The Part about Daylight...

161908OCT2005ZT

Sometimes while playing in the sun we come accross life's challenges. In these challenges we are confronted and blinded by falsehood, lies and deceit. As such there will be time for us to reflect on ourselves, give points to ponder. It is during these times perhaps we embrace the darkness, as somehow the dark calls to us. It comforts us..gives us shelter against the glaring light and in darkness, revelations and truths-no matter how painful are also made known to us.

Delerium's song called Daylight, epitomizes of such thought. In this new age: we have to give allowances to hear darkness's side of the story for the light may not be as what it seems...

"Daylight" From Delerium's album Poem, melody by Delerium, Lyrics by Matthew Sweet.

If you can believe you're turning on a world that broke your mind

then I can do something for you even though you're lost in time

You won't have to be my heaven, I won't have to be your friend

For daylight, (Daylight) comes every time, it's coming

Daylight, (Daylight) it goes away again now

Don't let go don't let go of your heart (x4)

(When you feel the time has come, everything you wanted

When you feel the time has come, I'm everything you've ever wanted)

Feel like your skin is burning one, into many drops of rain

But it's doing nothing to me, drowning in a sea of pain

You won't have to be my heaven. I won't have to be your friend.

For daylight (Daylight), comes every time, it's coming

Daylight (Daylight), it goes away again now

Don't (Don't) let go of your heart

(Of your heart) (x3)

Don't (Don't), you know who you are

Don't (Don't) let go (Daylight)

Don't (Don't) let go of your heart

Don't (Don't) let go (of your heart) (Daylight)

Don't (Don't) let go of your heart

(of your heart)

The Part about Hailing...

110103OCT2005ZT

ye gods...the MINISTRY OF SOUND!!!

all HAIL the ministry of SOUND>.....

started last year....sheesh...and I did not know I had it in me...!!! Zipping thru some clubs last year (in the Tanjong Pagar area..hehe) I danced, swayed, hipped to the dance beats of house genre of dance music....

and I though i could only dance to Irish music...

soon enough, i was introduced to the annual 2005 album released by the Ministry of Sound (MOS) ...a god sent organization to relieve our

1) boredom of going back to the same clubs and hearing the same dance pieces over and over and over and over and over again for the past few weeks..

2) in the case where by we were broke and unable to pay the entrance fee into the clubs... me and me mates would juz 'borrow' a friend's house/room/basement/etc..., plug in a stereo set, insert the MOS cd...buy cheap booze, and presto! instant clubbing...

and i'd just bought the Dance Nation album released by MOS and a irish songbook album by the Corrs..both bought me weak at the knees with all the dancing...

on one of the MOS's Cds is a remix track of Sarah Vaughan's "Fever".....damned hot here it is in me room now.............

oohh...ugh...ahh....

The Part about being Conjured into Delerium...

031006SEPT2005ZT

woah...i've spent a motherload on money these past few months due to being 'drugged' by super music. It all started when i bought a chill out in ibiza 3 album. most of you reading this know i have a 'thing' for chill-out/ambient music. Whereupon i heard a track called Silence and it was from a group or artiste called Delerium. The track featured Sarah McLachlan whom some of you out there may or may not know...Delerium is actually a duo consisting of Rhys Fulber and Bill Leeb. Fulber eventually spinned off from Deleriium to set up his own solo project called Conjure One-but more on that a little later.

anyway...when I heard Silence then i knew that it was simply a mindblowing track. Silence was pure aural genius. simply breathtakingly beautiful and haunting. I kept listening to it when i was in Brunei on my 2nd detachment. When I came back, I chanced upon the 'Best Of Delerium' album-which was essentially the best music/tracks/songs which Delerium thought they had written/composed. Somehow or rather fate led me to it. Since I bought that album and assimilated it to my MP3 player, I searched out for the remaining earlier albums and bought them since that day. Semantic Spaces, Karma, Chimera and Poem. Geniuses created these beautiful haunting ethereal pieces of heaven. All with just the right amount of middle eastern percussion, gregorian chants, and electro-pop-ambinet-chill out constructions. (not all in the the same amounts). I jus realised that I'd been ignoring my other MP3s!

I've enquired other ppl about it and apparently obody around here listens or heards of Delerium before! Except of course save perhaps the Lush 99.5 crew to some extent. The only other person who may have heard about it was my cousin Sharon, who shares a similar music interests as I do. Oh BTW, for those of you who enjoyed Canto alla Vita in Josh Groban's (which he sang with The Corrs [my all time fave irish group] ) album-u might find it interesting to note that Rhys Fulber did the producing for that track...

Conjure one is Fulber's attempt to write songs similar to those he had done for Delerium in the albums of Poem and Chimera. The initial album is great too..though maybe not with the lush ethereal sounds...but the definate eletronica groove worthy of being savoured in a wine bar or with a cup of earl grey on a sunset beach front is still evident.

The Part about being Roped in...

201240AUG2005ZT

for a parade...and I have to say that--I HATE PARADES..unless of course i'm the parade director/coordinator...

yeah well..roped in to be a member of the supporting contingent in the RSAF Day Parade. Supposedly its out Air Force's 37th Birthday...and we're ALL carrying the M16 rifles...thank god...non of that SAR 21 crap for me thank you very much... Its actually an overhyped technological piece of sh*t.

right...CT is organising her 25th anniversary celebrations..her biggie birthdae. i'm already envisioning a sweet secrets chocolate royal b-dae cake...HUGE one...to be cut..by yours truly on the nite itself...sighz..

but of course, its pipe dream till me and the team assemble everything together..i want it to be a painless affair..for the organisers...but we're gonna FORCE ppl to dress up properly for the event. no jeans or ties or polo tees pls...we're gonna be telling the guests..else ya get ur sweet arse booted out of CT's prison gates by our 'bouncers'. hehe