Scotland Report.........Coming Soon!

So, it's been 2 weeks since i've left Malaysia for Dundee, Scotland. How do I feel? quite nonchalant about it actually. I've made some friends at the University, got 4 flatmates from China, and been colder than i've ever been in the past 4 years. The first few weeks were tiring, they involved me completing forms at the University, running around trying to find a flat and eating lots and lots of bacon. It's almost as if there are magic bacon factories running around. Anyway, i'm going to be doing a major update to this blog soon, keep watch of it. There will be pictures, stories and videos, yes, videos. They are definitely not the kind your mother wouldn't approve of, unless i upload the wrong video file from my collection.

So, to keep you entertained, here's a picture of the scottish highlands...


.....at night

Exapocalypse Now

Well, exam are here within a week, i have 0 time to Blog. I'm gonna put this thing on hiatus till the end of june. Since practically no one reads this, i doubt anyone will notice.

Exams Coming Up

It's hard to believe that I have been at college for more than an entire year. Soon it'll be 1 and a half years that i've been in Help Institute. June exams coming up soon, I keep telling myslef to study, but I always feel that i'm lacking somewhere. Distractions seem abound and my lack of attention span isn't helping matters. Sometimes I just feel that i'm not living up to the expectations of my parents or peers, as if i'm not working hard enough, not aspiring to be all I can be. I sometimes think that i'm subconciously holding back, that I don't want to work towards my goals. After all, the higher one climbs, the farther they fall should they slip or have someone push the ladder down.

I really don't know. All this pressure of the exams are really weighing down on my shoulders heavily. I'll be real glad once it's over and I can finally get back to my usual routine of sleep and non-stop guitar play. I probrably won't be updating this place much due to laziness and my never-ending pile of notes.


And yeah, I am feeling really depressed today....

Sick

Well, i've been sick for the past two days. God knows how it happened. I think it was the fumes i inhaled when in the chemistry lab on friday.

Throughout most of my life i've always had a hard time catching any sort of bug. Suddenly when i least want it, the bug hits. Luckily it seems to be subsiding now and with the exception of having tons of phlegm in my throat, i'm back to normal.

Haven't really had much to write about the past few days. Couple that with the fact that i'm lazy busy, and you get a blog which has not been updated. Though i'm trying to commit myself to updating at least once every two days, i probrably won't since i am in fact very lazy busy. This keeps in line with the title of this blog "A randomly updated column of thoughts and opinions".

One thing that has been bugging(no pun intended) me for the past few days is the rioting and protesting by the Chinese over a Japanese textbook that's used by a small percentage of the population of that small island nation. I say it's time we all leave the japanese alone and quit bringing its painful past into the picture. Sure, they beat the stuffing out of China once and took over a part of Asia. Sure, they tortured and demeaned the people who refused to co-operate with them. This all happened, it has been done and the Japanese have been under constant scrutiny since then. I'm not saying what they did was right, all i'm saying is that it's time to move on and let a new slate be put on top of the old, bloody and dirty one. If say Japan was to claim Chinese soil as their own, that would warrant mass protesting, but to have hundreds of people out in the streets chanting over embellishment of history textbooks?

Pratically every history text book has been embellished in either minor or major ways, yet you don't see citizens marching past your house protesting any other embellishment. I'm going to end this post/rant with a famous quote:

"History is written by the victors."

- Winston Churchill (British orator, author and prime minister during World War II. 1874-1965)

Band

First and foremost:

"I'd like to thank Tmnet for completely ruining my internet experience. Their total inability to maintain a stable internet connection has probrably reduced multiple n00bs to tears over the course of these few days." The disruption to the internet has been described by Tmnet as 'slight', despite the fact that i would have had faster connection speeds on a 22.8k modem.(not that it would help since the main internet line was damaged). Sometimes I think the only reason Tmnet is the most widely used broadband service, is because the other isp's are much less competent.(It's like picking the lesser of the two evils, or rather in this case, the less moronic). Anyway, the problem has been somewhat resolved, though the speed seems a bit slower than usual.

On to my intended topic.

I mentioned my band on my previous post, so i thought i'd write something about them.
The members are

Me - Guitar
ShoeW - Guitar(band leader)
Andrew - Bass
Andre - Guitar
Jian Aun - Drums

We're called "Vacancy for Talent", whatever the reason for this name, i've completely forgotten. We mostly play covers of Iron Maiden, Guns N Roses and A couple other rock and metal bands. We had auditioned for the Taylors battle of the bands last year but only managed to get to 28th out of 41 bands, which wasn't so bad for our first ever audition. After that, due to exams and bad timing, we didn't make any more attempts at auditions or performances. Currently, we're under indefinite hiatus since, ShoeW is currently in australia, furthering his studies.

Hopefully he'll upload a few of our band recordings on his site when it's done.

CSI ; New York First Impressions

Just saw the first episode of CSI: NY. That was a pretty interesting episode, not a bad job by the script writers. The atmosphere and feel of the show is somewhat darker compared to the original CSI(i never kept up with CSI: Miami, i can't seem to stand it). Anyway, this was just the first episode, but I can't wait to see how the series progresses.

Now, progress of this site. I intend to change a few things in the template, add some things here, some things there. Expect nothing major at the moment, I have to figure out where I can steal find some sample html source code for a few things. I intend to add some background music to the site, a small quicktime player. It'll offer up some of my bands (partially completed) mp3's and random other mp3's.

Next Post

Heh, it appears that anonymous people can't post comments yet. Apologies around to whomever took offense to what was written here a few hours ago. Now, on with the Blog.

First, some small advertising for a webcomic.

If anybody could make the powerpuff girls somewhat cool, and more appealing to older audiences, this guy has done it. I first stumbled across this comic while i was looking for more Sprite comics and i have honestly been quite hooked on it, so go and have a look.

In the news. The pope has passed. Honestly, without disrespecting the dead, I kind of knew he was going soon. He was 84 after all and had previously been ill multiple times. Let us have a minute of silence for this great man ..................................................................................

ok, enough about that, i didn't set this up to talk about dead people (no disrespect to any). Moving on, it's been a monotonous sunday. I haven't done much except my usual daily ritual of eating and sleeping, and i'm now pretty tired (nobody ask why). Now that i think about it, i don't really have anything to say today. So, that'sthe end of todays entry. You can stop reading now. You're still here? go away, this text is done. Ok, that's all folks, goodbye.

Short update: My friend in Ozzland just pointed my attention to this site. Oddly enough, the concept of eating possum is quite appealing to me.

*i'm thinking of making it a point to myself to update every two days. Do not mail me or flame me for not having any useful content

First Post....wheeeee

Well, I thought it would be about time to jump on this blogging bandwagon and start posting thought provoking essays that are randomly regurgitated from my mind. To start, I think i'm going to introduce myself. So, here goes......


Nothing much to say about me, i'm a student. A science student, currently finishing up my last semster of the London board A-levels at the HELP Institute( I refuse to refer to it as a "University" since it has no qualifications to be classified as one anyway.) in Kuala Lumpur. Other than that, i'm also a musician (a starving, unemployed one). The guitar is my instrument and with electric, it is powered. I used to play in a band, before one of the guitarists upped and left for Australia. Now we're kind of on hiatus until it is possible for us to actually get together and start playing. Other than that, our only other problem is the lack of vocal talent amongst the remaining members.

I have a passion for Metal (to all you wise-a$$es out there, this does not mean that i enjoy cuddling up to an iron girder) and my music is heavilly influenced by bands like Iron Maiden, Pantera, Manowar, Anthrax and so on and so forth. The list isn't endless, but it's quite long. Perhaps if i can, i'll post up my iTunes playlist here in the future.

Besides music, i'm also a "casual gamer". I mostly play computer games with a bunch of friends at cybercafes around Subang and Sri Hartamas. My most played game at the moment would be Warcraft3 due to the fact that i'm hooked on the DotA custom map. Other than that, i also play a couple of first person shooters and Strategy games.

In breif, i'm just a normal guy who's somewhat insane (more on my insanity later) and just wants to enjoy life. I think i'll just end this here since it seems to be getting quite long. Maybe i'll post some more tomorrow, maybe not. You'll never know when to expect a post from me, so check back here once in a while.