The Biological Clock

It rain pretty heavily yesterday evening, started around 6.30pm and spoiled all my plans.

Since eating out is absolutely a no-no, one will have to make do with what one could scramble out of the Fridge and dry goods storage for a dinner, much more challenging when the fridge is practically empty. I'm not going to revisit what i had for dinner though.

With the rain not likely to stop at 9pm, and the front of the condo is clearly flooded and the Dragonball DVD which i borrowed from the gym could only speak in Thai language with no English subtitles offered and having no mood to continue working after spending few hours earlier in finishing the additional analysis for a report, i decided to sleep by 9.30pm.

And my biological clock continue to work even on a Sunday (unless i'm totally wasted), i found myself awake at 3am...and could not really return to dreamland despite the attempts.

And if I'm to go out, the security guard will very much wonder where the hell i'm going.

Hence, watched an hour of sitcom reruns and finally finished John Grisham's The Associate (of which Shai LeBouf will starred in it). Glad that I managed to finish this within 7 days, far from my 2 days record (Da Vinci Code).

Compared to the previous, The Appeal, this gives a much better satisfaction. Though both are very much appealing and exciting to read, but I hated how The Appeal ended. Though The Associate has no fairy tale ending but at least, it's more acceptable.

Well, it's almost 6am...can go out for breakfast!



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A-Maze-In Moms

After staying awake for almost 36 hours, I finally gave in at around 10.30pm and went to bed despite Josh, my nephew was playing around with my phone on the bed. I just had no more energy to play with him. Justin, my other nephew already gave up on me in view of my non-responses.
With a good 7 hours of sleep, the next morning i was given a task to find my mom in the wet market and drove her back home. And that’s when trouble begins.
Despite the wet market near my house is relatively small, but that place still reflecting a maze. A maze fill with moms, who tend to dress quite alike and also having the same style of hair, the same body size.
And to find a mom, one will need to fully understand moms. They are undeniably the first generation of shopaholics. While my mom is not one when it comes to fashion and even groceries, but she automatically transform into one as she enter the wet market. It’s like the nanochips in her DNA automatically activated upon the sights/sounds/smell of wet market.
To illustrate my point, this is just an example of how my mom behaves. After breakfast in a coffeeshop, she would ask us to wait for her while she makes a quick dash to the market to buy meat or fruit. After 15 minutes later, her sight has yet to be seen. At times, we either wait further or we make a walk to the market and you’ll be surprise to see her with bags of stuff. Pre-store, she only had one or two items in mind, despite the lack of point of purchase materials or any in-store media, the in-store triggers are so strong that she would end up buying some other unplanned items as well. That’s mom or moms!
That morning, I make a few tour around the market but couldn’t find her and eventually missed her, as she walked back home while i’m still standing outside the market searching all four corners for a sight of her since she could also e in the mini-market outside the wet market, or the fruit shops outside the wet market. Despite her shopping mission just being the Wet Market, but she could end up having a few other side missions as well, which is beyond the wet market.
Which is why modern trade is still not able to compete with the traditional wet market despite we have more in-store activities and triggers, it just ain’t wet market. Perhaps we should really try to do depth analysis into the in-store triggers or how my company terms it as the ‘Delta moments’.

but instead and just

instead of putting effort in controlling the epidemic, here we are scurrying for power & status
instead of focusing on what we should be, here we are seeking for something that's not there
instead of exploring new routes, here we are continue to return to places that haunt & hurt us
and just when you give up on it, it came right back to you
and just when decision had been made, course had been altered, it seems to pull you back
but instead and just
is there anyway we could?

Yes, they can.

The last time I fell in love with a Pet Shop Boys album had to be their Very, which was after their successful Behavior album.

While I've became a fan by then and continuously bought their releases but I was never as satisfied with the releases except for specific tracks (Se A Vida E in Bilingual, I Get Along in Release). I also managed to skip the Nightlife album although I'm very much in love with its New York City Boy track.

In across it all, there's also the release of PopArts compilation, the Concrete live album which were quite a good collectibles.

Somewhere in 2006, they release Fundamental, which critics claimed to be their return to the disco days which I don't agree about. Perhaps the only track I like is Integral and I'm With Stupid. But then again, PSP's work by now are very much for its fans and possibly self indulgence.

Yes, the album is perhaps, I could safely say see their return to form, something that makes me fall in love with their Very album. More pop less techno, More down to earth, less alien-ish concept.

Love etc, the first track lifted of this new album is nothing new but something familiar, something of the "Can You Forgive Her?" style, which is nice and comfortable.

The next 3 tracks (All Over The World, Beautiful People and Did You See Me Coming?) are perhaps the tracks I loved the most. Beautifully arranged backed by nice orchestra-ish music.

The next few are very much album tracks with familiar synthesizers flare in it.

Thankfully, there is Pandemonium that brightens up the whole album again.

The last track Legacy is another familiar track, something one can find in Jealousy, although 6 minutes could be a bit too long for this mellow ballad.

Overall, it's a very pop album and I'm glad I bought it.

Simply

IF YOU DON'T KNOW ME BY NOW
YOU WILL NEVER NEVER KNOW ME!

Sing....Sing!

After two weeks of waiting, I finally got hold of Annie Lennox's Greatest Hits. And it was well worth the wait with 14 gems in it.

Unfortunately, I also just realised that there is a Deluxed 3 Disc edition with a 2nd bonus disc of rare tracks including the Idol Gives Back track (Many River to Cross) and the duet with Alicia Keys on Everybody Hurts. The 3rd disc is basically a DVD of all her music videos. damn.

I should have waited longer like how I waited for SImply Red's 25 Deluxed Edition. With just an additional 100baht from the original 2 disc version, I got the DVD with all the 25 music videos. that's another review later.

I'm putting the CD on shuffle and every song is simply a gem on its own. My fave? The hauting Love Song for a Vampire.

Sing sing sing! If only she included a bonus disc on the remixes, for example the superb Moto Blanco mix of Sing.

The Movie Marathon weekend...halted temporary

Okay...i've stopped at 4.5 movies..not bad for 3/4 of Saturday, ain't it or that just show that i'm not having any life at all?!

Neways, here's how the marathon started around 2pm.

Funny? Nope.

Stupid? As always.

Disaster? Yep.

Like: The take on Amy Adam's Enchanted character

The stupid Amy Winehouse and Juno.

Good for the first movie of a marathon, it's so bad that the next series of movies will feel much positive.

Was supposed to go to the cinema to watch it but was too lazy. Furthermore, it's not even in those classy cineplex but in two very old cinema (probably in line with the 'slum' image).

No argument that it was a good movie. It's not about how Jamal won the Millionaire contest but the love story behind it was well played. And the quite true story of the poor kids life in India.

Read my earlier entry.

Definitely had to watch it again. Not that it was that good, in fact it is not. But i was watching the Cantonese version, so i need to watch it again with the original HOllywood version.

I have yet to finish this one.

Ricky Gervais again being the 'asshole' guy but do find the interesting bit of seeing his vanity side (haha) on his first non-date date with Tea Leoni's characters.