Tag: faye wong

  • Demasiado Extranjero, Por Favor Cante en Inglés

    Esta es la traducción de inglés -> español del artículo que escribí para YAM 003 titulado “Too Foreign for your Own Good. Please Sing in English” en el que hablo de los más recientes lanzamientos de artistas de no habla inglesa estrenando material en el idioma para entrar en el mercado.

    Como el artículo es un poco largo, pueden leerlo después del break.

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  • Artist’s Random Music Meme

    Forgive my ignorance, but why is this a Meme? LOL I don’t get why call them Meme. xD

    Julz didn’t tag me, but I’m doing this anyway~~

    INSTRUCTIONS:
    1. Choose ONE band/artist and put your iPod or other music player on shuffle.
    2. For each question, press the NEXT button to get your answer.
    3. You must write that song name down no matter how silly it sounds.

    Picked band/artist: Faye Wong ‘coz I felt I needed an artist with a fair amount of songs… and now that I think about it, I also could have picked Shiina Ringo. BALLS.

    1. Are you male or female? 迷魂記 – Vertigo
    (though English name doesn’t seem correct)

    2. Describe yourself: 蝴蝶 – Butterfly
    (awww, metamorphosis? xD)

    3. How do you feel about yourself? 浮躁 (Fu Zao) – Impatience
    (hahahahaha, now imagine myself with other people. No wonder!!)

    4. Describe your ex boyfriend/girlfriend: 小題大做 (Xiao Ti Da Zuo) – Making a Fuss
    (I still think it might be the wrong translation)

    5. Describe your current boy/girl situation: 掃興 (Sao Xing) – Disappointed (hahahaha)

    6. Describe your current location: 嗶一聲之後 – After the Tone (*beep* I’m not here hahaha)

    7. Describe where you want to be: 人間 (Ren Jian) – Mortal World
    (why????)

    8. Your best friend: 精彩 – Spectacular
    (oh, geez… they get the bust in self-esteem? And I get all the depressing ones~ LOL)

    9. Your favorite color: 夜妝 – Concealed Night
    (ok, you lost me there. Sounds like that SJP ‘barely mint’ color description. GAY!)

    10. You know that: 悶 (Men) – Bored
    (I’m bored?? xD)

    11. What’s the weather like? 無常 (Wu Chang) – Sporadic
    (Gosh! Talk about precise. First hot like humid hell, then fresh.)

    12. If your life was a television show what would it be called? 空城 – Empty City
    (hahahaha, my own version of I Am Legend??? BALLS.)

    13. What is life to you? 你喜歡不如我喜歡 (Ni Xi Huan Bu Ru Wo Xi Huan) – You Don’t Love as Much as Me
    (WTF, man. That’s sad. Damn it! Love as much as me!!)

    14. What is the best advice you have to give? 想像 (Xiang Xiang) – Imagine
    (sounds a little bit like me… or John Lennon)

    15. If you could change your name what would you change it to? 如果你是假的 (Ru Guo Ni Shi Jia De) – If You Were False
    (changing your name is false!! LOL’ or… I will have a very long name apparently)

  • This Month’s My Life as a Soundtrack Deezer!

    Bummer~ Couldn’t find some tracks from the playlist I made in my iPod~~ 5 in fact, ARGH! And Deezer won’t even let me play some of the songs that I did find… They should let you add your own mp3 from a URL, right? Like MixWit used to??

    Screw you Deezer, buahaha~

    Here’s my YouTube Playlist~

    You don’t know what My Life as a Soundtrack is? Check this post.

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    1. I’d Start a Revolution – Aimee Allen – Opening Credits
    2. Citizens of Tomorrow – Tokyo Police Club – Waking Up
    3. Campus – Vampire Weekend – First Day At School
    4. The Lucky One – Au Revoir Simone – Falling In Love
    5. Scream – Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson – Fight Song
    6. This Is Me, This Is You – Marit Larsen – Breaking Up
    7. Hump De Bump – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Prom
    8. God is a DJ – Pink – Life’s OK
    9. Beautiful Dreamer – Mates of State – Secret Love
    10. Clunk-Rewind-Clunk-Play-Clunk – Los Campesinos! – Mental Breakdown
    11. Go Forward – Lisa Gerrard (Whale Rider OST) – Driving
    12. Tonight I’ll Be Lonely Too – Alison Krauss – Flashback
    13. Quedate – Andrea Echeverri – Getting Back Together
    14. I’ll Never Tell – Emma Caulfield/Nicholas Brendon (Buffy Once More with Feeling OST) – Wedding
    15. 喂！喂！(Wei! Wei!) – Hello! Hello! – Bibi Chow (Zhou Bichang) – Birth of Child
    16. Earth Intruders – Bjork – Final Battle
    17. If Tomorrow Never Comes – Ronan Keating – Death Scene
    18. When I Get Where I’m Going – Brad Paisley & Dolly Parton – Funeral Song
    19. 不留 (Bu Liu) – No Staying – Faye Wong – End Credits

  • Do You Know Your Asians?

    Lainey does not have a grandma named Mrs. Wong.

    See, even us Asians can’t tell their Asians apart. As I said in the last post, it was the 16th anniversary of the restaurant. We went to eat meat… loads of meat, which was also bad for my jaw.

    Anyway, it was a big ass table, so I sat next to my cousin. We got to talking about school, music, economy, eco solutions, and stupid people, among other topics, like Japanese, Korean and Chinese. I told them it was getting harder to tell each apart because everyone is getting a slicker style. However, my cousin was proud to admit that he could tell them apart, which I refused to believe~~

    I asked him once again, (more…)