Gripe of the day: Y do ppl want to spend so much money to burn joss sticks and hell money at the expense of their own health and wealth? It's extremely ironic for me.

For the uninformed, I WAS working for the past 2 mths, and then i stopped, purely because they cut my internet. Quite pissed off ok, but with sheer tolerance, i manage to go without internet at work for a whole week. Pretty impressive by my standards. The pay wasn't good enough to make me suffer through the "no-internet-for-the-temps" office, the work given was too easy, and too quickly accomplished.

But overall it's ok, like the song "It's all abt the money" by "Murdered by Ska". Btw it's Lisa's bf's band. Quite interesting, but i have totally no idea how ska the song actually is. It still sounds punk. Anything tt sounds remotely punk and emo and whatever emocore screamo shall be labeled under punk by Chang. He has the final say for all the genres of the songs in his music library, which consists of 25GBs worth of downloaded + ripped from CDS mp3s.

I'm talking funny btw, cos i feel an incessant need to update my blog so that i know what's going on now the next time i read it.

The song "Into the storm" is SOMEWHAT complete. I've kinda finished writing the 2nd part, but somehow i just dun really like it. And i can't find a suitable bass line to go with it either. So it's still hanging in limbo. But at least i've gotten the main riff down, which is in a mindblowing 11/16 rhythm. Yes, 11/16. It's totally progressive rock this time, with intricate tempo changes, polyrhythms, odd time signatures... (insert really cool musical word here). I've really no idea how i came up with this shit, but yes it's gonna be a masterpiece, i feel. But at least i feel a "lvl up" to my compositional skills. Which is good.

So this few days up to the day my school starts, i'll be at home practising my guitar, try to get the song right, and hopefully it turns out really solid. But not a easy listening piece, cos it's so... WILD.

Btw, i'm really GAS-ing for this particular drum software. It's called BFD, or in other terms.. BIG FUCKING DRUMS. Yes it's really good. Really realistic drums, y... cos they mike up the actual drums and record it. Then u can trigger the sounds using midi. Brilliant i say. So u can select the brand of ur drum, the model of the mic, the position of the mic from the drum, the height from which the stick falls, the space of the room where the drum is.... everything is customizable. So customizable, that it's so scary to use. I dun think i'd even know where to begin. And it's so big, at least 5GB of space. I think i need a new hard disk...

Just saw Guan yday. Quite a pleasant surprise actually. Same old bass freak with tt John Myung pose. Solid playing still, and our ideas always connect. I have this special chemistry with this guy when it comes to music, and it's unexplainable. It's like we are always at the same level, neither one being too overpowering for the other, always exchanging licks and ideas. I like to work with him, but he's a busy man. Busy men have no time for music. So true.

Anyways here are some new music in my computer, check them out:

Pain of Salvation

Queenscryche

Pink Floyd

Platypus

Dixie Dregs

Eric Johnson

Mostly progressive and virtuoso music. Not easy on the ears. But free your mind, and the music will get to you. I promise.