Life Up Till Now

Been a while since my last post, eh?

What has happened since then?

1. Exams
Don't get me started. I think I did the impossible. I'm going to fail BM (I hope not). Gah!!!!!!!!! Too much 1 LITRE OF TEARS (Erika Sawajiri and Riko Narumi FTW). I mean come on, it must be good if I wrote an almost 400-word essay and a song about it.

Hold on this is starting to be too much about the drama and not enough about exams. Okay fine, everything else was okay (sarcastic 'Riiiight'). Sejarah was easy........until the essay. Physics, Add Maths, Chem? Pass is possible but the chances are not looking good.

2. Performance at Amanda's BDay
Pretty good. I'm really thankful that her mom spent so much money on a good sound system. STEAM!!!! But......Peter's voice strained too much and we couldn't do our final few songs. POTONG STEAM!!!!!!!! My drum solo.......cut..........guitar solo........cut........The only song I played guitar in........cut. SUPER POTONG STEAM!!!!!!!!! Food was good (Not a vege-fest like Aiman's birthday)

3. 7 Habits for Highly Effective Teens programme
Quite fun actually. I'm not too sure what I learned from the 7 habits (They were either things I already use in life or they contradict was my parents teach me) but hey, I made a bunch of new friends, improved my social and leadership skills. Food was pretty good on top of that.

4. Recording
Fun. The experience was fun. We could've done a little better but we haven't heard the mixed version yet so we'll see how things go. It better be worth the RM60 we're paying.

Well, life goes on. Time to chill while I still have the chance.

RADWIMPS!!!!!!!!

OK, so pretty much everyone I know knows that I love Japanese music. And a lot of them knew that I went to Japan last year (Best days of my life. I can never stop reminding my friends and family. More on that another time)

I wanted to buy a concert DVD so my host took me to this CD shop which doubled as a music instrument shop (Strike!!!!!!!).

I saw that this band called RADWIMPS was being really advertised, CDs and a live DVD. So I decided to check em out by buying their latest album.

After listening to the album and a few other songs, I can say that I really like this band. They're really talented and pretty versatile.

Here are some of my favourite songs from em.

Kanashi



Order Made


Otogi


Futarigoto

Class SEMANGAT!!!!!!!!!!

Walau man, our class really semangat, at least for a couple of hours.

School had this competition to collect old newspapers and stuff. We didn't do shit about it until like 2 hours before the deadline.

Vivek finally did something useful for the class and got his dad to send 1 tonne of old newspaper from his recycling factory.

We got a prize too!!!!!!!! A pack of Choki Choki (I forgot how to spell that) for everyone!!!!

However, we still lost to our arch enemies, 5 Sc1!!!!!!!!!! We must defeat them one day!!!!!!!

Community Service

Went to old folks' home somewhere in Ampang as community service for Interact Club.

Not quite as bad as I thought it would be. Actually, it was probably better because us Non-Chinese speakers (Me, Nick, Steven, Billy etc.) were in the kitchen making tong yun (Okaylah, I'm not sure how to spell that).

Making those little flour balls really reminded us of playing Play-Doh as kids. This made us all start talking about the stuff we used to do and watch as kids.

Sonia was bitching about the Indon maid that was working there half the time in the kitchen.

All in all, quite fun to hang out with the friends I don't normally hang out with.

NEW SONGS!!!!!!!! (Also posted on Childhood Dreamers Blog)

Car Crash Hearts

Peter Verse:

We are the car crashed hearts,
Living on the side of the road,
Hanging out at bus stops
Where the hell did we go?

I take a look back
At the old photo book
Memories of summer
I shuddered and I shook

Pre-Chorus

And now I’m singing

Chorus
Gomen ne, gomen ne
Before I forget I’d like to say,
Gomen ne, gomen ne,
Kono sekai de anata dake,

Michael Rap Verse

Not enough money to make it to Warped Tour
Saw Pop Shuvit at Rock the World
One Buck Short and Disagree,
Jumped till we finally felt free

Yeah, finally felt free

Pre-Chorus

Chorus

Bridge

Chorus

Extra Chorus
Gomen ne, gomen ne
Been singing this song since yesterday
Gomen ne, gomen ne,
Suki na hito ima anata dake

Here's another one but it's only halfway done. Its working title is 'Forget Yesterday'

Verse 1
I watch these lights as they fade to black,
Walk away from this life and never look back
Now that your friends have all gone away
What reason do you have left to stay

Chorus
Now the magic of that beautiful summer will die,
And I just want you to know
These fairy tales will never fade to grey
So please don't remember me.

Pretty gloomy, eh?

Cool Singer Just Discovered!!!!

A few months ago, I was going around Youtube searching for some nice acoustic BUMP OF CHICKEN songs and I ended finding this guy.


Apparently, his name is Nelson (Nel for short). He's a dude from Burbank, CA in the US.

He went for an exchange student programme when he was in Berkley College to Japan. While he was there, he formed a band with some friends and got picked up by a record label.

He recently graduated and returned to Japan to continue his music career.

He is one hell of a dude. His Japanese is SO fluent. He writes songs in both English and Japanese and they are pretty good.

His Youtube name is 'nbcsaku'. Check his originals and covers out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG0HGsDmapE (Really addicted to this song. Figured it out already on guitar and bass. Just want the lead, lyrics and the MP3. Then its time to break some windows!!!!!!!! Haha)

Holidays!!!

How to describe my holiday so far?

Meh is pretty good. The weekend was alright. Went to Kanna Curry House on Sunday. Mmmm.....all the rice and curry you can eat for RM2.

Had a pretty decent jamming session on Monday. 'Her Own Enemy' is almost perfect and 'The Blue Note' is going well.

Yesterdays outing was pretty OK. Carl's Jr rocks!!!!!! If only it wasn't so expensive. Bowling was pretty fun. Really potong steam lah at the end of the day.

Nothing much today. Except I cooked my ULTIMATE self-made lunch!!!!!!! Nasi Goreng Maggi!!!!!!!!

I would've posted a pic but I ate it all before this post.