Here’s a clearer video of just her singing the song (no distractions!) :
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3
My CSS Skills
Added timestamp (finally!) into this theme. I’ve always wanted the timestamp to be there, but the pre-made themes were all so confusing in their CSS/HTML codes that I couldn’t really be bothered to go find out how or which CSS sheet should I be making amendments to.
Finally got my arse working and tinkered with the editor, and ta-dah~! I got timestamps on now my posts! Yay~ Seems like my CSS skills haven’t really gone down the drain despite me not touching CSS/HTML at all for more than 10 years.
On a side note, please don’t use Google Translate to translate my Chinese posts. Google Translate is not that shabby a translator, but the way I write in Chinese is non-translatable. It’s not those “typical grammatically correct” Chinese, so yeah, please don’t bother. It’s not even 50% accurate. XD If you can’t read, don’t understand, then perhaps the post isn’t meant for you to read.
等待 (Waiting)
This is a long overdue post about this singer I’ve came to know from China’s “I Am Singer” Season 1 (which was like 2 years back?). When I first saw her, my first impression – “Wah this auntie like a bit ugly looking hor…?” I’m sorry for being so superficial, but when she opened her mouth to talk, that’s really my first honest impression. But, by gods, her vocals totally won me over. With her first song.
Her very first line gave me goosebumps. After she finished her second line, tears were welling up in my eyes. By the time she finished her first chorus, I was already crying. Her hoarse vocals portrayed the feelings so well, so well that you couldn’t help but be transported into her world.
Instead of just posting up the song, I’ve decided to post up the entire before/after clip, to let people know more about this singer. Yes it’s all in Chinese, but I’ll try my best to translate under the clip (even the dialogues).
00:03 Host: “I Am Singer”, the fifth competitor. I want to make a special introduction about her.
00:07 Guy with Specs: “I’m the 6th?”
00:08: Host: “She might not be someone that the whole of China knows, but at the mention of her name in this music industry, everyone agrees that her vocals is one of the best out there. Today, the song that she’s singing, is a song that 10 years ago, Wang Feng had written for her. A heart wrenching song. I think, the title of the song probably resonates with her return to this stage. The name of this song is called ‘Waiting’.”
00:46-00:50 Everyone in the backstage couldn’t get an idea what song is “Waiting” or who the singer could be.
01:18 -01:21 Everyone got a shock.
01:22 Beyond bandmember: “Powerful.”
01:24 Qi Qin: “Huang Qishan!”
01:26-01:30 Guy: “It’s Huang Qishan?!? WHOA! She sings super well!!”
01:31-01:33 Guy with specs: “She is definitely a pro singer. Definitely.”
01:40 Interview starts.
Qishan: “All these years, I’ve learnt how to face and accept, and… this kind of quietly accepting certain things – this is really very important. This world is already full of frustrations. Everyone has lost the patience, the determination. So I want to use the title of this song, to tell everyone to quietly accept, and wait, and someday, you will definitely get what you are waiting for.”
Lyrics of the song:
几年前你一走就没回来 (You left a few years ago, and never came back)
从此我的爱变成了无奈 (From then on, my love has become helpless)
可我知道有一天你一定会回来 (But I know some day you will definitely come back)
这世上的孤独 我需要去忍耐 (The loneliness in this world, I have to bear)
Chorus:
等待 永久的等待 (Waiting, forever waiting)
树叶绿了又黄你还没来 (Leaves have turned green, and brown, but you are still not back)
等待 永久的等待 (Waiting, forever waiting)
在这世界上 你是我的唯一 (In this world, you are my only)
等待 (Waiting…)
我尝试过许多次想忘记 (I tried many times to forget)
我试图说服自己一切过去 (I tried to convince myself that everything’s over)
可这完全是在欺骗欺骗自己 (But that’s just trying to lie to myself)
我永远无法忘记你 (I can never forget you)
** Repeat chorus**
It’s a simple song. With simple lyrics. But the melody. The words. Her vocals. Her emotions. Everything just fits like a jigsaw puzzle. I can’t help but feel drawn into her emotions. I can really feel her pain as she’s waiting for the person to come back but the person never came back. I can re-watch this 10 times and I would tear 10 times. Maybe it’s the live ensemble that makes the song more epic than it really is towards the end. Maybe. But I think it’s really just the way she sings that carries the whole song through.
Not to mention the fact that she hits the “Dolphin notes” so damn easily. (In English they called it “whistle register”.) Her range is… whoa. Unbelievable. Her vocal control throughout the whole song. How she ended the notes. I could just go on and on… The entire rendition is just perfect. Not just pitch perfect – but perfect.
Let’s remember her name. 黄绮珊 Huang Qishan (Susan Huang).
First working day of 2015
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The first working day of the new year!
Wishes everyone an awesome start to the year ^_^!
Hello 2015!
Happy new year!
It’s 2015 already! Hope its gonna be an awesome year for everyone!
31st December 2014
Last day of the year!
Looking back this year, I realised I haven’t really accomplished anything. Then again, every year’s the same. =x
The highlights:
- The Taiwan trip in June. Didn’t get to really explore Taipei the way I wanted, but I’m sure there’s always a chance to go again. =)
- A roadtrip to Malacca early this year. I’ve never done a road trip before, but unfortunately this is the first and the last one. Big thanks to xdd for being the “driver”. Otherwise, even if I have the money, there won’t be anyone driving me there lol. It was definitely a fun and unique experience.
- Managed to survive another year in this company, doing this job.
- Managed to survive another year without dying. Like, literally.
The downs:
- Hurt the person who loves me the most. I’m sorry…
- Being sick almost every month.
- Currently suffering from IBS (I guess it’s turning chronic), thanks to one of the antibiotics courses which I’d taken while I was sick.
- Had bilateral cysts, which thankfully went away after a course of hormonal pills. Got a feeling they are back though. Need to drop by the gynae soon…
- Fell hard on my butt twice. The second time was really bad and I got a feeling I’ve hurt my tailbone. Gonna ask Dr Robin if I should go get my spine x-rayed.
- Didn’t get to go anywhere overseas in the second half of 2014. I was all drained and almost dying from all the routine stuff at work…
- The spots on my cornea just keep reappearing. I’ve been on Cyclosporin for almost the entire year of 2014… when can I stop putting stuff into my eye…?
Now I’m just hoping that I’ll be less sickly, that I can find some sense of satisfaction in my job, that my cornea would stop fighting the dead virus and live harmoniously with it.
I’m really tired with year 2014. I really do hope year 2015 will be better, but for some reason I’m not that optimistic about it. LOL. We’ll see, eh? We’ll see.
Meanwhile, have a awesome day on this last day of 2014. Spend the time with the one you love, hold their hands when counting down to the new year, for there’s a myth that says couples who countdown together, stay together (for that year anyway). For singles, spend the time with your family, and be glad that everyone made it through this year.
I’m glad I made it through this year too.
Happy new year, my friends. May 2015 be an awesome year for everyone. =)
New Year Resolutions (In advance)
In all honesty, I have no idea why I am blogging about new year resolutions, when I don’t usually have any. XD
All the past years when I did have some resolutions, I ended up not sticking to them anyway, so… what’s the point?
Instead of “resolutions”, why don’t I replace it with “wishes”?
So my New Year Wishes for 2015 are:-
1) “Kaboom” less often (i.e. control my temper better)
2) Gossip less in office, voice out lesser (hey all the feng shui stuff are saying that I shouldn’t be too vocal at work next year)
3) Curb that travel bug!
4) Be a more understanding partner
5) Scream at my parents less often (oh yeah, this is hard especially if my Dad keeps smoking in the toilet =_=)
6) Going to gym more often, maybe. Now that I’ve got a spanking new gym bag! Need to make use of it right?!
7) Clear my computer table at some point, shift the printer to the upper level so that I can get a new rig with dual monitors! Hur hur hur. =x
Okay the list is getting depressingly long.
I’m also getting sick of my work. Maybe I should add “look for a new job (maybe)” to the list as well? >__>
Ugh I’m bored at work. Obviously. Otherwise I wouldn’t be blogging so actively lately…
Three more days to 2015
On a sombre note, I’m hoping that the missing AirAsia flight can be found soon so that there’s at least some closure for the family. There should be less questions and doubts this time as there’s nothing really out of the ordinary happening to the flight (except asking for a different route due to bad weather). Keeping my fingers crossed that the weather would be good tomorrow so that SAR can be continued.
On a personal note…
Cleared most of the blog links as those friends are not maintaining their blogs anymore anyway. Gotta clear the clutter out of my blog as the new year is coming!
Went to Icy_Sheep’s wedding today with Bear. It was so fun as usual, to see Bear and the rest of the Icy (Eugene, Ben, Chong, etc) joke and banter away. They are really priceless entertainment, I tell you. XD I’m just perfectly contented being in the background and laughing at their jokes (usually at someone’s expense LOL). And this is the first time I’ve ever tried a champagne and thinks it really tastes great! It’s the Brown Brothers Moscato Rose, and honestly it’s THE BEST champagne/sparking wine that I’ve tried.
Wanted to blog about the new year resolutions but… I guess I’ll leave that for another day. Need to head to bed! Ugh, 3 more days to year end closing. Bleh….
Flickr Pro, or 500px?
First wave of dizziness for the day = 10:00AM
Initially wanted to continue tracking to see if there’s a pattern to my dizziness/nausea “attacks”, but decided to give up on it lol.
Hmm, currently wondering if I should keep my Flickr Pro account, or should I terminate it and migrate all my photos there to 500px instead?
Both pro accounts are priced at USD25 per year, for unlimited uploads/sizes. I have to admit 500px has a much more beautiful UI, but I’m kinda used to Flickr and I really don’t know if I want to shift ALL my photos over. That’s really a hell lot of photos we are talking about!
Decisions decisions…
Burnt out!
I need my holidays, dammit.
I’ve only got ONE overseas vacation this year, and it was the Taiwan trip in June. I’m feeling so burnt out at work now and I’m totally dreading the days. My boss and supervisor had been asking me “Are you all right?” and “Why are you looking so dead? Is something wrong?” during the appraisal, and I simply got no answer for them except “I’m burnt out, I think”.
Yes, seriously.
I like mundane, routine work. I don’t really like things that challenge my brain. Haha. My brain CAN work if it has to. It just doesn’t like to. So it’s perfectly fine doing the work that I’m doing now. Requires a bit of brainwork here and there – but still manageable for the time being. It’s just that… I need to recharge every now and then for doing these same things over and over again.
Beginning of the month (for two weeks) – Work my ass off to do closing for the previous month.
Third and fourth week of the month – Work on the piling invoices in our e-system as well as the physical ones.
Then the cycle repeats. Day in, day out, month in, month out.
Yes like I said, I’m fine doing the routine work. BUT I NEED MY BREAKS. I NEED MY VACATIONS.
Gah. =_=
And then things got worse when one week of vacation / away from work = THOUSANDS of e-invoices in the system pending for your return. *faints* I had to lug my Alienware brick for overseas holidays as I need to clear these invoices at night WHILE vacationing. Not that I mind, but it DOES dampen the holiday mood a little. But if I don’t, it’ll dampen the holiday mood even further as there’s this nagging worry at the back of my mind that I won’t be able to clear the backlog when I get back to work.
BUT!
There seems to be good news in the pipeline….
According to my colleague (who spoke to another colleague in a different department), she had been asked by my boss to concentrate fully on invoices only. I’ll have to be brutally honest here, she’s really too slow and totally couldn’t cope with what the rest of us are doing, despite her being a “senior” and working in this work scope for a year already. Heck, even our NEW colleague who came in for just about 3 months is performing way better than her. She’s totally lost in all the concepts and calculations – and it makes one wonder why is she even holding the “senior” title. Like seriously, just because the rest of us are senior too? Yeah she was senior back then in payments team, but why the hell did the company give her the same title when she transferred over to a totally NEW capacity?
OK sorry for the rant, but this is something I felt unfair since the beginning.
Anyway, according to her, she has agreed to fully take on the AP role, aka only concentrates on processing invoices. There are six of us doing the same portfolio (just that everyone has their own list of vessels to care for), and according to her, the only male colleague, the new colleague and I will be FULLY concentrating on just the vessel accounting/reporting. We will NOT need to touch invoices anymore, as they will be done by this colleague. The other two ladies will still maintain their responsibilities – doing both AP and reporting. The catch is probably the three of us will have more vessels to work on as this slow colleague’s portfolio will be given and shared among us.
I’m hoping that this will really be executed as planned, BECAUSE THAT MEANS I CAN GO ON MY HOLIDAYS WITHOUT HAVING TO LUG A LAPTOP ALONG. Although this also means that the first two weeks of the month will even be busier than ever, the downside is we’ll be slacking (like, really slacking) for the third and fourth week………..
Oh well we’ll see how this pans out to be. For now I’m just hoping this will really be happening, coz I don’t wanna go buy a laptop just to bring for work when I’m supposed to be overseas holidaying…. >_<