Mensheng Logo

Finally we got our logo done! Thanks to our guitarist Billy's mom who hand written both the Chinese and English words for us. She's pretty good isn't she? We all like this logo very much. The Strong Chinese with Lighter English really reflect our music style: heavy mix soft

Danny's New Bass

Went to Tom Lee with Danny to choose his new bass. After couple hours trying and playing, he bought the Ibanez MDB which is a signature series of Killswitch Engage bassist Mike D'Antonio. The bass looks pretty good it has a custom graphic on it. Danny, you gotta practice hard with this new bass because we need everyone to step up to push Mensheng to the limit!
http://www.ibanez.com/bass/guitar.aspx?m=MDB1

Finished watching 向左愛.向右愛 from icable. Good movie with a good story line. I think I really enjoy watching Korean movies.

Haven't slept well these few days so hopefully will have a good sleep tonight.

8.18 Show

Mensheng First Show

Tonight is the night! We Mensheng played our songs for the first time in the public. It's an unofficial show but still some friends end up coming to support! Thanks alot pal! We will do another unofficial show in 8/3. Then we will play our first official show in 8/18! It will be a wicked show because there will also be An Id Signal, Die In Velvet, Chock Ma, Tie Shu Lan. It will be a loud heavy show so if you enjoy this type of music, make sure you come to the Warehouse at Aberdeen!

Nothing Much

Haven't done much on 7/1. Just stay home with my dog Muizi and rest. Watched some movies and that's about it. Dog Bite Dog is a good movie. Edison really tries to work hard and be a good actor/singer. Before I went to sleep, watched Kill Bill 1 and what can you say, it's such a cool movie that you can go back to watch again and again to see some new things. So after this post I will watch the Kill Bill 2.

Got Fired

Not much to write these days because I have been quite busy until yesterday. I was fired from work. Why? Pretty simple because of the office politics. Anyway, It's a new day and I need to look up and be positive. Good is that they pay me an extra month to fire me. Actually if not they fired me, I would quit my job by the end of the year anyway cos I really don't like the people from my department. Just bunch of unprofessional people who play with their power and talk behind back. Oh yeah, why those people are like that? Simply because my manager is like that too. Anyway, when HR talked to me about my termination, I let them know what I saw from my department. Of course they know what happened but what can they do? Cos my manager has alot of power so everyone pays respect to her but do they really like her?

I told them next time they should hire a girl who gossip because being the only man in the department, I feel that they never let me to get into their circle.

So thanks for the money and firing me and I will get a better job!

Some update

It's been awhile I haven't updated my blog. Number 1 is that my home's internet connection was lost for some days. Then I was getting upset from work. Long story short, it's all because of relationship with the colleagues. I mean when you have to deal with a group of "8 pau" everyday, you get tire to work with them. Like a 2 hour internal department meeting. Over 1 hour of time they were talking about stupid stuffs. Then when your manager said you work slow compare to last designer, that also upset me because she has no clue about how much more work I am handling now. Then I got so sick that I hurt my lower back, got a flu and what? intestine pain AGAIN!!! Gosh I kept on going to the washroom back and forth.

Now my girlfriend cching complains I don't write about her anymore. She asked me why I would write about those "8 pau" but not her. I told her maybe in the future when I look back to my blog I remember those "8 pau" around me cos I know soon they will leave me or I will leave them. But to my gf, I think we are pretty stable now and I don't think we will leave each other. hahaha

Drum Tracks Finished

Finally we finished all the drum tracks. So 3 songs and 2 months spent, that's quite slow but oh well the guy is busy so nothing I can do. Now next will be the guitars, bass and vocal. Hopefully we can speed things up and get all these done by the end of next month. Well, at least the hardest part is finished. YEAH!!!

6.4

I will not forget the day.

"人道毀滅" 的真相 Truth behind Euthanasia

Please try to love your animals because they need love! When you try to get a pet, make sure you need to take care of it; otherwise, you are just like another murderer. I couldn't watch the whole movie clip because it disgusted me so much. It's not bloody but just imagine how painful those dogs are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQLnJawo6k0

Beyond - 1986 台北 Live 誰是勇敢

One of my all time favorite Beyond songs! Enjoy!

Tested on miking the guitar cabinet

Last night went back to bandroom late with Billy. We tested on the mic recording on the Peavey 6505+. We tried different mic placement and finally we got one we liked. We used two SM57, one being close and the other one from far. Both of them are off the center of the speaker. As followed the suggestion by Chi, we put boxes on two sides of the cab. I think that helps to focus the sound being capture from the mics.

Friday we will try to finish drums tracking on the final song, then we can start recording bass and guitars. I can't wait no longer!

FUCK YOU 馬力

天安門母親：坦克輾學生有根據 查證2000多人死 要求馬力親自道歉

「六四」後與丁子霖一起蒐集死難者名單的「天安門母親」運動代表人物張先玲，其子王楠當年遇難時只有19歲。身在北京的她昨日接受本報電話訪問時，對馬力的言論表示憤慨，直斥馬力「為六四屠城辯護」、「污衊死難者」。她說，死者家屬至今已查證2000多人死於六四，部分人是被坦克壓死，有根有據，她要求馬力立即親自解釋和道歉。

對於馬力質疑坦克輾過學生的說法，張先玲說：「我們蒐集的名單裏就有好幾個被坦克壓死的，其中有一個活着的安徽人叫方正，雙腿被坦克壓斷，目前人在合肥，他（馬力）怎麼能說沒有呢？在（北京）五棵松，很多目擊者都告訴我，有人死在馬路上，像紙一樣，當時是用鐵鏟把屍體剷起來的，難道這不是慘無人道嗎？」

「須實事求是 不能為組織出賣良心」

70歲的張先玲語氣嚴厲說：「民建聯左也好，右也好，這個我們不管，我個人不參與政治，但你必須要實事求是，你不能為了你的組織，而把良心出賣！」她說，民建聯要道歉可以，但必須馬力本人道歉，「我們說話都是有根有據的，我們說死了2000人左右，絕不是信口雌黃，名錄裏記載得很清楚，馬力根據是什麼？」

張先玲說，香港有教師在學校和學生討論六四，「這是好事」，即使細節不大相同，但至少把這個歷史事實講給下一代知，才能避免重蹈覆轍。她說，今年是「六四」18周年，一批六四死難者母親會像往年一樣，相聚悼念孩子，她希望有關部門不要干擾。

王丹倡馬力親試驗坦克壓肉餅

身在美國的八九民運人士王丹回覆本報電郵查詢時批評，馬力說法是喪盡天良，「對於這種人，不期待他會道歉」。他重申，有關市民被坦克輾成肉餅，當年有相為證，並有很多相關書籍引用，他說：「如果馬力不信，他自己可以躺到坦克車下面，如果沒有變成肉餅，我向他道歉！」

王丹說，當年中共主要在長安街上殺人，因此廣場內的學生能撤出，但這不代表別的地方沒有死人。他又不滿馬力以豬作比喻來說明當日的死難者，並指馬力若有宗教信仰，難道不怕下地獄嗎？

Intestine

Seems like I update my blog weekly now! I guess I just don't have much time to update as much as before. Though it's still good to write and to share some of my thoughts and stuffs happen to me.

Finished another song's drum tracks few days ago, so one more song to do then we can start to track other instruments. Beside, we can return all the mics for the drums and not to concern the mic placement. In the same time we can start writing new songs.

This week has been quite good except that 2 days ago I got intestine inflammation. It was probably the bad preserved dry mango from bandroom. However, Pak To also had it but he'e fine. Anyway, Saturday morning around 4am I got awaken from the pain. I couldn't go back to sleep and I was in pain continuously. So I had to go see the doctor when they open. The doc gave me an injection and some medication. So my whole Saturday afternoon I was home sleeping and resting. What a waste! Now I feel better but I still can't eat much except some congee and white bread.

Paul Let's Fight Show

The show last night was great. I guess round 2 (on the 12th) was better than round 1. Great to help my friends during the show. It's my pleasure to be able to help out in any way when it comes to music. Got to meet Paul and talked a bit. It's good to know that his pressure is now off since the ticket sales were pretty good. I hope that by doing this, we can together make the music scene more diverse and healthy. I hope this show will become an annual festival like the Ozzfest, Family Value Tour and etc. So let's fight!!!

Busy Busy

Just got home and finished the shower. It's 3am now and my hair is wet so I will wait a bit then go to sleep. These days I am so busy from work as I need to go to all citysuper stores to have photo shooting. Just to imagine that I need to get up so early in the morning and then shoot photos for like 4, 5 hours straight. So now we completed two stores and still have 5 more locations to go. It's a good project because I can learn alot from the photographer also I know more about the company now!

After work today I went to bandroom for recording. While waiting for Pak To for the drums session. I accidentally locked myself outside the room. Gosh, I was just wearing a tee and boxer. My phone, pants and money were all inside the room. So I went down to call Pak To to ask him to rescue me.

So the click for song 1 is done now. It's quite a complicated song with lots of tempo/time signature changes. I think this is a fun song to play. Hopefully we can nail down the drums tracks this week. We are so behind!

Finished Drums for Song 2

Yesterday finally finished the drums tracks for song 2. Took quite a long time to finish since we want to get the best as we can. So now we are going to record song 1 and hopefully we can get this song done quicker.

Raptors are down 1-3 to the Nets. I still have hope for the team because I believe that they can still win the next game when they play at home. But now Raps gotta take one game at a time. Anyway, I think this team is going to be a championship team because we have all the right people. Go Raptors Go!!!

Weekend

This weekend it's alright! On Friday I bought the Line 6 UX-1 with Kat. I still haven't got it running because I need to get some cables and etc. I am excited with this new toy because I can start recording some demo or guitar riffs whenever I have some new ideas. After dinner with Kat and her friend Tommi, went back to bandroom to record drums for Pak To. Billy showed up too!

Then on Saturday I met up Jessie at night for a band show at HK Baptist University. I saw some friends there as usual. When we got there we saw the last song of Hard Candy. They are going to experimental! Then it's An Id Signal, Los En Found, Blackwine and Sea Monster. The sound there wasn't that good and I think one of the speakers died down too. We didn't finish the show cos we needed to go to TST to Gabe's tattoo store. Yeah Jessie is getting a huge tattoo with a Chinese lady and snake all across her back! I can't wait to see when she gets it done! I also talked to Gabe that I wanna do a tattoo of my hero Ka Kui. So I am going to do some sketches and compositions now. After that I went to meet up lowee and her friend to drink at CWB. It was so cool that I got to meet some new friends. Hey to my new friend Ugine! YOU CAN ALWAYS CHANGE YOUR LIFE!!!Went to church on Sunday morning after few hours to sleep. It was tiring and the sermon was soooo long! Sometimes I think when the sermon is too long it's hard to digest! It's been over 2 months that I haven't been to church and I gotta go back because I dont want to lose my faith again! At night we had some big chinese dinner to celebrate my Uncle 1 birthday! Again, I protested not to eat shark fin!

One last thought, I wonder if one day I can become a vegetarian.

pakkin.blogspot.com

Found an article from pakkin.blogspot.com which is about HK singer Kay. I read it and I think Pakkin had a very good point on Kay's pregnancy.

http://pakkin.blogspot.com/2007/01/kay.html

Retreat

Come back from the retreat in Mui Wo. It was good because all the brothers and sisters got to sing, share, being silly in the retreat! Can't believe that we were singing alot of the 80s songs at night. Of course the worship part was great because we got to choose our favorite worship songs to sing and sing LOUD!!!

We also did some great thing on the 2nd day as we went to visit and elderly home. I saw that an old lady she didn't have much smile on her face. After we sang a few songs, I saw tears came down from her face as she went on to wipe her eyes. At the last song, I can see smile on her face after some prayers with the elders. Good job Tsui to organize this surprise event at the end of the day.

All the G-ONE bros and sis, let's work hard toward our goal!

April 7

It's my birthday today and can't believe that last year ran so fast! I enjoyed last year alot because my band finally completed the line-up and we worked hard together! Then I got a decent job at city'super. Even though I had alot ups and downs with cching but we are still happily together. Barcelona is still on the top of the league! My family are doing good so I guess I really have to thank God for giving me alot over last year. I hope that I can do more since I am a year older now.

Chi helped us to set up the recording stuffs at the bandroom today! He will also help us to record our demo. I hope we will have time to record 3 songs in April. We have some expectation but we are not going to put pressure on Chi. Anyway, thanks man for helping us out!

All the brothers from Mensheng, let's rock!

cching

We are back together after some times of separation. We had some serious talks on Sunday night and we are trying to work things out now even though there are still some unknown and concerns.

Thanks everyone who has talked to me! I know you guys must be tired always hearing our problems but yeah, really thank you all!

Friends

Feel good to see some good old/new friends.

Thursday went to Wan Chai to find Kapooo and to have dinner with her. After the dinner went to her office to check out her design works and etc. Nice to hear that Kapooo is going to UK to study some styling/make up class! It's an 1 year diploma so I think it will be a good experience to live aboard.

On Friday I had dinner with Fiski at TST! It's good for us to talk about music and relationship stuffs! Add oil Fiski because I feel so happy that you and Billy are together! Work hard for this! BTW, thanks for teaching me some recording thingy!

Saturday got to meet up Jessie from myspace! What a cool person she is! Brought her to have some local "cha chan tang" at Central then went to HMV and Records Rendezvous (http://rendezvous.com.hk) to check out music. After some coffee times we went to Gabe's Ace Dragon Tattoo to check out! Jessie put down some deposit for her upcoming tats!

My friend Ki is now helping out at Gabe's store! He's the singer for the band Entwine (http://www.myspace.com/entwinehk) so check out their music! Work hard my friend and one day you will get to do me some tattoos!

Give Hime Back the No.10 Shirt

Maybe Dunga is playing a mind game to Ronaldinho. First by not letting him to start for Brazil, then now instead of giving him his usual no.10 shirt, Dunga gave him the no.7 I hope the reason behind it is that he's trying to motivate Ronaldinho to become even better! For all of you who don't know what's meaning to wear the no.10 shirt for Brazil. I can tell you all the best players in each Brazilian team usually wear that no.10 shirt. Pele, Zico, Riverlino and Ronaldinho wore that in 2006 World Cup.

Ok here's the article taken from fcbarcelona.com

釣勝於魚

Learn this Chinese phrase from my friend Fish: 釣勝於魚
Hope all of us will have our dreams come true!

似水流年

Listening this song over and over! What a good song.

似水流年 - 梅艷芳

曲︰喜多郎
詞︰鄭國江
編︰黎小田

望著海一片滿懷倦　無淚也無言
望著天一片　只感到情懷亂
我的心又似小木船　遠景不見　但仍向著前
誰在命裡主牢我　每天掙扎　人海裡面
心中感嘆　似水流年　不可以留住昨天
留下只有思念　一串串永遠纏
浩瀚煙波裡我懷念　懷念往年
外貌早改變　處境都變　情懷未變

Alone at the Room

12:19am
I am feeling sad. Realizing that this is the end, I feel down. I know that it's just a matter of time but somewhat I am not used to. It's weird cos I thought I wouldn't have much feeling, but no. Specially when I am by myself, I will think about you.

Is It The End?

Looks like we are hitting a dead end. Not so much a return this time?

最後的旅程

最後的旅程

作者：張釗維 / 1999-08-12

六月初，我又來到香港。在離開簇新龐然的赤臘角新機場之後，我開始尋找前往山的另一邊的公車站牌。推著沈重的行李裡裡外外繞了一圈，終於找到了。車子隨即出發，離開機場後，沿著僅容一車的狹小公路，彎彎曲曲、上上下下地繞了一個鐘頭，總算抵達我的目的地：梅窩。

才剛把行李弄下車，就看到黑鳥樂團的主唱郭達年向我衝過來，咭式（郭達年的愛人同志、黑鳥的bass 手）推著腳踏車跟在後面。我想：這麼巧！我是來找他們的。但是他上氣不接下氣地跟我說：「啊！你及時趕到，船快開了，我們要趕去旺角的練團室排練！」於是 我連忙將行李寄放在碼頭旁的一家士多 store（老闆的女兒是咭式小提琴家教班的學生），只抓了攝影機就跟他們買票上船了。

我是來拍攝今年六四的十週年音樂祭活動的，黑鳥是活動的催生者之一。一如往昔，他們自己找器材、搞場 地、弄宣傳、找空檔排練，一切 DIY。這天下午，我跟著他們到練團室跟鼓手彼得小話會合；排練完之後，與彼得小話分開，趕往影印傳單。接著搭公車去新界跟朋友借音箱；在下班的塞車時間 當中，花了一番工夫找了輛小發財運回旺角的小辦公室寄放之後，稍事休息，又步行到廟街去找小販，購買舞臺裝置用的煤氣燈。

入夜，拖著疲憊的身子再搭一小時的船回到梅窩，郭達年跟我說：「本來晚上還要在家裡跟咭式排練的，但是今天太累了，所以要延到明天早上才排練。」

在這一天的下午，我如影隨形地跟著他們，親眼看到了一個堅持一切靠自己與朋友的支持，而不願投向文化 工業或官方文化單位懷抱的樂團，是怎樣在運作的。或許你會問：花了這麼多時間與精力去做原本是唱片公司或娛樂公關公司的宣傳、製作助理…等等一拖拉庫工作 人員該做的事，那他們有時間去創作、去練習嗎？他們的音樂會好嗎？

兩天之後，音樂祭結束後的隔天，在對郭達年的訪問當中，他理直氣壯地指出：「這就是生活，我們的音 樂，反應的是這生活的過程，而不是一個被完成的作品。在民間，這種完成了的作品幾乎不存在，只有在商業市場裡才有。」也因此，他根本就不會刻意要去練琴， 或者是為創作而創作，「我們只有演出前才練習，因為我們要自己負擔錢及時間…有一種censorship是：我還沒排練好，不去唱：很多朋友的夢因此就不 見了。黑鳥就是不接受！我們在有限的資源之內盡力去做，完成以後，頂天立地，如果你不喜歡，沒關係！！」

雖然郭達年對這樣的生活與音樂的結合，有著堅定的信念，但是，對於外界，特別是年輕朋友，屢屢要以音 樂美學的標準來要求黑鳥，他仍然是耿耿於懷。去年，《暴風雨前》這張專輯出版之後，有個年輕人寫e-mail給他們，覺得詞曲都非常好，但是唱得太爛了。 對於這樣的批評，郭達年懇切地給了回應，解釋黑鳥的音樂與生活理念。

但是，從這樣的反應裡，他同時也感受到一種危機。對他來講，現在的年輕人受到資本主義文化的影響太大 了，這對搖滾文化來說是一個最大的傷害；過去6、70年代，有許多中立的發行管道﹐任何音樂人或樂團都有發聲的自由、權利、空間與傳播機會；受到歡迎，就 有可能大紅大紫，沒什麼人聽，也沒關係：整個搖滾文化的氛圍，還是會鼓勵人們自主而自在地用他們自己想要的方式----不管是傳統的或前衛的、精緻的或粗 製濫造的，去表達他們的想法與情感。但是演變至今，現在的文化工業，一一既壓制又收編地馴服了各種「另類」的管道與聲音，這過程中逐漸篩選出一些制式的、 典範式的美感標準。過去任意發聲的可能性消失了，而籠罩在當代無遠彿屆之文化工業底下的年輕人，不但因此越來越缺乏真正的、對另外一種聲音的體驗與欣賞能 力，反而用文化工業所炮製出來的美感標準----即便它是「另類的」----來要求黑鳥，甚且認為他們不尊重聽眾（的美感經驗）。對於這種徹底被邊緣化的 感覺，郭達年說：「感到壓力很大。」

但是，壓力再大，黑鳥走了近20年，也撐過來了；未來，還是可以走下去吧？！

「….今年的這張專輯，可能是以黑鳥為名所做的最後一張作品了。」郭達年望著窗外，無限感慨地這樣告 訴我。我瞠目結舌，幾乎說不出話來。我知道，這大多是因為彼得小話決定在秋天離開居住了二十多年的香港，搬到他血緣上的母國----英國----去定居的 緣故，但還不至於讓黑鳥完全停擺吧？！鼓手有那麼難找嗎？

我帶著疑惑與無法釋懷的情感回到台灣，在之後繁忙的工作中，仍不時會想起郭達年的這番話。直到前幾天，收到他們即將來台灣演唱的消息，新聞稿上寫著：「這是黑鳥最後的巡迴演出….」

在感傷之餘，我仍然在思索著我的疑惑。我想，對黑鳥這樣的樂團來說，要找一個鼓手，恐怕不是像更換卡 式墨水匣或抽換抽取式硬碟那樣容易。多年來，彼得小話幫黑鳥打鼓，但他並不認為自己是黑鳥的成員，而是把這樣的參與視為參加一個音樂上的長期合作計畫。彼 得自己另外有屬於他自己的音樂與劇場作品，自己的美學觀，以及自己的文化、社會與政治觀念；他與黑鳥之間雖然接近，但又不盡相同。就我的觀察，簡單地講， 彼得像是無政府主義中的人文主義者，對藝術創作的養成有較高的美學要求，而黑鳥則是深受左派影響的無政府主義者，他們對美學的看法一如前面所提到的。

這樣的合作模式，在西方或者是日本的搖滾文化氛圍裡，或許不難構成；但是在香港，乃至在整個華人地區，恐怕是要經過長時間的考驗才能成形。更何況，這樣的合作伙伴，在今天，恐怕是越來越難找了。

朋友告訴我，一個樂團解散，是常見的事，無須太感傷；黑鳥走完這一段，絕對有它歷史性的成就了。但是，對我來說，歷史還沒有過去，它還在繼續當中；少了具有標竿地位的黑鳥，這段未來歷史的空缺，我們要如何來填補？

PS.黑鳥亞洲最後的演出：8/27無殼蝸牛十週年紀念嘉年華

《香港Xiang Gang》

Player Festival

（本文為SMOOV第4期《唱片箱》的全文。）

大家都可能看過這張合輯：唱片名字喚作《香港Xiang Gang》，在黑白的唱片封套上陳列著Eugene Pao、Powerpak、Tats Lau、Beyond和Ancient這5個音樂單位；唱片是80年代中旬香港樂隊潮爆發前的「地下」產物，當年只作黑膠唱片發行，一直以來從沒有以任何形式再版。所以這儼如一張「傳說中」的唱片。

何以會有《香港Xiang Gang》這張合輯的出現呢？那要追溯到當年的《結他雜誌》(Guitar & Players)以及他們所舉辦的《Player Festivel》音樂比賽。

《結他雜誌》是在1977年由黑鳥樂隊主將郭達年所創辦的本地音樂刊物，由70年代過渡至80年代，曾屢次停刊與復刊。在80年代，他們與《音樂一週》、《搖擺雙週刊》分庭抗禮，但有別於後兩者，《結他雜誌》是較傾向「樂手雜誌」的姿態，故深受樂手／Band友歡迎。

1983年，《結他雜誌》主辦《Player Festivel》樂隊比賽，第一屆的參賽者包括有第一代的Beyond、首支樂隊DLLM解散後單飛發展的Tats Lau劉以達等等。結果由Beyond勝出，奪得「最佳樂隊」獎項。

縱然《Player Festivel》只曾曇花一現，但深資的樂迷都該會認同：日後以較大規模與高調舉辦的《嘉士伯流行音樂節》樂隊比賽，正是《Player Festivel》的延續。

《Player Festivel》不僅是一個樂隊比賽，同時也要覆行「音樂出版」的任務，把比賽的得獎及優異音樂單位紀錄下來，為那個時代留下烙印。

同樣是83年，郭達年挑選了5組《Player Festivel》的得獎及優異音樂單位，把他們帶到Studio A，每個單位灌錄兩首作品(除了Eugene是在美國收錄之外)，《香港Xiang Gang》合輯就是這樣衍生。

一張《結他雜誌》自資印製出版的獨立出品，《香港Xiang Gang》從外到內都散發著一種粗糙而樸實無華的感覺。連黑膠唱片的Centre Label上的「香港」、「Xiang Gang」以及A/B面字樣，也是原始地用人手以蓋章蓋上，而非印刷品。

5個音樂單位，風格各具異稟，有Prog Rock / Art Rock有Fusion有Synth-Pop，其音樂包容性比後來的《嘉士伯》更豁達。

《香港Xiang Gang》的傳奇性，是這5組音樂單位當中，乃孕育了不少未來的知名樂手出來。除了大家熟悉的Beyond和其後組成了達明一派的劉以達之外， Powerpak的領隊David Ling Jr.成為了著名的幕後製作人，而低音結他手Eddie「蛇仔」則組成了太極，Johnny ‘Boy’ Abraham為本地的知名鼓擊手；而包以正Eugene Pao更加蜚聲國際級爵士樂手之列。

當年的《香港Xiang Gang》，記載了這5組Players的初生之犢，大家都玩得多漂亮。

Got Sick Got Mad Got Wrong

Not much nice thing happened since the Chinese New Year. Urine infection and eyes got infected too. Still not 100% healed yet so hopefully soon I will be alright again. It hurts so much when you pee with pain. It may be some internal problem, well will find that out later when I have my blood test. Then got in a fight with cching and her brother. It was stupid because I lost my cool. I gotta stop swearing at people because it's just wrong to do. I don't know why my temper has gone worse again. These days seems like I couldn't manage my anger and always got upset with stuffs.

A Sad Story

Read the news and found this sad story. I can't believe that machines is more than a body part and specially it's from your love one.

【明報專訊】巴基斯坦一名農夫為了買拖拉機，要求醫生將妻子的腎臟割掉出售。妻子一直懵然不知，直至身體不適求診時才發現右邊的腎不知所終。

22歲的薩菲亞04年嫁給艾哈邁德，結婚3個月後，她便因被丈夫毆打及流產被送往醫院。丈夫伺機要求醫生將她其中一個腎臟割掉。她憶述﹕「他送我到醫院藉口治病，其實是割腎，我當時完全不知道。」後來，她因為生病求診，才發現腎臟不見了 回家質問丈夫，艾哈邁德才承認割了她的腎轉售，並將賣腎得來的9000港元買了一部二手拖拉機。

薩菲亞將此事告訴父母，父母逐召開長老大會。艾哈邁德承認指控，但最後只需道歉了事，沒有受罰。在巴基斯坦，不少醫院僱用代理到鄉村游說人們出售器官。

星期日電訊報

Achilles Tendon

My left achilles tendon was hurting pretty badly over the weekend. Though after putting on some cream and taking some medication, the inflammation and swelling have gone better. For anyone who doesn't know me well. I injured both my achilles tendons. My left one was injured about 13 years ago during a basketball game. Then 2 years ago I injured my right one also from playing basketball. So therefore I am pretty much not wanting to play ball as much now. Well, that's life!

Anyone who want to know more about achilles tendon,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles_tendon

Take care y'all and enjoy your valentine's day!

Media

Read something today and think it's good to share with you guys!

梁麗娟博士認為現今香港傳媒變得性氾濫有不同原因，其一是傳媒與社會同樣過分講求利益，「一位學生曾訪問某報紙的總編輯，『為何貴報那麼少報道道德性議題？』那編輯的回答竟是，『如果道德可以賣錢，我們也可以很道德。』」這反映傳媒的道德力量單薄，在金錢掛帥下，社會責任亦要讓位。另外，她又指出傳媒喜歡將人性的弱點無限放大，尤其是性方面，為風化案大造文章便是其中一個例子。她慨嘆這些不良現象為社會帶來嚴重的代價，例如令人對婚姻和承諾缺乏尊重、婚外情及單親家庭等問題日漸嚴重以及教會、學校和家庭的道德權力受到衝擊等。不過，她亦以約翰福音十七：14-15勉勵信徒，要繼續實踐教會的文化救贖使命，「我們是在世界生活，但並不屬於這個世界。不要與這世界同流合污，我們應該分別為聖，指出它的不義之處。」

For more, please check www.christiantimes.org.hk

Benny

Our vocal Benny's birthady is on this Friday so let's see what we are going to do to celebrate his big day! Man you gotta start writing lyrics if we are going to do shows in May.

Pak To

Pak To, our drummer is getting married on Saturday! We brothers have bought the same shirts and ties to make us look good for the wedding. It's purple shirt with white tie and I think they look good together.

Chris Bosh

iPhone

http://www.apple.com/iphone/phone/
How nice is it!!! Man, it will come out in 2008 and I am sure so many people will be crazy for it. I guess I will be one of them.

The Passage of Song Three

we all know our problems but many times we are afraid to break through. Then when we decide to take a step, we struggle and feel lost; however, if we keep on trying and competing, we can one day escape our darkness and see the light.

Family Reunion & Mesa Boogie

We have some big family reunion over this weekend. It was good to see all the cousins, aunts and uncle (well, most of them as some are still in oversea). I wonder when we will have everyone gather together. I hope that one day it will happen!

Ok, I have got some new toys! dung dung dung dung...

Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Head and 4x12 Traditional Cabinet. Yeah! Well, I have to borrow some money to get them since they are 2nd hand. HOWEVER, they are only 2 months old and played under 10 times. So you can say they are pretty new. Just like you buy new from Tom Lee. Anyway, it's a very good deal that I got! Played it last Friday in the bandroom and wow it's powerful! I sold the Marshall 1960B cab to another buyer, he's a cool dude and also the middle man helping me to get the Mesa head and cab. Anyway, I really like the Mesa cab! Awesome.

For my old 6505+ head, I sold it to our guitarist Billy since he needs an amp head! He actually wants to get the 6505+ too.

We have finished around 70% of our 4th song! Hopefully we can finish it at the end of the month so that we can start to write a new song next month.

New Watch and New Wish!

First of all, really really really thanks cching for getting me a very special X'mas present. It's a black steel watch by Katharine Hamnett. I love it so much, thanks hun!

So I dont know much about Katharine Hamnett, therefore I went on to search info about her. Find out that she's a very famous fashion designer who's best known for her political t-shirt and her ethical business philosophy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Hamnett
http://katharinehamnett.com/

Later I also find a very good article which titled "Fur is back...and the fashion industry should hang its head in shame". It's a pretty long article but it is a very good piece. I will say that if you have some times, please read it because it will tell you how bloody some fashion brand names can be when they use skins from the farm that peel the skins out of the animals when they are still alive.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=419557&in_page_id=1879&in_a_source=

http://www.peta.com
You can see many videos which show how they skinned the animals while they are still alive.

http://www.bloodyburberry.com/
This one is an anti-Burberry campaign. It shows the world how cruel Burberry is.

LET'S STOP ALL THE BLOODY ACT!!!

Alright, some updates!

It's been awhile I haven't updated my blog. These days I am enjoying my new job at city'super! It's decent pay with good work hour. What more can I ask for? Since my design post is actually under the marketing deparment, I have a thought about studying a marketing degree, only if I have the money though. It's gonna be expensive!

We have just finished our 3rd song yesterday. It's quite different to our first 2 songs. It has more melodic parts than ever. I think everyone of us likes it because it gives the band a different side. Next it will be our 4th song. It's gonna be a song with all the rage and angry. The topic, we had it for quite awhile. It will be a song all our members want to talk about - some type of people that we had problems seeing and dealing with.

Ok, I am going to listen to the new Deftones now. I just finished the new Killswitch Engage. It's good and I need to listen to it more to make my comment. Anyway, it's KSE, so you know what you are getting.

LFP: Barça - Villareal (25/11/06): Segundo gol de Ronaldinho

Watched this game live. When I saw this goal, I jumped out off my seat! What a brilliant goal! Listen all you Ronaldinho haters, R10 is still THE BEST in the world.

Evening Mourning Meeting For Dogs in China

As a dog lover and a dog owner myself. I am quite shock to see that in our country, there is such an unhuman act. How can people going out to kill over 100,000 dogs? Just because they are a bigger dog? What the F**K is going on in this world? I will go to the "Evening Mourning Meeting For Dogs in China" in Dec 2. If you want to join me and my friends, please let me know so we can go together!

Get the Job

Thanks God! I get a job now! Thank you all for your the prayers and caring! Many thanks to all my lovely friends and family!

Peace

Anyway, we made peace with that guy I mentioned. During the Sunday service at church, God told me to go ahead to say sorry to him because for once I said something rude to him. Maybe it was the reason this whole thing turned out to be a mass. So I called and said to him I was sorry with the words that I used and said. I also told him let's talk and see if problems can be solved. Anyway, things turned out to be better and he's going to leave the bandroom with the same money we gave him (for the stuffs that we share), also we are going to give him a bit more for the carpet. Anyway, things are now ok even though we may not like each other, but at least to me, he's not my enemy anymore. Maybe I wont call him a friend, but for sure I won't call him a jerk. After all it's not easy to hate someone that you once care.

Jerk

We used to have a friend who played in the same old band with us, but now I will call him a JERK. To say all the shits he has done to our band, it will take alot of time to say them all. Anyway, the worst thing I have experienced with him is this one:

As we were not playing in the same band anymore, we decided that we will no longer want to rent the bandroom together. So he then decided to leave. As he went on to pack up his stuffs. He told me that we broke a EQ effect rack's handle. He said that because we moved it so we should be responsible for it. Ok, since we had already had tough time dealing the rent and stuffs with it. I told him that I would bring it to have a fix. As first he told me to buy him a brand new one, of course that's impossible. So today Danny and I went to Sham Sui Po to have it checked up. Under the bright light, I found that there were some super glue left over on the broken/cracked area. The people from the store I went to told me that yes it was glue left over. Gosh, what a fucking guy!!! The rack is broken already and he wanted us to pay for it. No fucking way! Anyway, he's no longer my friend because he's a fucking jerk!

Paul Wong Concert 06

Interview

Today got a phone call to interview at noon. It was a very rush one as they wanted to see me this afternoon. So I have to quickly take a shower and fix my look a bit. Then I needed to go to bandroom to pick up my portfolio as I left it there. Tried to pick up a copy of the work I did from cching but I couldn't have time at the end. Well, I did get to the office on time. The company is called Financial Times which is located at Two IFC. We had the interview at the big conference room which has a super nice view.

They looked through my works and they liked them. They explained to me their works and stuffs that I will have to do if I get hired. Anyway, it's not much creative works but I think it's still challenging. I hope to get this job as it seems a good one. Anyway, it's a 4 months contract so if they like me I can be promoted to permanent staff.

Hopefully can bring some good news to you guys! Take care y'all!!!

Anodize 奏出青春之地下音樂 part 1

Anodize 奏出青春之地下音樂 part 2

Anodize 奏出青春之地下音樂 part 3

Chelsea Being Cheap

Chelsea Preparing A Sandy Reception For BarcelonaWith less than two weeks to go to the Champions League clash with Barcelona, Chelsea ground-staff were pictured dumping tons and tons of sand onto the Stamford Bridge pitch.

The Sun carried pictures showing Chelsea systematically spreading tons of sand over the pitch, something that has immediately caught the attention of the Barcelona camp.

Last year's Champions League last sixteen clash between the two clubs was preceded by accusations of Chelsea deliberately allowing their pitch to deteriorate, so that Barcelona struggled to play their game.

Prior to Barcelona's visit in February, pictures of the Stamford Bridge pitch showed more pot-holes than even surfaces, allegedly due to a complete lack of maintenance, though Mourinho and co. argued that it was just due the rigours of a long season.

Barcelona would go on to win that game 2-1, with Asier del Horno being sent off.

Just a few days after Barca's visit, the entire pitch was re-laid.

Every clash between the two sides has been filled with controversies, and there seems to be more on the way after this recent incident, which Chelsea have since claimed is just a routine maintenance activity.

Even some Chelsea players are said to have complained about cuts suffered as a result of the rough sand.

Barcelona are reportedly monitoring the situation carefully. Watch this space...

Project Glare Poster

Just made a fake poster for the G-ONE music film "Project Glare". The information is fake as I just copied from some teenage band competiton by Warehouse in HK. Anyway, feel free to give any comment!

Everything is OK now!

Everything is back to OK now. I guess life is full of doubts and that's why it's challenging and interesting. I am trying to be a better person daily but many times I fail. I have to do more prayers and ask God to give me the power and will to be a better man.

偷拍香港柴灣翠灣村翠壽樓2608變態佬

What a motherfxxking guy! Guy like this should be put in the jail. The police should do something and send a strong message to the public that any incident like that is not allowed in this city. A stupid man like that need to pay his price.
首先我要講我點解要俾依段片你地睇,依條友仔,每晚5:30-7:00 2年來用紅色laser狂射我屋企,性show擾我老婆,恐嚇我,偷窺人地屋企,我個仔得半歲,又用面鏡反射陽光過來我屋企,因而陽光強得很,攪到我個仔依家隻眼有事,依家仲未cheak到乜事,但我個仔因依條友仔,依家見到D燈光就會哭,佢仲有好多你地完全估唔到ga野,大家睇下依條片幫我評下理,我已報警好多次,但條友好醒,一見我call警察就唔攪我,證據不足為理由,告唔到佢,去到管理處投訴又唔夠力,房處到又無人去警告條友仔,我真係無辦法下先公開依條友仔罪行,依條片好辛苦先拍到,大部份的罪行都收錄...........有一part佢吐痰落街房處可以扣佢分,同大家睇到中尾段時聽下佢點樣恐嚇我.....希望各位網友幫我評下理

Shinedown - 45

Browsing through U2's song "One", then saw a Shinedown cover. Checked this band and found this amazing song!

I Miss You

I miss you hun! Can't wait to see you!

Family Values Tour

So far my trip to Toronto is good! I had good food, met my good friends and went to the old church. Yeah also met up some new members of Toronto G-ONE. I also visited my favorite music store Steve's Music. So great to go to that store to look around and try out some guitar stuffs.

Anyway, today I am going to see Family Values Tour! Gonna meet up Andy and his friend at Scarborough Town Centre first! If you want to know the band list, check here! Well, Deftones, Walls of Jericho and Stonesour are the bands I want to see the most! Korn is alright but I have seen them before but heard that Jonathan (vocal) will not be able to play in this tour. Well will see what happen! I am sure other bands will be great too! Anyway, I will have fun and upload some photos soon! Take care y'all!

The Edmonton Gathering

So nice to be able to see many of my old friends from Edmonton! Yeah that was the time I first went to study in Canada, before I moved to Toronto. Some of the guys/girls I haven't seen for over 13, 14 years since I moved to Toronto. It's so great to know everyone is doing fine. Some got married and even Sunny has a baby boy now!

We gotta have another gathering later and hopefully more old buddies will come out next time! We talked about the old days, there were good and bad moments, but we all think that they were all good memories.

Oh yeah next Tuesday I will fly to Toronto! Can't wait to see my good friends there. I am getting excited as I haven't seen them for 3 years since moved back to HK. I am sure the trip will be a good one because Toronto, to me, is the best city in the world.

Maybe one day I will move back there!

Amazing Slap Guitarist

He Said She Said

This is HORRIBLE but yet FUNNY!!! Check it out guys!

Smokers

Last night when I got home, walked past a restaurant. I saw a man smoked in front of a pregnant woman. Don't know if that's his wife or girlfriend, but it's plain stupid! I think there are many selfish smoker in this city. I think they should consider others more.

My Wrist - More Update

Today went to have the x-ray scan, the result is I broke a little bone in the wrist. The doctor told me it's quite serious because there isn't as much blood flow so it will take more time to heal. Good news is that I dont have to pay alot of visit to the doctor, probably just one more week but I just have to be careful with my wrist for the next 3 months.

It's a blow to my trip to Toronto as I will need to pay attention to my wrist and not to fool around.

My Wrist - Update

Now that my wrist is a bit better, so I can do some more typing! I hurt my wrist from playing football the other day. I was jumping toward the ball in the air, I think someone under cut me and then I landed badly on the ground with my wrist and arm hit the ground first.

Anyway, I am now visiting some Chinese bone specialist and tomorrow I will have the x-ray check up. Hopefully I will be fine soon!

My Wrist

Next Target - BBE Sonic Maximizer 482i

My Band

Let's talk about the bad news first! Our guitarist Chi will be leaving us after 2 months jamming with us. He's going to Australia trying to find a job there. Well, I wish him all the best! However his departure really hit our band hard as he's one real good person with good guitar skills and songwriting idea.

Well, then there is this good news. My friend Benny came to our bandroom to jam with me and Pak To last night. This kid is awesome. He's a good vocal who can play decent guitars and drums. I have known him for 2+ years now and he's a really good person. He also have alot of passion in music and life in general. I guess Benny and I have quite alot in common like how we look at the indie music scene and also our views toward the city and the life in HK. Anyway, we will try to play with him more to see if things can work out. Hopefully he will be our vocal for the future!

We gotta work hard and hopefully we can do something with this band!

Qiu Hong 1st Album Poster

iPod Reborn!

Brought my iPod to Mong Kok Ho King to have the battery replaced. It costed me HK $138 but now the battery is even better than the original stock. My iPod is the 4th generation which supposed to play 8 hrs straight. Now the battery can actually plays up to 12 hrs and I tried it today and it has played 10 hrs already and the indicator still showing some battery left! Yeah!

Tomorrow will be another long day! These days the work load is so heavy that we have to OT alot. I got to bandroom late tonight because of OT! Gosh I need time to do my own stuffs. Anwyay, I wont work there long as I will quit the job and head to Toronto in August 22 for 3 weeks. Then will come back to find a better job (hopefully).

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World Cup Party Night

Killswitch Engage - Riff Demonstration

Barcelona New Kits

Find this news from fcbarcelona.com as the team will have new kits for 06/07 season. Personally I think I like the old one better because I like the more stripes on the top. Well, maybe later one I will like it more cos last year, I didn't like Barca with the red shorts and blue socks (they never had red shorts before). Then the more I see them, I start liking it more. Anyway, the orange visitor color is pretty nice color, better than the neon yellow for the past season.

Welcome Chi

So finally Chi joined us! This is a very good news to me and Pak To since we have been looking for members to complete the line up for awhile. Chi is a good guitarist who is also good riffs and song writing. It's good that we all get along pretty well too! Now we have to find the bassist to complete the line up of the band. In the mean time, we are going to write songs and keep on practising! Hopefully sometimes this year we will be able to do some shows and probably releasing some music.

Sun Mingming: Taller Than Yao Ming

Gosh, this guy is so FREAKING tall! 7'9"!!!

Chi, Welcome!

Chi joined us last night as our guitarist! Now that we need to find a bassist to complete the line up. We are still working out with Tony but somewhat he doesn't really fit in. We think that he doesn't have the fire or maybe it's just his "very laid back" attitude, hopefully we will find the right person soon.

Need A Freaking Makeover

Man, I need a freaking makeover! I gained so much fat since my leg injury last year. All the late night snacks I had when watching football are now locating inside my stomach! Gosh! I can't imagine I will get worse and worse. Beside looking bad, it's not good for my health too.

Gotta do it!

The Second Day of Our Seperation

For whatever reason, this time I dont feel so sad. Even though it's your call to break up. Maybe we need some time away from each other or maybe you want this to end. Anyhow life goes on! Sometimes I have the pictures of us doing different things in the past. I think some memories will always last. I have questions in the head but without answers.

One day I think God will give me all the answers.

Thank You

I realized I have been writing this blog for over 1 year. I started it in March last year when I injured my leg. I don't know if I will keep on writing because as you see in last 2 weeks, I haven't really updated my blog much.

Sometimes I think I can't write everything I want in here because I DO AFRAID that I will offense some people or said something that people don't like. However most of the times, I did have the guts to say it out, and say it out loud! I guess since we only live once in this world (of course I believe there is heaven and I will go there after death).

I have to thank everyone who had left me comments because that tell people actually care!

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Mac Farewell

Tonight was a special night! I enjoyed all the moment that we had together. Even though it didnt sound like we had done alot but I really cherish every single moment.

Mac, I wish you all the best! Hope you will enjoy your trip in India! It's been a great great pleasure that I have met you even though we haven't met for a long time, but I've already considered you a good friend! I am sure all of us feel the same!

God bless you and have a safe trip!

Joe

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Photos from CL Final

Barcelona Wins

This is the photo from uefa.com showing Eto'o scored the goal to tie the game. Barcelona's Belletti later scored another goal to win the game 2-1. It was such a dramatic football game! When Arsenal scored the first goal, my heart stopped! Took me so long to get pumped again! It's such a memoriable night for all the Barcelona fans. As a long time fan for Barca, I am so so so happy to see they take the highest price in Europe! Hopefully next year I will get a chance to go visit Barcelona the city and watch some live game!