ode to the soapbox

• i started to like that 'emo' adam lambert in american idol. i don't really prefer his voice but i like his performance. my ultimate favourite is still lil round though. can't wait for tomorrow result show when they will have KELLY CLARKSON as a guest performer. now that'll rock for sure!
  
  
• talking about kelly clarkson, i think i've heard her new album HUNDREDS OF TIMES. that's all that i've been hearing since past 1 week, morning, daytime and night. seriously! it's very very addictive.
  
  
• i went to kukup last weekend for a get together with some new friends. it was really out of my circle but surprisingly enjoyable nonetheless. we karaoke'd, ok they karaoke'd and i just hang around and played mahjong.
  
  
• oh yeah! i know how to play mahjong now hahaha.. it was fun! more fun that playing cards ok. i didn't play with money, i don't understand why people have to gamble with mahjong. it kinda give that game a bad name.
  
  
• A LADY SCRATCHED MY CAR BUMPER with her motorcycle when i was in pontian town on the way to kukup! what a bloody @#$%! lucky it wasn't that obvious but my heart was very painful. it was the first major scratch ok. i don't care if you're a little sweet girl with tudung and everything but if you scratch my car, i'm gonna CURSE YOU ALL THE SAME!
  
  
• i have to find time to curse her more and write everything about that kukup trip in my other blog '~unsent'. there has been suggestions that i merged that blog with this blog, but i definitely wanna keep that one as it is. i feel like i wrote that one as my alter ego, ed. haha you think only celebrities have alter ego?
  
  
• today, my colleague told me that she's going to take 2 months leave from work to do her church missionary work. when she told me that, the thing that immediately crossed my mind was, oh gosh, god forbid i have to cover her assignments while she's gone.
  
  
• she isn't the first one doing this in our company. makes me wonder... let's say if i decided to take the same long LOA and join some islamic missionary work in pakistan or syria, will the company allow me without thinking i'm becoming a terrorist or something?
  
  
• i'm hooked with xbox 360 top spin 3 and facebook's Mob War recently. so if i don't call you or ask you out lately, it's just because i'm OCCUPIED.
  
  
• the desperate housewives latest episode last night was entertaining. the jokes really chuckled me. heroes... ermm.. not very good lately. i feel like the writers are not very sure the storyline themselves, there were a few conflicting details in the storyline. lost is the one that is becoming more interesting lately with many surprising twists, yet still believable.
  
  
• i'm flying off to KL this friday night, and then take flight with my family to labuan for a 4 night family escapade. i really can't wait! i'm not sure what to expect in labuan really.. hope it'll be fun. maybe i'll write from there next time bah.
  
  

...adie

i just LO-VE kelly clarkson's new album 'ALL I EVER WANTED'. seriously, all i ever wanted now is to hear this album over and over again.

haha ok that's lie. there are many other things that i truly wants, you know, like for the economy to be out of recession and all of us have job security again. oh! ...and bonus money pouring in our accounts hehe...

anyway, but till that happened, i'm gonna enjoy this album.

it's a solid album from kelly. there are many catchy songs with big choruses and heavy drums. some of them kinda reminds me of pink. if kelly's previous album my december is a bit dark musically and lyrically (which i love too, because i love songs with venomous lyrics hahaha), this time kelly lightens up a bit and take the music closer to rockier edge.

think 'since you been gone'.

due in store march 06

adie's favs

• my love would suck without you (everybody must have heard this by now)
• i do not hook up (i love this one! it's the 2nd single i heard)
• cry (slow song, lovely but i think because of you was better lyrically)
• long shot (love the catchy tempo, love the lyrics. kate perry wrote this!)
• whyyawannabringmedown (this got me banging my head in no time)
• don't let me stop you (what sing-a-long chorus!)
• if i can't have you (fierce disco music, i like to play this out loud)
• impossible (love the melody of this one)

"It’s a long shot but I say why not
If I say forget it I know that I’ll regret it
It’s a long shot just to beat these odds
The chance is we won't make it
But I know if I don't take it there's no chance
Cause you're the best I got
So take a long shot"



My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson -



...adie

haha ok that's NOT sakura/cherry blossom ok.. that's just the tree beside the HDB flat that i passed through everyday to go back home from office.

now that tree has lots and lots of pink flowers, and when the wind blows, it feels like autumn.. no.. spring!

what do i know? we have no season here in tropic singapore.

...adie

no american idol review last nite because...

i think..

I got flu again!!

urghh.. baru jek baik 2 minggu lepas.. apsal kena balik??

HATE IT!
HATE IT!
HATE IT!
HATE IT!
HATE IT!

this morning, i swallowed down many many pills... flu med, then pycnogenol antiox, royal jelly, vit-C, lipoic acid, multi-vit...

..coz i'm officially at war with my body.


so i say BRING IT ON!!!


..and btw, aku suker 'lil round' in american idol last night!!! she was GO-OoD!!



...adie

britney spears release a new single 'if you seek amy'.

AND IT CAUSES SUCH AN UPROAR. the radio stations are afraid to play it. they even released the clean version of the song, alternatively titled 'if you SEE amy'.

parents were quoted as saying, "I was astonished and totally taken aback when I heard my 5 and 7 year old kids walking around the house singing the verse... When I asked them what it was, they told me it was Britney Spears. I was horrified"

I WAS PUZZLED ok.. what's so controversial about this song's lyrics?… what's wrong with amy?? is she some missing girl? is her parent suing or something??

until I look at the lyrics closely.. and after a couple of googling finally I REALIZED IT!!!


OH...
MY...
GODDDD!!!!


Hahaha!!! No wonder this song is so controversial :)


"Love me hate me, but can't you see what I see?
All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy..."


If You Seek Amy - Britney Spears


So do you get it too??




Guide Review - Britney Spears - "If U Seek Amy"

With the release of Britney Spears' latest album Circus, one of the songs instantly drawing attention was "If U Seek Amy" and the profane phrase the title seemed to spell out. It is no surprise that the song would eventually appear as an official single release. As expected, pop radio stations became nervous, and it even seemed like the single release was in jeopardy until a slightly less offensive mix with a new title "If U See Amy" was put together specifically for radio airplay. All of this hoopla looks past any questions of quality or artistry in the recording.

Just as the cutesy wordplay of "If U Seek Amy" may seem somewhat absurd, Britney Spears gives as good as she gets here. The song amounts to a clever kiss-off of her critics. She is exactly right. Any time Britney Spears is attacked in the press, there will always be plenty of people waiting to get close to her.

Max Martin provides a pounding pop framework here that may have you singing the words in spite of yourself. It is difficult to quantify the impact the controversy may have on sales or airplay of "If U Seek Amy," but don't be shocked if you ultimately see this song in the pop top 10.


Britney Spears
If U Seek Amy lyrics

La la la, la la la
La la la, la la la

Oh baby baby have you seen Amy tonight?
Is she in the bathroom is she smokin' up outside? Oh
Oh baby baby does she take a piece of lime
For the drink that I'mma buy her do you know just what she likes? Oh

Oh oh, tell me have you seen her? Because I'm so oh
I can't get her off of my brain
I just want to go to the party she gonna go
Can somebody take me home?
Ha ha, he he, ha ha ho

Love me hate me, say what you want about me
But all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy
Love me hate me, but can't you see what I see?
All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy
Love me hate me, la la la, la la la

Amy told me that she's gonna meet me up
I don't know where or when and now they're closing up the club, oh
I've seen her once or twice but boy she knows my face
But it's hard to see with all the people standing in the way, oh

Oh oh, tell me have you seen her, because I'm so oh
I can't get her off of my brain
I just want to go to the party she gonna go
Can somebody take me home?
Ha ha, he he, ha ha ho

Love me hate me, say what you want about me
But all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy
Love me hate me, but can't you see what I see?
All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy
Love me hate me

Oh, so what you want about me?
Oh, but can't you see what I see?
Oh, so what you want about me?
La la la, la la la

So tell me if you see her
'Cause I've been waiting here forever
Oh baby baby if you seek Amy tonight
Oh baby baby we'll do whatever you like
Oh baby baby baby
Oh baby baby baby

La la la, la la la
La la la, la la la

Love me hate me, say what you want about me
But all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy
Love me hate me, but can't you see what I see
All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy

Love me hate me, say what you want about me, yeah
Love me hate me, but can't you see what I see?
All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy
Love me hate me

Oh, so what you want about me?
Oh, but can't you see what I see?
Love me hate me
Oh, so what you want about me?
All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy


... ok if you still don't get it, and still blur-blur like a SOTONG, read (here)
(i can't get myself to explain it myself.. very vulgar for me yg menjauhi lembah kehinaan ok hahahaha)



...adie

ok.

ni nak tanya...

apsal sumer orang tiba2 pergi bali????

mentang2 aku baru beli ticket nak pergi bulan depan, tetiba jek..

kembar si nora pegi last week.

aishah + family pergi semalam.

joe kawan aku budak indon pergi esok.

another friend fazlie going end april.

my office friends also just going....


apsal ek??? apa kess?

ala2 musim haji laa pulak, semua berbondong bondong hijrah ke bali.. dan tiba2 jek berjejer-jejer laa blog masing2 pasal bali. aku kaget okay...

even though aku suker laa kan.. dapat banyak info. baca sini, dapat info supir. baca sana, dapat info hotel, info babi guling halal.. upssss... babi tak halal laa kan.

sebabnyer aku still laa konpiuss... nak dok mana ek kat bali nanti? kuta ke? ubud ke? nusa dua? lovina? perginyer cadang 3 malam jek, nak pegi pulak macam2.. kintamani lah.. tampak spring lah, besakih lah.. tanah lot laa.. uluwatu bla bla bla..

ntah laa.. dalam jelajah sana sini tuh, kolam yg banyak bunga2 dalam spa tu pon aku nak masuk. nak lepak lama2 dalam spa.

apa ingat lelaki tak masuk spa ke? yg penting, seronok di manja2 gituh ahahaha.... yelah penat tau membanting tulang jari jemari aku ni menaip ari2 kat opis mencari nafkah...

cuma lepas balik nanti nak eksen2 pegi bali.. alamak tak bley laa... nak kelentong dalam blog pon susah. sumer dah pegi kan. bukan macam gi madagascar.. ko pakai cheogsam pegi disco lepas.. kalau aku citer aku jumpa iguana besar rimau pon orang percaya ahahaha..

isk isk..



...adie

i have a friend in the office. his hobby is to participate in contests, you know, those in magazines, brochures, radios, etc etc... and you know what? HE ALWAYS WIN. i'm not kidding! even in those lucky draws, he always win. it's like life's one big wonder, the one that mulder and scully tend to end up investigating...

he's sweet though, he always forwarded us the contests details and even wrote up the answers for us but when the result comes, he still wins. to which i'm not complaining. i won sometimes too, but that's really once in a blue moon kinda thing...

last week, he forwarded us this nokia stripe party invitation details for the launch of their new 5800 handphone. you wear anything with stripes and you are entitled for the lucky draws.. 58 lucky numbers can buy the SGD700+ phone with just 58 cents, and another 58 numbers to get SGD258-off voucher for the phone.

58 cents!

that's just ridiculous.. i mean, that's cheaper than one piece of roti prata, right?

so the party was held in zouk's car park last friday, starting at 10pm. we wore stripe shirts to work and then started queuing for the numbers from about 830pm.

by 9pm we were in.

and my number was 20313.

hmm.. 313? that doesn't look like a lucky number...

anyway, while waiting, we signed up for nokia online music account. not that we really wanted the account but actually to get the free t-shirt. hahaha!! we saw the crews walking around in that nokia music t-shirt and we thought they really look nice.

i got my t-shirt just on time when all american rejects started to play their music on the temporary stage just above where we signed up for the online music account.

yeah that's right. ALL AMERICAN REJECTS!!

can you believe that? when i first read the itenerary for this stripe party, i couldn't believe they would have all-american rejects the band. first, they are such an international artist. their song 'gives you hell' is currently at no-4 on the american billboard top 100 chart. then, this party is held not inside zouk, but zouk's CARPARK!

and i must say, it was not even a nice carpark too. the surface was stony, uneven and rough, no proper borders, and there were even some constructions going on just beside it.

in short, the place WAS UGLY.

but still, there they were, just few metres away from me singing their hit songs. it was surreal, but i was not like those teenage girls who went ga-ga. at most, i just shook my butt once in awhile whilst maintaining my cool hahahaha... to be frank, i had no idea how the members of this band looked like until last friday. i knew their main songs though..





all-american rejects playing on the stage

so in the end i didn't win the lucky draw.

not surprising. i didn't put much hope anyway. so i didn't manage to buy that latest cool touch-screen phone for 58 cents. big deal. i could do a lot more with that 58 cents that i saved.

...like, buying sticks and pike those who won that night.

the night was not totally lost though, i gotta see all-american rejects and their live music, i got cool free nokia music t-shirt, many many bottles of nokia water (which tasted funny but hey, they were free), and managed good gossips with my friends..

oh yeah, my other 3 friends didn't win anything either.

except this friend that i mentioned earlier that always win.

he DID WIN that night, the SGD258 voucher.




...adie