2 New Albums

It's been awhile since I updated since I updated on Marié Digby. Well she hasn't updated a lot recently so I was quite clueless about her whereabouts compared to a year ago. A recap of my previous craze is here. But she did explain her absence on YouTube . Well it's very good news, she has come out with 2 new albums. The first has released on the 4th this month and it's called Second Home. It's a full Japanese album consisting of covers of songs by Japanese artists. The album name Second Home clearly refers to her being half Japanese. She spent several months in Japan mainly to record this album and probably to catch up on her family which is half way around the world from where she lives. Well as a huge fan of hers, the album certainly had to be on my collection. So here is it.Thanks to my Ah Chi again.
COVER
BACK .Really like the expression.
INSIDE

I know none of the songs she covers, which is not surprising. I don't understand a single word she sings unless it's in English. For a cover album, it's pretty good. I can't rate her pronunciation, but it sounds pretty authentic to me. A real Japanese could have rated this album more accurately. As for me , there's obviously bias to everything I like. Lol. But the truth is, some tracks are pretty good, all the credit to the original singers of course. 4th track caught my attention so. The chorus sings "Don't you think,I wanna be with you, and then something something...lol".

Live performance of her first song in the album


Some pictures from her photoshoot for the album and promotion of her album.
















FULL CREDIT TO MARIEDIGBY.ORG for the pictures.
Go to the website for more of the pictures.

Can't help but notice the really cute hair!! Marié, pretty as always....

Before I forget, the 2nd album would be out on 27/5/2009 , its called Breathing Underwater. You can check the preview on her YouTube channel (linked on the sidebar). Four CDs in over a year, some accomplishment for the girl on YouTube.

Here's her preforming her song from the album "Come to Life" in Japan.

~deyao~

Final Dash

The season's most painful wait for Arsenal is about to be lifted IF we get through the next 3 games. It's almost something so inverted like a sea-saw, you just can't be up at both times (read further). But this season has been different in too many ways especially in the worse side of things. This is the worse season I've seen Arsenal played in all my life but something really special is on its way.
The next 3 games
Roma - Champions League
Blackburn - Premier League
Hull City - FA Cup
If we do win this three games, the bonuses gained would be priceless. What am I talking about?
The return of Cesc Fabregas and Emmanuel Adebayor in April. This painful wait as I mentioned earlier still drives agony down Gooners' hearts when we recall the goalless draws and worse of football played this season. We have sorely missed the Spanish maestro this season. The loss of vision in passing and bossing of midfield by this genius has once again dealt the biggest blow to our League hopes.

But hold on, we have 2 Cup competitions left this season and one of them still eludes every single Arsenal fan and player in history. Cup competition would be the biggest redemption for Arsenal as the mostly average season form guide can be thrown out of window. What has been played before does not matter now, what we have ahead of us is real.

I started the season with full of optimism citing Arsenal could challenge for the league (Which Arsenal fan would have done otherwise). I forcasted the intrinsic value of the team has finally grown to a level whereby it was no longer the so called "grace period for development".
80% of the team has now at least played 4 years of the highest level of competitive football and there was no reason that the team could still be labeled "Young" or most commonly "Inexperienced". Fabregas, Van Persie, Adebayor and Eduardo with the mixture of Walcott and Nasri absolutely convinced me this is it. Not sure how many times lightning (injuries) can actually strike the same club again, but it did hit us again and we could no more than mediocre.
Critics say we lacked depth but come on.... 4 of your best players out ???
Hmm.Man Utd without Ronaldo, Rooney, Tevez and Berbatov? Liverpool without Gerrard, Torres..oops..that should be enough. Go imagine what sort of team is put out.

We MUST get through these 3 matches if there's any hope in salvaging the season. The surprise form of Van Persie and Bendtner plus recent bloomers in Arshavin, Vela and Eduardo can be no coincidence with the return of Cesc and Ade for the final dash. God bless the Gunners!

~deyao~