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

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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.