108 posts tagged “music”

I finally got to watch Cape No. 7, the movie that swept Taiwan last year.
I didn't blog it not because I was lazy but in deference to recent circumstances.
The movie did not disappoint though there was absolutely no chemistry between the leads.
Quite ironic since the two are supposedly dating in real life.
I like the soundtrack and DON'T WANNA, sang by Van Fan, the lead actor, is my fave.
I specially like the opening when he rams his guitar on the pavement and shouts: "FUCK YOU TAIPEI!"

Sing along!

So many times I've tried
Put in my heart and soul
Never good enough for you
I'm sick of all your lies
It's time to realize
I'm better off without you

Don't wanna be a fool and a slave
To satisfy your needs
Not gonna waste my time and my life
To settle in your dreams

You said it's over
It's never over
It's time for something new
I tried so hard
To get this over
To follow something new

So many times I've tired
Put in my heart and soul
Never good enough for you
I'm sick of all your lies
It's time to realize

I'm better off without you

Don't wanna be a fool and a slave
To satisfy on your needs
Not gonna waste my time and my life
To settle in your dreams

Your said it's over
It's never over
It's time for something new
I tried so hard
To get this over
To follow something new

Your said it's over
It's never over
It's time for something new
I tried so hard
To get this over
To follow something new

Today is a holiday in the Kingdom because it's the Queen's birthday.

It's past two in the morning and I can't sleep. Suddenly, Keane plays in my iPod crooning "Everybody's Changing", my song from five years ago. And I couldn't help missing this place.

Sometimes you just want to go back and stay in one time in your life. I miss the honey-colored buildings. The silence of winter and the noise of spring. I miss punting on the river and walking or biking along endless fields. I miss my green room. The even songs and the old library. The old market and its sickeningly sweet caramel pudding. I miss Borders and WH Smith. Heck, I even miss doing my groceries at Sainsbury's and yes, the sometimes boring lectures. I miss the fact that London was just an hour away. I wish I could go back to those days.

It's been some time but when I saw this opening scene, I felt so proud of these five bakas.

And when I heard the first strains of Love So Sweet, I suddenly realised how much I missed them.
I was just telling a friend about Arashi hoping to bait her in and it dawned on me, I can practically write a thesis about them as I'm sure others can. And as I watched them perform, I saw that Arashi together is not just a celebration of how five very different guys come together and have so much chemistry that one would think could only be present in onscreen loveteams, nor is it of how very well they complement one another, but it is more a celebration of growing up from boys to men together, a celebration of that friendship that has become even more palpable as the years came and went and now, they're on their 10th year.
And with Kaytee gushing about AAA 2008 in Tokyo, can I not buy the DVD?

(Edit: Had to reupload from youtube in the meantime... the video I uploaded earlier was not complete don't know what's wrong with my office PC.)

thanks JV for making me cry first thing in the morning, hmp.

 

Eraserheads' El Bimbo fits the ad perfectly.

My first love... I'm glad nothing came out of it but the heartache.

For the first day of the year, one of my all-time favourites happy MV by Sun Yan Zi (Stephanie Sun):

If what happened today is any indication of how 2009 will be... then I'm on the right side of the road. Held on tight to my brand-new wallet as I window-shopped in Siam Paragon and Discovery. I just went back to the Lacoste sale (me being Filipino... what is it with Filipinos and Lacoste anyway?) to get the white lady's polo after thinking about it for three days.

帶我走 到遙遠的以後
Take me away, to the far future
帶走我 一個人自轉的寂寞
Take away my recurring loneliness
帶我走 就算我的愛 你的自由 都將成為泡沫
Take me away even if my love, your freedom will becomes bubbles
我不怕 帶我走
I'm not afraid, take me away.

It looked like a scene from one of those Asian dramas...or maybe I have just been watching too much of them that I sometimes see things as if I was looking at a TV screen.

The taxi had dropped me off across the street and this being Beijing, the road was so wide I had to figure out where to cross and not be ran over by a random car. When finally I made it to the other side, I stopped before the young guard in the green uniform standing alert at the gate. The business card flew from my hands and I ran to chase it from the wind. The young guard looked momentarily distracted before straightening up to attention. Just as I looked up, I saw him already at the front of the building grinning. Shit. I have never felt so clumsy and ditzy in my entire life. He looked preppy that day, his skin darker from the last time I saw him months ago. And that time in March, I wasn't also prepared yet to see him and was my clumsy self. Why does he always have to catch me in my unguarded moments?

If only things were easy and we could just go far away.