so yea it was father's day today and my family and i had celebrated that yesterday but still we went out again today to like you know just hang out and have some family time. so as usual being the youngest and usually have less power in a conversation (when your the youngest you can only be a supporter in conversations and hardly the trigger. that kinda sucks but oh well)so i'll usually listen only. well i had my ipod with me but it was a small car and i could hear what they were saying. so the conversation is about my dad wanted to go watch prince of persia at MBO in desa petaling. and both of my sisters who are the reason why i blog about this post responded with reasons that i think is legitimately dumb.
see my two sisters unlike me, gives way too much shit on brands, what other people think, very want face those type of people and you know basically blinded by materializm, recognition, brands you know those qualities of show off. and here's some of the reasons they say...."wah if people see me at there, i will very no face", "isn't midvalley closer ?(compared to desa petaling when we are living in seri petaling","i rather spend 12 bucks just to see a movie at a better cinema" and etc. now here's the thing they have never been to MBO and they are judging the book by its freaking goddam cover. i mean really? spending 12 bucks for the same movie while you can spend 9? its not bout the money comparison but its more towards teh logic .even i've not been there. so why not try it? what is so painful in trying new things?
so one of my sister went and we walked in. bounded by her stereotypical judgment on how the book's content is based on its cover, she was silent by the actual place is. yea sure there's like 10% of room for complain but hey i fell in love with that place man. i think its the perfect place to go to during the weekdays and i've never wanted to watch movies so much eversince today. and btw prince of persia is 5stars to me. fucking awesome. whats more awesome is that,in that cinema, only 10 people were occupying it. so think bout weekdays!!!!have to go back there. and its cheap too.
ok back to the topic. yea i can't stand some people who are not rich but tries to pretend to be rich by "oh i only go to this place, oh i can only go to these kinda stalls". i mean like really? are you serious? i mean hey my family is not uber rich neither were poor but still i'm sort of disgusted by these people behave at times. not pissed but disgusted. so have any of you 3 to 1 readers encounter people like these? even those people that likes to say oh i was in this club at that time, i was in that event (when they are not!!!)
note* lazy to edit my grammar and whatever. wants to haz dinnaz
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Saturday, June 5, 2010
thoughts: book smart/street smart
a couple of days ago i had a serious talk with wilson regarding...the future. it wasn't like any other conversation topics that both he and i usually talk about. and that midnight thinking has gotten serious. we were talking bout business. doing business that is. he went for a drink with the head of gsc i think. some big shot guy in gsc and he asked, so "mr. XXX how did you start out this franchise cinema company at first when there are some competitors that are bigger than you are?" and mr. XXX replied "wilson.....in this world is whether you have the balls to fail or not" or in cantonese because thats what he said (tai lei shi hmm shi tak hei mou) and suddenly i had an awakening. i opened my eyes.
i told wilson, not many people in the business course will actually want to start up a company. i don't know whats the reason but i guess maybe the depth of our studies has actually frighten us to even go through all these lengthy process to set up one. but i also have to bear in mind, everything starts small. and i've been actually thinking bout it even before he and i had this talk. and after the "talk", i've decided to offer my services of teaching guitar to high school kids when my holidays takes off.
i think if you relate guitar to business in terms of the debate of book smarts or street smarts, its pretty similar. you have one guy who has no formal working experience who just graduated from college with a business degree. he knows WHY things are run this way and that way. he got the theory goin on for him. he has that educational guidance and benefit. he doesn't need to learn things fully the hard way as he went through 4 years of theoretical understanding when it comes to opening a business. but he don't know HOW things are run. thats his flaws eventhough he will learn and pick things fast.
and then you got the other guy who has no formal tertiary education background but started working as soon as he comes out of high school. and he either climb his way to the ladder in a company, or he opens up a business himself. he knows HOW things are run after being in the field for quite a while and he probably need to learn it the hard way. with no guidance and only the internet and his friends to rely on. or even cheap seminars. his mistakes give him harder remembrance as lessons learned compared to reading why companies failed in books. but he might not necessarily know WHY things are run. he might know one aspect is done like this but he might not know the other aspects that can be linked to higher success.
now if you relate this to guitar....personally yea, i still suck a lot in guitar, in trying to be a shredder. but i'm also a pretty alright as a mediocre guitarist that can help new guitarist to pass my standards. i know nothing bout music theory and everything all these time signature or etc etc. i don't know. but if there's one thing i know , i learned and i experienced in guitar is that, i self learned it and with the help of some of my friends like chun kiat, randall, wei loong and others(i think thats it)i think i'm doin pretty fine. i've got my hard lessons learned that is in my brain. and personally in terms of guitar, i'm a street smart. still a learning street smart and this is what i'll be teaching to people who wants to play guitar but only songs they like and not musical theories.
i tried taking up lessons when i was 14, classical guitar lessons and frankly it was horrible and it was boring. it was nothing that i wanted to play and it is not even a fraction of what i love at all. i like electric but all i have was a classical that time. so after a month i quit guitar until 6 years later or so when i was reintroduce to guitar through chun kiat. and i was learning it the hard way but its what i love doing. i like practicing the enter sandman riffs or the seven nation army solo....everything is what i like playing. and yea there are some pros and cons towards my approach of teching people this way. like some will say its not the proper way of learning guitar. but i would firmly believe that its easier to learn theory when you got the skills to play it. also, your playing what you love. nothing beats that.
i told wilson, not many people in the business course will actually want to start up a company. i don't know whats the reason but i guess maybe the depth of our studies has actually frighten us to even go through all these lengthy process to set up one. but i also have to bear in mind, everything starts small. and i've been actually thinking bout it even before he and i had this talk. and after the "talk", i've decided to offer my services of teaching guitar to high school kids when my holidays takes off.
i think if you relate guitar to business in terms of the debate of book smarts or street smarts, its pretty similar. you have one guy who has no formal working experience who just graduated from college with a business degree. he knows WHY things are run this way and that way. he got the theory goin on for him. he has that educational guidance and benefit. he doesn't need to learn things fully the hard way as he went through 4 years of theoretical understanding when it comes to opening a business. but he don't know HOW things are run. thats his flaws eventhough he will learn and pick things fast.
and then you got the other guy who has no formal tertiary education background but started working as soon as he comes out of high school. and he either climb his way to the ladder in a company, or he opens up a business himself. he knows HOW things are run after being in the field for quite a while and he probably need to learn it the hard way. with no guidance and only the internet and his friends to rely on. or even cheap seminars. his mistakes give him harder remembrance as lessons learned compared to reading why companies failed in books. but he might not necessarily know WHY things are run. he might know one aspect is done like this but he might not know the other aspects that can be linked to higher success.
now if you relate this to guitar....personally yea, i still suck a lot in guitar, in trying to be a shredder. but i'm also a pretty alright as a mediocre guitarist that can help new guitarist to pass my standards. i know nothing bout music theory and everything all these time signature or etc etc. i don't know. but if there's one thing i know , i learned and i experienced in guitar is that, i self learned it and with the help of some of my friends like chun kiat, randall, wei loong and others(i think thats it)i think i'm doin pretty fine. i've got my hard lessons learned that is in my brain. and personally in terms of guitar, i'm a street smart. still a learning street smart and this is what i'll be teaching to people who wants to play guitar but only songs they like and not musical theories.
i tried taking up lessons when i was 14, classical guitar lessons and frankly it was horrible and it was boring. it was nothing that i wanted to play and it is not even a fraction of what i love at all. i like electric but all i have was a classical that time. so after a month i quit guitar until 6 years later or so when i was reintroduce to guitar through chun kiat. and i was learning it the hard way but its what i love doing. i like practicing the enter sandman riffs or the seven nation army solo....everything is what i like playing. and yea there are some pros and cons towards my approach of teching people this way. like some will say its not the proper way of learning guitar. but i would firmly believe that its easier to learn theory when you got the skills to play it. also, your playing what you love. nothing beats that.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
thoughts: group assignments.
i'm left in waiting mode for i think 45 minutes so i decided to blog about group asisgnment which i am doing right now. i guess for anyone of you whoever work with anybody at all which you obviously did by now will definitely recognize that in any particular group, there will be one that stops the track. there will be one that is held under the captivity of negativity(lolol reference from t-bag). hence lets just put it direct coz its my blog. there will be one that is fucked up.
i had this conversation with a white boy named kin yew and he told me that in his experience in his college group assignemnts, he has this one friend that sticks to him. ps. its a code in life where you must have something sticking to you in order to lean on. ok so anyways he told me yea he's cool together, in class were together but really in terms of working with him, he's horrible man. first of all he's not fluent in writing and really he's just a burden.so i ask him what he did? did he tell him? well he wanted to but eventually he kinda pity him coz he has nobody and etc etc. and he's a nicer guy than i am.
this is the problem with college assignments man. you just had this one bad group mate that you don't want to stick around and really my requirements is not too high for a group mate you know. if you can work and write and be able to contribute then yea. but if you don't, what good are you? its not some kinda company where there's hr department and shit and its not like being the leader of an assignment gives you the power to fire off someone. no you can't. and telling to lecturer will totally not work. coz they are sort of the client and they don't and do not need to care what shit goes off behind the curtain. and this is the problem that i'm having. (i didin't tell the lecture. thats a loser move)
so what happens if you tell that person off? are you gonna live your college life in lesser comfort? coz lets be honest, friction is bound to occur if you would've ditch that person. its sort of like "hey we can be friends but we can't work together" i mean yea i would do that but its sort of revolving people around you and you don't want them to go to college feeling uncomfortable. i mean i would fuck it but still a certain amount of ease will definitely be gone. and next year is my final year...and i think i'm ready to do whatever it takes just to get what i want and what i don't want...coz i'm just that kinda person.
i had this conversation with a white boy named kin yew and he told me that in his experience in his college group assignemnts, he has this one friend that sticks to him. ps. its a code in life where you must have something sticking to you in order to lean on. ok so anyways he told me yea he's cool together, in class were together but really in terms of working with him, he's horrible man. first of all he's not fluent in writing and really he's just a burden.so i ask him what he did? did he tell him? well he wanted to but eventually he kinda pity him coz he has nobody and etc etc. and he's a nicer guy than i am.
this is the problem with college assignments man. you just had this one bad group mate that you don't want to stick around and really my requirements is not too high for a group mate you know. if you can work and write and be able to contribute then yea. but if you don't, what good are you? its not some kinda company where there's hr department and shit and its not like being the leader of an assignment gives you the power to fire off someone. no you can't. and telling to lecturer will totally not work. coz they are sort of the client and they don't and do not need to care what shit goes off behind the curtain. and this is the problem that i'm having. (i didin't tell the lecture. thats a loser move)
so what happens if you tell that person off? are you gonna live your college life in lesser comfort? coz lets be honest, friction is bound to occur if you would've ditch that person. its sort of like "hey we can be friends but we can't work together" i mean yea i would do that but its sort of revolving people around you and you don't want them to go to college feeling uncomfortable. i mean i would fuck it but still a certain amount of ease will definitely be gone. and next year is my final year...and i think i'm ready to do whatever it takes just to get what i want and what i don't want...coz i'm just that kinda person.
Monday, May 17, 2010
thoughts: people with music
this post generally divides people who listens to music into two categories.... rock(rock metal, hard shit you know) and pop (those sad love songs and sadder content songs).there's a special friend of mine who made a comment similar to this saying, if i listen to more of those heavy music, it could make me more hot tempered, increase high blood pressure, you know basically leading to more messed up scenarios. and i beg to differ and this is where the post starts....*rock music playing da da da da da dam dam da du du du du du deeeeeee(pinch harmonics)(can you tell thats the new avenged sevenfold song that is coming out along with the album?)
i would totally think that this post is written from a non-buyers perspective. trust me...my fellow readers....trust me. i would love to begin with rock.one general perception over this genre of music is that its noise. and that bugs the shit out of me each time when i ask or people ask me bout rock music from the pop world. "its noisy" NO its not. do you even have ear? your not supposed to listen to only the singer's voice man. but everything as a whole. and if you would take that in, you would find its a pretty good tool to release your anger. stress whatever shit you know. now rock music imo totally lets a person have their own private time to like you know"fuck this shit". let every anger or emotion that you have out. and usually its only that time where you could see us people having that attitude. i think we are generally the more calmed and seeing things from a logical perspective instead of getting emo-ed up person. its only this genre that provides you lines like "we're all gonna die, so lets get high"," i was told to stay away, those two words i can't obey" you know and etc etc etica.
now if we move towards the other side, pop, usually, music listeners of genre prefer more ballad stuff. and hey i love ballads too. it sounds good and all. but really this genre and this type of music really makes you emo-ed up even more. i would say listening to more of these sad love songs, makes you sad even more, get frustrated over little things that don't really matter much and you know.....drama. the word sums everything up. as much as i love carrie underwood, damn most of her songs are like saying how could you treat me this way, or the korean song, i'm so stupid. those songs are nice, but it really makes a person even more messed up than ever. alright think bout this, you got one person that listens to "dear, am i not good enough for you?" and then you got the otherside world that has this"honey your not that good for me". and whats worst is that, when pop songs write something that cheers themselves up, it always seems horrible for the guys. like..big girls don't cry. can you imagine that shit if a guy sings that song? the song is nice but its really not for the dudes. even if its backstreet boys who are singing songs like that.
to conclude, i can't see anyone who listens to rock shit gets more emo or messed up than people who listens to pop. and yet we(heavy music listeners) are dubbed the trouble ones. say what?that makes no sense. in the scenario of us rocking out , pop listeners amplified their emoness when they are listening to their songs. and then it take them exceptionally long to wake up from it. and maybe someone write songs like "i will survive" then only they wake up....and then only they know.
i would totally think that this post is written from a non-buyers perspective. trust me...my fellow readers....trust me. i would love to begin with rock.one general perception over this genre of music is that its noise. and that bugs the shit out of me each time when i ask or people ask me bout rock music from the pop world. "its noisy" NO its not. do you even have ear? your not supposed to listen to only the singer's voice man. but everything as a whole. and if you would take that in, you would find its a pretty good tool to release your anger. stress whatever shit you know. now rock music imo totally lets a person have their own private time to like you know"fuck this shit". let every anger or emotion that you have out. and usually its only that time where you could see us people having that attitude. i think we are generally the more calmed and seeing things from a logical perspective instead of getting emo-ed up person. its only this genre that provides you lines like "we're all gonna die, so lets get high"," i was told to stay away, those two words i can't obey" you know and etc etc etica.
now if we move towards the other side, pop, usually, music listeners of genre prefer more ballad stuff. and hey i love ballads too. it sounds good and all. but really this genre and this type of music really makes you emo-ed up even more. i would say listening to more of these sad love songs, makes you sad even more, get frustrated over little things that don't really matter much and you know.....drama. the word sums everything up. as much as i love carrie underwood, damn most of her songs are like saying how could you treat me this way, or the korean song, i'm so stupid. those songs are nice, but it really makes a person even more messed up than ever. alright think bout this, you got one person that listens to "dear, am i not good enough for you?" and then you got the otherside world that has this"honey your not that good for me". and whats worst is that, when pop songs write something that cheers themselves up, it always seems horrible for the guys. like..big girls don't cry. can you imagine that shit if a guy sings that song? the song is nice but its really not for the dudes. even if its backstreet boys who are singing songs like that.
to conclude, i can't see anyone who listens to rock shit gets more emo or messed up than people who listens to pop. and yet we(heavy music listeners) are dubbed the trouble ones. say what?that makes no sense. in the scenario of us rocking out , pop listeners amplified their emoness when they are listening to their songs. and then it take them exceptionally long to wake up from it. and maybe someone write songs like "i will survive" then only they wake up....and then only they know.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
thoughts: 21st birthday.
thats it. no more a(udio)logs. fuck that shit. anyways... whats the big deal with people and their 21st birthdays? note that i don't mean to talk bad about anyone who might be having thier own 21st birthday and etc. i mean practically everybody talks bout doing something huge on their 21st birthday? why 21st? is it because you reach adulthood thats why it calls for a bigger celebration? is it because you get the key in life? well personally from my non partying lifestyle ways, i think 21st birthday shouldn't be about having lots of people eating with you and dancing towards pitbulls horrible shitty single and yea other stuff like getting drunk. tell you the truth, i never throw a single party in my life so far. i'm just not too into that. but really, its like the next day you wake up after your big ole party, what are you gonna do? its just gonna be an ordinary day. posting pictures on facebook...replying shitty comments on facebook, dota etc etica etica. heck you haven't even finish college by then so really whats the point?
now there's a reason why i'm writing this. there's always a reason and there's always something to write. yea i'm not talking bout people shouldn't throw parties or its lame to think of something big because your hitting 21. i'm just writing this because i'm having pressure from people around me who are turning 21. all of them are like making it big like its their sweet 16 parties. even my best friend told me he wants to do something big like playing guitar in front a bunch of people and i gotta do it with him. i was like wo wo wo..its not a wedding. its just your 21st time being reborn again into the nightmare of aging. quite frankly if and when people ask me , so hey vincent what you plan to do on your 21st birthday? i'll say...whatever(fullstop)and yea people who bring their parties into a club and getting wasted? brilliant. thats how you celebrate birthdays!
also. whats with chinese people and casinos? i'm telling you man in life (in malaysia) no matter who you are or what you are, your bound to hear this."i'm gonna go to genting's casino on my 21st birthday". what is so magical bout that place that almost every single fucking chinese wants to go there when they hit double decades and a 1? i just don't get it. what kinda word of mouth marketing scam did lim go tong figured out before he opened that place? "hmm i'm gonna slowly spread the word that its a custom to go to genting's casino when they are 21 and "win" some money"....""of course its ME who is WINNING.....HAHAHHA(evil laugh)"...*pray to those little ghost underground*.whatever it is he's a genius to trick young minds into giving him some greens.
so i wanna know...what did you do for your 21st birthday or what are you gonna do for your 21st birthday?
now there's a reason why i'm writing this. there's always a reason and there's always something to write. yea i'm not talking bout people shouldn't throw parties or its lame to think of something big because your hitting 21. i'm just writing this because i'm having pressure from people around me who are turning 21. all of them are like making it big like its their sweet 16 parties. even my best friend told me he wants to do something big like playing guitar in front a bunch of people and i gotta do it with him. i was like wo wo wo..its not a wedding. its just your 21st time being reborn again into the nightmare of aging. quite frankly if and when people ask me , so hey vincent what you plan to do on your 21st birthday? i'll say...whatever(fullstop)and yea people who bring their parties into a club and getting wasted? brilliant. thats how you celebrate birthdays!
also. whats with chinese people and casinos? i'm telling you man in life (in malaysia) no matter who you are or what you are, your bound to hear this."i'm gonna go to genting's casino on my 21st birthday". what is so magical bout that place that almost every single fucking chinese wants to go there when they hit double decades and a 1? i just don't get it. what kinda word of mouth marketing scam did lim go tong figured out before he opened that place? "hmm i'm gonna slowly spread the word that its a custom to go to genting's casino when they are 21 and "win" some money"....""of course its ME who is WINNING.....HAHAHHA(evil laugh)"...*pray to those little ghost underground*.whatever it is he's a genius to trick young minds into giving him some greens.
so i wanna know...what did you do for your 21st birthday or what are you gonna do for your 21st birthday?
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