360 Degree Pictures

The wonderful view of several places in Paris..I like this kind of technology, hahahaha.

http://photo.photojpl.com/tour/08toureiffel/08toureiffel.html

“Es Wird Immer Liebe Sein” Alexander Klaws

Das Song wird von dem “Was willst du noch?!” Album genommen. Ich mag sehr über die Melodie und den Text auch..Eigentlich ist das der erst deutscher Song, dass ich mag wann ich das gehört habe. Dann habe ich den Bericht in meinem Blog geschrieben, hahaha, warum nicht?Ich möchte trainieren, um deutsch zu verbessern, oder?haha.

Der Text:

Du weißt, es ist vorbei
Spät nachts, ist schon halb drei
Schon seit zu vielen Stunden drehen wir uns nur noch im Kreis
Du sagst, ich könnt‘ jetzt gehen
Du würdest mich verstehen
Doch ich seh‘ in dir die Titanic untergehen
Wir kenn‘ uns schon so lang
Mit dir hat’s angefangen
Weißt du noch – der erste Kuss im Sonnenuntergang
Hinter der Sporthalle, geschworen nie mehr allein zu sein
Wie kann denn jetzt alles anders sein

Die Welt hat sich gedreht
Doch unsere Liebe findet ihren Weg
Es wird sicher anders mit uns zweien
Aber es wird immer Liebe sein

Stress mit den Eltern haben wir zusammen durchgestanden
Schulter an Schulter sind wir durch die weite Welt gegangen
Und dann im ersten Urlaub, runter nach Spanien
Was für ne Zeit, wer hätte denn da ahnen können
Wann hat es angefangen
Es musste wohl passieren
Es kam die Zeit, wir wollten neue Dinge ausprobieren
Jetzt müssen wir’s verstehen
Schwer sich nicht umzudrehen
Ist Zeit diesmal allein seinen Weg zu gehen

Die Welt hat sich gedreht
Doch unsere Liebe findet ihren Weg
Es wird sicher anders mit uns zweien
Aber es wird immer Liebe sein
Denn ich weiß, wer immer dich auch küsst
Und wer auch immer dich vermisst
Es wird sicher anders mit uns zweien
Aber es wird immer Liebe sein

Na komm schon
Und lass los
Die Zeit ist reif
Ich muss verstehen
Dich zu lieben heißt
Ich lass dich jetzt gehen

Ihr könnt über Alexander Klaws oder die Songs von hier lesen. Er hat auch “Sunshine after the rain” gesungen, das ich sehr auch mag. Ehrlich passen die beide Songs zu meiner Vergangenheit, aber es ist vorbei, oder? Sodass es noch mehr kein Problem ist, haha.

Brian Culbertson – “It’s on tonight (2005)”

I have finished listening to “It’s on Tonight” Album by Brian Culbertson..It’s good for those who like slow pop jazz, and I think it’s easy listening, isn’t it? He’s one of brilliant musicians in the world of smooth jazz, based on the arrangements, the melodies, and most of all, my opinion, hehehehe.

One of the songs, “it’s on tonight” is really comforting, sometimes backing vocal went with the flow, but of course the piano was always the leader of it.

On the song  “Love will never let you down”, I feel the beat is like a blend of RnB music, pop and jazz..Overall, I have one conclusion, he is very good at combining vocal and instruments together, as if the vocal is one of the instruments too, and piano is the “playmaker”, very nice! What do you think?

Track list:

1. Let’s get started
2. Hookin’ up
3. It’s on tonight
4. Sensuality
5. The way you feel
6. Forbidden Love
7. Dreaming about you
8. Wear it out
9. Secret affair
10. Touch me
11. Love will never let you down
12. Refelctions

Personnel: Brian Culbertson (trumpet, trombone, piano, keyboards, bass synthesizer, percussion, drum programming, background vocals); Brian Culbertson; Michelle Culbertson (vocals, violin); Ledisi (vocals); Tony Maiden (guitar, wah-wah guitar); Jorge Evans (guitar); Michael Thompson, J. Michael Thompson (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Tim Stewart (electric guitar, nylon-string guitar); Ricky Peterson (Hammond b-3 organ); Stephen Lu (keyboards, bass synthesizer, drum programming); Stephen Lu (keyboards, programming); Marcus Miller, Alex Al (bass instrument); Marc Nelson, Patti Austin (vocals, background vocals); Will Downing (vocals); Paul Jackson, Jr. (guitar, electric guitar); Micah Otano (acoustic guitar); Kirk Whalum, Eric Darius, Boney James (tenor saxophone); Chris Botti (trumpet); Greg Phillinganes (Fender Rhodes piano).

You can read his bibliography here, if you want to know any further information about him.

Eislaufen in Waldau

Gestern habe ich in Waldau, Stuttgart eisgelaufen..Es war toll!Wir waren zusammen ungefähr 10 Personnen.Bevor wir eislaufen konnten, sollten wir 4 euro für die Schuhe ausleihen (wenn man die Schuhe vom Hause bringt, dann kann er direkt laufen). Der Platz ist gleich wie ein halbes Badmintonsplatz.

Das war meine erste Erfahrung, aber ich bin glücklich weil ich  von 20.00 bis 22.00 (die öffnungzeiten des Platz) nicht gefallen habe, ohne Wand vertrauen hahahaha..Außerdem konnte ich nur niedertourig oder mittelschnell laufen (natürlich)..Manchmal gab es meine Freunde, um zu helfen..Dazu kommt, dass sie meine Hand gehalten habe, und wir haben zusammen ein bisschen schnell gelaufen.

Irgendwann in der Zukunft möchte ich nach Waldau wieder kommen, um eine neue Bewegung zu probieren (die rückläufige Bewegung vielleicht), hahaha.

“The Spirit Carries On”, close your eyes and feel it

I was just stunned, when I heard this song..How amazing they are! What I did was I just closed my eyes and felt it from 0:00 til’ 7:39 (youtube version, here)..Firstly, Jordan played very sweet chords (not arpeggio as usual, hehehe), and it flows as if it is “a war story”, so there was a beginning (slow, but the aura grew up), a middle (it’s like all the emotions were spilled on the stage), and an end (anticlimax happenned at that time)..That’s why I thought it’s like “a war story”, because the emotion could be drawed like a mountain.

I think they’ve made an awesome arrangement when they combined their instruments (guitar, keyboard, etc), and A CHOIR, mixed with James LaBrie and Victoria’s voice, adorable! In my opinion, their voices are well-matched each other..James has “rocky” and charismatic voice, with high tone, and Victoria pop plus energetic voice (maybe the same as Whitney Houston?).

A lifetime learner?

Many people asked me about this words, “a lifetime learner?”..It’s not because they don’t understand the meaning from it (hehehe), but they want to know how to be a lifetime learner.

Everybody might have their own version, but my answer is: “it’s ALWAYS started from your mind..Since you decided to be a lifetime learner, then automatically you’ll always realize that every second, every experience, and every moments that happen in your life are actually your lessons of life, and it will NEVER end (except you die)”…Therefore, I will never regret anything that already happened in my life, because I have learnt from it, either a bad experience or a good one, and it’s for my own good.

I believe in a phrase: “whatever doesn’t kill you, make you stronger”, so being successful is started from our paradigms, and never doubt about ourselves..Keep success in your life!

Dream Theater “Hollow Years”

Many arrangements that this band has done, and this time slow rock is their choice to build up this song, from the album “Falling into Infinity“..This is the fourth album that they have made..The more detail information is available here.

There’s a time when they made overtone directly from bridge to reff, and it flows smoothly, I like it. Not much distortion that John Petrucci did in this song, but the way he plays with clean sound STILL refers to Dream Theater style (progressive rock)…Moreover, the lyrics goes something like this:

He’s just the kind of man
You hear about
Who leaves his family for
An easy out
They never saw the signs
He never said a word
He couldn’t take another day

Carry me to the shoreline
Bury me in the sand
Walk me across the water
And maybe you’ll understand

Once the stone
You’re crawling under
Is lifted off your shoulders
Once the cloud that’s raining
Over your head disappears
The noise that you’ll hear
Is the crashing down of hollow years

She’s not the kind of girl
You hear about
She’ll never want another
She’ll never be without
She’ll give you all the signs
She’ll tell you everything
Then turn around and walk away

After I heard it, I compared the arrangement between the song in the album and this, live at Budokan..In the video, they showed off their “glorious” skills more often than in the album,especially Jordan Rudess with his meteoricly fingers (at the end of the song)..The melody was like jazz, but (of course) the high speed version of it, related to his style.

How about John Petrucci?He played more aggressively on live concert (as always?), hahaha.

So far that I know, not much unusual chords they played, and that’s what makes this song easy to be sung, or played,hahaha.Right?

Hasil jepretan Earth Hour

Mau lihat hasil Earth Hour yang lalu (28/3), ketika berhasil diabadikan oleh Photographer dunia. Sungguh bagus sekali termasuk Jakarta (nomor 16)

http://www.boston. com/bigpicture/ 2009/03/earth_ hour_2009. html

The Disadvantages of Love at the First Sight

Every person must have been in love in those lives. Love itself is something that cannot be described with logical reasons. A man might love a woman   because he meets her frequently at the same location such as restaurant, school, etc, and finally they fall in love. On the other hand, another man loves a girl when he sees her at the first time known as “Love at the First Sight”. Nevertheless, from the experiences of the love experts, this type of love has three disadvantages when it happens for real.

The first advantage is lack of knowing her personality.  If a man loves a woman at the first sight, it can be fixed that he does not know her at all. He might love her because she is beautiful, smart-looking and charming but it is important to realize that everybody has dark sides. There is a big possibility that her dark sides may make him disappointed. The referred dark sides are like crypto mania, lying behavior, drug addicts, etc.

Secondly, since we were children, we knew a phrase that is called “puppy love”. This love is just temporary, and it influences someone a lot such as his habits when it is in “active phase”. For example, if a man loves a woman, his love probably just lasts a month. After his love finishes, he will never attends the woman again. This “puppy love” is found usually at the age of 15 to 25, but there are possibilities that it can influence everyone who are in love.

The last advantage is about maturity. The maturity of a person is also judged from how he cherishes love in its l      llife. A man who loves at the first sight must frequently love different women while he is in other places. If a man likes to change lovers frequently, then he is an immature man even though he is 30 years old. There is a theory that says, “Love is complicated, so it needs maturity to understand it”, and it is 100% true.

In the end, It is very important to keep rational and careful when you start to love someone because “all is fair in love and war”, and it means that everything can happen. From the writing, it can be concluded that Love at the First Sight is also a challenge for those who are bored with true love.

DOING WHAT YOU LOVE OR LOVING WHAT YOU DO?

In this life, you have to work to answer their demand such as food, house, etc. There are two choices of the principle of work, doing what you love and loving what you do. Doing what you love means that you work on a sector that you love, for example, a person who likes painting works as a painter, etc. Loving what you do means that you do not have to work on a field that you love as long as you enjoy it or you look it as a job that makes a great benefit. There are three considerations to help you decide what types of work that you will go through.

Firstly, it is about talent. Every person must have their own abilities and talents. Doing what you love means doing something that becomes your interest, and generally, the interest comes because you have talent in it. For example, a man has a talent in painting, and he becomes a painter. In matter of fact, he will love what he does, and definitely he will produce great paintings. On the other hand, loving what you do means doing a job that is compulsory, and you like it as the time goes by. For example, a non-graduated man becomes a mechanic because he doesn’t get any better jobs. At first, he doesn’t understand anything about repairing cars, but he gets more experiences day by day when he repairs many kinds of cars. At last, he enjoys working as a mechanic because he feels that he is good at repairing cars. In this case, he loves what he does.

Secondly, talent will not succeed without will. It is very important to have talent and will in doing something in your life. It is a useless thing if you have an ability to finish a job, but you do not have a will to do it. Will comes from interest of a job. There are big possibilities that you have a will to do a job if you love it, so it can be sure that the job will be finished with a good result. For example, a man has a talent for playing music, and he gets a job as a musician at a café. It can be sure that all the café’s visitors will be entertained with his beautiful performances.

Lastly, compared to the previous reasons, this reason might sound funny, and it is about your imagination in your old age. Every person must have ever imagined their image about themselves in their old ages. Loving what you do or doing what you love influences your image, and dreams in your old age because basically it influences your will and your talent. For example, there was a young engineer who was brilliant at the construction of buildings. One day, he imagined that in his old age, he would have a big house, much money, and a great respect as a senior head of engineers, so he worked hard as an engineer to fulfill his dreams. In this case, he mixed his will and his talent to fulfill his dreams because he loved what he did.

In my opinion, there are many ways to make a success of your career, and you must be wise to decide what way you are going to choose because you are the person who will shape your own future. Do not stop making creations in your life!