then i was truly introduced to muse by my obsession with twilight two years back… the author is a big, big fan of the group and in fact their songs have been featured in both movies to date… so since i was obsessed with twilight… i bought the OST, listened to it… then decided to check out muse properly (via youtube videos) and realising that they are indeed marvelously fantastic! as always… i always kinda share my obsession with people around me and since i kept playing their songs over and over, my youngest sis became influenced by me to listen to them…

by this time GHWT was released and the both of us (youngest sis and me) were having much fun playing the tracks inside… till we found muse’s track – assassin – and decided to try it out… hahahaha what a disaster!!! we were playing on hard and i sucked at drums and she wasn’t too good at guitar… so we swapped to play the song… and still was a disaster!! so we practiced and practiced, watched youtube videos of other people playing until one day… we were able to complete the entireeee song!!!! i could still remember the sense of achievement both of us felt that day… ahahhaha what fun!

in the midst of these… muse released their latest album ‘the resistance’… i checked out their now-famous ‘HAARP’ gig at wembley and found out that they are one of the best acts to catch live… but i never thought that i would be able to do that until one fine november day last year when i read my friend’s tweet about muse coming to singapore to headline ‘big night out’ in 2010!!!! hahaha my tweets back to her were almost of the ‘fan-girl’ variety… but i decided there and then that it would be a great present for my youngest sis (who turned 21 last year)… and so i booked the tickets (younger sis had to pay lol) in november and started to countdown to february this year…

to say that it passed in a blink of an eye isn’t exactly true… but finally the day came!! wednesday 3rd feb 2010… i took leave on that day (so i don’t have to rush to the indoor stadium plus did some CNY errands) and went to the event at around 7pm…

as there were standing area tickets… there was already quite many people when we reached and i would say we were lucky to be able to grab one of the last few program booklets and a kids tee for souvenirs… before going in to catch the opening acts saosin (last song) and rise against…

since we didn’t know what time muse was starting, by the time rise against left the stage and the piped in music played… everytime it went quiet the audience started cheering… i was really happy when they were setting up the stage coz i saw two big drums (my sis said it’s called timpanis) which meant that they would play the first part of the Exogenesis symphony (coz i saw the same setup in clip from their gig in Japan… ;P)

but we had to wait till 10pm before the lights really dimmed!! whatever i was feeling at that point – hungry, needing to go toilet etc – disappeared completely when the intro video came on…

my goodness… my youngest sis said that she felt quite surreal watching muse live coz it was exactly like watching the youtube clips we were so used to seeing… but LIVE!! =D i didn’t really recognise the older songs (having only been initiated into the muse religion after black holes and revelations…) but they were still great and totally enjoyable!! i jumped, sang and enjoyed myself quite thoroughly!! i think the band didn’t really expect that big of a response to their gig coz in the few moments that they were talked, words like ‘you guys are crazy!’ kept coming up… lol!!

there were so many moments of ‘lovelovelove’ but the one that really stuck to me was when muse played ’starlight’ and matt bellamy stopped singing at the point of the first chorus to let us the audience sing ‘your hopes and expectations, black holes and revelations’… it didn’t feel like i was in singapore hearing the gorgeous lyrics reverb around the stadium!

epic isn’t it? (clip taken from someone as i didn’t record this song – too busy enjoying lol)

and of coz they ended off the gig in the exact way i hoped – first part of Exogenesis followed by Plug-in Baby and Knights of Cydonia!!!! i must add that i screamed the most girly scream i could ever do when the first longggg riff from PIB came on (having heard the same in the wembley gig…) XD my younger sis was looking at me with a look of ‘wtf?!’ hahahahaha i just think that song is gorgeous (and the reason how i know about the song? you guessed it… GH5 roflol)… and to follow that with KoC was just zomg lah!

by this time i was just recording the gig for the audio bit… ahahah if you got the chance to watch my videos it’s like seeing an earthquake but in tempo to the song as i was jumping up and down for the last two songs…

EPIC SETLIST:

We Are the Universe (intro music)
Uprising
Supermassive Black Hole
Map of the Problematique
Resistance
Interlude + Hysteria
Stockholm Syndrome
Nishe
United States of Eurasia
Sunburn
Undisclosed Desires
MK ULTRA
Starlight
Time Is Running Out
Unnatural Selection

Encore
Exogenesis: Symphony Part I (Overture)
Plug In Baby
Man with a Harmonica intro + Knights of Cydonia

after so many youtube clips watching them play live elsewhere… i finally got the chance to hear sooo many muse tracks including KoC live!!!!! woot~!!! the gig was everything i hoped for and more – definitely a dream come true since i didn’t know of them when they first came in 2007…

thanks muse for the amazing gig – you guys RAWK!!! i will remember this for a longggggg time and i hope to catch them again either in europe or singapore!!! =D /mehearts (i think my german friend thinks i’m a bit crazy enthu… and yes i am! ;P)

BUT it wasn’t until my sister told me about her latest single ‘bad romance’ and the video that was released with it that i began to truly appreciate the talent that is lady gaga… as we all know, lady gaga creates her own fashion style together with the creative team set up called ‘haus of gaga’ and i must say ‘bad romance’ is to me the definitive lady gaga video to date… all the clothes, materials used (latex outfits!) and accessories (bat on her head!!) just made me go ‘ZOMG’…

i must also share this video with you… shot before lady gaga became lady gaga… really love the two songs!

Captivated (Stefani Germanotta)

One look and I’m done
One glance from your eyes and I’m captivated
The taste of your skin
The warmth of your hungry lips has me so taken
And I love the way you can make me dance from miles away
When I’m with you I’m so sedated
I’m captivated by you.

You’re just like the wind cause
everything moves when you’re around
The sun is just like the sound of
your voice in the morning when you light my world up
And I love the way you can make me dance from miles away
When I’m with you I’m never jaded
I’m captivated

I’ll never stop believing in this crazy love we’re leading
Sugar hold me close and make me sweeter
I need you, I love you

So please show me that smile
make me laugh for just a little while
Then breathe me one breath
I only need one to fill the emptiness
And I love the way you can make me dance from miles away
It’s been so long but now I’ve waited and now
I’m captivated

Imbranato (Tiziano Ferro)

Italiano:

E’ iniziato tutto per un tuo capriccio
Io non mi fidavo… era solo sesso
Ma il sesso è un’attitudine
Come l’arte in genere
E forse l’ho capito e sono qui
Scusa sai se provo a insistere
Divento insopportabile
Ma ti amo… ti amo… ti amo
Ci risiamo… vabè, è antico, ma ti amo.

E scusa se ti amo e se ci conosciamo
Da due mesi o poco più
E scusa se non parlo piano
Ma se non urlo muoio
Non so se sai che ti amo…
E scusami se rido, dall’imbarazzo cedo
Ti guardo, fisso e tramo
All’idea di averti accanto
E sentirmi tuo soltanto
E sono qui che parlo emozionato
…E sono un imbranato!

Ciao… come stai? Domanda inutile!
Ma a me l’amore mi rende prevedibile
Parlo poco, lo so… è strano, guido piano
Sarà il vento, sarà il tempo, sarà… fuoco!

E scusa se ti amo e se ci conosciamo
Da due mesi o poco più
E scusa se non parlo piano
Ma se non urlo muoio
Non so se sai che ti amo…
E scusami se rido, dall’imbarazzo cedo
Ti guardo fisso e tremo
All’idea di averti accanto
E sentirmi tuo soltanto
E sono qui che parlo emozionato
Si… E sono un imbranato!
E sono un imbranato… si
Ma ti amo

English:

It began all for your one whim
I don’t trust myself… it was only sex
But the sex and an attitude
like art in general
and maybe that I have understood and I am here.
Sorry you know if I try to insist
I become unbearable
But I love you… I love you… I love you
Here we go again… very well, it is ancient but I love you

And sorry if I love you and if we know each other
for two months and more
and sorry if I do not speak gently
but if I don’t shout I die
I don’t know if you know that I love you
and excuse me if I laugh, from the embarassment I surrender
I see you, I fix and I weave
to the idea of having you near
and you hear only me
and I am here that I speak excited/emotionally
and I am an oaf (clumsy)

Hi… how are you? Useless question
But to me love makes me predictable
I speak less, I know, it’s strange, I drive slow
There will be wind, there will be time, there will be fire!

and sorry if I love you and if we know each other
for two months and a little more
and sorry if I don’t speak gently
but if I don’t shout I die
I don’t know if you know that I love you
and excuse me if I laugh, from the embarassment I surrender
I see you, I fix and I weave
to the idea of having you near
and you hear only me
and I am here that I speak excited/emotionally
and I am an oaf (clumsy)
Yes… I am an oaf!
and I am an oaf… yes
but I love you.

Per Dimenticare (ZERO ASSOLUTO)

Italiano:

Allora quindi è vero,
è vero che ti sposerai
Ti faccio tanti, tanti cari auguri,
se non vengo capirai
E se la scelta è questa
è giusta lo sai solo tu
E’ lui l’uomo perfeto che volevi
che non vuoi cambiare più.
Ti senti pronta a cambiare vita
a cambiare casa
a fare la spesa
a fare i conti a fine mese
a la casa al mare
ad avere un figlio, un cane.
Ed affrontare suocera, cognato
nipoti, parenti,
tombola a Natale,
mal di testa ricorrente
e tutto questo
per amore.

E forse partirò
per dimenticare
per dimenticarti

E forse partirò
per dimenticare
per dimenticarmi…di te, di te, di te

E grazie per l’invito
ma proprio non ce la farò
ho proprio tanti, tanti, troppi impegni
credo forse partirò
se avessi più coraggio
quello che ti direi
che quell’uomo perfetto
che tu volevi tu non l’hai capito mai.
Io sarei pronto a cambiare vita
a cambiare casa
a fare la spesa
e fare i conti a fine mese
a la casa al mare
ad avere un figlio, un cane.
Ed affrontare suocera, cognato
nipoti, parenti,
tombola a Natale,
mal di testa ricorrente
e tutto questo
per amore.

E forse partirò
per dimenticare
per dimenticarti

E forse partirò
per dimenticare
per dimenticarmi…di te, di te, di te.
Per dimenticare, per dimenticarmi, di te, di te, di te.

English:

Well then it is true
it is true that you will marry
I make you many, many dearest wishes
if I don’t come you will understand
and if the choice is this
the right thing only you know it.
He is the perfect man that had wanted
that you don’t want to change more
You feel yourself ready to change life
to change house
to grocery shop
to the bills at the end of the month
to the house by the sea
to have a son, a dog
to face the mother-in-law, father-in-law
nephews, relatives
tumble at Christmas
recurring headaches
and all this
for love.

And maybe I will leave
for to forget
to forget you

And maybe I will leave
to forget
to forget me… of you, of you, of you.

And thanks for the invite
but really there is nothing I will do
I have my own many, many, alot reservations
I think maybe I will leave
if you had alot of courage
that thing that you will say
that that perfect man
that you had wanted you do not understand at all.
I would be ready to change life
to change house
to grocery shop
to make the bills at the end of the month
to the house by the sea
to have a son, a dog
and face mother-in-law, father-in-law
nephews, relatives
tumble at Christmas
recurring headaches
and all this
for love.

And maybe I will leave
for to forget
to forget you

And maybe I will leave
to forget
to forget me… of you, of you, of you.
to forget, to forget me… of you, of you, of you.

Italiano

Ascolta,
prima che esci
che sbatti quella porta e te ne vai
e va bene, ma quante scene che fai,
che questa guarda, che la conosco ormai
e poi io non lo so, chi c’ha ragione oppure no
ma che son guai se te ne vai
questo lo so
e so anche che
ci basta un giorno a me e a te,
poi torni tu o vengo io
ma non è un addio

quanto non sai, quanto non sai di un mondo dentro
che non hai
quanto non sai di me
quanto vorrei, quanto vorrei quel sentimento
che per me non hai provato mai

e adesso, cosa pretendi, se prendi la tua roba e te ne vai
che mi arrendo
se tu ti offendi lo sai
che con l’orgoglio non si può amare mai

e poi io non lo so
chi c’ha ragione oppure no
ma che son guai se te ne vai
questo lo so
e so anche che ci basta un giorno a me e a te
poi torni tu o vengo io
ma non è un addio

di star male quindi no
appender l’anima a un telefono
non mi va
insomma dai
resta qua….

quanto non sai,
quanto non sai di un mondo dentro che non hai
quanto non sai di me
quanto vorrei, quanto vorrei quel sentimento
che per me non hai provato mai

quanto non sai di me
quanto vorrei, quanto vorrei quel sentimento
che per me non hai provato mai

ascolta
prima che esci,
ripensa solo a chi eravamo noi.

English

Listen, before that you go out
that you slam that door and you shall go
and it is well, but how many scenes that you do
that this it sees, that it I know already
and then I don’t know who is right or no
but that it is woe if you go
this I know
and I know also that
it is enough a day to me and to you
then you return yourself or I come myself
but there is not a goodbye

How much you don’t know,
how much you don’t know of a world behind
that you don’t have
How much you don’t know of me
How much I would want, how much I would want that feeling
that for me you did not try/feel never

And now what you demand, if you take your stuff and you go
that I surrender
if you yourself offend you know
that with the pride you cannot love ever

And then I don’t know myself
who is right or no
but that it is woe if you go
this I know
and I know also that
it is enough a day to me and to you
then you return yourself or I come myself
but there is not a goodbye

To feel sick therefore no
hang up the soul to a mobile
I do not feel like
words from
still here…

How much you don’t know,
how much you don’t know of a world behind
that you don’t have
how much you don’t know of me
how much I would want, how much I would want that feeling
that for me you did not try/feel never

How much you don’t know of me
how much I would want, how much I would want that feeling
that for me you did not try/feel never

Listen
Before you go out,
You think back only to who we were ourselves.

gah.

/rattles self…

anyway…

• organized a gathering with my italian classmates – emails flying back and forth and as i was just about to suggest that we go eat at carnivore… one of my classmates said ‘i’m vegetarian’… /facepalms… end up having dinner at brotzeit instead… =P (looking forward to the real deal next year)
• did a mad dash trip to somewhere in malaysia… when i say mad dash.. i meant mad dash… left singapore ard 1-2pm… dasssssshhhhhh… stayed there for one hour max… dassssssshhhh (almost ran out of petrol – quite scary)… reached singapore ard 11pm and was super late for a bbq… lol
• thanks to my classmate’s recommendations, discovered laura pausini’s latest album ‘primavera in anticipo’ – love the single of the same name featuring james blunt!

Let me hold you
For the last time
It’s the last chance to feel again
But you broke me
Now I can’t feel anything

When I love you,
It’s so untrue
I can’t even convince myself
When I’m speaking,
It’s the voice of someone else

Oh it tears me up
I try to hold on, but it hurts too much
I try to forgive, but it’s not enough to make it all okay

You can’t play on broken strings
You can’t feel anything that your heart don’t want to feel
I can’t tell you something that ain’t real

Oh the truth hurts
And lies worse
How can I give anymore
When I love you a little less than before

Oh what are we doing
We are turning into dust
Playing house in the ruins of us

Running back through the fire
When there’s nothing left to save
It’s like chasing the very last train when it’s too late

Oh it tears me up
I try to hold on, but it hurts too much
I try to forgive, but it’s not enough to make it all okay

You can’t play on broken strings
You can’t feel anything that your heart don’t want to feel
I can’t tell something that ain’t real

Well the truth hurts,
And lies worse
How can I give anymore
When I love you a little less than before

But we’re running through the fire
When there’s nothing left to save
It’s like chasing the very last train
When we both know it’s too late (too late)

You can’t play on broken strings
You can’t feel anything that your heart don’t want to feel
I cant tell you something that ain’t real

Well truth hurts,
And lies worse
How can I give anymore
When I love you a little less than before

Let me hold you for the last time
It’s the last chance to feel again

especially like this bit: “i sogni che hai osato fare, oh perche, perche non posso io?” (And the dreams that you dare to, oh why, why can’t I?)

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Italiano (translated by pacuvio86)

Da qualche parte sopra l’arcobaleno
proprio lassù,
ci sono i sogni che hai fatto
una volta durante la ninna nanna

Da qualche parte sopra l’arcobaleno
volano uccelli blu
e i sogni che hai fatto,
i sogni diventano davvero realtà

un giorno esprimerò un desiderio su una stella cadente
mi sveglierò quando le nuvole saranno lontane dietro di me
dove i problemi si fondono come gocce di limone
lassù in alto, sulle cime dei camini
è proprio lì che mi troverai

Da qualche parte sopra l’arcobaleno
volano uccelli blu
e i sogni che hai osato fare,
oh perchè, perchè non posso io?

Beh vedo gli alberi del verde prato e
anche le rose rosse
le guarderò mentre fioriscono
per me e per te
e penso tra me e me
“che mondo meraviglioso!”

Beh vedo cieli blu e nuvole bianche
e la luminosità del giorno
mi piace il buio e penso tra me e me
“che mondo meraviglioso!”

I colori dell’arcobaleno così belli nel cielo
sono anche sui visi delle persone che passano
vedo degli amici che salutano
dicono “come stai?”
in realtà stanno dicendo “ti voglio bene”
ascolto i pianti dei bambini
e li vedo crescere
impareranno molto di più
di quello che sapremo
e penso tra me e me
“che mondo meraviglioso!”

un giorno esprimerò un desiderio su una stella cadente
mi sveglierò quando le nuvole saranno lontane dietro di me
dove i problemi si fondono come gocce di limone
lassù in alto, sulle cime dei camini
è proprio lì che mi troverai

Da qualche parte sopra l’arcobaleno
ci sono i sogni che hai osato fare,
oh perchè, perchè non posso io?

INDIETRO (Tiziano Ferro)

Italiano

Io voglio regalarti la mia vita.
Chiedo tu cambi tutta la mia vita ora.
Ti do questa notizia in conclusione.
Notizia è l’anagramma del mio nome, vedi.
E so che serve tempo, non lo nego.
Anche se in fondo tempo non ce n’è,

Ma se cerco lo vedo.
L’amore va veloce
tu stai indietro.
Se cerchi mi vedi.
Il bene più segreto sfugge
all’uomo che non guarda avanti mai.

Ricevo il tuo contrordine speciale.
Nemico della logica morale.
Opposto della fisica normale.
Geometria degli angoli nascosti nostri.

E adesso

Ripenso a quella foto insieme.
Decido che non ti avrei mai perduta, mai perduta
Perché ti volevo troppo.
Mi mancano i colpi al cuore
Quel poco tanto di dolore.
Quell’attitudine di chi ricorda tutto

Ma se guardo lo vedo.
Il mondo va veloce e tu vai indietro
Se cerchi mi vedi.
Il bene più segreto sfugge
all’uomo che non guarda avanti, mai.

Dietro le lacrime che mi hai nascosto.
E negli spazi di un segreto opposto.
Resto fermo e ti aspetto da qui
Non mi è possibile, no non rivederti più.
Se lontana non sei stata mai.

Se cerco lo vedo.
L’amore va veloce e tu stai indietro.
Se cerchi mi vedi.
Il bene più segreto sfugge all’uomo che non guarda avanti, mai.

English

I want to gift you my life
I ask you you change all my life now.
You I give this news in short
‘Notizia’ is the anagram of my name, you see.
And I know that needs time, I don’t deny that
Also if afterall there is no time sometimes

But if I search that I see
Love goes fast
You keep back.
If you search you see me
The best secret escapes
To the man that don’t see forward ever.

I receive your special countercommand
Enemy of moral logic
Contrary to the normal physics
Geometry of the hidden corners, ours

And now

I think back to the photo together
I decide that you would never have lost, never lost
because I wanted you too much.

I miss the beats of the heart
That little much of pain
that attitude of who remember all, but if…

But if I watch that I see
The world goes fast and you go behind
If you search, me you see
The best secret escapes
To the man that don’t see forward, ever.

Behind the tears that I you hid
In the spaces of an opposite secret
I stay still and you I wait from here
I am not possible for you
No you cannot see again more
If far you were never

If I search that I see
Love goes fast and you keep back
If you search you see me
The best secret escapes
To the man that don’t see forward, ever.

MY SONG (Labi Siffre)

This is my song
and no one can take it away
It’s been so long, but now you’re here,
here to stay
And I wonder if you know what it means
to find your dreams come true

This is my song
and no one can make it a lie
It’s been so long since someone
could make me cry
And I wonder if you know what it means
to laugh as tears go by

I may not always sing in tune
and sometimes you don’t hear me
but you don’t have to be near me
to know that I’m singing

This is my song
and nothing can make it die
It’s been so long and it’s stronger
I know why
And I wonder if you really, really know
That as long as I live I will sing my song for you