Showing posts with label Anime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anime. Show all posts

Monday, June 18, 2007

Selling Signals Processing Book AU$70. Good Condition! No Markings at all!

Whee! I have completed my exams. Guess like i will not be studying for a while. I am BORED! I started to listen to BBC Podcast: The Best of Unsigned Artists and i found this track with an interesting melody. Kinda reminds me of Mr. Rubato of the old. The track is Wolfgang - Not in Love (Not True).


Thats the album cover.

I been checking out youtubes of my past favorite songs which included songs by Oasis and Millencolin, all rock bands, reliving memory i guess. But I don't wanna spam the youtube videos here. Too much is enough. =). I am going back to FM2006. I need a break.

Edited on 22/06/07:
OK. I have decided to continue on this post because firstly, I might not add alot of new stuff but hey, it's all related to me. Lets bitch about my landlord. Yes lets bitch about her. There's another part of her which I don't really like. One is her definition of Money, yes I know to some of you people money enhances things like health, happiness (but not necessary gives it as some of you might argue) , living conditions, it even enhances your SOCIAL CIRCLE. can you imagine it.

The definition of money on wikipedia was "Money is any good or tokens that functions as a medium of exchange that is socially and legally accepted in payment for goods and services and in settlement of debts. Money also serves as a standard of value for measuring the relative worth of different goods and services and as a store of value. Some authors explicitly require money to be a standard of deferred payment.[1] Money is central to the study of economics and forms its most cogent link to finance."

OK thats a whole lot of terms and definitions made up by lawyers and accountants. What money really is varies from one person to another. For Linus, it can be a contribution towards God. (Did I just read your mind? =P) . For me, it could be a source of food. YUMMY Food or talk time with my beloved girlfriend. For my girlfriend, it's just a piece of paper. O.O

*Freeze*

*Rewind*

My girlfriend and I, and more recently Jessamyn have been attending this forum: The Landmark Forum by the friendly people from Landmark Education. It a forum that doesn't just teaches you something, it's about having conversations about oneself, transformation about oneself, having great relationship with others and having a whole new perspective about other things. Money, being an important thing for most of us, other than the favorite mobile.


O yeah that used to be my hand(s)phone and I had 6 carriers (from left) Vignesh, Sanjit, Mutu, Chandra, Singh, and his gay partner. Incidentally Yee Chien's latest post is super disturbing, It has Naruto and Sasuke kissing on two separate occasions.

What my girlfriend attended was the Landmark Advanced Course and she found a brand new meaning for the word money. What if money was a way of saying thanks? In her futuristic utopia there will be no money but pieces of paper ready to incinerated.

*Fast Forwards*

As for my landlord how ever, it means everything to her. I can't help but notice that every conversation i have with her as a word money in it. Even if it means leaving the tap dripping or the drips of water on her most precious carpet which would cost bugs to manifest and for her to call the carpet cleaning services which will cost her extra money. Sounds abit far fetched for me. But one needs to understand her past. She's single and available and hot not, old definitely yes. She's a Singaporean, married to an Australian Local, however ,as 60 percent of the marriages are in this country, ended up with two of them signing a paper. The funny thing was, when she told me this she told me that her husband was claiming almost everything she had. Even her property back home in Singapore leaving only this precious house left to her in which she will soon lose to the bank as she is unable to foot the mortgage. However the strange thing is that she wants to renovate the house to make it pricer when she rents it would before the bank claims it back, so that it's an investment? =.= Anyway, She's in this business of organising the construction of a certain library for the needy kids in Chiangrai as well. However, throughout my conversations with her about her project and overhearing her exclaimed expressions through the phone lines, I can't help but to judge her. (FYI i am always hearing her exclaiming words of authority. "I won't let them do it! I will personally see it out myself! Why should I let them do it!" though i cannot really quote the exact words.) She's hurt inside. Lost of Power, and money and trust most probably from her broken marriage. I know she's trying to help the needy, however I would hope if she do it in a more sincere way and involve others rather than to do it just to prove something or to assert power. I will not back stab her on my blog (although this post seem perfectly fitting for the reason). I will now put it to point to talk this point out with her and to get to understand her more before I move out. I just want to see someone doing what they really want but not doing something just to correct something that has happened. In fact, I pity her. Not myself that I have to live with her and stand up to her perfectly sane sleeping hours between 11-7. (Mine probably starts at 6am and ends at 1pm) However, I have made a commitment to my dearest that I will sleep early, at least 12-2am and not like 6am. I want to be a transformed person to be accepted. =) Not because to be accepted, but I have been wanting to be like that for quite sometime but I just couldn't put it to task.

On the day after my final paper, I actually went crazy and went to do a mix of hard dance songs and ended up sampling accapella over some instrumental parts of the hard dance songs. It's like one of those mix and mash versions by the cut up boys, however it's more nooby and it's of the hard dance genre. I am finalising one mini mix which features 4 tracks i have on my computer at the moment, however I am waiting for the BK Cd album which is arriving from Singapore after the doctor passed it to my girlfriend to bring it over to me while she's here. I am waiting for it so that i can rip out songs from that cd and try to incorporate some sounds into the mini mix. I will be putting a sample online soon enough when jessamyn host it for me. Which she will after she cleans her room. =) I am too lazy for these kinda IT stuff.



I just "earned" 106 dollars today with one bank visit and one phone call today. Its so wicked. I just felt so happy even for the fact that i made a 60km/h turn on a 40km/h road with a speedometer and a possible police hiding. Is that considered speeding? I think it does =(. But i think I just earned it back =) By submitting my TFN to the bank! For all those that doesn't know, TFN stands for Tax F******* Number (Actually I don't know what F stands for but o well) Basically If you work, you have to submit your TFN to your employers in Melbourne and they will sorta record it. So at the end of every financial year, being 1st of july for Australia. You need to submit your income tax. But I blardie don't even work yet! True. However I have not submitted my TFN to the bank, hence the taxation office tax half of my interest as 'income tax' I used to say What the hell just let it go cos Australian interest rates are like 6% and half is 3% and hell it's still higher than POSB. OK I was wrong. I went to the bank today and i thought about the TFN thing and i just wanted to enquire about it and if i calculate it that if they rip 30 dollars from me a month. Hell, it's 360 a year! I would be rich! Aww turns out they only took out 106 dollars from me last year but still it's a return! I earned it back from the tax office!




I am not sure if she's that pretty though but if you guys are interested I will ask if I see her.

I have also sorted out my accommodation for the 12 months and possibly further if I like it. It's like even closer to the uni than the "on-campus halls" and I get to use my own internet without going through the PRICER Monash intra net. Rent is 175/week but I think i will like it there. Own toilet and own kitchen area. Own internet. I even have a friend there. Sylvia! And the girls to guys ratio is 3:1. Hello I am attached so no funny thoughts. But you guys are welcomed if you wanna bunk in. Hahahaha. Just joking, I will charge ya ass off for a peep! I pity Terry, he will have to come camouflaged in Black the next time in black at night. So I can't see him snooping around. Major thanks to sylvia for putting up with my "eh do u have a place at your place?" questions. Every time i sms her it seems to be about that. But I would sincerely like to thank you. Hope to see you neighbour!

Footnote: I been to youtube these days on the recent controversial England vs Holland U21 match which ended in an amazing 13-12 penalty shootout loss for the English. Especially for football and other sports. I hate to see people swear or even comment really bad stuff. I have a stereotype of Americans after viewing you tubes and their negative comments ok most are negative comments and skanky chics who flails to songs. (o great now i can't find the link) But yeah, I found some horrible ones for my favorite songs from Deepest Blue a few days ago and it's really disconcerting. If some guy will tell 'them' to like post somewhere else they will raise this thing about "freedom of speech" Americans - definitely not the center of the world, nor the leaders of the free-world. It just irks me. I am now justifying my decision not to go to the states to study.

Friday, June 15, 2007

Calm Before The Storm

Hello World!
I have finally finalized my trip to Brisbane/Gold Coast with Gwen. We'll actually be going to 3 of the Worlds (Dreamworld, Movie World, Wet N Wild costing 135$ for the 3 of them as a package). Those who intend to go there for a holiday should tune into my blog more cos i will most probably put up some photos here. We will be watching Queens live too at , they were the ones that brought you the track "We Will Rock You" and a lot of songs sang by the boy group 5ive. We'll be climbing a certain Story Bridge (I think the view would be absolutely amazing) and parading ourself by the beach (This is obviously rubbish, beach in the middle of winter?). I guess that's the lowdown of our trip. O yes we also be checking out the beautiful university campus of UQ in St. Lucia, Brisbane.



The accommodation issue with at Gold Coast side turned up a bit tricky as I was forced to fork out extra dollars to grab a better hotel. Mate, it's right smack beside the beach. Would be awesome if she don't mind the 5 mins walk to the Gold Coast Highway where most of the public buses commute through.

O yes, I am also really excited to say that the doctor has just returned from UK with my favorite album at the moment. BK aka Ben Keen - 'Under the Influence'. He's a top notch hard house producer/dj. Here's the video of his album release party in the Ministry of Sound, London. It features some of the top tunes in his album as well.



While at the same moment of being 'high' due to the fantastic tunes going thru my headphones, I have compiled a shortlist of tracks that I think would be noteworthy after going through the new releases on Tidy Digital. The tracks are purely Hard dance. A sample of them can be heard if you click on the links.

The Sneaky Russianz - Deeper Underground (Original Mix) (Scum Records)
This is immediately became my favorite tune when I heard it on Tidy Digital. It features some great synth melody and beats making a great track to shake your booty even though you don't know what's going on.

Nik Denton - Freak Right Out (Original Mix) (Vicious Circle)
I love the vibes of this track. It is ultimately fitting if I have this track somewhere in the middle of my set. It has the vibe of 'I don't care what you think of what I am playing' Kinda like the flair of what the vibe my mentor Feng from Frontal normally have.

Firefox - Contagious (Original Mix) (Boshed Hard Recordings)
To be honest, the breakdown killed my liking for this track but it has a great sound especially with the beats and it seemed to do well on Tidy Digital so it's here.

If anyone is wondering, I do listen to other commercial music as well just rarely. Besides the usual stuff I hear on the radio when I am driving my Commodore, i been listening to the OST of this anime called Nana. It features some of the very best in Jrock and Pop. One thing i would say about this anime is it has a sense of realism and has more than a usual share of in-ta-ma-cy compared to other animes. Ok it's not a hentai flick. I can link some of the tracks below but my favorite ones are prolly sang by the beautiful Olivia Lufkin who's half jap and half u.s.

Olivia Lufkin - Winter Sleep
Please note that there's no official video for this song but the track is so wonderful that people on youtube has actually added the audio to the videos of Final Fantasy X. Thanks Jessamyn for sending and letting me know that this song exist in the first place!


Anna - Rose
This is the first opening song of the anime. The song that is but not the video. =) It's a abit punk rockish. But I am fine with that I guess. Did I say I listen to Millencolin?


Olivia Lufkin - Wish
This is my pick of the lot.


I decided to take a break of studies and planning for a while and dive into anime and tv shows. With my 'final' exam (Signals Processing) around the corner (18th on June) and with all my favorite tv shows on season break, its best to keep my involvement with the tele-v at a minimum so I have only been watching these shows. Sola, which is an anime about Sky Dreaming =.=. It's something like my favorite Air in a way that it has the same theme and have fantastic graphics. You guys can prolly find out about the plot thru the link. Another show is somewhat like Cop-catch-bad-guys show spin off. However it's about a different circumstance. The show is called Standoff and it's all about crisis negotiation like hostage situations.

O man, my stomach is grumbling. Charcoal Chicken tonight. No Hot 'n' Spicy.