Bought it in Guitar Collection, Sunway Pyramid for RM1056, including a 10watt bass amp. Damn fun, there are just some sounds you can't achieve if you're practicing with an acoustic guitar. :D
Brand name? Tanglewood, never heard of it before. Amp's brand is KUSTOM, never heard of it before too. Sounds German.
First trial I had to go through was lugging it all the way back home. The amp's real heavy for it's size, and to think that's the smallest they have. Anyway been practicing on some Beatles songs and Jimi Hendrix Experience songs. Hendrix songs are really fun to play. The drummer and bassist don't get much recognition, but IMHO all three of them in band are good musicians. So here they are: Noel Redding - bass, Mitch Mitchell - drums. Got the tabs from online. I got the fingering right now - finally am able to fret a note with my pinky finger.
Life In Technicolour is one of my favourite Coldplay songs now, that and Strawberry Swing. Honestly I prefer their instrumental version better. I remember being very confused when watching their MV for that song on TV. I said to myself: "That song has lyrics??"
I don't really pay much attention to lyrics, the most I pay attention to is the first verse or first few lines and then the chorus(the first chorus and maybe the last one after the bridge). Cause I'm usually listening to it and doing work. The lyrics are pretty hard to catch what with all that cacophony of instruments and sounds. SO I honestly thought that I was being a shallow, dense music fan to the extend that I didn't realize that the song had lyrics. But a quick wikipedia search helped me ascertain that I wasn't a complete idiot.
The one with lyrics is called Life In Technicolour II and it was released after the instrumetal one on Viva La Vida on their Prospekt March EP.
Erm... this semester has been alright so far. We have some really fun classes.
Mix Media is just a continuation of the illustration type work that we've been doing. Just that now we're using air brush and colour pencils. And later on we're going to be allowed to incorporate whatever medium we want. Time consuming, but all in all still fun.
Digital Illustration, we're learning Corel Painter. Its fun too cause imagine we can use any medium we want without having to deal with the mess of paint stains, spills, smears, and also the cost of buying them.
Creative Workshop, is just a class to make sure that we're not brain dead yet. Encourages more abstract fine art stuff. Just came back from a session where we had to do mini plasticine sculptures blind folded. OK so maybe calling it "just a class" is euphemism and downplaying it's importance. But I really do appreciate the Academy for being... considerate.
And there is the least fun class of them all Advance Advertising Visual... I know that it is good and useful for us, but I don't like it. Why do these type of classes always incite such abhorrence, such hate?
Erm... came up with another new song. What's worrying about doing this is that just after writing it and I go away and I've got the song playing over and over in my head, and then suddenly it hits me that it sounds like so and so song (this usually occurs in the shower or while eating). And I go listen to the song and then realize it doesn't sound like it. Maybe I'm writing or constructing tunes out of my impression of another song. Or is this just plain plagiarism?
Stoning churches with Molotov Cocktail... and now PLAIN ORDINARY STONES at a Sikh Temple?
I remember reading this one article on the issue , very deftly written. Covering the views and reasons of both sides. But really, since God is so AWESOME (in the original context of the word and not the "dude that movie was Awesome" context), will He/She/It stop providing if you don't call Him "Jehovah"? Will He be weakened, and be over thrown by the devil, if in your prayer and worship and newsletters you refer to him as plain-old-ordinary "Tuhan"? (Tuhan = God in BM)
But seriously now a Sikh Temple? These people really need a central planning committee, they need a round table meeting. I don't care where they decide to hold it in - the mamak stalls or kopitiams. And they should write it down in black and white.
1: Use Molotov Cocktails, we need to keep with the times. Stones are so 1st century.
2: Calm yourselves down and aim at the WINDOWS not the WALL. I know they both start with a W in English and "T" in BM (Tingkap for window, Tembok for wall). But Molotov on window and Molotov on wall produces two very distinct effect. Just like water colour: wet on dry, wet on wet, dry on wet - DIFFERENT EFFECTS and DIFFERENT END RESULTS.
3: Know your enemy: What is their religion? What is their denomination? Have you any idea about the vast array of denominations Christianity has? Pick any Christian and ask them if you're a Chrisian and first thing they'll say is say "yes", and then they say "I'm Brethren" or "I'm Methodist", Anglican, Seventh Day Adventist, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Church of God, Presbyterian, Baptist etc. etc. etc.
Target CHURCHES who actually use THE WORD in their worship not just any church. And if they subscribe to the Herald - BM version. No the word can't possibly appear in the Mandarin or Tamil... oh what's that? They only come in English and BM? Alright scrap that thought. But still! Now on to the last bit
4: May I stress the importance of research. Research is vital! Essential! A matter of life and death! Pay or no pay! Success or failure! Employment or unemployment! Pass or fail. And if fail, you have to retake. But there is no retake in throwing a Molotov Cocktail, there is no Ctrl+Z. If your client asks for a colour pencil drawing and you don't know how to do it: research. If they ask for a 70's theme, you can't tell them "I was born in the 90's what do I know about the 70's?" RESEARCH!
Edit: And that would be what the chairman of the Stoning Churches with Molotov Cocktail committee say if he were a designer/illustrator/artist.
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