When You Wish Upon a Star

i know it's only july, but i was feeling awfully christmas-y.

it's been awhile since i've really spent christmas back in california. it's also been awhile since i've spent christmas together with everyone in my family. i was thinking about it and i realized how much i really look forward to it this year because it seems that spending it with all five of us is possible this year.

it was probably my favorite time of the year when i still lived back in socal. my dad would always get a tree [when we lived in taiwan over a decade ago we got fake plastic trees, but we still decorated it pretty well] and he would drape these Christmas lights along our roof's edge. i love the drives home because i could see how our house was golden and candle-lit. i miss the winter cold [it doesn't get that cold but it's pretty chilly] and the smell of pine. i hope this year we can all spend christmas together just like we used to. so i'm going to start thinking about it pretty hard. starting now in fact. i have 6 months to use my weak mind power abilities.

this is going to sound really sentimental and dumb, probably cause i'm moving away from my room in taiwan which i've become so used to, and away from this place where i've spent most of my mostly miserable, part unforgettable and part marvelous "grown up" years, as in from the moment i stepped into this industry till now, but i'm really going to miss this place that i've come to hate and love. and i think of how much my dad and i had to go through. i guess what i'm trying to say is, i love my family more than anyone could love anyone.

i don't write about my feelings much because this is what happens.

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Music

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• When
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• Star
• Pinocchio
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• newtokyoterror

[wuichong]

Why never go with your actual moniker Joanna Wang?

[newtokyoterror]

@wuichong

because it was never my actual moniker. that was never the name i wanted to use. and also the asian music industry has turned my name into a term forever associated with gay music.

[plinktome]

That room should be placed on the National Register of Historical Places as the birthplace of the global xposure to your music/voice....and anyone whos lifes been changed by yer music oughta petition them for that certification..

[newtokyoterror]

this is the place where i recorded my first youtube video and where i've written most of my songs. i think my stink is in the walls of this place.

[onesurvive]

It's not dumb, I'm going through the same thing; Moving half way around the world, away from the familiar, away from home. I'll miss it, but I know I'll be back (to love it/hate it again).

[newtokyoterror]

well.. i'm kinda moving away from home back to my old home.

[derlau]

You'll have lucky children. Imagine the lullabies they'll get!

[jeffreywooten]

I'm wishing. I'm wishing.

What a wonderful way to wake up on a Sunday.

xoxo

[jwtrueman90]

You have a soothing, kind and AMAZING voice! You nail this song flawlessly.

[ukeshale]

@newtokyoterror Haha. I shouldn't laugh but the last sentence in that response made me crack up

[MiracChen]

U r memsmerising!!!!!!

[Scurvyforall]

And I only knew you had a youtube channel now... why? :S

[GeorgeDoYouGotThis]

@SamHansl Haha, I never said you did, but you defended the idea that is what it means to her, all I was saying is that I don't see how this is construed us such

[SamHansl]

@GeorgeDoYouGotThis

So, do you not agree with the idea that everyone thinks differently about things?

By that, I mean specific things are special to us for our own reasons, and not everyone shares those reasons. Reasons such as perhaps watching Disney movies reminds us of watching Disney movies during Christmas time with our family.

Because I never claimed this was a Christmas song.

[GeorgeDoYouGotThis]

@SamHansl I might agree with you if Pinnochio is a christmas movie, but seriously it is not a christmas song, it has nothing about christmas, santa claus, jesus, christianity, or winter for that matter, so it cannot be considered a christmas song

[SamHansl]

@GeorgeDoYouGotThis

We all interpret things differently, and maybe this is just what that song means to her