NOTE: I have no intentions whatsoever to demean or insult any one persons and/or individuals with this post and its sole purpose is for me to voice out my opinions of what is going on today in this world we live in. Have a good read. =)
The idea of Friendship has changed for the worse these days.
The term more suited today for "making friends" would be none other than Networking.
In the background, this is all controlled by none other than,
Greed.
When people talk about the different relationships in life and how the whole thing works,
Often-times they would say we all find friends and partners in life for our own gain.
We find life partners because we are afraid of living our lives alone in the future.
Lonely? Look at it this way, we have the whole world to have, that would be one friend,
We could have everyone else in the whole world as a friend, thats close to 7 billion friends,
Unfortunately, most of the world gets rather picky with friends these days.
True enough we cannot get to know every single person in the world,
even then what rights do we really have to simply deny,
reject another person so easily off our friendship?
Some unknown others befriend more popular individuals in their own community or society,
to bring their own social status up to whatever standards they want,
Maybe get to know someone who manages a restaurant so they can get good service,
and why not throw in a huge discount, ah heck just make it a free meal!
How is it possible the manager decides to give a meal for free you ask?
Its not that he/she could not decide NOT to allow any of those perks to this one person,
Which is no one at all in particular if you're wondering.
It was just because this manager knew from the very beginning,
this one customer was a well known food critic who could move the culinary world,
and who knows maybe bring it down to its knees (exaggeratively speaking, of course),
and the manager ultimately didn't want to lose any customers just from one bad comment,
printed in the very one newspaper or magazine most read by the whole country!
Now, couldn't that manager have prepared long before,
be happy and contented with his effort of setting up the restaurant,
to put up a good front for all his would-be happy customers instead,
so that no matter what the critic says,
the manager's loyal customers would know otherwise?
Dishonest, devilish leaders of corporate companies, towns, cities, states, countries,
continents and all else who give more than needed bribes,
gifts and empty promises to their hirelings and helpers, so that they can get off from being guilty,
with no one and nothing to be proof of any wrong-doings they may have done.
Seriously, how can we allow these people to have control of the whole world, over us.
We owe this way of thinking to power hungry, greedy, scheming and selfish idiots,
who fortunately for them work themselves up far enough to have enough resources,
to start of their dastardly plans, slithering their way up to the farthest reaches,
of whatever godlike status anyone can think one human could achieve,
and unfortunately for the rest of us people who are under this nonsensical administration/governance,
we are somehow forcefully driven to follow under these footsteps that only lead to a rather dark future,
who make others work for them and they just sit back and enjoy the show.
The richer or more financially resourceful a person gets these days,
some thing, person, or place would obviously be on the losing side,
Most likely more forests would be wiped off, animals extinct,
seas and oceans 'sifted' clean, devoid of sea life,
We're basically wiping the earth spotless as we work towards more riches.
Well okay, maybe we'll leave our crap after we're done eh? Pollution.
So lets see, we scrape the ins and outs of the entire Earth,
turn it into money, drop of our waste wherever we want and... we're rich!
Let me correct that... We're rich and living in our own waste!
" Ah we have money we'll just build space ships and go to other planets,
look for more resources we can use to continue living.
What you say? Earth? We'll just leave it as it is and maybe clean up later. Nah~
Who cares! We're RICH!
Now who wants to ride with me on my spaceship when Earth end ups crumbling to pieces.
Wait! I can make them pay to tag along on my ship!
Seats goes to the highest bidder! "
Gosh, I really wish that we had more control over our own Greed.
Those who go against this wrong way of thinking lose out the most.
And to think people are saying the end of the world would be caused by natural disasters,
or from the wrath of some higher being. Or some other reason for that matter.
Oh wow, this means we're our own gods?
That we can control our own fate?
That we're eventually going to end our own lives by our own hands?
This sounds like a long term suicide plan for us all.
Didn't know we all agreed to it in the first place.
I personally don't want to kill myself this way, what about you?
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
CHEER 2010, The Crowd Goes Wild~
Lets start right off from the wee hours of the early morning. Didn't sleep well enough I just tossed and turned almost the whole time in bed, playing some mobile games on my phone and wondering hows the music going to be like this year, especially the one i did for one of the teams competing Electric, even more I wondered what on earth happened to the last part of the song which I was supposed to finish up but there were changes so I had to wait for the changes that didn't even appear in my emails right up until "D-day" itself. Yeah.. I wondered. I figured it that I must've been conditioned to become restless and nervous on the day of CHEER competitions since a long time ago and its become a bit of a habit now even though I'm not performing or sending any cheerleading teams in as a cheerleading coach this year. Yup, I decided to sit back and chill at the spectators seats this year, and enjoy the show.
Well anyway back to me being on the bed. I played these two games... Elven Chronicles
and this other one is just fun haha! Cute lil Furby~ Furby Island
Okay so I did get some sleep in the end from playing these long-winded games, well its more like an extra long nap though *naps should be about 30 minutes only typically* so it was kinda weird to take a nap when its actually time to be sleeping.
I woke up at about 5.30am and well didn't have much to do other than take a shower, choose what I'm going to wear to the place and get ready to zoom out from home. On my way of course I had to pick up a VIP on the way hahaha ! Went to get Pris from her place. She soooo wanted to go for this year's CHEER 2010 and of course, she got what she wished for !
- Pris in the car trying out the camera as I finish breakfast -
On the way we dropped by a McD drive-thru and got something for breakfast. As we all know breakfast is one of the most IMPORTANT things to have to start a day right! Its a good thing we side-tracked for breakfast because sleep deprivation must have started to set in when I realized I was wearing sandals. Supposed to be in a pair of shoes! I just hate not being dressed appropriately for some events. At least I didn't forget my underwear. LOL ! Went home to take my shoes and zoomed off to the Putra Stadium at Bukit Jalil.
Didn't take long to reach the place as there were not many cars on the road or I would be dumb-struck if there was any slow-moving traffic at all on an early Sunday morning. kinda felt like the cheerleading hype was still asleep when we arrived at the same ol' parking lot. And there was lots of places to park too! Pris and I were worried that it would be packed already down at the participants seating anyhow so we quickly packed up our stuff and headed in. Right out off the car we bumped into Flo, YongHui, Steven and Sebastian haha wooo familiar faces ! Followed them down to the competition floor and well no ones really going to be as enthusiastic as the cheerleaders and show up as early as them eyh?
- The whole catch-phrase thing takes up most of the backdrop and the CHEER 2010 logo is like right at the corner. Like it got enlarged straight from one of the newspaper ads. weird. -
The rest of the cheerleaders were either at the backstage warming up, running through their routines or being checked for certain infractions like long nails, or short skirts. Yes we are very strict to prevent from super long nails scratching other people and also to protect the cheerleaders privacy and dignity. Basically its all for safety precautions. Good thing we got there while it was still quite vacant we got to stay around the competition floor the whole time! We did hop around here and there for a bit as the cheerleaders got back to their seats before the event started, with the hosts/emcees rev-ing up the crowd with a sudden burst of their shout-outs to the crowd, everyone starts to go AAAAAHHHHHH and WHOOOOOO~
- Just after half an hour or so, the crowd started to fill up the place, see some people with their sleepy faces, yawning, that guy is even reading his morning paper. Chillin' .. but still sleepy face-
The first few squads do their stuff, well somehow I'm not amused much. Instead I was more interested in the music this time around, listening to what kind of sounds they chose for their routines. Most of the time there would always be one or two songs going about most of the tracks and this time its this one song from 3OH!3 's "My First Kiss". The repetition of the song does not go as far as just the song itself, it gets way up to one part of the song.
- We got busy during intervals between the performing doing what else? Take more pics! Actually still testing camera because someone said its not very nice to use. OK what ! -
After awhile as more and more teams performed, I noticed that the sound system was getting more irritating too. The music got sharper losing its bass levels and since I've been sitting on the right side of the stage, my right ear kinda got partially deaf at times, and no its not because of the crowd at all. The speakers gave out screeching-ear-drum-breaking noise that I guess bothered most of the squads on the performing floor. Might explain why there were so many falls and stuff. Pity the cheerleaders for such lousy PA handling. Wanted to take a photo and see who's at the console and look who I found..
- Hey lookey there~ its miss Dila Ariff! Woooii I'm taking a picture of you~ -
Haha if you readers don't know her by now, here check out her place DilaAriff.com. She's cool. Wow my camera's zoom isn't that bad at all it seems. Anyway the guy at the PA console was like blocked off from the stage-left side speakers so he probably didn't notice the music sounding just oh-so-PAIN ! Kinda knew which teams would be affected already based on their music. If they didn't level the volume properly while editing then.. there goes your performance. I mean, its not just that the cheerleaders performing would get so freaked out by the music, the spectators would get so pissed too, who on earth likes screeching music for a cheerleading routine. It really is just one big turn-off.
- Seriously... Its is a painful thing to experience at a CHEER competition -
Guess the supporters didn't care at all. They screamed their hearts out for their team almost the whole day. These people were right behind where I was seated. Well they were quite loud, but not as loud as I remembered it to be the last time I sat behind the Dynamitez supporters few years back. They were so freaking loud you could feel the wind blow right up your back!
- Somehow, the trend from the past years seemed to be whichever team had the most supporters, would more likely get top spots. These are the Cyrens supporters, living up to their squads name -
- The Adele cheerleading team and its supporters are still around ! I was wondering where have all the KL cheerleading teams gone. Apparently a few still survive the new judging system of CHEER 2010 -
I started off walking around after awhile looking for some people, see what they're all up to. Met up with a whole lot of other cheerleaders, ex-seniors from all the previous cheerleading teams that I've coached before. It was more of a to-and-fro walk along the side of the stadium I was based at anyhow most of the cool cheerleading teams were all there. WOOT! I stumbled upon a few nervous coaches as well, while they're looking out for their teams and checking out the other rival teams...
- The different faces of nervous *or super confident* coaches, Here's (from left) Chee Wei, Yee Ming, and Alyna Tiong -
Apart from all of those peeps, I had to see some other more important individuals for well, business purposes. Your song is awesome! haha thanks for letting me do your songs~ Electric! =P
- Electric Cheerleaders! Vee and PeiWen Jo-Jo-Jo-Lene -
Right this is supposed to be MY exprience at the Silky Girl CHEER 2010 event, and if you're asking why there's not a single picture of me here? Its because I don't really like to see myself in a picture. However, behold, right from my own camera, a rare picture of meeeee!
- Its Me ! If I'm not wrong that is Alyna holding my hand as I asked her for more music pay~ Thats the Team Awesome shirt I'm holding in my other hand. 25 bucks yo! but its worth it coz. its AWESOME! -
- Thats the front of the Awesome Team Shirt. Me and Pris. Don't believe me I look like an idiot in front of the camera? Well here you go. Some how Kelvin Loh's got an uncanny ability to take pics of me looking really weird. LOL -
Going on later in the day the more experienced teams turn to perform comes and it really shows whether they have all improved or not from the previous year. What I looked for more was their ability to give the audience a good show and if there was one that got me going WTH it was the Shirtliff cheerleading team. I just have to say, whats with that song choice. Cheerleading is supposed to be inspirational, not make you go head-banging. So many cheerleaders around, so many teams performing and showing of their crazy pyramids, stunts and gymnastic abilities, so many friends I could take a picture with, instead what do I pick next as the object of interest?
- The CLAW~ What can I say? Couldn't help it I looked at the thing and it reminded me of it-
- The Overhead Camera ! I got to see thru the monitor screens and I just wondered "Whoa~ imagine all the cool shots that thing can get! The CAAAMERRRAAA~ -
Noticeably the crowd was already all piling up and inching? feeting? meter-ing closer to the performance area because well either they were all getting tired already and sliding lower down their seats, or they were trying to get a better view of the next bunch of Stars coming up to the mat, one being all the way from the USA, Santwon McCray!
- No Kidding! This Santwon guy is Awesome! Yet again have to take some pics from Kelvin Loh. I have no way of getting this kind of cool pics where I was standing. Pro photographer guy Kelvin is -
After Santwon's performance *he even did an encore* who else was next to perform, none other than the CHARM All-Stars !
Right after CHARM's performance, we didn't think of staying, since we kinda guessed correctly already who was going to get 1st place this year as it was quuuuite obvious. I was also being rushed to get out by someone who had to go home early, and another who was getting really hungry. So oh well off we went, pass the crowds, the yummy snack foods near the entrances, into the car, and off to the dying sunset ! So to say lah.
Where we went for dinner and what happens next? thats more to come on another post, sometime, later. PEACE !
Whoops forgot one thing.. this other performance. I just pity him because the sound system really sucked straws at this point where the music was too insanely loud and sharp, and he was like trying to get over the music most of the time he was singing.
- As you can see he seemed like he was struggling throughout his whole performance. *Sigh* pity, pity -
_CHEER FOR LIFE_
Sunday, June 20, 2010
A moment in a day of thoughts of a life of me
Sunday Morning .. From 0908 hours to 0909 hours.. more or less..
AH what time is it oh SHOOT where's my mp3 player AH here is
the earphone wires where is that thing oh here it is good its not tangled
where's my phone OUCH my shoulder aches why is it never getting
any better its been so long HMM maybe I should really consider checking it
out at the sports doctor or something OH here's my phone whoops slept on it
stupid unlock keypad mechanism oh okay its only 9.08am feels comfy maybe I should
go back to sleep yeah okay guess I will turn the mp3 player on again
nice music WOW who'd have thought the song I made really can put me
to sleep maybe I'll start developing this song more later when I get up again
ah DARN IT I'm not going to like the stupid hot weather later
oh what the heck I'll just sleep and hope for good cool temperature later
SO COMFY good thing I changed the layout of my bedroom must be some
FENG SHUI thing I keep sleeping so early these days I wonder if she's
still asleep must've kept herself up really late watching that VAN WILDER
movie I suggested I wonder what time she'll wake up today lets see
any messages on the phone oh none at all ah well maybe I'll read a book
now I shouldn't go back to sleep what if I wake up too late and miss the
PEACE and QUIET so rarely found in the home for myself AH the music sounds
so calming aww man~ batteries going to die I wonder whats for lunch later I'm so
hungry now have to wait for later I guess hope its not that waxed duck tasting
chicken again oh well maybe I'll cook something extra later if lunch isn't nice
oh right gotta shut the mp3 player off for now GOSH
feeling quite sleepy now maybe I should set my alarm clock so I'll wake
up not too lat.. will message her later in the morni.. don't want to..
wake her up without her getting enou.. sleep.. alarm.. clock..
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Kitty Techno Bounce !
Hahaha uber cute!
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Prince Of Persia from Pixels to Perfection
Firstly I would so want to say that... I watched Prince of Persia on the 28th itself and...
WOOHOO!!! PRINCE OF PERSIA - THE SANDS OF TIME IS SO AWESOME!!
That definitely did not express how much the movie really made me go "OOOH" and "AHHH" and "WOOOOW" . Even more if you readers have not come into contact with the original game before, you would not understand how close the whole movie resembles the game. I am talking about the oh so awesome action sequences of course. Before I say more, let me give you a VERY brief idea of how it has evolved from Pixels to The Greatest Movie Ever! ...
It reminds me of all the times I had to take a leap of faith *or two*, rushing to a closing gate after stepping on a floor switch screens away, countless of deaths from falls that always never fail to make me feel like a loser looking at the screen blink red and me just looking at my motionless, white clothed character lying on a bed of spikes, or trying to figure out the correct timing to slash at the numerous guards and foes *only happens IF I even remember where to find the sword in the first place*. If you can't see the short clip above and you want to see how the game-play is like click here
From a flat-faced hero, to the more rugged charming looking three dimensional hunk? See for yourself!
See the resemblance to the current Prince Dastan? Oh the realness of it all! Fantasy to Reality in the making!
Don't get me wrong its not that I'm fascinated by him *Jake Gyllenhaal* portraying the prince or the fact that he looks so spot-on with the video game version of the prince although I find that his sister *Maggie Gyllenhaal* is one other interesting personality to follow. Anyway, Its not just him! He's just one of the many points of awesomeness that make up this wonderful movie. Well then again maybe you girls out there would still say otherwise..
Now now hold up a sec. The prince for the ladies to oogle at, what about for the guys? I present to you Princess Tamina..
Whoops apologies not really the right situation to you a princess all wet and in the midst of escaping. Here's a somewhat more appropriate moment..
Ah what alluring beauty to behold. Gemma Arterton is so HAWT -quote Misopris-
To that I totally agree. Who else could it have been to further enhance the experience of a realistic journey through the tale of a Persian kingdom threatened by betrayal, a story of a guardian's sacred vow to protect the only object that ensures the very existence of the world and how one man fights for self-righteousness of his own and for what others that he believes in. Gemma plays this very important role as Princess Tamina of the sacred city of Alamut.
No epic story would be totally complete without the bad-ass bad guy! Meet Nazim, the King of Persia's brother and advisor. Nasty I tell you! maybe he should be called "Nazim the Nasty" ..
I have to admit when I wondered away about the movie while watching it *yes my thoughts still do tend to wonder off every now and then, even during an epic awesome movie like Prince Of Persia* I instantly thought of who would be the meanie this time and A-HA! Nizam appears on screen and immediately you just have to assume that he's the one responsible for future problems in the kingdom. Like really if you'd just look at him, eyeliner that thick, dark clothing, a rather bossy, overly confident stature of a man, looking rather resentful of whatever he may be pondering or plotting about the evilness of him, and not a smile on his face. O_o
Just when you think you've solved a case of who-done-it near the beginning of the movie, the story takes a twist and you're completely diverted to some other person who also may seem to be the guilty as hell bad guy. Ah but you all know better, don't you?
Throughout the entire story, immerse yourself in the most enchanting soundtrack. With its Persian-ish feel and mood, you'd feel like you're right in the middle of the desert along with everyone else in the movie. Dreaminess~ and Alanis Morissette lends in her awesomeness too! She wrote the song "I Remain" for the movie! Need I remind you again why Prince Of Persia The Sands Of Time is just AWESOME ?
Okay now back to the movie. Be prepared for amazing, jaw-dropping jumps and leaps from buildings, action sequences that will leave you rooting for the good guys, and a good load of funny amusing moments and lines, all in all a definitely jolly good time in front of a movie screen. Now if only movie tickets were cheaper, I'd go for repeats for this movie again and again! Enjoy. ^_^
Don't get me wrong its not that I'm fascinated by him *Jake Gyllenhaal* portraying the prince or the fact that he looks so spot-on with the video game version of the prince although I find that his sister *Maggie Gyllenhaal* is one other interesting personality to follow. Anyway, Its not just him! He's just one of the many points of awesomeness that make up this wonderful movie. Well then again maybe you girls out there would still say otherwise..
Now now hold up a sec. The prince for the ladies to oogle at, what about for the guys? I present to you Princess Tamina..
Whoops apologies not really the right situation to you a princess all wet and in the midst of escaping. Here's a somewhat more appropriate moment..
Ah what alluring beauty to behold. Gemma Arterton is so HAWT -quote Misopris-
To that I totally agree. Who else could it have been to further enhance the experience of a realistic journey through the tale of a Persian kingdom threatened by betrayal, a story of a guardian's sacred vow to protect the only object that ensures the very existence of the world and how one man fights for self-righteousness of his own and for what others that he believes in. Gemma plays this very important role as Princess Tamina of the sacred city of Alamut.
No epic story would be totally complete without the bad-ass bad guy! Meet Nazim, the King of Persia's brother and advisor. Nasty I tell you! maybe he should be called "Nazim the Nasty" ..
I have to admit when I wondered away about the movie while watching it *yes my thoughts still do tend to wonder off every now and then, even during an epic awesome movie like Prince Of Persia* I instantly thought of who would be the meanie this time and A-HA! Nizam appears on screen and immediately you just have to assume that he's the one responsible for future problems in the kingdom. Like really if you'd just look at him, eyeliner that thick, dark clothing, a rather bossy, overly confident stature of a man, looking rather resentful of whatever he may be pondering or plotting about the evilness of him, and not a smile on his face. O_o
Just when you think you've solved a case of who-done-it near the beginning of the movie, the story takes a twist and you're completely diverted to some other person who also may seem to be the guilty as hell bad guy. Ah but you all know better, don't you?
Sir Ben Kingsley = Greatness
" Muahaha!! I Kill You.. "
Throughout the entire story, immerse yourself in the most enchanting soundtrack. With its Persian-ish feel and mood, you'd feel like you're right in the middle of the desert along with everyone else in the movie. Dreaminess~ and Alanis Morissette lends in her awesomeness too! She wrote the song "I Remain" for the movie! Need I remind you again why Prince Of Persia The Sands Of Time is just AWESOME ?
Okay now back to the movie. Be prepared for amazing, jaw-dropping jumps and leaps from buildings, action sequences that will leave you rooting for the good guys, and a good load of funny amusing moments and lines, all in all a definitely jolly good time in front of a movie screen. Now if only movie tickets were cheaper, I'd go for repeats for this movie again and again! Enjoy. ^_^
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Back To The Drawing Board, Knowing Myself
Clarity of the mind, realization comes, and a few things noticed, things that always have been in sight at a glance, but never looked at in detail close up.
I ♥ Food . Well especially the Japanese style of cuisine. Why? Its just so simple, light, and yet so tasty, you'd get all sorts of varieties of food you can never get bored of trying something new that it can offer, and you don't feel like you've tortured your poor lil' (or big) tummy forcing it to digest or expand to your endless greed for deep fried potato fries or oil drenched pieces of chicken fry or the sort.
Endless combinations of ingredients skillfully put together by masterful chefs. Heck, you could even attempt to make something on your own, and its entirely limited to your own imagination how you'd like your roll of seaweed and rice!
I got a new bicycle, time to include some very much needed exercise back into life!
Got a book about self-improvement which I actually want to read. I wonder where it went...
No denying it i LOVE music! and almost every other form of art.
I'm very quite similar to Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking
rebellious, dare to challenge the norm, questioning it, think about all other possibilities, always wondering about the what ifs.
I need to find a part time job -.-
I want to get a lot of stuff.. for the purpose of self-improvement of course. :)
new laptop
a car.
bass guitar
drum set
video cam
recording equipment
a pack of UNO cards!
Do you ever get a thought, where you come up with some brilliant idea (or so you think it is) and you just can't wait to make it happen, may it be some piece of art on a canvas, something musical, or just out of the ordinary. Then after some time, you find out that some one else has the exact same idea, and had even put it up on YouTube or Myspace or some other place and gets all the credit for it. OK that totally sucks. It did make me come up with another thought that, ideas go around like waves of never-ending energy that float around, floating around the entire existence of a world as we understand it to be. Some times people who are sensitive enough to get caught in its stream, and then able to immerse themselves in its energy and come up with a way to transfer that to the rest of the world.
I ♥ Food . Well especially the Japanese style of cuisine. Why? Its just so simple, light, and yet so tasty, you'd get all sorts of varieties of food you can never get bored of trying something new that it can offer, and you don't feel like you've tortured your poor lil' (or big) tummy forcing it to digest or expand to your endless greed for deep fried potato fries or oil drenched pieces of chicken fry or the sort.
Endless combinations of ingredients skillfully put together by masterful chefs. Heck, you could even attempt to make something on your own, and its entirely limited to your own imagination how you'd like your roll of seaweed and rice!
I got a new bicycle, time to include some very much needed exercise back into life!
Got a book about self-improvement which I actually want to read. I wonder where it went...
No denying it i LOVE music! and almost every other form of art.
I'm very quite similar to Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking
rebellious, dare to challenge the norm, questioning it, think about all other possibilities, always wondering about the what ifs.
I need to find a part time job -.-
I want to get a lot of stuff.. for the purpose of self-improvement of course. :)
new laptop
a car.
bass guitar
drum set
video cam
recording equipment
a pack of UNO cards!
Do you ever get a thought, where you come up with some brilliant idea (or so you think it is) and you just can't wait to make it happen, may it be some piece of art on a canvas, something musical, or just out of the ordinary. Then after some time, you find out that some one else has the exact same idea, and had even put it up on YouTube or Myspace or some other place and gets all the credit for it. OK that totally sucks. It did make me come up with another thought that, ideas go around like waves of never-ending energy that float around, floating around the entire existence of a world as we understand it to be. Some times people who are sensitive enough to get caught in its stream, and then able to immerse themselves in its energy and come up with a way to transfer that to the rest of the world.
Do not wish for a new life every time you feel as if it isn't going well for you at all. Wish for a better life instead, because the life that you have now can never be taken away from you, and it is only as important as you believe it to be...I Quote Myself
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Its Like Whoa!
You seriously gotta check this out. So cool I just must share it! EPIC!
Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.
Sunday, May 09, 2010
Morning Wonders
Sometimes in life, you'd never see the answers you've always wanted to know, never realized things that you've always often wondered about in a thought or a dream, even when its splotched all over in front of your eyes. Well in my case it would be most of the time in my life. Its like, have you ever wondered how you've become the person you are right now?
I've always been an artsy person, I shall confidently say and there is no denying it. What were the signs? What made me realize? This morning for instance, well, right after I woke up and still lying in bed, to a very chilly comfortable morning, I starting wondering about all sorts again, as usual. This time I had thoughts about, of all things, how hard would it be to draw a short flip cartoon of Homer Simpson Throwing A Duff Beer Can. I wondered how his arm would work, how far back and at what proper angle it should be and right after that all the way up to Homer's eyes and hair to his plain white shirt and then going downwards to his pants and right back up again, to what sort of shoes would Homer wear. This dear readers, was completely random; hadn't watched a Simpsons episode the day before, didn't see head nortail butt of Homer anytime at all. Its been ages since the last Simpsons episode I got to watch.
Then, it hit me.. I was meant for the arts all along in my life. The scribbles in my school history books, the assortment of twirled, chopped, shaped, mustache-ed and re-bearded men of history, even some get the "Eye Patch Treatment" or a more decent pair of spectacles at the least (not most mind you) and other more typical art pieces one would normally find in a person's school books. It goes up all the way to the exam papers. Whats a guy gotta do to spend the remainder of the exam period from boredom just sitting on a butt-sore-inducing wooden chair?
Bring into existence scribbles of beaches and the deep blue sea, an abundance of coconut trees growing fruitfully with the sun shining and three-lined birds fly above curvy blue clouds in the blank white empty portion of the Question Sheets. If I feel extra confident about my exam I'd cram in shadows of tall, snowy mountains with even more rarer than a blue moon if the phenomenon were to have existed at all; a lone Mountain Climber heading to the summit eager to put his/her flag on that very top, only to realize that silly ol' Mountain Climber left it far below at the foot of the mountain. Yes, I literally draw rock formations that look like toes to a foot at the base of those mini Mount Everest things.
Well hmm, yeah sure there were those other times where it seemed as if I shouldn't ever pick up a paintbrush ever at all in my life. A long time ago during my early attempts at taking up Art classes, I'll usually start off just fine, wide awake, then bit by bit, I would slowly drift deeper and deeper into my colorful mix of pastels and pencil sketches, way deeper into the heavenly white tiniest of the smallest-est recognizable molecules of paper fiber... I doze off. Sitting.
Its not my fault there's always a ceiling fan turned on at max speed every time I attend Art Class, is it? Such comfort to have me slip into a short-lived afternoon nap.
Sadly a genius of an artist would not be my fate. *Sigh* so many obstructions, demotivators throughout school life. Most of you would recognize the..
"Don't scribble nonsense in your books"
"What are you wasting your time on that for"
"Don't you have anything more important to do"
..lectures the moment you see your parents or teachers open their mouths to speak even a soundless breath before words bombard your ears with painful criticism and comments a.k.a. Nagging is caused by everyday work stress and the "I did it my way I turned out fine, why aren't you doing it like I used to do in school" thinking they tend to have. Ahh~ school life..
Back to the present, seems to me my interests never really died out after all. Visual art skills for me is very much dependent mainly on how much i ever would bother to practice. What I'm saying is.. my drawing skills may extend to a level above Stick Men at the very least. The same goes for my capabilities in music. Gosh if only I got to focus more on music when I started Keyboard class. Heck the teacher must have been super stressed up because she was always strict in class. I thought music was supposed to be fun and enjoyable. Especially for kids at my age when I was about 3 to 5. LOL.
To sum it all up, yeah my drawing is still shitty. Thank goodness for me meddling much with the old Windows 3.1 computer when it was still around I'm quite handy with the pc now, trying out recording the guitar with a cheap headset microphone, composing some really weird music and posting it on a Youtube channel. Finally freedom! ..partially. I still feel that I'm being so restricted by the limited amount of knowledge that I have, to express my thoughts on a piece of paper with some lead, ink or paint and all my wonderful bizarre ideas that I want to share with everyone on a music score or sheet and through some really good quality headphones.
Oh well thats the life of me for now. PEACE!
I've always been an artsy person, I shall confidently say and there is no denying it. What were the signs? What made me realize? This morning for instance, well, right after I woke up and still lying in bed, to a very chilly comfortable morning, I starting wondering about all sorts again, as usual. This time I had thoughts about, of all things, how hard would it be to draw a short flip cartoon of Homer Simpson Throwing A Duff Beer Can. I wondered how his arm would work, how far back and at what proper angle it should be and right after that all the way up to Homer's eyes and hair to his plain white shirt and then going downwards to his pants and right back up again, to what sort of shoes would Homer wear. This dear readers, was completely random; hadn't watched a Simpsons episode the day before, didn't see head nor
Then, it hit me.. I was meant for the arts all along in my life. The scribbles in my school history books, the assortment of twirled, chopped, shaped, mustache-ed and re-bearded men of history, even some get the "Eye Patch Treatment" or a more decent pair of spectacles at the least (not most mind you) and other more typical art pieces one would normally find in a person's school books. It goes up all the way to the exam papers. Whats a guy gotta do to spend the remainder of the exam period from boredom just sitting on a butt-sore-inducing wooden chair?
Bring into existence scribbles of beaches and the deep blue sea, an abundance of coconut trees growing fruitfully with the sun shining and three-lined birds fly above curvy blue clouds in the blank white empty portion of the Question Sheets. If I feel extra confident about my exam I'd cram in shadows of tall, snowy mountains with even more rarer than a blue moon if the phenomenon were to have existed at all; a lone Mountain Climber heading to the summit eager to put his/her flag on that very top, only to realize that silly ol' Mountain Climber left it far below at the foot of the mountain. Yes, I literally draw rock formations that look like toes to a foot at the base of those mini Mount Everest things.
Well hmm, yeah sure there were those other times where it seemed as if I shouldn't ever pick up a paintbrush ever at all in my life. A long time ago during my early attempts at taking up Art classes, I'll usually start off just fine, wide awake, then bit by bit, I would slowly drift deeper and deeper into my colorful mix of pastels and pencil sketches, way deeper into the heavenly white tiniest of the smallest-est recognizable molecules of paper fiber... I doze off. Sitting.
Its not my fault there's always a ceiling fan turned on at max speed every time I attend Art Class, is it? Such comfort to have me slip into a short-lived afternoon nap.
Sadly a genius of an artist would not be my fate. *Sigh* so many obstructions, demotivators throughout school life. Most of you would recognize the..
"Don't scribble nonsense in your books"
"What are you wasting your time on that for"
"Don't you have anything more important to do"
..lectures the moment you see your parents or teachers open their mouths to speak even a soundless breath before words bombard your ears with painful criticism and comments a.k.a. Nagging is caused by everyday work stress and the "I did it my way I turned out fine, why aren't you doing it like I used to do in school" thinking they tend to have. Ahh~ school life..
Back to the present, seems to me my interests never really died out after all. Visual art skills for me is very much dependent mainly on how much i ever would bother to practice. What I'm saying is.. my drawing skills may extend to a level above Stick Men at the very least. The same goes for my capabilities in music. Gosh if only I got to focus more on music when I started Keyboard class. Heck the teacher must have been super stressed up because she was always strict in class. I thought music was supposed to be fun and enjoyable. Especially for kids at my age when I was about 3 to 5. LOL.
To sum it all up, yeah my drawing is still shitty. Thank goodness for me meddling much with the old Windows 3.1 computer when it was still around I'm quite handy with the pc now, trying out recording the guitar with a cheap headset microphone, composing some really weird music and posting it on a Youtube channel. Finally freedom! ..partially. I still feel that I'm being so restricted by the limited amount of knowledge that I have, to express my thoughts on a piece of paper with some lead, ink or paint and all my wonderful bizarre ideas that I want to share with everyone on a music score or sheet and through some really good quality headphones.
Oh well thats the life of me for now. PEACE!
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Phone service!
One of many more blog posts to come from my phone? Haha I hope so. This is kinda interesting since I can't really use my pc anytime from now till uh.. 3 to 6 weeks later? The only last moments I could recall before it went to total shutdown mode goes like this..
It was a pretty dull day. Raining I assure you, as it had been since hours before 'it' happened. Well most other previous occurrences when it rains the telephone and LAN cables get disconnected well heck.. as fast as lightning. This time, we didn't even think about it because it just seemed like a 'boy who cried wolf' situation. Gosh we were so getting it from the wolf this time, and the boy was going to get it way more from us.. whatever or whoever the 'boy' may be referred to.
Thunder made its presence known to us.. louder than ever which could only mean Zeus was directly on his way right above the house (yes its very much past my sleeping phase of the day so..) . Boom.. Flash.. Boom.. Flash..
FLASH*POP*BOOM..
You got that right. Something gave off a small wee little explosion.. which of course was right in front of my eyes, taking my attention away from another sad unfortunate 'turn off'.. one so bad you'd just go for days and days of sleepless nights wondering why did it have to be you having to do with this kinda poop at a time like this.
The modem popped.. the monitor got blank.. the pc was involuntarily shutdown and the power button seemed to be rendered useless. So right away I switched into diagnostic mode. Checked the usual connections which were the common culprits for a knocked-out com including the power supply unit, graphics card and the motherboard. I just thought the worst of it that the main board got fried which eventually I found out that I was right from the tech guy who told me that it was the the externally connected net card that was preventing the power circuit from running which was the problem but noo there was a problem with the motherboard which made the harddisk drives unreadable and in the end had to be sent for servicing.
Thank goodness the harddisks are still usable or else i'll have to reformat everything and installed each and every program one by one again or get new harddisks and OMG everything I edited music and stuff would be all gone! *pray*
Anyway point is..
1) PC is 3o'ed for awhile.
2) Sorry people i'll only be able to get back to editing music after the com is back.
3) I won't be able to check all my facebook apps often now! Oh noooo my RC.. my CA.. my SL~
=P
Okay thats all from the phone now its getting more lagged the more I write so.. PEACE!
It was a pretty dull day. Raining I assure you, as it had been since hours before 'it' happened. Well most other previous occurrences when it rains the telephone and LAN cables get disconnected well heck.. as fast as lightning. This time, we didn't even think about it because it just seemed like a 'boy who cried wolf' situation. Gosh we were so getting it from the wolf this time, and the boy was going to get it way more from us.. whatever or whoever the 'boy' may be referred to.
Thunder made its presence known to us.. louder than ever which could only mean Zeus was directly on his way right above the house (yes its very much past my sleeping phase of the day so..) . Boom.. Flash.. Boom.. Flash..
FLASH*POP*BOOM..
You got that right. Something gave off a small wee little explosion.. which of course was right in front of my eyes, taking my attention away from another sad unfortunate 'turn off'.. one so bad you'd just go for days and days of sleepless nights wondering why did it have to be you having to do with this kinda poop at a time like this.
The modem popped.. the monitor got blank.. the pc was involuntarily shutdown and the power button seemed to be rendered useless. So right away I switched into diagnostic mode. Checked the usual connections which were the common culprits for a knocked-out com including the power supply unit, graphics card and the motherboard. I just thought the worst of it that the main board got fried which eventually I found out that I was right from the tech guy who told me that it was the the externally connected net card that was preventing the power circuit from running which was the problem but noo there was a problem with the motherboard which made the harddisk drives unreadable and in the end had to be sent for servicing.
Thank goodness the harddisks are still usable or else i'll have to reformat everything and installed each and every program one by one again or get new harddisks and OMG everything I edited music and stuff would be all gone! *pray*
Anyway point is..
1) PC is 3o'ed for awhile.
2) Sorry people i'll only be able to get back to editing music after the com is back.
3) I won't be able to check all my facebook apps often now! Oh noooo my RC.. my CA.. my SL~
=P
Okay thats all from the phone now its getting more lagged the more I write so.. PEACE!
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Rebel Rush - Home. Earth
Hi again! I'm back with another odd sounding piece I guess.
Inspiration for this came from my very nonsensical imagination.
Something about monks going through their daily prayers at some secluded,
grand, ancient looking temple. One of them, looking rather sleepy,
starts dozing off.. bit by bit, nodding off rhythmically to the chants which somehow,
have a natural beat anyone could recognize. Nod.. nod.. nod.. nod..
The part about Earth?
well I got a bit bothered by all the earthquakes, tsunami and hurricanes,
global warming, corruption in politics, all the greed and selfishness in the world,
wars and misunderstandings happening these days.
I hope it all comes to an end one day and we all get to live well and prosper?
Haha lets all Hope for a better Future shall we?
Composed by - Me! (Rebel Rush)
Earth wallpapers by -
I'M SO SORRY I FORGOT WHERE DID I GET IT FROM! Credits to all I found you on Google Images! Thanks!
If you want to use my music in any way, please do give me some credit mention my name or something. Rate and comment! Peace for all !
Clean Your Room Right Now!
Yes Yes I'm gonna start redo-ing my blog layout already. Its been blue for too long so i thought i'd liven things up a lil more this time. For now we'll all have a plain and simple layout, like a scoop full of plain rice and barely tasteful soup. haha!
Enviromental Naite
Introducing the Sony Ericsson J105 Naite™ !
Looking at all the devastating events going no around the world these days, tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, I want! Made in support of the preservation of the environment that is the world we live in, the planet, OUR HOME Earth.
Truthfully I think that all these unfortunate events happening these days are not just attributed to natural causes. Instead, I shall if I may, include one very outstanding obvious factor.. The Human Population.
All in all this wonder of a mobile phone works just fine considering the many features trimmed down to the basics like the camera and audio speakers. Its by far the most pleasant thing to have right now, for a guy like me of course. haha!
Looking at all the devastating events going no around the world these days, tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, I want! Made in support of the preservation of the environment that is the world we live in, the planet, OUR HOME Earth.
Truthfully I think that all these unfortunate events happening these days are not just attributed to natural causes. Instead, I shall if I may, include one very outstanding obvious factor.. The Human Population.
GreenHeart™ is all about reducing negative impact on the enviroment. Recycled plastic housing, no lead and less chemicals, e-manual, ultra compact packaging and a low-power consumption charger to save energy: in short, your Naite™ is a greener, more sustainable choice.
All in all this wonder of a mobile phone works just fine considering the many features trimmed down to the basics like the camera and audio speakers. Its by far the most pleasant thing to have right now, for a guy like me of course. haha!
Monday, January 18, 2010
S.E.O.U.L. !!
Woohoo! Got TaeYeon, Will Love. ^_^
Update Coming Late
I know I really should update this blog already after months and months of drafts and stuffs by now its a new year and all but I just don't feel really into it these days but anyway tons of stuff I want to mention about like traffic jams stupidity classes buses trains and pains not to forget some other gains and losses some funny bosses, tosses and extensions unworthy mentions of..
Okay anyway.. I'll be awhile I'll surely put something up in a few..
Oh wait I already did. Updated! =P
Okay anyway.. I'll be awhile I'll surely put something up in a few..
Oh wait I already did. Updated! =P
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