WoW

well...........I'm having school holidays now.......wtf am I suppose to do? I wana play Wow......b4 I actually go back to College and get lost in piles and loads of work.....so I'm gonna get WoW.....I dun care

WoW/Blizzard

Well.....I really wanted to play WoW but its good that I'm able to control and not pre order.....especially with all the problems rite now....its been like 2 days and it seems to me that everybody's spamming Bliz.

1) U can't create a account unless u got Credit Card which u won't be able to unless ya'll over 18 which is y there's the Game Card option which Blizzard have so nicely provided us with. But they forgot to inform the public that even though the game will be release on the 23rd, the Card will ONLY be shipped on the 29 meaning u probly won't get it until the 30th or later.

2) U gotta have a US/NZ/AU issued CC to be able to sign up......actually I send an Email to blizzard b4 the launch asking them regarding the whole only US servers are live and only gamers from US/NZ/AU are allowed to play and they told me that once all the planned release for China/Europe are ready, gamers will be allowed to play where ever they want.......dude what's the diff in letting us choose the US servers now and like 3 months later? I'm not going to play in Korea cuz I absoultly have no freaking idea what the hell they are talkin bout.....I really dun enjoy playing in the China server cuz frankingly speaking they are pretty slow. So I'm still left with US as being the only choice.....to be honest after playing Diablo for so long, I find that the ping between the US West and Korean server to be neligable. So y would I choose Korea? and since I was in the OB testing of WoW I can say that I'm pretty much LAG FREE!!!!!!!

3) Whos reading all this crap anyway?

Freaking bored

I hate to say this but I"m freaking bored.............................................

Exams over/Wow beta over

Ok exams are over ---------> highlight and I think I did pretty well but WoW beta's over too .....suxz was really having fun....

WTF

In addition to the weird shit going on lately, yesterday I got no signal for my hp, no signal for my cable tv and no connection to the net.................man its really weird shit man..........

Breakthrough

hehehehehehe Made a breakthrough in my playing 2 day....great day for me...what bout urs???

Weird

Its been raining the whole freaking day..............I can't believe this............horrible

Nothing much happening

Really nothing much going on.....New version of Mozilla is out though.....ya'll gotta try it if you have not

Mozilla


-Beast

Megadeh

The System Has Failed.

Good old Thrash Metal. Ladies and Gentlemen's Dave Mustaine is back!!!!

Get this ablum NOW !!!!

Free upgrade to 1mb

hehehe I got a free upgrade from 512 to 1mb dl speed.....no wonder when I was dl some stuff couple days ago, I was dl really fast

Christopher Reeve RIP

Wow....can't believe it.....I still remember watching him acting as Superman....man.......

LCD/ThunderBlade

u know its like the first time I personally owned a 17" LCD Moniter and because of the size, its the first time, I'm able to really put the screen really far away as a matter a fact I'm considering putting it even further away

Any way on to part 2 of the blog, I also got to aftermarket fan for my system both are from Thermaltake and the Thunderblade series, in bright red.....system's too hot figure that I need to make it cooler.

Its here

finally, the damn comp is here after much setback and what not.....

Only issue I have is the noise comming from the fan......pretty damn lound...I think Iwill need to get one of those aftermarket fanless HSF.....

New PC on Friday

Finally I will be getting my PC this Friday.....

The specs:

P4 530 3.0 LGA 775
Corsair 512 VS DDR400
Abit AG8
Gigabyte 5750 PCX
WD 80Gig SATA
17" Samsung LCD

Busy Week

Man....its a pretty busy week....I'm in the process of getting a new PC after like 6 years of using a P3 450........

Assignment due this Wednesday.....online courses final assignment due....

Better get back to work...

Accelerated Learning/Hypnosis

I've been toying with this idea for a while, and I've read that a lot of today's top Musician frequently mediates, although not the same as hypnosis, I think its possible that this is helping them to reach a level that some guitarists can't reach.......

I'm gonna try this out.....

The review of the 2 CD's will be coming soon :-)

Gmail

Todate I've given out 5 Gmail account and have 5 more invites left who wants one juz let me know

Ages since I last updated

Wow been sometime huh???

Anyway I got 2 Favored Nations CD today. Eric Sardinas and Johnny A.

Will give an update later when I 've the time

The Elder Gods

Hehehehe, this is pretty freaking cool, a new book by David & Leigh Eddings call The Elder Gods.

I really dig Eddings books and I've read all of them. I really like books by Raymond E. Feist and Edgar Allan Poe too.

Great Stuff.

Hostages in Chechnya

OMG, I can't believe it, 400 over children and adults being held hostages.

Pray for their safe returns

Man On Fire

Nice movie, touching too. U guys gotta check it out if you have the time, compared to I Robot, I think I dig this one more. I Robot is kinda, well juz action packed movie. But for Man on Fire its fairly touching

Twin Crashes

If Ya'll dun know, well, the terrorist have struck again, this time its 2 planes.....pretty sad.

I dun know man......

RockGuitarUnite

Ok, I did not do any update for quite a while, I juz did a quick one, been fairly busy this few weeks, probably do a bigger update on Thursday when I more free

Morals

Its pretty fucking digusting, I mean I juz got a 60 for my Moral Assignment. I'm like the lowest in the class, and the teacher said, "I know some of you cut and paste from the net but its ok, this time I won't penalize you all but next time I will" I'm like what the FUCK, I did not cut and paste and yet I got a 60 and those who cut and paste got higher grades than me. I mean WHAT THE FUCK man......... Btw the teacher did not say that to me and I know I did not cut and paste.

Back in High School, I've friends who freaking failed classes for not citing a sentence properly. This is supposed to be a GOD DAMN College but yet have a lower standard than a High School.

I'm FREAKING pissed...................

I really dun understand, its such a joke, its moral class yet the teacher is like ok you guys cut and paste but I won't penalize this time. WHAT THE FUCK is going???

Can someone FREAKING tell me???

Van Halen

Wow for the first time in my life, I got my 2nd Van Halen ablum, the first one I got was For the Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, in cassette form, I pretty much lose that ablum real quick.

Today, I went downtown saw their greatest hit and figured that I really muz get this ablum, how can not have any Van Halen ablum???

To be honest I've heard quite a number of VH covers but yet have not heard the original version. My first time, now I know what people mean by the brown tone that VH is so famous for!!!!!!!

Great Ablum

Update on Word Up

Well b4 I heard a 30 sec clip of the tune, I juz heard the whole tune on Rock Guitar Unite.
Great tune, sounds more like a Modern Rock tune than Nu Metal, Great song do check it out.

New Tunes for RockGuitarUnite

I added a couple of new tunes....about 5 to 8 tunes, go check it out....anyway one of teh tunes, I added was by Korn, I'm not a big fan of Korn but Word Up sounded really cool, so I added it in.

Music and Aegean Sea

The 7 modes in music are actually named after people, lanuages from around the Aegean Sea.
Very interesting read.

Once I find more info, I'll post it up :-)

Rock Guitar Unite/Marty Friedman

Didn't do too much update last week anyway I added one new track, probably will add in more later today.

Anyway I juz got Music for Speeding by Marty Friedman.....wow great tone and I can hear some Megadethish riffing/soloing in some parts of his playing.

Overall I dig this ablum although I won't say that its really heavy like some Megadeth ablum but its total departure from the Scenes ablum. Think I gotta get a few more Marty Friedman CD.

Have not done too much update

Not happening really, I really wanted to buy some CDs but I couldn't find any that I really dig....only one taht I might buy would be Soulfly's Prophecy and the one ablum I'm really looking forward to would be Megadeth's New Ablum.....Dave Mustaine invited Chris Poland back to cut some solo's and stuff.....can't wait

Vai

well...due to a passport problem, i couldn't make it to the concert but however one of my friend in Malaysia, Rithan won the guitar competition can jamed w/Steve Vai, though I wasn't there, but reading in the forums, his set seems to be quite well recieved although a few people was refering Rithan as the Singaporean and Vai set.....

Here's a link to an article http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/hey/story/0,4136,69167,00.html?

over and out

New Megadeth Ablum

Wow.....brand New Megadeth ablum coming out :-) u can get more info at www.megadeth.com
Its gonna be freaking amazing....I luv good old school trash metal Heads up

Day After Tomorrow

Man, its freaking cold this late morning....I'm guessing a good 25C generally its not so cold, kinda remind me of the Day After 2morrow, no sun....muz pretty cold

Its juz for F***K up!!!!!!!

I feel like I'm back in the Army, being screwed by the people above.....
I asked for directions and I acted accordingly and I'm being screwed for it cuz the mutherf**ker is denying everything, saying that isn't it.....WTF

Vai Live In Sg

July 29th, a legend will be performing in Singapore and I might not be able to go...................
WTF.......there's something wrong w/my Passport so I dun know if I'm able to make it or not.....I dun know what to say

Its a real bummer

Pretty Good

I feel pretty good today...not sure y....but oh well....juz in a pretty good mood....actually I wanted to update my playlist for RockGuitarUnite but there's something wrong w/my ripper program....but they didn't put me down....will do it tonite or maybe 2morrow morning....juz gonna be doing a small update, bout 4 or 5 new songs....

Did I mention taht I'm gonna do a weekly update and if time permits, I will try to do an update twice a week?

Well now ya'll know

over and out

Hatred?

After living for so long....cing innocent people dieing....I think hatred and anger all comes from within....if one can find peace in him/her self, I think there will be world peace.

I dun know how one can find peace in him/her self. Cuz at times, I will be angry, sad too............

Peace

K....New playlist be up by this Evening

This new playlist will bave theme, war/peace....we need more peace not war and less killing of inocent peopel

Slither

Well...I uploaded Slither and hopefully Slither is not edited well I will be changing the playlist a little, should be all done by tonight, probably around 20% changed so that will be bout 15 new songs :-)

Another Hostage Killed

Man....I'm not really into politics and will not go into it but still all this innocent killing....I juz feel sad....

VR

U know what...I'm not uploading the VR tracks onto Rock Guitars Unite bcoz, my version is the censored one and I simply dun know which tracks are censored, the fans deserved more than this.....

VR

Well finally Velvet Revolver's Contraband is here in Malaysia and as expected it is censored........:-(

The cover of the CD even say that its the edited version adn when teh CD was checked back against teh CDDB, it says its the Clean version....I wonder what's teh diff between the clean and dirty version......

Anyway I dig track 2 and 6, Do It For The Kids adn Fall To Pieces, so they will go up on Rock Guitars Unite, by 2morrow.....great tone on Fall To Pieces and I dig the overall feel of DIFtK :-)

Very different from Slash's Snakepit and GnFR...but after a few spin, its not bad...not bad at all.

There is really a problem w/me

I think I really have a problem....I'm getting headache all the time...even when I'm playing the guitar....and not I'm not doing metal...juz Jazz licks and I can feel my pain...I think I really gotta go c a doc b4 I like freaking die or sometime...

Hahah I need to do something

Due to the lack of classes and even though I'm taking up online classes as well, I feel that my life is still kinda empty cuz there still ain't enough things to fill up my time....

Rock Guitar Unite Update

Well my station's ranking based on my genre is bout 200+, not bad I say for a new station and its only been up for the past 4 days or so...I think I probably do something like 2 updates per week or weekly update.

Migrain?

I think I might have migrain or something....I keep getting headaches all the time from fairly painful to slight pain....man the has been going on for the pass couple of months....maybe I should be cing a doc....

Information Age

I think this is so true, without infomation its very hard for us to act or decide what to do, especially if ya in the Army, one mistake or wrong info could mean death.... Peace Ya'll World Peace....

Sweaty Palms

Anybody got it? Well I do and there are several ways to treat it. first up you can go for a small operation, the sucess rate is pretty high.

The next way is to apply this medicine on the affected areas, which is the method I use. It works,but has also cause the skin on my palms to peel off a fair bit, which is annoying for my cuz I play the guitar and everytime the callouses peel off, my finger tips really hurts, I've actually stop using it but I do notice that I don't sweat as much now, the effect last pretty long per coating. It can last up to about 2 months. but I dun really dig using it....

Stretching

If ya a guitarist and have been playing for a while, try this.

Your fingers on ur left hand will be longer than ur right, cuz you gotta stretch those fingers to play some of the chords on the guitar.

I've been thinking if I'm able to stretch my self, I might beable to get a couple of inch taller. Hehehehe I'm not very tall, juz slightly under 5 6 , maybe I can stretch myself to like five six and a half????

Anyway over and out

Rock Guitar Unite

Hey guys, I've been doing some checking and realize that my station is a bit messy, so therefore, I've came up with some new ideas. Anyway they should be up by this evening.

Do check out the site.

Amazing Stuff

Got this from a friend from Friendster.com

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Amzanig huh?

Rock Guitar Unite

Guys, finally I've got my Radio Station up here's the link

Rock Guitar Unite

The URL is: http://www.live365.com/stations/rockguitarunite

Do go check it out

Gmail Part 3

Actually now u can't sign up as a beta user, I do believe b4 you can but anyway they have updated their site so you can't sign up now.

ET

Ahhhh.....I got the DREADED ET3 this term.....I freaking hate that class...

Anyway....I'm still thinking bout the name for my Station.....
Guitars United?
Fusion of Guitars?

Ahhhhhh few more days b4 I get it....

Anyway I've been reading some of the legal docs on broadcasting over the net and going through CDs that I can legally broadcast.

Heheheh something new....exciting for me..

Name for my possible station

Ok, I'm gonna do it....but I need a name for my station, well it ain't gonna be juz rock, cuz I wana showcase all kind of music, but its probably gonna be mainly instrumental, featuring e guitar. Jazz to rock to metal to fusion but all featuring the guitar.

World of Guitar?
Instrumental Fusion?
Fusion of Guitar Genres?

Gmail part 2

Btw if ya using Yahoo or Hotmail, be forewarn that any Gmail invites will be dumped into the spam folder(Yahoo) and if ya using Hotmail, it will be deleted.

Ok I dun know how true this is but I've read this on alot of websites, so it should be true!!!!!

So do check the spam folder, as for Hotmail....I dun know what to say.

Ways to Get a Gmail Acct..

Hehehe, I juz realize that there are a variety of ways to get a Gmail acct. Hehehe, I got one too but anyway, here's a few way.

Sign up to be a beta-user via Gmail.com

This is probably the worse way to go.

The next way is to try buying one via where else but Ebay or Gmail Swap

The best way is to get invited for example there a number to websites that offer Gmail acct as a reward for reporting Bugs or if you have made some sort of signaficant contribution to that site.

here are some sites that I know of:
If u have been using this for quite a while, you might get invited, www.blogger.com

www.blinkx.com

If ya a Mozilla user and can find a bug you might get a free Gmail Acct

Over and Out

Live365

Well...I've always wanted to be a radio DJ...I think its even hipper to do it online...for example Live 365 is a great way cuz if ya gonna be doing it yourself u gotta pay royalties and stuff and I dun wana do this illegally, its EVIL and I'm a musician too....hmmm....well I'll most probably decided at the end of the month...

Mostly likly I'll will try this out for like two or three months cuz it won't be a problem for me finacially USD14.95 so I'm still ok....

CDs

Ok...I bought a shit load of CDs this 2 wks, Tower is have a clearance sale so quite a few CDs are going for half price bought about 10 CDs I think....

And Frankly I'm DAMN disappointed by two CDs cuz they are censored...do u believe it, its freaking censored...if I knew I would not have bought it...juz imagine if its a Slim Shady CD or any sort of gangsta rap CD, a 50 mike CD would be like only 20 minutes long cuz most of it will be censored.....DIGUSTING

Did I make a mistake?

I've been playing DII but not really playing cuz I've been thinking more than playing...did I make a mistake chosing music? I dun know...I feel confused my head is spinning and I took this one iq test online, Emode.com I did ok for my IQ test slightly above average where majority of the people are...I ain't smart I know that juz a average Joe but yet I'm doing bad in my studies.......I dun know what to do....

Try

If you dun try u defintely is gonna lose but if u try u still will have a chance of succeding.

Less D2

Ok, new term is starting soon....so therefore, I muz reduce the amt of time playing DII....juz 1 hr at night for now till college starts....

Books

Nothing much going on....felt like reading a book, so I picked up Raymond E. Feist Magician for a read....

What Song? What Song?

Ha....that time again...gotta choose a song to perform...but what song should I do? I dun know...Maybe I will do a real old tune Sunshine of Ur Love by Cream...hmm...arghhhhhh

Resume (Updated: 17/11/2007)

Education:

Solid State Logic Certificate September 2007
SAE Institute Singapore

Audio Engineering Diploma August 2007
SAE Institute Singapore

Getting Inside Harmony Certificate July 2004
Berklee College of Music

American High School Diploma
International School of Kuala Lumpur, June 1998


Experience:

Cashier/Sales/Event Assistance
Yamaha Music (Asia) Pte Ltd August 2006 – November 2006

Handling cash/nets/credit card transaction
Ordering/transferring of goods
Handing sales enquiries

Event Crew for Kenny Aronoff's Clinic in Singapore

Ushering of guest
Setting up video/projector

Event Crew for Yamaha's “Thank You For the Music” concert

Setting up of drum set/guitar and bass amp
Positioning of stage equipments
Positioning of microphones
Coordinating with musicians on equipment setup

Event Crew for Asian Festival of 1st Films Nov – Dec 2006

Assisted with sitting planning
Handling general enquiries

Event Crew
Alvron Mediaworks

Setting up PA/Sound/lights/mixer
Setting up band equipments
Assisted with floor planning

Front House/Monitor Sound Engineer
Alvron Mediaworks

Mixing sound for audience
Mixing sound for band on stage

Sound Engineer
Hark Music

Vocal Recording
Pitch Correction
Mixing/Editing of vocals
Audio Dialogue recording for screenplay

Music Production Trainer
GNSchool

Taught Fruity Loops/Audacity
Taught basic composition of song
Taught basic mixdown technique

Anger

Talk bout anger, frustrations, pain and whateva, it reminded me of this show I saw on TV bout 1 year back, there's this one shop in Japan for people to vent their anger, basically you pay a certain amt of money and you get one room that you can destroy and totally trash it.

Well there ain't any here(where I live) but I think its pretty freaking cool, I mean there muz be times where you really feel like whacking something but you probably can only slam the door or throw a book on the ground or something? Well now you get to trash a room and not have to clean up or anything.....How bout that?

Something Different

Btw on a different beat, if ya'll got a comp and wana help find a cure for Cancer you can do so by visiting this website.

This is for a good cause

...

My brothers all studied in some of the BEST University in the world yet I can't....I'am a FAILURE.....I think I need help

Pain

I feel a lot of pain both physical and mental.....I've no talent and I dun know y I'm alive, what's my purpose in life? Can someone answer me? I've been trying to figure this q out for a really long time since I'm in Grade 7. Its been almost 10 years.....

Fade to Black

Life it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters no one else
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free

-Metallica

Big Big World

Ha...Guess I still have not seen enough of the world yet, the world is so big and I dun really know alot bout the world but yet I dun really like to travel but I think I would like to visit China to c some of the history that is there

hohoho

Finally someone posted a comment on my blog hahaha....anyway I went back old school today and listened to some good old Metallica. Have been listening to lots of Jazz and stuff. For some reason I juz felt like listening to something heavy and out came the Tallica CDs :-) my roots.

Being in a music college, I get influenced to listen to lots of Jazz cuz its the hardest form of music and for the rockers we are told to listen to lots of Dream Theater, I listen to a lot of DT as well and they are one of the most sucessful Progressive Rock band but like Jazz, its very progressive and very long. DT's song can go up to thiry mike for one song and frequently on their ablum (full length 60 - 70 mike) there are very few songs, 7 - 10. compare to say a punk or pop ablum which is not full length(avg 50 mike) there will be like 12 tunes on it.

Becoz their song is so long and complex, in order to absorb the whole ablum it could take many spins and there are always some sort of themes going on, usually based on events in the past year.

Dun feel like typing anymore....:-p

Death

Sometimes I wonder what its like to die...will we go to another world where there will be peace and no worries?

Stiff Shoulder

hmm...today its suppose to be my woodshed day but its unforunate that I didn't sleep well and work up with a stiff right shoulder and I went wtf I'm gonna woodshed anyway and after doing simple warmups and some simple scales for bout 30 mike, I actually started to feel my forearm to cramp man....scary stuff stop practicing right away I didn't even do much after wards and ended up watching Helen of Troy...

2 new CDs

I've not got any new CDs for a very long time and rarely do I get any modern rock band...but today I got a pop rockish CD by a band from Taiwan call FIR...they are a bit different cuz they uses some modes in certain songs which are very rare in the Chinese market...probably that's y I got the CD.

The other that I got is solo release by a metal legend Marty Friedman but however this CD is very much different from the band he use to be in, Megadeth....think Kitaro but more rockish closer to rock ballad. Btw this is a old CD call Scenes, probably very hard to find in South East Asia. A good CD if you like Kitaro's style but want abit more of a rockish flavor to it.

Long Time...

Seems like such a long time since I last made a post...I dun know what to write ....

What's our purpose in life?

wtf are we alive for? What are we suppose to do? What's every body's job and how do we contribute to this world? If we die would it even make a different? I dun know....sometimes I wonder y we are even alive.......

Catching up on Movies

Well since the start of the holis, I've been doing some catching up on movies that I've missed and man Kill Bill has gotta be so damn violent head flying off, limbs beening chopped off....blood everywhere....man....scary stuff...

New Month

Well new month...time for some spring cleaning....getting ready for next time...I dun know...I dun really have anythought provoking stuff to say....well....hmmm.....How bout saying this...

Something I was asked when I used to be in the military, if we are on a mission and it would determine if there is going to be a war or not and one of our teammate is badly injured and might not survive should we kill our mate or bring him along? Out mate here is defintely gonna be slowing us down and he needs treatment something we cannot give him but yet if we do not complete this mission it is possible that there will be war.....what should be done?

Intense Gaming

Well...doing some serious gaming for the pass 2 days.....next week some serious woodshedding than back to Sg and than....hmmm....well.... who cares!?!?!?!?!?

Finally It has ended

I think I'm gonna rest for the rest of this week, enjoy playing D2 and c whats gonna happen...

Blaming Me?

WTF man, I messed up on this one tune and I'm not denying that I messsed up, I even said sorry to my band members. But this one F***er actually blamed me?!?!?!I think that if he did indeed came to practice and took the time to practice, he would actually knew when he should be playing and what he should be playing.

At the very start of the song, I acutally slowed down thus cuzing the whole band to slow down, guess I was kinda nervous but the problem is that's only at the starting I actually have to repeat the whole song twice b4 taht fella is suppose to come in and I only mess up the first couple of bars and he actually went and said that if I did not mess up on the first couple of bars, he would have knew when he is suppose to come in....

My q is if he actually practice, he would know where the hell we are cuz he's the only person who was lost.... do bear in mind that I only messed up the first couple of bars and the rest of the song especially the 2nd time when I repeat I was doing fine,he actually had the guts to blame me, btw did I mentioned that he did not came to practice for almost 2 months????

What's the damn world coming too?

Soon

Couple of hours more till I let loose....probably won't happen cuz my teachers say I'm always too uptight when performing....guess that's y Eric Johnson's my idol, he look really uptight as opposed to someone like say Vai.


Wish me luck, Yo

Exams 2morrow

Well what more can I say....practice.....

C-ya'll real soon

IBX in SG

First up kudos to the bands that played. 2nd of all I checked out some of the clips from from SOFT

2nd part, guess I'm gonna be a music police....this is straightly from a musician's point of view, no hatred or trying to put down anybody here.

First of all, I believe that if there's gonna be a vocalist, than the vocalist is of vital importance because s/he will be holding the melody and the rest of the band will only be backing up the vocalist, therefore if the damn vocalist can't keep pitch(unless if its like a nu-metal when the vocalist is rapping and not doing much singing or the band is like a black metal band) no matter how strong or tight the band is, it will still sound like crap. Apparently some of the vocalist can't keep pitch, especially when going up higher or lower, they seem to not be able to hit the note correctly, it is also important to choose a key that the vocalist is comfortable singing in. Btw juz for your info, if ya listen to screamers like Slayer, Sepultura although unbeliveable they do scream in pitch.....

Next up, I notice on some of the videos when ya'll are doing solos, its a bit hard to hear, what might help is to use some sort of pedal to boost your volume, so when you are taking a solo boost it, that way the audience will be able to hear you, on stage you might think its loud but off the stage its totally different. Or the other way, which I dun prefer to do cuz its not the best way is to use your volume knob, set up so that your guitar volume is say around 5 or 6 and when taking a solo turn up to 9 - 10.

Last part, I will talk about is the drums and bass, they are the back bone of the band, if they dun play well, the whole band will fail. Drums and bass muz be really tight, not some thingI can see(or rather hear). And defintely keep time, the drums muz be rock solid like a drum machine, ok I know we are humans and probably will make mistake but try to be as solid as possible

Over and out
Long ranting sorry bout that

Custom Quote for Guitar

You know lots of my friends at my college are buying custom made guitars from the states or some sort of historic model or special edition model and stuff like that, cost? At least 5000USD and above, most probably around the price of 7500USD, I couldn't help it but try getting a custom quote(although I won't be buying it), 5500USD.

Well at least it makes me a little happy I guess....

Spam?

You guys know, its so damn annoying that I keeping getting spam on my Yahoo account, ah...the spam filter on Yahoo is pretty good, up till know somehow the spammers have gotten around it, hopefully they will be able to resolve this problem soon

BlackOut

There was a blackout last night, no electricity for bout 2 hrs in the whole area. I live pretty high up and when I looked out of my window, I could c quite clearly the candles and torchlight being shone in the apartments. This kinda reminded me of my military days, when we were doing "war games" in the jungle, there will be a no light, no noise rule, basically we are like ghosts.

Since I live in the city, its actually quite bright and I could see the lights so clearly, if it was in the jungle it will be even clearer and probably this people would have been dead.

Did I mention that its my birthday on the 18th?

Musician's Favorite Class

Ear Training....Man I'm telling you this has gotta be the musician's most FEARED class. Thank GOD, I'm doing the last level of this class next term(There are 4 levels, Ear Training 1, 2, 3, 4)

Although I really dislike this class, I muz admit that my ET has improved alot. I can actually hear progressions and stuff although not all the time, I can really feel(hear) the difference.

I realize that I'm actually able to analyze the songs I'm hearing like what form, when the modulation is, what kind of technique(not as in picking or legato kind) but like hey, there's a sequence going on, or there's a pedal tone going on or whatever.

I guess going to a music college is really making a difference.

Is There Love In Space?

Yap that's right Satch's new ablum....finally I got it like one month after it's been release.

Well somehow it feels slightly different I dun know its seems to me that theres a strong rhythmn guitar presence and the bass is not as obvious(????) I mean when Stu Hamm was playing bass, there's always a very strong bass groove going on, almost like if the bass is holding the whole rhythmn and groove where else on this ablum the bass is not standing out as much and there's a lot of stronger, hard rocking guitar grooves. Usually Satch would have a synth type of sound in the rhythmn section as well.

Overall I dun dig this ablum as much usually on most Satch ablum there will be like one or two songs sometimes even more that catches my ear but this ablum, I've yet to find one song that I really dig, I do like Souls of Distortion, I like the Rain(Reminds me of the Wild Wild West....dun know y picture I get is a cowboy.)The tone is Searching is really unique, very futuristic.

Have I found the answer to my problem?

You know what I talked about yesterday...well I might have found an answer to my problem...juz picked up a copy of the newest Guitar World today (July 04 issue) The article is real long!!! So I won't type out everything anyway here we go:

Guitar World by Jimmy Brown, Music Editor
Findin the Path of Least Resistance
I used to do things teh hard way. When I was a young man studying jazz guitar in college, I went through a period of several years during which I was obssesed with alternate (down-up) picking and being able to "muscle through" the most diffcult picking patterns......Much of these precious hours spent in the prime years of my life turned out to be a profound waste of time and energy.

Well basically the article is talkin bout being smart in choosing how you would play a lick or whatever in a more comfortable way for you fretting and picking hand.

A very enlightening article...I'm indeed going the wrong way...its good that by being in college, I dun have as much time to carry on with this insanity of down-up down-up madness.

Anyway there are lots of good pratice tips in this issue of GW by professors from establish music schools, like Berklee, GIT and advice from guitarists like Zakk Wylde, Satch and Petrucci

Great Issue

Over and Out

Tone?

Will I ever find my holy grail?

After comparing my tone to the likes of Jeff Beck...Eric Johnson....Coltrane....I feel so ashamed. Their tones are so smooth, and fat and relax....marks of a professional...Something I can't get and sometimes its so frustrating...I sound so thin and I dun know how to even describe other than shitty....

Missing Classes

You know I try not to miss classes/practices but there are juz those people who juz would not come. There's this one kid who was informed by 2 of us that there's practice, he did not show up and yet when we saw him couple of days later and confronted him, he actually said what there's practice....man what the fuck....it is so damn hard to come for practice?

Vai Live In Singapore

Steve Vai is gonna be performing in Singapore and hopefully it won't be cancelled like the Satch and Dream Theater Concert couple of months back....

This has to be the best news this year if it doesn't get cancelled its soon damn fucking common to have rock concerts gettting cancelled all the time now a days to add to the list Limp Bizkit cancelled too (not a fan)

Makes me feel like I gotta woodshed....lol

what a idiot

William Hung

He has gotta be the hottest topic right now....Nothing against him....juz that he aint the best singer or dancer in the world and I can't do any of the above as well yet and I defintely won't have the guts to audition for American Idol.

But from a musician's point of view and juz like what he said on National TV...I dun have any professional training and I'm pretty sure he is gonna be able to make more money(and gain lots of fame) than alot of other REAL musician who might have spend the past ten, twenty years perfecting their craft.

I'm not dissing William Hung but I guess this is the Cold Hard Truth.

Hell....how many of ya'll out there knows who Shawn Lane is? He's a great fusion jazz rock guitarist yet not many people know him but someone like Hung is so damn big....

Can't blame anyone though....its juz the way the business work.

New Site for my Blog

You know the other blog that I've is not really that great...no names though....so I'm gonna move here

Finally

Finally I know which songs I'm gonna be playing...we get 5 songs to learn but we won't know which songs we are gonna be graded on till like 1 week b4 the exam....

Time to make some noise :-)