Rabu, 30 Maret 2011

Don't Rain on My Parade (Glee Cast Performance)

This is such a great inspirational song.



Wish the link can be opened.

The song is from a Broadway musical drama I guess. It is performed by Rachel Berry (Lea Michelle) in an episode of my favorite serial 'Glee' season 1.

The lyrics are very awesome and exactly describe my feelings right now.

These are the lyrics:

"Don't tell me not to live, just sit and putter.
Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter.
Don't bring around a cloud to rain on my parade!

Don't tell me not to fly, I simply got to.
When somebody's got a spill, it's me and not you,
who told you, you're allowed to rain on my parade?

I'll march my band out. I'll beat my drum.
And if I'm fanned out, your turn at bat, Sir.
At least I didn't fake it.
Hat, Sir! I think I didn't make it.

But, whether I'm the rose of sheer perfection,
or freckle on the nose of life's complexion,
the cinder or the shiny apple of its eye,

I gotta fly once, I gotta try once
Can only die once, right, Sir?
Oh, life is juicy! Juicy as you'll see,
I'm gonna have my bite, Sir!

Get ready for me love, cause I'm a comer.
I simply gotta march my heart a drummer.
Don't bring around a cloud to rain on my parade!

I'm gonna live and live now!
Get what I want, I know how!
One role for the whole show bang!
One threw that bell will go clang
Eye on the target and wham!
One shoot, one gun shot and, Bam!

Hey, Mr. Arnstein..., here I am!
I'll march my band out. I'll beat my drum.
And if I'm fanned out, your turn at bat, Sir.
At least I didn't fake it.
Hat, Sir! I guess I didn't make it.

Get ready for me love, cause I'm a comer!
I simply gotta march my heart a drummer!
No....body no, no....body........ isss gonnaaaa... rain on myyyy... paaaa....raaaaaaade...!!"

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Whew!
What an awesome feeling, listening to that song, over and over again, during everything that happen to me lately.
I got chill to see Lea Michelle performing this song in her role as Rachel Berry in Glee.

My favorite part is "I'm gonna live, and live now; get what I want-I know how!"
That is so true!! And "I gotta try once, I gotta fly once, can only die once..."

I'm addicted to Glee's songs, especially the songs performed by Quinn Fabray (my favorite character in 'Glee'), Kurt Hummel, Noah Puckerman, and Rachel Berry. Well, of all the characters, I hate Rachel Berry the most because she is very annoying, but gotta admit, she's good in singing theatrical song. Only theatrical song. I also like Mercedes' voice. She's also great and have amazing voice.

Two days ago I was searching for 'Glee's videos on YouTube and I found, and watched, a video where Kurt Hummel sang 'I wanna hold your hand' by the Beatles. OMG!! I was crying!! I was suddenly just crying!
It was heart touching, breath taking, amazing performance. Especially because Kurt was singing that song for his beloved father. He has a father that love him so much, although the father was disappointed, knowing that Kurt is gay/

Father-child relationship always touch my heart. Father seems to always do everything to make the children happy, to make sure that the children are safe.

That kinda relationship keeps me thinking, "Even though I don't wanna get married, and I just wannabe single parent, but still, my children need to have a father." A father is very important for kids life, as important as mother. My father is the most important thing in my life. He always does his best to make his family happy, although we don't always realize it.

He did everything to give the best, for me, for my brother and sister.
Whew! I start crying now.

Ok. The article was about 'Glee', and now I start talking about my father. I think I have to stop now before I start writing about the my grandmother's first word as baby.

Oh! BTW, I'm planning of writing my memory about my precious dog in my other blog 'Everything about Astari'. I've been planning it for so long.

Minggu, 20 Maret 2011

What am I Doing and Why am I Doing This?

*If you want to read this, please read this article completely, do not stop before you finish

I keep asking, what am I doing, and why am I doing this?
To be honest, to tell the truth, over and over again I kept thinking of this:

I have to stop this whole crazy insurance agent thing

Look at me;
White shirt, black skirt, and pantovels
A woman’s pantovels

This is not true.
This is not me.
This is… bullshit.
I’m not this… serious woman with working suite.

I’m not a serious-financial-planner kinda person.
I’m not a financial person.
I’m an artist.

I’m basically an artist.
I’m doing art.
I love to be free and making art works.
Not selling insurance to people who don’t even know why they buy it.

Every single day I walk on the street,
In this beautiful city with beautiful buildings
I always wish that I wore something casual.

Tank-top and shorts instead this crappy working suite
SLR camera on my hand instead of a handbag with the notebook inside

Even that I already wear my working suite,
people still notice that I’m not a financial planner
This hairdo can’t lie

My hairdo is such a mess; it grows against the gravitation
And I have no interest at all to do anything about that
Or, I mean, this

I don’t like this job, and can’t act like I do.
I just pretend that I like.
But pretending to be one can’t make you the one you pretend to be.

I’m an artist.
I’m silly and spontaneous.
I can’t act serious as a serious-financial-planner.

Some financial people are pretty funny.
But they’re funny in a way they make fun of person like me.

But wait!
The question is 'Why am I doing this?'

If I follow my ego,
I might leave this job and do something more fun.
I might just leave all my responsibilities.
I might just do what I wanna do.

But every time I feel like quiting,
There will always be some great people that remind me
again and again
of the reason, why am I doing this.

I have my own reason.
I believe in what I'm doing.
I believe that I am now doing something good.
I'm doing something to make people's live change.
I help people.
I believe that the information,
this information that I have to share to people everyday
is a very, very important information.

When somebody get some trouble
Financial, health, accident, critical illness
And they need lots amount of money
I probably couldn't help them.

But if I just push my ego away for a while
and use my precious time, just to share this useful information
I wouldn't have to help them when they got into trouble,
because they already help them selves.
By having insurance.

And even if I already told them to have insurance
and they just didn't wanna have it for some silly reasons,
it would not be my responsibility,
because at least I have done my job,
which is just to tell them the precious information.

So this is me, doing this thing that lots of time I don't like to do.
Maybe I hate to wear shirt and skirt.
Maybe I hate to wear women shoes.
Maybe my hair would not compromise.

But me, my self, is the most important thing in this business.
I have the reason to keep doing this.
For love, for people, for their family, then also for me and my family.