August | 2012 | feeling good

I went to West Lake in the evening. The moon was brilliant! And the weather was just lovely. Summer is going to be over soon, I can feel that. It’s the end of August… There’s a Chinese song called “月亮代表我的心” by Teresa Teng, which can be translated as “The Moon Represents My Heart”. It’s classic, old, soothing and nice.

And just yesterday… Neil Armstrong died. The first man who had ever walked on the Moon. Everything is going to be over someday.

琴伤

20 Aug 2012 Leave a comment

by magicboy in Music Tags: entertainment, hitlist, music, video

Jay Chou has done it one more time. “Qin Shang” is his 4th number 1 single from his last album – an achievement that nobody has ever done so far! The king! The master! The idol!

But will he manage to hold the top position? Today is the premiere of Muse’s new single called “Madness”. Let’s see, I believe they can offer us something really exciting!

Hitlist #598
August 20th, 2012

1. 2 (6) 周杰伦 (JAY CHOU), 琴伤 (Qin Shang)

2. 1 (8) MUSE, Survival

3. 4 (5) THE KILLERS, Runaways

4. 3 (7) KEANE, Sovereign Light Café

5. 6 (11) MADONNA, I’m Addicted

6. 16 (7) BLUR, Under The Westway

7. 9 (5) 林俊杰 (JJ LIN), 灵魂的共鸣 (Linghun De Gongming)

8. 11 (11) CN BLUE, 아직 사랑한다 (Still In Love)

9. 5 (8) SIGUR RÓS, Varúð

10. 13 (3) SCISSOR SISTERS, Let’s Have A Kiki

11. 7 (10) SCISSOR SISTERS, Baby Come Home

12. 8 (11) SUPER JUNIOR, A-CHa

13. 15 (3) LINKIN PARK, Lost In The Echo

14. 10 (9) RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Out Of The Game

15. 17 (10) MONKEY MAJIK & 吉田兄弟 (YOSHIDA BROTHERS), Change

16. – (1) SUPER JUNIOR, Sexy, Free & Single

17. 14 (4) ELTON JOHN VS PNAU, Sad

18. 12 (15) LINKIN PARK, Burn It Down

19. 18 (2) GREEN DAY, Oh Love

20. – (1) RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Jericho

olympic anthem

13 Aug 2012 Leave a comment

by magicboy in Music Tags: hitlist, music

Olympic Games have just finished, but Muse are still occupying the top position with their Olympic anthem “Survival”. Looks like it’s going to be one of the biggest hits this year! Good for them. And their new single is out this month! And then completely new album will follow! “The 2nd Law”!

Hitlist #597

August 13th, 2012

1. 1 (7) MUSE, Survival

2. 2 (5) 周杰伦 (JAY CHOU), 琴伤 (Qin Shang)

3. 4 (6) KEANE, Sovereign Light Café

4. 7 (4) THE KILLERS, Runaways

5. 8 (7) SIGUR RÓS, Varúð

6. 3 (10) MADONNA, I’m Addicted

7. 6 (9) SCISSOR SISTERS, Baby Come Home

8. 5 (10) SUPER JUNIOR, A-CHa

9. 9 (4) 林俊杰 (JJ LIN), 灵魂的共鸣 (Linghun De Gongming)

10. 11 (8) RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Out Of The Game

11. 18 (10) CN BLUE, 아직 사랑한다 (Still In Love)

12. 12 (14) LINKIN PARK, Burn It Down

13. 15 (2) SCISSOR SISTERS, Let’s Have A Kiki

14. 14 (3) ELTON JOHN VS PNAU, Sad

15. 19 (2) LINKIN PARK, Lost In The Echo

16. 10 (6) BLUR, Under The Westway

17. 20 (9) MONKEY MAJIK & 吉田兄弟 (YOSHIDA BROTHERS), Change

18. – (1) GREEN DAY, Oh Love

19. 13 (14) KENT, Jag Ser Dig

20. 16 (4) NELLY FURTADO, Spirit Indestructible

Athlete

08 Aug 2012 Leave a comment

by magicboy in Hobbies, Music Tags: athlete, British, heart-breaking, music

Today a bit about music. This week belongs to the British band Athlete. How did I come back to listening to them? Let me think… Must have been something with the Olympics in London, I guess I was looking for some information about athletes and the name Athlete popped out. Well, very good! Do people still remember about them?

I found their 2009 album “Black Swan”, which unfortunately wasn’t a bestseller, then went back to good old “Wires” – their biggest hit from the album “Tourist”, I played it all… and I feel I’m back home. Such good music! Melancholic! I’ve always been melancholic! I’ve always liked that particular British sound represented by Athlete and many other bands (Coldplay, Starsailor and Snow Patrol to name the few). I’m having a wonderful time listening to it now. And! I’ve found out that Athlete had released a new album! Well, well, well! It’s not a studio album, it’s “only” a live album titled “Live At Union Chapel”, which… is just beautiful.

They are not popular anymore. Well, who cares! For me they will always be important. And I’m waiting for the new material! I’m sure it’ll be heart-breaking…

typhoon 海葵

08 Aug 2012 Leave a comment

by magicboy in thoughts Tags: typhoon

For the couple of last days we’ve been getting reports of approaching typhoon called Haikui (海葵) – and here it is! It’s raining cats and dogs in Hangzhou at the moment, the wind has been pretty strong – I couldn’t sleep at night! Today’s classes at my school have been cancelled, so have tomorrow’s. And many companies here have decided to do the same – many people are having an extra day off. Well, since I came to China, this has been the strongest typhoon. Phew! Let’s just hope nobody will be “gone with the wind”.