9:50 PM / 31 August

Went back to Anderson for Teacher's Day. Met up with Fadhil, Pradip and Kelvin. Bumped into Yiyang and Yvonne while looking for the teachers. Only managed to see Mrs Chong, Mrs Lawrence and Mrs Lim(though she didn't teach me). Saw a couple others but didn't have time to talk to them. Syafiq came at around 12.

After that...Well let's just say it was sorta Anderson revisited. We found a cardboard box and we decided to have a bit of fun. Or tried to at least. We reminisced about our time in Anderson. All the dumb(or ingenious whichever way you wanna look at it) stuff we did. All the happenings.

I really wished I was back in Anderson during those times. I guess that's what memories are for...

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The City Sleeps In Flames by Scary Kids Scaring Kids

The empire will fall like they planned on.
Can we even last through the night?
We watch as the sky scrapers crumble,
Under the burning blue sky,
That blinds our eyes.

This is our last chance,
To make things right.
Or we're lost forever,
Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight.

Let's try to find a place to sleep.
It's going on days that we've been awake.
A sadness that I've never seen.
I said your name and you looked the other way.

Because these are my last words,
And this is my last breath.
I'd give you everything,
If there was something left.
I have nothing left to prove,
And I will live with my regrets.
I'd give you everything,
If there was something left.

The disconnecting count of days,
Are fading away.
The lives that we made.
Tear drops will spill from your blue eyes.
Intentions were wrong,
I apologize.
The empire has fallen
Like they planned on and we lost it all.
The city sleeps in flames.

Lost..
Time..
Everything's gonna be fine...
Right?
Everything's gonna be fine...
Right?
Everything's gonna be fine...
RIGHT?!
I can't find a way to live in this life.

The empire will fall like they planned on.
Can we even last through the night?
We watch as the sky scrapers crumble,
Under the burning blue sky,
That blinds our eyes.

Because these are my last words,
And this is my last breath.
I'd give you everything,
If there was something left.
I've got nothing left to prove,
And I will live with my regrets.
I'd give you everything,
If there was something left.

Because these are my last words,
And this is my last breath.
I'd give you everything,
But I've got nothing left.

8:23 PM / 30 August

HOLIDAYS ARE HERE!!!!!!


Hollywood Holiday by Love Me Butch



Catching up with the silence,
oh the silence of remembrance
Stop calling upon their names,
not to wait for their call
And it's all for good,
it's all for good
Skipping all the pages,
truth lies in this vacation
Went through a lot of trouble,
just to get through the rubble
Apart from you, to be apart from you
I'd paint around my house for good
I'd stay with all my heart not for you
Can't find it, once we leave it,
leave it all for what...

Well I can't stay forever,
all at different phases
Oh what am I thinking?
This situation brought it down for what
What do I get from that?
There must be a reason

I could use some of your pillows,
I'm lying by the beach
With your shadow out of reach,
shadow out of reach
Hey it's all for good,
to be apart from you
I'd break all the rules not for you
Can't find it,
once we leave it all for what...

Well I can't stay forever,
all at different phases
Oh what am I thinking?
This situation brought it down for what
What do I get from that?
There must be a reason

Would you buy, would you save
for a Hollywood Holiday?
Satisfying as you say
it's a Hollywood Holiday
Hey I can't stay forever,
all day praying to be here
I cannot stay forever...

Hate to be here,
trying to steal
your precious light for a second...
Love to hate you, drive through,
beneath you, scared to leave
you all I can

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Love Me Butch are Malaysian and they rock.

18 August / 8:40 PM

Coheed And Cambria - Welcome Home

You could've been all I wanted
But you weren't honest
Now get in the ground
You choked off the surest of favors
But if you really loved me
You would've endured my world

Well you're just as I presumed
A whore in sheep's clothing
Fucking up all I do
And if it's here we stop
Then never again
Will you see this in your life?

Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest is our love ever longed?
With truth on the shores of compassion
You seem to take premise to all of these songs

You stormed off to scar the armada
Like Jesus played leader,
I'll drill through your hands
The stone for the curse you have blamed me
With love and devotion, you'll die as you sleep
But if you could just write me out
To neverless wonder... happy will I become
Be true that this is no option,
So with sin I condemn you
Demon play, demon out

Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest is our love ever longed?
With truth on the shores of compassion
You seem to take premise to all of these songs

One last kiss for you
One more wish to you
Please make up your mind girl...
I'd do anything for you
One last kiss for you
One more wish to you
Please make up your mind girl...
Before I hope you die

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The idea of a concept album is really great. Concept albums are essentially whole albums that follow a plot or a storyline. A good example would be MCR's 'The Black Parade' or Green Day's 'American Idiot'.

Concept albums are pretty much Coheed and Cambria's main arsenal. All their albums revolve around 'The Armory Wars'. An actual 5-part story created by Coheed's lead singer Claudio Sanchez (There's even a line of comics related to this story). I won't go into that since that's not the main aim of this post. You can read more about it on wikipedia or something.

What I really wanted to talk about was that there is so much music can do. It's not just limited to expressing one's emotions or to send out a message. Lyrically, music can be so much more than what most artistes release these days. Most concept albums usually descend from the genre of rock and metal in particular the progressive subset of these two genres.

Concept albums, in my opinion, gives musicians the opportunity to not only have a separate avenue for expressing their music but are able to take their listeners on a journey turning their music into a sort of experience. Kinda like an audio book with a lot of melody and rhythms.

Concept albums also provide a good avenue for the analysis of literary works. Although I have yet to see a concept album based on an already existing story or novel, it will be kinda cool to see what good musicianship can accomplish with existing stories. Somewhat in the vein of one of Silverstein's songs 'The Ides of March' which is an analysis of sorts into Julius Caesar's relationship with Brutus prior to his assassination. But on a larger scale.

9:49 PM / 13 August

Killswitch Engage's Cover of Dio's 'Holy Diver'

And yes, the princess is Adam D.

Holy Diver
You've been down too long in the midnight sea
Oh what's becoming of me

Ride the tiger
You can see his stripes but you know he's clean
Oh don't you see what I mean

Gotta get away
Holy Diver

Shiny diamonds
Like the eyes of a cat in the black and blue
Something is coming for you

Race for the morning
You can hide in the sun 'till you see the light
Oh we will pray it's all right

Gotta get away-get away

Between the velvet lies
There's a truth that's hard as steel
The vision never dies
Life's a never ending wheel

Holy Diver
You're the star of the masquerade
No need to look so afraid

Jump on the tiger
You can feel his heart but you know he's mean
Some light can never be seen

Holy Diver
You've been down too long in the midnight sea
Oh what's becoming of me

Ride the tiger
You can see his stripes but you know he's clean
Oh don't you see what I mean

Gotta get away
Holy Diver

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I think I've set some kind of new personal record or something. If I'm not wrong it's been 4 days since I last showered or took a bath of any kind.

6:59 PM / 11 August

Eat your guts out Power Rangers!



Meet the original Mighty Moshin' Emo Rangers.

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10.56 PM / 10 August

Haha...Kelvin's gonna be pissed. I went to watch SingFest!!! Although I didn't exactly pay for the tickets...

To tell you the truth, I didn't even go in the concert area. You see, the beauty of Fort Canning Park is that it's a public park. You only need a ticket to enter the concert area. There was still a good view from the sides. Only thing is that the stage looks quite small. It's like when you pay for the rather cheap seats to watch a wrestling event.

But still, I got to see a7x. And their new song freakin rocked my balls off. Almost Easy was the name of the song. And M. Shadows promised to do another concert in Singapore! Haha. That I will go for. Hopefully....

I didn't get to see mxpx though. Fadhil was getting too tired so we left after a7x. Argh.

But it was still good. There'll most probably be another one next year. So I'll try to save up for that one. Depends on the bands but still a festival of that nature should not be missed.

1 August / 10:04 PM

So I haven't blogged in a while. I'll do that now.

So yeah...I was in KL the past Saturday and Sunday for my cousin's wedding. Oh my God. I think it will be the grandest wedding I'll ever see. It was at some massive convention hall. The pelamin was like a whole freakin stage. There was even a clarinet player playing as my cousin and his bride walked to the pelamin. There was a 3 course meal. The great thing is that the whole family from Singapore went to the wedding. My goodness. When we took a photo with the bride and groom, it was pure madness. Haha. But that's our family. Wild and eccentric.

So yeah. I know I've told him this but still... Congratulations to my cousin Ideham and his newly-wedded wife Rizka.

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Bad Religion - Requiem for Dissent

Oratory of hope and glory a whisper and a rhyme
An effigy, a soldier out of time
Citizen and patriot you can't be far behind
The funeral is weighting heavy on your mind

Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed

Dig around the cemetery a record of the day
Friends and neighbors in stages of decay
But the saddest thing of all eludes discovery
The stimulus for this somber ceremony

Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed

The sanctimonious minions how they grovel at the feet
Authority is populist deceit
Pity yet another casualty's demoralized decline
Just a victim of irrational design

Requiem! Requiem!
Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed

Who doesn't like good ol' punk rock. A great CD anyone should get is the Warped Tour Compilation. All the old punk acts and all the new ones. Great mix of stuff. Get it.