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Friday, November 28, 2008
Youth!
I was giving this link by my old Singapore Polytechnic friend and the first thing it did to me was a flash back..Time indeed travels very fast. It seems just like yesterday that i am a carefree chap playing guitar in the old club house. Memories!
Do support this bunch of young fresh blood! SPGuitarist
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Youtube Whoring!
I want to complain! It was pretty much my idea to do such things on youtube among my band. Somehow or rather, my other guitarist stole the limelight first! Argh! Just days ahead of me. Dang.. Well anyway i still wants to show my work! :D
More to come :)
More to come :)
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
I am stress???
Recently i am suffering from hair loss problem. Since when? Recent. It is so bad that it's making me feeling all awkward and weird. I was left with no choice but to see a doctor as i fear it might be some signs for some hidden disease inside me.
So i finally visited the doctor. She stand next to me and started to look through my scalp by brushing her hands on my hair and looking with naked eyes. After less then 2mins, she went over to the basin and washes her hands.
"Nothing wrong, no major illness"
I felt totally uncomfortable with her diagnosis and started to tell her more about my body condition etc, hoping it would ring a bell of something. Nope. She insisted that i don't have any major illness in my body. According to her school of taught, the human's hair also sleeps. But unlike a human who will wake after 1 night of rest, the hair sleeps for 3month every time. So during this period, the hair will easily fall off even with a simple brushing. This is caused by stress, physical tiredness and a few more i can't remember. But stress?
She insist that it is because of stress that puts my hair to "sleep". I really started wondering where does this amount of stress comes from? I was terribly stressed and worn out during the days i work in Maestro Guitars but i did not suffer any hair lost.. Stress now?
To make things worse. I went back to peninsular, the place where i work before, to grab some guitar parts and saw an old friend. His hair is super long! Seen those 80s hair metal band? Yup that's his length! How long it took him? 6mth. During this 6mth i only had 1 hair cut in between! There is no way his hair can grow so fast! It makes me wonder is it because of my hair problem that i am able to managed a shorter hair length easily.
These hair don't fall after a certain length. I've even see my own eyebrow's hair falling onto my food before. Am i going to be come a Jordan Rudess? If any of you reading knows anything about hair loss problem please contact me! My parents does not have hair loss problem but my grandpa does have sparse hair problem. But his hair problem only surface at his later age. Save me!!!
So i finally visited the doctor. She stand next to me and started to look through my scalp by brushing her hands on my hair and looking with naked eyes. After less then 2mins, she went over to the basin and washes her hands.
"Nothing wrong, no major illness"
I felt totally uncomfortable with her diagnosis and started to tell her more about my body condition etc, hoping it would ring a bell of something. Nope. She insisted that i don't have any major illness in my body. According to her school of taught, the human's hair also sleeps. But unlike a human who will wake after 1 night of rest, the hair sleeps for 3month every time. So during this period, the hair will easily fall off even with a simple brushing. This is caused by stress, physical tiredness and a few more i can't remember. But stress?
She insist that it is because of stress that puts my hair to "sleep". I really started wondering where does this amount of stress comes from? I was terribly stressed and worn out during the days i work in Maestro Guitars but i did not suffer any hair lost.. Stress now?
To make things worse. I went back to peninsular, the place where i work before, to grab some guitar parts and saw an old friend. His hair is super long! Seen those 80s hair metal band? Yup that's his length! How long it took him? 6mth. During this 6mth i only had 1 hair cut in between! There is no way his hair can grow so fast! It makes me wonder is it because of my hair problem that i am able to managed a shorter hair length easily.
These hair don't fall after a certain length. I've even see my own eyebrow's hair falling onto my food before. Am i going to be come a Jordan Rudess? If any of you reading knows anything about hair loss problem please contact me! My parents does not have hair loss problem but my grandpa does have sparse hair problem. But his hair problem only surface at his later age. Save me!!!
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Looking back...
Music journey have took me a long way! Unknowingly i'm on the edge of no return!
Still remember the days where i listen obsessively to only 1 band. Dir En Grey. Till date, there's a lot of their influence in my playing style, song writing and etc. But looking back, it seems like a cult to listen to them! I was so much into them that anything else doesn't matter. It's on my MDplayer any day! yes.. MD Player - Mini Disc Player.
Haha. Look! That's me! PVC tight pants, exploded hair, guitar at the side, legs open wide.. Those were the days where when you are on stage, it's chaos. I still remember what happened during this picture. It was actually a band competition organized by NUS and it was my first show and first competition! God knows what made me did that.The first thing i went up on stage, the MC called me over for on stage interview. Typical. Instead of asking me real question, i was made a fool for my hair. He went.. "Hey your hair reminds me of... when you're happy and you know you clap your hair!". Made things worse? The audience joined the fun!
The show was alright. We were playing Iron Maiden - Trooper (since we were only allowed to play english songs somehow). Not too long later, my solo part came.. I walked "stylo-milo" to the front of the stage unknowing that the cables are not long enough. I unplugged my guitar cable and got no sound at all! The crew at the side kept using hand sign to tell me that my cable is out and did not come up to help. Since it's a competition and i was taught to act as if nothing happened during concert band, i went on pretending that i am doing a great solo with all my huge facial expression and etc! Boo!! That ended up making me a huge joke among the jrock scene in Singapore.
Scream was the band name and it consist of my brother Vics on drum(who later joined a few other bands including genesix, lucify and now RazzlePlay), Nuh on bass(who is now the guitarist in Ethereal that took part in SuperBand competition), Jojo on vocal (totally lost contact), Mingyou on keyboard(who is now a uni student and i guess nothing much related to music).
Times really flies! It was just like yesterday when that happened.
Still remember the days where i listen obsessively to only 1 band. Dir En Grey. Till date, there's a lot of their influence in my playing style, song writing and etc. But looking back, it seems like a cult to listen to them! I was so much into them that anything else doesn't matter. It's on my MDplayer any day! yes.. MD Player - Mini Disc Player.
Haha. Look! That's me! PVC tight pants, exploded hair, guitar at the side, legs open wide.. Those were the days where when you are on stage, it's chaos. I still remember what happened during this picture. It was actually a band competition organized by NUS and it was my first show and first competition! God knows what made me did that.The first thing i went up on stage, the MC called me over for on stage interview. Typical. Instead of asking me real question, i was made a fool for my hair. He went.. "Hey your hair reminds me of... when you're happy and you know you clap your hair!". Made things worse? The audience joined the fun!The show was alright. We were playing Iron Maiden - Trooper (since we were only allowed to play english songs somehow). Not too long later, my solo part came.. I walked "stylo-milo" to the front of the stage unknowing that the cables are not long enough. I unplugged my guitar cable and got no sound at all! The crew at the side kept using hand sign to tell me that my cable is out and did not come up to help. Since it's a competition and i was taught to act as if nothing happened during concert band, i went on pretending that i am doing a great solo with all my huge facial expression and etc! Boo!! That ended up making me a huge joke among the jrock scene in Singapore.
Scream was the band name and it consist of my brother Vics on drum(who later joined a few other bands including genesix, lucify and now RazzlePlay), Nuh on bass(who is now the guitarist in Ethereal that took part in SuperBand competition), Jojo on vocal (totally lost contact), Mingyou on keyboard(who is now a uni student and i guess nothing much related to music).
Times really flies! It was just like yesterday when that happened.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Modern Day Funeral Band in Singapore
I bet you've not noticed. Those old uncles that used to play for funeral are gone! The next generation have emerged!
I still remember when i was much younger, bands for funeral always comes in a combination of 1 trumpet, 1 trombone, 1 saxaphone, a bunch of snare and a couple of bass drum. They sounds horrible and neither in tune nor in time. Still people pay huge money for their "effort". I was a trombonist during my secondary school days and i remembered starring at one of those funeral band's trombonist! Because i can't stand him faking his way through!
Guess time changed. Probably superband created some awareness that Singaporeans can play music in the unexpected way? This is infact the second funeral band that i've heard playing in such standard. My brother was commenting " It sounded like Hyde - X Japan's funeral! ".
I guess Singapore is finally moving into the music/arts world(though we still need loads of entertainment area).
I still remember when i was much younger, bands for funeral always comes in a combination of 1 trumpet, 1 trombone, 1 saxaphone, a bunch of snare and a couple of bass drum. They sounds horrible and neither in tune nor in time. Still people pay huge money for their "effort". I was a trombonist during my secondary school days and i remembered starring at one of those funeral band's trombonist! Because i can't stand him faking his way through!
Guess time changed. Probably superband created some awareness that Singaporeans can play music in the unexpected way? This is infact the second funeral band that i've heard playing in such standard. My brother was commenting " It sounded like Hyde - X Japan's funeral! ".
I guess Singapore is finally moving into the music/arts world(though we still need loads of entertainment area).