Holy Batcaves!!!

Looks like what Michael Keaton wore 15 years ago eh?

John Peel passes away...

Just read that legendary BBC DJ, John Peel had passed away on Monday 25 Oct 2004. His ability to spot upcoming bands/artists/musicians had been globally renowned and respected among listeners and his peers. I've never really heard his show before.

But most musicians treat playing on his show as a great honour. That says a lot about the man...

Read about it in BBC On-line.

Number of the beast

Clement sent me this link about the British Royal Navy being an equal opportunities employer. Well, it's true. They hired a Satanist. I wonder if that guy can find work as a civil servant here. Guess not, the black dollar is not as strong as the pink one...

Chekkit.

Exciting day…

The whole office is forced to clear some leave. I’ve got 7 days… and I dunno what to do. Actually, 5 lah since I’m clearing 2 days next January.

Any suggestions?

Well...

It's been a couple of days since I last blogged. Wanted to catch some movies over the weekend but due to some drinking obligations, I couldn't.

However, gonna watch "Sky Captain and the World of Tommorrow", well... tommorrow. Looks good and looks like heaps of fun. Still haven't got the time to catch Wong Kar Wai's "2046". Well, I didn't watch "In The Mood For Love" though... Hopefully, this wouldn't spoil my appreciation for the show.

In any event, Andy the fucker was regaling me how the story unfolded when we were recording our demo at Weiyuan's place on Sunday. Thanks a lot, mofo!!!

The Sunday sessions didn't go too well. Well, I guess the 2nd time wasn't as toy-ght as the 1st. All of us were beat tired. I didn't prepare my parts for recording. So basically, it's pretty bad.

However, we laid down basic tracks for 'Osmosis', our drum'n'bass Malay wedding song. We did that during the only bloody gig we ever played. A very muddy mp3 can be downloaded off the Aging Youth website. Hopefully, the new version, sans the gimmicky vocal samples, will turn out fine.

Have yet to track my guitar parts for that song...

Shit...

Went out drinking with Weiyuan, b.boy and G Dawg. Promptly got wasted. Puked outside Al-Ameen prata store. Konked out for an hour.

And I was the only one wasted.

Which shows that besides having a full meal before you drink, you need to have enough sleep. You need to take your power nap in the toilet which I didn't. That's what probably killed me.

You know you are getting old... part 2

... when one of your screen heroes passed on. As most people have already known, Christopher Reeves has sucumbed to heart failure on Sunday. It's really quite sad. I can still remember watching the re-runs of Superman on TV as a child. "You will believe a man can fly."

Well, not anymore.

Rest in peace.

You know you are getting old...

The Love Experiment adjourned to Weiyuan's place to lay down some demos on Sunday... well, it took us about 12 hours to lay down one song which I should be posting on this blog soon.

His niece, a 2 year old toddler was running all over the place. She wanted to sing for us. That's very sweet of her. When I just arrived at his place, she looked up from her toys and called me, "Uncle". Sigh... Her mum aka Weiyuan's sister was like, "What? You still expect to be called KorKor?"

This kinda sucks.

Sounds like a good movie to me...

Primer, a new indie sci-fi movie.

Here's an excerpt of the review from C.H.U.D.:

Here’s the basics of the plot: Abe and Aaron are friends, engineers, who spend their time in the garage trying to hammer out new patents. They want to make something that will make them rich and while trying to create some sort of a device that can make objects lighter (the concept is that it would revolutionize shipping and travel), they accidentally invent a time machine.

The mechanics are complicated, but the machine allows them to travel back in time a few hours. They immediately begin using it to play the stock market. In fact, it’s the very first thing they do with it. Soon, though, things begin to get darker as the true level of power inherent in even limited time travel becomes obvious. And that’s before they realize they can take the machines back in time with them.

Hypocrites...

Though I'm very much aware that I, too once in a while, lapse into that phase.

I was dealt that doubled-edged sword today by a female colleague, an auntie. I was so pissed off that I nearly wanted to slap her fucken face. Being the same hierachial level as me, I can still take it if she reprimands me for not doing my things well. But no... this is da bomb!!!

This afternoon, she asked me about some matters concerning OT which I flippantly replied that I'm doing. Then she checked with my colleague, Andy who said that he was gonna replace me. She started accusing me of lying and said that how people could ever trust me again.

This is coming from a bitch who bad-mouths the manager in front of all of us, including her young daughter who comes in the office pretty often. Her daughter doesn't like the manager as well, due to her mum's influence. But hey, in front of the manager, Fucken Ol' Fuck (Andy's nickename for her)'s her best friend. The manager treats her as a confidante and they are like the best chums. FOF would buy things for the manager and not take any money.

Her excuse? "It's best not to offend these type of people who are malicious and petty... (In Mandarin, they are called 'xiao ren')" Hey, FOF, if you're willing to accomodate those type of people, it effectively makes you far worse than them!

And she does all these back stabbing in front of her young, impressionable daughter. These are values I sure wouldn't pass onto my next generation!!!

This is really F.U.B.A.R.

I've been so busy...

Well, I used to blog every day and sometimes three times a day. Nowadays... I hardly bother. It just seems that I'd rather do some planning. Yup, Aging Youth Productions is planning something. Hopefully, it'd take off... Then I'd have even lesser time to blog!

It's been some time since my colleague, Andy and I had lunch together. He was asking me today during lunch, "So what are you busy with nowadays?"

"Aging Youth stuff..."

"I mean, work stuff."

"Still Aging Youth stuff.."

There you go.

Wedding bells

Here are some photos I took during Mandy's wedding.


Mandy and the lucky bastard as known as her husband.


The couple just scooted by our table without "yam-senging" us. Too much I tell you.


Those who came with partners: Graham, Chae Eun, Jesse, Amelia, Winnie and Johann


Those who din, including me of course: Weng and Joe Jee


Me copping a feel of the bride for the very last time... sigh...

Woah...

I was reading this interview with funk legend, George Clinton. In the interview, he mentioned this excerpt he read in a book before.

"White middle America is just now finding out that it's not blacks on welfare that's their problem, it's not the gays, it's not pro- or anti- abortion. Middle America is just now finding out that the people in power don't give a fuck about them either. That Oklahoma City bombing was very fucking strange. I read this book called Behold A Pale Horse by William Cooper. He was a de-briefer in naval intelligence. He went AWOL in the late 80s and he faxed a manuscript of the book to about 1500 entertainers and media people. Now the book is out, but I had the manuscript since 1987. It says the Wall of Berlin is coming down, Russia was going pop! And people would start blowing up airports and buildings in the United States. They were going to tell you that it was terrorists that did it, and it was going to be the government themselves who were doing it. On page 160 it says that Oklahoma will be the test city for the new world order martial law concept - this was written in 1987!

So when the World Trade Center was blown up it was very suspicious - and then the Waco incident and the Oklahoma bombing. He said they're gonna attack the patriots and wear them out, and pit them against other people by calling them white supremists, when most of them are just plain pissed off because they lost their farm. Think about it! That's a lot of people. It's not like a few black people this time, it's your average American farmer, and when you do it to him, he's not going to roll over. They're gonna pick up the flag and the Bible and it's revolution time. By calling them white supremists and all those names... Too many of them were just regular straight people who were not that yet. When it got really stupid they were saying that black street gangs were going to help the police. They're already pissed at the blacks because of the ones on welfare, but by the time they hear that! And they make the blacks mad by calling them white supremists... You've got the makings of a nice little war going on. And they'll keep each other busy while whoever did it creeps on off."

You know what's really interesting about this interview. It was published in September 1995.

Check the rest of it out here.

Fantastic Foursome...

I've never been a fan of Marvel Comics' "Fantastic Four". Alwya thought it was pretty boring. But I love Jessica Alba like the next hot-blooded male. She'd cast as Sue Storm/ Richards aka The Invisible Woman in the movie.

I could definitely get used to the blonde look.



I have had any doubts about her filling out a skin-tight costume...

If you are interested in the rest, check it out here

12 bars blues

Went out scouting possible venues to organise a gig with Sujin today. Found this pub but I think the owner wouldn't like the idea very much.

We ended up jamming with the band which was made up of folks who just strolled in and pick up an instrument to play. We jammed a 12 bars blues which I fucked it up as usual. I can't play without delay maaan...

Okay...

Everyone knows I hate teaching tuition. I bitch about it all the time.

Anyway, I'm teaching Sec. 2 Science as well. Yeah, I know. Conning the parent and kid. Anyhow, the next chapter I'm covering with the kid is "The Reproductive System". Yes, I'm gonna teach sex education to a 14 year-old boy...

On a more sombre note, this following incident took place when I was walking to Yeeyong's place to meet him and Alvin. Being my usual self, I forgot to bring my lighter and had to ask a light from a guy who asked me for directions. It just so happened that we were heading towards the same direction.

So we chatted a little. He asked me what I'd do for a living. And I found out that he's a dishwasher. Started complaining a little. But he was thankful he had a job and all. My suspicions were that he's an ex-con. Had some tattoos and all.

I asked him where he was headed. He mentioned he was visiting his sister. When I inquired where he stayed, he said he had no parents and no home. I was like, "Fuck, where you sleep man!??!"

He just smiled, saying that he slept under HDB blocks and all. At least, he had a job, unlike several of his friends...

Shit... I feel thankful for once I have a house.

The Hangover Club

Found this while I was doing research for my Aging Youth website.

The Hangover Club. Yeah... I think they offer some free membership..which gets you something slighly not as good as free beer... discounted beer.

Anderson and Butler

I'm a huge fan of the works of both men. More of their collaborative work in Suede. Bernard Butler did not meet that much commercial success like Brett Anderson and the rest of Suede did. (Butler left Suede amidst the recording of the group's 2nd album, "Dog Man Star".) However, Butler did achieve a certain amount of critical success during his tenure in McAlmont & Butler. Personally, I thought that was incredible, way much better than the latter day dumbed-down Suede.

Butler had always expressed regret, being unable to finish what they had done 10 years ago with the amazing "Dog Man Star". So did Anderson as documented in several interviews with NME. Well, 2 men are on the last leg of their careers. This musical partnership had been seen as one of the best since Lennon and McCartney or Morrissey and Marr. It's not without fanfare when Anderson and Butler announced their reunion, having made up earlier this year. Now, they are almost done with the recording with their album.



To be honest, I'm not too that excited about the reunion and am sorta waiting for it with a ho-hum attitude of "Let's see how thye would fuck this up". But to be honest, it's still an album that I'm looking forward to get. I'm feeling nostalgic for my youth once again.

Read the NME article here

Check out the photos of the sessions here

This is so F.U.B.A.R. that there's no other word to describe it...

As some of you might have already known, MediaCorp and Singapore Press Holdings have just declared a consolidation into one singular media company. Yes, everyone in da house, say it with me now. WHAT THE FUCK!?

What was all that stinkin' crap we heard a couple of years ago regarding introducing competition in the local media industry. Ah well, the Ministry of Information Technology and Arts can say whatever they want. It's back to the good old days of just one single TV company and one single press company. But hey, now we have it even better. They are all one big family now!! Everything under one roof! All TV stations will go to MediaCorps and so will Streats. I should think that SPH will be still keeping the Straits Times eh?

What can I say? It doesn't really change things very much, does it? We never really had a free press anyway to begin with.

Chekkit.

BarNone

Was at Lilia's band, morphy's 2nd album launch last night with membersss, Sujin. Bumped into Seong Huat and his missus.

It was a pretty rockin' set, closing the night with a rousing cover of The Animals' 'House Of The Rising Sun'. I'm too arsed to write a full review but it was great fun and we had free beer.

So it definitely rawked.