Today is the semi-finals for the Stardust competition... Jasmine is involved in it!! I can't wait to see her (and family) again... I hope she gets selected to the next round! This song I dedicate to the cutie pie as well as the usual Princesses... and also to that very hot babe who sat next to me in the bus on Tuesday afternoon...!! :-p
For more info on the competition, please go to http://www.quaffs.com/ ;-)
"THIS LOVE"- Maroon 5
I was so high I did not recognize
The fire burning in her eyes
The chaos that controlled my mind
Whispered goodbye and she got on a plane
Never to return again
But always in my heart
This love has taken its toll on me
She said Goodbye too many times before
And her heart is breaking in front of me
I have no choice cause I won't say goodbye anymore
Woahh... woahh... woahh woahh
I tried my best to feed her appetite
Keep her coming every night
So hard to keep her satisfied
Kept playing love like it was just a game
Pretending to feel the same
Then turn around and leave again, oh oh oh
This love has taken its toll on me
She said Goodbye too many times before
And her heart is breaking in front of me
I have no choice cause I won't say goodbye anymore
Woahh... woahh... woahh woahh
I'll fix these broken things
Repair your broken wings
And make sure everything's alright
My pressure on your hips
Sinking my fingertips
Into every inch of you
Cause I know that's what you want me to do
This love has taken its toll on me
She said Goodbye too many times before
And her heart is breaking in front of me
I have no choice cause I won't say goodbye anymore
This love has taken its toll on me
She said Goodbye too many times before
And my heart is breaking in front of me
She said Goodbye too many times before, woah oh
This love has taken its toll on me
She said Goodbye too many times before
And her heart is breaking in front of me
I have no choice cause I won't say goodbye anymore
Friday, March 28, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Watching a movie at the newly-improved Leisure Park
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Umaga and Dann Koh
Leisure Park had undergone a new look since late last year... it looks very different from the old brownish look, and is much more spacious. There was a cinema located upstairs too! And it was there that I decided to watch a movie, seeing that I still had time to spare before the Maroon 5 concert...
"Be Kind Rewind", an American comedy film directed by Michel Gondry, stars Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Melonie Diaz and Mia Farrow... it even features a cameo by the very tall (1.83 m!!!) Sigourney Weaver (best known as Ellen Ripley in the Alien Quadrilogy). The title of the film is a reference to a phrase commonly displayed on VHS rental tapes during the medium's heyday.
Mike (Mos Def) is working at a declining VHS rental store called Be Kind Rewind in Passaic, New Jersey. Mike's best friend Jerry (Black), a nuclear activist who lives in a trailer, accompanies Mike while he works at the video store. Mike is fascinated by the story that Fats Waller, the legendary jazz musician, was born in the very store (according to the store's owner, Mr. Fletcher). Fletcher (Glover) is informed by Passaic town officials that his store is scheduled to be demolished and replaced with a new building complex, unless he can raise funds to renovate his building. Mr. Fletcher decides to get ideas on how to increase business by spying on a successful chain of DVD rental stores. He puts Mike in charge of Be Kind Rewind while he is away, but warns him to keep Jerry out of the store.
Jerry attempts to sabotage a power plant that he believes is 'melting his brain'. When his plan goes awry, the magnetic field around his body caused by the nuclear reactor accidentally erases all of the videotapes in the video store!! Fearing that the mishap will cost Mike his job, the two friends team up to keep the store's only loyal customer - a little old lady (Farrow) with a tenuous grasp on reality - from realising what has happened by recreating and re-filming every movie that she decides to rent!
Jerry and Mike then enlist the help of a pouty-lipped woman named Alma (Diaz) to help them remake "Rush Hour 2". Alma helps to demagnetize Jerry by making him drink a bucket of salty water, which leads him to urinate in the streets, causing the magnetism to be expelled from his body via the urine. The trio then go on to create a system where customers come to request movies "sweded" (the process of Mike and Jerry's efforts to recreate their erased videos). Business begins to pick up as the sweded videos are in high demand and eventually the local townspeople become involved in the swedeing process. Mike and Jerry propose to Mr. Fletcher to use the increased revenue to fund the renovation of the store. However, two court bailiffs arrive at the store and plan to sue them for copyright violation. They confiscate the tapes, and crush them with a road roller. To add to their misery, Mike discovers from Mr. Fletcher that Fats Waller was not actually born in the store.
Jerry realizes that they can still make original films, and with support of the town, he goes to a depressed Mike for ideas. Mike conjures up the idea to make a movie based on the fictional life of Fats Waller. The entire town, Mr. Fletcher included, creates the movie using a re-written history of the man created by the townspeople.
Overall, I think this film is really interesting and creative... I give it 4 out of 5 stars. Those who want to relive the good old days of VHS tapes should watch this film. ;-)
Pictures of Leisure Park...
Leisure Park had undergone a new look since late last year... it looks very different from the old brownish look, and is much more spacious. There was a cinema located upstairs too! And it was there that I decided to watch a movie, seeing that I still had time to spare before the Maroon 5 concert...
"Be Kind Rewind", an American comedy film directed by Michel Gondry, stars Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Melonie Diaz and Mia Farrow... it even features a cameo by the very tall (1.83 m!!!) Sigourney Weaver (best known as Ellen Ripley in the Alien Quadrilogy). The title of the film is a reference to a phrase commonly displayed on VHS rental tapes during the medium's heyday.
Mike (Mos Def) is working at a declining VHS rental store called Be Kind Rewind in Passaic, New Jersey. Mike's best friend Jerry (Black), a nuclear activist who lives in a trailer, accompanies Mike while he works at the video store. Mike is fascinated by the story that Fats Waller, the legendary jazz musician, was born in the very store (according to the store's owner, Mr. Fletcher). Fletcher (Glover) is informed by Passaic town officials that his store is scheduled to be demolished and replaced with a new building complex, unless he can raise funds to renovate his building. Mr. Fletcher decides to get ideas on how to increase business by spying on a successful chain of DVD rental stores. He puts Mike in charge of Be Kind Rewind while he is away, but warns him to keep Jerry out of the store.
Jerry attempts to sabotage a power plant that he believes is 'melting his brain'. When his plan goes awry, the magnetic field around his body caused by the nuclear reactor accidentally erases all of the videotapes in the video store!! Fearing that the mishap will cost Mike his job, the two friends team up to keep the store's only loyal customer - a little old lady (Farrow) with a tenuous grasp on reality - from realising what has happened by recreating and re-filming every movie that she decides to rent!
Jerry and Mike then enlist the help of a pouty-lipped woman named Alma (Diaz) to help them remake "Rush Hour 2". Alma helps to demagnetize Jerry by making him drink a bucket of salty water, which leads him to urinate in the streets, causing the magnetism to be expelled from his body via the urine. The trio then go on to create a system where customers come to request movies "sweded" (the process of Mike and Jerry's efforts to recreate their erased videos). Business begins to pick up as the sweded videos are in high demand and eventually the local townspeople become involved in the swedeing process. Mike and Jerry propose to Mr. Fletcher to use the increased revenue to fund the renovation of the store. However, two court bailiffs arrive at the store and plan to sue them for copyright violation. They confiscate the tapes, and crush them with a road roller. To add to their misery, Mike discovers from Mr. Fletcher that Fats Waller was not actually born in the store.
Jerry realizes that they can still make original films, and with support of the town, he goes to a depressed Mike for ideas. Mike conjures up the idea to make a movie based on the fictional life of Fats Waller. The entire town, Mr. Fletcher included, creates the movie using a re-written history of the man created by the townspeople.
Overall, I think this film is really interesting and creative... I give it 4 out of 5 stars. Those who want to relive the good old days of VHS tapes should watch this film. ;-)
Pictures of Leisure Park...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Pictures of Maroon 5 concert
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Ikmal, Magdalene and Naomi Low
Man I tell you, the response at the Maroon 5 concert last night was simply OVERWHELMING!!! The stadium was about 95% full... and there was madness plus excitement everywhere. Let me start off from the very beginning...
This is the ticket I purchased last month...
These are the Maroon 5 CDs i have...
And this is the shirt that came free with the second album. Too tight for me though...
I had rather late lunch at McDonald's, then I took Bus 80 to Kallang area... and partly due to the fact that a very hot babe sat next to me, I missed the stop opposite the Lorong Geylang bus terminal!!! DOHHHHH... I had to walk quite a distance from that stop that I dropped off from through some construction area to the bus terminal... and when I reached the Indoor Stadium, I realized that I had indeed arrived too early!!! So at the last minute, I decided to go to Leisure Park and watch a movie titled "Be Kind Rewind"... interesting show on declining VHS tapes, I must say (check Thursday's entry for more info on the film).
So the movie ended at around 1710 hrs, and I went to have dinner at KFC... after which I made my way to the Indoor Stadium... at abt 1750 hrs, I saw a familiar-looking guy smoking at the loading bay area, then he went inside... I decided to wait a while more...
Then that guy came out again at abt 1830 hrs... IT'S MATT FLYNN THE DRUMMER!! I had no idea he was the earliest to arrive (or maybe the rest were inside already)... he approached us and signed on our booklets... I got his signature on the Maroon 5 IWBSBL booklet... :-)
I saw the "Indoor Stadium Mao" again (last time I saw her was when I went to watch the WWE Smackdown show last July)... she's still as lazy as ever, lying down on some concrete slates and staring into blank space, and not doing anything. Typical feline...
At 1910 hrs, I decided that I had enough of waiting, and went into the stadium itself. Along the way, I saw Glenn Ong and Jamie Yeo there. The T-shirts at the merchandising store inside the stadium were sold at $35 each... but I so not going to buy any of them. Besides, I already have the "It Won't Be Soon Before Long" t-shirt (see picture at start of this entry), and I'm already contented with what I have. :-)
Each seat has a plastic 'hand' that can be waved about during the show, as well as some card with a number on the lower right hand corner. Whatever the case is, I doubt I'm gonna win the $2,800 from the 987 show... I mean come on, there are about 8000 people in attendance, how to win? The odds are 800000000 to 1.
This was the attendance at 1925 hrs when i entered the stadium...
This was the attendace at 2020 hrs... 10 minutes before the concert started.
The lights went out at 2030 hrs, signifying that the concert was about to start!! Loud screams everywhere...
Matt started beating on the drums, and that furious rhythm could only mean one thing... "HARDER TO BREATHE"!!! :-D
List of songs performed...
The guys gathered together and bade everyone farewell, signifying the end of the concert... at 2145 hrs??? Bleah, no encore at all... I was expecting it to end by 10 pm latest. And yeah, everyone had a hard time coming out of the stadium. I straightaway headed to the loading bay region to wait for the band members to come out...
First person to come out was ADAM!!! Immediately the fans (mostly gals) packed like sardines and i was caught in the midst of them... yet I managed to snap a crystal clear picture of Adam!! I tell you, he is really HAWT!! :-p
Up next was Mickey, but the flash and aperture of my camera failed on me again. And although James wanted to approach us, the security guards wouldnt let him do so. Yet the van containing Mickey and James (NOT the WWE Diva) had a hard time driving out into the main road... just check out the huge traffic at the parking lot region!!
Jesse and Matt took rather long to come out, so I just left the place soon after... and headed back home. I'm really glad I went for the concert... could have been a bit longer though :-)
Stay tuned videos of 3 songs I recorded during the concert!!
Man I tell you, the response at the Maroon 5 concert last night was simply OVERWHELMING!!! The stadium was about 95% full... and there was madness plus excitement everywhere. Let me start off from the very beginning...
This is the ticket I purchased last month...
These are the Maroon 5 CDs i have...
And this is the shirt that came free with the second album. Too tight for me though...
I had rather late lunch at McDonald's, then I took Bus 80 to Kallang area... and partly due to the fact that a very hot babe sat next to me, I missed the stop opposite the Lorong Geylang bus terminal!!! DOHHHHH... I had to walk quite a distance from that stop that I dropped off from through some construction area to the bus terminal... and when I reached the Indoor Stadium, I realized that I had indeed arrived too early!!! So at the last minute, I decided to go to Leisure Park and watch a movie titled "Be Kind Rewind"... interesting show on declining VHS tapes, I must say (check Thursday's entry for more info on the film).
So the movie ended at around 1710 hrs, and I went to have dinner at KFC... after which I made my way to the Indoor Stadium... at abt 1750 hrs, I saw a familiar-looking guy smoking at the loading bay area, then he went inside... I decided to wait a while more...
Then that guy came out again at abt 1830 hrs... IT'S MATT FLYNN THE DRUMMER!! I had no idea he was the earliest to arrive (or maybe the rest were inside already)... he approached us and signed on our booklets... I got his signature on the Maroon 5 IWBSBL booklet... :-)
I saw the "Indoor Stadium Mao" again (last time I saw her was when I went to watch the WWE Smackdown show last July)... she's still as lazy as ever, lying down on some concrete slates and staring into blank space, and not doing anything. Typical feline...
At 1910 hrs, I decided that I had enough of waiting, and went into the stadium itself. Along the way, I saw Glenn Ong and Jamie Yeo there. The T-shirts at the merchandising store inside the stadium were sold at $35 each... but I so not going to buy any of them. Besides, I already have the "It Won't Be Soon Before Long" t-shirt (see picture at start of this entry), and I'm already contented with what I have. :-)
Each seat has a plastic 'hand' that can be waved about during the show, as well as some card with a number on the lower right hand corner. Whatever the case is, I doubt I'm gonna win the $2,800 from the 987 show... I mean come on, there are about 8000 people in attendance, how to win? The odds are 800000000 to 1.
This was the attendance at 1925 hrs when i entered the stadium...
This was the attendace at 2020 hrs... 10 minutes before the concert started.
The lights went out at 2030 hrs, signifying that the concert was about to start!! Loud screams everywhere...
Matt started beating on the drums, and that furious rhythm could only mean one thing... "HARDER TO BREATHE"!!! :-D
List of songs performed...
- Harder To Breathe (1st album)
- Makes Me Wonder (2nd album)
- If I Never See Your Face Again (2nd album)
- The Sun (1st album)
- Can't Stop (2nd album)
- Nothing Lasts Forever (2nd album)
- Shiver (1st album)
- Wake Up Call (2nd album)
- Sunday Morning (1st album)
- Won't Go Home Without You (2nd album)
- This Love (1st album)
- Little Of Your Time (2nd album)
- She Will Be Loved (1st album)
People were literally screaming everytime Adam broke into a Barry Gibb-like falsetto and spoke like a middle-aged woman (no offence!). Not to be outdone by one voice, James and Jesse lent their voices for some of the songs. And I cannot stand the two guys sitting next to me... they cannot dance well to the beat of the songs!! I just did my own thing and 'strummed on the guitar furiously' like Adam, James or Mickey.
The guys gathered together and bade everyone farewell, signifying the end of the concert... at 2145 hrs??? Bleah, no encore at all... I was expecting it to end by 10 pm latest. And yeah, everyone had a hard time coming out of the stadium. I straightaway headed to the loading bay region to wait for the band members to come out...
First person to come out was ADAM!!! Immediately the fans (mostly gals) packed like sardines and i was caught in the midst of them... yet I managed to snap a crystal clear picture of Adam!! I tell you, he is really HAWT!! :-p
Up next was Mickey, but the flash and aperture of my camera failed on me again. And although James wanted to approach us, the security guards wouldnt let him do so. Yet the van containing Mickey and James (NOT the WWE Diva) had a hard time driving out into the main road... just check out the huge traffic at the parking lot region!!
Jesse and Matt took rather long to come out, so I just left the place soon after... and headed back home. I'm really glad I went for the concert... could have been a bit longer though :-)
Stay tuned videos of 3 songs I recorded during the concert!!
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