It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Christmas is one of my favorite festive season even though I'm not a Christian and don't really celebrate it as it's suppose to be *haha* Maybe it sort of marks the end of a year, and that a new one is going to begin soon; or simply an excuse to drink, party and just chill with friends =P I'm in an extremely Christmassy mood today so I've decided to share my Christmas songs for this year =)

Hope you guys like it and a very Merry Christmas to you all!! ^_^ ♥

My Christmas wish this year is...
not for a white Christmas,
but a simple and warm heartfelt Christmas =)

Your Song

I don't remember where I first heard this version of the song, but this is my favorite rendition =)

It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside

I'm not one of those who can easily hide

I don't have much money, but boy if I did

I'd buy a big house where we both could live

So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do

You see I've forgotten if they're green of they're blue

Anyway the thing is what I really mean

Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen

And you can tell everybody this is your song

It may be quite simple but now that it's done

I hope you don't mind

I hope you don't mind that I put down in words

How wonderful life is now you're in the world

If I was a sculptor, but then again no

Or a girl who makes potions in a travelling show

I know it's not much but it's the best I can do

My gift is my song and this one's for you

And you can tell everybody this is your song

It may be quite simple but now that it's done

I hope you don't mind

I hope you don't mind that I put down in words

How wonderful life is now you're in the world

Eat a peach, read a quote.

Originally wanted to post this on tumblr
but couldn't get the layout to work the way I wanted
so it's now here.

"Sometimes, its so bright it looked as if it was gonna explode into the night sky like fireworks, but then the next minute, it becomes so dim, so dim that darkness attempts to creep in again."

- Jeannette Liaw

"Peaches" by New Heights was used in The Jubilee Project short film "Love Language" which was produced to raise funds and awareness for the American Society for Deaf Children.

Just Us and Penang

Full access to pictures

Listen to this while reading if you wish.



I'm too young to feel this old (or am I?), but it just feels right to write this post like this...

On one very fine day,
six young people decided to drive an old car all the way to Penang,
just because they felt like it.


They wanted to gobble up all that Penang had to offer,
so they ordered fried kway teow, fried oyster, and hae mee a.k.a Hokkien mee
everywhere they went until they got sick of it, literally!

There were lots of other food too of course,
but I'll reserve the review for another post when I come around to it.

For now, it's just the story of six crazy young people
who were courageous enough to go into a bar with shorts and flip-flops XD


Being young and full of energy,
they hiked to a far away beach just because they can.


Even though they are all different in their own way,
it did not matter because it was their free spirit that unites them.

May all six of these young people live a fruitful and awesome happy life always =)

~Be Forever Young~

pictures from Brian and icanread

p.s. I really don't mean to sound so old >_<

Last two movies for the year 2010

***

This Harry Potter movie is probably by far the best one out of all the others. There were good action scenes, funny scenes and a scary scene that managed to scare me and a bunch of girls sitting behind -_-'' It wasn't draggy and all the important parts were included (or maybe I just forgot the detailed story from the book XD). The only let down was that it's only Part 1, and thus had that left-there-hanging ending that I don't like.

Tangled is really nice! It was very light and funny and just plain nice *hehehe* and Pascal was SUPER CUTE of course =P I really don't have much bad comments about this movie. The only reason anyone would not like it is probably because they are not genuine Disney fans so whatever~

YouTube kept removing the videos due to copyright so this version doesn't have the dialogue =(

This is like my favorite scene from the movie. It was simply ♥MAGICAL♥ I couldn't stop smiling throughout the whole entire scene, like literally! IT WAS AMAZING! I totally loved the lights from the lanterns and the song and everything! Disney TOTALLY got it's magic back! The magic that makes Disney movies what they are =)

我不是你想象那么勇敢 - 梁文音

Just thought the concept of this MV is very original and figured I'd share it here =)

各位旅客，您好，
这里是服务台失物招领中心。
有旅客在第七月台
拾获笑容两个，
在博爱座上拾获良心一枚，
剩下领取的还有
友谊、恐惧、单纯。
请遗失的旅客速至本处领回。
若遗失无人认领，
我们将全数移至过余仓库储存。


你好。
你掉了什么东西啊？
我掉了，
勇敢跟坚强。
没有喔。
不然，
你留下你的电话和姓名，
我帮你广播一下。


不好意思，
我的拥抱掉了。
那你要不要再去找一个新的？


小姐，
我的梦想……
又是你啊！
没有人捡到你的梦想。


请问有人捡到童年吗？
这种过期的东西，
我们通常都会直接丢掉喔。


请问有没有人捡到爱情？
那边的垃圾桶里面，
有一些一夜情，你要吗？


小姐，我的初吻找到了吗？
我不是跟你说过，
没有人找到吗？
这么想要的话，
那我给你好了。


小姐。
什么事？
小姐，你的笑容掉了。
那你有捡到吗？


请问，我的勇敢跟坚强，
找到了吗？
还是没有人找到耶。
不然，我再帮你广播一次，好吗？
谢谢。


亲爱的旅客，您好，
这里是服务台失物招领中心。
有一位旅客，
梁文音小姐，
她遗失了勇敢和坚强。
这两样物品，对她来说，
非常重要。
若是您检到了，
请您赶快送到服务台来，
因为，
她不是你想象的那么勇敢。

Merry Christmas 2010

I have quite a few backlogs but I don't care because today is Christmas Eve. I'll just finish them off in the new year XD Guessed my resolution to stop cut down on procrastination didn't really happen =P I don't really celebrate Christmas but I like the merry feeling it always brings =) Everyone around becomes more joyful and happy, people make wishes, there are pretty decorations everywhere, and I start wishing for the impossible *haha*

Here's one of my favorite Christmas song from one of my favorite movie.

Dedicated to all of you =)

♥ MERRY CHRISTMAS ♥





All I want for Christmas is...
*shh*
...the impossible.

Count On Me by Bruno Mars

I'm bored =(
I'm sick of studying >_<
So I decided to share my current favorite song =)

feet in the water...

I got my feet in the water...

...and I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean.


I don't know why I kept thinking that Michelle Branch's "Drop in the Ocean" has the word 'feet' in it =S I even thought the lyrics was something like "I dropped my feet into the water/ocean" -_-''

Talentime

I finally got to watch Talentime, another one of Yasmin Ahmad's movies. I actually skipped my Cognitive & Social Psychology lecture last Tuesday so I can watch the movie =P It was TOTALLY WORTH IT! It wasn't like I was going to learn anything useful in Dr. Tam's class anyway -_-''

Judging from the trailers shown on TV, I've always thought that Talentime was some sort of a comedy. Who knew it would turn out to be about love and death, or that was what I thought anyway. The movie had a morbid tinge to it. I guess with Melur's poems and the deaths, it is hard not to feel the morbidity of it all.

Despite all the darkness and despair, the movie managed to really touch me deep inside. Mukhsin had previously squeeze one tear out of me, but Talentime was totally another different story. I tried to hold back the tears but they just kept coming, so I gave up and let them fall. Thank god the lecture theatre was really dark, but I think the few people who were there all knew I was crying. Evelyn was totally making fun of me after the movie -_-'' Funny how I reacted so emotionally to a movie I couldn't understand much because half of it was in Tamil/Hindi and there were no subtitles. Maybe it reminded me of daddy. It made me miss him. Is it normal to still miss him? Or should he just be remembered but not missed? I really don't know the answers to those questions, but I guess I still miss him subconsciously all the time. The emotions just like to present itself during touching movies. I never used to cry during movies, and I don't really like the fact that I will now sometime cry, but I guess it is a good way of releasing my bottled up emotions.

The part where Melur couldn't sing started it all, but this part was the one that kept it going T^T



Love how this song managed to evoke so many different kinds of feelings in different context.



Here's something cheerier to end the post =)

p.s. I was in the same high school as Mahesh and didn't even know he acted in the movie till Davina told me about it XD

Shakira vs. Tila Tequila

I was Facebook-ing and happened to stumble upon Shakira's trashy "She Wolf" MV. Don't get me wrong, I think Shakira is a great singer, but coming out with an MV this trashy is plain DESPICABLE. Some praised her ability to contort and move her body in impossible ways, but I think it is just wrong and totally WEIRD.

The MV's level of trashiness can probably match that of Tila Tequila's. Once again, I'm not trying to dis anyone, I actually like Tila Tequila's "Summer Nightfalls", probably because it is very different from her usual style. Everyone knows she is famous for being slutty hot and sexy.

Anyway, here's the MV of "She Wolf" by Shakira and "Stripper Friends" by Tila Tequila.

Judge it for yourself

I actually wanted to compare "She Wolf" with Tila Tequila's "I Love U" initially

but found "Stripper Friends" to be a better comparison.

Here's the video anyway for you hornballs out there =P

The Original Cuppycake Song

This super cute song was originally sang by 3 years-old Amy Castle back in 1994.

You're my Honeybunch, Sugarplum
Pumpy-umpy-umpkin, You're my Sweetie Pie
You're my Cuppycake, Gumdrop
Snoogums-Boogums, You're the Apple of my Eye

And I love you so and I want you to know
That I'll always be right here
And I love to sing sweet songs to you
Because you are so dear

Music and lyrics by Judianna Castle.

Bunkface ROCKS!!

Local music SUCKS-ASS!!
That was what I used to think, for non-chinese music anyway.

After coming back to Malaysia and listening to the radio more often, I actually find some of the local music quite awesome, especially BUNKFACE (they are like my most favorite local band!). Their songs are so rockin' awesome that I didn't even believe they were by a local band the first time I heard them (pardon my ignorance -_-''). Whenever a new song by them is being played on the radio, I swear I thought it was by some other bands like Green Day, Sum41, The All-American Rejects or something like that. They are seriously that good.

Here's a funky MV of "Silly Lily" that I found on YouTube. I'm not sure if this is their official MV, but it's worth a watch =P This is the first song that got me interested in them.

Some of their other awesome songs include "Prom Queen" and of course "Through My Window", which caused a whole lot of buzz a few weeks ago thanks to TM's successful viral campaign.

I don't want much, I just want everything
Thought that I could, do almost anything
One step in front of the other
Thought that I could do it alone

In the blink of an eye, it's just another day
Telling me why, I'll find another way
Got this feeling, got me reeling
I can almost start believing

Now there's me and you
And we are not alone
You and me
We are together now
Through my window, I can see
Our wildest dreams could be so real

Click here to download the full version of "Through My Window" or go to everyoneconnects.net to mash up your own version of the song =) For more of information on Bunkface, check out their MySpace.

The Little Lulu Show

I was reminded of this cartoon while browsing through Facebook. It was one of my favorites; I used to watch it every morning ^_^ This cartoon is quite old, but I've managed to YouTube snippets of it. Enjoy!

Little Lulu, Little Lulu, with freckles on your skin,
Always in and out of trouble, but mostly always in.
Using Daddy’s necktie for the tail on your kite,
Using Mommy’s lipstick for the letters you write.

Little Lulu, Little Lulu, there's no one quite as smart,
Doesn’t matter what you’re doing, you’re doing it with your heart.
Shining girls are dancing, there's a sparkle in your eye,
When can we look forward to your next surprise? What a surprise!

Though the clock says 7:30, it’s really after 10,

Looks like Lulu’s been repairing it again.
Though you’re wild you know it’s tru-Lu,
And you’re very hard to tame,
Little Lulu, We love you-Lu just the same, the same,
Little Lulu, We love you-Lu just the same.