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

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