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.

Flumpool - Over the Rain (Strings Ver.).


flumpool 残像 live

crowd lu

can't prioritise

Sigh.. donno wat's wrong with me... can't focus at all.. doing things i'm not supposed to be doing... can't prioritise... can't help it.. sigh.. ok after this post.. will get back to wat i'm supposed to do...

Coldplay's new album, Viva la VIda, is really quite good. When I first listened, I disliked it, but after giving it a few spins, I thought the songs were quite "refreshing" for Coldplay haha... seems grander with stronger string arrangments, more "electronical", and another thing is it's a little "oriental". Still think they will sound really good live. Hope they'll come again.

Coldplay live at BBC Centre
1. Lovers in Japan
2. Viva la Vida
3. Violet Hill
4. Lost

Which do you prefer?

Which do you prefer?

陳綺貞-《地下道（煙火）》


楊乃文 證據


魏如昀[證據]@超級星光大道 音樂故事指定賽

五月天- 天团不是盖的！

Last night was totally a crazy night. Forgotten that I still have exams in abt 3 days time. Just totally lost in the world of rock and 五月天！

Although I don't know all of their songs, and can't sing without looking at the screen with lyrics, I still enjoyed myself tremendously, as the crowd was super high - when the concert just started, we were already on our feet! And the band is really tight and had lots of 默契！of course the climax was when they ran across the length of the stadium towards the centre stage - right at the centre of the stadium. This was really a treat for those who were sitting right at the back, since now the members were just standing right in front of them! And it was 玛莎's birthday last night, so the whole stadium sang a birthday song for him! and with the cheeky members, they kept saying zhu, zhu, zhu during the last line (which could mean 猪！) HAHA.. and along the run, they often stopped and sang amongst the audience - face-to-face! lucky people sitting in front!

think some memorable moments were 石头 singing a song written for his kid (his voice is good!), the bandmates without 阿信 singing 孙悟空, 阿信 singing 洋葱, 阿信 singing 最重要的小事 with the acoustic guitar, and the band-mates solo! think 怪兽 is my new favourite 吉他手 - really cool man! And of course the very high songs, like 恋爱-ing which got everyone chanting "L-O-V-E" for real long!

Love this few songs - 一千个世纪,离开地球的表面,最重要的小事,倔强，人生海海，疯狂世界，天使 etc etc etc...

although this was my first Mayday concert, it definitely's not going to be my last! hehehe.... looking forward to their new album & Mayday 2009's concert! ZTime for some (lousy-quality) photos and vids...


the CENTRE STAGE at the top!

The beautiful sea of blue - lots of blue lightsticks! (as requested by them)

the band in white!

charismatic 阿信！

beautiful, i thought。

The crowd at the back - whole stadium was standing throughout！

天团 in action!@
the 5 at the centre stage

the last goodbyes - the band and other 幕后工作人员！

the 5 concert-goers!

Wa! it's been a long time!

Woohooo! although exams n CAs still not over, still feel really really good, as i can finally bid goodbye to FYP! now that it's over, come to think of it, it's really not that bad. It's truly an experience, now I';m glad I got the chance to do FYP, cos all the stuff that I did for FYP, don't think I'll have the chance to "touch" them again in my life, unless, well I research in that area, which I think is impossible as research is not my forte, or unless I join a manufacturing company hehe... well, you never know what will happen right? who knows 10 years down te road i'll be in a herbal company, optimising the milling of herbs! hahahaha....

So, although I was one of the 5 who did not get scheduled to present on Saturday, it was actually a blessing in disguise, aS I had more time to prepare, as well as more time to recover from my potent virus! My potent virus got me really sick for about 1 week plus, everyone's so scared of me, and thinks that they got my potent virus! luckily all the sniffing and coughing's gone! happy hehe..

Nevertheless, while I was in the midst of all the blowing-of-nose and wet-coughing, I actually still attended KT Tunstall's concert in Singapore! All the wrong priorities - didn't attend lecture but attended concert ahha.. but I was sick wat... and paid for concert ticket already.. so go lor! haha... And sure I didn't regret going. She's really a great singer-cum-songwriter-cum-guitarist-cum-entertainer-cum-moodlifter. Think she cured my flu la haha... she's so funny, witty, down-to-earth, and her singing's so fantastic! The music was great, atmosphere superb, audience as cute as she was, and just really fun! Her voice's powerful, but when it comes to the acoustic numbers, her voice's so clear and high registers really resonates. Love the backup singers as well, and the drummer with the , guitarist with the cute mandolin, bassist, trumpet....and finally saw her live having fun with the audio loop! and her guitars were really beautiful too! i think she had 4? 2 electric, 2 acoustic. dam cool! ahah..wonderful night! hope KT comes back again!

So waited for pple to post videos onto youtube and didn't take any, since i was sitting quite far away. no point ma.. fotos didn't turn out well too..

Little Favours

The famous Black Horse and the Cherry Tree with the audio loop!
Full version

one of my favs, and her funny plastic surgery joke haha... Saving my Face

1 great acoustic song - can hear her clear voice. Universe and U

it's different from Sandy Lam's version! Paper Aeroplane

Another of her "theme' song. Other Side of the World

Funny Man

Aiya shall just upload some random fotos. this is like so long ago la.. months ago... when i was writing my FYP report.. sodagreen's autograph session hehe..

k this one not too long ago - just before i fell sick haha... dinner at swensens!

k that's all for updates! looking forward to mayday's concert! woohoo! haha..

Joi Chua - Singapore's-not-to-be-missed-talent

Watched Spop on Monday night, and then on Tuesday my friend and I were talking about her. She has such a great voice, so clear, bright and soothing, but it's a pity she took such a long time to be truly heard. At least she's being heard right? hehe..

庆幸有你爱我 Live

A very calm and relaxing song. Very beautiful!
Original French version: Je m'appelle Hélène - Hélène Rollès

Joi's Mandarin version:依恋

A very different side of her, I feel. It's originally a Korean song I suppose?
Yesterday

倒愛

Some other older songs.
永远的愚人

One of my favourites - 他和她

My 2nd sis's favourite - 恋之憩

And I Love You So (Live in Taiwan)

cool version of 愛如潮水

周杰伦演唱会08

哎哟！不错哦！周杰伦真的很忙，在台上也超忙的！不但要换七，八套服装，还得弹钢琴，弹吉他，弹古筝，击鼓，跳舞，扯铃，唱歌。。。。真的是太精彩了！我觉得我不是再看演唱会，而是在看周董表演，耍帅！

他不愧是亚洲小天王，每一个举手投足能得到大家的欢呼掌声。而我呢，光是看到他就已经high到不行，根本都没理会其他人！每次看演唱会都很失态，唉，不懂大姐的朋友有没有被我吓到。

不管了！豁出去了！霍霍霍霍霍霍霍霍！！！这是encore的时候大家都在喊的！哈哈。。。

我不能再写长篇大论了，因为还有很多事没做！值得一提的是他古筝真的是弹得很棒，扯铃时也是太帅了！跳“牛仔舞”（牛仔很忙）和“僵尸舞”（本草纲目）时也是太可爱，太棒了！弹钢琴就不用讲了。是有目共睹的帅。而他在和辣妹g共舞时的尴尬笑容真是太好笑了。。 哈哈。。南拳妈妈改编的不能说的秘密也很搞笑，什么“从安静到千里之外都用同一个和弦”。。。而那位女生拉的二胡也是很好听，太有feel了！

还好他有演唱几首脍炙人口的旧歌，如黑色幽默，安静，开不了口。可惜他没唱很多其他的歌曲，如我不配，青花瓷，回到过去，还有很多我喜欢的旧歌。奇怪的是我最讨厌的阳光宅男和甜甜的都让我很high!

觉得最美中不足的是他好像生病感冒了，所以影响到演唱功力。。。而且也太短了,11pm 就结束，太早了！

尽管如此，我还是觉得这场演唱会超赞的！杰伦真的是很用心，很卖力，而且服装造型都很好看，都很有视觉效果！我也觉得他的嘴巴很甜，不过没说太多话啦。。还逗我们，问我们要他几时再来开演唱会，明天还是明年，哈哈。。

Official Setlist on the 19/1 Concert - Credits to : serene_sg @ jay-chou.net

黄金甲/ Huang Jin Jia
无双/ Wu Shuang
最后的战役/ Zui Hou De Zhan Yi

不能说的秘密/ Bu Neng Shuo De Mi Mi
退后/ Tui Hou
麦芽糖/ Mai Ya Tang
牛仔很忙/ Niu Zai Hen Mang
听妈妈的话/ Ting Ma Ma De Hua

piano
黑色幽默/ Hei Se You Mo
最长的电影/ Zui Chang De Dian Ying
安静/ An Jing

**Piano with Yu Hao**

千里之外/ Qian Li Zhi Wai
菊花台/ Ju Hua Tai

** Nan Quan Ma Ma sang their songs: Tonight, What Can I Do, Mu Dan Jiang **

本草纲目/ Ben Cao Gang Mu
夜的第七章/ Ye De Di Qi Zhang
夜曲/ Ye Qu
迷迭香/ Mi Die Xiang --> Jay's Grandma came out.. =)

** Edited version of: 双节棍/ Shuang Jie Gun **

彩虹/ Cai Hong
开不了口/ Kai Bu Liao Kou
甜甜的/ Tian Tian De

Encore:
阳光宅男/ Yang Guang Zai Nan
发如雪/ Fa Ru Xue
霍元甲/ Huo Yuan Jia
双节棍/ Shuang Jie Gun



ps: if u want the audio recording, just tag or email me. heehee...more photos here, all taken by my 2nd sis! heehee..


Jay Chou concert 19/1/08

http://community.webshots.com/album/562200888AMTWwg?vhost=community

BRAVO!!

This little boy is AMAZING!! so skilful, so much feel, so relaxed and enjoying himself also.. just like a pro, put all of us to shame haha..

California Dreaming - Sungha Jung


Waltz - Sungha Jung


While my guitar gently weeps - Sungha Jung

good man...

881 LIVE PART 6 - 代替 by 林倛玉 posted by eriol125

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-oUecwS2fs

林倛玉, aka, 林毅心. He's dam good! His voice, his talent, everything.... hehe....

梦飞船 on a previously-aired music show in Sg. They sang 天天好心情，等着你回来 and 不值得 (my fav & a lot of other people's fave) . Dam good la! Why they disband... so wasted...think they came out at the wrong time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g29ELXwpPSE

updates?

Oooohooo! Jay's 2nd 主打歌！According to jc.net, it's actually a song, First Kiss from the Secret OST. 为什么我没有印象嘞？But I think it's so unlike Jay also...It sounds very familiar, but can't recall anyone or any song. Definitely not Jay-ish to me...hmmmm... but nice...the rap in the middle is Jay already. Yay... haha...

But please I hope he doesn't recycle all the tunes from the Secret OST! That would show that he's very insincere!

周杰伦 - 彩虹(Jay Chou - Rainbow/Cai Hong) w/LYRICS



And while youtubing his song, found this song also from Secret OST, and the cute singer is rumoured to be with Jay. Ahyo, so pretty and cute, Jay 会被电到吧？哈哈。。。

周杰伦词曲主阵 江语晨《晴天娃娃》

Ahya might as well 一次过 post what stuff I've found these few days. Kept seeing her name appear, didn't know who she was nor heard her songs, so I youtube-ed her name la, and now thinks she's dam cool.... She's not exactly pretty, but she has that kind of "sei", the style, attitude. And her voice's warm and strong. I like! She's KT Tunstall, a Scottish singer-songwriter.

And I think the kind of looping system she often uses in her live performance is dam cool la. Suaku me didn't know such stuff existed.

KT Tunstall - Black Horse And The Cherry Tree


KT Tunstall If Only Acoustic


Other Side of the World MV



Oh then ah, today when I was on the bus, I saw something that is usually not seen one in Singapore. There was this man who kept bending down when standing, I thought he has some muscle weakness or something, or that he fell asleep, but it wasn't. It was a conscious effort in the bending. Then a few people, a girl, and a beng-looking man, and me of course, kept looking at him. The girl, like me, was smiling to ourselves, cos don't know what he was doing. Maybe he was exercising or something. Then finally, the beng-looking man asked if he was OK, and he said it was cos of his foot or something. (I was listening to music, didn't hear their conversation.) But then later they actually had a friendly conversation. hahha...it's quite rare for me lor, this sight. Everyday, when we board the bus or MRT, everyone looks so glum and are so abosrbed in their own world. When would you see strangers striking up a conversation? haha...then they even "grabbed hands", like best buddy like that haha... so cute...and secondly, the beng-looking man isn't that beng afterall... do not judge a book by its cover.

K la, better get back to proper work...

1 week later... still reliving...

九份的咖啡店 (taken by me..sry ah very small) don;t you think it's like an angel on stage?



Sentimental Kills (bad video taking skills i know.. haha.. then so many pple walked past, i fed up, so didn't video until song finish)



didn't video the "high" songs, cos too high already la, take out camera very lechey...

can't wait!

陈绮贞 - 躺在你的衣柜 (live)

relax time!

Taking a break from my FYP research proposal...

After ranting on and on about Jay and his talent, it's only fair that I share with you the talents of others haha..

Jay Chou- Ke Ai Nu Ren (Piano Version)


Ju Hua Tai (Jay Chou) Cover for Cello and Piano


Change of genre haha/..

Irish Flute + Tin Whistle & Guitar


If you've got time, check out other videos of Tinwhistler. He and his brother are so cool!

How did they??

Was very free, so I surfed youtube and came across all these fantastically talented musicians. How did they do that?? Especially the 1st 2...

John Butler Trio - Ocean
furious guitar playing...Watch till the end . ... his fingers....

beatboxing flute player Greg Patillo with super mario brothers theme
his mouth.... his lungs....his face's all red already...

Triple Ocarina
quite cool! didn;t know a triple ocarina existed heehee..

girl playing hammered dulcimer / santur / "Western yang2 qin2"
beautiuful...
another video of her

FANTABULOUS!

These guys are awesome!

Pirates of the Caribbean Medley piano posted by Raftaman92



Pirates of the Caribbean [Main Theme] on guitar posted by hemo1985

死了！都要爱。。。

3 versions - which do you like?? heehee..

Juz B - si le dou yao ai posted by natdacat



Jonese Shi Kang Jun @ nyp posted by OoeuniceoO


Original version by Xin Yue Tuan posted by flychenfly

Lee Hom's violin solo

Awesome violin solo by Lee Hom in his GSYX Sg Concert posted by roche17


心中的日月 Lee Hom (Heroes of Earth) Singapore 2006 posted by ckath


The encore anticlimax!

不可能错过你 Lee Hom (Heroes of Earth) Singapore 2006 posted by ckath

力宏- 我的梦中情人

Huh! Finally.. the crazy weekend is over.. week of terrible tests & lousy essay writing.. now can at least relax a bit. So finally can post my thoughts on Lee Hom's fabulous concert!!

Lee Hom's so 帅, so extremely talented, & so cute on stage, n he has such a great & deep & clean voice!! His singing would have been perfect if not for some very minor glitches, like in Kiss Goodbye, he didn't start on beat! My sis n i were so shocked.. probably he was too nervous.. cos he dedicated the song to Kit Chan, whom he said he usd to have a crush on! So cute! Kit's really good la, so proud of her! Imagine - Lee Hom having a crush! I love his singing! Full of emotions & yet strong. Love his falsettos & mid-range tones..

He started off with 盖世英雄 wearing a golden shimmering 马褂 & straightaway he played on the electric guitar! & 放开你的心 - he played the electronic keyboard - the interlude part! 帅！Then continued with his 经典- 爱你等于爱自己， 公转自转 & 爱的就是你! Nice! So charming! when he sang 爱的就是你. After a break, he sang a medley of songs & danced! Hot man...I thought his dancing was good! At least better than Jay hahaha..To think Straits Times only gave him a "passable".. humph!

Think I still prefer him singing ballads - Kiss Goodbye, Forever Love, 流泪手心 etc..too bad he didn't sing 你不在..& loved his older songs also..his rap songs, ok la. at least he raps well! ha..
OOO my sis & I loved the unplugged session too! 3 guitarists sitting down, & Lee Hom on guitar too. He got everyone to sing 不要害怕 together, & it was such a great feeling! 大城小爱 was damn nice too! acoustic version - 赞！The unplugged version of Follow Me & W-H-Y was great too! Very different!

Soon after displaying his talents on the guitar, he played on the black grand piano! Wa lao! Damn charming lor.. 一首简单的歌 - so heartwarming，流泪手心 -so touching，& a Lovex3 - so jazzy!

& even the piano's not enough .. straight away he got someone carrying a drum to him, & they walked to the centre of the stage while he plays, & slowly the drums set gets assembled, so he's on the drums the next moment! How cool can he be?!

I think I love him on the violin the best. When he played a solo piece, a movie theme "Cinema Paradiso", I had tears welling up - it was a truly touching & emtional song. He put in so much emotions he closed his eyes throughout, & his facial expressions truly revealed his passion n love for music. Of course, with the violin, how can he forget Julia?? Love this upbeat song so much..

Finally, in the "Chincked-Out" section, he sang all the Lee Hom 中国风 songs. Loved the 转音 in 花田错。As he sang 在那遥远的地方, he went to a platform, to 拉二胡。So haunting & beautiful..It seems as though he's been playing it all his life, but he only picked it up recently!

Encore was of course the climax! He got everyone high & standing up with 不可能错过你 & tried to create an anti-climax by asking everyone to sing the chorus softly initially, so as to create 层次感, & he & the dancers layed on the floor for a while, before gradually asking everyone to increase their volume, & everyone just went high!

He ended by introducing the live musicians (a handful of them Singaporeans) including Goh Kheng Long, who appears in almost every concert! He's damn cool too!

His last song was唯一 ,Of course it was a 大合唱 & everyone just waved the neonlights & the cute red clappers given out, beautiful!

When it finally ended, many people were reluctant to leave & still stood around, hoping that he would appear for a 2nd encore. But sadly, it just ended there. I was so tired but yet euphoric.. had no voice after that, n my hand ached like shit haha

I'm glad for the existence of such a wonderful musician. His passion for music, his talents, his diligence & determination in always wanting to bring better music to everyone, his humility, his great voice, his fantastic music, his sincerity in bringing CHinese music to greater heights, & of course his -帅ness!

Wow how I wish I had so much to write for my term essay. Damn.. It was so #@* to get that #@* essay out, but yet my hands just typed so fast while posting this. Sigh..& if u've read up till here, thanks! Sorry for all those gushings - he's really a talented musician!

Photos taken by my da jie! Thanks! although blur n far, but still some memories..

Kim Jeong Hoon singing song from Goong ..

[2006.09.16] 你... 我是傻瓜 - 金楨勳 Onlyhoon 影友會 posted by canpig