Ok, finally have the time to sit down and type… I’ll update according to reverse chronological order…
For the past few weeks at work, I’ve been evaluating and learning Microsoft Silverlight… What is Silverlight you’ll ask? It’s essentially a Microsoft version of Adobe Flash (formally Macromedia Flash) except with more coding work to do… The graphics department isn’t as good as Flash, but its ability to integrate with the back end makes it very useful… What’s all this I’m talking about? For those who know, good; for those who don’t, it doesn’t affect you anyway…
My mum, eldest sister and her baby went China last Saturday to visit my elder sis… They’ll be gone for a month and return in mid-August… The good part is I have total freedom, peace and tranquility with no baby to bother me… It’s a very good environment for me to do my recordings, which I should be finishing up on one song soon… The bad part is no clean environment, no good food, and no clean, fresh clothes!!! Haizz… Think I’ll start missing them when I’ve finished my recordings… (Managed to practice my piano again after so many months!!! Wasn’t possible previously because of everyone making so much ruckus around the dining area especially the baby…)
My brother was enlisted 3 weeks back… There’s not even a parent visiting day and he booked out last week, just 2 weeks confinement… Well, now that he won’t be around for very long, I have the whole bed to myself…Though things are getting boring cause I don’t have anyone else to order around…
Moving further back the time line, I’ve been jamming with my colleagues in a jamming studio at Macpherson… It’s really fun and it’s something I really like doing; unlike my percussion band that’s so annoying… I was the drummer when we first started, but things were bad… really, really bad… A good description would be to get 3 stereos playing the same song but starting at a different time, play at a different speed, and a different key here and there…
I’m the drummer, no one follows my timing and I have to follow them!?! How crappy is that?!? I had no choice but to take the reigns and control the situation in a more direct method – I became the lead vocalist…
Things were better, at least the song structure is there, but it’s still not good enough… The music was still very weak for it tends to go off course and there was no climax to the song… One of our colleagues brought her boyfriend to join us and he is very good with the drums kit, this meant that I can be taken permanently off the drums… With that, I took over the role of the lead guitarist as well to push the entire rhythm, eliminating another random element… 3 good elements and we started to sound better…
That sorts of summarises what I have been doing since the last post… There are other random stuff like ghost hunting, ktv, etc., but nothing special happened…
Oh? Only these and it kept be busy for so long? Of course not, there’s still this girl, the most time-consuming of all…
