music on Grey's

one of the main reasons why i watch grey's is the music they feature in each episode. and because i had no training session scheduled yesterday, i checked the website and copied the titles of the songs featured during the previous 3 seasons.

roughly 300 songs all in all! OMG!

i made a checklist and i only have 37 songs in my laptop (ok, not mine. office laptop). these would include the tracks in the vol 1 and vol 2 soundtracks and additional tracks from some mixed collection (w/c is way way better than the collection in vol 1&2) shared here in the office.

my favorites would include:

Breathe by Anna Nalick
Colors by Amos Lee
How To Save A Life by The Fray
I Hate Everyone by Get Set Go
I Melt With You by Nouvelle Vague
Infinity by Merrick
Scratch by Kendall Payne
Somewhere Only We Know by Keane
Wait by Get Set Go
Where Does the Good Go by Tegan and Sara

and so, my new goal in life is to complete the list with the help from some of my friends. big thanks to them! :D

with the next season coming up, roughly 100 songs would be added to the list. so, good luck to me!


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another set to collect is the OTH soundtrack. currently, i have vol 1 & 2 and the enhanced season 2 soundtracks. i have yet to check if there are new volumes available.

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Asian Conversations

over YM with a Thai AM who came here last March..

ava: you've been w/ d company for 3 months already, right?
natawun: 4 months already na
ava: are you using the tagalog "na"?
natawun: no, it's a Thai "na"
natawun: like the SG "lah"
ava: oh.. ok
natawun: u hv "na" too?
ava: yes, and dt wld be redundant bcoz "na" means "already"
natawun: our "na" doesn't have any meaning
natawun: oh.. so, "i have had lunch na"
ava: :))
ava: if you say dat, ppol will either laugh or frown at you
natawun: y? what's wrong?
ava: the phrase construction is correct... but dat's wt we call coñotic
language here
natawun: confuse me more please..
ava: hmm.. im trying my best to explain
natawun: hahaha
ava: it's how some rich ppol wld talk
natawun: hahaha dt is so me..
ava: yeah.. hahaha


over lunch with a Korean AM last April..

jiyoen: why do you say "ok lang" instead of just "ok"? what does "lang" mean?
me: hmm.. [thinks hard]
me: it's like the "lah" in singapore. we just add it because "ok" is very
short.
-end of conversation-
(ang hirap i-explain e! hehehe)

me: what soap operas do you watch? a lot of them are famous here..
jiyoen: i don't really watch local ones
me: so, what do you watch?
jiyoen: desperate housewives, csi, prison break..
now we're talking!)


while walking around greenbelt with the SG trainer who is here in manila..

robin: wo lei lah.. [talking to himself]
me: what did you say?
robin: wo lei lah..
me: oh, i know that.. [thinks for a moment]
robin: "wo" means?
me: "wo" is "I"
robin: yes. "lei" is?
me: hmm.. "tired!" you are tired already?
robin: how did you know that?
me: i took level 1 Mandarin. ni lei pu lei? (literally, "are you tired or not
tired?")
robin: correct. you're good.


over dinner with the same SG trainer..

me: i forgot the word.. (i wanted to say "sayang")
robin: what word?
me: are you kidding me? i said i forgot the word and then you are asking me "what word?"
robin: [laughs]

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