Farewell 2008, Adios blogspot......

I HAVE MOVED!!!!!

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I was fighting with myself whether to put up my new year's post either here in blogspot or in my new domain. (Yes I have a new domain) After thinking it through, i reckon that it is only right that I did my new year post here at blogspot which will be my last post ever. So Adios 2008 and Adios blogspot, I've had a freakin awesome ride....

Oh Eight....has just passed...
I know I am a little late in posting up my new year's resolution and stuff like that since it is already like 2.15pm on the 01/01/09, and I should have like put this up before the new year but HEY, I believe in PARTYING first... before getting on to stuff like this..Maybe my old man is right. I Always seem to put fun before anything else.

Ahhh Oh Eight ! You have been amazing. DAP taking over Penang, the C's beating the lakers, The REDEEM TEAM winning the gold, OBAMA and I turned 23....the economic crisis looming ahead...

Wow personally 08 has been an eventful year for me. Firstly got really closed to a great bunch of peeps at work. Che and aunty you have been awesome being big sisters that I never have had. Tze En, Tay Zen and Justin, my dudes, my mates and my role models in the office for me (ok la maybe not tay zen laaaa....hahaha). Lil Girl for being a lil sister (hahah i know ure older) that i can play with in the office. If it wasn't for us two in the Group, the rest of them would be just boring and too matured/old/boring....hahaha

DIdn't get promoted this year, but screw that...I PASSED MY CPA PAPERS baybeh......that means no more studying, no more mugging, no more studying about accounting standards that i dont really care about..........plus i met some real cool guys at indiegoat.com who are covering the music scence in Penang where i can get involved in the local music scence.

I have also gained an interest in Corporate Social Responsibility. I think thats the direction I want to move into in the future. I dont know i dont knwo....just keeping my options open..

This year I made 2 trips. One to Langkawi and one to Thailand which was just awesome. I ordered a fender jaguar bass guitar in December. Im now driving my mum's city. Che got married. It was the 2nd wedding that i wore a coat/suit in and played guitar. I bought a domain! I had a wicked 23rd birthday party

BUT What I think is even more important and the most awesome, wicked, puff, cool, deck (put in your hippest word here) that happened in Oh Eight would be that i decided that i should make God more relevant in my life now. All of a sudden (don't ask me why) i got bored of life, got bored of my job, got bored of drinking, got bored of smoking, got bored of trying to sleep around and decided to help out my youth one Saturday arvo and realised life is nothing without GOD. You can set yourself to do everything in life; Money,Drugs, Sex, Booze and Rock and roll you name it and at the end the only thing that you haven't done in life is dying.

I have realised that in no matter what you do, if GOD is not there, damm your life is worthless. As Ecclesiastes says, life without GOD is like chasing after the wind, pointless. (OKay it said somehting along those lines :P). I've decided to trust GOD in everything I do. DOnt get me wrong that doesnt mean im not gonna work hard and do things myself. I am still gonna work hard, still gonna try and meet a hot chick etc etc but it just means that I'm not gonna worry whatever happens and try to do things my way. Be it in work, study or relationships, I am done trying to do things my own way now...I'm leaving it up to God. Awesome huh?

So this coming 2009, with the economic crisis looming, ppl are predicting it's gonna be one hell of a ride. But i'm positive! It's gonna be a great year. GOD is in control, I am happier than I have been since i got back from Melbourne. Bring it on oh nine!

Blogspot, you have served me well....I started you when I was bored and lonely in Melbourne. I think my first entry was a lil sad and depressing hahaha but I am ending you on a High note. Birds are flying in the air, and dannoisawesome!

Adios 2008......you have been incredible. \m/

Searching the world....the lost will be found...

i'm feeling shitty...and a lil disillusioned to be honest..

i reckon december is always a shitty time for auditors all around the malaysia. not only are your friends back from studying overseas and partying their guts out, you are stuck in the midst of peak period and everybody is just stressed out. plus it's christmas and new year, my favourite time of the year. when you were back studying it meant like full time partying from christmas to new year.

now it's just a sad month for me. but you know what? screw it. you have a choice whether to remain the way you feel or you can either do something about it. i've decided to do something about it and stop ranting and raving about shit i can't control.

On other matters non-emo, I have just been listening to the All of the Above album by Hillsong United. I usually don't listen to CCM to enjoy it. It's either for worshiping or I need to learn a song so that I can play it in church. But I must say that this album is totally different from the rest of the Hillsongs albums out there.

It has a lil post rockish or even a lil shoe gaze feel to it. I would even call it a little dark which is just awesome. When you're listening to a hillsongs album you would usually expect their songs to be a lil Pop Rockish or Pop Punkish but this album is really a big step forward.

It's not exactly Post Rockish Mogwai style (please not i said it has a LIL) but I would call it a gateway for Contempary Christian music to other genres.

Finally I got a camera

So finally the Tay's have purchased a new camera. It's an Olympus Stylus 1040 and I have been madly snapping away at the HSDD launching and PK's wedding....

Pics on the way.....HSDD LAUNCHING GIG PICS UP IN INDIEGOAT SOON....

One word....WICKEDLYAWESOME...

Generation Gap & Freakin hell they banned facebook

GEN Y

versus

GEN X

my office can be considered fairly young in age with the majority of our office under 30 (DOB between 1978 to 1986). if you compare that with other companies, i reckon we are pretty young in age.

even then, i feel there is this gap between those born in 84,85,86 and those older peeps (sorry che and aunty)...and i think as time goes by and those born in 87 and 88 comes in to the working force, i think you will see even a greater divide...

there is a very interesting article that was on the sydney morning herald here.....

it basically discussed the gap between generation X and Gen Y in the working world...

basically the Gen X generation are ppl born in the year 1965s to about 1980s and gen-yers are those who were born in the 80s and 90s. i have even a youth pastor telling me that gen-yers are those in the 90s....i would tend to disagree with that cause i reckon i belong to the gen-y ...the gen y is the internet generation....i grew up on the internet...my whole life almost revolves around it....im certainly a Y-er

thats why i'm pissed that they blocked facebook at work....thats your source of destressing...damm...there goes your freedom at work...no personal mail, no msn no facebook....Strike any1?

Update! First article up at indiegoat

I've finally posted up my first article for Indiegoat....have an extract of it below....click on the link below for the rest.

(Extract from Indiegoat)

Applying financial concepts and arguments are usually akin to cats and dogs; that is they rarely mix. However reading the above statements in my CPA study materials, made me think on how this is so applicable to how the music scene/industry is in the world today especially in Penang and how people define Great Music

Too many times I wonder whether or not people actually listen to a certain song because they really dig or enjoy the music or whether they are listening to it just because it has been overplayed so many times through out the day and they are subconsciously told by radio, movies and MTV that the song is great.....................

....Click here to continue Reading....you know you want to....

Goats, Bangers and Firebrands

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Update

I've been getting involved with things really close to my heart.

MUSIC and CSR (hahaha not really that close but yeaaa kind of).

I've been helping the guys out at indiegoat to help cover gigs and to write articles. We are trying to cover anything arty around in Penang. So if any of you guys know of some local gigs, art galleries,dramas, or ANYTHING to do with Penang arts, that you would like to promote just let me know and we will put it up on our website.

WHats even more deck is that, I have been helping out in my church's youth teaching em bass and just hanging out with em. Being with the youths is awesome. It totally revitalises you. They are not tied down by the horrors and work.....check em out...i think they are totally deck...

24 Dannos

The First 24

Your first 24 hours are cool. You have the urge but it's controllable. Plus you're all motivated. Piece of Cake.

25 - 26

You're driving down the road listening to a new CD when suddenly a motorcyclist zips by. Pissed you horn loudly and maybe swear. All of a sudden that Motor cyclist looks like a lovely wrapped thing with a filter down the bottom with the words "Dunhill" on it.

27 - 28

You are gripping your fists tightly. The Cravings start to get worse and worse. You start grinding your teeth...

29-30

You have peaked....You are agitated at the slightest sounds and you would kill the person next to you just to suck on the teat of nicotine....You start taking deep breaths to calm yourself down

31 - 35

The main urge starts to die down but Withdrawal symptoms kick in. You are floating in the air...your lungs are breathing in more oxygen than they used to. You have a tightness in your chest and u feel light headed. You start to cough....you drink 5 cups of coffee and can never stop munching......You take a walk outside and breathe in some fresh air......this might be worth it after all...

36 - 39
Craving hits for a short time.....You get agitated again.....find guitar to play ......feeling sleepy....I have fought well today.....it's time to rest...

YOU HAVE LIVED TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY