Music Monday: Young Blood in Singapore

Alright, so in my last blog post I shared a video of the UBC Okanagan campus, where I've been studying the last four-ish years. Initially I had wanted to post a video of each of the three universities I have attended, but the University of Victoria video was extremely hokey and the National University of Singapore video was, well, corporate. Both were very much unlike what I experienced on the respective campuses.

But Music Monday gives me a chance to at least showcase one of my favourite cities/countries/islands in the world: Singapore. Yes, I've posted tonnes of photos and blog posts about my five-ish months in Southeast Asia, but this video is just amazingly well put together and deserves to be shared. I hope that you'll quickly see why I fell so deeply in love with Singapore.

The song is "Young Blood" by The Naked and Famous, a group out of New Zealand. You might recognize the song from the trailer for The Cabin in the Woods (which I highly recommend seeing). The music fits perfectly with the video, and it's great in it's own right, too. So take a listen, watch the video, and let me know what you think of the Lion City.

That University I Attended

It's been such an important part of my lift these last four years, so I thought I might as well share it with you all. I talk about UBCO quite a bit, and a lot of the people I know have never even seen the place. So here's a video that UBC made to promote the Okanagan campus. It shows a bit of the city and region I live in, too, which is always interesting. Now, if only they would tell me what to do now that I have that degree. Hmm.

Music Monday: Work Work Work

So this post is gonna be really short, as a lot of the Music Monday posts are. I've been picking up lots of hours at work, so I've been busy busy busy almost everyday. I spend lots of time at the Gap now.

The benefit? Besides a fat paycheck every two weeks, I get to listen to the Gap soundtrack. I'll admit that I cannot stand some of the songs (WHY must we play the Biebs!?), but there are a few gems. One of 'em is "Rock Lobster" by the B-52s. I love those guys. I also love seeing people's reactions when Kate starts screaming after Fred hollers something about a bikini whale (which Wikipedia tells me is not an actual whale, but an overweight woman in a bikini). Video is below!

Discovery, Publicity

Just dropping a note to say that two of my photos have been featured in an article on Treehugger, which is a site owned and maintained by Discovery Communications. You know, those guys who run the Discovery Channel, TLC, and Animal Planet (among many others)? Yah. Them.

Suffice to say, this makes me happy, excited, and just a little bit proud.

You can read the article here. It's on the supertrees being built in Singapore's Marina Bay Gardens, an area of the city I had the pleasure of visiting during the Singapore World Orchid Show 2011. All of my photos from that are up on Flickr. Enjoy!

photo by me

Music Monday: Everybody Come Down

So after my last blog post I went ahead and contacted some of my old friends. Caught up with one of them, exchanged a couple messages with another, and have had total radio silence from a few more. One of the people I really want to reconnect with has deleted herself from the internet, apparently, and so I have absolutely no way of contacting her. Sad panda. But I'm happy to be speaking with some people from my past.

The job front isn't going any better. If I don't stumble across something soon, or get a call back, I have some insider information that Starbucks is desperate for male employees. Sigh.

For Music Monday I've got "Everybody Come Down" by the Delgados. They were one of my favourite bands in high school, and I've just started listening to them again. I swear this must be a phase of some sort.