Diablo III!!! Woohoo!

After a few years of "no it's a rumour", now Blizzard has Diablo II stuff online. Darn it guys! Seems like I'm lagged a few months bout this news. Anyway, great news. I was hoping fer new Starcraft II to go gold and was not hoping fer any new Diablo stuff soon. But heck this is a great news! Wow! Later.

Silly minor car accident. Argh!

Arghhh! When I least expect it. Darn. I was on the way to office this morning, when I had a minor accident. As I reverse my car, the front bumper hit my uncle's volvo. So, my front bumper got ripped out, and the volvo didn't even move. Lucky me the volvo didn't have any defect or I'll be dead. As fer my Iswara Aeroback, well, I had to forked RM120 fer a new front bumper. Sheesh.

I never expected my uncle to park his car on the place he did because he usually park it at his parking spot. Well I might have been to over confident. That's why I didn't even bother to look at the left side mirror. Silly me. Later.

ARGHHHH!!!!

My kid sister got married!, my aunt died & a bit about me.

Hi everyone. *crickets sound...*. Ok. It's been a long time since I last wrote something in here eh. Much has been happening around me over here. Many are interesting.

20th June, My kid sister got married with her long-time boyfriend. She arranged the ceremony herself with her boyfriend (now husband) helping her out. I felt like it was just yesterday I taught her how to ride bicycle. And now, she's a wife to somebody. I'm really happy fer her. It was a meaningful ceremony indeed. Sheesh I wanted to upload pictures on the net fer quite some time now but didn't have the time to do so. Soon I hope. The "akad nikah" went on smoothly, with my new brother-in-law went on the "lafaz akad" only once. Great. My wedding is coming up next and I have to do the same. Sheesh.

On 21st is the "bersanding" and "kenduri". Don't tell anyone but I got this itsy-bitsy tears on my eyes watching my kid sister in her wedding dress. So beautiful. Got many relatives from my brother-in-law side and from my late mother's side. None from my late father came though. Why? I'll tell u later. One of the thing that made me smile is that my older sister's daugther saved her own money and bought my kid sister a wedding present without even anyone knowing bout it. Wow.

22nd June. The day my father died. It's the same day her sister, my aunt died. She had a stage 4 ovary cancer, got critical on 21st and she died peacefully on 22nd. That's why none from my late father came. Me and my older sister managed to go to her house, but we're too late and she was already buried in Keramat. My older sister was the one who felt losing our aunt the most because they used to be so close. Chatting on the phone every week and such.

How's my preparation fer my own wedding? Aha. There's progress somewhere. Well we bought things fer our "hantaran" and it's almost complete. All is left fer the "hantaran" is cakes, fruits, shower/shampoo thingy set and her bracelet. "Duit hantaran" on the other hand, is another story. It's.. uh.. well I'm saving.

Done HIV blood test yesterday with my fiancee and we're both negative. Alhamdulillah fer that. We had to go to Nilai fer the test as the schedule varies between the district. I'm planning to check fer Talasemia but it'll be later.

Work is ok. I got a part-time job now. The pay is good and I don't have to do it everyday. The only thing I had to cope is that I need to travel places which is quite tiring. Ah well.

As fer my band Fractured, we're still waiting to record the vocal tracks (my part) and do the mixing. Had to put that on hold somehow because of, well, money problems. Heh. Still, no worries, we'll try to finish our new stuff as quick as we can. The guys are kinda quiet this past few weeks. Too long without jamming.

That's it fer now. I'm trying to be frequent in here again but as I'm working 2 jobs now, it'll take some time to do so. Anyway, see ya later!

Here it comes again. Now another year is added into my age. Yeah, happy birthday to me. My kid sister sent me a birthday msg last night, my big sis might be sending a msg today. My fiancee sent me a birthday msg. But we're still having a quarrel.

Sooo... My birthday is not bad at all. I'm 30 now. I think I'm starting to look like I'm 30. Or maybe I wish I'm gonna look 30. Not sure how's the look would be.

I should be going out. But I dunno where. I should be on a date but yeah we're having a bit of a fight. On my birthday. Sheesh. Ego. Later then.

A bit of what I've been up to. Or not.

It's been long aye. Since I last post anything here. Well, after so many things happened, here I am again. I'm using my AMD64 pc now, not exactly according to the spec I wanted but it's working. Still got a few more things to buy before I'm satisfied.

How am I nowadays? I'm ok. Still working in Seremban and I signed up fer a part-time job recently. A 5-days-a-month job and the pay is good. Well, I'm getting married soon ain't I?

Speaking about getting married, how is my preparation so far? It's ok. Been buying some stuff here and there. Planning the 'kenduri' and stuff. Saving money.

I'm nearly done with writing the lyrics fer our new song, Leaving Deads Behind. My vocal track will only be recorded next month. As usual, financial problem. *sigh*. I know we're supposed to get it done this month but then, we have to delay it fer another month. Hopefully next month will be ok. The good part is, I can still finish writing the lyrics. Heh.

Fractured was supposed to play in a gig somewhere in Bangkok last Monday. But because Fahmi didn't get a leave, the offer was turned down. The sad thing was, I only knew this thing on the said monday. Seems like I'm still the last person on earth to know. Drats. I wish I knew the Bangkok gig's detail but I didn't so I can't write any info about it.

We *might* be playing in a Johor gig soon. Maybe "Konsert D'Selatan" but I need to confirm that. As always, maybe I'll be the last to know. Later.

Oh. Before I forget. Happy birthday isman!. Enjoying it.

Fractured recorded 5 songs, EP(?) will be out soon!

Good news, Fractured's recording went smoothly. We recorded 5 songs including 3 new songs. This is the list of songs we managed to record:

Let The World Burns (new song)
Death Zone (new song)
The Bodybag
Leaving Deads Behind (new song)
War of The Lords

We originally wanted to record all 8 songs but because of time and financial constraint, we only get to choose 5. So we left out 3 more songs fer the time being until we're ready to record them. The other 3 songs is:

Slaving Nations (new song)
Life Inside The Hole
Once Stabbed

So, we think that it's better to release this recorded stuff as EP first. And record the other 3 songs then do a full length album. Hopefully we'll do the full length soon as the stuff is quite old now already (excluding Slaving Nations, the newest song).

We went to Bakri Music Workshop fer the recording. Started recording on 8th February fer drums and 9th fer bass and both guitars. It took us 17hours to complete the recording. Wait, what about the vocal? So here come the bad news.

I caught a bit of a flu on 9th, but managed to do the bass track. After that, I was suffering. I slept in the studio most of the time after my session is over. I was supposed to do vocal tracks too but because of my condition at that time, we got no choice but to delay it.

We have to do vocal tracks, then mixing and mastering before we're ready to release this materials. We're hoping that by this March, our EP will be out. Some suggested to hold the stuff and wait fer the other 3 songs to be recorded then release a full length instead. It's still in discussion. Anyway, something will be released soon. Whatever the result, I'll update you guys on it. Do check Fractured's MySpace at:

http://www.myspace.com/fracturedmy

Too bad Fahmi's camcorder is broken or I'll upload the recording session's video fer sure! No fear though, Faiz took lotsa picture of our recording session and it'll be uploaded soon when I got it. Another info, we might be playing in a gig somewhere on 24th this month. I don't have much info yet (nothing to be surprised bout) but I'll keep you guys posted about it.

My kid sister dirisik & Fractured's recording.

Ah. It's a long holiday. Well that's not the important part. Got a few important events this holiday.

Tomorrow, the family of my kid sister's boyfriend will come for 'merisik'. It's an event before engagement. Which the man's family will ask about the status of the woman. Eg: Do she have a boyfriend, is she engaged with someone else etc. And this event is very important to me too because I've taken the 'wali' status from my father as I'm the oldest male in the family now.

A mixed feeling fer sure. I'm very happy fer my kid sister. I wish her all the best in the upcoming life. At the same time, I do feel that time does fly fast. It's like yesterday me and her was playing, enjoying our time as kids together. It's like she grown up too fast. Hmm. Somehow, it feels like it's too soon fer me to let someone else take care of her. I wish I was a better brother. But like I've said, I'm very happy fer her.

I known her boyfriend fer quite some time now. In fact I known that guy the 1st time she was serious with him. As long as he can take great care of my angel, I couldn't say no. They're planning to get married this June. So it's way sooner than my own wedding.

So, tomorrow I have to be at my Mak Ngah's (auntie) house because the event will take place there around 11am. To tell you the truth, I'm a bit nervous when I think about it.

Another important event. Fractured will go to studio and do recording fer our new album. We'll be going to Bakri's studio, as I heard and we are expecting 2 days to get it done. Maybe more. I'm not sure bout mixing and stuff though, we're not a rich band anyway. Maybe we can just do a recording and later on, when we get enough money, we'll do mixing and mastering somewhere.

I haven't finish up lyrics fer 3 songs though. Bad me. I might get some ideas later on. Or I might do vocal recording fer those 3 songs after the lyrics is written. We have 8 songs altogether, including all 4 songs from our Archgates of Insanity demo. I still didn't write any addition to the old "Life Inside The Hole" lyrics. Hehe. Yeah well I'm lazy I admit.

The skin on my fingers are cracking. I got allergies to some soap / detergent. I done so many washing everyday using different type of soap I don't have a clue which has done this. It's been nearly 2 weeks and today I went to the clinic and the doctor gave me a cream. This state is annoying because it hurts everytime I'm playing bass. Yeah the fingers on my left hand suffers the most. I should have gone to the clinic sooner but I'm sort of busy this past few weeks.

Can't wait fer the recording session. Fahmi might bring his camcorder so maybe I'll post some footage or something. My TR's strings is in bad shape right now, so I need to replace it all as I'm trying to use it fer the recording. Not all guitar are suitable fer recording so I hope mine will be fine.

I'll blog any updates later.