Joy Division

I'm on Joy Division mode.

Blaming it on @zulhelmimalek and @comradenami

Jumpa So7 lagi!!

Aku gi konsert Sheila On 7 malam tadi.

Birthday bash diorang yang ke 13. Honestly, I’m not really into SO7. I listen to them only because Aisyah does… Album diorang yang aku gila-gila tahu pun album kedua, Kisah Klasik tu.. 07 Des, bolehla sket2.. tapi latest two albums ni… tatau langsung! Nama je duk kat Jogja, kota So7.. tapi tak dengar. Wahahahhaha!!!

Anyways, aku tau pasal konsert ni sebab status NK…

NK ngan aku.. jari aku cover flash.. bodow! XD

biasala.. dia kan BIG FAN So7.. sampaikan Duta personally wish dia birthday… wakakaka! So, dah tau.. mestila aku gedik nak gi… lagipun arini kan cuti, esok pun cuti, exam baru habis, scholar baru masuk… makcik kayoo!!!! Huhu~ Maka, aku pun mengajaklaaa hangout buddies aku, Encik Jernih *clap clap clap* dan Encik Zul *silence….* untuk temankan aku gi…

hoho... orang-orang yang gi gig ngan aku... zul, balvin ngan jern...

Nak gi concert semangat giler! Aku sampai beli t-shirt untuk derang sain! Hohoho!! Aku ngan Zul kuar dinner dlu.. memula nak gi makan kat Nanamia, tapi penuh plak (plus pizza derang abis)... pindah ke PizzaHut.. penuh gak.. alih-alih makan kat 3 Nyonya plak... terbang duit aku... isk.... T_T

Pkul 9 malam dah ada dah kat Inna Garuda. Konsert start pkul 10 malam. Kan bagus aku datang lecture macam tu? Wahhahaha! Tapi tiket counter bukak awal.. aku rasa dalam pkul 9:30 tu, kitorang dah kat dalam Republic dah (Republic tu kat Hotel Inna Garuda). Jern belikan tiket, mestila dia tak belanja... tiket dalam Rp25 000... murah weii!! Cuba bahagi 3... dalam RM8 lebih jekk!! Hua hua hua!!!! Yang lawaknye, takde tiket.. derang tulis tiket untuk brapa orang tu kat kertas order.. lawak giler! Aku rasa Jern simpan kot kertas tu... nanti aku tanya dia...

derang cap tangan... tanda dah beli tiket.. rasa macam gi theme park plak! btw, kat Malaysia still buat cam ni ke? tak kan?

Pkul 10, ada opening band, band Kanda.. aku tak pernah dengar.. but then again, aku mana dengar band2 dari Indonesia neh! Hahaha , so memang aku takleh pakai… tapi derang baru release satu album.. dan dua single… boleh tahan gak arr band neh.. semua ahli bandnye comel-comel belaka.. almaklumlah.. adik-beradik! Hahahaha! Aku saspek gitaris ngan basis dia kembar… sebab muka serupa… XD

Kanda Band.. comel weyh vocalist dia!

Aku kat dalam tu.. dah panas dah… mana taknye, ramai orang, tolak-tolak lagi.. wohooo! Macam mana aku leh tahan pun aku tatau.. hoooo... anyway, pas Kanda Band tu, ada DJ perform.. DJ pe ntah.. aku tak dengar. Waha! But before that ada bagi free cd.. biasala aku.. malas nak berebut.. so tak dapat… free cds after DJ tu pun aku malas nak amik.. hahaha!

And then… Sheila On 7 keluar… all hell breaks lose!! Pushing, screaming… hoho! Aku dari 4th row, ntah macam mana, aku ikut Aida, boleh sampai front freaking stage! Aku kat DEPAN STAGE AND DUTA DEPAN MATA AKU SAMPAI BOLEH PEGANG!!! o_O.

muka Duta yang poyo.. LOL!

Tapi memang kena tolak, siku, rambut dan segala macamla... urgh. Dan majority budak yang gi concert malam tadi, bebudak sekolah. Aku tataula derang ni tau adat concert ke tak, tapi boleh plak mintak nak balik tempat derang berdiri tadi pas derang kuar.

Duta ngan Eross... Ngaha!!

Hello, ni dahlah takde seat, berasak-asak, ko bleh plak nak mintak orang bagi tempat ko diri balik? Nak gerak macam mana bai? Lepas tu plak, boleh plak marah-marah aku menyelit. Haha, kalau tak reti maintain tempat sendiri, pegila duk belakang! Banyak space and takde orang tolak... cakap pasal budak-budak pempuan yang menolak untuk duk depan neh.... dahlah tak reti maintain tempat sendiri (aku dah bebel pasal tu), pastu tak reti-reti plak nak jaga diri... Boleh pulak pas dah sampai depan, tak tahan panas and kena tolak, bukannye nak ke belakang (yang lebih lapang) boleh plak stay situ... THEN PENGSAN. Fuck.

Sebab ada orang pengsan, concert So7 kena cut short. Derang sempat main lagu dari first, second and third album jek…. The last two tak dapat.. bodoh bangang punya budak-budak! Total pengsan: 5 orang. Siap ada yang shock lagi. Haihhh….

Tapi, Duta memang cool. Bila derang diberitahu kena hentikan performance, dia nego dlu, siap nak buat akustik lagi kat luar! Too bad management tak bagi…uuuu…. Tapi kan… Duta tu… lawak giler!! Aksi dia on stage.. memang priceless! Dia melompat, buat muka bongok, gaya-gaya lawak… oh! Best!! Hahaha! Siap salin baju on stage lagi! W00t!!!

duta yang salin baju atas stage sambil korek hidung...-_-;;

Lepas gig tu, kitorang gi carik Duta kat luar.. nak mintak AUTOGRAPH!! Hahaha! Aku dapat dari Duta, Adam ngan Brian.. Eross… Eross takde! NK cakap, dia memang tak kuar jumpa fans pas gig/concert… sebab fans banyak molest dia.. hohoho! Kesian Eross… Kitorang bergambar arr ngan Duta! W00t! Dan, oleh sebab aku ni orang yang gedik… aku gi mintak tandatangan ISTERI DUTA!!!!! Hahahahahhaha!!!

Aida sebab kasut dia patah, dia mintak Duta sain kasut dia.. sungguh tidak boleh belah! Setelah tamat sesi sain-menyain, gambar...

ye, ye... zul ngan jern.. aku tak amik gambar ngan duta malam tadi..

dan pas dengar citer Dikky pasal budak shock, aku ajak Jern n Zul gi lepak jap.. so kitorang pun gi arr McD.. sebelum balik umah...

By the way... AKU BUSUK GILER PAS GIG TU! Argh!!!!

Hitoiro - One Color

Another single flower petal is torn off
And I don't have the power to stop the wind
As you break down crying on the far shore
This is the least I can give you in parting
You can forget the promise we made that day

How can a love that was just a step too late
Tear everything apart like this?
Once again the stardust flows
And I don't have the power to stop time
Say a prayer, you only need one
It's okay to wish for your own happiness

We allowed pain of the same color
While condemning mistakes of a different color
We lit fires of the same color
While hiding doors of a different color

Now a faded flower scatters for you
Now a faded star scatters for you
In your dreams, good night

How can a spoonful of love that got left out
Ruin everything like this?
On the street corner, it looks like another squall will hit
And I don't have an umbrella to guard my wounds
Find the exit, you only need one
It's okay to search for your own happiness

We beat rhythms of the same color
While silencing footsteps of a different color
We painted scenery of the same color
While shutting away seasons of a different color

Now a faded night scatters for you
Now a colored morning comes for you
In your dreams, good night

Sweet dreams, baby
Sweet dreams, baby

If someday we meet somewhere again
Will we be able to try again? Is there anything left?
Time's about to overtake us, but we can't reset it
Don't cry, kindness isn't weakness

We allowed pain of the same color
While condemning mistakes of a different color
We lit fires of the same color
While hiding doors of a different color

Now a colored flower blooms for you
Now a colored star falls for you
In your dreams, good night
Sweet dreams, baby
Sweet dreams, baby

Song: Hitoiro by Nakashima Mika
Translation by Megchan [www.megchan.com]

Saje layan jiwang memalam ni… hehe… Lagipun lagu ni pasal persahabatan, bukan pasal boyfriend pun~
Lalalalala~

Oiran/Courtesan

Exam is next week, and I only read two lecture notes… *gasp*
Let’s ignore that fact friends…

So today I’m gonna express my love towards Shiina Ringo the “gureto”!
Currently, I’m in love with her song Oiran, which actually means courtesan/ upper-class prostitute. Don’t ask me why she named it that way; she’s just like that (like a song titled Yokushitsu/Bathroom… so just let it go).

The song started out with self-consciousness, as the girl stated the different in their status,

"I know I don’t quite measure up against you"

Which may means intellectually, socially or economically. And also she did say that their meeting was purely coincidental, a meeting arranged by fate

“The whole context in which we met was innocent”

She was thoroughly charmed by the guy, but it wasn’t her who called the shots, she played right into the guy’s arm (is this sentence correct? Herm..)

“Your charming ways deserve the blame for our time”
“It wasn’t me who led, your words spoke confidence”

Then the song progresses to the first bud of love, where she totally adore the smile on her lover’s face

“Like a flower in spring that blooms to life so radiant”

And also the first bit of possessiveness, where she wants to keep the guy only to herself

“Let it be only me forever since I want it more”
“Give it only to me please”

Come the chorus, where everything is all right as long as they are together. The world is beautiful when you’re in love.

“Moonlight showers down on you like flower blossoms”
“Somehow let me live this dream with you, endlessly”

Somehow, she suspected that she isn’t the only one in her lover’s life. The fact that she doesn’t really know him bothers her

“You hide your thoughts and shroud yourself in mystery”

But she can feel it, especially when he holds her near

“When you leaned against my shoulder I did notice it”

The mystery is driving her crazy, but whenever she asked him, he always managed to dodge the questions

“You’re quick and bright so pacify my complaints”

His sweet, gentle way makes it more difficult for her, and she felt like a monster for being jealous without any apparent reason

“Trapped in this room, suffocating in your niceties”
“I’m losing my mind to more fits of jealousy”

If not being treated as a princess will get her his heart, she’s willing to do that

“Come on right now, no need to treat me nice anymore”

However, it has reached a stage where she doesn’t trust herself to be with him anymore, because maybe she know that she will keep on hurting herself

“Somehow I want to hide myself somewhere away from you”

So all in all, the song is about falling in love and hurting oneself with one’s love. Like a prostitute’s love, where she knows that she will never get the man she love, even though he told her that she’s the only one. There will always be a nagging voice in her head that told her that she’s not the only one, and she knew absolutely nothing of her lover, maybe not even his real name.

A befitting title don’t you think?

Love is Blind - Shiina Ringo

Love is blind
Love is only sorrow
Love is no tomorrow
Since you went away
Love is blind
How well I remember
In the heat of summer
Pleasure, winter fades

How long will it take
Before I can't remember
Memories I should forget?
I've been burning
Since the day we met

Love is blind
Love is without a mercy
Love is now you've hurt me
Now you've gone away
Love is blind
Love is no horizon
And I'm slowly dying
Here in yesterday

In the morning waken
To the sound of weeping
Someone else should weep for me
Now it's over
Lover, let me be

Love is blind
Love is your caress
Love is tenderness
And momentary pain
Love is blind
How well I remember
In the heat of summer
Pleasure, winter fades

the video is actually for another song of hers, "Ringo no Uta". but anyways, enjoy the music and lyric of Love is Blind! XD

The Amateur Transplants

a friend of mine gave me the youtube link to a song of this duo, The Finals Countdown. and it's horrifyingly terrible. not the band, but the depiction of finals exam for medicals students. like the lyric says:

Haem firm,
Paeds firm,
Psyche, surgery,
Rheumo, ortho,
So much stuff you need to know,
Learning drugs is so much stress,
You memorise the BNF,

Public health, public health,
What the fuck is public health?

Stuff that you need for finals,
It's all stuff that you need for finals,
It's all stuff that you need for finals.

and that's just part of it..haha!
this band is basically a duo of doctors from Imperial College, London doing parody songs, mostly dealing with the medical subjects. and written in a funny way. my favourite songs from this band beside The Finals Countdown,



are The Drug Song

,

Eternal Clerking



and Yellow (yeah, it's about a yellow fever patient)



oh, mind the thick British accent, strong language and filled to the brim with British humor. Medical terminologies are used in a maximum content in their songs, but it's okay if you don't get it. just ignore it. and don't use the Eternal Clerking song to diagnose intestinal bleeding, the song is totally ridiculous.
and while we're at the medical world parody, enjoy a song from Bowser and Blue (a comedian duo), Colorectal Surgeon:




ps: to my classmates, you can get the videos of this band from me.

apple anyone?

wohoo!!
exam's over, and i have another one and a half month to fool around with. well not exactly fooling around, but at least less stressful compared to exam weeks.

anyway, a friend of mine introduced me to a singer. she's not exactly new in the scene, she's been around for 10 years now. and in 10 years time, she had become a living rocker legend in Japan. i always wanted to try one of her songs, but somehow never got the time, or the mood for it. but after one youtube video of her and her band, i'm hooked.

her singing voice needs some time to get used to, but after you get pass the adaptation phase, she's one hell of a good entertainer. I'm talking about Shiina Ringo, the artist that inspired NANA, both film and manga/anime. she even have a group of fans that called themselves Ringo Gals who dressed up in her favourite designers' brand (Vivienne Westwood), and wear her signature VW Armour Ring.

She's really really great. her obsession on symmetry brings symmetrical lyrics and duration of her albums. plus she's not afraid to experiment in her music: from rock to jazz to techno to pop and even enka japanese traditional music). she even dabbles in 1940's-50's music style in Papaya Mango, where she sang in two languages, French and English. a song may have three different arrangements, and three totally different video clips. and a case of this is the song Yokushitsu: original version, La Salle de Bain (she totally retitled the song, and translated the lyrics into English and change the arrangement) and the third is where she collaborated with Saito Neko (first half of the song in Japanese, second half in English). her music videos (promotional videos or PVs to the japanese artists fans!), most of them are provocative, and unique. i especially fond of her collaboration clips with Saito Neko, they are such an eye feast. i included one of their work in this entry, it's the last clip.

i know i sounds like a girl in love, but what the hell!! hahaha! before i say things that may make me looks silly in front of shiina's hardcore fans, i better take my leave now. and to end this post, enjoy a few songs from her..



shiina ringo - honnou



tokyo jihen - kurumaya-san



shiina ringo x saito neko - yokushitsu

btw, ringo means apple in japanese XD

sid vicious and the sex pistols

i'm not going to yap about the sex pistols and SID VICIOUS like an expert on them since i just listened to ONE of their songs, YESTERDAY.
i just wanna comment on SID VICIOUS.

if you guys realised, when i posted the entry Diaries, NANA and BLAME!, Ren (Nana's boyfriend), looks a lot like SID VICIOUS. in fact, he was modeled after SID VICIOUS. previously in the Black Stone/Blast (Nana's band), Ren played the bass like SID VICIOUS too.

who is SID VICIOUS?




SID VICIOUS was the bassist of The Sex Pistols. born in May 10 1957, and died on February 2 1979, due to heroin overdose. quoted from wikipedia:

Manager Malcolm McLaren once claimed "if Rotten is the voice of punk, then VICIOUS is the attitude". Alan Jones described SID as "[having] the iconic punk look (...) SID, on image alone, is what all punk rests on.

but the trouble with SID VICIOUS was:

John Lydon/Johnny Rotten (the Pistols' vocalist) later recalled: "The first rehearsals with SID were hellish. Everyone agreed he had the look. SID tried real hard... but boy, he couldn't play bass."

and he still couldn't play bass, even when they recorded their one and only studio-recorded album : Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols.

Due to VICIOUS' lack of musical ability, the bass parts on Never Mind the Bollocks were performed by others, including Glen Matlock, brought back as a session musician, Glen Thomas and Steve Jones. According to Jones: "SID wanted to come down and play on the album, and we tried as hard as possible not to let him anywhere near the studio. Luckily he had hepatitis at the time".Although VICIOUS did record on one occasion, his contribution was later over-dubbed. Jones recalls: "We just let him do it, innit. When he left I dubbed another part on, leaving SID's down low. I think it might be barely audible on the track".

it's not like i wanna do SID-bashing or something (he's dead, and even if he's alive he would be an old man, and i don't give a damn actually whether he can play music or not), it's just i wanna comment on fans attitude towards him.

he's not a great musician. he's just a celebrity with a lot of scandals that catapulted him to stardom! what good is a bassist that can't play bass? and okay, i admit, he's cute. my current wallpaper is his pictures. but then again, he's NOT a god, nor he was a GOOD punk musician, he's just the IMAGE of punk. it's like the mascot of The Sex Pistols. yeah, mascot. like the Ronald McDonald is the mascot of McDonald's.

and yeah, i wrote this out of anger when my image of SID VICIOUS was shattered by wikipedia. if my facts are wrong, sue wikipedia. i took all the quotation from there.

peace y'all.

i fall in love with the kiss...

yeah..you guys didn't read it wrong.. i fell in love with the kiss.. kiss given by 4 very much older guys, and i absolutely obsessed with all of them.

haha!! kay,kay!! i'm cutting the crap!

first, i'm talking bout L'Arc~en~Ciel...the band that you see at my links..yes, it's a band, not just some random videos uploaded. for those who don't know L'Arc~en~Ciel , you can google bout them. i won't be the one telling you who the hell are they for 100th times..i mean, there's a lot of sites dedicated to them already, and i'm just one of the later fans that don't really know much bout them.

kay..back to my title: FALL IN LOVE WITH THE KISS

what is KISS? like i said, given by 4 talented (but perverted..urgh) old men. easily said, latest, the very latest album by L'Arc~en~Ciel.
official released date : 21 NOVEMBER 2007
album: KISS
11th album from the band L'Arc~en~Ciel, which consists of hyde (vocal), tetsu (bassist/band leader), ken (guitarist), yukihiro (drum) but it leaked on the 19.

haha...currently available for downloads..and i'm one of the impatient fans that can't wait for two more days. cool cover huh?






here's the track listing:

1.	SEVENTH HEAVEN
2.	Pretty girl
3.	MY HEART DRAWS A DREAM
4.	Suna Dokei
5.	spiral
6.	ALONE EN LA VIDA
7.	DAYBREAK'S BELL
8.	Umibe
9.	The Black Rose
10.	Link -KISS Mix-
11.	Yuki no Ashiato
12.	Hurry Xmas

uhh...and i'm still having a hard time to make my ranking of fav tracks...but honestly, to me, this album is much, much, much better than AWAKE...maybe that album is too heavy for me.. too full of questions bout life and all..

gawwdddd........KISS is soooo....addictive...I'm currently listening to Umibe when i'm writing this..and seriously, the guitar, is mesmerizing, and hyde's voice is already back to his old heart wrenching style of singing...way way wayyyyy better than previous SMILE or AWAKE...not to mention my current favourites of Daybreak's Bell and MY HEART DRAWS A DREAM...even SEVENTH HEAVEN sounds good now..damn!! and i have a lot of favourites too from this album...

ahh...tak sia-sia order three times!!!hehe!!

oh... and here's the ad for KISS:






yeah...they're a bunch of retarded old men...XD XD XD XD
(OBSERVE the first part of picture, where hyde's "sweetly kissing" tetsu...and the second part, ken is making disgusted face at yukihiro's "romantic kiss"...WAHAHAHAHA!!)
and before i forget, CONGRATS TETSU FOR GETTING MARRIED!!GOD, FINALLY!!!I THOUGHT YOU'RE A GAY!!HAHAHA!!no, no...i'm just kidding...