31 Days, Happy New Year!!!!!
Apr. 13th, 2010 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
epik_noodlesYEAH!!!
THAT'S RIGHT!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!
Thai New Year, that is...
Yup! It's the year 2553!!!!
It's still 2010 according to the good old Gregorian calender we use around the rest of the world. I love celebrating Thai New Year with everybody!!!!! I'm so pumped!!!!! I get traditional "lucky money" offerings from elders, I get to stuff my face with celebratory sweets, (I did this a few years back) I get to go wild as I walk down the street in the parade, I get to watch people do a "dragon dance," and I get to take out my pent up anger on the water festival portion of the celebration.
The water festival IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!
Hundreds of people attend!!!
Water symbolizes cleansing the soul and becoming purified. Normally we just dump buckets of water on people or hose people down. But we're crazy and turned it into AN ALL OUT WAR!!!!!! Which is why we go trigger happy on each other with the supersoakers.
I ASSUALT PEOPLE WITH SUPERSOAKERS!!!!
It's not a game, there are no sides. I just shoot everyone.
Whoever you shoot or drench is blessed with good luck, so it's a good thing to get shot at a lot, everybody wins!!!!! The water really does cleanse your soul, by the end of the day, everybody's tired and laughing like maniacs because everyone had fun.
We're also celebrating Thai New Year over at the restaurant too.
We have lots of yummy festival foods being served "Tapas" style. Many different yummy foods!!! I would put up the special menu for everyone to see... but nobody wants to see my boring menu.
By the way...
I got my new laptop TODAY!!!
It's SO SHINY!!!!!!!!
As you can tell... I've taken the liberty of customizing my desktop. I made that AAA wallpaper from the jigsaw piece picture I got from the official website. I made a little heart silhouette in the upper left corner.
Everything on here is gloss black, even the keyboard! I'm scared of leaving grubby fingerprints on this thing. It's nice, it has a webcam and mic. I've been mutilating the internal hard drive with my large programs.... please don't die on me... I've been adding basics, codecs to watch my Japanese stuff, VLC to watch my subbed stuff, iTunes for organizing my music, flash players for youtube, AIM, MSN, Photoshop(which took forever) and most importantly... MY EDITING SOFTWARE, both sound and video editing programs.
What a treat today, it's New Year and I got "Heartful," I haven't gotten to listen to yet until today, lucky me! The CD is REALLY good, I kid you not. That teasing intro was marvelous. I enjoyed a segment where the sound mixer had the clock ticking noise fade from right aux to left aux, it gave a sense of space and awareness. If one actually took the time to disable the gap delay between each track, you would notice that the transitions are clean! Each song on the disc is arranged in such a manner, not only the order of the track but also the sound clips at beginning and end of the songs. This makes each song flow smoothly into each other after every transition, it's just beautiful... It's almost like a non-stop remix(those who are familiar with the clubbing world), not in the sense that the tracks create one long continuous song, but rather they harmoniously change tempo into welcoming the next track. Who is AAA's sound mixer/technician? I want to shake their hand!
Heartful is a brilliant CD, I have never felt this way towards a "CD" before. I haven't really said a thing about the actual content of AAA's music, have I? Oops... I got so caught up with how amazing the whole CD was. The songs were nice... I liked all of them. Most of them were Eurobeat heavy and iTunes is labeling AAA as R&B for some odd reason... I listened to "Field" for the first time, it's such a pleasant song... something I can fall asleep to... not in a bad way! Just in the sense that the song's gentle melody makes me relax. Relaxing songs are good for me, since I don't have very many relaxing songs.
Okay I'm getting sleepy... NO!!! NOT BECAUSE OF THE CD!!!!
It's getting late and my dad will be home any minute...
Until next time, bye for now.
THAT'S RIGHT!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!
Thai New Year, that is...
Yup! It's the year 2553!!!!
It's still 2010 according to the good old Gregorian calender we use around the rest of the world. I love celebrating Thai New Year with everybody!!!!! I'm so pumped!!!!! I get traditional "lucky money" offerings from elders, I get to stuff my face with celebratory sweets, (I did this a few years back) I get to go wild as I walk down the street in the parade, I get to watch people do a "dragon dance," and I get to take out my pent up anger on the water festival portion of the celebration.
The water festival IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!
Hundreds of people attend!!!
Water symbolizes cleansing the soul and becoming purified. Normally we just dump buckets of water on people or hose people down. But we're crazy and turned it into AN ALL OUT WAR!!!!!! Which is why we go trigger happy on each other with the supersoakers.
I ASSUALT PEOPLE WITH SUPERSOAKERS!!!!
It's not a game, there are no sides. I just shoot everyone.
Whoever you shoot or drench is blessed with good luck, so it's a good thing to get shot at a lot, everybody wins!!!!! The water really does cleanse your soul, by the end of the day, everybody's tired and laughing like maniacs because everyone had fun.
We're also celebrating Thai New Year over at the restaurant too.
We have lots of yummy festival foods being served "Tapas" style. Many different yummy foods!!! I would put up the special menu for everyone to see... but nobody wants to see my boring menu.
By the way...
I got my new laptop TODAY!!!
It's SO SHINY!!!!!!!!
As you can tell... I've taken the liberty of customizing my desktop. I made that AAA wallpaper from the jigsaw piece picture I got from the official website. I made a little heart silhouette in the upper left corner.
Everything on here is gloss black, even the keyboard! I'm scared of leaving grubby fingerprints on this thing. It's nice, it has a webcam and mic. I've been mutilating the internal hard drive with my large programs.... please don't die on me... I've been adding basics, codecs to watch my Japanese stuff, VLC to watch my subbed stuff, iTunes for organizing my music, flash players for youtube, AIM, MSN, Photoshop(which took forever) and most importantly... MY EDITING SOFTWARE, both sound and video editing programs.
What a treat today, it's New Year and I got "Heartful," I haven't gotten to listen to yet until today, lucky me! The CD is REALLY good, I kid you not. That teasing intro was marvelous. I enjoyed a segment where the sound mixer had the clock ticking noise fade from right aux to left aux, it gave a sense of space and awareness. If one actually took the time to disable the gap delay between each track, you would notice that the transitions are clean! Each song on the disc is arranged in such a manner, not only the order of the track but also the sound clips at beginning and end of the songs. This makes each song flow smoothly into each other after every transition, it's just beautiful... It's almost like a non-stop remix(those who are familiar with the clubbing world), not in the sense that the tracks create one long continuous song, but rather they harmoniously change tempo into welcoming the next track. Who is AAA's sound mixer/technician? I want to shake their hand!
Heartful is a brilliant CD, I have never felt this way towards a "CD" before. I haven't really said a thing about the actual content of AAA's music, have I? Oops... I got so caught up with how amazing the whole CD was. The songs were nice... I liked all of them. Most of them were Eurobeat heavy and iTunes is labeling AAA as R&B for some odd reason... I listened to "Field" for the first time, it's such a pleasant song... something I can fall asleep to... not in a bad way! Just in the sense that the song's gentle melody makes me relax. Relaxing songs are good for me, since I don't have very many relaxing songs.
Okay I'm getting sleepy... NO!!! NOT BECAUSE OF THE CD!!!!
It's getting late and my dad will be home any minute...
Until next time, bye for now.
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on 2010-04-14 07:27 am (UTC)no subject
on 2010-04-14 07:31 am (UTC)You ninja!!!
I just posted this right now! Even though my time stamp says 11:09.
You always seem to have perfect timing...
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on 2010-04-15 08:50 am (UTC)The Thai New Year sounds like a lot of fun to celebrate, and I'm so glad you've been enjoying it! =D It's pretty cool that there are a lot of Chinese traditions as part of it, which means I can understand even more how the festivities work!!!!
And oh gosh, the water festival...XD XD XD
Did you actually get to use supersoakers?!?!?!?! XD XD XD That is soooo amazing! That's probably the best festival I've ever heard of, LMAO! Oh my gosh, I wish more people and countries in the world had thought of this particular tradition...It's like, you have fun shooting other people, but you want to get shot too! Like you said, it's a win/win! They should have a tradition like this for people in prison, so maybe they can learn that shooting water guns is ten times more fun than an actual gun! (O__o I realize how weird that sounds, but it's really true...XD)
I...uhhhh...I'd actually like to see that menu of yours a lot. XD (*looks around* But no one else heard me talking about food again, okay? XP)
Beautiful laptop too, of course! As I already mentioned, I love your desktop background a TON!
I also think it's pretty cool how you noticed the way the transitions work...I never even thought about it before, but hearing your explanation makes me think...WOW! It's pretty cool how that worked out! Any chance it was just random? LOL, but I guess it would bother me too, as a sound editor, if something didn't flow!
By the way, *applauds* Good for you! You waited until you got the CD to listen! That's a true fan! I know it must have been difficult too...><
Anyway, I guess I'd better go for now! This was fun to read! Keep up the good work, ne? And I'm sooooo glad you enjoyed the festival!!!! ^____^
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on 2010-04-15 03:38 pm (UTC)Yeah! Water festival! Traditionally we would scoop water out of a bucket with our hands and toss it at people, but a supersoaker is more convenient. Of course I got to use a supersoaker. This festival really brings out the inner-child in everyone. Uhh... that prison suggestion was a little weird. But I agree, it's like gun rehab. Speaking of rehab, did you ever hear of a prison where as punishment... they make the inmates learn popular choreography? The warden makes them dance some DBSK choreography in the play-yard. The videos on youtube were amusing to watch, but at least it's killing the prisoners' boredom.
You really wanna see the menu?
Heres the link, http://tuskthai.com/
Scroll down on that page to see the menu I posted.
I was really bored and couldn't decide on which wallpaper to use. Then I remembered that I stole some picture "fragments" from the official site. So I rearranged them and cut out the useless stuff so it'd fit on my new widescreen. I love my new laptop! It's so shiny...
Oh yeah, that cd was great, worth the wait. I know people who work for Grammy Entertainment(Thai record label) and I learned that organizing the track order on a cd before selling it, is a huge process on it's own. It could just be by random chance, I won't doubt that possibility too. As you already know, most of the songs are Eurobeat heavy, so there's a lot of sampling and mixing that goes into their songs. My theory is that their sound mixer did an awesome job on making the transitions in between the songs work. I only noticed because I turned off the gap delay. I am also madly obsessed with sounds and music, so I always listen carefully.