Merry Xmas!!!!

It's no good...much that my mind is driftin back here, have been too busy to blog much these weeks with all the xmas and new year hols coming...

Before I disappear for another long week as I head back to Sunny Oz for my xmas with family, here's wishing all my beloved blog readers (u know who u are :) ) a very merry happy festive holidays with your loved ones!

Boarding the plane in few hours so gotto keep this short, back next week recharged and revitalised, and prob weighing a few more pounds to boot... ;p

Happy Holidays people!

A quick one..and SS501 하루만

In case anyone (else) is wondering, no I havent abandon "tokyo dogs"..just delaying watching it because I was overly consumed with YAB, and secondly, I was so dead depressed after my horrendous Jap paper that I couldnt bear to go near Jap stuff for a week - for self recovery. Plus frankly, the lure for T.D was simply drowned under the shining lights of YAB....

Just reformatted my PC, finally killed off crappy Vista and replaced it with my shiny Windows 7!!! Never been happier! Vista had me pulling my hairs out for so long that I wanted to smash the whole PC. I couldnt understand why they would tinker with a perfectly good Win XP and make an utter mess out of it wirh Vista. And now, I can proudly declare that MS is back in my good books again with the shining saviour Win 7. It's clutter free, easy to use, good layout, and NOT resource intensive. The joy is akin to feeling like I have been upgraded to VIP status :P

And because I had to reformat the whole PC,will take a while before I load everything back (old contents, pixs and stuff). So in case I disappear for a week, fret not, I will be back soon.

Meanwhile, after I had panned SS501's Love like this track, I check out the rest of the tracks, and I thought the slow track (track 3- 하루만) (download) was decently better. In fact "wasteland" and "obsessed" isnt that bad either. Let me find time to load it later. I think SS501 should just stick to singing ballads, their vocal cords aint suited for fast tracks...I am liking Junming more and more...I like his voice.

K-Music: SS501: Love like this

There are finally airing the new album release by SS501 on KBS world cable channel here. I saw the "live" Music bank TV performance of the song "Love like this" (download) and frankly, it was awlful. I was cringing at the various off pitch moments and most of all, I really dont like the new hairdo for Kim Hyun Joong. The crop pointy haircut just doesnt suit his face shape. That aside, the dance steps were also not in sync and it spoilt the song for me.

Ok visuals aside, I didnt think the track was spectacular despite the "acclaimed" fast pickup by fans. The song is not bad, just a little too commercialised feel for me. It is just one of those "dime and dozen" kind of song, the music mix has overlapping similarities with too many other dance tracks (esp compared to english albums) so much so that it doesnt hold the sort of "freshness" I was hopin for.

I thought to be fair, I should check out the official MV.


The song is definitely more "polished" and "groovy" in the MV but the tune still borders on average here. It doesnt have that wow factor for me. The dance movements reminds me of group dance in "Think you can dance" competition shows except it is even less fancy, just some coordinated moves meshed together to try to look good. My review prob sound harsh but only because I am hoping more from SS501 and had better expectations than this. If I am 16yr, I will love this but I am not, hence the reservations about going gaga over this.

I hated the makeup and styling for KHJ even more here. The punk look with Black eyeliner on his lower eyelid simply doesnt cut it for him. Ugly outfit aside (the red one esp). I prefer KHJ in his natural looking style.

KHJ appeared in tonite's variety show "Let's go Dream team" (S2-Ep4) and I was hoping that he would help win the game but much to my disappointment, he didnt make it. Instead, it was Minho (from shinee) who saved the day!! But at least KHJ did a short solo dance performance to the tune of the new track "Love like this"...with the "L" "O" "v" "e" and signs of course *swoonin*

After watching months of variety program (which always crack me up big time), I was really impressed with Eunhyuk and Minho, but esp the latter. I like his new hairdo, and esp his fighting spirit to try his best each time. I find myself rooting for him more and more each time as Minho looked so determined to lead his team to winning the game. After 2 loses, 1 tie, he finally won tonite!!!! YEAH!!! I was screaming in excitement!!!

Ok I digress...I was suppose to talk about SS501 new video.
I dont like it. Maybe I should check out the remaining songs from the album