Goodbye Doctor....

After having watched the tear-jerker if not a tad deus-ex-machina-esque (but then again it is Doctor Who ) Season 4 Finale of Doctor Who....

I have to say. I really liked David, cor you're a pretty one now aren't you? with just the right kind of spunk and hyperactiveness...but anyways......I really likedDavid and I have to say....season 4 is a really good send off...I mean, way to close(burn) that bridge! *wink*wink*

Sure he's got four more specials out next year, but it's not just the same isnit?

yea yea...Matt Smith's pretty too..but somehow he doesn't look like Doctor material....but then again, I haven't seen 'im in action........in anythin....me being from bloomin' SEA....not that it's bad, just not current...

Celebrate...

Okay...something has to be said for the way Malaysians celebrate our perayaan. I was sitting in a cab on the way to Subang airport and at the toll gate, there were these bunch of people giving out free drinks at the toll gate itself. Now is it just me...or is this kind of a common sight? Or at least....frequent. I think I've like read in the papers, many a time, of people, samaritans, giving out coffee or stuff like that at toll gates to 'wake' drivers up....no? Call it capitalism perhaps coz I mean, all these celebrations to a certain extent are capitalistic in nature....but I think it's quite cool and thoughtful....somehow I doubt I'd see it much in Taiwan....but then again...I don't know...

Gong Hei Fatt Choy!

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And Connor said....

"You complete and utter cockmonkey."

Ahh.....you gotta love the freakangels...

Freakangels rock!!

The Best Job in the World.....

http://www.islandreefjob.com/en/#/home

Is it? Most probably......~_^

So.....APPLY!!!

fortylove.tv

A friend of mine's involved in a behind-the-scenes kinda way......way cool idea for the digital age.....video postcards.....I wish I could do it too.....,perhaps in future with Mission Americana (now scheduled for Spring 2011) and Mission Britannica (scheduled for Fall/Winter 2011)

So in the meantime......check out fortylove.tv

Soul//Music

Have you ever come across music that, no matter what they're singing about, no matter how sad the lyrics, how melancholic the melody, it just puts a smile on your face? That takes your breath away? That makes you just want to jump up and shout and scream and run? Perhaps it's just wistful thinking, maybe it just my imagination....but I like to think of it as passion. The artist's passion for what he's doing, his music. He's putting his heart and soul into this and he's exhilarated. I like to think that it's his joy at being able to put this down on record. This music. His music. His passion. His conviction. His joy. His meaning to exist.

Or perhaps his thought and feeling at that precise moment. The views before his eyes, or their eyes as is the case of Taiwan's iconic band Mayday （五月天） for their album, God's Children Are All Dancing 《神的孩子都在跳舞》, which they recorded in a 'remote' studio up in the foothills of Mount Fuji. I mean, how can you not be filled with joy when you're playing to floor to ceiling glass windows opening out to Mother Nature in all her glory? But then again.....Mayday's music has always been about hope and heart......

Or perhaps it's music that comes out of tragedy? Music that does in itself sing of the exhilaration of being, alive. Like Andrew McMahon of Jack's Mannequin, formerly of Something Corporate. The Glass Passenger, Jack's Mannequin's latest studio album, was writing by Andrew post -leukemia....does that have anything to do with it? Actually when it comes to Andrew...I doubt it because just their debut album, Everything in Transit, alone......blew me away....

But for what ever reason, what ever else it is. This is music that feeds the soul. Gives one hope.

These are just some of the bands that make my soul sing......what's yours?

ps: mind the vid....it's the best audio track I could find.....

Sixteen Going on Seventeen

[Rolf:]
You wait, little girl, on an empty stage
For fate to turn the light on
Your life, little girl, is an empty page
That men will want to write on

[Liesl:]
To write on

[Rolf:]
You are sixteen going on seventeen
Baby, it's time to think
Better beware, be canny and careful
Baby, you're on the brink

You are sixteen going on seventeen
Fellows will fall in line
Eager young lads and rogues and cads
Will offer you food and wine

Totally unprepared are you
To face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared are you
Of things beyond your ken

You need someone older an wiser
Telling you what to do
I am seventeen going on eighteen
I'll take care of you

[Liesl:]
I am sixteen going on seventeen
I know that I'm naive
Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet
And willingly I believe

I am sixteen going on seventeen
Innocent as a rose
Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies
What do I know of those

Totally unprepared am I
To face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared am I
Of things beyond my ken

I need someone older and wiser
Telling me what to do
You are seventeen going on eighteen
I'll depend on you

Like Father Like Daughter - 有其父必有其女

What is it with daughters of famous directors? They always come out with these visually stunning works of art. Perhaps it's the constant exposure to daddy's works. Or perhaps the need to make a statement of one's own and step out from under daddy's shadow. Whatever it is, there's only one word for it. Stunning. Who am I talking about?
Sofia Coppola and Mika Ninagawa.

Sofia Coppola
Daughter of Godfather director Francis Ford...Rose to fame after directing The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation.....

Then came the visual candy that is Marie Antoinette....


Mika Ninagawa - 蜷川實花(Ninagawa Mika)
Daughter of famed Japanese theatre director Yukio Ninagawa....Rose to fame as a uber vibrant and stunningly vivid photographer.....

Then came her directorial debut with the visual feast that is Sakuran...

Sum of Worth

Another year has past. Another year wiser? Perhaps. Another year older, definitely.

It's been an.....amazing year filled with.....so many different things.
Experiences, sensations, feelings.....
Met a lot of different people and made just as many mistakes....
I've done stuff that I'm not proud of and things that I will treasure for a lifetime.
Made decisions that have been proven wrong and judgments....that unfortunately been proven right.
It's been a time to grow, reflect, look into one's self and try to find out what you really want and what is truly important.
It's been a tough year in some aspects and an easy one in others (a part of me is worried because it's mostly seemed to be quite easy.....oooeer...... :S)

Though...all in all.....it's been a very good year......Here's to another and many more to come.....

Take it away Frankie...

When I was seventeen
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for small town girls
And soft summer nights
Wed hide from the lights
On the village green
When I was seventeen

When I was twenty-one
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for city girls
Who lived up the stair
With all that perfumed hair
And it came undone
When I was twenty-one

When I was thirty-five
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls
Of independent means
Wed ride in limousines
Their chauffeurs would drive
When I was thirty-five

But now the days grow short
Im in the autumn of the year
And now I think of my life as vintage wine
>from fine old kegs
>from the brim to the dregs
And it poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year