Danse Macabre

How to play a Chopin Etude

While in school where there's an ample availability of pianos (nevermind the tuning and odd one or two sticky keys), I would want to play and be reacquainted with the black and white.

So I grabbed a score from the school library, and did some research on youtube to find out how to play the music. In my exploration, I discovered gems. Spine chilling gems. So I discarded my music score and decided to bring out my Chopin Etude score.

Listening to this last one brought tears to my eyes. Not saying it's the best, but it was the most emotional for me.

Honda Civic Choir

小胖妞

This is so cute... disturbingly emo and bloody though.

Light of Gold Lux Aurumque

The power of imagination, and the effort to pull off a dream.

Edward Esch's Light of Gold

Light,

Warm and heavy as pure gold

and the angels sing softly

to the new-born baby.

Lux Aurumque (trans. in Latin by Charles Anthony Silvestri)
Lux
Calida gravisque
Pura velut aurum
Et canunt angeli
Mollitermodo natum.

Oxymoron; the handwritten email

Another brilliant find from Scription

Call me old fashion but nothings beats sincerity than a good effort in penmanship. The effort and discipline to train one's handwriting conveys more sincerity than a shallow effort to send a 'personal touch' through a computer mediated communication.

Sammi Cheng 她回来了

Nothing much to say, just watch lah.

谁能给你一个完美的人生？你自己能吗？

My favourite song for the moment

Something haunting about repetitive strings and circular harmonies. LOL!

Though I have to admit that costume, which shoots laser beams, is rather distracting.

Let's go to Munich!

So magical... I'd buy into BMW's art of engineering.

Kinetic Sculpture

Random clicking on the web on a sick day bears some surprising discoveries

I am actually a little freaked out by these moving skeletal monsters.

Hermes window display

One for the blog before I leave for Muar.

I wonder if this could be art?

More from here: Stunning Video Installation

I've got the Wave

Cool! I've got Google Wave! Unfortunately, my contacts who also have the wave are not exactly people who I always work with or correspond frequently with. Hopefully with the invitations I sent out, we can test it out. ^^

The Road Ahead or the Road Behind

Sometimes I think the fates must grin as we denounce them and insist,

The only reason we can’t win is the fates themselves have missed.

Yet, there lives on the ancient claim – we win or lose within ourselves,

The shining trophies on our shelves can never win tomorrow’s game.

So you and I know deeper down there is a chance to win the crown,

But when we fail to give our best, we simply haven’t met the test

Of giving all and saving none until the game is really won.

Of showing what is meant by grit, of fighting on when others quit,

Of playing through not letting up, it’s bearing down that wins the cup.

Of taking it and taking more until we gain the winning score,

Of dreaming there’s a goal ahead, of hoping when our dreams are dead,

Of praying when our hopes have fled. Yet, losing, not afraid to fall,

If bravely we have given all, for who can ask more of a man

than giving all within his span, it seems to me, is not so far from – Victory.

And so the fates are seldom wrong, no matter how they twist and wind,

It’s you and I who make our fates, we open up or close the gates,

On the Road Ahead or the Road Behind.

-George J. Moriarty

Bubbles

I wonder how patient you have to be to get a great shot like this?!
Bubble pictures here.

I have to rethink the Stravinsky's quote on the right

The copy is just so... bad, I have to rethink Stravinsky's quote on the right side of my blog. Evidently, I don't think you'd call these guys great artists...

Movie: Sherlock Holmes

Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. Watson?! Somehow my image of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson wasn't quite this suave... or young. But I'm a fan (got my complete collection of Sherlock Holmes series falling apart to prove it), and besides Robert Downey Jr. always includes some interesting comedic scenes as seen from the trailer below. Can't wait for December.



Movie website here

Movie: Nine

I wanna watch this!

With stellar cast of women and one man, good music, fascinating wardrobe and set...
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Quote

Thinking that something isn't strange, is strange itself.

- Kimura Takuya's character, Tsukumo Ryusuke in Mr. Brain

Love Story to Viva La Vida

Popular musical elements are usually recycled so it's not unusual to sometimes find similarities between two different songs... and link them. But I like this rearrangement, even though it sounds and feels different from the original songs. The emphasis on the rhythmic element still retains the spirit. Maybe the ancients were right, the beat does communicates with the spiritual?

I wanna take great pictures too!

I came across a wonderful website on the daily life of a Japanese photographer. If only I knew how to take photos like his that depict serenity and peace... the mundane won't be the mundane.