Feng's Distorted World : 鋒言鋒語

Its been almost 3 months since I've had any updates at all. Sorry.

I've been spending most of my time on exams after exams, project curio, and I even managed to catch a gig which featured some Malaysian underground bands. More on that later.

For those who didn't know, Utada Hikaru released yet another single!! Though the single's title is yet to be announced, it will feature the track "Kiss & Cry" from the Freedom Cup Noodles commercial. It will be available on sale in Japan beginning 29th of August 2007. So thats something for us all to look forward to. Here's the fan editted video of the radio rip version of "Kiss & Cry" on Youtube:

Here's one for all of you Hikki fans out there. It is promotional picture for her latest single "Flavor of Life". Yeah, the latest news is that she recently divorced with her husband Kiriya Kazuaki after 4 years of marriage. I just hope that Kiriya can continue to do some of her PVs, her videos like the ones of Hikari, Final Distance, Sakura Drops, and Colors were all so cool!


courtesy of utada-online.net

You might also want to read a detailed post about "Flavor of life" here:
Hikki's New Single - Flavor of Life

祝大家在豬年，豬肥屋潤，事事順利, 風調雨順！！
Happy Chinese New Year!!

Bloggers United: No Fear

Read more:
Bloggers sued in Malaysia
Bloggers united. No Fear.
BLOGGERS UNITE!
In Honour of the Heroes

Currently listening to:

Zhou Kou Dian 周口店
Audiotraffic
Dream-fly
So What
Hardpack

Will post a bit on them once I'm done listening.

1st post of 2007!!

新嘅一年當然係希望會做到更好.
2006年經已過去,一年之間都算發生o左好多事情..

展望將來,做到最好!

Essential Listening List, stuff that I'll probably be listening for the next few weeks. Might write up a bit on them if I can find the time:

at17
The Pancakes
my little airport
Pixeltoy
King Lychee
Karlheinz Stockhausen
MONO
524
Joe Hisaishi
Takagi Masakatsu
Tsuji Ayano

It's been a while since I visited Tsuji Ayano's blog...She changed her hairstyle!

Some interesting essay I found the other day while going through some forums. Apparently it was taken out of some tuition centre and then scanned. Laughed my ass off this:




Kids today...

麥兜游Disneyland! McDull (麥兜) is a cartoon pig character that was created in Hong Kong by Alice Mak and Brain Tse (who also created another cartoon pig called McMug). Here we see Mcdull visiting Hong Kong Disneyland. Click on the thumbnails for a larger view!!

credits to chin yee LAM

The MTR Song has travelled much further than the confines of Hong Kong since Radio 3's Steve James, after years of deliberation and study of the MTR map, finally put pen to paper and came up with the catchy ditty.
改編自"Sound of Music"。 實在係太可愛了。無論由誰唱出來也讓人會心微笑!





here are the lyrics to "MTR Song":

MTR song by Steve James

Let’s start from the very beginning
Though there s plenty of places to start
If you want to get around
You can get all of the town
Just by stepping on the ground onto the M-T-R (M-T-R)
MTRKCR say
Just follow me:

Tsuen Wan, Tai Wo Hau, Kwai Hing, Kwai Fong,
Lai King, and Mei Foo, Lai Chi Kok,
Cheung Sha Wan, Sham Shui Po, and 太子道
(change trains) Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon Tong,
Lok Fu, Wong Tai Sin, Diamond Hill,
Choi Hung, and onto Kowloon Bay,
Ngau Tau Kok, Kwun Tong and Lam Tin,
and then Yau Tong change for Quarry Bay

North Point, Fortress Hill, and Tin Hau,
銅鑼灣, in English Causeway Bay,
Wan Chai, next for me – Admiralty,
Central and then you have a choice
中環 but I like Tsim Sha Tsui
Jordan we’re off to Yau Ma Tei
Mong Kok and here we are again
we’ve returned Prince Edward Road
so if you want to get around just get yourself down to the M-T-R

Stream the song here:

Steve James - MTR Song

Original RTHK site here.

Man busted with billion-dollar bills in US



The counterfeit money looked good, but there was one flaw: there is no such thing as a billion-dollar bill.

US Customs agents in California say they found 250 bogus billion-dollar bills while investigating a man charged with currency smuggling.

Tekle Zigetta, 45, pleaded guilty to three federal counts of trying to bring cash, fake bills and a fake $100,000 gold certificate into the United States in January.

Further investigation led agents to a West Hollywood apartment where they found the stash of yellowing and wrinkled one billion-dollar bills with an issue date of 1934 and bearing a picture of President Grover Cleveland.

"You would think the $1 billion denomination would be a giveaway that these notes are fake, but some people are still taken in," James Todak said, a secret services agent involved in the probe.

- Reuters

正廢柴,唔應該留係呢度獻世。。

Whoo!! Finally done with 4/5 of me finals!! Goodbye Chemistry! Anyways, notice the brand new layout, the bright, colourful stripes you see?

They're call Lifestripe and they're actually a project that's being developed by Jugem and Spread, a Japanese company. They actually let you display your day's activity in terms of colourful stripes. It's a free service but currently it is only available for blog users of Jugem. Well, i went through a lot of trouble to get Lifestripe on here. After getting a Jugem account, hours of tinkering with html, some flash knowledge, and lots of advice from Cow, I finally got Lifestripe on here!!



Here's how you actually put in data about your daily habits. The interface is pretty straightforward, just drag and drop.



Lifestripe also lets you know in relation what you habits are when compared to other Lifestripe users. It displays how many hours you're sleeping, working, or eating in a neat and nifty pie-chart. Plus, it looks extremely cool and funky. Do check out Lifestripe here.

WOOHOO!! ipod video has just been released by Apple.



This latest installment of the excessively popular ipod family now plays videos. The 30GB and 60GB models loads up to 15,000 songs, full-color album art and up to 25,000 photos. It also supports up to 150 hours of video with its 2.5-inch color LCD display. Meaning you could catch your favourite TV shows on the ipod.

It connects out through an option TV-out cable (which I imagine is just a good ol’ 1/8”-to-Triple-RCA adpator), or you can do s-video through a dock connector. It will also interface with the new Apple Remote to allow couch-potato viewing.

Apparently, current versions of the iPod Photo can play video, it’s just disabled at the moment. So an iPod firmware update should ostensibly enable video playback on a model you already own.

The iTunes music store will sell music videos for $1.99 apiece, and TV shows for the same – $2 an episode.

The 30GB model retails for $299 and 60GB retails for $399.

Check it out at Apple's official site here.

I find the following article extremely amusing:


You see, a girl is just like a book. In fact the lead up to all relationships can be analysed based on this side by side comparison.

Face it - every book is judged by its cover. If the book cover looks nice and new, you would probably be tempted to walk over and pick it up. A book cover that is badly designed shows that the author didn't really make an effort.

Then again there are other forces in play. If the book was written by a famous author or the title is different and catches your eye, then if you have time in the bookstore you would most likely pick up the book.

That's when you walk over.

Then maybe, just maybe the cover design is interesting enough to make you want to find out more about the book. So what do you do? You flip over to the back cover to read the blurb.

That's when you say hello, let the introductions begin.If the blurb is interesting then like any experienced book buyer you would squat down the aisle and flip the pages. If it looks promising you would walk to the provided benches in the bookstore to read the first couple chapters.

That's when you take her out on dates.

If you like what you have read so far, then how? Buy the book to read at home la...

That's when you develop a relationship with her.

If the book is good, you would probably introduce it to your friends. But all hell breaks loose if they 'borrow' your copy and you never see it again. So how? Tell them to buy their own copy la.

Some books remain favourites even when they are old and tattered. These people are called loyal readers. You want my copy of LOTR? Go f*ck yourself.

Some people buy the books then sell it off after they read it. These people are called 'playboys'.

Some people leave the books on the shelf never to be read again for the rest of their lives. These people are called 'married'.

Then my very philosophical friend who gave me the opening lines on this older post said,

"Even bad books are sacred, and therefore precious."

What is the moral of the story?

Original article here


...hahahah...=)

Hey!! Hello There!! Here I Go:

OK. What i wanna do is just present a view on the things i see and share some of my rather unique music tastes with you guys out here and try to expose some extremely good but rather obscure music with you guys out there.

I'll try to update as often as i can or whenever i feel like it and I'll try to keep this page full with reviews and promo copies from underground music artists. =) Do give me comments on what you think about my page and what kinda things i should improve upon. 今次第一次開設Music Review Blog. 大家請多多指教!!! どぞ宜しくお願いします!!! Peace!

-feng-

Welcome to Feng's Distorted World : 鋒言鋒語!

This site is a collection of some of the music I've listened to and some other cool content. Whenever possible, I'll provide links to mp3s that are taken from artists' sites, labels or other legitimate sources. From time to time, I'll also post other articles that I find interesting.

These are the major things that I'll be writing about, in descending order of frequency.

Music
Lyrics
Piano Scores
Software
Games

I'm always looking forward to approach fresh content to put on this site, so if you are a budding artist/musician waiting for that next big break or you have music and other interesting content that's screaming "Review Me!", feel free to send it over to fengdw [at] gmail [dot] com. When emailing information about yourself / your artists, please also supply an mp3 link where readers can download sample material. thanx!

Happy reading and listening, and I hope you enjoy your time here!


Yours sincerely,
Feng