Back after 3 years

It's been about 3 years since I migrated to yahoo blog. Now that the spam there is getting out of hand and that goo may be moving to blogspot, it may be the time to come back here. Looking at the stuff on my first page of this old blog, I guess things haven't changed much - Sammi, Hocc, Joey, Amami, books, drama. It's still the same old me!

Birthday

Happy Birthday, Sammi!

Change of Mind

Have decided to still update this blog now and then anyway...haha, fickle-minded! Summary of past activities...

Current fave songs:
招搖 & 死物它 by 葉佩雯 (Grace Yip). Melodious rock! Will be getting her album when it's released.

Current fave TV drama:
離婚女律師 (Divorce Lawyer) starring 天海祐希 (Yuki Amami). Now showing on Channel 50. Very funny!

New (and not-so-new) books:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Finally I bought it (must be one of the last!) cos I was waiting for the paperback version.
Final Notes from a Great Island by Neil Humphreys - I enjoyed his previous two.
Nana comics - Borrowed them from dolores mama. It's addictive! Next time I mustn't borrow so many at one go!

In between, there was KTV at JB Neway again, once at Party World, guitar lesson with francine at mama's place, applications stuff for further studies etc etc.

Think this more or less covers everything for the past month or so...

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Guess I'll spend more time at my yahoo blog than here...Too tiring to maintain two blogs...

Our Time Has Come + Ten Most Wanted

Haa...long overdue post!

Since "Dress Me Up!", I've always been feeling a little nervous whenever hocc releases a new album...I guess my expectations as a fan are getting higher.

On first listen, "Our Time Has Come" might come across as a little bland esp when you compare it with "Glam" or "Butterfly Lovers". But it asserts itself in its own quiet right after you take time to savour its contents slowly. This time hocc comes up with three melodies each with a different style. Frankly I am quite looking forward to hear her sing "滿城盡帶黃金甲" live! Of course I love her ballads too, and after listening so many times, my favourite from the album is still "圓滿", which gives me a very warm feeling every time I listen to it. I love the arrangement esp the use of strings and real drums which seems to be used less and less often nowadays. I must say hocc and Green Mountain Orchestra made quite a lot of effort on the music arrangements this time and the results are rather pleasing.

I didn't think much of "Ten Most Wanted" on my first listen, but it just gets better each time. There is a much greater variety of music styles, other than the usual ballads and dance tracks, and I think that much effort had been put into the music arrangements. A number of the songs feature pretty intense arrangements and my favourite is "最後的朱麗葉", which sound just a tiny bit like hocc's "花迷戀" at the end. Perhaps Joey is trying to pull away from her K-songs image. I like this album.