Another long post. Really damn long man. VERY VERY LONG. Even i also buey tahan.

u can skip to the last few paragraphs if u are bored.

I'm so disturbed by the fact that Saddam Hussein has been executed. The videos I saw on msnbc.com showed a man expressing no fear at all and remained defiant even in the hour of his own execution. That defiance reminded me of Herman Goring, the 2nd in command of the Third Reich during the Nuremberg Trials. If u watched the 3 part miniseries of Nuremberg, you will get what i mean. The defiant Goring would wear sun glasses in the courtroom when a witness is presented in the court for the judge, he would not wear the earphones to listen to the testimony of the witness because he did not want to hear the translation and he strongly believes that anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany has no difference between the segregation laws in USA. That defiance brought respect to the fellow defendants(excluding Albert Speer) and boost their confidence in hope of winning the trials. With his practical and quick response to the questions asked about the crimes committed by the Nazis, the defendants won the early rounds of the trials, prompting the allies to change the course of the trials as they were afraid all defendants would be acquitted for crimes against humanity.

Despite being defiant and not remorseful, Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, just like Herman Goring. Both of them were denied the opportunity to die a soldier's death, i.e by shooting. Both were charged with crimes against humanity, with Goring being the most extreme. Saddam was hanged eventually and Goring committed suicide much to the dismay of the allies.
Even though both committed crimes against humanity, I think both of them deserved the right to choose how they were going to die. However, i am against capital punishment because i believe the notion that no one has the right to be the bearer of death of another, no matter how serious the crime is.

I heard from the news that an Indonesian ferry has just sunk and more than 400 went missing. Its really sad to know that such tragic events can happen 2 days before a new year. The reason why i wrote about this was because I saw waves that went 3 storeys high (or the height of the ferry i was on) when I was in Thailand travelling on a medium size ferry, capable of ferrying 200 or so people. It was cool for a moment lah, some ang mohs went to the top of the ferry to sun-tan thinking that they wont get wet. But in the end, everyone was soaked. The ship didnt rocked as violently as that Indonesian ferry(choy!) but the waves was huge enough and strong enough to engulf us mann. Now it reminds me of the movie, Poisedon, in which a rouge wave capsized the cruise ship, bigger than Titanic. (dunno true or not)

Talking about the Thailand trip, it was fun, no thanks to my uncle(i went there with my uncle). I saw the nice beautiful beaches in Phuket, snorkeled there too and bargain like siao in Hat Yai. I see alot of trans in Hat Yai lor, met one sommore. I didnt know the person there was a trans because the person there looks like some hot Thai girl. Finally when we leaving the shop, my uncle gave that person small sum of tip, initially that person smiled and I was expecting a very feminine thank you. The next moment was quite shocking, coz he replied with 2 palms together said Thank You in Thai in a male voice. I wasnt disrespecting them by appearing shock, i was just shocked lah.

Everything went well in Thailand until the day when lim peh decided to buy a guitar from Hat Yai. I saw a Jem look-alike guitar made by Barracuda. I decided to buy there since its only 400 SGD there and 1700 SGD back home. I was curious why the guitar was made by Barracuda and not Ibanez and i soon realised the pickups on that guitar is not D'Marzio and the wood they used to make the guitar has different quality compared to Ibanez made Jem, thats why it cost only 400 SGD. Anyway, that guitar shop guy has alot of integrity, even though I was a potential customer. He said buying in thailand is actually more ex than Singapore because Thailand charges 200% tax. But nvm, i was too embarrased to buy from him because if i were to buy, it would be like going against good advice.

I decided to go to some old man shop. Thats where i got really pissed off. This old man told me i can't try the guitars with a pick becos he was afraid I would scratch it. I was thinking if its accoustic guitar, its okay without a pick. But with an electric, i need to hear how it sound like when i do pinch harmonics, when i do sweeping on 3 strings, when i palm mute, when i do fast alternate picking. But after awhile, i said nevermind, just let me use without the pick. I thought everything was okay, then this old man started to recoil the wire, off the amplifier and decided not to sell me, even though i told him i would not use a pick. Fuck man, i was so damn pissed. Where got ppl do business like that 1? My uncle told me that night that he believe the old man was like that because he thot i wasn't going to buy, only to try. @#$%

ok lah, this post really damn long liao but i have alot of things to say but i can't blog it here either. I wanna talk about the party i had at my cousin's house, the party with elvan and gang and so on and on. but they are damn draggy. So i just blog what's important.

Anyway, tml is new year liao lor, 2007! And very soon, lim peh going to become a soldier lor, an honour in other countries, maybe here also, but something to drag going to right here. I will be missing alot of my friends also lor, like the chua chu kang cum bukit batok gang, benji+jesse+thatwholegroup of people, elvan and gang, naraen n gang, my guitar buddies, few people from my jc class like xl, bill and xc and of course not forgetting the most impt thing in my life, my guitar! hawhawhaw!

Before the clock strikes 12 tonight ah, limpeh want to thank...(sound very bo liao right, but lim peh loves my peng you mah!) for making this year damn shiok lor.


J chua for introducing to me good music, a gd fren for like 4 years, someone able to go out with and talk nonsense without any strings attached and shawn, clement, yu hsien(he's back from US till tuesday), alvin ong and harshal for the same reasons and we will still remain the chua chu kang cum bukit batok gang. hawhawhaw! (btw alvin ong, j chua pissed with ur november 2005 post. hawhaw, the one which u walked with harshal at westmall)

naraen n winston for being the most crappiest bunch of jokers i ever met. I picked up the hawhawhaw laugh from u guys, the soniyerbitchernayi from u guys and all the crappiest things i ever known and i also started playing CS again becoz of u guys.

benji, jesse, wei yu, xue cong, yanyi, quan you, xing long for being my great buddies in and out of school. For having lunch with me, flag poled me twice this year, video taped my candid moments and putting up on you tube sommore and getting the principals involved, talk cock with me, help me alot in my sch work, understand whats life, asked the girl i like whether she got stead, for calling me monkey, spamming my blog and yes I WILL NEVER FORGET THE DAY U GUYS KIDNAPPED ME BEFORE GRADUATION AND TORTURED ME AFTER THE A LEVELS. haha!

elvan, ivan, wei sin, manoj, dinah, melissa for being my great buddies. We talk alot alot alot of cock everywhere we go and u guys have the greatest sense of humour. I would laugh non-stop with u guys lor. Must thank you guys for being my fashion makeover artist, hawhawhaw and for inviting me to all kinds of freaking fun parties with all the nice drinks.

bill and wt for having paper ball fights with me in class and to practise my hokkien swearing on.
calvin tan, jeremy frois, qing lun and bryan kwek for being great friends even after we left sji
kzh and jasper my internet buddies who has not forget me after we haven met up for so long
and
of course to the girl that i have like for like 1.5 yrs but nvr had the guts to tell her ah. heehee.

hawhaw, thats all man. so damn long, dunno who will read this anyway.

I will disappear

Hello!

I'm blogging from my pentium 3 pc. hawhaw! finally the internet is up on this pc and i can play games with my bro now!

i will be leaving for thailand for an eight days trip, so if u guys want me to buy anything for you and if you are lucky enough, i might check my inbox(if i can find a cybercafe) when you send me a request through email.

Lim peh sitting thai airways only lor, unlike that ivan ong. go thailand sit first class 1 lor. lucky bastard.

I finally bought a LED ZEPPLIN T-Shirt from ZARA man! Wah lau, cost me a whopping 60 bucks man. I can buy 6 months worth of strings man! BUT NEVERMIND, ITS LED ZEPPLIN. I'm still saving up for that 200 bucks LED ZEPPLIN platinum collection at THE CD SHOP. I saw THE WHO and GUNS N ROSES T-shirt at Zara too. But it will cost me 180 bucks to buy all of them. =((((

Im so fucking happy right now, coz my cousin is a walking rock dictionary. He has the rarest of the most rare songs from the super duper uber extremely rare bands man. Bands like Kane Roberts, Ratt, GUN, Bad English, Pretty Boy Floyd and many many more. Not only that, he has all kinds of genres man, ranging from baroque to contemporary classical, classic punk to vintage rock, oldies to new age, swing jazz to avant garde jazz. OH MAN! I ripped all these music from his pc to my IPOD. ITS GOOD SHIET MAN. I copied 700 chinese pop music somemore. Thats not all too, i have malay, thai, korean and japan pop and unfortunately(for me) there is also techno. Argh, i hate techno.

Ok, thats for now man. im going to pack my bag. Im not really looking forward to go Thailand actually, but yesterday trip out with elvan and the gang made me realise i need more clothes and buying at Singapore is really kaninah expensive. Hawhaw!! time to go slash price in Thailand, the land of smiles.....



.....or not.
My cousin got slapped by a calculator thrown by a Thai who is obviously not smiling because my cousin slashed too much. hawhawhaw!

I'm getting mouldy

I was supposed to go out with the class for ice skating but they cancelled it last night. Argh! I was looking forward to this trip man. =( It seems that everytime when I am excited about the ice skating trip organised by the class, it will be cancelled in the end. hmmph.

I rent 6 dvds cum vcds and watch them in 2 days. It gives me headaches at the end of the day though but i would'nt deny that some of the videos are nice. Personally, I love Hard Candy, Be with Me and The Terminal.

Be With me is a very inspiring, touching and introspective kind of movie that makes you ask whether if true love really exist, regardless whether the person is in his/her teenage years, middle age or the old age and Eric Khoo made a point not to leave out true love among homosexuals. Although he got a little bit draggy on the memoirs of Theresa Chan(this movie is part memoirs, part story kind of movie), i still think overall the movie is pretty good. Go watch it man!

Hard Candy makes me go sick actually. I wanted to watch this after my promos, but one of my friend has'nt had his birthday yet. Its produced by Liongates, the production company that produces the Saw series. Its amazing that Lion Gates could produce such a thriller and provocative movie with the tight budget they have. Its like SAW 1, they play with the audience's mind and "test" their moral and ethics values. At the end of the movie, a twist unimaginable occurs and the audience will realise why they were angry at the wrong person.

The Terminal. I dont really have much to say about this but I was totally amused by the movie(Catherine Zeta Jones is so pretty man!). Amazing and Hilarious. Go watch it if u have'nt!

Damn, im really getting mouldy now. I haven been going out of my house for 2 whole days man. Wed, i have this museum trip with my sec sch class. I hope its a success cos i really don't want to end up playing lan and i hope the admission for the art museum is free since we are old boys of sji and art museum resides in the old sji complex.

I AM SOOOOOOO BORED!

Bold As Love - A Jimi Hendrix Classic!

ANGER!

He smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor.
Green jealousy, envy waits behind every door, her fiery Green gown
snares at the grassy ground.

Blue are the life giving waters, taken for granted,
they quietly understand.

A once happy Turquoise army lay opposite and ready
but wonder why the fight is on.

But they're are all bold as love
they're all bold as love
Yeah, they're all bold as love
Just ask the axis

My Red is so confident, that he flashes tokens of war
and ribbons of euphoria
orange is young and full of daring
but very unsteady for the first go around.

My Yellow in this case is not so mellow in fact I'm trying to say,
it's frightened like me, and all these emotions of mine
keep tolling me from giving my life to a Rainbow like you,

But I'm A...yeah
I'm Bold as Love, yeah, yeah
Well I'm Bold, Bold as Love
Hear me talking
I'm Bold as love,
Just ask the axis, he knows everything.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

This song is another classic by Hendrix. Even after many years since Hendrix's demise, people around the world still plays his songs. His greatest hits during his music career are timeless and soulful, which makes his stand out amongst the rest.

John Mayer did a cover for this too. Personally i think both Hendrix and him are great, just that Mayer's guitar tone is not of the same tone as Hendrix's. Even though people had commented that Mayer's version was better because of his impressive vocals, i think otherwise.

Here's the video to the music.

Jimi Hendrix's Version



John Mayer Covering the song.

EA Games: Those soniyerbitchernayis capitalists!

Fuck

I hate EA Games right now. Big coporate company monopolise most of the favourite games but in the end, it doesnt perform as good as it should be. It shows only one thing, it wants to gain as much profit as they can by selling bugged and unstable games.

Soniyerbitchernayi!

In order to fix those god damned bugs, i have to download patches. Being a small market Singapore is, servers are located overseas, i.e in Hong Kong and Japan. So that means my download speed will decrease. Not only that, in order to download at a higher rate, one must pay more to enjoy greater speed. Damn those capitalist!

Whatever man!

I went jamming just now with my old buddies and 1 new guy. This new guy is also another soniyerbitchernayi. Jamming is costly and with only 2 hours to spare, one should take jamming seriously and not a session to fuck around. Carrying a guitar and playing the guitar is 2 different things. Apparently, this guy has the talent to carry his guitar around with an ego unimaginable but when its the time to play, he starts to ka jiao everyone. The drummer was on time and he was'nt, so he thought the drummer screwed up and then start shouting fuck this n fuck that. you suck n all that. Man, damn it i was pissed but as usual, i always smile. So i said why dont u start off with a lick, and we all will improvise. That guy look at me for a few seconds and decided to play some lick of his.
I thought it was quite impressive because his ideas was quite refreshing but his stupid ego came back again. When the drummer starts off, then followed by me, that soniyerbitchernayi say shut the fuck up, dont disturb me and said that his lick was good, so just let me solo first for a while.

I could'nt take it anymore, so the drummer and I just left without paying.

I'm going to sleep right now, tml there's a hell lot of activities. Now i am wondering whether i should just go to swee lee n buy a new axe. Sunday's jamming is another headache because i haven got my new axe. Damn sian, i have absolute no confidence of bringing my Aria to jam, damnit.

kk, i'm tired. bb

Beck a.k.a The Mongolian Chop Squad

I've just finished watching the whole season of the anime, "Beck" or better known as "Mongolian Chop Squad". The characters in there are so captivating that I felt sad when the last episode ended.It was about the life changing experiences that happened to this young Japanese boy called Koyuki. It all started with him finding a lost weird looking dog. Its owner, Ray, apparently a former band member of a disbanded Japanese band(lim peh forget the name) and at the same time happened to know one of the member of Dying Breed, Eddie (not van halen pls!) was delighted of course. This is also the time when Koyuki was appalled by the music Ray plays and enchanted by the way Ray plays his guitar. And then Koyuki went on to find himself on a journey of rock n roll, guitar playing and the perils faced when record deals and the danger of losing their own lives plays an important part not just on their music and survival, but also on the romance that is brewing between Koyuki and Ray's sister, Maho-chan.

Watch it here

Lim peh can feel for the characters, especially Koyuki because once u pick up the guitar and have a passion for it, its never going to be the same. I'm not talking about dreams of being in a glam rock band or enjoying the rock n roll lifestyle of LSDs, beers and chicks. Its about the feeling, a sense of satisfaction of playing music and not be embarrassed of what genre i'm playing. Koyuki went through a lot of hard work, running from places to places, envying guitarists from around his neighbourhood and also from his school. Along the way, he learnt through many teachers, embarrassing himself in front of auditions but still came out strong as an important member and of course a very brave and passionate soul of Beck

Prom night was fun lah. That hotel room Dinah booked in Ritz Carlton was really a sweet suite. Feel like a country pumpkin when i went there coz everything in there was awesome. The scenery up there was breathtaking, the bathroom of that suite was even better. Elvan n wei sin had alot of fun in that bathroom heh! After that was prom night liao lor. Then finish liao, i decided to go for the post prom party. Never been to clubbing before, so i just try. DXO was pretty small and the band playing there was like shit. The singer was asking more ppl to come n mosh at the dance floor, but no one was that enthu lah.

now sian liao. im gg out liao, bb.