Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Forgive my absence people. :(
I have been spending way too much time on my guitar practice in lieu of two competitions I intend to participate in - one with my band, and the other with another guitarist playing a harmonized guitar piece. While I have memorised the guitar parts for the songs we are playing as a band (It's Time by Imagine Dragons (re-arranged by our drummer to make it more rock-like) and When We Die by Bowling For Soup), I am still trying to memorise and speed up the other song, Scarified by Racer X, and it is difficult as hell. Well, it's Paul Gilbert, so not really a surprise...
Anyway, my latest updates!
1) I (obviously) have returned from Korea! The weather was superb! And I saw snow for the first time in my life. I shall elaborate more once the competitions are over in March.
2) I have braces now! And it freaking costs a bomb :( Had to extract four teeth for that, probably going to have it removed two years from now.
3) I finally have FaceBook xD Created because most information from my CCA is given out on FB. Add me if you want to, just search for my name.
4) My school is starting in two days' time. Damn.
5) I received my Higher Chinese O Level results.... And I failed. The passing requirement itself is a fail grade (D7) and I got lower than that.... I got an E8. Damn.
I have received a request to post my guitar playing. But right now... I just feel too lousy to post a video of myself playing the guitar. Maybe some time in the future. Or if my band makes it to the finals, there should be a video :) Then I'll link the video here.
So I guess that's all I shall cover now. Back to my guitar practice. After all, when school starts, I won't be able to spend around 8 hours practicing anymore :(
Goodbye for now! :)
Today I went to Davis Guitar shop to look at some guitars.
I initially wanted a flying V-shaped electric guitar, but realised how awkward it felt sitting down and playing, since I'm used to leaning onto the guitar body and the V-shape of the ltd v-300 didn't allow for that. So the guy introduced to me the LTD H-351 FR. It feels damn good playing it.
However, I don't know what to do with my present guitar.
After all, it's my first guitar, but it was a display set. As a result the truss rod and the screws are all rusting quite badly. The tuning head for the guitar is damaged and the last E string loses its tune very quickly. There is also noticeable fret buzz.
Still, it stuck with me for three years, and was the guitar which helped me improve my technique (not a lot though). Thinking of selling it away or chucking it in a corner makes me feel damn bad. I don't even know if I can sell it away or not, given its condition. It still works, just that it doesn't look that great with everything rusted. And I don't wish for it to suffer the same fate as my classical guitar, sitting in the corner in the room, untouched for a long time, abandoned.
I don't understand. Why must parting be so difficult? If I never had feelings, perhaps I could make an easier decision. I won't feel the pain of selling away the old guitar. I have one month more of holidays (school starts in Feb since I'm 17 next year), which I intend to work to pay for the new guitar, priced at around S$850. But when that time comes, would I be able to part with my old guitar? Or should I just keep it? But even if I kept it, what good would it do to the guitar? I know that I won't be touching it anymore when I have the new one. I also tend to treat inanimate objects with feelings, and cannot help but think what would my old guitar feel if I were to get a new one.
If only I never jumped the gun and bought my present guitar. But if I never did that, I wouldn't have a band right now, and I probably won't know more about guitars.
Life is so complicated. >.<
Hello.
I am back from a 3-week NCC course, the Cadet Officers' Course. It was from 26 Nov all the way to last Friday. I'm glad I survived the three weeks, especially since I live quite far away from HQ NCC. Although it was three weeks, it was actually pretty slack, and there were quite a few occasions where the heavy rain stopped us from being able to carry out the activities, such as the flying fox.
Now I'll have a free week, before going to Korea for a holiday starting on the 23rd Dec. Then I'll post a lot of photos here for all to see.
Shanghai Aviation Course - Day 2 (Nanjing/Suzhou)
I always try to keep promises. At last, Day 2!
The scenery outside.
More scenery. That's one nice looking temple.
Construction site! This looks crazy, though, the way they demolish those houses.
Hammering away!
The Great Leader, Mao.
"By uniting, we can achieve bigger goals!"
This Nanjing-Yangtze bridge was built in 1968, or so I heard. It was built by China alone during the turbulent era (if I'm not wrong during the Cultural Revolution) and hence is many Chinese people's pride.
Damn windy outside. It was around 14 deg C I think.
View.
Under the bright Sun (evident from my squinting), the temperature is still cold for me. One of the rare shots of myself (I hate taking photos of myself), this was taken by the DC of NCC (Air).
I guess China is still developing. At a very rapid pace, though.
Temple.
And here, we visit the Nanjing University of Aeronautics (I think). Saw some planes, including those that the students designed themselves.
It seems the air intake is from the nose of the aeroplane.
More planes.
Engines! It looks old, must be a turbojet.
If I remember correctly, this plane is made of fibreglass, is light, and used for flying training. And I think it was designed by the students.
Outside the campus. After which we went to another place.
Ah. We all know this date. We were going to visit the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall the previous day, but then the tour guide changed plans, only to find out that it was closed on that day (Monday). As a Chinese Singaporean, sometimes I just don't know whether to hate the Japanese or not, thanks to those atrocities they committed, despite my recent interest in their culture. And still, the Japanese refused to acknowledge the existence of such brutality.
Statues of people running away from the Imperial Japanese Army. Women and children not spared.
So after that, we went to the Presidential Palace. This palace has a long history, built in the Ming Dynasty.
The surrounding.
I heard from the tour guide that is a library. What a unique design!
Inside the palace.
A huge palace indeed.
Taiping Rebels! They don't cut their hair. Anyway they're rebels against the Qing Dynasty. The leader believed he was the brother of Jesus and went against the Qing, causing the Taiping Revolution, where I think the rebels took control of several Southern cities (Beijing was the capital at that time). They took Nanjing and if I'm not wrong made this palace the base. The Qing won, but after a very long fight.
Before and after the attempted revolution, it was a place for some Qing viceroy I think.
And this is after the overthrow of the Qing. The guy's Sun Yat Sen. Still respected throughout China although he started the Kuomintang.
Chiang Kai-shek. By this time China was almost unified until the control of Kuomintang, after that turbulent warlord era. They shifted the capital to Nanjing. This place was then used as the office for him.
Qing uniform.
A model of the huge palace.
Sun Yat Sen.
We're still inside the palace, but there's a huge change in architecture style. This is distinctively Western, must have been built during the ROC era.
Office.
After this, we began a long journey to Suzhou.
I had to take this, hardly see this in Singapore. It's a cooling tower!
Better looking apartments.
Hokkien food! But I've never tried them before.
The hotel we stayed in in Suzhou.
And so that wraps up the second day in China.
:)
Forgive my absence people. :(
I have been spending way too much time on my guitar practice in lieu of two competitions I intend to participate in - one with my band, and the other with another guitarist playing a harmonized guitar piece. While I have memorised the guitar parts for the songs we are playing as a band (It's Time by Imagine Dragons (re-arranged by our drummer to make it more rock-like) and When We Die by Bowling For Soup), I am still trying to memorise and speed up the other song, Scarified by Racer X, and it is difficult as hell. Well, it's Paul Gilbert, so not really a surprise...
Anyway, my latest updates!
1) I (obviously) have returned from Korea! The weather was superb! And I saw snow for the first time in my life. I shall elaborate more once the competitions are over in March.
2) I have braces now! And it freaking costs a bomb :( Had to extract four teeth for that, probably going to have it removed two years from now.
3) I finally have FaceBook xD Created because most information from my CCA is given out on FB. Add me if you want to, just search for my name.
4) My school is starting in two days' time. Damn.
5) I received my Higher Chinese O Level results.... And I failed. The passing requirement itself is a fail grade (D7) and I got lower than that.... I got an E8. Damn.
I have received a request to post my guitar playing. But right now... I just feel too lousy to post a video of myself playing the guitar. Maybe some time in the future. Or if my band makes it to the finals, there should be a video :) Then I'll link the video here.
So I guess that's all I shall cover now. Back to my guitar practice. After all, when school starts, I won't be able to spend around 8 hours practicing anymore :(
Goodbye for now! :)
Labels: update
人之命，若无意，何生乎？21:04
Today I went to Davis Guitar shop to look at some guitars.
I initially wanted a flying V-shaped electric guitar, but realised how awkward it felt sitting down and playing, since I'm used to leaning onto the guitar body and the V-shape of the ltd v-300 didn't allow for that. So the guy introduced to me the LTD H-351 FR. It feels damn good playing it.
However, I don't know what to do with my present guitar.
After all, it's my first guitar, but it was a display set. As a result the truss rod and the screws are all rusting quite badly. The tuning head for the guitar is damaged and the last E string loses its tune very quickly. There is also noticeable fret buzz.
Still, it stuck with me for three years, and was the guitar which helped me improve my technique (not a lot though). Thinking of selling it away or chucking it in a corner makes me feel damn bad. I don't even know if I can sell it away or not, given its condition. It still works, just that it doesn't look that great with everything rusted. And I don't wish for it to suffer the same fate as my classical guitar, sitting in the corner in the room, untouched for a long time, abandoned.
I don't understand. Why must parting be so difficult? If I never had feelings, perhaps I could make an easier decision. I won't feel the pain of selling away the old guitar. I have one month more of holidays (school starts in Feb since I'm 17 next year), which I intend to work to pay for the new guitar, priced at around S$850. But when that time comes, would I be able to part with my old guitar? Or should I just keep it? But even if I kept it, what good would it do to the guitar? I know that I won't be touching it anymore when I have the new one. I also tend to treat inanimate objects with feelings, and cannot help but think what would my old guitar feel if I were to get a new one.
If only I never jumped the gun and bought my present guitar. But if I never did that, I wouldn't have a band right now, and I probably won't know more about guitars.
Life is so complicated. >.<
Labels: guitar
人之命，若无意，何生乎？21:29
Hello.
I am back from a 3-week NCC course, the Cadet Officers' Course. It was from 26 Nov all the way to last Friday. I'm glad I survived the three weeks, especially since I live quite far away from HQ NCC. Although it was three weeks, it was actually pretty slack, and there were quite a few occasions where the heavy rain stopped us from being able to carry out the activities, such as the flying fox.
Now I'll have a free week, before going to Korea for a holiday starting on the 23rd Dec. Then I'll post a lot of photos here for all to see.
Labels: Back
人之命，若无意，何生乎？16:09
Shanghai Aviation Course - Day 2 (Nanjing/Suzhou)
I always try to keep promises. At last, Day 2!
The second morning. We left Nanjing on this day and went to Suzhou. But we went to several places first.
View from inside the hotel. We were having breakfast, I think.
And so we have gathered, preparing to leave the hotel.
The scenery outside.
More scenery. That's one nice looking temple.
Construction site! This looks crazy, though, the way they demolish those houses.
Hammering away!
The Great Leader, Mao.
"By uniting, we can achieve bigger goals!"
This Nanjing-Yangtze bridge was built in 1968, or so I heard. It was built by China alone during the turbulent era (if I'm not wrong during the Cultural Revolution) and hence is many Chinese people's pride.
Damn windy outside. It was around 14 deg C I think.
View.
Under the bright Sun (evident from my squinting), the temperature is still cold for me. One of the rare shots of myself (I hate taking photos of myself), this was taken by the DC of NCC (Air).
I guess China is still developing. At a very rapid pace, though.
Temple.
And here, we visit the Nanjing University of Aeronautics (I think). Saw some planes, including those that the students designed themselves.
It seems the air intake is from the nose of the aeroplane.
More planes.
Engines! It looks old, must be a turbojet.
If I remember correctly, this plane is made of fibreglass, is light, and used for flying training. And I think it was designed by the students.
Outside the campus. After which we went to another place.
Ah. We all know this date. We were going to visit the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall the previous day, but then the tour guide changed plans, only to find out that it was closed on that day (Monday). As a Chinese Singaporean, sometimes I just don't know whether to hate the Japanese or not, thanks to those atrocities they committed, despite my recent interest in their culture. And still, the Japanese refused to acknowledge the existence of such brutality.
Statues of people running away from the Imperial Japanese Army. Women and children not spared.
So after that, we went to the Presidential Palace. This palace has a long history, built in the Ming Dynasty.
The surrounding.
I heard from the tour guide that is a library. What a unique design!
Inside the palace.
A huge palace indeed.
Taiping Rebels! They don't cut their hair. Anyway they're rebels against the Qing Dynasty. The leader believed he was the brother of Jesus and went against the Qing, causing the Taiping Revolution, where I think the rebels took control of several Southern cities (Beijing was the capital at that time). They took Nanjing and if I'm not wrong made this palace the base. The Qing won, but after a very long fight.
Before and after the attempted revolution, it was a place for some Qing viceroy I think.
And this is after the overthrow of the Qing. The guy's Sun Yat Sen. Still respected throughout China although he started the Kuomintang.
Chiang Kai-shek. By this time China was almost unified until the control of Kuomintang, after that turbulent warlord era. They shifted the capital to Nanjing. This place was then used as the office for him.
Qing uniform.
A model of the huge palace.
Sun Yat Sen.
We're still inside the palace, but there's a huge change in architecture style. This is distinctively Western, must have been built during the ROC era.
Office.
After this, we began a long journey to Suzhou.
I had to take this, hardly see this in Singapore. It's a cooling tower!
Better looking apartments.
Hokkien food! But I've never tried them before.
The hotel we stayed in in Suzhou.
And so that wraps up the second day in China.
:)
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