fabulous.

Okay, so I dont understand anything about the lyrics except for some english parts, this is a Korean girl group performing in the Philippines, I was mesmerized. How cute! ^^

I'm Filipino but have no trouble understanding Mariah Carey singing to her songs or Taylor Swift or watching those english movies because most people here do speak and understand english very well, but now I get a chance to know what it's like to be Korean or Japanese or Thai listening to music I dont understand but still like it. I'm now liking many songs that are Korean and Japanese not caring for the lyrics or if they are in Hollywood all I care is when they are entertaining and good quality.

cheers to music, it bridges us across language barriers!

power

*wink*wink*
This is Paramore Live in Nashville.

the movie that's UP.

UP is awesome. One of the best movies this year. If it made me dredge up all emotions I could possibly invoke, it must be good. Really good. You have to watch it and you wont regret! The trailer says nothing about these "unexpected" twists, that made me silently cry in the dark ... its message comes across within layers and layers of metaphors. This isn't just a kid movie, this is quality movie.

Now I wont tell you why or you'll not want to watch this film anymore...but PIXAR did it again, surprised me with a very good plot, if you're a writer you know that this has nailed it.

click here for the movie trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USpI6Jzl3No
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Public Reviews:

wownatalia:
"This is one of my favorite movies. It really shows how far someone would go in life for someone they love/loved. It made me cry so much. And it made me laugh so much. When I need to escape from the world, I'm going to snuggle up with a blanket and watch this movie on dvd again when it comes out. Can't wait! "

iLime14:
"I thought this would just be a happy/kiddy movie that would make me chuckle a few times. Knew it would be good because it was from Pixar...but no....this movie was so much more. =] "

esjhay19:
"i just loved this movie!...i loved the part..where russel introduces himself to carl! ..it really made me laugh...:)"

Danny2813:
"i really did love this movie "

you 'gotta give this a CHANCE. part II

If you enjoyed part 1, you must see part 2. Yeah, they had some Filipino songs in them, but see, there's a subtitle ... music anyways has NO boundaries, it could be Japanese and I still sing 'em while researching for the English translation afterwards, yeah, I do that. I sing to Utada Hikaru's songs and I don't even know how she exactly means it but I got the phrasing really good, so ... yes, why not?

here's PART 2: (raw talent on a noontime show, coming up!)



Thanks for watching! ^^

xoxo

you 'gotta give this a CHANCE. part I

Everybody knows Wowowee ... I know Wowowee, you know Wowowee! We know Wowowee! ...

Ok, so NO. But if you have Filipino friends or you're A Filipino, you surely have heard of this popular noontime show that has appealed to the masses BIG TIME! Especially showcasing raw talent from all walks of life (usually with heartbreaking stories ...*sob*) in their segments like the "Willie of Fortune", where contestants must show their talent before the actual game, and in this video are just some of the featured talents for the day that has come by the studio to try their lack on the jackpot prize.

Very entertaining, very real (guard your emotions!), lots of singing (two-parts!) apparently, that was the category for that particular day :" That you must have won an amateur singing contest and a teen." So enough said come let's watch...

PART 1



Hope you enjoyed!

xoxo

looove thy neighbors.

oh those karaoke! I like. I like. But tonight ...could you pleeaasse stop now, you neighbor you 'cuz you've been singing the whole day and the rain wont stop! Yes, I do blame you for that... as we all say whenever someone's belting out a song in a not so pleasing way ... we blame the rain on you, YOU! stop now. sshhh...end.

(sigh) ... This is the only time that I wish there'll be a power interruption or something, I mean the whole day is not a joke, you could sing in the afternoon ... but then, I'd be doing my siesta, alright, sing in the morning ... but then I'd rather not wake up in a bad mood ... OK so let the neighbor sing at night ... hmmnn... nah. NO way ... just quit it neighbor, my schedule wont allow you!

These "portable" karaoke machines, jazzes up gatherings without effort and now that we invented a portable version of it (that's smaller than a CD player and operates with just a microphone!) Every household now got one ... it's like a refrigerator ... it's a MUST. You wouldn't have a party without it, trust me ... if you don't have it, the neighbor will lend you, just so you could.

AND here, it's not like anywhere else when it comes to expression of selves and fun, you can be as loud as you can for as long as you are in your homes, or yard, or within the boundaries you own, regardless if anyone else is annoyed by it (e.g. ME.) ... though of course there are LAWS about it, that you can be reported for disrupting the peace and order of the community ...BUT that is SELDOM practiced here, nobody really calls the police or the "barangay tanods" (town security) to knock on your neighbors door and tell them that they're making too much noise and that it pisses you! It'll be far complicated when you do that, unless you're moving to another town the next day.

BUT, in everyday ... it somehow works. Our patience with our neighbors are enhanced, we do let it pass and NEVER count the times that we annoy each other. After all, we do have these kind of moments too, when we sing our hearts out and nobody bothers us, blasting music and all!

...Unlike when I stayed in Italy that I just left my light on one night and the old lady next to my apartment came by to discuss it with me ... in Italian! Which obviously leaves me doing huge amounts of hand/arm/feet gestures just to make my point ... uhmm, can I call a friend? like it's the Million Dollar round already!

hmmnn...WELL, neighbors. We all have them, far and near. We cannot actually choose our neighbors can we? ... I've had sooo many neighbors in my life ... and here in my country, we treat our neighbors like extensions of our family, we love and hate them but we try to live with them...as "peacefully and harmoniuosly" as possible ... though, yeah I mind those high-pitch songs that sounded like galvanized roofing being ripped apart!!! ugh... I'll deal.

yes... I'll deal. Don't worry.

our last salute...

MJs, First visit in Manila, Philippines 1976

Last Sunday at 10:30 P.M. was a night of tribute to Michael Jackson and his music here in Manila. As his 30th Anniversary concert was aired on TV for all Filipinos to see. I am not a huge fan of Michael Jackson but when I saw the concert, I knew I had to be. (too late?) Well... Music lasts forever... his voice will always be heard, even when he's gone. It's just too overwhelming to see him perform, he really gives it all and I'm just so sorry I wasn't there to watch him live when I was 16 and he came here for a concert. tsk. Yeah, I blame myself ... I blame myself for not being a fan and now I'm one of those people who wishes to hoard all of his albums out the music store! I was young and naive. What can I say?!

He's just SUUUUPER!!! We were glued to the television when it was his time to perform. He didn't slack a bit, he just went on and on as if he'd dance and sing with all his might even if it would kill him. That's how much passion he showed the crowd who endlessly cheered.

To me, that was too much for somebody to endure if he had already been sick with lupus. I felt for him. As if he showed the whole world his life. All about performing, all about music, all about people. His life was so public, that even in death he isn't given peace. Has he been buried yet? ... with finality? I thought that after the memorial service at the Staple Center, he'd already be laid to rest. But news surfaces that his body will be moved from a crypt in Hollywood to ... elsewhere (they won't say where) But I surely agree with his mum, saying that he should NOT be buried in Neverland, because Michael, when he was alive doesn't want to return EVER to his Neverland Ranch after the raid in 2003, where a videotape of the Neverland interiors was exposed to the public for the first time, revealing his penchant for all things childish and ... a room of life-sized figures of "people"... hmmnn ... it's as if your Diary has been revealed for the world to see and I guess that's the reason why he never wants to go back. Well, to others it was bizaare for him to be collecting all those things BUT now to me, it's sad. Just SAD. As I watched the video featured on E! News ... it wasn't as bizaare and as weird as it used to be when he was still alive. Now it's just a sad thing that his Neverland Ranch is screaming with frustration. All things he never had as a child and all things he never had as a person, he tried to get. Could it be that the life-sized figures that were in his office represents companions??? It's an eerie room but to him it probably is a room of "people" who aren't judgemental, who aren't accusing, if he had done bad, those "people" wont cast the first stone at him. He really could have used some real friends when he was down from all those controversies and lawsuits. And well now, they are all there mourning the lost times and doing interviews. I'm not saying all, I mean some. We all have those kind of people anyway, they show up when the tide is clear or when there's opportunity. I think now it's enough, by this time it should be enough. I think it's about time that we all let go and do our final salute to the King of Pop and let him have the peace that he could have really wanted while living.

He is the finest in his craft and I salute him in sharing it with the world.



MJ, reunion with the Jacksons on his 30th Anniversary as a performer.

Missing Francis

Francis Magalona is a man from Manila who well lived his life doing music. He's now gone... at 44 on March 6, 2009 ... hard for his fans to deal with, afterall he has never shown weakness, never shown pain, he's always been a boy with jokes and laughter on TV, with boyish looks who would've thought he's 44! Suffering from Leukemia for 7 mos., he passed on.

I sobbed like mad while watching his kids perform his songs in his memory on today's show where he used to be a regular. I felt for his 8 kids who were obviously missing a parent, but I was in awe for the wife, who is ever so strong with red lipstick on and was singing with the band where she has been back-up vocals for her husband. Theirs, was a close-knit family, as observed by the public, theirs was a marriage that was meant to last. You could see from Pia, the wife ... that she finds her strength through her children and her husband's music ... that even if 44 is young, he has done plenty, especially for the love of his country.

Personally, I do not know this guy from Manila, though Pia is my brother-in-law's cousin, they are the Arroyo's of Bicol ... all I know is... Francis is patriotic eversince he had made music, it's always about his country and how he wants everyone to rise up and help keep the Filipino pride. Hands down for his effort, for it is easy to be patriotic when your country is rich and powerful, but for a country like ours that's stricken with poverty, corruption, deceit and controversy, it's not easy to keep your pride. BUT people like him holds on, people like him never gives up on the future that's maybe why Rap music is his genre, it's fresh, it's hip, it brought nationalism to the hearts of many Filipino youth, who is our country's future.

True enough, that I grew up in his music, that now I can say, we are more proud to be Filipinos, and we promise to correct the mistakes of the past.

Lyrics to one of my fave Francism song:

Kaleidoscope World

So many faces, so many races
Different voices, different choices
Some are mad, while others laugh
Some live alone with no better half
Others grieve while others curse
And others mourn behind a big black hearse
Some are pure and some half-bred
Some are sober and some are wasted
Some are rich because of fate and
Some are poor with no food on their plate
Some stand out while others blend
Some are fat and stout while some are thin
Some are friends and some are foes
Some have some while some have most

Every color and every hue
Is represented by me and you
Take a slide in the slope
Take a look in the kaleidoscope
Spinnin' round, make it twirl
In this kaleidoscope world

Some are great and some are few
Others lie while some tell the truth
Some say poems and some do sing
Others sing through their guitar strings
Some know it all while some act dumb
Let the bassline strum to the bang of the drum
Some can swim while some will sink
And some will find their minds and think
Others walk while others run
You can't talk peace and have a gun
Some are hurt and start to cry
Don't ask me how don't ask me why
Some are friends and some are foes
Some have some while some have most

Every color and every hue
Is represented by me and you
Take a slide in the slope
Take a look in the kaleidoscope
Spinnin' round, make it twirl
In this kaleidoscope world

karaoke fever

Nope no need to call the police! ... it's just me singing. Well, it's a beautiful, sunny day at last after 2 days of drizzles that I thought summer's over before I could enjoy it! BUT, now it really is SUMMER!!! weehee! ... so what's up with the singing? ... uhmmm ... I know, that's why I stopped before the weather turns ugly... ^0^ well, my husband after breakfast went online to show me this website that he signed up to, where he recorded his own voice, singing to "old" music ... yep, he's into that "oldies" music thing. Anyway, he showed me how it works, it's an online karaoke where you could record your song and store it in a playlist sort of way, you can either post it publicly or privately ... by going public, people could rate you ... uhmm ... not my kind of stuff! I don't really sing, I just do it for fun and whenever the "chance" arises! ...and so my husband made me choose a song for which I chose a Norah Jones song "Don't Know Why" (my fave) ... and sang it! ... I did have pitch issues and uhmm... pauses. But heck! I'm actually enjoying it! haha... I went on to recording a few other ones, which I'm not too proud of! haha ... my husband thinks it's funny that I "didn't" like the idea but has actually recorded a couple of songs! silly me!!!

Anyway, try it out. It's fun! www.simsonstage.com (yikes! is my singing that bad that they had to close down this site?!) ^0^

Finding myself a thought....and a Song.

Well, for not so very inspiring reason, I'm trying to recap a few things about how this day went. Besides the fact that my "center-of-the universe/slash/husband" is still in Malaysia for some business trip he had to take, I'm here left with my "wonderings"! ... and well, nothing came vividly so far. If I may start with how I was teary-eyed listening to the song we first danced to as husband and wife matters, then I will tell you about it ...so, I plugged an earphone, scrolled all the way to the song I ought to listen for the first time since our wedding and then pressed PLAY ... the moment I heard the intro to the song, I was overwhelmed and somehow equally delighted as to the first time we danced to it!... I was teary-eyed and emotional... and this, if you ask me happened while I was in a public transpo...where co-passengers would dare not ask what's wrong with my twitching face and heavy breathing, but rather was very amused as if any moment I will belt out the song I was listening to! I'm not crazy!!!

The song is a familiar one, Boyzone has a version of it though, obviously I like the old, country version. Very pure, very loving and very -memorable. It's a song that I'll never get tired of listening no matter how it's screwing up my emotions in anytime, anyplace!haha... I've developed a total attachment to it and will probably never outgrow it... it's special...it's our song.