Category: Music

  • Deserts Chang’s You Were Here with Me

    It’s been nearly two months since my dad’s passing, and this Deserts Chang song came in my iPod’s playlist. Titled You Were Here with Me (我想你要走了) in English… it seems to be a contradiction with the literal translation. I know ‘wo xiang ni‘ means “I miss you” but wouldn’t the literal translation be “I want you to go“?

    Loneliness is hovering over me
    I watch clouds rising, rain falling
    My mood is getting down
    My mood is getting down

    Perhaps at the exit of Dream
    Peace has embraced outpouring of emotions
    In the blink of an eye it dawns on me
    In the blink of an eye it dawns on me

    You’re about to go
    You’ve said it all
    ((Your) life story is finished.)
    You’re about to go, you’ll be happy

    Perhaps at the exit of Dream
    Peace has embraced outpouring of emotions
    In the blink of an eye it dawns on me
    You said you wanted a pillow that you could sleep to your heart’s content

    credit: Semantic Nuance’s

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  • Diana Arbenina’s Idi Ko Mne is Finally Out!

    That close-up on Chulpan Khamatova’s flawless face is perfection.

    Though I don’t think that these ten months worth of wait after the release of the Making Of [1] back in January make the video good, I’m happy the video is finally out. I haven’t been able to find an official HD upload of it, so this fan upload will have to do for now.

    — edit —

    There’s an official upload, but surprisingly it isn’t in HD either.

  • I Miss You So Much, Dad

    Next week, it’s crazy, will be the first month my dad has been gone. Though the shock of losing him seemed to block my mourning for him, as the days have gone by, it’s been harder and harder. Specially this past Sunday. It was my fourth Sunday without seeing him… and I don’t get along with #4s. Today I woke up thinking that maybe I could hear his ringing my intercom the way he did so I knew it was him downstairs.

    Music has been my blessing and my curse. It often distracts me from wandering into sad territory, but it also reminds me of him. “He would like this,” “I saw this with him,” my mind often thinks. Trying to make sense, over-thinking about it, it seems destiny has been sending me signals throughout the year. First through a Chinese Horoscope scare, and other little bits and pieces of mementos.

    Father and daughter movies, songs being played at key moments and words left as token of peacefulness. The day before my father passed away, when he was in good spirits and I was visiting him, he said he had led a good life and that if he had to go, he could go tranquil. I didn’t know then that I wasn’t going to be able to give him a mix of his favorite group [1] to accompany in his hospital stay.

    After my uneasiness started that day, I looked up at the sky and told my dad that if he had to let go, he could. Fifteen minutes later, I was informed of his cardiac arrest. It wasn’t more than 20min in the trauma room, when I knew that he’d decided to let go.

    Luck will have it that I didn’t get to watch Talaash until after my father passed.

    I feel the need to over-share so I don’t wallow in self-pity.

  • Rani Mukerji Films Ranked

    So tell me, is this impressive for a couple of months watching Indian films or what? I must admit, though, that I’m still not familiar enough with Hindi or any other dialect spoken in films. My level of understanding goes from having a ladki or ladka giving their dil tere liye. And I’m not even sure that’s Hindi or Urdu.

    Also, though most of the films I’ve come across are subtitled, some weren’t properly sync to their video sources. I think that happened to me with Ghulam, Nayak, Yuva, Chalte Chalte and maybe Hum Tum. I can’t even remember any longer. After this, I realized I really really REALLY love Rani Mukerji on screen… say it with her voice “she’s so cute.” And her eyes are so expressive with such on screen charisma. Her dancing doesn’t seem to be at the level of ease as… let’s say- Madhuri Dixit, but she compensate with the acting.

    Though her performance on Hey Ram is barely 10% of the film, I do think it deserves its spot on the Top5 Top6 of her films and everyone should watch it. It’s an amazing movie.

    Fan for life!

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  • My Dad’s Mayday Playlist

    For the past year, my dad had become a really big Mayday fan. I think this happened right after watching the concert film Mayday 3DNA, he used to show it to his friends and carry the film as well as their discography on his USB ALL THE FREAKING TIME. When I retrieved his USB, he had the discography on.

    So… as a means to remember him, I made a short playlist with some of their songs.

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    1. 時光機 (Shi Guang Ji) – Time Machine
    2. 我們 (時時刻刻) (Wo Men (Shi Shi Ke Ke)) – Us/Moment by Moment
    3. 倔強 (Jue Jiang) – Stubborn
    4. 知足 (Zhi Zu) – Contentment
    5. 戀愛ING (Lian Ai-I-N-G) – Love-I-N-G
    6. 盛夏光年 (Sheng Xia Guang Nian) – Eternal Summer
    7. 擁抱 (Yong Bao) – Embrace
    8. 為愛而生 (Wei Ai Er Sheng) – Born to Love
    9. 離開地球表面 (Li Kai Di Qiu Biao Mian) – Leaving the Surface of the Earth
    10. 乾杯 (Gan Bei) – Cheers

  • BiBi and Chris Lee Together!

    I’m a little bit sad I have no one else to share this with. I think my dad would’ve loved seeing this clip of BiBi and Chris Lee together after all these years. It’s all gonna be so weird now, I have no one to share all my music with.

    More info here.

  • Otousan, R.I.P

    I would rarely post a fanvid lyric video, but this song suddenly popped up in my recommended YT clips, and seems very fitting.

    Summer has come and passed,
    The innocent can never last-
    wake me up when September ends.

    Like my father’s come to pass,
    seven years have gone so fast-
    wake me up when September ends.

    Here comes the rain again,
    falling from the stars.
    Drenched in my pain again,
    becoming who we are…

    As my memory rests,
    but never forgets what I lost-
    wake me up when September ends.

    Ring out the bells again
    like we did when spring began-
    wake me up when September ends.

    Like my father’s come to pass,
    twenty years has gone so fast-
    wake me up when September ends.

    And surely, September has come and passed., like my father.

    Sept. 26. Wake me up when September ends.

  • The Madhuri Dixit Journey

    I think this is how it’s going to go~

    madhuri-dixit-filmography-watchlist

    … after I’m done with Rani, of course. xD

    There are A LOT of Indian movies, and each star has A LOT of films in their filmographies. This time around, I’ve taken the “most voted” films in IMDb alongside the “best rated” and added a star with personal recommendations I’ve been given to create this list. I don’t even know if I will find all these with subtitles. If I managed to watch 15 or 20 of these, I might even have a Madhuri Dixit Films Ranked list [1][2] XD

  • I’m Having These Feelings Again~

    … but I don’t want to get my hopes up.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdvE3w3hkqI

    I noticed last time [1] that she had been generally in better spirits, and Britney seems happy here. She laughs and she reminisces — and she’s made me glimpse at Miley doing that thing she’s done and I’ve been trying to avoid coz I don’t want that mental image — but Britney seems… excited about her show in Vegas.

    It will never be the same for me, of course, that illusion- that chance I had to see her live the time she came over, and I had all these pent-up nostalgic feelings but was never too sure I wanted to see her show and be disappointed. I then read a lot of bad reviews on it and was glad I chose not to go. Vegas is also never a destination I would think of going coz it doesn’t call me, so it’s likely I’ll never see her show.

    I just wish her happiness.

  • Hoy Voy a Verte de Nuevo~

    … voy a alegrar tu tristeza
    vamos a hacer una fiesta
    ‘pa que’ste amor crezca mas.

    In all seriousness, most snarky Peruvians would probably mock Gianmarco’s vocal abilities, but I don’t know any of those snarky ones that would mock his composition skills. I think there’s a strong 90% who would praise them. Hoy by Gloria Estefan is one of the most popular ones he’s written, and the video was shot in Cuzco to top it all.

    And Hoy isn’t even the most complex of the songs he’s written. But it’s still a really good one.

    Quickie literal lyrics translation after the break.

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