Hmm... part 9

Was on the way to work today. I had received a call where the number started with a "+86". China phonecall at 8+am?!

Me: Hullo...

Female: Wei... (in Mandarin) Can you speak Mandarin?

Me recognising the PRC accent: (in Mandarin). Yes, wassup?

Female: I'm calling from XXX Hotel from Macau. We are having our anniversary celebration on next Tuesday 4 September. We'll like to invite you to come to the Plaza outside our hotel for the celebration party.

Me: You know you are calling a Singapore number right?

Female telemarketer who is giving extremely dodgy vibes: You are one of the very few being selected so we'll like invite you down this one-in-a-lifetime celebration... (started rambling a whole list of things)

Me: I'm not interested.

Female: Erm, er... okay.

Me: Bye.

I should have asked if it includes free flight and accomodation to Macau even though the whole scam stinks like David Hasslehoff's music career. Fuck...

Malaysia Boleh!!!

To all my Malaysian friends, Happy Medeka Day!!! \m/

At least, it's a long weekend...

Hmm... part 8

Billyboy just sent me this piece of news about My Bloody Valentine having a possible reunion.

Pardon me, if I don't go all fanboy crazy or anything. I'll get the remastered copy of Loveless, I guess. The original didn't sound too good to me anyway. Too compressed and mushy.

These days, I'm just not excited by anything at all. Particularly, music wise. This is coming from a guy who spends quite a portion of his time listening to and reading up about music. I'm just looking forward to catching Iron Man and The Dark Knight next year. That's about it.

Maybe I need a new hobby, probably, knitting or quantum physics...

Rihanna - Umbrella (lip synched by TP students)

Students who are too free who make stupid videos. Makes me miss being a student all over again... Heh.

Hey Venus!

Fuck, I didn't know Super Furry Animals just released a new album Hey Venus! (They had an amazing song 'Serena And Venus' on Phantom Power. Think they have an unhealthy obsession with the Williams sisters.) today. Woo hoo!!! Finally, I get to do some retail therapy. More here.

DJ Shadow - Organ Donor (live)

Still my favourite DJ saviour.

Blackbird

Nothing to do with the Beatles tune. Noel just got his ass (technically, it's his left calf) inked. It's pretty nice. But I thought the shaved leg was funnier...

Give me Face...

Natalie added me. And at the behest of my darling Pamela (pronounced as Pa-meh-lah; I'm not shitting you. That's how some peeps say her name).

Here's my Facebook profile.

Wilco - You Are My Free (live)

I love Wilco man...

Me in Springfield

Click on the picture to get your own.

Thanks, Edwin!

Edwin managed to dig this one out... Halloween 2005. It was pretty fun.

Chuck Norris/ Jack Bauer

Everyone loves a good Chuck Norris joke.

Chuck Norris uses ribbed condoms inside out, so he gets the pleasure.

Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.

When Chuck Norris has sex with a man, it is not because he is gay, but because he has run out of women.

Macgyver can build an airplane out of gum and paper clips, but Chuck Norris can kill him and take it.

Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

If you ask Chuck Norris what time it is, he always says, "Two seconds till." After you ask, "Two seconds to what?" he roundhouse kicks you in the face.

Chuck Norris only masturbates to pictures of Chuck Norris.

Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Chuck Norris instead decided to punch his way out of his mother's womb. Shortly thereafter he grew a beard.

Chuck Norris appeared in the "Street Fighter II" video game, but was removed by Beta Testers because every button caused him to do a roundhouse kick. When asked bout this "glitch," Norris replied, "That's no glitch."

Chuck Norris lost his virginity before his dad did.

In fact, you can replace Jack Bauer from 24 with Chuck Norris and you'll get the same, if not, funnier jokes. 24 is soooo over-rated man.

Most people would need months to recover from 20 months of Chinese interrogation. Jack Bauer needs a shower, a shave and a change of clothes.

When a convicted terrorist was sentenced to face Jack Bauer, he appealed to have the sentence reduced to death.

Once, someone tried to tell Jack Bauer a "knock knock" joke. Jack Bauer found out who was there, who they worked for, and where the goddamned bomb was.

The 2007 budget for the US Military covers Jack Bauer, two pistols and four billion rounds of ammunition.

Jack Bauer quit for just five minutes, and a nuclear bomb went off.

1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Jack Bauer. Sounds like a fair fight.

Jack doesn't believe in Murphy's Law, only Bauer's Law: "Whatever CAN go wrong, WILL be resolved in a period of 24 hours."

Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice. Jack Bauer would meanwhile do something important.

Aging Youth Records

NEW!

I've uploaded 2 tracks from B-Quartet and Zero Sequence's upcoming albums at our MySpace page. B-Quartet's 'Kleptomaniac' and Zero Sequence's 'Wreckage' will be up for the next 2 days.

The next time you'll get to hear it, it'll be on their respective albums!

Knocked Up

The Bourne trilogy

Thanks to Kevin, I was able to catch the 1st two movies of the series on Sunday. Some of my friends thought the 1st movie, The Bourne Identity was better than the 2nd one, The Bourne Supremacy.

Well, I've never figured Matt Damon for an action hero. So I didn't even bother until recently when my favourite site CHUD raved incessantly about The Bourne Ultimatum and how the trilogy is the best action movie series ever. Hey, nothing beats a bunch of movie-obsessed internet geeks.

Probably will catch the last in the series some time this week.

The Killing Joke

Got these photos off CHUD.







My good friends aka the fanboys' comments:

[12:27] adlin is busy.:
nice!

[12:27] adlin is busy.:
batman is lower priority than ironman

[12:27] adlin is busy.:
for me

[12:27] adlin is busy.:
hahah

[12:28] Willy:
hehehe

[12:25] billy:
heath looks really good

[12:25] Willy:
the fucker's balding man!!!

Hmm... part 7

Did fuck-all for the past 3 days. I was listening repeatedly to some of the Lard Brothers' stuff over the past weekend. Shameless, I know. But hey...

We'll need to redo Max's vocals for some songs. And thought of reviving the George Michael tribute. I was supposed to start trimming the tune down from 6 minutes 4 seconds down to about 5 minutes. At least, I cleaned up the muddy bass frequencies. I'll probably need to layer a punchier beat as well. Goddamn these Hong Kong TVB drama serials!!! Goddamn cable TV!!!

And meanwhile, I wait for Adlin to help me record Chingz for the highrise remix. *shakes fist in the northern cirection*

The defunct band known as The Love Experiment will be returning to record more drums for songs which will be recorded and released online... Hopefully, all within this decade. Fuck.

Sell-out

Weiyuan came out of the closet to me yesterday.

He has a blog.

He is was the former leader of the Underground Resistance Against Blogs. And now he has a blog which promotes environmentalism. Ob-fucken-viously, the fucker has been watching way too much Battlestar Galattica these days. He should lend me the DVDs.

Back to my Little Britain DVDs.

Anyway, I've added some new folks to the list on the right: Noel, Ant and Pamela. All ex-colleagues of mine. Nice peeps and all. But who cares about them when you can add Felicia Chin's blog to your list? Woo hoo! I was sold to add the link after I saw this photo. Nice way of filling up a No. 3.

My weekend

Went to a health spa with Billy, Aaron and Gavin for a full body massage yesterday. No, not those with a happy ending, fuckers. Still it was pretty expensive. I arrived fashionably late as usual like 2 hours late so I missed the mass jacuzzi session. That shit rocks. I couldn't take the steam room though.

In the massage room, they would step on your back and contort your body in weird ass positions in order to crack your joints and back. As it is all men getting the massage, so you can imagine all the men trying to stay calm and retain our inherent macho-ness. No screaming and crying when the masseuse jammed her toes into your back or when she tried to rearrange your spleen. No sirree. I thought I gave a small "eep" when my masseuse re-introduced my knee to my face after all these years.

But yeah, it was very quiet in the room where 30 guys were getting their massage, except for this guy snoring away. Well, at least someone was enjoying himself.

Caught the new Royston Tan flick 881 about a pair of getai singers called the Payaya Sisters. I thought it was a pretty good film. The teaser trailer was really good but the theatrical trailer was pretty crap, throwing me off. It focused too much on the camp aspect of the film, utterly neglecting the dramatic aspect of the show.

Well, it's got pretty good word-of-mouth from my friends. Gavin was the post-production producer on this flick (and well, pretty much all of the locally produced movies anyway). Vivian of The Obs worked on this as well. I kept seeing a Clement Yang in the soundtrack credits. I wonder if it's the same Clement from Ugly In The Morning.

Anyway, the show was pretty much carried by the credible performances of the 3 main female leads, Liu Lingling, Yeo Yann Yann (who was great in Singapore Dreaming) and Mindee Ong who is really as cute as a button in this show. As in really cute.

Ermmm, moving on.

Here's Royston Tan and Karen Lim (a real life getai singer and a supporting character in the movie) doing a song from the movie.

Yeah, it's a Hokkien movie musical.

Hmm... part 6

My backside feels very itchy today. I think I'll go buy some CDs and layan sendiri...

Baybeats photos

Chingz, Sen Kiat and me at Baybeats.

I think this was taken before B-Quartet's set. Chingz' band Alaling played an acoustic set at the festival. A bit quiet during their set. They should be coming down again end of October.

And I learnt a new Malay phrase: layan sendiri. Yes, "entertain yourselves", bitches!

Day 1 of SINGFest

Adlin posted my MSN review of Day 1 of SINGFest here. Thanks!

Pet Shop Boys

I is going to SingFest tomorrow. Woo hoo!!! Pretty excited to catch Pet Shop Boys again! Usually for most acts (especially, the nostalgic ones), you'll hope that they bring out their classics and old hits to perform. Not for tomorrow. Though I reckon Fundamental probably didn't sell too well, it rocks! I'm looking to hearing most of the tunes from that album played live!

80's videos

Was watching VH-1's top 100 80's videos. Caught snipplets of a few of the videos. I mean, seriously how do you live with yourself after doing something like this?

Styx - Mr. Roboto



Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart



Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)



Just because lead singer Pete Burns looks like an absolute freek worse than Michael Jackson these days. Check it here.

Baybeats/ SingFest

Went for the past 2 days of Baybeats. Is very tired. Standing up to catch concerts is just not my thing anymore.

Anyway, Zero Sequence will be performing their progressive rock this Friday at the Esplanade Powerhouse Stage at 845pm. B-Quartet will be opening for them. Good stuff.

Not sure if Adlin could score me a ticket to cover SingFest for JUNK magazine but I hope so. Is looking forward to catch Pet Shop Boys. I love their last album Fundamental!

Fuck yeah!!!

Eric sent me this link. You've probably heard of this before anyway.

Mercury Rev

The Cure was pretty boring yesterday. I fell asleep twice during the 3-hour show. The band was missing a keyboardist to fill up the soundscape, adding lush passages to classics like 'Lullaby' and 'Lovesong'.

Tonight, I'm covering the Mercury Rev show for JUNK magazine. Hmm, I hope I can stay awake long enough...

The Cure...

Meeting Billy to catch The Cure later. Not particularly excited.

[09:25] Willy:
yo!

[09:25] billy:
yeah

[09:26] billy:
we meeting at 6 is it?

[09:36] Willy:
ard 615?

[09:37] billy:
at bkt merah central, right?

[09:37] Willy:
yeah..

[09:37] billy:
okies

[09:44] Willy:
hope i dun fall asleep later

[09:44] billy:
i also say

[09:44] Willy:
i prolly wouldn't know more than half of the songs

[09:44] billy:
so sad we're so ambivalent now

[09:44] billy:
the cure used to be as important to me as the smiths

[09:44] billy:
stone roses even

[09:49] Willy:
i thk it's tt they are not as relevant these days to us

[09:49] Willy:
like say, beyonce and rihanna

[09:49] billy:
rihanna very relevant to me leh

[09:49] billy:
umbrella's my new jam