wow...after almost 2.5 years? i think...coldplay is back to hkg again...i saw them back in sept 2006. i mean they have definitely became more pop than ever, and i am not especially the biggest fan of their latest album....yet, their songs (esp. Parachutes album) definitely hit my sentimental side...and i just want to hear them sing their old songs live again...i think they sound better live than the cd...
i have bought parachute twice because the cd is so overplayed and it got all scratched up...and with recent gloommy weather in hk, i have started to play the songs again and again during my commute...
i must admit...i had shed quite a few tears listening to their parachutes album...so much memories...and recently hearing the rumors that they would split up soon in the near future...makes me more eager to attend their upcoming show in march (but really hope they dont play too much from their new album)
they were so down-to-earth, simple, and chill back then....i missed them...
spent almost 7 hours in the print studio yesterday...what a day! after 7 hours of jumping around, blasting music, singing along, and of course making my shirt a complete mess with ground/acid/and paint...i have successfully dispose all of my negative energy! i was so tired by 11pm and i really wanted a beer....but no, i have stayed discipline ... i had another bottle of water.
i had many music phases for that '7 hours of having everything to solely myself' period... of course had the cantoopop phase...easy to singalong...but i was really digging the stevie wonder phase last nite...good that i have his complete best which i can just replay lots of times
but this morning....i had such a craving for J&M (judy and mary)....dont know why? but what a phase i had back then...i really liked them, esp. their 'POWER SOURCE' album! they had this incredible energy that i just started jumping whenever i play that album...btw, that album came out on 1996...
article of the day: apparently we are not only creating junk in our own home - earth, but in space as well...
had a really scary but random nightmare last nite...arm felt like it has been broken...and of course the neverending war-zone mode at work...everything adds up to the gigantic monster wanting to explode...and spread its bad aura onto everywhere...
i guess doodling, digging for different kinds of music (..was looking at my old cds.mp3s last nite...) is my therapy...and i am currently in the process of learning to enjoy running...i cant wait til i can get back to swimming when i actually have the time to join the club...
i think i have realized that i could only really be mindless and undistracted when i am focused on a one person activity ~vaccum activity?!~
so relieved that i dont have to go to work this weekEND...and hopefully i can have the print studio all to myself tmr evening....can blast whatever stupid music and do some sing-along!
albums of the day: friendly fires - friendly fires faye wong - di dar
so the day started on a really bad note...my work computer had experienced its first fake death *quoted from the DELL's service centre, and of course they would not be able to solve the problem*. I was stuck to work on my colleague's desk (who is on leave this week)....and his desk is surely one hell of a desk...it took me a while to be able to find a spot for the mouse to be placed on...
so as my hectic day continues....i have received a good surprise; i got a free tix to watch a jazz show this evening...*yes i should had stayed at work but jazz sounded exactly the therapy i needed after a long busy day with my computer's fake death* ... just to put you in context, jazz for me = miles davies, dave burbeck, art tatum...you know what i mean...
it was not until i have received my tix at the venue then i realized that i was attending a fusion jazz concert. To be frank, i did not have good experience listening to this stylo ... i was always intimitated by this genre. However, i must say that i have enjoyed the 2.5 hours concert (there were some parts that i was just confused ... and i did not really enjoy the saxaphone because i was never a big fan of that instrument). I was especially happy when i heard the double bass solo because it is one of my fav. instruments of all times.
I am not sure that I would actually go buy a cd of the artists but I think that it is definitely an educated and fun experience to watch the live sets. I am really content that I have experienced something fresh this evening.
oh, btw, the concert that i have attended this evening - chick corea and john mclaughlin - five peace band
a slight flavor of what i have tasted this evening:
as on this side of world where our office is busy making things and waiting them to be built and finish, i have just heard that our dear long - awaited TVCC is on fire...not just small accidental flames ... but fierce unstoppable flames burning burning burning ... just like the kind we see in hollywood movies! what a shame?! esp. on a long awaited project like such, i really hope that the fire has been extinguished and not spread to the CCTV!
on another note, as i would be too busy working instead of maintaining my daily procrastination and writing blogs for no-one to read whatsoever... i have come across this dude who puts his procrastination for the enjoyment of others...i really like his work and i would like to share this with you...
after a tiresome and black sat, i got a well-deserved sunday ... dreamlike weather, chill afternoon at the printmaking studio, a shitty movie that i could laugh about with my movie buddy, and my dream meal...it is always this much better after the struggle of a bad moment!
btw, do not waste money to see 'the spirit' unless u wanna snore in a theatre....it's better off re-watching '300' instead
clips of the good day (pictures always speak better than words...)
the sky is so crazily unreal! but i love it!
the long awaited dinner at 澳洲牛奶公司...finally i made it (this is my third attempt since 09):
who can resist such divine piece of work!?! (i wonder how many eggs are in this megawich?!)
enjoying our food ... it was gone in 5 mins...only 28 bucks for her 'regular' set!
music of the day: Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae
what a day! the black sat officially started at 3am and ended at 8pm...
1. devil insomnia visited me again from 3am - 6am 2. could not solve my work problems at 5am 3. cramps cramps cramps...not only twisting my stomach, but also my brain 4. could not find the 4GB card when i most needed 5. my attempted organized timetable had completely collapsed due to miscommunication with a friend. 6. wasted two movie tix (when someone could actually take over the seats) 7. got lost somewhere between central, sheng wan, and west central...what a walk 8. made a roundtrip between mk and cwb within 2 hours time...talking about being at the most crowded places at once! 9. got lost somewhere in mk... 10. could not re-schedule the tix because i was a day early.... 11. bump into someone that i really did not want to see ever again... 12. octopus ran out of money when i hopped onto the bus back to hkg...and of course i did not have any change on me...so i basically paid double! 13. felt like throwing up for 3 hours - when there were all these yummy food (esp. golden shrimps!) on the freakin' table. 14. felt like i was beaten up by someone on the stomach til 12am. 15. nasty polaroid film stuck to my camera. 16. i did not enjoy a single minute of my life during this sunny nice afternoon...what a shame!
on another note, of course i had to spread my black aura to the close-by peers. i think i had successfully ruined a dinner with my 2 friends.
tomorrow would be a better day! it has to! i would not allow more of these black aura to be chasing me!
thanks to death cab by cuties to keep myself sane during these 17 hours.
sometimes it's good to chat with friends about things happening out there...what people are interested in...what kind of work are out there....what people are thinking
had a short chat with a friend living in london about a lot of things, and we ended the conversation with 'what kind of artists do we admire?'
as i was walking home through the park last nite, i had trouble to find contemporary artists that inspire me. i am not the kind of audience who look for the deep meanings in all art works...sometimes it's the sensation / the aura that i can connect with his/her work ... most of the time these feelings arisen are very temporal and one-time deal...
but today, i have reconciled with a long lost connection with this artist - hiroshi sugimoto. i remember that i had first encountered his work back in a gallery in Chelsea, NYC in 2001. His photographs are taken with such precision and isolation. i missed his work a lot and therefore i spent some time to do to re-visit his work. The work i saw back in Chelsea were his architectural series. But i loved his water/horizon series the most.
after all these years, his works still extract the feelings i had back then when i first encountered his work. H. Sugimoto is definitely one artist that i still admire very much.
'I try to never be satisfied; this way I will always be challenging my spirit.' ~quoted from H. Sugimoto
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO Ligurian Sea, Saviore, 1993 Gelatin silver print 47 x 58 3/4 inches unframed (119.4 x 149.2 cm) Ed. of 5
yes ... it happened again ... i could not sleep for a good 3 hours last night ... so why is that? i used to be able to sleep anywhere, any time... but this has not happened lately. ~no, it's not because of work. work has actually been quite easy lately... until today... we are participating in a very fun/exciting/ but demanding competition... yes, it's time to put in my first full force in 2009 ~is it because the news had been so sensitive lately? yes, i am not so comfortable of sharing this with the world, but i do respect what my family does to honour my beloved grandma! ~is it the running? i hope not because i am planning to stick with this sport for awhile. ~there have been some disturbing moments this week. not going to talk about the details, but it would be too silly to be the reasons for the uprising of the insomnia monster. ~...
i have been trying to listen to something much lighter...jazz...stevie wonder...stan getz...art tatum... (don't think that it works as well as i hope it could have) i have not been drinking lately either i stopped myself to continue reading this disturbing book. actually, i have stopped myself from reading b4 bed lately. i did not turn on any movie or soap opera while i was getting ready for bed
what else can i do? do i have to drink the warm milk and count sheep again?!
this haunting monster must go away!!! maybe i am jetlag?!?!
