http://alvyn.blogsome.com til further notice.

New desktop photo

Beatrix people…. drop me an email or msg me on msn if you want me to send the photos over… photos are 654mb in total, so if you don’t wish to spend 30 mins or more downloading them, let me know and I’ll zip them up and send them to you.

Some decent looking photos. For some reason the photographer doesn’t really like me… either I’m yawning in the photo, or I look like an absolute idiot guffawing. Kinda comical actually when combined together with my oh-so-cute hair.

p/s: for some reason the last 2 photos can’t be resized so i’ll just link em this way

Perlynn getting a free piggyback ride

Valerie getting her free piggyback ride

My not-so-secret-pal (haha winnie )

Photo-whoring… not.

Hello dear readers (or lack of), I have been (b)inspired by Charlotte’s blog to be a photo whore. Being a very lousy photo-whore due to the time I spend playing WoW and practicing rudiments and basically bumming around, I’ve only managed to photowhore 2-3 photos. To make it up to you guys, I’ll randomly link random photos in. 4 to start with today, 4 again tomorrow because I said so.

After spending 3+ hours walking around orchard trying to look for a nice cap, me and thia finally found decent looking trucker caps at QC. I got my life time membership at the Jesus Christ Fan Club, while thia got his at the Tit Club. (We saw a cap with a hooded skeleton and the words “AFFLICTION” on it, which would have been the perfect cap for Ian Tay Junjie aka most feared rogue on Barthilas, seeing how he’s turned into the most feared warlock on Aman’Thul. Oh, warlock with affliction spec. Too bad the cap was $79.)

This is the cap when I wear it. Very mat, yes. Fuck you too.

This is how my hair looks now if I decide to style it up and not just lump a cap on my head. Yes it’s light brown/golden, no I’m not a chao ah beng, but you can choose to carry on thinking so you pubor kia. nabei ga limpeh sng siao. puabye. Seriously, I’m not beng at all. Not at all.

And since no blog entry is complete without a proper photo-whoring of my girl, here’s my girlfriend in all her glory. Oh new friends on her too. 14″ A custom hihats, snare batter’s changed to evans st dry coated and I got myself some jam blocks too.

Practice Rig

This is my practice setup. From left to right:

Dave Weckl Signature sticks, 5As, 7ANs, Vater Josh Freese Signature Sticks, Promark Simon Phillips Signature Sticks, Zildjian Trilok Gurtu Signature sticks, Vic Firth Hot Rods, Vic Firth Peter Erskine signature sticks. (Not shown: Promark Yambu Jazz sticks, Promark 5Bs, Promark 5As, Vater Power Fusions, Vater 5As)

Boss DB-60 metronome, X-pad practice pad.

I wanna be a LEADER

Keke ^^

The band

After an emergency band meeting at Al-Azhaar last night, our multi-talented vocalist/guitarist/bassist-wannabe/drummer-wannabe found out that he had left his headlights on, and thus, drained his car batteries! But it was not a problem for our multi-talented waterpolo/polisman/safe driver/lead guitarist ivan and our demure/petite bassist/tank-commander/mother yu hui, along with designated photowhore/photographer/keyboardist/unable-to-be-a-driver charlotte chew, and as a result, the car was up and running in only slightly more than an hour! We, indeed, are the perfek band because come what mayth, we areth ableth to DEFEATH IT MWAHAHA. I’ll let the photos speak for themselves before I get smote by God for lying thru my teeth. Kthxdie.

The horror! Thank God there was a TANK in the vicinity, and thus we could connect a jumper cable from the tank’s DIESEL/PLUTONIUM/NUCLEAR generatorz to the flat battery on Peh’s car!

After getting shocked by the uber powerful tank DIESEL/PLUTONIUM/NUCLEAR/BABY powered generator, Ivan, Peh and myself gathered around to discuss how we should go about punishing the n00b driver, Peh, for his costly oversight that made us all tired and sweaty by pushing his car around the car park while cute girls in short skirts mocked us behind comfy leather seats inside beastly BMW convertibles.

Peh is sad because we have decided to not intro hot girls to him anymore as a punishment for his costly mistake. I’m sad because that means I won’t be able to get to know the hot girl’s hot friends. Thus, it was a lose-lose situation for us. Is it time for a smoke yet?

Indeed, it was time!

At last, the car could start, and thus we had to go home because it was raining and we might just melt in the rain

Thus everybody was happy. Charlotte the photowhore/grapher was happy!

Mom was happy too, because she’s standing next to her tank.

Of desktops and auditions

Ok so I finally got around to posting images of my desktop, and this is how it looks like now. Icons courtesy of pixelgirlpresents..

Right, now that I’ve got the hard part down, its time to tell you, my dear readers, about something really exciting. shakenotstirred aka my band, is having our “ceremonial” auditions at Ben and Jerry’s Cathay on Tuesday, at 8.30pm. We only have to play 3 – 4 songs, so I’m sorry if you were expecting more than that. We will, obviously, be playing more than 3-4 songs when we finally get about gigging there, but since we decided not to skip and bypass protocol and audition like how everybody has to, we have no choice but to stick to the audition “rules”, which means we will have to do only 3-4 songs.

Which means I’m in a little dilemma now. I’ll be playing on a 4 piece setup with 2 main crashes along with my hats and ride. I’m deciding if I should bring along my extra cymbal stand just in case they don’t have a spare stand for my 18″ Avedis Medium Crash. As it is, I’m already lugging my Pearl Eliminator pedals, my Yamaha 14×4 maple snare, along with all my cymbals down to BNJ. One more cymbal stand’ll either be worth it, or kill me. Comments, please?

If you decide to head down to watch us, do drop me a line at alvyn07@gmail.com or hit me up on MSN messenger at the same email address. I’ll dedicate our last song to all you wonderful people who’ll come down and watch us! (Yes, wonderful people, because you-who-do-not-turn-up-for-our-audition/show is a fucktard)

Of photo-whoring.

I shall be a photo whore and whore all the photos that I’ve taken with the band, and some that were taken with char and shabbir.

That’s it boys and girls! Til next time. Haha.

Photos!

As promised, here’re the photos from yesterday. When Charlotte went crazy with my phone. Haha.

Charlotte and me

Here we go again…

And again…

Mousey charlotte…

Jaundiced us….

Taken at al-azhaar at 0151 hrs.