Beyonce

(This post is self-titled) The album is self-titled, released on the occasion of just-like-that. It is the biggest surprise from Beyonce this year.

All songs are so vastly different from what I have expected from her, which is great, to see that she continues the experiment from "Run the World (Girls)", I think. They gave me a sense of futuristic music in R&B genre. I definitely can hear her putting the effort in creating the grooves that draws a line from the previous album.

The interlude of Chimamanda Adiche's speech. The extracts of her performance video when she was a kid. The seducingly sexiness of "Blow". The explicitly sexiness of "Partition" (this is daring, I would have to say, which is way more than that I heard in "Bootylicious"). The change of emotion in verses and beat of "Mine". The goosebumps they made on me: "Haunted". The beat I cannot now forget: "Drunk in Love". The song that stuck in my head: "XO". The love I felt: "Blue".

Beyonce blows me away, she did it again. The album blows me away.

Only one critic I have: "Yonce" should be a standalone song.

New year

工作工作工作工作工作。年纪比我小一年可是工作经验比我多我一年的John，对我说:"我看你好像都没有停过hor？"没错，每天下班时间都是隔日的凌晨。忙完了这边的事情，又要赶那边的deadline，做不完的东西怎样都好也要把它呕出来。

这就是我近一两个月以来的生活，99%的活动时间都奉献于工作上的事务，包括了周末和公假。

不过上个礼拜五的appraisal，看见老板写下"remarkably"这个形容词，心里尝到了一点点地甜头。

一眨眼，旅游足了一个月，适应回这里的生活--颓废了四个月，在我投入这行业前试水温--然后放弃了--两个月，疯狂工作了五个月，就这样，过了一年，可是我觉得没有比2012过的好。

我仍想念在布里斯本的生活。

我有很多欲望，都是朝着我向往的生活萌生出来。年中我为自己设下的目标，希望在2014里依然可以顺利的追求着。

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