4th September gigs

The 4th of September gigs is still on and last night was my 1st jam session with Fractured. We're goin to perform 3 of the demo's songs and probably another 3 cover songs. Yeah, 6 songs in total. Urgh. It's puttin pressure fer sure though it's fun indeed. Ah. Wanna know a secret? Actually, the demo has no lyric whatsoever :). Seriously. But now I've made 2 of the song's lyrics and another 2 comin up soon. It's kinda hard to make lyrics when someone has already sung it coz I have to get the lyric fits in whatever the heck the ex-vocalist was singin. The songs in the demo is:

Band: Fractured
Title: Arch Gate of Insanity

Track 1: Inside The Bodybag
Track 2: War of God
Track 3: The Life Inside The Hole
Track 4: Once Stabbed

This titles is as written on the demo album. I've personally changed some of the song's title to fit my lyrics which I've made. As I've said, we're gonna perform 6 songs and I hope to see some of you guys there. Where? Oh, we still have no details on the exact location, time etc but it's suppose to be somewhere at Jalan Pekeliling near ITAR (or ITTAR, yeah the Institut Tun Abdul Razak I guess). More on that later when I get the full details.

Our 1st jam session (with me as the new lineup) was awesome. We're jammin again tonight coz the gigs dateline is very near. I still fergot many of the lyrics (like the cover songs etc, not to mention the demo songs which don't have lyrics at all.. Ack!) and I hope I won't mess the band's performance later.

It seems that a "Tribute To Metallica" gigs was schedule on the same day as my band's gigs.

I have to spend less time on the net coz my bill was killin me. Drats. Where the hell is my StreamyX!!! Later.

Gigs.. Finally!! But..

It've been a while since I blog eh? Yeah well. It's not payday yet so my financial budget are a mess right now. Heh.

Gigs. Ah. Know wut? If things goes well as planned, I'll be able to play gigs somewhere around September (probably 4th of September). But the thing is, it's not with my band. Fahmi's other band, Fractured has once again caught up in lineup mess and I was invited to replace the bassist AND the vocalist. Ack. I'll call up Nuar later fer his opinion. Can I manage it? Fer now, I can try. The problem is, Fractured is quite.. Uhm.. How should I put it.. Ah, established. They made their 1st demo and it's already in store. Fillin in the spot like bass stuff is managable, but the vocal part is what bothers me. I don't have the type of 'growl' like in the demo (which I haven't had the chance to listen to, yet. But Fahmi will give it to me coz I need to practise. Soon) and to sound like someone else is kinda hard. Well, my band AngelClaw play metal too, so what's the difference? Ah, good question. It's a bit more complicated than that.

AngelClaw feels like home because basically, it's MY band and I play and sing what I feel. Fractured is somethin else. Like I've said, I'll have to sing like the original vocalist and that I'm sure is gonna need a lot of effort from me. Dual role is hard too. Playin bass AND bein the main vocalist. Not that it's somethin bad because I AM the bassist and vocalist fer AngelClaw but now I'll have to double that. Doublin my dual role. I hope I won't get any brain tumor or somethin.

I'll confirm the gigs later. Mebbe you can see me there if I play. More on it later I hope.

I'll be off fer a while

Yes, that's right. My tmnet prepaid has been sucked dry already and I'll have to wait fer a friend to pay his debt till I can reload it. So, no internet fer while.

Hey, I got a raise! Hurrah 3x.

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I'm still havin a sore throat. And my neck ache. Erh. Still. The jam session was great!. We, the band even had the chance to hear each of our new songs (excludin me... who is still brain dead). We got 4 songs now.

I'm still tired...

What the..

Got the price on MCSE. Ack. Another thing that'll burn a hole in my pocket. Wow. This month is amazin.

Somethin wrong yesterday, I dunno whether it's my box or www.blogger.com. I wrote a blog and when I push the [Publish Post] button, my blog didn't publish and I was left in the edit page. So I went button-frenzy and after a few mins, I gave up. When I open my blogsite usin MSIE, I was shocked to see that I've about 20+ copies of the same blog (the one I was tryin to publish). Ouch. I'm still havin the same problem just now.

Jammin & Stigmata

Yeah! Nuar came back last night and it only mean 1 thing.. Jam! Woohoo! Another 4 hours of physical torture. I love it! As it've been a long time since our last jam session, I'm sure I've fergotten a few part of the songs. Ack.

Yum! I've just got meself the rarest Arch Enemy album to find (in Malaysia..) Stigmata. Ah, now I've got all 4. Yummy. Just yummy.

8910 & Elantra

Yeah, probably I'll get that 1992 Hyundai Elantra by the next week or so. Eep. Didn't realized that it's so soon. I just booked meself a new phone (not a brand new phone, but a new phone fer me) and my budget fer this month are really tight. Well, if not now, then when? I guess I'll better get use to the new budgetin plan so I can work harder to find more money to burn. :).

The current car's state is not much of an eye candy but I got plans fer it. I haven't got the chance to test the engine (haven't done a test drive yet) so I got no clue on that. Exterior is ok, with a minor scratch on the right body (fergiven). The interior is not in my likin because it has front and rear leather seats (black). Ouch. I hate leather seats. And I hate black leather seats. It'll be hot as hell when drivin in a sunny afternoon. The front bumper is dented a bit on the right side, probably a minor accident but as long as the body is ok (no welded parts etc), it's fine with me. Surely there will be a few repairin works to be done. It's a used car anyway.

What phone? Ah, I wanna buy 8910 (titanium). If Syah got the model right, the phone will be mine by the end of this month. Actually I wasn't hopin fer the car and the phone deal was a real quick deal so that's why I gave the phone deal a go. All of a sudden, my friend (from the used-car company) said that he agrees with my term of price (Hurrah!) and the deal is on. Ack.

2 things that will suck my wallet dry. Hopefully, I'll get that favourite phone of mine and fer the first time, I'll have my own car. Now, work harder.....

Gettin to know, greedy & code rewritten.

There's a girl currently who had my mobile number and sms me bout 'gettin to know - let's be friend' stuff. Ack. Not a bad thing but (yeah there's a but) I dunno if I'm that friendly enough (in a sense) to be made a friend (fer female). I don't differentiate between male and female friends and I treat em both the same (even the gua lu slang when talkin but not all of em though.). Better change that. Anyway, let's see how long she can stand bein my friend. *grins*.

I've started bein greedy now. I do many things I didn't (don't have the time to) do now. Fer example, I work in a used-car cum insurance company so now me myself sell car, and I'm gettin active with me bein a Takaful Nasional's agent. Oh, no more pendin fer computer related freelance job (repair etc) and I'll do it after work. I have to. I really want that darn Elantra. Ahah!

p/s: My boss just got that hint today. He said the car is nice and I can buy it. Ah... What does it mean? Don't ask me, I dunno.

The rewritin of my homepage layout and codes is done. Now wishin fer people to come visit. *kitten face*.

*darn. I kept fergettin to change the topic..

Layout cleaup

Phew. I've done cleanin up the layout / html tags of my homepage. Now theorically all browser in earth can access my website. Even lynx, links and any other text-only web browser. Yeah. Support the non browser-specific www!.

My sister is still hackin some program fer her assignment. Even I'm caught with it. Hah. I got meself some compiler and it's fun to hack together. I can learn C++ at the same time. Yeah I don't know C++, yet. Oh. Hackin = hackers? Depends on which 'hacker' are you thinkin. The media's term of 'hacker' or programmer's term of 'hacker'. Both are different. Don't get confused with 'cracker' and 'hacker'.

Someone came to my office this evenin, talkin bout buyin a Kenari which is on sale and he said he's gonna cash out some money fer bookin and never came back. Weird. I even gave him the car keys so he can check the car but he didn't accept it. Extra weird. Peoples nowaday. He just ask, not tryin to steal it or anythin, confirmin fer bookin payment and gone.

Any Browser Campaign

http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ is a campaign fer makin websites and homepages accessible by all type of browser. Is your website too dependant of a specific web browser and inaccessible by some or others? Then change! Say NO to browser specific tags/functions/features. I'll update my homepage later after work in support fer this campaign. Take note that "accessibility" and "look nice" is a different thing. Lookin nice while viewed with Mozilla and not so nice on others doesn't make the site browser specific site as long as it's accessible by all type of browser and the main features is functional. More on this later.

Emma on C++

My kid sister is doin some C++ programmin. Wow. It's quite a surprise fer me. She, the one who had never bother anythin related to computer is now doin some programmin (well it's in her study course). Great. And I'm a bit jealous too! :). I wanted to learn C++ fer years and now my kid sister is actually programmin in C++. Ah well, I might as well learn from her. Now I'm tryin to persuade her to dual boot FreeBSD. Hehe. Who knows, she might be a FreeBSD contributor and write some code fer FreeBSD. Not a bad idea huh. My kid sister, hackin FreeBSD. Wow.

*ps: Opps, I posted this on wrong blog-o-mine. Lol.

Layout rewritten.

Phew. My homepage's new layout is complete (fer now) and Mozilla friendly. MSIE and Opera users would probably boo at the new layout but heck, can't help it. It's not me who screw up html implimentation. The full-screen mode now a lot nicer and (I hope) the scroller is no more when viewed in fullscreen. Such a fuss with a small thing huh? Yeah well, I'm still not satisfied yet.

My kid sister will arrive somewhere around 2/3 in the mornin tomorrow. I hope I'm not sleepy because I'm such a sleepiac (sleep maniac). I must be strong. Resist. the. temptation. of. ohhh comfy pillow.. *snore*.

My goatie is short now. Ack. Feels funny. Look funny. err. and nice.

The new layout.. kinda..

Urghh! I can't stand this. Every web browser wants to make their html standard as the standard and guess what? Plain html wont render the same on each different browser. Drats. I gave up. I was tryin to make (at least) Mozilla and IE render my homepage's layout nicely but those 2 are beasts. Ah well, better let the Mozilla as the reference browser and find a solution fer IE. Probably Javascript stuff. I dunno. I've been rewritin the same page fer hours now. Darn.

Shave, or trim the goatie?..

Hmm...

err..

Trim. Definitely. *snip*

Does topic matter?

I did went out today. It's a borin experience. Nothin to do, on strict budget (Hah!) and the jam studio was booked till 10. Urh. I'm currently makin a homepage fer my company. I dunno if this is the right thing to do coz my everyday life might get even busier if my boss find out bout his company's website and likes it. So why the hell did I do it? Dunno. Just testin. The layout is still pretty rough, I have some idea on the would-be layout (which is nice in my head, maybe nicer if done or worst) but I think it'll probably take some time to finish it. Not gonna rush on that coz basically, nobody asked me to do it. Yeah. Sendiri cari pasal. :).

Later.

Opps.. Fergot to put topic here..

No jam today. It's been a looooooooooooooong time since the band's last jam session. Looks like I have to settle with playin more games. Ah, lackin in social life does bore the heck out of me.

Fahmi's Tama Iron Cobra twin pedal will arrive next week. Yeoww!

My kitten died.

My kitten, bebek got hit by a car this same mornin and died. Another of my fav kitten died of unnatural cause. Few month before that, my 3 out of 4 kittens got poisoned to death by an immoral neighbor. What kinda sick person would poison cats or kittens? If you don't like cats, just shoo em away. Surely some say "owner should keep their cats out of trouble" but think bout it damnit! It's CATS! You can't control cats! They're not like dogs which is tend to please their owner in everythin they do. Cats are survivalist and curious, they tend to do things that'll make em survive 1st and explore places / things. Puttin cats in cages is not good too. They need the freedom of movement.

I'm sad right now. Heck who ain't. To watch em grow, givin them cute names, gettin used to see them at home, enjoy seein them when they're in their play mood but you can't see them long enough to really enjoy it all. Sure, new kittens will be born, but every one of them are special in a way. They have their own personality, cuteness, mood and that what makes every one of them special.

Now, there's only 1 kitten left from the same age as bebek. I sure hope he can survive livin around irresponsible human bein which litters throughout this planet earth. I'm gonna miss bebek, and now my room will be the same borin room yet again.

Mozilla vs Opera

I've installed Mozilla Firefox on my laptop and I guess it's the end of service fer my old Opera 7.5. Blogger features are perfectly functional usin Mozilla than Opera so the choice have been made. Now I'm gonna make sure my homepage is compatible with Mozilla coz my reference browser all this long is Opera.

Today is a hot day, literary speakin. I got roasted.. again. *me pour some salt on the left arm and bite..* hmm.. taste quite good.

It's a 50/50 chance that my Japanese friend can come here. She said that she still haven't got any ticket yet and she's still tryin. Hmm. I hope she gets it.

erh.. I'm hungry.

I'm dull when it comes to topic...

Ack. I had a bad dream last night. My goatie got shaved clean in my dream. Yeow! I wonder what it mean.

I'm startin to think that I'm ready fer the commitment of buyin my own car. Hah!. Definitely cheap cars. Like 1985 BMW 320i which is basically cheap (bout below RM13K) and does look good (if the modification is right). My boss used to ask me if I'm interested in buyin my own car a few times before but I think I was not ready fer that yet. Strangely when I'm thinkin of buyin one, he didn't bother askin me bout it.. Sheesh. There's a Hyundai Elantra on sale fer a very special price at my friend's place. She (the car, me too dunno why most things are related to 'she' rather than 'he') is very attractive and have been quite modified by the previous owner. So, is it a go? or a no go? I dunno, I'm still unpredictable.

When I think bout my Japanese friend upcomin visit, I remembered somethin. Ramadhan! Lucky me she wanna come before the fastin month starts. If she visit in the middle of Ramadhan, then I'm sure things are a bit difficult. Fer both of us. *me imagine her sips her soda, walkin on BB Walk and me tries not to look.... *gulp*

My friend is comin fer a visit!

Nothin new today, my sister has repaired her car's front glass so now she can drive again. My kid sister is comin back on next tuesday early in the mornin fer her semester break. Surely I'll be waitin fer her coz I'm fer sure can sleep thinkin bout my kid sister waitin there, at the bus terminal early in the mornin with not so many people around. No way. I'll wait fer her. And you know, maniacs nowadays.

My email-pal from Japan are plannin to have a few days stay here in Malaysia and visit me. Ack. I'm such a lousy tourist guide so I hope her stay won't be a nightmare. She said she wanted to have a taste of durian at my grandpa's farm. I sure hope the durian season there has not yet ended but if it is, there should be nothin wrong with buyin from local fruit store aye? Seriously, I'm quite nervous when I think bout it. I really hope she didn't expect too much on her upcomin trip here because like I've said, I'm a lousy tourist guide. She'll be comin next month. ACK! Not enough time to prepare!!! Aaaaaaaaaaa.......!

I've made another blog on FreeBSD & Me. I dunno if I can keep up with all this homepage editin/updatin, this blog, FreeBSD blog, my band, Enjoyin/learnin FreeBSD, playin Worms 3D (Ahah!), real life, work etc etc which have tolled much of my free time lately. Ah, I guess just go with the flow and do it slow and easy. And logically, nobody asked me to do all this things and I'm the one who made it so... FACE THE CONSEQUENCES!! (thunder strikes... again).

*Put any topic you want*

*sigh*. No jammin today fer me. But lucky me I can keep meself busy with Worms 3D. I've been killin fellow worms-of-war since I woke up. Wow. No social life. Typical enough.

Ngeh. The At The Gates - Slaughter of The Soul CD is gone. I guess my friend sold it already. I won't bother searchin fer it on local music store coz fer sure they don't know bout it and say "Oh, that band. Sorry it's sold out." Yeah, sure. At first I thought I wanna go out mall-walkin searchin fer a good Discman Belt Pack / Waist Pouch which can hold 6 CDs. But heck I was too busy playin Worms 3D I fergot all bout it. Tomorrow I hope.

August is here again. The band has agreed to start practisin our new songs. I hope our demo can be released before the end of this year. Fahmi have 2 songs, Nuar and Bobby both have 1 song each. Me? I'm still out of ideas. Hopefully it's not fer long.

Ah, better resume my Worms 3D mission. Again? Yeah, you know what they say.. "Resistant is futile."