Big Baby Driver - A K-Indie Gem

I have a great find today and its Big Baby Driver! Okay, first the name is catchy, I mean these words "big", "baby" and "driver", if use them all together produces a curiosity to the readers. You'll get several  ASLs if you use that inside a chatroom. Its not your usual KPop name, you know the mixture of  capital and small letters and sometimes punctuation marks like SHINee, f(x) to name a few, not to mention that you have to know if you are pronouncing it right. Second, I was surprised that she is female, and third superb music!

image credit: koreanindie.com

So Big Baby Driver is an indie band and can't find a wiki article about her. ugh! Anyway this guy/gal wrote something about her (thanks!).

When you fall in love with KPop and you are a bit mature, the tendency is to dig more to the scene, thus finding greater talents than those on the mainstream. Well that statement could be entirely wrong for you, but for me it is so true. Although I am just a rookie on the KPop scene, I thirst for moaaarrrr Korean music.

I am a fan Sarah Mclachlan, Jewel and Fiona Apple, so maybe that is why I am attracted to Big Baby Driver's music. 

The first song that I heard from her is the "Tuesday Song", OST of King of Dramas, which I did not know that it was sung by her. Now Cyrano Dating Agency have several songs from her too and this is how I learned about her music. At first I was trying to find the background music on episode 5 (its by Ra.D, another artist that I like now) and find out about the drama's OST, and most of them is saying that they like the song of Big Baby Driver. I googled and found her other works which includes the song that I like in Joowon's drama, Level 7 Civil Servant, "A Stranger". I was surprised that I can understand her English. I hate to admit that most English on mainstream Kpop makes me cringe. I like "You Gonna Quit me Blues".

Tracklist:

1. You Gonna Quit me Blues
2. Big Baby Over 38,000 km Away
3. Your Sun is Stupid
4. I'm Leaving Here Now
5. I Am a River Dolphin
6. Constantly Vanishing Me
7. Everyday Blues
8. Marca's Wedding
9. You're a Jumping Zebra
10. Let's Breaking Down
11. Tomorrow
12. Singing for the One Less Lonely Mind

You can get it here. Thanks to this user on kiwi6.com. I'll buy her album once I get to Korea next year in autumn. I've got one K-Indie album that I bought when I was in Korea, its the second album of Urban Zakapa!

CNBLUE in Manila!

photo credit: cnbluestorm.com

I was not there. That's a very sad fact. Sad is an understatement. For years I and my few friends were following CNBLUE. Okay we are FANGIRLS and I don't have to expound that term for you. I've been to two CNBLUE concerts but still, having it in our own country will make it more special, more awesome! You see Philippines or should I say Manila is so thirsty with Kpop compared to our neighboring countries. I am not sure of the fanbase of Kpop in Philippines overall, but there's been concert here and there and a yearly Kpop convention that started in 2009, which makes it hard to believe that Manila will be one of the last places when it comes to concert like this.

I thank those guys who made the effort to let CNBLUE come to Manila. I am skeptical but hopeful for that to happened and it did. I remember voting for the survey that they did last year. It is just a bliss to see it actually happened, even my title of this post "CNBLUE in Manila"!

To make things more fun for the Pinoy fans, CNBLUE had a press con SM Megamall. I asked my sister to go there, for the fear of just a few fans will show up. But man, I was mistaken big time! Another reason why I asked her was, I know that one way or another she'll get to get pass security people, and there she was, in front row (or the sides) bearing production pass and see my boys, up close! can I cry now? waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

We are so envious because I for once flew to Hong Kong twice to see them live, get up so early in the morning to get the best tickets to see them as close a possible, but her, my little sister, just a jeepney ride and metro ride, boom! CNBLUE in her face. She was not even a fan. Though she finds Minhyuk cute. What made her more lucky is she got a copy of the coverage of the presscon that almost did not happen for the fans are getting crazy or CRAZY. Any Pinoy Boice will go wild after waiting for years. And yes I am bitter, we are bitter! hehe!

Here's the video for your viewing pleasure!

Bluemoon, more fun in the Philippines!

Vacay I Like!

I am actually back from my holidays and still too lazy to work. I didn't write an entry during my vacation for 1) I am chained to Candy Crush Saga 2) I am glued on TV for a 58-episode drama 3) Laziness. Haha! I do feel that I have a license to be lazy after all I waited 1 year and 4 months. As an overseas worker, we are to get a month long vacation every year and as for me, I usually go on vacation on a "need" basis. Like if I want to spend my Christmas and my mom's birthday, I'll go on December, if I want a summer vacation, I'll go some time March or April. This time, I need to be in Korea during spring for the cherry blossoms, thus I left mid April and enjoy a 5-week vacation! yay!

I'd rather rather talk much of the little stresses associated with this vacay, starting from my luggage (ask any OFW.. hehehe), to overly talkative passengers that started chatting (a little loudly) from the time their butts hit their seats all the way to Brunei which is a 7.5-hour plane ride. Ugh!

So where did I go? Its more of a "go" to me than "do" this vacation actually. I went to places this time but I kinda guilty of not "doing" much. Oh I did something dummy! Thus a new page on this blog... polymer clay. yay!

I think this is the grandest vacay ever! I've gone to South Korea and Hong Kong. Striking out one place on my bucket list (still got a lot on that list by the way). And CNBLUE! For its already second time is a charm! hehe

So hopefully, I'll be able to document my Korea trip and my BLUEMOON experience!