T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever) by will.i.am ft. J.Lo & Mick Jagger

I'mma  recent.ly dev.eloped  a g.reat liking for da Hip Hop gen.re :)
The b.eats are awe.so.me but the lyrics are just so wrong... (rude, dumbed down)
not something that kids/teenagers should listen to...
Then again, I wouldn't have known what the lyrics are about if I hadn't looked it up online...
So I guess I can be for.give.n for liking the song before I knew what it's all about :p
My fav.our.ite Hip Hop song at the moment is T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever) by will.i.am ft. J.Lo & Mick Jagger...
yeah...you'd never have guessed that J.Lo's voice is in it too! :)
so I'mma share this vid.eo that I found on You.Tube... (uploaded by InterscopeGeffenAM)
and the lyrics (below)

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juVKpvYjb-8)

Lyrics:-
(Source: http://www.directlyrics.com/william-hard-lyrics.html)
Oh my goodness, this beat is so hard...
Oh my goodness, this beat is so hard...

[will.i.am]
I'mma go hard, hard to the core
Hard like moth* f*c*in liquid swords
Harder than worldwide stadium tours
I am the future, delorian doors

Will he survive? Never deceased
I don't think I'mma ever gonna rest in peace
I'mma kill the game, leave the rest in pieces
Now everybody want my recipe
Tell a jealous chicken I don't know what the beef is
I'm just making money for my grankids' nieces
I'mma work hard, that's my thesis
This beat is the sh*t, feces

Pardon me ma'am, I'mma go dumb
Smart.i.am, I'm complicated, hard.I.am
I end the beginning, then start it again

[Jennifer Lopez - Hook]
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home

You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home

Oh my goodness, this beat is so hard...
Oh my goodness, this beat is so hard...

[will.i.am]
You can get that, or you can get this
You can call a demon, I'mma call Jesus
You can get a curse, you can get a cross
You can go to work, or you can be the boss
I'mma be the owner, be a thought donor
I'mma go hard, like a muthaf*c*in boner
I'mma make the beat put the people in a coma
You can be a geek or be a rolling stoner

I woke up in the morning,Hard like morning wood in the morning
Woke up thinking about microphonin'
E.t own the mic phone the homeland
Will.i.am The Hardest Ever lyrics found on http://www.directlyrics.com/william-hard-lyrics.html


I'm way out like NASA
I'm way over here I done past ya
I get stacks of cash, you get cashews, I go hard, statues

[Hook]
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home

You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard or you can go home

[Bridge]
Now let me take this time to say I don't wanna lead you on
You can go hard or you can go home Well I, I know it is a lot to take but I don't wanna lead you on
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard...

Wait a minute, I'mma make it a little harder
I'mma make it a little harder
Give it to you a little harder
THIS IS HARD....

[Mick Jagger]
Hard like a rock n roll
The time bomb's tickin', explode
Baby this is dynamo
Better move back now
It's bout to blow
Hard like Geometry, and Trigonometry
This is crazy
Psychology
Get it baby
I'm bout to win
Watch out now
I'm going in

You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard
You can go hard or you can go home
You can go hard..

Bloomberg's Hottest Anchorwoman :)

What I like most about Bloomberg's Starting Bell is that the anchor has 'real' knowledge in Finance.
She's not just a pretty tv face.
She's intelligent, sexy...and very articulate :)

Betty Liu brings an award-winning wealth of experience in print, radio and television.

Before entering television, Betty was the Atlanta bureau chief for The Financial Times where she made a name for herself by breaking news and profiling top corporate and political leaders such as Coca-Cola ex-chief executive Douglas Daft, former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

Her coverage of the biggest Fortune 500 companies based in the South (Coca-Cola, Home Depot, UPS, FedEx) earned her a spot on TJFR's "Top 30 business journalists under 30 list" three years in a row.

The FT also nominated her for a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for her series of articles on immigrant labor in the South.

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Betty Liu is an now an anchor for Bloomberg Television in New York.

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Betty was formerly an anchor and correspondent for CNBC Asia, based in Hong Kong. She covered the daily market action in the Greater China region for all of CNBC's morning shows including the signature program, Squawk Box. She anchored the coverage of the China market meltdown in February 2007 and also anchored CNBC's newest show, Capital Connection, which launched in March 2007.

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Betty is also a book author and has written about personal finance. She published the financial and lifestyle guide, "Age Smart: Discovering the Fountain of Youth at Midlife and Beyond" (Prentice Hall, May 2006), which was turned into a month-long weekly series on CNBC Asia called "The Good Life". Her book led her to writing a bi-weekly personal finance column in The South China Morning Post.

Prior to joining The FT and CNBC Asia, Betty was the Taiwan bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires - the youngest ever in Asia - and a Hong Kong-based regional correspondent for the newswire. In 1997, she received a Dow Jones Newswires Award for her coverage of the Asian financial crisis.
She has written for The Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Philadelphia Magazine.

Betty was born in Hong Kong and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with an English degree. She is a mother of twin boys.

Michael Jackson's kids are so CUTE! :)

Surprise surprise :) Who'd have thought that MJ's sons are so good looking!

(Image source: telegraph.co.uk)

The kids at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, with Lionel Richie

MJ's eldest children, Prince Michael and Paris Jackson accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of their late father.

Gaga News: Lady Gaga won two Grammy Awards :)

... and she got Elton John to wear a pair of gold-dust covered glasses + an unusually big "star of David" ear-ring - while they're performing a duet at the awards.

(Image source: http://static.technorati.com/promo/3419/lady-gaga-elton-john-grammys.jpg)
I apologize for the blur images ;P
there aren't any pics of Elton John wearing that ear-ring so I had to copy it from the YouTube vid

(Image source: YouTube)

Pic:
Lady Gaga poses backstage with her awards for Best Dance Recording and Best Electronic Dance Album at the Grammy Awards on Sunday :)

(Source: http://www.northjersey.com/photos/photocb0202_530.html)

Lady Gaga's performance with Elton John at the Grammy Awrds double up as quite a good magic show :) - disappearing acts, fires, etc

Lady Gaga's Mickey Mouse pants :)

Lady Gaga's so entertaining :)
Yes, I'm way past the age of pop fandom, but I can't help but like her unusual sense of fashion (which sometimes crack me up) - the "transparent bubbles costume", yellow colour Mickey Mouse hot pants... (in her pseudo-film noir "Papparazzi" MTV)

My Mum  used to have a similar-looking pyjama

Lady Gaga's not a typical singer

not a typical songwriter

She's very upbeat - you can probably think of her as the "Salvador Dali" of the music industry

She studied Arts, and applied them  very well in her work (lyrics, music, costumes)

- she's the daughter of a wealthy Internet entrepreneur who decided to be independent & earned her own living by working as a song-writer/singer/stripper at NYC clubs - where she and her good pal Lady Starlight came up with some pretty good Revue Shows

(source: Wikipedia)

Black colour lips

When I first came across the MTV at McDonald's, I couldn't quite fathom why she'd have the bizzare "wheelchair" scenes, but after having watched it on YouTube, I finally understood the story behind the MTV.

The video began with some classic 1950s-60s film-noir montages...

 

To summarize, her boyfriend pushed her down from the balcony. She was hospitalised, but being a strong-willed & resillient person, she practised her dances even when she's wheelchair bound - and when she recovered, she took revenge on her bf - and was eventually arrested by the police

 

 

 

This is the "revenge" scene, where she wore the funny looking Mickey Mouse hot pants :)

 

Another picture of the Mickey Mouse costume...

A wheelchair-bound Lady Gaga practising her dance routine with a very "multicultural" group of dancers

What I like about the "Papparazzi" MTV is that it's very "motivational", in that it encourages us to "not give up easily"

- ie. , if  Lady Gaga can bounce back from being an invalid (due to hard work and determination), we can do the same too

 

 

The beauty of female anatomy

Had a highly memorable after-work voyeuristic session at Showgirls ;p
and yes, Kiwi girls are much more beautiful than what I saw in photos :)

 (Image source: AllPosters)

Unfortunately, we're not allowed to take photos inside the strip club.
So, I can only describe this wonderful experience in words... ;)

Entrance is free for girls if you're there "early" - say, at about 9pm
The club is open at about 8/ 8.30pm.
You have to be aged 18 above to enter a strip club

Do EAT before you enter a strip club. They don't serve popcorns :(
No nachos, peanuts, potato crips, kebab, burgers or anything else to munch on. Just drinks...
The drinks are expensive too!
But it's a worthwhile experience:)
The dancers are absolutely beautiful:) - not all of them are Kiwi girls. Some are Europeans, some are Russians.

My favourites are the classic blonde/blue eye beauties...and yes, the girls do have nice, soft pink colour nipples ;) smooth cream-coloured skin.

& yes,... girls are allowed to touch the dancers;) hehe
but you have to tip them using special "Showgirls dollars" which you obtain from the bar.
I touched two girls, a Kiwi blondie (the  tanned, beach girl type with big boobs) and a dark-haired Hungarian beauty (Please don't tell my Dad;p)

I was sitting in the front row. The Hungarian girl danced seductively at the metal pole, and then came up to me took off her pink-colour fluorescent leotard.
I blushed ;p hehe

My co-workers were so mischievous. They made me put some "Showgirls Dollar" on the girl's boobs.

She squeezed her boobs, kissed me *blush blush blush* and said "thank you" coyly - in her exotic accent.
I was spellbound.
Before I knew it, I stammered and muttered something like, "You - I like you -.. is good - the dance" *blush*
(Ermm, don't ask me why I was nervous ;p... To be honest, I don't know why. After all, she's a girl, I'm a girl. She has boobs, I have boobs too. and I've done bra shopping with my friends so many times...it's not my first time seeing a girl naked, up-close)

I asked, 'Where are you from?"
She said, "Hungary"
I thought she's Egyptian - she looks a bit like the actress in Cleopatra (TV series) - Leonor Varela

 

Leonor Varela - actress

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Favourite Mock Ad: The Break Up ak.a. Bring the Love Back

Here's one of my favourite ads
- a pretty popular (award-winning) video clip among Marketing/Advertising seminar speakers back in year 2008:

Title - "The Breakup/Bring the Love Back"
- it's a dialogue between "Advertisers & Consumers", cleverly scripted in a "couple-fight" setting.

Highly entertaining
Witty witty witty - definitely a must watch!!

The Break-Up' - also available on www.bringtheloveback.com - is about the relationship between a conceited advertiser and a consumer.

The plot:
The Advertiser (man) and the Consumer (woman) have agreed to meet in a restaurant.
The man's feeling perfectly happy, until the woman makes a painful announcement: she wants a divorce.
In the course of their conversation she makes it clear to him why she is leaving him. And he makes it very clear that he doesn't have an empathic bone in his body.
At the end of the movie the woman walks away disappointed but determined. The advertiser stays behind alone.

The clever script:
Advertiser (Man) seated in a restaurant and admiring his own reflection on a spoon as the Consumer (Woman) appeared

Advertiser (Man): Hey there... Long time no see, looking good

Woman removed her jacket and took a seat opposite the man

Consumer (Woman): Yeah... Let's just keep this simple. I want a divorce
Man: Right now?
Woman: I think you heard me just fine


Man: Come on. This is me. What's wrong?

Woman: We don't talk anymore

Man: I just put a million in a TV commercial to talk to you.
Woman: Exactly. You do all the talking. I never even get a chance...


Man interjected
Man:
Woman: Sure, if I wanna say "Order this product..."
Man: See
Woman: It's not exactly a dialogue
Man: What about the print campaign, hmm?
You can't tell me you missed the billboard at Times Square. That's like a 2,000 ft declaration of LOVE
Woman: You're saying you love me but you're not behaving like you love me
Man: I don't know. The agency said I sound genuinely funny, cute and genuinely charming. 
(Raising his voice in the restaurant)

THEY SAID YOU WOULD LOVE EVERYTHING I DID
(Woman was embarrassed)

Woman: Shh! Keep your voice down. You're not doing a radio commercial
Look, whether you're funny or not, it's just... I've changed and you haven't. I mean, we don't even hang out in the same place anymore
(pause)
You're not even listening, are you?

Man: Coupons! You want coupons, don't you? Look, come by the store. I got two words for you: LOYALTY, REDEMPTION
(Man used his hand as an imaginary gun and "shoot" the woman - in an attempt to signify that the Advertiser has won over the Consumer)
Am I right? That was it? Wasn't it? Let's just TALK

Woman: If you knew me, you know I don't care about that
Man: Sweetheart, I know everything about you. You're 28 to 34, your online interests include music, movies,  and... laser hair removal
You have a modest but dependable disposable income.
Am I the only one not getting the problem here?


Woman: Umm, I'm outta here
Man: C'monnnnnn. Don't be like that
I tell you what. Come back here tomorrow, I'll give you a chance to win a Bahamas vacation. 

(As the screen faded off, the Advertiser (Man)'s voice continued looming in the background
It's a small chance, minuscule, but tactically still a chance


(I'll transcribe the whole thing someday;) need a break at the mo)

What is a disco stick?

I've never really been a fan of any singers in my entire life. But in the recent months, I was intrigued with a photo of a singer named Lady Gaga wearing a transparent "bubbles" stage costume - which appeared in The Star, a Malaysian mainstream newspaper.

(If I say I'm impressed with any celeb, you've gotta take me seriously;) Because I have never paid any attention to Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, or owned any CDs apart from Whitney Houston's)    
- as such, I am reviewing her work very objectively, and void of the intense fan devotion that would usually cause biased judgements

(Source: http://blogs.nypost.com)

Well, I was curious enough to google Lady Gaga's and chanced upon her fan site www.ladygaga.com and quite like the Flash design:) 
- an AI version of New York City 
If you move your mouse cursor on the screen, you will get a Flash view of NYC

I listened to some of her songs on YouTube, read her biography and found myself quite impressed with this young artiste! 

What's interesting about her work is that they're heavy on parody - eg. a love song titled "Brown Eyes" whereby the music video's done in a Salvador Dali style - very Freudian (she hugged a corpse as she was singing the song). You can view the video here:-
(It's in French, with English subtitles - provided an overview of all her songs in her debut album The Fame)


and there's also a song titled "Passion" written from the p.o.v. of a transvestite and sung in an effeminate voice;) lol - which I thought was brilliant
I mean, who else had ever really thought about writing a song for Ladyboys?
I only thought about Ladyboys when I visited Thailand
I do not discriminate and I personally feel sorry for the marginalised groups as I have some gay Asian friends who are very intellectual, but suffered discrimination in traditional workplaces. So, great job, LadyGaga - for doing something to help them out! :)

She has a very wacky fashion sense. 
IMHO, very artistic!
Some snapshots of her bizarre costumes...

A snail-inspired outfit

An eagle-inspired metallic colour dress

Mickey Mouse hairdo

 

Look at those lips! :)

Purple colour hair

"Red Riding Hood" leotard

Geometry dress

My favourite:) Blue puffed-sleeves top

I was impressed because she's only 22 and she has a very good insight on how to capture attention in an uncanny way - injecting art into contemporary music and at the same time, bringing attention to social issues - the 'dark side' of city life that people are aware of, but rarely talk about.

Lady Gaga carrying a disco-stick - her favourite on-stage prop

She probably invented the word "disco stick"
- Well, maybe she didn't... but nevertheless, she did help popularize "disco stick" by giving it a new meaning. In her performances (particularly when she sings the song titled "Just Dance"), she is often seen carrying a rod which she refers to as her disco stick)

She french-kissed two Dalmations in one of her videos. Gross? ;p I actually thought it's quite creative (errm... I'll never look at Dalmations the same way again)

Although Lady Gaga does have her critics, I am inclined to believe that she is a very "original" artiste - and being a non-celeb fan, I believe that I'm judging her very objectively - and this blog post will perhaps, make you curious enough to do a bit of googling on your own;)

I'm just so enamoured with Lady Gaga's unique fashion sense and bizarre videos that I almost forget to mention that she has a very good voice - as good as Christina Aguilera's - Broadway quality!!:)