a sad song + I'm starting work soon!

"Boston" by Augustana (All the Stars and Boulevards) - lyrics

In the light of the sun, is there anyone? Oh it has begun...
Oh dear you look so lost, eyes are red and tears are shed
This world you must've crossed... you said...

You don't know me, you don't even care
She said
You don't know me, you don't wear my chains

Essential and appealed, carry all your thoughts across
An open field,
When flowers gaze at you... they're not the only ones who cry
When they see you
You said...

You don't know me, you don't even care
She said
You don't know me, you don't wear my chains

She said I think I'm going to Boston
I think I'll start a new life
I think I'll start it over, where no one knows my name
I'll get out of California, I'm tired of the weather
I think I'll get a lover and fly 'em out to Spain
I think I'm going to Boston
I think that I'm just tired
I think I need a new town, to leave this all behind...
I think I need a sunrise, I'm tired of the sunset
I hear it's nice in the summer, some snow would be nice...
Oh yeah...
Boston... where no one knows my name...
No one knows my name...
No one knows my name...

Been listening to this song for so many days I lost count cos it's such a good song. Been listening to the original version instead of the one that they put in their myspace website cos the original version is the one that really gets to me. These are the links to their videos:

Original version (featured in a final fantasy thingy) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzUPv-aysbU
New version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzUPv-aysbU

if only the actual video that was made by the band was combined with the original version. the new version just completely takes away the beautiful piano chords that you hear at the beginning, replacing with a more "bass" piano sound.

*****

I got a call on Sunday when I was getting out of bed after an afternn nap after church. it was like the call was waiting for me to wake up cos it was right at that moment when i was putting my feet on the floor abt to stand up. it was a feeling that you know that someone has prepared a plan for you and this is one of the steps in that plan. haha.. maybe i'm too sensitive but it's what i believe. The call was from Brilliant Minds (the first interview I went to) and they told me i'm hired!! I'm not sure whether this can be confirmed yet cos i have to go down there this wednesday cos they have stuff to tell me. but if i'm hired, i'd be starting working soon.. which is good cos i can finally can make my way to my macbook. the work wld mostly be admin, drawing up diagrams for maths worksheets and receving calls, collecting tuition fees and sometimes tutoring.

I wld be working even after the hols cos they badly need people so i'd be working on sats and sundays when i don't hv sch, until whenever they want me to stop. i don't mind this unless when der's exams and tests. that guy who called was asking me if i cld start work earlier at 8.45am on sundays, instead of what i told them, starting frm 12 onwards cos of church. But that guy sounded like he wldn't give me the job unless i compromised - which means yday was my "last day" at church. this sucks. but i don't have to go thru the newspapers anymore. it's weird u know cos last yr i only got a job in mid-jun, after tons and tons of interviews and emailing (amounting to abt 10++ interviews & >40 emails, which meant my hols was alrdy half gone. i was almost ready 2 give up by then until i got a job after a vacation at my aunt's hse in johor. but this yr i've sent emails to only like 10 companies and attended 2 interviews. i guess i can attribute this to my Even-vs.-Odd-Year-Luck theory. lol. it's really funny cos i believe that i have better luck in even-numbered yrs, e.g. 2002, 2004, 2006 cos i tend to do well in my studies and other areas of life in even yrs, as compared to my odd-numbered yrs. another theory that i've just conjured - i have this even vs. odd thing going on in my life cos maybe God wants me to go thru a good balance of highs and lows/trials and tribulations so that i can stand and go through yet another higher blow/challenge - just remembered a thing that my sec one form teacher always says - "whatever that goes up must come down" = theory of gravity - but only that now u apply it to your life experiences.

On the topic of God, i remembered reading this blog of an ex-schmate of mine - she said sth like "i hate people who proclaim that God is good only when they need Him" - i.e. "fair-weather Christians" and that "i believe God will not bother abt these hypocrites". well, i guess i can agree with the first part but definitely not the second part cos God is always forgiving and merciful.

oh yah.. and pls forgive me for inserting sudden "rememberings" here and there and everywhere cos it's just me. it's kind of like a literary device that i see in many books. i use it cos it's just natural to me and i think it's funny sometimes especially when it's a funny/embarassing thing. I add them when i suddenly rem sth and also to spark interest when you're abt to doze off while reading my blog. dunno if it works.

and in case you haven't noticed, my blogs tend to be very "short" sometimes. haha.
cos my ideas are all over the place, i can't organize them coherently and to think i wrote "excellent organizational skills" on my resume.

ok gtg. or else i'll blabber all sorts of different things until you can't catch up. i started on this blog at ard 2 am and now it's like 2.42.