like their group name - how apt - really as soft and sweet as cotton candy haha...finally can hear some fresh songs.. don;t know y recently the radio waves don't "excite" me.. save for sodagreen's new song which sounds traditional irish haha...
