That good old middle finger

My friend asked me to take off my middle finger pic on my messenger today. I said no I like it that way because it represents me now!

Yeah some people think it's really bizarre to put some shit like that online.

But hell do I really care?

In this new year season, I just wanna show that middle finger to the world I'm living in.

I just wanna say "fuck you" to all the hypocrites, the whole bullshit music education system, the assholes, the politicians, and all the people who made me feel like this.

Fuck you, and fuck all of you!

Thank you very much.

New Year Resolution

What do I need for New Year?

Let's see...

I need to stop liking any girl.

That's it.

Simple!!

Yeah I will try to achieve that because it's pure bullshit to do something as non-productive as that!!!

Not that any of them would like you back you know? So what for.

BOOM!!!!!! BOOM!!!!!!!! BANG!!!!!!!! BOMB!!!!!!!!

New Year's Eve, always so noisy after the reunion dinner.

However big the government's warnings are, it still doesn't stop our passion for festivities!

So here we go again! Them firecrackers exploding EVERYWHERE in the neighbourhood and nobody gives a shit about the government warning!

Then I hear bangs above my roof, shit flyin' overhead and bursts all the time.

Some really really loud booms would sound occasionally, which sounds like gun fight...

Man, if I didn't come home, I wouldn't hear all these!!

But then, I guess it's gonna be hard to sleep tonight...

Happy new year!

So that was it huh...

So that was it...

All the best to you.

--- Over and out ---

A Happy Gathering

Last night was Banana's wedding, and I played for the cocktail party before the dinner, together with Yew Hann, Angela and Phooi Wooi.

Pretty cool party that was, I got to see many ex-school/class/bandmates from Chong Hwa.

It's really funny, when we Chong Hwa people talk together, we always feel a certain kind of "same frequency" in oppose to talking to some people that just don't get our kind of humour.

We had so much fun joking and talking shit about people, plus Phooi Wooi was there, what else can you expect? Just endless funny jokes!

Congrats to Banana for getting married with this dude who has the name of a famous DJ and who looks VERY VERY matching to you.

Wish you all the best!

First thing getting home...

I believe Pete was crazy, he asked me to go to Alexis Bistro to jam with Josie Thomas after I stepped into my house for 5 minutes coming back from airport!!

But I went anyway, with mama watching me driving on the side.

I sat through the whole second set of the night, and I joined in the wankin' in the funk version of "All Blues"...

People dug it, I didn't. I didn't exactly know what I was doing.

But well, it's still nice to meet Pete --- finally.

Conversations with Ray Pizzi

I got back late after watching Pan's Labyrinth, and Ray was already waiting on the sofa and the party was hot.

We talked for a bit with Naoko and Matt, then we started to play a blues.

Then we talked some more and I showed Ray my video of Project Taming Sari. He was really happy to see that, and right away he asked Ken to record us doing a musical conversation. Matter of fact I'd been waiting for that for quite some time!

So we did two tracks, which while in the 2nd track, when I was doing some freaky sound, he mouthed the words "fuck you!" to me, HAHA!

Then Ray invited Naoko to join in to play a blues. That was fun too!

Parting with Ray was a little depressing, but hey, we had some fun, what more can I ask for?

Looking forward to more, Ray!!

When will I be back?

So this is Ken's farewell to LA, maybe for half a month.

But I kinda feel that it will be my farewell to LA for a while as well.

This feeling doesn't come with no reason.

I had been here the most next to New York, and lots of Ken's friends become my friends, plus I have lots of friends from HMI living here.

With Ken's return to Malaysia, I will have no reason to come back anymore, adding that HMI has closed down.

We will have a party tomorrow to say farewell to the friends.

I begin to wonder when will I be back in LA?

I'm in LA BABEHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After a long flight from NY through Chicago, I arrived in LA AT LAST!!

I was stupid, I dunno why I misread my itinerary and ended up thinking that my flight was in 3:20pm or something.

Well when I was having a farewell lunch with Michelle, I took up the itinerary to read and IT SHOCKED ME TO DEATH! The flight should've been at 2:10pm and I was chillin' in the diner at 1:30!!!

So we finished our meal in a light speed and rushed to the airport with her jeep.

Got there too late anyway, got standby though, for a 4:39pm flight, arrives in LA 10:20pm, which was perfect because Ken was in Alf Clausen's Simpsons scoring session until 10 something.

I almost couldn't move after I arrived in Ken's place...

BUT I AM IN L.A. BABEHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NY - LA - KL

Last minute packing ---- not just any packing, but packing for both visiting hometown and moving out of my apartment.

This is definitely NOT fun!!

Since I move out and haven't looked for a place, I have to keep my stuffs in 3 different places ---- my HK brother Ming's place, Sokol's place, and finally, my guitarist Michelle's place.

I managed to bring two boxes to Ming's place around noon, then I continued packing till dinner time. Had dinner with Michelle in Gino's Pizza.

After pizza we went to Project Taming Sari's recording and video shooting session. Now this shit TRULY took a long time, I was a bit frustrated actually, cuz we kept on waiting for the engineer to setup and all, while I was thinking about my unfinished packing process.

We finished around 12.15am...

Sokol called me up and say he arrived home, and Michelle offered me help to fetch my stuff to Sokol's place, which is 4 blocks away from where I live.

Only then I found out I had so many things!!! Damn!!! I had a TV, a DVD player, a black box, then my box of books, 2 boxes of CDs and DVDs, my box of music, and another box of miscellenious stuffs!!

Luckily Sokol's room is very big, so he didn't mind storing the stuff for me. Seriously I'm totally grateful about his help! And Michelle too, she was willing to drive two rounds to Sokol's place, which was an immense help.

Things didn't stop right there, I continued packing until I write this blog, which is around 4:40am!!!

I gotta wake up early tomorrow to do my laundry, go to the college to print my boarding pass, oh, and also call up Brother Ming before 10am to put another two bags of shit into his room.

Lucky thing was, Michelle offered to drive me to LaGuardia tomorrow. I really dunno how to thank her! This is what I call FRIEND!

Millions of thanks to Michelle, Koli, and Brother Ming!!

So my rough itinerary for the rest of the one and a half months will be one week in LA hanging out with Ken and hopefully play in Ray Pizzi's gig, then a BIG vacation in my beloved hometown, KUALA LUMPUR!

Yeah bitch, it's about time to get some rest!