Tuesday, June 30, 2015

You are UNIQUE!

There are billion of population in this planet. None of them is like you! What a miraculous thing is to be you! Nobody has the same combination of talents, abilities, sorrows and opportunities. No one has the same friends, family jokes or acquaintances. Nobody‘s finger prints are the same. No one has the same concerns or goals like you. No one! You are unique!

Accept and enjoy this uniqueness. You don‘t have to pretend to look more like other expect you to be. Don‘t be afraid to be different. No one in the world has the same things going on in his mind, soul, spirit as are going on in yours. It is a gift only to you. Treasure and share your uniqueness!

Nobody can speak your words. Nobody can smile your smile. No one can bring the same unique impact of you to another person.

Enjoy your uniqueness, let it flow out among your family and friends, all the people you meet.

Give yourself away and be inspired by the fact that you are UNIQUE!

Monday, June 29, 2015

Pen, Paper and White Out

Life is like a pen, paper, and white out.

Paper is your life.The Pen is you.

We go through life making our mark wherever we go. 

It is impossible to never make a mistake. 


Sometimes we scratch it out. Start a new sentence or just continue on like it doesn't exist.


Sometimes we use whiteout to hide it and mask it. Pretend it's not there, pretend it never happened. 

We write over it, above it, below it, around it. 


Sometimes we don't even know we made a mistake until we stop and take the time to reflect and review. 


We stop using whiteout when we don't care.We stop scratching out when we don't mind.We stop looking for mistakes when it doesn't matter.


Whatever the case, the mistake is there. We will always know where it is and how it got there. We know the truth behind the mask. We know what it took to fix that mistake. We may forget that it exists, but when something comes about that reminds us of it, we will always remember how little or much it hurt.

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Life is just like a box of chocolate

Life is like a box of chocolates, It’s messy and makes you get your hands dirty.

Life is like a box of chocolates, you get used up and thrown away.

Life is like a box of chocolates, everybody wants their share even when it should all be yours.

Life is like a box of chocolates, you either love it, hate it or allergic to it.

Life is like a box of chocolates, each piece is different but it takes them all to complete the package.

Life is like a box of chocolates, If its empty it makes everyone sad.

Life is like a box of chocolates, If you only try the ones you like, you’ll never know how great something new can be.

Life is like a box of chocolates, if you start running out, find a way to get more!

Life is like a box of chocolates, so much high and low in our life and we will never know what will happen to us tomorrow. We have to decide what paths we will take in our personal life and every decision takes us to a different destination. No matter how hard a person wants to plan for a good life, nothing will ensure us that the future will be like what we imagines it. We can whether end up as the best paid expert on our area or as someone who is unemployed and is grabbing every odd job just to earn a living. But at the end, it is up to us whether we will make out the most of what the life has brought us. Even if we do not live our perfect lives we can try and be satisfied with the things we have.

Life is like a box of chocolates, we will have to face it and solve it when the time is come.

Friday, June 19, 2015

The World of Acapella

So this time I'm going to talk something a bit different which is acapella. I believe not many of you know what is acapella. Acapella mean singing without instrumental accompaniment and only make sound or sing using our body parts......Errr..... I mean our mouth, hands or legs.

There are a lot of different kind of acapella genre which included madrigal group, Barbershop Quartet, Doo-wop quartet, Close harmony/vocal jazz group and vocal band etc. But the current trend of acapella is vocal jazz and vocal band.

An acapella singing group normally have more than four members which consist of a lead vocal singer, backup vocal singer, bass and a beatboxer. The more the members the more diverse of the group is. 

The reason why I like acapella singing is because of the movie Pitch Perfect that released in 2012.
The movie give me so much inspiration and passion about acapella singing. By only making sound using their mouth is not just cool but can be done anywhere anytime which is good for me because I dont't know how to play any instrument (*sad*).

Here is one of the performance in the Pitch Perfect movie:


After I have watched the movie several times, I feel like I had not get enough of it. So after that I found out that there is an acapella competition in US called The Sing Off. After since I keep watching that competition and learn a lot more about acapella which gave me such a rush about it.

Here are of my favourite performance in the Sing Off (skip to 1.45 for the singing part):

Acapella singing group not just only an entertainment but some of them also make a career out of it.
For an instant, Pentatonix (Sing Off season 2 winner). Pentatonix is now one of the most well known acapella group in the world with a lot of sold out performance around the world. 

If you haven't heard of Pentatonix here is one of their performance:


As much as I have learned about acapella, acapella can produce more different and diverse sound than the electronic sound that music industries can produces. This is one of the reason why I think acapella is way more cooler than the instrumental music.

As much as I talk about my passion toward acapella, Malaysia still seen not yet famous or well-known with acapella singing yet. WHY?? In my opinion, I'm think that Malaysia music industries is still far behind than other foreign country. This is why is it not weird that acapella isn't famous here.

 But I hope acapella can be more happening here by introducing it in every university or other institutes including here in UTAR. How??? Maybe open an singing basic classes or club or even society to build their interest in singing and then introduce them the awesomeness of acapella.

Malaysia has so many international artist and singer that famous worldwide but most of them get signed or attached to big company oversea and never came back to Malaysia to continue their career here. Why? One of the factor is because most of the Malaysian is quite close-minded and can't accept certain kind of genre of music. Without a great influence of a singer and local musics is hard to inject the interest of singing to the society and therefore the harder to put the interest of acapella to them.

As time flies, we are still way behind the trend and the music is keep evolving. Meanwhile acapella singing style is reaching a whole new level. Therefore, to anyone who love singing or acapella please don't hesitate to contact me and let's meet up and make this happen!! :-)

Saturday, June 13, 2015

The Years of Booty

As time pass, we have seen the evolution of music from classical to barbershop quartet to pop. We had also heard a lot of different kind of genres from country to blue and rock etc. But in the recent years we had seen a tremendous change in the music industries. Most of the songs have an big impacts to the society nowaday. Which certain kind of songs I really questioning myself WHY this kind of song had so much impacts.

Most of the song that become so famous, top-charted, sold out performances and most talked in the internet and news is song about BUTTS!! WHY?!?!

For an instant the song that everyone know: Anaconda by Nicki Minaj.
WARNING: (view on your own risks)



For me the song is very catchy but lyrics have no meaning at all. The whole song is just about butts, more butts and even more butts...... So do the video. (watch the video at your own risks)

Beside Nicki Minaj, Jenifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea Booty song also one of the well known butt song.
WARNING: (view on your own risks)



There are also some butts song with hidden meaning with it. For example, Meghan Trainer- All about That Bass.



Meghan Trainer has send a strong positive messages for women, but somehow she doesn't think that she a feminist. This song is about the "bass" but still I like it because of the strong messages of the song.

At certain point I'm really don't understand the music industries now. I don't really understand some of the booty song in the market now. The whole performances or videos just have a lots of sexy ladies dance and shake their butts and nothing else but still so popular worldwide.

I'm also wondering why must most the songs just talk about butts and why not other body parts? For example maybe song about arm, hair or eyes etc. I guess maybe butts get more attraction than other body parts?

The trend of butts is still going on until now and I hope that in the future we will hear something else other butts.

For more songs about butts: http://stylecaster.com/the-25-best-songs-about-butts-a-ranked-guide/

Thursday, June 11, 2015

LUCY

source: www.imdb.com
I believe everyone had watched this movie (Lucy) that release last year July. It is one my favourite sca-fi movie of all time. Most of the people can't really understand what is the movie about but just enjoy the actions in the movie. But what I like the most about this movie is the internal meaning of the movie which most people couldn't see it.

The movie is about a woman that accidentally overdosed some kind of blue drugs that leaked into her body and she started to use more and more of her brain capacity (from 10% - 100%) and start to do something that a normal person can do from controlling other human to control all the non-living stuff and travel back to time.

What I like so much about this movie is of course all the action in it is amazing. Most people of course think that having a lot of drugs might open up our brain capacity and do a lot of crazy amazing stuff as in the movie. But in the reality having too much of drugs only create imagination and illusion only. Which I think this is the inner message of the movie.

source: nypost.com

I did read and research about the brain capacity if it is real. And it is real that a normal human only use less than 10% of our brain capacity. What happen if a normal human use more than 10% of the brain capacity may remember pi(π) to the twenty-thousandth decimal place or perhaps even have telekinetic powers.
source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-people-only-use-10-percent-of-their-brains/
             http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-11/do-we-only-use-10-per-cent-of-our-brains/5648810


This movie had send us a very important message which is drug is dangerous to us. (effect of drugs used in movie is NOT applied to real life!!!) Therefore, don't ever use or take drugs. It give no benefits to us.