Sewn, Helicopter and Colder

Move over Tim Rice-Oxley, and make way for Fran Healy (and Chris Cron)!

Now, who is Fran Healy?
- He's the frontman of the band Travis (Yes it's the name of the band, not the frontman. The same goes to Keane. Savvy?)
- He's an adorable, and he's Scottish (Which makes him more adorable!)
- He's my new *celebrity* crush.

Francis "Fran" Healy
Photo from www.virginmedia.com

Another one of my *celebrity* crush is Chris Cron. He's the frontman of the *American* alternative rock/piano rock band Melee. This band is not as famous as Travis or Keane, yet. There are more to this band than "Built To Last" and "Can't Hold On" (although they are, I have to admit, probably the 2 best songs of the record), so people, keep your ears tuned!

Chris Cron
Photo from www.daylife.com

Lately I've been listening a lot to The Feeling's Sewn and Helicopter, and Travis's Colder (hence the title of this blog entry).

Sewn is The Feeling's first ever single, taken from their debut album Twelve Stops and Home. To date it remains the band's most successful single. The music is kind of mellow, heart breaking, and sentimental. From what I've gathered Dan Gillespie Sells (the frontman) wrote this song about himself, which can be seen from the first two lines of both verses:

First verse
Danny boy, don't be afraid to shake that ass, and misbehave
Danny boy, I know you got time, but what are you waiting for?

Second verse
Danny boy, don't be a fool, take upon to break the rule
Danny boy, you're looking so low, you're looking like the dead grown old

Helicopter is another song from the same album. The song is more upbeat yet the lyrics emit a gloomy aura. And... um... the words, they don't exactly fit together but they sound really really cool! It's not everyday you can find someone who can relate 'helicopter' and 'ocean liner' with 'unrequited love' (my guess). Just check out the quirky lyrics of the first verse:

My piano's out of use, I wish it wasn't
I wish that you were mine
I wish that my heart was stronger
My piano's out of use, I wish it wasn't
I wish we had more time
I wish that my world is softer
And I want a helicopter

Last but not least, Colder by Travis, from their fifth album The Boy With No Name. Quite upbeat, however not as upbeat as Selfish Jean, but mellow and sweet. Fran Healy sure knows how to work his charms on every single song with the combination of his pillow-soft voice and heart-touching lyrics. The chorus goes like this:

The sky is falling down
And there's an angel on the ground
It's getting colder
I'm standing looking down
But there's no sound around the town
It's getting colder

Also watch out for a harmonica solo at the end of the song!

2 Days To D-Day

I can't believe it's just a mere 2 days before my first paper! I have been unproductive this past 5 days. VERY unproductive. I don't really know what's gotten into me but the lazybug have bitten me so hard in my arse.

I AM SO DEAD

This sem was soooo hectic and I only had little time, or, should I say, I spared myself so little time, to catch up with my studies. I was so busy with Annual Dinner that I had to stay in uni from wee hours of the morning to late in the afternoon. I only came back home for dinner and to sleep. All the hard work and all the time sacrificed did pay off, though. The Annual Dinner was the highlight of the year. Yeah, I know that most people think that the Annual Dinner is just a huge cam-whore convention, but let me tell you it's more than that. People pay a little over RM100, you don't expect them to ignore everything that they've already paid for. Just wait until the event is over and THEN people will shower you with comments on the food lah, on the venue lah, this and that lah...

Luckily for me, and the rest of the committee, this year's Annual Dinner went smooth as satin! I even couldn't believe my eyes when I saw all the programmes running just the way we wanted them to be. Me and the others were like "If those people give us negative feedbacks, screw them... This is the best Annual Dinner ever!". And surprise surprise, we received almost none! Most of the students who went gave us positive remarks like "The food is not so great, but it's okay lah. Better than last year!" or "JASON LO ROCKS!!!". Well, to sum it up, they all agreed that this year's Annual Dinner's improved by A LOT.

After the Annual Dinner left us in awe, it's time to get back to reality.

OH SH*T... Reality struck me like a blazing thunder sent down by Zeus! I've got 2 courseworks due AND 1 test the following week! Thermo coursework went just fine, also me (and of course, my comrades) rushed until the very last minute because there had been a slight misunderstanding on one of the bleeping questions. Maths test, let's just say I screwed it. I did good, but not up to my standard. And my standard is high, for most people, to be honest. Lastly, my PEP report. I completely SCREWED it! One day prior the due date I almost didn't sleep at all! I was trying to get bits and pieces of the report together in such short period of time and I...uhm... managed to write some crap. Crappy crap, not the type of crap that usually gets me high marks. Ah hell the crapping parts only make up about 30% of the report anyways.

All the stress triggered an outbreak of pimples on both of my arms. Yes. Pimples on my arms. If you don't believe me you can Google down "body acnes".

And here I am now, 'preparing' for finals. I don't know HOW THE HELL am I going to cramp in all the 12 weeks worth of lectures (multiply them by 4 1/2). So I'm down on my knees, begging you to PRAY FOR ME so that I could save my own ass. I've got 3 things at stake: 1. my scholastic award grant (BIG money), 2. my uni 'scholarship', and 3. MY MOBILITY PROGRAMME APPLICATION. I emphasised on the latter because I want to go to UK reeeeeeeeeeeal bad!

It was nice having had a chance to catch up with you guys. It's time for some shut-eye. Ciao!