It has been long time since I heard this song. It’s a Hokkien song with loads and loads of emotions and feelings in it. You might not understand a single word in Hokkien dialect but listen to it. I’m sure you will get the feeling somehow.

It’s a song written to parents. A superb talented Malaysian singer, Eric Moo. To my surprise, the song is almost 15-20 years old.

叫阮的名 (Call My Name)
作詞：何啟弘 作曲：巫啟賢 演唱：巫啟賢

誰在叫阮的名 一句比一句痛 (Who calls my name? It resembles my sorrows…)
親像在問阮甘會驚寒 (Asking whether I’m alright in the coldness)
不需要別人來講 阮心內嘛知影 (I don’t need other to tell me, and I know it in my heart)
是你的聲 是你的聲 (It’s your voice… It’s your voice…)
誰在阮的夢 一住就一世人 (Who lives in my dream? It stays forever in me~)
尚驚日頭會將咱們拆散 (Afraid the dawn might break us apart~)
雖然離開那呢遠 阮猶原會知影  (Though I am far away from here, I still know it in my heart)
是你的影 是你的影 (It’s your shadow… It’s your shadow…)

叫阮的名 阮用一生斟酌聽 (Call my name… I will listen whole-heartedly…)
當初細漢袂赴乎你瞭解 你是阮的生命 (Never let you know when I was young that… You are every part of my life)
叫阮的名 阮需要你來作伴 (Call my name… I need your companion…)
人生的路途阮愛你牽阮走 (My life journey, I’d love you to carry my hand across~~~)

Really touching~ Dedicated to my mother~~

Sometime we fall down and can’t get back up
We’re hiding behind skin that’s too tough
How come we don’t say I love you enough
Till it’s too late, it’s not too late

Our hearts are hungry for a food that won’t come
We could make a feast from these crumbs
And we’re all staring down the barrel of a gun
So if your life flashed before you, what would you wish you would’ve done

Yeah… gotta start
Looking at the hand of the time we’ve been given here
This is all we got and we gotta start thinkin’ it
Every second counts on a clock that’s tickin
Gotta live like we’re dying

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day
To turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say,
Gotta live like we’re dying

(Continued after the jump)
Well if you plane fell out of the skies
Who would you call with your last goodbyes
Should be so careful who we live out of our lives
So when we long for absolution, there’ll be no one on the line

Yeah… we gotta start lookin’ at the hand of the time we’ve been given here
This all we got and we gotta start thinkin it
Every second count on a clock that’s tickin
Gotta live like we’re dying

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day
to turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say,
Gotta live like we’re dying

Like we’re dying oh…
Like we’re dying
Like we’re dying oh…
Like we’re dying

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day
to turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say,
Gotta live like we’re dying

You never know a good thing until it’s gone
you never see a crash until its head on
All these people right when we’re dead wrong,
You never know a good thing till it’s gone

Yeah… we gotta start lookin’ at the hand of the time we’ve been given here
this all we got and we gotta start thinkin it
Every second count on a clock that’s tickin
Gotta live like we’re dying

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day
to turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say,
Gotta live like we’re dying

Like we’re dying oh…
Like we’re dying
Like we’re dying oh…
Like we’re dying

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day
to turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say,
Gotta live like we’re dying

I will describe that more in a coming post when I go back and retrieve some of the old old photo showing me dressing like “Smooth Criminal” Hahaha…

But now, just want to share with you my most favorite Michael Jackson video. It’s not “Smooth Criminal” (maybe I think too criminal for my childhood), not “Thriller” (maybe too horrifying for my childhood), not “Bad”(too bad for my childhood), not “Black or White” (too racist for my childhood).

It’s “Remember the Time” ! I like it so so much ! The full video is so entertaining with cool magic tricks and storyline. So here it is. Hope it gives you as much memories as I do.

Remain Silence

I choose to remain silent. Not because I don’t care. I care. I always try to pay attention to those things happened around (especially when they release RPK from ISA retention, the blogger that rocked the “Malaysia government”). It’s because TOO MANY things happened and I simply don’t have the time to write and reply to every stuff that I pay attention to.

Yea…

But I choose to write on American Idol. Yup! Nothing really to do with my country, nor my future. Just to recommend to all of you during these tough time (whether you having examinations or looking for jobs), the latest American Idol David Cook and the runner-up David Archuleta (the double Davids) are going to release their first ever album by next week! They are so good friends and rivals that they release their album one week after each other!!! How good friends they are right??

David VS David!

To make things even more interesting, the albums both uses their own name as title and both released 1 single before that… Hmm…

Just a quick review. On their singles. Cook’s “Light On” is dull. His voice is still great but I think the problem is with the song. On contrast, Archuleta’s “Crush” did really show me a real crush is!! Haha.. First round, Archuleta scores!! Cook you better buttons up!!

Will listen to their full albums and give a short review if I got the time.

Music Videos!

Music video wise, Archuleta’s “Crush” won again with the colors of the video and really relates with the song so well. Cook’s “Light On” just another “Daughtry”-like or rockers-like music video which I got fed up after watching 1 time. Not creative enough! Both got the face but Cook’s too dark in the video while Archuleta got the shine on!! Wakakaka… Also got more girls in his video … hahaha …

So Archuleta earns back his name this time!!

To see the effect of the videos you must watch both original and the rock cover of the song UMBRELLA by Rihana (rock cover by Vanilla Sky)

Original UMBRELLA by Rihana

Rock Cover by Vanilla Sky

Review: What Makes the Video *Success*?

Original : Rihana sitting pose

versus with a more *eye-opening* pose …

Not disgusting enough? Then we have the sexy body touching part by Rihana…

VS

Guess he’s a bit over enjoying himself with the touching… Then we have Rihana playing the CGI water effect…

VS the REALITY WATER PLAYING experience…

Guess that’s all?! Not yet!! Then we have the talented Rihana doing the difficult ballet move…

Then we have the *princess* (omg what color is that outfit… …)

Thought finally we got a break?! Here comes the face of the ballet dancer…

*fainted* ?! Don’t !! Cause the show is far from over… Hahaha. .. The most interesting part of the original UMBRELLA video is that Rihana pose *nude* (but of course not shown in the video) for the music video… I’m not sure she’s wearing anything but who cares?! Haha… She’s painted with gold color and dude that’s super hot…

So guess you’re happy now? How about seeing this?

Muahaha… Quick quick thank me for making you losing your appetite for dinner/lunch/breakfast or whatever… this is what we called AMAZING remake!! Hahaha … 

Overall I like the rock version of the song… Not bad (apart from the video they made!! hahaha… … dude it’s too funny til you pew…) And WAIT!! I guess they have made the REAL Rihana TULAN liao …

Malaysia. I still love you.

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Oh yea… I’d like to share two items with you today. A song and a short video clip. Hope you all will like. Coincidently both of them are in French (movie with subtitles). I’m sorry that the song does not come with a subtitle but I’m sure you will like the song and actually somehow grab the meaning. So here goes!

Song “les jours de neige en ville” by Amelie-les-crayons

Original song clip released on the DVD. Amélie wrote this new song after the tsunami in Indonesia, while in Lyon, France, everything was covered with snow. The contrast between horror and peacefulness was so astonishing that she put it on that text “snowy days in town”

Short Video – On S’Embrasse?

On S’Embrasse
Dir. Pierre Oliver / France / 2001
A girl arrives at her audition ten minutes early. Finding it difficult to learn her lines, she approaches a man nearby for help…..

Bravo! Tres bien!!

Merci!!

*Original by Imogen Heap, Choir by Achordants…

Hide and Seek – Imogen

Where are we? What the hell is going on?
The dust has only just begun to form,
Crop circles in the carpet, sinking, feeling.
Spin me round again and rub my eyes.
This can’t be happening.
When busy streets a mess with people
would stop to hold their heads heavy.

Hide and seek.
Trains and sewing machines.
All those years they were here first.

Oily marks appear on walls
Where pleasure moments hung before.
The takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this
still life.

Hide and seek.
Trains and sewing machines. (Oh, you won’t catch me around here)
Blood and tears,
They were here first.

Mmm, what you say?
Mm, that you only meant well? Well, of course you did.
Mmm, what you say?
Mm, that it’s all for the best? Ah of course it is.
Mmm, what you say?
Mm, that it’s just what we need? And you decided this.
Mmm what you say?
What did she say?

Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth.
Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut-outs.
Speak no feeling, no I dont believe you.
You don’t care a bit. You don’t care a bit.

Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth.
Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut-outs.
Speak no feeling, no I don’t believe you.
You don’t care a bit. You don’t care a bit.

You don’t care a bit.
You don’t care a bit.
You don’t care a bit.
You don’t care a bit.
You don’t care a bit.

*I’m sorry because I didn’t realise the original video is not available to be embeded in this blog. So here’s another choir cover of the song which I feel very nice!!

Yea… I guess it’s time for the Linkin Park Live in Singapore full report. It’s going to be a long post so I’m going to give you some preview first… hehe…

   (source: MTVAsia.com)

Some more I went for their meet and greet ! Means that I shoke their hands!! Omg that’s one great experience… For full report and more photos about the meet and greet please continue reading..

So, it’s 13th November 2007. I have waited for more than 2 months. I bought this concert ticket on 9th September via internet.

Wakaka… crazy huh? Well, you cannot say that because everyone has things that they really passionate about and once they found it they would do anything to achieve it. So Linkin Park is my passion. Long story… I heard their music some time in 2002 and I got addicted. And since then I knew this is the one band I’m gonna love forever. Hahaha… Now okay adi coz last time I even more crazy, talk about sending 123 entries for a single competition just to win their autographed plaque and some CDs… and a 3D-model with their figures and send the BIG BOX to the music company (for a competition also), calling non-stop to HITZ.fm for 2 weeks just to get through the line and get the chance to win complimentary tickets to their concert few years ago. Yea I was really crazy.

I can say that I am me more or less with their influnce. I was more nerdy last time. Haha… Their music shape my life style and personality in a positive way (proven by my close friend, Kenny, he used to be very active in blog but now no more, sad, or else you’ll see very nice post from him, i’m still waiting for him to come back and blog…).

So back to the story.. Surprisingly I still could take a nap few hours before the show because I was xxx too tired that time. Then I got a call and it’s Tze Wei. She said she got a complimentary ticket so we went out together. Haha… The venue was Singapore Indoor Stadium and I didn’t know how to go… I just know it’s far from the map I got. So we just went out lar … haha …

So on the way we talked and talked and we reached at the Kallang MRT station. We were totally lost at one point because we couldn’t locate the bus station with Bus No. 11. Luckily I spotted a guy with the same T-shirt I was wearing and we curi-curi follow him and DENG DENG DENG DENG !! We found the bus stop and we saw some fellow going to the concert too!

We reached the Singapore Indoor stadium sharp sharp at 6pm! OMG my meet and greet will bring people in another 10 minutes so I quickly rushed here and there, after being pointed by some clueless fellow for nothing, at last I managed to get my meet and greet wrist band at 6.10pm and I waited at the admin entrance. I bid farewell to Tze Wei as she would come in later (her complimentary ticket was numbered seating…). So this is it!

 the ‘holy wrist band’ that would bring me to LP very very soon!

So I quickly tagged it on my left wrist and waited and waited and waited … … ZzzzzZzZzzzZZZZzzz … Finally they let us in on 6.50pm. WTF? I thought they wrote 6.10pm on the confirmation letter? Never mind, I’m gonna meet LP so no big deal!!! Haha… my dream in 5 years finally will come true! I was so excited until…

Meet & Greet Session

Continue to read more!

I was totally blank when I met them! Haha… I dunno, but I managed to say hi and shoke their hands!! haha… They were being very very nice to all of the fans here. They let us take their pictures and they were acting very casual (just me, the dumb guy acting like i am dumb.. hahaha). Chester even played with the kids after me. I met Chester first and he helped to sign my M2M booklet. I kinda slipped through and he got his attention to the kids behind me. Hmm.. I was like… ahem… Chester, may I shake your hand? hahaha… He smiled and we shoke hands … OMG! (you can start the OMG counter … hahaha.. dunno how many times I’d mention it in my mind! I’m just like a small kid meeting my fantasy!!) Then before I moved on to Joe, the girl before me (if not wrong she’s Suen from Malaysia)… She asked if she could hug him because she’s his big fans! Joe was like, “Huh? Hug Me? No… Hug Him…” and point to Phoenix.. Haha.. Very funny. Actually we couldn’t hug or having close contact with them as it would bring up chaos to the fans behind us and everyone would want to hug them… haha…

So it’s my turn, it’s kinda fast though, Phoenix signed my album and I raise up my hand and he shoke it… with a firm and satisfied look. Haha… Thanks! Then it’s Rob. And it’s Brad. They were chatting and I need to *ahem ahem to get his attention back to me to shake my hand… hahaha… I’m such a bastard… haha… And last but not least… my favorite of all the time… it’s Mike Shinoda!! Haha… Actually I kinda like notice him when I walked in from the main door, and he was throwing the signing pen off the table to play with his bodyguard… MUAHAHA… Childish like me…

So I let him signed the album. And he looked at me and I looked at him. Then I realised the thing I wanted him to do. “Could you please write ‘To B.M.’ on the top of the page here?” Haha.. I was too nervous and my voice was … *ahem *ahem… … a bit different… So he asked “B.M.?” And there you go… We shoke a firm one and he gave a “THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT” look and I left… …

Those moments were great great great and OMG!!! haha… here are the pictures… Courtesy of my LPU friend ABK… Thanks to her we all got this up-close pictures!! Hehe…

 Chester… he did a superb great job that night!

 Mr. Joe Hahn… hehe… funny guy…

 Then the next one is the bassist, Phoenix!!

 and it’s Rob, the drummer!

 then the guitarist, Brad with his hair! Bravo!

 the last but not least… Mike Shinoda, the rapper/guitarist/keyboardist … yo he’s my idol!

 Haha.. I told you this is going to be a bumper issue… Now the concert!

Concert

So we finished signing by around 7.20pm but we were told that once we got the meet and greet session we couldn’t get the priority entrance. So we looked at the queue… WTF?! It’s like gonna take YEARS to get into the stadium… the line was like … well … I don’t know how to say… it’s LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG!!! Suddenly masterkenobi (yeah, another LPU friend) called her friends and we tried our luck one more time with the admission crews… Surprisingly he was looking for us too! “Hey boys and girls, I was looking for all of you. Just now you all rushed too fast and I couldn’t have the chance to say to you. You all can get in now!” and we jumped the queue for like … … 1000 people?! That’s a BIG QUEUE JUMP! hahaha… So it’s worth to join LPU afterall right? haha…

Then we got in and it’s like 7.40pm… still 20 minutes to 8pm but the stadium was still empty yet…

8pm… the stadium was not even hall-filled… so we guess it won’t start in anytime soon…

8.10pm… kinda bored… kinda many people around me already… took some pictures around but it’s too blur… haha

8.30pm… the stadium was almost full… and it’s crowded in PEN A which was the area I was in. But we couldn’t move to anywhere because it’s CROWDED!!! Guess we will have to wait…

8.40pm… STOP the stupid music and play some LP songs!! The organiser just don’t know how to make the LP fans happy…

8.45pm… We heard the guitar testing sound… but disaapointed because nothing came out…

8.50pm… Linkin Park Linkin Park Linkin Park Linkin Park… the fans yelled… … some starting to get impatient…

9.00pm… Light’s out! And everyone was screaming!! Hahaha… I screamed too!!!!

(source: MTVAsia.com)

So videos louder than articles… See these cool videos to feel what I felt that time!! It was totally a blast off! Don’t be too greedy, open one at a time! Haha… if hang dun blame me oh…

This is the opening act! Wake + Given Up and totally COOL when the giant cloth dropped off the stage!

Papercut and Points of Authority covered by Petrified at the front… I was like… it was familiar but what song was that?! hahaha… shame on me! Petrified is one nice song from Fort Minor, by Mike Shinoda and his other friends…

Very nicely done by Chester though it’s already halfway through the concert… he certainly got strong voice… still can sing soft song… GENG!!! VERY TASTY SONG!

Faint – I was almost passed out and fainted halfway during this song… because it’s really too hot and I jumped with my full energy and I felt too old for this… hahaha…

In the End – you should know this song. If not – SHAME ON YOU!!! haha…

Bleed It Out – a song from his new album and it’s the best song to end all these… I like this song from the first time I played their new album and I knew it’s going to be a BIG HIT! hahaha…

Hmm… just a few comments, the show was GREAT and BRILLIANT. But the crowd was just way too OFF. I screamed with the guys and girls around me and we were scolding at the people in front of us (of course they couldn’t hear lar)… They didn’t really JUMP and just stand there for fun… we were like “WTF? you pay SGD150 just to stand there?!” and we were like bringing the crowd around us and behind to jump together with us… ahaha… we were like brothers and though we push each other we did grab each other hands so that we won’t fell … So I guess this is the Chinese proverb 四海之内皆兄弟 (literally translated, ‘4 seas inside all also brothers…’ *.*”)… I guess Singapore may not have the best crowd… sad… especially the ENCORE part.. it’s very very WEAK.. me and my friends (just made…haha) were screaming like hell and no one helped us (well someone did, someone like us… but it’s helpless in the crowd of 10,000 who weren’t willing to help… WTF?!)

So, afterall… it’s STILL a very nice experience to see them playing LIVE and it’s also a very good opportunity for me to spend the SGD150 … haha… omg! But I found it’s worth for me! Cause I really enjoyed throughout the whole show and didn’t you realise that I didn’t take a lot of pictures during the show? Because I said to myself, I can always get these videos later… it’s my show! I paid for it and I will enjoy it!! So did I!!

In the end I did manage to take photo too! Haha…

 managed to get a photo of me at the set… haha…

Then Tze Wei and I met outside of the stadium and we were so high!! She wish she were inside the crowd with me and both of us could jump non-stop because she too, felt the crowd was a bit off and she was ON!! haha… but She couldn’t too ON by herself… hehe… So we were so high that we walked all the way to Geylang to have our supper … hahaha…

Guess it’s a very nice ending right? OK… I still cannot withdraw myself out of the situation…… Still thinking about this all the time… omg… how to study!? HELP ME…

-the Bear, finally I’m done writing this… hahaha…

OK, (tats my roomate… he curi curi use my handphone so now i upload his face to sabo him… muahahaha) I even more happy now to tell you why do I sound so happy… i am just back from the Linkin Park concert live in Singapore Indoor Stadium. Other than the passive crowd I felt the concert was PERFECT and ABSOLUTELY A BLAST!!!

So I was lazying around the whole day before the event. Suddenly Tze Wei called and said she’s coming with me coz she got herself a ticket too! OMG… So we spent almost 2 hours talking crap while getting ourselves appear at Singapore Indoor Stadium on time. As a loyal fans (for almost 4 years…) I got myself a Meet and Greet pass FINALLY !! It’s like my dream come true!! Finally I get the chance to meet all 6 of them in person… face to face… no distance at all! So excited!!

 you need the “holy band” the meet them!! haha…

So we waited and our precious 1 hour was wasted to queue up to meet them. Not to say wasted by I believe the organiser could do it better … … So here are the pictures, I didn’t bring my camera there so I was using my camera phone. More detailed photos will be uploaded once I got the pictures from my friend (meeting online.. other LP fans!!) haha… …

 outside the stadium.. so many fans waiting for the meet and greet!! omg… we got the priority entrance too… but through very special way… tell you more on the next coming episode!!

 this is me … … AFTER the show… T.T

 more ‘holy bands’… lol

So you must be wondering.. what the heckkk is he showing all these nonsense pictures?!?! We want more pictures on the live show!! Well I can say “BUY THE TICKET!!!” to you … hahaha … i paid SGD150 for the show!! hahaha … no la … juz kidding… I didn’t really take much photos during the show because we can always find the photos from newspaper and websites but if you were wasting time to take photos you will miss the ESSENCE of the concert … … haha … DEEP right? by the way my friend, Tze Wei was sitting at numbered seat… So she managed to get some BIG picture… it’s really BIG… let me show you…

  courtesy of Tze Wei… For the second picture, point your finger to the exactly middle on the picture, go down by 5mm, yea, I was standing there…

oh yea, let you all syok syok a bit, uploaded 3 video clips (trust me it’s very very very short… and blur… but give you the feel la)

 the opening act… very very nice… you can see the shadow when the music started… omg… tats too cool!! haha…

 a part of opening act too…  Song: Given Up

 Pushing Me Away: Piano Version… very very nice ler… … Mike’s playing the piano and Chester’s singing… perfect combination…

To give you some suspense… I will upload a very very special LP photo in the next post after my exam later… and also more on the meet and greet!! hahaha 

The playlist FYI:

• Wake/Given Up
• No More Sorrow
• Lying From You
• Don’t Stay
• Somewhere I Belong
• From The Inside
• Papercut
• Mike rappin’ before a bit of Petrified/Points Of Authority
• In Pieces
• Shadow Of The Day
• Numb
• Pushing Me Away (piano version)
• Breaking The Habit
• Crawling
• The Little Things Give You Away
• What I’ve Done
• Faint

Encore

• One Step Closer
• In The End
• Bleed It Out

Total Time: +- 1 hour 20 minutes

Performance Rating : 9/10 – the 1 point lost due to the crowd… hahaha…

Crowd Performance Rating : 4/10 – too passive… … but luckily i jumped with the guys and girls around me.. we TOTALLY enjoyed and made the ticket price WORTH it !! yo !! 150 bucks jumping!! hahaha…

Special comment: I smelled and also accidentally ‘ate’ hairs coz the guy in front of me has very very long hair and he’s nodding his hair at very high RPM… … try to imagine tat… muahaha…