Sunday, 14 January 2007

我是周杰伦的FANS! ( I am Jay Chow's fans!!)

I find myself more and more of a Jay Chow's fan. I was soaking in a bookshop yesterday after dinner and chance upon his album.
Oh yah, must tell you about my dinner. I went hunting for dinner and pass by this shop that has steam bun at the shop front. Upon closer look, they also have noodles. I ordered a basket of fresh meat bun (鲜肉包). 7 buns, a bit too much for me. Here comes the highlight-Pork rib spicy noodle. I love the soup man! Spicy, salty and dark. Nice!!
Sidetrack some more. In Singapore, you hardly see Chinese character as you go about your daily activities. I'm beginning to get use to reading mandarin. Now I read signs, shop name, book shelve description and magazine in Mandarin.
In all book stores here in China, 99%of the books are in Mandarin, except for english-chinese dictionary. (So far my experience in Chengdu and Lijiang). I spend some time to read a book on SEA, something like a mandarin version of Lonely Planet SEA. I got bored and started browsing other section. I saw Jay Chow on the cover of a book and picked it up. In it, there are over a few hundred songs by him. As I scanned thru the composer, I found a common name and that is Jay Chow himself. He composed the music for all his songs except for 1. About half of the lyrics are also written by him, the other half by 方文山 and a handful by黄俊朗.
I recommend 听妈妈的话. I know, the song title sounds cheesy but the lyrics are really meaningful and heartwarming. Jay seems to love his mum very much. He expresses how during his childhood, he couldn't understand why he have to do what mom tells him to do. Now that he's an adult in his prime like me (we're borned in the same year) he understands that everything mom says or does is for his own good.
退后 track no. 5 is great song too. A buddy of mine Paul is a great fan of Jay Chow too. Occasionally, I get a ride from him to work. That is when I was still in the airforce. Every time I hopped into his car, he's playing the same album by Jay Chow-依然范特西 He likes to boast about this song and sing along loudly to it. Beautiful music. Unfortunately, Jay's vocal range is a little too high for me to handle. More than half the time i am singing falsetto.
My Favourite song is 菊花台. First of all because it's a track from the soundtrack 黄金甲.Sing aloud especially the chorus part. Feel the the agony as you reminisce the tragedy of the story in 黄金甲. If you watch that show, you know what I mean. Everyone died... sob sob. so sad. Too bad, Jay got no acting talent.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

i appreciate Jay's music too. but havent listen to his newest album. the lyrics is always captivating... like 威廉古堡、七里香、夜曲... and many more. very well written. wud find time to catch up with his new songs...

Anonymous said...

Yeah, I got to listen to Jay's music when a bro John gave me a "Demo CD" of his album. Not bad, but like you I can't sing most of his songs only afew....How is life bro?wondering out there? Happy belated Birthday to you. My son Darius arrived on the 1/1/07 on your Spiritual Birthday.Cheers bro, enjoy your trip & see you soon. Love Leon.

FongShee said...
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FongShee said...

Hi michelle, his latest album was released last year Sept. I bought it in China for 6 sing. Cheap ah!!! Ogiginal some more!!!
Funny thing is the VCD is only 2.20 sing. Aiyo... can't believe it ah.

FongShee said...

Thank Leon. I am doing fine.
Yah Loh, my spiritual birthday (the day I got baptized) very popular (1 Jan).
My physical birthday (the day I was born) also very popular. You know the adventurer Shackleton, the guy who survived the Antarctica for almost a year? He died on 5 Jan (year I am not sure) at South Georgia. He revisit South Georgia several years after the survival incident. During that visit, he died of heart attack at night.

Anonymous said...

想不到這麼多人喜歡周傑倫~~~
嘻嘻~~
我是新山的姐妹CAT,有時間可以來我的blog看看,我一直有和香港的某些弟兄姐妹聯絡的。
對了,香港的trip如何啊???