May 1st, 2007 by Ashley
沒看到 Joey 的最後一支 Latin >< 雖然說 N'Sync 是我最最最最最討厭的 boy band, 但這幾集下來 Joey Fatone 漸漸把我的票都贏過去了 (如果我有記得投的話) 再來就是 Beverly Hills 90210 的 Ian, 希望他們都能撐到最後! 另外, 我前幾週才在想 Karina 跟 Mario 大概是沒再來往了吧 (我不跟花邊新聞的, 所以不太清楚), 結果昨天就看到 Mario 出現在觀眾席! 除了他之外還有 90210 的眾演員!
像大雨淅瀝淅瀝
面東的房間在傍晚看不到晴空
淅瀝淅瀝
像台北, 包著一身暖和坐在落地窗旁看書看雨落看路人疾走
淅瀝淅瀝
為賦新詞地在小巷裡垂下折傘, 十幾公尺路浸潤的青春
窗外的水聲
無止盡的調整…
為什麼做好事(e.g. 運動)身體都沒有明顯的效果.
做壞事(e.g. 熬夜, 喝酒, 沒有依照天氣加減衣服 <- 這是與身俱來的缺陷-_-)就後果立現呢?
還有我的飲食習慣實在得改一下, 都吃太肥的東西了, 長不胖也不能這樣 orz
記得去年賽季末時看到賤狗的文章說夢到 Chelsea 對戰 Liverpool (again),
大家踢得太差老大不爽就把自己派上場.
我昨天在夢裡算明天跟利記的比賽可以晉級的各種比分組合… orz
為什麼不能作有趣一點的夢呢 /_\
Apr 30th, 2007 by Ashley
昨天去吃 Buca Di Beppo, 義大利家庭式餐廳的可愛之處在於它牆上掛滿各式各樣的照片與旗幟.
我們坐的位子附近可以看到 ACF Fiorentina 的圍巾, 後方有藍白相間的 Juve (Juventus F.C.), 旁邊有 S.S. Lazio 與 Inter (以及 Scuderia Ferrari) 的小旗. 在 Bar 的前方挑高牆上有著某年義大利國家隊的大幅照片, Zola 在右上方的圓圈裡.
Apr 27th, 2007 by Ashley
最近 Channel1049 常播 Plain White T’s 的 Hey There Delilah, 聽起來就像是初入社會的大男孩, 清澈誠摯的聲音滿懷希望地向對方傾訴. 沒想到這首歌來自 Plain White T’s 這個成立於 1997 年的團在 2005 年的專輯 All That We Needed.
Every Second Counts 是 Plain White T’s 發行的第四張錄音室專輯, 裡面還是聽得出年輕人專屬的天真以及無限可能. Plain White T’s 這張專輯走的是歡樂路線的 pop-punk 風, 從頭到尾都非常容易聽 (easy-listening), 旋律輕快易上口. 但他們又與 Simple Plan 的第一張專輯不同, Simple Plan 如說像是一群叛逆熱血的青少年, Plain White T’s 則是幾個脾氣溫和的男孩.
第一次聽 Every Second Counts 很驚豔, 很久沒聽到這樣純粹愉快的 pop-punk 了, 是會讓人心情輕鬆的好物啊!
Apr 26th, 2007 by Ashley
好久好久以前的故事是02年收的, 以現在來說, 那就是好久好久好久好久以前的故事了.
99年的故事02年才發現, 有些遲也有些慶幸, 畢竟終究是發現了.
那時的錯過錯誤錯失… 嘆息扼腕恍然依戀與釋懷
那些名為過去的點滴, 心胃微揪, 又像有隻手輕輕施壓在內臟上, 眼睛淡淡失焦.
那些事終於不再恍如昨日, 而像上一輩子那樣的遙遠, 無能為力的不可及.
對於好久好久好久好久以前的故事, 其實是沒有遺憾的.
但仍舊會感慨, 當時的活力, 當時理所當然的心志現在看來顯得年輕的奮不顧身,
而那時還覺得那誰誰誰太一股腦投入烈火焚身!
日子過去, 將我們的抗議完全置之不理.
抓不住, 於是我將自己捲起來藏在箱子裡, 不看不感覺就不用以非的人事傷感.
Apr 26th, 2007 by Ashley
The Good, The Bad and The Queen 據說本來是 Blur lead singer Damon Albarn 的個人 project, 後來他改變主意, 聯合 Clash bassist Paul Simonon, 前 Verve 吉他手 Simon Tong 以及 Afrobeat 先驅鼓手 Tony Allen (67歲!!) 攜手製作這張專輯. 然後聽說他們不打算為這個團取名字 -_-
不過現在看來團名似乎是定了.
注意到 GBQ 是因為聽說 GBQ 是製作 Gorrilaz 的人領軍的新團 (沒辦法, 我通常都只是注意團沒有研究個人的, 所以我忘記他就是 Blur 主唱.) 所以第一次聽 GBQ 的音樂被嚇了一跳, 其中幾首歌有濃厚的英搖味道, 感覺跟 Gorrilaz 完全不同 (說真的, 我之前一直覺得 Gorrilaz 是美加團.) GBQ 這張專輯包含各種風格的歌曲, 主題是一切跟倫敦有關的事物. 我最喜歡 80’s Life.
Apr 25th, 2007 by Ashley
Love this song
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Apr 25th, 2007 by Ashley
I started reading The Jane Austen Book Club on my way back to the states from Japan last summer. It, along with A Long Way Down and other Chinese novels, was my in-flight reading. My in-flight book since my trip to London in 2001 had been Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I decided to have something fresh this time, since it seemed that I’m not going to finish it anytime soon (one reason is that I’ve already known the story very well, thus lack the urge to push me reading forward. Not that it’s not an enjoyable experience, don’t get me wrong.)
It’s been almost nine months. In between, I read The Burglar on the Prowl by Lawrence Block, Sideways and countless Chinese fictions. Burglar is a mystery; one would be more motivated to finished a mystery. Sideways was a book everytime I read, I’d hope I’m holding a glass of wine. Well, that’s not the reason I put down The Jane Austen Book Club and focused on it. I have to say that the language Rex Pickett used facsinated me more than Karen Fowler. And because I’ve already watched the movie, I knew Miles better than any of the book club members. Once I finally got to “know them” know them, I could hardly stop reading; however, it was already towards the end.
Something bugged me from the very beginning to the end though. It’s really annoying not knowing who is telling the story. I’m ok with third person story telling, but sometimes she refered to the club members by their names, or she (or he) and sometimes we, us or even I. It’s like there’s a ghost among them and sometimes she would attach herself on one of the characters.
Another interesting thing is that when I got to the point where Grigg recommend Jocelyn to read Carol Emshwiller after she read Ursula LeGuin, I just read a short by Carol Emshwiller!
* 心得寫太久了, 結果也沒寫出什麼… orz
Apr 25th, 2007 by Ashley
利記對切爾西已經是近兩年來老掉牙的戲碼, 04/05歐冠四強賽, 04/05 聯賽盃決賽, 05/06 歐冠小組賽, 05/06 足總盃準決賽, 去年的社區盾, 加上每年兩場的聯賽… 真是貨真價實的冤家組合!
昨天在米蘭板上巧遇多年沒有聯絡的朋友, 沒想到他也是足球迷, 而且不只是愛看, 但我們沒聊兩句, 就發現對方是敵人那邊的! 不過至少昨天都同心協力幫米蘭加油, 只可惜…
[補一下, 藍軍迷的典範! ]
先來看看藍軍歡樂的訓練照片吧!
相處融洽像家人一般又有些奇怪惡趣味的藍軍, 叫我們怎能不愛呢? Continue Reading »
一半透支有理, 另一半… 是奢侈下的結果.
基本上不是每月性的花費有: 稅 (政府果然三兩下就把支票兌現了), 60K 保養, Vegas(花掉我半年的娛樂預算), 22″LCD (以及配合 LCD 新買的顯示卡)
好吧, 至少這次透支不是不知道花到哪去了…
(言下之意是還透支過很多次? orz)
*忽然想到過陣子輪胎也該換了… 心痛
Apr 24th, 2007 by Ashley
[UCL] semi-final Manchester United v AC Milan
Apr 24th, 2007 by Ashley
我真是愛死這首歌了!
嘿, 別急著把自己cancel掉, 被排擠 被看不起 都是你自己想像出來的
試著盡你所能吧! 他們在你背後嚼什麼舌根都別管~
Apr 24th, 2007 by Ashley
這季不像上季那樣瘋狂, 幾乎每集都紀錄. (我還在找平衡嘛…) 上一季我差不多把它當成作業, 實際上對作業我才沒那麼認真, 後來才發覺其實我”不必”這樣做的.
Anyways, now the remaining couples are either pretty good or … have something about them worth supporting. Let’s cut to the chase.
Joey’s Samba – It was fabulous. Such great fun watching him. My fav performance of this episode. Even though it might not have reached perfection, you know me, I always put characteristics into consideration. I like you, you get my vote.
Heather’s Paso Doble – I can’t see pass her disability. I’m sorry. It’s just not good for me.
John’s Mamba – better than last week. They criticized the routine which was too harsh for Edyta IMO. She had to create a routine that John can keep up with, and you and I both know that left Edyta with little options. John’s cute, but he really can’t dance. To this point, the only old man who can dance for the past 4 seasons was John O’Hurley. 
Laila’s cha cha – I wasn’t paying attention cos I was thinking about it’ll be so much fun if they ask Cudicini to join the competition. (A footballer, a good looking one!, whose schedule unfortunately isn’t usually tight.) It’s pretty good but not my cup of tea.
Billy Ray’s jive – I didn’t know it’s a jive, one of my fav dances, but they pulled a pretty nice performance. To my own surprise, I like it.
Apollo’s Ramba – not enough chemistry. kids, seriously. Julianne outshone Apollo again. I think they should work on that. Don’t show off too much. 
Ian’s Paso Doble – no more Mr. McStiffy. I think he’s improved a lot; however, the judges were still kinda hard on him. I think they’re probably trying to see the Drew Lachey in him, but come on, he’s not Drew. Hope he can stick long enough to grow to their expectation.
Group Swing today. It was FUN beyond believe! I love it!!!!!
Apr 23rd, 2007 by Ashley
[originally posted on 4/12/07, updated with photos]
Goes home with you. *
I’m just kidding.
So we got there around 7:30pm, headed straight to Venetian. We were lucky enough to get a room in Venezia, but not lucky enough to get a free upgrade. My bad, I shouldn’t have said “he’s not my type” out loud in Mandarin when we checked in. (We were joking about flirting with front desk to get a better room.) Apparently, Robert, the guy at the reception desk, is half-Taiwanese. Forgive me, but I really can’t tell. You couldn’t, either!
Anyways, we had a pretty decent dinner at Pinot. 
Then we walked from Venetian to Paris with my fancy black dress and killer black sandals. They did kill my feet by the time we got to Paris. We went there for the famous piano duet. They were fabulous, Billy and David. However, they weren’t able to sing the song I requested, like Slow Motion by Third Eye Blind. So I settled for Smell Like Teen Spirit because I played bass part of that song once. We went there on Sunday night and Billy came over and talked to us a bit before they started. He remembered us. He said we were the ones who requested some “obscure” songs the other night and I told him to check out Slow Motion.
I don’t remember what we did after that, but clearly we did something else cos we went to bed around 4 and we slept til noon. Hurriedly we went for buffet, Ceaser’s didn’t look good enough so we switched our destination to Paris which gave us a good 40 minutes wait. It was pretty good. I love Creme Caramel! And we had fun “helping out” our waitress. I guess she reminds us of Niki, single mom in Vegas? Anyways, we went our separate ways afterwards. Chun went back and managed to finished one book I brought (the one by Kaori Ekuni) and I went to Las Vegas Hilton for… dadadada Star Trek: The Experience!!!
It proved again that it’s not as much fun as it can/should be going with trekkies. We went on the Klingon ride twice and Borg ride once. I love the Klingon ride! If only I wasn’t bleeding everywhere. It could have been a thousand time better. But this is life. Got a few cute T-shirts (a Q Ferengie “What’s in it for me?”, a Q Vulcun “live long and prosper” and a Q Borg “get assimilated”) and a Klingon shooter (I was gonna buy a engraved Klingon Bird of Prey thing but I don’t remember if I bought a star fleet engraved thing the last time I was there, so I didn’t.) I talked to a girl from Romania when I was (wrongly) in line for a backstage tour. I initiated the conversation since she was alone and I was too (in the Star Trek lover world.) I asked her whether she knew what species the blue person was. She told me she was Andorian. (Man, I haven’t watched ST for such a long time.)
10pm, we went to Wynn for Monty Python’s Spamalot!!!!! It was hilarious from the beginning to The End. (Spamalot deserves its own post… later, if I have the energy.)
Got up earlier than Saturday, Wynn for brunch. I like Wynn better for their exquisite dessert (I think I had 3 creme caramel, yumm~) and chilled seafood. Went to Coke and M&M place and then went all the way back to Treasure Island to see Mystere by Cirque du Soleil! It was fantastic but too short. And secretly and personally I like Spamalot better. We eat ham, jam and spam a lot!
Chun went out to gamble a bit as Welton took a luxurious bath with his laptop and wine glass (!?) and I went downstairs to watch people gamble. I love to watch roulette and I’d love to play if I have cash with me. But, bleh, I know I wouldn’t cos I’m a chicken. I’ve never played at the table before. (I never play slots either. I’m not at all interested anyway. Slots are boring.) The next time I definitely will. Someone has promised (although he doesn’t sometimes hold on to his promise -_-) to company me at the table.
Later we met at Paris for a light dinner (crepe!) We settled in Napoleon’s bar, sitting in the very front (per my request) and that’s when Billy came over and said hi. I had Pinot Grigio that night as opposed to Long Island Iced Tea (cos the Long Island I had the other night was like coke with just a little drop of alcohol -_-) I made a request. As usual, I put three songs on the paper in case they didn’t know the song. Why Does it Always Rain on Me, which was such a classic, but they, Scott, picked Hotel California. It was nice but if you, Scott, considered it a chick song, why don’t you sing the other two. We heard quite a few good piece, including Meat loaf’s Paradise by the Dashboard Life. It’s a very interesting song. Also Queen’s classic Bohemian Rhapsody, Shout, If I had a million dollars, and many classic rocks. I put another request for Scott cos I didn’t see him getting much and apparently he thought Me and My Shadow was too old. Hell, how would I know which one is older. 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s… I heard them all in late 90s or 00s. They’re all the same to me. So he asked me if there’s anything else I wanna hear, and I gave him other three request notes to make him pick. (He called me the hot chick in the front row, by the way. But I was already mad at him, so whatever.) He threw the notes to Billy cos he didn’t know any of those songs. And Billy was such a sweetheart (cos he likes my songs.) You know, I tried to find some 80s cos I don’t think they would know the bands I’m into. I love oldies but I’m not an expert. I was born in the 80s and I didn’t learn English until I was 8. The very limited resource I once had, MAX FM, was unfortunately turned into a country station. (I don’t like systematic research. I like surprises. Guess it’s my fault.)
Anyways, he picked Don’t You Want Me, a classic from the 80s. It was really fun. I was pretty satisfied and I cannot think of other songs to request, so I just sat, simply enjoyed whatever they performed and sipped my Pinot Grigio. And out of the blue, Billy decides to play Should I Stay or Should I Go by the Clash, which is another fun song. Chun said he sang this one for me for free. Told you he’s a sweetheart! We stayed til the show ended and Billy came over again asked how long we were gonna stay. Unfortunately, we were leaving the next morning. So he told us that it’s fun to play for us. I hope he meant it cos it’s really fun to hear them play (even though I kept throwing them “obscure” requests.)
We got to Venetian around 2 and got up at 4 to take our 6am flight… it was the worst part of the trip…
*for those who don’t live in the states or don’t watch TV. Lately Las Vegas has a slogan: What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
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Apr 23rd, 2007 by Ashley
I love this song!
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今天出門晃看到某人, 因為在別人車裡所以沒有叫.
其實就算在自己車裡也不會叫 =p
該遇到時不遇到, 不需要時就碰到了!
找東西也是這樣~
Apr 22nd, 2007 by Ashley
[originally posted on 4/18/07]
大啖火腿, 痛快!
Bridge 好認真,
LP 真的是跟 West Ham 有深仇大恨,
我喇叭已經開超小聲了, 球傳到他腳下時的噓聲還是聽得一清二楚 XD
小賴特忽然像妖獸附身連進兩球, 小賴特好棒! 第二腳下得很果決喔!
本場五球都很精彩, 有影片再貼上來.
本場心得懶得寫.
我只想說, 米堡周末加油!
[update] 今天太悶了, 把這篇移上來, 附上 SWP 兩顆進球, Bridge 超漂亮助攻!