freak lah... dwin is seriously not helping. that bugger is like all raaraaraar zealous shit to us sec4s and stuff like "oh i'm the slavedriver" shit... now i DO appreciate the fact that he is trying and i say TRYING to get us motivated for the Os, but no. not working. all his friggin raaraar is getting me friggin depressed and shit. well, you may say that all the other sec 4s before me went through the same shit... but hey i don't really care do i? all i care is that i'm the one going thru it now, and it friggin sux. now i'm gonna draw on my face with eyeliner and slit my wrist. oh yeah i'm emo. alternatively, i could just fantasize about doing such things...

hermm.... i went jamming today, and frankly, i'm quite dissatisfied to say the least. of all the songs my jamming buddies outrightly said they could play, at least half if not all they ended up not being able to play properly. sometimes one forgot a chord, the other times they went out of beat... now i wasted $10 on a substandard jamming session... haiz.
i'm not trying to say that my jamming buddies suck... in fact i think they are quite okay, lest i wouldn't have asked them to jam. it's just that, i feel that the distinction between "can play" and "cannot play" is has to be drawn more clearly. as a musician, i believe it has to be VERY clear cut, so as to prevent such wasted jamming sessions or maybe even gigs in future, where not even one song is completed.

So, here are a few criteria to define can or cannot play, which i abide closely by:
-if you haven't heard the song before, you cannot play it
-if you have heard the song before, but haven't played it on the instrument before, you cannot play it
-if you know the tabs to the song, but haven't practised it, you cannot play it
-if you know the tabs to the song, but cannot play it once through without missing a crucial riff, you cannot play it.
-if you cannot keep in beat and maintain tempo for the whole song, you cannot play it.
-if you cannot play a riff in the song, you cannot play it
-if you think you play it but don't know that you can, you can't play it.
-if you've played it a long time ago, but haven't practised that song since, you cannot play it
-if you've never touched the instrument you are gonna play for that song, you cannot play it (unless it's between acoustic and electric guitar or imaginery drums and real drums. finding practise for drums can be difficult)
-if you don't know when to come in during the song, you cannot play it.
-if you don't know how long a riff is, you can't play it.
-if you can't sing it, you CAN play it. the music is more important. (provided all other criteria are fulfilled)
-if you hate the song, you cannot play it.

so the next time anyone wants to jam with me, please follow these guidelines. i dun want a situation where we can't play any songs, i'm not happy, we're not happy and we waste money.

for the guys who jammed with me today and are reading this, i'm sorry for having to say this now, but i just want to make sure that future jamming sessions are good ones. no offence intended... just to qualify i'm not saying yall suck, but yeah you get the point. still friends yar

no kick. no kick at all. today's history and chem papers: piece of cake. haha i'm quite satisfied. i think i can do well... of course i can only say that since i spent like 3 or 4 days studying history during the holidays. haha. well, we'll see how the results turn out.

ooh yeah! i finally got a bass amp! Laney RB1. honestly its sound sux... but well it's quite substantial counting the fact that it has a built in compressor which i can control. it's quite okay.