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disappointments, heatstroke and long island teas...REMIXED

REMIXED

what a day:

remember how I am the most positive person in the world. I am. 121am..i am calling it a day. the hardest day in awhile...I am still smiling..

here's how it went down...

I applied for a job at the coolest radio station this side of the equator priorback a couple weeks ago, and I kinda got the job but in the end couldn't get it cause they weren't looking at full time..so even though it didn't work out, i made friends with the few lovely people i met in the station who also wished i could be part of their family. disappointed? yeah. I was hoping that job with give me a visa to abode in Taipei but since it can't, I am not at all disappointed nor discouraged. It's just not what I meant to be doing.

please note, prior to the interview , I was preparing all morning and after both parties realized it may not be able to happen cause they don't have the capacity to hire full time this fiscal year....it left me a little disappointed but content.

It's 4PM. I hadn't drank water all day.

I felt today's "disappointment" was a sign from heaven, softly telling me that this is not how I was going to change the world and heal people.

I live by a theory- l eave this life having contributed to the betterment of mankind and your neighbor. and I'm fuckin religious about this shit. People often question me on my religious beliefs and this is my religious beliefs- Shut up and make the person next to you smile.

I had always wished I could heal and change the world with music. i always remind artists I work with to cherish their blessings. If i had the blessings they did, I would use it to change the world. For almost two decades, i thought I could change the world with my music, heal the hearts of people, inspire great people of tomorrow but today was the greatest realization that it is not my calling. Do I think I'm a good musician...of course but will I be able to change the world? I'm now thinking music might not be where it is.

Anyway, so after clearing my head of the day's woes, I went for one drink. haven't eaten and dehydrated. After one drink, I went white, blind and dead for a good 15 mins. I realized it was a heatstroke,,,i fainted in the middle of the road behind Luxy and I got these mad cuts all over...a scratch across my face..hahha...

that's why i should have....

Heatstroke? My friend later told me that as I fell to the floor I had attracted a crowd around me. What a star????? Hahaahahahha

It's 354 AM now. I woke up again. Drank more water. Laughed at my cuts.

And here's where I'm at:

The same way I try everyday to be positive and inspiring those I work with I would like to do the same for the masses and a bell is ringing from the distance...thinks it's time for curtain call....

Till next time, sports fan....

over 15 years ago 0 likes 10 comments 0 shares

Marie Jost

Music can, and does, change people's lives. It changed mine--over and over again. Because of music, I taught myself Spanish, learned flamenco, and became part of the world of flamenco for 10 years. I wouldn't give up those years for anything. They changed my life in ways that I still haven't totally accounted for. Now it is Leslie Cheung. Because of that one singer/entertainer/actor, whom I only discovered last year, I'm learning Cantonese and written Chinese and see that my future is going to be entwined with that part of the world. None of this would have happened without music. Music does change people's lives (and hence the world), but in ways the music makers cannot concieve. One day, 4 years ago, I turned on the radio and was mesmerized by a song in Spanish by a singer I was totally unfamiliar with. He kept singing about "El problema". The announcer didn't even tell me who this guy was when the song was over, and I didn't know the name of the song. I listened to that station for months, and never heard that song again. It haunted my dreams like a ghost. Then, one night, I turned on the television and there was a guy dressed all in white, seated at a white grand piano, singing that same song. It was Ricardo Arjona and the song was "El Problema". I had a name and I had a song. The rest is history. I am now good friends with the pianist/arranger/co-producer of that album, an Argentine who lives in New York City. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, singing the poems of Pablo Neruda set to music by her composer husband, gave me solace when my father was dying of cancer. The ethereal voices of Sequentia singing music of the 12th century German nun Hildegaard of Bingen was the only thing that comforted me for 2 weeks after 9/11. The voice of the flamenco singer Camaron de la Isla was the only thing that could express my sadness and grief after a deep personal tragedy and failure at the greatest turning point in my life 13 years go. I don't know where I would be without music. Don't short change the impact of music on people's lives. Maybe your future path is not in music, but maybe it is. Give it some time. There may be many other ways that you can use your talents in music. Just don't say that music doesn't change people's lives, and hence the world. From where I sit today, that is patently untrue. Most of the important people in my life I met because of music, including my honey of 27 years. Funny, I never really thought about that before--how many people I have met and connected with through the agency of music. In those terms, music has been the most important force in my life. Just something to think about.

over 15 years ago

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Languages Spoken: english, cantonese, mandarin
Location (City, Country): Taipei, Taiwan
Gender: male
Member Since: November 20, 2007