Monday, August 28, 2006


dee dum doo

was in sitiawan the past week...never heard of it before?
am not surprised.

it's a small town (much bigger than Pee Dee though), with the only thing conspicuous about it being the numerous holey houses built for swallows to nest in, and the fact that it's always among the top 3 when it comes to API readings in Malaysia.

when people ask what the heck i'm doing there and where in heavens it is,
i always give the same answer:

my father works in seri manjung.

oh..where's that?

erm..near sitiawan.

oh..where's that?

erm.. near lumut.

oh..where's that?

wth? which rock have you been living under?? erm..near pangkor.

oh....where's that?

it seldom gets this far, but when it does, it really freaks me out how some malaysians know nuts about our own country.

Merdeka day's just around the corner, what are you gonna do?

anyway, i took this "How un-Malaysian Are You?" test on kennysia and got this:

Congratulations, you are 3% not Malaysian.

That means you're as Malaysian as...


Abdullah Badawi !

How Un-Malaysian Are You?



whahahaha..then why wanna send me to NS camp for??
i'm so Malaysian that i can lead the country!
send some other unpatriotic lala zhai or matcha or mat rempit lah...why me??

Posted by ~z at 12:05 AM

Friday, August 18, 2006


again?

whoa, another day, and another post..this is not good...



anyway, in the past week, i've had my Piano practical exam and i got back my "A"-levels results for my first term...one went well, the other was like crap.

getting my exam results reminded me how fast time was flying, and the fact that i still haven't decided on my future yet worries my parents. you know, most people have their future career laid out for them and they don't have a choice when it comes to deciding on what they want to do. i know of some friends who wanted to do mass comm but was forced into law by her parents.

i have a similar problem, but on the contrary, my parents give me the freedom to decide on what to study..the problem is, i don't know what i want.
the thing is, everything is the same to me, i don't have an inclination towards any career whatsoever.

medicine? ok lah.

aeronautical engineering? why not?

biotech? i don't mind.

actuarial science? can also.

the list goes on....
sigh...

my future's quite messed up as it is, and add to that the fact that i was lucky enough to be selected for National Service for next year.



double sigh

i haven't even really thought about it yet.

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on a more cheerful note, something i received in the mail:











and the premiership's starting tomorrow!!
i'll admit i haven't been this excited about the start of a new season since...since erm..last season..

the main reason for my optimism is the excellent signings Rafa Benitez has made: young Argie central defender Gabriel Palletta for the future, left winger Chilean Speedy Gonzales, equally speedy right winger Jermaine Pennant, and probably the speediest, striker Craig Bellamy.



Other than that, Brazilian Fabio Aurelio (go here to see his goal-scoring exploits at valencia) provides additional cover on the left and Dutch forward Dirk Kuyt is discussing personal terms with Rick Parry as i type.

Our defence and midfield was strong as it is from last season, but with the new buys we made i believe we have the squad to challenge CSKA Chelski this time around. we start off against newcomers Sheffield United tomorrow night and i don't see us not winning that tie.

The future's bright. The future's red. =]

Posted by ~z at 5:37 PM

Thursday, August 17, 2006


Here It Goes Again

OK Go have come out with another video following their massively successful "A Million Ways" homemade video featuring the 4 band members dancing in their backyard.

the one that got them big


alternate link

reminds me of the failed attempt of a couple of friends and i to imitate that excellent homemade dance choreography several months ago..

Anyway, if you were impressed by that video, you might have a seizure (of joy!) when you check out this new music video, for their aptly-titled single "Here It Goes Again", which features the band members dancing on treadmills...EIGHT treadmills, in fact.

Synchronised visual hilarity at its best


alternate link (for youtube-haters, you know who you are...yeah, you)

For their next video, they should try dancing around landmines or on thin ropes strung over a man-eating-sharks-infested pool or something.

Posted by ~z at 11:27 AM

Monday, August 14, 2006


sign of things to come


Goalscorers Riise and Crouch celebrating with Liverpool's 1st trophy (of many more to come) this season.

there's a vibe going around Anfield and i can feel it, the title's coming back home this season...Number 19!!

Chelsea started practically with a full squad with Lumpard (of shit), Terry, Ballack, Essien, Sheva, Drogba, Robben all in the starting line-up. Whereas Liverpool surprised me, resting Stevie, Alonso and Bellamy while starting with Sissoko and Zenden in the center.

anyway, Sissoko had a really good game, Zenden and Gonzales wasn't convincing enough for me while Pennant didn't get enough chances. Agger, replacing Hyypia at centreback, was not bad though and Aurelio as well as Bellamy were impressive after coming on in the second half. all in all, a good win to get the season started, a season where dominance of the english game shall shift from London to the red half (more than half, actually) of Merseyside.



watched Lady In The Water with my bros on thursday. don't know when's the last time we did that together.

anyway, if you go in expecting a horror movie like i did, this is the suckiest movie you'll ever see..the scariest thing in the entire movie is a dog with gleaming red eyes.

but if you go in just to watch the movie the way it is, it's actually quite cool, definitely better than The Break-Up (what a waste of 6 bucks that was).

it's like some sort of child fantasy flick. not bad in whole, fascinating way how all the characters are linked together. and the little piano-playing smart-alec from My Wife and Kids makes an appearance as....guess what? a little boy genius who deciphers messages hidden on the back of cereal boxes.


adorable, isn't he


went to pc fair this afternoon with jian and richard. crazy crowded, there were too many stalls and too many people. all i got was some blank cd-r's.
saw some ipod cases, but didn't feel like buying there and then. there were some FM transmitters too, but the nice ones were too expensive and the cheap ones looked too much like dildos.

don't think i'll go to pc fairs for some years to come. can't stand large crowds like this while shopping.

anyway, check this out.

iPod War



It's like the old card game you played when you were seven because it was the only game you could understand ("War! My eight beats your two!"), but with iPods set to shuffle. Sounds lame a little, yes, but the way she explains it made me laugh.

You and a friend each set your iPod on shuffle, then listen to and compare what pops up. Whoever has 'The Better Song' gets one point. The author illustrates several vagaries to consider in judging:

-Older doesn't always mean better. "Yes, music was exceptionally rad from 1964-1982. Doesn't mean a song from 1995 can't be better."

-Don't demand a win on principle. (You say: "But the Rolling Stones kick Prince's ass!") Each song should be evaluated on its own merit. (I say: "While The Stones are an important part of music history, there are lots of Stones songs that are mediocre/sucky and some Prince songs that fucking rule.").

-Counting Crows never wins.

-If neither person will concede the win, "Vietnam" is declared (both sides claim a win, but nobody really won).

hahah..we could use the term "Middle-east" now too.

Posted by ~z at 12:51 AM

Saturday, August 12, 2006


We Are Scientists 09.08.06

so bing finally blogged about the gig. if you haven't read his review on the concert yet, don't.

read mine first.
cos i didn't bring my cam so i'm using pix from him.
=p


anyway,



when bing first told me that we are scientists were coming to malaysia a couple of months ago, i was so freakin excited and anxious and..and..i couldn't wait...couldn't wait..i peed my pants...
hahah.

so we started fantasizing about how we would be the only guys in the whole of M'sia who probably heard them before so it'll be an intimate gig between the trio and us.

things we were dreaming about at first:


then our worst fears were realised:



that's when we realised we probably shouldn't have dreamt that much and shall just go enjoy the show.
then when i e-mailed zouk to find out more about possible age restrictions due to Tiger being the sponsor of the event, my worst nightmare came to life:



the show was for ages 21 and above only!

but it's not everyday that a band like this comes M'sia, our music scene is sad as it is already, with visits by INXS and strippers-who-try-to-pass-themselves-off-as-singers.

so we decided to go buy tickets anyway..only RM60!! compare that to INXS and PCD's prices...madness.
*INXS ranges from RM62 to RM382!! haha, even for cheapest RM62 tickets, all you can see of the band is properly just dots on the stage from where you would stand..and I got to stand right in front of Keith Murray!! muahahaha

just several hours after getting my tickets from Rock Corner Midvalley, bing calls to tell me he just won 4 tickets to go in. GAH!!

ok, so we thought with the tickets won, they would surely let us in despite being underaged..i mean, they must let the contest winners in, right??

so on wednesday, after getting 2 full day's rest from college because of the bug, i hoped i was recovered and ready.
around 6plus, bing, his 2 sisters, gee and i got into a car all ready (dressed in what we perceived 21-yr-olds would wear) for the gig. the daily rush hour traffic jam was there and it took us more than an hour to get to this..lame man's excuse for piece of architecture.



arrived half an hour before the show was scheduled to start (which was 8). so we were loitering around the entrance, eye-ing the couple of top-heavy bouncers manning the gates every now and then as the crowd steadily grew. we could hear them inside playing some songs already!! heard This Scene Is Dead and Be My Baby..probably soundchecking.

anyway, this guy from Channel [V], JayP or sumting like that, from..remote control or sumting like that (i dunno, i don't watch those thingies). anyway, he was asking some guy some questions in front of the zouk entrance, which was right where we 5 anxious, worried minors were. the sad dude couldn't answer, so he pulled me in front of the camera and asked me instead...

he asked me what artiste to request a video of, so i just said we are scientists' nobody move, nobody get hurt. in retrospect, i regret not asking for a better video but hey, i didn't know what else to say, ok?? some stranger just pull you in front of the camera and ask you questions you sure shocked right??

so after that, JPee comes over and offers me one of 2 cd's to grab for answering the question:




i was like, shit.
gee asked me to just grab the 40-yr-old slut's one cos he already has click five...yeah, HE HAS CLICK FIVE...don't ask me why.



so around 8.30, people started entering, so we thought to just try our luck with the bouncers. ahead of us in the line, we saw people being turned away, presumably for being underaged or muslim (beer was served). when it was our turn, i tried to look old and just handed him my IC after being asked..he takes my IC, looks at it for a moment, then, get this, holds it up to his eyes to get a close look, and then waves me in!!!

AHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHH!!!
i was this freakin happy when i got in. no lah, i didn't actually laugh out loud like that. but i wanted to though. =p

they stamped some invisible glow-in-the-dark ink thing on our wrists, then we proceeded to collect our free beers and grabbed a seat. heh, we posed for this guys who wanted to take pix of us drinking Tiger beer.

after awhile, we went to the dancefloor in front of the stage before too many people came. there was this opening act by a local band, the deserters. they weren't bad.


picture courtesy of junkonline.net

sort of a muhibah band, i liked the drummer, he kept making crazy face expressions while playing. the guitarist's guitar strap gave way half way through the set and he had to kneel down and play, which was quite funny. anyway, i felt their set was probably 1 or 2 songs too long as the crowd was getting restless to see the band they came to see. so when W.A.S finally took the stage amidst triumphant cheers from the audience at 10.30, the party finally got started.


setlist posted on stagefloor



first thing i noticed, they were definitely skinnier than i expected....
wohoo!! skinny geeks shall inherit the earth!

i was standing right in front of Keith, which was all good but he kept blocking my view of Michael, which was kind of annoying.






i have to say, the sound set-up was poor depite the balls-bursting bass. Keith's lead guitar was too soft and had some problems with static. his pedal was giving problems too and we had to strain our ears at some part just to hear his guitar-riffs like the guitar solo part in Inaction which was ruined because of this.
overall volume was too loud though, or maybe i shouldn't have stood right next to the amplifiers. =p it was the only way to stand right in front of stage.





lead singer/guitarist keith was looking hawt great with the hair i've always wanted to have, his singing was fantastic, the band's playing was tight. anyway, the whole thing's sponsored by Tiger, so some bottles of beer were placed strategically on the stage for them to chug down between songs and i saw Michael take a sip before whipping out his own bottle of Jack Daniel's!



he never touched the Tiger after that.ahaha.





nothing compares to watching the real thing live





in between songs, keith and chris was making the crowd laugh with their witty exchanges about KFC grease as they traded blows making fun of each other, with chris being the easy target as keith taunted him about his love life. would have liked to hear michael talk though, he didn't say a word throughout.







expectedly, the crowd responded most to hits, Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt, It's A Hit, and Inaction.





the climax of the gig, the orgasm of the lovemaking, would probably be when they performed a cover of The Ronnettes' Be My Baby when Keith hopped on to the 7-ft amplifiers as he serenaded to the audience, after which he jumped into the crowd, right in front of me!!




the crowd went wild trying to get to him and molest him in a thousand and one places. all i did was ruffle his hair...twice....i ruffled his hair....twice!!

hahah, the crowd was trying to push past me as i tried to hold my ground and bing even reached his hand down keith's pocket looking for souvenirs!


picture courtesy of junkonline.net

he was out in the crowd for so long till a crew member (was that his green-eyed girlfriend?) had to come out and reclaim him.hahah. some guys who tried to get on stage in the process were duly shoved off.




chris showing off his bass autographed by Kim Deal of The Pixies fame. it says "Chris Sucks", he proudly announced.
boy, he rocks.


the show ended on a high with an energetic performance of The Great Escape, with the crowd bobbing up and down and lots of pushing and shoving going on as some monkeys tried to make their way to the front, my glasses almost got knocked off twice.




picture courtesy of junkonline.net
you can see gee in this pic!

overall, despite some glitches here and there,
i LOVED it!!
didn't want the night to end, we hung around hopefully to catch another glimpse of them but alas, they never came out, not even when we waited where we thought was the back entrance to zouk. hahah.

Come on you can't go home
The night is young
I'm blacking out
But it's been fun


after the gig, i had this whirring sound in my ears non-stop, we were practically shouting at each other to communicate..outside zouk! it was still there the next day but i can't hear it anymore now. not sure if it's really gone or i've already grown so accustomed to it.gah


whoa, that's one hell of a long post, if you've been reading since the start, congratulations!!
and thank you.

Posted by ~z at 10:35 AM