Amore E Musica

(CA1 entry: A moment you spent alone doing something you enjoyed)

I am a man of many hobbies. My weird hobbies can range from photography to building and programming Lego robots. But one of my most favourite hobbies has to be listening to music!

I love buying albums and completing a collection of albums of any given band. I have recently completed my 'Linkin Park' and 'My Chemical Romance' collections. I feel a sense of satisfaction when I complete a collection of albums.

Just yesterday, I had gone hunting for the final album needed to complete my 'Linkin Park' collection. The album titled 'Fort Minor: The Rising Tied' was very hard to find as it was an old installment and produced in smaller quantities compared to the other albums.


'Fort Minor' is a sub-band set up and featuring 'Mike Shinoda', the rapper for 'Linkin Park' as a plan to let other famous bands like 'Styles of Beyond' collaborate together to write and compose new songs. He also felt that he could not express his hip-hop side fully in 'Linkin Park'.

I had a stroke of luck yesterday at a CD shop in Parkway Parade. I actually did not go there to look for CDs but to actually complete an art assignment for school. We (my friends and I) were tasked with taking pictures of posters. I had gone to the 'Sembawang' music shop to take a picture of a poster pasted up in the shop and accidentally crossed paths with the CD by accident. After purchasing it, I went home and quickly ripped the CD into an MP3 format for my iPod music player. I then spent the rest of the day remembering all the lyrics of the songs.

My next goal is to complete my 'Jay-Z' collection. This will be a hard feat as his oldest album dates back to 1999!