Love Is...

If it comes to ballad, Tim Hwang wins hands down. I love his smooth vocals. Woohoo!

picture from wiselife.cn

picture from musictea.com


picture from asianlove.iespana.es

Sigh...so smooth. His vocals I mean.

song from his latest album: love is...

Anywayz. I'm rewriting my mystery novel. A little less realistic and a bit more American. I mean...I'm rewriting it again, cause the last time I tried to write again...I got writer's block, cause I wasn't sure what's the ending. Haha..


좋아해!! (I like!)

Men.

Picture from gettyimages.com

Sangat Ber-china

I know, sometimes people might not even know that I can speak Chinese or read, much less write them. So when I posted some of my written works up, some probably like, "Eh, you know Chinese?"...

Err..yeah. I'm a Chinese after all, Malaysian or not. I believe that every race should learn their mother tongue, though not necessarily to writing and reading, but at least know how to speak. Cause though I don't always support Chinese language (remember those Chinese school days? Oh my gosh, you could get nightmares...)

Yeah, it's that bad.

But I must say something I love about my Chinese culture:

The art. Whether it be music or martial arts or art art art...I love them all. Okay, maybe not so much of martial arts...but hey, it's the one point that made Americans wish that they could be Chinese.

Don't call me a Chinese patriot or whatever cause I'm not. I do love Malaysia very much, except the ridiculous things they do sometimes. That doesn't mean I'm not a Malaysian patriot. There's definitely always something to gripe about regardless which country you're in.

But yes, I love the Chinese art. I love restringed violins and cellos (replacing the normal strings with silk strings that Chinese musical instruments uses). I love the old fashion. I love the flying they sometimes do. I love their bamboo forests...I love their movies (not those old Shaw productions. That tickles me annoyingly.)...I love their stringed instruments....

The only art that I don't really like about Chinese art is calligraphy. Maybe it's because I never was good at it.

Bah.


Somebody please give the Hero soundtrack to me.


Photo from ent.sina.com.cn

I love grand epic film scores. So sue me.

Match Girl

Up another one. Very interesting way of saying about the Little Match Girl story.

Give you a little snippet.

(As opposed to my previous songwriting entries, I place the simplified Chinese version. Not everyone know how to read traditional Chinese. :) )

卖火柴女啊

你烧的亮光只是那一瞬间

你却拥抱那珍贵一刻

来现实你的希望

卖火柴女啊

短暂的光芒不让你再流泪

失去了才了解拥有时的宝贵

RT:
O Little Match Girl
The light you lighted was only for a moment
But you treasured that moment
To reach your dreams and wishes
O Little Match Girl
The momentary light caused you not to shed tears anymore
Only when we lost something we understand the importance of it

To quote "Big Yellow Taxi": But you don't know what you've got till it's gone

So you might know where I got my inspiration from lah. :)

Heartfelt

Been thinking of fantastic ideas lately. My lecturer had told us to expand our minds to the farthest limit.

After reading a screenwriting textbook by Ray Frensham, I am inspired to restart my writer's journey.

Some of you might say I don't write well. For those who has complimented about my songwriting skills, thanks! Don't get that everyday.

Anywayz. Of course ideas can just be an idea without "legs". Therefore, sometimes I am in all earnest to write a story, but then the story stuck and stales. It is quite hard to deal with all these. No?

I find solace in writing songs, I find better talent in writing them. Maybe because I am fond of writing poetry. With my Mandarin below average, I am flipping through dictionaries to find out which word fits best. :)

Whatever it is, everything written should come with research. Without research, ideas are very hard to grow its "legs".

Of course I don't say my writing skills are great. In fact, I believe in this post you can already find grammatical errors. But can I say, "Heck, this is an unprofessional blog. It'd be worse in Mandarin."?

I try my best. Though with time constraints now with the study load getting heavier (yeah, I get to watch the telly for homework and watch movies for assignments. No kidding.) and the piling up of my tutorials that never seemed to end...with an impending Final Year Project that apparently is going to start in my Level 2 Semester 3...I hope I don't stop writing, but I definitely will be writing less personal interest and more academical requirements.

Oh well. What's a student to do? So be thankful for the holidays you can get, you primary and secondary schoolers!

Hahaha.I sounded as if I am already working.

So what shall I do when I grow up???

This song was written during my holidays. It's one of my earlier songs and one of my proudest achievements cause I could have the tune to it...well, almost. It's not a love song. It still requires some editing from time to time, but it's a song inspired by the world.

活在這個世界上
翻開每天的報紙
都可以讀到氣餒
人的哀戚與恩怨

代代傳下來的仇
我們該何時擁有
彩麗平安的世界
愛已經不是重點

有寬恕嗎?
有博愛嗎?
有希望嗎?

我們緊緊地把我們雙手一起變拳頭
心里硬著不接受彼此的見解與差別
錯過的人應該要恨恨地以牙還牙
仁慈憐憫只是當作笑話

我們的拳頭根本不能容納任何甚麼
憤怒仇恨只能會把我們慢慢地銷毀
只能張開我們的雙掌我們才能找回
曾失過的自由曾失過的美

我們的拳頭根本不能容納任何甚麼
憤怒仇恨只能會把我們慢慢地銷毀
只能張開我們的雙掌我們才能體會
仁愛仁慈憐憫才是最完美

空著手你我才能感覺到
真愛的自由的美

Rough translation:
Living in this world
Flipping through the papers
We can read about disheartened hearts
People's sorrow and hate

The hate that passed down from generation to generation
When are we going to have
A beautiful peaceful world
Love seems to lost its significance

Is there forgiveness?
Is there love (agape)?
Is there hope?

We turned our palms into tightened fists
We harden our hearts, unable to accept each other's differences and opinions
The wrong person should be given tooth for tooth
Grace and mercy seemed more like a joke

Our fists cannot contain anything
Bitterness and hate will only destroy (burn) us from within
It's only by opening our hands that we can find
The freedom and love once lost

Our fists cannot contain anything
Bitterness and hate will only destroy us from within
It's only by opening our hands that we can understand
Love, grace and mercy is the most beautiful

Only by opening our hands you and I can feel
True love's beautiful release


Yeah, there's glitches in grammar. Oh well.

Quiet

Just last night I had voiced my questions at Him.

I had been honest with Him.

And I felt like a total failure at times.

And I felt so confused.

One day without Him is like one day without breathing.

There's something in me that cries out..."Please go and talk to Him!"

And so today, I talk to You.

In a song.

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art.
Thou my best Thought, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.

Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;
I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord;
Thou my great Father, I Thy true son;
Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.

Be Thou my battle Shield, Sword for the fight;
Be Thou my Dignity, Thou my Delight;
Thou my soul’s Shelter, Thou my high Tower:
Raise Thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.

Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise,
Thou mine Inheritance, now and always:
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,
High King of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art.

High King of Heaven, my victory won,
May I reach Heaven’s joys, O bright Heaven’s Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all.

Friends Forever

You know how we always have graduation songs? And people are getting sick of singing them? Haha...yes. The English famous graduation song would be Graduation Song by Vitamin C or Auld Lang Syne. For the Chinese songs, there are many!

And I just contributed to them.

无聊 (bored/menial)... the song title is Friends Forever

揮著手
說再見
離別時間漸靠近
回頭望
不掉淚
希望能再見面

再見吧朋友
再見吧同窗
但原人長久
千里共嬋娟
畢業鍾聲敲
不斷我們友情
人有悲歡離合
所以我們才說再見

Friends forever
Forever friends
See you again
My friend

It's a fairly simple song. So not much to elaborate here. :)

Update:
Forgot to add in the translations..

Waving hands
Say goodbye
The time for separation draws near
Looking back
Don't cry
Hope to meet again

Goodbye my friend
Goodbye my mates
Hope that mankind prospers long
That all sees the same moon
The graduation bell rings
But it cannot break our friendship
There is always breaking up and reunion
That's why we say "see you again"

Then this part is English...takkan I need to translate that?

A Trip

On Friday, my coursemates and I along with my lecturer went into central Kuala Lumpur to just look at architectures and learn a little of art history.

(You might be asking: Wait a minute, aren't you doing media? Why art history? But I'm learning art history because to understand how to use art, you must understand how art came to be.)

So we started at Central Market...

It's actually quite interesting to see the old buildings in KL. Usually we don't look up and ponder upon its architecture, its art nouveau curves and its art deco defined lines.

Old building for sale...!

This is one of the old buildings across Central Market. Very classic.

Apparently these old buildings can last forever because ... they are made to last forever. Rather than building for building's sake, which results in issues that had arose like THAT issue.

Not very appealing colors. No? This isn't painted during 1914.

This building is even dated back to 1914. Pretty pre-independence and yet sturdy.

The tenants of these old buildings takes up the most interesting businesses. There are banks, Indian restaurants, pharmacies...heck, even the fast food franchise chain.

You can't run away from McDs.

After running into a burst of art decos and art nouveau, we headed down to Dataran Merdeka and then later to lunch...while we passed by this very ...erm... interesting water fountain.

One actually felt that this thing would come alive at night and gobble people up.

Backtrack a little.

After leaving Central Market, we actually went over to the Rapid KL (LRT) Pasar Seni station for some sightseeing along the river.

It's really some cool art with very deep underlying meanings.

It's a pretty sight though unorthodox to find graffiti art along one stretch of the riverbank wall. And we spotted this very interesting and familiar looking figure. No, it's not the present PM.

Optimus Prime: A necessary sacrifice to bring peace to this planet. We cannot let the humans pay for our mistakes. It's been an honor serving with you all. Autobots, ROLL OUT!

So then we went off for lunch at the Bird Park. And I managed to capture a Sarawakian.

You think who I was talking bout? Kenny Sia meh?

These birds aren't afraid of people. They would actually fly to the balcony and if you happen to sit at the tables in the balcony. Well...be thankful if they didn't take your food. (No, we sat inside. It is a hot day after all.)

(Note to food fans: Hornbill Restaurant in Bird Park is quite a delight to sit in, not necessarily a delight to savor. Choose chef's pick. And if you like pork in your Chinese cuisine [lard, meat, whatever], don't try the Chinese dishes.)

And then we went to the most unimaginable place but important place: the national museum.

Before killing time to go inside and look at mannequins in traditional costumes and fake hair, we went to look at the mosaic mural outside...

You do know there is a mural right?

There are two sides of the mural. One side is a depiction of Malaysian history.

The other is a depiction of traditional Malayan art, culture and living.

Look...wayang kulit.

Very strong meaning to this.

We went inside...looked around and found this very interesting name for a hat.

Be careful! If someone should wear a hat with this name...

Before our last stop, we actually stopped by at the national mosque and the Islamic Art Centre. The IAC was closed for Raya celebrations. So, there was nothing much.

Our last stop was at Tugu Kebangsaan or the national memorial.

Very interesting.

The full names of the warriors that died for the country. Respect.

Huge in real life.

Did you know that the monument is made out of iron? Yup. And it's pretty big and very real.

And then we took a picture.

As a memory of my day as I spent my last hour before going back home was to sit in the kids department in Parkson KLCC and resting my sore legs. I felt like I was walking in jelly-o already.

Smile!

Always The Tagging

The rules laid out are:
1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on Shuffle mode.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Write any comments you have after the song name.
5. Tag everyone who’s linked to your blog (those reading this entry included too!) and get them to tell you when they’ve done theirs, so you can both laugh at each other’s “misfortunes” or “coincidences”! =D

(I'm using all the Chinese + Korean + Japanese songs in my WMP, cause I put all the Christian songs in iTunes. Yup, very organised. And I didn't add in the English songs.)

If someone says "is this okay?" you say?
Just Like Destiny - Witch Yoo-Hee OST
Well, maybe it is.

How would you describe yourself?
告诉他 (Tell Him) - 何耀珊 (Sun Ho)
Tell him who what?

What do you like in a guy/girl?
全世界人都知道 (The whole world knows) - 王俞匀
Wah, like that I have to marry a celebrity???

How do you feel today?
不死之声 (The undead's song) - JJ Lin
Well..I am undead. Maybe I should sing a song to celebrate my undead-ness? Hahaha.

What is your life's purpose?
Endless Love - Yoon Chang Gun
Well...

What is your motto?
可乐戒指 (Cola Ring) - Fish Leong
right.

What do your friends think of you?
Ave Maria - Stairway to Heaven OST
I'm not holy holy! I'm not Mary! ...

What do you think of your parents?
我们怎么了 (What happened to us) - S.H.E
no. nothing happened to us. thank you very much.

What do you think about very often?
不浪漫的家伙 (The unromantic fellow) - Gary Cao Ge
Yeah. That unromantic fellow. More like that wooden fellow.

What do you think of your best friend?
月光爱人 (moonlight lovers) - Coco Lee
Wahahahahha!!!

What do you think of the person you like?
给我你的爱 (give me your love) - Tank
So true. Don't be a wooden block.

What is your life story?
Woo Woo - The Successful Story of a Bright Girl OST
...

What do you want to be when you grow up?
Father - Tim
What am I suppose to do? Change sex?

What do you think of when you see the person you like?
Your Present - The Successful Story of A Bright Girl OST
The starting of the lyrics is: I want your love, do you love me?... Erm. Sometimes yes gua.

What will they play at your funeral?
戴上我的爱 (Put on my love) - 潘玮柏, 王珞丹
Yeah, put on my love. I love you all. yada yada...

What is your hobby/interest?
One Person Is Enough - Jang Nara
Wow...I didn't know that is a hobby.

What is your biggest fear?
Forever Love - Lee Hom
Heck no!

What is your biggest secret?
触电 (Electrocute) - S.H.E
Yeah yeah. I get electrocuted and never recovered.

What do you think of your friends?
思念是一种病 (Missing you is a disease) - 张震丘, 蔡健雅
Right. So I shall not miss them anymore.


Maybe I should do a Christian version of this...


And you'd be wondering: What?! Got Christian version one ah??!

Clap Clap

So exciting. I saw the live launch.

The government has once again use the taxpayers' money for something useful. Hey, being an astronaut raise the bar and reputation.


Boleh-land.

Let's not try to make this "neologism" an infamous one.

Guardian Angel

This is one of my new favorite songs from Tank. It's a pretty old song, but it's really a nice song. Tank can write great songs. :)

Love Party

This is written in a spur of the moment...it's a kinda kiddish song...when people are madly in love that time...so may have some changes in the future..but this is my first draft. :)

戀愛Party

Baby I I I love you
Baby do you you love me
我們歡慶戀愛時代
節目由我們來決定
Baby give give me a kiss
Baby dance dance dance with me
我們手牽手一起來歡迎
戀情精采的party

那個costume party
你扮成了羅密歐
真巧的我也扮
成了你的茱麗葉

你的手牽了我
的手到大舞廳去
真巧的那時候
彈著是我們的歌

Singing
Baby I I I love you
Baby do you you love me
我們歡慶戀愛時代
節目由我們來決定
Baby give give me a kiss
Baby dance dance dance with me
我們手牽手一起來歡迎
戀情精采的party

你讓我久等了
我當然很不開心
真巧的你的笑
融化了我的悶氣

你叫我閉上眼
你說你有個驚喜
真巧的我聽到了
你彈吉他的聲音

Singing
Baby I I I love you
Baby do you you love me
我們歡慶戀愛時代
節目由我們來決定
Baby give give me a kiss
Baby dance dance dance with me
我們手牽手一起來歡迎
戀情精采的party

我們吵架的時候
哭著的我真的害怕
怕你不會再牽我的手
怕你不會再理我
你看到了我的淚
你就拿起你的吉他
彈著我們的歌唱給我聽啦

You’re singing
Baby 我我我愛你
Baby 不要再哭泣
我會一直牽你的手
我會一直唱給你聽

Baby I I I love you
Baby we will always be
我們歡慶戀愛時代
現在由我們來決定
Baby give give me a kiss
Baby I I need your love
我們手牽手一起來歡迎
兩人戀情的確定

You will always be my baby
It’s a beautiful beginning

Rough translation:
Baby I love you
Baby do you love me
We're celebrating the season of love
We'll set the agenda
Baby give me a kiss
Baby dance with me
Holding hands, let us welcome
Love's exciting party

That costume party
You dressed up as Romeo
What a coincidence
I had dressed up as your Juliet

You took me to the dancing hall
What a coincidence
They are playing our song

Singing
Baby I love you
Baby do you love me
We're celebrating the season of love
We'll set the agenda
Baby give me a kiss
Baby dance with me
Holding hands, let us welcome
Love's exciting party

You made me wait for a long time
Of course I'm pretty angry
What a coincidence
Your smile melt my anger away

You ask me to close my eyes
You said you have a surprise
What a coincidence
I heard that guitar sound playing

Singing
Baby I love you
Baby do you love me
We're celebrating the season of love
We'll set the agenda
Baby give me a kiss
Baby dance with me
Holding hands, let us welcome
Love's exciting party

When we fought
I was very afraid as I cried
Afraid that you won't take my hand
Afraid that you will ignore me
You saw my tears
And you picked up your guitar
Playing our song for me

You're singing
Baby I love you
Baby don't cry
I will always hold your hand
I will always sing to you

Baby I love you
Baby we will always be
We will celebrate this season of love
We will decide the present path we will take
Baby give me a kiss
Baby I need your love
Let us welcome as we hold hands
Our love's evidence

You will always be my baby
It's a beautiful beginning

-end.-

I know, it's a little surreal and cutesy lame-o whatever...but I pretty like this song. If someone should sing this song...I would choose either Rainie Yang or Cyndi Wang or even the Blackie's Teenage Club (黑澀會美眉) girls because of their cute personalities. Looks good on MV. HAHA...see. I always think about the MV.

Debt

Regarding my last post...NO, it's not my crush/admirer. Yes, it's a guy. No, he's not taken. (I think). And yes, we are just friends who weren't talking for a while. Not my fault.

I owe someone something.

It's pretty serious.

It causes me to lose sleep...


Wait.

It made me more sleepy.

Yeah, I got this "medical condition" called sleep debt.

Basically I haven't been sleeping regularly and I owe myself 2 weeks of 8 hours sleep.

Yup, my body still having jet lag. From the holidays.

It's this sleep debt that makes me lazy to implement any operations of mine.

And makes me lazy to go exercise...I could just fall asleep at the treadmill!



And it makes me drive faster...cause I want to come home and sleep!


So this is a teenager young adult syndrome...too much work and no play sleep.

The doctor Internet says that I should get 2 weeks worth of 8 hours sleep per day.



Howlah...


(okay, so my drawing sucks.)

Sweet

He saw me.

I just looked at him and then look away but I smiled.

Then I chided myself for not taking the first step to say hi loudly.

I still believe in guys should take initiative.

I thought I just missed another opportunity.

We bumped into each other again.

I chided myself again for not saying hi louder.

I caught him looking my way again and again.

Maybe I'm being perasaan.

*laughs




I'm just very happy that we are on speaking terms again. I thought this friendship couldn't be saved anymore.

So, patience is a virtue! It does help fix friendships and relationships!

No, it's not a crush or an admirer of mine. It's just a good friend. Don't think so far okay?