Freddie Mercury’s voice is just… beautiful. Listening to the live version of “Love of My Life” by Queen. There’s so much expression in his voice… and I just love the way the acoustic guitar is strummed. I am always so saddened by the fact that I’ll never ever get to hear Mercury singing live. There are so many songs that I’d love to hear him sing live — Somebody to Love, Love of My Life, Radio Ga Ga, Under Pressure, 39, Bohemian Rhapsody… and so many, many more.  Sigh.

“Love of my life, can’t you see… bring it back, bring it back, don’t take it away…”

Also top on my list now is the drums at the end of Hotel California. Currently I’m feeling a bit melancholic because I’m looking through all the photos that were taken in the past few 7 months and I realize that I do miss the people there quite a fair bit. I’m just glad that I have photos to see whenever I miss people. Maybe that’s what made me decide to take on photography; after all, it’s the memories that will stick with you and make you smile whenever you need to cheer up.

“Hurry hurry back, don’t take it away, because you don’t know what it means to me…”

I realized that it’s not big, huge gifts that make me smile when I’m feeling down. It’s those nice little notes and cards that people write and give it to you that make me feel warm and fuzzy. (: Polaroids too make me feel happy. Recently I’ve been taking loads of polaroids… partly because I think that they’re special. They make you treasure that piece of film more than anything else, since there are no negatives or digital copy whatsoever. I’m glad that I invested in that Instanx camera and went on to take polaroids. Thank you Xiao Ming for introducing me to the world of polaroids! Never regretted stepping into the world of polaroids, haha.

Oh, this is very random, but I think the reason why I find Queen’s songs so charming is due to the fact that there are a lot of piano parts in it. I love to hear pieces being played on the piano; it makes me feel as if I’m in a different world — somehow like Gatsby and Daisy when Klippspringer plays the piano. It makes me feel as if I’m floating, drifting, in a world that I love… ah.

“Love of my life, don’t leave me…“

I went to Borders today and bought two new discs — the Watchmen ’09 movie soundtrack and another RHCP disc. The Watchmen soundtrack list is actually pretty decent. Their soundtrack listing included Bob Dylan’s The Time’s They Are A-Changin’ and Simon & Garfunkel’s The Sound of Silence… oh, and Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah too. I’m just a bit sad that they didn’t include Nena’s 99 Luftballons in their list cos I was very sure I heard it in the movie! The song was played when Nite Owl went to meet Dr. Manhattan’s girlfriend (whose name I have secretly forgotten).

Oh, and I’ve been listening to this Okinawan band called BEGIN (ビギン) which is secretly very good also. Apparently they’re the guys who wrote Nada Sou Sou (涙そうそう) and 島人ぬ宝, both of which are pleasant to the ear, imho. I’m trying to find more of their songs such as Let’s Go Home, Goodbye & Thank You and Yugatu Island which I heard on my flight back from Japan to Singapore. I don’t think I’ll be able to get hold of their music CD here so I’ll have to make sure I get ‘em the next time I go to Japan for a flight transfer or for touring purposes.

Btw, an awesome Elvis Presley song before I poof off and go to the treadmill to jog – Burning Love.

WAH oh my goodness I haven’t written here for 7 days! Anyway, life’s been really really busy with the new additions at home — got two new fishies (a blue tang and a percula clownfish) and also finally a wife for Jacko! Yayness! Jacko (which is my chinchilla, btw) will be paired with a brown velvet chinchilla which I’ve yet to name. Apparently she’s still too light to be paired with him, so I’ll have to wait for a while before I can bring her home. :] Super excited cos this means that I will have a lot of gene variables to play with! However it’s quite sad that I won’t have violet kits since the brown velvet ain’t a violet carrier. Oh well.

Super duper tired now. Was at work till around 6pm today and I rushed home to change my shoes, only to fly out after 10 mins to go for drum lessons. Drums was awesome today! At least I finished 21 Guns (though not so properly) and started on Dirty Little Secret, which is secretly quite hard for me because of the change in rhythm. Generally I’ve been playing songs which deal with quavers on the high-hats or at the most semi-quavers, but this time round it’s… crotchets. Crotchets and quavers with off-beats that appear quite frequently. In any case it’s a good learning experience and it’s a step closer to playing more advance songs heh! William’s going to go on a band tour this coming April so I won’t have drums for two weeks, which is quite sad cos I like drum lessons. In any case all the best to him and his upcoming tour at Australia! (His band’s name is Electrico, go check ‘em out if you have the time)

Just to share this with everyone — a song which I told my colleague today that was very pleasant to hear but whose title I have secretly forgotten! Oh dear right! The song’s name is actually called Qing Wang by Zhang Xue You. Go listen! Another Chinese song that I strongly recommend is Yuan Yang Hu Die Meng by Huang An. The lyrics for Yuan Yang Hu Die Meng is very, very good. I’ve not heard a song that sums up life so… precisely? No, precise isn’t the right word but I can’t think of a better substitute for it.

Btw now I’m secretly super tired and I want to sleep, so good night folks! Enjoy listening those songs!