Optical Illusion in My Blog...

I just discovered it today. I was running through some posts, perhaps 2 or 3. Afterwhich, for no reason at all, I looked away from my monitor and saw these white lines on a dark area of the wall. Seems like venetian blinds but i know this is what they call an optical illusion (check Wikipedia about this to learn more).

You can try this one... Just try reading maybe a couple of my posts continuously and when you're done, try looking away from your monitor and aim your sight-I'd prefer on a dark space around you. Then you'll see what I'm talking about. Perhaps tell me if you'll see an eye behind it peeping and looking at you. Haha!

Interesting?! Simple, I'll say it again... my blog has a LIFE!!!

Bittersweet...

No, this isn't Kanye West's (ft. John Mayer) new song but the chorus somehow relates to me and to all other dark black chocolate lovers.

Yes, I'm talking about a literal bittersweet chocolate. It's the LOTTE DREAM CACAO (Cacao Polyphenol Chocolate). 56%, 72% and 86% of cacao filled chocolates are on the line. Here's the thing, you won't want it but you'll need it, you hate it but you'll love it at the very same time... Bittersweet!

Oh, there's the 99% cacao filled and I call it "BitterS*!t"! Want some?

Removing Labels...

This may be an unintuitive move but for me it compliments to fairness. In my own opinion, removing the labels from my blog sets out a freedom on every posts. You see, if I'd say, ahmm.. I'd post something about sex. I can categorize it under health or perhaps in life or personal or adults section or something else. In this case, the topic itself becomes irrational to other labels present in my blog. Creates the feeling of being unfair. Some labels may complain of why they have lesser posts than the others... This way posts are loose and free! Now, they can breathe!

Sounds stupid? Well, my blog has a LIFE!!!

Peace!

Rockbox for MP3 Players

I've found this interesting utility for my iPod Video and want to share it with you. It's called Rockbox...

I can say that this really is a nice firmware replacing your players'. Themes and lay-outs are better, like the EQ's... Many people are complaining about the EQ settings of the iPod 'cause it isn't user frequency configurable, it has only its preset settings. We'll, installing Rockbox satisfied me in that and many more aspects... Also, it has a bass, treble and many more sound settings. Load of games, extras, also there are themes, icons, fonts and whatever else that you can download from their site. And it offers more capabilities that i haven't mentioned and haven't tried yet. Check those for yourself.

Currently, I'm using the Black Glass theme with a Windows Media Player 11 theme on the "Now Playing" screen. All I've yet to do is purchase a new pair of nice earphones...

Here's their site, www.rockbox.org and the screenshots above are just a few of the themes that I randomly use.

Missing An All-Out Performance

I've been here in Seoul for a year and 8 months now. Somehow it's hard to think that sometimes boredom visits you at work time. Performing in a fancy bar where almost all guys you see wear suits and girls wear these long dresses and got nothing to do... eat a li'l , drink a li'l and talk and talk and talk.... And applauds when they wanted to or when when they pay attention to you.

Don't mind the songs that we play and don't even try to ask about it, it just gives me more antagonizing thoughts. Those mind-numbing experiences onstage, wasted yawns in every single song, looking up on the ceiling with an empty mind...

Those things make me reminisce the things i can do onstage back home... I call it an "all-out performance", I miss it! I miss those plays, those ways and those days. The SMB events, the out-of-town shows and the Sinulog concerts where we used to play 3-4 venues a night for that week. Those, to name a few...

Those were the times where I can get to play all out, breaking keys of 4 Roland RD-600's, jumping, screaming, keyboards just fell off to my feet, bringing a couple bottles of Red Horse onstage and playing drunk!... Delightful in the eyes are people waving their hands up in the air to the beat of the songs, dancing, jumping and screaming the night away. Then suddenly you'll see things thrown in the air like bottled waters, liquor cans and after a while punches!!! Whew!!! Those were lots of fun!

How I just wish we could do it all again... Never a dull and boring moment...

Pavarotti Succumbs at 71...

He died of pancreatic cancer on September 6, 2007. A successful, most famous tenor opera singer of my time. Won various awards, made lots of charity concerts, specially "Pavarotti and Friends", and a Guinness World Record holder. Also made lots of records and soundtracks for movies.

Great achievements!

As a musician myself, allow me to give a heartfelt gratitude to a man who in the first place, bridged the gap between opera/classical music to pop songs, raised funds for the United Nations for various causes, hitting nine "C's" and believed that voice never grows old with age.

Lastly, I consider him a trademark to opera/classical music...

So long, Maestro!

A Cute, Wishful Song...

SHOOTING STAR
Music & Lyrics: Richard Lim

I gazed at the sky tonight
I'm waiting for a star in flight
I know there'll be another
Shooting star

City lights seem to cover you
But I know you'll shine in my view
Even though you'll be that far
Shooting star

I know tonight you'll make my dreams come true
And all the other hearts that's torn in two
We'll wish on wherever you are
Shooting Star

It's past midnight, I'm still waiting for you
I don't know, I Don't have a clue
I'd still wish on wherever you are
Shooting star

I gazed at the sky tonight
Hoping tomorrow there'll be a star in flight...

*Written last April 09, 2007, 05:30
Personally recorded at Rm. 2316, Maxwell House, Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel, Seoul, South Korea