Just a quick post to let you guys know that I’m still alive. No depression, no drama… I’m still here. Just taking some time off to focus on life, yoga and a new theme for the blog.
Oh! And planning for the next vacation! I’m finally jumping on the bandwagon to Bali. 25 years of life in Singapore, not once have I set a foot in the over-hyped island. All those times while my friends make numerous trips to Bali, I waited patiently for my turn. Wanna know why? Call me silly if you want, but someone mentioned to me that if an unmarried couple goes to Bali, they’re bound to break-up one day. I know. It sounds stupid but I love Fred too much and I don’t wanna be without him.
Now that we’re married, it’s a different story.
Till my next entry, I’ll leave you with some song that I’m addicted to recently…
PS: I’ve finally received my residency permit!!! Woohoo!
I know… I’ve been absent for far too long. I can’t explain it though. I just don’t feel like writing. Words don’t seem to flow from the tip of my fingers anymore. I’ll be back though. So in the meantime, I’ll leave you with some nice songs that I’ve been enjoying lately…
Real name Maxime Nouchy, born on February 23, 1979 in Créteil, France. At 6, he joined the Conservatoire and learnt guitar. At 15, he joined London’s Musician’s Institute, where he bacame the youngest guitar teacher. Playing bass, guitar and keyboard, Maxim has been noticed by Santi in 2001 and signed to Mercury. Collaborations followed… After his first album Maxim Nucci in 2006, he went on a tour. He has been Vanessa Paradis’ supporting act in Brussels and at Paris Européen and Ilene Barnes’ supporting act at Paris’ Elysée-Montmartre.
In 2008, it was the redemption, the turning or the revolution. Yodelice came in, a new artist. With his hat, he looks like characters that inspired Tom Waits & Bob Dylan. With his voice, we think about magnificent artists like Cat Stevens or Ray LaMontagne. Maxim went to a house in Spain to write songs. Ethnic/folk songs came to him, between JJ Cale & America. “Sincerity goes through words & English-speaking themes. There’s a more natural side in English, that’s not my native language. But it’s really my culture, Anglo-Saxon. I just wanted to record an album & be proud of it, to play it on stage.” The house was named La Casa Yodelice, he borrowed this name. This English-speaking singer, unknown by Maxim Nucci’s fans, became Yodelice. Maxim & Sébastien Grandgambe performed the songs in a guitar/cello version. To find the right words, Maxim worked with a Canadian actress, Marianne Groves. She understood stories in his melodies… Maxim called director Bastien Duval to build Yodelice’s universe. Bastien drew Maxim’s guitar with a skull. For his album Tree Of Life, Maxim recorded the rhythm section in Los Angeles, took the bass & hired drummer Abraham Laboriel Jr. Other musicians came to play brass & Sébastien Grandgambe came with his cello. Back in France, he played electric guitar & also used his skull guitar. He didn’t want to leave the stage, he loved it. Like a new birth, Yodelice was born.
source: lastfm
EDIT: Yodelice blow me away song after song during their performance last Saturday. Maxim is one truly talented singer with a unique style. I was expecting Milow (who was also featured in the festival) to take the stage but he was beyond comparison.
On April 1, 1957 the British news show Panorama broadcast a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland. The success of the crop was attributed both to an unusually mild winter and to the “virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil.” The audience heard Richard Dimbleby, the show’s highly respected anchor, discussing the details of the spaghetti crop as they watched video footage of a Swiss family pulling pasta off spaghetti trees and placing it into baskets. The segment concluded with the assurance that, “For those who love this dish, there’s nothing like real, home-grown spaghetti.”
The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest hoax generated an enormous response. Hundreds of people phoned the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this query the BBC diplomatically replied, “Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.”
To this day the Panorama broadcast remains one of the most famous and popular April Fool’s Day hoaxes of all time. It is also believed to be the first time the medium of television was used to stage an April Fool’s Day hoax.
This video was featured on YouTube while I was browsing for Alphaville’s music video. The cat is so amazing! Look at how she drinks from the tap and put her head under the running water. It’s super cute!
Note : I’m crediting ytemacct for this smile inducing video
A beautiful pianist with an unbelievably soulful voice.
Laura Izibor
Laura Izibor (born Mary 1987) is an Irish R&B singer from Dublin, Ireland who won the Jacobs/2FM song contest while still in secondary school. She went on to win a Hope for 2006 Award at the 2006 Meteor Music Ireland Awards. She also performed at that year’s Electric Picnic and Music Ireland ‘07.
Her single Shine was the lead track for the movie Nanny Diaries, is currently used in Hibernian Aviva commercial in the Republic of Ireland and in the Norwich Union (soon to be Aviva) commercial in the United Kingdom.
Franz Ferdinand is an indie rock band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2001.
Franz Ferdinand
The band’s critically-acclaimed self-titled debut album was released in 2004 and debuted on the UK album charts at number three, going on to win the 2004 Mercury Music Prize. So far, the band has released nine singles of which Take Me Out, Matinée, and Do You Want To were top 10 hits in the UK.
As featured on YouTube, Zee Avi has a lovely voice. The kind of voice that makes you smile and think of wild flowers and green dewy grasses. You don’t get that in most singers these days. She kinda reminds me of a cross between Jason Mraz and Lily Allen.
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