On my last post, I had posted BoA Full Album Preview and also a preview of the I Did It For Love MV. If you had missed it, watch it here.
The BEST & USA album was finally released on 18 March 2009. I went to CD-Rama to see if they have it in stock on 19 March 2009. Unfortunately, not only that they do not have it in stock, the staff doesn't even know that there's such an album! I thought that the staff were supposed to know such things, such as when it will arrive and such? Goodness!
I had gone back to CD-Rama yesterday, 25 March 2009, Wednesday. There's not sight of the album. It's been more than a week and there's no news at all. How slow could they be? -_-|||
Meanwhile, I have already listened to several full versions of her songs and there were several that I like/love so far. I shall post it below for you all to listen to.
In random order:
Scream is a haunting and dark song. based on the lyrics, it makes me thinks of vampires, werewolves, and other dark creatures that roam the night. After listening to the original version by Monrose and the cover by BoA. I decided that although BoA had done quite a decent job singing it, I think that it would be better if she could sing in a even dark and chilly way like Monrose. It would bring out even better the effect of the song. =D
Scream by BoA
Original Version: Scream by Monrose
Girls On Top was originally a Korean song by BoA about girl power. It was later sang in Chinese and English as well. In her album, BoA, the lyrics was changed to fit the rhythm of the song. However, the meaning of the song remains the same.
Girls On Top by BoA, English
Girls On Top by BoA, Korean
Did Ya by BoA
That's all of the songs I had listened to and like for now. It's amazing but somehow, the more I listened to her album, the more I am starting to like it more and more. I have to admit that all the song are catchy but ballads next time please!
Since Utada Hikaru had also just released her English album, This Is The One, I had managed to sneak in listening to a few of her songs as well. The songs that I like are as below.
Come Back To Me by Utada
This One (Crying like a child) by Utada
Alright, that's all for today. Let's hope that BEST & USA hits our shore more quickly!
P.S I am thinking about getting This Is The One...
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Fallen in love with him...yet again.
Friday, 20 March 2009
It's been a long time since I had last saw him, or his friends for that matter. How long was it? Was it months or even years? I had lost count. I used to love him a lot. He was on my mind day and night. All the time in school, I was daydreaming when I should be listening to the lessons, or when I was walking, I was always lost in thoughts. I even dreamed of him when I was sleeping. I still remembered the times when I would gush to my friends, who knew him, about how handsome/cute/cool/funny/wonderful he was. They agreed with me. Sure, he has his flaws, but they were not major ones. If one loves him enough, they will embrace his flaws. Although he's a two-timer, I understood that he had his reasons.
Recently, the thought to revisit everything was so intense that I succumbed to it.
As I pulled out pulled out the Inuyasha VCDs Volume One, Disc One, and popped it into my VCD Player, all the emotions came flooding back to me. The story, how I felt about each character e.g. Miroku is a pervert, the music, I was hooked. I had thought that I had not liked it as much as I had before. I was wrong. Now, I loved it more than ever.
Yes, perhaps there are some flaws in the story itself, such as how people seem to be so readily to accept the long list of Kagome's bizarre illness, and how Kagome and Inuyasha seemed to be screaming each others?name every single second. My brother commented on how he was already over from being a fan of Sesshoumaru and how I am still being so childish, watching Inuyasha. Am I childish? Perhaps I am.
Yet, Inuyasha was a lot of things to me. Without Inuyasha, I wouldn't have gotten to know about Japanese music. Without Inuyasha, I wouldn't have bought a keyboard just so that I could learn to play the wonderful opening/ending theme songs and also the beautiful background music which I had fallen in love in. Without Inuyasha, I wouldn't be interested in orchestral music pieces. Without Inuyasha, I wouldn't be interested in anime and manga. Without Inuyasha, I wouldn't grow to love Cosplay and Lolita. Without Inuyasha, I wouldn't have been willing to part with more than three hundred dollars just to collect all the Inuyasha episodes and movies. Do you see now? Without the existence of Inuyasha, I would have been an incredibly different person from who I am now.
It's astoundingly isn't it? How watching an anime can change and mold a person so much. Believe it for I am a perfect example.
I still remembered the time when I first saw Inuyasha on Arts Central (Okto was named Arts Central then). I think that it was the second episode when Kagome returned to present after being pushed down the well by Yura the Demon of Hair. I was curious about the story, however, I didn't gave it much thought until several weeks (or was it months?) later, I saw Inuyasha again on Arts Central. I was channel surfing then, getting ready to sleep. I saw the part where Kagome jumped into the well in a huff before returning as she remembered as she had forgotten to take her bag with her. I think that it was the episode when Kikyo tried to drag Inuyasha down to hell. I still remembered how I thought about that flash of episode I had seen. It seemed weird, how Kagome forgotten about her anger when she reappeared again in the well, to retrieve her bag. At that time, I thought that the well was a place where it could make a person loses their memory about what happen a few moments ago. I also mused about the stranger company Kagome keeps as well. Kagome is obviously a girl from present but what's with her friends wearing those weird clothes?
Even though I couldn't quite get it then, my curiosity was already well aroused. I decided to splurge on getting every single episodes (and movies when I knew that Inuyasha had movies as well), since I had a bedtime curfew and Inuyasha was broadcast quite late in the night.
How times flies. It's been more than four years since I had fallen in love with Inuyasha. Sine I don't have much things going on now, I have been watching a couple episodes every day, during lunch. I once thought that the magic was lost.
Now, I knew that that my love for Inuyasha is always there.
I suppose it will still last throughout many many years in the future.
After all, I had watched several other anime and the magic was not as strong as Inuyasha. I love all the opening and ending theme songs plus the background music in Inuyasha. I love the story for how it is although I do wish that Naraku should get his retribution soon! For the other anime which I had seen, at most I only like several songs. The story, to me, was not as captivating as Inuyasha.
There were times when I marvel at Kagome's bravery. After all, its everyday a girl from the twenty-first century went back to the past and fight demons, living the life of travelers outside in the wild. Sure, she had Inuyasha at that time. However, it was wise to note that she had only known him for such a little period of time. Besides the "sit" chant, there was nothing else that was stopping Inuyasha from killing her and taking that piece of Shikon no Tama shard away. Besides that, how could she stand living with shower or bath (even if she wanted to, by doing so in the river), sleeping in the wild and always running away and fighting demons! All those creepy stuff she had never seen before and suddenly, boom! She has to deal with them! No doubt, all these experiences had totally strengthened her physically and mentally. I suppose given her condition now, even if when she had some encounter with some robbery or kidnapper back at present time, she wouldn't even flinch. After all, there was no way they could be more frightening than those disgusting demons.
I also love it when Inuyasha follows Kagome to the present. It's just so funny to watch! There was one episode when a robber demanded Inuyasha to get out of his way or he will kill him. Of course the bank robber had no way to know that Inuyasha was much stronger than him. Pissed, Inuyasha just punched his face which knocked him out. The other time when Inuyasha went to Kagome's school to kill the dried demons was pretty hilarious to watch as well. Inuyasha was jealous of how Hojo was declaring his love to Kagome when in reality; both of them were actually performing in a play. Inuyasha just went through the backdrop and crashed onto the stage. When a watermelon demon popped up onto the stage between Kagome and Hojo, Hojo wanted to kill the demon with his sword as he had no clue that it was a real demon and it is capable of killing him, a mere mortal. Kagome, worried about Hojo's safety, urged Inuyasha to kill the demon. Even though Inuyasha could just kill the demon with his claws, he deliberately used Wind Scar to show Hojo that he's the stronger one and wanted him to abolish any ideas he had with Kagome. This resulted in blowing a hole out of the roof. Kagome quickly ended the now messed up play by asking Inuyasha to jumped her away. The oblivious crowd gave them a full standing ovation with cheers as they thought that the effect they had seen was purely special effects and it was the best they had ever seen.
To be honest, it frustrates me that Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kaede were unable to visit Kagome in present time. How marvelous it would be to be able to see their faces when they saw Japan in its twenty-first century glory! There was no definite ending for Inuyasha anime and movie. I hope that the creators of the anime will keep this in mind. Please let them have a chance to go to twenty-first century and let Naraku be dead once and for all! Please let Kagome be with Inuyasha and Kikyo rest in peace!
I had found an anime music video of Inuyasha by chance at YouTube. I think that it was incredibly well done. It should have more comments and views than that. I decided to share it here. Enjoy!
Content: Inuyasha
Song: All About Us by t.A.T.u.
It's been a long time since I had last saw him, or his friends for that matter. How long was it? Was it months or even years? I had lost count. I used to love him a lot. He was on my mind day and night. All the time in school, I was daydreaming when I should be listening to the lessons, or when I was walking, I was always lost in thoughts. I even dreamed of him when I was sleeping. I still remembered the times when I would gush to my friends, who knew him, about how handsome/cute/cool/funny/wonderful he was. They agreed with me. Sure, he has his flaws, but they were not major ones. If one loves him enough, they will embrace his flaws. Although he's a two-timer, I understood that he had his reasons.
Recently, the thought to revisit everything was so intense that I succumbed to it.
As I pulled out pulled out the Inuyasha VCDs Volume One, Disc One, and popped it into my VCD Player, all the emotions came flooding back to me. The story, how I felt about each character e.g. Miroku is a pervert, the music, I was hooked. I had thought that I had not liked it as much as I had before. I was wrong. Now, I loved it more than ever.
Yes, perhaps there are some flaws in the story itself, such as how people seem to be so readily to accept the long list of Kagome's bizarre illness, and how Kagome and Inuyasha seemed to be screaming each others?name every single second. My brother commented on how he was already over from being a fan of Sesshoumaru and how I am still being so childish, watching Inuyasha. Am I childish? Perhaps I am.
Yet, Inuyasha was a lot of things to me. Without Inuyasha, I wouldn't have gotten to know about Japanese music. Without Inuyasha, I wouldn't have bought a keyboard just so that I could learn to play the wonderful opening/ending theme songs and also the beautiful background music which I had fallen in love in. Without Inuyasha, I wouldn't be interested in orchestral music pieces. Without Inuyasha, I wouldn't be interested in anime and manga. Without Inuyasha, I wouldn't grow to love Cosplay and Lolita. Without Inuyasha, I wouldn't have been willing to part with more than three hundred dollars just to collect all the Inuyasha episodes and movies. Do you see now? Without the existence of Inuyasha, I would have been an incredibly different person from who I am now.
It's astoundingly isn't it? How watching an anime can change and mold a person so much. Believe it for I am a perfect example.
I still remembered the time when I first saw Inuyasha on Arts Central (Okto was named Arts Central then). I think that it was the second episode when Kagome returned to present after being pushed down the well by Yura the Demon of Hair. I was curious about the story, however, I didn't gave it much thought until several weeks (or was it months?) later, I saw Inuyasha again on Arts Central. I was channel surfing then, getting ready to sleep. I saw the part where Kagome jumped into the well in a huff before returning as she remembered as she had forgotten to take her bag with her. I think that it was the episode when Kikyo tried to drag Inuyasha down to hell. I still remembered how I thought about that flash of episode I had seen. It seemed weird, how Kagome forgotten about her anger when she reappeared again in the well, to retrieve her bag. At that time, I thought that the well was a place where it could make a person loses their memory about what happen a few moments ago. I also mused about the stranger company Kagome keeps as well. Kagome is obviously a girl from present but what's with her friends wearing those weird clothes?
Even though I couldn't quite get it then, my curiosity was already well aroused. I decided to splurge on getting every single episodes (and movies when I knew that Inuyasha had movies as well), since I had a bedtime curfew and Inuyasha was broadcast quite late in the night.
How times flies. It's been more than four years since I had fallen in love with Inuyasha. Sine I don't have much things going on now, I have been watching a couple episodes every day, during lunch. I once thought that the magic was lost.
Now, I knew that that my love for Inuyasha is always there.
I suppose it will still last throughout many many years in the future.
After all, I had watched several other anime and the magic was not as strong as Inuyasha. I love all the opening and ending theme songs plus the background music in Inuyasha. I love the story for how it is although I do wish that Naraku should get his retribution soon! For the other anime which I had seen, at most I only like several songs. The story, to me, was not as captivating as Inuyasha.
There were times when I marvel at Kagome's bravery. After all, its everyday a girl from the twenty-first century went back to the past and fight demons, living the life of travelers outside in the wild. Sure, she had Inuyasha at that time. However, it was wise to note that she had only known him for such a little period of time. Besides the "sit" chant, there was nothing else that was stopping Inuyasha from killing her and taking that piece of Shikon no Tama shard away. Besides that, how could she stand living with shower or bath (even if she wanted to, by doing so in the river), sleeping in the wild and always running away and fighting demons! All those creepy stuff she had never seen before and suddenly, boom! She has to deal with them! No doubt, all these experiences had totally strengthened her physically and mentally. I suppose given her condition now, even if when she had some encounter with some robbery or kidnapper back at present time, she wouldn't even flinch. After all, there was no way they could be more frightening than those disgusting demons.
I also love it when Inuyasha follows Kagome to the present. It's just so funny to watch! There was one episode when a robber demanded Inuyasha to get out of his way or he will kill him. Of course the bank robber had no way to know that Inuyasha was much stronger than him. Pissed, Inuyasha just punched his face which knocked him out. The other time when Inuyasha went to Kagome's school to kill the dried demons was pretty hilarious to watch as well. Inuyasha was jealous of how Hojo was declaring his love to Kagome when in reality; both of them were actually performing in a play. Inuyasha just went through the backdrop and crashed onto the stage. When a watermelon demon popped up onto the stage between Kagome and Hojo, Hojo wanted to kill the demon with his sword as he had no clue that it was a real demon and it is capable of killing him, a mere mortal. Kagome, worried about Hojo's safety, urged Inuyasha to kill the demon. Even though Inuyasha could just kill the demon with his claws, he deliberately used Wind Scar to show Hojo that he's the stronger one and wanted him to abolish any ideas he had with Kagome. This resulted in blowing a hole out of the roof. Kagome quickly ended the now messed up play by asking Inuyasha to jumped her away. The oblivious crowd gave them a full standing ovation with cheers as they thought that the effect they had seen was purely special effects and it was the best they had ever seen.
To be honest, it frustrates me that Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kaede were unable to visit Kagome in present time. How marvelous it would be to be able to see their faces when they saw Japan in its twenty-first century glory! There was no definite ending for Inuyasha anime and movie. I hope that the creators of the anime will keep this in mind. Please let them have a chance to go to twenty-first century and let Naraku be dead once and for all! Please let Kagome be with Inuyasha and Kikyo rest in peace!
I had found an anime music video of Inuyasha by chance at YouTube. I think that it was incredibly well done. It should have more comments and views than that. I decided to share it here. Enjoy!
Content: Inuyasha
Song: All About Us by t.A.T.u.
Monday, March 16, 2009
House Phone Line Is Activated!
The phone line is finally fixed. My house phone line has been down for several days starting from last Friday, 13 March 2009. They cut the line in the morning. We thought that all will be fine when the SingTel Technical Personal come to install the modem. He came at around 4pm+. We expect that it wouldn't take him too long to get it fixed and before the broadband and the phone line will start working as per normal. Alas, that was only what we hope for in our dreams.
Friday the thirteen was not a lucky day for us. He fiddled around for more than an hour and had called for help on his phone for umpteen times. Our Mio Voice was still not working. It turns up that as I quote from him, the exchange was not registered with Asp Neo? and thus, we need to wait for a day before our Mio Voice will start working. He gave me a number and said that if my Mio Voice was not working by Saturday, 14 March 2009, I will be required to call the number for help. When I asked him what time he Mio Voice will start working, it appears to me that he did not know the answer. Thus, I waited until Monday, 16 March 2009, to make the call as I was not sure if the Customer Service Officers do work on a Sunday. I have to borrow the phone from my neighbour to make the call. Luckily for me, she was incredibly willing to lend me her phone while my mother stayed to hat with her. All of the officers were engaged when I called, thus, I had to wait for around ten minutes or more before I was finally connected to an officer. The lady directed me to another number when she heard of my situation. Thus, I have to make another call using the given number. A soothing female mechanical voice greeted me and after I have pressed the right numbers, it directed me to another officer. Thankfully, the female officer gave me two options after she had understood of my plight. One was to book an appointment for the technical man to come again on Tuesday, 17 March 2009, during 11pm to 1pm. After booking the appointment, she proceeded with the second option which was to reset the line even though in her record, it appears to her that our phone line is line? All I had to do after that was to off and on my modem again. The first time I tried to call my house using my hand phone, I still get the weird noise. I decided to try for a second time. A couple seconds later, I heard the sweet sound of both of my house phones ringing. The line is working again! It has been working smoothly ever since that fateful 1.30pm. I hope that it will continue to do so for a very long time...
If you are wondering what happened to the appointment that I had booked, don't worry. I did call to cancel the appointment the minute the Mio Voice was active.
The Mio Voice package which my father had signed up for allows us to have free incoming and outgoing calls. I am happy to say that my ears wouldn't be subject to my mother's nagging on the phone bills! Thank goodness for that! The package also includes features such as call waiting, 3 lines, call forwarding etc. Isn't that cool?
Friday the thirteen was not a lucky day for us. He fiddled around for more than an hour and had called for help on his phone for umpteen times. Our Mio Voice was still not working. It turns up that as I quote from him, the exchange was not registered with Asp Neo? and thus, we need to wait for a day before our Mio Voice will start working. He gave me a number and said that if my Mio Voice was not working by Saturday, 14 March 2009, I will be required to call the number for help. When I asked him what time he Mio Voice will start working, it appears to me that he did not know the answer. Thus, I waited until Monday, 16 March 2009, to make the call as I was not sure if the Customer Service Officers do work on a Sunday. I have to borrow the phone from my neighbour to make the call. Luckily for me, she was incredibly willing to lend me her phone while my mother stayed to hat with her. All of the officers were engaged when I called, thus, I had to wait for around ten minutes or more before I was finally connected to an officer. The lady directed me to another number when she heard of my situation. Thus, I have to make another call using the given number. A soothing female mechanical voice greeted me and after I have pressed the right numbers, it directed me to another officer. Thankfully, the female officer gave me two options after she had understood of my plight. One was to book an appointment for the technical man to come again on Tuesday, 17 March 2009, during 11pm to 1pm. After booking the appointment, she proceeded with the second option which was to reset the line even though in her record, it appears to her that our phone line is line? All I had to do after that was to off and on my modem again. The first time I tried to call my house using my hand phone, I still get the weird noise. I decided to try for a second time. A couple seconds later, I heard the sweet sound of both of my house phones ringing. The line is working again! It has been working smoothly ever since that fateful 1.30pm. I hope that it will continue to do so for a very long time...
If you are wondering what happened to the appointment that I had booked, don't worry. I did call to cancel the appointment the minute the Mio Voice was active.
The Mio Voice package which my father had signed up for allows us to have free incoming and outgoing calls. I am happy to say that my ears wouldn't be subject to my mother's nagging on the phone bills! Thank goodness for that! The package also includes features such as call waiting, 3 lines, call forwarding etc. Isn't that cool?
Saturday, March 14, 2009
BoA [FULL ALBUM PREVIEW]
BoA debut self-titled English album preview is now available!
Listen to it below:
BoA - I Did It For Love (HQ MV PREVIEW) is also available!
I don't particularly like the song but the dance with the fan is cool! =D
What do you think of her new album? Will she make it in U.S or will her fame just sizzle out? Post in tag board and let me know! =D
Listen to it below:
BoA - I Did It For Love (HQ MV PREVIEW) is also available!
I don't particularly like the song but the dance with the fan is cool! =D
What do you think of her new album? Will she make it in U.S or will her fame just sizzle out? Post in tag board and let me know! =D
Friday, March 06, 2009
Miracles Do Happen! My New Handphone!
That's right folks! You didn't read the title wrongly. Miracles do indeed happen! I had gotten my new handphone! Guess what? It's new and it's the model and colour I wanted too! Looks like the sun will start rising from the other side now!
My dear friends will certainly understand how hard it is to get anything from my father. Let alone having him pay the full cost of the phone. I am sure that what he have in mind initially was to get $0 phone with 2 years contract. Alas, when I had my heart set on Sony Ericsson W595 that cost $168 last December, he was all against it. Even when I offered to pay the full cost of the phone and I even gave him the cash right on spot! Did he relent? No! Obviously, he wanted a $0 phone. I want to get a $0 phone too. However, I had done some research(reviews, asking around etc) and found out that the phones that were available for $0 at that time were not very reliable. They will shut off or on suddenly and even cutting off right in the middle of a call. What's the use of a $0 phone if it can't even get it's basics right? He waved me away with a promise that he will get me the phone before Chinese New Year if the price of the phone doesn't drop. He broke the promise.
By the time the fifteen days of Chinese New Year were over, I longer held hopes of getting a new phone. At most I will buy a phone for myself when I start work. After all, I had waited for four years for a new phone. It wouldn't hurt me to wait for another three years.
After another few more promises broken later, he said that he will pay for the phone(which cost $198) I wanted and that I will get it on 3rd March 2009, Tuesday.
Amazingly, I did. I found it on my table in the morning when I woke up.
A miracle indeed.
In it, I found a receipt for the phone and a Singtel bill. The phone already had a plastic casing which serves as a protect case to protect the phone from harm. I think he bought it since phone doesn't comes with that for free. That's good. Protecting my phone from scratches and all. A 2GB memory card is already slot into the phone too. =D However, it seems like he had changed the broadband contract to Mio as well. The Mio facilities are fantastic. However, what worries me is that in order for our home to be able to receive calls, we have to keep our modem on all the time. I am worried that our modem will get spoiled easily. If that's so, that means no internet and no phone! We have to go to that place and get it changed ourself too. Such hassle. What if it's night and we have to use the computer to do project? Our schoolwork will get affected if we can't complete the project on time due to the lack of internet!
I shall worry about that later...
I suspect the reason he paid for my phone is so that he can claim that he has no money to buy a laptop for school after paying for my phone. A perfect excuse indeed. Even though he had already did tell me to pay for laptop using my bank money...still, I can't help wondering...
Pictures of my phone!
Good bye Nokia! You have served me well! Hello Sony Ericsson! Work well for me!
~\(=^0^=)/~
My dear friends will certainly understand how hard it is to get anything from my father. Let alone having him pay the full cost of the phone. I am sure that what he have in mind initially was to get $0 phone with 2 years contract. Alas, when I had my heart set on Sony Ericsson W595 that cost $168 last December, he was all against it. Even when I offered to pay the full cost of the phone and I even gave him the cash right on spot! Did he relent? No! Obviously, he wanted a $0 phone. I want to get a $0 phone too. However, I had done some research(reviews, asking around etc) and found out that the phones that were available for $0 at that time were not very reliable. They will shut off or on suddenly and even cutting off right in the middle of a call. What's the use of a $0 phone if it can't even get it's basics right? He waved me away with a promise that he will get me the phone before Chinese New Year if the price of the phone doesn't drop. He broke the promise.
By the time the fifteen days of Chinese New Year were over, I longer held hopes of getting a new phone. At most I will buy a phone for myself when I start work. After all, I had waited for four years for a new phone. It wouldn't hurt me to wait for another three years.
After another few more promises broken later, he said that he will pay for the phone(which cost $198) I wanted and that I will get it on 3rd March 2009, Tuesday.
Amazingly, I did. I found it on my table in the morning when I woke up.
A miracle indeed.
In it, I found a receipt for the phone and a Singtel bill. The phone already had a plastic casing which serves as a protect case to protect the phone from harm. I think he bought it since phone doesn't comes with that for free. That's good. Protecting my phone from scratches and all. A 2GB memory card is already slot into the phone too. =D However, it seems like he had changed the broadband contract to Mio as well. The Mio facilities are fantastic. However, what worries me is that in order for our home to be able to receive calls, we have to keep our modem on all the time. I am worried that our modem will get spoiled easily. If that's so, that means no internet and no phone! We have to go to that place and get it changed ourself too. Such hassle. What if it's night and we have to use the computer to do project? Our schoolwork will get affected if we can't complete the project on time due to the lack of internet!
I shall worry about that later...
I suspect the reason he paid for my phone is so that he can claim that he has no money to buy a laptop for school after paying for my phone. A perfect excuse indeed. Even though he had already did tell me to pay for laptop using my bank money...still, I can't help wondering...
Pictures of my phone!
Good bye Nokia! You have served me well! Hello Sony Ericsson! Work well for me!
~\(=^0^=)/~
Sunday, March 01, 2009
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