she makes a man wanna speak Spanish

yes, "she makes a man wana speak Spanish"
how aptly put.
notice the first chorus, where she teared in 1 frame. beautiful.
youtube dun do this black/white vid justice. you gotta see it on a larger screen.
i see an acting career coming soon.


this is one of my fav pop songs. they lyrics are just fantastically whimsical, and funny too. the mtv is v. interesting. mud, horses, water!


and, really, her hips dun lie.





and is it to late to rave about The Fray now? Look After You is so in my head now.

is this what i want to say

CSS Seniors' Prom 2007

Dear all,

pls take time off to visit this site to show some support:

http://cssprom07.blogspot.com

For the second and final time, i will be chairing the org comm for this event. jointly organised by the Alumni and the PTN (Parent Teacher Network, our theme this yr is Reposicion 2007 - Retro Breakout!. the event will be held at Rasa Sentosa Resort on 23 December 2007, 1800hrs.

i dunno how many ppl actually read this site, but for those of u who do, pls visit the publicity site we've set up. As a non-profit (and i mean, NON-profit) organisation, we're currently DESPERATELY lookin for sponsors. we need sponsors for our Lucky draw, games prizes, decor budget, and for our pageant programme. adopting a uni-style pageant, we will be picking our contestants prior to the event, and they will be goin thru a series of training like catwalk, makeup, dance, social etiquette, etc etc.

THEREFORE i wld like to take this chance to appeal to all readers to help me out. if u have a fren, or a fren's fren, who may be able to help in ANYWAY, pls kindly drop me a msg.

final yr. we all want to do our best. and i hope this yr's event rock the hell out of CSS.

show ya love peeps! thanksssss, in advance.

reading you, and i fall into a bag of blues.
reading you, i feel alive a little more.

reading you, i try not to feel.
reading you, it forces me to be cruel.

reading you, i want to be like you.
yet reading you
is all that i can do.






Astrud Gilberto - I haven't got anything better to do (1968)

PROJECT RUNWAY SEASON 1 RERUNS ON CHANNEL 5, MONDAY 1AM!

AWESOME!

Jay's bitchiness, Austin and Kara's beautiful creations, Wendy the evil one hated by all. Tim-make-it-work-Gunn. Heidi-auf-wiedersehen-Klum.

A.W.E.S.O.M.E.

cant wait for season 4. or season 2 rerun.

darling i'm killed

while the rest of the world is raving and addicted to Facebook, i find myself hooked on another cyber-activity: MSN Music in concerts.

yessss. MSN has this incredible range of concerts from indie acts to the international superstars. while waiting for Feist to debut tml, i've caught Maroon 5, Robin Thicke, Paulo Nutini, and John Mayer! John Mayer! its like an orgasm watchin him have his orgasm-face while playin the guitar. waiting in line is Black Rebel Motorcycle club, the bravery, etc etc. thou some gigs r not full-length 2 hr shows, some, like Maroon 5's, has a terrific songlist. i think i need some Sundays to just chill and pig-out on sundaes and McFlurrys with MSN Music.

speaking of Music, i'm currently listening to Mark Ronson's VERSIONS. this dude is the prodigy who produced Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse's latest albums, two of the best selling and most critically acclaimed albums to come out of Britain in the past yr.this latest from MR is an inversion of other singer's songs. tunes like Britney's TOXIC and Coldplay's GOD PUT A SMILE ON YOUR FACE are given new twists, with saxophone, lotsa beats, and trumpets. definitely a feel-good album tt wld get u goin.

and FEIST's THE REMINDER is also one of the best i've ehard this yr so far. her phrasing is just so teasing to the ear. its a folksy, rather jazzy album to unwind to. go watch MSN tml to know what i mean.

and i got LEO Ku'S MOMENTS already! so exciting.

k. indulgence. ps: rediscovering Matchbox Twenty with their latest album of new songs + greatest hits. LOVE.

就让我走

i am caught in the middle, between Auntie Jenny and my com members and Mrs Terrence.
she is caught between us and her incapable chairperson and passive members.

i am caught between work, and the desire to have personal time.
i am caught, between my thoughts, and the words that come out.



cant wait to catch Cate Blanchett in I'm Not There.

"不要再说　或許这是最好結果"

Kumar The Queen

"Singapore: first world country on the outside, third world country on the inside. and the government up our backside."

from his first trademark "AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH" as he descends down tt Elizabethan hanger with tt Queen E corset, i had an idea it was goona be great. caught Kumar the Queen with Quin + Eunice. it's drop dead hilarious itellyou. we got cheap cheap $27 bucks student price. it was eighth-tenth funny, one-tenth being curtain call and one-tenth being costume changes. and itellyou, she changes damn fast! i mean, HE. China. Thailand. India. UK. London. Africa. Brazil. Singapore. damn good figure tt beats everyone else's. dancing in stilettos. gyrating. cannibalism. ganges river. racist jokes. indian movies. tons of MM Lee jokes. no real plot. could have been tighter at points. funny accents. topless guys and sexy girls. lip-sync. lots of dance. lots of smoke. lots of laugh.

lots of laugh.

State of Mind

Words & Music : Chet Lam

I remember you just like your coffee hot
Take no pictures of the things that you ain't got
So softly, so gently
You left me with my beating heart

Unknot my throat I ease my soul with a cold cold beer
Take some time recalling you with some warm warm tears
For someone or something
Never meant to be

Just spread your wings and fly away
and just leave it all behind
When you think of me
Remember I'm your state of mind

take a deep breathe and quit again
and I'll leave it all behind
If I think of you
You're just another state of mind

Doesn't matter where I go or whom I'm with
Makes no difference when you'll be or who you'll see
Close your eyes, make your peace
Down your heart, where I'd be

Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-changin'

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

a piece of summer. peace of you.

8.30pm. bin+fren and Bee+junwei. Max Pavilion. small crowd. huge white cloth with flashing video montage. huge white cloth falls. Cheer in long white dress and guitar. thankfully a different lineup and setup from Taipei 花的姿态 dvd. shaven basist's hair grown out. Q-mo still ard. one of the ensemble looks like guang-liang, da-bing, and liang wen fu all together at the same time. one fan looks like chen-lei. realised lead guitarist is Cheer's bf. 躺在你的衣柜 was done twice, once unplugged, once rocked out. my fav 小步舞曲 was disappointedly not unplugged. 告诉我 got everybody singing along out the loudest. lotsa sing alongs. drawings on the guitar. few costume changes. plenty of guitar swopping.让我想一想. 还是会寂寞. 华丽的冒险. 1234567. after 17. 旅行的意义 got the hardcores wearing helmets. hated Sentimental Kill and its faux masquerade mask and glove accessory as glove is too cliche-rock. good singers close their eyes when singing. Faye. Jacky. tousled hair. nifty guitar picks. sentimental bkgrds. disco ball. havoc after she got down to the crowd during 女明星. no one sat after. everyone was standing on their seats. my first experience. glad it was a totally different lineup. one raised a Taiwan flag. two raised ENCORE billboards in chinese. rebirth is a piece of summer. 11.30pm. 30+ songs. 5 hardcore encore. 5 ENCORES. a piece of summer, a piece of you.


white banner/cloth



nobody sat down since the second half


helmet









final encore to white florescent lights




the faithful finally departs



陈绮贞 - A Piece Of Summer Live in Singapore. one of the most amazing concerts i've been to. 5 encores. now, I'm a fan.

陈绮贞 - 小步舞曲

天空突然下起倾盆大雨
恋人在屋檐下相偎相依
移动我的脚步轻松躲雨
人潮拥挤握住湿热的手心
再也不愿想起不快乐的旋律
呼吸这一秒的空气
还有多少回忆藏著多少秘密
在我心里翻来覆去
什么叫做爱情
还有多少回忆藏著多少秘密
在你心里我也许只是你欣赏的风景

夜晚静静等著电话响起
时间躺在他去年寄来的信
空荡的风叫我播放著舞曲
旋转这一秒的孤寂
还有多少回忆藏著多少秘密
在你心里我也许是你轻快的游戏
还有多少回忆藏著多少秘密
在你心里我也许只是你缓慢的练习
音乐响起我一个人演出重覆的舞曲


Cheer on Saturday. Cant wait.

Waitress - In loving memory of Adrienne Shelly

caught Waitress with Quin today. gorgeous Keri Russell of lovely locks and wide eyes i've loved since Felicity heydays. i'm a fan. and it's nice to see her in a comeback role that's widely received with praises. she plays a repressed waitress stuck in a marriage and cafe, with pie-making her only relief, until Dr Pammeter came along.

what was most ironic was how the director passed shortly after this film. She plays a supporting role in the movie as well. Adrienne Shelly, while bringing humour to the dimwit and naive role she plays, also directed this movie with sensitivity. the characters were well-loved thou flawed, except for mayb the damn husband. but hey, he's succeeded by making us hate him. those 'dear baby' monologues felt like Keri Russell's character in Felicity, when earlier in the seasons she use to record her 'dear Sally' thoughts into tapes and send them over to her voice pal/best friend (Sally of cos). Sally wld usually reply when the episode's gonna end, with highly quotable one-liners that rounds up every cherry feeling inside. While Quin saw the negative msg of how a marriage, no matter how loving one party is, will inevitable lose its spark and sag, spinning off into love affairs and the need to have babies to spark it up, Joe's "start fresh" was wat hit me the most. i'm glad the film didnt not encourage having extra marital affairs (although they did have a fling going on). and i'm glad the ending was one everybody wld love. wats not to love a cute girl in a yellow dress.

for me, there was an element of surprise. i didnt know what was gonna come, whether the cuckold husband was gonna find out the affair, or whether Jenna was teethering on spending the rest of her life stuck in a broken marriage. on top of the fortune-cookie rosy lines, the smart, subtle twists and surprises (oh that kiss!) are what really made me love this film.

how ironic it is too.

fuck the world

its so much easier to hack everything.
there's so much that i wana say, yet i do not know where to begin.
i was feeling moody, until i heard 人间 on the stereos of the toilet.
i was feeling alone, until the taxi uncle humoured me with his sexual escapades.
it's one of those days where everything that could go wrong, will go wrong.
i come back home, and see my poster lying on the floor.
and now i sit in front of a screen, tryin desperately to make sense and convince myself that all is fine.
everyone has bad days. so what makes mine different from others'?



get a grip of yourself dude.

What's the use of regretting not having done enough now. i have only myself to blame.
and i do hope this is for the better, that it comes as a relief, rather than deprivation.
to all my dear friends, i love you.

Daughtry-fied

Daughtry showcase at St James today was awesome. it was an acoustic set and Chris sounds as good live. pity it wasnt a full fledge gig. pity i didnt know all the lyrics to the songs. pity they didnt rock harder(thou i like the acoustic set anyhow). the drummer's look was pretty hilarious though, highly orgasmic expression. and the company of Quin, Haz, Gerald, Zif and Linda was greaaaattt.

crapweasels

why does it feel like i am doing everything on my own?

Nepal

Dear all, pls take time out to read this.my dear friend "Nincompoop" Ruifen is doing this for a meaningful cause.

Dear friends,

For a few years now, I have been wanting to do something hopefully, halfway, earth-shattering to mark my youth. Something meaningful. (I must inform you that I've just graduated from Uni, almost in despair). The point is, I've always wanted a good cause to contribute towards, and I wanted for the cause to be sustainable and vital.

I've found it, a cause worth investing in. It is with an organization called Students Partnership Worldwide. An organization which will tackle development through youths, using youths. An organization that will give me the opportunity to go to Nepal for seven months to work with youths who lack proper access to important information and opportunities.

Part of the pre-trip excitement and anxiety (you can never tell, they come together) means that I had to set up a blog to detail the 101 thoughts I keep buzzing in my head all day about my upcoming life in Nepal. I am also fund-raising to support the organization that will send me there, so the blog will be a convenient billboard for me to advertise to potential Samaritans.

Therefore, since the blog is up, I boldly ask you to give my cause your attention, and for you to drop by for a visit. Its www.pledgingnepal.wordpress.com. Please excuse the core narcissism of it all, and read about one girl's desperation to go to Nepal, to understand another way of life. The contents of it won't be meaningful just yet, but I promise it will be, soon enough.

Most sincerely,
Ruif.

p/s. Pass it forward! Your forwarding this email, will cost you ten seconds, but will bring me much joyful moral support. Thank you!

GOOD MORNING BALTIMORE!

Quin and I experienced temporary escapism when we caught Hairspray today. it is one of the best movies i've seen this year. by a mile. throughout the show i couldnt wipe the smile off my face. The opening number proved what a budding talent Nikki Blonsky is. SHE CAN SING! it sets the mood for the rest of the movie: high energy throughout, very very catchy tunes, and splendid dance routines that makes you wana tap ya feet or, heck, stand up and jive. i hate to say this, but it's so much better than Dreamgirls!

i love how it manages to blend heart and a positive msg, without being cliche or preachy. for the 1 hr and 20 mins, it felt like the world really didnt care if u're plus-size or black. to dare to be different and really go for what u want. and to fight for it. to discover your true talent and stand up for what is right, even if it makes you different from everyone else. it all sounds like a huge American Dream in disguise. i don't deny. but what's so bad if it sends u re-evaluating and thinking.

for that short duration, Hairspray fulfilled the true cinematique experience of transcendance. simply put, temporary escapism that makes you forget the sorrows of present day and look forward to making a difference.

and in the words of another movie i caught the day before (Evan Almighty. Lauren Graham alert!!! Steve Carrell rocks!!!): ARK: "an Act of Random Kindness", can change the world.

and speaking to Vincent made me realise i really should be more generous with selflove.

and while John Travolta reminded me of Miss Piggy, Christopher Walken dancing in a musical reminded me of this MV he did a long time ago. it remains, till today, one of the best MV i've seen by far. so if there's any video u sld watch this week on this site (i'm using the same tactic. but trust me when i promise u tt), make it this one. Fatboy Slim - Weapon Of Choice.

Amy Winehouse - Love is a Losing Game

i didnt like this on first play. or so i thought. it became stuck in my head. love, is a losing game.