Underneath by Alanis Morissette

I was a Supposed Former Infatuated Junkie. A punk with an attitude and a hair to flung like Alanis did in her sophomore album. After the oversuccessful Jagged Little Pill album, how do you sophomorize an album without suffering  from overexpectation?

Well the answer is you can't. But you just don't come out with subsequents of boringer and boringer album wat?  Haha I've committed the sins of misusing english. Never mind,.. i am just too important for dwelling to much on my sins. I also sin masturbating, should i repent by flogging myself with cilice?

OK, here's the thing, Alanis is back, older and motherly(is she a mother yet) married and happy!! Alanis happy!!! To be fair she's already happy since like light-years ago dude when she did So Called Chaos. You see her walking on endless road(which is a conveyor belt of hollywood) flanked by so many people one supposedly her bf and then future husband, short hair and smilling like a contented mother!!! Cardinal sin indeed!!

Why  am i so hypocrite? Y do i only see her as good when she's angry? Y am I such cold and evil as to see a person only at a one dimensional vantage point? This is wrong. But the point is i wanna be angry and she's my muse! If she's mellowed down, where do i vent my anger?!!!

OK, I am rambling. Please listen to her latest from upcoming album Flavors of Entanglement.... I bring you Underneath

China 2 years later

In Hangzhou

Sitting in the bus, looking outsite the window, I would expect a huge change to China, which brings me to the Hangzhou city, city of romance the tour guide Wong Li said.

The only thing I see which brings out the new china city is the sprouting of upper-class and sometimes over-the-top looking hair saloon, and the showcasing of branded stores along a certain street while we drive across the city to our hotel.

The rest of the city is just like the ones I see the last two times, the only two times I visited china, cold, uniformed boxes of shophouses with lackadaisical retailers standing or sitting inside their stores, waiting for customers which most unlikely visiting durig a usual weekdays. It was generally still a usual fixture of china, people cycling to work, motorists hoarding roads like they're king cause they pay their road tax, and lovers walking like they are parading each others goods.

I don;t see a change as much as I wanna get inspired by it.

Hangzhou

Hangzhou

Atonement

Adapted from McEwan's book, this Joe Wright's (also directs Pride and Prejudice) movie moves us with it's superb and stunning directions and display of how a story should be told.

There are many things I love about this movie, apart from the fact that James McAvoy is such excellence of an actor. The background soundtrack gaves us a fresh approach to how a movie should come about. The flip flopping of scenes throw us off guard to how a story should run, and the way it did, make it one of the most inspiring movie editing as far as this late year is concerned.

Only one glitch though, and an unforgiven one at that. The ending, I feel is too stunted, unappealing, and as much as I love the way the story unfolds, it did not leave a strong emotional attachment to how a love story to hold the viewers. It did not hold the viewers' attachment after the movie ends, which I think a good story gone wasted. It should not lost focus, it should not compromise on the ending when the 1st hour is stunningly beautiful and inspiring. 

I think one of the main reason to the stunning visual to the first part of the Atonement is Saoirse Ronan. Watching her is a fascinating. Her resolve to act out a naive, idealistic kid with too much of an imaginative heart leave us breathless. Working her way through a brief 45 minuts of the movie throw Kiera out of the contention to be a the visible main actress. 

Donna Lewis

One of the most memorable song ever to come out of the 90's is "I Love You Always Forever", a song that spend 9 consecutive weeks at no.2 back in 1996. I think the only reason it is no.2 is because america was in a Macarena craze. That Los Del Rios guys are making another chart one-hit-wonder history by denying someone more deserving a number one hit. 

In the end that song became one of the biggest hit of the year even though it did not hit no.1 in HOt 100, and brought Donna Lewis at the pedestal of stardom, at least for a while. She came to Malaysia during our commonwealth games(if I am not mistaken) and sang that song, and her second single Without Love. I think the first single was too good that she could never be able to pull off another at par hit. That's why she drift off from the fickle minded masses that is America.

I have not hear her song for a very very long time, occasionally her song would be played at Mix FM(national adult contemporary station), which still gives me goosebumps everytime I hear it. I guess when I have a lover this song would be the top to-play list in a romantic candlelight dinner with my special someone. sigh...

Just to add a bit about Donna Lewis, is that she did not exactly did a one-hit wonder, she did come out with much lesser hits like WIthout Love and I Could Be The One, which barely make it to the Hot 100. That;s just too bad cause I was IN LOVE with I could Be The One, a beautiful, melancholic longing for love type of song. It did not get too many airplay during the late 90's.

Now, 12 years after I Love You ALways Forever, she is coming out with her latest album, called Shout. Check out her Myspace webpage and take a free listen to her new single from the same title, Shout. It's DOnna Lewis at her best again.

Will & Grace

I must say, this tv series is quite interesting. It's Will & Grace. I am currently watching this tv series at its first season. 

I have committed to write down all the funny one-liners made by them cause I think they are so fresh and funny. Not all I understand though.

"Don't bogart the poison"

"Just need to take it in a little."

"I hate clowns, they think they're so funny"

"look who's back from lunch, just in time for dinner"

In one episode, WIll Truman mentioned about Guacamole. This pattern is a guacamoli pattern.

But another different word is guacamole.

A New Day

I am very happy,...

I am contended coz I am accepted. Which based on my new year's resolution, I will depend not on acceptance of others, apart from myself. 

Most has to do with my youth, which preceded my ability to tolerate people and in turn making people tolerate me. Which I find it odd that I am thinking this way. Has to with my inability to think clearly for I am mentally exhausted. I am doubting about my ability to sustain my attraction, like Cirque du Soleil trying to maintain it's revenue and remain relevant. I am thinking from this angle, which I would find it really odd if I were to realize this from third person standpoint. 

But I am happy. Which I know this would not last for it depends heavily on the approval of others, the main culprit to all my woes in life. This is not the long term solution. I must wean myself away from it. But hard. I try, and I will succeed.

On more lighter note, I went to my fren's housewarming party, great time we had. Met a cute guy who stays in JB, whom I hope would happen something with him. Plus another shyer person wanted to know me. He ain't my type but I will see him and see how things would go. It's fresh to have some interested parties. It throws away all the pressure to perform.

Went shopping at Pavillion, bought Kenzo's Parfum for my gay brother for his birthday coming later January. Got him a rather spicy taste, for as far as I know is his blend of taste. Kenzo's Tokyo By Kenzo fragrance notes are: (yellow) ginger, lemon, grapefuit; (red) pink pepper, bitter orange; (green) shiso, maté absolute, green tea; and (darkness) guaiac wood, cedar, clove and nutmeg.

Kevin from http://nowsmellthis.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2007/10/16/3294395.html says TOkyo by Kenzo is "it’s the blandest of the big 2007 men’s fragrance launches — so far." I tend to disagree, the strong smell of Tokyo by Kenzo is definitely not my cup of tea, but it certainly not the "blandest" of men's fragrance. My brother will most likely dig this heavy accented perfume used in front of his fellow colleagues and  friends.