Soothsayer of Discordance

the big believe that music expresses the heart and emotions must have been put to truth by Brian Carroll, or as people have come to know as Buckethead.

The I would say legendary guitarist who dons a chicken bucket and that emotionless white mask, who speaks to no one but tells all that he's gotta say with his fingers running up and down the fretboard.
I've come to now this one of a kind avantgarde axeman when I was 14, through my long time guitar buddy, Jared Teoh, with the introduction of the track Hills Of Eternity. At first i thought that it was just boring and plain and nothing worth playtime.But as the musical mind and maturity grows, I just realise how much and how deep those simple notes and repeated riffs over constant background drumbeats could be expressed by Buckethead.
Indeed he shows that sometimes it doesnt have to be flashy or complicated to get a point across. In fact, he send bigger messages across with lesser flash. I'm quite sure that most people outside the world of guitar music would not know him.This man creates music that is not exploited by record companies and producers, which mostly today would alter music by musicians under them just to cater to the global casual audience.You wont get to know Buckethead just because you listen to radio or watches MTV for a major part of your life.

Its hard for people to believe such a person exist, really. I couldnt believe and was finding for a logic behind what he's doing. A person who is a legendary icon, who never talks to people...wears that KFC bucket and white mask.With wierd behaviours and actions, like scratching a wall in between guitar licks during an interview.This man who also gives away toys and gifts to his audience from his 'toy-bag' during gigs, is also famous for his fascination for Disneyland. He in fact base most of his music on his virtual themepark, Bucketheadland and Giant Robot, an old children tv series, something like Ultraman.And yet this person under the bucket himself is a topclass professional guitarist loved by the guitar community.Hard to believe.

Toys from Bucky

His guitar will be a customised white Gibson Les Paul which is bigger than an average LP.without the fretboard marks(knowing the frets without the markings is total ownage).upped with a killswitch, for the on-off effect.

Buckethead's white Gibson Les Paul with the killswitch in red

And Buckethead is in a class of his own.Found to be once a student of Paul Gilbert, the guitar great, he has probably went further than his teacher.His, usage of notes and licks and all those tappings just made it right for his songs.Got a shit high level of technicalities and can do almost any sound with a guitar.Slapping bass lines.And all those killswitched notes.yeah.imba

Wanna talk how great,i dont know how to. almost all guitarists can shred and play fast. but Buckethead made great songs and compositions over 50 plus solo albums which doesnt include his enormous amount of side projects.And you cant categorize him into specifically any genre.He generally has a genre of his own.He plays heavy metal, hard rock, full shred guitars, fusion, soothing acoustics, relaxing moods, jazz and blues.In addition to this he plays more of his creations, weird riffs and chords, which will instantly be recognizable as Buckethead's.


I just love the fact that he wears a mask, he doesn't show any emotions and expressions.This makes his music standout more for him as it is the only way to channel all the expressions to the outside world for him while he's behind his mask.This beats all those mainstream junkies out there who depend on fashion, appearances and publicity to sell themselves out.
Makes me wish for a mask, where I can delve in peace of soul, cover up the Neons of presence. Loving Rock.

Keep On Killswitching The Ride To The Prairie

Charged Up Hols

holiday was earlier for me by 3 days, because the school librarian trip offered some pontenging opportunity which i cant refuse.hah...i'm no librarian but just followed as vacation, fun. was great as i get to know more about many people that i've barely spoken to.it was a sleep deprived trip anyway, was sleepwalking a lot because of night activities and fun, in terms of chortaiti, petaling street, running around KL along with Chia Haw with monorail, RapidKL train and even bought a KTM ticket to Subang to try to grab Wheen, Sze Chuin and peeps at the place.but go to waste because freakin train got freakin delayed....ahhh.press nia.


Kinda got 20 bucks from chortaiti.quite pro also huh..


L-R : Yvain, Chia Haw in obscurity, the MAN, Edward. Missed out 4th player, Wan Ching.pic taken by Ee Boon.

cards owned the whole trip

Besides, visited Nottingham University and MMU.the one that impresses me is Nottingham, they've got really high tech and state-of-the-art stuffs for their students.serious, labs are like real scientist hideouts and workshops are like whoa, all the complex machines.serious good place if wanna do engineering, chemical and biological stuffs, too bad not for me.heh. MMU was soso...got some high tech library.
then got to Beryl's chocolate factory.watched a presentation(they spelled their own company name wrong) and toured the production line.
made way to the KLCC skybridge. kinda amazed by the Tesla Coil demo of lightning strike on the Twin Towers



Overall, the more fun part of the trip for me is to get to know people more.hehe.Its a great gig



Moving on, arrival of howling monkey Jared, Jonathan and their Borneo-ian friends from MIAT, Ben and Wilson.ooh, was the transporter of the day.and the tour of penang started.
as to go along with tour guide roles, these are the Penangy food that I have exploited and things that has been done in a week with our tourists from afar>



1.Telok Bayan Hawker Center - Kim Poh Claypot Chicken Rice, Ikan Panggang, Chee Cheong Fun, Belacan Fried Rice

2.Argyll Road Roti Canai

3.Air Itam Laksa

4.New World Park - Pasembur, Mee Goreng, Lam Mee, Char Koay Teow, Ais Kacang, Chendol

5.Chulia Street - Char Koay Teow, Wantan Mee, Curry Mee

6.Line Clear Nasi Kandar - Murtabak, Roti Tissue

7.Kapitan Nasi Kandar - lots of mamak stuffs, hah

8.Fettes Park Hainan Western Food



1.Gurney Plaza - Pool rounds.

2.Queens - watched Watchmen

3.CC outings.

4.Kek Lok Si tour.

5.lots of roundings around town, highways in Vios and Viva

6.walking around upper penang road and get excited

7.spotting lots of red cars on the road. =]



kind of gruelling tour guiding in a week.thats just the part i'm involved, Jared did more with them.



I am also peppered by some tuitions.Lee Ewe Im's Bio Classes.some band formation practices.
discovered new keyboard in bandroom, two Laney 30 watt amps with compression and a Maxtone Bass Guitar.gonna exploit also one day.

Come Cage Me and I'll Tell

Connect the seemingly unconnected
Without play, the intellects find no surprise
~ripped from ppl by Mr.Woo Kok Ho, the Maths' math

This is a taxing month in a taxing year, but no doubt any minor effort i've put is still not enough if I were to pull off a stunner in STPM. those two lines above got featured maths question papers for last year's finals and this year's first UP.I found that i spend more time staring at those lines rather than the questions, because I couldn't unlock them.I admit last year was shit, because i didnt study. but then this year got much more beautiful, and I'm quite good in those calculus studies.But then, maybe i got freaked out by the papers.crap.
but anyway, the test is over.and time for me to put together all the tiny bits that i wanna say.

Wait.first i wanna say my debted thanks to Edward, William Oung, Chia Haw and yeah, the Hero punya Khang Yang for the rescue at Queens.My tyre got punctured at 12am plus at Queens.piece off shit. Dunno wat to do, whether to leave or change tyre.Then decided to ask KY for help since all the three cars there dun even have a single carjack. he was planning to blogspot there but failed.Man.So the tyre was changed and Vios springed to life again.Thanks damn lot to all you ppl there.

Okay about school.Gonna follow a librarian trip to KL from the 11th to 13th of March.saja shiok, chiak hong. they gonna visit Nottingham University, MMU, Gua Tempurung, a chocolate factory and ronda shopping malls.maybe i'll drop at bentley. most of the times follow the librarians la should be.
This year i wanna do miracle in Pinhorn by landing a hat trick in 100m , 200m and high jump.its a toughy, but i think can.competitors are quite the same level, gonna train more to tahan three events. Usain Bolting the tracks.and learning proper Fosbury flop for high jump, the jump with back forward thing.

got quite laid off for guitar time this time around.the truth is procrastination is having it's toll on me. Off late, been getting backing tracks to jam with.and trying to absorb and make the most out of the CAGED system.help me lick the guitar again.I'm torn, if I got money should i get a better amp, a multi effects or an acoustic guitar first?deep decisions. money dun come as easy as it gets when i was working.


eat this


gonna hit the cinema a lot this month too, all the kickass movies.and the holidays are approaching.Pocket burn again.

this is kinda like mini post telling what's up with me.lots of mind drafts that i wanna put on but never got to. got some bucky's tribute, love, god, house... ahh.have to slowly digest.i'm like average a post a month.Owns.

Is There A Road I Should Follow

As I lay on my bed the afternoon after the accident, I look up into the clear blue sky, through the panel of glasses in the corner of my room, i was thinking. being less able and tired got me into a lot of soul search again.I was thinking of prolly the one love that i'll never get over.at least not with ease.
As it seems, the next day will be her birthday, on a very Chinese New Year. New Year Girl, hah. and i 've got nothing, no movie, no gift, no fancy dinner, no going out, no yummy cake to sing a happy birthday over.and it would have been awkward and will cause trouble to her if I do all of these..

Then back in the room, the guitar is just staring onto my face, as I heal the wounds with iodine and love. since i cant do much, why don't I let the feelings combust on the axe?the least i could do for her birthday,yeah.Music actually expresses myself better than I could with words. So the guitar got into my arms, with her cuddling my heart...the music flows.

the mood fell nicely, blue sky, through the window pane.birds flying by.and the strings are ringing.

So here is the song.I name it Watching The Sky With You. as I've always been dreaming into the sky either from my room, through that glass panel or anytime when my eyes caught sunsets and beautiful, dreamy atmospheres...How i wish she's there with me each time.this doesn't need much explaining.I'll just let the title and the music do them.I really hope they do...
It's a first-take record to keep the emotions there, and surely there are mistakes with notes and progressions,and would be kinda boring, i guess.I'm no pro after all. but its an emotion based playing.


This is at most what i could and capable of giving.a gift of feelings.
Happy Birthday and Happy Valentine's,yeah
For You = ]

watch the sky with me

Chinese [Highway To Heaven] New Year

Finally back after approx two weeks of absence and obscurity plus two weeks of monitor breakdown.yeah...i've got more pixels and more resolution into my eyes now...thanks to some Samsung monitor.ahh.
the stuffs that i wanted to blog about withing this period,got all jammed up in a brainscrew.Man, lets do some major recap.


So huh.as far as i recall, the best thing that happened to me - accident'ed' on the eve of Chinese Damn New Year.i did a solo tank on 4 bikes.hah.It was a morning and i was on my way to Queensbay to shop for something and catch Red Cliff I.and so it happened that i was on the highway in the motorcyclist lane.a god damn small lane with width for 2 bikes only.i was speeding at around 60kph or more up a slope.then on my way down which i cant see there's this dude who slowed down drastically on the lane.the 3 bikes behind himdid some deepshit braking and got so close and they are clumped up so closely together.And me being the projectile here from behind...oh tried braking my best, and i avoided the 3 back bikes but whacked up the front slowed down dude.Sometimes skills cant beat a gangbang.ahhh
And thus , ended up rolling on the divider, and wth, my helmet wasnt even scratched.

I felt no pain but i see the blood, so i just got up to help the other guy.he was half pinned by his ex5.i think he got a ram on the chest.He called up his son to come who was a freaking moneylender.He gave me his card some U.S. Credits.wtf.luckily he's not the 'ah kau' type of ah long ppl.so stopped a car and send the guy to hospital and agreed to settle it another day as it will be CNY the next day.

And i got home.and the bruises and scratches just now begin to bare their teeth on me.wah, this must have been my worst injury so far.I looked at myself as i sat on my bed.i've got multiple bruises around the knee and a quite deep hole.i dont see red there, i see white.F.theres another at my pelvis, near the kidney area.deep scratches on my right palm, which is the most irritating.It looked like a palm muting freak accident and itwas kinda cool.hhaahaha.
I got a knock on my left wrist too which still prevail till today... fear that it will never heal fully.

and i swear iodine aint no fun

fuxness.i spent most of cny in bed and walking around the house.maybe it's a bless.I looked into myself more with these.I touch and play the guitar more.the Guitar gave me bliss again in yet another time.

Okay.lets get over with the accident.

Went to afew ppl's house during the new year too. First was Jonathan Lim's.Witnessed lion dance there...so coincidental.then got stuffed with a nasi kandar-like meal.spent time there talking with jona and jared.then dispersed.and regrouped again with jared, wheen and andrew at Strike I.and yeah a new game was introed by wheen, Left4Dead.more on this later.

cast for Left4Dead

Second would be Khang Yang's place.we watched Red Cliff II that night then went CC till around 5am and then crashed into KY's sis's room.oooh.gambled some there then continued to Nando's in the morn.wah.

Then on the weekend will be Chia Haw's house.this time gambled kaokao and won around 15 bucks.owning.

more coming.

New Dawn's Light - El Merchant El Captain

Its 11th of January and Happy New Year folks. And so its gonna be as everybody plan their 'azam baru', I'm gonna own the world this year.at least i'm planning...its a feel good thing.

So this is how its gonna be.This is the STPM year for me.The king of the shit.The shit is the exam. After the ride of last year and busted balls as i went into form 6...its gonna be different a little this year.maybe a lot. I'm seated in the middle this year, away from my traditional back or side seats. Full of bookies around me...a little pump on inspiration and motivation.i'm glad i'm in my class, perhaps my class and 6RB are the liveliest in F6.no doubt.the dramas the gossips, human conjured weapon/armor against human. i was in at the center of the headline once i guess...maybe still a little today.all the small things.and some big things.I love them all.

And studies shall be that and that. school's gonna intro a string orchestra and i'm in it. on choice whether to take violin or cello.so i've got into a string ensemble, a jazz ensemble and a school band. deepthroat into music.not forgetting the Strat at home.
I'm quite freakin loaded now.got Pinhorn to manage and band formation to get ready.and the bio folio aint helping...Hope all of them won't collapse on me.Gonna be the merchant and the captain...bring the shit.

My core for this month is back to the soul-caster, guitar cryer and soothsayer Buckethead. After the my first premier of Jared's Guns N' Roses's Chinese Democracy in my car, that kill switched solo on There Was A Time...and so there.The shackler is back for revenge. For some reason Buckethead stands out of the rest of my guitar heroes and rockers.He's that masked, KFC bucket headed man. The absence of expression on the face, makes me wonder more.A few years back i dont believe this person exist, major break on me. The epitome of making the guitar speak for itself.Make it scream, make it sing, make it roar, make it whisper, make it cry.


There will be another tribute for Mr.Buckethead here.


Sometimes i felt like putting on a mask too, hiding the expressions just for myself.

So come on 2009.got lots of music to play.lots of heart graveyards to fill.balls to bust.

The I wants.
- own form 6
- get into as many music projects as possible for enjoyment
- make people that i love happy
- no more 'shy shy' attitude
- learn to read score for guitar.this is the imba shit

the casters

Left: 'my yet to be named' (project name: Third Jesus) squire stratocaster
Right: Jared's Rose - squire telecaster

The Dawn Will Have It's Burn

I wanna try something other than the usual Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. So i got another from Tony Bennett.Let the music load.


Not the last, Merry Christmas. and woah...December has been busy and and the last post was around three weeks back on kerachut. After the sweet November, December just exploded onto life.and shit this suppose to be a 5am Christmas Eve or it's kiss of dawn post but i left the computer on hanging waiting for me, while i fly in my dream. I'm slowly turning nocturnal and this will really take its toll on me when school reopens.games are big time losers, taking shit out of my time, the fun part is playing with friends only.DotA...bluek.I'll rather play guitar really.

After this period of absence, i wanna write all out about my December activities but shit...i read Jared's post first, and i felt it will be lame to write another covering the same events. So go see Jared's. Basically I'm in all the activities except the pool days.I'm gonna talk bout the few recent ones and yeah i would love to talk about roti racist/mini at Argyll Road but....i'm feeling salty T_T So okay, come back. The latest gig with Jared and Wheen is Pessoc's Concert on the 23rd of December. Sponsored and exclusively for Texchem ppl...thanks to Jared's mum we got the invitation cards. they were playing Beethoven's famous No.9, the one with Ode To Joy. I'll say it's good, but I'm a noob in classical music...this is the first time I heard No.9 live with full fledged choir and voices. And i just like the way Malmsteen-Shimano conduct...yeah!he pumps up the crowd with his movements. And I look into the crowd...most people doesnt know the first two movements and they look bored, the dude beside me was sleeping.sigh. quite a few ppl i know were up there. A few band seniors were playing for the orchestra.Adelyn the violinist.some school fellows in the chorus...wth.Andrew Filmer headbanging violin.some USM ppl too. Saw a group of USM Jazz Band ppl after the show....prolly they had some friends onstage.Funny how i realise I'll be upstage with them on the 30th.hah.

As mention this was supposed to be the Eve post, so i'm gonna rip. the Christmas Eve night was spent in front of my computer desk.I'll start from 8 pm.i had a game of DotA with Jonathan...killed him in his fountain...ahh.Imba feeling.then he gotta go church for the Christmas mass. so i went get some winks on my bed, woke up at 9.30pm.when to my computer, which is by the window.the church in front of my house is beaming and the bells are tolling, I assume Jonathan to be in there. Heaven's Bell. was planning to go out and have supper but the roads are tight shit jammed. So i decided to have myself a merry little christmas at home.
I got myself Campbell soup, ribena and some Pringles. bring all of them to my desktop. and the atmostphere just highten up. everybody is busy in Garena.the church is singing mellowly. and my comp played Buckethead's Electric Tears album. Padmasana was the highlight.ooh...

Self made Ribena, Campbell Soup and Pringles

And once i was taught by someone to eat Campbell soup straight from the can. and yeah. I tried a few. and i tell ya what...it will taste better and more warmy if you heat up the can first.= ] so put it in an oven first or what.

And so I had myself a merry little Christmas.

And yeah..the next on my to do list will be

- 'Jazz Band Plays Medley' concert on the 30th. gonna have fun with the university people
- G3 footage at wheen's. plus Siren 'to be continued...'
- maybe kerachut again
- Bio folio crap
- maybe I'll try pool day at Jared's

A tribute to Hide, the passed guitarist of X-Japan. connected for Jared's post.the guitar pick given to me by Wheen 6 months ago.

love me.suck me.lick me.spank me

Hideto Matsumoto

for once in my life I'll get dreadlocks. watch out.


Merry Christmas buddies = ]