Another morose night..

Listening to: Mastodon - March Of The Fire Ants

I just had to bump into her today,argh. Yes,I'm emo again..=( The exams are closing in, No time for play now. Here's where we all go nuts under pressure. New guitarist for The Panopticon, His name is Dakai.. Don't ask.. Fiona Apple is hot! And btw, Happy birthday Mr.Jepun aka Leo if you are reading this, good luck for your O's next year, you better start studying now mate. I've been writing alot of poetry out of boredom lately. Starting to get sick of the comp..and that my friends, is actually good news. Here's one I wrote not too long ago:

The betrayal and despicable acts it has caused
The lives it took,
the hearts it broke,
the countless miseries and the death of hopes
we've come back for vengeance
this day would be a great one to be remembered
the sweet sound of it's voice shrouded in agony
gone in a second,
the funeral of love
a last cold whisper, fading away as the night stood in serenity
the stars that we held onto tightly,
we never let go as the night faded away slowly
leaving us to burn into a pulp of hope and guilt for the very act we had just caused.
the death of something so significant
something greater than death itself

basically it's about how extremely fucked up love can be yet how seriously important it is. Aight, shall hit the sack now dudes and dudettes,adios amigos.

Won't let this build up inside me.

Listening to: Slipknot - Vermillion Pt.2

Im back...Sorry for not updating in the longest time. Life's been so boring there's really nothing much to share with you motherfuckers out there. HEH!! BUT OF COURSE, I HAVE TO SHARE WITH YOU HTE BEST NIGHT OF MY LIFE.

you got it right. The Slipknot concert at fort canning park. Gawd it was fucking amazing I really don't know where to start now. Rory and I made our way there at around 4pm and we were immediately surrounded by angmoh chicks at the entrance. Algernon and Farrell then came,followed by Jeremy,Ian,Hasanal,Khai,Vin,Damian and so on. Then at 6pm,the gate opened and we all rushed in impatiently. We waited for one hour till the band finally came onstage after "Prelude 3.0" was aired throughout the whole outdoor arena. They kicked off their set with "The Blister Exists" and fuck,the moshpit was so intense I had to get out. So I went to the back and bumped into Chan from Inokii. So both of us stood at the back and headbanged all the way. Slipknot was fucking great, they played shitloads of songs..left behind,wait and bleed,people=shit,surfacing,before i forget and a shitload more..especially spit it out where corey ordered us to get down on the fucking ground and when he gave the command to jump the fuck up,we would jump like madfucks. And so we did,it was so awesome..everything went well. The greatest night of my life, and so many chicks were there. It was soooo raddd mannnn..But wait, here's the highlight. On the way back home, I happened to be next to one of Slipknot's van and Shawn Crahan and JOEY FUCKIN JORDISON were inside. I waved like a really mad man and Joey smiled at me..WOOOOOO..IM NOW SO BLOODY INSPIRED TO BE A FREAKIN GREAT DRUMMER. And yes people,believe it or not..he was unmasked. \m/ kudos to those who went.

Been listening to Vermillion PART 2 alot lately. It's a really sad song and I love it. Here's the lyrics:

She seemed dressed in all of me, stretched across my shame.
All the torment and the pain
Leaked through the cover in me
Id do anything to have her to myself
Just to have her for myself
Now I dont know what to do, I dont know what to do when she makes me sad.

She is everything to me
The unrequited dream
A song that no one sings
The unattainable, Shes a myth that I have to believe in
All I need to make it real is one more reason
I dont know what to do, I dont know what to do when she makes me sad.

But I wont let this build up inside of me
I wont let this build up inside of me
I wont let this build up inside of me
I wont let this build up inside of me

A catch in my throat
Choke, torn into pieces
No, I dont want to be this

But I wont let this build up inside of me
I wont let this build up inside of me
I wont let this build up inside of me
I wont let this build up inside of me

She isnt real
I can't make her real
She isnt real
I can't make her real

Ascendancy.

Trivium - Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr
(Note: It's 12am now so 'today' in this entry is referred to Saturday.)

I'm a happy man! Bought Trivium's Ascendancy album today instead of Norma Jean since I already have their two albums on my comp. I SWEAR, TRIVIUM IS A KICKASS BAND. Blah, right now you'd probably go like "Ah heck,Daryl says that about every band he comes across" but whoa seriously, if you're looking for real kickass Metalcore with alot of Melody..Trivium is the right band! Their album is splendid!

Here's a quick review, Starting from the very soft melodious introduction filled with pianos and stuff(the end of everything), The next song comes in unexpectedly,the whole album then goes uphill as Trivium gives you heavy melodic metalcore right in your face with powermetal like guitar riffs in between..and guitar solos by both Heafy and Beaulieu. The thunderous boomy bass sound of Paolo Gregoletto,and of course not to forget, Travis Smith's superhuman double-pedalling extremely technical drumming. Songs you MUST check out on the album are 'Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr','Ascendancy','A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation','Like Light To The Flies','Departure' and 'Declaration'.

Indeed, one of the best albums I currently own. I'd give it a 8.5/10. The reason why I didnt give it a 10 is because I found the guitar riffs kind of monotonous on afew tracks, and Heafy's vocals on some tracks really irritated my ears as it didnt sound any different from what it had sounded earlier. BUT OVERALL, A GREAT JOB. For all metalheads, you have to get this album..

Onto my own life, Nothing much happened today, a normal day, spent the night at David's with Hakim who is now BOTAK/BALD/SHAVEN/SKINHEAD. Hakim,you seriously look like Reek now. Oh, It's also Siva's birthday so HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY MY KELENG BROTHER. UR OFFICIALLY LEGAL TO DO EVERYTHING AND WELL ANYTHING. Muaha..

If Only Tonight We Could Sleep.

Deftones - If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (Live at MTV Icon - The Cure)

Just watched MTV Icon with The Cure. Beautiful! I must say it kicks the Metallica MTV Icon one's ass anyday anytime. Deftones' performance was like whoa man..Ah what can I say,Deftones never fail to disappoint me. And for the Deftones fans out there reading this, if you're also into nostalgic disillusional yet awesome kickass post-rock psychological music, please do check out TEAM SLEEP,Chino Moreno's side project.. although their fucking album costs $45 damn bucks. Bloody IMPORT label sticker nonsense.

Anyway,another boring day as usual..Spent it downloading shitloads of videos including Trivium's Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr! Boy is the drummer sexy! I want to look like him! the goatee and all..okay,I'm not gay btw but yeah,his sexy. If only I had the thick and curly hair, and the rough goatee on my chin complete with the baybface image..boyy would I look sexy, Muaha! gggmfaodfa!

I seriously hate Good Charlotte..Really can't stand them. What's with this whole anti-war political touchy emotional we-want-peace thing! It's getting wayy out of hand and overrated. I mean first,we get the message alright...WE DONT WANT WAR,WE WANT PEACE..NOW WTF STOP SHOWING US VIDEO CLIPS OF POOR PEOPLE ACROSS THE NATION SUFFERING BECAUSE WE GET THE DAMN PICTURE ALRIGHT...for god's sake,I know the message is for a good cause but everyones overdoing it. In my opinion,John Lennon is the only one who is good at this..and that's because his an official political activist. Good Charlotte are just some hypocritical bunch of numbnuts, and Billy Martin looks like some really ugly female hispanic pornstar who looks very very depressed. HAHA! Omg, All the damn girls out there are so gonna kill me. OHMYGOD ITS BILLY MARTIN AH SO HOT..ROFL. Blah,their music sucks balls anyway.

Whatever happened to The Simpsons. Theyve stopped showing it! WAA~! =(

The Crow:Salvation starts in one and a half hour's time, I heard it sucks but HEY LIKE WTF MAN, ITS STILL THE CROW! Ah well, guess I'm done with ranting for the day.

I miss you,sigh...

Day of the Kong!

The Chariot - Yellow Dress: Locked Knees

School's been so boring I could slit my wrist marn, Thank god I skipped it today..Muaha! Lifesaver man..haha. So yes, everyone is in school now and I'm here typing away on my keyboard,listening to the chariot,norma jean,the mars volta,pretty girls make graves and glassjaw. Woohoo! Fuckers Mflosers..maudha! ahaga!
OH AND HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY MR ALGERNON KONG AKA ALLYPOO. You've been a great friend,yet really fucked up in the head at times too but I guess that's okay.

Hakim came to my place on tuesday, had quite alot of fun.. We wrote a song and recorded it using an acoustic guitar and fruityloops. Sounded very dark and deranged, pmsg me for it! Had dinner with my family at David's yesterday. Besstt place to slack at, Sister's been through alot of shit lately, working life is so fucking hard. Scares me to see her this way,cos I just wonder about my future and think and stuff. My sister's boss for some goddamn forsaken reason loves picking on her, fucking hell. At first,My dad and I thought my sister's boss was just trying to teach her the hardway but as my sister began opening up more and more about situation, It really seems as though her boss is really picking on her and only her. Fucking hell, so anyway..yesterday's evening was spent on giving my sister advice..advice from David,my parents and of course,the great brother that I am,Me! Muaha. Oh well,hope she doesn't feel so stressed now, be the strrong domineering guy-beating sister that I know! bwaha! Maximum exposure there. Muaha.

5 days to NDP. Okay, BIG DEAL!! I know national day is a really important day as it marks the date Singapore acclaimed independance and blah so on and blah its really important and shit as its held annually and blahh blah blah ok so it's a good thing to celebrate right? But YOU DONT HAVE TO BLOCK UP 3/4 ROADS OF TOWN WITH POLICEMEN WALKING AROUND AND STUFF. Irritating, whats the purpose for all these? you can block up hte roads on NDP or 5 days before NDP but blocking up the whole area 15 days before the actual event,its like wtf? we all know the ndp is coming,you can have your previews and shit first..but for god's sake,this is overkill. And the fact that half the shopping centres in the city hall area are closed down due to the stupid previews that never actually takes place. Wtf man?! onto a brighter note, I'd definitely say the NDP is quite fun to watch..live..at the padang itself and not on television,lol. Hope they come up with something more creative this year though..Lol..maybe a death-metal band performing live in front of thousands would be just cool and will move the whole audience..literally.

I hate durians, They are offensive, Don't talk to me about them. Whaha! Alright guess the entry ends here. Happy B'day once again Kongaroo and welcome the hungry ghosts tonight. Kids dont stay up too late! Whaha! Adios to all.

Gothencore gone Trippy?!

Just felt like writing this,sue me. I WANT TO MIGRATE TO SWEDEN AND SIGN THE PANOPTICON TO NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS AND TOUR AROUND SWEDEN AND AMERICA AND HAVE HOT CHICKS IN OUR BUNKS EVERY DAMN DAY AND MOST IMPORTANTLY TO INTRODUCE SINGAPORE TRIP-HOP INTO THE GOTHENBURG SCENE. WAHHHHHHHHH!

Godspeed

Listening to: Norma Jean - I Used To Hate Cellphones But Now I Hate Car Accidents

Time passes by so damn fast, just in a blink of an eye and it's already sunday night closing into monday. Bluegh..MOE should make friday part of the weekend. Firstly, because the muslim boys has to go to mosque at whateverfucktime and I personally think it's too rush for them to go straight to mosque from whateverfuckschool they are from, secondly..since school ends at 12:30pm, you might as well not go to school since 8 to 12:30pm is a bloody effin short period of time...waste. Thirdly, I think all students need to be stress-free and relax..they have cca's on saturday and for the catholic students,they have to go to church for about 2 hours of learning about god and shit like that either on a saturday on sunday, either way..they don't have a full free day of rest. Think about it, if Friday was part of the weekend..you could make friday cca day, saturday stress-free day and sunday church or whatever day. SEE! MOE I hope you read this..

Watched the CSI finale today..IT WAS AWESOME! The way everything was planned out..and the fact that they needed an ANT to find Nick,its like WHOA man..Anyway,onto other things..my band,The Panopticon is doing GREAT! We now have a manager who is willing to film a $1000 video for us for FREE..So we gotta seriously work hard and write new stuff..just that my studying always collides with my damn music life. NOW THATS ANOHTER BLOODY REASON WHY FRIDAY SHOULD BE PART OF THE WEEKEND. Anyway,for more details on my band, pls visit http://www.theeyeofgod.blogspot.com. We should be finishing up our tracklist and going into recording a 7 song EP by this september so stay tuned. My drumming has also surprisingly improved tremendously, hope I can go up to the Koller standards soon. MUAHA,DREAM LAH OKAY CHEEBYE.

My dear sister's getting her paycheck tomorrow so I'll be getting $25 first. Guess what I'm gonna spend it on? YES CORRECTO, NORMA JEAN'S BLESS THE MARTYR AND KISS THE CHILD ALBUM. I've been dying to get that.. O'god the aftermath is just as good but doesn't appeal to me as much as Bless The Martyr does. And I was just talking to my bassist(siva the prog-avantgarde man with golden diapers)earlier today. We might cover Norma Jean's Organized Beyond Recognition. God I love my life..

Oh and who saw the new national day song Taufik Batisah did with Rui En. Fucking faggot, Taufak's voice is more feminine than Rui En's, I swear.

Alison's brand new booby.

Listening to: Norma Jean - Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste (Yes,Again.)

Dad sold off my ZenMicro Mp3 Player today for bout 250kroners which I used to buy my Ride Cymbal =D. Had Rory come over to my place to watch some Norma Jean videos I downloaded, especially the live ones..fuckin crazy shit. Went to bugis with my family and Rory after that, Had lunch at swensens.. then went to Peninsula to get my LATEST COLLECTION TO ALISON....THE RIDE CYMBAL. WOOHOO,fucking happy ballz..where can you find a 20'inch ride cymbal,together with the stand for just 190bucks..plus a free felt-washer too. Now I can finally practise comfortably! heh.

Said bye to my family then Rory and I took a train to fareast plaza to collect Rory's My Dying Bride box set shit then a cab home. And that was when Rory lost his handphone - in the taxi. Tsktsk, ah well..shit happs. Walked over to pizza hut after that to have a good and hearty dinner to follow up with the success of my happineess over the cymbal. Ate curry zazzle, Siva came by..slacked abit then went to katong to jam. FUCK! NEVER EVER JAM AT ROOM8, FYEWERKZ STUDIO, KATONG SHOPPING CENTRE. Fucked up shit.. You can't hear the damn taped-up bassdrum, the mic has too much waaavvee shit which gave me a damn headache, quality of the amps is effed up. And halfway jamming with the guys,my bloody pedal broke off so I got so pissed I decided to kill the cymbals for the next hour. A bus to siglap for supper and here I am back home with my new ride cymbal standing up firmly and proudly. =)

(P.S Anyone wants to jam 'Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste' by Norma Jean. Please pmsg me at finddaryl_@hotmail.com. Thank you)