Day Zero

As you can recall in my previous post that I'm bound for Taiwan for my studies, but before reaching Taiwan I was in Manila for almost 24hrs. During those time I was able to stay over at my uncle danny's house for a night (and I got to save money too! <3)

Arriving in NAIA 2 from Zamboanga

I have planned out the whole afternoon to meet my little sister (Christine) and do some "lakwacha" :P and decided to meet each other in Trinoma, Quezon City.

We arrived in Trinoma at around 3 in the afternoon, and we started roaming the mall (since it was my 1st time going to this particular mall). We walked around the whole mall for like 2-3 times and then decided to head to SM North EDSA. And I couldn't believed how much SM North has changed since the last time I've been there.... (think it was 2005).



Many "window shopping" later, I decided to invite my sister to have dinner in T.G.I.F. (man! I really miss this resto.... but I didn't miss the price at all). Afterward we had desserts at Red Mango. I had the Green Tea Yogurt w/ Almond slices while sister just got the plain Green Tea Yogurt (diet daw... xD). The first bite tastes weird at all, coz it taste a little bit sour than I've expected but the more you had the better it tastes and eventually you'll look for more! o_O Although the yogurt's not really cheap at all, a small cup will cost you like P80 and each additional toppings will go for P20 each. But I'd still recommend to try it out once in awhile. :)


While having our yogurt, we went in Toys R' Us (the little kid inside can't resist not going into the toy shop). We fool around w/ some stuffs and we saw Rubiks 360 on sale (Which I have read 'bout it in Gizmodo.com some time back) and curiosity took over us and eventually we bought it at P699 each.


After all those pigging out and toy fondling, we finally called it a day and went our separate ways afterward. 'Coz I still got a big day of traveling the next day.

Stay tuned for Day 1 of my Taiwan travel. ;3

Musiq Review: Clazziquai Project - Love Again

Time for another random music review from the land of the sun~ well, neighbor from the land of the sun to be exact.

Introducing Clazziquai Project!



Clazziquai (Hangul: 클래지콰이; Classic+Jazz+Groove) is a South Korea fusion band that combines several genres including Electronic music, acid jazz and house. The group's first short unofficial albums were released online in 2001, spreading its music through words of "Netizens" who positively received the group's unique music. They remained underground until the release of their first album Instant Pig in 2004, selling over 80,000 copies. Since then, their music has been used in various television commercials and movies, and has given them the chance to perform at various events.

Clazziquai's fame increased greatly after the success of My Lonely Solomon, a 2005 a kDrama (Korean Drama) that received over a 50% share by the end of its run. Clazziquai contributed two songs on its soundtrack: "Be My Love" and "She Is", the former of which became the show's theme song. The show's popularity brought the group increased media and public attention. The group won an award at the MNET KM Music Video Festival for "Best Soundtrack", and has also been the most nominated group at the Korean Popular Music Awards II(2회), winning "Artist of the Year" and "Best Pop".

Since then, they have released a second album Color Your Soul and its remixed version Pinch Your Soul in 2005, and released their third in June 2007, Love Child of the Century. The group's unconventional style has proven popular enough to have the group widen their focus to other countries, signing a contract with avex tracks in 2005, in addition to gaining a licensed album in Taiwan. They have contributed to works by Japanese artists, Fantastic Plastic Machine and M-flo. The group appeared on ETPFEST in 2008.

Clazziquai Project - Love Again (Latest MV)

Kitty Madness (Kawaii-desu~!)

Ok, I'm much of a sucker punch for adorable cute animals... makes me wanna squeeze 'em till they turn into a small ball. *lmao*

This one cat from Japan named Maru is on my "squeezing" list. This cat has one of the cutest overall feature that I've ever seen.... It's chubby, hugable, kinda bulky, chubby, funny "hobbies", chubby and did I say chubby? o_O






Anyway, Check out it's blog @ http://sisinmaru.blog17.fc2.com/

*oh yeah, the blog's is in japanese/nihonggo but some captions are translated in english and it's very easy to navigate.

Adventure Ahoy!

In this lifetime you'll never stick to one routine that makes you think that you're used to, or getting tired of. Because you'll never know what will ever happen the very next day. Life is always been a mystery to mankind since the beginning of time.

Yeah, you tend to get sick of waking up in the morning (or afternoon for me -.-) and start saying "Meh, It'll be another boring day for me....." (True, we tend to say that once in awhile) BUT! Whenever you start to lose hope and giving up of finding that "happy place".... and "POOF!" opportunities always pops up out of nowhere or whenever you least expects it.

This is what happened to me for the past 2 months. On a boring Sunday night, when I think it'll just be the same usual evening (lame and typical game playing night while rotting in my shop) my sister suddenly drops by and hand me a brochure, which I didn't pay attention at first glance (I thought it was just another credit card application form). But my sister suddenly said it's about a university in Taiwan which caught my attention in an instant. That's just the start of the juicy information! Apparently, this university offers scholarship for upcoming Mandarin bachelor courses and English masteral courses. Golden opportunities doesn't come into your life that so often, and initially I was rather hesitant in applying but some of my friends convinced me that it is worth a try into the offer. And boy I'm glad I didn't turn down the offer back then. After I passed all my required documents, waited a few weeks and the good news came. "I GOT ACCEPTED!" *dances like a nerd* and best of all, the course I applied was one of my dream job interest of my life.

This coming August 24th, 2009 will mark as the day where A new chapter in my life, a new adventure to explore. As I'll be attending as a college student (again lol) taking up Mandarin Bachelor Degree in Digital Arts of Computer and Multimedia Entertainment in Souther Taiwan University (STUT) in Tainan, Taiwan R.O.C.

So only God knows what's ahead of me for the coming school year, but I'm sure it'll be an exciting and new life.

Musiq Review: Genki Rockets - Heavenly Stars

Wonder if you guys noticed the songs that's been featured in my imeem here? Pretty catchy and lively isn't it?

Well, it's all from the same band namely "Genki Rockets". It's a japan base band made up of unamed musical artists. The face of the group is 18-year old Lumi, a fictional girl who was born in space on September 11, 2037 and has never been to Earth. Lumi's voice is synthesized by taking samples from several different female singers.

Genki Rockets is unique in that the band's music videos are almost entirely computer-generated, including the band's one and only lead fictional character, Lumi. The visual art style for the music videos are created by Japan's Glamoove, Inc, and was inspired by Norwegian band, A-ha's "Take on Me" music video.

Most the songs from this band are up-beat, happy and simple songs which is very addictive from time to time.

the lyrics for Heavenly Stars are as follows:
I hear your whispers
surrounded in silence, blue vibration
I hear the waves
singing in the distance, pure isolation
I smile into the distance
far away from you, we're in resolution
I'm dreaming, touching
breathing side by side, dive into the sky

Let's get away, fly away
I found the path to paradise
Shining spiral of gold
Take my hand, find our way out

Heavenly stars above
Just believe what's in your heart
No border between us
I can always feel you inside
Where ever we are

I see you, feel you, I am your creation
Everlasting affection
Life's an endless spiral going round
Yes! We are in love!

Let's get away, fly away
I found the path to paradise
Shining spiral of gold
Take my hand, find our way out

Heavenly stars above
Just believe what's in your heart
No border between us
I can always feel you inside
Where ever we are

Let's get away, fly away
I'm feeling raindrops on my face
Sun shines through the clouds, yeah
Rainbow all around us

I spread my wings, fly away
The wind sweeps me off my feet
Blowing me away
Trees whispering to me
I'm feeling free now

Lets get away, fly away
I found the path to paradise
Shining spiral of gold
Take my hand, find our way out

Heavenly stars above
Just believe what's in your heart
No border between us
Nothing can divide us
Where ever we are