My woman rocks! But the stupid camera is loose. Bloody hell!!!!

7 1/2 hours to go to interview and I'm still awake. Why no sleep? Must be Jebediah's fault :P Jeb rocks

need...

...move.

...bike.

...holiday.

...job.

Want!

Damn you washing machine!!!!!

Your Band Name is:

The Stinky Ninjas

Band Name Generator

So true! So true!!!!

It's peanut butter jelly time! Let's all do the dance!

What the hell?! I'm been constantly screwed over. That's fucked up man. Fucked up. Fuckers.

Sigh. Wish.

ROAR!!!!!

Someone call SMCA. Monster abuse!

Zap zap zap. why not suck suck suck. I'd buy that. hahahahaha

Dude! Dude!!!!!!! DOODE!!!

Wahahaha!!!! Pfttttttlurp!

No rock n roll is so boring lor. Ya lame-o but it really is. Sat hopefully can really get to jam. Hope this line up will really rock cos I'm sick and tired of uninterested and passionless people and starting over and over and over again. I just wanna start, not stop and keep going. I miss rocking it out on stage, trying to figure out what's that note that makes everything sound right, bugging people to come to my gigs and sub-conciously flirting away with everyone to get their contacts in my pathetic attempt to get more people who never heard of local music before to check it out and give us a chance (or actually check US out :P), begging and slutting the band to everyone I know and pimping it to organizers to score gigs, having an album that I can safely sell or give away proudly and know we're still around and not hiatus-ing, knowing we always have a gig on standby to tell anyone who asks or anyone I talk to, or rather who would listen to me rant, to come check us out at so and so and then mass SMSing to everyone in my phonebook to come check us out (again) and thus overloading my free SMS and having to pay $100+ for my phonebill for JUST SMSes, lugging loads of stuff to gigs to archive the performance on audio and video and trying to gather emails for a mailing list that was never used. Sigh. Disheartened is the word.

Guess I'll put playing guitars aside for now and stick to rocking it out with my bass. My lovely sweet bass. Oh it's been ages since I've last caressed you. Since I last banged you. Literally. I think the last time was Stasis 8. Or was it the DXO gig? Hmmm...Back on track, guess guitars will have to wait till I can find something that fits. I'm actually seriously considering dumping all my guitar stuff and just stick to bass but...guitars are fun too. Not that I'm any good at it, or the bass for that matters, but it's so fun to mess around with funny chords and funky effects. So fun to lug around heavy cases of pedals and spend ages setting it up for a jam let alone gig. Unlike bass where you just plug and wait by the side while everyone takes forever to set-up. Miss is another word.

I shall be called Miss Disheartened.

I'm dreaming of another band. And another. And another. And another. There's no end. And since most everyone isn't enthusiastic enough to feed my drive for performing live, I have to create as many opportunities as I can. I just want to play. Luckily I don't play drums. Unluckily I don't sing.

Anyway...stolen..

--- ADVERTISTMENT ---

A new "just-for-fun" side project band is forming in the horizon and we still need some HR work. Female drummer found. Female guitarist found. Male bassist found. Searching for male vocalist. We are balancing the forces so we don't look like a half-baked all-girl band or something. Think Von Bondies or Kaito. So any boys out there who would love to sing for a no-frills-straight-up-we-will-rock-you band? I suggested rock singing, but male bassist said "anyhow singing" suits better.

Friday The 13th. Not such a great day after all. Paul of Garage Studio and the drummer of Sleeve fame passed away. Cause of death still unknown but he was found dead at Garage itself. It was said that he died in his sleep. I frequent Garage Studios a lot. Mainly 'cos I finish late from work most of the time and it's one of the coolest and cheapest and most convenient place for a midnight jam.I went for his wake and his funeral. The mood was so sombre at his wake. Those who came just sat around. No one talked. It was so quiet. His funeral was sad too. Heard he was the only son. His parents were really strong. 'Cept his grandma who was crying for him at his funeral. When his body was cremated, we all tried to be as strong as we could. But as his coffin slowly entered into the crematorium, his dad waved goodbye to him. It was too much to handle and I just had to cry for him. It was a very sad moment. He shall be missed dearly.

Paul was a great guy. Always friendly. Very polite. Super humble. He was a great drummer too. Just looking at the way he played and you could tell. His strokes. The way he played. The way he controlled his sticks. The way he played with dynamics. It was mesmorizing watching him play. I only really saw him play for the first time at Stasis 8 and I couldn't keep my eyes off him. That Sunday we had a brief chat. Thursday I just messaged him to book a studio for Sunday. Friday he passed away.

We're trying to organize a gig in memory of him. Do come to lend your support even if you do not know him well.

Here's to Paul.

THIS is Johnny Zero

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/eyes/johnny_zero.html

I like. Very Guy Ritchie. Very Snatch. Very cool. Like. Like. Like. Thursday late nights or rather Friday very early morning. Watch. Don't sleep. Before that there's a series of cartoons. Can't remember the names. The Amercian Guy I think and something else. What's it Bid? Catnip. hahahahaha...

I guess the series didn't really survive but I liked the pilot. What a waste.

Egon's sleeping on my lap again. Only he sleeps on me. Even when I'm sleeping. On my chest. On my side. Slut! Mojo just disappears. Cool thing is they're my wake up call. Every morning around 7am without fail they'll fight (playfully) on my bed and start nibbling on my leg and toes. Grrr.....! Why can't they fight somewhere else. By the time I throw them out of my room I'm up already. Which usually is TOO DARN EARLY!!!

Ahhh...Friday the 13th. I love Friday the 13th. It's just so...special.

Egon and Mojo are so funny. Whenever I'm in the toilet, theycomewhinning at the door for me. Trying to get under the door. And ifI'mtaking too long, they'll go to the shower cubicle and wait for meinthe corner. Hello! I'm taking a dump here!

Mojo's actingthequeen now. Only looking for affection when Egon's not around.WhenEgon's around, she's all like, "Hey! I'm cool. I don't need anyofthose childish, immature things." But when Egon is sleeping or notinthe vicinity, she's all, "Suckle! Cuddle! Me! Me! Me!" Egon ontheother hand is just a slut. Always wanting attention. Always wantingtolie on your lap. Always eating. Sounds familiar. hahahaha!

Gottafinda way to keep Mojo off the table. She's all queen like andalwayswanting to perch on higher ground. Always trying daring stuntswhichEgon would then follow. Like balancing on the kitchen chair'sback-restover looking out into the street and trying to climb out ofthe windowfrom the ground. Bad influence!

Gotta raise money tobring themto the vet. It's way past their checkup/vaccination date butI'm sosuper broke. Just paid $441 for my starhub phone bill and I stilloweM1 close to $200. ARGH! I'll never get my bike at this rate. I soneedit. Transport is killing me especially since I'm travelling quitealot. I so need a better paying job with better hours. I can'tsurviveon my current salary and there's so much more I wanna and cando. I'mso definitely worth more than what I'm getting paid. Guess I'llhave togrit my teeth and just wing it. In the meantime try to do moreandsleep less. Anyway i've been sleeping past 3am almost everydayforquite some time already.

Johnny Zero rocks!

T'was the day I got up finally after lying in bed and refusing to wake up for as long as I can.
T'was the day that although it's afternoon but my day has just started and I'm already bored.
T'was the day i'm too fucking lazy to do anything even though I have stuff to do.
T'was the day.

Current weekend plans.

- Jam on New years for Samanta and Vs Subway Stars
- Jam day after New years for Samanta and Vs Subway Stars
- Coming weekend. Gig, gig, and more gigs.
- Illegal jam till it's Super.
- Gig again.
- Chinese New Year and work
- Feb.

What the hell?!! So fast?! Guess I'll Diablo till my headache disappears.

Like all my christmas (and birthday) traditions. I bought myself a TV and a DVD player as a gift. 21" TV and DVD player (which had some problems, need to send it for repairs bloody hell!!! Lucky got warrenty.). guess how much i paid for it? guess again. Less than $250 for the lot! Whooo!!!! My kittens are abit crazy too. They keep lying in the kitty litter like it's some kinda bed. IT'S KITTY LITTER!!! IT'S YOUR TOILET!!!!

The gig at Hideout was not bad. Suprisingly it turned out to be much better than expected. Pat one-man-show was excellent too. That's the reason why I want to just play. The Bidster sang beautifully. She hasn't in awhile cos she was sick during most of our past few gigs. Even Joe Ng said she sang great. Finally people get to see what I've been raving about that the Bidster can really sing. And with no training or past experience whatsoever! I'm so right. In your face everyone! I know a Janis when i see one. I love Janis. Bless her soul. She opened a whole new world to me.

You know what I did today? I went to get cat food for the kits and with the Bidster's advice, got them something special just for treats. Got them IAMS to mix with their regular cheapo Friskies (Cos I cheapo. I'm actually just barely surviving on my measly pay. I owe starhub $400+ *hangs head*). After staring for a long time, as per how I normally shop, and eyeing IAMS for kittens rather than Science Diet for kittens, I grabbed a pack and paid for it. Only after the gig and like 5:50am in the morning after packing abit here and there, I discovered I bought IAMS for little (1 year +). WTF!!!!!!!!!!! Stupid moron!!! CB!!!! 1,2,3!!! Kao!!!! What the hell???!!!! Now I gotta go get another pack cos it's eating at me for what a dumbass I am. Plus anyway I gotta get somemore Friskies for kittens. There isn't any left at Mustafa. Dude, It's cheaper there. Maann, I'm spending more money on the kits for food than I am on myself.

I so need to work out.

Yo Flytrap! What's your home address? Wanna send you something. Thought you'd might like it. Drop me a mail. Holiday down under anytime? Feel like it. Send me pics of your bike too.

Welcome to my new thing.

"Are you horny enough?"

The world sickens me. All these riots, protest, murders, wars, wannabes, messengers....in the last wat? 5 years? No. 2 years? No...year? there's more shit than when Mask was playing at 630pm just before the 7 o'clock news. Like they say...Spread The Love. A little bit here. A little bit there. Forget the unhappiness. Forget the anger. Forget the bitchiness. Forget everything. Just be happy. Just love abit. And spread it. Like Kaya. Hoochie Mama!

Yesterday felt like a Sunday. A Sunday and I have to go to work on a Sunday kinda day. But it was only Saturday. Worst still, the Sudnday and I have to go to work on a Sunday kinda day is actually today. Deja Vu to reality.

Here's something for you from BD "My dream girl gave me nightmares" (or something like that) and from D.V. "I just came my face off...so hard"

Oh. Did I tell you I've got another kitten? His name is Egon. Pics and video!

Was at Barnone last night. When I left, I still had some beer in my bottle left and I didn't want to leave it behind, so I decided to take it with me. I mean, why not? Just as I walked out of Barnone, some guy, I don't even know if he was the bouncer or not but he sure as hell didn't looked or dressed like one, stopped me and told me that drinks are not allowed outside even though I told him that I was going home. Not like I'm gonna go to The Living Room or the lobby and gets pissed drunked on half a bottle of beer and starts trashing the place with my ONE bottle. His friend then proceeded to tell me that if I wanna take it out, I should go to the bar and get the bartender to transfer the beer to a paper cup. Like, WTF mate?! Think what? Coffee shop ah? Why not put it in a plastic bag with a straw? I mean, come on, I paid for the fucking drink. It's mine and I have every right to walk out with it. And I was freaking going home. So did not make my day. nn

Here's a little song for you guys. Remember it?

"I always give you chocolate, I give you my tic-tac
But now you got some kit-kat, you never give m back!
Why you so like dat ah? Oh why you so like dat ah?"

I feel restricted. I dont't really like what I'm doing. Or rather, I want to and can do alot of things. But I'm restricted. I don't have enough resources to do it. Ok. mainly money but money IS a resource. I mean manpower, ideas, venues, equipment, logistics, whatever, no prob. I can work around that. But money. That I can't do. Actually I can but i need a good start first. So far, not very good. Instead of being able to snowball, it just melts.

I don't really like what i'm doing. I wanna do more with less. Most of the stuff are just an act. An act like how an actor (or actress. can?) would act in a different way because it's part of their profession. It's all an act.

i should be happy but I'm not really am. Maybe soon. think it'll clear up in awhile.

Screw all these. i WILL do more. Just wait and see. Cheeseburger. 1 2 3. Always something new. Never ending.

I got a cat! More of a kitten actually. 2 weeks old I think. Natalie's bf found it and asked if anyone wanted it and I said, why not? Actually I just wanted to check her (the kitten) out but whatt he hey. Her name is Mojo cos if you look closely, the 'M' on her forehead is pretty obvious. Now I can say things like, "Hey, wanna check my Mojo out?" LOL! Any other Mojo-ness you can think off? Just leave a comment. Pics for the masses.

Sometimes,
it hurts,
it's hard to breath,
and there's no one to talk to.

On the other hand, *weak smile*, The Furniture SIngapore Tour is coming up pretty nicely. Check out the following websites below for details but it's basically...

Malaysian post-rock veterans Furniture are back, in support of their mesmerizing album Twilight Chases the Sun. Come soak in their lush, ambient sounds at the Substation Guinness Theatre on Sunday, 27th Nov, 6pm onwards. Supporting acts KLPHQ (KL), Life Without Dreams and The Subway Stars. $8 at the door.

Be sure to be part of this one night only headlining event, which promises to feature some of the most reknown up and coming local and Malaysian bands in the experimental/post-rock music circuit. Supporting acts are KLPHQ (aka the Kuala Lumpur Post-Harmonic Quintet) and local artistes Life Without Dreams and The Subway Stars. Sunday 27th Nov, Substation Guinness Theatre. $8 at the door, 6pm onwards. For more info go to www.earsofa.com/tour.html.

Furniture will also be playing acoustic preview showcases at Prince Of Wales Backpackers Hostel (Friday 25th Nov) and Earshot @ The Arts House (Saturday 26th Nov) with guest opening bands (Soon to be announced).
For fans of The Flaming Lips, My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, John Cage and Bjork, this is a show you can?t afford to miss. Mark your calendars for 27th Nov and reserve a seat in the ambient aural sofa that of Furniture.

For more info and updates on  the Furniture Singapore Tour 2005 dates, refer to www.earsofa.com/tour.html

Official Organisers
Voideck Music
www.voideck.com

Platform The Label
www.platformthelabel.blogspot.com

note: Will edit this later. Not in the right mood.

Hey look! No one! Yay! -_-

Bloody hell! I wanna go on a holiday but I can't afford it. I wanna go back to Sydney but I'm broke. Even if I'm not, I can't raise enough money to fly. I have to save for a year. A whole year scrimping and starving just to fly. Damn it. The rich get to go everywhere and cool off and come back with their heads cleared and become more efficient in work and earn more money. The poor on the other hand gets stuck here struggling and unable to take a break and never get to earn more. Hate!!!!

Rambling on...

Whatever you're looking for will never be at the first place you look at. It will always be at the last. Like in a library. Go through all the shelves and you won't find it. Only in the very last shelf then you will. Happened to me. Twice! Stupid laws of finding.

I was at the cemetary paying respects to my grandparents on All Souls' Day and I passed this guy who was reciting the Hail Mary while I was looking for my Grandma's grave. Naturally, my brain started to follow the prayer and recited together with the guy. And a though came across, like it or not, prayer is actually very powerful. When someone says it out loud, anyone (who's familiar with the prayer, usually of the same religion) who hears it automatically starts to run it thru their head. Take the Hail Mary or The Lord's Prayer for example. Thus if one person is chanting and 10 person hears it, it's actually 11 people reciting the prayer. Or something like that.

In the bus today, TV mobile was on and some TCS chinese drama was on. I've seen this particular drama series before but not that episode, but it was the same thing. Crying, shouting, fighting. Chinese drama series are just sick. I'm sure there's more to a family's life than shouting, screaming, fighting, and crying if something goes wrong. Whatever happened to talking things out proerly. A decent conversation. When there's a problem at home, life for example, your kid coming home way pass his curfew, instead of asking why, we immediately shout and scream at them and start threatening with the cane etc. It's so chinese. Maybe that's why we chinese are so uptight. Too much influences by the drama series. Then again, I'm more influenced by the western way of life than chinese upbringing so...

This is so boring. There's nothing to do at work. Everyone is on leave. Super long but stupid holiday. It's Sunday, then Monday work. Tuesday holiday. Wednesday work. Thursday holiday, Friday work. And the weekends. Should have taken leave but there's nothing to do also and I'm broke on the 2nd day of the month. Excellent. Hence the mindless rambling that doesn't even make sense. Boring!!!!

Getting to sleep is hard nowadays.

Argh! I'm a fustrated musician!!!! I want it all. Siting around waiting for muse to hit you takes forever. Looking for muse never works. Just doing it isn't helping. Influences are confusing. Everything I hear is my influence. Everything I hear I like. But liking everything is like mixing colors with whites in a washing machine. Outcome is never good. In the end, the clothes are left hanging around stinking. I need a washing machine badly. I'm too lazy to hand wash. Blarg! I could do with a fridge and a stove or hotplate and a frying pan while I'm at it. I miss making pancakes with ice-cream. A bottle of whiskey would be nice too while chilling. Rambling on like a rambling man. Oh how I wish, how I wish. I'm so broke it's not funny anymore. Again. Money sucks. Should I just drop everything? Tempting. Tempting. But I don't have the guts to. Sigh. Coward.

1 year 4 months down the drain. Had my first fag after a long "break". No diff leh. Nothing special. Though the only time it was worth it was when I was outfield in the freaking mosquito infected, damp jungle. And I only had one stick left. Flarg! (I gave my 2nd one to my signaller cos he was out too.)

Well, reservist is almost over. Nights off today, out-pro morrow. I guess I won't be cmoking anymore after that. This year's ICT was...was...was...I dunno. I just went thru it with a dazed stae of mind. Just stoning my way thru. I can't even remember most of the guy's names or the drills or the commands, but I managed to bluff my way thru and still did my drills and mini-mission pretty well. :P I so rock \m/. I basically went to this ICt with only one state-of-mind. Chill. I did alot of lepaking. It's nice catching up with the rest, recalling stories and memories that happened 5 years ago. Everytime we meet up, it's always the same stories, and we always have a good laugh about it. Army life is fun. I would say in some weird sense I do miss it, but it's not something I would do full-time. 2 1/2 years is enough crazy-jungle-regimental-disciplinary fun. The yearly in-camp does do good bringing everyone together though i think it'll be more cool they they chill abit on the discipline like let us keep our hair :P

Here comes October. It'll be a fun month and more relaxing as compared to September. Crazy!!!!! Blarg!

Tomorrow. Actually in 2 hours time, I leave for reservist. I'm looking forward to the getaway from the normal stuff I'm doing. Not to say I find what I'm doing now a drag, but sometimes it's good to go off somewhere without any "worries". It's not like a holiday where you go and chill but still keep an eye on your bank account to see if you've over spent, unless you're loaded lah, or something. This time, you have to go. No excuse. You can drop your work just like that and you don't have to fake an MC or something. You just go and no one can say anything about.

Anyway, my current, or should I say then, hairstyle is obviously unacceptable for reservist so I had to cut it. Really didn't know what to do. To go crew-gel-up-all-spikey look? safe-short-back-and-sides look? Or a neat-combed-neatly look. Hmmm...didn't know so last night, I just shaved my head. Boy it isn't as easy as it looks on the TV or in the movies. It's not just put a shaver to the head and shave away. I couldn't event get a proper shave. Had to cut everything short, then run the shaver thru, then cut again, then shave. And even then, I couldn't get it all even. Maybe it's cos I got a shitty shaver. Anyway, I'm like a bloody recruit now man. hahaha. Recruit with a paunch. 2 hrs to reservist and I haven't packed. I should, but I feel lazy. Oh well. Guess there won't be any sleeping tonight.

I haven't picked up the papers or followed the news in days. Petrol prices went sky high and I was going thru sunday's papers reading the article about saving on fuel. There was this section about petrol saving tips.

One of the tips said : Close your windows. An open window adds drag and increases fuel consumption by up to 5 per cent
The next one says: Turn off the air-con unless it is sweltering. It is a major pertrol guzzler

What the fuck do they want! Us to asphyxiate in the car???!!! Wah kao!!!

Come on down to POW this coming Thursday. 25th of Aug. Samanta and The Leaven Trait will be bringing the house down with their all out power madness. The stage will fry and your beer will turn warm just by watching them. Come feel the heat. And drink faster. Seeing is believing.

Live and Loud at the Prince of Wales Pub.
101 Dunlop Street. Little India. Behind Tekka Mall.

25th Aug.
930pm - Samanta
1030pm - The Leaven Trait

www.pow.com.sg
www.platformthelabel.blogspot.com
www.egopop.blogspot.com
www.theleaventrait.blogspot.com

Up coming events

You know what's fucking irritating? That's fucking irritating. Can't people get the hint? It's so bloody obvious. Autistic I tell you. Autistic!

Oh. I just spent almost a hundred buck setting up my bass and getting new strings. Hope Dean Markleys are as good on basses as on guitars. Mark did an excellent job doing up my bass. Everything feels so much smoother. But I haven't played it yet since I brought it home. I'm a lazy fucker. I just realized I left my cloth with Mark. Oh well. I guess it's time to get a new one. Hope the feel of the bass I got straight after setup wasn't a high but actually feels that way. Happens to me all the time. And I usually just leave it in the bag till jam or gig so will only know on Wed when Samanta is jamming (the only day we're, or rather, I'm free).

You know what day is it today? A boring day. Actually, yesterday and today were like, the most boring day ever. So bored that everything was boring. Even stoning or sleeping or just standing there staring was boring. So bored that I actually succumbed and downloaded Java games on my handphone wasting $20. Should have spent that money to pay for my fine instead. Bloody hell!!!


In case you can't see it clearly. The gig's on the 6th of Aug at the Substation Guiness Theatre. $8. 3pm till late.
Samanta will be playing at 520pm. But do come by 5pm. You know how things are.
ArPee will be playing at 630pm. They're really a good band.

I hope I can save up enough money by next year so I can drop everything and run around stark naked. Figurative speaking off course. But it'll be nice to be able to run care-free. Right now. There are so many things being tied down and are tying down. Anything that needs to be done or wants doing has to be approached with rocket science calculation and precise precision engineering. Even the pockets are weight down even though the wallet is empty.

The past few weeks/months so far has been busy in some sense. Work, band, session, gigs, trying to get my act together with the label. Can't say I haven't been enjoying myself, but I wish I can be 23 again. Why 23? I don't know. Maybe cos 27 DOES seem abit old now that you look at it and looking at the stuff that's needs doing and being done. But if you look slighty to the left, it's just one straight line without a start or end point. You just keep going and try to keep your balance as well as you possibly can.

What the hell?! I have the new Foo Fighters album and I'm not listening to it. What the fuck am I doing?????!!!!!!

Argh! All my slack clothes are in the wash. Not even a singlet. I'm just gonna wear nothing.

Sometimes....just sometimes.....

What will God say to you when you die?
Name
Age
Religion
You will say:	AWESOME! They didn't catch me!
He will say:	You forgot the pepperoni
How much do you deserve to be in heaven? - 55%
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It seems God likes pepperoni a lot cos that's what he/she said to the Bidster too. Hell (maybe not the right word to use now), I like pepperoni too. Maybe that will score me some brownie (or rather, pepperoni) points. Lame-O!

It seems God likes pepperoni a lot cos that's what he/she said to the Bidster too. Hell (maybe not the right word to use now), I like pepperoni too. Maybe that will score me some brownie (or rather, pepperoni) points. Lame-O!

I have every reason to smoke and no reason not to. Why shouldn't I?

Man...Fender Jazz basses are just downright unbelieveable fucking sexy man. They just are. No matter how, who or what, it just oozes with sex appeal. The nice thin neck, the cool curvey headstock, the contoured body. uhhh.....orgasmic orgasms man. uh....

Excellent. Oh just excellent. 'Cos of the events leading up to today where I just KOed some, I've been wearing the same tee shirt for 4 days in a row. Plus I sprained my ankle taking my socks off. Excellent man. Simple excellent.

Aw man...the video of Samanta at POW on Friday didn't turn out well. To much inter-lacing from previous shoots. And it was one of Samanta's best gigs with nicely dressed dressings, high energy impact songs and crazy monkey flying stints with mad orgasmic orgys moves. Or as The Bidster coins, It's not Samanta but Sex-manta.

Lesson:
- Never re-use your old tapes.
- Always use new tapes.
- Always test.
- Always clean.

Injury list from the last 2 Samanta gigs on the 8th and 17th.
- Bruised bottom right hand from hammering my bass with my fist. (8th)
- Bruised just below right thumb from I don't know what (17th)
- Sprained left middle finger from I don't know what either (17th)

I wonder how many injuries I'll clock from Samanta's next gig. It's gonna be on the 23rd. *wink wink* Man.... I love my bass.

So get your ears ready everyone because it's gonna be another crazy weekend.
23rd Samanta at Youth Park
24th Eugene's Moment of Truth at Prince of Wales pub.

I need to learn more dance moves.

Sometimes, all you wanna do is just give up. You wonder to yourself,"Why do you keep going on?" Amd you don't know the answer.

"It's times like these you learn to live again
It's times like these you give and give again
It's times like these you learn to love again
It's times like these time and time again "
- Times like these - Foo Fighters

Here we go again. It's been around 2 years and the feeling is back. I can't describe it and I don't I'll try. At least not now. It's like deja vu. Everything is so similar. But I don't think it'll ever work out. Why? Because everything is so similar that it'll probably be just the same. I'm sorry for those I've hurt but this is different. It actually is so similar that it's scary. Did I mention that it's very close to the same thing? Ok. I'll let some out. It's about a girl. It always is.

Ok. I finally cleaned up my haircut thanks to the Bidster Now all I gotta do is lose weight (slack!) and get new glasses (broke!). But i just got freaking fined $70 for illegal parking. The whole buncha bikes got fined too. Damn! That's a lot of money.

Come down to the Prince of Wales pub this Friday 17th June. It could be one of Samanta's last few gigs. NS is calling.

Conversation between Willaim The Sixty-Ninth and me on msn....

William The Sixty-Ninth - Where You End and Batman Begins... says:
what plans u have to take over the world?

plasticblackspecs says:
first, i'm gonna clean up my hair cut.

plasticblackspecs says:
then I'm gonna lose some weight, get rid of my flabby tummy so I can fit into my jeans again, and then get new plasticblackspecs

It was just meant to be a passing comment but after I said that, that's so what I need to do man. Freaking tummy! And no! No matter what you all say, it's not a beer belly. It's from the constant siting around, constant snacking, many lunches in one day and many moments on the couch at work (sleeping lah!)

Samanta @ Hideout was great. I couldn't really hear my bass (which was a turn-off) as the amp wasn't powerful enough and it was being overdriven and the guitars were abit too soft. But nonetheless, it was fun and at the end of the gig, I was totally shacked out and just sat there on the floor looking like some drunk fuck who passed out.

Right now, my current state of mind can only be described as..."could do with a nice hug and close sit next to each other at the kerb by the petrol kiosk talking about sweet crap and drinking soft drinks and eating rubbish" It's one of those days where for the first time, you have nothing to do after work and you're just staying at home contemplating about where everything is going. Like everythng has been either done already, finished, or not worth doing. But that's just for now. Tomorrow will be a brand new day and shit is gonna happen again. And when shit happens, things get busier and the fun starts again. Oh. And did I mention I got a hair-cut?

So far, from as far as I can remember, my state of mind has always been to just chill and relax, stay happy (cept when I'm at home) and not get pissed. So far it has been working real well and everything just falls in place. But sometimes a Zen like mind (wahhh!!!!!) doesn't cut it and anger is the only emotion that'll work for me. It doesn't happen very often but now is that sometimes. Why and what about? Some things are best left unexplained cos they're unexplained-able but a little pouring of the soul usually solves the problem. And hence here's a little of my soul.

Haven't had a chance to really post anything. Mind's a bit blank with all that's happening so far but just a quickie. TAGS was real fun though there could have been more work done on noise control. Next time. PnP CDs are slowly being sold so if you want a copy. SHOUT!!!! Only limited 200 copies out there. Hahahaha...

Things are going real well with SAMANTA though they're taking the ego part of ego pop abit too seriously :P but it'll all work out after awhile. It always does. Just needs more practice and more rockstar on stage. Maybe I'll taking up dancing and exercise more so I don't drain myself out half way thru the set. It's fun to watch SAMANTA on stage. You should come the next time they play. They got a website now too. http://egopop.blogspot.com

E.M.O.T. is trying to get their ass together but we've all been busy with work. But finally we'll be siting down to see what's next for us. But you know EMOT. Just like the nature of teh members, we're all slackers man. And when I say slackers, I actually mean lay-zee. Whee!!!! EMOT should be playing a couple of gigs in June. Do drop by too. Why? Free stuff! dig in your kiasu side and come get 'em.

Opps! There's goes my mind again. Blank. But do come down tonight to Barnone for Barnone sessions organized by the Aging Youth guys. It's Funk night. Ugly in the Morning, Throb and Dancing Nancies. It'll be grooving! Come have a pint with me. Us. Everyone. Blarg! Just come!

Toots and woots!

T.A.G.S.!
The Art of Gear Stomping

Less is more but more is still more. Queries have been targeted towards musicians by both musicians and non-musicians: “Why do you need so many pedals? All you need is maybe 2 or 3 but 12?!” Well, finally, here at the snug and friendly gallery of the Substation, pedal dealers from Singapore are here to show you why. The Art Of Gear Stomping is a showcase of different guitar pedal effects and the sounds they make, featuring brands such as Catalinbread, Z-Vex, George Dennis, MoogerFooger, Line 6, Visual Sound and Fulltone to name a few. Brought to you by the following dealers…

-­ Mr.Misse
-­ Wake Me Up Music
-­ Fierce Design
-­ City Music Pte. Ltd.
-­ Empty71
-­ JM Guitars
Also includes Modders and used gear.

Also for the very first time in Singapore, a clinic by our very own local musicians, Daniel Sasson of Electrico, Wendy Phua of Zhen, Linda Ong of Lunarin, Fuzz of Phorous and IF, Seng Woei Yuan of The Love Experiment, Muhammad Alkhatib of Astreal and Nick Chan of MUON, The Death of Cinema and Astreal. These musicians will be displaying their effects and will show us why and how they incorporate the use of guitar effects in their music.

Date and Time: 21st May 2005 2pm – 8pm
Venue: The Substation Gallery
Tickets: $2 per entry

TAGS is a collaboration by PLATFORM and MISSE Electronics and supported by Aging Youth Production and SUBSTATION

For more information, go to:
www.platformthelabel.blogspot.com
www.mrmisse.com
www.agingyouth.com
www.substation.org

The whole day I've been feelingthe effect of post-performances. Besides being tired. I SOOOoooo wanna gig again. The feeling of performing live in front of a crowd is just toooo.....exhilarating? to describe. Don't talk about the crowd roaring back at you or cheering you on. That's a different thing and anyway here in Singapore, you seldom get that. I'm talking about just performing itself. I couldn't even see teh audience that night because of the lightings and the smoke. But it was great. Getting up that, kicking off the songs. Reaching to point where you get to jump around (for Samanta) or do a spin-a-roo-ni (not Booker T style) or a windmill (for E.M.O.T.). It's just crazy I tell you. I so wanna play again, and again, and again, and again....Gotta work harder to get more gigs. Especially gigs with enough decent space to at least take 2 steps forward and backwards and spin around without hitting your guitar neck on something. "She looks to me and say..!!!"

Last night was fun at Plug and Play. I got to jump around with Samanta and rock it with Eugene's Moment of Truth. I think E.M.O.T.'s contant gigging and anal bitching has helped us get together in some way. I love watching the video. I can now safetly dump the rest cos they're uncompareable to this gig. And people were snapping up the free E.M.O.T. sample CDs we were giving away during our performance. Wow! Unfortunately, Platform didn't make enough to cover cost. I feel bad now that I can't pay the bands. Actually, I wasn't disappointed at the turn-out. I was more disappointed with the sales of the compilation CD. I mean, yea, ticket's are more expensive than the usual gigs going on nowadays but don't forget, there's a wide variety of genres in this gig. AND the CD, which comprises of the band who played that night, is only going on for a measley $5. We're not kids anymore. We can afford $5. And I though that there'll be a stronger support of local music nowadays since it's picking up very nicely nowadays. Maybe I thought wrong. Maybe too many ppl got the free CD. 50 now seems like a lot to give away. Oh well. There's still CDs for sale you know. Just look for me and I'll sell you some. *wink*

Sorry guys. Ecrus Garage won't be playing due to unforeseen circumstances. The Model Lipstiques will be opening instead.

It's so hard to keep everything together alone. Sudden sniffles isn't good. Plus a good uncalled for work out involving loads of sweats and a pedal board. Buzz...hum...buzzz...hum...argh!!!!

Thanks to my childhood experience and secondary school days of playing tetris, I finally fit everything inside. Now everyone is snug and comfortable and ready for my smelly old sneakers to stomp all over them. Ahhh....bliss

Venue: The Substation Guinness Theatre
Date: 30th April 2005
Time: Doors open at 4pm
Entry: $8. Free CD for first 50.

Come savour the sounds of local faire at the latest indie offering of homegrown talents - Plug and Play. Featuring the brilliant and polished performances of ....

- Lunarin
- Ecrus Garage
- The Love Experiment
- Eugene's Moment of Truth
- Samanta
- Skive
- Sourgrapes
- Murder Her on the Dance Floor.

http://platformthelabel.blogspot.com

Wow! We're mentioned in 8 Days. Just a passing note but, wow!

Not everything's all hey ho happy yay! My mom opened my mail and used the contents of it against me. WTF!!!!! Gotta fucking get out of here man.

Have you ever noticed.....

that conversations usually end once you enter a lift?

think about it.

I think......

Peeing is it's a waste of electricity and water, and for some, harmful to trees.

What do you think?

We had a great time last night at the gig. Everyone was smashed in some way or other. *wink* The Love Experiment and Stellarnova had a blast. Ugly In the Morning played a rocking good set. It was simply mind blowing and the crowd loved them. Man.... if E.M.O.T. has even a quarter of the kind of crowd response UITM had last night, I'll die a happy man. That kinda stuff just makes everything worthwhile. It's the trill of playing live that you cannot get anywhere else. Even though the crowd was mainly just us. *LOL* There's something else I'd like to say but I think it's safer I don't. All I can say is that the bands were very happy last night.
*h-u-g-e a-s-s w-i-d-e g-r-i-n*

It's been a crazy week full of work and gigs and getting stuff ready for whatever's happening. Had only one jam prior to the gig later tonight with E.M.O.T. and we just ended up messing around and stepping on each other's pedals. That's what happens if you're a pedal whore. Eevryone wants to step on your pedals. We jammed a disco version of Nothing's Wrong which I liked a lot and recommended we should play tonight at the Bring the Noise and Funk gig but the rest wasn't comfortable enough with it...yet.

Stood in for Stellarnova on guitars too cos their guitarist couldn't make it due to err..personal reasons. Hope I can pull it off. I'm totally bringing no justice to their guitarist's great guitar riffs and works. Think I'm gonna screw up real bad, even with the pieces of papers in front of me. One jam is NOT gonna be enough for me. Argghhh!!!!!

Unfotunately I couldn't make it to help out at Indie-pendent weekend. Sudden load of crap just fell, but I managed to catch a bit of Ecrus Garage and Ronin at the Waterfront n DODA @ POW. yup yup. Abb. is the way 2 go. Whooo!!!!

Whooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's been a lazy Sunday er...day. I woke up. Went back to sleep. Woke up. Lazed around. Went back to sleep. And got up to slack around again. Work has been crazy. Whole week at the Sub and next week, another week long show. Got a little time to put some pics of Grrrl Power up before I go jam.

 I had so much crap to carry.

 Touch my groin! Touch my groin!

 Don't ask.

 Sasha all looking snug and comfy next to the amp.

  We're on Esplaande banner!!!!

 Alice  the M.C. of the event. She promotes bands with female fronts.

 I've said it before and I'll say it again. This lift is bigger than my room.

Why we don't have pics of the gig itself ah??? Hmmm...

Had a great time at Grrrl Power. I would say it's E.M.O.T's best gig till date. It was so much fun that I'm actually still running on the adrenaline rush of Sunday's gig. Great to see the unexpected to turn up at the gig too. And The Dancing Uncle came to watch us instead of Nick Shen and danced to TWO! of our songs! How cool is that!!!!!

Mini-Marshall rocks. I got this when I just started playing the guitar and got my first electric guitar which I sold 'cos I turned bassist and the guitar I had sucked and we (my family) was going on a trip to Malaysia and I was hooked on the guitar then so I cycled all the way to Boon studio to buy this amp cos I remembered seeing it and wanted to play the guitar during the long bus ride to Malacca. I think I paid $40 for it. Then I cycled all the way home, took a wrong turn and got lost and ended up in Hougang. In the end I didn't get a chance to bring the amp OR my electric guitar up to Malacca 'cos my Mom or Dad said it'll disturb the other passengers. I think I was 16 then. That should be right cos I turned bassist around 17 or 18 during poly time. I'm back to guitars again but I still love playing bass.

Anyway, my band, Eugene's Moment of Truth a.k.a. E.M.O.T. will be playing at Grrrl Power!!! on the 4th and 6th of March at the Esplanade Waterfront at 730pm with Lunarin on the 4th and Malaysian band Tempered Mental on the 6th. Check out Music For Good Website. If you don't know the URL, shame on you!!!! *Slap*