Archive for February, 2008

The One With The Pictures

Posted in Other Things, Randoms on February 29, 2008 by steve maestro

Pictures paints a thousand words:

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The bored look…

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The Constipated look…

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The Cute-Elmo look…

And finally…

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The Gremlin look…

 

The One With The BSB Concert Pt.2

Posted in Music, My experiences on February 29, 2008 by steve maestro

Okays… BSB concert post coming right up…

Tuesday 26th Feb, at approximately 1500 hours:

Mauritian and yous truly went to Menara Star to get our free tickets. Was overjoyed and excited about it. Kinda like reliving childhood again cuz after all, I did grew up listening to BSB…

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Our happy faces…

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The partially hidden happy face…

And so we had two extra tickets (a pair of tickets for one recipient)… in came the Michi and the JoJo. And thus we began our journey to Sunway Pyramid/Lagoon for the concert (concert’s at Sunway Lagoon but parked at Pyramid…), going through the massive jam and a potential thunderstorm which thankfully did not took materialize in full force that night.

Concert was at the open air stage at the Lagoon, where the sands are still wet and there were water puddles everywhere, and they had to barricade like half the place for the VIPs. So we non-VIPs had to cram outside the blocked area, and as for the late comers they had to watch the whole show behind this mini river thing which failed to dry one that night. Lucky us we stood somewhere in the middle.

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The Michi The JoJo The Mauritian and The Maestro.

And so the concert began almost an hour late (staying true to the Malaysian timing). Started with what the Boys in their boxing gown/dress/suit/one-piece or whatever you called it, and they began with Larger Than Life, with a mix of Kanye West’s Stronger in between. Nice way to kick things off.

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The Boys strutting their stuff

I can’t really recall the order of the show, but they sang most of their old stuff (think As Long As You Love Me, Quit Playin Games, I’ll Never Break Your Heart…etc) and their new stuff. Each of the Boys sang their own solo from their own solo effort, and in my opinion, AJ faired the best compared to the rest, with his Drive-By Love song. Brian did well too with his song Welcome Home, but as for Nick and Howie, their song is so forgettable I can’t even recall it.

The Boys wrapped things up with the encore song Shape Of My Heart, to the delight of the massive crowd on that night. But this was when things started to turn ugly…

The few thousand strong crowd started to take the escalator up to the Pyramid, and with such congestion, the escalator on the middle tier of the trail of escalators suddenly went busted and everyone got stuck on the mid tiers up the air like… really high, and we were all so close to falling down and die on the spot. What a sad way to die, imagine going up to heaven and if any angel were to ask you how you died, you reply “I died after attending a BSB concert”… angel goes “Lame….”

And that’s the end of it. Thankfully no one died, and all it left me was a pair of very wet jeans:

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And Michi begging for money:

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Overall concert rating: 3/5. Lost 1 mark because of the near death experience. It’s not funny when you’re in that situation…

 

The One With The BSB Concert Pt.1

Posted in Randoms on February 26, 2008 by steve maestro

Guess who’s gonna go watch Backstreet Boys tomorrow at Sunway Lagoon???

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But… but.. not only I have one ticket… but I have…:

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Two of ’em!!!

So… who’s my friend now ah??? Hehehe…

On another note…

BACKSTREET’S BACK, ALRIGHT!!!

P.S.: Sorry Pet for taking back the tix… I’m so so so sorry and I’ll make it up to you!

 

The One With The Love Picture

Posted in Randoms on February 25, 2008 by steve maestro

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Brokeback Mountain action from Robin and Prakash

L, is for the way you look, at me…

O, is for the only one, I see…

V, is very very, extraordinary…

E, is even more, anyone that you adore and…

LOVE, was made for me and you…

So much love in that picture, the song does not do justice to the picture.

P.S.: They are both very very straight by the way… and not seeing each other definitely…

The One With The Self Made Comic 2:

Posted in Ridiculous things on February 25, 2008 by steve maestro

Presenting to you the Self Made Comic number 2:

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All original pictures with no touch up.

Made on a Mac. 

 

The One With The Things You Do When You’re Bored

Posted in Randoms, Ridiculous things on February 23, 2008 by steve maestro

What are the things that you do when you’re bored?

Watch idiot box TV?

Do outdoor activities?

Workout?

Eat?

Sleep?

Pretend you’re not bored?

Read?

Net surfing?

Chat on the phone?

Pretend to be dead?

Well… if none of the above applies to you as it did to me when I’m bored try doing this new thing that I did today when I’m bored to death…:

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and I’m still bored…

The One With The Change of Theme

Posted in Other Things, Randoms on February 23, 2008 by steve maestro

Changes… some are good, some not.

I’ve always liked my old blog theme. Lots of people commented about it and said how it reminded them of some old, classic letter kinda look and feel. For me, it is easy to manage and looks neat, the opposite of what I really am.

So I’ve decided to change my blog’s theme into this black colored background, striking text kinda theme… cuz… black has always been my favorite color, and I like how this theme looks like.

So to all my readers who have a problem with this:

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 Nah, I’m just kidding… in fact:

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 So please let me know if the theme suits you… cuz I really want to get more hits and readership by pleasing you guys you guys are the most important of all to me…

So please continue to support:

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Ciaoz…

 

The One With The Killer Sentence

Posted in Emo Moments, Randoms on February 21, 2008 by steve maestro

To the ones who brag a lot about themselves to me…

To the ones who keeps complaining to me about things… (share problem never mind… but to the point of complaining and taking it out on me??? ridiculous lah you ppl!).

To the ones who kept saying how stupid things are (where in fact the stupid THING is YOU yourself!)…

To the ones who cannot help but nag a lot…

To the ones who keep talking and talking like nobody’s business…

To the ones who pretend like they are so… of a certain class and pretending to be all bossy and stuff…

And finally…

To the ones who’s the all talk, no action kinda people…

I’ve 4 words for ya…:

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Picture courtesy of JoJo… now I have it as well, muahaha

 

The One With The Many Names…

Posted in Emo Moments, Randoms on February 20, 2008 by steve maestro

It’s still okay if people call me fat… I don’t mind…  I am fat nonetheless.

It’s still very much okay when people say that I’m stupid or ugly…  it is a fact nonetheless…

But when people call you a MONK, a FATSO, a MOUSE, a FATTY BUMP BUMP, a SISSY, a WUSS and a FAG all in one day in the span of one hour…

Tell me how would you feel??????????

(random emo moment. Gosh, name callings can be a bit irritating sometimes…)

The One With the Random Fridays

Posted in Randoms on February 7, 2008 by steve maestro

Okay so I’m borrowing the blog title from Joshua’s, from now on I’m gonna blog about random stuff every Friday!… not very exciting right? Anyways, we will see how it goes, at least this Random Friday thing will keep this space at least updated once a week.

Well, first off, A HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR to all my friends (that’s you my buddy!). From now on there will be an unofficial Ang Pow count thing by the sidebar of this blog, just to keep track of how many ang pows I have gotten so far. The amount of money will only be told next weekend, so let’s see whether will I get more ang pows but less money or less ang pows but more money……. yeah, whatever.

So, I was at Laundry Bar (Click HERE) last Thursday evening for the Fly FM’s Campur Chart Live Show. And what an amazing crowd it turned out to be, considering the fact that most of the people are away for the weekend holiday. Local acts played on that night, namely Phlowtron and Gerhana Ska Cinta. I’m not such a fan of hip hop and stuff, so I didn’t really enjoy Phlowtron’s performance, though it was really really good and hyped up the crowd. However, Gerhana Ska Cinta was superb! I don’t normally listen to that genre of music (read out: SKA), but it was a really really good show from them and I really enjoyed it, amidst all the crowd and all the smoke and stuff. And the biggest, the BIGGEST thing happened to me on that night. No, I did not get laid but I got to speak with Hani (former Hitz. FM DJ)!!! I almost fainted when I saw her, and when my ever-famous, spotlight hogging friend Prakash went to her to greet her (he knows everyone. Really. Bring him to Mars and chances are he’ll find someone he knows there!). And I was surprised when Prakash brought her to our group of people and introduced her to us! And the best part…. we shook hands!!! Argh!!! Ok, so yeah it’s a bit exaggerated but that’s how I spent the evening of the first day of Chinese New Year. And I won’t regret it, hahaha…

Anyways, onto some other news. I will be acquiring two new guitar effects pedal soon. Yes, I know… I… must… stop… buying… unnecessary… guitar stuffs…

But nah, I will just give in this time around, for I know this time it won’t be a total waste of money. Let me present you, the first pedal!:

1) TC-Electronic’s ND-1 Nova Delay Pedal:

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Ain’t it a beauty??? Anyways, yes it is one of the latest range of guitar pedals by TC Electronics, and if you know your stuff, TC has got to be one of the best in making great, studio quality guitar effects. This ND-1 Nova Delay is based on their legendary 2290 Rack Delay Effect, now available in a small, compact form as shown above (it’s not actual size, but it’s pretty compact in size). It features 6 types of delays, and has a unique tap tempo technology, where instead of tapping the tempo of the song with your feet on the tempo knob, you simply hold the knob down with your feet, and as you strum or play the song on your guitar, the unit automatically tracks your playing and suits it with the delay according to the song’s tempo! How amazing is that! Anyways, I do hope to get this baby soon enough, in time for the UCSI CF’s Easter Rally (click HERE for the CF’s blog).

2) Electro Harmonix’s Holy Grail Reverb:

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Electro Harmonix’s products are known to be one of the best in the market, and the Holy Grail Reverb pedal is also one of the best reverb pedals out there. What this pedal does is… simply, gives you reverb or echo or echo-ish, trailing sounds. Here you have three modes, the Spring mode (reminds me of country music’s slapback delay kinda thing…), the Hall mode (gives you the sound when you play in a… duh, hall), and Flerb mode (Flanger+Reverb=Flerb.). As you can see… it’s pretty simple, with one knob controlling the reverb gain, and one footswitch. Ah, the simplicity… but… but…

One of my pedals are going the other way… I am trading one of my pedals for this Holy Grail. Which one is it? Stay tuned to find out!

Anyways, I am removing the blog hits counter from the sidebar of my blog. Why? Cuz SOMEONE is getting 12,000 hits while lame blogs like this one gets… way less. Nah, just kidding, but I don’t want to be bothered by readership issues or hits/views anymore. I’m doing what I love to do, which is writing, blogging, whatever you call it. I don’t care whether I have readers or not, or even people commenting on the posts. Sometimes it bugs me on why blogs like Kenny Sia’s or Xia Xue’s gets comments from people wanting to be the First one or Second one to comment (gee, I wish I had that here…), but no offense though, those two are really good bloggers, providing really entertaining stuffs everytime.

So anyhoo… gonna go sleep now. Until the next Random Friday moment, brought you by the brains of a 200-pound Chinese guy who looks older than he is.