as with previous years, i'm coming up with my resolutions for this year. but first, let's recollect my previous years resolution.
sec 2: achieve more through slack sec 3: achieve even more through even more slack
this year is going to differ greatly since the word change is so popular and appropriate for 2008, regardless of change in drama, change in government in thailand, taiwan, usa, barack's change or changing out of your shoe to throw at bush. besides, i don't wish to top with something similar again, it will be like a re-resolution.
so this year my resolution will be to do all the homework myself.
on a rather irrelevant note, madonna is reportedly dating "her son". coincidentally, that guy's name is jesus, jesus luz. madonna(the singer, not virgin mary) dates jesus. jesus is old enough to be madonna's son anyway. maybe she dated him because it's christmas.
since it's christmas, i would dedicate a song to everyone called jingle bells, batman smells.
Jingle Bells Batman Smells Robin Laid an Egg The Batmobile Lost a Wheel And Joker got away
Jingle Bells Batman Smells Robin Laid an Egg The Batmobile Lost a Wheel And Joker got away
Jingle Bells Batman Smells Robin Laid an Egg The Batmobile Lost a Wheel And Jo-ker got away
also regarding timbaland who featured in post 177: talk about songs ft. featuring, i talked about shock value featuring artists in all but 2 tracks.
our "favourite" producer is back with shock value ii.
1. Meltdown (featuring Gwen Stefani and Justin Timberlake) 2. That’s The Way (featuring Keri Hilson and Usher) 3. ‘Til I Say So (featuring Akon) 4. Act Right (featuring T-Pain and Tim Dog) 5. Dumb (featuring Jonas Brothers) 6. Still Standing (featuring Linkin Park) 7. Across The Sky (featuring Justin Timberlake and Madonna) 8. Rain (featuring Jordin Sparks) 9. Don’t Hurt ‘Em (featuring T.I.) 10. Underground (featuring Rihanna) 11. Why U Still Calling? (Miscommunication Part II) (featuring Keri Hilson and Sebastian) 12. Click Clack (featuring Dr. Dre and Missy Elliott) 13. Talk (featuring T-Pain and Missy Elliott) 14. Cruel (featuring Coolio) 15. Head 2 Toe (featuring Jay-Z) 16. Aruba (featuring Sebastian) 17. From Dusk ‘Til Dawn (featuring Tim Dog, Flo-Rida and Attitude) 18. Pick Up (Boardmeeting Part II) (featuring Magoo) 19. Baby (featuring Keri Hilson) 20. Love Song (featuring Justin Timberlake)
oh god damn, the shock value is really 2x greater than the the first album. a total of 21 different artists are featured. he featured artists in every damn freaking song, and then there are 20 songs!!!
interviewer: what type of feel are you going for in this album? timbaland: a featuring feel interviewer: |||._. ...ok, so what's your aim for the future? timbaland: to feature every single artists in the world so as to be the most famous producer of all time. interviewer: |||x_x ...=X(:> KO!!! timbaland: OKTO!!!
but nevertheless, i would still/only download 7. Across The Sky (featuring Justin Timberlake and Madonna).
i'm going to list the reasons why i hate school holidays.
1) i forget all i learn in school. 2) my hand becomes immobile for writing after such a long break. 3) i love going to school
ya basically these are the 3 i can think of.
anyway, under some government law, my grandma's illegal plantation has to be folded, despite the government leaving the place empty for 20 years although they once claimed they were going to build a swimming pool there. what a shame, the plants are still growing so well there despite my grandma not going there for some time.
i'm digging out pictures from my pictures folder. let's see if there's any interesting shit.
since i can't go into the casino in macau, i can only make do with ellen's jackpot slots, which i won over 1000x the original amount, from 100 tokens to over 100,000 tokens.
getting to another topic, the neopets lab ray did the best change to my neopet which is no change. my grundo_68308241 turned from a blue shoyru to a blue shoyru. you might be thinking about the name, the lab ray changed the species.
LAB RAY FAIL!!!
no wonder the shoyru is so sad. ok, ok so it's sad everytime, even if i don't put any items in the inventory for it to hold. maybe i should take out 50 items for it to hold. speaking of which, though they said the max amount of items i can hold in the inventory is 50, i still managed to take out more than that.
let's get on to xujun's compo, read it... it contain's the teacher's marking and a few comments of mine. click to enlarge it.
anyway, i shall end off with a funny album cover.
this is not some sort of sesame street release. it's a polka album by frankie yankovic called dance little bird.
my tour was not fantastic, especially since i took the fail tiger airways. the seats were small and i think its looks like a second handed plane. then the person sitting in front of me had to push the seat back to make it smaller. i would rather have the indian plate squeeze me in (ref. china girl insults sichuan earthquake victims).
then the safety booklet says "if you are sitting by the emergency exit and do not have the ability to read or understand this booklet, please inform the crew for a change of seat." this is a total fail.
and then we arrived at the airport and had to wait for the tour guide who was stuck in a highway jam. in the end, it was another tour guide who was nearby who brought us away to lunch.
and in the restaurant they gave us hot water and tea. so some of us were drinking the hot water, until a day later, the tour guide told us the water is actually for washing the plates and cups. and then the for 2 meals everyday, we had chicken, which means we ate 10 in 5 days.
the bus driver was also a total fail. he would hon horn every now and then to either signal to the driver on the other lane to not move over or horn the vehicle in front to f off to the other lane for moving slowly.
and then there was a roadside stall which claims to sell giordano stuff. the stall owners claims that they are all real stuff. but if you search in the pile of clothes a little, you can actually see a few clothings which are spelt as giordino. and they even print plastic bags which looks so like what giordano would do. it also has a website on it - http://e-giordano.com
also there were a lot of spelling fails. there was a sign saying toilet. the chinese words was from right to left, and so the english word became teliot. and then there were a bunch of posters on the ceiling of the mall which says merry christma.
and i was in a bookshop in a mall and i saw a lot of ultra cheap cds, only about 25 yuan. and on the other shelf in the bookshop, there were porn dvds, placed so openly that everyone can see it.
in any case it's more of a fail trip. i won't want to elaborate more cause there's nothing fun to elaborate on. hopefully i would want to upload photos. but most likely i won't because it's too much of a chore.
hi everyone, im going to talk more about songs today. and i'll be featuring featuring. you must be wondering what the hell im talking about. im going to talk about producers and other artists featuring on some other artist's songs.
10 years ago, artists mostly sing their own songs and rarely stick their mouth into other artist's songs. at most they have a duet, but rarely do they have featuring.
so what is featuring. featuring means getting yourself into a famous artist's song by saying somethings in it and then getting credit for it so that you become famous. this is such an easy way, why else would producers such as timbaland be so hot now.
here's some of timbaland's features with more famous artists:
aaliyah: - Ladies in da House (ft. Timbaland and Missy Elliott) - Came to Give Love (Outro) (ft. Timbaland) - Are You That Somebody? (ft. Timbaland) - We Need a Resolution (ft. Timbaland)
brandy: - Sirens (ft. Timbaland)
detiny's child: - Destiny's Child - Get on the Bus (ft. Timbaland)
duran duran: - Nite Runner (ft. Justin Timberlake and Timbaland)
justin timberlake: - SexyBack (ft. Timbaland) - Chop Me Up (ft. Timbaland & Three 6 Mafia)
missy elliott: - They Don't Wanna F*** Wit Me (ft. Timbaland) - Whatcha Gon' Do (ft. Timbaland)
nelly furtado: - Promiscuous (ft. Timbaland)
pussycat dolls: - Wait a Minute (ft. Timbaland)
young jeezy: - 3 A.M. (ft. Timbaland)
of course there's a lot more which i suggest you check out at wikipedia. but this is not the worst part, or maybe i should say, the shocking part. so what's the shocking part? the shocking part is when he presents shock value ii. in shock value ii, 15 out of the 17 tracks featured some other artist.
here's the track listing: - "Oh Timbaland" - "Give It to Me" (featuring Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake ) - "Release" (featuring Justin Timberlake) - "The Way I Are" (featuring Keri Hilson and D.O.E.) - "Bounce" (featuring Dr. Dre, Missy Elliott, and Justin Timberlake) - "Come and Get Me" (featuring 50 Cent, Tony Yayo, Jim Beanz and Mira Craig) - "Kill Yourself" (featuring Sebastian and Attitude) - "Boardmeeting" (featuring Magoo) - "Fantasy" - "Scream" (featuring Keri Hilson and Nicole Scherzinger) - "Miscommunication" (featuring Keri Hilson and Sebastian) - "Bombay" (featuring Amar and Jim Beanz) - "Throw It on Me" (featuring The Hives) - "Time" (featuring She Wants Revenge) - "One and Only" (featuring Fall Out Boy) - "Apologize" (Remix) (featuring OneRepublic) - "2 Man Show" (featuring Elton John)
so, what do you think is the shock value of this?
akon should also be konvicted of such crap featurings. from 2004 to present, he has had 29 songs featuring him.
heck, come on, you just say some things in the songs like hayyah, or uhuh and you want to be featured in it? or you just add an opening speech to a song like jay-z to umbrella and you can get yourself featured? how easy is that?
jay-z's part in umbrella "Ahuh Ahuh (Yea Rihanna) Ahuh Ahuh (Good girl gone bad) Ahuh Ahuh (Take three... Action) Ahuh Ahuh No clouds in my storms Let it rain, I hydroplane in the bank Coming down with the Dow Jones When the clouds come we gone, we Rocafella We fly higher than weather And G5’s are better, You know me, an anticipation, for precipitation. Stacked chips for the rainy day Jay, Rain Man is back with little Ms. Sunshine Rihanna where you at?"
ok so you have an opening speech and then you talk and talk and people aint know what you're talking about. i mean look at the lyrics? how many sentences there are relevant to the song itself? all you do is say almost irrelevant lyrics at the start and you want to get featured? what crap.
as such i shall dedicate a song to featuring.
A Capella (ft. Jay-Z, Timbaland & Akon) Dedicated to: Artists who likes to be featured on songs Lyrics edited by: DATF Original song: Rihanna "Umbrella"
[some random wants to get famous producer] Ahuh Ahuh (Yuh uh) Ahuh Ahuh (Bad song gone worse) Ahuh Ahuh (Take three... Action) Ahuh Ahuh
No sounds in the front Let me say, I wanna feature in this song Coming down like the Dow Jones An anticipation, for your precipitation. I know you sure can rhyme Jay, Akon is back with little Timbaland Hey where you’re at?
[finally my turn] You sang my part So I left my fart Maybe in my own dreams But you'll still be in the song Baby cause in the dark You can't see fame or cash And that's when you need famous singers Cause they will always let You sing
When my sun shines, you can come sing together Told you I'll be here forever Said you'll always be a featurer Took the wrong producer He’s bound to stick into my song Now that he's featuring more than ever Know that we'll still have each other You can sing your own A Capella You can sing your own A Capella (Ella ella eh eh eh) your own A Capella (Ella ella eh eh eh) your own A Capella (Ella ella eh eh eh) your own A Capella (Ella ella eh eh eh eh eh eh)
The foolish start, should not come in all This song is part of my entity, here for infinity When Jay-Z sang his part When Timbaland mixed his part If the song is blend, by featuring he'll mend that part Because
When my sun shines, you can come sing together Told you I'll be here forever Said you'll always be a featurer Took the wrong producer He’s bound to stick into my song Now that he's featuring more than ever Know that we'll still have each other You can sing your own A Capella You can sing your own A Capella (Ella ella eh eh eh) your own A Capella (Ella ella eh eh eh) your own A Capella (Ella ella eh eh eh) your own A Capella (Ella ella eh eh eh eh eh eh)
You can stick into my song Just hope that it’s unharmed Come here to me There's a distance in between the verse So go on and rap the crap more I'll be all you need for fame Because
When my sun shines, you can come sing together Told you I'll be here forever Said you'll always be a featurer Took the wrong producer He’s bound to stick into my song Now that he's featuring more than ever Know that we'll still have each other You can sing your own A Capella You can sing your own A Capella (Ella ella eh eh eh) your own A Capella (Ella ella eh eh eh) your own A Capella (Ella ella eh eh eh) your own A Capella (Ella ella eh eh eh eh eh eh)
It's featuring Ooh baby it's featuring Baby come here to me Come here to me It's featuring Oh baby it's featuring
21) Total Eclipse Of The Heart by Bonnie Tyler album: Faster Than The Speed Of Night
hit level: smash hit
no, the album title is not spelt wrongly, it's night, not light. so exactly how fast is the speed of night? well i suppose it would be how fast the earth spins, which is approximately 1670km/h. so the speed of night would be 1670km/h. anyway, the album cover is so funny. it's like a light sabre which pierced through her cranky head, and then its like she's dead and the head is hung on the light sabre looking at you eeriely.
this mv is just plain weird. it's like she's fighting zombies or something. and then she's dancing with the zombies like in a rain dance.
anyway due to even more boredom, i upgraded my rubrics to make it more fair.
my newer album grading standard: - average grade of all the songs - if 4 or more songs on the album are at least 4.5/5, the album gets 5 stars automatically. - if 7 or more songs on the album are at least 4/5, the album gets 4.5 stars automatically. - if 7 of the at least 4/5 songs consist of at 2 or 3 4.5/5 songs, the album gets 5 stars automatically.
Album Review 4: Alicia Keys - As I Am
1. As I Am (Intro) - not graded 2. Go Ahead - 4/5 3. Superwoman - 3.5/5 4. No One - 5/5 5. Like You'll Never See Me Again - 3.5/5 6. Lessons Learned - 3.5/5 7. Wreckless Love - 3/5 8. The Thing About Love - 3/5 9. Teenage Love Affair - 4/5 10. I Need You - 3/5 11. Where Do We Go From Here - 3/5 12. Prelude To A Kiss - 2.5/5 13. Tell You Somthing (Nana's Reprise) - 4/5 14. Sure Looks Good To Me - 3/5
Alicia Keys - As I Am: 45/14 = 3.2
Album Review 5: Nirvana - Nevermind
1. Smells Like Teen Spirit - 5/5 2. In Bloom - 4/5 3. Come As You Are - 4.5/5 4. Breed - 4/5 5. Lithium - 4/5 6. Polly - 3.5/5 7. Territorial Pissings - 3.5/5 8. Drain You - 4/5 9. Lounge Act - 3.5/5 10. Stay Away - 4/5 11. On A Plain - 4/5 12. Something In The Way - 3/5
Nirvana - Nevermind: 8 songs with at least 4/5 = 4.5
Album Review 6: Metallica - Death Magnetic
1. That Was Just Your Life - 3.5/5 2. The End Of The Line - 4/5 3. Broken, Beat & Scarred - 3.5/5 4. The Day That Never Comes - 5/5 5. All Nightmare Long - 4/5 6. Cyanide - 4/5 7. The Unforgiven III - 4/5 8. The Judas Kiss - 4/5 9. Suicide & Redemption - 3.5/5 10. My Apocalypse - 4/5
Metallica - Death Magnetic: 39.5/10 = 3.95
Album Review 7: Mariah Carey - E=MC2
1. Migrate - 3.5/5 2. Touch My Body - 5/5 3. Cruise Control - 3/5 4. I Stay In Love - 3/5 5. Side Effects - 3.5/5 6. I'm That Chick - 4.5/5 7. Love Story - 3/5 8. I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time - 3.5/5 9. Last Kiss - 3/5 10. Thanx 4 Nothin' - 3.5/5 11. O.O.C. - 3.5/5 12. For The Record - 3.5/5 13. Bye Bye - 4/5 14. I Wish You Well - 2.5/5
Mariah Carey - E=MC2: 49/14 = 3.5
Album Review 8: Mariah Carey - The Emancipation Of Mimi
1. It's Like That - 4/5 2. We Belong Together - 5/5 3. Shake It Off - 4/5 4. Mine Again - 3/5 5. Say Somethin' - 4/5 6. Stay The Night - 3.5/5 7. Get Your Number - 4/5 8. One And Only - 4/5 9. Circles - 3.5/5 10. Your Girl - 3/5 11. I Wish You Knew - 3.5/5 12. To The Floor - 4/5 13. Joy Ride - 3/5 14. Fly Like A Bird - 3.5/5
Mariah Carey - The Emancipation Of Mimi: 7 song with at least 4/5 = 4.5
since im too bored during the holidays, im going to go on to really seriously grading my album with these new standards below
my new album grading standard: - average grade of all the songs - if at 4 or more songs on the album are 5/5, the album gets 5 stars automatically. - if 7 or more songs on the album are at least 4/5, the album gets 4.5 stars automatically. - if 7 of the at least 4/5 songs consist of at 2 or 3 4.5/5 songs, the album gets 5 stars automatically.
song: 5/5 - fantastic 4/5 - can be placed in playlist 3/5 - average 2/5 - bad 1/5 - don't give me this shit
album: 5/5 - must listen 4/5 - good 3/5 - can get by 2/5 - don't bother 1/5 - eat shit
*NEWEST ALBUM, OUT NOW* Album Review 1: Britney Spears - Circus
1. Womanizer - 5/5 2. Circus - 5/5 3. Out From Under - 3.5/5 4. Kill The Lights - 3.5/5 5. Shattered Glass - 4/5 6. If U Seek Amy - 3/5 7. Unusual You - 3.5/5 8. Blur - 3/5 9. Mmm Papi - 3/5 (sounds incestous) 10. Mannequin - 4/5 11. Lace And Leather - 4/5 12. My Baby - 2.5/5 (hey britney, it's a circus, not a nursery)
Britney Spears - Circus: 44/12 = 3.7
Album Review 2: Britney Spears - Blackout
1. Gimme More - 5/5 2. Piece Of Me - 5/5 3. Radar - 3/5 4. Break The Ice - 4/5 5. Heaven On Earth - 3.5/5 6. Get Naked (I Got A Plan) - 4/5 7. Freakshow - 3/5 8. Toy Soldier - 4.5/5 9. Hot As Ice - 3.5/5 10. Ooh Ooh Baby - 3/5 11. Perfect Lover - 4/5 12. Why Should I Be Sad - 3/5
Britney Spears - Blackout: 45.5/12 = 3.8
Album Review 3: Def Leppard - Hysteria
1. Woman - 4.5/5 2. Rocket - 4.5/5 3. Animal - 4/5 4. Love Bites - 8/5 (sadly still capped at 5 though, the evil sounding thing in the front and the end is so cool) 5. Pour Some Sugar On Me - 4/5 6. Armageddon It - 4/5 7. Gods Of War - 3.5/5 8. Don't Shoot Shotgun - 3.5/5 9. Run Riot - 4/5 10. Hysteria - 3.5/5 11. Excitable - 4/5 12. Love And Affection - 4/5
Def Leppard - Hysteria: 9 songs with at least 4/5 = 5
after having more than 600 episodes of 意难忘, which my grandma say has over 800 episodes, i have decided to compile the top 5 favourite phrases of taiwan dramas.
lets start with the all time favourite...
1) at number one, with have 2 tiers.
(i) 大事化小, 小事化无 this is probably the most often used phrases of all time in taiwan drama. and i kept thinking they might as well summarise this into 大事化无.
big thing = small thing --> eqn 1 small thing = nothing --> eqn 2 sub eqn 1 into eqn 2: big thing = nothing
(ii) 人不为己, 天诛地灭 yet another very frequently used phrase. this phrase is often used with what is supposed to be horrorific-sounding music. it is also used by a murderer after killing someone for benefits.
3) 色字头上一把刀 wow what a colorful phrase. the 巴 below the 刀 probably means the mouth area, which means it will chop your head off?
6) 败家子/不孝子 often followed by a slap or beating and will then be chased out of the house, but the 败家子/不孝子 will either kneel at the doorstep in the rain (always that coincidental) until his father/mother forgives him or he will go out and prove himself before his father forgives him.
5) 老天爷 mostly shouted after scolding a son for being 败家子/不孝子 or after someone in the family dies. it will be followed by either, if not all of the following: (i) 你为什么要这样的折磨我！ (ii) 真是造孽啊! (iii) 我上辈子到底做错了什么事, 你要这样的惩罚我
other common phrases - 菜虫吃菜菜下死 - 妈! - 自造孽不可活 - 平日不做亏心事, 夜半不怕鬼敲门 - 谢天谢地 - 神明保佑 - 活菩萨 - 仙人跳
yay its world aids day today. and its none of my business.
and after killing a cockcroach by twisting it's head off, she performed the same feat again, this time on a poor locust which accidentally flew into the balcony. she took an envelope and started to hit it. noticing that it hasn't died after a few hits, she grabbed the locust with her bare hands and unfeelingly pulled its head off and threw it into the bin.
she didn't wash her hands after that.
then she said "it's only a cockcroach mah." poor thing, if she knew that was a locust, she would probably only throw it down from the tenth floor.
yes, i know that locusts can fly.
i can't imagine what would happen to her if she pulled off a bee's head instead. we would be locked in the house with bees swarming around it like what happened when i was younger. no, she didn't kill a bee then. it was just trying to find a place to build a nest
