Hello everybody, old and new friends! And of course, Happy Birthday to you, Stel! May the Lord bless you and your family! Merci beau coup, it is such an honor to be invited to this one-of-a-kind and out-of-this-world party! It's been nice knowing you through Cacof and Atinna! I'm also glad to meet your other friends in this party. And I made this first-ever blog of mine just for this occasion! Hope you like it!
The 1st picture below is obviously not my actual reflection. But since I was the one who drew it (on my computer), it's still a part of me.
The next three pictures below are scenes from the movie "Mulan" that I myself photographed (again on my computer). Hope you all like my song and my pictures!
Artist: Christina Aguilera
Composer: Matthew Wilder
Lyrics: David Zippel
Album Title: Mulan
Manufacturer: Walt Disney
Records
Year Released: 1998
Look at me
You may think you see
Who I really am
But you'll never know me
Every day
It's as if I play a part
Now I see
If I wear a mask
I can fool the world
But I cannot fool my heart
Chorus:
Who is that girl I see
staring straight back at me?
When will my reflection show
who I am inside?
I am now
In a world where I
Have to hide my heart
And what I believe in
But somehow
I will show the world
What's inside my heart
And be loved for who I am
Chorus:
Who is that girl I see
staring straight back at me?
Why is my reflection
someone I don't know?
Must I pretend that I'm
someone else for all time?
When will my reflection show
who I am inside?
Bridge:
There's a heart that
must be free to fly
That burns with a need
to know the reason why
Chorus:
Why must we all conceal
what we think, how we feel?
Must there be a secret me
I'm forced to hide?
I won't pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time
When will my reflection show
who I am inside?
When will my reflection show
who I am inside?
A review by Doug Thomas (Amazon.co.uk):
Solid entertainment from a new group of Disney animators. The story source is a Chinese fable about a young girl who disguises herself as a man to help her family and her country. When the Huns attack China, a call to arms goes out to every village, and Mulan's father, being the only man in the family, accepts the call. Mulan (voiced by Ming-Na Wen, sung by Lea Salonga) has just made a disastrous appearance at the Matchmaker and decides to challenge society's expectations (being a bride). She steals her father's conscription notice, cuts her hair and impersonates a man to join the army. She goes to boot camp, learning to fit in with the other soldiers with some help from her sidekick, Mushu, a wise-cracking dragon (voiced by Eddie Murphy). She trains, and soon faces the Huns eye to eye to protect her Emperor. The film is gorgeous to look at, with a superior blend of classic and computer-generated animation. Directors Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook make the best of it: a battle in the snowy mountains is as thrilling as the best Hollywood action films. The menacing Huns are not cute but simple and bad. The wickedness is subtle, not disturbing. The film is not a fully fledged musical, as it has only five songs (the best, "Be a Man", is sung during boot camp). Eddie Murphy is an inspired choice for the comic-relief dragon, but his lines are not as clever as Robin Williams' in Aladdin. These are minor quibbles, though. The story is strong, and Mulan goes right to the top of Disney animated heroines; she has the right stuff.
