GEDDAFUGOUTTAHERE!!!!
Val recently got herself a little present from mummy and daddy. A frickin' brand spankin new fresh of the fresh LCD TV. Liews...up until recently the only LCD I had on my room was that of the one on my calculator. Such loving parents. But then again I got guitar and roof over my head, got aircon somemore, but only can on at night. Not bad. I'm not complaining. Anyways, I managed to find the mystery blue ended cable and hooked the screen up to her laptop. The result is this!
Power Sial Brudder!
Imagine the possibilities! You no longer need to click on the endless blinking disco tabs on your taskbar to entertain msn messages while typing your assignment. Multi tasking at it's best. I also want.
Anyways I managed to observe first hand how the master does her paper cuts. Remember this?
It was my Vday present from Valerie, a cut out of my favourite guitar. Here are some pictures of work in progress of another paper cut she's doing right now. It's a picture from a motif of a bohemian type gypsy girl on one of her tshirts. All I can say is that the work is mad nuts. Respect.
BEFORE I GO ANY FURTHER...
LADIES AND GENTS, BOYS AND GIRLS...
MY BAND, CROSSOVER HAS MADE IT TO THE FINALS OF SINGAPORE BATTLE OF THE BANDS WOR!
CROSSOVERCROSSOVERCROSSOVERCROSSOVER!
CROSSOVERCROSSOVERCROSSOVERCROSSOVER!
We found out the results after jamming on sunday. Headed down to Dxo down at Esplanade. We were the 2nd band to be announced. Happiness! I was absolutely estatic. My bassist kissed my guitarist! I didn't kiss anyone though. Anyways, the finals will be held on the 10th of September, any folks out there interested in coming down to support us do let me know, I'll hook you up with some tickets.
In anticipation of the finals I have arranged my pedalboard to form the ULTIMATE BOARD OF MELTED CHEESE AND MAYO...I choose to go with a more versatile setup this time. Got myself a volume pedal and a pedal tuner to tuner on the fly onstage. The robotalk is back to give me all the silly quacky noises. And of course the other usual staples are there as well.
Alas the holidays have also come to an end. I'm back to school now, which also means I will have less time to practice but I will do my best. A more pressing matter is the fact that none of my girls are here with me. They are all at Buffalo craving chicken rice and braving the coming winter. I felt slightly lost today. I'm missing all of you, wish you guys could come down to watch us play, and also join me in class. There's shitloads of work to do balls.
Christopher.
Power Sial Brudder!
Imagine the possibilities! You no longer need to click on the endless blinking disco tabs on your taskbar to entertain msn messages while typing your assignment. Multi tasking at it's best. I also want.
Anyways I managed to observe first hand how the master does her paper cuts. Remember this?
It was my Vday present from Valerie, a cut out of my favourite guitar. Here are some pictures of work in progress of another paper cut she's doing right now. It's a picture from a motif of a bohemian type gypsy girl on one of her tshirts. All I can say is that the work is mad nuts. Respect.
BEFORE I GO ANY FURTHER...
LADIES AND GENTS, BOYS AND GIRLS...
MY BAND, CROSSOVER HAS MADE IT TO THE FINALS OF SINGAPORE BATTLE OF THE BANDS WOR!
CROSSOVERCROSSOVERCROSSOVERCROSSOVER!
CROSSOVERCROSSOVERCROSSOVERCROSSOVER!
We found out the results after jamming on sunday. Headed down to Dxo down at Esplanade. We were the 2nd band to be announced. Happiness! I was absolutely estatic. My bassist kissed my guitarist! I didn't kiss anyone though. Anyways, the finals will be held on the 10th of September, any folks out there interested in coming down to support us do let me know, I'll hook you up with some tickets.
In anticipation of the finals I have arranged my pedalboard to form the ULTIMATE BOARD OF MELTED CHEESE AND MAYO...I choose to go with a more versatile setup this time. Got myself a volume pedal and a pedal tuner to tuner on the fly onstage. The robotalk is back to give me all the silly quacky noises. And of course the other usual staples are there as well.
Alas the holidays have also come to an end. I'm back to school now, which also means I will have less time to practice but I will do my best. A more pressing matter is the fact that none of my girls are here with me. They are all at Buffalo craving chicken rice and braving the coming winter. I felt slightly lost today. I'm missing all of you, wish you guys could come down to watch us play, and also join me in class. There's shitloads of work to do balls.
Christopher.
Treetop Walk!
We finally got round to doing it! I've been talking about it and procrastinating like a recalcitrant alcoholic for too long. Even heard about Carynn's trek to the treetop walk at Macritchie Reservior. In case you don't have any idea what I'm talking about, the Treetop walk is a suspension bridge in the middle of the reservior, which takes you about 5 hours if you walk at a gu niang speed to get to from the main entrance to the reservior. We made it in about an hour and a half. I owe that to my death march training in army and Val's endless hours dancing in the studios. Ok enough of my nonsense, honestly though if you do get a chance, go for it. The view from the bridge is well worth the effort of the tiresome trek.
Here's some pictures...
Flower with my lard ass in the background.
This is the bridge itself, you can't really tell that much from the pictures, but there's only enough room for one person, as in you can't walk two abreast or whatever. It's pretty damn high up mind you, I would give it about 5 stories judging from my internal super power expert range finder height measurer.
The view...
Other than that, there's shitloads of stairs to climb, up and down from the entrace of the tree top walk. And I mean shitloads. My legs felt like jelly afterward. It was then decided it would be appropriate to reward our stomachs with Benster's Chicken Rice down at thompson longhouse. *Thank Chew Hor Brother!*
One more...
Next week one more time plskaythxlala.
Christopher.
Here's some pictures...
Flower with my lard ass in the background.
This is the bridge itself, you can't really tell that much from the pictures, but there's only enough room for one person, as in you can't walk two abreast or whatever. It's pretty damn high up mind you, I would give it about 5 stories judging from my internal super power expert range finder height measurer.
The view...
Other than that, there's shitloads of stairs to climb, up and down from the entrace of the tree top walk. And I mean shitloads. My legs felt like jelly afterward. It was then decided it would be appropriate to reward our stomachs with Benster's Chicken Rice down at thompson longhouse. *Thank Chew Hor Brother!*
One more...
Next week one more time plskaythxlala.
Christopher.
DONE!
Saturday, August 26, 2006
My copy of photoshop decided to go into a coma on my pc. I meant to post pics from battle of the bands semis but just had no means to edit them. Anyways the semi finals really kicked ass. Doesn't matter that our drummer decided to become a speed metal superstar in the first song, but I still really enjoyed it! Suffian sang so fast you could have sworn he was rapping. The second song tempo was spot on, and for that I'm extremely grateful. We found our groove and just went with it.
My drummer Yat, is one hell of a funny guy. He's got just about the same nonsensical sense of humour as me. We're from the same factory just different colour. Anyhow it's always before gigs which he gets super nervous. I have no friggin idea why. In the studio he is an excellent drummer to play with! But before the semis butterflies visited his tummy.
This is how we calm ourselves down before playing.
I was overwhelmed by the amount of sheer energy on stage. I found it somewhat surreal, to have practiced the song and all its individual little notes only to find onstage it was as if my fingers had individual minds of their own. I no longer worried about the structure, or what I was suppose to play. We were all kind of just feeding off the energy of the music. I got such a high from the experience that I was in a cold sweat once it was all over! Valerie can validate this from all the salty hugs she gave me afterward.
Also it was a real pleasure to be able to share the stage with my good friend Brandon and his excellent band Sky Juice. Jeez bro your playing was as tight as hell that night. Totally blew me away! Check them out if you can folks, simply rockin'!
One thing which I wasn't prepared for was the whole technicolor light show and smoke machine during the gig. It never really occurred to me that it was afterall held at DXO. Smoke machine smoke tastes worst than viceroys.
I really missed you guys...or more appropriately my girls. Sigh, it would have been so perfect if all of you could have been there like you were during the quarters. But you're all in UB, enjoying the perks of walmart and eating shitty pizza all day long. Did I also mention that I Char Kway Teow the other day? Girls, I'm sure you'll survive, Mara has brought enough instant noodles to last till armagaedon. Check out their blogs for more UB life action, damn happening lah!
Was really nice of Valerie's friends to brave the noise, smoke and onslaught of metal to come see us play! Thanks Amanda, Derek, and Sarah. And of course Auntie Veronica!
RAWK NEVER DIE!
Christopher.
My drummer Yat, is one hell of a funny guy. He's got just about the same nonsensical sense of humour as me. We're from the same factory just different colour. Anyhow it's always before gigs which he gets super nervous. I have no friggin idea why. In the studio he is an excellent drummer to play with! But before the semis butterflies visited his tummy.
This is how we calm ourselves down before playing.
I was overwhelmed by the amount of sheer energy on stage. I found it somewhat surreal, to have practiced the song and all its individual little notes only to find onstage it was as if my fingers had individual minds of their own. I no longer worried about the structure, or what I was suppose to play. We were all kind of just feeding off the energy of the music. I got such a high from the experience that I was in a cold sweat once it was all over! Valerie can validate this from all the salty hugs she gave me afterward.
Also it was a real pleasure to be able to share the stage with my good friend Brandon and his excellent band Sky Juice. Jeez bro your playing was as tight as hell that night. Totally blew me away! Check them out if you can folks, simply rockin'!
One thing which I wasn't prepared for was the whole technicolor light show and smoke machine during the gig. It never really occurred to me that it was afterall held at DXO. Smoke machine smoke tastes worst than viceroys.
I really missed you guys...or more appropriately my girls. Sigh, it would have been so perfect if all of you could have been there like you were during the quarters. But you're all in UB, enjoying the perks of walmart and eating shitty pizza all day long. Did I also mention that I Char Kway Teow the other day? Girls, I'm sure you'll survive, Mara has brought enough instant noodles to last till armagaedon. Check out their blogs for more UB life action, damn happening lah!
Was really nice of Valerie's friends to brave the noise, smoke and onslaught of metal to come see us play! Thanks Amanda, Derek, and Sarah. And of course Auntie Veronica!
RAWK NEVER DIE!
Christopher.
. . . R e c o n s t r u c t i o n . . .
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
I just got back from dinnner with the girls, otherwise known as the "Not-so-secret-anymore-gang". We went to the Xo fish noodle place at holland village once again. I got so sentimental when I noticed that we were sitting almost at the same spot as we did when we went there almost a year ago with the Japanese foreign exchange students. We were saying bye to them then, I guess this time it's my turn along with Xue Ting's to say bye to some of the best people in my life. Anyways sentimentals aside, I had an awesome time. Aside from stuffing ourselves silly, we did what we all usually do best. Just sitting around talking shit and taking the piss out of one another. I can't remember when was the last time I laughed so hard.
I made Carynn eat a whole sauce dish of hardcore chilli. Her friend aka. Lulu who is incidentally of male origin lost to a game of five-ten to me and had to drink the alcoholic xo fish soup. Xueting suffered the same fate and ate the remainder of garnish which consisted of cabbage slices doused with sweet sauce. Janetta lost scissors paper stone to me and ate the remainder of fish noodles...they taste disgusting. Alas, luck is luck and doesn't last, I lost to Mara and slurped down a dish of sweet sauce.
Tastes like Pei Bah Kao to me man!
In other news, the carpeting on my pedalboard wore off. See, the pedals are connected to the board via velcro stuck to the bottom of the pedals. Makes sense? The board is lined with a thin layer of carpet akin to that of the soft side of velcro. So a harmonic union between the 2 exists sorta... Well in a perfect world it would last forever. But you get what you pay for, my carpet wore off. I ripped off the whole thing yesterday evening not knowing whether my idea would work.
The idea went something like this, I mean since the only lacking aspect was that of the carpet, I improvised by using one of the many pieces of carpet lying around in my house. Just one of the perks of having a top notch interior designer as a sister. I cut the carpet...now this part was the biggest bitch of it all. Without having the proper tools, I actually used a normal scissors and a kitchen knife. It's not by any means perfect, but at least my pedals stick now. It's also a different colour from what it was before...a boring black. Now it's a nice combination of two of my fave colours, red and black.
Measured the old one, cut the new one, spread the glue over the board, and squeezed the new one in!
If my playing sucks at least appreciate my pedal board.
Here's the results...
Pedal board with new carpet.
My group of usual suspects.
This will be the setup for this Sunday's semi-finals. It's all I need for the set of 2 songs. I don't want to put every damn pedal in when I'll be only using at most 4 at a time simultaneously. From right to left: RMC Wizard Wah, Redwitch Moonphase, MI Audio Tube Zone, Xotic Effects RC Booster, and Boss DD20 Delay.
I can't bring this along but if I had a choice I most definately would!
I made Carynn eat a whole sauce dish of hardcore chilli. Her friend aka. Lulu who is incidentally of male origin lost to a game of five-ten to me and had to drink the alcoholic xo fish soup. Xueting suffered the same fate and ate the remainder of garnish which consisted of cabbage slices doused with sweet sauce. Janetta lost scissors paper stone to me and ate the remainder of fish noodles...they taste disgusting. Alas, luck is luck and doesn't last, I lost to Mara and slurped down a dish of sweet sauce.
Tastes like Pei Bah Kao to me man!
In other news, the carpeting on my pedalboard wore off. See, the pedals are connected to the board via velcro stuck to the bottom of the pedals. Makes sense? The board is lined with a thin layer of carpet akin to that of the soft side of velcro. So a harmonic union between the 2 exists sorta... Well in a perfect world it would last forever. But you get what you pay for, my carpet wore off. I ripped off the whole thing yesterday evening not knowing whether my idea would work.
The idea went something like this, I mean since the only lacking aspect was that of the carpet, I improvised by using one of the many pieces of carpet lying around in my house. Just one of the perks of having a top notch interior designer as a sister. I cut the carpet...now this part was the biggest bitch of it all. Without having the proper tools, I actually used a normal scissors and a kitchen knife. It's not by any means perfect, but at least my pedals stick now. It's also a different colour from what it was before...a boring black. Now it's a nice combination of two of my fave colours, red and black.
Measured the old one, cut the new one, spread the glue over the board, and squeezed the new one in!
If my playing sucks at least appreciate my pedal board.
Here's the results...
Pedal board with new carpet.
My group of usual suspects.
This will be the setup for this Sunday's semi-finals. It's all I need for the set of 2 songs. I don't want to put every damn pedal in when I'll be only using at most 4 at a time simultaneously. From right to left: RMC Wizard Wah, Redwitch Moonphase, MI Audio Tube Zone, Xotic Effects RC Booster, and Boss DD20 Delay.
I can't bring this along but if I had a choice I most definately would!
As some of you might already know by now, I've been spending the first 5 days of my holiday working for my parents. I've almost expended every single cent I earned...on what you may enquire. I bought bed linen. Yes BED-FRIGGIN-LINEN. I can't believe shit like this actually costs so much. But I'm sick of sleeping on ikea sheets. They feel like ikea to me. I needed the change desperately.
Loves it.
Christopher.
You is what You are
Monday, August 07, 2006
My brain is on total vegetating mode, I just had my first of 3 final exams for this semester today. It went pretty damn well,but I'm just so damn burned out by it right now. Nothing is going into my brain with regards to International Finance tomorrow. I met up with Mara yesterday to go over some stuff and it went well, I understood every damn thing. But now when I friggin review it's as if I have suffered from a rare strain of finance alzheimer's where I've just crap out all my info through my ass somewhere down the line of today's subject.
I took a break yesterday before meeting Mara and got myself a really nice pair of denims, been wanting to get these for a while but just never had the time to drag my ass down to town. Well there goes this week's ice cream scooping pay. Alex has turned me into a total hypebeast X gearhead once again...all because of the SBTG SB Hype that ensued. Well I didn't managed to get them, but since that missed opportunity I have found myself wanting other stuff. Visvim FBT I Likes!
The holidays cometh soon...
However the first 5 days will entail spending 12 hours of each in the family store down at mandarin hotel. Lucky you! Yeap the folks will be trotting off to Bangkok for 5 days leaving me to hold the fort while they're away. I'll also be taking a break from ice cream which is pretty good in a way. I'm still deciding whether or not I should be loading up on work during this school break of 3 weeks. Need the dough...need the dough.
Speaking of ice cream, me and Val decided to check out Icekimo the other day for some dessert after lunch at Ben's Chicken Rice joint at Longhouse. I went in and the girl at the counter starting whispering to her co-worker..."THEY ARE FROM ISLAND CREAMERY!"
Ok in other news, actually early news brought to most of you folks late...
My band is in Singapore Battle of the Bands Semi-Finals!
Quarter finals was actually tougher than expected. I have no idea why but a huge amount of nervousness and uncertainty overcame me on the day itself. I totally forgot to equalize the output level of my pedals with the output of the stage amplifier. I literally shot myself in the foot for doing that, as a result my distortion tone came out softer than my clean tone. How cock up is that. I couldn't hear myself on stage, the whole time I was counting along to the drums. However when I review a recording of our set, it sounded just fine. Well cock ups aside...
You live you learn...
I never really believed Valerie when she told me I had that whole STEAM expression everytime I play. She took a picture, but it seems to me as if guitar playing is somewhat equal to that of constipation. Hold the laughing gas...
Some other more pleasant looking pictures...
HOLY HARMONIZED VOCALS!
Thanks so much to all my great friends from school, my long time bro Royhan, and the whole crew brought down by the rest of the band who came out to see us play. It's the first time they've heard our music. I'm really grateful for you guys coming to see us and especially the hot chicks in front row screaming when it was my turn to solo. Mara and Carynn I was all ready to dodge the flying panties! Aside from trying to curb my giggles your screams almost made me water come out. Thanks to my sweetie for taking the pics with her uber camera and also the video taping!
Crossover - Suffian, vocals and bass, Me, Benson, guitars, Yat our outstanding drummer! I love this picture. Honestly, jokes aside, honest to goodness...I'm really happy I found this bunch of fast talking nonsense spewing band. If not I'd probably still be entertaining the ants in my bedroom.
Hapiness!
Ok Finance calls once again....
Christopher.
I took a break yesterday before meeting Mara and got myself a really nice pair of denims, been wanting to get these for a while but just never had the time to drag my ass down to town. Well there goes this week's ice cream scooping pay. Alex has turned me into a total hypebeast X gearhead once again...all because of the SBTG SB Hype that ensued. Well I didn't managed to get them, but since that missed opportunity I have found myself wanting other stuff. Visvim FBT I Likes!
The holidays cometh soon...
However the first 5 days will entail spending 12 hours of each in the family store down at mandarin hotel. Lucky you! Yeap the folks will be trotting off to Bangkok for 5 days leaving me to hold the fort while they're away. I'll also be taking a break from ice cream which is pretty good in a way. I'm still deciding whether or not I should be loading up on work during this school break of 3 weeks. Need the dough...need the dough.
Now...
Ben&Jerry's come in Shakes!
Hope they drop soon in sg.
Speaking of ice cream, me and Val decided to check out Icekimo the other day for some dessert after lunch at Ben's Chicken Rice joint at Longhouse. I went in and the girl at the counter starting whispering to her co-worker..."THEY ARE FROM ISLAND CREAMERY!"
Ok in other news, actually early news brought to most of you folks late...
My band is in Singapore Battle of the Bands Semi-Finals!
Quarter finals was actually tougher than expected. I have no idea why but a huge amount of nervousness and uncertainty overcame me on the day itself. I totally forgot to equalize the output level of my pedals with the output of the stage amplifier. I literally shot myself in the foot for doing that, as a result my distortion tone came out softer than my clean tone. How cock up is that. I couldn't hear myself on stage, the whole time I was counting along to the drums. However when I review a recording of our set, it sounded just fine. Well cock ups aside...
You live you learn...
I never really believed Valerie when she told me I had that whole STEAM expression everytime I play. She took a picture, but it seems to me as if guitar playing is somewhat equal to that of constipation. Hold the laughing gas...
Some other more pleasant looking pictures...
HOLY HARMONIZED VOCALS!
Thanks so much to all my great friends from school, my long time bro Royhan, and the whole crew brought down by the rest of the band who came out to see us play. It's the first time they've heard our music. I'm really grateful for you guys coming to see us and especially the hot chicks in front row screaming when it was my turn to solo. Mara and Carynn I was all ready to dodge the flying panties! Aside from trying to curb my giggles your screams almost made me water come out. Thanks to my sweetie for taking the pics with her uber camera and also the video taping!
Crossover - Suffian, vocals and bass, Me, Benson, guitars, Yat our outstanding drummer! I love this picture. Honestly, jokes aside, honest to goodness...I'm really happy I found this bunch of fast talking nonsense spewing band. If not I'd probably still be entertaining the ants in my bedroom.
Hapiness!
Ok Finance calls once again....
Christopher.
HOLY REVERSO AND COCONUT SWIRL BATMAN!
I love the taste of these 2 flavours, the way the ice cream melts and slithers down my throat drenching my taste buds, basking in the indulgence of the flavour. The rich flavour of the chocolate ice cream coupled with the sweetness of the oreos. The light swirls of Gula Melaka in the creamy surroundings of coconut.
Visually it would look like this...
Carynn Tey I'm gonna buy you ice cream all the time from now on.
Christopher.
Visually it would look like this...
Carynn Tey I'm gonna buy you ice cream all the time from now on.
Christopher.
BIZARRE BEYOND BELIEF!
The last week of this semester just went by. Crazy as it seems my gauge of time is rather backward right now. It still feels like Chinese New Year ended a while ago, and I'm slightly still in the start of the year. Summer semesters tend to do this to you, 3 courses intensively for 6 weeks and another 3 to follow for the rest. To top things all off I have an exam the day after national day, and 3 weeks worth of break following that till my final semester starts. I'm still completely clueless as to what I'm going to do with my "Bachelor's Degree" life after that. Worse still my whole group of friend will be leaving in about 12 days time off to UB. I used to feel it would be somewhat silly to go if just for one semester, right now I wish I had thought differently. I'll just sit out the rest of next semester bravely. Hopefully I'll make it through, at least I've got Valerie with me and good friends like Felicia, Adnan, Elysia, Xueting, et al.
Here's some pictures from this semester...
This was the day my sales force class got creative and decided we had to dress formal for a sales presentation. Guys being guys had to wear a friggin' suit. To imagine I actually wore that damn thing to school, getting up at 7am to iron and prep everything, squeezing my undertrained and over-nourished body into it in the morning. Thankfully my dad sent me to school. We actually did pretty well for that, hopefully I'll be able to keep it up till finals next week.
Well the outing on wednesday marked probably one of the last outings we'll all be having before the rest leave to UB. Being the only guy in a whole group of girls has its perks other than being the target of male bashing all the time. I actually got a mass sms from Ris telling me to dress up for we'll be taking pictures the next day. LOL. I can't imagine Avis or Benson telling me that.
So yeah we all went to Sakae Sushi at Wheelock, and what a noisefest that turned out to be. The place was full of kids making shitloads of noise, blame it on the buffet budgetting hours. But it was really fun. I had a great time. For a moment there I actually felt I grew a vagina got my period and became one of the girls. Fuck you man...hell no.
I still loathed hanging around womens clothing stores, desperately searching for the shoe section so I could find a seat to rest my sorry ass. But it's all good. In a very weird way I enjoy the teasing I get from them, the random rubbing of my tummy and my man boobs by Mara, Ris, Cyn, Carynn, Jer, Xueting...priceless I tell you.
LOVES CHEW AH!
Christopher.
Here's some pictures from this semester...
This was the day my sales force class got creative and decided we had to dress formal for a sales presentation. Guys being guys had to wear a friggin' suit. To imagine I actually wore that damn thing to school, getting up at 7am to iron and prep everything, squeezing my undertrained and over-nourished body into it in the morning. Thankfully my dad sent me to school. We actually did pretty well for that, hopefully I'll be able to keep it up till finals next week.
Well the outing on wednesday marked probably one of the last outings we'll all be having before the rest leave to UB. Being the only guy in a whole group of girls has its perks other than being the target of male bashing all the time. I actually got a mass sms from Ris telling me to dress up for we'll be taking pictures the next day. LOL. I can't imagine Avis or Benson telling me that.
So yeah we all went to Sakae Sushi at Wheelock, and what a noisefest that turned out to be. The place was full of kids making shitloads of noise, blame it on the buffet budgetting hours. But it was really fun. I had a great time. For a moment there I actually felt I grew a vagina got my period and became one of the girls. Fuck you man...hell no.
I still loathed hanging around womens clothing stores, desperately searching for the shoe section so I could find a seat to rest my sorry ass. But it's all good. In a very weird way I enjoy the teasing I get from them, the random rubbing of my tummy and my man boobs by Mara, Ris, Cyn, Carynn, Jer, Xueting...priceless I tell you.
LOVES CHEW AH!
Christopher.