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nobody@vox.com(Pa'an) — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:33:56 -0800

Where was I all this while?

Beats me, really. It's like staring at the mirror. You're looking at the bruise on your lips and do absolutely nothing about it.

This brand new year so far has brought a whole new meaning to the term 'brand new'. It's not an upside down, but more of an inside out. Never even once found my own comfort zone, I crawled out of a losing battlefield and immediately plunged into another raging war zone. So, for the second penultimate time, I was expelled from UiTM. With the amount of thinking I did, the dishearteningly painful upset I felt, I finally gathered myself to make my final stand. "I want to do Mass Comm".

CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED INTO STAMFORD COLLEGE'S SCHOOL OF MEDIA STUDIES

DIPLOMA IN MEDIA & COMMUNICATION

So, yeah. Why Stamford you ask? Well the tuition fee is a lot cheaper, the syllabus is more writing-based as opposed to other colleges/govt. universities and the most calming factor is that, Akak's there as well. I really like the fact that the School Of Media Studies is a small, close-knit family. There's only 4 lecturers (all of them are already aces in my book) and I've only 5 other classmates in my batch. Somehow I finally have one of my childhood dreams realized: studying in the middle of the hustle and bustle of the city. And I got Pudu. Cool.

Surely there's more to that right? I mean I've been away from this space for almost a full month. Of course there's more. I'm not that boring, you know.

Before 2007 arrived, I took the night train to Singapore for an actual holiday. I thought spending a day or two basking in the air of the Lion City would seep in some sense in my head to cap off another turbulent year. Thank God for Tash. I never had so much fun hanging, walking (lenguh!) and yakking with someone for almost 12 straight hours. The only things I spent on was (other than food) 2 CDs from The Union Of A Man And A Woman and B-Quartet.KFC's Cheesy Fries are sex.

KFC Cheesy Fries

There's nothing much you can buy with SGD50. I even maxed out on my allowance for the trip. My hunt for a BOSS or 1Spot adapter came to no avail.

Spiral Kinetic Circus

Back at home, things were pretty hectic. School season's back and Abg. Aidil's wedding in JB was just around the bend. Not to mention Hari Raya Korban too.

Mohd. Aidil Mohd. Noor & Mazlinda Abu Bakar

Right. Prior to the wedding, the band played 2 shows in Jam Asia and Giggers Art Cafe. Well, I actually wrote about it in the band's blog:

hey there!
this is our first blog post, so feel special! heh.
well we're halfway through with this month's series of shows. and i must say it's a relief having been through it all so far without any major hicks. the MOEN showcase last week was a new experience for us, playing for a totally different set of crowd. we were the only "takda orang nyanyi ke?" band that night but nonetheless we enjoyed ourselves. hey, if the organizer's happy with what you did, you scored mumfucking "A"s la kan? heh.
last night's Weekender series was also another first for the band. Old Klang Road was a new turf for us, so we kinda took the experimental approach by not practicing for the show and boy were we in for a backfire. we sucked wei! hahaha. kantoi sana sini and all. i don't know exactly why, but the post-show feedbacks that we got from the other bands were surprisingly positive. well, thank you guys!
great great thanks to the Guitar Store Hartamas for giving the chance to test drive the awesome budget stompboxes (i'm getting a MOEN Violent Metal soon, hopefully) and Myo for the word of mouth on us (we owe you a lot bro!). Also to Acap and The Fridays for letting us be a part of the Weekender family. it was inspiring to the bone. thanks to Phang of Citizens Of Ice Cream as well for seeing us in action, we were caught off guard! and to the bands we shared stages this month, here's to a prosperous life ahead!
btw, cool Mr. Stalin from RadioGravityLamePost did a short review on us at his website here. thanks man!
up next, the pivotal Bear With Me! see you cats there!

Oh and, we released our first EP last Saturday (interested parties, contact me to get your hands on it)

Living In Vivified Enclosures EP

The Bear With Me gig was really, really an important moment for us. Playing alongside our heroes (TWKUA) was kinda nervewrecking, and being the 4th band on the bill that night somehow did wonders to our esteem. I must admit that it was our best set ever. The crowd were all pumped up, the equipments ran well, the sound was awesome (thanks Wadi!) and we clicked with the songs like clockwork.

Bear With Me @ KL Jam Asia

We brought along 20 copies (but Azhar by mistake brought all 27) of our EP that night. All I had in mind was, if we could at least sell half of it we're already happy. At the end of the night, Na told me that we sold 22 copies! Crazy.

We have another two shows for February. Then another two in March. It'll be a busy year for us. And hopefully something awesome'll happen in June. Heh.

My college's Mass Comm Club held a field trip to Sri Pentas last Tuesday. Nothing much can be said about that, though. It's just normal.

Sri Pentas Field Trip

Sri Pentas Trip

Well, that's about it I guess. Be back soon.

Hopefully.

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