NDP Theme Song 2013

One Singapore! 

This year NDP theme song was released on youtube 3 days back (18 July). 

I felt so bad when I saw the number of dislikes were so much more than the number of likes; too much in fact. 

Well, it may be a very different song compared to past years. Maybe to some it may sound a little childish, maybe to some it doesn't embrace NDP that much, maybe to some the song itself doesn't reflect a story. 

Yes, a STORY. 

If you ask a random passer-by, I'm pretty certain that out of 10, 9 would vote their favourite NDP song to be Home.

Home is an old song. A familiar melody that most Singaporeans can hum or sing along to. A song that many artists had re-sang different versions. 

The cover above is sang by many famous local artists in the year 2010. :) 

Home is a perfect example of the type of NDP song that most Singaporeans prefer. A song like Home naturally reminds citizens the common things we have went through together as a nation, and a reminder for this special occasion (Country's birthday). 

I know the importance of reminders, especially on meaningful occasion this big. Yet, once in a long while, we can embrace simple happiness too. I feel good watching the MV of the new NDP song. One Singapore is a song that's easy to remember, a song that most of us can dance to. 

Maybe, maybe some of the critics are right. That the song may hold less meaning. But it doesn't help if they were to just comment without giving insightful inputs isn't it? Don't just critic as though you are some professionals when you can't compose a better piece. 

It just remind me of JJ's song for YOG in 2010. 

Yes, they may not have composed a piece very well liked by many. But they have tried, and shouldn't they deserve credits for their efforts? 

It's just so irritating. NDP theme song is suppose to pull us together, a melody that we can all sing and have fun together. Yet, it became such a mess. I mean, (I'm not arrowing anyone), if anyone does have better inputs on how a better NDP song can be composed, maybe you could voice it out in constructive manner. And maybe, next year we will be singing the song you composed and we will embrace it together as a nation. 

Because putting another person down doesn't make you in any better position. 

The comments under the youtube video are just too nasty, too unbearable. Argh. 

JJ 林俊傑 - 因你而在 You N Me (華納 official 官方完整音檔)

My 500th posts, so I will dedicate this post to someone I adore, a lot.



已过了十年。
那么漫长的岁月，你依旧那么的努力。

从一个很害羞，不是很有信心的小男生，到如今深受大家肯定的新四大天王，真是不简单。
新加坡有那么杰出的创作歌手，真是感到骄傲！
至今已模糊不清，不晓得在梦里梦到你几次 － 好花痴哦 >.<

你的努力大家都看的到。
为了爱你的人，欣赏你的歌迷朋友们继续加油。

我们因你的歌声而在。
当是是不顺心时，请切记，你还有永远支持你的歌迷们！

音乐才子，加油加油再加油！



*Wrote this as if he would read them. Oh God.
Please do support his, you know he's good :)

JJ Lin.

My favourite melody

JJ Lin has been my favourite artist ever since I learnt to appreciate Chinese Pop Music.


(This live performance during annual award ceremony hits a 2 million views; *proudofhim!*)
Yes, it is precisely him that I learnt to listen and love Chinese Melody.

Favourite singer is a very subjective topics.
I have seen how other fans tried to pull other stars down, but I'm pretty sure people like JJ would not want to see this.
They all have their own talents, and putting others down would not make your idol any stronger, or better.

I like JJ a lot, how he ends his note; his tone is just one of a kind, marvellous.
Like FIRST LOVE, JJ Lin's music is my first love.
I could remember humming to his melody in primary school days. :)
Nothing can replace your first love, right? It is like the most beautiful thing, like childhood memories.

Keep fighting JJ, still moving under gunfire. :)
Your music give many of us strength, so dont stop - it'll only give us one less reason to look forward to for life.
I can't wait for his 10th Album - 因你而在。
And if you are staying in Singapore on 6th Feb, remember to tune to 1003 at 10am :D
They will broadcast his lovely piece, can't wait.

The only predictable thing I guess is that it would be flawless. I promise, I won't go too far away from that, because he is JJ.

On a side note, I found this video - sang by A Lin.
This performance of hers give me chills.

It has been a long time since I have heard something so beautiful that touches my heart so deeply.
she sang them beautifully.
Or rather, beautiful is an understatement.



I could listen to them, the whole night. Again, and again.

我为何会犯规?

Pen this down at 3am last night.

我为何会犯规？ 不是说好了吗？
其实只是不想让你知道。一开始就是有目的的靠近你。
因为一切都太顺利，误以为是天意。
没有防备，没有后备。
后知后觉才领悟， 只是已陷得太深了。

我为何会犯规？ 现在退一步还来得及吗？
我为何会犯规？ 爱上不该爱的该怎么办？
判出局，你已表明的那么清楚。
可是我，还是想逗留在你身边。

Then words came in, music flow. It's so messed up it doesn't even make much sense.
The only product when the writer is confused herself.
Edited to make it sound like one. A broken pieces that pierce through hearts.
It's like you are thinking about her and I'm thinking about you.

It doesn't apply yet it feels like so. Completed my piece without the full melody.
I might have created chords that do not even exist.
And yet so, we find lyrics that best describe our feelings to be conveyed.

When I can't find that one that really do, I write them instead.
I have a good feeling about this; edited version will not be shared.
Only for my dearests.

Much love, please be safe.
Till I see you again, I miss you so dearly.

Met Aaron before he flew off. I know it's just 21 days.
Blame it on Yan Shen, said that we would meet after exams.
Yet, the next thing he's not returning. Damn.
Shouldn't have made such assumptions that we would definitely have time for our dearests when we are free.
Things don't always go the way you want it to.
Lesson learnt: Stop with whatever you are busy with; turn and show concern for your loved ones. Before it's too late.

Shall end it with a lighter note, I have completed three papers.
So another three to go; one on a Thursday Evening and another on a Friday morning. #Badtimetable.

I can smell the sweetness of holiday approaching I can't wait.

Remember, true love doesn't hurt. Only wrong love do.

It's amazing how one day someone walks into your life, then the next day you wonder how will you live without them.
Once upon a time, I thought I don't need any part-timer people in my life. You are either with me till the end or you are not. You can't just come and go as you please, because I hate it when I became reliant on you and then the next moment you were gone.
I thought the only reason that relationships end hastily is precisely because people stop putting in the same effort they tried to keep you as they did to win you.
Then things happened. When I finally realized that we don't meet people by accident. They are meant to cross our path for a reason, or even reasons. Maybe when we are hurt we can't comprehend why god make such an arrangement. Maybe it's beyond our wisdom to even, in a long time.
Notwithstanding, I don't want to change the things I believe in. People told me that I should grow up, that I shouldn't trust that easily - but isn't humans innately good by nature? Albeit like Hsun Tsu, most agree that rather, we are innately bad and selfish, that we are governed by our instincts to survive and protect ourselves. True that, but not all the time! I want to hold on go this belief, my belief, even though I might have met the worst.

"When you love someone don't expect them to love you as much as you do; instead, love them so much that they for want to be loved by anyone else except you."

Having my favorite green tea latte at Starbucks.
It's rather empty here today.
Staring outside, it's a Sunday night.
Listening to Wilber's 我们都怕痛 repeatedly.
Indulge in deep thinking, on a night like this.