Ya, managed to get another guitar disciple today. Heidi's the name, and if she's single and available. If anyone needs a partner can consider her ^^. Check my facebook friends for more details. Search intelligently!

I dislike the fact that many of my friends go to music school and do not really learn what the guitar is all about. And then they get forced fed with myopic viewpoints on guitar playing. Here's some examples:

"Classical guitar is inferior sound-wise compared to acoustic guitar"

Like REAL! Both sound like SHIT! Embrace the ELECTRIC GUITAR! Shredness courses through your veins when u hold one. The electricity gives u more power, speed and most importantly... TONE.

"Guitars have 6 strings, and bass guitars have only 4 strings"

Nonsense again! Guitars definitely have more than 12 strings. Let's see mine... 1,2...12!

"Strumming is hard, requires you to change chords quickly"

Y learn strumming, when there is RIFFING! Feel the heavy metal chug compared to the country twang. Only palm muting is able to cut thru the mix! Riffing doesnt involve changing chords, it involves IGNORING chords. Problem solved.

See tt's what you get when u have school from 8am to 10pm. Yes u read it right. 14 hours of wholesome NUS experience in a day.

Stop paying money to music schools to learn bullshit which u can easily learn from me. It's free, and i guarantee you all the things that i teach you will be so idiot proof that you will just go "OH CHEY! Din know it's so easy".

I guarantee with my name on it. When it comes to teaching beginners, i'm the best in the business.

Stratochang!

And who offers 24 hrs online guitar assistance? Who? Can u name me ONE person? I bet Gibson dun even have such solid customer support. That's service with a S.

Bring ur guitar, come to me, i'll debunk all the common myths tt confounds you.

I like the fact tt i can help people this way. To enable pple to enjoy their hobby the way they want it, without imposing any restrictions on their perceptions of their hobby, exposing them to more information, encouraging them to learn more themselves.

I feel that it's what i do best.

Managed to slack for 4 hours in school. It's amazing how time passes so fast in the Hyper Lab. Must be the hyperness of it all, distorts the time somehow. Maybe i'm living in +4 hrs right now. Haha.

I'm damn high. But i dunno why. It rhymes.

Speaking of rhymes, this website is the shit: WriteRhymes

Songwriters and poets will great benefit from this. Pple like Daniel would find this completely useless cos he's the witsharp wordsmith. Witsharp wordsmiths dun need stuff like this. Shitheads like me would need stuff like this. Good to know, good to have. Bookmark!

Following Lifehacker's crappy advice to extract some small batteries outta the big ones, i tried it on 3 batteries and failed miserably. The batteries in SG are just not designed this way sadly. No cost savings plan anymore. Sigh.

Rest day today. Shag out.

Nothing much happening today. Wanna wake up for shots today, but ended up sleeping back again till 1pm. The fatigue from last night still lingered i guess.

Madness pushup day. Today's quite over the top. 260+ pushups in total. A major jump of 190+ from last week. But of course i do rest quite a bit today. Doing 5 by 5 does help in pacing yourself. And i plan to skip the squats and calves this week, in preparation of AHM. Time to give them some valuable rest.

Yet to get started on typing my FYP stuff, and LJL just threw me another paper to read up on. Heavy stuff, 15 pages of heavy stuff. Gotta get started on it as it shld help me with my proof somehow.

Time to sleep ^^. Tml's a long day = free days.

Workout Log:
56/45/42/40/85 Pushups

Maybe it's time to move out of Jurong. I sense an impending tranny invasion.

Sorry but i despise trannies, gays and to a very much lesser extent, lesbians. I think these people are somewhat mentally ill.

I fear gays and trannies just purely because, being an alpha male, they might hit on me anytime. And i dun like to get hit on by anything other than girls.

I fear lesbians because they are vying for the same market share of girls as mine, so they are competition in my eyes. But of course girl on girl action is always nice, and they open up the possibility for threesomes, so i guess it's not that bad after all.

But trannies, ugh. At least those in thailand are hot lar. Jurong ones are like wtf ugly.

A wave of fatigue hit me today. Felt so sleepy the entire day. Imagine me watching the Olympics and dozing off. Shirui too. We're snoozing infront of the telly. Sleepy Sunday it is.

Start of another week. Probably time to get working.

Workout Log:
6.5km Run

Today:
-Phelps won his 7th medal. Amazing.

-Germany made it to the pingpong men's finals. Amazing.

-Usain Bolt won the 100m finals in a leng leng fashion. Amazing.

-USA thrashed Spain 119-72 for bball. Amazing.

I really think this Olympics is alittle bit different. Almost every bloody record is broken. Seems like the stars are really aligned for this event. 080808 is really huat.

Huat ar.

Today i helped a stranger push his car while doing my regular runs. So within 3 months, i pushed cars twice. Seems like this year is the year to push cars. And surprisingly, pushing cars requires quite a good deal of leg power. I could feel it in the calves. There's not much arm strength involved it seems.

I felt even happier, knowing that i could spread my happiness to other people. I was already feeling very happy, with the cool weather, the great Jay Chou ballads accompanying me, the lightness in my body while running.

Today is a good running day. It felt totally good. No fatigue, even when i kinda pushed myself alittle faster.

Spent quite abit of time today playing SWAT with YW. Trying out the new version. Low level players like us would probably not feel much difference with the overall gameplay. But it's fun to play once in a while, to get the whole zombie vibe back into your blood again. Aha. Time to plan how to escape when there's a zombie infestation.

I'm happy today. Are you?

Workout Log:
6.5km Run
Car pushing ^^

Long talk. Shag. Gonna sleep early. FYP's getting sucky. Singapore wins a medal finally, but LJW really doesnt have the look and gamesmanship of a champion. Spoilted little princess shld play some other atas sports.

Workout Log:
18/18/16/16/14/14/12/80 Pushups,Squats, Calf Raises.

Salad night again. Like fluffy, i like cabbage alot. But i'm not really keen on the celery tt my mom insists shld be in every salad.

Free music coming from Bro's room. Mad fucker likes to blast it really loud. Not to mention he's got a really solid set of speakers. 8 yrs and going on real strong.

Wah my left groin hurts suddenly. Random pain! Not good. I put yokoyoko on my groin and it burns like fuck. Bad idea. How do you stretch the groin area? Fuck.

Just finished the US Greece match. Melo finally showed some signs of significance by nailing some threes and playing good defense overall. US still looked lost on their set plays, but their transition game is really top notch. Totally runs the opponent down, so much so that the Greek players had to call their own substitutions.

Think they have a solid shot at gold this time. At the rate they are playing defense, it bodes well. James has scary stats. 13 pts, 6 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 blocks, 2 steals in 27 mins. Madness. And Wade has 6 steals to his 17 pts. Tt's very well rounded games they're playing.

Hope they show the finals live on tv.

Workout Log:
6.5km run

Eating salad while surfing net: Nice. But stupid dentist put the cement blocks again to prevent me from chewing: sucks. Tough to eat when you cant bite anything properly. Time to slurp again.

OMS welcome tea is over. Talked to quite a few of the junior OMS members, and i realised tt i'm not really into this event organising gig going thingy. I dun appreciate the local scene, i can't fire off names of local bands and their songs either. Maybe tt's the reason y i'm always just the sleeper member.

I think i only want more hits for my songs so that they can attack the Soundclick charts. "Tell Me" is already #9 on the pop rock charts. Listen more leh, hope it gets #1 soon ^^.

Shld work on FYP tml. Seeing LJL on friday. Hope i dun get suaned or scolded. *shudder*

Workout Log:
20/20/18/18/15/15/14/75 Pushups, Squats Calf Raises.

75 pushups is surprisingly more achievable today. Do 10, rest, 10 rest and so on.

Edited the harmony vocals for "Tell Me". Apparently it's too soft, which some parts i intentionally did so, and some parts i unintentionally forgot to boost. Oh well, hope this version fixes every minor complain :)

Sch's pretty chill today, except for XJF's wonderful lecture on defining what is median. I fell somewhat asleep throughout that lecture though i managed to catch a few key bits here and there. And the lecture on graph theory is quite interesting so far, and the lecturer is quite funny. At least he bothers to try and keep his students interested, which is good lar. Can't fault a guy like tt.

Tml's OMS welcome tea! Time to check out freshie rock chicks! Roar!

Today's another rest day. 8am to 10pm classes. What to do? Tues shall be designated rest days ba.

Alright, i've uploaded the song onto Soundclick. You can readily hear it auto-play from the sidebar. For lazy RSS readers, here's the link for u buggers:

Tell Me (disable ur pop-up blocker though)

Responses have been encouraging so far, but of course the singing is still annoying. Can't help it. Live with it i guess. Kinda pity that i'm not a great singer, or else the song will really be solid imho.

I dunno if it's me, but it bugs me when pple tell me they can't hear what i'm singing. But the problem is, who can hear exactly what the singer is singing on the first listen? Dun you guys need to read the lyrics meh?

Anyways, here's the lyrics (to ensure everyone knows what i'm singing about)

Tell Me by Chang

Take a good look at yourself
Wishing you were someone else
Wished that you could only understand
It's all just a pretence

Seen through your lying eyes
Masquerade, your disguise
If you're weary and have lost your way
You can come to stay

Tell me how you're feeling
The words that you're not saying
I'll never be too far

Tell me what you're thinking
No matter how they may seem
I'll hear right from the start

So take this chance let me know
Cos i'll be there

If you ever lose control
Take in comfort of your soul
Never let their reasons blind your way
It gets hard to see

Among all of our weakness
Between our differences
It's tough to be yourself
You know

The secrets you've been hiding
The demons that you're fighting
Will tear right through your soul

So tell me how you're feeling
The words that you're not saying
I'll never be too far

Tell me what you're thinking
No matter how they may seem
I'll hear right from the start

So take this chance let me know

I'll be there
I'll be there

So take this life and make it right
And know it's there for you to hold on
So take this life and make it right
I'll be there for you to hold on
I'll hold on to you

Tell me how you're feeling
The words that you're not saying
I'll never be too far

Tell me what you're thinking
No matter how they may seem
I'll hear right from the start

Tell...Me..
I'll never be too far
Tell...Me...
I'll hear right from the start

So take this chance let me know

To Johnsoon: Melodyne yes, you can have it. It's not very big. Bring a HD next time you come over. There's actually no acoustic guitar. I used my electric and turned on the acoustic sim on my amp. Lotsa tweaking on the eq too to get the sound i like. And you shouldn't feel ashamed cos some of the stuff u come up with are amazing. It's just the effort lor.

And anyways, it's not tt i want to put in alot of effort. The process is just like that this time round. It's not the process tt counts for me, it's the ending. So whatever it takes, the song has to be out. And tt's what matters to people anyways.

Joseph's singing tip: Speak clearer = sing clearer. So i shall try to speak slower and pronounce my words better. Less slurring on speech = more clarity and brightness in songs.

Tml's sch. I'm finally the oldest bird in class. Kinda unprepared for this sem yet. Gotta switch to mugger mode soon! No more musician mode!

Gotta wake up at 6 too. So shag la.

Kk gotta load songs into my iPod to prepare for battle tml. Rarr!

Workout Log:
40/32/30/25/70 Pushups, Squats, Calf Raises. (Woo!)
5km Run.

Finally wrapped up recording! Pretty satisfied with what i got today. Havent mixed properly yet thought. Shall finish up mixing by tml.

Things i learnt:
- If your voice suck ass like mine, add a subtle harmony line underneath it. Instantly creates more volume in your vocals. I like to start with 3rds, then slowly alter the line abit by mixing up with 5ths and 6ths to create more variety.

-Dynamics. Some tracks just have to be louder at some parts, and softer at some parts. I used to be lazy to bother tweaking every single track for volume, but it's really helpful now i've done it, cos it gives more room for your vocals and solos to shine. And it's also less fatigue on the ears.

- Delay is a good alternative to reverb to achieve the stereo-y sound. But it sounds better if the track is not continuous like strummy stuff, cos it will then become messy.

-Mixing with headphones and speakers is totally different sounding. At least for my case. So really have to lan lan and choose one way and live with it. I personally like to mix with headphones mores cos i listen to my own songs alot while on the go, so it's better they sound good in my iPod at least.

It's finally close to finished. I smell the end. I can start sch soon.

Workout Log:
6.5km run
5/5/5/5/12 Pullups
5 x 20 situps.

Getting slack with the workouts. Hmm. Nvm, shall try to hit 20 pullups no matter what.