"If you are someone who blogs, remember to write something down when you are happy, not only when you are sad or lonely. Cause when you're flipping through the pages when you're feeling down, you will remember not only the sad things, but also the happy things. People remember too much of the sad things, and just let the happy things slip away."
Scrubs is returning to television for its 9th season!
I sometimes wondered why I got hooked on Scrubs. My first episode I ever watched was "My Own Private Practice Guy" on a Westjet flight on route from Toronto to Vancouver. This clip was the one that made me laugh so hard on the plane... even when it was 8am in the morning.
I always wanted to watch the whole series over all the seasons, which at that point season 6 just wrapped up. Thankfully, I had Matt, who I found out through coincidence, is a Scrubs fan as well. He had with him DVDs of Seasons 1-4.
That December holiday was subsequently spent watching this hilarious comedy. Well, that and playing Call of Duty 4, I don't think I set foot outside that whole holiday. I didn't want to go outside. That had hurt so much.
But enough of that, over the seasons there were songs that stuck to me. Songs from indie bands that I had never heard of before. It was through Scrubs that I heard the bands "Five for Fighting", "Finger Eleven", and solo artists Rhett Miller. Yup, the first time I heard "How to save a life" was from Scrubs. Not Grey's Anatomy.
Here are some memorable moments I loved throughout the 8 seasons: Happy Song: Good Time - Leroy
Song: More Than A Feeling - Boston
Song: Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
Song: Don't Stop Believin' - Journey This episode is actually titled "My Journey".
Song: Hey Julie - Fountains of Wayne Just watch, and listen to the lyrics.
Song: All of the words - Kutless Carla is finally pregnant after trying for so long.
Song: Screw You - Theodore Buckland & Stephanie Gooch
Song: Hey Ya - Theodore Buckland (Ted for short)
Sad Song: Hold On Hope - Guided by Voices Ben (Cox's brother is diagnosed with leukemia)
Song: Winter - Josh Radin
Song: Tell Her This - Del Amitri J.D. realizes that he actually wants more with Elliot. But...
Song: Cindy - Tammany Hall NYC J.D. going to see Elliot because her boyfriend just left.
Song: How to save a life - The Fray Cox accidentally kills 3 patients.
Not only these songs, but Scrubs has a musical episode in Season 6 titled "My Musical". Highly recommended.
Scrubs has been with me for a long time. It has comedy with pieces of drama. Maybe its the "moral of the story" style of story telling that has me hooked, or maybe its the emotional fragility of characters.
I haven't even listed the laugh out loud moments that I loved. I love this series.
People all have times of weakness. Just as the title song suggests...
I remember a very long time ago, when I just got to Singapore. There was this show on television that I would watch about a gas station. The gas station's daughter whom I believed was 16 in the show. She would often complain about not being able to do this or that. Money constraints, freedom constraints. Her dad would always reply with the same thing "wait till you're 21!" And she'll storm off.
At that time I wondered what I would be when I was 21, and how "magical" it would be. Granted I didn't understand what "money" constraints were, what "freedom's" I don't have. It was more of the idea that when I turned 21, everything would be much happier, or much easier.
I look back now and I could only smile and laugh at myself then.
I didn't understand why a lot of my friends were throwing lavish parties, renting places even to do that. And I just thought to myself, is turning 21 that big of a deal? I don't know, I just didn't feel it.
I was scared, really I was. And as I'm sitting here writing this, I had just recovered from a really bad headache that I had to take an half-day off work. The day before my 21st. No its definitely not the scare part, but definitely the being old part. But no, its not like when the clock passes 12, something dramatic is going to happen to your body, there isn't going to be mutation on your body that turns you into an adult (at least I hope not).
As I look back to all of the things that have happened around/to me, there were things that I took away from that I would possibly never forget.
There are things that you have to give up, but not want to. You learn take what you can get. Rule #33: Enjoy the little things
I don't have much to say either way. If there was one thing I realize, is that there isn't a lot of things that I can put in words. Experience, isn't something you get by reading.
Verse 1 Haven't had enough time to feel The weather in which the snowflakes bloom We will huddle together and finally understand what warmth feels like
Haven't held your hand and walked over barren sand dunes Perhaps from now on I will learn to cherish forever and ever.
Chorus There are times, there are times I would believe everything has an end Gathering, leaving are all part of the life Nothing lasts forever
But then I sometimes Rather choose to reminisce and not let go Cause when all is said and done Perhaps you would spend the rest of your life with me
Verse 2 Haven't cooked a red bean into a lingering wound for you and share it together so we might finally understand the sorrow of missing one another
Haven't had enough time to feel waking up to a tender morning kiss Perhaps only around me You want to pursue the freedom from loneliness
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Notes: Definitely took a lot of liberties with the translation. I do find that a lot of things is well "Lost in Translation". My goal wasn't to have a word for word translation, but something that flows proper, and (hopefully) ends up having the same impact as the original song.
Meaning: The "Red Bean" in this context does not mean the red bean soup, red bean paste, red bean whatever, its not edible.
It's actually called (and I can't believe it myself when I found it) jequirity bean. In Chinese though we have a much nicer way of calling this bean, by (literal translation) "missing one another" bean. It has been a symbol of love in China. Most people ended up just calling it by its color, hence, "Red Bean".
Also a thing of note, the bean is actually poisonous. Irony? Perhaps.
English: Okay - Swirl 360
This song is featured in the Van Wilder movie staring Ryan Reynolds, and also appeared on the soundtrack.
I can't remember which scene it is featured, but I just remembered that this song stuck out to me. That and Michelle Branch's You Get Me, but I'm sure more of you guys heard that song more than this one.
The band mostly appeared on soundtrack and is currently doing mainly background work for other artists.
More info on them can be found @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swirl_360.
Lyrics:
She sat me down and took me by the hand
She said I'll try to make this painless if I can
She was sorry and then she began to cry
Couldn't look me in the eye
I said baby let me just save you the time
I can see where this is going
Tears will fall and hearts will break
Love's a game we all must play
So dry your eyes and be on your way
As for me I'll be okay
Well I thought we were that perfect match
It's so hard to say that now without a laugh
There was never ever such a thing
Not as far as I can see
Now that all of love such misery
You can see where this going
Tears will fall and hearts will break
Love's a game we all must play
So dry your eyes and be on your way
As for me I'll be okay
We gonna be okay
I can see where this is going
Tears will fall and hearts will break
Love's a chance we all must take
So dry your eyes and be on your way
As for me I'll be okay
As for me I'll be okay
As for me I'll be okay
Parachutes
1. Yellow
2. Trouble A Rush of Blood to the Head
3. In My Place
4. The Scientist
5. Clocks X&Y
6. Fix You
7. Speed of Sound
8. Swallowed in the Sea
9. Twisted Logic Viva La Vida or Death to All His Friends
10. Lost!
11. Viva La Vida
12. Violet Hill
13. Strawberry Swing
Just sharing the (what I feel) essentials of one of my favourite bands. Theres more songs that are great to listen to.
Also check out: Spies, Shiver, Talk, The Hardest Part, X&Y etc.
I've always been fascinated by the lyrics of their songs, how they get their inspiration. Their songs always manage to stop me from hitting that "Next Song" button.
"Your skin
Oh yeah your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
D'you know you know I love you so
You know I love you so"
"Come up to meet you
tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you
Tell you I need you
Tell you I've set you apart"
"And I could write a song
A hundred miles long
Well, that's where I belong
And you belong with me
And I could write it down
or spread it all around
Get lost and then get found
Or swallowed in the sea"
"I took my love down to violet hill
There we sat in snow
All that time she was silent still So if you love me Won't you let me know?"
I'm sure you'll find something that you like.
Update: I have complied an updated list with Mylo Xyloto tracks here
It drives us to do things we never thought we do. But it also sometimes gives us a false sense of security, something to look forward to the next day. Something that shouldn't be there, something that you just dreamt up.
I've tried to look at hope not the way everybody looks at it. Not that I can't, I've made a concise decision not to. Is hope really good? What does hope entail?
Maybe thats why the words "false hope" come up so much. Fake hope?
In Chinese its easier to separate, the difference between 妄想 and 希望 is essentially hope and ... well false hope.
Living vicariously through other people's lives, that's something I've only gotten a firm definition just a few weeks ago from a very good friend. You wish other people well, because in the end, you wish someone would live a better life than yourself, and then you can channel their feelings into yourself. That feels good, doesn't it?
When I was little I always wondered why everyone is doing what they do. For 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 360 days a year.
Then through all this 21 years of my life, I've become the same people that I always wondered about.
Every single day. Wake up at 7:24. Out the house by 8. Ride the subway. Get to work at around 9:15. Work. Lunch. Work. Leave at 5:15. Spend 1 hr and 15 mins on the subway back. Eat. A bit of free time. Sleep.
Everything has become regular. Routine.
It is then that I realized the free time that I've taken for granted at my life as a child is a commodity. What do you do in this free time? Do you spend time reading? Time gaming? Time chatting?
Its a weird feeling that something you had all along can so suddenly be taken away from you, even something so trivial as free time.
