The Briefing

As Sparks and 4 other bands qualified for the semis, an official briefing by the organizers was held tonight. Change in arrangements followed and we got a lil demoralized by some things, but I'm confident we'll work things out on Monday and regain that creamy chemistry we've been jamming to lately. Feels like we're playing for someone else rather than ourselves somehow, but I guess we'll tune in. Gonna let this sink in and make the best of what we can and try to get in the finals, and of course, try to win it =)

*by the way, this daily microscope work I'm doing (~2-3 hours) is taking its toll on my eyes, they're kinda fatigued and I'm squinting too much for comfort, bleah

"Down but not never out"
Adapted from Rachel Lee =D

Carry me, Emma..

Ya know, guitars = love and great clean fun unless you're perverted beyond rescue

But, as much as I love my guitar(s), it's every (busy) guitarists' bane to carry their guitars around, especially when ya got a LONG day before you actually play.

My situation: Class starts at 9am tomorrow and we're (Sparks) playing at about 8pm.

Ah well, gotta make those sacrifices for ya passions no? Sometimes I wish my gig bag had wheels at the bottom so I could just drag em along.

Like that!

But I guess if it's a soft case, it's unlikely there'd be any wheels (looks kinda dumb too). Mine's an ESP that looks something like this

boo~

Anyway, EmergeKL finals fall on the same day as Monash Ball, so the whole band's contemplating planned absence from the not so prestigious event with an odd theme. I wanna go though, it feels like a lil personal conclusion for my Biotech Bachelor's degree which I shamelessly assume I will finish in this semester. Hmmmm, dilemmas here and there; then there's the silly issue of apparel -_-

This, is a suit. I don't have one (Been using my brother's and dad's oversized suits which results in me bringing a mini-mafia vibe every prom)

Second problem: IT'S IN FREAKING SUNWAY RESORT AfreakingGAIN!
Let's see.. Form 5 prom was in.. Ahh! Sunway Resort! SAM prom was in.. Oohh, ooh! I know I know! Yeah, you guessed it, if I go for this one, it's the freaking third ball (in a freaking row) I'll be attending at that cursed hotel.

On another hand, I found this picture kinda cute when I was googling for a picture of a suit *points up*

Walk along along along.

Boo Hoo, Ball vs Emerge Finals (cheh, not like we're in yet also -_-) hahaha

Sparks Emerge?

I gotta say, deciding to join Sparks for Laughter, my first and only band thus far, has been the best move I've done to enhance my musical side. It's the best step I've taken in music =D I've grown from a "I've-got-a-problem-hitting-the-footswitch-for-solos" guitarist to playing lead for Sweet Child O' Mine with a couple of blatant mistakes here and there with the band. I love this band.

I guess being in a band kinda makes you push yourself to finish what you did not play perfectly and that makes you grow into a better player/performer. Playing alone at home always allows you the choice to 'stop and start over' every time you hit a wrong note, which in a way, allows lil room for learning from errors. Trust me, I had a handful of errors with the band even on stage.

I'm writing fresh from a preliminary round in Jin and Tony's church, City Harvest, where we're only allowed 2 minutes to perform (though they kinda gave us a lil less somehow, ah well). We didn't get to do our best because they cut us off at the final bits, but at least I think we're quite convincing with lil or no noticeable errors. Plus, from watching the other bands, I personally boastfully and shamelessly feel we have a good chance for the finals =D *Fingers crossed* And anyway, we've done what we could, so, like the song we played, I believe we should just "let it be"

Though it's just us 4 boys this time, it still was (very) fun :p Jin played quite a blistering solo; kicker of ass he is with that sexy white les paul studio model of his.

*Oh yes, sorry for the slow set-up, boys, my bad.

Shen's pick colour of choice, it brought me luck alright, no mistakes on those scary harmonics in the quiet verses >_<>piles of rubble times of trouble,
Mother Shenny Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom,
let it be"

*pictures to come from Michelle's camera soon*

UPDATE: We're in the semi finals! Semis were added as it seems there were quite a few good bands; it was meant to be from preliminaries -> finals, but, ah well =D SPARKS! ! ! YEAH!

The hardworker and the lucky fart

I always wondered how it'd feel to break a string onstage; a situation where luck foils the best of performers. It happened to Joe Satriani in a concert that was made into a DVD (though they did a retake for that song on the spot, asking for the crowd's cooperation), and he's about as good as they get when it comes to 6-stringed instruments.

EmergeKL preliminaries coming up this weekend; an untimely reminder by Shen >_<

May this NEVER happen on stage >_<>

My pretty pretty Emma, will you fail me I fail you at the most important of times?

I think not =)

hoo ha

A casual weekend of laziness and buffet birthday dinner for my mom, which resulted in my hemispheric belly being filled to the brim; not good boy, not good.

On another note, I'm done with my first 2 parts of lab-work for my research, now to enter the third stage; Aquatic-like invertebrate identification, going into it armed with my Black-book-with-Crab-on-front-cover, previous ID-ing experience which amounts to about nothing and a microscope (I hope this is available). Looks like about at least 2-4 weeks of microscopy and dizziness, sheesh. pfft~

A lil hooked to an old Limp Bizkit song that goes..

"I did it all for the Nookie (come on!),
the nookie (come on!),
so you can take that cookie,
and stick it up your (yeah!),
stick it up your (yeah!) x 3
stick it up your~"

I pictures Sparks doing the song and laughed out loud when I pictured myself + Jin Seon screaming the bracketed parts. damn, hahaha