Sh*tty Evening, Sh*tty Morning, Sh*tty Week

I just need to get this of my system. I'm putting this into my blog because I have to remember this. I will shelf it if I want to, later; but now, this is like a reference.

The latter half of the week had been a sh*tty period for two of my friends. Both cases involved persons with foul mouths and empty heads. One of them is a sad loser, and I think he can't stand being dumped by a girl. He started sending abusive messages to my friend, and then to me. My friend begged me not to retaliate, as he would send more abuses to her. I wish I could do something, but I was worried about my friend. Ah well, there's still a lot of time...I don't forget easily...I will get my revenge...

Rock Kapak?

This was brought to my attention by a close friend recently - almost all Malay slow rock songs have the same rhythm, except the ones written by M. Nasir. That is, if you hear the percussions (usually drums and cymbals) of those songs closely, they have the same beat - thump, dup...thump dup dup..thump, dup...thump dup dup..., and that makes the songs boring and sound similar to each other.

I love that kind of songs - they bring sentimentality without being too sugary - and so I begged to differ.

He still stood by his opinion and so we did a small survey; we listened to a few of what you'll call rock kapak songs in my car. First we listened to Hattan's Memburu Rindu. Strike one for him. Next was Hattan's Mahligai Syahdu, strike two. Maybe it's just Hattan. Spider could not be included in the sample as their songs are not that kapak. So I looked for my Koleksi Lagu-lagu Rock 90-an, but alas, it was missing.

To be fair, I continued the survey today and listened to Wings, Gersang, May and Search (I am an avid fan of rock kapak). And yes, i have to agree, they do have the same rhythm. But that's just one aspect of the song. You still have the melody, and you still have the lyrics. After all, what's a waltz if not for the dum-chak-chak beat?

..And this is my second post...

It has been nearly 10 months since I last logged in a post (which is also my first). So much has happened - I'm not an unemployed graduate anymore, I've relocated to Kuantan, I've found new friends...But I'm still single.
I've been working and living in Kuantan for 6 months. Time does fly; I can still remember my first day (or more appropriately, night) here. I took the flight because I had to report to the office the next day, and I just came back from Manchester a day before that. Talk about being a jet set...But I can't say I'm a true Kuantan person yet, I still drive or hitch a ride back to KL nearly every weekend to get my weekly dose of cosmopolitan life (that translates to traffic jams, crowded shopping malls, let's-go-out-for-lunch Saturdays and Sunday breakfasts of nasik lemak Nenek Miman....)