So after 5 years of inactivity, older me decided to drop by my dusty blog. 物非人也非, many videos and links I posted in the past no longer exist.
Nevertheless, I still find myself quite liking the layout and aesthetic of my blog! It still exists in the vacuum of the internet, in year 2023. That’s what I thought, the vacuum where no other internet residents realise that such a blog exists. Look at the name of my blog, it screams 2010s, don’t you think?
What surprises me is that this blog has 570 views in the last month, (0_o). Where did these views come from? Most probably from bots, I suppose.
If a human stumbles upon this blog, maybe say hi in the comment section. :]
It's October and I don't even realise!
Man, it's already October.
OMG. I am gonna be a year older (not so soon but soon?).
Whenever it's year end, I feel the dread.
Early birthday, sad case.
I feel even more older when I heard this song. There was a time when Japanese dramas were very popular, back in the late 90s and early 2000s. I still remember Beach Boys in 1996, I think the popularity started from there. One day, I am gonna rewatch them alllll. Old people do that, you know.
The news media nowadays. They love to quote everything which internet users said. I have just read an "article" on The Star website where basically every new paragraph is a direct quotation from some internet users. Seriously?? You know what, even a 10yo could cut and paste those internet comments and make it into an article if that's what is required for an article. If journalism is going down that way, I will despise it. If you are a journalist who only knows to construct a news piece by scouring the internet and copy paste Facebook comments, I have no respect for you. If you are a news editor who allows that to happen, I have no respect for you.
Since when does random internet comments become a reliable source for judging a situation or event? You think you are quite fair to mix positive and negative internet opinions into your article, and then, nop, no "then", you just leave it as it is and call it a day. I tell you, that is really dumb. Lazy journalism is really stupid. Articles which lack critical thinkings and constructive reasonings have NO VALUE AT ALL. (grumble)
I suddenly had the thought of posting songs which I was rather 'obsessed' with at one time throughout the years.
As far as I remember, my first ever encounter with pop music was Wakin Chau 周华健. I would sneak into my brother's room when he went to school, take out his Wakin Chau's cassette tape from his drawer, and play it using the cassette player, almost every day. I also used to steal my brother's A4 papers to draw, thinking that he wouldn't realise since he had a thick stack of it. I think I know every thing that was in his drawers, including a legendary love letter from his senior (which was addressed to my then 13-year-old bro HAHAHAHA). We always teased him about that. That's the "perks" of having younger sisters so bro you have no choice lah. Ok I digressed. I don't know how exactly did I discover Wakin Chau in my bro's room, but I loved his songs. I was probably 6/7 years old.
【Classics from Wakin Chau】
Then the next pop music encounter was when the Jay Chou era hits, in early 2000s. I liked many of his earlier songs, sadly I lost interest in his newer compositions many years ago.
【開不了口 Hard to Say it Out 】
Then I fell in love with a song from Faye Wong, because of that I purchased her entire album (cassette tape) which costed RM17.90, a huge number for a kid. I used my dad's money though, I think he wasn't very happy hahaha. Then I just began to love her work, especially the non-mainstream ones.
【流年 Fleeting Time】 (Looooved it)
Around the same time our own homegrown Fish Leong came to popularity. I liked this song because I liked a small part of electric guitar playing in it. I guess that's the first sign of my later musical preferences. Hmmm. I still listen to Fish Leong a lot nowadays.
【如果有一天 One day, if...】
In secondary school, my brother had a lot of Japanese Rock songs in the only computer in our house. So, I ended up listening to them and liking Japanese Rock music. I think I just happened to like whatever that was available around me at that time. But this time, this has a long lasting effect.
I was obsessed with "HOWEVER" by GLAY due to the fact that I couldn't quite catch the melody of the song initially. Then I listened to it every single day lol.
【 HOWEVER 】
Then LUNA SEA came and broke my liking for sentimental songs. Then the rest is history (lol). I did not like the vocalist's voice at all. But, hah hah, there is only a fine line between dislike and like. I freaking loved his voice after seeing him singing live (I still maintain that he is the best vocalist in the world *laugh*).
【 Gravity 】
【 Rain 】
Old but gold, the last 3 minutes.
And of course, B'zzzzzzzzzz.
【 今夜月の見える丘に Tonight, at the hill where we can see the moon 】
Needless to say, alan. First impression was, "WOAH", when I saw her mv on TV for just a few seconds in 2011/2012.
【 明日への讃歌 A Hymn of Tomorrow 】
My 2014 favourite discover was a relatively obscure indie band, a paindyne. My favourite song of the year is "soothe", followed by "宇宙人", then "quasar". Always on my replay list.
【a paindyne - moonscape】
【 HaKU - Hikari 】
This song is reaaally addictive.
Ok I can't believe I persevered through this post. I am lazy already. The most recent one is by Flower (again).
【Flower - Call】
Tata for now.
Wait.
Where are the English songs? Ok la must add one or two in. The fact is that there are too many.
【 Breaking Benjamin - Forget it 】
"Forget it" was on a loop for forever. 【 Within Temptation - Memories 】
The lasting effect being that, my musical preferences become very band-oriented, plus if you suck as singing live, I would lose interest very quickly.
What would make a person suddenly tensed up, ran away from her chair (she was sitting), picked up one of the toys (weapons) scattered on the carpet while looking around on extraordinarily-high alert? You know, that time as if your house was invaded by invisible aliens?
A flying cockroach.
Heck. Why the hell do they have to exist?!
I am ok with friendly running cockroaches who just run on the floor as if the human who are standing next to them are too insignificant to earn their attention. I even had cockroaches crossing the road together with me twice! Seriously, these creatures.
The flying ones though, they are evil. Something goes haywire in their little brains perhaps, they would just go berserk within a confined space (no space is large enough when you have these nuts in the same room with you I tell ya). You would run away, until that one cockroach who is resting on the white door (rest for 2 seconds la cockroach gets tired too) becomes a little black spot. Because you still cannot stand that little black spot, as no you will not believe it will stay still forever, you move your body and use whatever obstructions in front of you to hide that little black spot so you will not see it anymore.
Then you regret it immediately. As you poke your little head out the thing is gone. Yakkkkkks. A gone flying cockroach in a pretty confined space is the worst thing to happen, ever. So you brace yourself for the sudden attack of this devil and run away to get the FUMAKILLA AEROSOL-T, your greatest weapon which you cannot afford to run out of.
For me, killing needs a lot of consideration. It won't be on my must-do list even when I am face to face with a flying cockroach. I will see whether it will fly away (80% of the time this is being too optimistic). But sorry cockroach, I have to spray that on you this time. I don't know how does it feel to get poisoned like that, but I have to knock you out.
I have seen Luna Sea's live (although just once but quite contented), now maybe it's time for alan's. Yanni, when are you coming to SE Asia?? I am gonna pour money to you you know.
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I suddenly had the urge to watch Tonari no Totoro so I did. The first time I watched it was perhaps when I was 9 years old. It was a VCD borrowed by my sister from her good friend. I didn't particularly like it, but the "titita, pompompa" uttered by the chibi-Totoros got stuck in my head (exclusive to Canto-dub chibi-Totoros). However, from there onwards Studio Ghibli has stuck with me till now. I haven't watched Totoro for a long time, this time though, I noticed a few things which I hadn't noticed before, and they are freaking funny.
Totoro's tororo face.
Its ear pricks the umbrella, hahahah
What I found most funny was this scene in particular.
Nekobasu 'spells' 院 incorrectly and the right mouse was taken aback, like, "Huh?!"
It was hilarious.
如果嘛那家店很有趣的话还好，但为什么是现实版 "Can you escape the room" 主题的店啊？可能是我很喜欢在PC玩那样的游戏啦，但还是觉得在梦里梦到现实版的有点……让人无语。那家店宽~得不得了，似乎我和弟弟都有想要参与游戏的兴趣。然后就没有然后了。想想那家店好像很有梗，若你要玩 "Escape the Room" 游戏得先找到它的入口，入口不藏起来，只是伪装成了被卖的其中一个门。什么东西？难道我其实也很有梗？ （多啦Ａ梦说它早就有了此门。）
Congratulations gaaah.
When I was turning 20, I remember I felt such great sadness in me. *lol*
When I was turning 25, I felt quite sad too, as I would be confronted with this:
Age:
I have no particular thought this year, except the thought that I am still 一事无成。(cries)
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Recently I kept looping this shiawase song, I love it. 春夏秋冬 Shunkashuutou
This spring, where shall we go? This summer, where shall we go? The cherry blossoms of spring and the sea of summer, I want to see with you. I want to be with you.
And this emo song with a great female vocal. Let go
This is the aprroximate content of a post I saw:
"The worst floods are happening in the country because God loves us so unimaginably deeply, the floods happen as a reminder for us in time of New Year celebration (guess she means we celebrated too much)"
She even mentioned Mas incidents. My brain just exploded with angst. Although we are friends and I have nothing against her at all normally, even always feel appreciative towards her because she helped me before, I still feel that the statement is stupid. High-level stupidity. Inconsiderate and insensitive. Are you a flood victim? Do you know the feeling when you know you can do nothing but seeing your house getting flooded? Gone?
In times of adversities, everyone has his or her own ways to think positively and be optimistic, be it religious or irreligious people. But at all times, you need to use your brain. You can think whatever you like man, no problem. But once you declare it publicly, it means you expect people to agree with you. Sadly, not everyone believes in what you believe in, if you only immerse yourself in your version of truth (which is interpreted differently among individuals), you will continue to spit shits that other people might take offence.
But whatever lah. Hide the post, and voila. I only hope the flood situation becomes better, so I can go home and help.
