I, Learned?

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I wanna watch The Island. People say it’s good.

You know, the one where it’s the future and rich people pay to be cloned? And then when they get into accidents, they can get spare parts from the clones? Problem is, they have emotions too, and then one day they break out of the island, and the clones mix with the originals. It makes you wonder, are you you, or are you the clone? And…

Wait, what am I talking about? I haven’t watched the movie.

At least five people who start the sentence with, “Hey, I watched The Island. It was damn good! Bla bla bla synopsis.” Yes that many people have told me the synopsis without me asking. Nobody went, “Hey, I watched The Island full stop.”

It must be either a really good movie, or there was a subliminal message planted in it that makes people want to tell you about it. See? I’m even telling you the synopsis. I’ve been told the story enough times already.

So yeah, I must watch it, so when friends go, “Hey on Wednesday I watched The Island and you know what? It’s awesome, it’s about…” I could go, “Yeah! I watched it already.”

Then again, I could say “Yeah! I watched it already.” without actually watching the movie. Now, if only I was good at pretending I watched the movie when they go, “Hey remember that part? Did you notice that…”

Macam Macam Ada

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I went to the Macam Macam Ada gig last Saturday. Here’s to more pictures!

From left to right, then down a line:

  • Khai‘s little toy is little-r than I thought.
  • Adam of Dragon Red… on bass guitar for Lied! That makes three bassists in that band already, including Amil for Warve.
  • Paul’s New Place has a skylight.
  • Outwrite; two guitarists, one bassist, one drummer, two photographers.
  • Ceramic Circle: Emo punk and a guitarist whose strap-holder broke. Funny thing is they say he looked like a hobbit. Really! The face and the curly hair! Emo bands also seem to have badly-pitched vocals. Or maybe it’s hard to scream and sing at the same time.

  • Az Samad takes a lot more poetic license in this rock gig; he jumps, he rocks out, he does a slow building intro, and he wows the Singaporeans.
  • Thank you and goodnight!
  • Daisy Chain, with pretty guitars. And some pretty good rock.
  • Where is everyone getting their Ebows from? Woh Fatt doesn’t sell them anymore.


Eddy is finally a true blue green rock star. Incredible! Plus he plays mean harmonica with the new cast of Triple 6 Poser (whatever happened to the name change, people?)

  • Twelve-string guitars need three hands to tune.
  • My Squared Circle was a much better sounding emo band; the vocals were in tune (or maybe the vocalist was singing to an easier style of emo). They were also chewing gum! Even the vocalist! Maybe that helps. Emo bands probably chew gum and face their butts to the audience, flashing their underwear brands.
  • Poseidon, featuring kickass flashy shredder. Cool scales and double tapping on one guitar, as well as two guitarists tapping!
  • Deja Voodoo was the only band that could follow such skill. Sadly, Rithan lost the locks that made him look like Dimebag Darrel. Yes Fazri, that is two Thundercats logos on his guitar.
  • The Blumps were cursed as a finishing act as I was broke and had to hitch a ride with Hannna.

Well yeah end of story. Not.


It’s the end of the world! The haze came down for a visit on Tuesday. I couldn’t stop myself from taking loads of pictures. It was like Genting, but smelling of smoke instead.

August Gigs

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What: Uh, a Hartamas Square gig?
When: 8pm Thursday August 4th 2005
Where: Hartamas Square
Who: Broken Scar, Soft Touch, Flatline
How much: Free I suppose, just buy a drink and plop yourself in one of those seats

What: Acoustic guitar workshop with Az Samad and vocal workshop with Shelley Leong
When: 2-4pm Sunday 7th August 2005
Where: The Music Hut, Bandar Damansara Perdana; call 03-77109198 or 012-6510445 for bookings.
Who: Az Samad and Shelley Leong
How much: RM10

What: Spirit Of Independence
When: 4pm Sunday 7th August 2005
Where: Paul’s New Place
Who: Dragon Red, NAO, Furniture, Shelley Leong, Soft Touch, Tempered Mental, Y2K, Cosmic Funk Express, Jasemaine and X-cited Screamers
How much: RM12 and you get a free wristband while stocks last

What: Rock Around The Clock (or Poseidon’s album launch. Kickass shredding!)
When: 6pm Friday 12th August 2005
Where: Paul’s New Place
Who: Borange, Inverted Coma, Vineyard, Fuselage, Stonebay, Warve, Poseidon, Frequency Cannon, Vespertine, Cosmic Funk Express, Beat The System, Infiltrated
How much: RM15 and you get one free drink

What: Mont Kiara Jazz Fest
When: 10pm Friday 12th August 2005
Where: Sunrise Plaza Mont Kiara
Who: Cosmic Funk Express, Outrageous
How much: You can sit in front for free or buy an expensive alcoholic drink and have a seat.

What: The Fretboard Menace
When: 8pm Friday 26th August 2005
Where: KL JamAsia, No. 19-1, Jalan 22A/70A, Plaza Crystalville, Desa Sri Hartamas
Who: Az Samad, Cosmic Funk Express, Deja Voodoo Spells (and they’ll do a G3-style bit at the end! I wonder who the bassist and drummer will be, though…)
How much: RM15 with a free drink; first 20 females get in free.

The reason why I advertise these gigs is because that might actually help instead of telling people how they missed a great performance. And yes, I’m going for all of them. I’ve also been roped in to take pictures for Irene (who will then pass it to the New Straits Times newspaper) so if you wanna appear in the newspaper, look for me and I’ll make you famous. It might help if you looked like you were rocking out. Yes I admit that my digital camera’s picture quality isn’t that great but it was used to take that big mugshot of Frequency Cannon in NST. (Well the photographer ran out of batteries so he borrowed mine…)

The only shaky plans are the acoustic guitar workshop (until I master the art of teleportation) and the jazz fest (since I’ve already seen Cosmic Funk Express and have to take pictures…) Why can’t they have the jazz fest clumped up into a nice Friday night like last year’s, when all the bands I wanted to see all played the same night?

Goodbye Red Sky

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I was on the LRT to Bangsar when I saw this:


Goodbye, red sky. The end of the world is near.
Into tripods we fly. Black void of death we fear.
We satisfy the thirst like our blood was beer.
But you choke and you die and we live to cheer.


This effect was done with Vivid color settings, +2 EV, and ISO 400 sensitivity. There was no color or brightness adjustment; only resize and sharpen! Interestingly, the pillars look like they were negative; this is because of the moss on top that made it look inverted.

Maybe Blank

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So I can’t register an account without a company letter. How did I get my own ATM card when I was 16, then?

So I’ve gotta register nearest to my company. I don’t have a car or the time to go to Putrajaya. And Putrajaya isn’t that near Bukit Jalil is it?

So I couldn’t hear the guy mumbling behind the glass. Does that warrant a “aiii budak ni” as I took a seat? (Funny how I could hear him then.)

They screw up the bank cheque by misspelling the receiver’s name. (I realized this later.) I wanted to transfer funds into an account (I provided the account number) but she made me a cheque to mail to them. Obviously both of us were confused, and so I asked if they had any service to send it to them. Does that warrant a “isssh budak ni kurang ajar” as I walked away, still within earshot?

The one day I decide to do business with this bank, you have lousy service. Some people don’t go to the bank often. Remember that we aren’t familiar with your procedures.

So I got in a taxi. The guy was filling up a form. He asked where I came from. I told him my story.

And now, the narration is from the old Chinese taxi driver:

FACK THEM LAH! Back in the days before ticket numbers, I was queueing up for over half an hour. The counters were busy chatting away and taking their own sweet time to count their money. So I shouted

Peels

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So I slept at 11pm Monday, and 11:30pm Tuesday. Accomplishment!

The rest of this is a majorly procrastinated post.

Back in the days of school, I used to sleep a solid 8 hours. Yeah, I was proud of it then. Getting into work and college and online addictivity got me on 6 to 2 hours of sleep. 🙁

Jenifur once wondered why time seemed to pass much faster now.

I attribute it to sleepiness. Back in school everyone was good and sober and came home in the afternoon and went to sleep at 10pm and remembered how to program their VCR to record late night talk shows.

Nowadays we’re complaining and being proud of staying awake for 48 hours, but for what? We’re comparing eyebags and dunking teabags like it was a good thing.

Time goes faster when you’re sleepy.

I can’t even sleep past 10 hours! When I do get enough sleep, I find the day to be slower because everything is more vivid and I’m more aware of the time slowly creeping. Waiting for/in public transport is a chore only when you’re wide awake. Smelly people and pervy oppurtunists only bother you when you’re wide awake. Don’t worry about missing your stop; routine will make your body clock instinctively wake you up one stop before.

I have a digital watch that has a countdown timer and a stopwatch so I will be awakened when I reach the bus stop. So what if you old fogeys think analogue watches are more classy, I value practicality and punctuality. Or I’m too sleepy to care.

I am now wide awake, and I can tell you this: Heightened consciousness is a real bother.

Why, It’s A Beautiful Ring…tone

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I received a ringtone last night, at 9pm. I accidentally pressed the right soft key of my Nokia 3350 and it was gone! I frantically searched my Tones menu for a way to retrieve it, and at least thank whoever it is who sent it for the ringtone. Unfortunately it was nowhere to be found.

I went to sleep wondering who this mystery ringtone sender was. Was she my secret admirer?

I woke up the next morning, and I received another ringtone. It was titled “Beautiful“. I saved it, but there was no way to know who my secret admirer was!

Ah well, some of you with good old Nokias might be able to reconstruct it and find out what song this is:

Tempo: 180 bpm

32d2 16.e3 8d1 32d2 16.- 8c3 32d2 16.- 8g1
32g1 8- 32d2 16.- 32g1 16.e2 8g1 32g1 16.a2
8g1 32g1 8- 32d2 16.- 32g1 8- 32d2 8- 32g1
16.g2 8e3 32d2 16.d3 8c1 32c2 16.g1 32g1 8-
32d2 16.- 32g1 16.e2 8g1 32g1 16.a2 8g1 32g1
8- 32c2 16.- 32g1

Yes, it’s monophonic. None of that fancy polyphonic stuff.