Tuesday, December 21, 2010

겨울이왔다!! / Winter is here!!

겨울이왔어.. 불행하게도. 겨울이 완전히 최소 좋아하는 계절이야. 난 겨울 스포츠 좋아하면, 아마도 겨울 괜찮아.. 하지만 그것은 너무 추워 그리고 더러워. 어디에 살아 가볍게 눈이 오고 있다면, 그리고 온도가 높은보다 4C 있다면, 겨울은 예쁘고 쾌적할 수 있어.. 그렇지만 너무 따뜻하면, 비자금이 많이있을 거야.. 그래서 그것은 여전히 불쾌한 날씨이야. 근데 겨울 온도가 -10C 또는 추워 있다면, 그리고 -20C의 풍속 냉각 온도 있다면, 그리고 대량의 눈이 있다면, 겨울은 너무 싫어.

눈이 많이있다면 난 밖에 나가 필요 없어.. 멀리에서 눈이 감탄하실 수 있어.. 난 겨울 좋아해.. 아니면 터보건으로 미끄러져 내려가.. 나 오랫동안 터보건해 사라하지 않았어. 너무 재미있었어. 언젠가는 스노 보드와 스키를 해보고 싶어. 전 단지 크로스 컨트리 스키를 시도했어.. 하지만 재밌되지 않았어 어렵기 때문에. 정말요? 내 인생의 대부분을 내가 캐나다에 살았어 근데 내리막 스키를 한 번도 안 해봤어.. 정말 웃기지.. 올해 안에.. 어쩌면..

또한 겨울 독감의 계절이다. 지난 달 두번 이미 독감을 잡았지.. 하지만 난 그 별로 얘기하지 않아.

여튼 난 희망이 모두의 휴가 시즌이 너무 너무 쾌적할거야! 따뜻하게 입고 건강을 유지해 ^_^

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Winter is here.. how sad. Winter is definitely my least favourite of all seasons. Maybe it'd be alright if I were into winter sports, but even so.. it's so nasty and cold outside. If you live in a place where it snows lightly, and doesn't get colder than -4C then sure.. winter might be pretty and nice.. although if it's that warm during winter, you're likely to get a lottt of slush, which is still pretty unpleasant.. But if winter means -10C or colder, and windchill temperatures of -20C, and it snows in load fulls.. it's horrible.

The only thing I enjoy about winter is if it snows a lot and I don't have to go outside.. and you can admire it from far away =] or if you're going tobogganing.. but I haven't done that in years. It's awesome though. One day I want to try snowboarding and skiing.. I've only been cross-country skiing, which is way too much work to be fun. Can you believe it though? I've lived in Canada for almost my entire life, and I've never gone downhill skiing? Disgraceful XD.. who knows, maybe this year it will happen..

Winter also means flu season, which I've managed to catch twice in the past month =.= but I won't get into the details of that lol

Anyway, I hope that everyone has a pleasant holiday season! Dress warmly and stay healthy ^_^

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

[Youtube] Last video update of 2010!



Hi everyone ^_^

A few updates..
1) 720p videos!
2) Thanks for viewing and voting for my MBC Star Audition entries!
3) New projects for 2011: covers in different languages, original songs!
4) Facebook fan page: www.facebook.com/NicolOfficial
5) Email: nicol.official@gmail.com (put youtube or hoodie09 in the subject)
6) Thank you my lovelies for a great 2010! ♥

Have a safe and happy new year! =]



Saturday, December 11, 2010

[Youtube] Kajiura Yuki - Piano Medley (Last music video of 2010!)



Hey everyone ^_^

This is the last music video I will post for 2010! A vlog update will be coming soon.

So this is a piano medley of some of my favourite Kajiura Yuki songs. She's an amazing Japanese composer, responsible for a lot of amazing anime soundtracks, and projects such as FictionJunction and Kalafina.

The medley consists of the following songs:
- Fake Wings (.hack//Sign)
- Otome's Lullaby (My-Otome)
- Hime Star (My-HiME)
- Because I fell in love with you.. (My-HiME)
- Liminality (.hack//Liminality)
- A Song of Storm and Fire (Tsubasa Chronicle)

Nothing too fancy.. I'm not an expert pianist or anything lol.. towards the end it gets really sloppy.. ends quite abruptly.. oops =]

Anyway, hope you enjoy it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksimRMru4B8


Monday, November 29, 2010

Vote for me! (MBC Star Audition)

* Edit *
Just for your information, round 1 winners are selected by # votes AND # views, so the more you watch a video, the more chances it has of getting through to the 2nd round. 500 winners go to round 2, and from round 2, 50 entries are selected by the judges to go to round 3 in Korea.

Voting ends December 3rd. Vote every day ^^

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VOTING is OPEN! Voting is from November 28 to December 3, BUT you can only vote for a video once per day.

HERE'S HOW VOTING WORKS:
  1. Go to http://www.youtube.com/mbcaudition
  2. Click on the red button "Gallery".
  3. Browse through the videos and if you like a video, you click the "Vote" button beside it

PLEASE VOTE FOR ME! SEND ME TO KOREA =D
You can find my entries under
  • Canada > Rock (entry 2, page 1, 1st row), and
  • Canada > R&B (entry 1, page 3, 4th row)
.. the girl with the black guitar. Please and thanks!

ALSO. Please continue to watch my videos aside from voting for them!

SPREAD THE WORD TOO THANKS!

* Fan page: http://www.facebook.com/NicolOfficial

Thursday, November 18, 2010

MBC Star Audition (updated)

I entered a contest!
Please watch my videos as much as you can ^^
Voting takes place November 28 to December 3.. but # of video views also counts.
Thanks for your support! =D

Entry 1: Se7en - Again
Entry 2: The TRAX - Over the Rainbow (update)

회덮밥 / Hwedupbab

장난 아니네, 그냥 봐! / Holy moly just look at that =D
 
지난 주말 네가 처음 회덮밥 먹었어요. 너무 너무 맛있다!! 정말 놀라워.. 진짜
내 한국어 교사와 함께 저녁 식사에 갔어, 그녀는 내가 그것을 시도 제안.
보통, 난 다시는 반복해서 같은 것들을 먹는다.. 비빔밥과 감자탕과 짜장면과 짬뽕.. 이렇게 뭔가 새로운 체험을하고 싶어. 세상은 다른 음식이 가득해. 같은 것들을 먹는 소용 없다.
연어 사시미를 진짜 좋아하는데. 내가 회덮밥 봤을 때, 연어 사시미가 많이했다고 그것은 너무 화려했다, 바로 그게 맛있는 줄 알았어.
그렇게 너무 예쁘지? ㅋㅋ

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Last weekend I tried hwedupbab (heodeopbab) for the first time. It was sooo good! So amazing.. omg
So I went to dinner with my Korean tutor and she suggested I try it. I usually end up eating the same things over and over like bibimbab, gamjatang, and jjambbong so I wanted to try something new this time. No point in eating the same things when there's a world of food out there!
I really love salmon sashimi.. so when they brought out the hwedupbab, there was soo much sashimi and it was nice and red =D I knew right away that it'd be delicious.. totally was.
Looks good right!? lolz

Sunday, November 14, 2010

일본 음악을 / Japanese Music

최근에, 난 다시는 일본 음악을 듣고 시작했다. 누구의 음악이 내가 듣고 있었어? 흠 ...

이전 포스트에서, 나 AKB48에 관해 이야기했다. 그래서 오늘 그들에 관해 많은 이야기하지 않아. 기본적으로, 그들의 음악 jpop입니다. 발라드 외에, 대개 그들의 음악이 행복하게 들리는 군. 있지만 그들의 최신 싱글 'Beginner' 어두운 팝 느낌이있어.

AKB48

다음 주제는 SCANDAL이다. 그들은 4 멤버 여자 jpop/rock 밴드 있습니다. 밴드의 역사.. 그들은 고등학교에서 만났과 밴드를 결성.. 그리고 주말에는 그들은 거리에서 연주했다고, 클럽에서 연주 것을 요청 받았고, 결국 음반사에 서명 있어요. 이 여자들 매우 재능있는! =] 2개 기타리스트와 1개 베이스 기타 주자와 1개 드러머 있어요. 2개 메인 보컬과 2개 백업 보컬이 있어요. 그들은 훨씬 더 rockier를, 근데 그들은 없어져 버린 밴드 ZONE 생각나게. ZONE 4명 여자 멤버 있었어, 그리고 아이돌 그룹 있었어, 하지만 그때 밴드-dol 그룹되었어 (악기를 연주 아이돌 그룹). ZONE 자신의 음악을 썼다면 나는 잘 모르겠어 그리고 SCANDAL 역시 않으면 또 몰라, 하지만 난 더 경사 SCANDAL은 여전히 자신들의 음악을 쓴다라고 생각하는거야. 지금 SCANDAL은 ZONE의 가장 유명한 노래의 'Secret Base (키미 가 쿠래타 머너)' 커버를 한 것으로, ZONE 느낌이 받았는 것 같아 ㅋㅋ.. 그리고 리드 싱어 하루나은 매우 매우 비슷한 목소리와 ZONE의 리드 보컬 미유에 노래 스타일을하고 있어.

SCANDAL

YUI. 내가 처음 Bleach에 대한 결말 노래 중 하나로서 그녀의 음악을 들었어. 처음에, 난 그녀 음악을 좋아하지 않았어. 사실, 나는 아주 최근까지 그녀의 음악을 좋아하지 않았어. 그녀는 솔로 가수와도 기타쳐. 그녀는 자신의 음악을 쓴 것 같아.. 최고 =] YUI는 매우 편안하고 멋진 것 같다. 그녀의 영화 "Midnight Sun" 보지 않았지만 꽤 좋았다고 들었어요. 내가 정말 그녀의 어쿠스틱 라이브 좋아해 그럼 다시 누가 어쿠스틱 라이브 공연을 싫어하나요? Paramore? Paramore? 하하 YUI의 음악은 팝 / 락으로 분류되어.

YUI

그리고 물론 Ikimono-gakari. 난 결코 그들을 연구하거나 음악을 들었고. 한개 여성 리드 보컬과 두개 남성 맴버 있어요. 한 남자가 기타를 연주 다른 남자가 기타와 하모니카를 연주해요. 음악 스타일은 jpop/rock 있어 하지만 인디 음악과 조금 jpop 느껴는 것 같아요. Ikimono-gakari는 일본에서 너무 너무 인기가있어. 그 이유를 이해할 수 있는데.. Kiyoe 멋진 목소리를 가지고, 그들의 음악이 매우 잘 들어 쉬워요.

Ikimono-gakari
 
다음은 WEAVER예요. 그들은 3 남자 밴드예요. 한개 피아니스트/리드 보컬과 한개 베이스 기타 주자와 1개 드러머 있어요. 그들은 진짜로 잘 알려져 있지 않아 적어도 그들에 대해 많은 정보 없어. 난 부드럽고 인디의 팝 / 락 그들의 음악을 분류하는 것이지만 몇 사람들이 락 음악을 분류해. 그들의 음악은 일반적으로 매우 편안하고 중간 템포에 느린.

WEAVER
  
Kato Miliyah. 그녀의 음악이 R&B / hiphop이에요. 그것은 일본어 R&B, 그래서 북미 R&B에서 상당히 달라요. 제 의견으로는, 일본어 R&B는 더 팝 느껴 하지만 북미 R&B 더 soul 느낌이있어. 내가 처음 그녀의 협업 시미즈 Shota와 싱글 그녀의 음악을 들었어요. 음악이 춤 느낌이있어.


Kato Miliyah


몇 가지가 더 있지만 마지막으로 AI예요. 그녀는 사분의 삼 일본어 및 사분의 일 이탈리아어이다. 그녀의 음악은 'urban contemporary'와 R&B 분류해. 제 생각에는, AI의 음악 더 북미 R&B Kato Miliyah의 음악보다 비슷해요.

AI

와우 이 포스트 너무 긴 되었다. 어쨌든, 일본 음악의 좋은 다양한 있어.. 팝, 록, R&B, visual-kei, 등, 그리고 각각의 음악 장르 Oricon 차트의 톱 10에 들어간 것 같아 .. 너무 좋다.

안녕~

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I've recently gotten back into Japanese music. Who have I been listening to? Let's see..

So in a previous post I talked about AKB48. I won't spend much time on them this time.. basically their music is jpop. Generally happy sounding, besides the ballads, and their latest single 'Beginner' which has a darker pop sound to it.

Next is SCANDAL. They're a 4-girl jpop/rock band. Their basic history.. they met in high school and formed a band, and played on the streets and were asked to play in clubs, and eventually got signed to a record label. Very talented girls =] 2 guitarists, 1 bassist and a drummer. There are two main vocalists with the other two as back-up vocalists. They give me the same feeling as now defunct band ZONE except much more rockier. ZONE was comprised of 4 girls as well, and they were originally an idol group, but then became a 'band-dol' group - an idol group that plays instruments. I'm not sure if they wrote their own music, and I'm not sure if SCANDAL does either, but I'm more inclined to think that SCANDAL still writes their own music. I guess it's also easy to get that ZONE feeling now that SCANDAL has done a cover of ZONE's most famous song 'Secret Base (Kimi ga Kureta Mono)' lol.. that and the lead singer Haruna has a very very similar singing voice and singing style to ZONE's lead singer Miyu.

*side note* (Not in Korean part)
How cool would it be to be in a band!? So cool =D How come none of my friends play instruments!? XD
I guess it'd be hard even if they did play instruments.. cuz our music interests would have to be similar, or at least the type of music we would write..
I should learn how to play the drums so I can form a 1-person band.. hahaha. I mean, when I write music, I play all the different parts (piano, bass, guitar, fake drums on the keyboard), but it would sound way better with real drums.

YUI. I first heard her music as one of the ending songs for Bleach. Initially, I didn't like her music. Actually, I didn't like her music until very recently. She's a solo act and plays guitar as well. I think she writes her own music too, so props to her. She seems very down-to-earth and cool. I didn't watch her movie Midnight Sun, but I heard it was pretty good. I quite like her acoustic live performances, but then again, who doesn't love acoustic lives!? Paramore? Paramore? Paramore anyone? lol. YUI's music is categorized as pop/rock.

And of course, Ikimono-gakari. I've heard about them a lot, but I never took the time to research them or listen to their music. They're made up of a lead female singer, and two males - one playing guitar and harmonica, and the other plays guitar and sings. Their style of music is apparently also jpop/rock but I'm more inclined to label it as more 'indie' music with some jpop sprinkled in there =] Ikimono-gakari is very very popular in Japan. I can understand why.. Kiyoe has a great voice and their music is an absolute delight to the ears!

Next is WEAVER. They're a 3-man band - one pianist/singer, one bassist, and a drummer. They aren't really well known, or at least there's not much information out there on them. I would label their music as soft indie pop/rock although some list them as rock. Their music is generally quite mellow.. slow to mid-tempo.. very nice on the ears as well =]

Kato Miliyah. Her music is R&B/hiphop, though remember that this is Japanese R&B so it's quite different than North American R&B. I find that Japanese R&B has a more pop feeling to it while North American R&B is more soulful, although it is becoming more pop-like these days. I first heard her in her collaboration single with Shimizu Shota. The music has a nice dance feel to it.

There are tons more but I will leave the last entry for AI. She's 3/4 Japanese and 1/4 Italian. Her music is labelled as 'urban contemporary' and R&B. In my opinion, AI's R&B music is more similar to North American R&B than Kato Miliyah.

Holy moly, that was a long post. Anyway, to wrap things up, I feel that Japan has a nice variety of music.. pop, rock, R&B, visual-kei type music, etc. and what's nice is that it seems that each of these genres has artists that have made it into the top 10 of the Oricon charts (I think lol). Usually, I prefer to listen to jpop/r&b but now I'm getting back into the jpop/rock aspects of Japanese music. Mix it up a bit =]

That's it, that's all! Enjoy ^^