26th march - 31st march...

was full of ups and downs.

ups included booking out for the entire wednesday afternoon for stuff, and inevitably had a JC reunion... hmm i'll have another one on 28th april with most of the same people LOL. we're all competing for the same course argh...

another was today (31st), somehow i felt happy after some physical exertion. and we booked out WOOHOO! looking back, i think things weren't so bad after all la hm. it's just that i can't allow my mind to spiral into negative thinking again. dunno how leh, it just happens sometimes? stress la...

anyway, the rest of the day was somewhat fruitful, i had lunch with parents, then went off to beach road shop no. 133 by recommendation from a bunkmate (the apparently famous one where i see the largest crowd in the entire level), then went to bugis street/junction/albert park (the walkway between sim lim square and bugis village).

EH how come my kakis never hang out at bugis junction ah? it's actually very happening leh... got so much apparel stores (or maybe that's why it's not our kind of place lol) and... wait! interesting eating places like Sketches and etc. (didn't commit their names to memory). i do vaguely remember walking between buildings of the parco bugis compound, but don't remember the kinds of shops it houses... so cool man... and the links between the converted shophouses on the upper levels is just cool can?

i think bugis needs some more adjustments in the lineup of shops, though. no, not bugis junction, but the bugis area, generally, if it wants to gain favour with my kakis. i think we want the convenience of walking around in less congested air-con malls that link up with each other. we want more open spaces. we would, perhaps, like a nice performance area or hall in the vincinity.

actually pargo bugis is already very bustling, got a lot of cool-looking youngsters walking about. but it just doesn't attract people whom i associate with haha.

oh yes i talked about the cheap CDs at bugis village right? guess what? i bought 2 CDs for $10!!!! the poor guy must have a hard time selling his CDs, especially when it's in some odd corner of bugis village (it's not a corner, rather, at a secluded end, facing the road)

more interesting, guess what CDs i bought there? david tao's beautiful and se7en's 24/7! unbeatable pwnage man! i meant the price.

i shan't do album reviews here (at least not today) coz i realise i simply gloss over the aspects of the music and just comment generally, like "oh i like his/her voice! i love the arrangements!" i mean, that IS why anyone would like music right? maybe i'll make exceptions for utada hikaru, because basically about 80% of time spent listening to music is spent on hers. i can be said to be an expert on her music (actually, only her 2 english albums, all her singles and her 4th japanese album - never heard most of the other songs on the 1st 3 jap albums)

back to david tao and se7en. all i can say is that somehow, i really enjoy listening to both of their albums thoroughly. honestly, i didn't have to force myself to sit through the entire album to make a review on this blog (which is what i did for a couple, actually.) i think they may be able to make it to my FREQUENTLY PLAYED LIST :O that's an astounding achievement, really!

david tao is especially pleasing to me because it has classical slants (like the orchestral strings introduction to one of the songs, which has dissonances i don't understand) and it's RnB/soft rock. se7en's album is something you would expect from your glitzy popstar: mass-produced formulaic songs that strive and achieve widespread appeal.

the 3rd CD which i bought is stefanie sun's against the Light (: haven't listened to it fully yet, but i'm expecting good stuff too :D

overall verdict: all 3 albums are good buys :D:D (i bought stefanie sun's one for $8 leh!)

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oh i have my life plan in my head now! i'm so excited about it man... realised everything falls in place once you've decided on the important stuff:

go through NS, get out and work as part time school and private music teacher while going for extra music or art classes, go through university, get a job (this part depends on the outcome of scholarships) and evantually branch into interior design and/or visual design (although i think it's cooler to be a top notch architect then an art director when you're 60) and hopefully, moonlight as a musician at the same time :) music won't go away from my life, man. i'm going to do something serious about it too, and juggle my other passions at the same time yes yes yes!

for now, NS!