Archive for the “Music” Categorysong i heard on the the radio while parking the car. apparently, this was before she was famous, simple our current favourite song for the weekend!!
something to perk you up on a beautiful saturday. it was a work-in-progress for the longest time, finally seen the light of day. warning, a bit indulgent on the director’s side, haha!!
A&A Spaceman Remix from izadnhana on Vimeo. the blistering heat didn’t deter us from a bit of sizzling good time at the zoo on a public holiday. if we were on a giant grill, we’d have been pretty well done. auni’s toasted button nose and my broiled bare shoulders are your tender juicy evidence. it was altogether a pretty good day nonetheless, as mentioned. if the children are happy, i’m happy. of course, happiness doesn’t come without a bit of prior warning. warning which sounded like this: me: aniq, pls promise me two things today. 1) don’t make adik fall or cry. 2) don’t make mummy angry. promise? aniq: promise. they were pretty much kept on this particular day. when his sister fell on her own accord, he was quick to jump to his (self-)defence – “not me! not me! HIM!” (no, he’s not placing the blame on an imaginary assailant. he’s just still a little confused with gender-specific pronouns.)
on the boat ride at the zoo, he volunteered to carry around a snake skin for the rest of the passengers to touch and feel. before that, he was asked the two basic questions from the boat guide. guide: what’s your name? him (and by him, i mean the above-mentioned boy, as i am perfectly versed in assigning gender-specific pronouns, except with cross-dressers and transvestites, which are a different thing altogether, and i am meandering so far away from the course of my story now): aniq! guide: how old are you? him: 3 year old! (pls pardon his flawed application of plurals as well. he is only 3 years old after all.) anyway, later on, as we were walking out of the zoo, the daddy and i quizzed him again, oh, for the heck of it. us: what is your name? him: aniq. us: how old are you? him: 3 year old. us: where do you stay? him: i stay inside my house. me: HAHAHAHAHHAHAAAHAHA! him: (in all seriousness.) *pause* mummy, not funny. not funny. me: HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! daddy: aniq, next time say ‘tampines’. him: pampinis. kidzworld was crazy with kids running amok amidst the sprays and splashes of water, while the adults pretended to tend to the children but were actually secretly enjoying the cool swirls of water on their feet. the girl made a bee-line to the water jets and never looked back.
i’ll keep a look out for the now-baby prawn’s smokin’ tan lines. speaking of which, she received at least 2 bikinis on her birthday. tiny, barely legal triangle pieces that would make even britney spears blush. i was tempted to try them on myself… but i digress. in any case, we’ll definitely have to make more trips to the pool, if only to make full use of her entire range of swimwear. last but not least, thank you hidaya, who’s been a great ambassador to the zoo!
i think i remember ayu once said, in one of our crazy discussions on career choices, that she’d like to work at the zoo, even if it’s just to chop vegetables for the animals. looking at the people who actually work at the zoo, i think that might actually be pretty fun. i’d love to be able to talk to an audience like the animal show presenters there, they’re pretty impressive.
ok, it’s almost 3am and my shoulders are tingly. i really should’ve heeded baz luhrmann’s advice and wear sunscreen. which brings me now to copy and paste that brilliant song of his, which was, technically, not really sung, more like monotonously delivered, but brilliant nonetheless.
there was a time, almost a decade ago, when i finally decided to meet this guy for lunch on a saturday afternoon, somewhere in bugis. call it serendipity. we were actually acquainted some seven years before that, but being the vacuous youths that we were then, well, we never hit it off. only seven years later, when our paths converged again, that we discovered we had, in fact, many things in common, uncannily enough. among them being, our taste in music. needless to say, idle moments were spent sharing earphones plugged to a discman. (you know, from the dinosaur age before mp3 and ipods.) he used to burn copies of cds for me, and in return, i made him a compilation for his birthday in 2000. wow, was that eight years ago??
so, what’s on it, then? erm, i’m afraid i can’t exactly explain all my choices here – he’d know the context and meanings best. i think. :p 1. soundtrack 4 2 lovers – mansun of course, if we were to make a new compilation now, there’d be a whole LOT more songs we’d have to squeeze in. like our wedding song. (don’t laugh – it was a norah jones, lol!) heck, we’d even have to include our kids’ favourite songs as well. (as it is, aniq already has a few hot picks!) and seeing how izadnhana intend to stick till-death-do-us-part together, you can say, the list would be infinite. speaking of which, we’re pretty psyched to watch this movie, opening on 11 dec – nick & norah’s infinite playlist. it’s got michael cera, who also starred in juno (he’s grown so much since arrested development), and promises to be the kind of teen romance you wouldn’t find in, say… hmmm, high school musical? lol! watch out for it…
“hi, the guitar hero super bundle will arrive tomorrow afternoon. would you like us to do delivery….” as my sms beeped to inform me. finally after 3 months of wait, the guitar hero is finally here!! I was really hooked to the first version of guitar hero that i played at my dad’s house that i told myself if i got a ps3, guitar hero would be the first game i purchase. great timing it was that the latest version with drums will be coming out soon! forward to friday 7 november, 6pm, as i await patiently for the delivery, 2 guys from the game shop arrived as expected with a very huge box!! yes, finally i could relive my childhood dream to be a drummer, haha!! anyway, i’ve shot the unboxing of the guitar hero super bundle and did a short drumming session to show you what a great piece of gaming this is. so if you guys are up for a jamming session, you know where to come. it is an established fact that more often than not, it is the gormless s’porean caller who gets picked to go on radio to answer the most idiot-proof of all quizzes and win prizes. this morning on ninety-one point three FM: DJ introduces Gormless Caller (GC) and explains that to win a prize, he has to sing the next line to a song. Studio Guest (SG), a local singer wielding a guitar, says she will sing a suzanne vega song since she will be performing in s’pore next month. GC has not heard of suzanne vega, guitars, or music. it is a miracle he managed to dial the number of the said radio station in the first place. he probably meant to order a pizza or KFC buddy meal for himself. SG proceeds to sing the first line, “My name is Luca…” GC clams up. SG begins to understand the gormless nature of radio callers in general and decides to be generous by continuing second line of song, “I live on the second ____.” GC is still decidedly clueless. DJ and SG try to cajole an answer out of GC with numerous clues. “It rhymes with door… more… four… etc. Let’s say you live on the ninth…?” GC attempts. “… storey?” :S thank you for leaving the cd in the car. <3 [track #3: breathe]
ps: can we buy more cds, pls? or… at least get me my own damn i-pod/nano/whatever to play in the car! disclaimer: this is NOT a birthday gift hint. that one’s still being carefully deliberated. pps: wait, don’t i owe you one too?? whoops. |
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