Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Happy Lunar New Year from Jon, 5th LetterHere's something from our guy to spread some CNY cheer!
Hail Jonatics!!
Chinese New Year is drawing near and I am sure you all have been busy with the various preparations to welcome the auspicious, cleaning out your houses and rooms, getting rid of the things that you don't need anymore and buying that set of spanking new threads that you will wear on the first day of new year. If you are not one who celebrates Chinese new year, then you can gear up and plan your super long weekend right now! It isn't often that we have such a long break and it should be put to good use because before you know it, it will be over and we go back to our daily routine.
Personally, I am going to spend the first 2 days visiting (as has been the practice in my family) and I will be burying my head in assignments again. The past 3 weeks have been spent in school, weekends included (and I foresee this will be the case for the next month as well)! I take a really long time to write essays and I have a tonne of assignments this semester and I want to get them all out of the way as soon as possible so that I can have any remaining empty slots of time to increase my competency and knowledge of music. It has been a mad juggle the past month because everything demands time, effort and energy and being just one person, I have a limited amount of all the above.
The highlights of the month for me was watching Muse and also Eason Chan, to me the greatest form of respect I can give to an artiste is to attend their gigs and appreciate what the love to do best. The energy from both acts were very different but both were really enjoyable.
Being one who needs to listen to music while I do anything… these days I have been listening to tonnes of metal (the modern ones and also the old school ones), my playlist has generally been filled with Iron maiden, Avenged Sevenfold, Killswitch Engage, Pantera, Black label society and Slipknot. These are really heavy but I listen to them so that I don't fall asleep while reading and typing. I know the stereotype that metal bands usually get and I'm not encouraging their lifestyles, attitudes or anything like that but its always good to keep an open mind and 'live and let live', know what I mean?
The other day I dug out my old Laura Fygi cds to listen to while driving, her voice is really soothing and I especially like her version of "Autumn leaves". Speaking of driving, my van has been in a decrepit state due to my lack of care for it, I hardly ever wash it…but the other day I decided to give it a "makeover" in the cleanliness department because I thought it would be kind of rude to go visiting during Chinese new year in such a dirty vehicle. I sent it to "SHINE AGAIN" and I was really happy with the results… I almost didn't believe that it was the same van. It was absolutely sparkly and clean from the interior right to the tires… it kind of made me feel bad that I sent in such a dirty van for the guys to clean. Anyway, SHINE AGAIN is newly opened and co owned by Daniel Ong and I heard that it was in support of the "yellow ribbon project" which planned to give ex convicts a second shot in society minus the prejudices so if any of you guys drive and you want to give your car a cleanup maybe you guys would want to give it a try. Info available here, http://shineagain.sg
Might as well do something nice right?
Till next time, I wish you the very best, thanks for the constant letters and everything. Its nice to keep in touch. Have a happy lunar new year and all the best in your health and career!
Jon.
Happy Chinese New Year to all Jonatics!
Diyana.
@ 5:11 PM
