Sunday, January 28, 2007

To you my perceptive readers, I bequeath you my heart. My mind. My soul. My everything.


So just leave me at the sidewalks
As you go on with your life
Send me torn up postcards
To say that you're doing fine

Empty bottles of prozac
Lying scattered on the floor
I hope someday you'll hear this song
And maybe then you'd know

I just wanna wake up
(Wake up)
And find you next to me
Make up
(Make up)
I miss you terribly
Break up
(Break up)
Why is this happening?
Give up
(Give up)
I'm sick of pretending

I tried to call you up last night
But you said you weren't home
So i shared these conversations
With my mobile's dial tone

Take our pictures down
From the walls of my room
I hope someday you'll hear this song
And maybe then you'd know

I just wanna wake up
(Wake up)
And find you next to me
Make up
(Make up)
I miss you terribly
Break up
(Break up)
Why is this happening?
Give up
(Give up)
I'm sick of pretending

Wake up
(Wake up)
And find you next to me
Make up
(Make up)
I miss you terribly
Break up
(Break up)
Why is this happening?
Give up
(Give up)
I'm sick of pretending

That you never meant anything to me.

This will be my last post for this blog. I do not know what will happen from hereon. Thanks to all who took the time to read and tag on my board. Thanks.

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Saturday, January 27, 2007

Looking all around us,
People everywhere
Children having fun
While we are holding guns.

Have you ever wondered,
Why must we serve?
Cause we love our land,
And we want it to be free,
to be free.
Ya!

Every day without fail we're sure to sing this song as we march. And this has always been my favourite song to march to ever since I first heard it in the movie Army Daze. It really makes you believe in serving the nation for the greater good. Death before dishonour.

I guess I don't have much to say about my current stint in the Singapore Armed Forces except that Ulysses Warriors are the best in the SAF! And that I have a good seaside view from my window which happens to be right next to my bed. Give me a hooha soldier!

Unfortunately, I won't be able to jam with ArPee tomorrow. But thankfully though, I'll be meeting them for dinner or something. I'm also thankful that ArPee is picking up momentum and have been given more and more gig slots which is really good I must say! Even if I don't get the chance to play, at least when the time comes that I'd be able to play, we wouldn't have to go back to square one.

Oh yeah, I hope to meet a few friends before I go back to camp again cause I might just not come out for the next 2-3 weeks.

I shall end this post with one of the stuff that I wrote while I was enjoying my time there.


I close my eyes.
Pray tomorrow's a better day.
I close my eyes,
And wish these feelings all away.

This heart beats hard
Even if the day is lost
And should it fail
I know that things have run its course.

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Thursday, January 11, 2007

I don't have much time to blog before I have to leave the house for Aloha Tekong. I'll just have to keep it short and sweet.

I'm going to miss lotsa people. Some more so than others. By teeny weeny bits i assure you. Haha! Thanks for the luck and well wishes. Really appreciate it.

I love you ArPee. Me love ArPee long time deep deep. When I come back... Let's do some jamming and music making! yeay! Ah! I'm gonna miss you guys lah. Power man! Baik ah! Baik ah organizer! Smack that! Smack that! To the left, to the left! My life's nothing without you.

I look forward to meeting you in two weeks time. I know nothing's confirmed, but at least I have something to look forward to. Yeay! I can hear you singing to me in my sleep!

Don't feel so sad that I'm gonna be gone aight? It won't be long. Smile! This world needs more smiles! The whole world is counting on you right now, but they just don't know it yet k?

But.. you there! I know you're reading this. Don't forget to record my movie ok?! I'm expecting to hear you go on and on about Exhibits A and B when I come back.. But it'll be a long time coming and I'll be ready! Just don't forget to record my movie ok?

Thanks for everything.

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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Me love ArPee long time deep deep.

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Sunday, January 07, 2007

I tear my lungs out
To show that I breathe for you
I tear my heart out
To show that it
Beats
Thru your darkest nights
I want you to know
I'll be here.

Is it just me or is it that everytime I say that I'm excited about the next day, something just crops up to cancel all plans. Disappointed. But can't say that I didn't expect it. It's ok. Things can only get better, or so they say.

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Saturday, January 06, 2007

Electric lah. AAbsolutely loved the show yesterday. The amps were good. I mean for the guitar amps they provided were the ones used for BayBeats lah. As for the bass amp... No such luck... But still... It was... really great sounding. Man... Getting the hang of using my effects pedal. I'm currently using an Ibanez Bass Overdrive/Distortion. I guess, in time, I'll try out the other variants. Wanna get an EQ and Tuning Pedal. Woots! I finally nailed Running On Empty's bass solo. Finally! Haha!

Highlight of the night was really when we got up on stage and shared it with Ashik and Naseer from 3dash1. Totally awesome ar. Totally man. I mean Ashik, Eve, San San and I were like all over the place ar! We were jumping, jacking, head banging, swinging (our lovely instruments)... Everything! We played My Hero by Foo Fighters. Finally I got to cover them. Woots! It was fun! Blardy fun! We were all enthralled ar. First time really where I felt that the band's stage presence was like really overwhelming in a very very very very fun way ar. I mean, MOSH was good. Don't get me wrong. But for MOSH, Eve was getting the hang of moving about. But last night, she was MOVING about. We nearly hit each other like a gazillion times ar. Benita was like worried that we would actually. We were... violent.

Then after that, Annabelle Francis was like telling us that she'd like us to perform again and gave us her contact. Yeay! I'm all pumped up for that, though I have a feeling that I won't be available to play for that show. Sad. But still, as long as ArPee keeps it up, gigging and all, by the time I'll be available to play the shows... It'll be so sweet lah. Hopefully, if possible ar.. We can do tours next year. I really really really wanna start touring ar.

Oh yeah, yesterday's post show supper was hardcore! There was Juan, Benita, Jabez, The Band, Push, Gaurav and Giff... that made like 10 of us ar. We spent like 70 bucks on food alone at Al-Azhar. I got a ride there cause Giff drove. The rest of them took the bus. Haha! But of course, I helped to transport the instruments. Wah... Ladies and Gentlemen.. we just got ourselves a tour van. Haha!

So right now, penning lyrics and working on new material for the band. It's all good. We trying out different formulas now. Cause we wanna find a sound that's distinctively US, and yet not commit ourselves to a a particular sub-genre. I mean... we even got inspired by a riff that we were playing for our soundcheck. Haha! That's about it from me. I look forward to tomorrow.

This heart beats for tomorrow.

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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Went shopping for a new gig bag for Tobias. Tempted to buy him the hardcase... But the thought of me lugging that around... well it kinda turned me off. Not now i suppose. Haha! But it's all good! Bought myself new picks. Trying to strum Tobias with a pick instead of using my fingers to play him. If I can nail the strumming part down then that ought to be cool, adds some variety to my playing style and therefore more dimension to our future songs.

Talking about songs... I managed to write a couple. Confirmed working on at least 2 of em. They are... very... catchy. Haha! That's the least I can say right now. Well at least I think they are catchy. We are planning to do a live recording soon. Perhaps next Monday. That ought to be fun! Yay to that!

Oh yeah... this Friday we're performing yet again! The details are as follows:

7.30 pm Emcee intro event and warm up audience
7.35 pm – 7.50 pm The Nerves
7.50 pm – 7.55 pm Q & A Session
7.55 pm – 8.10 pm Black Forest
8.10 pm – 8.25 pm Audio Breakout
8.25pm – 8.40pm Arpee
8.40 pm – 8.55pm 3-Dash-1
8.55pm – 9.00pm 3-Dash-1 Collaborate with Arpee

It's at Far East Plaza. Yeap.. Never played there before. Neither have we ever done a collab. Let alone with 3dash1. But.. it ought to be fun! And I shall end this post with a line off one of the new songs.

I wish I could connect these dots
Then we'd be together
And not have to depend so much
on the Force.

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Monday, January 01, 2007

Just got home from an adventure with ArPee! Yeay! Spent the new year with them! It was really exciting to say the least. Started off with me meeting Ihsan to debate between ourselves the right bus we should take to the venue where Yuhan and Evelyn were gonna perform at. Evelyn was standing in for Faizal on bass for Scream Front. Yuhan of course plays for Scream Front and... Cesspit! So yeap... just like the 30th, he was busy busy busy. Cause he had to prep for Cesspit and Scream Front. Cause Cesspit was also playing at the same show. The show itself was exciting. Ok... just in case you guys think this venue is somewhere in town, it isn't. It's at Bukit Batok CC lah. So classy right? Haha! So while half of the nation was in the town area doing the countdown, we were with the heartlanders in Bukit Batok doing the countdown!

After that we decided to go to Alif's at Bt Gombak. Inexplicably... they were closed! So... we trekked all the way to Al-Azhar at Bt Timah, eating Ben & Jerry's while we were at it. When we finally got there it was packed lah. So we decided to enjoy the air con over at MacD's and like come back later. And when we did... Lo and behold! Ah! I was so shocked! I was like... Ah! Ah! Ah! I shy to say whom I met but suffice to say it was a pleasantly great surprise! Man... Best New Year's Day ever lah! Eve, Ihsan and Yuhan were like wondering how come I suddenly went gaga lah. Haha!

Then like all of us began to like continue talking about the band and music and all... Man.. I never felt so comfortable and great with ArPee before seriously. Like with Louis there was tension and all. But with Yuhan ar.. It was all good ar. I mean seriously man.. All good. It's like as it is, we both listen to like almost the same kinda stuff like Better Than Ezra and Everclear. Cool man. Totally. So yeah we were talking and all. We all realized that MOSH was really really great ar. I mean... to have the crowd screaming in delight when you introduce an original to them is like totally amazing. I mean to think that they all still remembered that song. Chinatown Circles! Woots! I can still remember lah... "The next song is... Chinatown Circles!" and the crowd went... "Ahh!! Yeay!! Whee!!" so hardcore lah!

After all the band and music talk we decided to walk all the way to Hillview and then take a bus home from there. Then me and Ihsan alighted at our stop and walked the way home talking bout personal and musical stuff. Just great. Man... totally awesome!

This year has started really really well for me... I hope it will continue to be so for the rest of this year and so on and so forth. InsyaAllah.

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Sunday, December 31, 2006

The show yesterday was... AWESOME! There was moshing... body surfing... everything lah! It was fun fun fun! Eric gave me a mutton chop to my tum tum! Sent me sprawling to the floor it did. But it was all in good fun! Yeah! Then Ihsan stripped to his boxers! Woots! Hardcore!

As for like our set, it was... AWESOME lah! The crowd was great! Best crowd we have had the pleasure playing to yet. Considerin that it has been 16 months since we had a full blown gig like this, it was great to know that the peeps still remembered us. But it was damn tiring. I mean, we can jam for 2 hours, going thru our routines and still jams can never ever be more tiring than the actual show itself. Especially if the crowd is like really really electric! Hardcore lah! If anything... the end result of this gig itself is worth skipping prom altogether! Woots! Really looking forward to our next gig which is.. on the 5th Jan. We're sharing the stage with 3dash1, of The Straits Times' School Of Rock fame. So that ought to be something. Fun fun fun! But i'm nervous about it. Cause we're doing a two song colab with them... and I'm nervous! Ah! I shall overcome!

Every single song is a hidden message. But again it goes unnoticed.

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Monday, December 25, 2006

Yesterday I dreamt that you were still alive and running around the house. I dreamt that you were laughing and smiling and shouting and crying and giggling and calling out my name and calling me out to play. I dreamt the most beautiful dream and woke up to find the grim reality still existing. I woke up with tears in my eyes. I woke up trying to find you. I woke up alone in the house. I shouldn't have even bothered waking up. I miss you. We all do. But I know that you're in a place that's so much better from this less than perfect design. Now you don't climb window grilles and cabinets anymore. Now you climb the clouds and the stars. You're free now. Just as you always wanted to be. Free.

I beg you God, tonight, please bring me peace. I want to sleep forevermore with dreams of him still alive with me. I beg you God. I'm tired. I still don't understand why he has been taken away. I'm tired. And I just wanna go home.

I'll remember you forever cause I could never forget just how much you meant to me. It's been awhile now but yet my heart still bleeds. I long for the day when we can be together, as one. As it was. As it should have been.

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