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i've been playing bass for more than ten years now, and if you know me enough, i've got quite a collection on my hands. none of the rare stuff, but enough to let you know that i take this hobby very seriously.some of that joy stems from rendering my services to multiple people. whether it's with leeson, my main band, i am involved with church, Kevin Mathews and his groovy …
it's a warm stuffy night in Singapore today, but i have the air conditioner running. it feels good, sitting on my bed, typing this out while listening to Ryan Adams. i'm only doing this because i have to, before the clock strikes midnight and everything falls apart.it's been a massive week, with work and picking up my bass for three consecutive days that started on thursday …
While watching Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig, I came across this dialogue in Episode 24 between Motoko Kusanagi and Kuze, where Kuze explains the manipulation of the masses due to the prevalence of information via the Internet. In it, he explains in rather far fetched terms, how he intends to save ...
we all have something that defines us. i guess this became apparent after i did that "25 things" meme, because in some sense, i was trying to find stories that would help define who i was to you.but i guess we're all trying to do that in the things we do. if i were to think of a few things that would help define me to you, if say you met me for the first time, i'd say …
did you ever get the feeling that this world was stark raving mad?suddenly i am envious of my parents, and the people from that generation.. as they get closer to retirement, i wonder if there are less things they worry about. they've earned their keep, they have a home to nest in, they're covered by insurance.. by all accounts.. life begins after you're sixty.but those of us …
Seeing that there's a content drought on my blog, i decided to rehash a meme i did on facebook last night.1. I have 4 basses. One's called Oren Ishii, and another is called Isobel. Then I stopped naming them because it felt weird giving names to my instruments and I was afraid of being labeled a loser.2. I actually started playing guitar first, but was asked my my church …
so the lunar new year came and went. i had a good break.. it was a good time to catch up with a lot of family and friends.in time, so many of us are leading our own lives, we don't have the luxury of being in school anymore and being constant in each others lives. what's more, with my friends who live or are going overseas to continue their studies, we're all gonna just keep …
maybe my age has caught up with me. i don't know, but i've been caught in situations where i have to reveal my age quite a fair amount of times just this month. not that i'm hiding behind anything, but the frequency of this social play makes me think of what the numbers mean. twenty. seven. this. year. well. actually. in. september.i'm really still twenty six. you might think …
i have a strange relationship with my country, Singapore. On one hand, i’m disheartened by the stories i read on STOMP, and on the other, there really is no place like this. And then you read magazines like Monocle, who’ve created a one page city guide of how awesome Singapore is as a business city.And ...
One day ago, TODAY newspaper announced the formation of The Association of Bloggers (Singapore). I’d actually been told of such an association forming before they went public yesterday, and when i was told then, i immediately drew a parallel to the Marvel story arc: Civil WarThe parallel is startling because of my fascination with the ...
after yesterday's bout of catharsis, it feels a lot better to "own" this space again. blogs are great communication tools, but ultimately, if they aren't personal.. they aren't really engaging.i think different blogs serve different purposes, and for the purpose of harmless? bananas! it'll always remain my personal communications tool.if you know me, at least in the past year …
this evening had me feeling rather out of sorts. if you were on plurk, i mentioned that i was feeling hostile.i wonder why, was it the throngs of people younger than me dressed in fine indie-threads (maybe not fine, but arguably indie-styled)? what was the insight or pre-disposition i was gleaming collective flocks?i dunno, maybe there was a bout of self-loathing, of the …
a little brain fart came to me the other night as i was walking home from the bus stop.as some background, i love to think of new band names.. i don't know why, but i think of possible band names more than i think of possible album titles. i guess it's got something to do with the inconsistency in which i record material. anyway, i was thinking of a band name, ohaiyo. i guess …
If you’ve ever been interested in social media, i’m sure you would have come across guide after guide of exhaustive lists of what tools you should try, what tactics you can use to make your content more sharable, or perhaps even how to write better content.that’s all well and good, but if you’re feeling swamped, ...
2009. why does a new year bring us so much promise? new budgets for the new financial year? opportunities? resolutions? another chance to get it right?hahaha, don't mind me, it's just rhetorical. i too feel some of that joy, but the natural cynic in me is just.. "meh, it's just a perception of time."but maybe that's what we need as humans, or at least being part of society.. …
welcome to the brand new singularity industries. with more and more blogs being started everyday, why would i add one more? how is one more blog going to make a difference or be heard amongst the hundreds of millions of other blogs out there?you know what? i don’t care. i don’t care if this gets ...
considering that i haven't been on a plane ever since i came back to Singapore over two years ago, it seems rather apt that i've entitled this post as it is.two years ago, at about this time, i finished my final semester in uni, got on a plane from perth and landed in Singapore. subsequently, i got on another plane and left for Hong Kong to do mission work with my then …
i think i'm spiraling from geek-dom to n3rd-dom because i laughed myself silly watching this video:awesome shortcuts from alpkan kirayoglu on Vimeo.taken from the Rhode Island School of Design Blog and contributed by one of my heroes, John Maeda
i did something rather unfamiliar today, i bought two magazines, Wired and Fast Company to be exact. in an age where print mediums are going extinct as fast as dinosaurs, many are moving online, finding an 'afterlife' in the cloud, the net, the web.. whatever you want to call it."all print goes online" as akin to "all dogs go to heaven"but i bought two magazines, on the …
so i was at a retreat over the weekend. somewhere in the western part of singapore, Neo Tiew Road to be exact. if you need a reference point, it's where all the cemetaries are are further down. but it was rather good.. i won't bore you per se with the lessons i've learnt whilst there, but not having jumped online for about 2 days.. i feel kind of 'lost' now that i'm back in …
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