Guitar Pro-ing

I had just started to use the Guitar Pro software since last weekend. After last Saturday's jamming, I was determined to correct S.O.W. It turns out that we had too much confusion & errors while we jam it.

I'm quite a fast learner. I played around with the quarter & eighth notes, and eventually got a bar sound right after 2 or 3 tries. It's surprisingly fun too.

I have completed the SOW.gp5 till the solo part. Still needs the outro and later interludes. And I need to figure out and learn to use the drum tabs!

My final maths test is this thursday...

A Message From The West
Someone from USA just heard of us Ensisventine. That's awesome. Too cool. But I hope its not a hoax! I'm trying hard to complete the SOW.gp5. At least to have a song played at our freewebs! Stay tuned american friend.

Anyways.. I.F.H.Ammos won't be coming out soon. It's supposed to come out before end of this month. But I'm busy with stuff like gp-ing and others. Sorry headbangers.

Jamm Session 27 Jan

With Khairee as the new EnsiKnight, it marks us now as Ensis' 4th mark line-up. That Saturday was a rainy day. It drizzles and downpours now and then.

Well, the jamming didn't went good.

The recording was filled with unpleasant buzzing noises from Khairee's guitar. But he's not to be blamed. I only realise that problem when I listened to the jamming recording on the mp3.

Fighting Hard..
Though, it's good that Khairee did some homework on Old Man.

Even the mic was faulty. I slapped & whacked it a couple of times. It was on; then off; on; then off again.

Goring was a full-bloodedly tough job. I had some throat strains after that. But I believe it was in-tune(?)...

To Blast? Or Steady-dize?
The drums did better than previous jammings. Idris finally snapped from out-of-form status. His arms worked better, but lots more practise on blast beats. Hmm.. Actually I'm trying to put blast beats aside... Maybe focus on melody & tempo timing than thrashing.

It's quite tiring too, speed alternate picking on the blasting. Yups. More practise on my right-hand stamina.

Finntroll is back!

No news since Sept 2006.

18-1-07: They're back! The 5th studio album out soon. They updated their gigs section too. Link here

Bad but good day

Zero.
Today was the computer graphic test. And I was super unprepared. I didn't even bring a book to the open book test.

The whole 90 minutes, I kept playing with the comments and the sample answer debug.

When came to the presentation part, I felt so dumb. I just told the marker "Nothing much.. That's all." It's just a black screen that I rendered...

Music To My Ears Again
Hey, I didn't tell you guys that I just had my headphones & mp3 player back! Actually it's from last week. Thanks to my kind folks for the money; and Hakim for returning my 128MB creative muVo. Finally, music in my ears. I feel great now on my journey from and back home.

A Walk Home
I left the lab eariler than my buddies. Usually I walked & took the mrt with Alim. But I need some time walking alone after that disappointing test.

Heading my way towards YCK mrt, I stumbled with my classmate Fadhilah. It was the first time walking with her. We're not really close with each other, but we both are struggling with the course. We talked about the test and knowing each other.

Then Jaani walked past me. I waved and smile at him. That would be my second time seeing him around NYP and his first time seeing me... I would surely introduce him to Fadhilah, but she's taken. Wakaka. Too bad for us.

Okay.. I'm off watching S'pore Vs Malaysia! The Lions just equalised!!

Music here, music there...

Sunday was an all-propose day for music. Metal music.

At first, in the afternoon, I had a session with EnsiKnights at my own room. Finally, my parents allowed me & my friends to assemble at my cribs. We rehearsed S.O.W and Old Man for this upcoming jamming on Friday.

Hail The Flaming Lucifer
I'm most proud of Yazid's modification of the SOW lyrics. It was me who tossed sugar & spice into the soup, and he added chemical-X(accidentally..?).

At first I was not sure of what I wrote in the lyrics. Then when I read it to him, he quickily wrote it down to his notebook. Next day, magic. I was amazed. Did he cut-n-paste from Ensiferum?? Yazid has done an excellent job. No doubt. He should be our main lyrics composer.

The Assemble
We stuffed more Javanese tunes into SOW. Khairee really mesmerised me that day.

In the first 3 minutes, we thought him that scale. And then when we rehearsed the song again, he transformed into a guitar wizard. His solo was unbelievable! It came from nowhere. Super made-in-Indon.

As for Old Man, I decided to move at a slow pace. Maybe just halfway through. The parts are a lot, and the gore vocals(while strumming at blast beats!) are tough..

Like my favourite quote says: slowly cycling.

Can't wait for this Friday! Into battle EnsiKnights!

Nullified Sessions
I came half-an-hour late to the jamming room. I still hate the amps for Beat Merchants! Seriously.

I would not like to comment on our playing...

As usual, we had prayers at the Sultan mosque. Had my dinner at Zam Zam Restaurant with buddy Farid.

Things To Do Before January Ends

We're halfway through the first month of the new year. Guys, its not too late to make 2007 resolutions!

Tasks before January ends...

As requested by my mommy!

• Do more housework!
  
• Take a shower before 7
  

Other

• Exercise more
  
• Save more money for future jammings
  
• Compose lyrics for Ensisventine
• Practice gore vocals
  
• Practice guitars for Nullified/Assault sessions
• Buy new headphone! A must for a daily headbanger
• IFHAmmo Version 4
• Create an instrumental metal playlist
  

The Cut-Off

After I had my mp3 out of order two week ago, the worse ran over me this morning. My headphone! I rushed too fast through my house door, and the gate handle snapped my headphone wire into half.

Well, looks like I can't hear music on the go, for now. Wow. And I'm supposed to look at the moving trees outside as I ride the MRT? Stare at the old man's bold spot as I sat behind him in the bus? Wakakaka.

Wish I could have the money to buy an mp3 player (with headphones!). Creative is my favourite because of the customable graphic equalizers. Minimum capacity should be 8GB! Maximum 40GB or more.. Of course for my kind of person I must to classify them under artists, albums, genres, moods etc.

Some Awesome Mp3s

ZEN V PLUS 8GB

ZEN VISION:M 30GB/60GB

Aiyahhh.. For now 256MB or 512MB also can la.. After I have a job then can buy these sh*ts!

Jamming At Khairee's Place

My last post was half-written...

Yesterday the Ensi-Knights gathered at Khairee's(our new squire) place for a session. Well, Khairee's cribs was the best location for us.

The Works
Firstly, we tried to work on our original Children Of The Earth. It should be a Metal-ballad kind of song. But Ajid tried to go for a power/speed metal approach. Hmm.. Anyways, the lyrics aren't distributed by our fellow friend Hasyim yet.

Then we turned to Song Of War. I wanted it to be Viking/Troll Metal style, and we had to lengthen it too.

Finally, it was completed after the day ended (but the lyrics). Near to 5 minutes, has a silent interlude, a "cheering interlude" and some blast beats at the outro. And an awesomely guitar solo Ensisventine has ever did, from Yazid himself. Some traces of javanese guitar licks too. Very little actually... We can re-work on that.

The Troll Awakens?
I happened to discover my "finntrollish" gore vocals, well it was quite amusing. At times I sounded like a sumo-wrestler. Wakaka. Or some brutal japanese fishmonger ready to cut a whole whale. I'll work harder on that.

Well, looks like we can morph into some Trollish-Folk Metal. So, the "knights" replace with "orcs"..? "Orge?" "Troll-headhunters?" "Green-skins?" Ahaa..

A Future To Come
Khairee did a good job. Maybe some more practise on palm-muting. With that, Ensisventine will have a fuller sound. He's role is vital. The rhythmist. The 50% of our tunes depends on him.

Jamm Session 12 Jan

Listening: Coventide - Saved By The Fire

Aha... An awesome track by my band alliance.

It's been more than 5 weeks since the Ensi-Knights jammed (Last, 28 November!). We are going through a reformation. A wind change of direction. Me trying out on vocals. Well, it went quite horrible.

The first person I met before the jamm session is Jaani. He was at the next door macdonalds having his meal. It was accidental, I was rushing to the macdonalds toilet to pee. Wakaka. He came there by taxi. And he told me of the rude taxi driver who drove him there and called him crazy for no reason.

Wow, what kind of service..? I think Jaani deserves a money back for unsatisfactory.

Ensisventine was completely off-form. Mostly, we forgot our pieces that we played on the actual past gig. Very disappointing. But okay then.. Lets reset the timer...

But we did Helloween's If I Could Fly quite good. It's hard to forget that song for real. Its song structure is simple. However, me on the vocals made it look bad. My notes never seem correct. Well, still a favourite Ensis cover song.

My Big Juke Box

Listening: Manowar - Sting Of The Bumblebee

Total size of all the mp3 files in my pc: More than 7GB

Genres Of Music (In Minutes, Reference From My Wma Player 11 Library):

• 1000+ of Rock music

• 900+ of Heavy metal music
  
• 700+ of Alternative music
• 400+ of Thrash metal
  
• 300+ of Classic rock and hard rock
• 300+ of Malayan rock
  
• 200+ of Death metal and black metal
  
• 200+ of Folk and viking metal
• 200+ of Arabian and middle eastern
• 200+ of Pop
• 200+ of Punk Rock
  
• 162 of Progressive Rock
  
• 144 of Metalcore
• 64 of Hip-hop
  
• 57 of Hari raya themes
• 46 of Reggae
  
• 34 of Techno
• 20 of R&b
  
• 3 of Classical
  
• 1 of Jazz

• 300+ Others (Not yet classified)

Woohoo! I'm rich (with music)! Thanks for dropping by. You should try this too.

The Darkest Future

Listening: Korn - Hollow Life

Darker days ahead, I never felt this way before. The darkest days of my lives.

influenced by "..my dark life." Idris

Take a step into my neurotic-disordered minds... now..



You thought you are innocent..
..but you still do the sinful things inside the closet..

You wished you changed your school because your grades are falling down hard..
..but you still kept quiet.

You wished & thought your parents would ban you from your music..
..but they still give you the freedom.

You wished & thought your parents would stop giving you pocket money and told you to work..
..but they carried on giving you four bucks a day, and you are thankful.

You wished you were more perfect and attractive-looking to their eyes..
..but all this while, you have your five senses still working and you're not disabled or handicapped.

You wished for a better life..
..but all this while, you failed to realize you have a home, a perfect family, education aided by your parents, having pocket money everyday, your own room, your own pc..

You awaited for a sweet beautiful angel to fall from the sky..
..but all this while, God's guardian angels are always with you, on the left & right shoulder.

You wished things with her could have been better..
..but you never expressed the absolute true feelings to her.

You wished you'll never be an emo kid..
..but all you're writing now is so emo.

You wished that someone would read this post and give you sympathy..
..but all this while, it's up to you and only you to find yourself again...



Now how do you feel? Uneasy? You have just been in my own shoes, my friend.

2006: All that i could remember Pt.2

The Age Of Bittersweet-ness, Bitter-life

Listening: System Of A Down - Lost In Hollywood

I was so into Nu-Metal in since high school. Looking at my cd rack: the power blastful Slipknot, funky Korn, dreamy yet heavy Deftones, positively rockin' P.O.D, and the innovatively Linkin Park.

Their songs are about anger, frustration, neurotic-ness, struggle, self-hatred, self-inflicted conflicts and the bitterful side of life. Very much what we all encounter with.

2006 is also a year of heartbreaks. I was rejected twice. Two girls with almost the same names. A classmate and a work friend.
One who'll forgets you and never keeps a promise. The other who'll ditch you but only comes to you to ask for unnecessary help. She can't even help her ownself.

Then I realise that both are not my type. They're not even perfect. They're ugly too in other ways. I'm not even comfortable with them.
Guess I learnt my lesson here. There're lots more girls out there who'll accept me for who I am than who they wanted me to be. I deserve better.

Then in poly, a feeling of being an outcast. Most of all, my CCA and some "friends". People who only say "Hi" or give smiles along the way, but they'll avoid to know you better.

They try to act cool but failed. Haha. Their jokes ain't funny too. They usually have their own bunch of group. And all Malays. They thought their "group jokes" are the funniest in town. Gimme a break. Wow, I'm so being honest here.

Then came this girl. She's my friend. She doesn't make me feel left out. She accepts me for who I am. Even though she already has a bf.
The best thing is she would flirt and have fun with me. And of course listen to my lowliness.

Flirting doesn't only mean for a "in-a-relationship" thingy. Open your minds you people. She flirts to give me confidence. To make me blush. To trigger fun and happiness. Now that's wonderful friendship.

The warmest & most loving people on earth, are those who hate to see others left out. Left out just because of a simple difference.

2006: All that i could remember Pt.1

What happened to me between 01/01/06 to 31/12/06? Well, I can tell you guys a long grandmother story.

The Working Era
Since December 2005, I've been a part-timer at burger king. The times are tough. Tougher than I've been through in NCC I guess.

The fat chinese manager has been pushing me around. I was usually to blamed, at first because I'm the newest there. He is a bastard. From the day he was transfered there till I resigned, he was no different. He treated me like a dog. But his words can be wise. I learn a lot. But I learnt to much from him till I feel like vomitting.

Most of all, I missed school when I was in BK. I was waiting for my results. Everyday, I see secondary students happily enjoying themselves in burger king. I feel very left out. I have no sense of belonging.

Even worse, I drooled over every babe that steps in, "missing" them as they walked out. I felt so low. I remembered I had lots of female friends in secondary school. I had pleasant talks with them.

The crews at BK were fun to work with. But some.
I enjoy working with the Malay & Indian crews. And also a group of Chinese teenager buddies, and, a filipino auntie whom I worked with all the time in the kitchen.
Not forgetting Nara, my favourite manager. We are more like friends. Ryan was someone who thought me most.
My best friends, Remy, Mas, Paskaran, Siva, Vanija, Christina, Xavier... People who made me feel at home.

Low pay? Hmm, I got an electric guitar.. An awesome black jacket.. Money spent on outings with friends. Pool. Jammings. I'm quite satisfied with the pay.


But the fat manager made me call for quits, in September 2006.