roller coaster ride~

*ohmygosh i found this post on my draft list and realized that I haven't even posted it yet after SO LONG!! It's been MORE THAN A YEAR @#$%^&*(*^%$#$%^&*
Lots of stuff happened and we pretty much ended up going separate ways since October  2011 - the graduation. Now me, Oxy and Jlt are rockin behind-the-desk life, and Tmg is rockin the hospital wards though sometimes Tmg and Jlt still rockin 'em stages with the Junkies.*

This was road to the epic Relay For Life Melaka gig - a cancer-awareness relay that was held in various states throughout BolehLand. Lots of cancer survivors were there. 
 

Thursday, June 3rd.

8pm            Worship practice

10.30pm     Jamming for Sat's Gig!!

                    *we stayed up till 5am+ trying to figure out how to use separate tracks for 

                   the gig. Apparently, we couldn't.*

tick tock tock tock

K.O

Friday, June 4th

6am               Hit the bed

9am               Mission training

                     *I was half dead during the process and it went on till almost sunset @.@*

7pm               Sound check

                     *when we arrived, the crew weren't done setting up and we were told to 

                      come back a couple hours later*

8pm               Saturday service practice

                      *Oxy and Tmg tagged along and waited quite a while for me to finish. Poor 

                      them.. Jlt texted Tmg that they still weren't done setting up -.- Tmg 
                    was pissed Oxy said.*

10pm+            Head home

                      *wanted to watch movie actually, but the info about the sound check came 
                      late and the ticket counter was already closed at that time. No choice.*


Saturday June 5th

1.40pm            GIG DAY!! Sound Check.

2pm                 *Tmg went back to change clothes.*

3pm                 *While waiting, we camwhored and Jlt bought us Kuihs.*

                            

4pm                 *Played at a huge balloon spiderman thingy. I knee-d my camera, 
                        broken beyond repair*

                    

see?

                        

5pm                 *Still haven't played yet. Fyi, our slot was supposed to be at ...... Tmg 

                        came back WITH THE SAME CLOTHES HE WAS WEARING. #$%^&* we 
                        told him to go back and change for real.. So he went back with Oxy.*

6pm                 *Still not our turn yet but the crew said that we would be up verrryyy 

                        sooon. Tmg and Oxy weren't back yet. I was having a panic attack and  

                        Jlt got reeeeaallly cranky.*

 

6.30pm+         *Tmg and Oxy stucked in a bad bad traffic jam in front of the stadium. Me 

                        and PMS-ing Jlt had no choice but to setup for them on stage.*

7pm                  *I was supposed to be in church already for Saturday service. I felt like 

                        crying cuz this was the first time for me to miss worship session when i 

                        was actually on duty!!! At this rate, I might miss the whole service T.T... 
                        Look! Oxy and Tmg finally arrived!!! :D*

7pm+                It's time to rock!! 

                             

                          *Messed up lots of chords and timing -.- but we finished it anyway then 

                        Tmg and Oxy rushed me to church. I had to change in the backseat! We 

                        were stuck in a traffic jam again, and we took the wrong flyover. 

                        I've never been to this church before. But after a couple of  

                        calls we found it. My 2 friends waited for me outside the church and 

                        they said that I've missed the free worship session, but the main 

                        worship is actually after the sermon!! Thank God! But then.. 

                        Oxy might lost her phone. So I left my bag in the car for her to search 

                        just in case it was there. Jlt lost his supercool chromatic tuner*

9pm+                 *During the sermon, I got a text. Oxy lost her phone :(  it was time for 

                         me to play. I didn't go for sound check earlier so i made some noise at 

                         1st x( I couldn't even concentrate in  worship. My heart was pounding 

                         like crazy and never slowed down even after more than  an hour..

                         It was like I just came down from a really sick roller coaster.*

10pm+               *Went to eat.. Didn't really have the appetite.. Then we made 

                         appointment with Momo to watch movie.. So we end the day with...*

                               


Sunday, June 6th
past midnight    *We were informed that we've got another slot in the morning! YAY!!*

7am+                  *Jlt texted me saying that the crew started the set up late so the whole 

                          slot will be delayed. It's gonna clash with Sunday service for sure. 

                          So, morning gig = NAY. Go back 2 sleep*

9.40am+             Sunday Service!!

                             *me, Josh and Oxy were on duty. So Josh picked me up. I was half 

                            awake when we arrived  at church and I was setting up with Josh 'till 

                            the worship leader asked us "where is Oxy" and I thought she was 

                            probably on her way here so I called her. 

                                   Me: "Oi, lu dmana?" [hey where are you?]

                           Oxy: "......Oh man. Gw telat bangun" [Oh man, I woke up late]

                           Without further ado Josh and I rushed to her house and picked her 

                           up. The worship leader was already explaining to the congregation 
                           of the reason why we were late when we arrived -.-*

12.40pm+            Prayer!!

                              *Me and Josh gotta rush to another church for this and somehow we 
                            made it in time even though our service time was different than 
                             theirs.*

2pm+                    * Finally can have loooonggg sleep*

8pm                     Rock Bar!! 

                                *Oxy, me and Momo went there. But when we got there, it has 

                               turned into a reggae bar -.- so we went to a bistro and then hit a 

                               hotel lounge with super slippery floor afterwards till 6am.*

*DAMN I MISS COLLEGE DAYS :( *

The craziest weekend of my life so far ended that Sunday. A thanksgiving Sunday for me. I thanked God that He lead us through this alive *and without ended up disbanded*. We lost stuff on that weekend. But for me, it was like a trade. That chromatic tuner, handphone, petrols, and camera were traded for precious memories and stronger friendship.

p.s. I miss you fellas so badly T.T

Passport to Fame - by Oxy

WAZZUP Y'ALLS! 

Damn I miss blogging. 

Couple of days ago I asked Oxy to do a guest post for this blog since I have nothin 'musical' enough to write about and she agreed! Oh by the way, Oxy was in the same band with me back in college *WE'RE NOT THAT OLD, OKAY!?* as you may have read in most of my posts, she's LEGIT.

She told me about this competition she went to so here it goes~

p.s: stuff in green r my jabbers.

Hello everyone!

It's my first time being someone's blog's guest writer! Yoohoo..

I am Lina *her real name* , I had not enjoyed live band performance for so long, until 14 March 2013, when suddenly my long lost friends aka Banana Junkies *TMG and JLT belong to this band too~* brought me to see a battle of the bands gig.

Little that I know about this gig, but PassportToFame is basically a battle of the bands where participants are required to travel to a few cities to perform and show their talents.

It is in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Johor for the first, second and third auditions respectively. The gig that I attended was in Penang.

My long lost friends performed earlier (when I was occupied with work) so I didn’t see them rocking the stage. But I’m sure they were. Well, at least I saw the videos.

That night, I watched 3 bands and that’s enough to make my day. I was stunned, especially with the second band. They are ‘Epy&Ardiv’ , 7-piece band, consisting of sax, trumpet, drum, keyboard, guitar, bass and vocal. They played 3 songs, each with groovy reggae genre. The first song was ‘fly me to the moon’ and it was fiuhhh. I’ve listened to a few versions of the song and I could tell ya that they really really did a great job with their arrangement. The second song was an Indonesian song titled ‘BidadariManisku’. I think I never listened to this song before (or maybe I listened but I forgot) but they again really made music out of it. The last song was their original song titled ‘Teman’, with groovy beats. It was worth watching!

Overall, you can feel the oomph drum beats and bass lines, wonderful melodies from the trumpet, sax and keyboard, great guitar strumming and also good vocal. It was all the combination of skills, groove and showmanship. I was entertained!

It’s time for the judges to say some words. “You’re my favourite drummer”, one said. “The original song full mark, music full mark, performance full mark, congratz you guys have set the standard. It’s time for you guys to establish your identity. Checkered pattern shirts, probably with the hats”. Another judge said “The vocal needs some improvement”.

Yeah there is always a room for improvement. From my side, the keyboardist, sax and trumpet need to show more showmanship. It is also good to practice endurance especially for the vocalist, sax and trumpet as their volume was a bit softer during the third song. Lastly, I can’t hear what the guitarist said, during the introduction and also between the songs…so I believe he needs to work on that.

That’s all. Ciao!

Thanks for the guest post, Oxy!! 

Well, we may not be as -to be taken with LOTS OF SALT- "cool" as we were back in college, but some things remain the same. We still have the ears to tell if one is a quality music or not. 

Have a good day ;)