Random

I've been so looking forward to clinch that elusive moonlighting job from Chong and was lucky enough to get it. Problem lies with suffering from a writer's block. Having not wrote for more than 2 years, picking up that pen and bring holy matrimony with the paper would be harder than usual. Money is not so much a motivating factor for this assignment. Seeing my name up there for all to see is. Think of it as my 3 seconds of fame. Even if no one reads my article, the very least they see my name.

I just got a job with CPF Board as an admin ASSt-hole. Probably a Pao Kah Liaw doing everything from filing to photocopying to binding documents but I couldn't care less. Right now, all I need is something to spend my days. Hole-ing up at home don't help and I need money to leave my shack. 6 dollars an hour is dismal by all standards but whose complaining? The worse bit of this financial crisis would be having to contribute 20percent of what I earn every month to my CPF account. Call it a head-start if you want. I call it being a pauper... for now.

Even before raking in the cash, I start to ponder what I would do with my newly introduced Cash Cow(less). Get a new guitar? Go shopping? Spend it all in Paris? I'll see what I'll do with the cash when it comes in.

For now, I have to nurse this leaky tap for a nose and try to scrummage this fur-ball out of my throat. *cough cough* *whizz whizz* *aaart-TI-CHOOOOO*

Repertoiric Repercussions

I should probably pen down what I can/ cannot play/ plan to play/ plan to sing and play/ plan to do everything and then play. It feels good after you've conquered a song. Say that playing rythm is easy, but after all that's done. The load's off your shoulders.

Engrish Tunes :
1. Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars (looks easy, I should learn it soon)
2. Vertical Horizon - Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning) [Learnt this in sec sch]
3. Verve Pipe - The Freshman (learnt the intro, too lazy to finish off the rest will do it some day)
4. Lifehouse - Blind (Learnt it, but unable to commit to memory, I should really invest in those clear folders and a proper printer)
5. Howie Day - Collide (learnt it, need waaay more practise. I hate moving from easy chordies to bar chords. And I have to invest in one of those capos)
6. James Blunt - You're Beautiful (Personal favourite, now all i need is a high squeamish voice)
7. James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover (Like the latter, I need a high squeamish voice)
8. Ryan Cabrerra - True (I wanna learn this song)

Lagu Melayu
1. Peterpan - Mungkin Nanti (I love this song!)
2. Exist - Jesnita

Hua Yu Ge
None - I listen to them but I just don't have the urge to learn to play them.

My search for a new guitar to replace my old classical has ended. It has manifested itself in a form of this new local guitar setup. Maestro! I should pick one up when I get a job. For now, I'll just have to stick to thrashing my oldie till kingdom come and then come up with an excuse to get a new acoustic, fully loaded with proper pickups and what-not.

Remember Kids!

Something for the kids.

I still love all you emo rejects.

I will join your ranks some day.

But for now, MAKE IT COUNT!

Poison

Again! I've been plagued by the sort of poison where you wanna fulfil all your wants but haven't got the ability to do so. My never-ending wish-list just got extended by rekindling interests.

For one, I finally picked my old classical up and gave it a new lease of life. I started learning new material and re-learning long forgotten ones. Blame it on being too free and too bored but it never hurts to learn something new, keep it up my sleeves and who knows when I'll be able to use it? You just have to be a little scheming and calculative sometimes. But this rekindling interest's about to blow my wallet let alone my budget. In my search for a new electric/ semi-electric/ electro-acoustic, I got injected with this poison. An Epiphone Wildkat Archtop series guitar by HiLo. A hollow-body, Gretsch lookalike, a very mellow and rounded sounding guitar perfect for those crunchy blues riffs. What matters is that it's got this wonderful Bigsby vibrato gadget that adds a whole vintage, rustic look. It's both beautiful and practical.

Isn't it a work of art?

It'll blow my brains out, soon enough. This baby's gonna be mind when I find a job. For now, its just time to sit back, relax and enjoy this new found freedom (but without money!)

The Twilight Zone

I call this the twilight zone.

Picture this, yourself at home 6 - 7pm-ish, staring out of the window, door or any other opening that permits you to look outside. Clouds are purplish with this tinge of orangey glow from that setting sun. Cool breeze while the leaves rustle.

Atmosphere's just sad thinking about it and on this particular Sunday with plans lasting till 4pm, I am stuck at home in the twilight zone. Sad case, gone case.

This is the twilight zone from Siglap Rise.

Believe me, the images are not enough to tell you how grim the setting feels. Pink Orangey tinge on a purple sky and for those who have to go to work/ school tomorrow, this dire atmosphere multiplies ten-fold.

Even after RODing, everything still looks uncannily mundane. I was expecting confetti, fanfare and lots of money making opportunities but no, I got a rude awakening. I haven't found myself a job, something that was 9 to 5 or the very least retail hours so I can enjoy my nights. My Parisian voyage preparations will ceased until I find a job. I got offered this very unglam job from Adecco, Tiger Beer promotor which I politely rejected knowing that it was very inapproriate. Other than that, I've been trying to get all hardcore-ly healthy. Climbing, swimming, running, soccer-ing, tennis-ing.

I have planned new workout regime for the weekends. Soccer on Saturday mornings. Swim at least 20laps in the afternoon. A 10km run on Sundays (which I have yet to start but soon). Golf on Sunday afternoons. Slot in climbing/ bouldering sessions during the weekdays and I'm good to go.

All these are in lieu for my game plan for a perfect body.

Swim - For the shoulders.
Climb - For the back and the forearms.
Run - For the legs and heart.
Golf - Don't really help much but slowly and subtly it does work your mid-section ( I hope )

So many concerts coming to town and I'm not gonna catch any of it. I shall sacrifice for my Parisian hopes! Just thinking of it, what I'll be missing. Muse, John Legend, Il Divo. Urgh. So pardon me while I burst into flames.