Monday, October 31, 2005

Felt quite sick at work today, weak & queasy, felt like puking..
meetings here, meetings there, no time to clear up the paperwork,
still sms-ing about work stuff on the way home,
my stomach was empty and churning out acid..
met my mum at the overhead bridge and walked back with her,
all the time still feeling weak and queasy,
thinking to myself, alright, I better throw stuff into my luggagebag, then get into bed quickly.
Came back home, turned on the DVD player,
mucc's The Worst DVD.
& within minutes, minutes!
I felt 10000000000000x better!
^________^
Yes!
Daikirai washed out all the acid,
9gatsu squashed out all the pain,
Arubeki injected genkiness into me YEAH!!!!!
Y~E~A~H!!!
Am I making sense???!!

AH!!!!!

yuj's email just arrived!
Halloween event sounded tiring but fun!
k, gotta go, will write in Japan! :)
If you were to recommend one (just one!) mucc song to someone totally new to them, which song would you choose? It doesn't have to be the song you like the most, but rather, something you think is representative of them. Especially if the other person is not particularly inclined towards rock band music, but doesn't particularly dislike it either.

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

As you can imagine, I'm totally distracted at work this week ~_~;
I can't imagine what it'll be like next Mon *sheepish look*... anyone asking me a question at work will only get a glazed look from me, i'm sure! The irritating thing is, now there's a meeting arranged at 5.30pm next Mon.. which I'm sure will end 7.30pm...earliest!! Then I'll have to tie up all the follow-up loose ends that night.. probably till 10pm...earliest!! Have these people no concept of 'working hours'!!? Grr.

You lose some, you win some. After the incredible luck of successfully balloting for mucc tickets this round, I seem to be on a spate of bad luck when it comes to recent shopping experiences. First there was the colouring of my hair. To my horror, I found out that my hair colour is leaking!! Yes, you read right, I said it's leaking!! And since the colour I chose was red, now everytime my hair gets wet, it looks like I'm having my period..except it's dripping from my head -_- This is what happens when you try out neighbourhood hairstylists!! It'll be the last time I do that, I tellya! And I really want to go back to the hairstylist to complain about it (it's really unacceptable.. it's the 3rd wash already and the colour's still leaking!), but by the time I get back home (cos the hairstylist's near my place), it's past their opening hours. My mum says there's nothing much they can do anyway, i'll just have to let the colour run out by and by. But hey, I think they owe me an apology at least!! Hmph.

Then there was the absurd lunch experience at the Longfeng Chinese restaurant at Liang Court. My family wanted to check out the place last Sun as it was a new outlet and they're giving away a roast duck dish for free if you have sufficient people at your table. (Plus I realized later that this was also the same restaurant, though at another location years ago, where my parents held their wedding dinner ;)) Anyway, the place was so badly managed! Our reservations were lost, no waiters came to set up our table (my cousin singlehandedly set it up herself!), tea took forever to come, as did our food, our order form got lost, we were informed that a few items that we were ordered were not available only after like 70% of the meal was served, and they couldn't produce the roast duck! Gosh, so many tables around us left even before the food arrived! Well the only redeeming factor about 'tonging' at the place for so long was, in the end to placate us they let us have the meal for free.

Then tonight... went to Sim Lim Square w my brother and sis-in-law to get a digicam for the coming trip. I'll cut the crap but just say one thing: avoid Hai Chew Electronics on the 1st floor. I know a number of shops at SLS aren't that ethical, but this one tops the cake. Was so peeved off I asked for my money back. Am never gonna go gaoguan the store again. Or even SLS for that matter, if I can help it - serious!

Right, enuff complaining in a blog entry. Actually the only thing that still bothers me is the hair colour leaking thingy. Hafta do something about it or I'll end up with red-stained tops.

Sunday, October 23, 2005

It's official. Yukke has won me over completely :O)

&, Satochi = baka XD

Friday, October 21, 2005

BGM: Analog Fish's BGM
hahaa... =)
Well, after all they're the other band performing with The Back Horn during the Hiroshima Live, so good to check them out before the live :) So they're the Naruto outro theme guys... =)

Now this might sound quite contrary to the post below, but 茜空was playing in my head the whhooollllleee day today :O! The whole darn day! It's as sticky as the pink png kueh i eat for breakfast!! XD I actually prefer 最終列車but somehow it's not as sticky. I'm kinda liking what I read too.

Excitement over here is rising by the day! Yosh ☆
It's starting to look like a live tour, this trip. Now with Jinkaku holding lives in Tokyo during that period too, if we manage to get the tics, that'll be 6 lives altogether. :O!! :D!! I'll be wearing live-gear for 6 days! My poor neglected platforms will suddenly see the light of day (or rather, light of livehouses). My feet will need to get used to all that standing! This will be the ultimate test of stamina...especially since i really ain't so young anymore! *gulp*

Okay now frivolous musings on the coming lives...(don't say I didn't warn you!)
The Kochi livehouse seems to have a larger capacity... well at least I'm seeing tickets numbers that are quite large... our tickets are 3XX, so I guess it's not that bad... i hope! I still hope to stand at Yukke's side during that live :) Hm... still haven't figured out what b'day present to give yet.. wouldn't want the gift to be a burden since they still have quite a number of days of travelling after that live. So what... pickles? XD

As for the Hiroshima livehouse, it certainly seems small... our numbers for 7/11 are in the region 17X, not that great I suppose for a small livehouse, but yay for 8/11 it's 8X!

Am kinda worried about getting some surfer's toenail poking into my nostril too... XD

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

The new single debuted at no. 6 on Oricon.
我..對這個single沒感覺.
明天應該會收到
害怕打開看到cover收刺激.

剛剛又在看mucc的10Days Quattro影像.
怎麼只是一年多的時間﹐改變那麼多呢﹖
影像又找到了喜歡他們的原因
[斷絕]真的是..每次看都一定會感動到流淚.
表演得那麼認真﹐
各自看或融成一體看﹐都演奏得那麼有感覺.
好像音樂的每個音符都曾代表他們創作時想說的心情.
這一點應該沒有改變吧﹖
不過怎麼新single沒給我這個感覺呢﹖
而且會不會live favourites歌曲演奏多了便麻木呢﹖
會忘了當初的感動嗎﹖

這種時候﹐看到前發日木就會感到有點安慰. ;_; ... '_'

Monday, October 17, 2005

新念頭還是得取消! 因為太晚了啦﹐沒幾票了﹐聯waiting也滿了.
算了﹐之後的事﹐之後再說!

現在就先準備11月的逍遙旅吧! ^^
想來想去﹐還是覺得12月再去一次的話未免太奢侈了吧﹖
猶豫的當兒﹐現在有了新的想法..要不狠下心來﹐換機票日期﹐延長十一月的行程﹖
今天就去查一下手續.

Sunday, October 16, 2005

third post in a day...woah
but well, forgive me, i couldn't contain it.. cos check out what TBH is thinking of doing!
http://thebackhorn.com/maniac_heaven/
they're thinking of having a live where they play all the songs that are usually missed out from their lives' setlists, ie those songs that they don't commonly play live.
cool!
can mucc do something like this someday too?

***
yuj will be landing back in HK shortly... gosh, it sometimes still amazes me to think that it is merely a few hours between countries, but then that is enough to separate people. i wish flights could be as easy as taking a bus. though i wonder, if that happens, would i still treasure meeting opportunities as much?
早前對這次mucc autumn tour的setlists感到好奇﹐因為tour不但長達2+月﹐也處在pre-single, post-single-pre-album 跟 post-album三種不同階段.
這種情況﹐setlists怎麼排呢﹖
我想 pre-single 跟 post-single-pre-album 的setlist應該沒什麼分別吧...不過post-album 三場應該是著重于新album的歌吧﹖

整理了到現在為止mucc autumn tour「図南の鵬翼」的setlists 看一看... (這個網頁我會儘量隨tour的進展做update)

由淺藍寫的是沒聽過的新album歌曲. 每場都5-6首.
對每場作為ending的[つばさ]感到超好奇!

舊歌當中﹐每場都有的是: 絕望﹑大嫌い﹑商業思想狂時代考偲曲﹑ママ﹑スイミン﹑名も無き夢﹑前へ﹑蘭鑄.
今年發過的singles當中﹐每場也排了: ココロノナイマチ﹑雨のオーケストラ.

(原來從去年album被列入'live favourite'的唯一一首是[名も無き夢], 預料之中吧. 我也不介意再次看miya傳圈圈! ^^)

看來還是沒機會聽得到... 廃ロバートのテーマあやとり花家路アカ夜断絕ズタズタ夢の街(一口氣說嘛﹐標點符號就不放了! :P)
Beyond was great. It was definitely one of the best live performances I've seen at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in a long, long time.

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

I'd like to hear a sample of『茜空』, but can't seem to launch it on this page: universal music - mucc
Does anyone know of another link with a music sample?

Friday, October 07, 2005

What's affecting me about the new mucc single is how, well, they seem to have done something to enhance Tatsuro's voice.
Actually it started from the 69Day DVD live performance clip.. there, it was quite obvious that they did something to his vocals.. he couldn't have sounded like that in a live! Now, well at least from the PV music, it's the same thing. Got me taken back a little. Even upped the volume and plastered my ears to the speakers just to make sure..

I don't know what to expect for the new upcoming album.. I hope they won't do this vocals enhancement thing there.. not ever again! >_< I mean, give me back the spontaneity and rawness so inherent in Tatsuro's voice, ala Aoban!

Thursday, October 06, 2005

okay.. let me try some cryptic blogging as invented by friend KC..

"Deflated. Distracted. Fish & chips. Funny feeling. Old friend. Memories surface. Can't help but wonder. Sigh. Hiccups at work. Sushi dinner. Shoe searching. Home. New mucc PV on bt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Hahaha... that was fun :o)

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Things are shaping up for the Nov trip, finally!
Yesssss! It's finally confirmed today that all our lives tickets have been secured!!
^________^ *jumps around the room in a mad frenzy*
Unfortunately, I'll be missing the Halloween Event although it's just one day before I arrive there... gotta pay an additional $200 lah, if I change my airtics dates... so thought I should just save on the cost and leave-days for Dec or something.. :) Still, the Halloween Event should be quite fun...wonder what the bands will be dressing themselves up as.. ;)
Well, for me it's gonna be 10 days, 5 lives, 4 bands... I'll be really surprised if we don't end up looking like shit by Day 8... XD

The thought of seeing mucc live again makes me all genki!
& listening to [奇跡] on the way back home today, I was suddenly reminded that it'll be the first time I see The Back Horn live and gosh, I'm also really looking forward to that. A lot.

Okay hosay... one more week to the start of [図南の鵬翼]@Sendai!