3 Reasons

3 Reasons why you'd come to my blog:

1. You want to know what's going on in my life. In other words, you love me and can't keep away.

2. You want to know entertainment sh!t, music, movies and the likes, which has always been a big part of my life. (since Sec 1. where'd all those UK Pop mags come from?)

3. You have a great sense of humour, are cool, and love art.

Rounding off this week...

"Love to me is a lot of things.

Love is respect
Love is commitment
Love is honesty
Love is trust
Love is not just love

Love is all those things combined
When you're ready to really combine all those things
That's when you deal with love."

That's a quote from Britney for this week. It really is meaningful. I guess I still have a lot to learn about Love.

I know my blog's been kind of boring (must be the depression I'm suffering from because of the duty), but I'll be sure to spice things up next week. I have orderly duty tomorrow, which basically requires me to be the office boy for my company for a day. If there's anything, just SMS me my handphone (I'll be bored). Yep.

As a special treat for you guys, here's a mashup of Gwen's Hollaback Girl and Ciara's 1,2 Step: http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0QTEBTAUKHMLQ06VKDJUMTZGZ4 If you want more, you gotta keep coming back here!

Till next week, take care and Keep Your Cool! 0530!

W-a-s-t-e-d

Took this 'artistic' pic of me lying on the ground. (Don't my back view look good?) Jie Yu took it when we were at the hotel room after prom. Looking at the cards, alcohol bottle and rose petels all around, I guess this guy must be pretty wasted! Haha!

Talk about indulging in the vices of life!

The Return of Ben Adams

Now do you remember the boyband who gave you Everytime, Like A Rose, Same Old Brand New You and Caught In The Middle? You're right - a1. (My favourite boyband ever. Balls to you if you think otherwise!) They visited Singapore more often than any other foreign act bothered to and have since broke up.

However, 23-year-old Ben Adams (as you may have remembered was the bloke with curtains for hair) has since been waiting for his time to return to the music scene. The distracting fringe (which I disliked immensely) is gone and he's developed an image of brooding maturity. With his first single, Sorry, slated for release in the UK on the 30th of May (Monday), music fans and critics alike have been full of praise for Sorry.

A review by Music Week with regards to his 'debut' single, "Following the success it had with Natasha Bedingfield last year, Sony BMG offshoot Phonogenic has good reason to be optimistic. The first fruit of the former A1 star's solo career is a remarkably convincing effort that showcases a more sophisticated direction which is still utterly pop and is the closest any UK artist has yet got to capturing the feel of Justin Timberlake."

He's not an amateur in this industry so I suppose we'll be expecting huge things from this guy. Watch this space! If you're already too excited about the whole thing there's no better way to get more than to visit - http://www.benadams.uk.com/uk/!

D i f f e r e n t

I've gone through enough in life and I see the patterns over and over again. Friends are people. People change. Back when I'd spend all the time I had with them; now I only meet up with them every week. Sometimes when I am in search of someone to go somewhere or do something with me, I hesitate, and then almost always I let someone else make the first move. It's not because I don't wish to take the initiative. It's just that sometimes I feel so unsure of myself that I don't dare to ask people to commit a certain amount of time to spend with me when they might have the chance to be doing something that they enjoy more, or be with people they'd rather be with.

Which is why sometimes I think I'd rather do things myself (what an anti-social freak!) than ask someone to accompany me. Be it to get that new shirt or to spend some time under the sun, I don't want people to feel obliged that they have to do what I like to do, see what I like to see, or listen to the music I like to listen. Now I know this is beginning to sound kind of strange. But we can't all be the same. And I'd prefer to be home early to chill most of the time than to stay out late.

I'm tired of the superficial. I want to pursue the magical stuff in life.

I wonder if I have to do it alone.

Jolin Tsai - Ye Man You Xi

Who says that I don't listen to Mandopop?

With Jolin's latest offering J-Game, she has managed to combine her bubbly brand of pop with a tinge of sexiness, this time with the leading track, Ye Man You Xi. With it's infectiously cute rap and sassy chorus, it's not a song that you'd be able to get out of your head. Frantic baselines and music that sounds like it was stolen from computer games of the early 90s combine to give the very stylishly produced track a unique sound.

Despite it sounding like a happy-go-lucky song, it's all about the game of life, standing up and facing the challenges put forth by Love, also metaphorically displayed by the song's story about animals in the wild fighting for their right to survival (sounds a bit farfetched but that was from the Jolin interview in the CD). And the dancing for the video rivals the best in the industry, and by that I mean the likes of her Western counterparts.

And if you're wondering which CD I bought 2 weeks ago when I had to choose between Edison, Jolin and Daniel Bedingfield, I suppose you've figured it out already! The album is a fab piece of work! Look out for Tian Kong, guaranteed to be sung at every K-Box around the island!

All hail, Madopop's princess - Jolin!