張智成 名字

相信有留意華語歌壇動態的樂迷們對張智成這號人物應該都不陌生~ 但可能滿鮮少人知的是張智成在還沒發第一張專輯之前﹐在馬來西亞曾發了一張專輯"名字"~ 最近另一位馬來西亞歌手﹐曹格﹐當紅﹐可是大家可別忘了張智成﹐因為他也是一位滿猛的純節奏藍調歌手~ 最近翻了一下他以前的專輯出來聽﹐真的是超好聽的!由其是他的那首詩人﹐堪稱經典!我在電臺上聽過張智成現場演唱詩人﹐那真是超大享受~聽起來完全和專輯一樣!

anyways, 聽歌吧!這張專輯只有在此發噢!

一首《不夜城》讓張智成知名度增加不少，此張專輯的路線也延著這樣的風格，即安全也能讓張智成發揮所長。點題作《名字》是首易引起共鳴的抒情作，看它在排行榜高居的位置即可知道。另一首同樣抒情的《忘年》，張智成的演繹恰到好處，相信是不難hit起來的R&B作品。 這次也收錄了新版本，帶點靈騷和Jazz味道的《不夜城2001》，有新鮮感之餘，也讓見識到張智成演繹其他曲風的功力，確實不弱。 專輯以抒情為主，抒情曲固然易打動人心，但仍需一些動感的作品來助陣，這是一般本地專輯常見的情況，動感作品總比抒情的遜色。張智成的專輯也有同樣情形，幸好仍有《誰比誰好》，讓他秀一秀唱快歌的實力；下張專輯可考慮多加入些動感元素。總括來說，《名字》是張值得支持的本地專輯。

張智成 名字 稀世珍品~大力推薦!
右鍵另存

01 名字
02 誰看誰好
03 忘年
04 Easy Come Easy Go
05 最高機密
06 後來才知道
07 I Need Love
08 不夜城
09 Easy Come Easy Go
10 明天見

註釋:第8和第9首為現場版;皆無~第2首為低音質wma~

福爾摩沙

哇! 轉眼間兩個星期過去了﹐好像好久沒來版上留言了~

這兩個星期真是超忙的~ 又是西洋情人節﹐又是農曆新年﹐真是忙死了!再加上台灣研究所申請期限快到了﹐最近真的是活得超充實的~

撇開節慶不談﹐因為我每年幾乎都是一個人過節(年節除外)﹐最近好像也沒什麼大事~ 陪媽媽到處走走﹐享受過年的氣氛~ 昨天和報社的工作夥伴們一起去 Broadway 的 Banana Leaf 吃晚餐﹐氣氛還真是不錯~ 雖然裡面有點暗﹐但菜色還不錯﹐只是價錢稍貴了一點。在裡面倒是看到一個滿可愛的服務生。亞洲女生穿旗袍就是有那獨特的氣質與韻味。:D

最近和韓文班的李老師和中文班的陳老師分別碰面後﹐終於下定決心﹐決定下個學期回台灣讀。雖然教授的地位看似崇高﹐但實際上還是隱藏著鮮少人知﹑辛苦的一面。受到李老師和陳老師的開導後﹐我決定可以的話就讀個不一樣的東西看看﹐不想老待在文科。回去也是換一個環境﹐多認識一些人的機會。

忽然間這麼決定﹐讓我的移民生涯接近尾聲。想想不到幾個月的時間﹐我便要踏上歸途﹐重新開始﹐對新生活有一些興奮﹐但對加拿大還是有點戀戀不捨。畢竟我是在加拿大長大的﹐一夕間要放棄朋友與所熟悉的事物到另一個城市去﹐轉變還真的是滿大的。一波三折﹐最終還是回台灣﹐想想移民路走得還真是辛苦。可能是由於即將面對未來的挑戰與心中的不安﹐今天早上起來﹐靈感突然泉湧﹐感觸良多的索性寫了一點詞﹐抒發情緒。寫詞時﹐腦海中浮現陳升般帶點民謠與滄桑的旋律﹐大家不妨讀一下。希望懂音樂的人能為它譜上一點民謠的曲子﹐那便更好了。

福爾摩沙

當爸爸的嚴厲變成慈祥
額頭多了兩條皺紋
你是否開始發現
你已經長大

當媽媽的年華漸漸逝去
髮際多了兩絲白髮
你是否開始發現
你已經長大

(refrain)

Oh For-mo-sa~
怎樣才能留住那漸遠的童年
Oh For-mo-sa~
何時才能重見那美麗的家園
Oh For-mo-sa~
我知道我已經長大

當爸爸的汗水滲透了衣衫
媽媽的手背多了層粗糙
你是否開始發現
究竟是為什麼

(refrain)

Oh For-mo-sa~
怎樣才能留住那漸遠的童年
Oh For-mo-sa~
何時才能重見那美麗的家園
Oh For-mo-sa~
我知道我已經長大

當年少不再輕狂
當少年已不再迷惘
眼前的路究竟藏著什麼
只等你 去實現那夢想

(refrain)

Oh For-mo-sa~
怎樣才能留住那漸遠的童年
Oh For-mo-sa~
何時才能重見那美麗的家園
Oh For-mo-sa~
我知道我已經長大

Super Sexy BoA

I was gonna put this up awhile ago but I couldn't find the time to do it until now~

I think BoA is simply too sexy with an acoustic guitar~ OH MY! XD

the pictures are taken from a BoA fan site~ they're from the live tour~ I like her light outfit~ enjoy! =)

click on the photos to enlarge!

굉장희 예뻐!!! 좋아~좋아~좋아!

Will North Korea Collapse?

Super Bowl XLI today!

although I haven't been following any sports for awhile now, I happened to tune into the AFC championship game last week and watched Peyton Manning and the Colts edge one out against Tom Brady and the Patriots~ Since Peyton's 'bout the only NFL QB I know these days, I am rooting for the guy of course! dunno what the Bears got but ppl seem to root for 'em more~ but go Colts!

anyways, this seems to be beside the topic of North Korea~ I should have put down something 'bout last friday sooner but I haven't gotten the time until now...

so last friday I went to a speech about North Korea by Professors Han S.Park and Kyung-Ae Park hosted at the CK Choi building just in front of the Asian Center at UBC~the topic is three fold: "Where is North Korea Going?", "Why Does North Korea Do What It Does?", and "Will North Korea Collapse?" (as you may see, I just copied and pasted the topic:P)Apparently, Professor Han S.Park is the leading North American authority on North Korea and has made 40 trips to perhaps the world's last "closed" country in his lifetime~ Professor Han S.Park has also appeared for interview on CNN and ABC's world news with Peter Jennings etc~ on the other hand, Professor Kyung-Ae Park is a former student of Professor Han S.Park and also a leading authority of North Korean affairs in North America~

it was a packed event~ dunno if it's because there were just many interested people or it was just held in a small room (room 129, the one by the window)~ anyways, to cut to the point and make a long story short, I'll try to summarize what I can still recall from friday's speech~

basically, Professor Kyung-Ae Park's argument is as follows:

North Korea will not fall in the distant future due to a lack of grassroot force to stimulate regime change. Implosion is unlikely to occur, only explosion seems like a possibility.

although Professor Park started off her speech by giving the audience a "yes and no" answer, the picture sketched out to me seems pretty negative~

her argument is based on a few points (if I can still recall a few...):

• people lack the civil morale needed to instigate change from a grassroot level
  
• capitalist penetration ie economic penetration a possibility for regime change? possibly, but N.Korea may be an anamoly b/c gov't banning the circulation of capitalist goods smuggled in from S.Korea such as cell phones (hand phones in Korea) and S.Korean drama~ people are tightly supervised and lack the strength to coalesce and establish an influential network against the regime
• NGOs and IGOs aren't particularly effective as theyre all ordered out of the country
• about 300 defectors in China have started a campaign against the regime~ however, their efforts are negligible as China is rumoured to back North Korea with food and supplies
• government officials are allowed to study science and medicine abroad but banned from receiving knowledge on the social sciences~ this induces a ban on travelling to governmental headquarters or institutions that may cede this kind of info to North Koreans

since civil contingence is outta the question, Professor Park suggests explosion as the only means to induce a regime change~ this comes to the conclusion that some world power, presumably the US, like Iraq is not enough, will need to launch an attack/nuclear assualt to bring down the regime~... pretty grim picture eh?

however, Professor Park did mention that some geomancer/diviner in Korea predicted that Kim Jung Il will be no more this year~ let's just cross our fingers....

Kim Jung Il - a commie portrait

let's turn to the other Professor Park now, Professor Kyung-Ae Park's mentor~

the knowledgeable man

instead of giving the audience a direct answer such as "North Korea will collapse", Professor Han S.Park proposed that in order to understand the N.Korean situation, it is important to understand its history~ history may offer us insights on why N.Korea is acting the way it does~ here are a couple points I gauged from the revered man:

• North Korea feel its victimized in the international community~ it never envisioned a partition with South Korea and has always thought that Korea should be one country~ with S.Korea's evolution into a democracy and its economy booming, N.Korea sees S.Korea as a defector or a victim who has fell before the capitalist evil~ it's N.Korea's duty to take up the heroic cause of defending Korea and unite the penninsula under one banner (twisted? nah~sounds like TW to me...)
• strong distrust of the US as back in the Korean War, US ruthlessly bombed Pyongyang and other N.Korean cities, killing tens of thousands of civilians and destroying infrastructures etc~
  
• strong distrust of the capitalist world (presumably grew from the distrust against the Americans)~ with its economy lagging behind others and economic sanctions enforced against it, N.Korea feels insecure in a world dominated by capitalism~ its insecurity grew into a thinking that prioritizes military power as a means of guaranteeing its security and whatever left for it to salvage in the capitalist world~ instead of falling back on a strong economy to uphold its stability, N.Korea has decided to rely on military to guarantee its security~ apparently, for N.Korea, power should be projected in an opposite fashion from the world~

Professor Park's proposals led him to argue against Professor Kyung-Ae Park's suggestion of "explosion as the only means of toppling the regime"~ instead, Professor Han S.Park argues that North Korea will soon dismantle its nuclear program, meanwhile, merely holding onto the nuclear card as a bargaining chip at the table~ some points in favour of this conclusion are:

• nuclear technology is not hard to learn and adapt~ since N.Korea's program is merely starting up right now, it could give up its program any time, using its forfeit as a bargaining chip at the table~ by abandoning the nuclear program, it doesn't mean that N.Korea could not start up the program again, as it has apt scientists waiting by the sideline~
• N.Korea acts as a rational thinker as it understands that it vitally need the economic support of countries holding diplomatic ties with it~ if another weapon is deployed, N.Korea understands that it may stir up a regional arms race that my escalate on an international level~ backed by a poor economy, N.Korea cannot hope to keep up with an arms race if it occurs~ Japan would no doubt become a powerful nuclear power in a short time and threaten N.Korean security~

Kim Il Sung statue (apparently a tourist site...)

• believe it or not, Kim Il Sung actually professed that Korea should be nuclear free! as silly as this may sound, Kim actually thinks nuclear weapon is an evil that should have nothing to do with the peaceful Korean people~ from this point, Professor Park suggests that N.Korea today is still pretty much Kim Il Sung's country, as Kim Jung Il lacks the charisma and leadership to impose his authority over the people~ an interesting side note suggested by Professor Park is that instead of having blanks for people to jot down their plans, table calendars in N.Korea are filled with daily directives from Kim Il Sung, which are still obeyed by the ordinary~ clearly, Kim Jung Il is still in the shade...

A Happy Kim Il Sung

there was another point mentioned by Professor Park but I didn't quite catch it as my mind kinda wandered off, trying to think of a good question to ask at the end of his speech~ unfortunately, time was limited so I didn't put out any questions to the professor~ just another side note, Professor Han S.Park also mentioned that since N.Korea has an underground subway that is 100m deep and can encompass the entire N.Korean population, a nuclear strike against the state may be futile, as the entire population could just hide underground~ the most powerful nuclear weapon the States own only goes down 50m~ XD

anyways, it was an interesting speech and it made me think a lot about the N.Korean situation~ hopefully you've enjoyed reading my brief summary! :D