Little known fact abt me: I dun open my red packets until the very last one i get. So usually the money counting starts like abt 1 week into the New Year. Usually by this time, most people would have either gambled some way, or spent some already. But not me ^^. Pls do not rob me when u see me on the streets, i dun carry that much cash on me anyways.

Johnson's organising another jam. This time we are playing "Smells like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana, "Makes Me Wonder" by Maroon 5, "Is It Just Me" by The Darkness, "Slide" by Goo Goo Dolls. And hopefully this time, the drummer/s can play the songs properly. Hmm, there's a solo in the Darkness song. WTF?!

I survived 1 day without coffee! Yay! I'm trying to cut my dependence on coffee to last through the day. Apparently there's this post caffeine crash, tt causes u to be more tired after the caffeine wears off. But either ways, i dun want to drink coffee to stay awake. I want to drink coffee cos i love the taste. So for now it has to go, to re-program my brain to think tt coffee is a drink, not a drug.

And so now i'm gonna log my no coffee days onto my beloved Google calendar, where i also log the days i play the guitar, run, or din eat supper. Feels good to know how many days u've not been a glutton. Probably should log the days tt i see my girlfriend too. Seems like i havent seen her for a v long time. Hmm.

On girlfriends, Valentine's coming, but i've already bought her a nice big fluffy orange rose-lookalike flower. I'm fortunate this year cos it's quite hard to find plush toy flowers, and it's harder to find one that she doesnt have. Either ways i really hope she loves it. Cos it's big orangey and fluffy. My girlfriend loves orangey and fluffy stuff. Like Happy.

Anyways, i read something like journalling at the end of the day to relax your mind so that you can sleep better. I'm trying this method out, hopefully it lulls my mind for tonight. If it's really good, then i might blog every single night, but then it will end up to be really mundane stuff. Some people like mundane stuff, some people like pictures, some people like intellectual stuff. Some people like free guitar tips. I cannot please everyone, so umm we'll see how it goes.

At most i add some hot ah lian pics from friendster to spice things up.

Oh yea, "You Wanna Be A Star" has reached #5 on the Soundclick Classic Rock Charts! So rock la! Thanks to any random soul who's been listening to this shitass lame song with lyrics co-written by Daniel. Daniel should really just give up his Nobel poetry prize and switch careers like Jay Chou's lyricist Fang Wenshan. Just find a guy who can really write music (aka ME) and then u help the poor fucker who can't really sing to write lyrics. And then both of you can take over the whole world.

I think it's a brilliant idea, Daniel u shld really consider my suggestion haha. Join forces with Nick or something. Boomchick with prog lyrics can work too you know. Like Prog-abilly, or Prog-grass.

As for the rest of you, keep listening in!

And umm, i can't really access my blog to read the tagboard for the past few days. It just hangs my browser every single time. Maybe it's the Soundclick app, maybe it's the tagboard. Maybe it's the Flickr photo. Whatever the case, i'm semi-pissed by it, but nvm. Let's hope things will be better tomorrow.

Meshuggah is really a difficult band to listen to. I think they can beat Sonic Youth as the worst band to introduce to your best friend. Firstly, they thrive on dissonance, so there's close to zero "melody". Second, the rhythmic patterns are so complex, that you dun really hear patterns. So it sounds more like random beats. Thirdly, the tone of the guitars are intentionally set to be heavily fuzzed, like static. And lastly, the singer growls & scream on top of the mish mash of noise.

Does Meshuggah mean "fucking drive your mom crazy" in Swedish? Oh ok, from Wiki: The band's name is Hebrew for "crazy". That explains it. Either ways, i dun recommend the band to the faint hearted, it's too warped for any normal human. BUT, i'm superhuman, so i can tolerate such kind of aural assault. So far this is the maximum i can go. Anything more extreme i will really go nuts.

I think my brother and i can start a private guitar restoration/repair service. He brought home 4 really chui guitars from my future sis-in-law's family a few days ago, and they are really chui. Just imagine all the hardware covered in rust, the knobs unable to turn, the fretboard so dry u can see some white lines on the rosewood, the frets cover in green moldy eeeyeer stuff. Yea, tt chui.

He restored one of them, and it looked pretty solid now, like a restored vintage guitar, which it really is. No more rust, no more gunk, sweet solid fretboard. Makes me want to string the guitar now and play it. My bro can do all the cleaning, i can do all the technical setting up. It's a perfect combination. Probably can start off small by taking online requests. Like 20 dollars per fix perhaps? I'm dun really aim to make a profit for doing something like this. Cos, it's just a hobby. Fixing guitars can be a hobby too u know.

Alright the post is really long. But i like long posts. Shows tt i have alot of bullshit. Good night.