I wrote a song for a friend recently, cos he broke up with his gf of 2 mths, and was extremely pissed abt it for reasons tt i am uncertain of. So i was handed some lyrics, and i basically wove a complete song around it.

Throughout the entire working process, i was wondering: who gets the credits? The one who wrote the lyrics? Or the one who wrote the tune? Which one has more "value" in a tune? And the interesting thing is tt i believe tt whichever came later has higher value. The lyrics may be good, but with good music, the song will be killer. And vice versa.

I dun know what i'm driving at, but i just felt i should be given more credit for my efforts, though i've already decided to stop participating in this project. The reason being tt the song sounds too much alike Daughtry's Home, with a few keys down. So it's pointless to continue, cos firstly i'm not too comfortable with pple claiming my tune as if it's theirs, and secondly i'm not too comfortable with my tunes sounding extremely similar to something i've heard before.

The power of transposition. Most musicians i know dun realise tt u dun have to play a song exactly. By shifting the key down, it makes the song a million times much easier to sing. By playing inversions, guitarists and bassist would nv have to over double the notes. By improvising the solos, guitarists can work around their weaknesses and play to their strengths. Downtuning makes u sound 10 times heavier btw. It's useful sometimes if u need to headbang-ize ur music.

Han Yuan asked me to form a band again. The issue arises again. I'm supposed to find the other band members? I find tt request ridiculous, but it clearly shows how shitty the band leader job is. Finding members is one thing, keeping ur members interested is another. The job just complicates when u have all strangers in ur band. Everyone has their own agenda.

I led 2 bands before, one in my neighbourhood with my friends, and another one in hall. Friends take u for granted, hallmates just couldn't be bothered to get too involved cos there's alot of other more interesting things to do in hall. It's tt simple. So i only join bands now. If i dun like it i leave. I wun form another band, unless i feel special chemistry. Probably all it takes is an extremely hot babe keyboardist in mini skirt and tube top.

Anyways, for the uninitiated, i dun give my blog address away for free. I used to publish it in my MSN nick, until i found the idea too ridiculous. It's like telling any tom dick and harry to come and read what you have to say, then at the end of it u self-censor what u want to say. So instead of tt, if pple ask if i blog, i'll tell them i do, but they'll have to guess the url themselves. Which actually isnt hard after all, right?

It's better this way, i get to filter the people somehow, so tt pple i "approve" will get to read, and some unknown readers too. Since the unknown readers are bothered enough to blogsearch for my page, i guess it's no harm letting pple who are interested in me to read abt stuff on me.

Ok Miko you are smart too! See it isnt tt hard.

So it goes to show how many pple are really interested in knowing me. There's only such a handful la. I know it myself. I know i dun tend to project the "I'm a friendly social butterfly guy, come be my friend!" image. And my headphones pretty much shut out anything tt my appearance filters through. Oh well, this kind of a way to dispel any form of misunderstandings tt might happen with my interaction with girls.

Ok i'm too busy reading a new blog now. Good night.