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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.

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

Billard Bowlers

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The Long Recap

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... :) 

Xmen VS Street Fighter

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4D : Derren Brown Stunt

Chinese New Year

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I wasn't the most ready person to celebrate Chinese New Year with a bang I guess. I probably bet that there are many others like myself. Still I am committed that it stays memorable and fun.. Having had my brother's Laksa was a great experience. I can remember clearly his description of why he chose the ingredients he choose, and the way he describes it really gets into you..

"You know how Laksa is jialat... like super gross stuff? Squeezing the Thai Lime will neutralise that effect, Using Water Crest and Tao Geh adds on the color of the dish to make it look presentable and the Basil Leaf changes the whole experience of having this bowl of laksa"

Well its along that lines but damn the laksa was good and more importantly, its easy to make.. :) 

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We went butter factory and the initial horror we had was that it was totally empty. Well, we thought we might as well drink up and see what happens since there was one for one.. and sure enough the fireworks caught my attention! We also had the privillage of having Jun to photograph our experience there. Its awesome and thank you June. The photos were great.

I've managed to somehow video the whole fireworks and this time I am armed with my best gadget of the year, the iPhone! Woohoo! 

Mix Master B

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Mix Master B shall now demonstrate how to make this drink Cachaca I think! ( I was too high to remember anyways) and it taste like Mojito! Click on the video and enjoy! This is Betaphats Signing off! watch out for more vids !

Mr 305

           

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"What the fuck is 305?"

"What 305???"

" There you know pitbull always sing, bleah bleah 305! Bleah hah !! "

"Oh !!!! Hey mr 305 in my body hah !!!! Hahaha it should be something he represent probably a district or something "

This conversation was pretty interesting cause we realized after researching mr 305 actually meant mr Miami! A nick name for pitbull himself! Damn that guys awesome dude!

Speaking of awesome, a chain of random unrelated events happened that made me pleasantly surprised. Well I attribute these to me being completely happy and high 2 nights ago.... Mmm

1.I met Daphne Khoo
2.I was told I was dancing with her!
3.I was told I kept saying Charlyn is hot ( don't worry I probably meant it anyways.. Doesn't take a genius to say that )
4.I am actually working on a track for Daphne.
5.A Tian Tian a stranger added me on fb fuckin gorgeous and I have no clue. Could I have met her somewhere?
6.My long lost aquantaince Don Tiew messaged me randomly while I was high.
7.We just had a fb convo and yeah I was perturbed when I saw a relationship request! But for the fun of it, i accepted anyways.( Meaningless for now stay calm girls. )
8.Gwen told me I was kissing her again. I'm like "what the!! Was it good???I dont believe!" (I'm sure I did nothing like that but If I did it anyways, Im certain it's good otherwise why would she let me kiss her???bleah) Gwen talk cock lah never kiss at all lor you were with jap dudes!
9.Oh what the hell, I think this year have just started to get pretty exciting for me!
10. Daisy is coming!
11.Bjorn shared with me that Gwen said that actually I kinda look alright ( thanks Gwen ) just that it's the way I talk to chicks and I treat everyone like friends and that's why I'm still single! Hah I guess this years gonna be great to have some awesome fun. Bring it on bitches!

Crazy 2 days I had and there is no better way to end the day with popeye chicken in the airport with my brotherhood of NOD, comrades, bombadiers of the B17 Memphis belle co., Foxhound, the la Li Lu Le lo, the free masons, the wutang clan, .. Yeah my brothers in short. Probably be rotting at home without you all.

Rockstars

               

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I woke up seeing a broken glass in my room, lights on, only in my underwear, and when I tried to get up, I realized I was still high! And boy it was a great high. Funny thing is I couldn't remember the events that happened prior to all this. Zero. I was too lazy to even to a back trace but the first thing I did was to call Andy.

On the conversation we had on the phone, I realized that we were on the phone the whole while last night and I honestly don't remember having any conversation, I don't even remember how I actually got home! But Andy assured me that I was super awesome last night and that pretty much made my day! It was Raimi who got me into a cab and saved the day! Which is totally random but yeah it's cool!

Still feeling high, I had this
CraZY idea of getting out of the house and live like a rockstar, I dressed up in a rockstar fashion, did my hair dancing to loud music, left my room in a mess, got out and grabbed a cab to pick Andy up! We didn't had a concrete plan but we managed to check out some guitars, some keyboard! Crashed eventually at SMG, played a little street fighter, head down to link up with Raimi and YZanne in boarders, head for a karaoke session at cuppage and damn all that while I am on a sustained high.

If there was any experience I've had yesterday, it was just one of pure courage and have zero fear of looking bad in front anyone. There was zero consideration and I was being authentic. I love everyone. At least for yesterday! Heh

Check out the crazy pictures I have above!!