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left; 4:42 pm
Gig yesterday.
First successful performance of my life!
Morning went training first.
Then cabbed to bugis to meet de guys.
Rehearsal for like 40minutes, then went walk arnd Iluma.
Brought our friends to L-cubes, den went for a 10minutes soundcheck.
We were de 2nd band to perform, and tt timeslot was just right, cuz there was just a freak lot of ppl crammed in de studio.
Yea, de place was literally an oven sourced from body heat. But tt is wat made it so appealing.
Was stopped halfway when de crowd started moshing tho. De boss was fuming and hollered at de audience.
I didnt care, so signaled de rest to continue playing.
Tt made de crowd happy ;D
The original was abit flawed, cuz my high E went off during de solo, tt i was sweating all over my fingers were too wet to even play properly, & tt de 3rd string de counter guy sold to me at L-cubes was actually a 4th string. Son of a bitch.
But doesn matter, i still got praised by de audience, and de organizer.
"Tt was awesome", "U got skills", "Ur guitar playing is great man".
These words made me fucking high!
I've forgotten abt self-love after time n time of living life for others.
Onli getting scolded and doing my best just to please ppl. Like teachers, parents, and whoever else authoritative.
It felt fucking great to get praised by others.
Spent de rest of my time watching de gig, sweating it out.
I think i perspired de most ytd, wif Karate and human sauna in 1 day.
Venka left very early, and Dan left after de show.
So dinner wif Anne, den went home.
She mentioned alot of things which got me thinking.
The crossroad of life. Which path will i take?
The current choices i have are to continue the law course, switch course, or try for lasalle.
My view: Im damn tired of this Law course. It's stressing, its sth i have to put my entire life into in order to graduate smoothly. Its sth i definitely dun wan.
But if i quit, where do i go?
Laselle may not accept me again next yr.
And if i chnged course, am i going to quit yet again once i grow tired of it?
Of cuz, I wont stop education as in entirety. Unless im getting a reasonable income from performing or teaching.
Dun wan my brain to stop thinking n learning anw.
So which do i choose? Its sooner or later i nid to talk wif my parents and make de final decision.
So conflicting, so confusing.
left; 7:16 pm
Didnt have time to blog.
I lost my phone. 2 days ago.
Went to buy my pedalboard & tuner, but ended up having too many things to bring.
I blur, so after dinner macdonalds i forgot to take my handphone frm de table.
As usual, no1 returned it to mac.
All these ppl shld juz go and burn to near-death, and get poured acid all over.
The day after i lost my phone, which was ytd, my parents morning straight away bring me to buy a new one.
Ended up skipping for PohBee tutorial, which my parents said late alrdy dun go.
Im so gonna get scolded, which im looking forward to.
Ill get more sad, then dowan go Lcomms le.
But of cuz if PohBee nv scold, ill have no choice but to buck up and do her work le lor.
Oh talking about yesterday.
Went for the SP audition on some big live telecasted gig.
Location of audition was at Chapter 6.
Being our first 'performance', we were nervous.
Turned out to be so-so onli, cuz screwed up a little big due to panic atk.
But i'd rather we learn from tis than learn from this saturday's gig.
So im glad we went for the auditions yesterday.
Haha, yea man.
Im almost feeling it, the high of performance.
Almost like an addiction, it juz feels damn good playing for others.
I hope de others feel it too.
Rape de house tis Sat.
left; 2:04 am
Gonna start blogging wif no swear words.
Try try, see if it feels right for me.
Cuz when i read back the posts, i seem to enthu, so happy.
But full of vulgar abbreviations. Dun look nice on the internet.
So tis post will be clean.
Missed a chance to perform today.
Organiser posted a thread on soft this morning, asking for bands for a gig this afternoon.
Reason behind is simple: Bands Last Minute Pull out.
A very drastic measure for the problem, but they dared to ask.
Crazy request for crazy people, but sadly we were'nt crazy enough to take on the request.
Hmm, more like i didnt feel tt Enecdote is a band who is always ready, always ON.
Its understandable tho, we lead different lives.
Aside from our drummer, the rest of the guys dont (& for deir own good, should'nt) take music as deir main portion of their life; be it social, education or work.
I can thus only hope their passion for music does not turn into stress.
Watching ppl buy an instrument & feel damn hyped, den quitting ltr cuz dey realized commitment is nt wat dey were looking for.
It rly sinks ur heart, no matter how many times it happens.
Dun wanna c another alrdy.
Well, audition for some gig on Weds, L-cubes gig on Sat.
Another gig on 12th December, and planning to join a competition on 17th Nov.
Lots of happenings.
All these are considered de-stress from studies for me. More stuff like these, i more happy.
But i wonder abt de rest.
left; 1:21 am
Fuck, lots of interesting things happened these few days but i forgot to blog abt it.
Thursday went to watch Tommy Emmanuel concert.
Fucking amazing performance man, i swear.
The whole concert hall was full, and half of it was ang-mohs (Caucasian, America, Australian all).
And his 1-man acoustic set rly doesn disappoint.
Simply his persona can captivate u, let alone his performance.
But u gotta be an ang-moh to understand his jokes. Cuz i didnt understand shit.
Its rly amazing, tt he can shred on an acoustic guitar, and sound damn fingerstyle.
Paul Gilbert fails to achieve tt badly, even tho both of them can par in speed.
I've long respected Emmanuel b4, but watching him play live is enlightening.
So many things i've learned & so many more things tt i nid to learn by watching de concert.
Im so fucking going to delve into fingerstyle one day.
Beautiful stuff.
Lets c ar, Friday.
Nope, cant remember shit.
Oh yea, i stayed home practising guitar all day.
Tt all.
Today was Karate grading, at TP.
Yup, 1st time i see so many White Belts in de Sports Hall.
30+ NP, 7 TP, 5-9 ITE, total 50+ white belts.
Totally overpowered by de sheer number of NP ppl in our own sch tho.
But who cares, its a good thing.
Grading is nth much, juz a ceremony.
After grading, outing wif de Karate ppl.
Plans were East Coast, but ended up in Parkway to eat Carls Jr.
Den JieJun hse. Sweet place man.
3 storey semi-d, nice house design, pool table, movie room
Bloody hell, I want a house like this. The movie room is a perfect for a jamming studio.
Buying a big house is now in my target list.
Im nw 7th Kyu.
Gotta start preparing de mentality to fight for real.
I've rched de stage where good music is sensational as hot sex.
I wonder if de feeling of andrenaline when knocking down opponents is like tt too.
left; 11:09 pm
Wa fucked up liao.
Now is Law & Management Year 1 Semester 2 only, and i almost canot take it alrdy.
One simple piece of letter writing work i've also no idea how to start.
Seriously gg le, fucking hell.
Worst thing is we got a fucked up tutor for Lcomms.
Or at least, fucked up to me bah.
Haha, well doesn matter, its my problem tt i canot tahan de teacher's strictness & scolding style.
Im not even taking any CDS cuz i dun want to talk to her up front.
More like dun dare, but u get de pic.
Hell man, Poly intake n Lasalle audition is at March.
Now is not even 2010, and im rching my breakpoint.
Haha, im juz gonna watch how my life unfolds til then.
I expect getting snickered by de tutors. The Haughty look of PohBee when she fails you.
Of cuz its gonna make me feel fucked up, but aint nth i can do to chnge tt anw.
But these are trivial.
I wonder wat else is in store?
left; 1:43 am
Gig is round de corner, even im abt to tense up.
Doing my best to make sure all goes well.
Went pub ytd wif cousins.
Rly sick of beer n hard liquor, drank water instead.
So was totally sober de whole time. Tt aint a good thing obviously.
Nth else i feel like blogging down.
Today was so so day.
Woke up wif Anne at my doorstep.
Jamming wif Dan forgetting lyrics n chords, and me having trouble remembering wat pedals to switch on/off.
Walked thru bugis street realizing it has expanded.
Yea ordinary stuff.
Feel like going somewhere wif water and slack thru de night.
The thought of school tmr sickens me, so rly nid sth to ease tis horrible feeling.
left; 9:27 pm
Good mood today.
Woke up in the morning and picked up my ringing phone.
It was an anonymous message saying tt i have won a pair of tix to Scott Henderson's concert.
I thought it was a joke, cuz ytd night i sent in my username n hp number to soft without giving much thought, and went to bed.
Went to check out the forum, and my name rly was there. Fuck yea!
Skipped sch cuz i didnt feel like it anw, and went to meet de Soft admin in de evening.
I went wif Dan, cuz Anne n Venka sadly cannot go. It would've been a total inspiration, esp for Anne. I've got no words to describe Jeff Berlin. He makes me wanna pick up bass.
Good inspiration, learnt quite some things from tis concert too.
Best of all, for free! Thank you soft.com.sg!
Realized i simply indulged in music cuz im missing sth in life.
I play or hear music, im happy.
I stop playing or listening, no more.
Like drugs n alcohol, potent but not lasting.
Mayb im getting sick of my course, mayb its cuz there aint much social life to be made in poly.
No chill buddies, no drinking bros, no gossiping girlfriends, no studymates, no love, no ppl i can connect to.
Tt aint good man.
Hmm, but i shall not care for today.
Scott Henderson n Soft.com.sg FTW! Many thanks!
left; 12:17 am
School has started.
The mood isnt tt good for me.
Stasha quitted sch, tempt me to quit oso. But i've parental issues, so cannot lor.
1st lecture got joked by the lecturer for bringing guitar. Wtf la.
I've no clue wat de lecture is abt, but i noe we've learnt it b4 somewhere.
Must try to pass this term, to please my daddy&mummy.
Cant imagine how ill get served by them if i fail or kena kicked out.
Study for de sake of study. Ever since Stasha quitted sch i've disturbed by this.
Watever, study put aside.
I bought 2 new pedals today, n rly having a hard time managing these.
Now for song parts i nid to step on up to 4 pedals.
Enecdote is somehow ready. Nid more sessions to master all de songs.
1 pedalboard costs $200. Up theirs man.
Got hit by a girl yesterday in the bus while goin home frm TP.
Haha, normally ppl hit me is sexy thing, but in a bus wif old ppl...fuck no.
From the Handicap cushion end slowly move to the other end where im standing, but looking somewhre else.
Didnt rly notice her closing in until i could feel her back on my shoulders alrdy.
Forced myself to believe she's drunk, so nvm juz let her lean n shutup.
Cuz beside me are elderly ppl, if turn dem off dey turn me off more sia.
When de bus was arrived at de girl's stop she turned and said Bye, den went off.
Curse those Ah Peks/Mahs.
left; 10:35 pm
1 month more to FreshCubes gig.
Its Enecdote's 1st performance, and the band lineup pretty much has changed.
Finally we're doing things properly, and Venka n Dan pretty much has improved.
Juz worried for Anne, cuz she has relatively no experience.
But still we need her inside, or at least, I want her Bass inside the lineup =S
Her 1 looks fucking sexy man. Every1 sure gonna be staring at it thruout de gig, i swear.
N tts juz the way i like it.
Gonna buy a new guitar soon. One as eye-catching our bassist's bass.
And polish my skills, so tt the guitar can shine.
Then work together wif the band to prepare all de songs nicely.
So tt on tt day, after all tt hot and horrible trek to tt small and 'ulu' studio, the audience can chill out to sth called
Live Music.
left; 6:59 pm
