Sigh... I wanna go! I actually like her a lot! I remember the last time she almost staged a concert here in in 2005. Me and Zoe almost went to buy her tickets to the Ultimate Kylie Tour (the cheapest one), before she canceled her show due to her breast cancer. I wanna go NOW!!! But it's like S$550, S$375, S$250, S$150, S$100 lah! Cheapest is also $100 bucks! Cheaper than Christina Aguilera but it's like more expensive than A LOT OF CONCERTS!!!


I read from a magazine (possibly Lime, when I was still reading that mag in teenage years) back in 2004/ 2005 (can't remember the year) that the concerts that one must REALLY GO is Britney Spears and Kylie Minogue. That is before Britney Spears went off to shave her head, not wearing panties and non-stop partying lah... I remember the article said something like these 2 people's concerts are bound to be spectacular, taking your breath away and amazing with lights, stage design and costumes even though they may not be the best singers in the world. Will be one hell of a party.


BUT! Wah liao, check the tickets availability, the S$150 tickets are sold out and $100 bucks ones are limited. Expected lah, the rest is really ex! Why can't she come like next year? At least (hopefully) I already been working for some time and forking out the money is less painful!

Sighz. I know she's going to sing some of my favourite songs of hers =( If someone is kind enough, SPONSOR ME!!! $100 bucks I also dun mind!!!

=(


P.S. If u guys want to know, I have her Light Years album and the Fever (with the can't get you out of my head)... but in my opinion fever is her best album =) And the Can't get you out of my head song really can't get out of my head!


Picture Link and ticket page of the concert here.

I just totally *heart* HSM!! I always love their songs and the movies because it always makes u feel damn good after watching it.

And yes da jie, they sang their own songs lah. Even the supporting roles people...

Plus, Zac Efron is damn shuai lah!

Da jie kept saying he's not good looking and he's damn gin na (kiddy), but he's damn cute! With a damn fine body... haha! He is like my one big sin lah. I normally don't go for guys younger than me (some of my friends said I prefer very old guys lah. 越老的男人越好...) but I love him! Even though he's one year younger than me... Haha! I am so going to watch 17 again, which is a movie that has him and Mathrew Perry!

But I kinda feel that the songs in this movie is a little disappointing. Maybe my expectations are a lot higher this time, but I prefer the first 2 movies songs..

I am going to have another video fest here again...

I have the best day with my da jie Aiwei! Finally back to Singapore again. Was supposed to be my belated birthday celebration but come to think of it, it doesn't feel like it leh. Right da jie?? We had lunch, then went crazy shopping to look for her Baileys... She siao over that alcohol le lah! Went into yoshinoya to drink it cause she wanted me to taste it... Haha. It's okay, not bad, tasted like chocolate milk but she is like really loving it lah... Haha. She drank so much that I was worried that she's going to get drunk, but no she's actually quite good! Haha! I 小看 my da jie le.

Then I bought her to Clarins and she ended up buying a lot of their stuff!! Haha! I think I am turning into a Clarins spokesperson already. Haha! And I am seriously considering their pure melting gel cause it's so cool to see it turned from gel to oil to milk! Haha! And I am still considering their night cream cause it's not cheap ($107!!!!)

And da jie told me that she thinks Clarins stuff is good too... haha!

Anyway, I think my previous post did freak a couple of people out. I think if I have been meeting up with more people, there will be surely more people asking me about that post. Just to clarify, I am fine. I have always been fine. It's just that I have been doing more thinking lately which led to that. And as I said, Goo's songs made me think a lot. And makes me feel more emo. Haha. But I think it's a good thing. We should at least think about our lives once a while so as not to live through it blindly. And I am glad for the support that I have gotten.

Anyway, I know people don't understand why I like Iris so much. Well, here's the lyrics.

And I'd give up forever to touch you
'Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now

And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breathe is your life
'Cause sooner or later it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight

And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
And you bleed just to know you're alive

Ok, u guys have to know the story of the song in order to understand the song fully. It's part of the soundtrack of City of Angels, so the song is related to it. **Spoilers of City of Angels ahead**

Ok, the story of the movie is quite long, but in short it's about a guy who is an angel who fell in love with a human female doctor. They met each other, they talked, and the guy fell in love. The girl was slightly afraid (? I think the feeling is afraid, I can't tell) of the guy because she suspected that he wasn't "normal", because he seems distant to her. And when she found out that he wasn't human, she asked him not to see her again.

The guy was damn upset. He knows from a fellow ex-angel that to become human, one has to fall from a high ground, or taking the fall from grace. And so the guy did and ended up with cuts and bruises all over him.

**Spoilers end** I am not going to continue with the story to the end, because that's all you need. Anyway, when the first verse of the lyrics is literally saying that how the guy gave up his immortality for the girl because he doesn't need to be an angel to be "close to heaven". And when the lyrics said "and you bleed just to know you're alive" it's really talking about the guy falling and becoming bruised in order to be alive as a human.... This story should shed more light to the lyrics...

So damn sweet lah the song... this is going to be played in my wedding no matter what. And I have never heard of anyone saying this songs sucks. So yeah, this song is a great song!

Anyway, the other time I mentioned that Backstreet Boys - All I have to Give is also one of my favourities. I know, a boyband song I can also like so much. But the lyrics is seriously damn sweet lah!

I don't know what he does to make you cry
But I'll be there to make you smile
I don't have a fancy car
To get to you I'd walk a thousand miles

I don't care if he buys you nice things
Does his gifts come from the heart-I don't know...
But if you were my girl...
I'd make it so we'd never be apart

Chorus
But my love is all I have to give
Without you I don't think I can live
I wish I could give the world to you...but
Love is all I have to give

When you talk-does it seem like he's not
Even listening to a word you say?
That's okay baby, just tell me your problems
I'll try my best to kiss them all away...

Does he leave (does he leave) when you need him most?
Does his friends get all your time?
Baby please...I'm on my knees
Praying for the day you'll be mine

Chorus

To you...hey Girl, I don't want you to cry no more- inside
All the money in the world could never add up to all the love
I have inside...I love you

Bass break
And I will give it to you
All I can give, all I can give
Everything I have is for you
But love is all I have to give

Drum break & chorus (x3) and out

Chorus

I know jul like this song too.. I don't know which girl will not be touched by such a lyrics lah. In my opinion, this is one of the best songs they have released. Da jie asked me whenever she heard this kind of song, she either wish she has a bf or wants to break up with her bf. But I am more like wanting to be with the guy who is singing the song... Haha. Especially when I hear this song, I feel like I want to be with BSB.

And now I heard this Missy Higgins song called Where I stood and I love it a lot! I know Adeline likes Missy Higgins too =)

I don't know what I've done
Or if I like what I've begun
But something told me to run
And honey you know me it's all or none

There were sounds in my head
LIttle voices whispering
That I should go and this should end
Oh and I found myself listening

'Cos I dont know who I am, who I am without you
All I know is that I should
And I don't know if I could stand another hand upon you
All I know is that I should
'Cos she will love you more than I could
She who dares to stand where I stood

See I thought love was black and white
That it was wrong or it was right
But you ain't leaving without a fight
And I think I am just as torn inside

'Cos I dont know who I am, who I am without you
All I know is that I should
And I don't know if I could stand another hand upon you
All I know is that I should
'Cos she will love you more than I could
She who dares to stand where I stood

And I won't be far from where you are if ever you should call
You meant more to me than anyone I ever loved at all
But you taught me how to trust myself and so I say to you
This is what I have to do

'Cos I dont know who I am, who I am without you
All I know is that I should
And I don't know if I could stand another hand upon you
All I know is that I should
'Cos she will love you more than I could
She who dares to stand where I stood
Oh, she who dares to stand where I stood



Oh man... why am I liking emo and lovey songs these days?? What's wrong with me???

Cheerios.

The sweetest email that I have ever gotten so far in my life.

The support, the understanding, the encouragement

And the willingness to be beside me whatever happens.

Thanks girl, you know who you are.

That is, if you ever read this post lah.

I *heart* *heart* *heart* friends and joey!

K, think these videos is going to make some of u guys laugh ur head off..

Joey Speaking French



Joey and the Turkey Head



Ross's Tan


The One with the Boobies


Ross's Teeth

And I think this may be Jul's fave "Ross is fine" video... if I have found the correct one...
Cheerios!

This week is a strange week for me. It started out so badly, but turned out a little better by the time this week is drawing to a close. I hope the good stays on...

I finally told my tutee's mum that I am probably not teaching next year. I said it with guilt, because I am sure they wanted a teacher that sticks around. I did consider giving it until he finishes his primary school, but I realised that I have to be a little selfish here. It's my career on the line, and my mum stopped me by saying that I have to be selfish.

I can't bear to part with my tutee. As much as I hated to teach tuition at times and he is not exactly smart and quick, he is one of the best kids I have seen. Well mannered and sweet. He doesn't mind me singing stupid songs during class, laughs at my jokes and actually tolerated my crazy antics like trying to strangle him one too many times when he doesn't get that "the word after the 'to' has to be present tense" things...

Tuition. Many people used it as a money making tool, some as their only means to survive. I am not able to take up so many tuitions to make it my livelihood, but what I gained from it is tremendous. I learnt patience and committment. The joy u can get when ur kid has improved from 50+ marks to a 80+ marks is another experience on its own. Not to mention, my tenses and grammar stuff actually improved! I never expect that one day I would miss tuition, but now just the thought of parting from it is kinda painful.

Talking about another matter. Reading some of my friends' blogs makes me wonder a little. I know I am known as a crazy girl, but how many people knows me? I know I am crazy but I have the other side too. How many people can see past that craziness and know me??

I thought about my life a lot these days. From secondary school, jc, till now. I am glad that somehow or rather I has a similar batch of friends that lasted through primary school till now. But how life changes.

I remembered my secondary school life. It's the best time I had, but it's the most dramatic I had too. I joined the guides, which gave me the highs and the lows in school. I have more than one friendship fights that was so dramatic that I find myself without a single friend beside me when I need one. I remembered one time when all my friends left for a school concert without me and I only realised it that day. I have no idea what I did wrong then, and I still don't actually. I find myself at times, fighting silence fights with friends and mind games at the age of 14. I actually wondered at that time, whether I am just such an unpopular girl and so sucky that no ones wants to be with me. I know I did nothing wrong, so why do I deserved such a treatment?

I have a friend who I fought most of my school life with. It started way back, and we fought until I think we got tired of it. It didn't matter in the end, because right now, she is a friend of mine and will always be. It's through the fights that we matured and grow up. On the other hand, there was a friend who was always with me and jul. She is now barely talking to me. It's just that we drifted apart and now she's closer to jul and a stranger to me. It's just weird how things turned out, isn't it?

Just because I seen too much friends drama in secondary school, I decided that I am not going to be sucked into such a fight again. It's too draining, too tiring, too meaningless to do so. And I did. I stuck to my guns until this year.

I thought back on the fight that I had with a friend in about feb this year. I sometimes wondered, whether I have mis-handled the fight at all. I know too many times, I had shut my mouth and bit back my opinion so as to prevent a fight. I rather the person misunderstood me than getting into a fight. That's how it is. I recognised that it's not healthy at all, because things get built up and eventually it will turn out into one big fight in the end like this one. I am ashamed to say that up till now, I still run away from her whenever I see her in the area. I have nothing to hide, and I don't think I did anything majorly wrong, and yet I still run away from her. GREAT. Cool. Irene said before that we need a talk, but I am still not ready for that kind of heart to heart talk at all. Wounds are too deep and fresh to be opened again.

Trust me, I want to be like what it used to then, but I can't do it yet. That friend of mine who reconciled with me, the one I mentioned previously, it took us almost 3 to 4 years before we can let go of everything and start talking again without trying to pull each other hair out. I don't want to wait another 3 to 4 years to talk to this friend of mine. I don't want to lose her as a friend. So if she is reading now, I am trying. I am really trying. But it's not easy for me, so don't give up on me ok? Help me if u can...

This kind of thing makes me freaked out. I am actually tearing when I am typing this. I wonder how many friends I really have. Those 'friends' friends, not those 'hi bye' friends. How many people actually want to be at my wedding and be happy for me? That is if I get married at all lah... How many people will be truly want to listen to me when I am upset? How many people actually know me at all?

How many people actually know that Iris by Goo Goo Dolls is my favourite song of all time since 1999? I want it to be my wedding song actually..

How many people know that my favourite type of novels are those romantic ones? The more romantic, sappy and unlikely it is, the better?

How many people know that I don't have a favourite movie, but Walk the Line, Pride and Prejudice and City of Angels are close?

How many people know that I hate eating yam and sweet potatoes?

I bet none of you knows all the 4 things I have posted....

Oh well guys, I am trying to be a better person. And I believe through these life experiences, I will be. One day.

Anyway, got to post some of the 90s music again here =)




TLC - No Scrubs

Backstreet Boys - All I have to Give This song came damn close to being my favourite song =)

I am so darned bored at my retail individual case, so I ended up at youtube, before I realised that I have made it 10 years of listening to english music! I did mess around with other types of music for a while (jap which lasted like 2 weeks and current canto music) but I always stayed true to my english roots =) And yup, I marked my official switch to english music at 12 years old, thanks to Zoe' introduction to the Spice Girls. Don't judge me ok! They were great then, and I think at times they are still great now. At 12 years old, I bought my first albums (911's moving on and All Saints, not to mention 'dinosaur' CASSETTES of BSB, Aqua and Spice Girls...)

Almakz, at that time it's all pop music, which I was fully immersed in. I think only a handful people realised that, before Raymond Lam, before Grasshoppers, before Goo Goo Dolls, before Blue, it's 911. I think only me and Yuen Ling went mad over them lo. Spice Girls was my fave girl band, and 911 is my fave boyband =) And I managed to have a full collection of their albums, including their only VCD... LOL!

And I still remember that it was in 1998 that I heard the song Iris by Goos and though I couldn't really understand the meaning of the song then, I was touched. A couple of years later I proclaimed that song as my fave song and I have never changed my choice since =)

And so, I decided to watch a couple of music videos in that era and decided to post a couple here! See whether u guys can recognise any of the songs here...













And I found out that 911 actually participated in a tv competition programme in UK that showcase the old bands! Here are the videos.






Will post more in the next post I think. This 'old-video' watching is quite fun. And some songs, till now, still sounds great.

I know some people have asked me before (many times), why I never EVER listen to chinese music. Even jul who once proclaimed that listening to chinese music is uncool (it was back in lower sec days, whereby we were rebelious and trying to be cooler than others) is now listening to chinese music. She knows about Cao Ge and Xiao Zhu and others, and still now I know none. I think that ultimately I am an english/ western girl at heart. I am a by-product of Americanisation and American pop culture, a consequence of globalisation. I somehow in some ways think like the westerners more than others, understood the basic American jokes and am immersed in their world. I think it is this reason that I am unable to pull myself out of this world and submerged myself into the chinese world, when most of my adolsence (crap lah I don't know how to spell that word) was spent in the western culture.

I am not proclaiming that I am a banana, but I am saying that I am too into the world of the westerners that I am unable to get out of that world and listen to the pure Asian music.

It's funny. The introducer of english music, Zoe, is no longer into english music as much (I think). But I am still very much in that and I don't think that's going to change for a long time.

Shit, I promised myself that this is going to be a short post, and yet I am proclaiming some stuff again. Somehow, I have an urge to clarify myself lately, as if I am too abnormal in the first place.

Cheerios. Will post more old music next time!

Btw, the videos are 911 - Love Sensation, Mary Mary- Shackles, Ultra - Say You Do, Adam Rickitt - Everything My Heart Desires, Boyzone - Picture of You, BBmak - Back Here, 911 - Don't Stop Moving (Cover) and Bodyshakin'

Ok, I didn't exactly went off to buy loads of stuff, but I do have loads of stuff for today.

Just want to say a big

THANKS!

to everyone who sent me birthday wishes...

Thanks guys for remembering my birthday!! Sorry for not meeting most of u guys these days because I am so busy with stuff... will meet up soon k???? Love u guys!!

Cheerios.

I Heart Friends!

I have been watching (almost faithfully) on StarWorld with its rerun of Friends... from season 2 (I think I missed season 1..) till now season 3, and I am so in love with it! I always love Friends, but it started in 1994, which I was like 8 years old, still watching cartoons. And actully tudou has it! People with lots of free time in your hands and BADLY IN NEED OF A LAUGH should consider watching in on tudou! It's hilarious!

Anyway, I am posting a video on (I think) one of the funniest moments on Friends. Monica and Chandler (the couple) wanted to adopt a child but needed someone who knew them to write a recommendation letter. They went to get Joey, which I think is a huge mistake because Joey is not that intelligent. So Joey got a letter out, and check out the 1min video to know what happened...

Sighz... there is just too much work to be done. It's my last sem, so I know that I should not complain, but it's so stressful right now that I just wish the whole sem is over...