The Rockmas Salvation

Terminator Salvation is a movie to watch if humans are to know themselves better.recently watched on a fateful 4th of June.


At first i thought its gonna be a movie full of bullets and ricochets of it plus big budget explosions, all that you can expect from a film titled Terminator.And yeah, it does give it's portion of adrenaline to your blood but there's more to it.Try it people..I'm not gonna spoil[maybe i'm gonna a bit].Salvation of the human race.

I do wonder why are we living our lives.wat are you doing behind those pair of eyes and body tissues. If without the artistic values and feelings and such, totally based on reasonings, cause and effect its rather questionable why we live our lives. if i we're to Bio it, i would be living to reproduce so that my kind will sustain, Chemically i would be a bunch of molecules interchanging with those around me.and in Physics, I would be just some stardust considering the evolution of space which i dun really read up a lot on after primary.

So what's human's creed?What do we live for?as we've come across, theres lots of people out there claiming they're happy, the longer they live the happier they are, perhaps.or some finds happiness by being rich, wth...but i wouldnt mind to have some extra cash to get a Dunlop Crybaby=].I do sometimes think there's logic if you've grown up hard and poor, then yeah it would be a joy to have all the extra dough.As we cant see, some people would be in really hard position and in the shithole of their lives while you and me are scrolling down Facebook happily.I totally have no offence about that.just trying to put contrast, but if you think more on it surely there's something about it.

But the main point is the purpose of our existence. there's no total explanation to this, some say they exist for God, some for their ambitions, to see the world before they die and all that.Strike me with your points on why we exist.

And I got a big believe that it all comes down to believe.And what we're doing are all believes.you're reading this page because you believe there's something to salvage here.People go Facebook because they believe it's fun and socially helpful.We're civilised because we believe in systems and such.Mao Zhedong is communist because he believed in it.People listen to rock because they're rockers*. Criminal does crime because they believe there's something in their mind about it to it.
Believe.

This leads to the doubt about what's suppose to be right and wrong.righteousness and wrongdoings are therefore redundant.as said, people doing things are because of believes in it, so whats suppose to be right or wrong are ultimately down to their sane mind.Our society's the one branding what's compatible with it and what's not,thus right and wrong.So if there's certain sides that dont have the aligned thinking then they are outcasted.this can be applied anywhere,country politics, crimes etc. i wanna give a particular example as in musically, most people today digs mainstream poppy lala acts and emo bands and says they are better than the noisy music we rockers listen to, and its like they have screwed up their mind with those sell outs.I'm opinionated here actually.I'm pretty freakin sure if you're a great music listener, you wont be screwed there.It's all related, if you find something synergizes with yourselves, then that's that, its neither right nor wrong...just that.They are relative. So it's Jeesus' theory of relativity.

And then there's God.I'm not gonna talk much bout religion here.Just keep in mind first, I've got nothing against religion or surpreme beings.right down to believes still. check out this talk on God by Wheen.
The openness there is great.i've yet to give my two cents on religion in this blog la. But I really like the line in wheen's post:'Dogs do not worship a God yet they don't rip each others balls off'. Juicy. that say's a lot on the role of God in our lives, do we really need God to be morally managed?Dont get me wrong, I've got some great people around me who are worshipers.So our existence, relativity of right and wrong and religion are believes in our own rights. we do feel ourselves in our lives, so dont worry.Continue living. Our feelings and sense of emotions are the one thing that makes this existence feels like a rock gig.So cherish.

Salvation of humans.Salvation of rock.

Of Enthalpy and SugarCoffee

Exams over for now.at least some breathing space before the real show...and yesterdays got nothing for me. Chemistry is the shit this time around, din really push around for it this time. I spend and sacrifice Chem time for maths.After the Revelation last year i dun wanna get dreamspace during papers.so now i found maths to be easy than the Akhbarhana subject. Oh man, my beloved chemical sister has been with me for 4 years now,right since form 4. I'm a thankful lot for this persevering lady, no matter how some ppl doesnt lik the way she teach.seen much of her, 4 days a week.seen her pregnant.lol. seen her cool and seen her bad. A lion of a mouse.Respect.

And no less to Mr.Woo.wahlau...i dunno wat to say bout this.'Hallo?'.ahhha.as it has always been. One of the most ice cool teacher I had over the years. this dude is IMBA. imbalance for real.
you gotta get to his class to feel it, titan of maths. and i think he's overloaded. left his trace this time around- 'To Comprehend Is To Compress'. havent deciphered the meaning yet.

as for Bio, nah...dun wanna mention bout Miss Lee.you'll know. MUET is over so nothing exciting...i measure my MUET performance as Band 4.gotta retake if it is so.dun wanna spend my U years with an extra english class.yeah.

Study blues this time around.

Delving in Satriani, Guns N' Roses, Mark Knopfler, Ocean Of Fire of late.

Mama I'm Comin' Home

'Hey hey mama said the way you move,
Gon' make you sweat, gon' make you groove.
Ah-ah child way you shake that thing,
Gon' make you burn, gon' make you sting'

-Led Zeppelin

Its mummies day today, ppl. This really reminds me of a post i did a year back.come check it before you proceed- My Mummy Post .I've put up I Love My Parents again. This time along with For Mom.


Nah..the LedZep lyrics above dont really have significance with matriachs.Just that I'll love to sing it to my rockin' momma and make her groove.Give it up to yours too.thats the opener for Black Dog.

I just love this

So today as so with any other days, lets embrace our mums while time is still generous. Had a little chat with mum today...and it's amazing for her to tell that she doesnt believe in a specific day to celebrate Mothers' Day.and I love it that its the same goes to me as I believe everyday is a celebration of motherhood.That groovin lady should have been in The Bangles...hah.
So today's mother's day?does it mean that yesterday she aint a mum or she wont be one tmrw?nah...i know its not meant that way but yeah, I love the idea that each and every single day we should show our love to the woman who port us to this world.

Stay in touch with your Mama Kin, pops.


great songs for the occasion in FileFactory. -->

For Pinhorn With Love

Ke Garisan. Sedia. Gunshot*

Thats the sequences that i've gone through a few times in past weeks.the last was two days ago.Yeah, The Annual PFS Sports Day was on the 25th of April...one of the best days of schooling life.This would be one of the best sports day for me although others would say otherwise...prolly because the band didn't get a formation onto the field this year.sad case. This year would be the only year of school life where I'm not busy with band.haha..

Also the only Sports Day where I got to do the ending charge.Yay!

It's also one of the best because this year I'm really involved in the Sporthouse title fight.

Let me cronologize.

So the shittiest thing of the day was that Form Sixers gotta nail the MUET listening, writing and reading sections in the morning till around noon.And yeah it wasn't really easy...I'm prepared to get Band 4.screwed up the writing and listening....gotta get a retake at the end of the year if Band 5 is not in hand.Really mood spoiler of the day and made rush for everybody.

Then Sports Day officially starts around 2.30 with march past, i'm in band for the march past.but thats until there.this year I'm not involved in the pre show, show nor after show. So I'm a full time Pinhornite tht day.it's my term as a Vice Captain and yeah I do really feel the heat this year.I ran 100m and 4 x 100m relay and got bronze and silver.I kind of consider that not bad because my legs were not in full condition that day, because of the training two days before. medals in sprints after six years.fuh.before that I've got bronze during the heats for high jump.Counterpain is one imba item for athletes..really works.

(l-r)Jason Siew, Chia Haw, Wan Ching, The Man, Matt
yeah.I'm A69!

Band Shakin It Up

The old Frees race this yeah was great also.it was turn into 200m instead of the usual 100m sprint.contestants this year were, ex-schoolmate Tio Leo Nard, WLT legend Oh Jia Sheng, Datuk Syed Aidid and another dude i dont know.Jia Sheng owned, Leo Nard 2nd and Datuk 3rd and the guy i think give chance, got last.

The race this year came down till the last event of the day which is Class 1 4 x 400m relay.Pinhorn was leading... and just needed a third placing to win Wu Lien Teh. hell. because Wu Lien Teh was sure to win with Kuan Ming and Saarvin, a holder of few records around.so it was up to us to get third or second to finish off the race.but our team is memang not up to standard la...made up of like back up athletes.So in the end Wu Lien Teh retained the title for the sixth time i guess.



Five points made a difference.This year got two new houses Sirajuddin and P.Ramlee.laughable.



The ending is indeed cry-able. So near yet so far. I have heart for Pinhorn captain Ganesh. He threw everything into this.for the first time you see Sport house buying Domino's.Heh. The only year where i can feel the pia-ness in sports day, every ass in Pinhorn is worked off. Satisfied.

Sleepwalking Past Hope

My last Sports Day as a Free.

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.