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Bro Code

What is Bro?

A Bro is a person who would give you the shirt off his back when he doesn't want to wear it anymore. A Bro is a person who will bend over backwards to help you bend someone else over backwards. In short, A bro is a lifelong companion you can trust will always be there for you, unless he's got something else going on.

Lifted from the Bro Code.

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Posted August 28, 2010
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Begun war has

I had a short convo with Andy today about random things and realized both of us have been out of shape. I proposed a challenge to see who lost more weight or get in shape first and here is the checklist I've created.

1. Are you enjoying the process?

2. Are you goal orientated?

3. Do you feel good about your actions?

4. What have I done today?

5. Is my diet fueled by fear or pain?

6. Love the process at all timed

By today I've been an expert in hardcore extreme determination and I'm taking that one notch higher. I already know how to burn fats like nobodies business, enjoy the process, fuel it with love and not hate, so this round I will concentrate on shaping and sculpting that body again with the various key points. Of course diet is always the main issue for me. I've been drinking and eating junk. I will still continue to do so nonetheless in moderation for balance sake( no point having the best bod when u can't even eat normal food and enjoy some
Beer ) . A great bro once told me.. You can have everything at any given point of time. It's how Badly u want it.

I hereby declare war.. Andy. It's on :)

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Posted August 19, 2010
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Karaoke Compatibility Factor. KCF

I have came out with my Karaoke Compatibility Factor with my friends and here is the results!


Me & Andy KCF Level 100
Me & KL KCF Level 100
Me & Bjorn KCF Level 78
Me & Ling KCF Level 80
Me & Kurt KCF Level 50
Me & Raimi KCF Level 80
Me & Sophia KCF Level 100
Me & Mark KCF Level 60
Me & Sue KCF Level 60
Me & Daisy KCF Level 30
Me & Gwen KCF Level 0
Me & Janice KCF Level 80

Karaoke days~ Sigh

Filed under  //   Andy   Betaphats   Bjorn   Gwen   Kurt   Ling  
Posted August 5, 2010
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Human Interaction

After nearly a month of total solitude, I realized human interaction is much needed for any human beings. I was on the verge of insanity, and my sleeping patterns is totally not helping me at all. Nonetheless I decided to head out when I received a phone call from Ling and I pretty much without any hesitation just headed out. Though we had nothing much to do, it was nice enough for me to have had a human interaction, and for some reason that made me happy.

Since we didn't want to club enough at that moment, we went separate ways and I headed over to Andy's for a soccer match. I never watch soccer in general but in my attempt to "socialize" I did what I had to do and it turn out to be a super match ( Germany 4 and Argentina 0 ). I really had fun but thats not it.

After the match, Gwen invited me over to Zouk to hang out and I went. It's really nice to see people out again.. I just realized how important human interaction is.

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Posted July 3, 2010
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Plant Shopping

               
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So why the sudden change and the decision of growing plants and going all green thumb? Truth is, I don't know myself either but it feels right.

It feels right to be looking at these kinda stuff and feel a sense of appreciation which I never had before, never ever kept any living things in my life and figured it's time to be responsible over some things.. If I can't even keep a cactus, I can forget about having a child :)

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Posted June 3, 2010
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Billard Bowlers

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Fuckin One of the most random games available now!

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Posted May 29, 2010
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Late night shopping

   
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Today is a pleasant day and I've actually found myself playing blues and jazz piano! Something I never thought I'm ever able to understand but guess what? There is nothing to understand! It's all about how you feel!

Nonetheless I jammed and jammed and Andy popped by exchanged music went over to fetch ling our bro and we went to mustafa!

The hair dryer was a great buy and having spent 3 hours there, I think it was relatively fruitful.. It's nice to be out here and there..

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Posted May 27, 2010
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The Long Recap

April 30th 

April 30th was my last day at Royalefam and as such I remembered I was given the most hardcore errand which required me to run to various places and to find places I never been to before. King George Avenue, Lavender, Bugis, Queensway, Commonwealth.. I conquered all and was fairly please with myself. But i know i had to leave RF since I had to work on stuff i really want to do..

At night, Bjorn swing by and went for a beer to have a mini celebration in Malaysia in some random club there. They were playing Malaysian Electro.. which was.. groovy. The beer was awesome.. We witness a fight and we laugh at the people there thankful that we didn't get into any trouble.. made me shiver at the event at butter when I almost fought with a bouncer.. geez I have lots of stored angst in me. Strength I never knew existed which scared the hell out of me.

May 2nd

It was the second day of working on my own and I had been planning to convert my room into a bedroom studio since it wasn't working big time. I drew up plans and decided to start video logging my progress since I am starting afresh and I thought it be awesome to document everything down. I wrote down a list of stuff that is missing in my room and the many changes to be made.

Even went down to swee lee in Katong to hunt for speaker stands and microphone stands. It was way too expensive and i was contemplating of building my own speaker stands..

Yan Ru popped by on a usual Saturday and my room was empty. We discussed about the room and Bjorn called..

We met up for dinner and made an impromptu decision to head to Ikea for inspiration. During our trip there, we got many possible materials of making acoustic panels. We sure had fun and brainstorming was awesome. Its good to have many perspective in this and alot of moral support which is greatly appreciated. 

May 3rd

I was figuring out the placement of all the objects in my room because I believed in Fengshui, though there are many areas in my room which is not working out well, I figured it would be an awesome guide to get some tips. I headed down to tampines one on my own and it was probably one of the first few times I figured I have to work by myself without anyone and the fact that i headed out alone made me feel pretty awkward as I always head out with friends etc. I got inspired looking at random books and strolling to home fix DIY to see what paint is available. i took the catalogue home feeling pretty vexed about changing the room color. I wondered what color would suit the walls and did my research accordingly online. Only to find no impact or whatsoever in the suggested pale colors.

May 4th

My focus for that day was to source for other materials that could be used to tame and improve my room acoustics. I managed to found some relatively cheap ones and expensive ones and obviously it all didn't fit the budget. I am jobless and I am back at square one where I only had very little money to work with. I enjoyed the research process nonetheless and it is nice to walk around since I never had the time to do this kinda stuff when I was busy at work.

May 6th

It was the beginning of executing The Bedroom Studio Project and I got hold of the paint based on an impromptu decision despite so much research the day before .. I decided that the green looks prestigious and the love of vintage cars made me think that it be a great idea to go with cream. I only wanted to paint the ceiling cream at first so I got a 5l of green and 1l of cream to begin with.. little did i know i was in for a hard time where I will be eventually spending alot of money which is not part of my consideration... such as the vacuum cleaner which was never my intention to buy but my old one was.. lets just say not usable.. 

Also I started my first video log and got use to filming myself behind the camera and made many silly mistakes like scrapping a huge chunk off the wall but the process made me learn many things I never would have learn if I didnt take any action.. so I am thankful cause all these are pretty basic skills and I hardly know any of them.. 

I shifted out all my furniture to the hall which will be my resting place for several days and it all begun.. 

May 8th - May 9th

It was a tiring 2 days when I actually got down to painting, following the simple instructions from the nippon paint website which made think " hmm its easy to paint.. if he can do it.. i can.." 
I started to get hold of all the equipment needed to get the job done and realize each time i tried to get something done, I need to get more equipment, new paint.. and after painting my first wall, I was totally demoralize as I couldn't foresee my whole wall to be green in color. It made me rather stressed out and it was then I realize I couldn't handle such a task on my own.. 

It was my fault i never asked for help in the first place specifically. I didn't made it clear enough that I needed lots of help and even though I did ask many random people for help knowing in full nobody would actually come.. I guess I manifested the wrong thing.. but after the celling, I was dead tired and my body started to strain. I was breathless and I was almost having an asthma attack. I texted Ling and Andy mentioning I could use a brother now.. only to find out that they were doing their own stuff and Andy replied much later.

He came in to the rescue after I was done with my first wall and said the coolest stuff at that moment in time.. "Need a bro? Here I am!" 

Andy offered me perspective I never thought off which really made me felt like we are double dragon once again.. He took my role when I was helping him to paint his room 2 years back.. and we sure did reminisce the old times. He suggested that I paint more cream colors on the wall and since I have already purchased 5l worth of green I figured i would be needing more paint.. there goes my budget for this project.. its already busted before it has begun!

During the painting progress I thought of a elementary math question i used to solve when I was a kid.. "Ali takes 3 hours to paint a room, how long would Ali and Muthu take to paint the wall?" I didn't knew what inverse proportion was at that time but figured it would definitely take a shorter time.. but you know what? Its Bull shit.. nobody can paint the room in 3 hours by himself... fuck that shit. Inverse proportion is for sure but hell no its 3 hours.... but we did it anyways finished up as much as we could.

It was already 6am and the place was in a huge mess but the rough paint work is done up and I am pretty pleased with its outcome. I never knew so much could be achieved within a day.. 

May 11th - May 17th

I have finally cleared the basic mess that was on the floor and thanks to my new vacuum cleaner, i have managed to vacuum most of the dirt out but there will be the inevitable tough paint stains that is hard to get rid off. I was tired and all out of strength but still going strong. I took this period to look at my room giving it a new arrangement, scouting and researching on how to make the acoustic panels and turns out that I found a place that sells even cheaper 
acoustic foams! 

It really took me lot of figuring out how to get my stuff in the best possible arrangement, getting hold of new speaker stands, fixing the table up, researching , a little bit of rest, More researching and finally getting down to executing on the panels. There is lot of pre planning which I am not used to but since I am calling the shots, I went ahead to get hold of materials with only a rough plan. 

The constrains I had was to mount my TV setup, getting the electrical guy to fix up new powerpoint, figuring out tonnes of shit like where to get the plywood , dealing with the ongoing mess, Scrapping the floors making sure its clean, dealing with the low morale when I look at the unfinished work that has been in my space all this while, figuring out what to do with my queen size bed, I am demoralized by the fact that the bed gives me the comfort yet reduces the environments morale. Its uninspiring exchanged for comfort something I cant deal with for now...

I will end todays blog by saying this.. "Everyday is a new day and there is always new things to do. Life is too short to tolerate.. i figured if i am going to live this lifetime.. I gonna want to do things i wanna do." You be amazed by how fast you see results .. I mean I have been wanting to change my room for about two years and when i finally gotten down to it, it took me 2 weeks to get the place changed up and now I am ongoing improving the place as much as I can.. I cant believe it took me two years... not doing anything about it! 

If there is something you want to do.. I would say.. just go and do it. You will find a way... :) 

Filed under  //   Andy   Betaphats   Bjorn   Ling   Studio   Yan Ru  
Posted May 17, 2010
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The Bedroom Studio Project - Video Log 3

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There has been so much going on in my head over the past week and I have finally gotten down to painting the wall, even though it may seem smooth in the video log, there has been many cock blocks along the way. I have learnt that there will be such events where cock blocks would eventually show up in everyday life but I also know its how you want to react to it that makes the whole difference in your experience.

I was truly exasperated after painting the ceiling and when I started painted the first shade of green I was demoralized as I couldn't visualize any inspiration. Thank god Andy came to the rescue and offered another perspective. Immediately we went on to buy the cream color and started painting two different colors in my room and that truly made the whole difference!

I am still researching on some other stuff that I could possibly put on the wall but bearing in mind that there will eventually be acoustic panels in the room and i have to plan space for that to make sense out of everything. Eitherways, It has been relatively exiting but I am definitely way over budget at the same time. Guess I have to settle one thing at a time now!

 

Video Log 1 - Beginning Issues

Video Log 2 - Preparations

Video Log 3 - Painting Walls

Video Log 4 - Creating Working Conditions / Aquiring Necessities

Video Log 5 - Scouting For Materials / New Furniture

Video Log 6 - Building Your Own Acoustic Panels and Hangin it on the wall!

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Posted May 8, 2010
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4D : Derren Brown Stunt

Watching derren brown's How to win the lottery, my band of brothers, ( yes ling is a female bro ) have strategize and got the average of the 4 numbers each of us have selected and came to a conclusion 3995 . We shall see how well our mathematical wisdom of the crowd work out in our experiment! There is absolutely no greed involved and we are all rooting to win the system.

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Posted March 15, 2010
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