A Simple Update
Spring: A season of changes and farewells
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Since I became a heavy user of Facebook (will be light one once my work starts to pile up), updating my blog seems to have become like a burden since I will be repeating all the stuff that I update in the status in Facebook but I guess it is good to keep this page alive for other readers who aren’t in Facebook. To keep this post simple, since I have other tasks in mind to do, I will just sum up the core events that has been happening in my life lately. Till my next post, stay tune.
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- First: I’ve graduated on the 25th March 2009 and I am officially a master degree holder in Engineering.
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Me at the graduation ceremony with Teruko and Jose
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The certificate that I earned after 2 years of hard work
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- Second: I’ve bid my two Malaysian friends farewell who were going back to homeland for good.
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Farewell gathering for Ching Foa and Darren
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- Third: My work life with GE began officially on the 1st April 2009.
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Me and my fellow super-talented colleagues
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Am officially with GE, the company that values “imagination at work”
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Spelling errors
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Mind your English language
It doesn’t hurt at all to be careful with your spellings.
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Some of the common spelling mistakes that I see that bothers me a bit.
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If you are a Firefox user, then you should try to install the dictionary from the add-ons that will automatically check your spelling after you’ve typed each word. Sometimes, you may not have done the mistake on purpose and this will help a lot in avoiding you from doing all those silly spelling errors especially when you update your status in Facebook or when you Twitter. The dictionary add-on is also available in other languages as well. Just a tip for those who thinks that they do tend to err or those who does all the mistakes stated above. *hehe* Being careful with your spellings will help not only you but also those around you, especially little ones who are still learning how to spell right. Just remember, the cyber space is for the eyes of all so let’s make it a better place by doing this small step. About grammatical errors, well, we just have to put that responsibility on the English teachers, don’t we?
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Utada Hikaru – Come Back To Me
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Utada Hikaru – Come Back To Me
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Allow me to break my silence up to now with this long awaited “Come Back To Me” video premiere from Utada Hikaru’s upcoming album “This Is The One”. The video is directed by Anthony Mandler and was shot in Los Angeles. I have to say that her brand new song “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence – FYI” is also simply fabulous and she’s definitely serious this time in re-invading the world. Just can’t wait for the day when they start putting her albums on the Tower Record racks and getting my hands on one of them. Utada, great works as always ! Thanks for the posters sent in to me the other day ! Can’t wait to go to your next concert in the future !
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8th Chinese New Year, not being at home
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May the year of Cow brings everyone joy and happy laughters !
It’s a “Moo – Moo” year everyone !
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A Day before CNY 2009
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The new “old” message on this festive season
By Petronas, Directed by Yasmin Ahmad
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Watch it and feel the sentiment.
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Work That !
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Work That !
Teriyaki Boyz Feat. Pharrel & Chris Brown
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Another funky tune by the Teriyaki Boyz, collaborating with Pharrel once again after Zock On.
Their new album “SERIOUS JAPANESE” will be out on 28th January !
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(HOOK)
Let me see ya work that Let me see ya work that
Let me see ya work that Let me see ya work that
Work That! Work That! Work That!
Work That! Work That! Work That!
Work That! Work That! Work That!
Work That! Work That! Work That!
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(VERBAL)
GIRL in a PURPLE, said she THIRSTY PASS that GRAPPA,
swig that girlfriend…
So heated this WEEKEND Best-looking EARTHLING yet to surface
“She’s taken… what’s the purpose?”
“Just looking… CAN I DO THAT?”
Wanna DO that, chauffeur that THING back home,
just watch her WORK that…
Her shirt be BURSTIN When she twist & twirk that skirt get
Lifeted HIGH, so SCI-FI said she SHY? YEAH RIGHT!
もう相当 末期症状 ポッケにROCKET、どうしよう?どうしよう!
東京妄想 BOYZが爆走 高度上昇 We in MOTION
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(RYO-Z)
He say She say TB リクエスト まんまのシーケンスで深いGroove
P先輩 say line for the bathroom どんなサイズも一目で採寸
TOPからアンダー ウェスト ヒップ
HOTなナンバーがかかればZOCK ON!
みんなでWillie Bounce あの娘とDirty Wine
とっくのとうに忘れてるぜ恥じらい
まるで真夜中のまじない フロア中揺らすBasslineに感じない?
どこまでも照らすSearchlight 逃げられやしない しなるBodyline
Let me see ya work that 呑み過ぎKnockdown
どころか頭はますますClock up
なんとか立ってられるくらいフラフラ
もう一回ドアタマ戻してPull up
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(WISE)
Uh〜 She got crazy charisma, body like a magnet 引き起こす asthma
引き寄せる手綱 アッて間に乗りこなすじゃじゃ馬
Oooh I’ve seen that on video,
tame her like a mustang ride like in a rodeo
Oh That’s what I mean move it slow,
work that thing like you wanna be a pro
Uh, Straight from TOKIO 眠らない街へようこそ
Neon lights shinin’bright 彼女が履くJeans みたくTight
街はGlamorous 夜はScandalous Can you really hang with us?
味は格別 テリヤキ マジです Yo, Can you handle this?
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(ILMARI)
TokyoのネオンみたいにShining フロアで悩殺されちゃヤバい
タイトなサイジング(oh-)そのバディー
フレッシュでライカ酸味の効くパイン
オーラ迸る凸凹ライン 僕の手を握る
なんならどっか いっちゃいそうさ
アゲアゲオズマみたいにパーティー 今夜も超HOT(超HOT)
Turn It Upで超ハイ HOW HIGHどんぐらい?
腰揺らす超満員 頂上までgroovin
Turn It Upで超ハイ HOW HIGHどんぐらい?
腰揺らす超満員 頂上までgroovin
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(PHARRELL)
Girl, work that body Girl, work that body
Girl, work that body Girl, move your body
Work That! Work That! Work That!
Work That! Work That! Work That!
Work That! Work That! Work That!
Work That! Work That! Work That!
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(Chorus)
Let me see ya work that Let me see ya work that
Let me see ya work that Let me see ya work that
You can work it out but you gotta get started now
You can work it out but you gotta get started now
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Utada’s new single “Come Back To Me”
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Her new single and a new English album to be out soon !
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When I checked my Hotmail account a while ago, I was thrilled to find out that an e-mail from the Utada mailing list that I’m subscribing to had arrived informing the new single by Utada and am real excited for the release of her coming new English album. Anyway, you can listen to her new single “Come Back To Me” at her official website. Also available at her MySpace. So check it out !
Been a bit busy lately to blog. Will start re-blogging properly once I get settled with current higher priority matters. Peace.
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Come Back To Me
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The rain falls on my windows
And the coldness runs through my soul
And the rain falls, oh, the rain falls
I don’t want to be alone
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I wish that I could photoshop on
Our bad memories
Because the flashbacks, oh the flashbacks
Won’t leave me alone
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If you come back to me
I’ll be all that you need
Baby, come back to me
Let me make up for what happened in the past
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(Come back)
Baby come back to me (Come back)
I’ll be everything you need (Come back)
Baby come back to me (Come back)
Boy, you’re one in a million (Come back)
Baby come back to me (Come back)
I’ll be everything you need (Come back)
Baby come back to me (Come back)
You’re one in a million
(You’re one in a million)
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Memories I have of Manhattan
She goes shopping for new clothes
And she buys this, and she buys that
Just leave her alone
I wish that he would listen to her
Side of the story
It isn’t that bad, it isn’t that bad
And she’s wiser for it now
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I admit I cheated (admit I cheated )
Don’t know why I did it (why I did it)
But I do regret it (do regret it)
Nothing I can do or say can change the past
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(Come back)
Baby come back to me (Come back)
I’ll be everything you need (Come back)
Baby come back to me (Come back)
Boy, you’re one in a million (Come back)
Baby come back to me (Come back)
I’ll be everything you need (Come back)
Baby come back to me (Come back)
You’re one in a million
(You’re one in a million)
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Everything I ever did
Heaven knows I’m sorry but
I was too young to see
You were always there for me
And my curiosity
Got the better half of me
Baby take it easy on me
Anything from A to Z
Tell me what you want to be
I open my heart to be
You are my priority
Can’t you see you’ve punished me
More than enough already
Baby take it easy on me
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Baby take it easy on me
Baby come back to me
Baby come back to me
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(Come back)
Baby come back to me (Come back)
I’ll be everything you need (Come back)
Baby come back to me (Come back)
Boy you’re one in a million (Come back)
Baby come back to me (Come back)
I’ll be everything you need (Come back)
Baby come back to me (Come back)
You’re one in a million
(You’re one in a million)
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(Come back)
Baby come back to me (Come back)
I’ll be everything you need (Come back)
Baby come back to me (Come back)
Boy, you’re one in a million (Come back)
Baby come back to me (Come back)
I’ll be everything you need (Come back)
Baby come back to me (Come back)
You’re one in a million
(One in a million)
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La la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la
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Have a great year ahead !
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Wishing you folks a great year ahead !
Let’s simply make year 2009 a blast !
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Kanji of the Year
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Kanji for the year 2008 : 『変』
For further informaton, check the Wikipedia.
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In Japan, they started using a 漢字, 【Kanji】 (which means Chinese character)
to represent the whole year from 1995.
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For this year, the keyword is “change” as in the frequent changing of the Japanese Prime Ministers (Abe to Fukuda to Aso), Mr. Obama winning the American Presidency elections spreading the word ‘change’ globally and also the obvious and serious economical and ecological changes around the world. The word “変” is read as “hen” (for the Chinese reading 音読み) and “kawari” (for the Japanese reading 訓読み). It mainly means change but it also means weird. There were many changes in this year and of course, a very weird year indeed as well. Anyway, we all are hoping for better changes in the world, no matter where we are. What will year 2009 have in store for us ? Let’s get surprised. Hopefully, surprised in a good way.
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Mr. Children : エソラ
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Mr. Children: 『エソラ』
Visit their official website here.
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Out with their latest album “SUPERMARKET FANTASY”.![]()
A unique and amazing video clip by them. Very unlike them but like the new style.
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Simply loved the kiss scene at the end of it, fits the title “SUPERMARKET FANTASY” very much indeed.
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二足歩行してる空っぽの生きもの
無意識にリズムを刻んでいる
フルボリュームのL-Rに
萎んでた夢が膨らんでいく
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君が話してたの あそこのフレーズだろう?
まるで僕らのための歌のようだ
君は どんな顔して聞いてたの?
甘く切なく胸を焦がす響き
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メロディーラインが放ったカラフルな魔法のフレーズ
輝きを撒き散らしては僕らに夢を見せる
明日へ羽ばたく為に
過去から這い出す為に
Oh Rock Me Baby Tonight
ほらもっとボリュームを上げるんだ
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天気予報によれば 夕方からの
降水確率は上がっている
でも雨に濡れぬ場所を探すより
星空を信じ出かけよう
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雨に降られたら 乾いてた町が
滲んでキレイな光を放つ
心さえ乾いてなければ
どんな景色も宝石に変わる
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やがて音楽は鳴り止むと分かっていて
それでも僕らは今日を踊り続けてる
忘れないために
記憶から消すために
Oh Rock Me Baby Tonight
また新しいステップを踏むんだ
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メロディーラインが描いたカラフルな希望のフレーム
輝きを撒き散らしては僕らに夢を見せる
めぐり合う度に
サヨナラ告げる度に
Oh Rock Me Baby Tonight
さぁ踊ろうよ ボリュームをもっと上げるんだ
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The Movie, “Dan in Real Life”
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‘Plan to be surprised.’
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I didn’t expect this movie to be any good at all when I picked it up among the other comedy drama movies that I decided to digest over the past couple of days. Yes, I am a movie junkie who just wanted to tune it for a simple laugh or some easy-going movie that doesn’t make you think much which is the point when you are trying to escape from all the brainstorming sessions for the dreaded research. Anyway, as I have said, I never did expect the movie to turn out to be any good and indeed, it was more than I expected. The simplicity of the movie was the catch. Yes, very predictable stuff but that’s the beauty about the movie. The following could be a spoiler so just ignore this if you have any plans to watch it.
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The American comedian, Steve Carell, played the lead role, Dan Burns, who is an advice columnist who is supposed to be an expert in relationships but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent. Throughout the whole movie, he was pathetic. The whole family even the little kids were teasing him, jeering him as if he’s like a nobody but though being treated so, he resisted it all until the day he met Marie, a “hottie” that is being played by the lovely actress, Juliette Binoche. Yes, obviously, he fell in love with her after 4 dreadful years being a widower. For a moment, he thought he wouldn’t find love anymore after losing his wife but somehow the lovestruck was beyond his control and in just merely 3 days, the love forced him to break many rules that he had been trying to abide to all these years for his 3 daughters’ sake.
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I really liked the last part, a voice-over in which Dan narrates his column to the readers, indicating that he was chosen by the newspaper media company to have his column nationally syndicated. It goes something like this, “Dear readers, for most of you, this is my first column in your paper. In the future, I will be answering your questions but today, I want to break from my usual format and talk to you about the subject of plans. Not so much my plan for this column, more like, life plans. How we all make them and how we hope our kids make good, smart, safe plans of their own. But if we are really honest with ourselves, most of the time our plans don’t work out as we hoped. So, instead of asking our young people, “What are your plans ?”, “What do you plan to do with your life ?”, maybe we should tell them this. Plan to be surprised.”
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I have always been the boring type person who asks those silly questions to others about their future plans and had been judgmental when someone answers they don’t have anything particular in mind. And, of course, biased in many ways accordingly to my sets of values. I guess I am the type of person who gets weary about the idea of not planning. Plans are good, (since there’s the saying, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”) I still believe but we must always remember there’s a possibility that certain plans may not turn out as how we hoped, the main message that this movie wanted to convey. Life is filled with randomness and we, human, tend to want to be in control all the time and definitely, it could be easier for ourselves to ‘plan to be surprised’. Anyway, there’s quite a few cute scenes especially the quarrels between Dan and his 2nd daughter, Cara, who’s in a rebellious teenage phase who’s deeply in love with a young boy. The keyword, “murderer of love”. *hehe* When you find time and want an easy-going movie like how I did, this could just be that movie.
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Lifehouse: You and Me
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Lifehouse: “You and Me”
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In Malay, I think this is what we refer as a “lagu jiwang“.
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What day is it? And in what month?
This clock never seemed so alive
I can’t keep up and I can’t back down
I’ve been losing so much time
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‘Cause it’s you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to lose
And it’s you and me and all other people
And I don’t know why, I can’t keep my eyes off of you
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One of the things that I want to say just aren’t coming out right
I’m tripping on words
You’ve got my head spinning
I don’t know where to go from here
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‘Cause it’s you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to prove
And it’s you and me and all other people
And I don’t know why, I can’t keep my eyes off of you
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There’s something about you now
I can’t quite figure out
Everything she does is beautiful
Everything she does is right
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‘Cause it’s you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to lose
And it’s you and me and all other people
And I don’t know why, I can’t keep my eyes off of you
and me and all other people with nothing to do
Nothing to prove
And it’s you and me and all other people
And I don’t know why, I can’t keep my eyes off of you
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What day is it?
And in what month?
This clock never seemed so alive
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Winter shopping 2008
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Shopping galore !
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The online magazine that is delivered to my Gmail informed me that Uniqlo is having a sale till Nov 24th and that’s when I knew I had to grab the items above that I’ve been wanting to have. Feeling all content right now & I promised myself, “That’s it for this year !”. Have you done your winter shopping yet ?
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