My Life

Well, I'm not completely recovered but think I'm much better now since I'm able to stay awake until 11pm today, something that I couldn't manage for much of the past week. Thanks Caogu and Irishblue for your well-wishes!

Went to Nan's place today since I'd already promised to visit. Great to see Nan looking much better than the last time I visited and we took some great photos.

Also had dinner with Ht last night. Was still feeling a bit sick yesterday and shouldn't have been running around in town, but well, I wanted to meet Ht. 'Akashi' sounds like an expensive place but we checked the prices and decided that it wasn't too bad. The food was quite nice.

Couldn't resist popping into HMV afterwards. Ht thought it wasn't a good idea since I had resolved to stop buying so many CDs, but I figured that it would be ok cos the stuff at HMV was so expensive I probably wouldn't buy anything. Ha, I was right! But the bad thing was I spotted something that I wanted - Hideaki Tokunaga's "My Life". Priced at a whooping $70, no way am I going to fork out that kind of money! Ht also saw some stuff of interest and I bet you're still thinking of your $40 CD, Ht, because I'm still thinking about the Hideaki CD and trying to figure out how to get it cheaper. Ask Be to buy in Japan? Hope for overseas version in HK? Go visit Be and hunt for a 2nd hand copy? Arghh...why are Japanese CDs super-ex!!?

It also triggered off an entire 'wish-list' which I had already started thinking about since I'd decided on the HK trip, and now I'm adding more and more things to it! I'm just putting this list together to organise myself, but some of the stuff is so costly that I'm probably not going to buy them afterall...Here goes:

1. My Life (Hideaki Tokunaga)
One of my favourite Japanese male singers since "Kagayaki Nagara..." (Shining), I've collected most of his albums. I like his nice soothing music and encouraging songs like "Mirai Hikou" (Future Flight), "Justice" and "Love is all".

2. Go My Way (Alfee)
Seeing Hideaki's CD reminded me of how obsessed I was about this Japanese rock band. I collected their albums dating back to 1979! And I still put them as my favourite band. So I searched the Internet and found that they too have a new album out since the last one I bought. But $49 is just too ex...

3. Infernal Affairs Trilogy Set
I've been thinking about this for more than a year now, but I’m not sure which edition to buy for there seems to be so many versions floating around, and very expensive too!!

4. Kiss Kiss Kiss (at 17)
“Meow Meow Meow” was available in HMV but no sign of this second album at all. I like 女扮男生 & 成人禮. Eman’s voice is very nice, even though I don’t normally like female singers whose voices are too high-pitch.

5. Sickid (Josie Ho)
She didn’t sing very well last time, but her singing seems to have improved a lot when I heard her on JSG early this year. Seems a bit of a gamble to buy this since I haven’t heard any of the songs before. I’m told it’s not mainstream stuff…

6. Butterfly
Josie Ho is a great but probably under-rated actress and I guess she will be the main reason for me buying this. Heard that the DVD version contains interviews with the cast as well as deleted scenes which are supposed to explain the story better.

7. Eleven Fires Concert (Cookies)
Ok, their live singing can be quite poor, but I am surprisingly tolerant towards them. I actually like some of their songs and I think they have improved a fair bit. Very curious to hear the solo songs, especially Theresa’s version of 非走不可 (I assume it’s Nic Tse’s song). I always thought that Theresa has a nice voice and I believe that lower pitch songs may bring out her vocals better. Kary too has been a revelation since joining Ping Pung.

8. Love and Hate (Ping Pung)
The debut album by an interesting rock band fronted by Kary. I put 愛是最大權力 in my top 10 list for 2004. I also like the very ‘angst-y’ 講清楚. But just realised that the latter is not found in this album. So where is this song found? I keep seeing the MV on TVBJ though...