Friday, August 10, 2007

Posted by maei at 4:04 PM

art, music, and no speakers

have i mentioned that i like JJ Lin's new song? it's called 杀手. and the MV is super cool ^__^ it's rahter morbid, has a bit of a gruesome artistic gothic touch to it. and he looks totally killer psycho in his eyes. has the stalker look, and has totally suitable dance moves to boot.

in all, this is the best JJ Lin has ever looked to me ^__^ i wish i had a psycho killer friend around that looked this good. sigh.

listening to the song on loop. sadded that i've got no speakers. yet. thinking of bringing my 4.1 system into school. now wouldn't that be super cool ^__^ can have my own ktv session in room. think i might drive estelle mad. OOH. speaking of estelle, ezra helped her move her fridge in this morning ^__^ or last night.

oh, i was talking about 杀手. the MTV, the uncensored one, ends with him dismembering the girl and mounting all her separate body parts on different frames. red backdrop and gold frames. and arranged nicely. and the last part he put on was the head, with a tiara on it.

here's the link.

coz i can't seem to get it onto the site >__< sigh. this is only the uncensored mtv. there's apparently a full version that's about 20 mins long. and frm the janus pple, it sounded particularly gruesome. i think i'm going to check it out.

haha, i realise that i type a hell lot faster on my laptop. haha. and tonight there's YAC lessons. and i can hardly sing. my voice is back by about one third. i'm super scared i'll be tempted to sing, which i'm hardly supposed to.

anyway.

mike's at his magical voice of a singer class, and guess what, anselm is in his class too ^__^ it sounds like a nice elective to take. BUT! it clashes with Applied Chem, so i dun think that taking it would be a good idea. since i fought so hard for spaces in the class XP. so now i'm basically sitting back in my room and wishing desperately my speakers were here, coz i'm listening to songs on my laptop's sucky speakers.

alone, and unable to blast music. what a sad predicament.

loading the full version on youtube now. so excited to watch it. but i wonder if it's gonna be really really gory. but it can't get any worse than the forensic thing lynn they all showed me in conrad while i was on night shift.

[warning: unpleasant content]

can you imagine? i was on OVERNIGHT shift and they made me watch a video of a woman being opened up, her skin removed, skull cracked and all her insides put on a surgical table. i suppose it was supposed to be an informative video for doctors and forensic pathologists. but still. urgh.

it was such a methodical approach. like slicing open the skin/scalp. and stuff. i can still remember, but i guess i'l save you guys the gory details.

[unpleasant content over]

*shudders at memory*

there's gonna be a barbecue for all the janus pple next sunday! 19th august ^__^ and tomorrow there's gonna be a dinner for all the OC pple, at fish&co. i wonder how i'm going to get all my tutorials done at this rate. so many core subjects! haha.

can't wait for monday to arrive. there's going to be spanish tutorial!!! i kinda miss it. think i'm pretty rusty by now. the core subjects all look very "engineering"... i wish we had more science classes.

[pauses blogging to watch JJ Lin's video]

[unpauses]

actually, i haven't gotten around to watching it, coz i realised there were 3 parts to it, 10 mins + 10 mins + 2 mins.

so i'm going to wait for all 3 parts to load before watching everything at one shot. just so i can talk here a little longer ^__^ aren't you guys happy to have such a nice narrator?

given that at this point of time, i'm not releasing this blog to the general public yet, i have no idea who is it exactly that i'm talking to. and it's not like my blog has been widely visited even when it was up for public appreciation ^^" my guess is that the tricky spelling of the URL has something to do with it. it took me some time, back when i was learning these musical terms, to pick up the right spelling too. double-pee and double-gee. haha.

i like this blog name. i think it's very apt. don't you think so too? i've removed most of the descriptions of an appoggiatura from the main page, so it doesn't look quite consolidated now, the definitions, just scattered at the top of every page. took me some time yesterday to redefine the parameters for the blog image. the sucky thing about this is tat i can't seem to get the picture to fit the screen nicely. and i like the backdrop too much to change to one of the premade templates done by blogger.

but this skin really limits the functions of the blog. for one, and most importantly, is the comments thing. so sad right. that i have a blog no one can comment on. even a tagboard doesn't suffice man. and YES, for those of you who may come across this in the later future when i re-release this blog, i HAVE a tagboard. you can access it via the bottom-most leaf on the left.

i wonder sometimes, how long it takes pple to figure out how to navigate around my blog ^^"

almost loaded ^__^ tho i can easily start watching the first part and allow the second part to load in the 10 mins it takes to finish the first part, i will be a good host and not leave you guys to your own sad devices while you are here. because you're prolly pretty bored to be reading this in the first place ^__^

sometimes i think that for a person to be keeping up on your blog, it's a sign that the person actually cares about how you're getting on and stuff. unless you course you're like that xiaxue person who blogs for public appeal.

not me. i blog to record my thots, to babble and release pent up stuff, and for future reading purposes. i find that i like to return to my old blogs and read old posts and remember.

on the practical side, it's also to hone my writing skills and to ensure that my ability at expressing myself has not deteriorated to pathetic-ity. haha. tho i'm sure my talent at self-expression is far from previous standards that got certain schoolmates to praise verbally in a real-life conversation.

sigh. the good old days when my english proficiency remained where pple thot i couldn't speak chinese properly. now? i speak with a more than generous scattering of singlish dotting my speech/text/sms. it's not a good thing. even kelvin has commented on it.

but it's not something i regret consciously, coz i think that while having a good grasp of english is super handy in a lot of written tasks and cover letters and blogs and company functions, in the end, it's all about being able to communicate, right?

it would be so weird to use written english standards in normal day-to-day conversations. there are just so many phrases and expressions and terms that simply don't pop up in friendly chats. unless of course your friendly chats consists of full-blown intellectual debates on whether fish actually exist in the deep sea, and it's not the normal deep sea, but the deep sea deeper than the deep sea as we know. ah well.

and the video is loaded, so i'll let my virtual saliva regenerate itself while i stop talking online for a while and watch my 22 minutes worth of violent video.

[pauses blogging]

[unpauses]

it was... pretty cool, tho the dismembering parts, and the shots where you cna actually see what he's done is pretty little. was hoping there would be more. sort of. and the audio/video was not veyr synchronised. think the person who uploaded it screwed up super badly on that. sigh. all in all, slightly disappointed.

i guess if i can, i'll see if i can get my hands on the single. then i'll get to watch it in it's full gory (you didn't read that wrongly) on a proper tv, instead of having to squint at the subtitles and listen super hard on laptop speakers to understand what he's saying. think i'll cover more on this gruesome topic later, coz shieh yuan and huishan are coming up for a visit ^__^ yay.

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