30 Day Song Challenge- Day 3 & 4

Here’s today’s two songs! (Would have had them up earlier, but I had to study..    -__-)


Day 03: A song that makes you happy

This would have to be Gee by SNSD (Girls’ Generation), it’s really catchy and bouncy. And although it’s in korean, I know some of the words hehe and mumble, sing and dance along. It is definitely a sugar-coated song, the theme behind it is the typical love story, girl likes boy. You can listen to it here and read more on the lyrics below the video.

Lyrics: In both English and the romanized Korean ^ ^

Day 04: A song that makes you sad

 Seems like I’m into the Asian songs in this post, but it’s because I like to be diverse with my cultures and music, I actually have three songs for this category. The first song is from the “Fated To Love You” song track, this was the first really sad/ dramatic Asian drama (Taiwanese) I had watched and was actually quite funny at the same time. I don’t know how they did it, but I loved it immensely. This is “Wo De Kuai Le”, english name “My Happiness” by Walkie Talkie (Jin Xiu Er Chong Chang). I actually do know ALL of the words to this, strange I know, but again I really love this song. I tried to play the piano to this and being that I’m such a bum, it was pretty hard, but there are lots of covers on YouTube of it. Do enjoy!

Lyrics: English, Traditional Chinese and Hanyu Pinyin

The Next two songs are from the same drama, and this one was sadder from the first, I’m glad I watched this one after FTLY because it was a good transition into the saddest show that I have ever watched. I am currently watching “I’m Sorry, I love you”, but that is the topic of another post. The drama I am talking about is “Autumn’s Concerto” also known as “Next Stop Happiness”, it is really a touching story. Anyway, the first song from this drama that I fell in love with was one of the opening songs “Wo Ai Ta” by Della Ding. I find It strange how FTLY had a similarly named song, but they were completely different years and i’m sure ideas have clashed many times in the entertainment industry. This song is very deep, you feel every emotion although it is not in English, which is a lot for a song to do, it gets its point across well. Once again I know the lyrics to this too hahaha, but I’m sure after you hear it you’d want to know them as well.

Lyrics: English, Traditional Chinese and Hanyu Pinyin

This final song is also from Autumn’s Concerto, “Wo yi wei” by Victor Huang. I do not all the words to this one but I definitely understand the sentiment. This song puts my in a mood of solemness and deep thought. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Lyrics:English, Traditional Chinese and Hanyu Pinyin

That’s it for this post, maybe another in the next two days or so, depends on how studying goes.

XOXO

End of a new week.. or is it the beginning?.. hmm

Hey everyone, another week has just flew past and another has just begun. Hope you all had a great week and weekend as well.. I know I did.

Well this week was quite hectic actually, lots of work to do. I had a Chemistry test first thing Monday morning.. what a way to start the week, sigh… but it went pretty well. Our tutors in charge of labs have been messing us up quite a bit.. returning books late and then marking them like crazy people, I hope it gets sorted out this week, my friend still hasn’t gotten their lab book from LAST WEEK! Talk about crazy late! On the bright side, the Chemistry labs were satisfyingly easier than the previous week’s labs… SCORE!
I finally switched the time of my Biology class (Yay no more late evenings!!!), but I couldn’t find it this week, so next week I’ll try hard to be there =). Biology labs from last week were also a bit stressful at the end.. time was running out and I started to panic because my results were coming out really weird. But thanks to my really cool lab partner and we were able to finish AND clean up in time ^_^.

On Saturday I finally cut my hair!!  I had planned to do it earlier, like in September, but my hair still looked too short (it’s texturised, but my hair is really unruly haha). No one believed I would do it, not even my sister! But I showed them :P. I’m thinking if I should post before and after pictures here, comment before and tell me if I should. I was planning this change from long hair for quite some time actually, I’m pretty happy with the results and hope that my hair texture experiment comes out well.

Also on Saturday, my family (Dad, Mom, Sister and me of course :P) went to dinner at Sitar with my Great-Uncle and his family (cousins hehe). Sitar is a traditional Indian cuisine restaurant with an extensive menu worth the buck… let’s just say that by the end of the night it was a wonder how we were able to move from our seats. The food was really good and the service was just as good. Sitar is located in 2nd Street St.James in case you would like to visit it, It’s a bit chilly inside because of the air conditioning (although they did raise the temperature when we asked) so I would advise carrying a light jacket.

So for starters we had some Chicken and Vegetable Samosas, these were packed with filling and tasted amazing! We also had some Daal Vada (split pea patties), Onion fritters (can’t remember the real name) and a variaty of condiments: a tomato-based sauce (one of my favourites), yogurt and cucumber sauce (very nice), coconut and onion sauce, chopped onions, mango chutney (delicious!). And of course NAN bread! We also had Pappadums which is like the Indian equivalent to prawn crackers, but it was huge, bigger than my face! It was very light , like a snack  but not too salty.

For the main course, I had Chicken Tikka Masala… yum, with basmati rice (not so much a fan of this type of rice but it went well with the dish).It wasn’t over overpoweringly spicy, just nice and mellow. Tasted great!

My dad, mum, great-uncle .. in fact  most of the adults had Chicken Tandoori which came in a hot.. now when I say hot I mean so hot that sizzling and popping sounds were coming from the dish ( I think it was a cast iron dish), even the sauce was bubbling! see what I mean here:

My sister had some green goop… when not really green goop but it looked pretty um.. I’ll just let you judge for yourself. It was called Beef Saag (spinach-based sauce) and she seemed to like it…I didnt dare touch it.. for fear I would be taking in by it like one of those Calvin & Hobbes comics. hahahaha. Take a look yourself.

Yup and that was pretty much my weekend, excluding my many hours of catching up on notes, writing up biology labs and doing miscellaneous classwork and chores.
How was your weekend, and what’s your take on Indian cuisine? Like it, hate it, never had it.. couldn’t be bothered? Drop me a line anyway =) I’d love to hear from you. Until then,I’ll leave you with this fun blast from the past haha:  Calvin Food Struggle !
BYYYYEEEEE!

First post! YAY!

Hiiii, I’m the Sour JellyBean, new to blogging, but I hope to share some of my experiences with others.


About me:


I’m female, 18  years old and I live in the beautiful island of BARBADOS!!  (wow this is really sounding robotic 😐 ..ah well ). I lovvvve Asian dramas and can be kind sarcastic lol. I recently watched Gourmet and Autumn’s Concerto.. they were awesome!! I may do a review on them later.


My Hopes for this blog:
So I may just be using this blog to talk about dramas, TV shows, fashion, make-up, photography, techie stuff haha… maybe I’ll just go off in a rant, but stay tuned, I’ll try to keep posting about new things every week or more than that :). Comment whenever you’d like about whatever you’d like and I’m open to any suggestions for the content of this blog and appreciate feedback and clarification when necessary.


Here’s a picture of a bit of Barbados’ beauty. Photo credit: Sour JellyBean

South-East Point of the Island (St. Philip)