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GD&TOP Knocks Diplo Out Dumbfoundead

Published by Justine

I’ve been a follower of Diplo’s remixes (given that I know and love the song) ever since I listened to his remix of Britney’s Circus about 2 years ago. I remember listening to that track so many times I think I preferred it over the original. Since then I’ve been on the lookout for his remixes, especially when he did Flashing Lights in Kanye’s Sky High remix album, and of course, the DFX remix of M.I.A’s Paper Planes in the Slumdog soundtrack, which added so much flavor to the already awesome song.

Fast forward about a year or two, I started getting into k-pop (much to my own surprise) and have been an avid enthusiast for one year now. GD & TOP, 2 of heavyweight group Big Bang‘s rappers released a collab rap album late last year and gave it a new flavor to the apparently vapid manufactured k-pop sound by describing their music as “ghetto electro” which, you guessed it, rhymes done in electro music. I loved almost all of the songs from the album, despite my poor understanding of the language and one particular track was one of my many favorites called KNOCK OUT (???? / Ppeokigayo).

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL0sfti1DcA&feature=player_embedded

GD&TOP released a music video for it and it’s probably one of my favorite k-pop videos of all time, if you actually consider it k-pop? One point in the video TOP shows the name DIPLO in big bold letters and I was wondering, what could be the relation to the song? Are they fans of the great DJ? Did he have something to do with the song? A couple of weeks later, Diplo tweets that he wants to move to Korea. He found out that the music video gained almost a million views overnight (thus lead to his knowledge about how “influential” k-pop is) and people had mad praise for the song. He then wrote a blog post confirming that not only did he have something to do with the song, he actually produced the beats. I have mad praise for this guy despite being slightly cocky and annoying (on twitter), heh.

[youtube width=”560″ height=”344″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkukueGI_fk[/youtube]

I felt like writing about this because Dumbfounded, a really talented Korean-American rapper covered this song and put his own spin to it, luckily with American rhymes this time. I loved his take so much I ripped the song from YouTube and put it in my iPod. All thanks to the awesome great sexy Diplo for providing such a sick beat.

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The Big Fat Honesty Post

Published by Justine

I was browsing through my old emo livejournal posts and look what I found! A big fat honesty post in which with all honesty I’m going to repost it because honestly, the ones I’m going to post are still honestly the same. This was dated back in November 14, 2007 and I just realized not much has changed around me, but at the same time, things definitely have.

Me: I’ve been feeling so empty nowadays. I don’t have inspiration anymore. As much as I want to shout out how I feel, I can’t! I’m not usually the kind of person to bottle up feelings and such, but this time I’ve really felt that I’ve changed. I can’t seem to express what I feel in words anymore, I can’t tell the whole world what I seem to be feeling. I need to go out there and find myself. What I really want in life, where I want to go and what I want to do.

Family: They’ve been having their share of rough moments these past 2 years but I know they can NEVER live without each other. I have this unbelievable closeness with my parents. Something I don’t want to exchange for anything. I greatly respect them and if anything happens otherwise (OH COME ON–GOD FORBID), I’m really going to break into pieces.

Friends: I have the bestest awesomest of friends, we just can’t all be together at the same time anymore. There’s this big issue of backstabbing and talking behind each others backs (and mostly silent misunderstanding). It’s unhealthy and the more we’re separated, the more we drift from each other. You can’t blame them really. Some of us are already in uni while some are still in high school. We also hang out with different people now, we have our own COFs. Everybody doesn’t study in the same school anymore. I love my friends, I just don’t love it when we’re all in the same room.. there’s playing favorite and weird vibes and eyes which stare and lots of judgment. We’ve grown up and changed, while some haven’t at all. Some are still the same, which is creating problems because they’re stuck in their own little world, not moving with time.

Love: As much as I want to say I’ve given up on this, where do I stand in that and what’s my right? I still have a long way to go. I have choices to make and feelings to feel, it’s hard what to prioritize.

Someone: I should just be happy with the way things are. Period. Wash, soap, rinse, dry and repeat.

Education: This isn’t the first time I’ve said this but tertiary education is not for everyone. I’m EXTREMELY blessed and fortunate to be where I am now and I’m happy. I might sound condescending but I don’t know (YES YOU DO KNOW!), I should just take what is given to me. – I was stumped with work that time, so I felt this way. Right now, at times I still get it, but I’m far better off.

Reading through this and commenting on some points, I can totally feel the fat of honesty oozing from it and some don’t feel pretty and dandy. But hey, it be the truth, and the truth does hurt and while everything I say is mostly cliche (it rhymes!), the truth will definitely set you free. Therefore, I vote this post as EMO-post of the year, it don’t get any better than this.

Not on WordPress

Published by Justine

Being new here at work I’m still a little bit shy when it comes to browsing websites when I’m idle. Unlike my previous job, the cubicles were big so the computers were covered but in this one it’s a bit more on the lower side so people can see what you’re doing on the computer (that is, if they have time to look–everyone seems so busy here). This office is also much more bigger compared to the old one, there were only a maximum of 6 in the department and now I’m in an office of 20 all spread out. It’s a huge difference.. so I’m trying out this application which enables me to post entries not from the web browser. Hitting “publish” after this.

I really love this new theme I have. It’s white, it’s minimal.. it has my favorite fonts (Georgia for header, Arial/Helvetica for the content). I added a bit of color but I’m probably going to edit this more in the future, not too many changes just suited to my style. I think it’s kind of sad that I can’t code my own WP theme from scratch anymore. I used to invest so much time on one theme, where it’s the layout, coding, picking out the design, making headers in Photoshop but now I’m definitely better off with taking a nicely made WP theme and just tweaking the code and designs to fit my taste. I even “widgetize” my sidebar instead of manually doing it because it makes things so much more easier. Can’t wait to post photos and designs and basically level up this blog in terms of looks.. but not too much.

Body Clock Blues

Published by Justine

Like many of you out there, I too, have a love/hate relationship with my body clock. Particularly this week, things didn’t start out so nice. I’ve been droopy all day since yesterday plus it’s my third week in the new office and I’m still not used to the 7:30am time in. Wack! I actually wake up at the same time even with my previous job but this office is much nearer so I don’t really have time to steal sleep in the car anymore whereas on my way to the old office I would get stuck for about 2-3 hours on the road coz of highway traffic so I still had a bit of shut-eye time. Asleep or not asleep though, traffic is always a bitch. What’s frustrating me right now is that the moment I get home I can’t sleep straight away because I’m always subconsciously finding something to do and it seems like my body only wants to sleep early in the morning. It’s ridiculous. So I still end up sleeping late. Those 10 days of being unemployed during the holidays really spoiled me.

It was my sister’s 11th birthday during the weekend. We had a party at home which stretched from lunch to dinner so the guests ate twice, which ALWAYS happens with family and extended family. It’s starting to freak me out that my sister’s getting older because that means I too, am getting older. We have a pretty large gap because she’s 12 years younger than me (and there’s only 2 of us) so when she’s 18 that’s gonna make me 30. Whooo, another “wack” moment.

Happy New Year!

Published by Justine

I’m five days late in posting a new year greeting but it’s not too late until the month ends =P My holidays were nicely spent. It wasn’t the greatest, but it certainly wasn’t a bad one at all. My friends from the Philippines and Australia and the US all came back so there were lots of reunions and good old hangouts, basically just everyone getting together again after a while. I wanted to make an photo entry about all the December events but being the lazy photo uploader that I am I’ll probably have to prioritize that for another time. The downside is of course all the holiday weight you put on, that’s why I’ve been keeping track of my workouts rather than doing it on my own time, time for improvement right? I don’t really want to say change because I can’t simply rely on “change” anymore, rather it’s better to go through a phase which results in change, and in my case, improvement. I’m starting to NOT make sense now, haha.

I’m not expecting much for 2011 because I want it to surprise me. 2010 was the year I graduated, got my first job (though temporary) and finished that job. I started the year with a new employment and I hope it will be good to me. 2011 and beyond is basically the unknown.. where I will learn more things not only from myself but also the world. I will try and grow and hope it won’t be a rough one for me. In case it gets rough, I hope I’ll come out just fine. Hmm, seems like I have a lot of hopes for the future (don’t we?).