Playlist

I have a weird taste in music. No, i'm not into the screaming-your-lungs-out punk rock music. Rather, i'm very random.

From Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies to Carlos Santana, from Much Ado's Sigh No More to L'arc en ciel's Flower, from Chris Brown's Forever to DBSK's Mirotic, from Gregorian Chants to Utada Hikaru.

I switch genres constantly in the same random way my mind works.

An online friend once asked me what makes a song great. All songs are great. It's just that i listen to the ones that catches my attention at that moment.

When watching dramas or movies, i'm sometimes more interested in the song playing in the background than in the scene itself. e.g. There's a scene in Grey's Anatomy (which i barely remember) where McDreamy reconciles with Merideth. It was supposed to be a sweet scene but all i remember is the song in the background, Fool's Gold by Adrienne Pierce.

Right now, I'm into this Korean band that sound so jazzy, Clazziquai. Dance a.k.a. Hold Your Tears has been playing in my head for a while now.



What catches my attention? Unique blends of instruments, a catchy tune, a good voice. Guitars are what makes me listen to most rock songs, a unique guitar rift. The first 15 seconds are the most crucial for me. A song that makes me stop whatever i'm doing and listen is a must-have for me.

The Perfect NBSB Song

I love the lyrics, it's the perfect song for me and my roomies.

what i can remember
is alot like water
trickling down a page
of the most beautiful colors
i can't quite put my
finger down on the moment
that i became like ... this

you see, i'm the bravest girl
you will ever come to meet
and yet i shrink down to nothing
at the thought of someone
really seeing me
i think my heart is wrapped around
and tangled up in winding weeds

but i don't wanna go on living
being so afraid of showing
someone else my.. imperfections
even though my feet are trembling
and every word i say comes stumbling
i will bare it all.. watch me unfold
unfold

these hands that i hold
behind my back are
bound and broken by my own doing
and i can't feel
anything, anymore
i need a touch to remind me
i'm still real..

my soul
it's dying to be free
i can't live the rest of my life
so guarded
it's up to me to choose..
what kind of life i lead.

cause i don't wanna go on living
being so afraid of showing
someone else my.. imperfections
even though my feet are trembling
and every word i say comes stumbling
i will bare it all.. watch me unfold
unfold

i will allow someone to love me
i will allow someone to love me...

love me.. love me...

Happy after once upon these days

Needing the diversion of a "feel good" movie after weeks of depression bouts, I watched several movies including the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. I find myself once again drawn to the songs. "These Days" by Chantal Kreviazuk (Leaving on a Jet Plane, that Chantal) struck me. It eloquently and beautifully conveyed what i'm feeling. I need my bestfriends. I miss them. I want to say these very lines, "Make me a storybook and write me away from here I need a different now." If that were possible, I'd wish for a different now. And i'm certainly willing to "lend you my tears
if I could borrow your smile."
I remember that we used to be that for each other, shoulders to cry on, staunch defenders, loyal-to-a-fault friends, keepers of our hearts, sisters of choice, bestfriends for life. I miss them and days, long ago, when we were carefree enough to believe in "happily ever after." If i could bottle up those years of blissful youth, i would have drunk myself to oblivion with those. To friendship...

What's this life anyway
What's it to you and me
What's it to anyone
Who are we suppose to be

Make me a storybook
And write me away from here
I need a different now

Where we can
Wear each other
For a while and I'll lend you my tears
If I could borrow your smile
And we'll get through tomorrow
Some other day
Happy after
Once upon these days

There's four roads to anywhere
Four ways to everything
We were unbreakable
We spoke our destiny
Lets take a moment now
Oh and go where we never go
Lets make a new world now

Where we can
Wear each other
For a while and I'll lend you my tears
If I could borrow your smile
And we'll get through tomorrow
Some other day
Happy after
Once upon these days

Then one day we'll find
when we're looking back at this time
Wondering how we've come so far
From this and when we close our eyes

What's this life anyway
What's it to you and me
What are we doing here
And who are we suppose to be

I'll take a better world
Oh I'll take anything
I'll take our a little world now

Where we can
Wear each other
For a while and I'll lend you my tears
If I could borrow your smile
And we'll get through tomorrow
Somehow today
Happy after
Once upon these days
Once upon these days
Once upon these days

Not my Song

A friend asked me to look for this song. I listened to it but it's not me. I, however, would like someone to sing me this song.



On The Side of Me - By: Corrinne May

I'm not the easiest person to love
I'm often the one who lets things go unresolved

Yet you choose to be
On the side of me
On the side of me
Yet you choose to be on the side of me
On the side of me

I'm not too proud of some things
I've done in my life
The skeletons in my closet
Are too big for me to hide

Yet you choose to be
On the side of me
On the side of me
Blessed Charity
You're on the side of me
On the side of me

Everyone needs a friend to hold
When it's cold outside
And there's no place to go
Everyone needs a friend to hold
All alone I cried
There was no place to go
I remember when nobody cared
But you

I'm not the easiest person to love
But you, you've opened your heart to show me what I'm worth

'Cause you choose to be
On the side of me
On the side of me
What a mystery
You're on the side of me
On the side of me

Everyone needs a friend to hold
When it's cold outside
And there's no place to go
Everyone needs a friend to hold
All alone I cried
There was no place to go

I remember when nobody cared
Nobody cared
But you...

Yeah you choose to be
On the side of me
On the side of me

The Nota Concert...

... was a definite high.
The 2 weeks of endless and tiring practice was worth it. My throat burned like i've swallowed pure acid but I was soaring with adrenaline rush.
Last Saturday, we held a concert for 3 of the law school orgs - Forte (for the bands, rockers, and musicians), Salsa (for the dancers), and Choir (for the singers) at Blue Leaf, Fort.
From morning until the last possible minute, we were practicing, rehearsing, reaching notes and matching tempos. And then the night began. I wish I had some way to record the whole thing because it was one of my best experiences ever. The noise, the panic, the touch-ups, the curtain calls, the numbers, and the awe and shouts from the audience. Everything seemed like a blur now and pretty soon, i'll forget all about it. But it's been three days, and I still feel the high it gave me. I love it! This is the feeling that I want to keep for awhile longer even when i can't remember everything and everyone that night.

Guardian Angel

This song is called Guardian Angel by Hong Jun Yang. I fell in love with while watching Angel, I love you aka PS i love you.



Last night was a blast! the last "inuman" before midterms. Patty, Rach, Eunice, Sam, Maj, Chris, Dae, Ces, Hazel and I (after a grueling day of studying) decided to have a midnight "break" from being nerds. Leaving our books at Starbucks, we went to Good Earth and drank.

Eunice: There's nothing wrong with putting your best foot forward. After all, it's still your foot.

un na! Thank you, girls, for a great great end to a boring day!

Right now, i'm off to Starbucks to study. I needs lots of luck next week for midterm exams.

Tada, Kimi wo Aishiteru (I just love you)

I love this one... My addiction at present.
Renai Shashin (photographs of love) by Ai Otsuka.
I admire this artist. great composer. lovely voice. beautiful music.
She also sang the main theme for Hana Yori Dango 1 entitled "Planetarium."
This one is the ending theme of the movie Heavenly Forest (Tada, Kimi wo Aishiteru) which stars Aoi Miyazaki and Hiroki Tamaki. It's an adaptation of Ichikawa Takuji's novel, Renai Shashin: Mou Hitotsu no Monogatari. Ichikawa Takuji also wrote Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu which was also made into a film entitled "Be With You." Both are touching love stories that ranked top in my favorite movies list.

In My Playlist - Japanese Music

Japanese rock music.
L'Arc En Ciel. Gackt. Malice Mizer. Glay. Miyavi. Gazette. Kaggra. Dir En Grey.
Here's a picture of Hyde (vocalist of L'Arc En Ciel) -->
Japanese female singers.
Utada Hikaru. Mika Nakashima. Angela Aki. Ayumi Hamasaki. Yuna Ito. Anna Tsuchiya. Olivia. Kawabe Chieco. Ai Otsuka. Bonnie Pink.
Japanese pop music.
V6. Arashi. Kat-tun. NewS. midnight Pumpkin.
~All the amazing songs in the intro and ending of animes. Listening to the music even if i don't understand the lyrics makes it less distracting. I actually get to hear the beauty of the song. The head-banging drums, the awesome guitar solos, the vocal range, and the other instruments that make them so unique. It doesn't hurt that some of them feature really kawaii (cute) musicians.

One Perfect Day by Adrienne Pierce

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I don't know you
Not sure I want to
You're far away, so far, so far
My resistance, it's the distance
I am far away, so far, so far

Just one day, it's over

CHORUS:
One, one perfect day
Let's keep, keep it that way
It probably wouldn't have worked out anyway
One, one perfect day
Let's keep, keep it that way
We probably wouldn't have got along anyway
Anyway

Stand on the star and close eyes, close
turn around, turn around till you fall down
Stand on the star, and close your eyes
are we getting closer
to the ground

Just one day, it's over

CHORUS

But I'll keep you still, still I will
I'll keep you still
Like a photograph, like a photograph I will
I will keep you still

We talked and on and on never wondering why
on the lawn until dawn staring up at the sky
And our mouths they were moving, our minds they were kissing
You smiled and said it is what you had been missing

I'll close my eyes, tell me pretty lies
Oh I won't speak
No, I won't say a word
I'll close my eyes, tell me pretty lies
cause when I speak the lines, the lines get blurred

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