Endless Rain

What a day it has been, a day of endless rain.
woke up early this morning and was on the plan of going to air itam dam with class mates for some insect catching fun....turn out sucky though.we all met at the rendezvous point, 7-eleven. and soon after while waiting for others to arrive, we got avenged sevenfold for slacking in miss Lee's class, it started to rain.so it was cancelled and everybody dispersed.
was biking then in the drizzling rain....then when i pass transfer road, i decided to stop by for some roti canai in the rain before i got home.
That was the morning...then after, i stayed in the whole day watching the rain.it's beautiful when it's endless, the one that you know that it's not gonna stop for quite sometime.Today is lonely guitar day. Spent most part of it with the 'new' guitar i got from andrew along with the Samick amplifier for 250 bucks, still haven't paid him since he ran away to Singapore. Yet to name it, i'm still indecisive and undecided.....but its a 4-5 years old sunburst Squire California Series Stratocaster.

Exactly like this but with a maple neck

Most of the afternoon was spent on the bed playing the guitar and thinking and missing.... while looking up into the sky through the window panels.I call that soul searching, I can see myself more that way.It's still ame-ing.
stuffs i tried out>

Sweet child o' mine intro riffs
Rocking in the free world chords
Beast and the Harlot sweeping parts
some acoustic guitar from Patience
Little Wing. the solo is actually easier than the other part of the song
A bit of For The Love Of God

Still ain't that good la...ought to practice more.slacky fingers


Ahh...and all this while, still can't help missing her.what A Rocker i am.

Afterlife

i just wanna feature this song by Avenged Sevenfold, titled Afterlife.
The lines that i'm feeling...






I don't belong here, I gotta move on dear
escape from this afterlife
’Cause this time I'm right to move on and on,
far away from here


Got nothing against you and surely I'll miss you
This place full of peace and light, and I’d hope you might
Take me back inside when the time is right



Perhaps.

Jazz, Rock, Sweat, Mamak, CM and the Harlot

Spent the evening going for a jazz practice with the band.There's a group of seven preparing to join The Jimmy Boyle Young Talent Competition.I'm gonna play the bone in there.It's always been cool and fun being able to work with Leonard Selva...one of the most impressive jazz guy I've met in penang.Anyway gonna have to wait quite a while before the fruit can be seen...hopefully its gonna work out great.It feels nice to being able to get back to jazz after all this while...
Then after the jazz prac went for a botanical garden walk and a small hike there.gain back all the muscles that has been loss for the pass three months.since my last visit there....whoa that was when I was training for Hikathon in April-Mei period.Just plain good outing, met the sprinting brain there i guess.heh.
Theres always fun in these type of outings. no frills, no worries, rocker to rocker talks.music all the way.Talked to Jared a lot bout Avenged Sevenfold, shredders, Scars Of Life, life stuffs, how the old time has been, how all of us on the way growing up, possibilities of giving up everything and start the rock revelation and (shit!) how one day rock legends will die, i dun wanna name them, freaks me out.

And hell after that went to Subaidah for some mamak stuffs, Horlick Ais and Teh Ais.Thrill of the day===> Met Penang Chief Minister, Mr. Lim Guan Eng. He's cool in my opinion...I respect him for being so humble to be able to come down to a mamak outlet.Yeah!!


No Music.No Life

Ixnay On The Hombre

If people can see.If they just can see...

almost everybody in this world wants to be the Man.
let me state before hand that my perception of the Man/MAN has been largely influenced by Dewey Finn, Yngwie Malmsteen and from my own struggle to get the MANhood flag as well.


this excerpt may be quite humorous but there's a point that you can't deny.

Give up, just quit, because in this life, you can't win. Yeah, you can try, but in the end you're just gonna lose, big time, because the world is run by the Man. The Man, oh, you don't know the Man. He's everywhere. In the White House... down the hall... Ms. Mullins, she's the Man. And the Man ruined the ozone, he's burning down the Amazon, and he kidnapped Shamu and put her in a chlorine tank! And there used to be a way to stick it to the Man. It was called rock 'n roll, but guess what, oh no, the Man ruined that, too, with a little thing called MTV! So don't waste your time trying to make anything cool or pure or awesome 'cause the Man is just gonna call you a fat washed up loser and crush your soul. So do yourselves a favor and just GIVE UP!

- Dewey Finn in The School Of Rock

i partially agree with Dewey on what the Man does and the Man is everywhere, but i still think there's always a way to stick it to the Man although you can't win Him. Dewey pointed out that the Man is in the White House, which is an indirect example of the state of the political warfare in the world nowadays. Everybody is trying to get the better of one another, who rules who, who obeys who, who leads, who's bigger, who's the Man.

He also refers to Ms. Mullins which is the principal of the school Dewey is subbing at.Ms. Mullins is the Man because because she's the one who controls the school, setting up all the rules. Then 'the Man ruined the ozone, he's burning down the Amazon' projects the image of selfish people who ruins the world just for their own gain.Then there's the Shamu thing which I don't really understand. But you can make it out that it all comes down to the point that people are filled with their own pride, hunger for power, little bubble of ego, greed and selfishness.To be the Man, the disgraceful Man. How disgraceful it may be, he's still the Man, thats all people care for these days...

~To be or not to be~



However, the Man is sometimes used in a good context.Yes, its ambiguous. It can be used as a reference to someone who has done a great job. got that idea from Yngwie Malmsteen from G3 2003. for example, someone who has beaten everybody else by a big margin in a competition...then you can say "He's the MAN....".A great guitarist, you can call him the MAN, Malmsteen used it on Satch. Can be used on activist too, such as John Lennon,he's the MAN. It actually can be used on people who fight against the Man, the other type of Man. So when you're sticking it to the Man, you are the MAN.

G3 2003 Satriani, Vai and Malmsteen

The MAN who said peace could last forever

[Please note i've used 'the Man' for the lesser, disgraceful one. As for the standing ups, the ones who stick it to the Man, I call them 'the MAN' - with capitals.for they are ass-kickers]


As for my view along my life, I've seen the Man everywhere.People fighting for power, for properties, for what should be theirs according to them.people try to control another's life. sometimes it is as simple as some parents in the house, they do regard their children as their properties, afraid to let them explore because they are afraid of losing them.But some are great ones who let their children experience things for themselves, good or bad so that they can learn. But I trust most parents love their children.Parent do want to be the Man sometimes...

People do fight for love too. Sometimes people got so deep into the fight and competition and forget the real meaning of love. They dont mind although its forced, all that comes into mind is getting her, as a property.they'll be proud i guess, being the winner.People wants to be the Man, the Man who gets her.
they forget that love needs no force...its the bonding of hearts.


As for me, i'm gonna be the man, a MAN who stands on his own, waiting for his love.

~The whole of my heart~

Syncopations

This marks the beginning of some diary style posts, which i am not really fond of.But i will write them anyway...just that they are gonna be rare.

Okay, Lets start with the period I got back to GSC. It was around the middle of May and I shitted myself can't believe it.When i quit from the place two months ago, for some reasons, I've taken something like an oath that i won't put a single unit of my cell into that office again...But then, I contradicted.Sigh
but seriously i don't regret getting back there.gotta see some old staffs back and gotta know a whole new bunch of people - Janicia, Jason, Sherine and others.And better still i got back to the environment where i can talk a lot more than i used to. Bitching with customers which include men, women, hotties, macho muscles, babes, gays, lesbos, paedos, horny old men who come and kacau our BO babes ...this is perhaps one of the best job to meet new and all types of peeps. Back to A LOT of my same old routine also....food court food, staff passes, verbal passes, scoping Auntie Lucy, CIOs and getting called Chuck and Larry along with Meng Jon.wtf

Movin' On
Rocked up me birthday bash.Jeesus is 18! another Christmas?felt like Santa...I'm not gonna elaborate bout it since Jared has written on that.Check that out. Wheen, you missed it...you better be back with my LTD or Ibanez.lol

And summore I'm riding now.As in real riding motorcycle.transforming to speeddevil-rempitman.Learn lots of stuff like controlling disc brakes, one-shot kick-guarantee- starts, pumping petrol...ohhh...more to life.riding is a lot of fun actually.Its just you and the wind, nothing in between.I Am The Highway.

Oh...shit.I'm in Disted-Stamford College since the 16th of June, the PigDog Lair. I swear that lots of them are acting as if they are the greatest lala tukaos in the world, loads of em in the business studies course.Never mind though, because this will only make me feel more like God, more believing in that I'm really Jeesus, a rocker ready to exorcise each and everyone of this specie. Felt like Constantine, wanna pump their faces with holy water loaded shells and 'tabuk' them with cross engraved metal knuckles.
But I am appreciative that that my SAM course got none of these, saved my life.
Overall, the college is an okay place i'll say, the library is great, the lecturers are good, so good that they can put you to sleep with only their words.I can't do that. The only thing that drag the place down is some of the students, as I've mentioned, Lalas.

Aih, I don't want to make this post long. Not that even I can, I'm studying day and working night, what hell time do I get to even do a blog post, even guitar time is significantly decreased.No pictures and stuffs to stimulate the senses, hopefully the music is more than enough.The best way to convey a feeling if you cant express it.Music.


Shit Post.In the Shittest of Time. i need time donation.



I've used a lot of 'shit'.seriously getting into my vocab. serious shit.

Who? The MAN?


SHIT.

Music Overdose

Updated 29/5/2008 7.28 P.M.
In this post, nobody gets credited as Datuk, Tun, Tan Sri or whatever extra surname. I strictly believe in all man are created equal.nobody gets an extra piece of shit and nobody got less either.ISA will do the right stuff, they ain't gonna bust people with thoughts to share.
just push your fingers into your eyes if you don't like it.




All I've got is insane~


More on music appreciation.
During this period of working/slaving to earn enough dough for an electric guitar, coupled with some shortages, music is my sanctuary that keeps me from being absorbed into the mundane world.Lots of stuffs coming in - Mustaine throats, Morello effects, J-rockers, Bach and the baroque gang, metal cellos, the newage Bach- Jason Becker, Kevin Kern, Nobuo Uematsu, etc..



Thank you for saving me from the monsters.

This time I wanna talk about political expressions in music.
If you did rip through the news these few days, you'll know that Mahathir has quited UMNO, Karpal Singh firing others and gets an assassination threat, ppl are going against the PM, disputes over some stupid rocks off Singapore solved and more interesting stuffs like Lim Guan Eng taking economy class flight and eating char koay teow at New World Park which is very humble of him. I'm firmly sat on the gate between the Government and Opposition, both seriously got their own positive and negative buffs. Although i think its humble of the Penang CM to do what he did, it does not sum up my stance in politics.Its just a matter of human quality.


Okay. The first phrase or clause[forgotten my grammar] that comes into my mind when I' m thinking, reading or people talking about these politicians - Bulls On Parade

That's a title of a song from Rage Against The Machine focusing on the States 'indulgences' in war.I can't really make out the full meaning of the song, just got it a few days ago but from the lyrics i think its more to criticising politics and the war-based industries - typically arms and weapons.Just like Stark Industries in the Iron Man storyline. They were talking about how people are fed with fear of death, tricked into believing in terrorists are coming to kill them, how the industries persuade the government into using military action and why did the government resort to war when peace would work. So finally, the arms industries will get the better of mankind as while they profit, people got killed and all the aggression.So from my point of view RATM is putting a point on why do we have to succumb to these government agendas and also an anti-war message.

By the way, the song's got a really innovative guitar solo, check it out. courtesy of Tom Morello.

Moving on, though i don't think the song meaning's got anything to do with our politics scenes as we're not into war yet and Heckler & Koch's share ain't Malaysia's main income, I just had this feeling of connecting the words, Bulls On Parade to politicians.maybe because the words rhyme with Politicians On Masquerade, which i just came across and express as these ppl are sometimes pretentious, you'll never know what's behind their teeth and smiles. You can't trust every piece of shit they say as most of them are 'all talk, no cock'. As you can see from the past elections, why do they need campaigning during the period?come market shake hands with people and all that.but when the election period is over, where are they? bet you'll never see them till the next round. And as you can also see, they are just no goodies...when they lose their seats, they create some big fuss and says that Malaysia is no longer united as people are supporting different parties.[i'm using 'they' to describe politicians and parties so that my neutral stance remains]But ain't that suppose to happen?we are a democratic country, ain't we?

And i got a few dreams on these shits too, dunno why.A peculiar one is I'm in a Warcraft tower defense map and i see there were two towers attacking each other, one with Abdullah's head and another with Mahathir's.way damn funny, laugh out loud.This is an obvious influence of too much cc outings and the current headlines. and I was a hero in the dream, forgotten who...but could have been either a Tauren Chieftain or Blademaster.there were other towers along the borders and I'm hacking all of them down all the way. a sign of anti-politics?pro-peace?but i'm using agression.....Jared the Dream Guardian, decipher it.

Ladies and gentlemen,I present to you Bulls On Parade






Maybe after 50 years, finally democracy is working in Malaysia.maybe.

Tributes and salutes to musicians who projects political, peace, anti-war and activist messages through their works.there are too many but mainly, Rage Against The Machine, Megadeth, System Of A Down and Bob Marley.Come lets share more of them.



Peace Is Selling, So Lets Buy 'Em.

Let's Play. Let's Support. Let's Experience

Music. the best form of art, language, hobby that i have discovered in this world. I'm just so overwhelmed by how much music can express and conform to anything without words. it is indeed a language itself. Its the bridge that connects the life and the soul. It can be a stairway to heaven or even a highway to hell..

I'm writing this post with the accompaniment of pieces by Kevin Kern [thanks for the intro at Borders, Wheen]. This man is a virtuoso on the piano despite that he is partially blind, playing mostly new age music...yes, awesome stuffs, i can really feel the music engulfing the heart and i'll have goosebumps all over.the best feeling attained when listening to instrumentals.

Back. I'm 18 this year and don't think that i have listened enough. And lately I've been wondering if i play all the good music in this world back to back non-stop, will I finish enjoying them before i die...not likely, i came up with. so the best a person can do is to rip and get the best of the best before its too late. In fact, for me, I love music too much to just sit and listen...like many others, i have to get up and play, and create, and contribute to the scenes!!

To make it clear, I've gotta say I'm a fan of all types of good music, be it pop, rock, classical or metal. but I'm particularly interested in music with lots of guitars and drums...you know, band kind of music.there's really no need to segregate them into genres and all that, music is music as it is. all the genre words are just adjectives to classify them, not type or meaning. Two group of music i wanna discuss here are the Classical and the Metal...many compare them as the furthest possibilities that happened in music; classical is above in the heaven and metal is way below hell, they say.
But if you analyze carefully both have lots of similarities.
Both have great fans. after a few hundred years, people still listen to classical
Both love great musicians. people love composers and guitar virtuosos
Both got a lot of technicalities. the musicians are seriously well trained
Both kind of music are not created for commercial values.its the musicians expressing themselves

I give my utmost respect to musicians who had crossed both of this impossible genres into their works.mostly given new adjectives again - neo-classical, symphonic metal, etc. the one i see clearly is Yngwie Malmsteen - yeah, now he's the man. also to Paul Gilbert, Jason Becker and a lot more guitarist names I'll never finish mentioning. and a particular band too, Stratovarius. you can see from its name formed from the rock guitar Stratocaster and classical violin Stradivarius, hence Stratovarius.they play classical influenced metal and a lot more bands do.

Most radio music nowadays are mostly seriously overrated. if you look at the chart toppers, mostly are hip hop and rap and related kind of music. I'm not a genre-ist okay, I still think Eminem is the best rapper in the world. back few years ago radios are filled with really awesome stuffs, but now mostly are conquered by sounds, not music. as if they are currently the best music in the world...wtf Top 40 and all that. they are not real...u can listen from the fake drum beats, they are created on mixers by producers, studio people.no effort taken by the musicians to express themselves...lots of them are just for publicity and commercials sake.exploited.cash cows.

And these assholes are blocking the real talents from getting an audience.the ones that really deserve the radio plays are in the unknown. and I think thats what sprouted the DIY/Indie scenes.Musicians are just tired of record labels controlling and exploiting music...they freakin control the length of songs, amount of vulgarity and expressions. shit them.

Besides, talking about music scenes, i felt that our local scenes lack support for each other. The people on top don't support the people below because they are afraid they will be more successful than them.and people below doesn't want to support people above because they think they are cocky and overrated.so that's how its flowing now, people on top are degrading because of lack of support and people below can't go to the top. - thats briefly quoted from Kelvyn Yeang which i very much agree.


Support all type of music.
Support the local music scene.
Let's make a change.





Sorry if i have contradicted with anything, I'm just spontaneously opinionated.