A Maverick's Rock

103. Up and Down the Road of L

2012-02-11T00:58:00.004+08:00

Personal

Previous post was written on the 14th of April. Let's just say 10 months ago. Felt like it'd been ages since I log in here to write something. But then again, looking at the date and the number it seems like only 10 months ago. Not even a year ago yet.

But in these 10 months thousands of hair strands have dropped. I think hahah.

Many things have had taken place.

I was only doing an industrial training at MAS. I am employed already as an aircraft technician at AirAsia. Hi Tony.

Several other things have changed. Physically not so. Emotionally a lot.

Feelings come and go. But certain feelings stay. And if you work hard enough and put faith into them they become everlasting. Certain maturity comes into play.

{Digress a little...just like how you support a football club for years or forever aha}

You just never give up. What drives you not to give it up? Maturity, conscience and (at least) an eye for everlasting love in life.

This living is a life in which we're living in. Time is ticking. The time starts moving since we're born into this world on planet Earth. It never stops. We never stop, breathing and living. So we're living it. We're living this time.

It stops ticking the moment our life ends. That's when we stop living.

Whatever we do, they are in this time. Spending time. Filling up the living.

Couldn't find the original song in youtube. So I link to someone's cover on Bob Dylan - I Feel A Change Comin' On

Till then.

102. Football Spirit

2011-04-14T07:10:00.003+08:00

Ideals/Personal

It's burning! It's your favourite team/club winning! It's a goal!

It's footballllllll. In the US, they call it soccerrrrrrr.

This post is an ideal concept conceived as perceived by me in view of the current style of supporting-your-"(favourite)"-football-team/club.

A fellow football sports fan/supporter once talked about something similar to what I intended to write on here. He talked about why certain people support or become fan of certain football clubs - one of the critical reason is seeing your favourite player playing in it. Fair enough, a lot of us football lovers have some kind of heroes in the game to look forward to in watching the games.

Here in this footballing post, supporter is approximately equivalent to fan. Fan is defined here as someone more loud and hardcore as compared to being a supporter who merely supports the sports and the games. I, myself is a football and an Arsenal supporter (slightly fan). I enjoy any football games but only reserved time mostly to watch my favourite club play. I love the footballing spirit. I genuinely find footballing is a great sports activity and a team-based game altogether.

Tell me what you know about footballing when you shout, "MANU ROCKS! CHELSHIT GO TO HELL!". Nah, don't tell me about histories or how the ball came into play.

And corruption spoils the game totally. Especially the spirit. People with money and power to manipulate games really put the game in the limelight of disgrace and disappointment. I believe most football players hate game fixing They may lost all the games they play in their life but buying your way up the podium is just not football. You may as well go to the casino and gamble or fix your way through to earn cold hard cash.

So do tell me about how the teams play strategies or how the player play the ball the next time you shout, "ARSENAL FOR THE WIN!". There must be a reason why they put up the banner, "Giggs has been tearing you apart since $%^&*". Sorry, fellow Arsenal fans I support football totally so any team which plays well I'd like to watch and savour.

Let me brief you on the types/styles of fans in my opinion generically. It's typically EPL teams or Barcelona.

(not in any order of atrocity)
1. Die-hard fans good version - These are the fans who support fully their favourite team since whatsoever age for whatsoever reason. They do not condemn other teams. They concentrate only in their favourite team.

2. Die-hard fans bad version - Ditto the first sentence of no. 1 description. They condemn the other teams because they only love their favourite team. They only support the other team when that team is playing to bring down an opponent team which is a major threat to their favourite team in the standing.

3. Bus-thirds - So-called fans who only expressed their support to show that they are supporting the correct team which is usually the team which wins a lot. Who does not really watch football. Non-sensical actually, omit this but situation exists.

4. Common bus-thirds - Fans who picked the best team which is usually the team which wins a lot - ok kudos for knowing the history and so you picked an all-time winner team. And watch not much of football. Reason slightly similar to no.3 which intention is to be "correct" in choosing a favourite team.

5. Footballer fans - This is rather a subcategory for no.1 and no.2. These fans they play football. They know football. They enjoy football. Their reason in choosing their favourite team depends on the no.1 or no.2 category they fall in.

6. Non-football fans - This accompanies no.5. They do not play football. They may or not know about football. But they enjoy football, because this falls under either no.1 or no.2 ~diehard.

7. Neutral creeps - They might still be analysing on which team to pick and make it their favourite. If not, then they are just enjoying the game. Good thing these people do not make a fuss when watching. Everything looks normal or cool if there is a goal.

8. Neutral creeps version 2 - They analysed and they picked the team which they think plays properly or skillfully or amusing. They join in the fun of supporting spirit. Other time, they remain nonchalant.

(this categorizing and condemning of fans are based on my observation opinionatedly - come on I don't have the right to say you don't have the right to support I just think your football spirit and mine are different)

I reserve no. 9 and no. 10 to be described shortly after this brief intermission. No.9 and no.10 have good football spirit but not necessarily the best because die-hard fans hold their spirit highest among all.haha. And no.9 and no.10 are description-modified versions of no.1 and no.2 die-hard categories. I mean they could be die-hard too but their reason are defined precisely.

9. Experience-based - One might have went to watch the to-be favourite team play before. Or met any of the players before. Or just that the TV somehow seemed to show the particular team play when it is switched on. This could be due to his/her die-hard fan father or brother. So this know-nothing person picks up from there. Or by playing video games. These are also basically results of luck.

10. Player/material-based - Handsome player. Handsome coach lol. Good samaritan player. Beautiful jerseys. Amazing advertisement. ok la super skillful player. Very subjective. Definitely not of pure football spirit but surely somehow or rather, develops into it.

Hopefully that's all. ~"bola sepak - raja sukan".

About my style of supporting: I'm a combination of no.9 and no. 10. A bit of this and that from them. This is how I come to supporting Arsenal FC as I can remember. On experience-based I agree with my brother claiming that somehow we just chose that team to play in a video game. Ok respect, Winning Eleven it's a good football video game. So from there, we learn the names of the players and associate with their football matches we watch occasionally on TV.

Let me recall, there are Pires, Kanu, Wiltord, Ljungberg, Bergkamp, Seaman, Henry...a handful of great players which I can recall. Notice that these players I just mentioned are not in the club anymore.

Henry is great. And then before World Cup 2002 I heard that Zidane is great. So I became a fan of Les Bleus, the France team. This is no.10 style of football spirit.

These players are not performing anymore. At least not for Arsenal or France anymore but I still continue to support them. This has become a result of development of footballing spirit. A reasoned and seasoned one. I really respect people who tell me about how good Manchester United players play their spirit and their winning legacy and they are downright the most rightful fans of Manchester United. And because I was and still is partially a Red Devil supporter. How these people came about to support the Busby Boys are not generally important anymore. It's the spirit.

To be honest, I'm never die-hard. I just might sound like one because supporting becomes interesting and exciting during get-togethers for football watching.

ok there had been countless mentions of the word "football spirit". That is it.

Do you know who this player is? He is Jared Borgetti who plays for Mexico.

[photos taken from googling]

101. Kickstart Fitness + The 4th String Ensemble

2011-02-16T17:00:00.000+08:00

Personal/Ideals

This post is supposed to be written a few weeks ago or so in the month of January. But it's mid-February already. Doesn't matter so much. But the feel is lost a little. Mundane.

So there are ambitions there are dreams there are daydreams there are goals and targets. We all have one or more. I have all but I am flexible about how I achieve. With bad discipline and irregular consistency. Wise man says, "you can't go far like that". But I want to enjoy as much living in my own most interesting ways. Successful people might say, "you ain't enjoying like that because you ain't achieving - you're just playing around - no commitment".

I was plain and goalless. I only breathed and functioned like fated. I realised fate is just a word to convince the unfortunate that someone out there caused the unfortunate. It's still a practical word but I rather not live on that. I stood up and grabbed my own puppet strings and orchestrate me myself.

But this current living ~ the 21st century modern civilisation on Earth is fast and competitive. I just started to like a couple of things/activities and it seems that the best thing for me to do now is enjoy the passion, support and take them as hobbies only. I succumbed to a lot of these lost dreams.

I would also say to myself that it's never too late to start. Yes it's never too late to start and be good in it but never in the top level. Cos like I said this current world is fast and competitive. At my age, I'm no more of that productivity/standard-be-able-to-achieve level of performance.

Cos I just started liking them it's like new found passion. But yes, it's never too late to take them up and for practise. But not of competition level anymore. I will leave that to my dreams or start my children young on them great activities. I don't want them to be idle like how I used to be some 5-10 years ago. I don't blame my parents. Parents are not to be blamed. The best thing for them to do is exposure and encouragement and that's only if they are aware of it. They are not wrong at all. The negative part is when they force, that is when they are overzealous in seeing their kids doing what they want to see the kids doing. Thumbs down.

But thumbs up for my parents for the average living (in malay, we call it kesederhanaan) I was brought up in. I get to explore by myself albeit a little too late or slow for myself. But I enjoy it nevertheless. I think having fun is the most important factor no matter what people say. It's a personal level. But let there be some knowledge and genuine passion. Not as a means.

What I meant, I really love:
1. Football / Sports
2. Playing music

I am very interested in:
3. Mixed martial arts

I am keen on/I can do it:
4. Bodybuilding - fitness

But I ain't like competing in no.4 - but Arnold is really bizarre.

Marathon is the new entry in to the category of no. 1. These are all really motivation-based activities.

Usually these activities are not to be done alone because results are vital and it's natural to compare either to a standard or your partner only we see and encourage improvements.

So yes, I will expose my future children to sports. It's a must... it's healthy and always good. Music, it's healthy and always good - certain music must not apply. Martial arts, always healthy and good. Bodybuilding, it's up to him/her after I show him/her my body lol gyahahaha.

This is the self-recorded and self-standard physical status record.

Height: 164 cm
Weight: 55 kg
Chest: 34 inches
Biceps: 11.5 inches
Thighs: N/A (nah don't really train on this - only running and simple weight curls)

Run
Distance: 5 km
Time: 29 minutes
Average speed: 10.2 km/h

Presses (for chest) - 10kg each arm
Curls (for biceps) - 7.5kg each arm
Push-ups (flat) - 21 times

(As of starting of the year - January/February 2011)

I did 1.5km runs too. The best I did during school days was about 9-10minutes. A recent record during the training for marathon I did about 8 minutes. And the most recent which was a few days ago I did ..the handphone application screwed up.

fakaladingdong it was about 7-8 minutes already after a distance of 1.4km so I pushed faster to get a better time. I swear to whatever freaking god out there I ran 300 metres already the distance still shows 1.4 and it's past 10 minutes.

I believe the application lags sometimes in the update of number. It might update when the distance becomes 1.6 or so in line with the time recorded. It's just that I want the time particularly for 1.5km it disappointed me.

This was probably my best record so far http://youareinmydream.blogspot.com/2010/11/98-progress-run-3-rekindled.html

My 2 hours and 58 minutes in my first 21km marathon is satisfactory but I am very disappointed that I took a freaking 1 hour 20 minutes for the 9.3km mark. Shame wei..own training record was so good at about 30-40 minutes for 6-7 km. It's like another 3km took another 40 minutes.

Ok end of fitness. Next up, my guitar.

I left my guitar at home since going down to KL so I've not played it for 4 weeks. But I found guitars everywhere in almost every crew room at my workplace. So, I get to play a bit of acoustic.

My thinnest string snapped and broke just after 3 days I resumed playing (got it back down here at KL after the cny fest). Got whipped while I was tuning it. Duno why maybe that part which broke was corroded thin already or just weakened by extensive bend of the part of the string.

And since I don't used to change one string only at a time I decided to change the first 3 strings instead of changing all of them since my 4th, 5th and 6th strings are still in a very good condition and I like em gauges 30 44 and 52.

So, I got this...

Dunlop Med/Heavy - Gauges 11 14 17 28 38 50

It's the first time my 1st 3 thin strings increase in gauge. I had been using 10 13 17. So I combine them old GHS Boomers GBTNT 30 44 52 and Dunlop 11 14 17 and give it a reality check.

Result:
I love it.

A broader and slightly mellow tone is produced. This in my opinion is the result of a complete heavier range of string gauge. Standard range is 10 13 17 26 36 46 I think which is quite thin compared to the ones I am using.

The mellowness is ideal as I love to have lower muddy tones in my playing, be it upbeat or dark songs. Especially metal or metal-based style of songs I like to play them in more crunchy and juicy tone. So in my opinion I can get that sound with heavier gauges.

Cos my Tele tone is already naturally thin, I get these thicker strings to beef it up. It works, at least to my ears and heart haha.

I mentioned slightly mellow because I still feel that it's quite bright which is not bad because it still sounds great in any kind of songs I try to play.

So, that's all about my 4th purchase of strings set.

100. New Year Review (pig-o-1-1)

2011-01-23T19:30:00.002+08:00

Ideals/Personal

There goes.

People grow old and older. Most friends of mine of who are of my age are hitting 21 this year. I just hit 2o years old 4 months ago anyway.

When you were young, you just grow and learn. Whatever happened seemed to be like yesterday's wrongdoings and lessons learnt. When you have matured whatever happened seemed like regrets and "I wish I could turn back time" scenarios. But whatever happens it's only for this life.

I'm not sure if I'm the only one but I reckon, most people if not every body feels similarly the way I thought I feel. We keep learning and we keep updating (according to our environment or adapting to worldly living trend) how we feel and that's how people change and grow more mature or to understand living towards betterment.

Life is an overrated word. Really.

It's a battle of HP and MP with a limit break. You hit when it's your turn.

If you're expecting me to review on my life events and activities like I used to then you are slightly not accurately correct. I have too much to write about myself for a self-obsessed ordinary lad. So I'm dedicating this review as a review of my blog. Should I include the exclamation mark? Like, "I'm dedicating this review to my blog!". Then ^.^ then XP and ;D

Life was good. "And it will always be good" till it ends one fine day. For those living in fear under a collapsed roof, hiding from militants, suffering from suicide bombers, starving without food for your baby, oppressed by your drunk father... I express my sympathy. If there only exist Superman or Batman superheroes alike and many of them in "clones" everybody can say "life IS good".

So, plainly as I am and was I was a carefree young teenager who worked 26 days just to feel a little better as a person who wants to work hard and earn money for himself. He joins his two close friends to Botanical Gardens there almost everyday for fun and fitness. In April, there was this Hikathon in Penang hills and also the establishing of this blog.

He likes to dream and he always do. Critical acclaim for daydreaming - No-ball Lifetime award. So he named the url with the statement "you-are-in-my-dream". It's definitely a statement. Anyways, it applies to almost everyone because somewhat I dream at some point of everyone whom I met or knew some point. Ah of course if that's that simple I can even name it I-like-your-body like wouh, beautiful ladies and sexy. But no. Understood. At least for my crushes/infatuations who walked in reality.

So as expected from me in the earlier days circa 2005 - 2009 I sound gloomy and dark in most of writings. I didn't have to post how sad I was or how angry I was with anything. I just have all the time in the world to write about the world from the sightglass of my eyes and the unfiltered audio line-in of my ears. Then I don't use my mouth to express so much. Unbrushed contaminants might spoil communication. So I write (read: type).

It's easy, I have compiled before to the sidebar of this blog. It's categorized under Philociples. And those Brain-screws are my favourite posts. They make no sense at all if I don't talk to you before about whatsoever keywords contained there. Even sometimes when I reread it it doesn't make any sense anymore. Changes.

The lowest selection is a collection of an old blog. Yes blogging from me started way back in 2004/2005. But it was dull. Thinking back my life back in those years were really dull. I find no interest in recollecting them or to treasure anything. Bad.

After that was an onset of silent emotional setbacks. It goes like this..my physical puberty was at about the age of 12 and then mentally at about 16. oops.

Flashforward please.

2008
So yeah, when I started this (dot)blogspot writing it was mostly activities filled posts. Positive negative it depended. I'm recommending this read BOOBy Trap.

I checked back. I had some internal mental/emotional torture back then expressed in words. Haha glad those days were over - told you, the puberty of mental was late. Yer can see no sadness in me cos I'm really never sad. Common term is insane. I might be done with Schizophrenia. Maybe not the more I think of it I might as well become one with it.

And then the start of tertiary education for most of us. So as some weird random posts. It feels funny when I browse through my old posts. I write stuffs which are really crazy as in get-f-off crazy. Not funny crazy or crazy crazy. I think this review is not going anywhere other than drifting into analysing how stupid crazy I sounded like.

This is for my love for earthly revolution Pangea and Global Peace.

And I think I write most of my best brain-screw "theses" around that time. With derivations from movies such as Dark Knight, James Bond and Watchmen later.

99 posts are a lot to look through. I'm lost in my own review.

2009 and 2010
I admit mostly were activities. Because activities make blogs active. Because lately I don't have much to ramble on openly. The length to scroll for the list of year 2008 posts is like almost 1 foot. Year 2009 about 6inches plus. Year 2010 no need to scroll at all. That explains.

Blogging is like sports and bodybuilding. It's motivation-based. If you happen to have no one at all to read then I think it's really useless to write. But it's a modern world. We use blog as like some kind diary yeah journal. So if no one reads, who actually cares. Unless you're earning as a blogger you need traffic. As for me, close friends and random visitors do read/check/take a look from time to time so I'm glad I'm not alone. God is watching. I should add XD 0.0 :S

I think the year 2009 passed quite fast. I mean it's year 2011 already and I still talking about 2 years ago. A bit vague.

Well, in 2009 I have already moved in to a rented house so there goes. Additional freedom to transport, food and et cetera infrastructure that is available. So I settled down. In the sense of activities. Cos you know you're going to be staying here longer than it was in hostel. I started doing some music stuffs.

Not exactly making music but yeah doing something with music. I record a little and mix a little. And experiment with certain songs. Filefactory used to host a media player - widget which I regularly uploaded songs into it. And then I did uploaded some of my mixing record work. It takes patience and the want to make the records sound clear and nice (smooth). And also for me, the basic ability to track the parts for editting..and..and..and..motivation to work further on them.

As you can see there's one file in the filefactory but downloading it is not possible according to friends who tried. That's just an improvisation of guitar lead over a drum track. These are the likes of posts which I get very technical only existent after year 2009: Snakey demo - Sound Techie and many more others ..some about my guitar etc fun.

I find that the posts in year 2010 were mostly random and out of the blue. If I watched football and felt like talk about it then you get football post. Or music.

A LOT on sports and fitness towards the end. Ended nicely with my marathon result.

My preview for the future.
1. fitness records and reviews
2. music recordings and mixes
3. issues regarding earth and the government of gods
4. feelings

Feelings, the last thing I would want to talk about. And you don't do that often do you. Ain't so emotional in open. I may as well cry to myself or to mummy.

Because we have Facebook. It's more updating and it refreshes instantly. In a minute you're sad then the next you're happy after receiving a hug from a friend or your mama just called saying "don't worry". In blog case, you ain't wana spam your blog up to 1000 posts just for a collection "XD" "T.T" ";D" or "oOo" duno. this is still cooler \m/ it's even more cool in Yahoo! Chat. Ask Jon or Hooi. Signatory of "rock kapakkk" when the emoticon shouts.

I don't expect this long actually. It somehow has to be this long. It's natural.

So. The flowchart or graph will show a trend of increasing happiness through out my blog posts. And then stagnant and steady. That's a good sign. Maybe when I break up with a gf or divorce in the further future I might write a sad post like "I'm the bitch".

So long so forth I wish you Happy New Year and happy new day for everyday you live you first wake up and realise that you're still breathing. That's more significant. So you won't regret the day the moment you lost something. You won't want to say I want to turn back time or I hate my life. I can hate my height (lol) but I don't because I am happy for what I am, have become and can change.

Coming up next: New Year Fitness Report/Record, Symphony of Destruction and many more.

The title of this post is a "if you know the poetic value term", it's meant for hokkien speaking people to translate that one word then he/she will know whatever I meant to put it as. I mean the 'pig' word only.

Bless you.

Pearl Jam - Even Flow

Gladly listened in B fm 89.9 and identified through wsas91a.com radio.

[FFVII battle screenshot given by my brother.]

99. So, I Ran

2010-11-22T20:45:00.003+08:00

Personal

I'm 20. And I ran my first marathon in my life. I mean, half marathon hah.

Half marathon is 21km.

It's from Queensbay until some distance pass the midspan of bridge and then u-turn back up to some distance near E-Gate. From there straight up to the place where the run started as finishing line.

Gruesome. Grueling. Groovy. G...on the spot.

Pushing my own limits. Abusing my own feet as I pushed my soul harder. Never had this tough and long run before in my life. It was so mental. I had my heart doing most of the work by thinking of the support that I've had. emotional haha. I told my legs, "hold on don't give up you can do it". Sorry feet. It was a torture and nightmare.

I totally underestimated the route on the map and the distance in number.

It was endless as I saw the sea of heads and double the number, of legs heading towards blurry. It was so far that the cold, breezy and misty air had made a wall of clouding the vision of the journey. And then it rained god-like heavy.

I'm not sure if anyone caught me gulping the rainwater to drink. I think I was looking like goldfishes gasping for air. The rain played a very friendly role in cooling down tremendously my body to the point I didn't have to to keep going to the water station for hydration. Besides that, it's to be blamed for drenching my whole body. I threw away my socks halfway. It was a bad load soaking up so much water and kept getting rolled under my feet.

Push and push.

This is it.

It was uploaded into the Penang Bridge International Marathon website.

I edited just for my part. Courtesy of PBIM.

Ah Hooi's 2nd time running this big event and he did it in 2 hours and 41 minutes time. Kudos. We survived too.

More trainings on the way.

This is a picture of me with the finisher's medal.

Nope, haven't uploaded.

98. Progress Run 3 ~Rekindled

2010-11-18T02:00:00.001+08:00

Personal

References
Run 1 (30th October) - http://youareinmydream.blogspot.com/2010/10/96-progress-run.html
Run 2 (14 October) - http://youareinmydream.blogspot.com/2010/11/97-progress-run-2-fail.html

Exercise Report/Summary

Day: Wednesday
Date: 17th November 2010
Time: 1900 hours
Weather: Cool and breezy
Temperature: n/a
Terrain: Tarred road

Location: Nilai
Traffic: Rare
Start: Behind Block D
Course: Back and forth a single straight road between Block D and E
Finish: Behind Block D

Start time: ~1900 hours
Finish time: ~1940 hours

Distance*: 6.3 km
Time*: 37.22.64 mins
Average speed*: 10.1 km/h
Maximum speed*: 16.8 km/h

[*recorded by my phone Fitness application]

Remarks:
1. The run started in the evening where the sun was setting. After the first 15 minutes the lamp posts became the only source of light for the road.
2. Road is wet after a course of drizzle an hour before.
3. The course is level; no uphills or downhills. Only back and forth a road of about 150m in length.
4. The wind is breezy and cool for most of the time which helped in cooling and providing positive airflow for breathing.
5. Pre-exercise diet: Water and half piece of bun from Cinnabon
6. Post-exercise diet: Some kolo mee from Kuching and less than 100ml of Soya milk. Dinner: Neslo and sandwich set (egg+meat+cheese+sausage+fries)

Comments:

This is the coolest ever run besides the events that I have participated in my life. Especially falling upset towards my previous training 4 days ago.

I beat the Run 2's 2.9km in ~16 minutes (ahead by ~3minutes) and at least pushed further to beat Run 1's 5.7km in ~33 minutes (1 minute difference).

But I still can't believe it how good in form I was despite having improperly hydrated in the first run record because it was in the morning I'd not taken much food for energy, the course is hilly and traffic was mild. And that time the sun was rising. This latest run I had was absolutely on straight and level terrain and there is no heat from the sun at all. It was rather boring and there was no variation. The only motivation I had was to kept looking at my stopwatch.

If it was in the morning, I believe I would have continued on the exercise at least until 10-12 km. As my breathing and energy level were in a very good form. Hydration was adequate from the drinking in the day. Food consumption was complete. I was just not motivated to keep running until 8 o'clock at night. It was a run in blindness. Only dim lamp posts and occasional passing-by cars' headlights glaring.

Note: These run progresses are for tests of performance only. Not graded for any use or competition. The Penang Bridge Marathon which I will be participating is 21km in distance to run for my half-marathon category which I selected. Satch blesses I will complete the run gracefully. Earning a podium position is not much of concern but it is the motivation, spirit and faith in finishing well the course and enjoying it as well. A 3 and a half hours limit will be a test to earning a finisher's medal. A 20th place would secure a Bronze medal. bzzt.

Get ready.

Theme song: Megadeth - High Speed Dirt and Hangar 18

97. Progress - Run 2 ~FAIL

2010-11-14T18:00:00.005+08:00

Personal

Refer to http://youareinmydream.blogspot.com/2010/10/96-progress-run.html for a splendid previous record.

Exercise Report/Summary

Day: Sunday
Date: 14th November 2010
Time: 0935 hours
Weather: Sunny and breezy
Temperature: n/a
Terrain: Tarred road and pavement grass ground

Location: Nilai
Traffic: Slightly regular
Start: Same to Run 1
Course: n/a
Finish: n/a

Start time: 0945 hours
Finish time: ~1010 hours

Distance*: 2.9 km
Time*: 19.17.56 mins
Average speed*: 9.1 km/h
Maximum speed*: 19.5 km/h

[*recorded by my phone Fitness application]

Remarks:
1. Weather was exceptionally fine.
2. Sunny weather is great but the heat seemed to drain energy fast and the glare of the morning sun is unbearable at times.
3. Cool and breezy wind blowing helps a lot in cooling.
4. Water bottle is brought along this time. Hydration became convenient and regular.
5. Pre-exercise diet: Banana and biscuits
6. Post-exercise diet: Banana, soya milk and cork flakes cereal

Comments:
I am very disappointed and upset with this latest performance. I would rather not record this at all but that's not the point anymore for progress checks. This would serve me as a reminder and a history of a bad result. I could not even last until at least the distance covered in the previous run. I stopped at the time the time record was taken and then I attempted to continue but to no avail. I stopped again just after 2 minutes.

I was prepared. To improve on my performance as I brought with me a bottle of water. I think, it became a burden to hold it through out the course. I believe I ran out of phase and totally lost my rhythm in the energy consumption and breathing right after I was juggling running and drinking at the same time. Basically, I lost coordination with my steps and breathing when I shifted my attention to opening the bottle cap. The first time was not so bad. I think the second attempt to drink when I was already gasping for more air made me stop for a few seconds to drink and swallow.

After that, I just felt like I lost a lot of energy. The feeling of lazy legs surfaced. Eyes went into sleepy mode. I lost my concentration too. I kept thinking, how am I going to make it this time? I could not even hit 5km, let alone 10km.

I list down here the possible causes which I think are the reasons why I could not perform:
1. Serious lack of sleep
2. Heavy gym work out the day before
3. Heat from the sunny weather
4. Lack of regular training
5. Holding a bottle of water - which added weight and removed the freedom of movement of my arms
6. Had been recently working out on creatine supplement

No.1 factor is a serious detriment. I admit on that that I practically didn't sleep proper hours in the few nights before the run. Rather, I didn't sleep during the nights all only 2-4 hours of naps in the day. This involves time and work management.

The gym workout which I did the day before was a little over the regular repetitions and resistances. I pushed harder than before especially a lot on the quadriceps and hamstrings exercises. I reckon I have not recovered at all after such strenuous activity. I am not quite sure if I have actually converted an pro-endurance regime to strength-building. Plus the creatine-based supplement for muscle building.

Not sure though if that poses any difference in this small scale of training.

The weather is not really hot. It's just clear sky in the morning. Would not blame the heat generally though. It's rather breezy. I feel it's the combination of lack of sleep and the glare of the sun which made me feeling drowsy and lazy.

Holding the bottle. You tell me. The splashing of the water. The centrifugal force acting on the water. The grip on the bottle. It's a 600ml bottle. I actually left it at one spot when I felt that I could not continue anymore holding it for long period. And then when I made a turn-back I recollected it. That was already after I gave up.

Then I had to walk back home which took me almost 1 hour.

Upset.

96. Progress - Run

2010-10-30T14:00:00.006+08:00

Personal

Exercise Report/Summary

Day: Saturday
Date: 30th October 2010
Time: 0900 hours
Weather: Wet - Light drizzling during start
Temperature: 20 °C - by feeling only
Terrain: Tarred road and pavement grass ground

Location: Nilai
Traffic: Rare but occasionally mild ~1 vehicle every 3 minutes
Start: ~150m before INTI entrance
Course: Along the road up to entrance of Nilai Springs Resort then reverse until halfway
Finish: Entrance of Taman Melati main road

Start time: ~0910 hours
Finish time: ~0940 hours

Distance*: 5.7 km
Time*: 34:43.60 mins
Average speed*: 9.9 km/h

(I think it's about ~8km/h)

Maximum speed*: 15.1 km/h

[*recorded by my phone Fitness application]

Remarks:
1. Weather was cold and wet so I wore a windbreaker which also helped in warming up.
2. Jacket was removed after feeling a lack of ventilation on my body.
3. The whole course of exercise was without proper hydration - citing the fact that if I were to had some water I would had covered a longer distance at a more consistent speed.
4. No smoking
5. No alcohol
6. No supplements
7. No medication.
8. Pre-exercise diet: A cup of Milk (~6 - 10g of protein) and 3 pieces of Domino's Cinnamon Stix
9. Post-exercise diet: Bread, cheesy baked beans and jambu air

Comments:

Wet weather did not deter me from training. I almost gave up actually at 8am in the morning when I looked at the sky and feel the wind it had not rained yet meaning it wanted to rain later. I assumed that it's going to rain and stop by 8am by comparing with the other days before this day. Went out the first time and felt that the drizzle was too heavy and I did not want to run with my feet soaked wet and especially with having sweaty skin wetted with cold rain water. Stayed back in the house waiting and took a nap, almost making my way back to the bed as a surrender to the weather. But I could not let go of the great opportunity and time to exercise.

Cold wind coupled with the lack of proper sleep time (5 hours only) made me felt sleepy while walking on the way to the course. Jacket helped protect from cold temperature, rain water, cold wind and keep warm.

Lower legs were not in best condition though due to ice-skating first time on the previous night. But the whole course was great. Smooth progress and breathing was properly coordinated for most of the time except during gulping saliva for hydration and inhaling hard to retain the nasal mucous in cavity.

After stopping the exercise I walked back to home. It took me around 30 minutes to reach at a paced walking speed. That is equivalent to walking back and forth PFS and CGL 4 times or 3 days worth of walking back (grandpa house) from school calorie burnt.

Fun sake yeah.

Theme music feeling: Satch Boogie

Credits: Adidas Performance. Nike Pro. bzzzzt materialistic

95. Snakes In The Rough

2010-10-29T00:20:00.006+08:00

Personal/Ideals

Welcome again.

It seems that filefactory does not have music widget anymore so kinda if you wana listen to that song you can download it by clicking. mmm it could be illegal already to put other songs for download. like free. bad

I would like to present to you my latest endeavour in improvising. It's not a complete and well prepared recording. It's an improvised recording of an improvisation.

The gears and materials used:
1. Sony Ericsson W580 - sound recorder
2. Squier Telecaster
3. Marshall MG10CD
4. USB cable
5. MIKSOFT Mobile AMR Converter
6. Guitarpro 5.2
7. Hoobastank - The Reason ver2 (from Ultimate Guitar website)
8. yeah my laptop and windows XP @#$%^

Just for the fun of details. Use any guitar any amp anything. Keep the ruggedness.

So yeah, I like these few notes which you play together and they sound like snake charm. And they can be used to improvise. And so I decided to randomly record what I can do with these few notes with a drums backing track, an I recently started doing with. It's fun.

1. I use Hoobastank - The Reason guitarpro drums track as my backing. Set to 50% tempo

2. I put my amp in gain. Cos i want the gain feeling in my guitar sound. yer know like rock solo

If you already feel bored, go to http://www.ultimate-guitar.tv/guitar_lessons/guitar_world_paul_gilbert_presents_shred_alert.html where you can learn snake-charming tunes. It's a different style of snake-charming though and presented in a different key.

Hooi has listened and tested out my notes and he identified it as part of the Gmin scale. Yes, indeed I use G as my primary key, the root which the improvisation is based on.

So, just move on to my filefactory and play my mini demo.

Things I would like to point out; Of course I will never keep silent on my own work. Ok cool 7mins long with slow drum beats it's rather sleep-charming actually. In fact, I didn't actually base my improvisation on snake-charming melody along the track. I altered naturally and intrinsically when I chose to base it in the key of G. Somewhat gypsy-ish-deserty-mystery sound.

Lack of dynamics: I could have do more tremolos, bending and sliding, legato or any other forms. I was concentrating on the beat so I ended up staying static on individual notes. And also thinking ahead of the notes and their positions to play. Because I didn't learn up the scale and the positions, otherwise it would have been easier and maybe juicier...

Lack of rhythm: Not so bad rhythm because it's me and the preset drums track. It's lack of the rhythmic articulation of my playing. Messy and not structured. I will improve on this. Also, because I was concentrating on the fretboard.

Sloppy: Obviously yes. Choppingly no. They could be heard as mistakes clearly mishandling the strings. Or just mere improvised dynamics. Chop. Scrape. Sloppy flick. Dirty notes. Works both ways. Just feel differently.

Other than that you give your comments I hope can work it out in my subsequent playing.

The final eighth of the song which you can spot some smells-like-shredding but fail-type is just some getting high and adventurous try-out on shredding tune. It's basically and usually for me to just play 3 notes per string (usually 2 strings) fast either chromatically or just randomly or any notes I happen to spot deem to be the notes in the scale.

"if you get the note wrong, get the next note right" haha this is easily true. Or rather, get your feel right.

Thanks anyways for any attention spilled here.

94. Tribute

2010-10-18T23:00:00.000+08:00

Ideals

Just a tribute.

Thanks to Hooi for referring me to this song.

And it so happens that these comments touch my soul. Knowing that this song is quite somewhat dedicated to some kind of desperado in which I felt some similarity with in myself. Just like what parents or old wise grandparents would say to their children.

And the last comment below amazingly fit what I felt. heh. Anyways, thank you all. I'm still alive.

musemorris
~YOU MUST be kidding? You guys must be the REAL Eagles?! FANTASTIC! Dedicated to our beloved son Jarrod Ryan ~ June 10, 1987 ~ April 4th, 1991!

KumarsDad
~What a beautiful song! I dedicate it to my son Jared. Your Mom and I really miss you.Gone but never forgotten.RIP 10/18/1990-04/08/2009

mlee86a
~This song is for the late Jennifer Vincent who dearly loved the Eagles and especially this song. I will always remember her with this wonderful song.

bubbles9084
~omg i really needed to hear this :') my brother was 23 when he died in a car accident this was his absolute favorite song and his birthday is october 16th and he pasted on october 20th i really love this song and it helps me get true the day :) thank you :')

TheGrimRomance
~its amazing how this song fits me. x)) *2 thumbs up!*

93. Joga Bonito

2010-09-24T20:55:00.003+08:00

Ideals/Personal

Beautiful game.

Balls.

Sports.

Out to be disposed.

In response to Foot to your Ball.

92. Colours of Love

2010-07-10T05:00:00.001+08:00

Ideals/Personal

This is again, love. Animal love. Inter-species love. Inter-color love. Definitely not your kind of love.
These animals do not have any faith. Nor any belief. At least they do not speak it out and brag about it like us humans. They do not come to us for refuge in need of a god. They just make good companies. I think I'm speaking of an example which is dogs. Others...they make good fried food or roasted.

I actually really do not mind about colour and races at all. But you may see me hanging out only with a bunch of fair-skinned friends of Chinese ethnicity wherever. At least most of the time. Maybe there's some comfort. I am very sure of that which most of you people out there tend to stick to the group with similar tones. I know it's a very ignorant thing as pointed out by a foreigner friend who commented in Facebook.

Then I beg to differ for my part. I may be hypocritical at my choices of answers. But here I am to point it out the things I look for when joining activities and becoming friends. Or at least people who are worth to mix around with without discriminating superficial characteristics.

Who the hell cares..I mean I don't care, really. Of where you come from or what kind of family background. Just don't bring bombs and don't push drugs to me.

Well, let's start from day one of life. First, I was born and raised in Penang. Obviously, you can see more fair-skinned Chinese descendants around. But national statistics show the population number otherwise. Never mind that. And growing up in the vicinity with more Chinese friends and neighbours it's not unusual to mix around more with Chinese people especially in school. But come on, f* this. You cannot force a nation to deliberately cultivate 1M*sia by..what?..you wana see every group of people walking around having at least 1 Chinese, 1 Malay and 1 Indian?
Let it be natural. All the while it has been natural. Nevertheless it's a result of what colonialism had done to our country in the past. But past is not to be taken as blame. Learn.

So, in my schooling years I had never choose friends by skin. I have many kinds of friends. Malay or Indian. They are still people. Why do I only have that few friends from those races. It's because they are that few in my place. You don't expect me to dig and search for non-Chinese friends so I practise equality. Of friendship.

Now that I'm in MIAT, I can tell you I'm studying in a place of an opposite population number of schoolmates to what I had before in MIAT. What now, you want me to befriend and mix with the whole school to show that I am not racist? Jonathan is the only Chinese in my class. And yes the others are friends nevertheless.

I want to point out the similarity in the friends that I have by comparing now and then (Free School). Let's say I have 5 friends whom I mix around with in the old days - 4 Chinese 1 Indian. Let's compare with now with the same total of mixing - 4 Malay 1 Chinese. So what the hell.

Let me also point this out on why do I tend to only stick to certain groups especially when they are Chinese people in forming a project group, staying together or just plain mixing. This is the part where I seek "comfort" in joining people. The comfort that is being termed ignorant from outside. I would really call this human tendencies. To achieve an equilibrium of satisfaction both to the heart and mind.

1. It's easy. I know the person's capability so it's easier to work together.
2. We're close and old friends.
3. Communication - English or Hokkien. Seriously haha. See, I tend to mix with people who regularly/tend to speak the English language fluently/poorly. And Hokkien. But there's a lot of lalas who speak hokkien in Penang I can't help it (out of topic).
4. Culture and Practices. This aspect covers a huge area. I am only going to point out some of the subconscious sub-aspects. Food - Halal/Non-Halal. And it's in tandem with respect even if someone says it's ok. Then I guess prayers is not really a problem because I didn't experience it but I heard of it as one. And what not that you may be thinking of by growing up in a Chinese family. You hear all sorts of things about other people.
5. Mind block.
6. Oh yeah this is for in M*sia in religion matters. This is a latent issue. Especially on marriages. Not about the food or dogs.

So you can blame human tendencies and let the politicians be the scapegoats. Other than that, why do we all have to discriminate one another. I know, this is already a very hard to treat situation already in our country. Many aspects and events were involved in the conception of such mentality. It's the war of the people and land. Modernly termed, business/money matters. One leads to another, they are not really independent. Refusal to change. Fear of losing. Strong and faithful in protecting rights. The will to save the heritage. Selfishness is easily just the factual cause.

Fundamental. Humans have settled and have been segregated into many different regions on Earth. From there, humans do changes and advance. To conquer. To win. To prosper. To live and be "happy". Meaning, to achieve goals and become satisfied in relation to their expectations.

That is a digress into the elements which are dated B.C. hah

Back to the topic of me being not racist.

I don't have to actually fight to say that I am not racist. That is just up to the way people see, judge and brand me. If I have 10 Chinese friends and 1 Malay friend so I'm racist then so be it the person likes to see people with numbers. If he sees that I have 1 Chinese friend and 10 Malay friends and thinks that I am stupid and betraying my race then he is really shallow and someone who I think is the real racist in my opinion. Et cetera.

There is really no point in seeing the different colours of the people in making decisions other than in the pointed out isolated cases.

When you're playing games or making plans, you look for people with the appropriate skills and attitude. In any sports I don't look for to choose particularly who I want to play with. It is just general that I want to play with people who are in a similar level of skills and fitness so I feel comfortable. ah this is a bit weird but it's ok..it is something to do with choosing people.

I fail in finding out how and why did I even bring this topic up. The photos of the plush toys gave out so many thoughts.

Here it is on love, human tendency appears again in love choices. I believe they are options and preferences. Take for example Chinese parents would advise their children not to marry black people. It's just weird. I believe it's just choices. One may think "wah so black I don't want". Yes, that's a choice. Not any racism. This does not apply though to people who really objects on interracial marriages. I believe it's human tendency to seek for comfort.

It's easy to fall in love. Physique. Face. Tonal characteristics. Personality. Behaviour. Thought. Creativity. Intelligence. So many aspects in gaining love. Note the first 3 points I write are actually the most common things people first look at when looking for mates. Basically, they mean looks. I forgot to add one more. Wealth, in terms of money matters. It's a commercialised world after all.

I think I quite have lost them the points I want to write about. But I believe again, I write enough for now. Boredom lingers starting from the very first sentence.
See, the dolphin has eaten the koala's head off already. Told you not to leave cute things behind...

And...

[DOG - GOD] ~ "funny" reversal ahha. can get condemned. but are both loving and caring existences.

91. Foot to Your Ball

2010-06-18T11:00:00.002+08:00

Personal

Well, let's see.

In need of maintenance.

Something for the World Cup football season. My amateur start-ups haha. Economical and simple.

The boots. It's a Topper. Model is Brazil..should be.

Nike T90 Classic keeper's gloves. No, not kitchen mitts.

Ah..something I wanted to get ever since my love for the football game was really conceived in year 2002. Then I get it 7 years later. At discounted price. With the colour I'd been eyeing ever since. And ever since, I didn't grow any much taller to be an efficient goalkeeper. A well-respected position. Supposedly incredible in reflexes and agility.

And this is the latest in the family. Mercurial Veer. Caps earned in Georgetown, Sepang and nilai.

This is actually my 4th football purchased. First one is red. It was bought like 10 years ago and it bears the emblem of Mexico football club...yeah..they just beat France 0-2. 2nd one in black, came 1 or 2 years after that. It was under Jon's care when he claimed his dog has caused the ball to rupture and rendered unserviceable. I didn't get to say goodbye. And yeah Jon, you're still keeping my Real Madrid Siemens Mobile jersey.wooo

Lazy to take them photos of the balls. 3rd ball in gold, is an imitation design (only the looks not the construction) of the Teamgeist of World Cup 2006 Germany official matchball.

Hmm..have been getting Nike products already. I'd always been against Nike products because they are too simple and they cost so much. Yer know..just a tick. But recently they have a lot of designs that are both simple and elegantly great.

I set a new target on a Nike sweatshirt. Termed combatant, with Rooney blazing in the promotional poster. Never mind. I might wana get it for my own birthday present haha.

Say, humans are easily materialistic. I'm easily one. As simple as this, I see it I like it I get it if I can afford it. Less research. Just wraps the heart in comfort. Then of course think of the usage.

Yer see I like sports a lot. Especially football. I adore and respect the sport. I like the gameplay and how the players are trained to play with the ball. Strategy playing of course is not my cup of coffee but it's also highly commendable. Well as for me physically I just like to kick it and see how it takes on flight. Of course teamplay is definitely very fascinating.

Kick it. Bend it some other day.

90. This is Love

2010-05-30T02:40:00.000+08:00

Personal

But not your kind of love.

Marsupial love haha. I'm actually very fond of collecting and displaying them plush toys. Especially these adorable wombats and koala bear from Australia. My uncle who lives there bought all of them. The left one is at least 10 years old already. The right one is fresh. It just came to my home last year after I "jokingly" requested my uncle to get one.

This one was taken by my brother with the arrow signs drawn in Paint.

I like arranging them in awkward ways. I avoided mating positions.

89. Feel Good

2010-05-19T11:45:00.002+08:00

Ideals/Personal

Woohoo. 2 years have passed and I reach 89 posts. Some I would say would have changed blog sites in 2 years at this rate. Nahh I'm too lazy to change a site. Not for any promotional purpose. Even for motivational reason I'm just too lazy. It doesn't matter.

I have to preach on this. On behalf of Stressm but not a Stressm post.

Feeling good is important in life.

It's natural. We keep striving to feel good. After feeling good you will feel bad and you will want to feel good again. That's what keep life moving. It's not wrong or bad when complacency strikes. Life is a constant cycle of events and they just ricochet away if it's not right.

But let's not leap into idleness.

(I want to admit that the Napoleon's newsletter and Thought of the Day are the few resources of lessons in life I learn from.)

Let's just take life as life. I don't mind or care if God intervenes or involves himself. I'm putting our human life as natural as a separate entity on Earth.

Look at humans. So much advancement since the cave dwellings. We are building bombs now.

Well, it's just us. We learn and suffer and at times we succeed. This is just the norm. Why can't we just live it. Yeah add spices here and all over to make all of us feel good. My point here is, "don't worry, be happy".

I understand that I might just drop dead the very next moment after finishing off this sentence. Then I didn't so I cherish. Until I'm struck then I will complain and cry in pain and vain. That's just life isn't it. No one prepares us to cope with all emotional situations.

The people in the war. The people in poverty. The people in the riches. The people affected by Earth's catastrophes. I appreciate all of them and I feel their existence. I just don't have any better media to convey it. I only have the thought in my mind. Well, cos I never go through their experiences.

I may sound hypocritical but then I'm just an average young man who likes to express and then sit back and relax. Unless there is a sudden emergency which I have to pack my valuable belongings and enter the mercenary.

So my point "Don't worry, be happy" strikes again. You have what you have now. You get what you want later. You enjoy what you have. You work for what you want. It all comes to an end. Accomplishing life. Be it, dissipate into thin air or join the Earth and soil after death we will identify it then.

But no one has ever come back to tell us about it. In my opinion, that is actually the best thing to do after death. Don't get attached with what we've left. I wonder what will happen if really someone comes back and tells us the story of afterlife. Curiosity kills the cat.

But I have an ambition of visiting life again after death. I would like to see what people do with my legacy. Or if there's anyone playing some sad solo over my coffin. Maybe my body will just be buried somewhere 6-feet-under that would be your great-grandchild's backyard garden.

And by luck I found this quote over the websites.

"Enthusiasm with error is more acceptable than indifference with perfection." — J. Dinneen

How would you define it?

For me, it comes to me in many aspects. It deals with some attitude some people have. It deals with passion. It deals with life.

Of course having said that I mean that I had some experiences with what I've come across. Especially through teenage, studies and upcoming career life. We will all encounter these and managed somehow to survive.

It's just life. You wana feel good, you do it your way. And make sure you do not mess with others. Breach of principles and selfishness are what get into someone's goodwill. er..hmm..I mean someone who tries to be nice when provoked will become not nice. It gets into his nerves and induces discomfort.

But then again, it's one's choice to be angered or emotionally affected. I am not going write any more here as I am touching the topic of "choice".

I think my long-windedness only means "I want to feel good". That should be one of everybody's goal everyday to be achieved. You don't want to go to bed every night or day(night-shift) with the thinking "I screwed" unless you just had sex.

Applying some Buddhism and teachings on life and death, that's not wholesome. We all want to die peacefull and wholesomely. Good karma. Have a nice day, humans.

88. Escape

2010-04-21T18:00:00.001+08:00

Personal/Ideals

Once again, I will be most probably back for holidays. At least 7 weeks from now.

There was once if you could ever recall I said about being content, satisfied etc after having so much fun. I beg to differ now.

One is never enough of holidays. One will never get enough. One will forever need some holidays. Free time. Quality time to be spent not on work.

Because I am in one of the levels of hell which offers endless stress and work. No, I don't mean the lecturers or the industry is of hell materials. It's just me in my own realm in the background of this 3D world. Let's not take it to extent of the universe.

So yeah. Tiredness. Fatigue and Stress. Health deterioration. Ability to make wise and proper decision. They suffer. It's a gradient. Negative or positive depends on your x-y entries. Proportional if not irregular. But definitely it's inclined towards death.

I want to kick balls. I want to smash cocks. I want to cut through the chlorinated waves.
I need dynamic fresh air. Movement. Outdoor.

When I am back I am gona hug my mumy, shake my papa's hands and snatch the mercedes C-Class* from my brother. Gona savour my aunt's homecooking, treat to buffet and more treats. And the machas and humans other than mentioned above, let's kick ass and burn some fuel while it is available to us.

And jam some juicy blues.

*proton saga - just to attract certain chicks attention

87. Kirchoff in Action

2010-03-30T18:17:00.005+08:00

Personal/Study

There's actually plenty of electricity study materials that I would like to share and write about here. Either really nerd study material or life-joy-fun-crap-fun post.

So I've been going through some manuals and we're going to select a diagram for an assignment.

Suddenly this symbol appear. Wow after so many years since looking at electrical circuits I've never asked anyone or myself on this symbol. Or rather I've never come across it.

First thought is that it looks very similar to capacitor. But definitely I don't think so.

mmmm...

Just some info related to the symbol. It's in a temperature regulator circuit in an air-conditioning system of B737-200 aircraft.

Jun Guan, go go go go find it out. I've asked Joel too. Negative. Asked my brother, supposedly their senior sifu in the field...have not given me a reply.

Have fun. I am going to give you the answer after consulting my lecturer.

86. HTIAF EHT PEEK

2010-03-07T19:00:00.005+08:00

Personal/Ideals

houh

hoho competent car driver's license here I come. My "P" just expired less than 24 hours ago.

I am the friendly and receiving kind. The homely and a bit caring.

Thus, the list of my friends as visitors to my rented house in Nilai as correct as of 7th of March 2010. [excluding uni-mates and parents/relatives]
1. T M J
2. Cyn
3. Wheen
4. Jason
5. NKY
6. Hooi

And the overnight hall of fame
1. T M J
2. Wheen
3. Jason
4. Hooi

They may sound gay because if any random female entry we'll all be in lock-up ready for 20 strokes of rotan. mmm

So far so good Arsenal FC. Show what these young players can do in the ultra tough competition of Barclay's English Premier League. Even without their Dutch shooter, Persie. arh..kita punya sebaya Aaron Ramsey patah kaki..sungguh sedih. Faith be kept.

85. Gun, for Fun

2010-02-08T00:00:00.000+08:00

Personal/Ideals

[Picture from googling]

[of my closet, Home kit coming soon]

Keep The Faith

Guns N' Roses - Two revolvers pointing at each other with rose flowers coiled around

What is the significance?

Rock and roll.

For fun purpose, I brought up a some random defining thinking. @#$%^ Figure out what made the rockers and rollers think of the name which consists of guns and roses. oh right, I read before that it was the name of the members of L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose namely, Tracii Guns and Axl Rose (almighty).

Think again, it's somewhat a great match. The logo is very beautiful. The colour of the gun and the red of rose also show some contrasted perception. A rose, so beautiful and static. The gun so powerful and dynamic, it can shoot. A peaceful idea in contrast to the violence-ridden invention respectively.

But they share something in common. Nothing "nice" lasts forever.

The rose portrayed some peace but it also has its thorns in which it symbolizes "war->engage" button. And so the gun is also used in wars. However it has 2 functions; pull the trigger to start the war/end the peace or to end the war/start the peace.

..Even though the metal of the gun lasts quite some time heh..

Anyway, gun can be seen as the hard and rose the soft elements of Guns N' Roses.

Pore over the words from the song Civil War.
"
Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they've always done before

Look at the hate we're breeding
Look at the fear we're feeding
Look at the lives we're leading
The way we've always done before

My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can't deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

D'you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said "Peace could last forever"
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can't trust freedom
When it's not in your hands
When everybody's fightin'
For their promised land

And
I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war

Look at the shoes your filling
Look at the blood we're spilling
Look at the world we're killing
The way we've always done before
Look in the doubt we've wallowed
Look at the leaders we've followed
Look at the lies we've swallowed
And I don't want to hear no more

My hands are tied
For all I've seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights
'Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars

~We practice selective annihilation of mayors
And government officials
For example to create a vacuum
Then we fill that vacuum
As popular war advances
Peace is closer~

I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
And I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war
I don't need one more war

I don't need one more war
Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway
"

That is just as civil as our country. Sorry-asses.. no comments

I've highlighted on this song before 5 years ago in my friendster blog haha if you could find it.

Whatever it is, just carry on with life.

"The show must go on"~Queen

[No guns on this one, another one has]

84. Not New

2010-01-20T00:00:00.001+08:00

Personal

Nothing much, for now. Let's just let it be.
syiok sendiri sajalah kalau tiada pembaca haha

It's a nice number anyway. 2010. Two zero one zero. Twenty-ten. Two thousand ten. Dua ribu sepuluh.

The new year countdown and activity was done away from home again. No not outside Penang or where I study. The party has dwindled down to 3 persons only namely Wheen, Hooi and I myself. It's the 3rd friendly New Year gathering.

Safely saying, we're at Queensbay all 3 times before the great overnight. All 3 nights with fireworks banging the sky. All 3 nights witnessing infestation ball-loose lala music on-stage. Bear with them we just want to spectate the firework display. Not so spectacular and big this time for the year 2010.

"wahh hao piao liang de" - "wuuahhhhhh" - "hepi niu yerrrrr"

For the year 2011, if I am at back at Penang I am going to spend it with my family. Or take them out to somewhere kia kia.. And I would like to be maybe at G-Spot..for some new year countdown gig I suppose. Anywhere to chill out and listen to good r e a l music.
My wombats usher you. To a great and a bang bang new year. Captured by my brother. resized by me.

An awkward melancholic moment at Manhattan Fish Market. Our super filling final meal of the year 2009. We were eating the ice-cream and the ambience then was not quite noisy anymore. The radio player is playing Celine Dion's Because You Loved Me. ...the feeling of being lonely suddenly rose. We're all single. So rap it...

We had some nice blues-jamming. Just natural and good sharing of lead and rhythm.

So for some more visuals and fun scrolling through...

The end of 2009 and the commencement of 2010. [Port Dickson Nov '09 + January '10]

Salvaged speaker system of my grandpa's. Served me a while before I handed it back to my brother for further salvation as I leave home.

End.

Clear enough? That's my pyjamas anyway since toddler age. It's size XS to me now. Show muscles and.. can belly dance..erh.

so yeah...

83. Search in Silence

2010-01-07T03:00:00.002+08:00

Personal

Depeche Mode says it, Enjoy the Silence.

Simon & Garfunkel explains in the Sound of Silence.

Anyways, they are repeated quotes.

So there goes my last day and nights for Penang. Where I was at home. So many times I find myself doing nothing. As in nothing beneficial and just wasting time at least to my own senses. Like putting off agendas and rather than accomplishing them I just procrastinate.
And I always forget about giving myself a rest. ahha.. finally, after badminton on Tuesday I decided to give up on any fun activities. My mood's totally screwed. My heart sank. My muscles crying for some stationary comfortable oxygenated air. So, I contacted my brathers and a seester to announce my ppk-ing.

I went for silence after that.
Yer can say, I look moody. More like sleepy actually. My aim for my last day was to rest as "effectively"... Went out with my brother. Drop mum. Breakfast. Lorong Kulit. In between them were sleeps. And then treated myself with scrumptious, succulent, luscious, waliaueh blablabla KFC Zinger Tower X-Meal. Makan puas-puas dan kuat-kuat. Played a few missions of Ace Combat Zero. Did amazing dogfighting manoeuvres. Easy mode...so enemies are quite easily shot down.

At night after dinner was the consequence of last minute packing...it's normal. So the effective rest taken was put to energize myself to stand till pass midnight. Damn myself again...for having so much to pack and bring down to my rented house...especially moving new items. Still not all I have a household shopping list when I reach the jungle-forsaken-abode.

So there. I think I have typed too much to express my silence.

There's actually a lot of tension and pressure in myself when I stayed quiet. Lots of things running through my head. Trying to clear up my thoughts which bring me down. Thinking. Resolving. Searching.

And to Hooi, YW, Jonathan, KY and Jon thank you all for the company and fun activities together. To the others whom I met along the way and the invitations to join more fun activities, "merci beau coup".

Sepang says, "welcome back student".
Nilai says, "welcome back sucker".
I say, "cb-iah"/"cb-llar"-ala-TheHooiMAN

Song for a quiet company: Joe Satriani - Searching

82. Fuel and Food

2009-12-25T13:00:00.002+08:00

Ideals/Personal

At the very least I could do for people lingering around the net with the existence of my blog is to update. Not obliging but of interest and fun which led to the conception of this blog.

And for Razor, who expressed his want of seeing an update. Thanks for joining our mini ball volleying morning exercise. Plenty soon. Some kicking ones.

What day is today? What significance does it bring? Nothing much. But for those celebrating and praying, Merry your Christmas happy the new year.

What does it mean to me?
1. A public holiday
2. Parents will be off from work
3. Going out or staying at home with parents
4. Collect presents from babysitter's house (years ago haha)
5. Being in Penang (but maybe not in the future, maybe)
6. Seeing chaos and somewhat polluted people at hype places (only for these few years because I only started to go out on the streets)
7. 6 days away from Global New Year

Nothing much.

But if you do have presents for me, do present it to me. I will sincerely find something to repay your kindness. Sadly, I am the lame and hopeless present buyer/giver for any occasion.

My main point is being alive and this blog is not abandoned.

With this comeback, I would like to congratulate Argyll Roti Canai stall for the upgrade, development and relocation to become a restaurant..as in it is now in a shop lot.

http://aini.rumahatiku.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/argyll-road-canai.jpg

No means of plagiarism but just linking and referring. That's the old place. Just some 4-cars-long distance from there is their new place. No photo of the new place, go see it for yourself.

It's my self-induced gratitude to give some recognition and promotion to them here. That's the Argyll Road RC which you somehow would have came across the term in my old posts. Situated near Ah Hooi's place. Argyll Road la..tahu-tahulah.dari Penang Road dan di penjuru tiga situ.

My opinion of pros and cons.
Pros:
1. Cleaner
2. More space, to accomodate for more customers
3. Proper place for business
4. Safer

Cons:
1. Hot if ventilation fails
2. The sink place blocks some places of seats so communication and ordering deteriorates
3. May lose the original feel and somehow taste (in terms of environment)

Point 3 of cons are in my opinion the disasters to many places which have done a similar change. The loss of the original feel. Sometimes a cleaner, brightly lit and tiled place isn't a good match to the great preparation of great food.

This applies greatly in Penang. Cos penang is environmental. Its phenomenal food recognition and exquisiteness especially for the hawker food pay due homage to the environment. Just that. But the environment is quickly fluctuating already succumbing to modernisation and infrastructure development into a much busier place.

No big deal. Nothing stays forever.*

At least for me. It's also the homeliness which I adore of Penang. Not related to Malaysian Hospitality.

*"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain/victim" kinda applies. You live long enough to see an empire fall or you die remembering it as a great place.

Ok, to date...after coming back, the local food I had taken was:
1. RC
2. Jones Road Hainan Loh Mee
3. Fettes Park Hainanese Western Food - (wth..price increases while portion decreases)
4. Subaidah nasi kandar
5...

I think so.

81. Epic Love Story

2009-11-13T14:00:00.001+08:00

no no..no romance for me please.
but yeah, some armageddon-like action packed earth crust destabilizing volcanic tsunami washing of the sins.

...with the appearance of "B. B King's long lost distant cousin"-look-alike.

wouho, the modern day "arks" have hydraulics and gearings in their systems. And the Antonov super jumpo carrier has many deluxurious cars..sorry I mixed deluxe and luxurious together.

"Engine, start.."

It's a super family love story. A tearless man like me could have cried if they were to show more families drowning.

2012

Good balance as a show on the collapse of the Earth's crust. They kept a balance in the appearance of the actors and scenes of destructions. Exhilirating. My hands were automatically gripped and held in some religious position of meditation. Don't ask me why. It's just sprititual to see the Earth swallowing up human's artworks. hah.

I would want to be in Charlie's position in the time of death. Get the best shot from nature.

Build tall skyscrapers just to see them fall in the end right?

And they should have included Malaysia's famous landmarks to be broken into two or three such as the bridge and some towers.

The President's daughter is ... in the movie.

80 Stairway to Heaven Denied

2009-11-02T03:40:00.000+08:00

Personal/Ideals

~inspired by a column in my magazine with the title, "stairway denied" dedicated to Mr. Layne Staley.

This great dead man was introduced to me by The Man. He found a song which is sang by the man in Terminator 3. That part specifically is when the engine was started by Marcus the radio plays a song and he said, "..a song my brother used to listen".

He sang about the man in the box. He denied and was denied. And then he became the man in the box.

So, right. I was denied a few things. Not a big deal. Just that timing is not right.

Penang Bridge Run - 22 November - Sunday - I couldn't manipulate what the lecturers want on the following Monday....I don't want to fail and retake my subject in the next year.

Hikathon - 18 October - Sunday - ditto...same case with the freaking monday

[The tool to defy the skies. Who is there to deny your wings...]

WACK NUTS! ..you decide which meaning you would like to base on.

Yer see, not everything will come the way you want or like it.

It's alright. there's countless of things coming and going. The ones which don't are countables. Meaning, it's just so few to be compared to the good things in our life that prevail.

Unless if you're dead unlucky, yours are countless instead. I express for my empathy.

But if you do not believe in luck. Then work harder or smarter. Work your own way up.

Don't fret, everyone's through it. Just the different way and method of resolving. And the finale. For example, one dies when God loves him more so he's taken back to heaven. Some dies because Satan loves him more. Some just got into deep shit. Certain ones, they defy and deny...yet to occur.

Well, I will have a lyrics to accompany this time. Enjoy. the music video of this song has been posted before last year haha.

Ozzy Osbourne - Gets Me Through

I'm not the kind of person you think I am
I'm not the anti-christ or the iron man
I have a vision that I just can't control
I feel I've lost my spirit and sold my soul
Got no control

I try to entertain you the best I can
I wish I'd started walking before I ran
But I still love the feeling I get from you
I hope you'll never stop cause it gets me through yeah
It gets me through yeah

The feelings that I hide behind
Sometimes reality's unkind
The nightmares stalk for me at night
I dread the long and lonely nights

I'm not the kind of person you think I am
I'm not the anti-christ or the iron man
But I still love the feeling I get from you
I hope you'll never stop cause it gets me through yeah

I'm just trying to live yeah.

[Stairway to Heaven is also a songtitle by Led Zeppelin]

79. Delayed: Smooth Holiday Operation

2009-10-08T03:01:00.002+08:00

Personal/Ideals

"Befriend our Earth & Universe: Earth, rotating at its own axis, partially receiving the ray of sunlight with the Moon to accompany its journey round the Star. So we have day and night. After each night, you cross out a slot from the calendar. Make the crossing meaningful, enjoy every single hour you have having fun with friends and family. I did it, my one week holiday feel like one month worth of joy. Feel good cheers."~wallpost from Facebook

Back to you KCH, Rooster for yer. BB and SRV for YW and all of us. And Mustaine to crush all of you guys.

I have to post this a little later than maybe expected due to internet connection problem, courtesy of Streamyx. And... this is quite a lengthy one. It's personal journal. Or activity story-telling.

"Imagine, you see stars shining and lights shimmering, but there is no god to reach for"

Just a quote that I'm referring to to the modem internet signal lights blinking with no line coming in.

So yeah, I had one week of great fun. If I were to compare blindly the activities and amount of joy shed from this holiday to any previous holidays, the latest would definitely fall short and abrupt. But let's count the satisfaction rating that is conceived in the heart and the brain.

This latest holiday week would be the best...though I forgot to invite Razeen for football the second time when he could actually make it already(i think so).

Why would I claim that this time the fun is as or more exhilirating than the rest when it's only 1 week long. I believe it's the outcome and post-fun satisfaction..whatever you could comprehend. I believe I end all the activities moderately with the feeling in the guts saying, "nothing lasts forever". Whereas the other times I had fun blindly, and were fun-thirsty for more. That explains the karma-ish perception of fun.

This time, I enjoyed and in my heart I said, "well, let's have things in balance. For friends and family. I know time is limited. So spend it wisely." Furthermore in my head, with the rest of my studymates we already had a common plan to have a job training this coming end of the year after the final exams. This reserve of time and emotion has a good onset to the settling down of my play-hard-non-stop guts.

So it shows, that I'm ready. It's not all just about having fun all the time. If you want to work with the extremes, then "Work hard, Play hard". But I supposed, there should be of moderation.

I did say too recently on spending up the holidays, I want to relax more. Anyway, back in Penang friends such as Hooi and KY have STPM on their way. Thus, I balanced my holidays spending balanced time with my family and friends. More meals together with family. More time spent back in the house, the presence of me completes the family home sweet home. As my mother quoted, "we could see Jared more often this time".

Partly also because I grow more mature as a person who comes back for holidays regularly already since last year. We actually had more than enough fun already, come to think of it. It's in the growing maturity, the essence of our youth that is. Hopefully wise youths like you reading me now agree with me.

"We'll live to see your god standing alongside us someday"

How so? We're going to outlive and outgrow the holy image someday after living and learning long enough to be able to stand by ourselves. Maybe I'm denying your maker. But give me the benefit of doubt, I shall live the way I could with principles.

zap zap zap god strikes wrath zap zap zap

This is for the 8th time I come back home since I left home sweet home in July last year.
So I had this so-called reunion. This time it's simple. It's not like any other time we could get together and actually appreciate it. We did it this time, at least to my eyes and heart. We have: Hooi, YW, KY, Jonathan, Jon and me myself. The basic brotherhood of mine. I didn't really care about what activity we're gona do. As the "playmaker" hahaa I just just wana make sure that we get along in something fun even though the planning is messy.

Here it goes:
1. the not-so-successful Dim Sum breakfast, nevermind cos it feeds [Me, KY, Jon + g]
2. Main course: Bowling [All + g1 +g2] - The Singaboy Jon pwns with the highest points scored
3. the confused-plan Sushi lunch at Queensbay, nevermind cos it feeds again [All + g1 + g2 - KY]
4. Spontaneous plan: Movie: The Ugly Truth [same] - good movie that could make me laugh
5. Simple dinner at kopitiam [Me, Jon, YW, Hooi + g] - I enjoy the chicken feet
6. Reunite - CC Dota challenge cos we have 3v3 [All + g]
~Dota score tally: YW-3, HOOI-2, me-2, JON-1, JONA-1, KY-1 [3 games]

- g stands for girl for privacy purpose heh.

And yeah, we had our overnight reunion too YW's. This time KY and Jona were the ones pia till morning on a PS3 game, Resident Evil 5. For your information, the previous games were Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas and Siren 2. Graphic and shocking games in the darkness. Oh yeah, Little Wing jam has been a great start. We'll work further on improving it.

Guitar Hero:
Jona - vocals - fail (on Michael Jackson - Beat It)
Me - drums - fail (on Linkin Park - What I've Done -Expert) haha

heyy, but YW and I did great on Seven Nation Army. I realised I have to get high as in high on drugs on the beats to stay in-time. shux.

The rest: Football, Hiking, Football, Batu Lanchang Market, Esplanade Mee Sotong, Argyll Road RC and Swatow Lane.

And, here's to something fun and really random. I missed a turning to Hooi's house after leaving Esplanade. I was on the right lane and mentioned about the ferry. Hooi simply suggested, "wana sit ferry?" Oh? Alright, let's go then. As the traffic light turns green my left signal blinked furiously and I received honkings from all directions as I cut into everyone's lanes into the port. So there we YW, Hooi and me myself were. A Viva la Ride on the Penang ferry service. To Butterworth. uhoh.

And then, that was my first time driving on the Penang Bridge. YW snoozing away quick. All tired from the whole day worth of hike, sky-praising, mee-sotong and ferry cruise.

Appall for the anti-Nikes. I bought a Nike goalkeeping gloves. At a low price, my dream finally came through after 7 years of wanting one. Comfortable and superb, as commended by Jason.

Updated: Rock-@$$ a.k.a Ass-rock (in my roll of links.

I think, my next demo recording may be a Happy Birthday song. When, subject to how free I am. How, it's gona be a 2- or 3-track recording. Hopefully, I will be successful in tackling the timing setback this time.

Ambition no.3: Sound Engineering - in recording and production.

New ambition plan: Join the Air Force (RMAF).

78. Rock n Roll Getaway

2009-09-17T06:00:00.002+08:00

Review/Ideals/Personal

Nice number 78..part of 787, the new model series head of Boeing aircrafts. And there's 3 parts to this post. A review, an ideal and the personal account of storytelling. Spend your time wisely.

http://www.chickenfoot.us/

Check out the website I tell you... Cool video in the front. Chickenfoot has 4 fine veteran rock n roll musicians namely, Sammy, Joe, Michael and Chad from 3 fine veteran rock bands. With their musical expertise and experience, expect great music and super good classic-cum-hard rock experience created in the modern time that is now. I enjoyed particularly the totally orgasmic professional sound mixing and recording. The songs are super clear, crisp and powerful.

Those who like electric guitar very much may know Joe Satriani. Those who deal with the classic era of hard rock will know Van Halen (Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony). Those who like Red Hot Chili Peppers should know Chad Smith. I don't know any more about their other side projects, apologies.

So I am recommending it you readers to visit the website and make sure the required plugin is installed, average audio speakers...advisable to use ear/headphones cos Laptop built-in speakers are only fuxes to audio-people. For rock, they definitely kill your parents when you turn them on loud (and totally kill me)...you only hear dirt and audio noises. oh yeah back to the website... Let the video play. And you listen and watch, enjoy.

Their songs I can say, are written based on elements of rock n roll songs that existed since the beginning of the era and meshed to a great compilation. I mean by hearing, you could distinguish all the rock/blues pattern and significant styles. So it's kinda a perfect innovation of rock n roll. Of Satriani, I can safely say the guitars are all as pure as himself in terms of effects, riffs and melody styles.

In the song Oh Yeah they sing about hoochie-koochie man. We pay respect to Muddy Waters...woohoo I am just doing it like B.B. King who mentioned about the great bluesman from Chicago.

Here I am, I would like to stress on audio-loving and music quality experiences. In order to enjoy as much and understand what I describe and state on them sound stuffs, you will quite have to have the minimum requirements such as similar sound devices like I have, similar or better quality and performance. Really, cos I really find laptop built-in speakers awful and blaring out cb sound. But I appreciate them, because when I am lazy or do not possess any headsets at the moment I will need them. Simple.

I am someone, who may be fussy. Not sure how do I compare myself to or as an audiophile. I get satisfaction from separated left/right sound projections, or even better if proper surround is applied, true quality as of recorded particularly on the positions of the sound being received(left/right thingy). I buy selected original music discs. They offer uncompromised sound projection. Downloading is alright, 128kbps of bitrate is by strictest the minimum value.

Don't forget bass properties. But not too much please, I ain't big time fan of hip-hop/dance music which people usually pump up in the car audio systems. Boom Boom. Respect bass though. It's a part of the 3 parts of sound forms, bass, mid and treble....something like that in regard to low-mid-high. So with good hearing device and good quality songs, you could hear the full sound of music. That's music from the technical side. Rock is so greatly composed of these elements. Missing any of them, the rock lost its power. Rock band basic: guitars/bass/drum.

And your laptop built-in speakers (if your laptop is a super high end built with actually what I call audio speakers then beg my pardon), do not offer bass at all! Test it. You hear higher frequencies only. Pop music ok. Classical music not so bad...but you lose all the basses. The low sounds. With my first demo record, if you listen to it without the bass you're definitely not gona enjoy because the bass part is what makes the recording a music recording. It would sound dry and flat.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Here's the personal side. Went to Midvalley that day. "Company" to the couple, of my roommate. Of course not full time. Only lunch and movie. The rest is my solo journey round in the mall. I had what Hooi termed as "the rocker's shopping list" haha. More like a music amateur/enthusiasts basic wishlist.

Compiled.
Walked up and down while "rinsing my eyes" with the view of fatal "booby" traps. I survived. Rock Corner. Movie Magic. Guitar Collection. Beatspot Yamaha. ATM. Studio R.

Those are:
-Chickenfoot album
-B.B. King - Live by Request with guest appearance by Jeff Beck
-D'Addario Light Top/Heavy Bottom

My latest, and it's my super favourite now. Transparent and rainbow in colour. Ideal 0.7mm medium gauge.

oohyeah, first time I saw a jersey which can fit me. S size. One of the new Arsenal kits.

[one of the heroes]

oohyeah, I suddenly became very interested in watching and supporting football. I even participated in it. I have this Sharqawi, my classmate as my guru. He's in the U-21 Malaysian squad. Ooohyeah, I borrowed Adidas Predator already. Come, Youth Park. Raya Open - Morning exercise with Football. Ah Hooi and Jason confirmed. I just need to pump the ball.

And I'm so gona get an original Arsenal home jersey one day, definitely a nicer design one (e.g this current season kit). Bootleg ones with my fitting size are rare I think..

1 week holiday back in Penang. Reunion planned. Let's see how smiles are flashed by nature. ~"Remember, I am the playmaker"
The guitar as the clothes hanger.

[googled: Chickenfoot Joe Satriani guitar and Arsenal Arshavin jersey]

77. Bucket Psyche

2009-09-08T00:00:00.006+08:00

Personal/Ideals

Delayed the demo weeks already... At first, I thought the lucky double 7 post would be just a personal update. As soon I clicked on the New Post, I thought of one decision. It shall be a start to uploading my own personal demos and recordings. Which means I am going to embark on a new work. Yeah, already in my mind. But lack of convenience-excused-time has been crippling the juices.

A simple method for improvement. You readers/musicians/music-enthusiasts/lovers may leave comments and give feedbacks on them. And we can learn together. This is a way other than jamming with fellow players. By far, I'd had done simple jammings a couple of times but they do not provide efficient learning because I hadn't been too serious. Plus distractions and all. Remember, the work for passion.

Musicians from all over everywhere on Earth (may include Satch cos I suspect he came from the space..heh) have said well enough about getting together and play is certainly a great way to improve. Learning never ends right..

So, I am trying to find more friends and acquaintances to come together to teach and learn. Teaching is also good, up to where ever level you could. Sharing is caring too hehe.. Well, I'm not so good at doing videos like millions in youtube and I'm somewhat lazy to get an account so I'm doing audio only for now. If time and convenience is appears vast I will put an effort in doing shots of cam-focus-playing. Otherwise, you'd just see me appearing with other players such as YW and Hooi in the future. A target is put, play with Kelvyn Yeang one day as he'd invited for countless times already.cool.

Practice makes ~"perfect"~. But I didn't practise effectively though. Alright, without further ado (fuhh..learnt new english word usage..) I hereby upload my cover on Buckethead - Wondering. A very simple in fact super simple song. Just to kickstart this new adventure.
~My demo is in the filefactory, hidden. Simply click NEXT song until you see it.

Note: Only the dynamics and notes are hit according to the song but without the Bucket's effects and backgrounds. I have kinda modified the song towards the ending. And forgive me, this demo lacks synchronization and is rhythmically out a little so I practically did it by feel.

Cos' playing with the original song as a backing track is a little inconvenient and I would mess up because the song is kinda feely and swaying, I easily get carried away. You could think the off-sync as some sort of delay/echo effects hah. This explains why the metronome is vital for amateur musicians.

The recording is made by line-in from the output-headphone of my amp. It is consist of 2 tracks basically..er..actually 3. The 3rd is an add-on in the 3rd section of the song. The breakdown:
1. The full playing with a little added gain for extra volume and fuzziness.
2. Clean channel with only the lead notes (which goes out of sync quite most of the time)
3. Add-on to track 2.
...erh after its completion only I realised, how bad the synchronization is. Cutting, time-shifting and alignment of tracks have been done to improve "audibility". Particularly only the 3rd section I feel sounds good till the ending. I will do a better one next time, or call a jam-in of this song. Better live sync.

This song was uploaded by Hooi in his blog before. I wonder, you should be eager to try out this song too. So simple and yet nice to play and listen to. For some of you guys could just use their ears to get nail this song down. Happy music-ing.

Well, I plan when the 777th post comes, I will post an imba blistering superspeed shredding with sweep picking and string skipping..someday...hah

Now, for the personal..haha. [Outdated]

1st week of 3rd semester. Mum's birthday. I forgot. Until dad sent an sms. wouh. Kill mum again heh. Did a push jogging and run one evening. That was a great spontaneous joining my friend for an exercise as I just got back from class......

...[Updated]
So there you go new songs for a different season, mood and flow of life. I have 3 referral songs this time. Alice In Chains by Hooi. Rhapsody by Sharqawi and Kamen Rider song by my brother.

Wokei, classmate friend had brought his Ibanez electric down here, from Perak. So it's time to "keep on rockin' in the free world". It's really not very free anymore now, workload and hectic schedule have been in the way. And will last until retirement day.

So many sidetracks. Distractions especially activities which consumed much time and healthy lifestyle..(like dota) had eaten substantial portions of free time meant for improvement (any kind except distraction forms) or rest.

And spending time building up firm friendship among classmates is great. It could be having break time together with meals and drinks, read stuffs and share opinions in the library, or sharing a pack of cigarettes with many. Of course the mentioned are other than working in a team during assignments or practicals. The latest being, joining in a futsal game which they regularly host. Around RM5 per hour only, and I get to kick futsal (like football) with classmates. And I scored a goal using my left leg after winning back the ball from the opponent. These extra moments are delightful as I do not get anymore "compulsory" activities which are organized for classes and students to get together like we all used to in secondary school.

Great, health and fitness can be improved. Jogging. Running. Sprinting. Futsal. Football (my co-curricular activity). oh yeah baby, Sharqawi's F50 and Predator boots..here I come.

So, I thought I'm inhaling new fresh air only to realise that I abandoned this blog for almost 2 months. Never mind that. New sets of beliefs, principles and philosophical approach and motives shall set in. Every changes with beginnings and endings also welcome motivating seasons. So again here I am, to continue to live.

~Recording made possible by:
-Squier Tele
-Marshall amp
-Ibanez cable
-wires/jacks/adaptors
-Altec Lansing headphones
-plenty of holidays here and there
-turning down of dota games
-Ben teaching me a resonance technique to determine match tuning
-Audacity program (thanks to Musicman1066 and Ah Hooi for introducing)

76. Buck Freezes Asses

2009-07-18T12:00:00.001+08:00

Personal/Ideals

Welcome, people between Hell and Heaven. Nilai home here I am, already.

Well, let's try something new. Let's talk about lamp posts. hahaha

Sometimes dim. Sometimes bright. Sometimes enlightening. But when the road is dark, a lamp post lights partially the way. And there are possibly billions of lamp posts in the world. Just like acquaintances or merely like people in a society. They share a similar melancholy, they are lonely. Stuck at a spot. Motorists and pedestrians just pass by. For those that are totally alright with the situation, they serve their purpose full-time, light up the streets.

But for some others, they long for something else. That is why some lamp posts blow out or dim down.

No complaints here. No bragging here. Just a mindful connection I'm making of myself with lamp posts. hahaha hey don't go emotional or think of it as one. Of how many times I bragged before about myself being single, I am actually somewhat enjoying the freedom of being unattached in the heart (minus the family connection) and at a same time I long for a close if not intimate company.

So, with plenty soul-searching (Hooi's term) (not searching for mates) over the years I am still good to go in believing in enjoying the free-flowing life of being a single although I STILL get jealous at seeing cute/beautiful/sweet girls being owned (like Hooi said, "I feel wasted" gilaswine comment but anyway he's a little far away from being single so just beat it). But for most of them I respect them couples for making it through...just by looking la...superficially. Cos I know it's tough in making real love.

And then, finally I...

I am still a freeman. I am going to fulfill what I would like to do with freedom before getting any piece of my heart meat hooked. But if that time would be cut short, I guess I would want to handle things part-time. Unpredictable.

Not hinting. I just found my new refuge. Over new aspirations. Fresh expectations. Great flow of motivation. Over my new layout of workplace. Looks good.

Can look through the mirror if I want to "kap-kei" Jonathan at games. So there's the setup and wires all around for the action.

Enough of take on the lamp post journey. Let's move to Buck. Somewhat a similar topic.

Have you watched Ice Age 3. It's not bad. It's the only Ice Age movie I watched. Good for family. Good for friends. Good for anybody not too violent.

Good for lonely people. I like it. That weasel character, Buck. Is someone who I would like to resemble to myself. Minus the bravery and skillfulness. Adventurous. Loves the freedom and challenges he faces by being solo.

My new bedsheet. Thanks mum..I love it. Gray. With butterflies..~Little wing(s).

[you could use some viewing program/photoshop to do color inverse then you can see the original color]

It's weird though i could actually survive doing nothing or something that is perceived by myself as nothing when everybody out there get bored to hell sitting in their homes waiting patiently for some plans to be executed. Clearly, I have a strong sense of self-indulgence. Bad and good.huh

But I ain't a loner, some social outcast nor someone who isolates himself or estranged person. I have so much fun with friends ya noe..

I have the brotherhood. Thanks to all the brothers and sisters.

This is like the end of a live rock show. So i am feeling it. cos i'd never had the chance to do so. But if I have, then it's also the work of support from you brothers and sisters.
[actually it ended already...outdated statement]

No, actually the rock show has just begun...jeng jeng jeng

Thanks man, for the support, company, experience, lessons, motivation and ENERGY
uh no, no please not the Taiwan chinese boy band. This post is ending as a dedication as once again I have left my home sweet home Penang island. Killing my mother's feelings haaha.

Ah, the Ye-Wheen's Crybaby pedal I used for the wah recording.

Into 3rd semester. Gona end one half of my diploma program. kick-ass.

Have fun, check this out http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/death_cab_singer_slams_30_seconds_to_mars.html about acting rockstar.

oh if you are free, try check the song on Ixion's Wheel in my filefactory music player. The short lyrics is not bad. Nice touch on retribution.

Let me end the post with this excerpt from a Linkin Park song.
"Because say what you will, and say what you might
But don't ignore who it's for at the end of the night"~Dedicated, 1999

75. Rock And Roll Ain't Pollution

2009-07-12T03:00:00.001+08:00

Review/Personal/Ideal

Headache...pity Khang Yang who did the whole hard trip day's driving. Give a toast to him from here. The endless rain has deterred us from going on our spiritual journey to Pantai Kerachut through hiking. It's really endless. So the supposedly-MIA-Jonathan was awoken after we cancelled our plan. Then we head to erh..a sudden call for lunch by a lady...at Noodle Station. Bowling was our intention. 3 games. Winners of the games: C; G; TKP. ReMaKe for dota game at CC...which we gamed till almost 5 hours. Another unexpected dinner place, Faces. Enjoyed a so-so guitar-vocals performance. Good for the ears. Farewell friends and acquaintances.

Hey yeah, also remembered as the self-pwnage day. Where everyone of us, particularly especially Ky Ng said something funny which is not supposedly aimed at himself but it backfired to himself. Spare the details...maybe someday you would be told of some of them jokes.

+new ESP .8mm pick - hard
Two DVDs of particular live performance recording. Superb. Great. Super energy bursting. Look at Dave Mustaine showcasing his music with Megadeth rocking. And be awed by Angus Young's super muscle breaking showmanship with the guitar with AC/DC rocking. Classics of metal and rock..

yeah this post title deserves its recognition and respect. It's a songtitle by AC/DC. It's hard. It's loud. It's beating. It's rock. In the heart.

ah...maybe some modern guitaring and drums in the pop/rock industry produced too loud and interfering high pitch and amplitude sound waves. Then parents at home start complaining on your noise level. NOISE in relation and statement. Save your sorry ass before neighbours and more relatives coming after you for your noisy interest.

But you could save your heart and dignity by listening to classic rock. So far in my opinion, my parents do no complaints much when I'm listening to the classics. Respect...or maybe I'm just a little more grown up so they don't nag too much. But come on, I blasted the hi-fi with these rock and blues and I get positive feedback...No complaints on noise level. Whatever, I'm just reiterating on the statement. So rock-ass...

The other day. At Wawasan Open University. Some event thing. There's this Kelvyn Yeang's guitar clinic/workshop we attented. For me, I learnt great stuffs. On a related note, he gave some vital information on setting up the sound for the band. About mid, low and highs of tones. An inappropriate setup would result in very high noise level, take his example; play the guitar loud and on a higher pitched tone plus the drums crashing the cymbals trying to be louder.

Oh yeah, you want to improve naturally on some rock and roll 8-beat you get AC/DC. ok..I'm overrating these classics now... And here's a low quality recorded impromptu playing by me using my Tele through YW's Dunlop Crybaby effect pedal and to his Roland Microcube amp.

So about improving and achieving success or scoring some milestone...

Hooi says, "you gotta work for it. you want a gig you push for it"

YW says, "hardwork IS passion. So don't go around giving excuses like " aiya he everyday play guitar mah of course pro". Since when do you become good at something the moment you like it?"

What's hard as rock? Hardwork. Yeah. As all we know too well, nothing comes free and easy. Talent in my opinion may just be a starting advantage or naturally coming out with something great. An edge. People with talent still work hard. Just a little note for myself anyway and for all who yearns for success and satisfaction.

So work all your way up. Whatever you would like to do. Try to treat complacency like getting interests from your yearly fixed deposit in the bank. That's all, right...nothing more than just earning some tips. Not some raining dollar bills.

Do keep Stressm in mind, don't mess with others' lives. Happiness added.

oh yeah...
For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) ~ AC/DC

74. For the Time & Tide

2009-07-05T04:00:00.002+08:00

Personal/Ideal/Review

BOOKS! Read books. Any book. When the 3rd semester kicks in, I will have to read the textbooks and do researches and reading. In that case, I will have less time for any other activity.

But come on, life's not 100% 24hours or an ongoing 52 x 7 x 24 x 60 x 60 seconds of career/study/money... So, I gotta fit in time for hobbies. Internet (without fail, wateva the activity is). Guitar. Exercise. Novels. Research.

So how am I going to fulfill my everyday's wish...to sleep well at the appropriate timing and duration. On free days during study period, I sleep usually at 1am and then wake up at either these times: 7.20am/ 10am/ 12pm. Or if I sleep damn late like at around 5am or at 6am I will wake up earliest at 1pm. If insomnia strucks like it happened a month ago during the study leave, sleep at 9am then wake up at 5pm. Game over.

During this current holidays, I do a usual 3am sleep and averaged 12pm waking up if no morning plans.

But for the new term and season, I have dug this out and put it in my to-do list to keep up some productivity level. Enter the model kit craft work.
This is not about Transformers at all.
My brother bought this years ago but never had started on it.

[Either my brother or I misplaced the cutter so it's missing]

He has another one, a Version Ka Wing Gundam..er..the hero's model in Gundam Wing's series. Maybe next year if he didn't manage to sell it off. And a Red Jagd Doga. Oh yeah I am a fan of Gundam. Model kits. Didn't exactly watch the shows except the movie for Gundam Wing.

Freedom Gundam - Gundam Seed 1/100 scaled MG kit.

Will aim for: Sazabi - - - - - great, me and brother were awed at the price long time ago that was RM500plus. Then at Times Square, we saw the price went down to RM250. But didn't think of buying anyway. Actually, it's waste. Now you can find it at around RM300plus. There's also the shining version at RM500. And at Queensbay, I found that they came out with the HG (a form of grading from highest: PG(perfect), MG(master), HG(high)) version with a smaller box packing and it's priced around RM100-RM200..forgotten.

Infinite Justice from Gundam Seed would do too. Great. Great. Great.

That's all for now. Countdown: 10 days left on Island. Kiss me as much as possible before I leave. I mean my ass. hahah

>>>>Kelvyn Yeang guitar clinic and Ocean Of Fire performance later..5th July 1300-1600hrs.

73. Fun & Blaring

2009-07-05T03:00:00.001+08:00

Review

Take more than one amplifier. Or add at least one Hi-fi system if at home.

Get more than one cable. 1 electric guitar cable is sufficient. The rest you just need any matching cables/slots or either get adapters if you have differently matched plugs and slots.

Method 1: (What I did)
-Connect Guitar to Amp. And then from line-out(in my case, the headphones slot) to Hooi's Amp. Tadaa..You get two amplifiers blasting your playing.
-It's just fun stuff. This is actually super ultra mega basic setup for effects and amplification.
-Amps are basically pre-amps with speakers. The pre-amp setting up the tones and how you sound like and then go to output by speakers. Simple.

Method 2: (Which I could do)
-Connect Guitar to Amp. Amp to Hooi's Amp. Hooi's Amp to Hi-fi. Jeng jeng jeng..You get triple amplication. I can get my amp's tone out by itself then it's filtered in Hooi's and add his tone adjustments(also can be heard by itself) and then boom boom through the Hi-fi, which is also filtered and get the hi-fi contouring.

Wait. wtf. I just realised..Am I even writing a true thing..Wait...Did I really get two outputs through my own amp and Hooi's amp. Because if you line-out output through the headphones slot it should actually mute the speaker and goes to the headphones/other devices.

WEIRD. I thought I heard that day trying this out, 2 amplifiers blasting my AC/DC riffs. WTH

But anyway, if you could just find a line-out slot that would just do the connection fine. Like how people add speakers or line-out to the whole concert hall speakers. hmm...provided it's not muted by diverting the signal away. Funny. I've got my facts mixed. Will test the method again. Will be updated.

72. MJ, D, BB & Looping

2009-06-28T02:00:00.002+08:00

Ideals/Review/Personal

It's alright Michael. I've come up with ways to remember you. "Just call my name and I'll be there"~Michael Jackson.

MJs..there's Mou Jian...there's Meng Jon..or maybe Mary Jane of Marvel's Spiderman. Then there's Ye-Wheen's guitar brand which is Jackson. Aha, Wilson's brother's name is Jackson. Never mind people of the world. Just remember, he rocked the stages with his dance moves and unceasing stamina pouring. I have started to practise the moonwalk already. Meng Jon could do it almost perfect and he taught me several years ago.

Let's move on to Beau Bristow. Thank you Hooi, Matthew Ng and Mel for inviting. It's a great music performance by him, alone. Great. Superb solo. Doing it all himself. Really cool. Especially with the effects.

That's called "looping". Some sort of recording technique and playback to accompany your music playing. It's simple. It's a form of recording yourself playing some rhythm and then replaying the track and then you jam to it.

But with the loop effects setup, performer gets to do it all live and on the spot. Like how Beau did it. Otherwise, some effect pedals actually do have pre-set tracks already. Like this product, Line 6 JM4 Looper. By the way he uses a Taylor acoustic guitar. WOOH. With the ES pickups system which I knew of. It's great. The wood and the resonance. Just so natural, full bodied smooth tender crisp sound. And with the guitarist's playing, it just sounds great.

Some similar effects pedal which Beau uses, Boss RC-20 Loop Station

Some similar Taylor guitar which Beau uses

Check these out.
This might not be totally related but it's about the effects chaining and arrangements...here.
This, is bluesy/jazzy...his improvisation sounds blues to me maybe..

And this is the similar way of performing as how Beau Bristow did it.

I didn't buy his album though but in our hearts we continue to support his work. Wish him the best of luck in his career as a recording and a performing musician.

Hooi and I actually sat in front of the cross last thursday night and enjoy music. With sharing of love for the lord and Jesus. And getting A new friend and meeting old friends. Especially Andrew Chan, whom I last met in 2001 as a classmate in primary school. Alex Lim, edbod senior and mentor. ahah last but not least RODNEY the over-Friendly. Ask Hooi or Wan Ching or Matthew or Andrew to know how friendly he was. Great punching bag and a shooting target too. Goodall kopitiam guleng peng had some drugs which made Mel very high that night and she cracked lame jokes in very cool ways.seriously really =D Enjoy.

oh yeah saw some green Ibanez pedal which Beau has on the pedal board too..looks like Tube Screamer.

"A house divided against itself cannot stand"~Abraham Lincoln

71. With Passion & Patience for Faith

2009-06-23T03:00:00.004+08:00

Ideals/Personal

Check out this Luke Edney recommended by Ye-Wheen. Great great blues..great great great...
"It's so easy"~It's So Easy, Guns N' Roses 1987

Yes, it's easy. To survive if we're not going to create and reinvent or start a new kind of living and discard the old edge, we just innovate and reuse standard conformed ways. Like we do everyday.

That is why dying is unique. It involves displacement of tears and plenty of brain and heart muscle abnormal contractions. Because no one has ever come back to tell us how is the living different from the life we're currently in. That's the new edge. A new horizon.

Well, I'll be eager for it and support Dave Mustaine. He is coming up with a new world order. More information.

Oh YEAH, Rock-A$$ has updates ongoing this season. Hopefully it could pack some entertainment.

"oh baby nice shoes..." eheh cos it's 23rd on a Tuesday, another day to "Tuesday's Gone".

[Megadeth - New World Order. Motley Crue - Hell on High Heels. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone]

70. Sound Hardware & Transmission

2009-06-23T02:00:00.008+08:00

Reviews/Ideals/Personal

This is a kinda like a review. You're gona get bored if you aren't exactly interested in audio engineering or just as simple as setting up an electric guitar to an amp, meaning you just like to switch on the radio and press the buttons there.

Never mind, let's get on with something new I just got. I like doing these kind of things such as discovering new techniques and trying some basics in connecting tis n tat n tis which is more than switching on the radio and press the buttons. I enjoy plugging and testing setups. Physically and hardware-ly. No, not computer systems or softwares.

Basically, I like to do these sound setting up and trying out some basic sound devices for home use. First work, trying some guitar-amp-output-input plugging with different kinds of jacks.

See, I've been aiming to purchase these. And here I just got the chance to test it out, I bought them at RM3.80 each which I think you could get them cheaper else where. But never mind, I couldn't wait any longer to test the workability that I've thought and planned of.

[the ones with black bodies:I call them adapters-which convert the plug type/size into a suitable one which can fit into holes of any other appliances which require so. They are BIG and SMALL -male plugs. Another kind of jack is the one found usually with audio/video player, TV and PlayStation.]

Let's name them A and B. A being the larger body with tiny male plug and B, the small bodied large male plug.

Guess what, they worked. But not at the best quality especially A. You want, you go to the old town and look for old electrical retail shops or maybe some specialised electrical/electronical device shops. They should have them for specialised use. I got them at Jusco electrical appliances section at Queensbay which are for general use.

A:
-to connect BIG-male plugs (especially electrical guitar cables) to computers/devices(SMALL-holes) that do not have the BIG-holes
-so I use it to plug electrical guitar to my laptop for recording purposes
-OR I plug it into my hi-fi player...wow...I can sound like I'm playing from a CD
-OR I plug it as a line-out from my laptop to the amplifier...just to listen music from 10Watts loud amp(classic radio feel)
---either 1. straight from guitar to device or 2. bypass through an effects(pedal). Which in my case I don't have one so I use my amplifier for the Gain(distortion effect). In this case, 1. a Double-ended-BIG-male plug cable is required e.g my electric guitar cable; 2. two pieces are required.
Note: the SMALL-male plug on A is the typical and conventional audio wire/cable end of headphones(as line-in) and some microphones(as line-out).

B:
-to connect SMALL-male plugs (like stated in the Note for A) to amplifiers/devices(BIG holes) that do not have the SMALL-holes (like my amplifier and hi-fi player) and vice-versa
-so I use it to plug headphone to my amplifier for discreet purposes (like when playing at night)
---straight from amplifier fit adapter to headphone jack. In this case, my amplifier has a line-out BIG-hole which I fit in the adapter and then the headphone jack so the sound is muted at the amplifier speaker output, the sound is directly transmitted to the headphone.

Actually they are really simple items. But rather, I'm just feeling more-content-than-not for accomplishing such try-outs. So I could practise quietly to myself (but loud to only my ears) and maybe start on some recording of my music. My piece of discovery and tips: Try playing through the headphones and you will get to judge how smooth, clean, accurate and consistent you are. I did very badly..heh. Advice: Don't blast the amp too loud into your headphones.

Oh my, I'm so interested in these electricals. No, actually not. I'm into sound engineering. Sound Engineer or Producer was like my 4th/5th choice of ambition few years back. Now it's become my hobby of learning and applying the techniques.

As I'm very particular with sound quality and hearing experience I'm into setting up for great sounds. A lot of aspects come into play actually. For my level, I just keep to a minimal hearing loss heh. If you want perfect, get sound-treated walls/ceilings/floors, properly positioned outputs, properly positioned listening place, super HD LCD/plasma TV and a super good clean crisp harmony of sound system in the room. Now that's what I call DREAM THEATER..hahah!

Reuben Ch'ng if you know him, he's doing recording and he has these sound engineering tools and appliances in his home studio. Great.

A piece of appreciation to Musicman1066 for his tips and advices on these music and sound work.

May not get a speaker system this year. Might get my brother's 10 years old(since his purchase of a whole PC setup) 2.1 system instead. Up to you, if I'm an audiophile..at least lvl 1. Harvey Norman at Queensbay has some great Altec Lansing models. One being demonstrated is MX5021 if not mistaken. Not bad. RM500+. Jusco has too. Alongside SonicGear, Creative etc. Oooh Eric has Creative speakers.

69. Lest The Fingers Bleed

2009-06-14T20:00:00.002+08:00

Oh yeah? yeah. The island had packed powerful fun for me and I gave my powerful punch/kick back by... stepping on the Pedal of Life. On my Viva la Ride. Warning: Drive responsibly.

Sunday was a harmonious day spent with family at Queensbay. Monday was a joyful day spent with Jon. Tuesday was a energetic night spent with whole lotta people. All 3 nights had supper till pass 12am.

And I met a girl...ada fate/destiny..young lady..beautiful-pretty-sweet 9/10 rated female. Twice. 2 nights. 2 different venue. Same time frame, 12am. But she has a boyfriend. I'd be ready to go take over the bf's position if a break happens T.T heh =.=

Next: Food-Alma Mater-Hard disk-Guitaring-Movies-Rest

Ideals

So let's kick off with the new season. Maybe. For many, exams are over. For some, new semester begins. For the many, their holidays just kicked in! Kick-ass 69 hah.

[Back in Black..and white]

As for me, yeah if you remember I said I'll be gunning people down. haha not exactly. I will slowly burn the city on the island. Burn in my context is heating it up. My Viva tyre rubber marks wouldn't be enough so I'm calling everyone else who are enjoying life to heat and spice up the life in Penang. Don't get me wrong environmentalists, we're not promoting global warming nor engaging in green house gases diffusion in a large scale. We just want to live life to the fullest. 100% efficiency in converting mental energy to fun energy, for the moment. WALK with me!

I just want to exclaim my objective of believing in life. In life lies a threshold filled with joy and happiness. We just need to mine for it. But if you use a rusty pick or dig carelessly, everything could just collapse and we would see ourselves falter into gloom and darkness.

Whatever... Make your seconds and moments while enjoying worthwhile everytime. Good enough.

Here, I would like to not promote but share this with you fellow musicians and music enthusiasts.

I like his style. He is great. Kudos. Part minute 3.30-3.50 is superb. By the way, it's an instrumental rock/metal guitar piece. Can't stand heavy/"noisy" music, please don't approach.

Here it is, he's Musicman1066 from http://www.freewebs.com/musicman1066/
There you can learn tips and get his own work of guitar tabs.

"We will burn your cities down.."~Gematria (The Killing Name), Slipknot 2008

Feel good.
[bear in mind, the video is subject to his copyright. and I'm not posting it as an advertisement]

68. Yahuuu!

2009-06-12T08:00:00.001+08:00

[to prevent any misinterpretation of brandname that could cause infringement of copyright. anyhow, orally the pronunciation of it could have land a lawsuit being filed on me....I mean, on my Yahoo! sound-alike post title]

Personal

Today is the last day. Today is the day. When Hell let loose of something. Unpredictable. But it ain't judgement day.

And today the something is going to muster all its energy. The something is going to lead an outroar of many something. To revel in the resources and elements of satisfaction. To the ISLAND.

yeahoo. Will be back very soon. Many are returning too. We all love the Island, don't we? We will always love it. Drown with Hell! choi choi choi tai-kei-lei-si *touchwood...

Well, I'm going to collect some energy to write something productive and meaningful to myself. Something I always did after a long haul of being not at home. I need the peace in my mind. Something related which follows up for Hooi's Terminator Salvation. That kind of write-up is very good. It stimulate all our thinking. It all depends, up to people individualism or comformity to commonality to accept the divergence of unholy remarks. By unholy I mean thoughts and professions that do not go along with the available mainstream religions today.

Many would take this as a desecration of being alive as being a creation and going against the existence of the creator. Which in writings by far anyone in the world who attempted to touch contents which are already covered in the bibles would have suffered execration. No, I may not want to touch your religion. I don't like to create such sensitivity. I talk about mine, alright.

Forgive, I pompously used certain words which I just found in the dictionary. ahah.

Well, go party of course tonight. Where should I go? Anywhere could avoid some big bang for the bucks...M.O.S burns wallets heh..still, everyone wants a drink. gulp

Come on, celebrate it.

But, stay alive.

67. Hop hopping hopped

2009-06-06T00:00:00.005+08:00

Update: Chickenfoot debut album OUT now.

Update: One of our gods who rocks the Les Paul, Slash is mourning for his recently deceased mother. May other Gods bless them. News from Ultimate-Guitar.

Wth with the name Gianna Jun? And her face just looks like Jeon Ji-Hyun. For the upcoming (American)-ized Blood: Last Vampire movie. I'm new to this, there's like an anime of it.

Yes, she is Jeon Ji-Hyun. My all-time... nothing. She is great in My Sassy Girl a Korean movie back in 2001.

[ganasssss...just another side of usual sweetness]

3 hoppings in a month. great. emotionless.haha

3 more exam papers to go in one week.

6(sic)6. Who's the MAN?

2009-05-30T00:00:00.006+08:00

[Exclusive mid semester issue post+(very outdated posting+edits)=end semester already]
Edits(in white) had been done to correct some technical glitch in the writing.

Personal/Ideals

--It's a matter of days to go and I'll be gunning down people back in Penang, the island.

"the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon."
"Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random."
These are quotes(googled) from the movie Watchmen. Definitely a must-feel movie. Philosophical and thrilling perspectives and principles. That's what I long for to experience in my brain. And those quotes just fill up certain uncertain bridges of countless questions and conceptions. At least for me, I have my own interpretation and belief in them. And some things just got more intriquing. That's interesting.

Feel yours today, go watch it.heh. I thought at first the poster looked like some kind of costumed make-up superheroes movie or spoof show. 10 minutes into the movie I proved myself wrong and I changed my mode from just-attending to movie-experiencing, the "watchman" way. Maybe a handful or not would brand/rate/comment this movie as ridiculous and a waste of time...some friends they just weren't enjoying the movie fully. Hopefully they don't represent the majority. Nevermind..different tastes anyway. But I admit it's lengthy and dragging with great philosophical talks. Even then, I've went to watch in the cinemas twice already.

I would like to write up a post on the movie and story but only if I have enough to brainspill someday so..we'll see. So far, no-go.

Into the first 6 months of the year. Is it that time flies quickly? Or passing too slowly. Nope, it's quite good. Everything's progressing finely. Step by step one by one piece by piece and reasons and lessons in life are picked up. Good and bad they exist for sure for the consummation of life. Happy and sad all be conquered gracefully. phew..so far so good la to be precise.

The downside...I think I'm feeling that my language is deteriorating. For BM, it's already constant. For English, this is the problem. Because:
-I have been writing it less
-I have been speaking it less (also applies to listening, except music)
-I have been writing totally simple short notes for studies
-I have been reading not so proficient writing of notes and studies (not complaining..)
-I have been learning and improving my Mandarin and Thai hah
{note the kind of posts delivered were like out of tune :s}

It was before 2 months ago: ...weeks without internet. No downloads. No chattings. No blog-reading. No e-mailing. No research. But of course I'm not that unproductive. I did go to the library to do my homework... Now yeah, I have internet already.(obviously).

ok..time for a sidewinder's change..from now on I'm trying to change a little for my style of writing. Not applicable to Stress-talks(Stressm) and Ideals. It's especially for my personal accounts of story-telling and a-z detailed movement and percentage of alcohol consumed.

OK. Since the Label 5 scotch whisky, I had Shandy(1%), Tequila - Camino(?%), Boeing 777(40%) and Scotch Whisky - ???(40%) at Sanctuary, The Curve.
So...this(below) is one of the latest (but there's also Tuborg beer provided at the MDG Finale). Brought by a senior friend from his home. Rare and expensive.wth

Bacardi's Rum(40%).wth

wth

I'm getting unhealthy. My body spells a downward spiral of fitness level with increasing unhealthy activities(gaming till sunrise), eating so oily/salty food and too little exercise.
This sums up my report of to-be fitness level:
Favourite Hiking -- Heavy breathing and weak climbing energy
100m sprint -- Spot the last position
K.Kinabalu Hike -- Hell would be cooler~plan postponed
Badminton..I won none matches this year, played only once anyway.. ya noe ever since moved outside to rented house.

Advice: Try best not to poison yourself. Intoxication by either nicotine, alcohol or party drugs only stir up your senses and cause a complication in body functions. That is why Islam forbids those. Intoxication ruins the nervous functions. The root of our life and body is in the brain, the mind. Bersyukurlah dengan badan yang sihat. Tahu cakap kena tahu buat la...

Beat it. Left 4 Dead
I'm Rock. Ye-Wheen being Mother. And unfortunately...the deceased by the end of the game as being controlled by Hooi. Cool cracky game with moaning witches.

So now who is the man?

[HooiTheMan?]

[The path to enlightenment?]

[Island CM?..respect..]

I AM THE MAN...huahahaha

Was Genting Highlands. This time I tried the roller coasters but missed out on the balls-beating Spaceshot...to heavy rain. I swear! Corkscrew screws cocks. At least I am level with my mum's experience now, she played before roller coaster in Ocean Park, Hong Kong decades ago. I can tell you..all my virtual experiences of freefalling in my dreams/nightmares came true. Imagination just got to a higher level in me. Negative G-Force had me throwing a choking voice during the gradient down aaaaah.a.a.aa.aaa.aahh

[..my new home workplace]

-I travel between two states everyday to school and back. 10 mins apart. Selangor and N.Sembilan. Actually I've written this before..but I add this time a little twist of uniqueness for this special issue of post in tribute to the MAN. So it's complicated...go to school in one state and stay in another state. Current location: N. Sembilan/Selangor??

[..the ideal average income fast-lane home--this was months ago]

-It's my dining place. Also used as a common study place. And usually serious discussions take place here. It has become a zone for guitar playing too for everyone.

"There was a time...Broken glass and cigarettes, writing on the wall, it was a bargain for the summer and I thought I had it all..."~Guns N' Roses

Oh yeah another break of words induced by the procrastinating-Jared-"all talk, no cock" syndrome. Books. I've never got my hands laid on them...even my new stuffs..
Calling the help hotline now....tut.tut...tut.tut...
"Anyone who has any advices or suggestions of any styles for me on time and workload management please do write back to me through comments. My pre-priorities are eat, sleep, bathe, laundry and laying my hands on my guitar. Basically what I do from day till night for a normal day is wake up, go for class if any, lunch, dinner, do any homework if any then play around with housemates..I haven't even start doing some read-up and research. AND especially exercising!!!" knmclc..

I think I gotta follow suit my Thai friends who jogged from school to my house. It's around 8km with uphills and downhills in a middle of lush forests across the state border. Once a week should be a good deal. Wake up early wth.~mythBUSTED

*2*Tad-bits of bite for the season: No insultation here. Try for a change, friendly humans. Put a stop to branding yourselves as emo. I think this trend is somewhat distasteful, and I think a majority of us would have in common in our mind that these "emos" are modern post-Emo wannabe junkies. Even though there might be some (or no) non-comforming ideals in them but certain modern settlers today embraced the so-called cult and turned into some kind of culture in which people would describe themselves as "emotional" or sad and having a bad life. Trust me, what kind of bad life is that when things just don't go and happen they way you desired in life, that's life. Not that I experienced better, I knew of worse and physically-threatened situations.

And most of the time I don't even think you people are troubled, it has somewhat become a wannabe style.. Leave aside the emo cult which epitomises wrist-cutting and extreme eye-shadowing. Talk about plain-clothes emo. Forgive me friends and acquaintances, I'm merely reflecting a general and unbiased view on the current vision upon people who like to be emo so much. I know, there are sane and wonderful people would have gotten used to the word as an everyday casual term for the mood. There's nothing wrong. But in this context, you're being associated to the very unpleasant and annoying bunch of youths.

It's not like there's no other words to use...like sulking or "merajuk". Sad. Emotional. Depressed. Sick. PMS. Desperately in need of attention. There are especially associations with Lala(s) too, that's the sad truth. Portraying emo-ness in their ways, giving a new twist to their style. h3ll0 PpL, I'm EMO 4eVa.(tm)

And on another note regarding the showcasing of lala style. Please, try your best not to mimic the lala way of expression. It's detrimental. As jokingly it is said, "either you die a sane, or you live long enough to see yourself becoming a lala".*

- - -

Get the gun shoot it upright and wait for the bullet to land on the head. The brain will do just fine. Final exam starts in two days time until 12-June-09. And then you'll see me prancing like the horse in the Ferrari logo.

Oh yeah, thanks to MDGs2 Ming (my MDG hah) for taking photo with me after the show 2 weeks ago ...fux...

=.=

[that *line is inspired by a particular Dark Knight quote]
[Pictures are googled and photos are captured]
[A note for now and then, all photos unless stated may not be raw/original and have been edited to no quality measure.]

65. Sound of Silence BROKEN

2009-05-18T12:00:00.013+08:00

Break the sound of silence!!!

Barcelona 2 - 0 Manchester United

In my opinion, I'd give Man of the Match to Carles Puyol the Barcelona FC skipper. For the Barcelona fans/supporters and anti-MUs CELEBRATE THE DAYyyy-oh-eh!

I missed the first 20 minutes as we had trouble finding a place to watch. We came out from house at 2.30 it was too late then, every teh-o-ais outlet was fully patronized. Added with the heavy raining people crammed into the shops for shelter. Finally we found a spot, ah...at least I had my supporting part for Barca... I really participated in the cheering and shouting. kiss to the air..I mean ceiling. adieu

If it was Arsenal in place of MU, the score might be Arsenal 1 - 5 Barcelona. Because there's no Ronaldo =D so they could can score at least one despite conceding 5. Just a wild assumption.
~5.30am, 28-May-09
[photo from googling]

= = = = = = = = = =

Listen to YW, tune in to 89.9 FM frequency(only around KL area I think..) for great classics to modern 90s music in radio, at night you get sentimental Malay classics. And Manchester United vs Barcelona May 27 20:45 should be our May 28 around 3am. Do inform me for the precise timing.

at least Arsenal played a good game with Manchester United this time...

>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZamE96KIkQI&feature=channel
nice and great, only for maggots. anti-maggots please don't approach.

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[Read: MDG + free food and Tuborg beer]

At The Curve on Friday night.
[Sound of Silence is a songtitle by Simon & Garfunkel - - enjoy the silence (Depeche Mode)]

64. Mama Kin

2009-05-10T07:00:00.008+08:00

Personal/Ideals/Dedication

Give it up to Hooi, play Buckethead - For Mom.

A dedication to yours, his, hers, all the mums in the world and mine.

A good and nice piece.

Girl's Generation (So Nyu Shi Dae) - 9-piece K-pop girlband

^the lyrics meaningful eh..

Effective to battle with 9-member metal Slipknot heh. I will leave my excessive holely sheet comments on how .... .... they are... from this post =.=

THIS IS SO SHIT. THIS IS NOT ME. I'VE BEEN HACKED. I FELL IN LOVE. FORGIVE ME ROCK

Sweet.

Go search for yourself, Gee MV and I'm fallen... Mama! I'll bring one home one day...! =.=

Know what, I wouldn't do so much a dedication as this for Father's Day haha. Guess it's just me being a son whose thumb was always into his mother's nostrils until he is ready to venture out alone. Never mind, papa. You will receive a different reception but with equal love and concern. Example...stuffs that men like such as car, camera, fishing rod, home theatre system to fill up the time after retirement. Yeah man, parents are the MEN. Go get all your rest you need I will make sure the toilet diamond flashing clean the next time.

Looks like this year I'm spending all the birthdays away from my family..mmm. I shall give rise the phrase, "Sound of Silence" to this year 2009. As I'd planned too not to go back for holidays in the end of the year for some industrial training. Anyway yesterday was the very first day in my life not making it to Mahindrama Temple for Wesak Day.ya see..

[Mama Kin is a songtitle by Aerosmith]

63. 2nd Degree Burn

2009-05-06T17:00:00.001+08:00

Personal/Ideals

Yeah I had burns on my hand. Burns from filing and sanding in the fabrication of my metal hammer. Like rubbing your skin on salt fast enough to feel the heat tearing off the skin. And my heart was burnt a bit...

Burning of 2 games in the Champions league. Arsenal lost 0-1 and 1-3 to Manchester United in the semi-finals. No, I don't consider myself a very supportive fan. Because I didn't stay awake to watch the 2nd leg, anyway I consider myself lucky. Because it would have been a massive heartache and more bleeding grip of finger-clenching tension through out the match. Imagine seeing Park Ji-Sung scoring so early then be followed almost instantly by Ronaldo and wtf another goal by Ronaldo wth. Fans and supporters were only given a small redemption ticket to watch a penalty score by Persie.
yeah man tear his face off..hahaha no offense, just joking. can't joke at MU too much..their fans are all around me

T.T

YW, this is the malignant cancer huh heh..

Let's see another fight on May 16 for EPL...

[photo googled]

62. Satisfaction + Sound Check

2009-04-30T09:00:00.000+08:00

Personal/Ideals/Review

This is called a 2 in 1 posting. So everything's fine up till today. So far so good...

Huh...Arsenal lost to Manchester United 0-1. I was so tensed during the whole match..plus shivers sent by the midnight wind. Next leg, May 5th. Will Gunners step up?

So, it's good. I've been a good boy recently. heh it sure does feel good when you managed to complete tasks either at home or school. Accomplishments do always come with a reward, the most basic being satisfaction. ooh.. I will dedicate this time to some of my new daily activities. With added spice..

ya noe, i feel accomplished/great doing..
-wake up early (sleep earlier)
-jogged the neighbourhood
-have a hearty breakfast (nutritional)
-start efficiently on revision/study
-walked out to stock up on home food
-cook meals
-clear up the heap of laundry
-ironing
-cleaning the toilet (at least it's sparkling to my short-sightedness)
-have satisfactory fulfilling dinner while enjoying cuci mata
-abstain from regular self-entertainment
-play the guitar for at least 2 hours....huh
-found many good rock/metal classics
-read news and articles regularly (Yahoo! and theStar Online)
-etc

ah...that's not all. I also derive satisfaction from discovering new knowledge. When you're curious over a particular subject you go on to research and cross-referring until you achieve a self-understanding with it.

But I continue to fail in performing these simple objectives:
-clearing up the email inbox
-start reading my books (apart from studies)
-.....

Nothing much anyway..after this week there will be 3 study weeks left. A week of study leave will follow. Then some serious groin-massaging 7-subject busting exam.

Time for a review moment. This is the headphone I use everyday for orgasms through listening. No..don't get it the wrong way.heh

Altec Lansing AHS502i

My brother bought it for me some 2-3 years ago at around RM50. I think the price is still around there. Good reasonable price for a great handphone, but not top-notch of course.

Pros:
-Great surround
-Strong bass
-Clear and crisp treble, with good mid-range quality
-External noise-cancelling design
-Cool looks with a cool microphone

Cons:
-Bass overriding overall tone (overcome by adjusting equalizer through music player)
-Distortion at certain frequency and especially with too full sounding recordings (natural)
-Not so resistant to wear and age-foam pad gets its cover all cracked and torn after prolonged idling and dust accumulation (basically it needs care and maintenance)
-Definite shape of ear cups so they just press on your ears until it hurts and soars

It works well for me so far, in playing Ace Combat Zero where you get to hear the high definitions of the sonic booms, missile launchings and explosions plus wreckages airborne. Also, you get to experience almost real radio communication within the cockpit, "Bogey, two. Strike at will. Copy" or "I'm hit! I'm hit!".

And of course, essentially great for rock and metal music where clarity and feel are not compromised. You get the left and right or centre sounds accordingly. For movies, thumbs up as even someone talking behind the first-person is channelled accordingly so you feel too as if the person is talking behind you.

But note this, it's not top-notch product and it does not guarantee every fat high hopes of delivery of a good sound system. At my level of wealth and expertise, this headphone certainly satisfies me.

I will be saving up for either the next PC fair or a visit to Lowyat to get a 2.1 speaker sound system. I can't live on with headphones(deaf) and I can't bear with bassless missing midrange sound offered by laptop built-in speakers. heh.

As for The Rose (again), I stripped it again. Raunchy and bold looks.
Really considering fixing a humbucker to the neck pickup.

And thanks to Chong Yen's football blog post, I brought myself into the football wild scene again. Partly for the sake of competing against Hooi the MU supporter. Cheers.

61. Viva la Vida JS+VH+RHCP

2009-04-20T07:00:00.002+08:00

Ideals

Woops. The title is meant to attract attention from Coldplay fans and people..heh. Nothing about them anyway except that... they won that song in the Grammy's. And that song was sued by Joe Satriani for plagiarism on his If I Could Fly. I didn't notice as a listener to Joe. And because I wasn't listening to Coldplay (I used to 6 years ago). The copyright infringement suit was filed last December. I read it firsthand in The Star newspaper. wooo...

Check out youtube for experts showcasing the similarity in their tunes. Who knows..either Coldplay really stole his work or probably Coldplay just hit a similar tune with one of the million compositions in the world.

wouh, this looks familiar. nono no plagiarism, just inspiration. Hmm....I wonder..HAHAH for those who noticed, nvm..

Do check out too his JS series electric guitars from Ibanez and his Peavey amps...my personal favourite sound and style.

So, what is it about JS+VH+RHCP?
Yeah, that's right. As I know, they are Chickenfoot. Tentatively named so before their official release.

This is what you will get from the Otherside from each of the members.
JS = Joe Satriani
VH = Van Halen (they are two members from Van Halen)
RHCP = Chad Smith the drummer from Red Hot Chili Peppers

I get a tinge of funk. Why not add Buckethead or Tom Morello(Audioslave) for that sense of music. And Tom Morello kicks anti-rock dance clubbers asses nicely. If you would, check out his Rage Against The Machine songs or maybe even his current work you wil experience dj-ing or scratching of the loops sounds being made by playing a guitar. heh.

Have fun, breathers.

ah yeah, I came across this...probably Joe's inspiration according to rumours. Check out Cat Stevens' song as it is in this particular blog.

[The word Otherside drew inspiration from the song title "Otherside" by Red Hot Chili Peppers.]
[Pictures from googling]

60. Mega Kill

2009-04-12T23:59:00.000+08:00

cool title for the 60th post heh...

This is an audiophile-esque favorita. No it's not, anymore.

[This Twin Tower photo has replaced a supposedly to-be-mine speaker system T.T]

Oh I'm disappointed by the PC fair at KLCC this time...the speakers and ladies are not enough. Especially the speakers..so I did n0t make it to get one system back.

Just a refresher... After 4 months my Tele is still is in one piece condition.

And look at the wire, that's so great a sight to behold. Imagine like in the studio, you have all your cables tripping each other haha.

[Twin Tower photo was unedited.]

And parking, the most expensive I've encountered in my life..haah RM11...Mega Kill!

59. Nothingness + Re: Buckethead & J-Rock

2009-04-04T00:00:00.004+08:00

Ideals/Stress-talk

Here it is...

The best medium to suck this post up with is the Watchmen OST song by Philip Glass Ensemble (in filefactory)..load it!

By the way, I was somewhat involved in the Earth Hour event. Indirectly. Thanks to Jonathan who was in great support of the lights-off campaign, he persistently switched off everyone's lights. haha good one. And yeah I have a little wrong concept of the Earth Hour...I respect it for the aim to open up politician eyes. Remember people, remember Earth...I do have my share of love for Earth.

Meanwhile, I was preaching through the sms emitting radio waves and heat through the atmosphere to Hooi on the end of human inhabitancy on Earth. Cracked mind.

Re: Hooi

[A blog post I found which is dedicated to Buckethead too, http://musicmetalandstage.blogspot.com/]

And...this link here...a respect and dedication to the guitar and the mask.

So, there's Buckethead. If you're a childhood guitar fan, he's your masked hero swinging an axe which he used to "lick" and "chop" and produce extra-terrestrial melodies as such we used to enjoy during the times teachers and fathers use canes while we watch...Power Rangers.
The first original theme song that goes "Go! Go! Power Rangers!" was indeed written(should be) and performed by Buckethead. Now tell me who didn't listen to him... I did, most of us did. heh LTMAC

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My main point gets its enunciation here. A statement based on what Hooi has written, that is most of us we try to mine for the answers to life, find the meaning of life and try to make life as worthwhile as possible. But as a complement, why not try look into Buckethead's picture or rather his face...??..I mean his masked face. Let's use him as an example and slowly digress the attention into something which I had in mind to write on some time ago.

The plain emotionless mask. What can we tell from looking at it. I reckon we as humans do always have a lot to say as some being judgemental when we come across to look at somebody's face. Bloody. Smiley. Angry. Flawless. Or be it arrogant. We could describe them in relativity. But how about like Buckethead's? What do we have in mind? It could be anything, you know. That's my point, there's a whole lot of life and mystery behind and in the mask. Visually emotionless, reality-wise undefined. Maybe there's no English word I have learnt to give it a description.

It's hard to define something that is showing nothing. Of course the simplest way is to say it's nothing. Now we will head to the source that prompted us to describe it as "nothing". There's What, Why, Who, Where, Where and How. I'm addding into this hole-ly sheet of concept the word "Nothing" as an interrogative subject.

But think deeper and unconventionally. Make yourself stupid for awhile and clear some brain space for some out-of-the-world deliberation. Not to the extent you lose your sanity...I'm afraid I will someday and be declared, "seorang yang tidak sempurna akal" and lose my voting legal right.heh.

Alright, let me refine my purpose of topic here. In short without any further thinking I'd say, nothingness in life. I'm going to hell-relate everything I thought of and wanted to write in here. Cos' it's going to drift away from my mind soon again if I leave this unanswered unquestionable questions unattended.

Just look at this. I always have something in my mind when I look at it. Questions kept creeping in for answers. Answers begging for definition. Definitions insisting on relativity. Relativity is relatively nothing if there is only emptiness and nothingness.

[A jester-like blood-thirsty-looking face...is it a funny jester? or is it a scary violent guy?]

So I feel nothingness and emptiness in it. But how do we recognize that void as nothing and empty.

And so sprung up a new wondering in the mind. Actually my mind. I kept thinking from time to time when I have nothingness in my mind before I lapse into dreamworld. What is there outside this world. And I mean this universe. Beyond the perceived dark black wall which is decorated with beautiful yet sad(because stars die too) lights.

TRY THINK! Try imagine what am I trying to ask about. Keep religion aside for the moment. Let's talk science..have I not search up the materials? No, ok I heard about all those superstring theory and 6-dimensional spaces and interactions. I've yet to read on that Elegant Universe (Brian Greene) book. ok then let's go beyond and way out of the state of science. Are we in a box or some polygonal container? Move on to something religion...so God created it, and then what's outside the "sandbox of castles and kingdoms of our world"? Heaven? Hell? Afterworld?

How about our conscience behind our existence? Take this life you're currently living right now. Is it the first installment of your soul or your soul have been travelling from body to bodies ever since God breathed lives into this world? Do you have memories or feelings from your past body or life? Then I wonder where will I head to after this life, if it's not Heaven/Hell/Nirvana/Suffering/somewhere eternal. That's the nothingness I can't manage to fathom any greater depths. Imagine being not alive. But not anywhere related to God or this Earth. Being nothing as named in English as "nothing". Scientifically, being not any matter at all.

[This guy an exception is a little bit different...dota players will know wat]

It's crazy. Or rather I'm insane. But I persist, I'm fanatical about the out of the mind. It's ok if you tell me I'm coming back as something biotic. Hmm..what if it's abiotic. For an example, reincarnation as a stone or the tiny silicone sand of a microchip -if you're talking about matters available/created currently in this life-. How about being plants, vegetables or trees? heh

This is a little different from what I'm expecting...an excerpt from The Great Compassion Mantra of Buddhism.
"..in emptiness there is no form, feeling, cognition, formation or consciousness; no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body or mind; no sights, sounds, smells, tastes, objects of touch or dharmas; no field of the eyes, up to and including no field of mind-consciousness; and no ignorance or ending of ignorance, up to and including no old age and death or ending of old age and death. There is no suffering, no accumulating,no extinction, no way and no understanding and no attaining. Because nothing is attained, the Bodhisattva, through reliance on Prajna Paramita, is unimpeded in his mind. Because there is no impediment, he is not afraid, and he leaves distorted dream thinking far behind. Ultimately Nirvana!"
(I have no intention wherein I reproduce this text to promote or allegedly misleading people)

A concept of life strongly debriefed and that I refer to as a measure of our existence. Maybe I'm afraid of afterlife, that's it.

Anyone having any opinion or advice or answer(be it vague/self-ideal/religion/science/psychiatric or anyhow..)..as long as you have something to divulge or any form of enlightenment. Do post them comments or reach me through my email address(either known or by request).fuh..tiring I've been trying to imagine. I like to but it's just super unnatural.

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Re: Cheng Yee
Words don't come easily. That's why J-Rock or the darker tones with emotions are conceived to help us feel and realise that we have a heart. @#$%^&* That's how YW and I got the hell out of headbanging way back in 2007, the year Despa, Diru and etc flooded into me. haha
As we all know, we Chinese people just can't try to follow in their footsteps to look like one of them...that's just plain lala with laughable hairstyles. Try-hards ya noe.. or self-proclaims. I respect a lot of the fans I know here...you guys don't at all try to look bullpoop..real faithful fan be j-pop or j-rock. Salute!

And let's be clear with the terms Rockstar and Rocker. A completely out of genre topic comparison is in Lindsay Lohan or...Amy Winehouse?? I'm not sure..they just got into bigger headlines with bigger heads as more money are channelled into them. So same goes to Rocker and Rockstar. The difference is in the attitude and style of expression. Synonymously, a Rocker may be as stone-cold as rocks..and add the star into it, you get something bright and shining with bling-blings and fame. Well, stars do lose their energy someday and die into a supernova.

It's all nevertheless a cycle..you see...in life. Before the end, it's just the matter of which path you take. And earning different karmas. Basic: Energy. To live. And die. Transform. hmm...

-- -- -- --

[]As a note, I write all these opinions and concepts that were under the name Stressm out of interest, curiosity and disability to understand as well as accept the available conventional resources in this world. I do not do extensive research as I did not wish to prove something new or something wrong. In the hands of all Gods and researchers and readers, I do not mean rebel or mislead. For some it MIGHT be blasphemy and heresy, these two condemnations are to my opinion an idealistic conformation to rejection. Forgive and salvage.

At the same time, I would love to compile all my maybe-delusional writings and write a thesis become a PhD...niceee but I would not like to see myself in such field and I am not going to find myself capable of devouring degree and masters in the future...an opposition to most of my family relatives who believe in, "read until there's no more books to read-get to as high a degree possible into knowledge".

Cheers. Live life first. We'll see what's up for us after life.
..well..Ministry of Sound/Euphoria here I come try this night..tagging with Jason and Mou Jian \m/,

[Buckethead photo taken from homegrownmusic.net. Power Ranger picture taken from comicsuperhero-wallpaper.blogspot.com. James #4 Root jester mask replica picture taken from..some store selling it. J-rock photos taken from Last.fm. Faceless Void picture taken from googling(online-station.net).]

[Good listen! Watchmen OST song-->]

58. Tele-resurrection ~Internet

2009-03-28T02:00:00.002+08:00

Back. I mean, yes return to the online world. With Streamyx.

This may in fact incite a drifting away relationship among us house mates. How, because each of us would be busy sitting in front of the screen being online then dining room casual conversations would slowly perish from practice. Never mind about that. No big deal. heh

So...play Garena!...Fix webcam...Fix Skype... if I find time for them...

Download music...

Continue the online lurking disease...

yeah of course, do research. No more excuses already.

My comment on Earth Hour thingy... everyone would seem to expend more energy cheering and facilitating the event. So eventually more or less the same amount of energy would be transformed to heat and detrimental passive forces. No hard feelings..heh make love with the lights off lo..

And yeah, there are great posts to savour and stand up for. Here's Hooi's Buckethead dedication and Cheng Yee's J-Rock impression. Coming up soon, -a reply to these above interesting links. It will be written and posted on terms of my content and validity of my mind. I've lost my choices of words to use... If I have something to write then that reply will come true.heh

57. Island Speedometer Tour

2009-03-21T06:00:00.002+08:00

Friends & Family

30km/h

70km/h

...120km/h which is equivalent to 64.79 knots with negligible external forces such as pressure, viscosity and compressibility effects at sea level. That's practically achieved with a longer highway with no obstructing vehicles and a little bumpy road using an auto-transmission Kenari or Viva. Best spots in Penang(so far as tried): Jelutung Expressway and Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah from Bayan Lepas (highway leading to the airport).

Of course, beware of speed traps and hiding traffic policemen. And it's not worth it to lose your life on the road. Make it worthwhile by hitting the speed of sound woohoo..

Back to island for a week. Of course it's exhilarating..going through all the distinctive food in Penang. By the way, I came back by flight. I brought my Borneo friends for holiday here..since it's costly to go back there two times each semester. My first time by Air Asia. Low fares wat so I just tried. Inspection/audit on flight:
-Good condition of the plane (at least visually. Got the one with brand new ad on skin)
-All tight hot smiles from the red-jacketed ladies (the one demonstrating emergency measures was just 50cm from me)
-Good smellin' lavatory (I planned and purposed-ly got in..just to play with the flush)
-A hard touchdown but an overall smooth decelerating on the runway
-Delay of departure time by 30 minutes
-The plane flew straight into turbulence wooh..can see the bag compartment structure "detaching" from the fuselage cabin, just free tolerance movement between structures.heh
...hahaha alang-alang "cacing hendak menjadi naga"

Okay tell you what..we're not really good at tour guiding in our own state. So we just do..
-Teluk Bayan: Claypot chicken rice.Belacan fried rice.Hokkien mee.Hong Kong Chee Cheong Fun.Panggang stingray.Fried Oyster.
-New World Park: Mee goreng.Pasembur.Lam mee.Cendul....and a few something else.
-Fettes Park Hainan Western Food
-Jones Road: Loh Mee
-Queensbay: Kapitan nasi kandar restaurant
-Argyll Road: Roti canai
-Jalan Rambutan: Laksa
-Macalister Road: Town Steamboat
-Home: Dad tapao some koay teow th'ng back (duno bought from where)
-Chulia Street: Char koay teow. Curry mee. Wantan mee.
-Penang Road: Line Clear nasi kandar place
-Home: Mum tapao some hokkien mee and koay kak back (duno bought from where)
-Esplanade: Mee Sotong
-Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah: Joo Leong house ..hard to describe wat kind of food..got frog.
-Bukit Jambul flat compound under the trees place: Pan mee
-Queensbay Mall: Paddington Pancakes..

Missed out on:
-Gurney Drive hawker centre (better Indian/Muslim pasembur).
-Macalister Road: Mr Lim Birthday mee (Lam mee)
-Batu Lanchang market: almost anything there..all good and cheap
-and the overrated expensive char koay teow stalls
(in accordance only to my places of interest experience)
Visits and sceneries:
-Penang Free School...wtfreak enormous erected lighted banner...
-Gurney Plaza. and Queensbay Mall.
-Kek Lok Si temple
-Highways
-Batu Feringghi
-CC
-City/Town roads and buildings
-....nothing so much
----missed out on Penang Hill actually....
What's so good about Penang? The hospitality, homeliness and great variety of food. And narrow uneven patched roads.

Here's my faithful personal picks.
The black one is "strongest and oldest" like Viktor(Underworld) heh, it's really the oldest since its purchase in 2004. The edges are slowly wearing out following abuses over the years hah. Now I find it sounds good with classics and blues playing. And the green one symbolises hardcore and speed...I just feel it because I started to use it to play all those metal and it feels good. Flexible yet rigid. And it's ESP. That another one transparent is my new addition to my family. That block is a metal piece that I cut using a hacksaw to fabricate a mini hammer.

As for my Ernie Ball strings they still rock my underwears off. Bleeding bends still don't break them. haha

Coming up soon will be a post dedicated to my gears and material dreams.

And the perfect cruising lonely journey album (in car), Joe Satriani - Professor Satchafunkilus and Musterion of Rock.

Rainy. Wet. Strong winds. Thunders. Goodbye, back to brainwreckage workloading study..by bus.

[thanks to maps.google.com and wikimapia.org for the help of identifying the road names]
[Temple picture captured by friend Ben and not edited]

56. I'm God...

2009-03-01T01:00:00.003+08:00

Stress-Talk/Ideals/Personal

So how do actually people judge or view one another? How do people start to gain trust. How do people begin to have fun. How do people just find amusement and make life just so colourful and blossom with filthy immaculateness. Just some random(fun yet social abusive) topic to write on.

Attitude.

Behaviour.

Body language.

Gossip/reference.

Favoritism Judgement.

Face value(visual perception).

What I'm trying to bring to thought here is related to human physical and mental interaction which is not so into social-contact but includes more of the surrounding issues and especially which deals with the eye and the mind. At least, for comprehensive purpose I will write it in a more straight-to-the-point manner.

Take this, you walk into a place. And then you don't feel too comfortable. Either feeling out of place or when a lot of heads are turned facing you. Let's minus these instances such as unzipped pants, funny hairstyle, and outstanding visual values like pretty/sexy/handsome/big/great.
So what are the potential causes to the feelings concocted and blended through the nerves and be interpreted as a visual-environmental-tunnel-perplex in the head. Simply, you feel like people are looking at you for dunno wat reasons.

I've collected a few causes, sources of this "perasan" case. "Perasan" can be defined as being very aware of the surrounding interaction or being self-conscious. One obvious reason is of course being so self-conscious thinking that everyone would be looking at you. In short, vain.

So if it isn't self-conscious, what is it.
Inferiority complex.
Feeling inferior. Not so good huh. Feel that people are looking down at you. For no apparent reason apart from lack of self-confidence/esteem, you just feel like people don't accept the way you are there.

Reality status-discrimination.
Sometimes. For certain people. Sometimes people who got overflowing cash and beautiful paycheques just have different visions with levels of arrogance. But some really are different, the one who whose heads elevated and do not even take a glance. And sometimes the other way, like a super rich clean guy entering a poor slum.

Style.
This one surfaces more among young people. When rockers meet popstars, hip-hoppers battle disney-dancers or classical musicians drink with black metal worshippers. Goth vs mainstream. Sometimes the uniques catch discriminative attention and sometimes they get idol worshipped. But at times the simples get the thumbs down. Just about who turns up conspicuous.

The "in"-"loud"-"prominent"-"pretty" group.
This one also occurs more often within the young generations. Though, the elders usually get the attention either when they are a group of drinkers or a group of foul language loudspeakers. So, like this, the group with the most good-looking men and ladies. Or the one which could generate the loudest attention-seeking noise.

I could think of only those. Actually these are playing in my mind while being in the experience of going through different kinds of people or basically when you enter somewhere new to y-ourselves. A common but sucky, self-"de-personalising"(and at times against own principles) solution is to fit in. Think of it. Being new to a community who does something you don't do(or dislike) and then trying to fit in by doing it. The most fundamental explanatory example would simply be pick up smoking when everyone else around you smoke. Hey, you think it's foolish, yes but it's happening now in the schools, cities, suburbs and societies. Come on, the best example I can give you is, practically almost everyone smokes in my hostel last year.

Enough said, about fitting in or doing something common to feel right at place. Basically, I just feel uncomfortable when people turn their heads to look. It's without a doubt in fact a form of self-conscious. Because sometimes it's just a reaction for people to look up in attention. I know.

But, being totally out of place yeah out of Penang I can just feel it. And especially being from the obscure school distant from the place I always patronize. Today, I'm already quite settled at that vicinity but still, the complex in the head is still in the air. Totally chinese people...mandarin..chinese songs..."cool" hairstyles..plus real china people.

The stand-out difference that I can really feel is it doesn't happen with the overwhelming populated black people(africans/middle-easts/afric-americ). I have more due respect for them more than I have with the IIIothersIII. Forgive me for I myself being a Chinese saying things as such. I feel good and proud anyway being in a school with so few of my ethnicity. No I am not against my own race. I'm just a bit sensitive and have a certain social-mental distortion against that kind that exists in the race. You KNOW what I mean.

Tagline: It's so much easy to find Malaysian rockers among the Malays and find similar interest-bound clicks.

Of course, language does a little barrier to our social blender. hurh..In my opinion, in KL they insist on speaking Cantonese. Other place, Mandarin would be very much preferable. Although they have to learn English and BM to communicate with international students but they ain't like/gona speak other than Chinese with us, Chinese ethnic Malaysians. In Penang, heh simply easy Hokkien does the job. Most actually know mandarin and cantonese but come on, it's Penang our lingua franca is Hokkien. Foot to you mandarin in Penang haha.

This one is personal a bit(but not necessarily my incident). I just don't like when you people start to change language and speak to one another to discuss something else in a middle of a big discussion/conversation especially with people who don't understand. I just don't feel good, as if I'm in the plan to conspire, but actually I don't understand either. This is an example from my Moral class last year with the lecturer being the only Malay. And also Indians who do that switch of language. hurh..mana respect ni.

So back from digressing...that much is a subtopic of finding a living in out of place. Practically or basically that is, trying hard to retain and remain being yourself.

Like, I actually really lose myself when clubbing. Another kind of show of fitting-in.

When in a group, I feel safer and much more steady. But sometimes I do get out of hand especially doing a group thing. A basic form of joining in the fun.

If solo, that's really me myself and no influences except mind blowing pressure in the head thinking shits and fits while being alone with the past and future logs come crashing in suddenly. Could be saddening. Could be joyful which you might happen to catch yourself smiling and laughing by yourself out of the blue/green/black/red etc. Most of the time I'm humble and kinda the shy type.

What do you think? I always think of the James Bond cool way. Funny. In the end, I find myself turning my head quickly enough to avoid eye-contact but usually it's already too obvious when the girl I'm looking at turns to look back in the same direction. That is why I always do a quick-scanning..the hermit-timid kind.

ahah but when I'm full of confidence and brim-full of esteem I go crazy. Out of control. I totally unleash. Maybe that's the just my real personality. As for being ourselves. But I have a Stresser comment. What we do(peer/tv-influences negligible) is actually a form of being ourselves because that's us doing if not being possessed and when subconsciously we do not feel good after doing is because that is not what we like in our head but it's nature that our hearts guide the actions. This explains on how certain adults end up in a career different from their ambition...they go with the flow and for being themselves they just accept and decide on what they are capable of with limitations.

So if He's God..I'm Godder? Right. If they are cooler, we're just hot.

This is just an example of what I think is freestyle. It says, why worry?. Trying to grasp the stoicism and hedonism within the hair. Maybe Jonathan who always sleeps(a.k.a TuKia->hokkien-jaredi-pinyin) could explain..haah

*Tad-bits of bite for the season(new feature!!!): The scientific and logical fundamental of music is rhythm and sound come from everything that comes into contact and produces a pulsating waves that are interpreted as sound waves and be recognized as sound. And the root of production of sound could be hitting or knocking. Take pound on the table. Tap the feet. Knock on the door(not necessarily Heaven's). And repeated action of such in a faster(may it be aggresive) manner like knocking, stomping or talking(or shouting/screaming) is considered a progressive sound production. Talking/screaming is a form of melodic and varying pitch and frequency bounded waves that can be derived from a single note that comes out from the mouth. So? So in the events of those repetitions, noise, colloquially is produced as known as an unwanted/disgusted form of sound. So, yeah you can brand Rock/Metal music as noise. It's true but you just can't bear it. heh such fun.

Cos, "if it ain't Rock it ain't music"~Hooi's t-shirt, December 23, 2008.

In my opinion, overjoyful-mainstream/pop music is noisy. Bad mix of syncs...noisy howls. At least rock has its clear rhythm. Crispy. Even hip-hop heh. Anyhow, just find your favourite music and suck it up no one's vexin'.

55. The New Age Dilemma

2009-02-09T07:00:00.001+08:00

Personal/Friends & Family

Hah, this time for certain reasons is not a good start, a definitely worst case scenario to commence with my 2nd semester at MIAT. This post is written before the Chinese New Year.

Our happiness and excitement was cut off with the cruel nature of reality. The problem lies with our house by rent. The malay proverb, "telur di hujung tanduk" (similar if this is wrong heh) really depicts our situation. No real place to stay. We are quite literally hanging in the air. 6th floor. Air-conditioned. Fully furnished with TV, water heater and table. Even good looking closets and each room a set of make-up chair and table set. Oh yeah, a refrigerator. But that's not our house. Our requested unit didn't managed to get into our hands.

That's a house he lent to us temporarily. It's been almost two weeks and he's still all-talk into getting us the house we wanted.

Thanks to the agent who really show that he is seriously into the business and does not tolerate people who do not pay. And thanks to us ourselves who just happened to trust his principles of work. Haha. Yeah, he's serious in the business, as serious as a China conman. I am not going to explain further because I had explain this thing to too many people already especially parents who were worried from miles away.

A good lesson in dealing with money and important necessities and utilities: Do it as if you have no chance anymore to get it and never give in to unforeseen opportunities(because you really couldn't expect what to come). It's quite obvious but as first-timers getting into such business we learnt our special lesson in trusting outsiders. Especially being so far away from your family and home you are vulnerable to risks and unpredictable instances. You could only have close friends to rely on.

[tension..tension. Press ball..press press! -urh he looks pale yeah sick at that time]

And luckily that agent is not a big runaway conman, because at least we still have a house to stay in for the timebeing, enjoyingly with the luxury household items. Imagine the rental.
But just at these times you would really have a piece of that menthol filter in your mouth. Inhaling without lighting just does it. I'm not prepared to get lungs cancer so soon. Good the fear of suffering.

But also at these tough times we would find time to have fun and revel in our youthfulness. Guest appearance: Mou Jian(again). This time it's scotch whisky. Believe it. The Best Bottle In The World is not necessarily the best drink haha. But Jon says the Carlsberg Gold is superb. The Special Brew has been tested and it proved to be commendable. A foot to the plain original variant.

Ok this one is so far, the one which didn't stand out to my tastebuds and throat. But the aroma is fulfilling. The aftertaste sucks...bitter as dried malt/barley brewed beer. 43%.

So we started the boozing at 12am after watching Mr. & Mrs Smith. Mou Jian even brought dj clubbing music CD for the mood and there's a song which gangsta-raps on "lu kua hami lan ciau!!" Yes, card game accompanied the drink. The mixes were Shweppes(something like this..) Extra Dry Tonic and Coca-Cola. Awful mixes! They turned out to be laughing-vomit-inducing-concoction. LOL. Panadol wasn't mixed though.

The game was chortaiti. Losers drank one-go either half or full a cap of the scotch. Lame huh but that's the limit of our tongue and throat. And stomach. It burns. But the cold air rushing in after swallowing it is what I'm fond of. The best were still the one YW brought to Genting(private edition) and the one I drank last year during Chinese New Year, Ballantine Gold 12 Years Old.

Woo. Devil's call. I'm so into breaking this one precept in Buddhism. Haha. Intoxication. Haven't been drunk and not looking forward to it. But our latest boozing activity really made me experienced real-time lagging and brain blowing dizziness. Because it's like 2-4am in the morning. The high time for being blow. So Mou Jian stayed the night with us. Great pal for fun activities. At least, we are saviours to his surrounding according to him. At least, he's not the study-nerd top scholar kind. heh. Next should be a private Genting trip. Play hard.

[the fountain spot at Alamanda]

Oh yeah, we(minus MJ) went to Alamanda Putrajaya. I did my CNY shopping there. But I'm still short of some new bottoms. Hey shopping is tedious for me as a man. I mean, hurrh..I am not as rich to get whatever catches my eye. And I think men are supposed to keep shopping as simple as possible. heh

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So, friends. Please be extra careful if you are already being careful and try reason with your own thinking and decisions in dealing with almost anything in life especially when you're on your own or without support. Give it a second thought, so you could at least observe where you would go wrong. Generally. Because at certain time even we're at our most aware state and feet on firm ground we just tend to take the wrong step. It could be subconsciously a temptation, greed, easy satisfaction or false empathy, hopefully you get what I am trying to convey here.

It's not that we've been deceived or cheated of our money(actually kinda). We just trusted something that didn't appear in front of our eyes. And that cost us an unceasing increasing burden as long as we are still not final with our house rental. Furniture. Household utilities. Proper living. All put on hold. That greatly affected our time and energy consumption and to add to the trouble our classes have started. It's already so hard to stagger and manage our time to go to our classes as we all have limited transportations for 4 different classes' timetables.

Stressful. I have 7 subjects now with a LAN(ciau) subject, Malaysian Studies. And a packed-cum-oddly-hours-arranged class timetable. By the way I scored for my previous semester a cgpa of 4.0-flat @#$*&^ seems lucky. Freaking scored a precise 4.0 pointer for that freaking Moral LAN subject. Stressm proves effective.

[Cruel Reality of Nature is a song by Buckethead. "The Best Bottle..." is a tagline from Carlsberg beers]
[All photos except the Label 5 Scotch Whisky and the fountain spot were taken by my friend. All photos have been edited.]

We got our house already and we've moved in days before Chinese New Year.
Just to add more, we found a used condom with watery fluid in it which someone threw out of their window or balcony onto a grasspatch.haha. It's huge. Earlier, we found the box. haha

54. The Squall With New Reso

2009-02-01T00:00:00.003+08:00

Personal/Ideals/Friends & Family

What? Resolutions again? Not over with the new year spirit? It's just that it's just so nice to feel and feel again about the fresh ambience surrounding this very year. How so? Maybe because so many things have passed and happened just so right that they are just too real to be true and there's like a pause or rest note in between. And then this new year. So I can't help talking about it over and over again.

I guess many do have this kind of feeling but not described in the way I did. Or just different sensory arousal amongst us.heh It's real. Because in my own thought, I view this life as a dream. So anything real is surreal. What do I believe? Eccentricity in the mind. Never mind, be merry.

Update and guitar review: Rock-A$$ ~new post

So..urm...Back to jungle. Continue the semester 2. With tougher subjects and assignment content expectations. And less holidays. So basically this handsome photo below depicts 2 object-based objectives.

Books and guitar.

In detail elaborated, the books mean studies and reading. It also stands for entertainment and education(which their order is in no particular priority).

The guitar means music and hobby. Of course if it's for professional then I would be seeing myself on the holy stage right now heh..so playing music as a hobby and a skill by ambition and dream to play with/like the gods. Guitar can be seen as stereotypical as you see a lot many people actually play guitar...good and nice. But I'm just not that kind, but never mind the image. As a aspiring player like many I ought to follow in their footsteps to improve.

So they both stand for entertainment and in them it's a basic termed learning. And entertainment and learning make up the "work hard, play hard" quote. That leads to the fundamental of time management. Manage time properly so we have time to play and work. Time to do work and study or read up. Time to play the guitar and listen to music.

Basically and practically, I am going to keep myself as quite busy as possible, meaning that I find time and use time properly for my studies and entertainment. It can't be all about eat, sleep, play, scream... My mission. Is not impossible. I wear Adidas. It is not nothing. But just being practical and quit wasting away. The Beef year...is going to be my steak-to-be calf learning year.

From this point onwards...read on only for fun ..just story-telling some friends activity thing for Chinese New Year festive mood.

This time, the overnight was at Khang Yang's. His sister's room. F. We didn't know at first. Of course, the sister was at other room. We actually only reached his home at almost 6am. After watching Red Cliff 2 which ended at around 11.30pm we headed to CC for intensive midnight gaming. The X Hero Siege was extremely taxing...energy draining imba cock. Economical gaming. It was around 4-5am we did, I mean I did a 115km/h shhh....dun tell the cop..it was exactly the road over the rows of factories parallel to the airport runway. blah..viva is not fit for that. Pelita 24hrs - nasi lemak + roti canai + teh ais.

KY brothel. You see...it's not a bad image but just a bad boy with good attitude/personality. Chortaiti lo...then Blackjack while YW shred with my Marshall. Ka-$-ching.. The cockerel crows.. The breakdown, at 8am. ZzzzZzzzz...My alarm is turned off as soon as it rang so we could get more sleep. ZzzzZzzzz...2pm. Continue card game. Ka-$-ching.. We went Queensbay again..(the same thing we did on the New Year day, back-to-back QB trip without bath) for Nando's. I didn't have a liking for it initially until I tasted the spiced chicken...oh no wonder I have forgotten how good actually Nando's tasted. Shortly after the lunch, I went to meet up with Meng Jon. As usual la, buddy meeting heh.. Balik rumah...

53. The New Celebration

2009-01-27T04:05:00.006+08:00

Personal/Friends & Family

Ayam kicap

Sayur kuning

Telur sotong...

First time in my life minus the infant years, I slept till as late as 11am on the first day of Chinese New Year. Nice, at that time for the every past years I should be in the temple or relatives' houses chewing sweet cookies and having hard time pushing in the bulk of angpows into the pocket. Lazy morning for everyone. Because my mum woke really late too hahah only to be wake-up called by my aunt.

New clothes. You can see you know, on the roads, in the shops, at the house porches, everywhere people are, you see their clothes.. They are all bright(as in fresh and new) and clean. Good ol' tradition for us chinese Malaysians. Peace be unto all.

As for me, on the first day of the Chinese New Year I had lunch with my family, with aunts who are sisters to my mother. The night before was a reunion at Butterworth with the family of my father's side....very big....I'm like uncle to dozens of nieces and nephews. And then to Jonathan's house. Right timing for a lion dance blessing ceremony. AHHH...I'm so HAPPY. My favourite entertainment is lion dances and stunts. AND that close to me with the ear-blowing drums.
uh..a meal with guests there. That was 4.30pm and plans later changed for the good and energy-saving. Hooi and I chatted with Jonathan. Until 6, we left for home for dinner. Secret Recipe was my destination. CC trip was next. With Hooi, YW and Andrew. Played Counter Strike for 5mins then freaking failed-trying to play Left4Dead without disconnections. Dota for some time and then proceeded to pwn at Left4Dead.. Good, the game went smoothly until the difficulty was set to Expert..woohooo the zombies came barging in like holy cows. Great game..

It's 1am already. Andrew left early. Where after CC? Subaidah Sungai Dua. Paper Tosai(s) and nasi kandar....

So, there was a heavy lunch meal, then a heavy tea time meal, a filling fattening dinner and finally a heavy midnight supper. That's called heavy metal. No breakfast that's all but altogether 4 meals for me..my stomach's small you don't know and my arms are small so pushing all of them into me is a blessing. Ame.

~It's a war to stop war...so war is redundant, natural and existences mean wars; competition in life.

oh great, I retired from being a driver this time. It's a car, it's a vios, it's holy-shit...it's Hooi's driving gig. Yeah. From north to south to west and east, pump it.

[ahh...it was my ambition long time ago to join the troupe..either under the lion or at the drums]

Happy celebrating. Happy eating. Happy visiting. Happy collecting. Happy driving. Happy riding. Happy flying. Happy travelling. Happy sexing. Happy, try as real as possible to be happy.

52. The New Chinese Year & New Taggo(3)

2009-01-24T02:00:00.005+08:00

Friends & Family/Personal

Gong Xi Fa Cai and a merry prosperity. Make sure you check your angpows inside out upside down before throwing away the packet for no hidden deposited money. You never know, fortune is unpredictable. But yes it could when you work hard for it...make sure u know haha..

Yeah forgiveness, I was idle to blogspot for like 2 weeks. No access to internet. No effort taken to use the library. No initiative. So I'm back. And yes, back in the island too. For a week. I will see friends' faces and talk onto them. Step on the ground firm and that's it. Just a short break which I had to apply 2 days of study leaves from school. That means missing 4 classes of different subjects. The tough one would be Mandarin. The wasteful ones are "Theory of Flight and Control" and Electric Fundamental 2. The other one would be the suicidal-boycott-political-antagonizing lecture for LAN Malaysian Studies. Fux.

I already have a post to publish actually but that one is not so good in terms of mood and story. May the festive spirit come first. May all be happy and free from harm.

Also, a farewell and best of luck to Adelyn who is going leave soon. Here's a toast and cheers, be it wine or scotch. haha yeah due tag homework
>>
1. Does it matter to you if your boyfriend or girlfriend smoke?
Yes, if my girlfriend does. Not a good image for ladies..

2. How about drinking?
Not quite, just try not to go having a drunk ONS with other men.

3. Do you like someone you can't have?
Yes, countless. But wait..why not? It's just far from reach =D

4. If someone liked you right now, would you want them to tell you?
Urh it's ok but..I'm afraid. I'm always startled when girls say IW2T2U etc etc hahahaha

5. What's your favourite sport?
Hiking and running/racing/sprinting heh

6. Its Saturday night, and you're home alone... what do you do?
Self-entertainment.

7. Do you like roller coasters?
Yes. going to experience them again at Genting in 2 weeks time.

8. When's the perfect time to have a bf/gf?
Any time is Twiggies time. Depends on the hormones and maturity of the mind.

9. If you could date any celebrity, who would it be?
Traxex the Drow Ranger...XD nah, none.

10. What are you doing this weekend?
Go out with family and friends and of course the eve family Reunion.

11. What is your favourite restaurant?
Fettes Park Hainan Western Food or Subaidah(same area)...no particular actually.

12. Have you ever hugged someone?
Yes. The most should be my mum.

13. Ever kissed someone you weren't attracted to?
"Yes"..seriously

14. Do you like anyone right now?
Yes (don't be curious la)

15. What is the first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Hair. haha then one by one from top to toe

16. Which do you prefer, Beach or Mountains?
Mountains.

17. What kind of phone do you have?
Sliding phone

18. Computer or Laptop?
Both are computers to me (??). no particular..

19. Jeans or Sweats?
Sweats.

20. Which year(s) has/have been the best so far?
1990.

21. How old are you gonna be on your next birthday?
Close to 2 decades.

22. What should you be doing right now?
Sleeping.

23. What is your favourite TV show?
Long time no enjoy TV lo...no particular but I like Marvel/DC cartoons

24. What's been your last purchase?
Tuna Crabstick Mayo Sandwich.

25. Are you attracted to girls/boys that smoke?
What difference? oh..no.

26. Have you ever fallen on your butt in front of a crowd of people?
Maybe. But usually "LPC bullshit falling"...front-first.

27. What do you do when you're at home?
Self-entertainment.

28. What is your favourite subject?
Physics/Chemistry.

29. What's the best thing that's ever happened to you?
Girl almost falling and grabbed my hand. woooh I hope that's not a dream...

30. 10 people to tag:
no need d kua..many ppl had been tagged..do your homework la

That's all ladies and harshmen...See you all again.
My Element TD game...not the most spectacular capture though. Those are Ronald McDonald as the creeps... the final level wave of enemy.

51. The Next Seasonal Tide

2009-01-10T20:00:00.006+08:00

Personal/Friends & Family

Hello again, the January of the year 2009. The beginning of a new year, in fact the very first week. It is also the season in the year which many farewells take place. In certain way because it's usually the time when studies start so people either leave for further studies or to continue their semesters. Looks like a fresh kickstart with smiles and serenity brought forward from the previous year. May the joy finds it way in everyone's heart.

As for me, I will make my move back to the jungle(by the time you read this, I am already there). If you haven't know I brand my place of study jungle. But this photo wouldn't make you think so. Who wants a free ride(in the dream)?

[My first photo with an aircraft. Jonathan took this photo for me]

Good luck to Ye-Wheen in continuing his A-levels for his final 6 months. Go on, get a M.D blues-style. Good luck to Cheng Yee too, at Sunway...know what I duno wat course u doing oso...so BAD of me..island people basically. And to the rest, either still at holidays or going back already or starting on a new journey I wish you HAPPY STUDYING and best wishes in you endeavours.

Oh, for Hooi and Khang Yang. Work your ass off for STPM! Just make sure when I meet you guys again, don't look like some study geek or lose some patches of hair already. To Jon, I am waiting for your big paycheck in the near future. Your turn to treat me REAL big.

So here are some photos for entertainment purpose while I could serve.

ahh..my new partner. For the time being, I am going on a solo hiatus.

[dismantling to check out the innards, that neck space does allow me to fix a humbucker heh]

[Marshall amplifier..WOW..hahah..it's so good. This unit is very simple. So easy to use.]

[This matters so much...it's a Joe Satriani product ok! Planet Waves strap]

And yeah, thanks to Hooi for bending my string like 4 notes?higher and snapped it. But new set of Ernie Ball Medium Slinky equipped its way.woohoo

The splinter that got into my palm. It's minuscule. But to take it out, it's just nice, stinging, morbid and what can say, it's for the love of pain. YW got nice amount of flesh scraped off just recently, in the swimming pool. It's just so good to see blood huh. Dig em'.

[ahha..so small only...but imagine la using a needle to dig it out, to open a hole. Astounding.]

[the piece of splinter...]

My other accounts of pain were stepping onto broken glass pieces, stapling fingertip, burning fingertip using the car cigarette lighter, hitting and getting guitar fretboard splinter into between fingernail and tip and bleed. They are accidents of course and I never(for now) would want to hurt myself like this. Also getting aircraft wiring poked into between nail and tip. So what's your style? haha Be more careful.

And my first new phone. That's Guns N' Roses. Great Buckethead guitars in it haha

So, I will be back in Penang again for the Chinese New Year. Get sweatin'. Till next time. oh yeah..gota return KY his swimming trunk which he left that day...huh so gay.
My top 2 alien-based inspirations are from Joe Satriani and Velvet Revolver materials.
~JS - Surfin' with the Alien [and his affinity for alien stuffs]
~VR-Loving the Alien

For some non-personal/stress-talk write-ups, I haven't got any good materials. No inspiration though. There's nothing much for me to "preach" about haha. Basically just plain fresh season in the year. I just have nothing at all in my head, opinions or whatsoever except a still-born draft which I need to find a suitable time to write and post.

Time oooh...this year will test my time management to the critical level. Failure of doing so spells disappointment and will only reflect my "you-still-duwan-to-change" attitude. But at least I should improve a bit on giving proper time allowances and not procrastinating on and on again. This does apply to everyone, I reckon especially with this new era and generation of youngsters having new toys and "great" lifestyle. So, back to you people..enjoy life.

50. The New Phantasma

2009-01-01T23:59:00.008+08:00

Greeting/Personal/Friends & Family

There you go, the new post for a new year from for blogspot from a blogger for himself and his readers.[I haven't got any proper sleep yet since 10 hours before the countdown. So it's no-sleep for hmm..maybe almost 24 hours. New year spirit. yeah YW, Hooi and I watched The Spirit. Great.

Hello, Merry New Year. 2009, the year for the Cow. Moo moo.

There's actually nothing much to be briefed here because to reminisce it's much easier if you just go through my posts in 2008 throughout the months. I mean, the accounts were already written why would I want to repeat the storytelling. But that's actually the point of end-year-recap-cum-new-year-greeting post. So I will still get it flipped the pages of life locomotion.

[Popcakes..from popcakes.blogspot.com...bought from Tanjung Tokong place..]

Anyway, I will let some photos do the talking. If you see smiles, they are telling you those were the joyful days. If you see frowns, they telling you those were just the days. If you enjoy looking at the photos, they are telling you that we had fun. If you feel a sense of boredom while looking at them, that means...everything is fine. hah

I just want to post some photos of fun times in the past and throw all nostalgic feelings in them and get them remained there because it's useless looking back too much instead of advancing towards the betterment of life. Let's try not to regress and weep over what's done and passed. Stress-talk: What's done is done, what's gone is gone; they happen, really for reasons. Because the grass is always greener on the other side and every cloud has its silver lining. So get on with life. Each year coming in just gets better and more interesting. But sadly, with each brain cell dying slowly as we age haah.

Let's start slowly with some never before seen photos. From the old times. I do it like this because I feel that the year 2008 had brought tremendous changes to our lives and rocketed free-flowing emotions and life-changing events. People leaving. People loving. People studying. People rising. People working. woo..it's a Rocket Dive. So they serve as momentos of the seemingly benign past.

..depressing..while doing the photo selection and going through them. Dvorak's Symphony no.9 is playing and then suddenly the happy part comes in, a smile is shone from my face.heh

["yeahhh, I'm standing on the edge of the world!"]

[Life could be only this small~spot that tiny cutie (photos taken from trip to Sg. Sedim, Kedah]

[Good times, bad times~in Form 3-Baiduri(2005)]

[Better days]

[The great team, Editorial Board 06/07]

[The great leisure time taken off from SPM. I still remember the hot dough kneading chick]

A video, also a leisure time at my place after school^

[This is me, receiving my Merit Award in 2007 as the magazine editor...fuhh =.=(smiling lik fux)]

And yeah, ^the early photo is taken a few days after finishing SPM at YW's as the first great G-Jam and the latter is the latest jam with the Strat missing but substituted by an alto sax.
This is the latest photo and a photo taken by Hooi on the first day of the year 2009. It's 7am we were recording a mini G-2 jam and we're not sleeping yet and he's very -blow- d but after that he went to dota by himself while we take a nap before going for Dim Sum.

Oh yeah, we overnighted at YW's. And do blues. Jamming. And practising for our projects. I owe big time stress to YW for my lack of skill AND especially my tardiness for not practising and learning up beforehand. Bad.

Oh yeah, talk about the new year countdown experience. I felt so touched and kinda like wana shed a tear... My first time spectating fireworks from just less than 500 metres away and got the explosions happening and smithereens just above. At Queensbay. And I celebrate that moment with Hooi and YW. The everlasting STILL-SINGLES...not homo. But we revel in enjoying our every minute of freedom of being ourselves and not having any burden or trouble heaping on us.

"When you are with me, I'm free; I'm careless, I believe; Above all the others we'll fly; This brings tears to my eyes, my sacrifice"~My Sacrifice, Creed

ROARRRRRRRR this is life. Let's pulverize the new year resolutions.

Anyway, for the people who came into this Earth on the same year as I did..we're only turning wat..not even 20 yet. We're all still so young huh.

I told my mum, I fear Alzheimer's and Dementia the most. Forgetting life. Ain't that scary? Forgetting your friends, family, and the people who have drew or wrecked a smile on your face. Yet, life is on hot wheels. So damn freaking fast...like fast-forwarding Ye-Wheen's already fast fingers doing Bumble Bee...hahhah.

..oh and losing hearing ability.fux.to loud music. aeroplane engines are also deafening. As for now, I am close to losing my knees if I don't ...sigh..my heart in sports and outdoor actitivies

For 2009, I would like to:
-Keep more in touch with friends and family
-Decrease procrastination skill by hopefully 10%(dun be too ambitious)
-Speak less shit-talk and control my heart's agitation(sucks at emotions)
-Do more action that is practical and real
-Manage guitar, studies and other activities
-Waste less money on er....stuffs la..
-hmm..this is new. Reconcile long time buddies....my vow
-be a Better Man..[Robbie William sings]

For avid readers and fans of this blog (wuaha XD) keep in touch with me and I won't let you down. Because unlike some stuffs/activities, I would die dead enough so this blog won't die...until my body rests in peace (but maybe my descendants may want to continue with it). My assurance.

Give me your hand, reach for me and I will show you the life.

What you see is life, what you hear, what you smell, what you touch and what you taste...that's life. I believe in only the 5 senses in reality, other than that just deals with what's in my(our) head, the brain, the mind. But if they do exist, please be excused for being ignorant. The psychotic grumbling emotional juicy dream slurpee-machine. Our existence, let's discuss about it later in the afterlife if your God programmed it. Brahma gives the green light I reckon, for us to live life to the greatest-able and not care too much about what's up there. Black holes and Revelations on Big Bang, what else? A Bigger Bang.

This is the amusing part right when I go on a continuous off-topic who's-ur-papa preaching. If you don't like it...don't force. If you like it, ask for more. I hope to keep myself as busy as possible. Seeing myself often with greasy hair and sleepy eyes in the mirror make me feel useless and guilty.

Ok..just in 1 week I will leave the island once again. Good ol' joyful spending quality time with friends but it's been fulfilled so it's enough. Time for me to go back to pore over the studies. Career. Will be back for Chinese New Year.

So...I wish you all people and all sorts of humans on Earth a happy new year. Have a joyful year. Let the tough gets tougher, and let the simple be solved. wtf.

[Rocket Dive is a song from Hide. A Bigger Bang is inspired by Rolling Stones. Better Days is inspired by Goo Goo Dolls]
[The photos posted are edited but not for quality measure]

49. Filler Feeder

2008-12-30T02:00:00.002+08:00

Friends & Family

The 50th post shall be the final stage for the year 2008. Might not necessarily be posted by 1st of January. But it shall serve as an ending and an opening to the ought-to-be magnificent year 2009. So..let's fill up the gap and feed some fun into our souls.

Wokei..we did it with almost a cancellation due to the rain. Penang Hill hike, until point 84. Good for YW, catching up with all our outdoor activities. With wet, muddy and slippery terrains...and uncountable slippings on the rocks we braved the jungle with landslide sites. It was a spiritual journey though this time. With Albert.

Some sort of crazy affinity. Just after getting out of the toilet, this dog appeared to have already set the target of keeping an extra company. He's totally our main source of amusement. Taking care of each other and concerns of safety and accompaniment. Good dog. YW is writing on it, the post will be out soon. With plenty of photos and one or two videos. Sadly, we had to leave it. Albert, we salute you. See you again someday.

And, having a mum who works in that big company brings a lot of benefit. Good advantage. You know that Jesselton mansion owner, yeah he's the owner of the company. First, I got free tickets to PESSOC performance but of course no dining there we're not VIPs. And then, being an honourable employee who regularly patronizes Miraku(also owned by that company) in G-Hotel my mother got a very nice and good service from the chief manager for our dinner.

First, he served us two complimentary plates of tauhu dishes. Then he came in again and served a plate of mixed vegetables, we told him we didn't ordered that and he replied, "it's complimentary, miss". Wah. Minutes later, he came AGAIN to serve a plate of deepfried chicken. I lost my sanity. Is this some kind of "poh lampa/chibai" treatment or just very good appreciation and regard. Or is he afraid that my mum came to audit the restaurant secretly. In the end, he came for the final compliment, the great-tastebud-buster green tea ice cream and some jelly dessert. WTF

That dinner actually had a cash voucher already and yet we're getting stupendous good amount more of food. Too much to not to be wasted, all into our stomachs with pride and joy. Except, with exceptionally small oesophagus, small stomach and slow digestion didn't manage to lick the plates grease-free. I love you mum muahaha

And then, getting a micro splinter into my palm. Dig. Scrape. Bleed. Tear. Push. Pull. Needle. Antiseptic. Fingernail. Biting the towel. Aaah nice pain.

NEXT:
1. Hooi's gig.
2. G3 jamming 2 at YW's + New Year boozing with KY
3. CNY shopping
4. Packing and settling necessities for return to MIAT
5. Leave once again
6. Return for CNY haha
7. Fitness regularity for Mt. Kinabalu expedition

ah..my knees. So sad. Weak ligaments and hmm..maybe weakened synovial cushioning. I can't give up hiking I tell you or any other tougher outdoor sports activities. It's like losing your fingers as guitar player.

Happy end year 2008

[Pride and Joy happened to be a song title from Stevie Ray Vaughn]

48. Murphy's Law

2008-12-29T01:00:00.006+08:00

Friends & Family

"If anything can go wrong, it will"...

one of the would-be-learnt topic in the subject Human Factors in near future

Yeah, true. Anything. Everything. Any time. Every time.

So the talk of having a Kerachut was long started and the plan was to take place in this end time of the year. In less than 24 hours, the subject was brought up before we went swimming. This time: Hooi, Khang Yang, Daniel, Ye-Wheen and Jonathan with only 4 goggles. So we agreed. Spontaneous last minute conception of a wonderful and blissful hiking beach trip. That was the way to organize a Kerachut trip since 3 years ago. HAHA. My first time was with the Sea Scouts back in 2003.

Then the 2nd came when Mr. KY suddenly called in the midnight in the end of year 2006. The idea came from his brother. Ok, 2 days later then we went. The 3rd trip took place just like hmm...April this year, 8 months ago with Jon, YW and Hooi and of course the mother/father of Kerachut plan, Mr. KY.

That one was a special occurrence. Hah. It was planned already in advance a week earlier. But due to something I have forgotten about plus the day before the plan Jon, Hooi and I hiked and we're were like so tired and felt bored about the plan so we called it off, ourselves. Then came YW who actually cancelled off his appointments and other plans before going back to KL just to join in the trip admitted about the mentioned thing. I was deeply feeling guilty and with friendship spirit and luckily-good motivation-ed sportsman brought back the plan and called it ON again. hoho we sure had fun.

The evidence:
http://youareinmydream.blogspot.com/2008/05/65-kerachut.html
http://youareinmydream.blogspot.com/2008/04/selection-kerachut-party-hikathon_22.html and
http://diediediedieemobiaatch-andglobalpeace.blogspot.com/2008/04/rondo-capriccio.html

And ok the 4th. It was like 10 hours close to happening. And then it happened...the real cancellation. woohoo..and yeah I am typing this post while sending and receiving messages of discussion on the matter. This time, the spontaneity fails. Because not many could make it. Hooi has a gig this Tuesday night the 30th. Some busy. Some forbidden. Left me, KY and YW die out of enthusiasm BUT no worries, we've got a new plan. The Penang Hill. You just can't leave the adenosine triphosphates, mitochrondrion and the muscle tissues in such a temperamental shock..so keep them moving and rocking. Tamparan hebat.

Hooi on the Trombone, with friends of the Jazz Music
USM Auditorium Dewan Budaya
Tickets: SOLD OUT

sorry babes..

And I want to get this novel, The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. The movie is not bad to me, I like that kind of fantasy and magical adventure. heh.

Books haven't I touched/finished:(if I can remember)
-True Sea Stories (man, I'm skipping the chapters already..can't stand the boredom)
-Chicken Soup for Teenager Soul
-The Simple Science of Flight #
-The Black Hole War #
-Mister B. Gone ##
-Shadowmancer ##
-SAS: Are You Tough Enough?
-Harry Potter: Goblet Stone (and after that)
##-Dying to read
#-Eager to read

Fark..I'm so hopeless in reading. Couldn't find the nice time to sit down and read. Laptop. Guitar. Bed.

Both dying to read books are dark fantasy disillusioning writings. And the eager to reads are physics-davinci-einstein-newton-hawking related books. Shit..another one, an e-book of The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. Fun eh..it even has its documentary shows in Discovery Channel.

So, what's up? End of the year. Freaking last days of the year 2008. The aftermath of the Big Bangs. Meaningless but filled with imbalanced impacts. The aspects most affected and infected by alien invisible undiscovered substances: Relationships; education and career; life thoughts.

Upcoming post: The identity of the multi-faceted year 2008 revealed.

Current: Scraped skin(from ridge-free slide). Tanned skin. Burnt skin. Polished white ass. Sculpted muscle. Fun. From swimming. Another one ok, before all of us part again for year 2009. Swimming was never fun this fun, seriously. The best was YW moaning, "pls no pls dun, i will give u money later!" Correct me la if script wrong ahaha

47. The Holiday Joy Ultimatum

2008-12-25T08:30:00.009+08:00

Friends & Family

First of all, Merry Christmas. It's the dawn of 25th of December. Hooi, ur disappointing...sleeping wth you should be granting people happiness and be worshipped, the Jeesus.

To obliterate the murky and gloomy past...cover up with joyous moments spent together with friends and family. Back in hometown. The island. The great floating land linked by a sophisticated stand-firm bridge...longest in South East Asia right?

hang on...the writer's brain block slowly dissipating...boo. Boom.

Alright it has been almost 3 weeks since I came back from my campus. And the last written post was a tribute to Hide. The previous was just an informative post.

As you know, I've been granted an electric guitar already. ahha got photos already..

And I've done lots of activities since then. The ranked top as the most frequently done activity is(besides food) CC. Malei... It's a tour of death la.. Getting such freaky affinity for DOTA. Not just because it's a great game(interesting) but I keep playing it to learn more and more and improve and most of the time, to no avail. I'm a holy shit owning noob. Dun challenge me. Boring.

Here's a short video of my game back in my hostel room to kill time. It was a Naruto TD. Background music was actually my laptop speaker blaring, Slipknot - Gematria(The Killing Name).

Alright, so let's go. I will go through very briefly what I've done and been doing.
-Tried the guitar in different positions and styles. Getting comfortable with it. hah.

-....wait, I can't really remember anymore what I did. Let's see..there's Jason. Oh yes. I have been catching up with this long time bruddy(Jbrother+buddy) this holidays. Only that he left for KL so soon. Haven't swam with him. So I brought him out to hiking. First was the wednesday with Hooi. And then a food recommendation tour to the Argyll Road Roti Canai(RC) stall. I had earlier mentioned it as my childhood favourite RC place.

-Roti racist-roti masin-roti mini-roti dahaga-

But...it was a bad day. What a bad impression to Jason. It's so farking bad that day! So small in size and yet it tastes like eating solid sea water, figuratively...totally like salt accidentally spilt into the preparation. The worse is the fact that only our table(chinese boys) receive such small pieces of RC and they taste horrible. So we started thinking of racism. Fark. I almost vomited...like forcing 100% sodium chloride ingestion. I complained to the manager and cook. They started explaining...bla bla..ok la give chance la since I still love this place.

-did some Botanical Gardens jogging and exercising too with him and Hooi.

-Ye-Wheen came back too . Then we did our first G3 extravagance overnight. With guest performance by Jonathan. haha. It was rather a tiring night...with a late binge and booze. Heck, YW added Carlsberg into the noodle..ramen I think..kimchi-esque..ok la. Get high. The PS3 games of the night were Soul Calibur 4 (or 5??) and The Siren. The Siren is a farkup thriller horrifying game. I call it like that. Similar to the likes of Silent Hill where you brace the darkness and fear in a dead place. It's a great game, with each of us taking turns to complete the objectives. Super fun plus agitation plus fear plus 4am ambience.

-hmm..what else? oh yeah, swimming. First blood. With Jonathan and YW. Fun. But certainly cold with the morning wind chills at my apartment outdoor pool. Followed by a very satisfying wallet-blowing-jacking billed lunch. At El Mondo's. RM112 for 3 persons. wooh. 3 pizzas with drinks and service charge with government tax.

-hmmm...then? CC lo.. Eating out lo.. Garena at home lo... Basically these make up the life during this holidays.

-Should be nothing so significant anymore..so it's Jonathan's party occasion. His conceived plan of organizing a BBQ party. Exclusively for close friends and especially his loved one who came down to visit Penang. So we had fun doing disco while cooking daging(Zohan quote). Good chicken, beef, balls, sausages, corn and bellpeppers from Mr. Ng Khang Yang. The ending, the forced-to-finish-it-up cooking was ended abruptly by the tiny droplets of drizzling. CC was the destination after that. Until 1am.

Aeroplanes in the sky, landing. Big loo...wuahh...

-ok coming near to today already. woohoo..speed reading or whatever...I know not enough alluring visual-enhancing photos here.

-After the BBQ and CC, a few hours later..as in 11am the next morning, we went hiking till number 3 of Youth Park. woooh...rock climbing and rope climbing were the amusement. And there I had my scratch on my leg. I FARKING SLIPPED OFF THE small CLIFF. Funny the way i slided down. Even YW's handphone flung out of his pocket without him knowing. "kenot break one". And then lunch at Batu Lanchang market. And then CC. Serious..the same venue.

-Dinner with family at...El Mondo's. haha. Here a picture. Folded pizza..

-Swimming, this time with YW and Khang Yang. Same thing..bone chilling winds. This time the amusement was delving into deep depth of the pool to touch the bottom. YW even got his head touched to the bottom. I failed. But I managed, to crawl underwater..wooohoo..sounds fun huh.

...ooh it's bright already... 7.30am and I'ven't sleep yet.

-The Monday, 22nd. Went for dental. Given the plan of removing my braces in February. YEAH! Then to Hooi's house to kill time. Next fetch YW and Raymond. MEE SOTONG. Compulsory holiday outing and get-together lunch. With Joel. And yeah, meeting up with the arch-mouth-debating-rivals Daniel and Andrew. Proceeded to PENANG BOWL for bowling. Jonathan tagged along. Joined the organizer people, Eric, Seow, Razeen, Danial and Reshvinder(a pal who parted since 2006 for Australia).

- 23rd. Home Garena as usual..to kill time. Then the night, rockers' trip to PESSOC performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony at Dewan Sri Pinang. Woohoo..Ode To Joy. Then meet up with Adelyn the violinist haaha after the show. Like so many bunches of PFS mates around especially the Chorus people.. Hooi wearing a T-shirt inside with the phrase, "If it ain't Rock, it ain't music", ahaha such irony. Luckily no bash up by the Jascha Shimano the Yngwie Malmsteen-huge-Conductor of the orchestra. Penang CM Mr. Lim was supposed to be there but according to my mum, he only made it to the Sushi Kin dining with the horde of Dato's and Datin's. Elite arrogant rich manifests...

---->It was a Tuesday. And it rained before and after the night. Hell yeah. Actually I was invited by Cheng Yee to Wei Loon's homecoming party. Fux..couldn't make it. Sorry dudes..

- and then....?? Nothing else. I slept the whole day as a matter of hangover...lousy driver's remorse. Then Garena gaming till like what??few hours ago. And then the writing of this post. Very meaningful life I got here.

Ok..one more picture(urh..a little dark.forgot to edit a bit). To show you my guitar, the most recent look. The Rose.

Oh yeah! One more thing. Just yesterday I had a dream. And this guy, my class monitor appeared and did something. I forgot what. I was thinking why the heck I dreamt of him. Fark. Hours later, I received a voice mail while my phone was switched off from him. A distress call regarding our practical assignment. Fark. I am the Dream sucker.

So, next big thing..hmm..

-Kerachut Hike & Beach Leisure. Who wanna go, tag along and say YES to me. Not confirmed when.

-USM Jazz performance. Hooi is in! GO GO GO! But tickets are selling like hot sex.
-2nd G3 extravagance at YW's. Live footage recording
-hmmm....around 15 days left to go back to MIAT

ok time to sleep. Enjoy your life. Merry Christmas to those who are celebrating. I'm not. I only receive presents. But my number of presents dwindled down like from having (similar example) 20 boxes to now receiving like maybe 5 or less or close to nil. Aging. Also, have a happy new year. 2009. Should be a nice year for ..duno..anything joyous. Rock on.

Next posts should touch more photos..especially my guitar and particularly my activity captures.

46. Health

2008-12-14T23:00:00.000+08:00

Rock on.