Pressing the 'play' button on Life

Music. It has the power to make us laugh, cry, and a lot more. It helps us get through messy break ups, it brings back pleasent memories, it makes traffic jams enjoyable!!!

A lot of people say "Music is their life" but when i compare them to me, i question their values. Sounds arrogant huh? But you see, I have been plugged into my headphones since i was a baby! I can't recall a time when ive done something without listenng to music, for you see, music isn't just music to me. It's a sound track to my life!

When i drive i'm listening to Megadeth, when im skating it's Solid Steel, getting ready for a night out.....Pendulum. I even went to my Prom night with a cassette player in my pocket and the Earphones tucked in my top pocket!!! Its like having a cup of coffee in the morning, if you dont have it, you don't feel ready for the day. If i dont get a fix of music in the morning then im not ready to deal with anything.

Music is soooooo important to me. I realised exactly how true this was when i had all my cd's stolen along with my cd player. I was devastated, lost, and had an overwhelming feeling of emptiness inside me. It's the same kinda feeling you get when your girl friend leaves you for another guy....BUT WORSE!!!

Anyways, i could sit here all day and preach about the importance of music to me, but i don't want to over kill this subject.

So, my advice for a happier life is: Don't be afraid to play your music loud, Listen to all types of music, don't put yourself into a genre that won't let you keep an open mind (e.g. Dont be a goth and only listen Meatl, cuz break beat hip hop is the amazing!!!), and most importantly, always keep a beat in your heart, ears, and keep your finger on play button!!!!

My Music reccomendation for today:

Gas Panic (Oasis, Standing on the shoulders of giants)

Cartoonies!!!!

During the past week, whilst i have been revising for my exams (Gulp!) I have been experimenting with the 'Paint' program on my laptop. Its a program that every single windows computer has and most people hardly ever use it.

I don't know why i suddenly took a fondness to this program, i mean, it's not like i ned to use it for my work or anything?! I just one day started drawing and found myself curiously addicted to what i could do with it!

I did my first cartoon charecter of Adi about a week and a half ago and i have done a few more since then. If you wanna have a look at them all then go check out my FaceBook page and its in one of my photo albums entitled "what i can do with paint". I like drawing them cuz although they are just really simple shapes and lines, it's the attention to personal detail that makes them special. I get all this detail by looking at photographs of the people im drawing and save a couple of images of their clothes and hair styles. This creates a certain uniquiness about each one.

Right, Im going off to do my revision now, Priciples of Management..........yey........., but later i'm going to re-do the cartoon image of Adi cuz she says its not fair that she has a bigger head than Debbs.

If you would like a cartoon image of yourself, then just message me on facebook, and i'll knock one up for you when i have some spare time. In the meantime, enjoy looking at my latest creation of my sister.

My Music reccomendation for today:

Beer (Psychostick)

Have you seen "MY TIE?"

No i'm not talking about NECK TIES YOU FOOL!!!! Im talking about Blood, Pain, and total CARNAGE!!!!! Cuz that is what was on the menu for the International Muay Thai superfight at Shah Alam stadium last saturday.

I first saw the poster for the event outside my lecture hall at KDU; and as soon as i saw it i knew i was going.

I got student discount and got the tickets for the bargain price of 35rm down from 50rm! So it was set; in the words of Elton John "SATURDAY NIGHT'S ALRIGHT FOR FIGHTING"!

We rocked up to the place quite early and took at seat inside, and although i had paid for 35rm seats, we went and sat in the 1st class seats, which were 75rm a seat! We waited and waited for what seemed an eternity....then......suddenly....the lights went dead, and the fighters came out!!!! Iran, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, switzerland, Thailand, Brazil, and Scotland, it was a righ ol' mix up of diffrent countries competing!!!! The first fight was quite lame, but the action soon picked up after that!!!! 26 bouts of BLOODSPORT, and one (Gay) fashion show later it was all over!!! The last fight was especially good becuase The scottish guy beat the Thai guy (at his own countries sport i might add) and took his title! I was quite glad it was over cuz my voice was gone from all the shouting i had been doing. "Punch his Ribs" "Kick him in the head" "FUCKING KILL HIM!!!" Yep, my throat was dead!

All in all it was a GREAT night, but the event organisation (not to mention the commentators, if you could call them that) needed alot of work! If the fights come back to KL then for sure me and Adi are going, but next time we will smuggle a few beers in! hehehehe!!!!

My music reccomendation for today is:

A cause des garcons (Yelle, Pop Up)

The FANTASTIC 4.....day weekend

Drink responsiby. Thats the message every drink manufacturer wants us to understand. They put in it their T.V ads, poster campaigns, and print it on the back of their bottles. However, putting it on the bottles was a total waste of time cuz i was waaayyyyy to drunk to read it over the week end. Heres is the 411 on my fantastic 4 day weekend!

Friday

We picked up my our mate Patrick at 11.45pm at LCCT airport, and rather than taking him home to do the usual settling in, we headed straight into the city for some MAD dancing action. We arrived at Heritage road and like a group of degenerates we stated drinking budget "Russian" vodka in the car park. In 10 mins the 3 of us (me, pat, and adi) had dome 3 quarters of the bottle.

We then made our way to Space to hook up with Candy (pats best mate) and Adrian (candy's office colleague). There we proceeded to party like its 1985; with me and Pat totally OWNING the dance floor and Podium!!! The night was ended with a mandatory trip to the mumak to chow down on soup Kambing

Saturday

Pat, Candy, and Adi went for linch at the curve in the early afternoon, i was unable to join them cuz i was battling a hangover that could kill an elephant!

A few hours later, around 3pm, i was ready to rock! UrbanScape was the destination! An outdoor/ indoor local music event featuring Rock bands and killer Dj's. Our good friend megat, had a boutique stall there selling his garms to the malaysian masses, so we invaded and made it our HQ!

Within an hour i was the only relativley sober one there. I was driving so i just had a couple of cans, But the rest of them started and FINISHED a complete bottle of Jack Daniels!!! We danced around, partied, and after the chaos had ended at UrbanScape; we headed back into the City to Zouk, where khai was playing at the loft.

More drinking ensued and we drank 2 jugs of guiness mixed with white wine cooler (suprisingly tasty)! The night ended with a 10 minute wait in KFC for a 15pc family bucket of chicken. Out of the 15 pc's i inhaled 7!!! Urgh........never again!

Sunday

By this point, we had all started to feel the drain of leading a rock and roll life style and decided to have an easy day shopping at Pavillion. Its this really swanky, high end shopping mall. I'm always seeing important people shopping there surrounded by security and body gaurds! Me? I prefer not to use my body gaurds; i like to keep a low profile!

Anyway, so 2 hours later and a few hundred bucks less in our pockets it was dinner time. We drove from KL to Hartamas square where we ate enough to last us the rest of the year!!! Satay, Kuay teow, La la, Tom Yam soup, Tau foo, and Chocolate brownies with ice cream. I was feeling like a right fatty!

After we had closed Hartamas square down, we went over to breakers to play some pool. I was on top form, i didnt lose one game, I even BEAT my wife (not an easy task!). So on a triumphant note we went to bed and had an early night as we were knackered!!!!