Music.

Electrico

2007-03-03T23:44:00.000+08:00

ahh.....our band is into its third year of existence....

anyway, shall talk about last night's concert at NUS....Love in new wave, or was it live in new wave concert.........electrico referred to the 80s music as new wave....was it?...didn't know it was called that...new wave, nouvelle vague referred to the revolution in film during the 50s and 60s in France..........

the concert gave me more than what i expected, and it was worth the 27 dollars and every cent spent....although we could have just bought the 18 dollar tickets and just sit at the 30 dollar seats....well....my seat was f16, which was the seat directly central and perpendicular to the stage front...on the second level....probably was the best view from the back...but it would have been better if were in front at the, don't know what...mosh? pit?....it didn't mattered which songs they played...it was all great....colourful, slightly radio friendly music, but it does not stop in giving me the high.....the lightings, special effects, visualizations made it all very special...strange kind of serenity....their style of music was usually loud and catchy, but to me it always gave that sort of tingy comfort...........

the crowd and audience was dead........and for performers to jump around on stage in an attempt to make it look like a rock concert...but it didn't seem like that at all...i guess it was probably a mainstream audience and no one would dance around or simply shake to the beat.....it should be easy to jump during the riffs and intros of the songs...but no one did.....i guess the audience wasn't in the same frequency...no resonance caused by the music....or its probably just the audience......i hope it isn't so in clubs and bars where live bands play...................i know how is it like playing to an audience some -- rock...while everyone just sat there...its almost impossible to get the general public to move, even myself...when no one is doing so......it was so during some performances that we had...especially during both graduation day ones....and last yrs teacher's day which i didn't play with our band.........everyone sat there bored...aiyah..but can't blame them either....it just wasn't entertaining....for the times that were good however....even in school at least we saw some bit of energy and cheer from the audience...it was during our first performance...the canteen one.. and maybe arts day too..........where at least ppl enjoyed and were cheering at least....no mosh or what....it felt like an unplugged concert audience..but at least it was something to live for,...just to play at those times.......

sorry, i just had to digress...........................now back to electrico....

at the start of the show....they simply allowed everyone to enter the front to stand by the stage.....but we were on the second floor and did not have tickets to allow us to the first floor...there no stairs from the inside to get to the bottom...and didn't try to ask the ushers...oh well...we couldn't get a closer look..sigh....but there wasn't any energy in front to begin with...so no point..they were all just standing there.........

but the music last night was unforgettable...for me, it was my first rock concert.........ah....for it to be a local band.....local band this, local band that....there was never an existence of local music or the a lively indie scene to me before..i didn't know there were so many great bands around...i read news papers about concave scream and all the school of rock competition blah blah.....then there was lime sonic bang 2 yrs ago and baybeats last year which i went for.....these were like small teases, and i still don't think local music was great besides electrico...until the last december holidays which had just ended....we went to see some live sets at esplanade during weekends.........and there was great music all the time.........there was the 2 person playing cover songs of from many uk artiste and bands.......then there was camra this year....which really rocks...nice mysterious ambience and power guitar effects.....

when i reach 18 this year june, what i really would die to enter would not be the clubs to drink and party,of course i would check it out.... but to watch live bands play in bars....and maybe even djs tossing tunes and scratching records...haven't seen it with my own eyes before.....friends underaged are already going into clubs...but theres no rush rite?........

...damn...hope our band could play gigs and shows after we come out of NS, and live up to our dreams...hopefully.....

anyway, we bought some merchandise and got autographs from the band members themselves...and got a picture taken...the picture didn't turn out rite...oh well.............

IT'S TIME

2006-08-13T21:27:00.000+08:00

DUDES, it's time.... for a change. ******* shall own... think, it's time.

-chung

acheivement?

2006-07-09T21:40:00.000+08:00

have to review about yesterday's performance for keepsake

thought about it for roughly yesterday and today....well, we lost because we didn't do well.....but but but...we didn't do well, doesn't mean we are not well......with TONS of technical errors combined with a song that isn't really what a mainstream audience would have a ear for(in this case the judges who had the power to choose).....we expected not to win, but still let it got to us a little at the talentime................well, we may not have won either even if we were perfect maybe because there was the presence of a jukebox that churns pop 'hits'.....

but i guess....we were sucessful in our own way, and i guess we accepted it ?quite well.....because we were satisfied with our improvements......while the other bands concentrated on the other aspects(they're good)......we concentrated more on showcasing the 'attitude'! .....and from our point of view we have suceeded.....our showmanship too......and nothing we did on the stage was choreographed....the only preparation we had to do was to tell ourselves that we must unleash on stage.....so all of that was spontaneous..........i am very happy too that its a performance worthy of showcase, and something you would see in a rock concert....woo hoo!....that may be an overstatement, but i'm still glad we're on our way there...

three possibilities yesterday, either we were off form, judges didn't like us..... or the technical faults really got to us.....

also proud that bryan could play a left pedal with his right leg, twisting his whole body into an awkward position and continue playing the song even when the bass pedal broke..haha......it may seem like nothing....but but but....if it is nothing, so is playing guitar with your teeth or playing it behind your head..........wahahaha...

all this just proves that this is only the beggining... this greatest let down may have been our greatest show yet.....even when we didn't play well.....a good band may make mistakes sometimes...?

-ziqi 2200

happenings so far....

2006-07-04T03:02:00.000+08:00

quite sian now..so wanna blog a little here...chung bought some killer equipment...now the band's potential is increased exponentially.....but well,i feel we've always only been having tons of potential, but not actually crossing that line to converting this.....chiong, or let it come to us naturally?

anyway, we were thrown a setback again......this saturday's performance....we are only allowed to play one song, instead of our originally intended two....i think since its a competition, its only right to be fair...but we felt those 2 songs, complimented each other...and for me in particular, i felt necessary for it to be a set...but i guess, we'll have to work within our limits..accept that i can't always get what i want...
secondly, we'll be playing in the concourse...why?..i probably think that its there because more ppl would take notice thats why?...i don't know if this is a good thing or bad....but me and chung at the least wanted something like lt4 or the hall at the very very least....it'll be like playing at the sch canteen i guess....but just one song this time...

whatever......its settling better for me now.....oh yah,.....another prob is trying to get a msg to bry......suddenly he always not online...have to tell him a few things first....

ah thats it

-ziqi 310am......i just woke up after sleeping for 6 hours from 8pm...lol

its here. finally

2006-06-06T23:21:00.000+08:00

06/06/2006, the day i bought my bass! finally, after a nong nong time i decided to break the bank and buy a bass... its been 16 months since i started playing bass for this band... finally i have something to be proud of, to call my oWN GOD DAM IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its really a long march... but its becoz of this long march that i realised many many things...too many to be written. did quite alot of 'research' before actually going down to shops to take a look. didnt wan to get scam again, i bought a f4rking lousy guitar for $90 when it cost like less than $30. went to at least 6 shops, thrice in 5 days before finally deciding to get this baby home. super happy.. the sound is gd.. the amp is big.. i nv thought i could get an amp.. this size at this price.. nv planned to get an amp actually. so no more borrowing of bass, borrowing of amps, fear that i may spoil someone else's comrade.. its totally song bo.

well, i wanna thanks my mother and father for.. provoking me, not supporting me and calling me a backup... becoz they indirectly made me play more. they are gd pple... my mother gave me $100 last min... super happy.. 100 may not be alot for alotof u.. but to me its not juz 100, its acknowledgment, support and love. i actually paid the deposit for the bass before telling my mother about it... was dam scared yet happy... u know, u dun wanna know that feeling... will really die. ok next i wanna thank my sister.. for loaning me some money. althou i fought with her, slap her till her eyes swollen, but we still came out of the same hole.. family.. is always the best. no family = no love = no point being happy. yup.. muacks.

i feel that i am 17 already..since i am 17, there r somethings i should pay myself... my mother gave birth to me... she should give me money for things i need and not want.. music.. is wad i wanted.. so sorri, no subsidies. partially coz my parents arent very rich and partially coz.. i juz dun like it... my parents always wanted me to be mozart.. but i chose to be bassman... they even offered to buy me a piano to replace bass.. haha funny adults.

anyway, there is one person.. i wanna thank the most! and that is wy. she was with me for all 3 days, following me, giving advises and offering to pay the deposit for me... THANK U, arigato gozaimasu. its like u following your mother to the market to see lumps of meat. well well... juz dam happy to have a fren like her. too many things she did i wanna thank her... so many tat i dun feel like recalling.. so juz thank u!

ok.. thank finish, touching speech done. lastly i wanna *commemorade* spelling error? all the basses i used before..

1) Aria somehting, cant remember the model, the bass i used for grad day 05 and for most of my practice. it belongs to ziqi's bro's fren. so i have to thank 3 person.. ty.

2) Samick Fairlane.. the best bass i have used so far i would say.. borrowed this bass from tun kuang, percussionist of halfestride shortly after returning ziqi his bass. ty.

3) Cort bla bla bla, dunno the model again. borrowed from nicholas, bassist of... sincera. used it for arts day 06 audition.. gd bass...

4) my bass, ESP LTD viper 104.. cheapest of the viper series but coolest coz i am using it. gonna be my comrade for quite sometime... its actually a sub for my dream bass.. but i still love it. wanna see it, come see us perform at art's day battle of the band.. mini one though LOL ty!!!

k i dunno y cannot upload the pics.. nvm la.. fate.. i go slp le... hope u enjoy the post :)

Music is my PainKiller

2006-06-06T22:57:00.000+08:00

life can't do without music...i was feeling so dreary......i was becoming distraught......there was absolutely nothing i can keep myself occupied with.....well.....i'm not in touch with life right now....its like my mind has only one task which is to keep breathing...but recently after realising that billy started play guitar at 15....and that also bearing resemblance to kurt....so i wanna be liek them....i got down to playing guitar a lot recently....but tried to stopped using tabs....and trying to hear the sounds out myself...

well, so it goes...i was damn bored...i played on the guitar along with every song that was playing on my computer.....then came runaway by electrico......i don't know....i figured out the whole song, and felt very satisfied...ah...haven't had so much satisfaction playing with myself(with the guitar).....lololol....figured out the riffs, the solos, 95% of the chords...some of the picking....and played to the whole song.....its my first song.....i know..i started very late....damn.........ppl do this when they pick up the guitar...aiya.....tried learning X too.....(from the tab, no choice..)......

if there is anything i want to do for the next few days, it would be to keep myself occupied......simulate a 'nuclear powerplant' in my head.... Yes, Music is morphine, stops me from whining about boredom and drowning myself in self-pity....experiment with it for a few times already for the past few days(or since last week).....makes me high....

ziqi 2309

HEH

2006-06-05T17:48:00.000+08:00

pagers are out, we're in. dunno y we made it through with such great competition... is it cos we improved? or is it tt everyone sucked together.. only revealed on july 8th. bored.

chung

lol

2006-05-28T22:14:00.000+08:00

things are back on track and looking pretty fine... hmm hmm hmm... well, been long since i posted here since nth was happening. but now, things are different. last jamming was like couple of weeks ago. went very well after that long break but hell, not much news... but like i said,things are different. more challenges now. and we might lose face LOL. somehow this brings to me an o lvl and a lvl analogy. u see, in o lvl nowadays, u need not compete with those top sch like HCI, RI, RGS, and RV.(ALL THE [a]R[se]'s) so, for CTSS, its like 'HEY MAN!' things will at least be pretty fine, no super stiff competition. but come to a lvls, here's the catch. since those R's have gone on ip programmes and skip o lvl, they' gonna trash ur asses in the end even if u did fine when u were 16. so now, things are pretty much like this. BUT, it's gonna be more exciting and SNEAKY this time. BB
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chungs

Simple plan, stars don't fall, pug jelly, saw loser....what have you.....KILLED ROCK AND ROLL....i hate you

2006-05-24T23:11:00.000+08:00

have had enough with 'punk' rock....first they dominate the radio, pop, britney spears, back street boys was bad enough...now 'punk' rock have to pollute our air waves with your insignificant whining..you behave like a poser on MTV, because you are one ....you even have to wear eye liner....when you're playing some shit music just to show you're goth..'PUNK' SHIT....you whine about nothing and everything.....you contribute to rock especially to punk rock of being sissy and petty.....you are destroying the next generation with your overly simplistic power chords...the future is left with zero inspiration...the extinction of rock gods in the near future...

Being 'PUNK' is not PUNK....i'm referring to 'punk'...well 'simple plan'.....i respect sex pistols, the ramones.....etc.....and there are a few modern punk bands like the vines, the hives, and the strokes....and even post grunge era, green day.....(maybe quite sell out recently..)..which are true.....but simple plan...should just die...oh yeah, good charlotte too, go die...

please don't whine anymore..i cannot stand it much longer......

A LITTLE WHINING FOR A GREATER GOOD.....thats what i am doing...i'm whining....

plastic plastic plastic plastic, fake fake, artificial, Total Californication

wah..'punk' rock...you are giving us so much problems.....

- ziqi 2330, sacrifice my sleep to do this...oh man....THANK GOD FOR EXISTENCE OF ALTERNATIVES....

juz an update

2006-04-18T22:38:00.000+08:00

saw ziqi BT today. BT aka botak. he didnt look very funny, like wad the other pple told me... juz that he look abit bare abd different. apparently, he cut his hair for hockey, this shows how committed he is to hockey. lets wish him all the best for his trainings and competitions. so since he can cut botak for his CCA, then he shall not have any excuses for not doing it for the band.. k la we r not that evil to make him cut botak.. juz that he will have to play till he cut his fingers after his competition.

well, my classmate's band won 3rd in a band thingy... and they got $500 cash prize and $150 recording voucher.. OMG.. not to worri, since he can win 3rd, this shows that we r the 1st pple... i mean pple that get 1st LOL.

oh and er i am planning to borrow a bass from my classmate's band bassist. the bassist is goig for ns... so i hope he agree to lend me his bass... if not i will have to steal. i emailed davisguitar asking them whether they imp0rt bass from japan or not.. coz i am planning to get one of my favourite bassist's signature model bass(3rd edition though). hopefully they give me a positive reply.

end this before its too late

2006-04-14T23:57:00.000+08:00

if we look at this as a problem, it will be a problem..don't worry, this band will always stay together..june jam ok? put this out of our minds for now, and concentrate on other aspects of life..this is like zhiyang house episode 2... i hope you agree with me, we can just jam tmr if we want,but no point starting another project if we cannot give in our 100%, when we are still very busy, in the end become more busy....
in june, then we got enough time to put in our 100% for the band, then we jam like once a week, but one day before that, we meet to do intensive study...then we can justify the frequent jammings ok? develop the same system as the school, grades cannot make it will kena suspend...
the least we can do now is be active in this blog so that we still know we are all alive...including bry,...to know that the band is alive, that the possibility of future jammings is right behind the horizon, though we can yet to see it, it will keep us moving towards it...

ziqi 1853

i was listening to music............. as usual. bassless, lifeless, bandless. the silent in this blog is making me super duper uneasy. soul love follow by storm follow by rusty nail, song after song. after every song, i feel like playing.. i imagine us playing... imagine us moving but afterall, its juz imagination. ive been hearing alot from my classmate about his band... super jealous of them. 5 jamming a week before competition(finals), one 5h jamming a week at least.

when was the last time we jam? erm..... feb? when was the last time we really put in 100% effort and jam? erm........ before grad day? when was the last time we enjoy jamming.....erm... 1 year ago during our 1st jamming?

i feel that the band is breaking apart, drifting to diff continents. whos at fault? whos to be blame? i dun think anyone is wrong. we all have diff commitments, cca, skoolwork, life, band, stead etc. the amount of time we put in them also differ from each other. but 1 thing we r similar is the band is not 1st in our list. band.. not music.. band. this band is really one and only lor... we dun come together becoz we r frenz, we dun come together coz we listen to the same kinda music. bla bla bla bla becoz we have the same hobby. zzzzzz becoz we wanna join super band. we come together for the same reason, to let others know wad true.. or should i say nice rock is about.. not 66666666-88888888-44444444. but 234235-2352-35-4235423. but relying on this common goal is not enough... we will juz be like beyond.. or maybe beyond beyond. we have to start all this all over again.. greeting each other.. toking.. playing.. gaying zzzing wadeva la juz gett he momentum(mv) back.

we r all dam busy now... busy catching up with everything.. i juz hope we can start jamming asap lor... like may or late april after we settle into our jc and poly life... i nv regret banding together i regret not moving during jamming and learning songs one day before jamming.. somethings r not appreciated until its lost... this is one thing i really hope i wont start appreciating after its lost.

dunno is this the rite way to voice my view.. but who cares la.. juz wanna save this band.

Current jc life

2006-04-06T22:07:00.000+08:00

well, hope we can jam one day....looking forward even to a possibility of that day now...this month of april i will be really busy, sorry guys...got hockey a div competition this month...thus have to train a lot...and trying to catch up with hw is another thing...hope you guys understand...i kind of am now biting off more than i can chew..but i regret none of it...and btw...study hard now seriously...the mid yr exam is 30%, plus commontests is 10%......if we score well now, we can slack more during the end of yr...who knows...i foresee next jamming only on july....maybe we should...lets do well in studies for the exam and trash some stupid nerds...hate to see them do well....arghh....all the best to your studies..(never imagined i'll be saying this at all in life...lol)....and bry....have fun and enjoy poly....

ziqi 22 14

SIGH

2006-03-19T20:54:00.000+08:00

pple, bless me... tomorrow will be the official start for my 2 years of hell. pls pray tt it will not be 3 yrs. orientation was fun, but, we have to study now.ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.! wish everyone well. BBBBB

-chung

this is what we have...

2006-03-18T17:36:00.000+08:00

we need to work hard on our music being smooth steady, and packing that PUNCH, whether its some simple easy punk rock or something hard....have to be like that band that day that played all the rock ballads... at times, our sound is a mess..i don't think we can plan a 'shotgun' jamming session anymore with the F***ing busy schedule every other day...every thing has to be plan ahead...so i suggest a jam on the 3rd week of apr...exactly one month...i chose the date out of randomness.....so we try to do it k? 3rd week which is 17-23 apr....suggest any songs ppl...in

-ziqi

= (

2006-02-27T20:32:00.000+08:00

= ( = (......... dang, scare bleu, crap! so crapp-ified.... lol, everyone has their own blog.. and here i am, a miserable fat bloke sharing this love house together wif 4 other dudes... ironically, we're not ghey... sigh.. this post means nothing. it's jus an 'album filler'. meaning, a post to fill up space literally. SIGH. i've been on a blog voyage... blog skipping trip... been making random visits to many blogs and sad to say... i dun find any meaning to anything... so bored at home tt i composed some pieces of crap( i actualy thought it has an ingenious playing style or sorts...and sounded nice)...but it was released to bad reviews = (.... mus be due to the fact that i have zero talent. or worse, LOUSY!!!..ARGH. shoot me, im a newbie.... life now, is jus like this LIVELY( i bold it on purpose = D) blog. the liveliness is well proportioned to my life, so u roughly get the idea. oso, i always get a feeling tt no one reads my posts. maybe cos my writing sucks.. or i sound stupid? or.. SHOOT ME! i'm a newbie... no wonder i only managed a B3 for english o lvl. now tt reminds me, i shouldnt flaunt my asswipe results arnd.. kkk..very depressed, i guess? = D? no. = )? maybe. = (? WAD DO U THINK?!

---chung

wake up

2006-02-23T22:13:00.000+08:00

we are ready, we have the direction....but we're not even moving....well.....so far, we've only touched the surface of being as a band...and never completely....well yeah...many crap asses can say they've been in a band and shit....but not many actually dedicate that work.....

just read the review of oasis on life!......wtf.....amanda got the 160$ tix...and went and didn't tell me....!!...yeah anyway.......the music scene, both mainstream and not, is quite alive....singapore, the geographic location...has always been the place among SEA where bands come to play.....

anyway, back to what've read and what i think, why brit bands are so respected,...i guess they don't focus on the things which are not important(clothing, stage antics, hair...).....and soley only on music.........

...................................................i don't know how jc life is coming anywhere close to help the band function.....but.....i hope soon, we'll start writing some nice stuff....

ziqi 22 24

WHY?

2006-02-16T17:05:00.000+08:00

WHY? WTF is s'pore pple getting more and more screwed up? ESP, horny asses! DAMNIT! tell u readers sth, dun call me sick cos wad i originally intended was of pure fun gone purely wrong... including our friend, Clement. I used irc and posed as a girl... LOL (pls, dun laugh if u are...) and i jus found out, to my utter resentment, that we are the 'guai' guys. meaning, we dun go up to any 'girl' and say :'HI, intro pls?', or talk abt horny stuff. YUCK.. here is an excerpt:(one word of advice, wad is writen below is very sensitive to some pple, and i'm posting it up here out of good intent, not to degrade anyone but those horny sexually deprived sons of bitches. p.s, i took the liberty to censor some things and change the name. this is by no means fictional. go ahead)

(timtum):can get the phone now?
(model):yeah nottie keke.
(timtum):say it's urgent lor
(model):she dont let.
(model):my mum v strict
(timtum):my god
(timtum):how did it start
(timtum):u r making my *censored* harder
(timtum):i gonna *censored* u hard later
(model):hehe. wow. i help u ltr lar heheh
(model):ok
(timtum):okays. i love hard rubs
(timtum):slap u with my *censored*
(model):hehe
(model):hehe. ok queeze u w my boobs
(model):squeeze*
(timtum):i wan!!
(model):hehe
(model):hehe aqueeze where
(timtum):squeeze my *censored* with ur boobs
(timtum):k/

well, are u going "yuck"? so pls, dun ever try this at home... it made us both very disgusted and disappointed... btw, if u figured out, our friend is the user called "model".He isn't turned on by that, just so u know. Those sick degenerates.....*DISCLAIMER: By those lewd comments made, we don't mean to insult the women race, in fact, i respect them. therefore, i posted this as a warning, an indication of how low singapore's moral level is... And, the ending of the conversation is that the wastrel being was scammed to meet and being hurled at with 'bad' words, for being such a waste of sperm and eggs. dun wish to post it up here. have a nice day and, be wary...

----chung

Woah!

2006-02-04T09:56:00.000+08:00

alright.. my bad
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Lemme keep things short and sweet... First things first, yesterday's jamming was one of the best ever... everything was kind of perfect, esp the song Mermaid... the timing was perfect and everything sounds so professional.GREAT. another thing, i think everything was fated... the setback 2 weeks ago, our time available is 6 - 8 and the other band was late..COOL. then we saw Ronin, the singaporean band. BTW, i didnt call out 'Ronin' i jut told ziqi 'hey, ronin...' and tt cool lead singer dude came to chat with us ... he asked for or contacts and gave us his... COOL. kk, gtg bb.
-chung
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Could have posted yesterday, but i was too tired.....exposed to too much loud sounds that i felt really tired last nite.....btw, it wasn't me who called out 'ROnin' but serchung, i knew it was them before that, but i guess i didn't dare to call them out,..(later kena dao...) Anyway, aside ronin first, yesterday was one of the best jammings ever, and ronin was the bonus prize...at pjc open house, i just lost my mood, the school which i thought would have been filled with bands, didn't play anything...awwwww....bands were suppose to start play at 1615,....butbut we were all the way there till 1645 and, still no bands......where is zeroinfinity?!....must be busy with council again...anyway i kind of lost mood early in the day already, so it was nothing even when the upset came, it dealt nothing to me... :P.....well, i thought, hey, jamming today would be the outlet for these greivances that i have...well, it was, since i've practiced mermaid a lot, and all the other songs just needed some practice....mermaid really broaden....(can't find the words to continue..)....anyway, i cock up a lot before....previously,if the music had extra noise or was crappy, its because of me....today it's different......enough about me...

yesterday was possibly the best jamming ever....along with 2 other jammings, i feel...one was the first time i ever jammed in the studio....probably is at june or july 2 yrs ago....sec3...the other was when bryan entered the band and jammed together for the first time....rusty nail didn't sound like the crap we were playing anymore....that day, morale was boosted to like xiao..and yesterday, no cock ups...and thanks to mike, we get to jam 30 mins more....2 parts, if we didn't do well, we would never felt like staying...and 2, mike didn't allow(there was another band about to come in...), we wouldn't stay....and the best part was ronin......

we intended to see them the other time at the 'limesonicbang'(lol).....but we didn't know they were plying on sat, we went on sunday.....guess what 'plastic surgery punk', 'californication' playing the same tunes again and again..despite they were different bands......whatever...we stayed for 3 hours.....was utterly disappointed to bits.....!

a few more words, if local music were to survive.....bands and ppl should support each other...its the only way....all the poor unite to rise one...

-ziqi 1207

Could had posted earlier but blogspot was lagging n i couldnt even enter the "create post" page at all...

Anyway, yesterday was one of those days where almost everything went smoothly, and it was really very smooth; The jamming session... the PJC open house... the jamming session. Even though we didn't had e time to see the PJC rock band perform (they delayed their performance that we couldn't stay and watch.. Damn it!.. waste our time.), but i guess... we wouldn't care either.

The jamming session... RawkS! guess that's e only word i can find that can express it well. Everyone was on form, chung n ziqi with their guitars, janson with his bass, and my drums.
It was great man, probably one of the greatest jamming session we had. One of the songs that we jammed - mermaid, was perfect. that song could had made us on form this time. (Thanks to Jan for choosing that song).

Not only that, many thanks to Mike (the studio owner) for letting us jam longer, we saw the band Ronin walk into the studio as we were jamming. Ziqi was going "Hey its ronin" and we were like "Woah". Levan told us that the band is having alot of performances during this month of February and would be calling bands to perform during their performances. Hopefully we may be called up by Levan to do a gig as part of their performances (:D).

-bry
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continued from my blog....
after the pjc visit we went to jam. it was a pity we missed the rock band performance becoz of 3 stupid g4y idiot pop-star wanna be. but again, wads better than seeing ourselves jam? we jammed from 6 till 8 and wanted to leave... luckily we didnt coz ronin. a popular local band came to jam :) the singer, levan asked us for our no. and told us he will come us for if there is any performance.... no promise though. the band was really elated. the meeting with ronin was more of a bonus for our effort we put in to jam.

once again its time.. to kick pple's a55es!

2006-02-01T15:28:00.000+08:00

this time its for real. after the setback 2 weeks ago, we r going to jam again! omg.... jam is so much nicer than butter. this time we will be jamming rosier, mermaid, kanata and one of our own songs... haha.. ok lets play music

finally

2006-01-31T12:33:00.000+08:00

this is a pic of us looking stupid( from left: B, J, C, Z)

well, i've got a pic up . this pic was taken last year, somewhere around april, when i was still skinny. still sends waves of nostalgia to me when i see it. i cropped it a little and edited the colour a little. we do look stupid

--- chung

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er. k la i trying to act cool.. but thats last year.. when i am still young... so dun.. u know?

well well well

2006-01-28T18:29:00.000+08:00

well well well, in response to Z saying that this blog is more educational, i present this update. first of all, i dont see how can we make it more educational then now. LOL. wad can u be educated about? our ego trips, jamming sessions, what true music is(which singapoans never have and will never learn), talking about our lives. hmmm.. speaking of pics, i wanted to post some from ship's BBQ, but well, MY COM CRASHED! dude! so,i decided to abort the botched attempt... well, yea, we're going to PJC this fri for it's open house, see the other PJCian bands and see whether do we reall suck that much. we'll see and judge how good can pple be without professional equipments. we'll see and judge......... WHATEVER LAH! yea, whatever la... im getting fat and that is that.

------chung 6:35 Happy Lunar NEW YEAR!

nothing much

2006-01-27T22:08:00.000+08:00

hahahaha......adam khoo is a big scam i think.....well, i don't know if it helped ppl, or if it was a good thing that existed,....but i guess...............hmmm..i don't know...lol.....yeah, i researched on adam khoo thru reading other blogs before i myself attended it last time....yes, well....its just the '3 stuff'......

lets not talk bout adam khoo.....its something one should not feel proud to have attended....anyway,this 5 days are going to be a tremendous bore.....lol......i have some homework, that i doubt i'll not begin with until the very last min....and at that time, i'll be deciding which not to do.....

i'm thinking of having some pictures on this blog ppl.....and we'll be seeing each other on this fri, lets snap pictures of some of singapore's bands....in pjc..lol......

lets make our blog more educational...

-ziqi

well, i just realised tt after our batch, the ADAM KHOO programme is like a norm. darn, they made it ike so exclusive 2 yrs ago.. BS. well, the batch after us attended and it seems that they gone through exactly the same stuff...after the prog, pple will start to realise the importance of yourself, your parents, and everyone... well, it is basically a programme which makes everyone cry on the second night and realise all 3 stuff stated above... it's quite effective in the sense that u know how much u owe ur parents... but nth really much other than tt(this is exclusive to me only! dunno about the others). well, all 4 of us attended it and i can saywe're still pretty much the same before and after. darn, i really dunno why am i typing this. i think i'm really bored to the core... hmm, strange it seems, the emptiness of life after an accomplishment. no wonder people likes leaving their work half done. another random and pointless post by me, which serves its purpose as an update irregardless of topic. guess no one will read it anyway, so, BB!

---chung

XIAN

2006-01-25T17:28:00.000+08:00

kk.......there will be no more time for us left.....anyway, next 3rd of feb, pjc has an open house...i'm not trying to propaganda..because it should be quite boring that day,..but from the postcards, which we are suppose to pass to friends, there should be many bands playing that day, don't know if its many or a few..but there will be a few..or many....so i suggest to your that your come for an educational trip, so to know where we stand la.....maybe, just maybe we are better than most bands, and this we cannot even be sure....but we are certainly not impressive, and not outstanding compared to others, maybe just a little better, since we have bry and chung....but we need material and well, pay more attention to it, i'm not saying that we should throw books away, but just more attention....at the end of the day, its all this band stuff is gonna past us by, but at least we made it worthwhile...life's short... and we should wake up from being overly pragmatic esp in singapore, i feel like we're gonna regret when we enter our working lives, and not have fun while we can...

-ziqi

well, i guess we really have to start on our own stuff man! SERIOUS! no more time to say:"no time, too difficult or dun wan la" already man. we have to go jamming soon and we cant always jam other bands songs. it jus feels empty to me... seriously. no offence intended, but we really have to. if can, we should jam soon. time is catching up on us and so is everything. we have no complete original material as of yet and we really need to have one. we have alr gone way past the deadline we set and we hav to start the clocks. no time for delay anymore cos it jus sucks. kk?

Can't really think of one

2006-01-13T22:18:00.000+08:00

*DONT READ IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO READ IT*
hullo. it's been ages since i last posted here... its been relatively lifeless here.. been wanting to give this blog another chance to live, but to no avail. my hypothesis is that everything wasnt meant to be..
well, ive been experiencing something strange for about half a decade now.. something surreal, something which seems inexplicable but is so excruciatingly simple.. let me ask:have you woke up in the middle of the night to find yourself unable to move, even against ur very own will? you try to move, feel u can move, but in actual fact moved no more than an inch? have u tried screaming out but realised you couldnt really manage something as weak as a whimper? something we all take for granted all the time happened to be the thing most impossible to accomplish during such a 'period'.
well, as superstition call it, it says you're harassed by a spirit.. in my opinion, total hogswash and bullcrap. you read such instances everywhere, Russell Lee books, any ghost story books.. well, i can vouch that nothing spiritual is going on.. i'm a victim of it, almost everyday, believe it or not. and why wuld i so much as to swear upon the fact that there's zilch involvement with the supernatural? reason : i can put myself into that state. dun gimme things like i can summon ghosts, cos i know i cant... it' just simple logic why something so perculiar wuld ever happen.. it's jus due to the fact that ur body is taking a nice rest while ur brain is wide awake. SERIOUS. i can, again, confirm this fact. i entered this 'mode' last night, and i was pissed... i took a real deep breath(which was actually very hard given that the body was resting) and heard some soft snoring (yes, soft.). well, it was strange, but true. so if you're a victim of something similar,dun worry. as for seeing things and feeling uncomfortable, it's merely because you're tired. simple as that, REALLY! well, another unrelated and meaningless post by me... so, sorry if i wasted a good few minutes of your life... guess no one wuld read as well.HAH. and btw, IF after reading this, u still think i'm being harassed by veil evil spirits, im not and PLEASE DON'T SHUN ME. sanks.

--chung 1033p.m.

Ziqi Bows To Chung

2006-01-08T22:13:00.000+08:00

wah.......masterpiece......!!!!*clap clap clap* *salute* *Extend right hand 135 degrees*

blog with music

2006-01-05T17:45:00.000+08:00

now u readers(if there is any) can read the blog and listen to nice music at the same time! i managed to put endless rain by x-japan into the blog... thats my first major contribution to this blog. sorri for the low quality... if u find the song nice, feel free to ask anyone in the band to send u. have a nice day

previous and next jamming

2006-01-02T11:54:00.000+08:00

recorded 2 songs, luna sea's shine and the killer's mr brightside in our last jamming session of the year. we'll see whether we will upload or not. next jamming session, he songs we're gonna play r luna sea's storm, the calling's wherever u will go, AKG's haruka kanata and a NEW song glay's mermaid.

TIme to be serious

2005-12-28T01:53:00.000+08:00

chung and i have decided that we will start jamming regularly again, back to the old system before o lvl. we havent been playing much together lately due to many many reasons. and if we wan to do well and kick some ASSes we need to improve our teamwork and showmanship.. the onlg way is to play more often! so starting from 2006, we will jam at least once every month. since we wont be having much work in the 1st 3 months, we r going to jam twice a month... either learning new songs or 'revising'. oh yea and we're having our last jamming of 2005 this friday, 30-12-2005. er... gonna jam a new song, shine by luna sea and revise 4 other songs... most probably recording and posting on the net. with the help of hide, we will be able to start kicking pples' ASSes sooner than we expect! LOL

Is THAT IT?!!!

2005-12-28T01:28:00.000+08:00

yep, it is. a new addition to my collection, my arsenal(on top). it is a new force to be reckoned with... i dun really know how to post a pic, so, it might come a little later than this post. well, this entry serves both as a random update and a serious one. this new addition, adds to our sound, much more. though, not to ignore my other beauties which helped to craft our tone more or less. this one, a famous model, flamboyant, stylish, and not to mention, loud. a signature series. well, go to any image search engine, type ' hide' and u have chances to view it in its entirety. well, some of you might have seen it and ask," eh? i seen it before, in a friday weekly last year, is he copying tt stefanie sun-lookalike-dude?" or, " is it really that great?" well, answer is yes and no. yes, it is good as anything you can imagine and no, i'm not copying tt dude. it jus so happened(unfortunately) he also bought that guitar... but nevertheless, it is GREAT! rocks! radical! superb! jan will give other updates, so ROCK ON!

--chung 1:37a.m

LOOK AT ME...

2005-12-15T02:49:00.000+08:00

welll.....in life...unexpected things happen all the time....'Don't look back in anger'....i recommend this saying to everyone...it served me well especially today....anyway...after slacking for the past 1 and the half months.....i'm ready to stand up again....not necessarily jam...but wake up.... our band is coming back soon....excited bout whats in stalled for us....read my latest entry in my blog....i've decided on a great leap forward.....maybe even a cultural revolution...after all..ppl say 'you're still the same'....well its hurts, but like taichi...pain can be diverted and changed into energy...today, i've felt a lot of support from friends....many friends showed themselves when i needed them, not that they know about it......even though i've lost something today, i realised what i have with me all along....i wanna thank all of you who've patiently stood by me....even though some might not read this...but anyway...for you to be in my life, i appreciate that....

ok another round of crap is over for me....stay tuned....

-ziqi 0256 omg its 3 o clock, i'm still not in bed!.
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nice one dude. whatever he said in the first 3 lines should go double for everyone. this band, is in a sense a personification of these newest entries. a new chance in life. after like, don't know how long this blog has gone dead together with the band, it's back(like a phoenix). this whole sudden enthuism is a symbolism of what i belive to be the regaining in our old footsteps, like J said " getting the old feeling back". i do not neccessarily feel the same old feeling, rather, what J said somehow imprinted that "old feeling" in me, hopefully us. the anonimity of it is indeed puzzling.what i hope is to relieve the good times and to look forward to the present, which is hard, granted my present state of mind. well, whatever happens, happens and whatever happened, happened. btw, watch " Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle" if given the chance. watched it nearly 1o times, looks nicer by 10 times. last thing i wanna say is, i don't exactly know what the crap Z is saying up there, nor do i know what i'm saying down here as well. s'pose he's kind of cryptic like his idol ' Kurt Cobain'..... cool.
--chung 3:17 (17 mins too late)

WOWIE

2005-11-29T23:27:00.000+08:00

yeah...the end of the year is real near...we have to make some preparations if we want to grasp this opportunity..can't let it slip by....well, for me...i'm quite lazy...for me, after the o's...everything is like a downslide for me right now..its just unexpectingly boring...well, i have all the fuel in me, but i just need a spark...yes, thats what i need...a SPARK!.....

well don't have to be too urgent too...everything will always reveal itself at the final pages...ALL THE BEST TO THIS BAND....

-ziqi, 2nd december 05, 1714
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wowie... it was just less than a week ago but everything somehow seems aeons ago.. probably cos whatever we did throughout this period was much more than we had ever done before o levels. now tt everything is over and not much things to look forward into, eveything's just empty. after our last 'live' in school, the band has not really come into any known form of contact, let alone discuss our plans for the future ahead.. guess everyone is taking a break right now.. i, for one, do not wish to pick up my instrument to jam right now.. perhaps because there's too many stuff left for us to do,too many obstacles to hurdle through, or probably because there's zilch.

last week was bloody darn hectic. jamming at night, rehearsals early in the moning, chalet after tt, one day's rest and off to sch early for practice. probably all four of us were running on little sleep during such a hectic time and this might just be a hundredth of the taste of being professionals.. a big contributing factor as to why we're not resuming activities? most probably!right now, we have not gain enough good reputation i guess. probability of people labelling us as 'blesphamous' is 99 out of 100.i really beg to differ though, most of the problem that day doesn't actually lie with us. EXTERNAL FACTORS??! who cares,anyway? lol! although pple said our last 'live' was an improvement( J moved alot ), i tot it was only half of what we were able to do right now... activities have not yet ceased, new year's eve, take note of that date.(let me once impress upon the reader that whatever mentioned here is absolutely TENTATIVE) we're probably taking this band to new heights(find a name?) and perform at the countdown...

right now though, everything is bleak. when everyone is ready and restored back the 'right thinking' i guess we would resume everything done before hand and return, better than before. looking forward to anything!(to mates, please post sth here leh....)

--chung

Random Post (random comic)

2005-11-27T09:50:00.000+08:00

The days left can be counted with fingers... relax

2005-11-13T18:48:00.000+08:00

don't get too stressed out... The 'O' level exams ending soon...
Once its over... we can PARRRRTAY.!
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LOL! look at this pic(courtesy of bryan)! it's super lame, but guess its really funy though. as of yet, we are pretty positive towards everything known to us after the exam. there're many changes yet to remain unmentioned and i guess our answer to whatever is brought upon us is a yes. HOWEVER , i have to impress upon anyone reading this that anything decided as of yet remains positively tentative until the day itself. no one really cares anyway, but, who cares? O levels are ending soon and yes, whaever we want to do, we can go ahead, but right now, let us all put in our best. exams can be beaten. dun give up!

---chung 1502

PAIN IN THE ASS

2005-10-21T19:59:00.000+08:00

we haven't had any entry for long, and just wanted to share some of the problems that we are facing...

wow, the performance is quite a pain in the ass....so many limitations...so little time to prepare....
sincerely hope that sincera gets to play....(using the word 'sincerely' sincerely)....well, not sure hows it going to go...but i think only one band gets to play...it sucks eh....

-ziqi 2010

again, it's Us

2005-09-17T22:41:00.000+08:00

and about the band...hmm...its fortunate that we are together..its a blessing..not many ppl see things our perspective about music....its just a light we see in the dark that not everyone sees.. .......................... a bad case of deja vu? nah, copied it exactly.. see below.. btw, i think Z's quite right... yea, i mean, not exactly a lot of people knows why the crap we're choosing to do this, or what the crap we are doing. in other words, they dun like our crap. i believe tt among the four of us, there's a 90% chance that one of us doesnt know which direction he should go, whether he has to be stuck with us for the future, or whether he would ever want to touch his instrument again, in any case if there is such a thing as disbanding, no one would really care as well. and i wouldnt really care, since if a member isn't satisfied or is unsure, there's no point. it's already not what we set out for... not everyone knows who the heck we are, or what we do, so i think, no one would actually be sad for us if we were to call it quits man, we are seriously not tt good yet,nor infuential.. we have to work hard.. for everything, and like i said above, if one of us were to be unconfident or pessimistic about wa we have planned,i would rather call it quits..

anyways,today was quite a fun day! when out with ziqi, and shi ping to buy jan's birthday present. yep, his b'day is a few days away. so let's wish him a happy birthday on tt day.ok? yep, after tt,ziqi and ships went my house and we had some fun and they went home, ah... a good day has passed..

US

2005-09-14T23:16:00.000+08:00

and about the band...hmm...its fortunate that we are together..its a blessing..not many ppl see things our perspective about music....its just a light we see in the dark that not everyone sees...(not saying that ppl are blind, its like a religion, some ppl just believe in it...while bystanders would obviously disagree...) well music is in fact like religion...well just that there is no discrimination if you see it in the arts perspective...that it is art and we get the choose how we like it...can we assume ourselves as dedicated?..i guess so...we took the first step...(think frodo and samwise taking that first step out of shire..is it called some maggot's farm or something?)...though, i hate it, i can't call myself a musician..i know shit darn little about it...my idea of musicians is of great classical musicians, stravinsky...i respect this gay guy....or great rock music...actually our band is quite good, only when compared to music that is in our world right now...yes, its almost nothing much....and chung's remark about anyone can just pick up an instrument and play the right notes...well me too i guess, i want to write stuff!!! ahh..but can't...well, if high school dropouts and ppl who pick up instruments as teenagers can do it(ref to rock bands...eh..nirvana..), we can..many bands did it...well, i feel like i don't know where to begin though....but all things new feel this way we don't know where to begin either..

READ HERE FIRST.. i just realise i wrote a ton of crap and it made no point..lol..sorry for wasting your time if you've read..and if you have not, dont waste your time...but if i posted it, i guess i'm expecting ppl to read it...and that if you bothered reading this, you probably won't mind reading the whole of above, especially to make sense out of what youve just read here..

and lastly guys(band mates), whatever, we must stay humble and true to what we pursue or claim we pursue to be able to justify our claims and means to save our own lives...about this life-saving part...if we don't, all that we've done and will be doing in future will be wasted...it'll be wasting our lives away...

again, i sound lame and corny..

ziqi-2322

jealousy test. thx to san

2005-09-08T17:10:00.000+08:00

http://tests.studentcenter.org/jealousytest go try and post your results here! 35% is average. mine is 22.22% woot

depressed?

2005-09-06T18:45:00.000+08:00

this world is getting sad man. and i mean it big time. everything was so hard to achieve but it all made way to the lesser type of people. what was once art is now fart. anyone can do it. jus took us to galvanise everything,and now, it seems we've achieved only zero. not sure if anyone actually understands what i'm talking about, cos i'm not in the smart mode right now. this situation can be seen almost everywhere, tiny revolutions.all it takes is something small to create a freaking tsunami. one bit of energy, huge waves. darn. and we live in the age of lifelong learning which means the things u learn today might very well be of as much worth as a used contraceptive. what i learnt though, is if u are not ready for the wave, dun start, cos u know u can never stop it. i don't regret the past but i resent the present. sigh, whining is gay, but every man feels emotion, even if he cant show. sometimes, people have to whine, but not too much!

i want to curse so badly....

2005-08-30T21:34:00.000+08:00

OMG!!....just when i was to post the entry.....i don't know what i pressed...i pressed something, i was directed somewhere else, and when i came back...IT WAS ALL GONE!>!!> damn.....

it wasn't meant to be , those words....wah.....i thought i could share those moments of last year...ah but no!! it wasn't meant to be........*sob*...

lol....curses........................................................................................

problems

2005-08-21T15:22:00.000+08:00

No problemo...

i think that problems come when we want something, expect something, hope for something...etc...you see, if you don't want to play comp... then you wouldn't go touch the comp, then you wouldn't have the problem of them scolding you...If you don't like fruits, then if the fruits drop on the floor, it wouldn't be a problem....if it is because the floor becomes dirty after that which is becoming the problem, then it wouldn't be a problem if you just rather leave it there to be dirty.... It is the things that we don't like which are the problems...humans just like to have problems to solve...we are constantly 'improving' or so we call it...we change the earth to the way it is today..was nature a problem?all the animals in the animal kingdom can just live and adapt to their surroundings...but we bu shuang of how the surroundings are...instead of adapting to the so called 'problems' of nature, we go and change change change...now we live in this material world... Moral of the story is, we should adapt and to suit to the enviroment,(with this analogy, the enviroment is the 'problem'..), instead of trying to change it to suit us....like the way animals have been doing all this while...

so problems are there because we want it to be, because we view it as that...if we don't look at it as problems, then we will live a happy live.....But you think, it is impossible!!!...yes it is impossible because we are HUMANS....so we cannot try to change ourselves...so we have to continue solving problems like we have been for centuries...THE VICIOUS CYCLE.....go round and round....there is no way to solve this problem...

P.S when you can't blame yourself, when you can't blame others, can't blame anybody...blame HUman nature...

Anyway, think of what you really want...there will always be problems...but don't let it be a deciding factor of what you want to acheive.. Unless it is a problem that is preventing you from getting what you want... ASK IT TO FUCK OFF.....soemtimes its hard..but its like fighting for your life..yuou have to do it... but if still things don't turn your way, then well prepare to give up loh..Tell yourself that you can't have everything in this world..like perhaps for example, Love..

also, i've heard from someone.... 'By solving present problems it opens doors for new and sometimes more problems...' This is nearly always the case, it is not even a gamble...We have to decide which problems we can allow which we cannot...

-ziqi 2210
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i sat on my chair and thought for along time after seeing chungs latest tag regarding problems. i am thinking ... why pple give us problem? y cant they find better things to do and mind their own business? finally i came to a conclusion and would like to share with u guys.

i felt that pple give us problem becoz we gave them problem in the first place. for example, i am using the computer peacefully when my parents came cursing and scolding me. apparently, to them, playing computer when an impt exam is round the corner is a problem so they scold me. but it may seem to be a big problem to me cause i am not cre8ing trouble ye they scold me.

i used to scold my sister @ every wrong thing she do. for example, she dropped my fruits on the floor and used a broom to sweep them away. this is what i call brainless action. although i feel like pointing my middle finger @ her, but i didn't. imagine if i pointed, reason coz the way she do things is a problem to me, she will be du lan and we will fight.

so, pple give us problem coz we gave them problem directly or indirectly. problem is a cycle, the only way to counter is tolerance lol. of course diff pple have diff lvl of tolerance. so build up your tolerance.

*however, tolerance is a short term solution. long term = solve the problem. and to solve the problem = give ppl problem. we can only try to reduce the amount problem by... perhaps using a better tone? i am still thinking.

confucian ethics.

2005-08-14T16:50:00.000+08:00

it's been a long time since the last post.. lol. and, in regard of shanism's comment on us being on par with derrick(?) and sly(?!), i dunno whether we should be happy anot.. lol! no offence meant here, seriously.. maybe to her its something great.. lol!(no offence if u are offended).it's flattering, sanks.

ok, let's get along to today's light dose of confucian ethics! imparted to me from my trusted cousin, it will prove to be quite a help in life, be it now or in the future. here's a tip to a better understanding of the sayings which some might have seen or heard, or some who dunno who confucious is: read the sayings aloud! ok, here we go:

Confucious says:-"Man who puts cock in peanut butter is f...ing nuts"
-"Man who can put worm on hook is master baiter"
-"Man who has a hard problem wakes up with a solution"
-"Man who walks off cliff is jumping to conclusion"
-"Youth caught red-handed in the wrong period"

to those who do not really get it, well, i dunno.. to those who get wad
mr .confucious is saying,well, i dunno too.
-chung

carnival?!!!

2005-07-30T20:50:00.000+08:00

CARNIVAL?!!! today was more of a success than a flop.. never expected the school to put in such an effort. everyone played a part in making this antcipated flop a success... well, we performed today, at roughly at 1pm??? my brother came to support, friends and families and someone...everything was great. of cos, there were quite a number of other audiences as well... the turnout wasnt exactly a huge one, but it was better than i expcted and i really appreciated those who walked past and stopped to listen.. it was pressurizing but, nevertheless, flattering.. the set list of our performance: 1) The Killers - Mr. Brightside, 2) Glay - You May Dream , 3) Asian Kung Fu Generation - Haruka Kanata , 4) Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger. all four sngs plyed were nice... and the feedback i gathered is pleasant.. although there are bound to be unpleasant ones, we havent heard of yet...hahaha. again i want to thank everyone who had been there to give us your support, willingly, unwillingly or unknowingly. it all made our day great anyway. wanna thank stallholders who ran to watch us, jeremy, praveen, old friends,strangers, everyone. segway was cool. made me feel immortal on it. and the clementeen idol was pretty good... everyone had a great voice and i'm glad that the school has decided to venture to discover other talents... great!

Reassurance..

2005-07-25T21:20:00.000+08:00

sang to my mom today.....she says that i'm singing the right way all along...not sure if it true though.....its good and bad though....good is that, i'm doing it right, bad is.....i cannot change that sissy gay kiddish cartoon character voice!!!!.....aiyah...also sometimes, i use too much 'qi' at the beggining of a line...resulting in the unnesscery 'vibrato' voice at the end of it esp when it gets high..

anyway, was in quite a bad mood today...don't really know why actually...but i'm alright now, and morale is back up...so, sorry guys...

-ziqi 2127

Supersonic.....

2005-07-24T23:16:00.000+08:00

farque u. tt's wad we heard when we got in.. a nice greeting i guess...

the last two days showed our true worth.... i guess the upcoming performance will be one of the greatest the school has ever seen and will ever see....(hehe..)

2005-07-24T21:38:00.000+08:00

i wan to blog but i dun feel like writing. the last 2 days was fun and meaningful. chung's family are great. what i want to say is too much for me to type. so i decided to post this to show my intention of blogging. tmr is a new day, a big day. its not just the day of our audition, its also the day i start my prelims revision. i have planned a time-table, like i always do... but following it is another story. i got back 3 papers and 2 of them failed by ten marks. guess its time i be a man and keep my promise, to study. the reasons i wan to study are simple. earn alot of money so that my wife wont have to worry about money problems, take care of my parents and earn enough money to pay for my younger sis edu fee. my parents are getting old and by the time my sis go U, they would have stopped working. so its up to me to gong my sis. wwoot, i am tired, off to sleep.

breather

2005-07-22T22:26:00.000+08:00

today is the typical kind of day where tomorrow is the day.. the kind where u just cant help but look forward to the next day, which u will again anticipate the next... however, tomorrow is really something to be at least worth a fraction of a thought.. after,say, 3 months of inactivity, we are finally hitting the rage... going to a studio, pick up our axes or hammers, and hack all the way...

starting from tomorrow, it'll only be a mere week.. a mere week to perfect everything... our time came too late.. but late, is better than never as never is not better than late. it's better to be late than to never have it coming our way as, whatever.

the term 3 exams are the root of it. and, no one would be expecting results from it, people are more likely to be happy as an ordeal has just been over, officially. results, in our case, are almost non-existent. we are victorous in a way that we did not give up or lose our heads in the midst of such a torment. i think, music pulled me through, the lyrics? maybe. the guitars? yes. i'm constantly abusing te greatest dope. and tomrrow, all four of us will savour the high and bring to a n height... dork..

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at last!.....

Ahoy There! I'm Guybrush Treepwood, a mighty pirate.

2005-07-17T12:19:00.000+08:00

always related myself to him(ref to title), since he is a man who is really witty sometimes, at other times really stupid, most of the time just lucky, an well, more like an all-time loser...haha..but overall a person you would want to be...(was just thinking about him, has nothing whatsoever to do with what i'm going to talk about..apologize for wasting your time..heh)

anyway, we held conference yesterday, and we were saying that everything in this world has been written about...but well, we talked about so many things that haven't yet been written about, or hasn't been yet well expressed....beggining to have words forming in my head after realising this fact....but are they words of wisdom or words of nonsense....sigh...too bad we can hardly compose music yet....well, maybe thats easy, but not if you want a great one...

while saying this, the speakers kept playing mp3s kept repeating "nobody said it was easy...."..haha...the demoralizing wrong words that came at the right time....ZzzzzzzzZzzzz

-ziqi 1238pm

dilemma

2005-07-14T21:33:00.000+08:00

how do i spell the title? i forgot..we got the damn application forms, we have aplace in the performance... but what song should we perform?? so many songs pop up.. we are only doing a 15min,at most 20, segment.. which mins, probably 6 songs... Z and I have been pondering, whether the wonders song is a tad bit too sissy... hmmm.. there are so many songs we thought of playing, but so many ,in turn, will remain unplayed... sigh... now i know y one can never be contended.. should we swap it with beautiful day?? are the jap rock numbers going to be approved by the teachers and audience? are our ties being a hindrance again?? so many questions.. not a single answer... oh yea, and should we play the darkness??!! i dunno... i think, maybe we should hold a conference sometime soon... results'll be posted, but until the day we perform, everything remains tentative... speaking of which, will we turn everyone off? everyone could be so aroused and when we go on stage... everyone becomes limp, like they saw simple plan.. wah..i dun wan tt man... i'll very well turn myself off and join the limpers than to be mistaken for pimple plan.

hope we're not so simple planned...

-chung 21 39

2nd option?

2005-07-09T15:20:00.000+08:00

hey hey, i only told J so far... but this should be a double good news... hmm... u guys know abt tt annual countdown at boon lay tt features bands??? yep, my bro's fren is one of the organisers and said tt we'll have a high chance of performing if we audit for it, thanks to my bro's connection.. hmm.. and tt time, if we really perform, my bro'll be joining in...as a guitarist lol(his only good at playing guitars, lol).. it's reported tt atendance record at the event's peak timeslot is a few thousand..sounds good.lol!like, a full time gig.

but,we muz work very hard, jam four times a week?? lol.. and eh.. tt is all for the cause of geting the top time slot..we cant afford to be the try-hard-but-still-sloppy band we were last year, though this year yields much greater results, time proved to be too much of a test.. anyway, tt event is in december, after the good o levels,before NS! so, even if we miss out the school's performance, we'll still have this.. of cos,it'll be a double greatness if we can rock out two times, tt'll be 2 milestones in our lives..ok, that's only oe for m brother.. think abt it.. good deal??.. think so.u decide.

-chung 1530

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wahaha so great....MUAHAHAH....
-ziqi 17.43

2005-07-08T23:26:00.000+08:00

what a gd way to start my day. my mother woke up late and i accidentally switched off my alarm. i was kinda tired at first... slpt at 3 th nite before.... but C's 'news' was quite up-lifting. it sorta gave me the push i needed and i managed to finish what i think was enough to make me at least pass. the p1 went exceptionally well i think i can score more than 32. but the p2... i think 35/80? the paper is not really hard... its juz that i didn't study... got a feeling that it will be the same for my remaining papers.

reached home about 1 and started my regular training.. today's one was more tiring haha. after days of training i was kinda surprise that my arms aren't painful. but there is abit of problem now. my left arm is much bigger than the right lol but heck la... i will cont till i reach my goal... after finishing my training, i went to do some research on bass amp and somehow stray off the some nice forum. i saved some pics of dir-en grey and spend the next 3h saving more and more. in the end, i spend another 1h telling to tell the diff. between toshiya and kaoru.. by the time i finished everything is about 6... so i went to slp and woke up at 10.. think i better stop now.. dun really feel like using the com.

Should we...

2005-07-06T16:08:00.000+08:00

10am-3pm, 30 july 05, (the fun fair) we've been called upon...should we go for it....but we only have one week to practice that is... counting from after the exams...we only have one week....and its not only a song, not only a gig, its more than a concert if we play non stop for 5 hrs...omg... but let say we play max 3 hrs, and during this 3 hrs, we don't have to play continuously.....we'll do 2 hrs of song...

so guys should we...we have one week to practice tons of songs....mostly english, but we still can play jap songs..hehe, thats the good part...

shitty thing is we'll have to 'act cool' like we did in our sessions...and we can't really do that well...lol...

so should we??
firstly, its fun...secondly, its a good opportunity, don't do it now, we might have no other chances though...if we do it, and if we really become a band in future, this will be a milestone in our band's history, though it'll still be even if this band comes and goes...

but, seriously, my voice is not good...could be a turn off also...

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-ziqi 1629
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i dun think we can do a five hour set... 1)our legs will not be very happy... 2) pple might get impatient.. 4) amount of songs, we cant really do much... hmmm..the most we can go? i calculated.. 1hr 15..note i said most.. sigh.. hear from ships that there areother performers too, choir, school band, and most prob, us??? heard ships and jerm say tt teacher wants something tt can grab pple's attention.. she's pretty wrong.. 1) tt's like so manipulative(but i appreciate her giving us opportunities).. 2) what makes her think we'll draw attention? tt day is some funfair man... lol..

haha... oh yea, but ziqi can sing, so no need worry... speaking of it, sk has approached me to play guitar for his clementeen idol thing, zhiwei asks whether we'd want to help him play fo his idol segment too. now the fun fair... and after turning two pple down, we so enthu on this.. wad wouls they think? but i think it's cos i dun wanna play 2nd fiddle to others..and this request is a band effort... so i'm sorry... heh.. i feel honoured, but our heads arent swelling...

-chung

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so Final Decision?

teachers day....omg

2005-06-24T18:21:00.000+08:00

lol..haha...its embarassing man...lol..song 2 was alright....but the embarassing thing was, you know what i'm talking about... brings back memories watching it again....keeps me wondering how such things can happen too...

-ziqi 18 23

Addiction

2005-06-23T20:05:00.000+08:00

wow...for a week exactly(since last thurs)....i can't stop listening to asian kung fu generation....they are not very skillful, but the songs are just too nice.... since i have nothing to do, i shall blog then for the next 40 mins i guess...hmmm...............................................i have nothing to say..omg...i went to visit praveen with friends today...he had an op on 22 jun, i guess i one of those few that remembered....anyway, must have been great great intense pain, but he seemed so unbothered by it..

i'm in a state of boredom right now, so excuse me...i'm neither sad nor happy, means that i can, everything is so so...its like the only thing that goes thru my head is, 'if the glass is half empty or half full..' maybe you don't get it, well guess you really don't get it...finally i have something to talk about..

its such a bother, everytime i say something, its like there only 30% chance or maybe less that ppl can understand...they always go huh...and give that clueless irritated look....its no wonder ppl say they can't communicate with me..lol...usually i try to explain, but to no avail anyway...but recently i realise i actually give up the explanation unconciously when someone doesn't understand and keep my expressions to myself...WHY?!?!! i don't have a hardtime understanding ppl, but why does this happen to me??...maybe god has it that i was born a listener...just listening, but when i have something to say, half the world thinks its rubbish..lol.

sometimes, i guess its because i don't speak loud and clearly enough...

i guess its partly because of this factor that ppl associatiate me with complications, and so stay away from me..

......so bored....can't be bothered to continue....buh byez

-ziqi 20 50

disillusioned

2005-06-23T16:43:00.000+08:00

aww crap... i listened to two new old bands, two bands famed for their guitarist.. 1) van halen, 2) loudness. the latter from japan... they are the so-called heavy metal gods, which is an undisputable fact... argh... the guitarist make hide looks like a kiddy ride(tho hide is cnsidered one of japan's best guitarist)... 24-28 notes in a bar..tt's hell.pure hell if i've seen one. i'm disillusioned. van halen's quite gay(very), but powerful too, very. it puts us to shame man... like, my so-called fast solos, are shit!!! lousy shit... and, i guess i'm not tt fast anymore, with everyone improving.. lol!!! crap... let's imporve!!! after o levels.

i cant slp

2005-06-20T00:47:00.000+08:00

its 11.45 now....
i went to bed at 10 with my mp3 plucked into my ears. after 1h... i still cant sleep.. perhaps its because i have been sleeping late.. better adjust my body back to the correct sleeping time before its too late. fell short of my target today... still too tempted to escape from reality. in the afternoon, i remember staring the screen and ask myself.. should i install FM, should i dl cs and play with bots... the temptation always start when i on my computer to check on frenship and email.... that’s y, i promise myself not to on the computer anymore from today onwards..... sad to say, this will be my last entry for the month. the temptation is too great.. is like... a pile of $10000 note infront of u.. and u keep telling yourself... actually no harm taking one la... since no one will find out. but deep inside me i know some pple will find out..

tmr will be a tough day. im going for an x-ray tmr... my mother wanna check if there is a problem with my nose.. my nose is kinda sensitive and for the pass 16 years, nv one day did i not sneeze... imagine the amount of tissue i use.... its time to save the trees!!!! haha ... luckily i only use tissue in skool.. at home i use handkerchief (: gay rite? i dun think so... i have been using it for 16 years... i only swtich to tissue when i come to skool recently... think during sec 2 but if given a choice, i will use handkerchief. so much nicer. i once heard from someone(dunno izzit wy) that guys that use hankie r more faithful... well, i have no comments... i will be starting emaths tmr... the subject i once did so well(gd to me) that i couldn't imagine myself doing.. all thx to the teachers of cts.. i have to admit the maths teachers of cts are really gd( mrs tan and gun). juz started using creative mediasource, replacing winamp. kinda confuse at first but i got it all sorted out... its abit less laggy than winamp but i still keep it to watch naruto. its easier to fast forward. toking bout naruto. i really missed the gd old days.... naruto's getting boring... think i will borrow from yang his harddrive and watch the older series when i am free. haiz... still not tired... tell me why!!!!! my mother cooked grn bean soup today.... gd timing, juz when i needed something sweet... but guess what, i think i overeat and for the pass 2 hours, i have been farting non stop lol... smelly one some more... lol i know its kinda sick to say here, juz treat it as a joke if u dun like it.

ok.. i am struck.. i have been here for the pass 20 mins....and pei shan juz told me she is reading the blog... oh yea... finally thou of what to write. for the pass few days, life have been reporting about the skool of rock thingy. some of the bands r not bad... but i am commenting on the loser bands. one of them, unnamed... firstly, the name is super super copy...worse than ours. ours still quite gd.. abit more chim. unnamed lol wtf is that man... its like, presenting the band... UNNAMED woot.. the band is made up of tan ah cow, lim bei, ng ah ming... this isnt unnamed anymore.(correct me if i am wrong). some of the beter bands played theif own songs.. while others didn't. well, i think if u dun play original songs, u really have to play some very chim songs... yet some of them play simple plan, blink 182.. is like u know u will lose yet u go... haha i feel that even if we go, we can do better. haha all tok no action no point... what we can do now is do well for O's, wait for ziqi to get his singing license, wait for chung bro to finish ns and grow some hair before we will take part in that competition. haha hopefully i will get my own amp and cope ziqi's bass, get adequate money to change the strings and change all the parts. ok la i go dream le .... miss me and my long-winded posts :)

HAha...virgin time..

2005-06-19T21:46:00.000+08:00

i finaaly get what you're trying to say...first time...its my virgin time planning time table....i guess i needed it so much more since its last min study...aiyah, jan words are always damn funny xiah...lol...next week as in from tmr onwards will be Operation: No life .....its time to study le....as in excessive study, i wish i could take drugs to help me with it...i wonder if there are drugs to do that, (something like steroids or estasy) over exert ourselves in study.....

when i was reading horoscopes, this sentence struck me....."Preaching isn't the answer. You're better off using your charm to sway people." I agreed with it totally since recently, i came to a resolution that words are useless...Even with sincerity, words cannot carry sincerity....

have nothing much to say, its 10 pm and i need to sleep early to jumpstart tommrrow...

-ziqi 2203

batman!

2005-06-19T19:30:00.000+08:00

BATMAN! i always liked batman, the cartoon, the game, the four movies(including the flops, they were nice in their own right, but not as a batman movie). today, i catched the 5th of the franchise, and it's gotta be one of the nicest... six out of five stars!. trust me, i've never seen a superhero potrayed in such a manner... it's dark, and humane, unlike the last two which potrayed bruce's alter ego as a mega pop-star (beating criminals for the fun of it which ,in my point of view, is psychotic)... that movie, the instant u watched it, u feel u can be batman too, a hero... which is great cos i always think, there is a superhero in everyone of us, but in our very own right...

And, so much debate to this good bf thing has led me thinking to whether i've treated her well enough for what she deserves... she deserves more than this, so, i'm going to pick myself up! and market myself as a better man!

yep, studying is a chore only if u see it as it is... the way our mind works, it's amazing... something intagible to actually control our bodies, no A.I can do that... mind power can never be measured or duplicated... it can only be manipulated by their carriers, which is us. batman has a strong mind and that's what differentiates us from a hero... our determinaton is far more important and significant than the muscles in us... so let's strive, and save the day with homework and revision.. jus for this year, and it's ok... GO!

and to ziqi, it doesnt matter if we fall... the only thing tt matters is whether we have the courage to know why we fall and pick ourselves up...

the virgin time( what mr tan always replace first )

2005-06-19T01:46:00.000+08:00

today is the day i did alot of things for the virgin time. dun get bored.. as u r about to enter.. the matrix.... haiz its lame.

this morning, i woke up with slpy eyes( as usual) .. although i told myself i wanna study but my body is tired. so everytime i will try to push my study time as late as possible by reading the papers, using the com and watching recorded shows. body defended mind. round 1-2 ziqi called me.. he asked me to watch movie.. but i didn't feel like going... plus i wanna save money for lao po ben. after like 1 hour, he called me again.. i was staring at the com screen, asking myself whether to dl cs.. this time, mind defended body. i off the com and went into the room with my fone. ziqi told me he finished writing his study plan till 08/07. so i felt i should do the same.. i have been writing my to-do list on the whiteboard but its abit ineffective. its not i dun wanna write out a plan.. its just that i couldn't get a table calender... those map-like calender that u place on your table top. i think and think.. finally, i recalled my PDA!!!! my gay coursin bought me a pda last year as christmas gift and other than using it to listen to songs(for the first 2 months before i got my mp3), i hardly touch it... and since i got my mp3... it was left on the tea table collecting dust... alot of dust. i ran out of my room, grab the thing, clean it, charge it reformat it and saved my study plan till 08/07 in it. took about 30min to do so..... felt so happy... finally, my gay coursin was helpful. at last, i use the $400 device to do something meaningful. first virgin down.

after saving my plan, the motivation to study is back.. it lasted for a gd 4 chem chaps before it fades away and i went to watch tv. tired and feeling lazy, i feel like withdrawing all my money from the bank, take a cab to hotel 81 and sleep. suddenly, ziqi msg me... earlier on he told me his parents r ordering buffet to celebrate some gathering cum father day thingy. and i was kinda shocked... in his msg, he said, " if tonite u wan, after we jog, come my house eat wan? its left overs and might not be very gd though". without hesitation, i replied yes of course... is like... going to his house is harder than striking 4-d. i know him since p2... got close at p5.. but none of the anevons have gone to his house... i counted myself lucky to go to his doorstep and look at his shoes.

7++pm he came to my house.. we pumped the basketball and the soccerball and set off for journey to the carpark with 2 balls, one skateboard and a total of 2.5 lites of water.. lol like kids going to the playground. we agreed to jog ten rounds.. at the 8th round he sprint and completed... i cont jogging... for some reasons, i am super full of energy.. really super full.. i pace myself, controlled my breathing and went on. i told myself, i will stop 2 rounds after i start to feel tired. at the 18th round, i feel my legs becoming heavier... survivor part1 begans. i started toking my myself... telling myself since i have gone so far... i shall cont to 20. on round 20, i told myself to beat my personal best of 25 rounds achieved 4-5 months ago before my prolong injury. at 25 rounds, i told myself.. ok i am tired so 2 more rounds. well, somehow i made it...virgin 2 down. first time running that much in training.

after jogging we played awhile and went to ziqi house for dinner. his dad came to open the door and i finally stepped into the camber of secretssssss. virgin 3 down.

his room, messy but still ok... i mean how can a room shared by 2 guys be neat... its lucky there's no underwear hanging around. i said hi to his bro and greeted his parents. for some reasons, i feel that his bro is of the same kind as me.. we looked at each other and said hi.... i have the feeling.... like........ so u r here, i long waited your arrival young jedi lol. i help myself to some nice food and took a piece of mutton. virgin 4 down. this is the first time i eat mutton :)

after finishing dinner, we chat and chat and chat and played with his super powerful light saber and drank ginger beer. virgin 5 down... first time i tasted sweet ginger and beer without alcohol.. quite nice la.. i recommend u guys to drink too...........................................................11:30 time to go home.

so now i am home, typing his thing for 1h and feeling very slpy...time to have another fun dream nite.
(hope i dun stray off too much) oh almost forget. ziqi, we all played the part of a bassist, u r playing haruka....so its just a matter of time before u prove yourself.... enjoy your time when u r single... after u get tied, enjoy your relationship. thats the way of life, nv look back.

cries..

2005-06-19T00:12:00.000+08:00

aiyah, i guess i am someone who always cry for the wrong reasons la....i think i'm more of those kind easy easy cry baby type....its like there is a small scar, i cannot ignore, need to use magnifying glass to look and then in the end scare myself.....

i really really like her, but i'm totally clueless why she doesn't....now everyday, i just try to be less of a person that i am now, and try all i could to become a better person, or her type of guy, or more reliable, trying to look less detached from the world as well...

there are so many things i want to say to her, but i guess i couldn't confront her, never did since that day of my decision..i couldn't not because i shy or whatever, just don't want to antagonize or make our -10 relationship become -20...

there are a few decisions that strayed me from my direction of becoming a reliable person....like the jamming incident....the point where chung sounded pissed, i came up with a solution....hasn't been tested properly yet, but i guess it should work...

i would continue here about her if i could, but i guess i shouldn't....i'm tired of it...so have the ppl around me...use to feel better talking about it, but theres no point i guess.....i can't reach out to her either...

wah today, i made a time table too...for two weeks....i guess if i follow, i would have no problem le....must 'an bu jiu ban'....studying is a breeze if you think about it, its just sitting there....

about bassist being good bf?..hmm...jan very lucky to have met wy....and jeremy chua also, not bad...a good bf is a bf that makes the effort to be good...so there are many good bf in this world, but can see a lot of 'evil' bfs....xian...its something i can hardly imagine, but there are...

me leh? i make the effort to be good too....but i guess i'm just not good enough eh...or should i say not bf material la...

shall end here....also nothing to type, typing whatever that comes into my head as i speak....
-ziqi 0036

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2005-06-18T01:30:00.000+08:00

last gathering for the year i guess. went to amanda's house.. 7.5/10.. i would rate it.... i was expecting more pple to come esp. the girls but it seem that today just wasn't the right day... ziqi injured his toe, boon hoe got to leave early to work and suan wee and ziming tua us.. but overall its still ok.i had a short conversation with BH. in that short chat, i felt that i understand him better. he havn't change at all. he is still humble and polite...i started the conversation by asking what he work as now, his studies and gave his some tips on how to study although i dun use them haha. last year he came to my house.. not as a visitor, as a 'salesman' he was selling ice cream. so i give him face... bought 2 box of not so nice ice cream for 18 bucks...while we r studying hard to prepare for O's, pple like BH and ziming is working hard.. well for the wrong reasons though.. they wanna get enough money to buy hp, clothes... i dun blame them... instead, i blame the frenz around them giving them all the negative peer pressure. i mean it would be more acceptable if they work to help their parents. why work when its time to study? if your studies r gd i got nth to say but... u know what i mean.. after O's or maybe after skooling, there r much more jobs for u to choose... and by that time.. whether u like it or not, u have to work. this make me feel how fortunate i am. firstly, i dun have frenz around me giving me pressure to wear new clothes everytime i go out. everytime i go yang's house, i will bring the same sets of clothes, the same underwear... and all my frenz do the same... when we go orchard at nite(after 11), we will wear erm... faded t-shirt, pants and slippers. even if we go out(before 11), we also dun really care what each other wear. secondly, i am also happy that my parents dun give me too much money to spend. my allowance is 150 when skool reopen. my mother used to give me 120.. but i think she wanna use this as an excuse to give me more money... so she say 30 for fares but i calculated and found out that fares r only 20.. i do refund her money every month.. coz i wanna repay my very high phone bills... moreover, i dun usually ask money from them.. i no money, i dun spend.. they give me, i will return.. but sometimes its kinda hard to reject. this lead to what i wanna share.
this year i cried twice( not coz of stupid reasons (e.g. break up) firstly was during the... wait i need to recall... erm..... i am gifted so r u workshop... tat time i kinda cant control... i think only afew pple know the reason... its kinda sensitive.. coz i really didn't do my part as a son. the next time i cried was a few days ago... the reasons erm.. also sensitive.. this time, i felt i disappoint my parents and my teachers. the other reason is not that sensitive but its related to the disclosed one. i was telling my sis to study harder.. and told her she should spend less time watching stupid korean series. i admit, its nice... but everything must shi ke er zhi..... i dun wan her to follow my footsteps... chiong MS till i almost gone crazy and end up struggling to keep up with the top pple of the class and falling to the sinking ship. after that sad nite, i vow to wy that i will study and be filial... till now, i tok back less... around 80% less. and i study more.. around 400% more. in my 'ones to beat' list, i have 12 names.. that i swear at it every nite... i die die must beat them at term 3 exam.. aiya sian la... everytime i blog sure go off course one... now i better stop.. if not stray further away.. haha gtg bye

title

2005-06-14T13:09:00.000+08:00

Cant think of a suitable title. today is one of the earliest day i reach home. round 12. my parents r kinda shocked yet happy to see me. as usual, i went to my room, put my bag down, went to grab a cup of ice water and a glass of milk. afte finishing the milk, i ate a banana and drank the water. my mother asked me what i wan for lunch. i replied what she intended to cook. she said yu tou mi fen. i told her, "ok, but i dun wan ginger, spring inion, fish head. i wan pork noodles and the soup only".... think i should just say.. minced meat noodle haha. went to yang house last friday. didn't really do much. played pool and LAN then took taxi back to his house. slept at 1, nv slept so early at his house before.... the next morning, woke up at 9 and started jamming... ziqi and yang woke up at 8.... was quite surprised to see yang up so early... he usually sleep till 11. apparently he got elbowed by the muscle brain till he cannot tahan. played ps2, then went to play bb from 2-5. ziqi injured his toe and i damn tired so i decided to call chung and cancel the jamming. kinda selfish.. but i thou... we cant play well in this condition... plus i will surely fall sick. real sorri dudes. ytd nite, i slept at 6, woke up at 11... called wy for awhile... i shouldn't have...coz we had an agreement not to sms/call each other till end of exams ... lol crazy rite? slept at 2 after finish revising physic... this morning.. woke up, so damn tired.. lied to my mother that i dun have history.. and thou of different lies to tell miss law. then dunno y, suddenly dreamt of chad, my pri 6 fren.... dun feel like typin the whole story out but i really thou it was true.... everything seem so true lol... sian la... feel like eating my minced meat fish head noodle le... lastly, ziqi, explain this bassists make good boyfriends.

hi

2005-06-11T16:54:00.000+08:00

hi... ever get the feeling of being cheated?

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"..... hopes and feelings were lifted in vain... " "... just to be shattered onto the ground into a million pieces..."

bassist=good boyfriend?

2005-06-05T11:54:00.000+08:00

hmmm....realise something...bassists make good boyfriends...even if they are bassist for a short period of time....quite a good day for me yesterday....before the party, at the party and after the party...

peace everyone

-ziqi

Can't win what you have already lost

2005-05-24T16:21:00.000+08:00

The world feels like shit for me today...it is total hell...i skipped focus too....even though i felt i shouldn't have, but if i did stay, i would have had a lot more suffering...

We should really perform Mr. Brightside, because i'm a living example, a less harsh one though(nope, they did not go to bed..)...well maybe i deserve all this, it was my owndoing in the first place... like anakin skywalker....or maybe even it was karma, except that there was no intent in doing something which i did not know had such an impact...now everything(the impact) is just coming back to me...

whatever it is...i have to study...

-ziqi

WEEK OF STUDY

2005-05-23T19:51:00.000+08:00

This week...ppl...study hard everyone.....even if it means to give up this whole freaking world...the whole world can go to hell for now, and i'll just study....

May the force be with you all....

-ziqi

time

2005-05-21T16:36:00.000+08:00

ever since any sign of live was ever spotted, time has already ran a few million laps before anything knew of it or ever thought of it. however, since long ago when mankind discovered such an intangible thing known as time, time had already won the race, by years and milleniums. i always wonder time is called time, and time, as everyone knows of it, is totally devoid of any sympathy and feelings of fatigue. time has always been the worse enemy of anything, bt people somehow pushed the blame to others, for fear of the unknown. it surges pass everybody, not feeling any pain or looking back. if time was a human, it would have committed suicide for the deaths,agony and everything bad it has witnessed. if tim was a human, i would kicked it's ass. time, happily pushes us through the throes of pain and the only way to win time is death. again, i would have kiced it for unknowingly bringing us so near to exams. how i wish time will stp now, so we can life till enjoyment is no longer an enjoyment, and people want to move back to the good ol' tiring timed days... we've all got no time now, as we are racing pass time, time races with us too, the only thing everyone can do is to persevere. and to persevere, for us right now, is to study!!! so, GO STUDY!

wowwow

2005-05-19T19:32:00.000+08:00

wowwow.. today was a pretty fine day, if not for focus, test tomorrow, and a disgusting band... haha. actually, i thik focus was quite good today.. cause at least, i get to listen to a humnities class in peace, with no shouting and hair dryer treatmens to the class. everything was nice and quite and tranquil, which is basically, an idealstudying environment.. but ziqi and jan enjoyed their time during focus even more than anyone of us. they've gone to catch the opening of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.. wow.. this is the first time i actually wanted to catch a star wars movie,perhaps it being the last instalment makes everyone wanna convince themselves that star wars is indeed worthy of it's cult status and mainstream popularity? that i'll never know. but i'm going to watch it. yeap... oh, about the disgusting band that rocked eachand every singaporean hearts. go read the papers today.. u'll fnd a band taking on the world of singaporean bands in the school of rock competition... they're called...hmm.. devils..con..con... urgh..let' call em devil's constipation. hah... this name sounds nicer on them.. all i can say is, to a large extent, thymade my day great. very great. thanks DC for your wonderful ' right style and attitude' u can go don some bondage/ hardcore style leather spandex and Gn'R t-shirts... wait, ad EYELINER!!!! damn... they make people like hide and hisashi look like freakig posers.. and thy think they'll win? not with their 'right attitude'. whoever told them their attitude was right? i wont say it's wrong, that's plainly simply cos there's no right or wrong in attitude. it's whether people like it.. though, ido not really hve a fetish for punk bands, they have a fetish for hating them and dissing them in the papers, i would like to see how cool they are... such bands a reall a disgrace.. they can jolly well be their devil's constipation.. with bands like this, i really cant help but squeeze my heart and admit that marilyn manson's right.. rock is dead.

-chung

DARK SIDE

2005-05-18T20:44:00.000+08:00

your mr cry baby here is no longer one....fed up....even though she tries to treat me nicely...ah whatever...she can go get herself FBI... When The Whole is a piece of shit...We have a hero to look up to..Darth Vader....know how he feels now....yes do it... go kill all the jedis that pisses you off...it doesn't pay to be nice little 'annie'.....anakin used to be a cry baby too....but i guess the dark side does have its appeals...it doesn't pay to be nice...

FIGHT LIKE A BRAVE! DON"T BE A SLAVE! NO ONE CAN TELL YOU, YOU GOT TO BE AFRAID!

actually me and jan discussed and concluded that i should have a deadline.....which is my birthday..but i guess...that i can scrap it..i thought she was special, but i guess...when she replied with a pissed expression, which would have crushed my weak-of-a-heart under normal circumstances...but luckily jan before that layered me with some protective layer...i don't know what, could be oxide layer, galvanising, gold plating, sacrificial protection maybe...that the thing did not burn into me at all...just after her reply, my father came in and screw me....i was once again unaffected and instead turn him off instead....he made me realise how shitty the world is, and that she was no different from these imperfections of the world...its really weird, especially for me to actually stay true to her, cause i guess i'm one where my heart wonders....constantly finding the one...yet i tried her even though i knew she wasn't the one...and btw... Taurus and a gemini are never suited to be a couple...so i guess that explains it all....its a mistake!! i once read that i shouldn't even bet my money on this one...

anyway....enough....guess she must really think i'm weak...sigh, i sure didn't look cool....you guys know how i reacted rite in the canteen and in the class...omg...my face is gone!...and she'll forever think i'm weak...oh what a bother....i have no cool exit..

must admit she is powerful...hmm...i cannot leave in a cool way, and all the other heroes have also fallen...omg...whoever is in her heart now, i hope he can make her appreciate him...i guess i wasn't even fit to be a sacrifice to save her and make her ready for the next guy, but i guess the next guy will have to do the dirty job of cleaning up....it was unlucky for me to be second, and worst for you to be third i guess...good luck...

endless

2005-05-16T20:13:00.000+08:00

wow... it's really been awhile... been awhile that things had gone so sucky. so sucky it sucked the hell out of me..actually, things should be going pretty.. it can get any worse, that it.. FOCUS ( which stands for Full Ownership and Commitment for yoUr Success, whoever though about this is making a joke on itself. note that i said 'itself' ) is the stupidest thing, with the stupidest acronym.. i actually feel sorry for the word "focus", for it being such a lousy acronym i'm afraid that it's blesphamous.. FOCUS, forces us to stay back everyday and boy it helps! for making me tired everyday and cant do homework... thank you FOCUS.. yea, and i think something really bad happened... i was giving ziqi my flying kick and "BOMTUBABOM" my ankle exploded into a frenzy of pyrotechnical-styled pain.. hahah!!! now it's ok i guess.. so man things happened today. like the saying goes, some things are better left unsaid. ok, enough of 'punking'( if u dunno wad i mean, punk=whine, get it?)..
Right, the piper's calling me to join him, my stairway lies on the whispering wind. bye~
-chung

Update..

2005-05-12T22:25:00.000+08:00

just wanted to let you guys know that i finally took that first step...nothing for certain still though...
-ziqi<2225>

2005-05-08T12:06:00.000+08:00

sorri too tired to blog ytd after 6h of secret mission. bathed, watched a chan 8 motor-cycle show, called her and went to bed. at first, i was very sick, skipped history..then felt better and met up with wy. after she went tuition, i met up with ziqi before the ever so on chung joined in. frenz r the best remedy, after meeting up with ziqi and chung my headache ease abit. walked from far east to taka then to cine then back to taka before finally settling down and discuss about whether to perform on teachers' day, the songs to perform etc... cant really perform jap songs.. so for the past few nites i have been listening to pop and eng rock... came to a conclusion that 3 songs, maroon 5 she will be loved, the wanders that thing you do and greenday basketcase are really the more rock kinda and the more singable kind.personally, i think basketcase and tat thing u do is better..funny. anyway, after walking the whole day, my leg almost broke but dunno y my groin didn't hurt a single bit, hope it wont hurt today.. then tmr i can run my 2.4. stood thoughout the whole train ride... saw 2 things well, one bad, one gd. 1 couples saw another couple, carrying a baby. they stood up and gave their sits to the other couple. out of nowhere, one aunty sat on one of the free seats.. i was like wtf?! aunty stand up before i kick your ass.. haiz.. some pple juz so... i dunno whats the word to describe.. everyone is looking at her.. and she can juz sit down and start sleep lol....to sum up today, i kinda felt guilty seeing ziqi spent 6h in _______. what a bad stead i am.. i nv spent more than 2h _______ sometimes i dun even bother buying... juz ask her what she wan. i mean, i really dun know what to get for girls... softtoy, necklace..... arh!!! forget it la next time i walk for 6h then say. finally felt how 'gd' it is when someone lend u money when u really needed it lol.. kinda broke after buying mothers' day present and the ziqi lent me 4bucks for dinner. ok gtg now... wish me luck tmr... hope miss low wont skin me for skipping her lesson.. i was really sick.

hmmm..

2005-05-07T23:09:00.000+08:00

hmmm.. cant think of any great titles to put up there.. so, hmmm.. well, today is pretty much the same like any day, yea right. well, today was pretty much a great deal of fun! heh... met up wih the mates, minus bry, on a top secret mission.. hah! cant tell... shhh..wel, today is a day i will hold of great importance.. i learnt a lot of things today... things like: " the most sensible things that are ever said happens during the night, we suck at choosing things, how i suck at being a good person, and most importantly, i'm bad to her". argh.. sucks.. heh..well, bored a score book today.. gonna have fun now.we're right now in the process of discussing what to perform.. yea.. we don't really know what to do... the lighthouse is giving us no directions.. we need light. show us the light. hmmm..

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we need no light...from a song from oasis, 'all the lights that light the way are blinding'...we see the light, but....we only perform during gradutation day, and if its after Os though....and sank you guys for being there when i needed you guys...was thinking for sometime, who to ask to accompany for this S-Class Mission...but you guys were there....sorry bry..but guess you would be busy though...yeah chung, take things lightly, but not to my extent where i take everything lightly that i ended in such a state...

a clue to the likely song we wil be playing if we get the chance:
1) From a movie directed by tom hanks
2) Drummer is called shades, and wears shades(sunglasses) all the time

we promise that it will not be a let down once again, though its a promise i cannot keep..
ziqi 0000

forgot

2005-05-05T20:17:00.000+08:00

oh yea... how could i've ever forget? heh.. 3 days ago, was hide's death anniversary... tt's right, 2nd may... hmm.. this is the 7th year that he's dead... can't quite believe that all these years passed so fast.. for the benefit of those who don't know who hide is ( if u dunno him, u dunno j rock at all!), he is the late legend of X Japan, and a very successful solo artist.. how does he look like? look at our skin! dammit... can u believe it? his death was a feature report of CNN... how crazy can it get??i saw the japanese news report of his premature death... japanese really has a penchant for dramatics... even their news report has emotional music, flashbacks, you name it... maybe it's because it's hide, not any guy next door.. hmm.. some say 10 000, 20 000 or 60 000 attended his funeral.. i dunno which is true, but any of those three numbers is insane enough for a funeral.. hah... everyone was crying man... and his funeral wake was attended by big shots!( Glay, Luna Sea, X Japan) wow... but it's indeed a very sa incident as hide's unfortunate departure has left an irrepairable vacuum in the japanese rock scene... because of his death, a great deal of people attempted suicide out of folly, a few succeeded... and the vocalist and guitarist of a popular underground band died as a result of a car crash while rushing to hide's wake.. tragic? u bet... anyways, R.I.P. peace
-chung

Gaara of the Desert

2005-05-04T23:30:00.000+08:00

omg...use to like gaara, now i really like gaara man...just watched 124 and 125, looks like hisashi yeah?..and the gourd there is his instrument..woohoo..i kind of look down on naruto le, he really is just lucky most of the time..hmm..so many bushins fused with kyubii chakra also cannot win...*bleah*..

btw, gaara not only looks cooler, he looks more matured and taller too...and no more hunch back..can stand straight le..zai...

weird that i'm writing about something like that....nothing goes thru my mind these days..
ziqi<2332>

peaceful day.

2005-05-03T23:18:00.000+08:00

could say that this is a good day, because everything just falls in place nicely...not many highs or lows, but just right...and the little details of today, make the day almost beautiful...i'm a beautiful dreamer...ZzzzZzz
-ziqi 2320

darned.

2005-05-02T20:43:00.000+08:00

heh... chinese,.. over.. for mid yrs, that is.. but there's still this major idiotic hurdle everyone's gotta pass when u're a sixteen and a singaporean. O levels!!! crap... recently, miss chen asked if there was to be a class effort in putting up a performance for teacher's day.. either way, it's a no. no to performance, or no clss effort.. to start with, all four of us are not in the same class... however, it did cross my mind that if allowed, advent would have a chance to go perform, and get laghed at again.. hahha! no way, we gonna shock the audience's asses and brand it with our name... jus like our blog url.heh. however, the ever puppy-eyed ziqi and the ever grumpy me have came wih a verdict... we'll give it a pass.. o levels, it's too big an obstacle to ignore... it's a curse missed opportunity though... is it part of the cure or is it part of the disease? i dunno... my heart, is aching like a peanut being cracked. not cos it's a peanut, but, argh.. juz when everyone got toether and improve till we are of a certain calibre, though not professional, but a lot better than "WOOHOO!!". yeap.. damn o levels, i beat the hell out of u, and leave no marks on u... they'll be given to me! yeah! work hard everyone, see if we can make it to graduation day and kick some corporate arses.
-chung

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what!?

long weekend

2005-05-01T19:25:00.000+08:00

didn't really do much during this long weekend... wanted to study but cant concentrate... forced myself abit to finish some of maths and bio.... tuesday still have chem test.. haiz... rushing against time to finish all my tys maths.. but i am sure the effort will not be wasted. this afternoon my frenz and i had a conf.... main topic was to discuss about an outing to watch star wars lol... i dun really like the movie.. maybe coz i dun relly know what it means.. but i'll juz take it as a chance to meet up.. after that we chat about NAFA.... jy.. that muscular..i really got nth to say.. he is really a all-rounder, his shutter run 8.7, pull up 18, sit and reach 62.... i dun think anyone in my skool can beat him. Again, i fail to beat most of my frenz. heard that yang had a back injury his condition is worse than mine... i had one too, it started when i was in sec 2, i injured my back during a soccer match and till now sometimes when i overwork, it still hurts.... its more of a muscle problem while yang's one is the bone... he say from his x-ray, his bone is like... 'poping' up, and he need an operation to remove it.. there is a risk of 5% that he will be paralysis...even if its successful, he will not be able to do sports for 4 months. as for me, my mother will bring me for some chinese medical thing. other than my back, my ankle and groin also have prolong injury, really cant tahan when everything start to pain... anyway all the best for yang

mid year chinese

2005-04-29T21:25:00.000+08:00

29/4 finally over. the paper was kinda easy.... it would have been easier if i studied sec 2. its a relieve to me, i have been studying non stop for this test, thinking that its prelim. since i have 1 more month before o lvls i will finish studying sec 1 and 2.. haiz mroe studying that means

music problem...

2005-04-28T19:57:00.000+08:00

Angelfire eradicated my account for the 3rd time this month... ahaha... cant upload n host mp3s anymore... so... the blog music had been removed also... will find a new host asap

Happy B'day

2005-04-23T16:33:00.000+08:00

hey...heres happy birthday to both of you.. sorry chung for not wishing you happy b'day earlier this morning because my head was just distracted right then...all the best for this yr k...

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added in music.. lol...

couldn't change my color so i post here

2005-04-17T11:18:00.000+08:00

hey dun forget to make me sound cooler. sorri.. was too tired last nite to blog so i will blog today instead. it has been a week since i blogged, too busy studying or maybe juz dun feel like blogging. stayed in skool(class) until 6 almost everyday, studying and finish all my hw before going home. juz started chinese.. kinda slack already...hope i can finish 10 chaps today.. if not gg.. its round 11am now.. will stop using the com at 11:30..bathe and study.. haiz how sad life can be...as u can see, my post is all made up of short sentences... find it easier to express myself this way though i will fail badly writing this way in paper 1. suddenly feel that all my teachers are kinda funny... everyone seem to be more friendly.. even gan. and now with mr tan..i think my class have all the lamest teachers. his lessons are quite fun. he dun scold at all.. thats why we co-operate with him and hand in his work on time ( at least for me ). suddenly have the urge to write exposition but juz dunno how to start...maybe ill try writing about the casino issue....if u read today's newspaper, 17/04, u will be alot of articles regarding the casino issue.. miss law is rite.. the casino will be build, see all the ministers supporting...how can it be stopped? lol..anyway got to go now... missing my FM. bye bye

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argh... now tt u mentioned it... i think i will die on monday... mr tan's compre i haven pass up... miss low's test corrections also haven pass up... die die die die...

Operation Kill Bry

2005-04-16T21:48:00.000+08:00

After long hours of research, finally...(secrets shall not be revealed..)

Kill Bry was a success. as in the drums in our songs has been soften...and echo in the studio has been removed, and everythings sounds more refined!!!..(even though Bry's drums still is very loud, but the guitar is no longer inferior!!! MUAHAH...)....omg and my voice in haruka kanata sounds more obvious...shoot!...
ziqi-
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not my fault... they didn't have dampening rings for e snare drum... couldn't soften e drums... coz even a light hit is damn loud w/o the dampening ring
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nvm....btw....that means downloads should be up soon.....we still need to find a suitable server....bry wheres the site?...if can..go create an acct....
ziqi-
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it's final. all systems are go. "operation:kill bry" has went so smoothly, it felt like a slither..what can i say? it was an undoubted success. though it would not have a 1% possibility of completion if not for my sheer irritating pestering, ziqi's much-revered octave genius... things that were supposed to scream, screamed, which was the primary and most basic purpose of kill bry..products of the operatio never go out of style... though the 2nd operation was a tad too messy, albeit nice.. the third one is nice and all i can see is a brighter path.. "operation: kill bry" is a tested and sure formula of coolness and extremes... a formula only we know...

till the end of the day(or night?), i have only mere sentence to say... which is a memorable one from janson. " dun expect the product to be good if the reactant is bad" memorable? lol... yea, expect the products of the operation to be a top notch one.. undisputably cool one. cos the reactants are great... itching? continue itching.

-chung 10:30p.m

no topic

2005-04-15T22:14:00.000+08:00

Bump

we have good news and bad news..

2005-04-12T18:52:00.000+08:00

lets hear the good news first...good news is, i managed to edit our recordings even though it does not allow..as the file was bad, B-A-D...BAD...so cannot open...but i played it and rerecord it with the same sound editor, and it works....

bad news is, i don't think our server at wagoo.com allows us to upload mp3.....not sure if blogger allows us to share music files...so how?

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u pass the mp3s to me... i know a host... but need to change the file format 1st...

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B-A-D bad is so gay... lol.. y doesnt wagoo.com server allow us to uplo mp3 for downloads?

none

2005-04-11T18:03:00.000+08:00

hey hey... i just finished hearing the recordings that day... hmmm... i would rate 6/10... hahah!! tt's pretty harsh, but i think by having such a mindset, it gets our mind to start woking on what went wrong and what we can do to improve, as a whole of course.. in terms of the individual, everyone seemed to have improved a great deal.. jan's more steady, zi qi is more consistent in his timing, bry is better in his drum roles and getting familiar, not to mention he was already a pro before joining us! this has really caused the pressure on me to rise unexpectedly... it seems as if i'm the only one who isnt improving... many screw ups made that day which caused quite a dismay... really.. my dream was always to perform with other pple, letting my guitar heard.. haha...now i'm closer, i really have to thank this 3 guys for constantly making our music better and making me want to improve in order to keep that lead guitar status..haha!

a feeling of contradiction keeps surfacing in my mind.. it somehow wants to make me face up to reality and put a stop to this thing.. my parents seem to be contributing to this abortion of a beautiful dream... haha.. i guess not only my parents want to see me fall and get on with leading a normal life. bry's mom seems to be in severe anger for him to jam, jan's dad claimed rock music made him act more on impulse... but seriously, i beg to differ man... i'm not saying he's wrong, but, music changes the thinking of people and in what perspective do they view things... maybe, acting on impulse and having a lousier temper might be a better thing.. who knows? getting on with it, i'm not in favour of abortion, so, no aborting of my dream! or maybe ours? in such circumstances, i believe pursuing your dream is more right... compromises have to be made, but that's life.. reaching for reality is irrelevant.. do u ever think Mr Sim Wong Hoo of Creative Tech. had a smooth sailing venture? NO WAY MAN... he probably had so many discouraging comments and people pulling him down to face up to reality in the pits of his career... but no, he revolutionised everything, turned that soon-to-defunct business like nobody's business with this little sound chip, the SOUNDBLASTER... now, everyone looks up to him...i think he is a model example of a guy who believes in himself and banks all on his faith.. respects to you..

hope the next jamming after o level's is a 20/10.. a 300% effort from all of us.. i'm confident in u all.. and myself. Confidence! back to physics! ( :

-chung

Rockers of tmr...

2005-04-09T21:48:00.000+08:00

last live
things can change in a short matter of time. never have i felt so down, so helpless... i was deleting some c0ck up files of our jamming records when i realised i clicked 'remove'.. and guess what? thats the best jamming record... feel like crying man, really, such a big disappointment. it's like... this is the last jamming till O's.. wa piang more than 8 months lei... i will surely regret till we jam again. well, but really, somethings are hard to predict... chung msg me saying "adam sent me a 5min rusty nail. guess u didn't delete the nice version" and im like " omg send me!" after hearing via it, its really the nice verison, i didn't delete it off.. i only remove it from playlist lol... that kinda excitement is so great that i really cant describe( a kind of happiness bursting from within, and its real great). like what chung mentioned, the jamming was alrite, i would rate it 7/10. there r afew c0ck ups esp. my bass part in storm.. really cant play that well dunno why. perhaps the problem lies with my mentality. this morning, i was toking to wy.. telling her how demoralised i was and that i am lack of confidence in playing storm. she replied, " if u have that kinda thinking even before u jam, how can u do well?" though it did some impact, i still wasn't waken from my slumber. till the last song, i really gave my best...(nearly 80%) should have done better... but nvm la.. keep some power for our next jamming. its really a long way... from blur song 2 to now j-rock.... in less than 6 months, from a guitarist to a bassist... come to think about it, i really improved man haha..i mean everyone improved but i am quite proud of my improvement. i hate to admit but yang, is the best among anevon, he's able to play solos and his commitment is kinda high too. who knows he may join our band in the future. as for now, the band is still intact, but there will be no actions, do cont. to come to our blog though, u nv know whats coming up next :)
janson
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hmm....whatever that is....went thru with our final jam....things were great....sanks for all the support....even though our goal is still haruka kanata(far-off distance).... but it gets nearer everyday...
me and jan were discussing about our formation....if there was no graduation day, there would be no jamming...if janson who initially did not want to come see us jam and did not come in the end, we would not have decided to play song 2 on teachers day, without song 2 the initial birth stage, we would not have realised the fun of music as a whole..we would have knew each other without all these....
after these, if 'their' band was not formed, janson would not have the driving force to assemble the members......the story goes on...

currently we need a vocalist....if you feel that you have a passion to come have fun with us or whatever, or have something to prove, tell us.....but we'll only restart round when o lvls are over...and that is haruka kanata...

and btw....stay tuned and visit this site for the next few days on new updates, as we'll be putting up our recordings for downloads!!!!!! (too bad videos are too big...if i have time, i might go and try to make it really small so its not that big for servers...)

sanks everyone....sanks to zhiyang and shiping for coming to join us for our 'last live' session...
sanks mike for the studio, even though we didn't sank him in person, we'll sank him here...i'm so very sure we were the only band that created the best music for the past three months in his entire studio buisness....others can only play chilly coldplay and blind blink182, while ours can cracks walls esp with brys physical defying artillery...

my last words to this band...
"Ziqi(<-thats me), Ser chung, Bryan, Janson...Nobodies of yesterday, Music Pioneers of today, Rock legends of tomomorrow(not that haruka kanata is it?)....".. Sly can eat shit with his beauty eyes...Nobody cares... -ziqi <21.40>

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hi.. today is the so-called last jam before our band goes on a 6month long hiatus.. although this day should be one of sadness and regret for things we were never able to accomplish together, it was a total defiance of the nature... we were all happy and enjoying every second of it! be it, screw-ups or whatever, everything seemed so fun today and i guess all of us will be missing such days of fun and musical harmonies... really.. jamming is so much fun no one can ever describe it in words.. any language would come across as inefficien when describing a jam.. trust me. if you're depressed, fill the world is letting u down, feel like drugging yourself in an euphoria so harmful, music is IT. when the guitars, bass and drums mesh together, it seems tt personify happiness... seriously... no last words though, we're not through! we still have the world before us eh? not such a haruna kanata... heh...

SPECIAL THANKS to: Shi ping, our ever funny walking animation! Zhi yang, for helping us up, and Adam, our No.1 fan (lol) without these three, today wouldnt be so cool... shi ping has been a great help and made us laugh throughout... hahah! also helped us record with our handy-dandy camera and adam's zen-micro(zhi yang too! sanks) we appreciate yur great help and kindness!!! thanks for the studio too, mike, must've been hard on ur ears previously.. not anymore!!! ( :

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yeah....its like enjoying our fruits of labour....or orgasms of labour..

draws near

2005-04-08T22:11:00.000+08:00

It is time.. the new dawn approaches...

the last live..or jam??

2005-04-06T17:58:00.000+08:00

april.. a busy month... esp. this year..coz its o lvl!!!! felt so relieved after knowing tmr no ss test.... SB kinda fun.. but there is something in my mine that i really look forward to... and all these tests are like resistances in a circuit. i guess some of u pple know, this sat will be our last jamming until after O's.. im sure there will be more after O's.. haiz... but have to wait so long. somemore we may be posted to diff JCs. like what chung and i discussed ytd.. we must aim to go into the same JC. coz chances of a disband is low and we can still perform in skool functions together. this sat we will be jamming for 3 hours.. really make my blood boil in excitement man.... i called my frenz from anevon to come see the last live concert.. hope they can make it...

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hey...janson, u're supposed to be blue, i'm black! ok, im referring to the font colour.. i'm chinese, without any doubt.. haha!!! yea, hope we all can make it to the same jc... yea. tt will at least be a little consolation that this sat will be the so-called 'last live'(this is damn rip-off) well, calling it a last live is not very right.. doesnt sound right... haha.. hey, something i find more apt is last jam!!! yea..tt's it.. hmm. i'm also quite relieved that tomolo have no ss test.. finally a breather.. but wait! there's more!hold on to your seats cos the next one's a screamer!!!... hmm.. there's still physics test tomolo.. heh..

oh yea.. i am suddenly being reminded of what jan said to me just a few days ago.." dun train ur arm muscles, it makes u play ur guitar slow" i dunno how much truth is in there... but he probably has his own reasons.. but i think i seriously need to find a good time to train.. besides bryan, i'm the scrawniest.. but what's worst, i think im the most vertically challenged one..not that im damn short.. but the other three mates have at least reached tt much raved 170 cloud!!! i'm a 0.5cm short... damn. so near yet so far seem to make sense here... but still, it makes no single sense at all.. how about taking your time and hurry up?? hahha. i have to say this, " jan, i gotta train.." maybe eating vegetables is a harmless solution... muscles from brussels!!! if that ever happens, i'll be damned.. seriously.. i wouldnt know where the hell i got those fats and proteins for building up... ever seems a vegetarian overweight? if u have, there's only one logical explaination. tt guy is no damn vegetarian! he thinks meat is pronounced as vegetables... yeah.

ARGH!!! back to physics.. chapter 1 to 21? or? i dunno! btw, one new word invented! a nice un-english variation of the staple 'f ' word.. haha! the spelling's 'farque'.. cool? ought to be! "LUCKY" to everyone reading! ( :

-chung 8:47

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ouch...
-Bryan Wrote this in blood at 2127 hrs
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sigh....feeling like pile of crap....couldn't concentrate on my studies...and well everything just feels like shit....hope this last jamming session is what i need....btw, was watching that dumb teacher's day concert last nite...was so funny, had to watch the whole thing...lol...the audience was so funny and all....our song was alright i guess, but it kind of sucks in overall...haha...like chung, i skipped the dancing part after watching about 20 secs into it...omg...its something i can hardly bare...the thought of it makes my hair stand...what were we thinking then...hahaha...we looked so stupid...i'm serious...i watched and felt sick....*puke all over keyboard..*...it was heavy humiliation..omg...haven't really studied my physics chps....i'm kind of hoping now that i just score without studying, but i guess i'm going to mug thru the night at least till 12 or 1......since every sacrifice is worth it...eh...i could not focus, thats why i'm here writing this entry....*dotz*..maybe the music might get me in a studying mood i hope....i'm feeling like i can't face reality rite now....argh.....sat we're gonna rock the jamming studio so hard, that shelly low can't scream "suck my bloody blood"....so loud that raj has to dig his ass to hear us better, or his ear drums would explode.....i'm in a bad mood now i guess....
-ziqi <22.13>

hey hey

2005-04-02T12:48:00.000+08:00

hey hey! today is saturday.. haha..well, like what jan said, this yr is the worse year to form a band... hmm.. it's like,let's see, a bomb's coming and u're busy playing games.. this is kinda corny but well, how corny can it get.. all of us, wanna do well in our studies, but play music.. but for some reason, our so-creative and diverse society insists on us to compromise.... sigh.. wad a compromised world.. right? used to be no money, no talk.. now, no compromise, no shit for u in life.. wad is this man? so many people out there are babbling about wad their hobbies are, what cool things they'll do, but somehow or rather, they'll come to this point of thinking, "but what the hell can i make from playing tennis?" and the next thing they would think of is,"ah... let's just mug... i hate it, but if i'm good in it, big bucks are coming my way!!!" damn. this is sad. sorrowful. weep-able. dun they understand? it's all about interest and enjoying ur life.. and singaporeans just wan money... money is god. for them at least.. haha! it is so pitiful, to see people not doing what they want...

oh yea, btw,if u have a copy of LIFE newspaper today, read it! sylvester's album is coming!!!! wow. cool. way to go. okok.. i dun really hate this guy, he can sing pretty well... but i juz dun really like him.. seems kinda false yea... idunno.. but the girls go nuts over him. haha! tt' good for him.. so good he's gonna cover a j rock song!!! beauty eyes my ass, LIFE newspaper.. it's blurry eyes, say it with me. BLURRY! yep.. okok... j rock is still pretty obscure in singapore, which up till now, i cant fathom.. most people will listen to it, bob their heads with, sing along some gibberish with it plus real screwed expressions, hand back my mp3 player to me and say "nice music u got there"... hey, isnt this something to rejoice about? i'll opt for no... cos the next thing u know, they're listening to simple-not-whiney-plan! pure and simple pieces of rubbish! now, that's simple... i like punk, but not the punk now.. go check an updated version of websters dictionary.. the definition of punk will be 'whine'..seriously.. punk used to be so cool... now, so... hahha.. but their music is pretty catchy though.. and though their lyrics are meanigful sometimes, it kind of get boring... try playing ff7 for 11 times... somthing so great, becomes a total bore, so much people invent words for them. serious..its scary. i still dun get it though.. j rock is so cool... heh..

ok.!!! gtg already... blog next time.. remember, sleep late tonight. its sunday tomolo.

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i am bored and tired and sleepy and troubled....guess i'll be going to sleep..tata..
ziqi <16.25>
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come to think of it....j rock is a torture.....the tunes are so cool, but damn it!..cannot sing-a-long....omg....its like being hooked to reverse track of stairway to heaven....MUAHAHAH...jkjk...no offense to god...sorry..
ziqi <19.06>

the pressure is on

2005-04-01T21:36:00.000+08:00

o lvls...what a bad time to form a band. its getting more and more tedious.. less time for games and guitar... the no. of blogs entry will also decrease in the following months. tests are now a daily cycle.... almost everyday have test.. really no breathing space. this week, i started doing things i quitted doing. on thursday, i uploaded eng rock and pop into my mp3.. its been 8 months since listening to them, the feeling is juz great.. i mean... hey... thats something i understand. next, i deleted the stupid irritating maplestory and started playing 'non-addictive' games like gb and warcraft.... i felt that these games are for strengthening frenship... cre8 a chances for frenz to interact. feel so great... is like..when i am playing ms, i spent 5h infront of my com... trying to lvl once!!! wth!!! 5h.. could have chat with frenz on msn or do my homework.... really felt sorri to the pple whom i neglected esp my.... u know who.... haiz sorri to her man.... feeling real tired now.. couldn't think of anything.... blog again tmr nite. logging off

Storm

2005-04-01T19:08:00.000+08:00

agree.. still cant play the whole song.. only one more month the last jamming.. die die must perform that song.
janson
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well....quite challenging....very messy....only managed till before solo...

hey....

2005-03-31T17:20:00.000+08:00

quitting my guitar lessons, putting my guitar career at risk, but because of exams....thats all i've got to say abt that....don't feel like writing much so.......
-ziqi<17.23>

"LUCKY"

2005-03-29T19:44:00.000+08:00

sigh...tmr we have both our nafa, and our fu zu du ben test.....yes and i am listening Go FLow fighting dreamers....i hope i am 'LUCKY' enough to do well in both....k..going to read my little yellow chinese bk...still on florence nightingale...'LUCKY' to everyone out there...
-ziqi<19.45>
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hah... sigh... yesterday and today is so screwed i cant find a more screwed word to describe... yea.. last night had a conference, tt was the fun part, thinking of names and coming out wif a pretty cool sounding, big on meaning, small on surface one.(it's only 6 characters)tt's right, as mentioned, it is 'advent'.. hahha.. inspired by FFVII Advent Children. Ever heard of tt? i'm gona buy that dvd... it caused quite a rave in japan..so far, i spotted two j rock lookalikes! Cloud Strife looks like Hisashi from Glay and Vincent Valentine, looks like the legendary but late hide! ... Actually, coming to think of it, the name 'advent' wasn't inspired by that motion captured CGI movie.. a more apt word would be 'taken'.. not inspired.. but anyway, advent sounds cool.. hahha! btw, jan, the right word is hiatus.hahaha.. lol.. now, on the screwed part.. yea..

while on conference wif the mates, i turned the tone knob of my fender.. yea..tt knob.. not mine.. hmmm.. it's lubricated and the smooth motion and touch of the knob somehow captivated me in a sense tt i cant really describe...the motion seems to radiate a texture! no words...juz a feeling..lol. well, it seemed so turnable tt i turned it out of its place.. and it cant be fitted back again.. my only consolation is that the guiar is still in one piece.. ok.make tt one big one, and another small one. yea.. well, electrolysis played the other half of the screw-ified villian.. hah.. been studyig since like.. 5p.m? and i cant get any nuts out of it... and that electro-plating is electrifying... it' scary... i can only seek a great assistance from my ever-reliable, handy, not-so-pocket-sized TYS! tt helped a bit.. hahha... hmmm.

and how screwed is today? well.. i forgot to hand in the god blessed chinese journal, which according to lè pelvis, costs five marks from my compo tests.. hope she doesnt keep her word... hope her memorability is inversely proportional to tt of her 'pelv's... ok.. didnt mean to be mean but, sorry.i mean i'm mean in some sense but i dun really mean to be mean..ah whatever. oh yea, and there's this cute little piggy globe thing, given to me by the most impt person in my life!(heh heh).. and it broke.. holy macaroni!!!! the pig's slanted... maybe it wants to see a bigger globe? i dunno.. but it's spoilt!... darn... well screwed day no.2's now.. and running, cos i got a test tomolo, and another test on tomolo's tomolo! i hope that screwed day no.3 doesnt come my way... things happening consecutively can be quite a bummer... while.. hahha BACK TO MUGGING!! ( : ----Chung
(btw, i noticed both posts are ironic to that title up there.) hope not.

busy and fun day.. sounds gay

2005-03-28T23:10:00.000+08:00

around 11 le... everyone studying test and doing hw. me, on behalf of the band, shall blog for today. we r now on conference... as usual i am the server. the reason for hosting this conf, is to choose a suitable band name. How can a band like us dun have a name? so after hours of discussion we finally come out with a name. 'advent'. guess its from FF or something. anyway we r planning to add something to that name to make it more original. and also, after our 9/4 jamming session, the band will be temporary 'disband' (chung fill in the rite word) until 'o' lvls. ziqi is setting up a server so that u guys out there can dl our mp3 files. videos will not be uploaded... only distributed to clsoe frenz lol... update again soon..

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vids can't be distributed due to its size....me wondering if i should study a little while longer...while i wait for my naruto to finish downloading itself...guess i'll go do some math hw...been flooded with unfinished hw lately....coz during the weekend, i spent it all....sigh...so now...i have more....but should all be finished by tmr, and i can resume my normal pace...and hopefull start my o lvl revision by the end of this week, it keeps getting closer...well, the band name is alright...'advent' has a big meaning to a simple word, like the way it works but not the way it sounds..hmm..
-ziqi <23.34>
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hey just saw bry's blog...so cool loh....lets try to make it like his...check it out...http://rowrrowr.blogspot.com/ ....brilliance...i kept forgetting that we can actually scroll in a webpage....haha....previously made the present blog look like a notice board or wall instead...
<23.44>

Nice

2005-03-27T02:33:00.000+08:00

Think i'll choose black as my official colour? is it taken? hope not... it's abt 2:35...crap.. still cant get and sleep though, must've had a sleep hangover this morning. darn.. well, well done for this new resolution, i agree tt its kind of a turn off.. hahah! So to speak, i guess i cant earn my keep as some com programer or whatever that has to do wif this little gadgets and stuff. I know nuts about basic html, i confuse megabyte wif kilobyte, only know hertz as it is in my good ol' pocket sized physics text, gotta ask this other 3 mates to lead me to salvation from this world where computer overruns our butts. yeah..still think black is ok?? yea, sure it is. well, gotta go now and once again, many thanks to everyone who helped made this so called promotional blog.. It doesnt look that sloppy any more and the posts are increasing in length, quantity, quality.. ah. juz increasing. ok, gotta rest my overcooked brain, kinda able to smell that delicacy up there. bb. remember, learn WEEKEND if can!

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no problemo......*clap clap clap clap*....thx to me.....*clap clap clap clap somemore*.......*clap clap clap....* day pretty alright i guess....
-ziqi<20.50>

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Not only Weekend... try X also... lol... i really wanna play tt song... but still dont have the endurance yet... ahaha
-Rex Fish wrote this in blood at 2100HRS.

roger

2005-03-26T23:06:00.000+08:00

Ill pick red... hopefully can see...
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sorry to be always writing on you guys posts...., but next time we create one post a day...then all of us just type in the same post using different colours.....if there are too many posts a day...i'll once again turn ppl off....so might as well do like what i'm doing writing on the same post...k?

and i've also taken out the tagboard and placed it on the bottom...please wait awhile for blogger.com to update itself....it is neat now...but the tagboard is quite trouble some to use...see so little space given to it..temporary pu tthere first..... and hmm if we ever communicate, use the tagboard...ppl not interested in reading these i guess.... i'll try to organise the posts tmr k?....those like we communicating...i delete k?

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sure no prob... but keep important info as drafts so tt we can refer...( eg. original template table pixel sizes etc.. and all new changes...)

pick a color stick with it

2005-03-26T22:37:00.000+08:00

hey i find that our post are kinda cramp so i think it would be better if we post diff color at least we know who post since this is a shared blog.. i will be getting this typical blue... u guys select a color too
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MIne is this purple.....
-your friendly neighbourhood ziqi

My day

2005-03-26T20:29:00.000+08:00

well, still life is a bed of poison ivies...haha...staying over again at anevon headquarters felt special again..well..jan has already said most of it...and sorry jiayang for messing with your mind, you increase my impression of you as the peaceful and tranquil sort..the BFM(big friendly muscular)..lol...jk...

hey btw...we need to make these windows bigger man...they are quite a turn off(at least to me..)...and we need to provide our fans with live/backstage/jamming footage exclusively taken from our handy dandy camera...i'll try to get a webserver....and we'll provide a link so they can go there and download k?but not sure if there are existing servers that allow such great input/output.....i'll try to increase the size of the windows k?...or don't?

hey this blog is promotional right?...i go put it up in friendster?...you guys too...imagine the number of clicks, compared to spread by word of mouth...

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me trying to make the words easier to read...if you notice that it is now easier to read...changed the line-height to 14px(use to be 10px).....we don't want our fans to become like us do we? optically impaired....they appreciate our music with their eyes too...<20.47>
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my widen the windows...old configuration: width 285,height245.bottom145
new width 600,height410,bottom,130
with a wider frame, i realise i actually sit back to look at it..thus if rock music was played at the same time, it would be an incredible audio visual experience...instead of the old minute window which sprains my back trying to look closer at the screen and thus strainign my eyes being nearer the monitor...you guys forgot the timezone..<21.17>
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old configuratoion for left bar width213 bottom 223 left 144
new configuration width308 bottom335 left34
just realised the time zone is not wrong...if unhappy about changes contact me..<21.35>

sweet

2005-03-26T20:24:00.000+08:00

Woohoo... My dream drum set.. lol... Its Mike Portnoy's Siamese Monster Drum Set.. Super Nice!!!

check this "little" picture here ..!

super big...

Here is the list of his drumset + equips

Drums: Tama StarClassic Maples

2, 18" X 22" Kick Drums

16" X 20" Kick Drum

5.5" X 14" Melody Master Snare (maple)

5" X 12" Melody Master Snare (steel)

Octobans: 343mm, 390mm, 443mm, and 472mm

8" X 8" rack tom

9" X 10" rack tom

10" X 12" rack tom

11" X 13" rack tom

10" X 10" rack tom

Octobans: 536mm and 600mm

10.25" LP steel Timbalio

16" X 16" floor tom

6" 14" tymp tom

14" X 20" Gong bass drum

Cymbals: Sabian

14" HHX Studio Crash

18" HHX Chinese

18" HHX Studio Crash

18" AA Medium Thin Crash

20" HHX Chinese

19" Hand Hammered Fierce Crash

17" Hand Hammered Thin Crash

20" Hand Hammered Chinese

16" HHXtreme Crash

14" AAX Stage Hats

7" Max Splash

9" Max Splash

Medium Max Stax with 7" Radia Bell on top

22" Hand Hammered Rock Ride

13" HHX Groove Hats

Low Max Stax

12" Ice Bell

11" Max Splash

High Max Stax

8" Max Stax (2 combined to make hats)

Triple Hi-Hat

Hardware

Tama 1st Chair thrones, Tama Iron Cobra Rolling Glide Pedals and Hi-Hats. Slick Nut Fastener locks on all cymbals.

Sticks

Pro-Mark 420 model with nylon tip (Mike's signature stick).

Remo Heads

Clear Emperors on tops, Diplomats on bottoms. Coated Ambassadors with Black Dot on Snares. Power Stroke3 on Kicks. Pinstripe
on 10" Tymp Tom.

Very cool drumset ... wish i have one like that... lol

ENTRY #4

2005-03-26T10:31:00.000+08:00

a day we alway wanted

ytd went to my frenz house to camp with ziqi and jia yang. To us, staying overnite is something very common..... is like we do it all the time.. but this SO(stay over) is diff. to us, after this SO, the next one will be in june, or maybe even after our O's. we used to stay every month. we seem to do more things then usual. we went to watch boogyman at 2350 at PS then walked back to novena. that movie was kinda stupid and scary... i think i wont watch horror movies again... like paying to make yourself scare... so in order to overcome the fear at some points, i decided to use the act cool style wx used... and my another fren zhi yang followed me. ziqi, was sort of being forced to watch this movie and only saw one scary part.. he was listening to mp3 and smsing. jy, one of our muscular fren was oso kinda scare but he insisted that he wasn't trying to block his eyes when he keep putting his hands on his nose. after watching the movi3, we walked back to novena, the usual route, cutting pass orchard and newton.... finally we reached zhi house at round 0200 i think. we sat one the sofa, and discussed about what everything except reality. bout stars, blackhole... what if the colors u see is not the color i see... maybe we r just in someone else's dream and the day it ends is the day we died etc. too much to say..we say and say and say and finally felt tired, some of us slp the others went to watch LOTR. so we ended our SO... quite fruitfully to me... know more about each other.. what is happening in theif life and the problems each other is facing now ok need to go le they kbkp bb.
- Janson <10.31>