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Tuesday, March 30, 2004
The KL Performance at Zouk didn't go exactly well as planned, but hey, we had no microphones, no sound monitors and we got paid shit. I think that considering the short time frame we had for building a team with a new drummer and rehearsing, we did quite well. The fireflys were wonderful too... gorgeous fire and golden god like costumes. The events managers treated us like crap. We were the only performers, the rest of the show consisted of 50 models flown in from Singapore and America. Now, they were treated like Greek gods and goddesses by the event company. I hate to say this but... these models took ages to get their sequence right and it totally ate into our rehearsal time... we never got to rehearse. I felt like a dwarf with a huge drum next to these models sashaying their bamboo like figures about. Do they even eat?
I hear that we were on the news as well as on the full page covers of some magazines/news papers in KL. And I really hope we get paid proper next time, and get the mics and the damn sound monitor. I'm tired of getting dissed by party organizers, it brings the morale of the team down.
Aside from the performance we had a blast dancing the night away. Zouk was just fucking rocking. i have been so deprived of good music... and wow... we got good music that night! We saw a bunch of silly boys wrapping the Singapore flag around their bodies and pranced back and forth... I had one heck of a laugh when I saw that.
The next two nights, we were at club Atmosohere... which was another adventure all together... the next two nights involved dealing with a haunted hotel room, a friend getting piss drunk and pick pocketed, and me feeling like miss Butch carrying her back to the haunted room :) did I also mention the police raids and rude taxi driver that threw my dear puking friend out of the cab and onto the dangerous road?
Glowsticks in a jug of ice...
The crazy, sooty roads...
At central market i got to see some really shit art... and some really horrible replicas!
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Monday, March 22, 2004
Saturday Night, I was invited with a bunch of other drummers to do a 10 min gig at the Liquid Room. I think that considering it was a last minute get together, it went pretty well... althought... it could have been a lot better. We jammed with this guy who played on this gorgeous Indian drum which made everything that little bit more wonderful.
I bumped into DJ Adrian... hadn't seen him since 2000... anyway he agreed to let me drum during his set... I had a blast... enjoyed ruining his set :) alch was just pushed in my face all of that night...
Needless to say, i spent the most of Sunday puking my guts out and feeling sorry for myself.
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Saturday, March 20, 2004
Fire pics from last week's drum-fire gathering... (digital camera, night mode)
Later on in the night, I attempted this really long and heavy 6 foot staff... it felt like liquid dancing, except a lot more tiring.
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Friday, March 19, 2004
In 1995, I had a 2 hour break between classes... I took a walk down to the Warehouse on Geary, opposite the Straits Cafe... as always, i headed for the 'electronic' section and wanted to feed my old house music obsession (hey at the time, it was new and exciting), ran my fingers over the CDs and came across "Penetrate Deeper" by Deep Dish, Tribal America Records...used the last bits of change to buy the CD,...stuck it in my player.. put on the headphones... and OH MY GOD! I walked back to class half blown away by the intense beauty and soulful funk made euphoric with mysterious house beats.
A couple of months later... in the tradition of communal dormitory CD sharing... I lent it to some skinny arse dude who later denied ever borrowing it!!! Now, you can take anything... but my music is mine... and i do GRIEF when music's taken away from me! I went across the city frantically looking for the same CD... a year went by, no luck.... what remained was the CD cover...
The next thing I knew... Deep Dish, got big in New York... their music got really different, still good, just lacking that old funk, soulful feel... and then... they got so big, they became UK superstars... with their own Yoshitoshi label and all... anyway... for years... 8 years to be precise, I'd open the silly CD cover and be reminded of the loss... and tried my best to remember how it sounded, how it felt...
On thursday afternoon, I did just that... opened the CD cover, let out a deep sigh and cursed at the skinny arse who borrowed it 8 years ago... ladies and gentlemen, MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!
I made my way down to HMV looking for music to drum to for the KL Zouk opening... low and behold.... The compilation album has been re-mastered and once again FOR SALE under the Yoshitoshi record label!!!! I saw the album and let out a scream of exceitement...
"You ok, Miss?"
*Regained consciousness of surroundings* "Yeah, just really happy that's all!"
I grabbed it and put it in my CD player immediately!!! YES YES YES! It sounded just like I remembered!
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Wednesday, March 17, 2004
I was terribly honest with myself last night... and the truth was more terrifying than I could have ever imagined.
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Monday, March 15, 2004
I felt little today... I can't remember the last time I felt like a scared child... it felt like still moments swirling pass a blue painting of moving time... today, was one of those times where I couldn't see pass the weight in my chest and the tears that made, an otherwise clear world, imprecise.... grief is a strange phenomenon... it's almost like a throw back in time... to earlier losses, to earlier shadows...
For a brief moment, i thought i saw an old picture overlap the new...
anyway... i'll be performing at ZOUK in KL... the opening night
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Wednesday, March 10, 2004
My website has been "censored" or blocked off a certain local, goverment organisation's network for awhile now. Which probably means I've made it in life.
*takes a bow*
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Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Boss speaks with heavy Hong kong accent....
Boss:
What are u doing here, no courtship? it's Saturday! You don't have to be here!"
Me:
Huh?
Boss:
I Encourage all my staff to have courtship and get married"
Me:
Oh
Boss:
Even the male staff that are older and single *he then makes reference to highly effeminate older single male staff* ... he should be getting married, i told him to go for younger girls, it does not matter as long as they can reproduce."
*Boss walks away*
Me (towards other staff):
God can this place get anymore sick? My boss is telling me to have "courtship"!
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Monday, March 08, 2004
"will you stop being a counsellor and be a person!"
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Tuesday, March 02, 2004
welcome to children's art gallery
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