fleur du mal.

the long awaited first gothic metal music by sarah brightman:

symphony

Sarah Brightman’s new single off her album Symphony (to be released on Jan 29).
Love it, love it, love it!

Listen to track 3: symphony at:
http://www.musicremedy.com/s/Sarah_Brightman/videos/Symphony-19762.html

Lyrics (courtesy of sarah-brightman.com forum):
I don’t know what I’m supposed to say
When now suddenly you feel so far away
And you’re not prepared to talk
If you’re now afraid to listen
And I don’t want to do this anymore

Oh I don’t know which way that I should turn
Seems the more we love the more we have to learn
And I keep staring into space like it somehow has the answer
So don’t let the music end
Oh my darling…

Symphony, it’s gone quiet around us now
How I wish you would hold me
And that you’d never told me
That it’s better if you leave

Look at the sun, we’re starting to lose all of the light
When we once burned so brightly
Tell me we might be
Not throwing it away

You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone
But then nothing ever hurt like holding on
I am scared and unprepared
And I feel like I am falling
So can you tell me where did we go wrong

Symphony, it’s gone quiet around us now
How I wish you would hold me
And that you’d never told me
That it’s better if you leave

If everything is broken and its better that we give up
Remember how we once had something beautiful

Symphony… repeat

the flower of evil.

Omg, I can never stop listening to Brightman’s fleur du mal (the flower of evil) and the other new songs! Quick January, quick come!

Now, hear gothic meets rock meets opera:

i’m having a great time!!!

Whee I’m having a greeeat time! It’s just so wonderful having so much fun in the holidays! Haha. January school, don’t come… nooooo….

Anyway, yesterday was my first attempt at tennis! I must say I’m not bad wor lol. I even think I was betta than Rob, whom I’ve heard has been playing tennis for years now and still suck lol; although there were 2 times the ball went over the fence and landed into the basement carpark >.< But tennis is reeeally spoilt >.< It is so tiring!!!! I woke up this morning and had aches all over. I could hardly stand properly and raise my right arm. Any my hip area and buttocks… were so spoilt!

After tennis I headed down to archifest exhibition at city hall which I had sooo wanted to go down on wed or thurs. But the terrible weather had me stayed indoors for the 3 or 4 days of continuous rain. Even the big umbrella I had couldn’t beat my laziness lol. So anyway, there were many good panels featured at the exhibition including my studio’s with my spastic pouty photo with it. Qungen enjoyed the tour too! And thanks Gracia for the lovely present! You’re the sweetest! The doggy can be used as studio pillow lol.

Then I met up with Desmond, Ah Tim, together with Qungen. Great food at Miss Clarity Cafe and TCC. The meet up was heartwarming and all of us talked from 4 till 11 pm lol. I would so love to have more of such gatherings next time! Qungen and Desmond, all the best for your interviews. If you guys are really passionate about something, it’s already half a success! And Tim, sometimes I would be thinking how you manage your time…. with your studies at hand, your hospital work, and now you have to organize an event for 100 people… it’s just so spoilt, isn’t it?

And today was Robin’s House Day and we had arranged to have a simple home-cooked dinner, with the help of his part-time domestic helper, Sharon. The 5 of us had spaghetti, wild mushroom campbell (never heard of this flavour before today!), chicken wings fried the Filipino way (damn nice lah!), fries, doughnuts and ice-cream!

Omg I feel so fat now.

Anyway I was watching Mediacorp’s 25th anniversary of dramas awards show earlier on and was blown away and so greatly moved by veteran Chen Mei Guang. She’s 88 and when she sang that ‘yi duo hua’ high note on TV just now… I tell you, it was reaaaaaally out of this world! That note! That LA ying! I wonder if I can pull that off at 88 lol. I salute her and I wish her the best of health.

Some of the pictures will be on FB.

P/S: Cover of Brightman’s new studio album is out!

15/12 Update:
The second one is the final album cover I believe.
    

Love the colours! Love the goth! Can’t wait for Jan 08!

sb’s symphony

These days I’m logging on to Sarah’s website more frequently to check out news on her upcoming album, Symphony. I’ve been waiting for 5 years! Ever since Harem was released in 2003, I have no new Sarah songs to listen and sing! So bored! Anyway, I’ve heard 4 songs from the new album and they’re so beautiful and amazing. I think this time round, it’ll be more ballady with more pop and rock tunes, less of classical stuff, with a tinge of gothic metal.. Hmm.. I’m still figuring out how all of this fits together. Classical pop with gothic metal? And symphony? O.o Who cares!

Anyway, here’s a new duet Sarah sang with Bocelli called Canto Della Terra (which will be included in Symphony). Their first duet Time to Say Goodbye was a global hit with over 3 million copies sold.