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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Anyone heard of the song Jesus Of Suburbia by Green Day? YEah yeah, the band famous for that trademark heavy palm muting of power chords, and that greenish eye shadow they put on. Theres part of this song thats quite nice actually.
[Part 2: City Of The Damned]

At the center of the Earth
In the parking lot
Of the 7-11 where I was taught
The motto was just a lie
It says home is where your heart is
But what a shame
Cause everyone's heart
Doesn't beat the same
It's beating out of time

City of the dead
At the end of another lost highway
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned
Lost children with dirty faces today
No one really seems to care

I read the graffiti
In the bathroom stall
Like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall
And so it seemed to confess
It didn't say much
But it only confirmed that
The center of the earth
Is the end of the world
And I could really care less

City of the dead
At the end of another lost highway
Signs misleading to nowhere
City of the damned
Lost children with dirty faces today
No one really seems to careeeeee

It says home is where your heart is
But what a shame
Cause everyone's heart
Doesn't beat the same
So what do you think of this eh... Listen to the song, pretty nice one.

March In @ 10:59 PM

Monday, April 23, 2007

Okay, ive decided to post something to assure everyone that I am still alive (HOORAY). Been very busy this week, so this post would be short, in exact KISS( keep it simple stupid). Indeed the exams are coming, or rather came, and soon it will be all over. Well Ive already set for 4 papers and so far the SS was the hardest amongst all. Came across this beautiful axe on Soft Forum, a B.B. King "Lucille". Semi Hollow with Varitone features. http://soft.com.sg/web/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=31496 , Selling at $700 with hardcase and its actually retailing at $1.3k at Sweelee! What a good deal!

Ok time to go back to studying... Are there any drummers in ZhongHua in the sec 3 levels?

March In @ 11:19 PM

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Guitars Guitars!

Nothing much to post about really... Hmm so i decided to write some stuff on guitars...

Gibson Les Paul
These are wonderful beauties that is made from mahogany (backs and necks) with a maple top, which is rather heavy. This however gives the Les Paul more sustain due to its glue on neck, in comparison with its rival Fender Stratocasters. I currently own a Epiphone Les Paul classic that's made in china and it sounds great, and it weighs much heavier than my Strat Copy. The tone is very warm when put to the middle on the pickup selector and produces rich tones through the bridge pick up. Its trademark muddy tone through the neck humbuckers are awesome, overall its a wonderful guitar in terms of playability, tone and aesthetics. Certainly one guitar worth buying. When bought, its best to be fixed with strap locks due to its shape, which makes certain straps slip off. The Les Paul guitar is indeed synonymous to rock and roll and even clean sounds. The Les Paul Comes with 2 tone and 2 volume knobs which allows more versatility with your tones. With rosewood fingerboard, with pearl trapezoid inlays. However, despite making out of good materials, it is advice NOT TO drop it, as my head stock has already broken and amazingly it still plays beautifully. The only disadvantage of this guitar is that it has a single cut away shape which restricts much movement down to the 17th frets onwards. This guitar is also equipped with a tune-o-matic bridge which allow one to adjust the height of the bridge in case the action is too low which causes buzzing. Sustain is awesome for this guitar, and don't be surprised it owns a stratocaster in many ways. However each type of guitar has its own tone and find the best guitar that suits your tone! Some endorsers of the Les Paul Guitars are Slash from Guns N Roses, Ray Toro And Frank Iero from My Chemical Romance, Buckethead The Les Paul Shredder, and Zakk Wylde.

Hope that helps you and the Les Paul is certainly a rockable guitar to start off with !

PS: this was not copied and pasted
Some Pics Of my Les Paul

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March In @ 9:45 PM

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Late night post. Studying for a history test for tomorrow, when i suddenly realised that the window was extremely blurred by a layer of "something". I opened the window and realised it was extremely warm outside and that the window had a layer of water vapour on it. Probably due to condensation, however my hand was damp and moist too. What a strange encounter, probably not strange to anyone of you. Anyway, have to continue to read about my Modern World history, where the incapabilities of the Weimar Republic that led to the rise of the Nazis. The Problems Of the Weimar republic... why am i saying this, argh! Extremely tired now... Gotta get some rest pretty soon. Hope I can get my GFX-5 pedal by this week!

March In @ 11:22 PM

Welcome to the black parade!

Finnaly made a cover on one of my favourite songs Welcome to the black parade by My Chemical Romance.

Enjoy and Rate + Comment If possible!

PS: if you see ' Video Not Available " it might be due to the fact that it is not completely uploaded yet, come back later.

March In @ 6:10 PM

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Came across this quote...

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
I found this extremely meaningful. For those who are still disappointed with your postings dont be. Who says a sub committee member cannot excel or get good ranks. Just do your best and enjoy what you do, Im sure you will be satisfied even though you dont get good ranks, you will be happy that you are part of a sucessful squad. Believe...Dare to dream , impossible is nothing.

March In @ 11:02 PM

Nothing much to comment on today... Went for shooting team training as usual in the morning. Did lots of exercises, I was completely tired out. Didn't even have energy to play soccer. Strange, its been so long and I'm still coughing and I often get breathless easily, wonder whats happening. Anyway, we discussed alot about our posts. And after the training, we went to MacDonald's for lunch and discussed about our upcoming ATC. Sadly there is no NPCC training next week due to the advance papers. Weird eh, I've dreaded NPCC trainings all the while, but there seem to be a change in this mindset now. Probably the excitement of being NCOs now. Like what our CI had said, many NCOs were merely pumped up initially and often lose interest later... I hope this certainly don't apply to anyone from the NCOs squad nor the Sec 1 squad. I really hope the sec 1s can persevere and understand the harsh NPCC discipline. Their current strength is only 24, as compared to the 27 from our squad when we were sec 1s. Now onli 21 remains, all thanks to a sissy and 5 power rangers.

So after i went back home, picked up my guitar and started listening to MCR's disenchanted. There was this few lines :

It was the roar of the crowd
That gave me heartache to sing.

Its probably this line that explains my feelings now. Taking the sec 1 squad being a great resposiblity as everyone knows, start out good when you are young. Their upbrining is extremely important and the responsibilities for the year heads are very heavy. The CIs are expecting Gold unit this year and this will be the first in Zhonghua's NP history. However... This line :

It was a lie when they smiled
And said, "you won't feel a thing"

Is this what we are looking at now? Despite high expectations and optimism, you won't feel a thing? Things are not going to be easy thats all i can say for now i guess. Well just enjoy the song.

lyrics - My Chemical Romance Lyrics

March In @ 8:25 PM

Flash MP3 Player

Cool, it works. Well its an mp3 player and indeed, ive added some nice songs and music in it. Enjoy!

March In @ 4:40 PM

Friday, April 13, 2007

Well, appointment parade was conducted today. Wasn't pretty surprised by the 5 EXCO members that we've been waiting for. They were Yan Chang as unit head, Benedict as admin head, Xiu Quan as Sec 2 year head, Samatha as sec 1 year head and Aqil as Logistics head. Haha, gald to say I passed my 2nd class drill test! Surprisingly i was appointed as the year 1 deputy head, seriously not what ive expected, and i hope to do a good job in it. Many were disappointed with the results... Its getting rather stupid now. After presenting the Doraemon to Mdm Careen , i couldnt really see if she was crying or not. However i got to say its hugmongous!
And indeed we are now official NCOs!! Yeah 3 cheers for the new NCOs squad! Now us, being NCOs, have different resposiblities now. We have to lead the unit and bring back the GOLD award for this year's UOPA. I refer to what Mdm Careen had said about squad unit. I feel that its extremely vital towards the sucess of the NCO team. Every training we might all do our own assiginments and not even knowing who is present in the sec 3 squad. Take some time and look at every small detail in your everyday experiences, won't you find something worth to ponder about? Let me write what i feel , " The world is so big, men and women are merely players. Why bother so much about your tiny little problem when something important is happening in the world. " Life is full of obstacles and set backs...Fight and win it, or just die. Maybe i should just go back and practise on a new guitar solo...

March In @ 8:41 PM

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Really tired from today's 2.4km NAPFA run. Had a score of 11 min 22 sec resulting in a B. This adds up to my total tally of 29 out of 30 points. However I still was not satisfied, i believed i could have done better if my bad cough had gone away. I had difficulties breathing while running and was coughing very hard to try to get the phlegm out of my throat. Anyway, appointment parade draws near, and I met my cadet inspector on the same bus on my way back from school, and he refused to reveal anything about the postings. Hmmm, i wonder how well the new hierarchy chart will work, and how well i will perform... I got this strange feeling about gold unit, I know its hard to get, and everyones got high expectations, will they be disappointed? Anyway got ive got myself a new botak hair cut ...

March In @ 10:02 PM

Sunday, April 08, 2007

Paint Job!

Nothing to do so my bro and I decided to do a paint job on 1 of our guitarS!

Here it is before the paint job...

And after ...

Cool eh!! Well still gasing for a PGM, and someone showed me this :

PGM 300
Specs:
Lo Pro Bridge
paf pro,
jem single,
paf pro.

March In @ 6:58 PM

Saturday, April 07, 2007

2nd Class Drill Test

Glad to say, Ive made through it despite my bad cough and flu. There were times when I wanted to report sick, but I just continued to march on (poorly). Yes indeed, i did not perform well, I think I will fail this. However I don't mind... I just want myself to challenge limits and fight like a warrior. Despite me feeeling extremely ferverish yesterday, I actually did not want to attend today's Drill Test. I had a temperature of 38.7 and i was numb all over. I tried sleeping, but was sadly awoken abruptly when visitors came, and I was sleeping on the living room's crouch.
I was coughing madly even till now still... But i woke up this morning feeling much better.

After todays drill test, we still had Shooting Training, although we are totally overcame with fatigue. We did push ups, but i did extremely lots of it because of my Cadet Inspector. We sorta have a juggling competition and i sorta failed twice. First time i did 52 as i failed to reach 50 with a score of 24. So i had to do the difference x2. 2nd time, I did 1, not fair i was being set up, i dropped the ball on my leg and i did 49x3=147. 3RD TIME! I only had to do 8 but i was pushed when i did 6. This time it was 2x50. Wow thats a whopping 397!! After that we still played soccer and so on till we boarded the bus and it was raining dogs and cats.

Quoted:
I would say not that everybody will be contented but i hope everybody will put in their best irregardless of which post they are in.

I dont really mind about the posting, I'm sure that even someday Singapore will enter the world cup. Same goes here, its not about the posting, but ones effort and diligence that has been put in. I believe that even with a post as a Sub-Committee member, one can still become a Staff Sergeant. I would like to try to prove that, in spite of my poor performance for my 2nd Class drill badge today.

Will the new batch of NCO this year lead the unit to gold? I really don't know... I'm starting to feel that somethings are not right now... Voice it out? Dilemma I am in now. Perhaps I should just watch and wait, not too long probably...

March In @ 7:04 PM

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

One Day Of Being NCO

Today during training, sec 3s got a chance to assist in training for the whole training session. Got pretty excited initially and i had to take the drill session for the sec 2s. Well not exactly I only,
there was like 8 of us standing there while 1 would shout the commands, which looks rather retarted... I mean we're not going to do that if we take over right.?

Then after about an hour of drills, I had to reflect on many things. The commands given by my some of my squad mates was utterly stupid. One actually Belok ( turn squad ) into another squadmate who was standing there. GOLD UNIT come on! How are u going to get gold like that...

Hah PT came and it was rather fun. Seriously, the sec 2s changes in and out of their uniform extremely SLOW! Man they gotta work on that if not they will suffer in their NCO camp. I led set-exercises and we did sets of 30 and 35. Surprisingly they did their starjumps rather fast. However they were slow in recovering from their resting position and often ignored our orders.

After that, we get to conduct the debreif session, in which we recieved inconstructive replies like "outstanding" through the debrief session. We told the sec 2s their mistakes in drills. They got to work real hard in their marching and drills, which was disasterous.Really not feeling too well, coughing badly thoughout the whole training, hope i can perform better next training. Probably thats all... However im starting to feel the disadvantages of being an NCO already... Next week is the apointment parade, hoping for something good...

Tired, Restless and still GASING!!

March In @ 9:56 PM

Monday, April 02, 2007

GAS!!

GAS!!!!! Gasing for new gear! Well Gas Actually mean -> Gear acquisitory syndrome

LesPaul 30th Aniversary Goldtop Les Paul with the words Lynyrd Skynyrd -> 900 bucks
http://soft.com.sg/web/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=30454

Les Paul Custom 50th Aniversary 1000 bucks!!
http://soft.com.sg/web/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=380105#380105

And freaking saddened by the fact my guitar headstock broke!! Now hunting for PGMS!!

March In @ 8:01 PM