Bah! The earliest appointment is at 3.00pm. Hey, I've been thinkin bout somethin just now. It's about my homepage. Wow, it's nearly 5 years since I published that webby-o-mine. Unfortunately, the old website design I made is lost in a bad XP error I stumbled recently which have left me with no choice but to reformat and cleanly install a new XP. Damn. I don't know if I have another copy of the old design. Even my new design is lost! Oww I nearly fergot I wrote a half page of new rants and I'm sure I didn't burn it into CD. Damn!
Anyway, thinkin about this few years my website has been around the net and stayed in a free home at Graffiti.Net, words can't do justice on how excellent my web hostin is. I tried a few and since my personal preference is a host without any popup etc, Graffiti.Net got my attention. Now I don't care much bout popups and still Graffiti.Net have none. Excellent. Yeah this sounds more and more like a lame advertisement I know. But heck, my site is still up fer more than 5 years and countin! Are yours? :P.
Okay here's the news. There's a new Metaterus forum online. The old one will have a limited period of life left until it'll be totally disbanded. You'll have to register a new account fer the new forum though. No, you still don't have to be a 'trve'/'tr00' or whatever lame bullshit you underage kiddies wants to call yourself to join the forum. But keep in mind that this is a metal forum. You can talk bout your fav hiphop singer on the other gazillion forum out there.
I heard there's a rumour that TV3 is goin to organise a metal gig soon? Later.
Friday, December 30, 2005
Thursday, December 29, 2005
Where's my shirt?, get my car back & 2006 emotions.
Oh my! This is makin me crazy. I think I lost the T-shirt. It's THE Gegaran Metal 2005 T-shirt! Ahhhhh! I knew somethin is missin. But I don't know where I've lost it. My sister has moved to Melaka now and I have this feelin that the tee was in the old house. I hope she brought it with her to Melaka because that t-shirt is a very valuable thing to me. Sheesh. I really wish I accidently left it at the old house while I was movin my things to this apartment.
I'm currently workin my arse's off this few months. If I can achieve my personal target, I'll bail my car out from the horrible finance's garage in less than a month startin from next January. I really miss my car. I have to hold my urge to buy new clothes, computer parts, new boot, mp3 player and so on, so that I can get my car back. Anyway, I have to pay about RM3,000 to get the darn 4 wheel back. Yeow. I guess the towin distance from my place to the garage is expensive. Yeah great. Fucken waste of money. If I didn't have to pay the towin expenses, I probably have to pay about less than 2K. Shitty.
Now I'm coverin about 3 installer's area which is, whoa, big. I needed the cold cash so I have to cope with it. It's very tirin mind you. Puchong + Meru/Sementa + Bukit Kemuning. Sometime the appointments was so scrambled I have to rush between those places which is far. Ah, anythin to get my car back. Hope the finance won't sell my car off to somebody before I get the chance to bail it.
The work has slowly eatin my band's life. I missed my practice session last week because I have this 1 customer who just have no patient to wait fer another 2 days. Sheesh. And guess what? When I was there he said the line got no dial tone since early in the mornin. ARGHH! I purposedly waited the whole night while Fractured had to practice without me so that I could go early in the mornin to entertain the customer just to know that the line had a problem? Where's my railgun? Shitty.
Fahmi has been buggin me about 3 new songs which I still haven't had the chance to practice. Hey my Ibanez TR Series is with me now hehe. But there's only 1 string left, the 1 I bought to replaced the snapped string before. Read my previous blog and you'll know (I was waitin to write somethin like this..). Oh yeah while you're at it, why don't you read my blog from the beginnin. Ok ok back to the story. I still have 3 more new songs left to practice and then we can start our recordin session. Yay! I want the full-length album to be out in the early quarter of 2006. I'll write bout our upcomin recordin when the time comes.
Speakin of 2006. Wow. I'll be 28 soon. A few blinks of an eye and, wallah! I'll be 28. Some say it's the age fer men to find his companion or soulmate or whatever in life. How bout me? Maybe, or maybe not. I don't know. Time will tell. The times like this, when the increment of the year is near, is quite sentimental to me. It's the time when my mind wander back to the old days. My childhood, my young teenage life (wah after this I'm no more eligible fer the "teen" title huh? Dagnammit!) and so on. We all gone through so much huh? Yessirree. This is why bein a human is great. We have memories. We can virtually relive our past within our mind. My thought goes to those who left me, my lovely mother (I'm still a bit emotional when I think about her, love you mom...), my grandparents (atuk, uwan. Hey my Raya's always a blast when they're around. Ah, there's dust in my eyes..) who made my childhood's life great, my uncles and aunties, I really miss you all. Sorry fer the emotions. I know, I have a soft heart inside. Listenin to The Police - Englishman In New York is the suitable sound my mood wants to hear..
Keep your eyes open few birthday announcement shamelessly written by me, in not-so-distant future. Oh yeah Isman, yours will be 1st, I know. Love and appreciate those who you have and remember those who left. Later.
I'm currently workin my arse's off this few months. If I can achieve my personal target, I'll bail my car out from the horrible finance's garage in less than a month startin from next January. I really miss my car. I have to hold my urge to buy new clothes, computer parts, new boot, mp3 player and so on, so that I can get my car back. Anyway, I have to pay about RM3,000 to get the darn 4 wheel back. Yeow. I guess the towin distance from my place to the garage is expensive. Yeah great. Fucken waste of money. If I didn't have to pay the towin expenses, I probably have to pay about less than 2K. Shitty.
Now I'm coverin about 3 installer's area which is, whoa, big. I needed the cold cash so I have to cope with it. It's very tirin mind you. Puchong + Meru/Sementa + Bukit Kemuning. Sometime the appointments was so scrambled I have to rush between those places which is far. Ah, anythin to get my car back. Hope the finance won't sell my car off to somebody before I get the chance to bail it.
The work has slowly eatin my band's life. I missed my practice session last week because I have this 1 customer who just have no patient to wait fer another 2 days. Sheesh. And guess what? When I was there he said the line got no dial tone since early in the mornin. ARGHH! I purposedly waited the whole night while Fractured had to practice without me so that I could go early in the mornin to entertain the customer just to know that the line had a problem? Where's my railgun? Shitty.
Fahmi has been buggin me about 3 new songs which I still haven't had the chance to practice. Hey my Ibanez TR Series is with me now hehe. But there's only 1 string left, the 1 I bought to replaced the snapped string before. Read my previous blog and you'll know (I was waitin to write somethin like this..). Oh yeah while you're at it, why don't you read my blog from the beginnin. Ok ok back to the story. I still have 3 more new songs left to practice and then we can start our recordin session. Yay! I want the full-length album to be out in the early quarter of 2006. I'll write bout our upcomin recordin when the time comes.
Speakin of 2006. Wow. I'll be 28 soon. A few blinks of an eye and, wallah! I'll be 28. Some say it's the age fer men to find his companion or soulmate or whatever in life. How bout me? Maybe, or maybe not. I don't know. Time will tell. The times like this, when the increment of the year is near, is quite sentimental to me. It's the time when my mind wander back to the old days. My childhood, my young teenage life (wah after this I'm no more eligible fer the "teen" title huh? Dagnammit!) and so on. We all gone through so much huh? Yessirree. This is why bein a human is great. We have memories. We can virtually relive our past within our mind. My thought goes to those who left me, my lovely mother (I'm still a bit emotional when I think about her, love you mom...), my grandparents (atuk, uwan. Hey my Raya's always a blast when they're around. Ah, there's dust in my eyes..) who made my childhood's life great, my uncles and aunties, I really miss you all. Sorry fer the emotions. I know, I have a soft heart inside. Listenin to The Police - Englishman In New York is the suitable sound my mood wants to hear..
Keep your eyes open few birthday announcement shamelessly written by me, in not-so-distant future. Oh yeah Isman, yours will be 1st, I know. Love and appreciate those who you have and remember those who left. Later.
Friday, December 16, 2005
And then a happy story. *Yeah I can change my mood quickly ;)*
As said by Fahmi, the venue fer our upcomin gig is Indonesia! Woohoo! From what I heard, Indonesian metal crowd are one of the best in Asia. This is somethin Fractured cannot simply miss. I'll update you guys on this later.
Textual bash on the black metal issue. Yeah I'm moody.
*sigh*. I wanted to refrain meself from makin any comment whatsoever. But I just can't. The issue keep pushin my limit more and more everyday. It's the hot-from-the-oven (Again? Sheesh, it's more like a reheat of yesterday's instant noodle) issue of Black Metal. I actually don't want to make a comment out of this (I will tell why later) but then I personally think that I should voice out my stand. Biased or not.
First of all. Let me clear some things up front. I'm not a black metaller nor I'm a fan of such genre. Black metal is just not my type of soup. Sorry BM fans, I like what I like and BM is just not my taste. Your preferences is yours and I respect that. Hey I know *many* of you guys is just the fan of the music and nothin more. But then, not all people have the advantage of usin self-rational thinkin when it comes to issue like this. And now this issue is gettin hotter as the day goes by.
I have a mixed feelin fer the BM scene here. Let's be honest, most of the people I know who's into BM is because, as dumb as it sounds; BM is anti-Christian. Well, as far as I know, BM is not picky when it comes to religion bashin and sort. So practically, it's dumb to say that you're a BM and then bablin about how muslim you are at the same time. It's (sadly) plain ridiculous. That's not the only reason why I've never like any BM bands whatsoever. I can start sayin somethin like how too physolopical BM scene is (not to mention the "We're trve black metaller" kinda BS) and honestly, the music just doesn't suit my taste like I've stated before. This is strictly MY opinion so whatever you want to say to me, my stand will always be the same. Hey it's not you are evil or somethin (although ironically, fer you trve BM fans, evil is a good thing) and I totally respect your choice of music. Anyway, no worries because I got my flamesuit on.
"So why bother with the issue" you might ask. Good question. To be honest, if the issue is strictly within the BM community, I won't waste my time writin somethin least thinkin bout it. But then the current situation shows that it's not. The other metal community in general is also somewhat unwillingly dragged into the mess that's not totally ours to start with.
Take an example of a recent incident. A few friends of mine who's not a BM-er was busted because they're in a metal gig fer supportin their friend's band who happened to be in a gig that have maybe 1 or 2 BM band. Now tell me that is not suck at all. They have to sleep in lockup fer a few days and eat God knows what type of food suit fer an arm-robber. And then after that a few of the trve BM-er starts a rethoric like "we must let the masses know the truth that we're not evil". I agree that the masses don't have the sufficient knowledge about the underground music scene but then it's not totally their fault. Come on and take look at yourself! Most of you have personality problems. Your stand s is inconsistent (read my opinion above) and oh please don't even let me start with those corpse-paint stuff.
Your claims that BM is harmless make no sense. To me, disrespect fer other religion is just plain racist. Most of you hate Jesus and yet the same BM ideology you praise makes mockery out of your own God. Then you brag about how faithfull you are in your religion. I can't think of another suitable word but 'dumb'. Hey, like I've said before, your taste in music is yours. But please don't do dumb shit to make yourself look extreme or cool or somethin without thinkin about the consequences. Oh and try startin to be consistent in your stand. There's more choices of better metal genres out there, many are free of dumb agenda. And 1 more thing, you don't nescessarily need to do/say stupid things even if you listen to lousy music.
Enough with BM-er flamin. Now to the media. The more I read about those "thorough research" about the BM movement, the more my stomach ache. It'll be just a few more paragraph of those bull nonsense till I vomit my stomach out. I know your publication desperately in need of high rating/share or whatever, but I didn't expect the writings to be so, well, low.
Until now neither me or my friends have encountered those "JIT" group. Never. Are they fer real? I don't know. I have doubts and all the "confessions/investigations" the media are doin just won't wipe my doubts away. I do think that some people will do crazy stuff like ritual or somethin like that but I don't think metal has anythin to do with it. Remember Ayah Pin? I doubt he ever listen to any sort of even rock music but he topped satan himself by claimin to have create many current religion. It's the same as sayin he's God Himself!! (if I'm not mistaken, he actually said that..).
Now everybody knows that the media is biased when it comes to almost anythin. Tabloids are the worst. And it's sad to see that some publication who used to be credible and informative to read now opted fer the latter. Less fact, more probabilities. Remember the "naked chinese prisoner" case? You should. It's still fresh. Can you see what the whole "assume first, investigate later" media (and some of the parliament seater) mentality has done to the image of our country? That sort of mentality stinks like a dead rat in this BM issue too. They'll shamelessly assume everythin they can think of and will try to make it a fact by feedin it to us day by day. Most of the accusation is nonsense and all is ridiculous. Things like "BM-er will wear black and drink goat's blood". I mean, come on, this is Malaysia! Not Sweden! I doubt there's any local band who drank any goat blood ever! Gimmick is another thing. Hey kids wants to have a little bit of fun too ya know. I saw many black Cypress Hill t-shirts, mostly black color and they have skull printed up front. So, is Cypress Hill a trve BM-er? Thanks to the irrelevantly biased media those found wearin one will surely have a nice spot at the nearest lockup but just fer information, Cypress Hill is some sort of rap band! Do a REAL research damnit!
Yeah sure BM is bad but please make sure you educate people on the differences of BM to the other *insert-your-fav*-metals. Not all metal like satan. There's many more metal who are more to write about the dumbness of war and such to even bother about the whole satan thingy. Why wearin black t-shirt is such an issue anyway? I wear white, blue, red and yeah my favorite color is black but that doesn't mean I'm worshippin lucifer in my free time! At least we're wearin somethin decently. Take a look at the hiphop scene locally. With girls wearin skimpy dresses fer local hiphop/rap/whatevershitthereis video which mostly promotes a too-social lifestyle. Pfft. But media doll such things because that sort of lifestyle is much more accepted in the masses. They don't want to upset their main consumers. Just pathetic. Don't let me start with the poppy-ballard-rock scene locally. The eardrums-bleedin songs of don't-leave-me-for-him-or-I'll-cry and gazillions of other mind numbin triangle-love/near-to-lovemakin/self-whinin bands/songs that's almost like they have rented a frequent special spot in the local newspaper/magazine. What are we goin to do about that? Oh no there's many other but I'm too tired to think.
One of the media used this issue before and the sale skyrocketed. Don't you think you owe a "thanks" to the BM community (specially) because they made it possible fer you to finally get a fat paycheck (or even a big bonus). Now the readers are more mature as the internet brings new (even true) meanin of "research" fer them. Anyway, fer the media, I hope this time you guys can buy your dream *insert-the-stuff-you-want-to-buy* when this issue is hot again. Ouch, my bad, this issue is already hot.
Off Topic but relevant: I was thinkin bout gettin a cool FreeBSD black T or a sweatshirt but because of this current heat on BM issue, I don't want people to say I worship a demon (daemon is good, demon is bad) and spendin the night in detention. *sigh*. So much fer a 3rd world mindset in a "developin" country.
First of all. Let me clear some things up front. I'm not a black metaller nor I'm a fan of such genre. Black metal is just not my type of soup. Sorry BM fans, I like what I like and BM is just not my taste. Your preferences is yours and I respect that. Hey I know *many* of you guys is just the fan of the music and nothin more. But then, not all people have the advantage of usin self-rational thinkin when it comes to issue like this. And now this issue is gettin hotter as the day goes by.
I have a mixed feelin fer the BM scene here. Let's be honest, most of the people I know who's into BM is because, as dumb as it sounds; BM is anti-Christian. Well, as far as I know, BM is not picky when it comes to religion bashin and sort. So practically, it's dumb to say that you're a BM and then bablin about how muslim you are at the same time. It's (sadly) plain ridiculous. That's not the only reason why I've never like any BM bands whatsoever. I can start sayin somethin like how too physolopical BM scene is (not to mention the "We're trve black metaller" kinda BS) and honestly, the music just doesn't suit my taste like I've stated before. This is strictly MY opinion so whatever you want to say to me, my stand will always be the same. Hey it's not you are evil or somethin (although ironically, fer you trve BM fans, evil is a good thing) and I totally respect your choice of music. Anyway, no worries because I got my flamesuit on.
"So why bother with the issue" you might ask. Good question. To be honest, if the issue is strictly within the BM community, I won't waste my time writin somethin least thinkin bout it. But then the current situation shows that it's not. The other metal community in general is also somewhat unwillingly dragged into the mess that's not totally ours to start with.
Take an example of a recent incident. A few friends of mine who's not a BM-er was busted because they're in a metal gig fer supportin their friend's band who happened to be in a gig that have maybe 1 or 2 BM band. Now tell me that is not suck at all. They have to sleep in lockup fer a few days and eat God knows what type of food suit fer an arm-robber. And then after that a few of the trve BM-er starts a rethoric like "we must let the masses know the truth that we're not evil". I agree that the masses don't have the sufficient knowledge about the underground music scene but then it's not totally their fault. Come on and take look at yourself! Most of you have personality problems. Your stand s is inconsistent (read my opinion above) and oh please don't even let me start with those corpse-paint stuff.
Your claims that BM is harmless make no sense. To me, disrespect fer other religion is just plain racist. Most of you hate Jesus and yet the same BM ideology you praise makes mockery out of your own God. Then you brag about how faithfull you are in your religion. I can't think of another suitable word but 'dumb'. Hey, like I've said before, your taste in music is yours. But please don't do dumb shit to make yourself look extreme or cool or somethin without thinkin about the consequences. Oh and try startin to be consistent in your stand. There's more choices of better metal genres out there, many are free of dumb agenda. And 1 more thing, you don't nescessarily need to do/say stupid things even if you listen to lousy music.
Enough with BM-er flamin. Now to the media. The more I read about those "thorough research" about the BM movement, the more my stomach ache. It'll be just a few more paragraph of those bull nonsense till I vomit my stomach out. I know your publication desperately in need of high rating/share or whatever, but I didn't expect the writings to be so, well, low.
Until now neither me or my friends have encountered those "JIT" group. Never. Are they fer real? I don't know. I have doubts and all the "confessions/investigations" the media are doin just won't wipe my doubts away. I do think that some people will do crazy stuff like ritual or somethin like that but I don't think metal has anythin to do with it. Remember Ayah Pin? I doubt he ever listen to any sort of even rock music but he topped satan himself by claimin to have create many current religion. It's the same as sayin he's God Himself!! (if I'm not mistaken, he actually said that..).
Now everybody knows that the media is biased when it comes to almost anythin. Tabloids are the worst. And it's sad to see that some publication who used to be credible and informative to read now opted fer the latter. Less fact, more probabilities. Remember the "naked chinese prisoner" case? You should. It's still fresh. Can you see what the whole "assume first, investigate later" media (and some of the parliament seater) mentality has done to the image of our country? That sort of mentality stinks like a dead rat in this BM issue too. They'll shamelessly assume everythin they can think of and will try to make it a fact by feedin it to us day by day. Most of the accusation is nonsense and all is ridiculous. Things like "BM-er will wear black and drink goat's blood". I mean, come on, this is Malaysia! Not Sweden! I doubt there's any local band who drank any goat blood ever! Gimmick is another thing. Hey kids wants to have a little bit of fun too ya know. I saw many black Cypress Hill t-shirts, mostly black color and they have skull printed up front. So, is Cypress Hill a trve BM-er? Thanks to the irrelevantly biased media those found wearin one will surely have a nice spot at the nearest lockup but just fer information, Cypress Hill is some sort of rap band! Do a REAL research damnit!
Yeah sure BM is bad but please make sure you educate people on the differences of BM to the other *insert-your-fav*-metals. Not all metal like satan. There's many more metal who are more to write about the dumbness of war and such to even bother about the whole satan thingy. Why wearin black t-shirt is such an issue anyway? I wear white, blue, red and yeah my favorite color is black but that doesn't mean I'm worshippin lucifer in my free time! At least we're wearin somethin decently. Take a look at the hiphop scene locally. With girls wearin skimpy dresses fer local hiphop/rap/whatevershitthereis video which mostly promotes a too-social lifestyle. Pfft. But media doll such things because that sort of lifestyle is much more accepted in the masses. They don't want to upset their main consumers. Just pathetic. Don't let me start with the poppy-ballard-rock scene locally. The eardrums-bleedin songs of don't-leave-me-for-him-or-I'll-cry and gazillions of other mind numbin triangle-love/near-to-lovemakin/self-whinin bands/songs that's almost like they have rented a frequent special spot in the local newspaper/magazine. What are we goin to do about that? Oh no there's many other but I'm too tired to think.
One of the media used this issue before and the sale skyrocketed. Don't you think you owe a "thanks" to the BM community (specially) because they made it possible fer you to finally get a fat paycheck (or even a big bonus). Now the readers are more mature as the internet brings new (even true) meanin of "research" fer them. Anyway, fer the media, I hope this time you guys can buy your dream *insert-the-stuff-you-want-to-buy* when this issue is hot again. Ouch, my bad, this issue is already hot.
Off Topic but relevant: I was thinkin bout gettin a cool FreeBSD black T or a sweatshirt but because of this current heat on BM issue, I don't want people to say I worship a demon (daemon is good, demon is bad) and spendin the night in detention. *sigh*. So much fer a 3rd world mindset in a "developin" country.
Friday, December 09, 2005
New bike!, Fractured show oversea? & metalheads busted.
Haha. I bought a bike. Now it's easier to go places. No more dependin on Bobby to take me places now. Yeahhh. It's a 4-stroke bike and it's a brand new. Still shiny but I dunno fer how long. Heh. Livin in an apartment is hard when it comes to washin own transport etc. Ah well. I'm still learnin my way round here. I'm gettin the hang of this place though. But my work area is includin Meru/Kapar and the place is still unknown to me. No I went there a few times but with Bobby. To go there by meself is another thing. Soon baby, soon.
I'm on a flu now. Got it yesterday so I didn't go to work today. *sigh*. I missed a few appointments. I'm on medication so I hope tomorrow I'll be fine. Got somethin important to do tomorrow.
Fahmi called and spewed a good news. If it's true. Next year Fractured will probably be playin oversea. We are confirmed as one of the band listed but the venue is still in discussion. Probably Thailand or Indonesia. Woohoo! I'll update you guys on this matter frequently.
Last week nearly a hundred of gig goer, bandmembers etc got busted in a metal gigs. Got my friends in the lockup too but when I was in Seremban, it's already Sunday and we can't bail em out. So it's certain that there will be no metal gigs this year. *sigh*. I'm not into black metal but why does I have to suffer because of this? WHY!! Later.
I'm on a flu now. Got it yesterday so I didn't go to work today. *sigh*. I missed a few appointments. I'm on medication so I hope tomorrow I'll be fine. Got somethin important to do tomorrow.
Fahmi called and spewed a good news. If it's true. Next year Fractured will probably be playin oversea. We are confirmed as one of the band listed but the venue is still in discussion. Probably Thailand or Indonesia. Woohoo! I'll update you guys on this matter frequently.
Last week nearly a hundred of gig goer, bandmembers etc got busted in a metal gigs. Got my friends in the lockup too but when I was in Seremban, it's already Sunday and we can't bail em out. So it's certain that there will be no metal gigs this year. *sigh*. I'm not into black metal but why does I have to suffer because of this? WHY!! Later.
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