teethless guitar and stage bassing

THIS is my brother's electric. quite cool eh? took this picture while waiting for him to finish his guitar class. but look closer. it's teethless. what? teethless? apa lu cakap ni?? well...

today my brother n his friend seng chye were going to perform 3 songs at endah parade (dats carrefour sri petaling) including the song collide by howie day. actually another guy, kelvin, was supposed to play lead guitar, but last minute had to attend a wedding somewhere in melaka (not his, btw) and so my brother suddenly had to play lead. so he needed me to play rhythm so he can practise his solo.

so we came all da way to subang house where all d guitars and amps are all at now (since i've shifted here...) and i strum strum strum his acoustic while he went and fiddle fiddle here and there with his solo... and den. his G-string putus. nonono, he wears briefs but i meant d G-string on his wife. nonono, not lip jeen my sis in law, d OTHER wife. his guitar!

so... we had to re-string his guitar. while he went for class i helped him take out all his old strings and that left........

a teethless guitar! haha... looks so vunerable and so weak without its strings.

anyways. we then went to endah parade and met up with seng chye and anthony-brain-is-lost who was there to sound check for them. they were in a 'hurry' so they ate at mac's while i had chicken rice at nam heong. den i joined dem at mac's and then....

seng chye goes, "hey ming wai! why don't you play bass with us?"

err....

so anyway, a few practice runs backstage then it was us.

bro n seng chye played a song called 'proud mary' where bro was on guitar and seng chye on bass. then the second song, collide. i went up and played bass and seng chye on acoustic and bro on lead. same settings for the 3rd song, interstate love song. coolness sia. playing bass for d first time in d middle of a mall. i onli played piano before in a mall, back when i was in primary school, as a performance representing my music centre, in d middle of mutiara jalan ipoh. so...

woohoo!! here are da photos... i got brain is lost to take dem for us. particularly for me lah. my camera wat.

seng chye on acoustic, bro on lead, some guy on drums, and me on bass!

so yeah... i looked kinda emo/angry on stage coz i was concentrating hard on not screwing up... altho i did screw up d ending for interstate love song a bit... didnt noe it was d ending. lolz! but d sound system wasnt good enuf larh. bass sounded twangy and bro's distortion came out like fingernails on a chalkboard. not his fault, his playing was superb. just dat d sound systems couldn't take it. something somewhere exploded when he rocked it la i guess. haha...

so yeah, dats my little day out with bro. for d record, i drove from ampang to subang to sunway to sri petaling and back to subang and den to sunway. how's dat for driving? confident enuf to sit in my car anot? haha...

tuesday?

what's on tuesday?

and so the story goes....

today was a whole day out with iris! haha... watched get smart for da 2nd time with her at pav. it still IS funny k! i laughed at every single joke... agin. no regrets! haha... had lunch at nando's.. had da weirdest pita i ever had. it was CALLED a pita but looked more like a burger. but it tasted good larh. haha...

dropped by nat's starbucks at kl plaza. got drinks on da house! and... chewing gum too. big thank you to both nat (fish) and jee for being so kind to me n iris. n btw... who goes to starbucks to drink green tea?? yeahp, u guessed it. dis lady here.




iris invited me to her church's youth function: lok lok nite! so yeah... since im looking for a church to go to, why not rite? and i might even score with a few gals there. and of coz, definitely make new friends! so... found ourselves in church at 5pm on a saturday. weird? nope. friday morning church in kelantan was weirder. haha...

we had games and all... fun all da way la. and of coz, we had our lok lok! my first time eating lok lok altho i've seen it around... im more of a steamboat person, mind you.



the lady and i. a real stunner, ain't she. wait til she opens her mouth and all her lameness is revealed. hah! somemore ppl call me lame. y'all havent met her onli ma... hahaha... im mild compared to her lameness k.

anyways... it's shifting to subang tmr for me! i'll be back on d weekends, dont worry. =D still in klang valley, no problem one. haha...

ciaoz!

the bunny suicides!!

i reli like 'the bunny suicides'. so much dat i decided to look for it online n post some here for your viewing pleasure... this one is one of my favourites!




lol. d expression on da aliens' faces are d best part. haha...

gym. gym. gym......

seafood square at jalan imbi

today, i went to...........

the home of LA LA!! well... one of them anyways. times square. went there? with whom?

with this chick. who is my lui lui... (does dat make me a BAPAK AYAM??) and close buddies since... since... whoa i cant rmbr for sure. was it form 2? anyways... long long time dy la we've been good buddies.

hi, my name is ming wai and i live on planet Earth...

anyways. went there met up with lynnett (but not before bumping into bryan) and then we proceeded to da bowling alley. where... we played two games... we got d same points for d first game... but... 2nd game...

then we went to sushi king. no idea why. just felt like it. the freedom to do what u like as and when u just feel like it is great. anyways, we sat down n nibbled a bit here n there. i got lynnett to try grilled salmon belly! haha... it was great.

then along came this disgusting looking sushi... ergh!! wasabi flavoured octopus. looked like... i duno. some slimy n disgusting thing which succesfully stopped our craving for sushi. so after dat we didnt order anything else. btw... what is octopus in bm?

after a game of foosball (i won) and a game of pool (she didnt win) we went walking around and found ourselves in borders, reading random books from d humour section.

yup, we had a good laugh. quite a few good laughs actually...

if you have spare cash, get these books. haha... damn funny.

a scene from 'the bunny suicides'. it's a one frame comic about the different ways these bunnies attempt suicide. seen here is a bunny shaking some pepper onto sauron's Eye. woohoo!

daddy n lui lui... why is she in my shadow?? argh... retake retake!!

now i look so perverted pulak. haih... hang out too much with pervs probably. my frens are all pervs. edwin, saby, vina, nat, kheng lam... just give me a name and i'll tell u he/she is a perv. xp

tomorrow is relax day for me. cant make it for beauty n da beast with edwin n co, so i'll be staying home like a gud lil boy. prob use comp whole day lar, but... still, i'll be at home rite? haha...

saturday i'll be goin to iris' church youth function... something about eating. why not rite? haha... i'll be dropping by starbucks kl plaza just before, so... FISH! BEWARE!! wuahaha... fisherman coming to get u. haha...

t-a-g-g-e-t

1. Six People to Tag.

The victims are (sorry!)...
Iris
Karyan
Sze Min
Lynnett
Edwin
Sabrina

2. Six Things I'm Passionate About
playing music - guitar, bass guitar, piano
listening to music
friends
games - xbox360 and computer
reading
St John Ambulance

3. Six Things I Say Too Often
what the...
haaa....?
owh.
hey, wassup?
what are we gonna eat?
who's driving?

4. Six Books I've Read Recently
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Carrie by Stephen King
Misery by Stephen King
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

5. Six Songs I can Listen to Again and Again
Happy Birthday
Negaraku (it's a proven fact k. i used to listen to it every morning...)
any Muse song
most of Incubus' newer songs
most of Elton John's older songs
Heart of Worship // Heart of Frienship (NS remix. lolz.)

6. Six Things I Learnt in the Past Year
Last year? as in... 2007? gosh... i'll mix it with this year as well larh.

I learnt what it feels like to hand over power and authority to the younger generation.
I learnt that Pendidikan Moral is d dumbest subject ever taught. EST comes close.
I learnt that trials results can be very misleading. i got 8a2b for trials... no where near my actual spm results.
I learnt that a relationship takes a lot of work and effort to hold together... if you just stop trying, it falls apart. just like that.
I learnt not to rush in a relationship.
I learnt that I could actually lose lotsa weight thru NS. whoa!

there... done. later got music class... JUST finished my homework today, n later i'll get loaded with some more agin. die le die...