Well Sunday’s are pretty predictable for me nowadays. Sleeping very late the night before, I would be struggling to wake up most of the time. Anyway, I ended up meeting up a very old friend of mine. We studied hotel management together like 10 years ago. Also from Sabah. He happens to be in the area called Section 14 Petaling Jaya so I went with him for a ride to The Curve in Damansara Perdana since he has some stuff to purchase for the company that he worked for.

His wife went back to Sabah for a few days so here we are two ‘wifeless people’ sitting and sipping Rm3.00 coffee (with free refills). Looking at people and stuff. This song keeps ringing in my head. You know from U2… “Sunday, bloody Sunday”. It’s like my theme song as I was chilling out. Weird man.

Too much time or just plain nothing better to do? Oh but the Yamaha shop is cool. I fooled around with the electronic drums and the keyboards. Groovy.

Check out this crappy panorama shot..click lah

If you are into Bossa Nova, Latin Jazz or Brazilian Jazz you may be familiar with the name, Antonio Carlos Jobim. I really dig his music. The video on the right featured Jobim with Andy Williams jamming and stuff. Some info as per Wikipedia about Antonio Carlos Jobim:

Jobim’s musical roots were planted firmly in the work of Pixinguinha, the legendary musician and composer who began modern Brazilian music in the 1930s. Jobim was also influenced by the French composers Claude Debussy and Ravel, and by jazz. Among many themes, his lyrics talked about love, political repression, betrayal, and especially about the natural beauties of Brazil, like the “Mata Atlântica” forest, birds like the Matita Perê, and his home city of Rio de Janeiro.

One of his songs sung by Astrud Gilberto made a sensational hit especially in the US and internationally. In fact a key event in making Jobim’s music known in the English speaking world was his collaboration with the American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz, João Gilberto and Gilberto’s wife. The song was entitled “Girl From Ipanema”.

The story goes that Jobim and his buddy Moraes would be chilling out in this “Veloso” bar-café and that the girl by the name of Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto (now Helô Pinheiro), a fifteen-year-old girl living in Montenegro Street of the fashionable Ipanema district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil would stroll past the popular cafe on her way to the beach everyday. Pictured here is Helô Pinheiro in her later life.

Oh she did become a Playboy Playmate in 1987 and another time in 2003! Well, you can do anything if you’re the Girl from Ipanema!

Every single person who’s currently in this blog reading or in planet earth for that matter (including Google bots) would have experienced some form of tragedy I believe. It can be associated with death of a loved one, broken marriages, betrayals, lost friendships, misunderstandings etc…you know what I’m talking about. Us human being are really special. Compared to other living creature on earth, we deal a lot with feelings.

Judgements are almost being executed based on how you feel. No matter how serious your dad is telling you that the car model called ‘MyVi’ is more fuel efficient than the second hand ‘Satria GTI’ that you’ve been wanting to get, chances are if you are a Satria GTI freak, you will choose the latter. Or perhaps you’d rather go all the way to another shopping mall just to get that brand of nail polish remover when you could get another which will serve the same purpose… cleaning off and removing your nail polish.

Anyway, let’s zoom back to life’s tragedy.

There are different ways how us humans deal with tragedies. For some, the easiest way out in order to stop that massive feeling of sadness, suicide is the only way. Some folks turn it into anger and affects the people around them. Others may loose hope in religion or whatever principles in life that they have been holding on to. There are also people who are patient enough to bury that sadness deep in their soul but will carry the scar throughout their life.

However, there are a few people who focus all this hurt and pain towards something else. Sort of a ‘project’. They channel all this feelings to some kind of ‘activity’. Join a Karate class. Be involved in community projects, charity for instance. Start painting again or get back into your favorite hobbies and be passionate about it. For those who are into music, they may start writing songs and stuff. In my humble opinion, I would call these activity as “Theraphy”?

R. Kelly for example. (Okay. it was not his personal account). But here’s an excerpt I took from popeater.com

In response to the Virginia Tech shootings, R. Kelly has penned ‘Rise Up,’ a song of hope and encouragement for the victims’ families and all who have been affected by the event.

Kelly was on his tour bus when details of the shooting were unfolding on the news, and he was so compelled that he began writing lyrics that eventually became this moving anthem.

In the bridge, Kelly sings, “You see struggle/ Struggle has no color/ No color/ In the midst of the crisis/ You are my sister and I’m your brother/ And side by side we’ll face this thing/ Standing tall/ You and me.”

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