Awesome new band alert!!!

Check them out. they have a rocking cover of Apologize. www.myspace.com/thematerial

And yes, it rocks to be a singer. Colleen: "See most of the guys they have to carry their big amps and agh, drumsets and stuff... me? i just have two important pieces of equipment, my senheisser microphone, and my senheisser in-ear monitors."

List 10 musical artists you like, in no specific order (do this before reading the questions below). Really, don’t read the questions below until you pick your ten artists!!!


01. Marie Digby
02. Colbie Caillat
03. The Corrs
04. Paramore 
05. Automatic Loveletter
06. Jay Chou
07. Brooke Fraser
08. Katy Perry
09. Hey Monday
10. Evanescence

What was the first song you ever heard by 6?
I think it was in Sec 3, Qing Tian. I still remember most of lyrics despite my lousy mandarin.

What is your favorite song of 8?
Thinking of You

What kind of impact has 1 left on your life?
She (and colbie) inspired me to pick up the guitar

What is your favorite lyric of 5?
“and i remember, that day that saved us
the way you kissed me, and the salt it filled my eyes and we remember,
our californa the night we slept along the shore and washed away." - The Day that Saved Us

Because it reminds me of the night of July 4th on Venice Beach, watching fireworks and shivering our asses off.

How many times have you seen 4 live? 
ONE UNFORGETTABLE  TIME. hayley i love you.

sing in that scratchy tone (juliet has a scratchier voice tho)
dye your hair orange (i wish i could do that without looking like a carrot)
dont have a perfect complexion so us normal girls feel like we can relate
are looking at the lyrics on the floor
wear those white booties
have your eyeliner on (mental note: try out tmr)
make a funny face at the end of the video (did you think it was bad? it was awesome)

(Paramore covering "Use Somebody" by KOL)
 

I’m not normally a CD buyer, having found a quicker, cheaper and more convenient way of getting my music: Rapidshare. Besides, I’d run out of shelf space for physical CDs somewhere in 2003. And everyone I know gets their music for pretty much free nowadays. It just seems a little silly to be forking out tens of dollars for music you can get from someone else. But when it comes to artistes I really really like, and know are gonna produce awesome albums, I will spare no expense.

“How much is it?”

“Err… $16.95, after discount,” I said, thinking it was pretty cheap compared to the $20 CD I was clutching in my other hand.

“What?!! So expensive. I already downloaded 5 of the songs from that album leh,” he complained. “And why did you buy the Colbie Caillat album? Didn’t Becky already download it?”

Becky is my younger sister, and she had already downloaded the album when it was released in Europe a week ago. I had adamantly refused to listen to it and take part in robbing Colbie of money from CD sales. “Wah lau, if you like them then you should support them! The music industry is dying cos of people like you!” I yelled down the phone. “So do you want it?”

“Is there a booklet in it? Yes? Okay fine get it get it.”

“Okay I’m paying for it now, don’t change your mind,” I said, taking the phone away from my ear to hang up. And then as I make to press the ‘end call’ button, I hear a little metallic voice from the phone:

“Wah lau so waste money!”

I thought i was gonna die.

So there i am on a (relatively) happy friday night watching shanghai noon with my sister. i'd missed lifegroup cos my ulcers were giving me a headache and i still had stuff to prepare for worship on Saturday. Having just eaten dinner and downing a packet of green tea, i am suddenly hit by a wave of nausea that makes my mouth turn sour. so i dash upstairs and sit on the floor next to the toilet bowl and wait for the inevitable puke monster. i really really hate throwing up, i dont know how bulimic girls do it,

Then i spend the next three hours puking my guts out and fainting on the floor with my mom and sis taking turns to ask me to drink water and sit up. but i cant cos my whole body feels alien and i cant feel my hands anymore. my head's spinning and all i wanna do is curl up in a ball on the bathroom floor and go to a happier place in my mind. i think i actually slipped into unconsciousness a few times cos i dreamt i was back in LA. I throw up until all that was left to throw up was bile and stomach acid. which is yellow and bitter if u must know.

And then i spend the rest of the night stumbling in and out of the bathroom cos i was having a crazy kind of diarrhoea where your intestines turn to slush and all thats coming out is water, and later, blood.

I havent eaten anything except a few mouthfuls of porridge and some soup since Friday night. my stomach seems to have glued itself together such that anything i swallow is stuck in my throat. Compounded with a fever and a chest congestion, my parents are convinced im swine-flued. nah i dont think so. i already feel heaps better since friday cos ive been sleeping all day for the past two days. i now feel like i have bed sores.

on a happier note, my grades from UCLA have come in and i got As for both classes. too bad, the GPA is non-transferable. So take that, all you people who say i went there to tour not to study!
 

What’s Red Hot, White… and Blue?

Channing Tatum as an All-American G.I Joe, that’s what.

So Germaine calls me up on Monday saying she’s organizing a movie outing and it’s all boys except for her. “Go leh, I don’t wanna be the only girl,” she begs. And there I am thinking that she’s the kind of girl who normally enjoys chick flicks and the occasional comedy, why would she be keen on G.I Joe??

Well, now I know. Girls, as much as G.I Joe is a testosterone-filled, macho show, there’s something in it for you as well. His name is Channing ‘I can dance and fight’ Tatum. Or if you’re into funny, but still smoking, ‘chocolate men’ (cue tinkly piano intro from Vanessa Carlton’s ‘A Thousand Miles’), there’s Marlon Wayans of White Chicks fame.

I didn’t expect to like the show, especially after the other testosterone-filled summer blockbuster that was Transformers 2. There was just waaay too much metal smashing into one another in that one.

Sure, the plot has more holes and is more cheesy than swiss cheese, but what did you expect, A Beautiful Mind? It’s a movie based on plastic figurines, for crying out loud. The action sequences are fantasmic, as they should be. Awesome futuristic technology, machines and weapons make things blow up everywhere, and because all things Asian are so cool now, insert invincible Ninja warriors complete with flying shurikens with the accuracy of snipers.

And oh, all the beautiful people in the show! Even Dennis Quaid at 55 still looks pretty darn good as General Hawk, leader of the Joes. There’s the blonde Sienna Miller who plays Duke’s (Channing Tatum) love interest/ex-fiancée now turned brunette bad guy. And then there’s the redhead bombshell aptly named Scarlett (Rachel Nichols) whose sole responsibility is to look really hot in a brown leather jacket and make me wish I had flaming red hair.

Some people complain that all the back stories and flashbacks slow down the pace of the movie, but I actually enjoyed them very much. It set G.I Joe apart from the likes of the Transformers franchise and made me feel a little more emotionally involved in the action sequences.

The ending of the movie just begs for a sequel and yea, I’m looking forward to it. Director Steven Sommers, I forgive you for making my beloved Hugh Jackman act in that lame-o show Van Helsing.