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."
- Music:Moving to Seattle - The Material
a quick picture before i head down to school. again. one hour train rides rock. if i can find a seat that is. then i can just read, daydream, put paramore on shuffle, or people watch from behind large opaque sunnies. in today's case, do my damn biz law tutorial which i swore i'd do last night, but ended up going on youtube.
ok, off for project meeting now. ciao.
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.
'Lead me to the Cross', made me cry on a bus on the way home from Tung Ling.
Is there any song by 3 that makes you sad?
'Don't Say You Love Me'. It transports me back to Sydney 1999.
What is your favorite song by 9?
6 Months (cos I can play the intro on the guitar, hahaha)
When did you first get into 2?
In August 2007 when 8days magazine reviewed her CD and called her 'the female Jack Johnson'. I went out and bought the CD rightaway and it was on loop for a year, accompanying me through many lonely nights in hall.
How did you get into 3?
Their song 'What can I do' was hot on the radio in like 1998 and I started stealing all their CDs from my uncle.
What is your favorite song by 4?
omg how to pick just one?! haha. If i really have to choose, it'd be 'My Heart' cos the screams are intense. 'Turn it Off' from the new album is my favourite off it.
How many times have you seen 9 live?
None. boo.
What is a good memory concerning 2?
(Hey! 'Lucky' is on radio now, how coincidental) Being very excited when I went to buy her sophomore album last month.
Is there a song by 8 that makes you sad?
Are you kidding?! Thinking of You. kills me everytime.
What is your favorite song of 10?
Call Me When You're Sober
Okay i have yet to forget my own lyrics, but then again i've only written one.
She's so adorable here. after two false starts she says, "I dont remember the words..."
Audience: dont try to follow me
Hayley: what? oh!
This is like the video where Juliet Simms' voice breaks when she sings 'Hush'. I love these blooper videos, they make my superheroes seem so fallible, so human.
I waited, patiently, impatiently.
anticipation.
I hunted for it. no luck.
'not out yet'
'sold out'
I resisted the temptation to steal it. (piracy is a crime)
and now finally...
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
all thanks to the bf. thank u thank u for going all over city hall to find it. :))
been thinking about internship next year too. not to mention FYP for year four, i hear some ppl are already forming FYP groups. man, i pray things fall into place for me. what i would really wanna do is produce a book. i dunno what kind of book, but a book. could be a cookbook for all i care. a novel, an anthology of short stories/poems/plays. a coffeetable book full of beautiful photos. so exciting. anyone interested to form a FYP group? :)
as for internship, i really want one with a magazine, so i'll prob try for Lexicon. hopefully get stuck to wine n dine or home concepts or something. they produce New Man magazine too. but Ivan says thats like FHM and he thinks it'll be embarassing if people ask him where his gf is interning and he says, "oh she's interning at New Man." i dont think its really that sleazy right? i actually think it'd be quite amusing to tell people i intern there. hahaha.
OK so this is the end of my whats-gg-on-in-life post. havent done one since i came back from LA. i think cos my life is boring.
anyways, check out Hope For Monday's Myspace if you've got the time. --> www.myspace.com/hopeformonday
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:
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He buys the groceries and throws in a free pot. He cooks up a storm, and cleans up afterwards. He's got a sexy grin and dirty blonde hair, AND he's from Australia. He's take-home chef, Curtis Stone. Only he could wave a raw fish around while wearing an apron and look hot doing it.
I remember the first time I came across Colbie Caillat. it was a tiny little write up in 8 days in their music review section. i remember the reviewer only wrote one line: "A female Jack Johnson". That was way back in August of 2007 i think, when i first started school in NTU. I bought that album based on that one line review. I was with Ivan and we were in Sembawang records and sampling the album. i remember thinking she sounded quite manly, but i fell in love with Bubbly on the first spin and bought the album.
That album tided me through many a lonely night in NTU hall.
AND NOW. finally, after two years of waiting and downloading miscellaneous tracks off playlist.com, Colbie's sophomore album is coming out!!! 25 August. woo hoo.
I want:
The new album
her pretty pretty gibson (i think)guitar
her voice like honey over rocks
her flaxen hair and sunshine skin
her cool rasta back up singer/guitarist
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.
and all of a sudden, with a heavy thud (the plane and my heart) and the roar of engine brakes, i realized that i was home.
Binged on all the food that i missed, tom yum from outside church, black hokkien mee, pepper crab, maggi mee, chicken rice. i'll be happy if i never see another burger in my life. okay lah, not really, the burger at Covel was really the bomb. with the dijon mustard. Rai tells me that she and jai stole a lot of earl grey tea bags before they left. haha.
i am glad to be back. it was really fun catching up with the familty and the friends, and squishing zoey. but i do miss some things from my life there, like the roomies and the WEATHER and the independence.
seems i skipped the whole jet lag thing, what with me having no good sleep in three days. the night before i was due to leave, the fire alarm went off in Sproul Hall at 4am and everyone evacuated in their jammies. i was still awake then so i was lucid enough to grab a hoodie. it was funny to watch hundreds of ppl huddled in the cold and fire engines flashing when there was actually no fire.
what a way to spend my last night in LA.
my mom kept 7 weeks worth of 8Days magazines for me, so i am happy girl. bye.
i just spent my entire morning in a bad place in my mind. so i decided to get out and go get some sunshine. unplugged the laptop, stuffed it into my grey zippy bag, which i love, thanks ivan, and went to bruin cafe to get some lunch.
turkey sandwich in one hand and a large cup of raspberry ice tea in the other i marched on down to the grear slopey lawn. which is my favourite part of school in case yo havent realized. so im sitting here now, on my pink and poodle fleece blanket that i got from the 3.99 store in westwood, typing this entry on my computer.
watched two episodes of greek with lunch and a big fat squirrel for company. he seems to have gotten braver. at one point he even marched all the way up to my laptop and put his little paw there and stared at my chips with big puppy dog eyes. so he got a piece of turkey. and then i found that a large ice tea puts a strain on the bladder so i packed up my stuff and went to ackerman union/UCLA store. its really cool to finish watching an episode of Greek and then look up and realize im actually in it. (Greek was filmed here) at the store i picked up some souvenirs for my parents. (window decals that say "UCLA MOM" and "UCLA DAD". haha) and browsed for a long time at the book section. finally settled on a nice fat novel by jackie collins. it was either that or 'the first man-made man', about a woman who decided she wanted to become a man.
so im back here again, sitting in a different patch of grass and savouring my last few days of 'independence'. really can get used to this, as much as i miss various things of home. like zoey and black black hokkien mee. as scared as i was to come here to america, im feeling a little scared to go home. not so much home, but to return to normalcy. i dunno how quan does it. ive only been here not even 2 months and i already feel this way, and she was in an european dream for like 6 months. im afraid that i'll never have another time like this again. not having to answer to anybody, no responsibilities, no 'things to do' on my mind. just soft grass, blue skies, patches of sunlight through the trees and Monty the squirrel. i wish my eyes had a camera function, i would take a snapshot of what im seeing right now and preserve it forever in my head.
one part of me wishes i could stay just a little longer, but another part of me (the clear responsible part) wants to go back to life cos there are a lot of things i have to catch up on and do. and im only lingering on these thoughts here on my blog because i know that once i get back, im not gonna be the kinda person who's always harping on 'the good ole days in ___ (country name here)'. i think i'll just wrap these memories up and keep them in a nice safe place.
i wonder if i've changed or grown in any way at all?
i am nothing but eternally grateful to God and my family who gave me this gift. it was an experience i wouldnt trade for anything in the world. (man, im starting to think of this in past tense though im still here). i think im ready to go home. :)
Or how sweet dreams can often decompose into nightmares right at the end and you jolt awake at the scariest part, scream lodged in your throat?
Or how you wake up at the end of a great dream (one with Leonardo DiCaprio in it) and try to hold on to its edges but it slips like a fog through the cracks of your mind; and later on you don't even recall any of it, except a warm fuzzy feeling?
what if i dont want to wake up?
my title says it all.
but no katy perry sorry, thats august 4th, sadded. :(
The Sound, an awesome band from sweden opened the show (for paramore, who opened for No Doubt). just like the airphonics opened for west grand who opened for hope for monday. haha. this reminds me to tell all of you: never ever make rude comments about opening acts. like 'what?! another song? c'mon bring out the headliners already!" its just rude. being on stage with a sucky audience really sucks. (hmm, my vocab seems to be limited at 230am.) especially to the audience who actually like the opening acts more than the headlining act. at least they dont need special effects like video screens, abs of steel and 3 costume changes to wow the crowd.
YAY i love paramore!!!
and finally no doubt came on with a gorgeous white stage. and gwen stefani is one hot mama. at one point she actually got down and did ten 'man' push ups. she has a 6 pack. and shes a mother of two. guys you ought to be ashamed. No Doubt was great. high energy the whole way and the crowd was wild.
i would have posted up some videos of paramore and no doubt, but i think youtube would have sued me. almost got into trouble the last time with the linkin park video. haha.
My last weekend in LA was spent soaking in the californian sunshine on the beach and on the movie sets of universal studios. After some hemming and hawing, rai, jason and i decided to be brave and jump into the freezing ocean at santa monica beach. about 5 seconds in i could not feel my feet anymore. the waves crashed all around us, shoving us this way and that, screaming cos it was so cold. but after a little while we seemed to get used to it. you know how in singapore when u go swimming, its the getting out of the water that is the cold shivering time? here its the opposite. when you stand up from the water you feel perceptibly warmer. that picture on the left is rai and i giving Jai a surprise wet cold hug on three.
on sunday we did the touristy thing and went to Universal Studios. it was fun, we got to go in the famous tram tour and see jaws leap out of the water and we passed by wisteria lane, Bates Motel and the airplane crash site in war of the worlds.
Watch this! yea dad, the Jaws from 30 years ago is still there scaring unsuspecting visitors like me. the scream at the end was mine.
as we were leaving universal studios, a bird landed on my head and sat there. one moment i was walking happily along and the next moment a brown fuzzy thing flew right into my head and stayed there. it was a little baby sparrow or something. and i was like AHHHH OMG WHAT IS ON MY HEAD?! i reached up and felt something soft and fluffy. and rai and jaon were so stunned they couldnt even take out their cameras to get a shot. some other people were already pointing and laughing. finally it hopped off and some nice man picked it up and put it on top of a fence, away from people's feets.
we ended off the night at the hollywood bowl to catch Of Montreal and Grace Jones in concert. sorry about the weird pose, i wanted to pont to the sign but changed my mind at the last moment cos i thought it might look rude. haha.
you can see the hollywood sign behind the stage, beyond the hills. and i had that surreal moment again. i can't believe this month has come and gone by so quickly.
rented a car and headed to Disneyland on a mid week wednesday. this is us at the store playing with the merch. becks i bought that minnie mouse ears im wearing for you. i think u said u wanted a pair. haha.
went on nearly all the rides. but we covered all the major ones like space mountain and the indiana jones ride twice. saw all the amazing fireworks at night, which put the august 9 fireworks to shame. left disneyland atclosing time, which was midnight. we wanted to make full use of our $65 entrance fee.
Rai and i with our minnie mouse ears. we went to line up to take a picture with aladdin. the line was made up of all kids. but aladdin was hot and i had a crush on the cartoon aladdin when i was a kid so we lined up anyway. jai was really funny. while lining up we were thinking up what we were gonna say to him when we got there. "i'm gonna tell him that im Jasmine," said Rai. but jai was like, "I'm the genie, you can rub me." hahahhahahaha. still waters run deep. but she didnt lah. it was all very tame, like "where is abu?" he had the most beautiful amber eyes. im sure they were contacts.
Number One
Juliet Simms from Automatic Loveletter. I feel deep regret down to my bones that i didnt go to the Hollywood Knitting Factory to see you three weeks ago.
Number Two
Hayley Williams from Paramore. I'm sorry you dropped to number two, but i am looking forward to seeing you perform live next monday. 
Number Three
Colbie Caillat. who can resist a woman with a guitar? (ok i sound lesbo here but im not) you put the sunshine in my day!
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