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Today was the day of my performance for a classical piece call Gran Vals. It was previously used for the 2007-2011 year exam if I'm not mistaken. It was a challenging song, and one that I could hardly handle. And I managed to got past it. Though, my teacher still harps me on the mistakes I made here and there.

He's my teacher after all. :)

See. This group of people is assembled by today. Only 3 of us turned up for a sudden call to perform the day before. 29th. After I registered in HELP for my future studies, I went on to my teacher's guitar shop to meet the drummer and the guitarist which later I know them by the name Timothy and Kim Yeon Wan. Yesh, a korean. A cute kid, and a pure heavy drummer which are both one year younger than me. Great. Now we got 2 guitarists and an absent vocal, with no bass. What now?

So after I reached there, I was quickly briefed by Jack, our guitar teacher, the songs we would be playing.

Greenday - Holiday (Ended up as Deep Purple- Smoke On The Water)

Paramore- Renegade

So there, we started practice.

Kim taught me the riffs and what should I play during the concert and I was guiding them through the rhythm and progression of songs. Tim there was just drumming away. Then, we have a little talk about each other, getting know each others personality and dig in about our vocalist from Kim. Joked with a little. According to him, the vocalist is good and true that, on the day of the performance, during the rehearsal, I was simply amazed at her voice. Oh our vocalist's name is Kareshma.

Well, we didn't have a bassist until Jack decided to call one of his students to help out. His name is Mok Tsui Sean. We decided to call him Mok anyways. So his bass line was pretty sick, but earlier on our rehearsal, he hit the wrong notes. So we revamped it later on.

So basically our full members gathered on the day of performance. We got to know each other quick and everyone fitted in quickly. Really out of my expectation. Somehow, I could build a connection with Kim. Our drummer and bassist fits in quite well too.

We were up for the intro performance, they call it "start with a bang". So, I ushered everyone out and got ready. After reading the signals, I started with the famous rock riff by Deep Purple which goes "Dat Dat Dat.. Dat Dat Dattt Dat..." and everybody started clapping their hands along the rhythm. Wow the feeling was incredible man. After 2 bars, Kim started playing and both the sounds of our guitar entwined in the melody. Slowly, the next 2 bars, Tim started smashing on the hi hats and Mok came in with a groovy bass line, which personally got me fired up as the bass line was simply sick man! 

And then, there goes Karishma. "We all came down to Montreal.."

Wow, at that moment, I looked at Kim on the opposite side of the stage, we both smiled. Before the performance, we tend to mess up our riffs but this time we got it right.

So, everything was okay until the solo part. The day before, Kim told me that he didn't know the whole solo for Smoke On The Water. So I had to think of something to switch in for him. So, I spent the last night composing a self improvised solo to fit in. And God, today our solos fit in near-perfection and we managed to finish the song at last with a bang. Wow man.. wahaha

Everyone came into the room smiling and couldn't wait for our next performance. Renegade.

In between that, I had my classical piece. I can't even look up at the crowd as I struggled badly to hit the notes at perfect pitch. My hands are not durable and using pure strength to hold barre chords at perfect tuning and do stretches up to four to five frets, its really killing me. Not to mention that I had to repeat parts of the song. After I ended, I thought I did okay, with mistakes here and there. But my teacher didn't seem satisfied as he told me there were mistakes here and there. 

It's a grade 8 song man, I haven't even pass my grade 8 yet. Get real.

Then my brother performed 3 songs, Gangnam Style, River Flows In You and Haru Haru on acoustic guitar. I mean, he always used these 3 songs to show people how good he is. And he uses this 3 songs to kao lui. It is pretty successful as he plays these 3 songs to pure perfection. However, that's the only thing he can do, to copy but unable to improvise. Nothing out of the box. 

I ask for pure speed and improvisation. He ask for Pop and Acoustic and Mainstream. 

So, when two of us argue, there's always be a big mess.

Well, for the song Paramore-Renegade. You should listen if you haven't listen to it before. It's a rock song, and a pretty nice one. I didn't know it only until Kim introduced it to me. Now it became my addict.

And whoops, we actually messed up the beats for Renegade and I dropped my pick halfway haha. Epic fail for me ><

Well, after we got back home, we actually added each other into a group conversation. And we were discussing about jamming again. Hahaha.. What a life. Didn't expect this band thing to turn out successful and so fun. :) 

Oh yeah, btw our band name is called Sushi. Thanks to Tim. I actually wanted to call it KimChi since Kim is a korean. But everybody just laughed off the idea. Hahaha..

Well great fun knowing these guys.

Our instantly assembled band:

Vocalist : Kareshma

Guitar 1 : Kim Yeon Wan (Kim)

Guitar 2: Jayden

Bass Guitar: Mok Tsui Sean (Mok)

Drummer: Timothy Wong (Tim)

Though, that doesn't mean I gave up on my buddies here. Still waiting for the chance to Seize The Day.. :)

Wishful Thinking..

Wishing all the members of my Ehstrians family a fun and enjoyable trip to Melaka.
It's the last time everyone gather together liddat and go for a trip so hopefully everyone will cherish the time being together.

Meanwhile, I will be facing my Undang test tomorrow. Haha, nervous nervous.. ><

Even more nervous than SPM leh.. Aiyo.

And I'm currently addicted to this game. It's awesome. :D A PS2 game btw. Can't afford a PS3. =3=

Well, few more days left to my first ever guitar performance. I'm the oldest among the performers, I think. But then I am gonna perform a Grade 8 song, so it kinda balance it out. Apparently, I still haven't master the particular song, and it kinda tortures your arm muscle. Mine are completely numb every time I finished playing that song. Its called Gran Vals btw by Francesco Tarrega if I'm not wrong. Hopefully able to clean up the bits of mistakes in my songs. (:

I want to see my friends again, although not this time, reunion is certain. Although, it might just  be wishful thinking..

Christmas with my brother.. (:

Shortly after I returned from the China Trip.. my parents and my sis set off for another trip to China and these time.. without us troublemakers. 

So, for the past 2 days, its just me and my  brother at home.. in game mode for the whole day. I took control of the TV as I tried to complete my newly-bought RPG adventure game. (Played 10 hours today) While my bro just dota-ed the whole day through.

So, that's about it. As lifeless as we can be, its sad that we aren't able to celebrate Christmas with our family. However, we still have two of us. So everything is fine, except now our house are full of vulgars and curses.

Ever since we were both left at home, we shifted our laptops to the living room.

And yeah we dota-ed there.. so curses are flying every where in the house. Not a great taste for the innocent ears. Haha..

Well, gonna take the undang test this Thursday. Hopefully I don't fail.. 

Oh, can't wait to be back on the court now the pain of my knee has subsided.. (:

Peace of Mind.. Is just what I need..

Wings.. take me higher..

It was about 8 days that I took myself off the social media network Facebook, and I find myself reverting back to the past. Those carefree days that my life didn't have to rely on these websites to keep me up to date.

It all started with a 3 day V-camp trip, followed by an imidiate Guilin trip in China. What a sick schedule, nonetheless tiring.

Gah, the V-camp trip is not only fun, but beneficial in some ways. Especially, I got to spend time with my second family of my highschool. The GAY clan, or group. Apart from my classmates, it was with this group of people I enjoyed my time the most. Our friendships never broke although we split classes eventually in Form 4. Though that, every recess, we shared the same table, talk endless topic and never failed to put a smile right up to each others faces.

During this 3 day trip, I shared the same room with Yim, Mun Chun and Wen Yaw. The room was utter chaos man. What happened inside the room was, everybody was walking around in their underwear when no one else other than 4 of us were in the room. Also, they persisted on switching the air conditioner at 16 degree and froze all of us into ice cubes, despite shielding ourselves with the blanket. It was a dam gayish night. We only had a single bed and a queen size bed. Ended up 3 of us had to gay on the queen size.

I slept on the most corner of the Queen size bed. On the first night, when everyone was partying, I couldn't take it and fell asleep first. On the next morning, I slowly woke up and to my surprise, I saw Yim facing me, asleep. Shock dao. Gay dao..

Lost World of Tambun was a great spot for relaxation. First day, all of us guys went for the hot spa. Then, those crazy buffoons came up with the idea and kai bao everybody underwater, leaving them with only underwear on. The first victim was Khai Seong.. followed by Looloo and of course our beloved Dragon Chew. Haha. Everybody gave signals to each other and just gang raped our victim. Haha.

The second day was the six mile tunnel, which was nothing much.. but just continuous walking for the whole morning, enjoying the darkness and the sight of bats hovering at the ceiling of the cave. Had to deal with the varying water levels while maneuvering the narrow path in the cave. When we reached the other side, Jun Haw and I had to search for trees away from the group to answer the nature call. Well, Lian Jiet actually just did it on the spot.. in the river. Lmao man.. HAHAHA..

The 2nd night was nothing much really, just some games and buffet and lucky draw.. which I got a Mashimaro plushie with pineapple cap? Haha.. if that makes sense to you.

Third day was all about theme park.. , continuously sat the Pirate Ship twice. Our gang almost took the whole ship. They were really brave weih.. I see them when the ship was at its peak, they just stood up and let themselves free fall. The feeling was like fucking orgasm man. I tried it but seriously its scary. Later on, its all about water parks slides.. and Petting Zoo? Lol?

Hahaha.. Seriously can't have enough fun with these bunch of people which I call family. :)

Its my last trip with my schoolmates..

Too bad lah, can't make it to the Class Trip.

Ehstrians.. Remember have fun yo.. and take more pics ;)

I will be looking on the same moon as you guys.

Deep inside I'm crying..

I don't think there will be a Part 2 for every other posts that says Part 1. My 'feel' and 'touch' to write varies every time and I can't stay consistent on one topic.

Deep inside I'm crying,
Even though I just came back from the Promenade, I just realized it might be the last time seeing my friends this year. I hope I can keep in touch with all of them, but as always, the connection might be stable over the first few years, some connection might be partially then completely cut off. For this is the end of wonderful highschool life with my classmates, known as Ehstrians. We had gone through thick and thin these years, happiness and sorrow. Our spirit as a class has never dampened through these 2 years, although there was some controversy in the past, which we quickly forgotten. Some painful memories gone through us, but it can only bond us closer. This our spirit. Ehstrian's spirit.

People may say other classes are fun. But to me, S3 is more than a class. It's like a family. Ohana means family. Family means that no one is left behind.

This is the end of a wonderful year with my classmates. I'm glad and blessed to be able to mix with every single part of my class and treasure such great friendships. I got my first sleepover in Mei Xin's house. My first dancing performance with Au Yong, PH and the rest of the gang during teacher's day. Rushing for PJPK every PJPK period.

This is what I want to do, such carefree life. Just go to school, tuition, homework, play. That's it. Life seems much more simple in highschool. Probably the only regret for me is to not join the basketball society. The end of the year signifies a beginning of a new life, a new chapter of studying. I'm going to HELP college, and definitely going to meet new friends, put in extra effort in making new friends, and MAYBE, have a connection with someone special. :P But never know, never can I be so sure it will be as smooth as I think.

A new challenge is going to arrive soon. Several chapters of life are going to be added to my thick sketchbook. The sketchbook already filled with bits and parts of memories of my Ehstrians friends.

The sketchbook of life and memories.




Welcome to my alter-ego, the emotional side of me.

Suffering..

Agh.. why must this calamity come now..?

Just the day before Prom Night I found myself lying in bed, in pain, suffering from fever and bacteria infection  at my ass man. I can barely move or worse, sit up straight.

Now, that I had taken a 12 hour sleep, hopefully God will bless me with a speedy recovery or.

I will be seriously in doubt for attending the Promenade tonight.

Trust.. Part 1

Trust can mean anything..

Trust can mean, the trust between friends, between soul mates, but for now the only thing I feel is the trust between my parents and I.


Monday, right after Bio paper, I went on to Mei Xin's house for a so-called BBQ party. Few of us took the taxi back her house, and few of us decided to take the bus. To say it all, it wasn't pleasant taking the bus. We (Bryan, Tien Sern, Me, Chai Hoong, Angel, Song Zhe, Weng Hei) got lost and had to turn back. Just then, we caught a lucky rainstorm.

The rainstorm definitely struck us hard. We were all wet after walking just halfway to her house. A kind bus driver drove us to a bus stop nearest to her house, and that was as far as he could go. Then we had to walk our way to her house. Sadly, we got the wrong direction and headed down the wrong path, with raindrops falling down from the sky like tears and it only took a while for us to be drenched in rainwater. We tried to run but the weight of soaked uniform slowed us down. We were walking opposite the direction of rain the whole time, and the accumulation of rainwater flowing from uphill kept pushing us down the slope.

It was only some time we had managed to go through this hardship and fought our way to Mei Xin's house. Rawr. XD

The first thing I did was to rush into the washroom for a quick shower before getting sick. Then the karaoke party started. When everyone pretty much arrived, the bbq party officially started and everybody got fired up and started cooking. The boys also played monkey ball, which was tiring. :P Not to mention, the pop champagne session and sharing the pink potion around. Haha.

I was simply attracted to Mei Xin's Dog, Lucky. I had no idea what breed is it, even Mei Xin the owner don't have an idea about it too. Lol. Lucky had blackish fur, and big round, INNOCENT eyes. At my first sight, it stared straight into my eyes, seemingly communicating with me. Well, I love him haha. And Gawd, I saw the priceless look on Chee Seng's face when she heard Mei Xin calling her dog, Jayden. Hahaha, he was like wtf man.

Well, Lucky's is officially Jayden #2 haha. Just like Kuroko's Tetsuya #2.

As Lii Xiang said, the night is still young.

I suddenly got the news of staying overnight. And so I did.

God..

Please God,

I don't know why my dad fell sick all of a sudden..

but please give my dad a speedy recover from his sickness..