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Summertime by Iris

 Summertime by Iris 1.4MB by imaginiris

Crazy Little Thing Called Poetry -- I Wrote A Poem for Ralph Macchio?

I'm so full of surprises...that I surprise myself!

I was just visiting one of my other blogs called http://80smusictv.blogspot.com, something which I haven't done in a long, long time.

Haha....I was so thrilled with myself.

Continuing with my self-discovery story...I found out that I had written a little poem on the blog (I did this?!!) to Ralph Macchio, my heartthrob...

Here it is:

Oh, Ralph, my macho, macho guy,

You were buried when my teenage sighs
Left me as adulthood came
And so it's adulthood years I blame
For the memory loss of my teenage crush
Crazy over you, I missed you very much.

My Village Playground

My sandaled feet went flip, flop, flip, flop, as I

Crossed the mellow planks to the other side,

Where a two-feet wide ditch divides

The wooden houses from the quiet woods.

My eight-year-old fingers entwined with Uncle’s –

Rough and scrubbed

Of sweaty, rubber-tapping days.

We walked the narrow, red path – dry and hard,

Patterns of soles imprinted on it.

The five-o’clock light squeezed daintily

Through the tiny holes in the dark and dense

Overlapping oval leaves.

They stood tall and thin – those rubber soldiers

While the childlike underbrush peeked

Shyly between their feet.

Once the shadows disappear,

Brightness seems to close my eye with her gentle fingers,

We stand on the stream’s muddy bank and watch

The milky, brown waters slip between my playful toes.

Up above – the hot, bustling Semenyih road forgets

My hidden playground.

© 1991 Iris Chia

My first -- Rain & Stars

The first time I touched the Canon MarkII 5D, an absolute beginner, not knowing how a DSLR works and not familiar with the technical know-how of the basics of videography and photography, I recorded some video in my home. 

Rain. 

Then, later on I went home to my parents'. Rain. 

So I recorded more footages.

Then I decided to try my hand at editing using iMovie on my Macbook -- also my first time. 

After a few hours, I managed something amateurish -- but which I am really proud of, cos I did it on my own!

The song was a random song of a favourite Korean artiste, Yoon Sang Hyun. I thought it suited the mood. In English, the song title was Constellation of Stars. Then I noticed that the video I shot at both locations had star & moon items....

Demo - Young - Humming to Guitar

 Young-Vocal & Guitar Demo by imaginiris

A demo of a song I wrote abt 10 years ago....!!!! As soon as I bought my nice new keyboard 10 years ago, I started to learn arranging different tracks on it. But I wasn't very good.

Then, a friend introduced a young music grad to arrange a demo for me. Even though her arrangement had a nice "ambience" but her tempo was all over the place. So I just gave it up, cos I had already spent money on it and wasn't going to waste more money and time again.

After burying my music dreams for more than 10 years, I dug them up again this year. I enrolled in singing class. I switched on my old keyboard and listened to all my old compositions again.

And I told a musician friend about it. He finally helped me to record a demo in his studio. He played the guitar, I "hummed" to it, cos I can't write Chinese lyrics very well.

Then he said he would find me a lyricist so that we can record a proper demo later & send it to his Publisher friend. So touched and so happy!
I think this song is suitable to be sung in Chinese, what do you think?

When I wrote it, I imagined looking out the window at the cool autumn skies, & seeing the red, brown, yellow leaves float to the ground. Will my life be like those leaves? Floating in the wind with no direction? What is my wish? What is my dream?