♥ K a r i n a ♥ Monday, May 28, 2007
Aloha!
Back for an update..
Had a wonderful weekend :)
Sis came over on saturday. Oh yeah i was hell exhausted. Caught the sleep-late fever. Sigh* My eyebags are getting worst----> O_O
Anyways i took the KTM all the way to Midvalley. Met selina there before shopping. Ate sushi for lunch. Bought quite a lot of stuff there. Shopped until about four before heading to Bukit Bintang. Spent quite a few hours at Sungai Wang, Lot 10 and some other places. Ate dinner at Done. Cam whored. Uhuh :) as usual. Oh an yeah. We had quite an experience in the public toilet that the government spent lots of money on. I just dont quite get why the government is spending so much of money on it. I wonder what happenes if someone takes more than 15 mins to do their business. LOL door opens?? and Public sees whats inside? Darn whose crazy idea was it ?
KLCC was next. Spent the rest of the day there. Oh and yeah not forgetting all the unintentional expenditures. Sigh* Dad is going to slaughter us alive.
Got home quite late. Went online, read a few magazines before turning in. Zzz:)
Sunday was quite a long one. Khairie picked us up for our movie. We were pretty late. Speaking of Pirates of The Carribean, It was not that good. If a movie can make me sleep half way through. It must be pretty boring. Storyline wasn't so good. Since POTC was overly commercialized. It is inevitable that people expects more from it. But indeed it was pretty a dissapoinment. The only thing that was okay was the graphics, special effects and the touching scenes. Other than that, nah... I'll give it a 6/10.
I do like Johny Deep though:)
And one more thing! Hans Zimmer composed for the movie once again.
Here are some of the tunes composed by Hans Zimmer:
By: Dan Goldwasser for soundtrack.net
1. Hoist the Colours (1:31)Snare drum rolls swell with a lonely chime tolling at the peak as the track begins. A boy starts to sing the A-Theme of "Hoist the Colours", a melodic pirate shanty. He is uncertain and his voice wavering at first, but then a rabble gang of pirates take over with the B-Theme, singing the lyrics: "Yo ho, all together, Hoist the Colours high / Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die!" It ends with a triumphant snare hit, and a chain rattle.
2. Singapore (3:40)A low gong softly starts the track as ethnic Asian woodwinds flit and dance, and then Sao Feng's theme is heard on the erhu. Backed by low toned strings, a fiddle adds some color, as well as some rhythmic pipe bursts and percussion softly underscoring the melody as it builds. It rolls into a determined and rhythmic ostinato of Beckett's Theme (aka the East India Trading Company Theme) on harpsichord and orchestra, as an action cue takes hold. Strong brass works around Beckett's Theme as fast Asian patterns and rhythmic ostinatos keep the momentum moving forward. It all dies down finally, leaving us with a short statement of the "Foghorn Theme" from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. The erhu and a cymbalon softly play Sao Feng's Theme again, and then a snare drum heralds in the heroic Jack Sparrow Theme from the first film, with a regal edge, including a large choir. It ends, leaving us with the new playful Jack Sparrow Theme from the second film on the cello before the track comes to a close.
3. At Wit's End (8:05)The first part of the new love theme (Love Theme A) is heard here, softly on the strings as airy atmosphere encompasses the soundscape. Tremolo strings slowly play the countermelody as hints of a music box can be heard deep in the background. Now a darkened version of the secondary section of the Love Theme is played (Love Theme B) on the low strings, and things fade down as new short-string ostinatos slowly start working towards the front. Love Theme A is now heard more heroically on the French horns (showcasing it's diversity for usage in different areas), and choir gently and ethereally takes over, with a dream-like siren quality to it, kind of like portions of The Da Vinci Code. Strings quickly swirl upwards to the main version of Love Theme B - high strings sing out while a darker and slower version of the love theme played beneath. It all ascends to a crescendo, then drops away leaving us with a snare roll and chime tolling coming in quick bursts.
Now a music box plays the Davy Jones theme as an organ plays a new countermelody on top of it. The organ slowly fades away, leaving just the music box, and then strings come in tenderly with Love Theme A as the music box changes hands and provides the backing texture. The orchestra rises back up, with a dramatic statement of the Davy Jones theme with triumphant hits and choir subtly beneath. It builds and heralds in a new action sequence.
Rhythmic ostinato in the low strings keep the pace going as French horns and brass build upwards, climaxing in a burst of choir. Dissonant strings swirl around as choir chants, and now the strings continue their ostinato as a new descending brass motif is heard ascending through the musical range (for the sake of consistency, we'll refer to this as the "World's Edge Theme"). It carries over into the strings as the choir builds, the tension is ratcheted up and everything comes to a crashing conclusion.
4. Multiple Jacks (3:51)We recover from the frenetic nature of the last track with a very odd and off-kilter cue. Ambient tones and springy-sounding bass elements with sparse percussion start to come together slowly. A low guitar tone is heard, wavering deep. Now the new quirky Jack Sparrow Theme from Dead Man's Chest is heard on harpsichord and plucked strings (along with some other weird instruments), and a bit of percussion kicks in, with off tune twangy guitars, cymbalom and other plucked instruments including a banjo. The backing chords are "off" as well, giving the music an out-of-tune, stumbling quality. Now Jack's Heroic Theme from the first film is heard, in the same weird orchestration, accentuated with an accordion. Low ambient atmospheric toned are heard as low pipes softly call out, and a new rhythm starts up with electronic pulses, percussion and some other odd sounds. It's a very modern sound, and includes pulses of grungy static modulated in the background. It slowly gains speed, and then kicks in hard for a few seconds before the track comes to an end.
5. Up is Down (2:42)Another playful track, this one starts with a brass chord that swells into a rhythmic ostinato on the strings, with a fun sliding bass line. Now fiddles come in with a playful version of what is actually Love Theme B disguised (talk about versatility!) as a complex ostinato, and then a piccolo comes in, and the brass belt out the countermelody of the B-Theme as the primary theme (we'll call it the Noble Jack Variation for clarity), and then the whole orchestra joins in as the playful nature gets larger, and now the love theme is used as a triumphant and heroic melody. The playful ostinato is back now, trading off from piccolo to oboe to bassoon, before upward rising statements of the Noble Jack Variation are heard. Once a new key has been attained, Love Theme A is back in full splendor, with big orchestra, and then the World's Edge Theme is heard briefly before the track crashes to a finale.
Went for karaoke after that. Gosh, we sang all sorts of tunes. It was hilarious!. We tried rapping the real slim shady. Turned out pretty horrible *Burst out laughing
Almost died singing. Spent more than 3 hours that. Headed home at about 2. Geez! went home with sore troat and we were all exhausted. Okay, i shall not go for karaoke for at least one month. So sick of it right now LOL
Did my music assignment this morning and i'm almost done. Think i've lost the interest in assignments.
The finals is around the corner and i'm still procastinating.
*Sigh when will i ever learn
Hehehe
Media studies was only about one hour plus today. Didint do much besides doing some surveys and the test questions.
Oh yeah! Went swimming after class at our condo's pool. It was great exercising again. Swam like more than 12 laps. Feels good and refreshing. I'm going to make an effort to swim every week to keep fit :)
Just came back from Asia Cafe.
Alright thats it for now. Will post up pictures when i get them from Sis. Till then adious!:)
