ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE

Listening to this song, reminded me of a friend of mine.
She is longing for a true love.
Is that any such thing in this world?
I doubt!

One day in your life
Youll remember a place
Someone touching your face
Youll come back and youll look around, youll . . .

One day in your life
Youll remember the love you found here
Youll remember me somehow
Though you dont need me now
I will stay in your heart
And when things fall apart
Youll remember one day . . .

One day in your life
When you find that youre always waiting
For a love we used to share
Just call my name, and Ill be there
Youll remember me somehow
Though you dont need me now
I will stay in your heart
And when things fall apart
Youll remember one day . . .

One day in your life
When you find that youre always lonely
For a love we used to share
Just call my name, and Ill be there

ENERGY FLOW

I don't know, seems profession that close to arts like artist and musicians showing more sensitive inner expression compared to other people. I feel that.

Lately, blue feeling for no reason occupying my mind. Tried to find why, but I still can not figure it. Maybe............, I have no time to touch music instruments, really don't have time :-(

Then I found "ENERGY FLOW" composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
It is difficult for me to describe my feelings when listening to this song in words, but somehow it precisely expressed what I feel lately. I can feel emptiness, sadness and various imagination through it.

YOU and I - Kenny Rogers

Flasing back 3 to 4 years ago.
I was driving back home from my office, when the FM radio I listened playing the tune.
I did not know why at that time I could not recall Kenny Rogers' voice at all.
Perhaps I was too concentrating on the melody of the song.

The next day, about the same time, I also listened to the same FM radio station, and the tune played again. Then I think, this FM radio station must be using a computerized schedule in broadcasting.At that time I also realized there was no announcer saying something. No commercial breaks!

For several days, I tried to be 'on time' going back home, just to catch the tune, and very funny, they kept on using the same broadcasting schedule. :-D

Until one day, right after the tune finished, I could not hold myself to find out what is the title of the song, and who is the singer! And finally I have already made a call to the radio station (I asked the central telephone information to get the FM radio station number!).

Luckily, there was a gentleman answered my call, and told me it was Kenny Rogers' "You and I", I felt so silly that time, how I could not recall very unique voice of Kenny Rogers??

After since then, I tried to get the record. Every time visiting a record shop, I opened my eyes widely on Western Pop section, looking for Kenny Rogers' record. But could not find one until now!

Thanks to the internet! I still can listen Kenny Rogers' You and I, and also the version with Bee Gees, as 2 months later after I found the tune, the FM radio station disappeared totally until now. The frequency not longer available!

All the man I am
You are the reason for me
You help me understand
I'll be your shelter from the rain that never ends
Girl , you've always got a friend in me

All the love we had
I should've know our love was older than the past
Throwing my life away on songs I never heard
Just the speaking of a single word
I made you die inside but you loved me

And don't believe the world
No, the world can't give us paradise
When you make your love to me
Till I just could not see the light
As long as I got you
As long as you got me
As long as we got you and I

I won't let you down
No better love will be there when you turn around
I'll be living for you till the ocean turns to sand
There will never be any man
Could love you just the way that I love you

So don't believe the world
No, the world can't give up paradise
In the eye within the storm
Just when I could not make it through the night
As long as I got you
As long as you got me
As long as we got you and I

CAVATINA

The meaning of cavatina actually is as follow:

Cavatina (Italian diminutive of cavata, the producing of tone from an instrument, plural cavatine) is a musical term, originally a short song of simple character, without a second strain or any repetition of the air. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavatina)

But the Cavatina that I want to write on my post is the one wrote by Stanley Myers, which is used as a theme of the famous movie "Deer Hunter".

Originally it is written for Piano, but as per John Williams invitation it is re-written for guitar by Mr. Myers. John Williams has recorded the song long before it became famous caused of the releasing the movie of Deer Hunter.

I play guitar, but only at a very beginners level.
With a very hard practice I think I can play a part from the following scores of Cavatina.

FORREST GUMP

Around 2 weeks ago, I was invited by a leading Bank to a kind of motivational talk.
The speaker using Forrest Gump's "RUN....... Forrest! RUN!" as one of the sample how actually people has their powerful inside strength, which many times was not visible due to many reasons.

Very often we limited our inside power ourselves. For example, we conditioned that we can not do a certain thing, and surely we can not do it as we think that we can't do it.

Reading many motivational books and listening to those who are expert in it sometimes really good for ourselves' development. Try to avoid being trapped between those who are categorized as 'energy sucker'. Those who always sigh and grumpy.

Several weeks ago, I put myself trapped between those people, and I let myself controlled by bad emotion. And I feel so bad along the week! That was just before I attended the talkshow.

Anyway, seeing the short episode from the Forrest Gump that day, brought my memory to its beautiful theme, composed by Alan Silvestri.

Please find below the music score.

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO

I was still a teenager when I watched "THE LAST EMPEROR". The music arrangement, and the beauty of the picture never be forgotten. Many years after......, I found a music score of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence written by Ryuichi Sakamoto. At that time I realized that the same Mr. Ryuichi Sakamoto who wrote the music of The Last Emperor.

Mr. Sakamoto born in Nakano - Tokyo Japan, 17th January 1952. Married to Akiko Yano but then divorced in 2006.
To know more about Ryuichi Sakamoto please click the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuichi_Sakamoto

SPAIN

I heard this sing for the first time many years ago.
It was the time when Yamaha introduced their new Electone Series........ huh can't remember the series now!

A senior player played "SPAIN" on the new electone.
I was stunning seeing his capability in playing the song and also knowing how powerful the music equipment.

Ever since then I like the song very much, and also the vocal version by Al Jarreau

NEW WORLD SYMPHONY

Yesterday, was the cremation of my teacher's husband (read my post titled "TIME" ).
After the requiem, before the coffin was closed, their children played Dvorak's New World Symphony - 2nd Movement. (The Symphony No. 9, in E Minor "From the New World" (Op. 95), popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895. It is by far his most popular symphony, and one of the most popular symphonies in the modern repertory.

My teacher has 3 children. Born in a musician family, they are all becoming musicians too. Yesterday, The eldest played the snare drums, the daughter and the youngest son played the flute. The daughter opened the tune of New World Symphony, then the youngest son joined. It was so sad, even more sad, when the younger brother of my teacher's husband joined to sing the vocal part. His beautiful voice and his shaking body caused of the sadness, made us all in tears.

Please find below, a video from youtube.com of New World Symphony - 2nd Movement Part 1 from Dvorak:

TIME

1st June 2008 - a very sad day for me.

Somebody that I admired, passed away.
He is a 'teacher' of mine.
He taught me indirectly how to become a person who can manage time, discipline and think further before taking any decisions.

I still remembered on my childhood time, how he helped my teacher - his wife, to 'control' my laziness and naughtiness in practicing piano.
He sat next to me, and asked me to play various scales :-)
Truly, I was very lazy that time.

The way he left us is very sadly to be remembered.
He was hit by a motorbike when he was riding his bike.
Badly injured on his head, got a surgery that night, and left us two days after.

I was really shocked and sad yesterday when heard that he finally be gone.
My love one said, that he is not really left us.

"You still can see him thru things and work that he left!"

It is true, but I still feel sad.

Good bye...., you will be always in our memory.




Time, flowing like a river
Time, beckoning me
Who knows when we shall meet again
If ever... But time
Keeps flowing like a river
To the sea

Goodbye my love, Maybe it's forever
Goodbye my love, The time waits for me
Who knows when we shall meet again
If ever... But time
Keeps flowing like a river (on and on)
To the sea, to the sea

till it's gone forever
Gone forever
Gone forevermore

Goodbye my friends, Maybe It's forever
Goodbye my friends, the stars wait for me
Who knows when we shall meet again
If ever... But time
Keeps flowing like a river (on and on)
To the sea, to the sea

till it's gone forever
Gone forever
Gone forever
Gone forever... Now
(TIME - Alan Parsons Project)
http://www.alanparsonsmusic.com/

ANZEN CHITAI

My 'introduction' to Anzen Chitai happened 10 years ago in Hong Kong.
I was walking in a crowd of Mongkok, accompanying my sister shopping when my ears heard a beautiful song in Japanese played from a small cd shop.
I come near to the shop and ask the shopkeeper what song was being played.
He showed me a cd of 'Anzen Chitai'.
Its cover is in black, with several man standing looking straight seriously.
I do not have any clue of the band, never heard about them.
Even so, I did not need longer time, I decided to buy the cd.
At the hotel room, I played the cd, and instantly falling in love to their music.
It is very rare for me to like the whole songs recorded in a CD, usually only several songs that I really like.

On the way back to Indonesia, we stopped in Singapore. It was my lucky time, I got another album of Anzen Chitai at Kinokuniya.

But today, somehow, I was thinking of Anzen Chitai when the idea to search it thru youtube. And I found it! Please enjoy.





Anzen Chitai is a Japanese band that was formed in 1973 by 5 talented musicians in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan and debuted in 1982 in Tokyo, Japan. They are considered as the proteges of the "King of POP" of Japan.

To know them more just click: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzen_Chitai

ALL BY MYSELF - ERIC CARMEN

My post titled "ALL BY MYSELF - A PLAGIARISM" was commented by somebody from www.ericcarmen.com

The person wrote as follow:
"'When I was writing that album, I was listening to my favorite music which was Rachmaninoff. "All By Myself" incorporated a melody from his 2nd piano concerto as the verse.

I thought that it's a crime that there are some spectacular melodies in classical music that the general public doesn't get exposed to. I thought this was a way for me to bring some of the classical music that I love, incorporate it into a pop song for a new decade of kids, and introduce them to those beautiful melodies that they might not otherwise hear.'

I think he's also said he thought they were in the public domain when he used them, but ended up paying the Rachmaninoff estate. "

I really like the song. The lyrics just blended into it! Watch below - Celine Dion's version!




Please find below a score of ALL BY MYSELF.

SING ME YOUR SONG AGAIN DADDY

Sing me a song again, Daddy
Sing me a happy verse.
Teach me those clever lines you sang
As you carried me on your shoulders.
Sing me that hymn that you so loudly
Sang in church with mom.
Sing it again to me and fill me
With all your words of wisdom.

Comforting words of love when I
Would get home from school in tears.
Somehow your songs have stayed within me
Down through all the years.
Once when my younger heart was broken
Your shoulder was there to cry on.
Sing me those songs I know will linger
Long after you have gone.

I am standing at the threshold
Of a chapter in my life
I am asking for your blessing
As I’m about to be the wife
Of a man I know who loves me
And I’m proud to be his bride.
Dad the time has come for me to leave your side.

So, sing me a song again, Daddy.
Sing me a lullaby.
Wrap me inside your arms, Daddy,
‘Though this is not goodbye.
Your songs will live forever
In my heart. When times get rough
The ones I’ll most remember
Are your songs of love.

Your songs will live forever
In my heart. When times get rough

The ones I’ll most remember
Are your songs of love.

Today is my friend's birthday.
I wished him a happy birthday through YM and had a chit-chat.
Then he said, "Just wait for my invitation!"

Being a bit naughty, I teased him, "What???? Are you going to have your second marriage? When?"

He put a giggle emoticon and replied, "Very soon, but with the same person!"
I know he really loves her wife.

So......, our conversation rolling and I said, "Your statement reminded me of Jose Mari Chan's song!"

Jose Mari Chan recorded a song titled "I Have Fallen in Love with the same woman (three times)" which its lyrics written by the late Benigno Aquino. A very romantic poem.

One Jose's song really meaning to me. Which song? Correct! It is the song I copied the lyric above.

I miss you so much Dad!

NIGHT AND DAY

Yesterday, a good friend of mine said to me, that she would be better find somebody that loves her other than finding someone that she loves. Or in other word, she said rather be loved than loving.
I knew NIGHT and DAY (she inspired me to post this song today!) she is thinking of her lover who is very vague in keeping his mind focus on the relationship.
Sometimes her lover showed full attention and showering her with love, but sometimes he acts like he is somebody else.

Well.............., love..., oh love? Do you believe that there is love in this world? The true love???

Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom
When the jungle shadows fall
Like the tick tick tock of the stately clock
As it stands against the wall

Like the drip drip drip of the raindrops
When the summer shower is through
So a voice within me keeps repeating
You, you, you

Night and day, you are the one
Only you beneath the moon or under the sun
Whether near to me, or far
It's no matter darling where you are
I think of you
Day and night, night and day, why is it so

That this longing for you follows wherever I go
In the roaring traffic's boom
In the silence of my lonely room
I think of you
Day and night, night and day

Under the hide of me
There's an oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me
And this torment won't be through
Until you let me spend my life making love to you
Day and night, night and day

AGAIN Jim Croce

Last year, I happened wrote about Jim Croce.
Last week, incidentally I found this video posted by stratofender2003 and being amazed of the performance.
Here, I would to share it with all of you.

Happy watching and listening

HAPPY NEW YEAR

It has been a month, I did not write for my blogs at all. Mid December 2007 to end of first week January 2008, working like hell.

Running a new business is always not easy. I have been really busy, running here and there for the new business. Well, there is a perfectionist character inside myself.

But I really put my wish upon the stars for the new business.

WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR
- words by Ned Washington, music by Leigh Harline
- from the 1940 animated feature "Pinocchio"
- performed by Cliff Edwards (Jiminy Cricket)

When a star is born
They possess a gift or two
One of them is this
They have the power to make a wish come true

When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires will come to you

If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star as dreamers do

Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of their secret longing

Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true