Walan eh..... use the desktop PC halfway crashed and it's an unrecoverable crash! Godamit, think the bios in the motherboard is screwed and now there's no way for me to figure out the way to restore the main bios using the backup bios chip.
No choice, in the end I had to email to Gigabyte to seek their advise, and if wat I get is bad news from them, that means my pocket is gonna burn a hole again T_T
Today had a dinner with Kopihouse dudes and Dez. Good to see some new faces like Ramius, Quester and Cosair. They're a total different image as I had projected them to be.... no surprise anyway....During the dinner, Ramius was constantly teased by the rest of us about he has a thing for Hotcystal... of course, we know it's only a joke but since it's the catalyst for a good fun dinner, why not.
Ramius is a tall giant yet very gentle in body language but very very cheeky in his words.... after Dez, he the second person to cause the most laughter in the group. Nice guy and well mannered nevertheless. Quester, also known as Colourwolf, is a guy that don't fit his cyber image. In real life, he is a very quiet and passive person, and if nobody talked to him, he'll keep very very quiet. I initiated a conversation with him and found that he's pretty easy going and very matured in his thinking. Cosair, aka Goliath, is a young chap who behaved younger than he is but overall is a nice fellow too.
After the dinner, we went to a coffee cafe to continue the chatting session. There Dez kept making a lot of jokes which keeping Amy laughing non-stop and coupled with Ramius' sick yet entertaining taunts, the whole group broke into laughter throughout the session. Amy laughed the loudest and we kept telling her that the laughing will keep her slim much faster muahahaha.
Soon after, everyone gonna split as most (in fact all) had to work the next day. I reached home pretty soon since I lived pretty close to where I was located. Back home, I updated my WAP site, creating new sections to improve the site and create a new metal ringtone from Slipknot and posted it up to share with everyone.
Ramius is a tall giant yet very gentle in body language but very very cheeky in his words.... after Dez, he the second person to cause the most laughter in the group. Nice guy and well mannered nevertheless. Quester, also known as Colourwolf, is a guy that don't fit his cyber image. In real life, he is a very quiet and passive person, and if nobody talked to him, he'll keep very very quiet. I initiated a conversation with him and found that he's pretty easy going and very matured in his thinking. Cosair, aka Goliath, is a young chap who behaved younger than he is but overall is a nice fellow too.
After the dinner, we went to a coffee cafe to continue the chatting session. There Dez kept making a lot of jokes which keeping Amy laughing non-stop and coupled with Ramius' sick yet entertaining taunts, the whole group broke into laughter throughout the session. Amy laughed the loudest and we kept telling her that the laughing will keep her slim much faster muahahaha.
Soon after, everyone gonna split as most (in fact all) had to work the next day. I reached home pretty soon since I lived pretty close to where I was located. Back home, I updated my WAP site, creating new sections to improve the site and create a new metal ringtone from Slipknot and posted it up to share with everyone.
After sleeping for more than 10 hours, now I'm feeling pretty fresh. And it's about time to start the recording.
The drum track is done yesterday and today I shall sample the MIDI track into audio format. The sampling took me quite a while and Rudy called in the midst of my work, saying the DOD final is today and the guys will be there. So I prepare myself after the sampling and head off to the competition ground. This is my first time seeing a DOD competition and finally got the chance to see the skills of those real good players. Fing also told me about the current stupid politics going on with the SGDOD people. Super bo liao, DOD is only a game and people can get so serious over it.
At the same time, PAGN is promoting RayCrash, a new multiplayer game and so the rest of us register for the game. We got a feel of this new game and although it's not very difficult to learn the game, it's not easy to master the game. Nevertheless we had our fun here and soon after we split and I head home to continue where I left off.
Now that the drum and string tracks are laid down, it's time to lay down the bass and guitars. Damn, I'm not a bass player nevertheless and had lots of difficulties playing with fingers. In the end, I used pick playing as an alternative. Less smooth but it beats getting inconsistent playing throughout the song. Even the guitars posed much difficulties. Due to lack of practising the song, I had much difficulties putting them down perfectly, and in the end I'll just go with the feel and put them in layered format, not entirely perfect but still passable to normal listener.
Second song is slightly easier as it's only 2 guitars with trem and chorus effects. However since it's clean playing, any mistakes will be easily noticed. After much tries, the song is finally done. As the third song requires an acoustic guitar and the time is pretty, I postpone the recording of the third song to tomolo when the time is more suitable to record acoustic guitar
The drum track is done yesterday and today I shall sample the MIDI track into audio format. The sampling took me quite a while and Rudy called in the midst of my work, saying the DOD final is today and the guys will be there. So I prepare myself after the sampling and head off to the competition ground. This is my first time seeing a DOD competition and finally got the chance to see the skills of those real good players. Fing also told me about the current stupid politics going on with the SGDOD people. Super bo liao, DOD is only a game and people can get so serious over it.
At the same time, PAGN is promoting RayCrash, a new multiplayer game and so the rest of us register for the game. We got a feel of this new game and although it's not very difficult to learn the game, it's not easy to master the game. Nevertheless we had our fun here and soon after we split and I head home to continue where I left off.
Now that the drum and string tracks are laid down, it's time to lay down the bass and guitars. Damn, I'm not a bass player nevertheless and had lots of difficulties playing with fingers. In the end, I used pick playing as an alternative. Less smooth but it beats getting inconsistent playing throughout the song. Even the guitars posed much difficulties. Due to lack of practising the song, I had much difficulties putting them down perfectly, and in the end I'll just go with the feel and put them in layered format, not entirely perfect but still passable to normal listener.
Second song is slightly easier as it's only 2 guitars with trem and chorus effects. However since it's clean playing, any mistakes will be easily noticed. After much tries, the song is finally done. As the third song requires an acoustic guitar and the time is pretty, I postpone the recording of the third song to tomolo when the time is more suitable to record acoustic guitar
Today is a pretty cloudy day. I was supposed to go to Sentosa for a good sun tan session but seems that the screwed up weather is not gonna fulfil my wish....
Oh well, I went to the island anyway. I had given my word to go. Anyway, I had to take a break from racking my brain over Yun's compositions. I had to record and mix down 3 songs within 4 days and minus the working time, I don't have much time to produce a perfect but only a decent job.
Upon reaching the island, it was drizzling slightly but I still can have fun playing frisbie with Dewei and Joanne. It's been a long time since I had a good workout, so the frisbie and swimming did a lot of good to me.
When I reached home, the tiredness got into me and guess I had to call it a day and take a good rest and prepare to do the recording tomolo as my current mental state can't do much for the recording....
Oh well, I went to the island anyway. I had given my word to go. Anyway, I had to take a break from racking my brain over Yun's compositions. I had to record and mix down 3 songs within 4 days and minus the working time, I don't have much time to produce a perfect but only a decent job.
Upon reaching the island, it was drizzling slightly but I still can have fun playing frisbie with Dewei and Joanne. It's been a long time since I had a good workout, so the frisbie and swimming did a lot of good to me.
When I reached home, the tiredness got into me and guess I had to call it a day and take a good rest and prepare to do the recording tomolo as my current mental state can't do much for the recording....
Today is just another usual weekend, nothing special...Working OT in the morning and left the office after noon.
I went to Peninsula Centre to get a cargo pant as the price is pretty much cheaper there. When I reached there, fwah, another guitar shop opened?!?!? that's like 3 guitar shops within the 50m radius... such ingenius business strategy huh...I move on to Edwin's shop, hoping to catch up with him and Steph for a while but alas his shop is closed. So I moved on to get my pants. Reached this pakistani shop and tried on the pants. It feels a bit baggy but this one is much better than the one I've tried earlier. Since it's made of cotton, I thought just get it and see if it shrink.
After the band practise, we are supposed to meet Charlie with the other MINDEF forum bikers. Before that, I head off to my buddy's house to return him the line filter and get back the Classic VCD as well. It just happened that the kitten Huisan picked up is there too... oh my fucking god!! it was soooooo adorable!!! I picked it up and put it in my arms and stroked its head until it slept in my arms! I was so tempted to bring it back home but I have my other 2 fatties to take care of (they're hamsters...hammies and cats don't mix :D)
I went to Peninsula Centre to get a cargo pant as the price is pretty much cheaper there. When I reached there, fwah, another guitar shop opened?!?!? that's like 3 guitar shops within the 50m radius... such ingenius business strategy huh...I move on to Edwin's shop, hoping to catch up with him and Steph for a while but alas his shop is closed. So I moved on to get my pants. Reached this pakistani shop and tried on the pants. It feels a bit baggy but this one is much better than the one I've tried earlier. Since it's made of cotton, I thought just get it and see if it shrink.
After the band practise, we are supposed to meet Charlie with the other MINDEF forum bikers. Before that, I head off to my buddy's house to return him the line filter and get back the Classic VCD as well. It just happened that the kitten Huisan picked up is there too... oh my fucking god!! it was soooooo adorable!!! I picked it up and put it in my arms and stroked its head until it slept in my arms! I was so tempted to bring it back home but I have my other 2 fatties to take care of (they're hamsters...hammies and cats don't mix :D)
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