Update

It's friday. New year's eve is tomorrow. It's so quiet here you can hear a mouse squeak. Here am I sitting in the office like a dungu. It's not that I'm not doing my work. There's no work to be done! All my potential clients are either 'on leave' or 'hilang-ed' somewhere.. And new ones just don't bother, the standard feedback I get is " Get back to us after CNY".

Don't know why our boss haven't given us half day leave. No point us wasting time here.

So do I do then?

Muahaha..I looked into my phone...and....lo and behold! Discovered some drum pics which I took during one of church practice

There you go..








This is my signature setting. It's different from all the other drummers in my church. I used to play with the standard setting, two toms right in front of me. But after I realized it wasn't cool..hahahah...I adjusted and got used to this setting. I prefer playing with two floor toms..but since we don't have two, we make shift la..haha..

I like playing with 3 crashes. With my 15" thin crash Stagg hovering above the ride cymbal. Heck, doesn't really matter how many crashes. The more the merrier. hehe. anyway, it' not my complete setting though. Usually, I'd add one more snare at my left. Either a 10" or piccolo if I ever have the priviledge of playing one. :P It gives a sound and dynamic.

In the future, maybe a china at the farthest right side, and a splash would be nice. don't really like our church cymbals though. Bleeeek. Not nice sound. But me no money to buy. So better shut up and don't complain. Anyway, my Vater drum stick holder is sticking out so coolly. Yea, to tell the truth, I bought it cos it looked cool and all my favourite band's drummers have one too. Yea, I'm a victim of commercialism.

Ooo! just remembered. I finally met a person who starting using Vater sticks after all my recommendation and 'preaching'!! HAhah...VijaY!! hahah..don hide it man!! Search deep within your heart, and you know, Vater's the one for you. muahaHAha...~~!!! It's ok man. I don't feel so alone now..heheh..come, together we shall spead the word of Vater!!

--A walk among musicians--

On a different note, the past month has really been an exciting month for me. I feel so priviledge and honored, to be able to take a walk among the great musicians around.

I had to opportunity to shake hands and to perform together with Mia Palencia.
Till then, honestly I wasn't really aware of how big she is in our country. And thanks to AYA Fest, I had the chance of a life time to walk on the same stage, work together, and make friends with the big bands around. Heck, I even got play in front of them!! Thank God I wasn't too intimidated and drumbstuck by them till I forgot how to play. hehe.

I got to work with Unabashed.
Had a chance to see them play, and work closely with Judson, their big drummer.
I got to work with AF.
who else but Agnel.
I even had the chance to work with Stephanie. Drummer for Mia Palencia, and the best girl drummer I've heard so far. Btw, she's the drummer for the band Plush, the all girl band.
My biggest priviledge, was to work with Chris, drummer for Sonic Flood.
From just working with him and watching him play for two days, I've managed to learn so much that even ppl commented that my drumming has changed since then.

And recently at church, it was a surprised who drop by for our church service. :) Upcoming big wave Army of Three. Managed to make contact, but more importantly, made friends with them

Not forgetting our very own PG 165 who just recently just played at a gig. Once a drum tech, always a drum tech.:) Had to help our local Mike Portnoy Mr Vijay set up his setting.

Whenever I'm in the presence of bands, there is a buzz of excitement going on within me. I lurve every bit of it. I like watching people carrying guitars on their backs, I like seeing how cool some musicians look, I like checking out different brands/types of guitars, drums, pedals, you name it..
And if given the chance, I'd like to stick in this line for a long time. :)

Heh.

Going back tmr liao. Cant wait. It's been 7 months since I was home.


VEeery excite!! ....
I'm going back to A-lor of Star!! veeery excite!!

:)

Ja.