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Canon

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:07:48 GMT

(no, not the camera.)

When we’re primary skool kids the Music teacher would be teaching you different music genres and among the many would be canon.

So here’s the clinical definition:

In music, a canon is a contrapuntal composition that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration (e.g. quarter rest, one measure, etc.). The initial melody is called the leader (or dux), while the imitative melody, which is played in a different voice, is called the follower (or comes). The follower must imitate the leader, either as an exact replication of its rhythms and intervals or some transformation thereof (see "Types of canon", below). Repeating canons in which all voices are musically identical that repeat are called rounds – "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" and "Frère Jacques" being widely known examples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_(music)

Well never mind abt the exact categorisation. I’m not an expert. But this kind of canon-y quality does a special thing to me. Sometimes it gives me a sense of tranquility, sometimes it builds a sense of ‘regulation’ in my messed-up mind. It spirals, it whirlpools. It allows me to indulge in a certain emotion or thought or state of mind.

Some of my playlist would be:

秘密 – 張震嶽

證據 – 楊乃文

哭了 – 范曉萱

說走就走 – 陶吉吉

五月天 - 知足, 溫柔, 恆星的恆心

龍捲風, 瓦解, 倒帶, 藉口 – 周杰倫

Sing-along song – 方大同

As long as you love me – BSB (wakakaka)

I knew I loved you – Savage Garden

So here we are – Bloc Party

Champagne Supernova – Oasis (whom I’m gonna see tonite, nahnahnah)

Pachelbel’s Canon in D…(because of 我的野蠻女友, obviously)

these songs, i can easily play one of them in loop for the entire night. (until someone next to me complains)

This is the latest one that keeps spinning in my head.

The Man who Can’t be Moved – The Script

typing mania

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:06:18 GMT

wahahahaa realli ho good play worrrr
boon loi i didn't believe it, but jamaica realli recommended it wor! gum mai give it a go lor. 5 mins for a song, dou affordable jeh! (although being 歧視-ed by my C-hing...)

meh jack meh jack meh jack.

第一次玩, 揀隻超級容易&又聽過九萬幾次geh,都唔算好自欺欺人jeh~~~

不過我深深知道,我其實係唔識properly打字的.
其實為未來幸福著想,應該練返arm D手勢.

home

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:36:16 GMT

Home - Michael Buble

i am going home. soon.

新聞兩則

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:32:54 GMT

from 1Jul09 apple daily (yes that's how sophisticated i am)

1.
傅凱駿 5A佳績慰患癌父
為多伴爸爸棄讀加州大學
2009年07月01日

【本報訊】 6月 30日，是高考 5A狀元傅凱駿的生日，最重要的是身患末期癌症的傅爸爸仍可以為他慶祝生日。考獲好成績，傅凱駿不打算讀商科，堅持興趣為先，立志要成為物理學家。傅爸爸好開心，因為兒子的努力得到了回報，最大心願是，「希望可以帶住腫瘤多十年八年，睇埋佢 PhD畢業。」

放棄中大拔尖攻讀物理
在筲箕灣聖馬可中學就讀理科的傅凱駿，會考時考獲 9A，參加拔尖獲中大計量金融學系取錄，但他對物理的興趣比金融大，所以放棄。傅凱駿自小夢想成為科學家，又矢志投身理論物理學的研究。放棄拔尖後，他轉報了美國院校的物理系，最後獲四間大學取錄，包括加州大學柏克萊分校等。但為了陪伴患病的爸爸，凱駿放棄美國頂尖學府的取錄，改為留港攻讀物理系。
上年尾，傅爸爸被診斷患了末期腎癌，割了一邊腎，細胞已擴散到盆骨。傅爸爸現在行動不便，要靠柺杖幫助才能走路，並需定期到瑪麗醫院覆診，目前正在嘗試新藥物。
得悉爸爸身患末期癌症，凱駿仍表現堅強，「唔可以坐低匿埋哭三日三夜，自怨自艾都冇幫助，爸爸都唔想我愁雲慘霧。」他指自己的情緒控制比人優勝，「人哋可能會問 why me？但係我會問 why not？」
傅爸爸在 1985年於樹仁學院的工商管理系畢業，憑努力晉身一間中資銀行的零售部門主管位置。傅凱駿指，爸爸是大家公認的絕頂好人，非常願意幫人，又時常關心慰問親友。

父望帶住腫瘤睇子畢業
爸爸患病後，父子溝通多了，變得更親密。傅凱駿多了陪父親吃下午茶、落街散步。昨日得到成績的一刻，傅凱駿很想感謝爸爸，「細個有次數學得 70幾分，俾爸爸鬧，唔係因為成績差，而係因為未盡力，爸爸由細到大教我最緊要盡力。」
傅凱駿說爸爸數學出色，引發他對數學的興趣，最記得小學時爸爸教他計數，「有一次，全屋人都瞓咗覺，我同爸爸很夜仍然坐在客廳計數。」
傅爸爸又會同子女分析時事、財經，「爸爸睇完啲專欄，又會畀我哋睇，同我哋分析；媽媽就好鍾意睇書，睇完又會同我哋講書的內容；媽媽又試過依照科學叢書同我做小實驗。」
傅凱駿最大的生日願望，是爸爸身體健康。傅爸爸則說：「我知癌症只可靠藥物維持住，好難痊癒；希望可以帶住腫瘤多十年八年，睇埋佢 PhD畢業。」

***
2.
愛上網「電車男」奪 5A
2009年07月01日

【本報訊】皇仁書院考獲 5A的狀元陳永輝，年紀輕輕的他，最愛看是美國連續劇《靚太唔易做》。沒有打波做運動、日讀 8個鐘，平時最愛上網、看電視。他表示，就算被稱為「電車男」也不介意。
陳永輝自言成功之道是夠勤力，一日讀足 8小時。他沒有做運動、沒有玩音樂，平日最大嗜好是看電視及上網。他承認自己沒有特別的興趣，以往未曾被人稱作電車男，但說：「話咪話，若然人哋咁話都唔介意。」

立志懸壺濟世
他特別愛看美國連續劇《靚太唔易做》和占基利主演的喜劇學英文，「《靚太唔易做》嗰 5個女人好 funny（有趣）。」
陳永輝外表文靜，面對記者表現害羞；他的同學說：「睇佢個樣就知佢勁。」考獲 5A，同學指是意料中事。
出身於小康家庭，陳永輝立志要入讀港大醫學院，懸壺濟世。他的讀書心得是平時留心聽書，溫習上學筆記。他不贊成報讀補習班，「因為高考有太多嘢要讀，時間唔夠。」

the beginning of the end

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:26:11 GMT

so i was talking to cheung man on g-chat.
we're talking abt age and stuff.

i said, so you're gonna be 35 in jun la wor! woohoo!!
(note: in fact hai 25)

she went: NEI HUI SEI LA!!!!!!!
and added: i'm just thinking that 25 is just a beginning =D

and i went: beginning to get old...tralala

she went: ARGHHHHHHHH

i love cheung man, and i love bullying cheung man.

(damn we're both getting old)

would've been 3 yrs

Wed, 13 May 2009 21:08:00 GMT

今天是would’ve-been-3^rd anniversary.

‘Would’ve been’ 是因為我們已經不再一起了,打從半年前.

所以都非常百感交集.

不過又咁,

破鏡重圓固然好,破鏡不能重圓的話,都唔駛死丫, 做個montage lor, 仲藝術.

豬肉做不成豬排, 成了免治, 不用慨歎, 儘管成為肉餅, 加埋鹹魚, 可能賣貴兩蚊添.

蘋果開始壞, 榨成果汁, 甚至扮鬼佬加D冰加D yoghurt 加D其他霉dum dur水果, 變成 smoothie, 收你班茂利成30幾蚊杯. Good. 根據非正式統計,profit margin好過做airline九萬幾倍.

所以,

緬懷過去, 展望將來啦.

大家都要健康快樂, 猩猩夫婦.

(我用拼音打 ‘幸幸福福 (xingxingfufu)’, kui出左 ‘猩猩夫婦’. well, 都好啦.)

共勉之.

多謝你 =)

cheated

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:40:18 GMT

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm a

Self-Knowing Extroverted Believer

up mud? haha..........................

song of the day - squall

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:49:23 GMT

Matsumoto Eiko - Squall (guess that's the first version most of us listened to?)

then came Fukuyama Masaharu (don't ask me what's he doing with those frigging glasses and the guitar that he's not playing)

then came this!!! don't frown just yet, ok ga wor. (and the seagulls and waves behind! ging Albert Au!)

then we have this on the side as supporting act...(thanks yam)

*bows*

and then this (thanks Bernard) :

*bows* thanks for listening.

safe haven

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:10:33 GMT

i was just saying to a friend regarding her difficult situation and her parents' full support.

i was saying,
ho ho ar
parents are always our 'safe haven'
they are always there for u when u need (or not need) them.

i am thankful to HHHS, truly.
there are things that are not to be taken for granted.
needless to worry abt food and shelter, good education (formal and informal), meaningful advice and mo liu jokes, and stuff.

i'm probably more of a HHHS clone than I ever realise.
well forget abt me for a bit - i guess i'm not the most impartial judge re: my resemblance to HHHS. let's talk abt another 'quality product' of my parents - my bro. ('another'? kaa...)

last wk when i visited my bro (we've been living apart for like, er, 12 yrs? maybe some of my friends didn't even know i have a bro...XD)
in the few days that i spent with my bro & his family, i rediscovered that there are indeed similarities in the family that can be seen here and there, as much as there are contrasts - e.g. my bro being good at maths and science and i'm not; like him calm and rational and me hyper; like him being bak-sik and me huck-sik (see pic below)...

ok, back to similarities - Like my bro happily making and then savouring a good cuppa milk tea - that was probably inherited from Hong Sum, who inherited from Grandpa. Like my bro liking to take it slow getting ready in the morning - now that's very Hong Hong. (some of my friends saw my bro's pics in my FB and said he physically looks like HH tim~ and some say him and my ah-so very foo-chaai seung~)

The other day I bought a Links of London charm on a BA flight.
it's basically a silver house with a little red enamel heart. nth particular asthetically, per se.
what caught me was the name: 'Home is where the heart is'.

True i guess. =)

clones

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:59:01 GMT

just realised, they kinda all look the same.

male singers that i recently listen to/ whose concerts i went to/am going to:

James Morrison, James Blunt and Chris Martin (Coldplay)

Note: seeing James Morrison's concert tonite =)

they all look like pirates/thieves.

anyway, they sing well and they make good music. that's what i care.