Kaleidoscope Heart

Inside is not a heart but a kaleidoscope :)

Now a days in our new generation of auto tuned music in the mainstream like Ke$ha and Lady Gaga,which I call a machine produced songs, L.A. based singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles is one of the proofs that REAL musicians with REAL voice and talent still exists.

If you ask me to write a list of who I want to see perform live, she's probably one of the top 10. I've been a fan ever since her "Love Song", "Bottle It Up", and "Gravity" in 2007. And so when I heard that she is going to release a new album, I knew from there that it's going to be worth the purchase.

When I first heard about "Kaleidoscope Heart" it already caught my attention because of the catchy album title. Thought it was just an extension of her upbeat and catchy song melodies.. To my surprise, a large portion of the new album is somewhat mellow and soulful. The little intro was just perfect! "Inside is not a heart but a kaleidoscope" :)

She definitely continues to show the world how good of a songwriter she can be.

About the appearance of the album, I'm really disappointed that labels even consider about releasing cardboard albums especially in our era that most of the people just download them free and illegal. For a second, I was even hesitant to buy the album right away to a point that I was thinking if a cardboard album is worth buying. But obviously, I still bought the album, opened it as soon as I walked out the music store to check the CD, and guess what? It has a booklet with lyrics!! So hyped about it. Cus the last time I bought a cardboard album, it was just literally the cardboard and the CD.

So anyway, my favorite tracks are Uncharted, Hold My Heart, King of Anything, Let It Rain, and Breathe Again. Something that a girl can definitely relate to. Or maybe it was just me? hehe

Please do write a comment below if you already had the chance to listen to it. I love feedbacks :)

Quest Crew

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to be chosen as one of the 10 winners of meet and greet passes to Quest Crew mall show from Newport Mall's twitter account. I know what exactly you are thinking. It's probably my 3rd or 4th time to win something this year. But this time, I won the passes effortless. The only rule is to Retweet. So, like what they said.. I just RT'd the tweet with a word from me. What word? "WUHOO". Haha no kidding. Or maybe I have an eye catching twitter name.

For those who are wondering who the hell are the Quest Crew, they won in America's Best Dance Crew in third season. Yep, like the Jabbawockeez. To be honest, I wasn't really aware about the dance group until some friends mention it to me on Twitter and from RTs. But to my surprise, Victor Kim, one of YouTube musicians that I love, is a member of Quest Crew. I just figured when someone RT'd his tweet about flying to the Philippines. So, I wasn't really super excited to meet the Quest Crew, but to meet Victor Kim in person.

Victor Kim:

So I was too excited and DM'd my email address to get the full details how to claim my prize. After maybe an hour or so, I received their email and it says that I have to claim the passes in Eastwood Cyberpark in QC between 2-5pm and the M&G is on December 5 at The Fort. I thought it was just in Newport Mall since they are going to perform there on December 3rd :(

The Agony. I'm thorn between Victor Kim, the time of my availability, and the distance. So near yet so far.

Though I still asked a favor to my co winner, Vince, to get the tickets for me but yeah I wasn't able to attend for some personal reasons. I told him to give my passes to someone in the crowd who's deserving. He gave it to a boy who's wearing a Quest Crew shirt with his dad. I hope he enjoyed watching them. I hope it's a dream come true for him to finally meet his favorite dance crew :)

Even if everything is there in front of you, it doesn't mean it's already the right thing to do. You cannot push one thing that is not really meant to happen.

Priorities first. Use time wisely.

Ironically, same thing happened months ago when I got Meet and Greet passes to see the Boyce Aveue but the email sent to me was meeting Jabawockeez that I wasn't able to attend too.