Mogwai Live in KL!!!!!

Yup.. dats rite.. they're coming here. 21st Jan 2009 at KL Convention Centre. The infamous scottish post-rock/experimental band is coming! I dunno if i'm going or not actually. haha! but will be askin around who wanna come. Try to get the early bird ticket.. can save me rm40!
Not really a big Mogwai fan actually but kinda like their music. And this are MUSICIANS that are really worth seeing IMO. Not like LP or MCR shits.. HAHAHA!

UPDATE: Bought the ticket already!!!!!

Spotlight!

Dated 10th December, UNiM's Music Society's Spotlight event. Saw the email bout dis event two weeks ago and decided to join it. The thing is, i emailed saying i would be playing with my friends. but somehow i dunno why, the guy thought i said me + me n my friends. but i decided to go for it anyway! played 2 cover songs. Past recedes by John Frusciante and Joe Satriani's Always with Me Always with You. I was friggin nervous before and during it!

That was Past Recedes originally performed by John Frusciante (of RHCP). Damn my timing was everywhere. Not constant at all! Too fast actually.. hahaha! minor mistakes though.. vocal.. no comment.. hahaha! 1 and half star out of 5 for me!

This one is Satch's AWMAWU... same.. rubbish timing! Hence, the feelings of the song is failed to be brought to the audience.. mistakes? ofcourse! hehehe.. 1 star only! Booooo!

So, conclusion is simple.. stop visiting jamtank.net and watching gear reviews at youtube at free time. and most importantly... PRACTICE! PRACTICE! PRACTICE! Especially about the timing! Damn! 8 years of playing guitar and this is what i am now???


p/s probably i should do this again next year if there is another event like this. hopefully there'll be improvement then...

So you wanna be a rawk superstar?

My main axe.. Epiphone Les Paul, i don't really know wut model it is. A guitar store guy once said that it has the LP Classic type of neck (60's slim tapered). Well, it is kinda slim, but i never really played any other LP, so dont really know if it is really 60's slim type of neck. Anyway, come stock for the pickup was the Burstbucker (pot waxed) for neck and bridge. Probably alnico i think. But then, i've changed both the pickup earlier this year to Dimarzio's.

Originally planned to changed to EMG's (81 for the bridge and 89 for the neck), but coz of availability and price factor, decided to chose Dimarzio's. Bought both of 'em from ToneZone Studio (sadly had closed down). I chose the pickup based on wut was avaible there. after weeks of 'research' (mostly reading review from Harmony-Central.com), i chose the Tone Zone for the bridge and Air Norton for the neck.

The tone i was looking for is FAT! FAT! FAT! Hate those thin tone especially for cleans. Used the pickup selector from dimarzio.com to help me decide. I wanted good clean (& fat!), and also somewhat aggresive distortion for the bridge. Long story short, Tone Zone and Air Norton was chosen. Both also installed with push-pull potentiometer for the tone controls where i'll get to change from humbucker to single-coil setting for each pickup by just pull of push the tone control.

Now, for clean mostly i use neck pickup or centre(both). n oftenly in the single-coil mode for neck. Got a great n sweeeeeeet clean tone when using neck only in single-coil. add a bit touch of chorus; total haven! The bridge, clean isn't that good but not bad. Distortion is great. Good dynamics, note definition and balanced tone. Just great!

Hospital Joke!

A joke I found from a forum.. It's a good tactic anyway if you happen to be warded in a hospital for any reason.. LOL

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A woman called a local hospital -- "Hello. Could you connect me to
the person who gives information about patients? I'd like to find out if
a patient is getting better, doing as expected, or getting worse."

The voice on the other end said "What is the patients name and room
number?"

"Sarah Finkel, Room 302."

"I'll connect you to the nursing station".

"Third floor nursing station . How can I help you?"

"I'd like to know the condition of Sarah Finkel in Room 302."

"Just a moment. Let me look at her records. Mrs. Finkel is very
well. In fact she had two full meals, her blood pressure is fine. She
is to be taken off the heart monitor in a couple of hours, and if she
continues this improvement, Dr Cohen is going to send her home on
Tuesday."

The woman said " What a relief' Oh, that's fantastic. That's
wonderful news".

The nurse said, "From your enthusiasm, I take it, you are a close
family member, or are you a very close friend?"

"Neither. I'm Sarah Finkel in Room 302. Nobody tells me shit"............

Stellar

Meet me in outer space
We could spend the night
Watch the earth come up
I've grown tired of this place
Won't you come with me?
Wecould start again

How do you do it?
Make me feel like I do
How do you do it?
It's better than I ever knew

Meet me in outer space
I will hold you close
If you're afraid of heights
I need you to see this place
It might be the only way
That I can show you how
It feels to be inside of you

How do you do it?
Make me feel like I do
How do you do it?
It's better than I ever knew

You're a stellar...

(dedicated for my gurl)

Woody woody wood wood wood...

Muahahaha! I think its not even a week after my last post bout my desktop. After 2 3 days using windows classic theme for a while to lessen the computer memory burden (to make way for CFD calculations using Fluent and Gambit) now, a newer one. With wood as the main theme. The VS is called innocense from deviantart.com ofcourse. Wood theme also for the ObjectDock. and i absolutely dunno how long i will keep this theme.. hahaha

Perseverance

I know your fear of loss
And your struggles with faith
And how it takes everything that you have to face the day
The virtues you possess now bring you eternal pain
All you have is contempt for a life you can't obtain
All your heroes have failed you
Yet you try and prevail
Face your torment and dismantle your doubt
Refuse this legacy of shame and deceit
Cause the only real truth in your life that you know is hostility

Your world is coming apart
Remain steadfast

Perseverance
Against all opposition
Crushing all limitations
Pure strength through solitude
Discipline and determination

You can't accept what you've been told
Anchored in sin you must reverse your descent
Declare the weight of the world has yet to claim you
And admit that your faults will not restrain you
Glimpses of fate bring light to your despair
Realise hope isn't short of your grasp
RESURRECT EVERY DREAM THAT YOU BURIED ALIVE
AND NEVER SUCCUMB TO THE WAR THAT YOU FIGHT IN YOU HEART

Your world is coming apart
Remain steadfast

Perseverance
Against all opposition
Crushing all limitations
Pure strength through solitude
Discipline and determination

My desktop!!

This is one of my recent latest hobby! Desktop modding! used TuneUp styler for the theme.. Transblack V1 theme from deviantart.com (my latest obsession also). wallpaper also from there.. and also the ObjectDock theme and its icon.. and dont forget the wmp skin! Do visit 'em if you wanna look for something like it (for those who dunno yet r...). Did this yesterday night actually, during the time i'm supposed to do my '3D Flow over a circular cylinder' cfd simulation.. anyway, this type of post would probably be one of the norm...

A new dawn......?

Weblog... or better know as Blog.. wut is this thing? why do suddenly everybody's doing it? izit a 'public diary'? I used to visit some blogs just to get download links of movies/music album of video/software etc... Now, i'm writing one! HAH!

Why do ppl even write one actually? for those political or 'independet' blogger... well.. to spread their 'opinions' to the mass it seems (more like propaganda 2 me).. for the downloads ones... to 'share' ofcourse!! but what about 'none of the above'? like my sis' (which i never visited or even know the url), and whomever it may concern..

So now, i'm doing it.. i look this as somewhat.. 'Words of me'.. wuteva i thought/feel/dream during that particular time.. and also to pracice my communication(?) skills andm learn to get those 'ideas' in my head out as words (written atleast)...

I'm kinda like a thinker actually.. always talking inside my head 90% of my concious time.. about nothing and everythng at the same time... call it berangan, day dreaming, dreaming, thinking philosophically, brainstorming, berjiwang, angau, melangok.. dats me alrite..

Panjang gler ak tulis pn da nih... Thus, wut to expect of this weblog of mine? whining, album review, pictures, opinions, and wuteva i want to!!!

"I'm not under your command, i know where i stand;
I won't change to fit your plan, take me AS I AM...."