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Thursday, December 01, 2005

I am writing this the day after I spent 5 hours in the wee hours of the morning watching an idol drama at Val's house. Unfortunately, despite staying up till 530am and waking up around 11am, I still have 9 episodes left. At the same time, I seem to have caught a cold and am struggling to enjoy Enya's new album - Amarantine, over the irritating noise caused by renovation being done 3 floors above me.

My mum came home one day from Eastpoint and surprised me with the cd. Although I had requested my mum to buy it for me a few weeks ago, I did not expect her to do so. (Mum always knows best =D) I had also managed to d******* the whole album from some website, so I actually do not need the cd, but rest assured I have already deleted all the songs. I guess having the original cd always beats having the pirated version. Because if not for it, I would have never known that some of her new songs were sung in Loxian, a language written specially for Enya by her lyricist. Cool huh? The new language was inspired after Enya sang a song in Elvish for the Lord of the Rings soundtrack. According to some press release, it seems that English, Latin or Gaelic were a lil too obtrusive for those songs that Enya wrote, so a new language was invented. The invented tongue is said to be “a futuristic language from a distant planet”, and the Loxians, live in space and are looking out at the stars wondering if there is anyone else out there or if they are alone in the universe.

Even though Enya's new album sounds characteristically her (ie sounds almost like all her other albums), the idea of an invented language really intrigues me. You see, I am a VERY scientific person. When I mean very, I am not kidding. Throw me anything science-based, I will soak it in, digest it and it will diffuse into my blood. When it comes to humanities, let's just say its like dietary fibre, essential for my bowel system but nothing is taken in. Hence, I have full of respect for those linguists, people who are able to master a couple of languages easily. It requires tremendous effort and creativity to invent a new language now (I'm not talking about rojak ones like Singlish, that have evolved due to globalisation and plain laziness to speak proper English/Mandarin), since all civilisations are settled and whatever new words are added to a language is purely to keep up with technology. Kudos to people like JRR Tolkien but I supposed they too are motivated by their artistic streak which prevents them from doing anything less.

Ok, I better go and rest now. Can't afford to be down with a flu when my performances are coming up. And I got to think of Christmas presents. Sigh. Anyway, I have performances at Esplanade Park (17 Dec), Raffles Place Park (19 & 21 Dec) and West Mall (23 Dec). So come and drop by around 630pm or 730pm for West Mall, if you have the time!

Lydea blogged at 3:18 PM

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