MaRvELgAL. Drunk When Sober.

I had such a blast last weekend when I was back in KL.

First stop, Friday night upon arrival – CHAR KUEY TEOW at Ming Tien, Damansara. The Char Kuey Teow is so so la, I know can get better ones anywhere, but anywhere is fine since anywhere is better than Singapore’s Char Kuey Teow which is basically noodles with sugar water. Have I ever mentioned that Ming Tien has the best Hokkien noodles ar? Damn syiok. Had a plate of that also. And grilled sambal stingray with sugarcane juice.

Saturday morning woke up at 9am which to me was a miracle. But I had a mission. Went downstairs, grabbed my dad’s electric guitar and started jamming with dad and sister and 2 amps plus piano. Dad was on bass and I was the lead. Mostly strumming and humming the solos, hahahahaha. We played lots of Beatles, Maroon 5, Rod Stewart, My Chemical Romance, Scorpions, Muse and Guns N Roses. The real deal, not Guitar Hero material. Dad printed a whole stack of music with chords already, very prepared. We jammed about half a day, very enjoyable.

On piano, I have pretty much conquered Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, now trying to perfect Johannes Brahm’s Intermezzo in a Major, Op. 118 No. 2. Tough piece to play but lovely to hear. Here is the track if you are interested: http://alturl.com/x545. I’m wondering if I will ever perfect the piece. Not very confident though. Although piano had an overhaul, some lower keys couldn’t be fixed, so it was still out of tune. Most apparent one was my C# and C.

Afterwards, we drove to Ulu Yam for best Loh Mee and really best lor. It was at this old Chinese kampung area, quite hidden, in a shop that also doubles as a house. I have never ever eaten such nice Loh Mee before in my entire life, just the right portion of sourish taste and vinegar and noodles cooked perfectly, with ice guava juice. Then, we drove up to Genting in the hopes of, always, wanting to win money. First of, me and my sister played at the arcade, did some dance dance revolution, some silent hill shooting, some more crap shooting then some music games which I RULED. Sister wanted to play that Para Para dancing game but machine was not found. After about spending RM50 on arcade machines, we then went to meet my parents at the casino hall. Dad was on his usual jackpot slot machine and mum was at table. We all played on for a few more hours, we left poorer than when we arrived. So there.

On Sunday, we spent the entire afternoon lazing around, and about 6 o clock, we had BBQ to celebrate Father’s Day. Burnt some chicken wings, squids, fish, broccoli, abalone mushrooms, prawns and sweet potatoes. Mum boiled dessert too, some herbal stuff to prevent ‘heatiness’ after all the food. Later at night, went out for supper at mamak.

It was a really good weekend. I love my family. We are very close and I think nothing will ever change that. I am grateful.

You say you gotta go and find yourself
You say that you’re becoming someone else
Don’t recognize the face in the mirror
Looking back at you

You say you’re leaving as you look away
I know there’s really nothing left to say
Just know I’m here whenever you need me
I’ll wait for you

So I’ll let you go
I’ll set you free
And when you see what you need to see
When you find you come back to me

Take your time I won’t go anywhere
Picture you with the wind in your hair
I’ll keep your things right where you left them
I’ll be here for you

Oh and I’ll let you go
I’ll set you free
And when you see what you need to see
When you find you come back to me

And I hope you find everything that you need
I’ll be right here waiting to see
You find you come back to me

I can’t get close if you’re not there
I can’t get inside if there’s no soul to bear
I can’t fix you I can’t save you
It’s something you have to do

So I’ll let you go
I’ll set you free
And when you see what you need to see
When you find you come back to me
Come back to me
So I’ll let you go
I’ll set you free
And when you see what you need to see
When you find you come back to me

And I hope you find everything that you need
I’ll be right here waiting to see 
You find you come back to me

When you find you come back to me 
When you find you come back to me
When you find you come back to me

- David Cook 

I’ve just watched Twilight last Sunday, and I absolutely adore the movie, more than the book. The book, to me, was unreadable. I brought it with me to Phuket but only started reading it on the plane back to Singapore. Luckily it was a gift from Sue, else I won’t buy it hehe. Read a few first pages and totally lost interest. I feel it was badly written, compared to the Harry Potter series and Sweet Valley High. Yes I used to read Sweet Valley High. Which girl hasn’t?

Anyways, I was also curious about the hoo-ha of Twilight so I decided to watch the movie.

One word.

Supermegauberfantasticorgasmicawesomebeyondwordsmakemewanttodateavampire.

And…

Rob Pattinson is cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rob Pattinson is cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rob Pattinson is cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rob Pattinson is cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rob Pattinson is cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve already started to notice him as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and… anyway he’s cute!!!!!!

Please don’t ask me why a soon to be 29 year old chic like me would behave like a 12 year old hot blooded girl and always ever thirsting for hot blooded cutie like Rob Pattinson, Jerry Yan and Wu Chun. I just do.

So now, I am currently repetitively listening to the Twilight album, both the score and the original soundtrack (thanks to MsGreen). I love all the songs. I especially like Leave Out All The Rest by Linkin Park, Supermassive Black Hole by Muse (good fit to the baseball game), Flightless Bird American Mouth by Iron & Wine, Never Think by Rob Pattinson (he CAN SING y’all and even plays the guitar and even plays the piano omg what a talented vampire) and my mostest favouritest will be Bella’s Lullaby by Carter Burwell (although this instrumental piece is short but it’s so haunting and lovely). I really like the tune of the piano, the way the melody goes high and low and high and low.

Looking forward to the sexual sequel.

I wanna date a vampire also. How to find one? Must be cute like Edward Cullen.

Getting my period (finally), is an awesome thing. It’s definitely a de-stress thing. Hahahaha. I’ve been missing my period for 2 weeks oredi, so finally it came last Friday. Which was a huge relieve for my uterus. Cos the want-to-come-out is probably what’s making my entire body moody. Come but don’t come, come but don’t come. But after come out blood leh, I feel all pretty and beautiful liao.

My English is sucking to the max lor. I have to stop hanging around Singaporeans sia. Can’t stop it, so kanasai leh.

Anyways, I found my peace.

It’s music.

I don’t know why I’ve been ignoring this big part of me in my life.

I used to do this. First thing in the morning, wake up and turn on my walkman phone. Sing in the shower with whatever that’s playing. In the weekends, I plug my walkman phone to my laptop, then plug in another USB speaker, boot up my Winamp – and there it is – a super surround sound system, with an incredible playlist ranging from classic rock to pop to Jpop to Cantopop to Thai rock. Anything goes. Sometimes I sing along when I know the lyrics. And while doing so, I reorganize my playlist as though people other than myself gives a fuck. I turn on the “Listening to” function so everybody in my Messenger list knows what I’m listening to.

It sounds cliche, but that is the truth. I can be at peace just plugging into my walkman phone in a 5 hours journey bus, I can do nothing but listen to my music. Of course that rarely happens cos both of my hands would be occupied with my DS as well, but you get the point.

These days I don’t do that anymore. I would be so busy yapping away about work, or thinking about work and when I come home, I boot up my laptop to play Pet Society. Not to say Pet Society doesn’t de-stress me, but it’s a totally different thing. I think nothing in this world can replace what music can do to me. Bring me at peace and forget about all the other stuff and nonsense.

I’d try to concentrate on the lyrics and the message of the song. Try to catch the beating of the drum and the solo of the guitar. Try to catch the chords and the melody. Try to listen to the voice, the intonation, the tone, the breathing. Then I forget about all the other stuff and nonsense. Forget about recession for a while. Forget about money for a while.

Do you often find yourself listening to a certain song which bring back memories? Music does that to me all the time. Whenever I listen to Beyond, I think about the days when I was working in KL and hanging around with groupie and jamming and yumcha at Pan. Whenever I listen to oldies, I reminisce about my grandfather. Whenever I listen to Britney Spears, I think about my teenager days and how I was so in love with her I just wanna be like her and dress up like her. Some songs remind me of my previous relationships and friendships. It’s amazing how music can just trigger a certain memory, just like a photograph can. With photos you visually see the smiling faces and the backdrop and what happened when you took the photo that time. With music, everything’s in your head, the photographic memories you captured, emotions you felt at that time and how that particular song either tells you everything’s gotta be alright or makes you wonder what if things could get worse.

That’s my peace anyway. I hope you’d find yours, whatever it is.

Last couple of weekends, I was at Heeren’s HMV. I had wanted to get The Office DVDs but in the end I didn’t cos I was too stingy to part with my money just to buy Season 1 and Season 2. I’ve finished watching both seasons anyway, I’m just buying for the sake of buying to support the show. It’s a great comedy series by the way, I can’t emphasize more.

I sampled a couple of CDs.

The first was Guns N Roses’ latest album, Chinese Democracy. Not good, not very impressive.

I also sampled this album, it was on the shelf and it caught my attention:

Man this chick has awesome vocals considering it’s a live performance! I’ve never heard of this band before but this album is definitely better than the new Guns N Roses. Her voice is haunting, actually kinda reminds of me the Evanescence band. But this is more goth sia.

Wiki says:

Within Temptation is a Dutch metal band. The band was founded in 1996 by vocalist Sharon den Adel and guitarist Robert Westerholt. Their music is variously described as symphonic metal, as well as gothic metal, although in an interview, Den Adel said they fell into a symphonic rock genre with various influences, and in a later interview with 3VOOR12, Sharon stated that "we consider ourselve more a symphonic rock/metal band…we are in my opinion no gothic band".

Thanks to a certain Captain, I’ve got a copy of this album and am listening to it faithfully. Cmon, even the vocalist’s name, Sharon den Adel sounds so fucking cool la. Combining rock elements with strings omg, how awesome is this.

Best.

within temptation metropole orchestra black symphony

That I would be good even if I did nothing
That I would be good even if I got the thumbs down
That I would be good if I got and stayed sick
That I would be good even if I gained ten pounds

That I would be fine even even if I went bankrupt
That I would be good if I lost my hair and my youth
That I would be great if I was no longer queen
That I would be grand if I was not all knowing

That I would be loved even when I numb myself
That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed
That I would be loved even when I was fuming
That I would be good even if I was clingy

That I would be good even if I lost sanity
That I would be good
Whether with or without you

~ Alanis Morissette

After sooooooooo many times of trying on contests and being unlucky in lucky draws I finally won something omg omg OMG!!!!

Was seating in cab and watching an advertisement on TV behind the front seat, don’t know why I’d do that because usually I’d immense myself in the morning newspaper or my mobile phone, but that day I watched tv instead, bombarded myself with advertisements after advertisements after advertisements.

But one advert caught my eye.

"SMS to win a pair of free concert tickets to Rihanna on 13th November, be the 20th sender…. something something" See I don’t even remember the advert details.

I had wanted to go anyway but it was OK if I missed the concert because no one would go with me, so I tried my luck without much hope at all.

AND I GOT THE SMS TODAY WHILE HAVING MY LUNCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I AM SO FUCKING HAPPY BECAUSE I’VE NEVER WON ANYTHING IN MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW GOOD IT FEELS OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE ICABTV I LOVE ICABTV I LOVE ICABTV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m going with my boyfriend. Boh pian. *ahem* He was considering it, choosing between Rihanna, the most delicious R&B artist in the whole world with damn nice dance songs and angelic voice…. and futsal. He really deserves a thousand deaths if he chooses futsal. Right?

I love Rihannaaaaaaaaa, can’t wait to see you this Thursday, babe.

Umbrella ella-ella-ella-ella me. Ella-ella-ella me.