Guitar & Me.

Holidays again... I've been waiting for it for soooooo long alr. The busy life in school makes me feel disgusting, and be weary of it. Shits~ ><". Well, I am going to start my "talk" today. It's about guitar, my guitar and me. I started to learn guitar when I was Form 1. I m clearly remember how I contacted to music, through my guitar...

Starting Journey with Guitar.

It was holidays, after UPSR. When I was on the way to go home, suddenly My FM played a song. It was 恋爱ing, i remember. Good song, and it attracted me to listen it. Since that time, I knew what is MayDay. Mayday is a Taiwan band. They are truly good in playing music, giving people lifes and letting people know what is really music be. The band has 1 vocalist (A-shin), 2 guitarist (Monster & Stone), 1 bassist (Masa), and 1 drummer (Guan-you).. So, I started to notice MayDay. What a coincidence that MayDay released their new album that time. It was 知足最真杰作选. At the same time, my dad was going to China, so i asked him to buy me their album (as the price were cheaper). After so long waiting for it, my dad came back and he really bought it for me. In this album, I like 知足 the most. I kept playing, and playing in the music player. Omg, that was really cool. The clean piano sounds had brought me to another world, which was full of pride. And i heard the acoustic guitar sound in the song. Clean and pleasant to ears.. Hence, the feeling of playing guitar fulfiled my heart... I thought, what if i can be like Monster, playing with his cool guitar on the stage, enjoy the clapping of the audiences...

Determined to Learn.

My dad oso knows guitar, and he played it when i was still small. I still remember that he always played that while singing some old songs. He told me that he bought an acoustic guitar for himself at about 200 sth when he was 17/18 sth. That was really a big amount of money that time. He said that he never regret of it. The guitar very old, even "older" than me, and it spoilt as its neck cracked.. I told him I wanted to learn guitar. It was suprised he said YES without thinking more. He agreed. At first, he teached me a bit about some open chords that he knows. But at the same time, he was doing his best to find a guitar teacher for me. I touched... And finally, my dad had found the greatest guitar teacher in Melaka, Ice for me. I m lucky, as i could meet him and be his student. Ice, can say as a legend name for every underground rocker. He is well known with his great guitar skills, drumming skills and so on. He has a studio, named as Ice Music Paradise which is located behind of the Mahkota Parade, or i should say is around that area. The studio is my classroom for guitar lesson. He has a long hair when i first saw him. 100 % looks like an artist. Yes, he is really a great artist in music. I started to learn with him since June or July of 2006, when I was still a small form 1 kid. A strenuous effort are needed for beginner to start their guitar journey. The guitarist must experience the forming of callus in his fingertips. It was a painful experience, but i was lucky that i did not give up so easily. I passed the "first test" for learning guitar. ^^"

First Performance

I had my first performance, with guitar in 2007. It was January.. My school had a orientation for all the form 1 new students. Vincent, my senior asked me to perform for Kelab Kebudayaan Cina (I joined the Kelab Kebudayaan Cina, just because of this is the only club in my school has Guitar Group, but... haih...). He found my classmate, Seah for me and asked her to be the vocalist. This was the first time we cooperated. After a long time of thinking, we decided to play a song, called 依然是朋友. We went school to practise when holidays, December. I admit, my guitar skills for that time really sucks, very very sucks. I don know everything, just a bit basic. But i think i'd done my best to perform it.. I used my old guitar for this. That was the only performance i used this guitar. Very very gam jiong b4 the performance started, even though that was just a small small function. It was a short time on the stage, just 3 to 4 minutes, or even less. When finished the song, the clapping sound "moved" into my ears... The feeling of "syok-ness" made me fall in love with stages. I am here to thank to Seah, who was my partner for my first performance. [ You left me a good memory ! ]. Besides, I also got to thank to Vincent who gave me such chance..

New guitar. Alice.

Like what I mentioned just now, my old acoustic guitar's neck cracked. So I decided to change a new one. I told my dad this. But the responds were not good as what I thought. Dad thought that the guitar still can be used. So I kept on persuading him. And finally, he nodded his head. I asked my guitar teacher, Ice to find a new guitar for me, as he can straight away contact to the supplier and get a cheaper price. He chose an acoustic which is red in colour for me. It costs 400 sth that time, but just because of I took if from my teacher, so it discounted until 350 sth. Quite worth for me... I call it as Alice, just like its brand.
Here is it ::

Wake Me Up When September Ends...

It is a song, by Green Day. A meaningful and touching song...

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when September ends

like my father's come to pass
seven years has gone so fast
wake me up when September ends

here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are

as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when September ends

summer has come and passed
the innocent can never last
wake me up when September ends

ring out the bells again
like we did when spring began
wake me up when September ends

here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are

as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when September ends

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when September ends

like my father's come to pass
twenty years has gone so fast
wake me up when September ends
wake me up when September ends
wake me up when September ends...

A cool song... Its starting intro are played by clean acoustic guitar. Nice... and easy to play as well. As a beginner, my teacher asked me to learn to play this song, in order to improve my skills. I fell for it when I first listened to it. I played it everyday, repeatedly. I practised hard to this song. This song made a very very important role in my growing guitar journey. From this song, I know Green Day, and indirectly exposed me to English songs, especially those English Punk Rock songs... I started to listen to rock songs, and love it slowly.......

Journey to ROCK !

In my school, there are seldom people who know how to play guitar. I can say, not more than 10. Almost of them like breakdancing or some kind of these. They accepted this, but I wondered that do they really accept ROCK ? I don know...

I met my 1st bandmate, Ratana Loh. He is elder than me, he was form 3, and I was form 2 that time. It was school holidays of 2007, going to 2008. And we decided to go jamming. Just 2 of us, he played as a role of drummer and I played guitar. We jammed and decided to form a band. Both of us like the feeling of ROCK. I like head banging, Ratana as well.

It was hard to find bandmate in my school. I tried so hard and cant even find a number of 5.
Genesis, once he sang in the band, but after that ... ... ;
Prisca, played bass for us. But ... Haih... ;

And more...

It was tough. And until I met May Ling. Ratana asked her to jam with me, Ratana and Genesis. I learnt many thing from her in that jamming. She is a pro guitarist, the greatest female guitarist in Melaka, or even M'sia. She is oso my senior, for SMJK Yok Bin or Ice Music School... 1st time I tested the feeling of ROCK, when jamming along with her...

So, I started to be active in underground live band since Form 2 end/ Form 3...

Electric Guitar- Bones.

I eagered to have an electric guitar. Normally, an electric guitar cost expensive. I eagered, but dare not to tell my dad about this. But one day, I finally cant tahan told him this. He said he ll consider of it. I waited, and waited. No answer came... Quite dissapointed that time.

Almost every Saturday, I ll go to my teacher's music instrument shop and see which guitar is nice.. While waiting for my new electric guitar, i saw many nice guitar gone, as "they" were bought by others... Haih... I wanted it, but failed to get it. But what I must do was just waiting, keep waiting...

I really cannot relate my uncle who do not know music with an electric guitar. But it is truth. He bought me one. I was suprised ! Really... Don know what to describe this. I don know what happened actually.. Just accepted and appreciate it, very much... ! When he bought the guitar, the guitar was 800.. :O

The guitar body has skeleton's images.. Cool... And it is unique~~ I like it very much...

I needed an amplifier, after i got an electric guitar. For ur knowledge, if there is no amplifier, the electric guitar is just like a lebih thing.. My dad bought me one secretly. He put it in my room after i got back from school. I was flying to the sky and trying to play it immediately... Omg... The sound that came out from the ampliefier was wonderful.. The amp. costs 400.. PLUS the guitar, both of these things cost 1200 sth. Horrible number for me...

Besides amp, i need a effect pedal, and we called it as Metal Zone. Something that can change the clean sound to the distortion sound, for playing ROCK usually... I was saving my money to get it. Besides, I oso asked for many "sponsors", LOL... And after 1 month hardworking, I successfully got it at the price of 350~~ To get this, I gave out a lot....

I am working hard with my guitar, going to be an advanced guitarist. I have a dream, that is achieve 30 over performance b4 I enter 17. Still a long time, and I m doing hard to do so. God Bless Me.. !

This is something about my guitar and me. It is a boring post, if u are not interested at all to know what I wanted to say. Sorry for that. ^^"



...To be continued~

My Lower Secondary School Life

Hello, I am here again to update my blog. Haha, originally i was going to update it when 14 of Feb, but tat was Kok Ming's birthday and he came to my house, so I was not able update it.. Then 21 of Feb and 28 Feb i was busy with my fucking monthly test..... Until 2day I m free again... LOL. So now, I am going to talk about my lower secondary school life in SMJK Yok Bin. From form 1 until form 3. I ll do my best to write what I still remember, so that i can do a review when i m older as I scare my memory ll be full and forget those things.

Form 1:

2006, I 1st enter SMJK Yok Bin as a nerdy form 1 student. I was arranged into 1A1. A new environment with strange place and strange face. I was a super nerd that time. Haha, why I say so ? Bcuz i don know everything in the school, i trust most of my classmates or even "form-mates" are same as me. ^^ I still rmb what i did when i first time enter my class, the feeling was so weird, not weird actually, it should be strangeful.. ALL the faces i don know were in the class, except Seng and Ziyun, who were same school as me when primary school. After settled down to select a place, I saw my old friend, Sze Han.** I forgot to mention that how we recognized each other in the last post: I went to an English Camp and knew Hanny there. We were roommate for that time. I felt his name like girls when i first knowing his name. Haha.. He was sat in front me of me that time, with Justin if not mistaken. LOL.

We had a super boring + lebih orientation in the hall for the first week. Omg... It just like a thousand years to wait for the school dismiss that time.. sibeh sien, sibeh tired after a whole long day sitting in a closed hall.

And one thing I still rmb, or i should say I will not forget in my life. When our class's 1st monitor had been chosen to be a bodoooh pengawas, the monitor place left empty and our form teacher, Pn Santha decided to choose a new one. WTH, i forgot which brainless one suggested my name and almost of our classmate had put up their hands and agreed me to be their monitor. Shit ! This is a hard job, it should be not hard actually, but for me i think it was tough bcuz I had to make sure everything were in good states.. When i just started to take this job, I gave many many many excuses to Pn Santha as I really don wanted to be the monitor. But failed. So, I was forced to do so. I told myself to do the best and be a responsible monitor. I think i'd achived it, in my heart. XD. Since that, "1A1 monitor" became my nickname. Their choice made my first year in the school became colourful, means that maybe i should thank them who agreed me and gave me such a chance to have these experiences in my life.. ^^

We were active in a forum, angels-sky when form 1. Angels-sky is a chinese forum that allow us to give comment. Me and friends alwx chatted in the 1A1 forum room. That was really happy and i think this was the way we improved our friendship. Since August, i think, I everyday logged in to the web and chatted with friends there. But as we are growing up, the website had neglected by all of us. I can guarantee almost of us had neglected it. And now, the web has disappeared. But the memory with this is now in our mind, i believe.

Here, I wanted to thank to all of my 1A1 classmates who celebrated my birthday in the class. Thank to Pn Santha, thank to guys... I really appreciate it very much ! Thank you all....... I ll keep it in my mind forever~ ^^

I had a great form 1 life, with growing in everything, such as managing skills, leadership, friendship and so on.....

Form 2:

2A1.. It was a good memory as a part of my school life....

In this year, we formed 4S.
In this year, I had my first guitar performance in Yok Bin, with Seah.
In this year, I knew Kok Ming.
In this year, I knew many seniors, Vincent, Yong Chern and so on..
In this year, I started to improve socialisation skills.
In this year, I know what how power is important to someone.
In this year, I know what is hypocrisy among classmates.
In this year, I fell for her.
In this year, I know what is "bear your own consequences" after doing wrongs.
In this year, I started to join underground live band...

And many "in this year" else.......

Let say some special incidents, for me that happened this year. It was March, my library teacher, Pn Tan Mei Leng found me when reccess time. I was chuak. She wanted me to be the "in-charger" in the 1st reccess of library. I was glad to do so. I think I'd done my best for this job.. And until, I'd been choosen to be the vice president of library. When teacher announced that, I was shocked and cant imagined that I was in the high position of the AJK list. My mind went blank that time. I was just form 2, and teacher gave me a hard job that is to conduct a whole library.. I was learning to be a good leader. My socialisation is bad, sometimes i really bongkak, just like what Pn Ong said me on 5/3/09.. I admit, I m bongkak and arrogant, but this is my way to hide me from sense of inferiority. Seldom ppl understand that, and i don wish them to know so as well...

2007 year I think my happiest day was my birthday.. All of my good friends "celebrated" my birthday in mp. Haha...
Besides, we went Bon Odori in KL. This was the first time we went the events. 3S, except Seng who went to Langkawi that time, Teng Lin, Seah, and Perfect had a hyper super great day.. That was 14 of July if not mistaken, we learned what is true friends are...!!

Say frankly, i really dont like some teachers that teaching me. Fuck them off... The school is say as the cultured school, but some teachers all really "cultured"... They kepo, 八卦, like to spread nonsense around and so on.. Puiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~~ Some teachers i nvr appreciate to them ! Really....

This was a beautiful years i had. No stress, no sad, only full of funs and happiness !

Form 3:

PMR years...... A bit tough, but sweet...

We entered a new life in form 3. We were going to face PMR. This year was tougher than form 2, indeed. All of us aimed for 8A's, and worked hard 2gether to achieve it. 3A1, it was the class which full of bad rumours, in the mouth of TEACHERS ! They always said that we were the worst 3A1 that they nvr ever met. We were talkactive, and playful.. And the critics to our class like will not end... Our form teacher, Pn Loo, a great teacher i've met supported us when we were in trouble and all of us tried not to dissapoint her. She is a good teacher, and a caring form teacher. She leaded our class to the peak, in my heart.. Congratulations to her for her best moment with her baby daughter... When form 3 i also met Cik Ang, one of the best teacher in my heart...

Once our class decided to change our sejarah teacher, Pn Norhaini by complaining it to our principal. We signed the approved papers as well. Haha, we were all childish and never thought of Pn Norhaini's feeling. Lol, i nvr do her works since January. She gave almost 100 pieces of exercise papers to us from the 1st to the end. But I nvr do, or even had a glance on it... That was not because of I dislike sejarah, i just think that i don need to waste my time on it.. I m sorry for that, even though i don think so the teacher ll see this post. Haha... I m proud with my sejarah results, this was the subject which i had full confidence in every test (for form 3).. Old sentence: quite boastful, but is truth. hee...

In this year, I went for quite a number of performance. Not only to increase my exposure, and also to train me to be an advanced guitarist. I enjoy every moment on the stage, with guitar... The feelings are wonderful, and unimaginable ! Here i am to thank to Sang Chuin and Ziyun who gave me chances to perform in Xin Chuan, can say as the biggest event in my school. Thank a lot... :)

June, 3S without Han, Perfect, Chiang and so on went to Genting which organized by school. It was a nice trip and we enjoyed it very much. Full of fun. We recorded a video clip for Han in the cable car. We were getting mad in the cable car, keep shouting and shaking the car. Haha... Hope that we can go together again !

My class was special. From form 1 until now, we are "classified" or "devided" into different puak or group... I give some example, just like 4S, Perfect and many "nameless" group.. We are not united at all.. And finally caused a lot of problems. Almost August or September, our class happened a big incident. A brainless dicipline teacher came, and misunderstood our class. From this incident, we can conclude that his IQ is oni below 10, he cound not interpret any rumours that came into his ears, he just know what is VIOLENCE.. he only trust what his doggy said, but nvr think... Yea, it is brainless, i think the most suitable word to describe..! We were trying to make our class become more cooperative and not to disappoint all the teachers who fed up to us... So, we discussed what to do with this. But suddenly, that teacher came in and "teached" us what is VIOLENCE. He caned some of us... who did not do anything wrong. He said that we wanted to campur tangan to his BADAN PENGAWAS stuff, but actually we were not ! We were just discussing how to become better, we told the pig. But the sturborn bastard did not trust until Mr Tay came to settle the things...
Many of us cried, after felt very wronged for it.. The tears that roll down from their eyes make them stronger and maturer. I did not cry.. Just a strong feeling of grievance in my hearts...
I believe, the incidents really make us become stronger, maturer, and wiser... The memory is still clear in my mind, but my writing skills are sucks, cannot describe the happen out clearly...

After that, we concerned on our PMR preparation... It is truly amazing how quickly time passes... We studied 3 years, jsut wait for this and beat down it. After 5 days of tensions, we were finally relieved and free............ After 2 months "hibernating", finally we waited until the day to announce our results... We got 30 straight A's in PMR and broke the record of our school. We felt proud of it. I use this results to thank to my beloved teacher, Pn Loo and my little tuiton teacher, Kok Ming. Thank you all...


~~Still a simple me, but special and unique form 3 life...

















... to be continued~