Be socially responsible

Yesterday as I walked out of my workplace entrance, I felt a gush of emotions. Especially with staff donning disposable gowns, face masks and gloves and the temperature screening equipment all set up. For the first time I felt that it was getting quite serious. Plus it doesn't help with all the news of the swine flu bombarding us.

Seriously friends, do not be complacent...a flu pandemic is no laughing matter. My sister laughs at me for being paranoid. But it's better to be safe than sorry. Avoid travelling if possible, as well as crowded places. Practise proper hand hygiene. Be socially responsible.

On a lighter note, I watched this MV some days back and thought it was quite cool and beautifully done. Plus Faith Yang's voice was rather "magical" in this song.

楊乃文 - Miss Underwater

Cheer Chen

Cheer Chen's concert on 4 April left me with a URTI the following week.

But it was amazing, although I preferred the first one I went to in 2007 I think. preferred the more intimate setting then. This time's concert was a bigger production with many LED screens, a crane and a platform as well as a scooter, and a few encores that seemed "planned". Missed the spontaneous encores back then when she appeared with her crew even when the lights were on and all of us stood on the chairs hahaha...

But her voice is still very moving, especially in songs such as 鱼，下个星期去英国，告诉我，旅行的意义，失败者的飞翔，After 17，太聪明...she's forver so angelic just with the guitar alone. beautiful. 太有气质了！！ was very surprised that she wld sing 会不会 - 1 of my favourites as I thought it was a great song. Loved her rocker side in 太阳，吉他手，Self. this is wat i like abt her - can always hear the strength and "attitude" in her gentle, child-like voice. wA THE gUITAR Hero PK segment was amazing too. Especially with her boyfriend-cum-guitarist-cum-producer. so cool lo. I still think her bf very lucky hahaha...

I felt I didn't enjoy myself as much as I should have was cos I was sitting at the side. For Cheer's concert, I realise that one should have a centre view to see the whole stage, becos the beauty in her concerts lie in the whole stage presentation. Morover she seldom walks over to the sides - don't really utilize stage space as much as other ple like Jay or Coldplay hehe... SO next time must get a centre view!

But it was still a great concert. It was very nice of her to try to be close to the audience. Even saw the fun side of her, sailing thru the crowds, trying to take fotos with them and taking fotos of us, "spouting" words of wisdom - no wonder she's a philosophy major hehe...Being in the same venue as somone like Cheer just makes me feel a bit more "refined" hehehe... how i wish i can have 1/100 of her 气质 & 内涵 hahaha...

绮贞,你是我的太阳！

Coldplay - woohoo!

The day came, and went~ Coldplay's 3rd concert in Singapore (2nd one which I watched) was fantastically awesome! After 2 years plus, the music, the band and audience were still in tip-top condition (even though they seemed more matured than before haha) . Chris Martin was still as energetic as before, and charismatic and being able to bring out the "wildness" of the audience (just like me hhHA)... HE STILL prances around the stage, still hops and skips around, still falls to the floor spontaneously and sings lying down just like 2 yrs ago, but this time plays and dances with the Japanese paper umbrella under the raining butterfly confetti during Lovers in Japan. One of my favourite songs and favourite moments. Other than the giant yellow balls that were done before, the butterfly confetti segment really made me very happy and touched. Other touching moments of course include singing the very big hits such as Yellow, Fix Me, In My Place, and chanting to the ooooohs of Viva la Vida in unison. That's the thing i love about concerts. These musicians really have the charm, power and strength to "conjure" the crowd of 1000s of people to sing in unison to their songs. Very Amazing haha...

Other interesting parts of the concert was when the whole band moved their instruments and mics and mic stands to the back of the side to sing amongst the audience. Why didn't they come to our side?! we were directly opposite them! *sad* haha.. I bet the audience there had a remarkable night haa.. the Grammy award-winners were just infront/behind./beside them......

Yeap this time luckily got friends go with me, then can scream together hehe... will definitely go for their next concert!

离谱。。。

一个在香港和台湾那么强手的歌手，演唱会门票迅速售完，来到新加坡，却得“沦落”到送票！新加坡人太不懂得欣赏好音乐了。。。。。

plEASE! If u enjoy good music, pls do attend Cheer Chen's concert on 4 April!. it's definitely worth the money. i guarantee plus chop you would leave Indoor stadium feeling inspired and like u've been listening to an angel sing or talk to u in the past 2-3hrs！

我被她电到了！实在是太有气质了！宛如音乐仙女。。。她的一举一动是那么的温柔。。。歌声那么动听，笑容那么甜，吉他弹得又酷！很抱歉，违反了“三不”约定，拍了几张照片。只因为这种时光太珍贵了，需要留作纪念， 哈哈。。。

went to Cheer Chen's first autograph session in Singapore. Finally could see her up close and personal. Fell in love with her lo.. so pretty and oozing with so much 气质. She's so sweet too.. smiled to every fan and said thanks..

can't wait for her concert on 4 April!

coldplay's back!

Wa! After just 1 day (13 hrs $88 and $158 tics are sold out!

Coldplay's popularity and "value" has increased so much just after 2 plus years! the other time i went the tics were like half the current ticket price now....

But great that i've found frens to go with me this time round - no need to cheer alone hehehe.... still remember that was my first blog post haha.....but.. pocket's bleeding... ah... so many concerts.....


COLDPLAY - The Viva La Vida Tour
23 Mar 2009 Mon, 8:00PM
Approx 110 Mins
Singapore Indoor Stadium
Standard - S$248, S$188, S$158, S$88

陈绮贞2009新加坡演唱会_太阳

YAY! SHE'S FINALLY HERE AGAIN FOR HER SOLO CONCERT!!! =)

Cheer Chen [The Sun] Singapore Concert 2009
陈绮贞2009新加坡演唱会_太阳

DATE
4 Apr 2009 Sat, 8:00PM

VENUE
Singapore Indoor Stadium

TICKET PRICE (Exclude Booking Fee)
Standard - S$148, S$128, S$108, S$88, S$68

gET YOUR TICKETS NOW!

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Another interesting / worth-watching concert would be Jason Mraz!

5 Mar 2009 Thur, 08:00PM
VENUESingapore Indoor Stadium
TICKET PRICE (Exclude Booking Fee)Standard - S$145, S$100, S$85, S$75

But don't really listen to his songs - just a few, so don't think I'm attending... but he seems like a great performer as well!

nice Canto song

Nice song! Interesting lyrics, and MV. Plus Dean Fujioka is 帅！haha..

How would you interprete the MV?

何韻詩 - 勞斯. 萊斯 (原裝KTV)

Japanese songs...

The song, Hikari by Hoshimura Mai is nice.
Kimura Kaela is cool and pretty!
Utada Hikaru has great songs too...

utada and kaela

j-dorama..mitai desu!

Although I don't know what they're talking about, this vid made me want to watch the dorama badly. So, when I went Poh Kim on Sunday, quickly grabbed it already~ but no time to watch...oh i've watched the 1st episode. Quite exagerated, but still want to watch ahaha...

Yutaka Takenouchi's latest drama - Tomorrow (behind the scenes)


Yutaka Takenouchi's still so shuai4! he's nearing 40 already lor...


BTW the song's nice! Hikari by Mai Hoshimura.

E xin...

Jiang Yu Chen suxks lor.. listened to her album at HMV yesterday. (y did I even do that??) Felt very disgusted. "shuddered" in disgust. this kind of voice also can release album. Can't believe Jay's taste. Aiya he's just se4 i think.But she's not even pretty la! The other Secret actress is much much prettier! E xin la! Hope Jay ditches her soon lei she's so disgusting!

this podcast quite funny lo..made me want to post this entry.

http://www.wretch.cc/blog/freshmusic/10502221

this blog quite interesting haha..

copycoldplay?

Oooops... is it so coincidental? But I guess this always happens. There are only so few notes, how many different permutations/combinations can there be? Bound to be some similarities here & there. hahaha...





I thought the 2nd video was rather awesome haha...Again, it would be quite interesting if all 3 of them collaborated ahaha..

lalala

Times have changed. I'm now reading a Medscape article,and I think my favourite website now is UptoDate (although can only use it at workplace & not at home).

It's 1 more week left to end of satellite rotation and there's mixed feelings. Just like wat Yun said, a bit of the "missing" feeling. It's strange. Don't know why. I guess it's really quite interesting. See different cases, but maybe it's becos we're rotated to different levels haha...Now really thinking about it. But i still feel not competent enuff to be stationed at satellite. Blur blur one... hhaha.. hiya think about it next time la. Better get back to my case study.

Looking forward to Crowd Lu's concert in Feb! And the Mayday mini-concert.. donno if can get tics.. c how first la...Cheer's live performance! too bad i missed it! waiting for her next concert! =)

Cheer Chen live @ Lee Guitars Concert Singapore. After 17.

Jay vs Chitose Hajime

Jay's new album has some Japanese influence, especially track 4, 花海! Reminds me of Chitose Hajime, the zhuan yin haha....nice try Jay hehe...

花海-周杰伦
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=areh8NJK8Dg

Chitose Hajime - Katari Tsugo Koto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEbuI6FQC10

Chitose Hajime - Haru no Katami
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwFiMXzoscg

OVerall, I enjoyed his album. Feed-good album. Not the best, but makes me happy.

Especially 魔术先生and 稻香.

魔术先生 - from the conversation in the beginning, the yodelling, the circus-like music, the cheeky lyrics, the change in tempo, till the blending in of 不用麻烦了, seems to me like he's having lots of fun@!

稻香 makes me forget my worries, especially with pre-reg, and just do my best n not worry too much.

给我一首歌的时间 is the typical Jay-RnB song. Thought the pre-chorus singing style was quite interesting.the opera-like 拉音.. hehe.. nice surprise. The MV sucked though. Just him trying to "moon-walk" and shots of the pretty lead actress. Waste time...

说好的幸福呢is a touchnng song! great 周式芭乐...Jay-ballad... 100% KTV hit!

the 1st track sounds like a song for a RPG game...or even epic film? quite grand kind.na... too exagerrated..

the 中国风 song not to my liking... still prefer 发如雪 菊花台 东风破.

流浪诗人 reminds me of Jacky Cheung's 如果这都不算爱, but in a more Jay-ish way. There's even 闽南语 in it.. like 1 of his songs in 八度空间. Quite a cool song though... has the country-cowboy-laidback feeling...

时光机 is the kind where it's not easy to remember - not as much "commercial" hook, but it grows on you..

Hated 蛇舞. totally didn't finish listening to it.. reminds me of Jolin or other dancing-diva-wannabes...乔克叔叔 reminds me of 扯 which I didn't like too due to the female vocals. then this song also has that "fake" female vocals..also the intermittent laughters scares me haha...oh but the Spanish feel in the interlude is quite nice..

Despite that, the albunm's still on repeat mode for the past few days!
Yeah Jay rocks! ha...

Interesting

This is very interesting! hahaha...

一青窈 VS 平井堅 (Hitotoyo VS Hiraiken)

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

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