Heck.

Feeling shitty. Sucks man. Hate this feeling.

Goodbye Marshall Halfstack!

It has been a happening week, or rather weekend. I played for combined svc for the first time this year at suntec convention hall! Haha I was so impressed by the vastness of the arena, the size of the stage, and of course, the equipments they provided, which resulted in the awesome sonor experience. I believe God has spoken to many in the svc, esp through the powerful, heartfelt sermon by ps jeff. Awesome la! The team I worked with were all familiar people coz most are from the youth side. And I believe it was quite a breakthrough for Jerel as well(I think he played very well!) Yay thank God for him and the rest.

At the end of the 2 services, we all had to say our goodbyes to the 'Big Boys'! *sobs*

GOODBYE MARSHALL JCM900, MARSHALL VALVESTATE, THAT BRAND NEW DW DRUMSET, AND THE BASS AMP WHICH SOUNDED AWESOME TOO!

1st half of Feb!

I'm promoted to LANCE CORPORAL! Haha yay $20 more! Lol anyway tonight is duty night. Come to think of it, this is actually my first duty for this year. LOL THANKS TO CHICKEN POX! Pox rox! Haha but ok la I would still have to return duties to the other cool pes E dudes who covered for me.

Woah it's only 7.30 and I'm alr feeling tired man. Sian. Must be the 10 laps yesterday. Haha yeah I can feel the ache all over my body now. But this kinda ache is damn shiok! Makes you feel that you're gonna turn into THE HULK! RRAWWRRRR!! Hahahaha ok la I think I'm gonna be damn cool. My flabs will turn into Phelps! Oh I heard he got sued.. What a waste! Even olympic champions can fail you! Haha too bad for those olympics fanatics.

Anyway I watched like 3 movies the past two weeks man. Haha sian la no money alr. Nonetheless the movies were all damn good! First up - Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. I think werewolves are damn cool. They should just kill all the blood-sucking pussies. Haha next - DEFIANCE! IT'S REALLY VERY GOOD. Not really action-PACKED. More of an inspirational film. It's about how the Bielskies led their fellow Russian Jews through the forest. THEY EVEN TRAINED THE WOMEN TO FIRE. Lol what a shame that my only gun is the computer keyboard! Hahaha what a loser! Last but not least I watched BUTTONS! Lol it's a film that you'll never watch twice. Coz it's like 2hrs46mins long! Haha but ok la it was nice. It's about this guy born old and grew younger and younger until he died. Interesting idea. Haha but I KNOW THEIR PLOY was to make brad pitt look damn old, frail and ugly at the first half of the show and finally when he grew abit 'older', all the girls in the cinema would go 'OH MY GAWD!' Haha they even showed him riding a motorbike with like sunglasses.. aiya purposely one la. Lol eh but brad pitt is just so freaking handsome!

Other than that I managed to meet Esso(Esther and Alfonso) last week and Cyril(my new disciple!) this week. Had a fruitful lesson with them, hope they really learnt something and THEY'LL PRACTISE HARD! Haha yeah man. Ok that roughly sums up the first half of my February. Will blog more after my date on valentines' day ;) Hahaha.

I SWAM 10 LAPS TODAY. and i took an hour. :(

Help me sell those!

Okay after nights of listening, rearranging, tweaking and tweaking. Here's the conclusion:

I'M SELLING MY WAMPLER PINNACLE AND BOSS FDR-1!

The wampler pinnacle is really good(on the demos on youtube where everything they use are boutique), what a pity that it sounds really muffled on the 'modern' mode and super duper jarring on the 'vintage' mode. I just can't get something balanced out of it. IT COST ME LIKE ALMOST 300 BUCKS! Maybe it's my preamp, maybe it's my guitar, maybe it's the pickups, maybe maybe...

Hai and I just wasted another 200 bucks buying a Boss FDR-1. FDR stands for Fender Deluxe Reverb - YES that's one of the classic Fender tube amps. SOOO silly me mistook it as a preamp, but the truth is it only makes your amp sound like a FDR amp but on itself it's practically nothing. So since we're playing without amps in nexus, that thing is U-S-E-L-E-S-S! And it clashes so badly with my Sansamp GT2 when the distortion is on-ed. Like the TV got no reception sound before Sadako climbs out of it. Super sian. It's economic crisis and here I am wasting lots of money.

Gear in use.

Guitars:
Fender MIM 60th Anniversary Strat
Fender CIJ ST62-80TX

Pedals:
Artec Big Dots Tuner
Wampler Pinnacle 2
MI Audio Crunchbox
Fulltone OCD V3
MXR 6-Band EQ
Marshall Supervibe Chorus
Boss RV5
Boss FDR-1
Artec Analog Delay
Boss DD5
Sansamp GT2

I think I have some pretty neat stuffs there. But hmm... I really should start selling some stuffs.

Monday blues

C'mon sing da Monday blues with me!

EaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaA
I've got the monday blues oh yea..
AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaEaaaE
And everybody's feelin` the same..
AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaA
I've got the monday blues oh yea..
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa E
And I ain't gonna go nowhere..
BaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaA
And the monday blues won't go away..
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaE does a turnaround
Oh Lord help me take those blues away..

Sing those blues baby.

Okay fine.

Minutes after posting the entry below, God spoke like a radio playing your favourite song the moment you turn it on.

Psalm 20:7

7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

If it's written in the book of Kaiwen 20:7 it would sound something like:

Some trust in their own skills and some in their own equipment,
but I trust in the name of the Lord my God who will use me despite my inadequacy to move His spirit in the hearts of His people.

ALRIGHT YOU WIN.

Guitar playing

There are times you feel that you totally suck at your guitar playing. Everything you play sounds like shit due to your nerves+palm sweat+lack of concentration+lack of practice+a damn shitty tone even though you've spent like thousands of cash on your gear.

Yesterday was such a day. Technical stuffs I guess. But I have to move on.

Mood: Discouraged :(