Friday Top Five: Favorite Love Songs

Here you go, this week's Friday Top Five. Today I'm sharing my favorite love songs. I guess I'm still caught in Valentine mode.

1.      Looking Through the Eyes of Love

“Please don’t let this feeling end, it might not come again, and I want to remember”

The first time I heard this song is on my choir rehearsal for a friend’s wedding long time ago. I was appointed to sing the female solo part at the rehearsal—replacing a friend who usually sings the solo parts.

I think this song would make a great wedding song (pointing out to the lyrics I put up there); marriage as one moment everyone always want to remember. Sweet, isn’t it?

2.      I Finally Found Someone

“I finally found someone

Someone to share my life

I finally found the one, to be with every night

‘Cause whatever I do

It’s just got to be you

My life has just begun

I finally found someone”

Same with the first song on my list; every time my choir had a wedding service, this song would be sung in duet. This would be sung after the groom opens the bride’s veil. I think, on my wedding, I would want this song played J

3.      Best in Me

“Cause you bring out the best in me, like no one else can do. That’s why I’m by your side, that’s why I love you”

Blue used to be my favorite boyband. This song, since the first time I heard this, really catches my ear. It is simple and just to the point.

4.      Because You Live

“Because you live and breathe

Because you make me believe in myself when nobody else can help

Because you live, girl

My world has twice as many stars in the sky”

Imagine a boy sings this song for you. And I would want a boy sing this for me, for I really think that it sounds very romantic.

5.      Never be the Same

“I'll never be the same

I'm caught inside the memories, the promises

are yesterdays and I belong to you.

I just can't walk away

'cause after loving you

I can never be the same”

Just listen to the whole song and the lyric. For me, there’s a story lies behind the song—obviously about how your love ones can change you, how different life would be without them.

Delirious

I was the one who presents the subject of delirious in my Abnormal Psychology Class. It’s kinda funny how I finally experience being delirious.

The last two day—yes, this very weekend, I spent my long hours in my bed for I had this high fever. Apparently, the fever had disrupted my mind. I had this serial dreams. I called it so because the dream starts at the exact point when I woke up. And sometimes I found it hard to discriminate dreams among reality.

Imagine Michael Fassbender's face
in Benedict Cumberbacth's body

I was in some journey of villain-chasing in the Victorian Era. I saw horses and hansom everywhere. Everyone speaks in lovely British accent. Everywhere I go someone would bow and address, “Ma’am” to me. In my pocket I would find a revolver I could use to defend myself from my enemy. Some dream, eh? Maybe, the adventurous dream was the side-effect of my recent habit; reading “The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes” plus watching a lot of James Bond movies in the national television channel every night before I sleep.

The weirdest part of all was the appearance of Sherlock Holmes in my dream. This Sherlock had the look of Benedict Cumberbatch, with his curls and dark hair and slender figure. Not weird? Here’s what makes it weird; this Sherlock has the face of Michael Fassbender.

Every once in a while I was awake and felt like surrounded by a lot of people although I was alone in my room. Everything seemed cloudy yet so bright. Meh, I hardly can describe my state of delirious.

When I finally woke up in the morning with a better condition, I felt really tired. And I haven’t got any weirder dream since then.

 Have you got any weirder delirious experience?

Friday Top Five: Favorite Old School Cartoon Show

Because I think Friday is suitable for some Friday Top Five. I will start from five, for I like small number. So here come your this week's Friday Five.

1.      The Wild Thornberries

I remember my jealousy to Eliza Thornberry. That time I thought she was so lucky; having ability to talk to animals, doesn’t go to school and always travelling around the world with her family in their van.

I didn’t think much of the moral value back then. But now I see that it is a great cartoon. It tells us that family is the most important thing in the world—even the most annoying sibling. For my little brother used to be so annoying.

2.      Hey Arnold!

To be honest, the only thing that attract me to keep watching Hey Arnold! was  Helga’s unhealthy obsession to this ball-headed guy, Arnold. Curiosity never escaped me every time I watch each episode, asking myself  “what would Helga make today?”. For Helga can be highly creative on expressing her secret love to Arnold.

But the friendship between the children in the neighborhood  and the conflicts that happened between them also interesting. In my opinion, the characters in the series can be a good example for a personality study. Arnold's assertiveness, Gerard's street smart, Helga's bossiness... Well, you name it.

3.      Chuck Jones’ Tom and Jerry

It has to be Chuck Jones’ version! Not that the other version sucks, but I like it best because for me this version got the best picture. Tom and Jerry are somewhat cuter here. And the music, man, this is what I called psychedelic. It has got jazz, boogie-woogie, ballad, opera (remember when Tom singing Figaro?), waltz and many more in it. The synchronization between the music and the film is perfect even though they used a real orchestra for the score. And the sound effects are just perfectly sync with every moment. This version is just epic.

4.      Chibi Maruko-Chan

This is a anime, very old one, adapted from a manga with the same title. Telling stories of Momoko Sakura (the very own writer of this comic) in her childhood back in year 1974. I found this manga amusing. Momoko—was called Maruko-chan while she was just a kid—did so many stupidities, which are so funny. But in the end she always learns something from her mistake. It’s a warm hearted cartoon, and sometimes very touching.

5.      Digimon

I used to be so obsessed with this anime that I create my own version of Digimon—some kind of Fanfiction I manually wrote while I was bored in class. It was called Magic Land. Oh dear Lord how can I still remember about this?

I know some of you would prefer Pokèmon rather than Digimon. But the friendship value and the absence of Team Rocket from Digimon wins my heart. 

How about you? What's your favorite old school cartoon show?

New Blog Title: A bit about b.i.t.s.

I've decided to do something more about this blog, like putting more effort to keep its existence through the net. I might do regular post on particular day (something like Movie Monday or so). I will post something which represent me, my thoughts and my feelings. That way, I think, renaming my blog with more representable title is a good start.

Readers, please welcome, "b.i.t.s." aka "because I think so"! Formerly known as "Story of My Li(f)e".

b.i.t.s. is on third page if you search for it :p

As an acronym for "because I think so", b.i.t.s. will tell you about anything I ever think of, anything that crossed my mind. I can tell you about things I like, books I have read, music I find interesting, review of some movies and my daily life.

And I will tell you the reason why I think so. That's the way I share my thoughts; through my point of view.

Hopefully you will enjoy :)

Story of a Student with a Bad Luck

What occurred to your mind when you hear the word disappointed? For me, it is simply a mismatch between what I expect and the reality.

Maybe you ever noticed my ‘5th semester affirmation’, in the sidebar (though it is now deleted).  This is where the disappointment came from, because my 5^th semester GPA is far below my expectation. 

The disappointing report card

The thing is, I put a lot of effort for this semester’s assignment. I had travel to other city only to gather data for my research, hardly sleep enough; causing me some metabolite problem—made me gain almost 10 kg in 3 month... 

I did try confirming the grade to my lectures—for I think that the score I got wasn't fair at all, compared to my hard working. But seemingly they had wrapped the grade, left me disappointed. 

And my dear readers, I am sorry for complaining a lot.

I grieved for days because of this. I used to be quite bright. Getting low grade this semester kind of blew me. It ruined my plan. I couldn’t apply for scholarship—because it requires at least 3 on the GPA. I had to retake the failed subject, such a waste of time. It means I wouldn’t be able to graduate on schedule.

The worst is not that I disappointed myself, but also my parents. I’m ashamed. I know that they put a lot of hope on me, but what did I give to them? A low grade? Meh!

Then I brace myself to tell my dad about my grade.

But, he wasn’t angry. At all. Like my failure wasn’t a big thing. He told me that it was okay I didn’t get ‘income’ from this semester’s grants; I still could write short stories, get it published and received honorarium from that (oh yeah, I got my story published on a magazine last November) or earning some bucks from my freelance job as psycho-tester. He even mocked the lectures with me, LOL.

Here’s what he said about my grade

"Leave the bad grades behind and live more optimistically next semester."

Isn’t he the coolest dad ever?

My Mom too, is supporting enough. She knows how hard I work for last semester's assignment. For her, my low grade was just some bad luck. Well, true enough.

Yeah, grieving over the wrapped score won’t change anything. Keeping angry to my lecturers won’t do me any good. I will retake my failed classes, trying to get a better score and stop complaining about my disappointment.

Wishing you all a good—non-disappointing day!

This is Love, February!

Welcome February! 

As we know, this is the month when we celebrate Valentine's Day. I'm quite in the mood for love. So here you go, one of my favorite love songs: This is Love by The Script. You might want to pay attention to the lyrics cause it has a very deep meaning :)