A Temp Track

Rambling on Jan 12 - Finally I replace the auto-play track with link to the song, 手紙 at my Silent Diary ...
手紙 - a Temp Track

The ‘temp track’, a temporary mock-up of a film's soundtrack, is assembled from pre-existing music prior to the real, commissioned score being composed. It is a "blueprint" for the film score

... alright it sounded like I copied from somewhere. I was my note I jotted down in film scoring class laaa... I already memorized it, like a piece of roti tisu!

This is what I keep listening to now... a temp track for the end credit of the film I'm working on now.
I don't understand Japanese, but it's definitely a charming song... I've been listening to it nonstop since an hour ago, I kinda hate it now. LOL.

When doing the song, I shouldn't listen to it anymore. You can only listen to it before you start doing it... It's just my rule.
And actualy it's true! If my itchy finger go click this song when I'm working on it.... hell, the outcome will sound like the original no matter how hard I try to get rid of it.

The song should play automatically and NONSTOP... so, get what I mean? I bet you wanna leave here, right now.
AIYO, there is a button you can press and get it shutup, DUH!

HEY, Check out my baby girl on the side column, scroll down... Pretty eyes huh?

Hug Me

hug me
Originally uploaded by yasmin the storyteller.

I like SEPET very much. I think this is one thing all Malaysians should be proud of.


SEPET Trailer, still stunning after 2 years.
Check out Yasmin Ahmad's blog.
Also, Check out the review and discussion on IMDB. It is rated 8.0... SEPET well deserves it.

Holy smoke!!!

GIANT ROTI TISSUE!!!! Dudes, Please go find out this place... we must 'mamak' there.

'm really working

Sorry for being disappeared on MSN or whatever messenger. I'm really working. If I don't finish this, I don't have a peaceful Christmas. Solving some technical error (my fault) of this cue. The director finally changed to a more compatible frame rate - 29.97 drop frame... but I was still working on 25 fps.... another disaster.

~ A message
Alright, some little things went wrong. I totally forgot about the frame rate when I started working yesterday. When i realized this morning, it was too late. 
I already fixed these two scenes - Dream and Sex scenes. The last two scenes where Monica is leaving and he is alone were totally messed up. I still need time to fix them. 

James, again, sorry for my carelessness, and apologize if this delay causes any inconvenience. 

Merry Christmas and a Greeting to Paul Way and Hoi

It's finally the holiday season! I'm taking this opportunity to wish you all the best for the holiday season and a happy new year!



Click here if the link doesn't work
Sang by one of the most wonderful singers I've worked before, Chew Paul Way.

I also wish the just-married couples Paul Way and the Hoi will go through all happiness and difficulties together and forever. Two souls, one heart, let true your love stories never have endings.

Merry Christmas!!!! See who....

I know the embed flash player is so ANNOYING, so I took it away.... but I still recommend you to click this link and see who that is. LOL.

Click here to watch a CUTE one!

OK.... showing off my embarrassment

More pictures @ My Flickr Photo Albums

OK, Now you can kacau me and laugh the hell out of me.
I went to snowboarding @ Mountain High. I think I got the trick quite fast, but not quite right. Most of time, I was just able to sustain on the board for 5 seconds, fell, got up, couldn't stay straight, and FELL, got up, skate few seconds, fell, got up... keep repeating all these actions about 10 times a trip down the hill and went throughly insane in this so-called "enjoying" learning process. Worse than baby learning walking I'm sure!
I would fall in 10 seconds for sure - either I fell out of control or I chose to fall to stop coz it went crazily fast or was going to crash into a tree or stuff.

THEN, I got COMA for more than 24 hours after I got home, then the next 24 hours I was a the deadpan stoneman... after another 24 hours my body still hurt like hell, duh!!!

OK... grouching now!!! When we were going to leave that place, and I saw an area, like a walkway, a flatter slope where was crammed many people in together, and people snowboard there. Then I asked my friends what's that place... they said that was for beginners. I.... can I use bad word? FARK!!!! They didn't bring me there, coz they said I would learn so much faster if I go for the higher one... learned from falling is the most efficient way and enjoying!!! F
So I won't be troublesome next time and they don't have to take care of me and I HAVE TO go up the peak with them, next time, which is next week or two weeks later, at another bigger and higher snowboarding mountain - Big BEar!!!!!!

Now wanna wallop someone to LEPAS KU PUNYA GERAM from the snowboarding, and being cheated.!!!!!

PS: Actually this message was originally sent to Martha. Lazy to write a new one. Modified and use it... recycle.

Ok this is the trail map.
http://www.mthigh.com/trailmap/mthighmap.swf
I took the cable car right outside the Big Pines Lodge to go up the hill. OK.... it's beginner trail.... but there are easier trails near the chilren's academy or another one right outside the Bullwheel Bar and Grill. My friends kept pushing me to go up the highest point of the West Resort. I couldn't even see the top.... and it's definitely NOT fun to roll down from that 70-degree slope. I SEE, this is the reason they brought me to the higher trail and wanted me to learning from falling, so that I could go with them. JERK!

I think the most emberrassing one was taking off at the terminal from the Cable car chair, or the lift chair. It never stopped for you to get down. I gotta take off to the "runaway" track with my left foot on the board. (the lift get close to the ground at the terminal but the lift doesn't stop). Why only one foot on the board. Because before you get up to the cable car, you gotta queue up and you technically can't move with your both feet on your board, unless you jump like kangaroo, and you are not allowed to get on to the lift chair if one of your foot is not on your board. So your gotta walk like a crab or a penguin depends on where you put your the other foot. I went up 4 times... maybe 5. I fell everytime when I took off at the terminal... every farking time. The 1st time I fell was an disaster. It just didn't come across my mind I was in the middle of the way, and would block anyone coming down. I just knew my right calf (the right feet was off the board) hit my snowboard and pained like hell, and people screamed "get away, go go...." too late... two people at the back of my lift fell on my both sides, awfully. They didn't hit me thou probably because they tried to avoid me... and another two people hit them from the back... I was in the middle going no way. My bad... :P
I'm sure the "lifeguard" lady... or the "snowguard" recognized me. She said "be careful" after the last time I fell. SO WHAT.... I am dumb!!

PS: Fark is Julian chan's term... A better term to avoid lecture from people like ExUPMer and whoever. Anyway, I think FARK works too. Thanks Julian. :D

Santa Claus is coming to town.... DUH !!!


This was a gentle fall.


Videos on Mountain High Official Site. Really Cool.
http://www.mthigh.com/video/VideoVault06.7.html

Thank you, no next time. I wanna live pass 30 in one piece. LOL
Aiya... Shoehorn isn't afraid of anything. I think i'll go again, but not if I'm still in pain.

Don't eat too much !!!

Last week firefighters in the Malaysian village of Kampung Jabor were called in to remove the bloated snake (pictured) from a roadway. The reptile had swallowed an entire pregnant sheep and was too full to slither away and digest its supersize meal.... Read more about Python Eats Pregnant Sheep

《山海经·海内南经》：“巴蛇食象，三岁而出其骨。”战国楚·屈原《天问》：“一蛇吞象，厥大何如？”
It's really awful to die like this - so-called 人心不足蛇吞象
Direct translation - A man whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to seallow an elephant
LOL

But this one even more stupid... and brainless.
Python Bursts After Eating Gator

Another one...
Snake Swallows Electric Blanket

How Smart Is Your Right Foot?

Some forwarded stuff to share with you guys. I would freak out if I do it fast, but still can do it.

This is so funny that it will boggle your mind (I kept laughing after I tried it 4 times....weird!!). And you will keep trying it at least 50 more times to see if you can outsmart your foot.

But you can't!!!

1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction!!!

I told you so... And there is nothing you can do about it.

Make sure you pass this on to your friends... They won't be able to do it either.

Perfume: the Story of a Murderer

I went to the screening of the Perfume: the Story of a Murderer at Paramount Studio in Hollywood. 
Can't spend much time here, just jotting down some note for you guys. Check it out.
A decent film... but it can be much better. Still a good film I recommend. Great music, but not a master piece. 



Trailer - http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/perfume/
IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396171/
Composers - http://pale3.com



Saw this near the screening theater in Paramount. Whole glass armoire full of statuette, including Oscar: Titanic, Forrest Gump, Ordinary People. Also Emmy Awards, Golden Globe etc.This one below was the God Father



More about the original story from a book. A best-seller in Europe like Da Vinci Code in US.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer RED CLASSIC

In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His story will be told here. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name - in contrast to the names of other gifted abominations, de Sade's, for instance, or Saint-Just's, Fouché's, Bonaparte's, etc. - has been forgotten today, it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, wickedness, but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent.

In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely conceivable to us modern men and women. The streets stank of manure, the courtyards of urine, the stairwells stank of mouldering wood and rat droppings, the kitchens of spoiled cabbage and mutton fat; the unaired parlours stank of stale dust, the bedrooms of greasy sheets, damp featherbeds, and the pungently sweet aroma of chamber-pots. The stench of sulphur rose from the chimneys, the stench of caustic lyes from the tanneries, and from the slaughterhouses came the stench of congealed blood. People stank of sweat and unwashed clothes; from their mouths came the stench of rotting teeth, from their bellies that of onions, and from their bodies, if they were no longer very young, came the stench of rancid cheese and sour milk and tumorous disease. The rivers stank, the marketplaces stank, the churches stank, it stank beneath the bridges and in the palaces. The peasant stank as did the priest, the apprentice as did his master's wife, the whole of the aristocracy stank, even the King himself stank, stank like a rank lion, and the Queen like an old goat, summer and winter. For in the eighteenth century there was nothing to hinder bacteria busy at decomposition, and so there was no human activity, either constructive or destructive, no manifestation of germinating or decaying life, that was not accompanied by stench.

And of course the stench was foulest in Paris, for Paris was the largest city of France. And in turn there was a spot in Paris under the sway of particularly fiendish stench: between the rue aux Fers and the rue de la Ferronnerie, the Cimetière des Innocents to be exact. For eight hundred years the dead had been brought here from the Hôtel-Dieu and from the surrounding parish churches, for eight hundred years, day in, day out, corpses by the dozens had been carted here and tossed into long ditches, stacked bone upon bone for eight hundred years in the tombs and charnel houses. Only later - on the eve of the Revolution, after several of the grave pits had caved in and the stench had driven the swollen graveyard's neighbours to more than mere protest and to actual insurrection - was it finally closed and abandoned. Millions of bones and skulls were shovelled into the catacombs of Montmartre and in its place a food market was erected.

Don't even want to think what will turn out tomorrow

I had been living at the the equator for more than 25 years, I mean near the line... just so scared of tomorrow !!! I really wanna escape.

I think this is the place I'm going tomorrow.


Just like last time I left a message here before going to Magic Mountain....
if I don't show up here after 24 hours, errr make it 48... tell my mom!!!

Kampong boy going to snowboarding.... DUH
Doreen.... bye :D

Just being sagittarius

Alright, I'm a sluggish, I'm clumsy... Just I don't like writing my blog on iWeb (a supplement web tools that comes together with Mac computer) anymore... So, I spent one whole day 24 hours working on this, coming back to blogspot.

Anyway, just being a real brainless sagittarius... I just did what I wanted to do, just follow the arrow dude. and finally, here I am - back to blogspot.

WORSE thing... meeting James (The director of the short I'm scoring now) tomorrow after lunch.... kinda in deep shit, and OKKKIIEE, the principle of Realization applies!

The Circle of Composing Gig
Hyper-Inspired Beginning, then the clearly stated period of 9 stages
Red underlined is the stage I am in now.

1. Always an Excessively Perfect LONG Draft

2. So-called "Writer Block" Realization

3. Proscrastinate (Often a House Cleaning Season)

4. Hyper-Motivated "The Deadline Factor" Realization

5. Draft-to-Craft Aggressiveness

6. The "Oh F*ck I'm Screwed!" Realization

7. Everything Cram

8. 24hrs Deadline (AFTER) Cram

9. After War Knock-out Celebration

Sooooo, Get ready for the CRAMMING proccess

DUH

Bobby the Legacy

OK you know what... this time I say I’ll write only one sentence and I’m going to write one sentence!

BOBBY, music by Mark Isham.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/bobby/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308055/
I went to the screening yesterday in Hollywood. It’s just a mile away from the Ambassador Hotel, the place where Bobby was assassinated. RFK was great and he could be the best president in this country. The film itself isn’t excellent - don’t expect too much on the music too, but get ready to be surprised on watching a dozen of big movie stars. Demi Moore is old! Sharon Stone, hell, I don’t know for what hell sake she showed her winkles in Basic Instinct 2, but luckily Sharon is a real Sharon I saw here. Watching the legacy... it’s just heart-warming bitterness. Every word he said is still so powerful. OK STOP go watch.

Going to Warner Bro Studio, Burbank this Sunday to for the screening of THE GOOD GERMAN, music by Thomas Newman
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thegoodgerman/
This should be good !

Best quote from the BOBBY - a mexican said: We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us!!!! LOL

OK here I am... Two paragraphs plus one sentence! Back to work... ciao

When a Sag meets another Sag

It’s certainly true when a Sag meet another Sag...


都是你讓我痛苦

　　不擅長保密的射手，一旦見異思遷或是感覺冷淡時，約會、電話的次數都會明顯的下降，打電話去或是CALL他的呼機也不會回，有大哥大的會常常關機，反正你們見面的次數越少，距離分手的時間就越近。愛逃避問題的射手座是打太極拳的老手，只要對這段感情覺得很痛苦，他絕對有本事讓你以為問題出在你自己身上，往往等你清醒過來，再回頭已是百年身，覺悟吧！

射手座也是最缺乏信心的暗戀者。射手座看到合適的異性，鼓不起勇氣追求對方或者刻意接近對方。對射手座來說，暗戀是無從入手或者不能落手的棋局。他們經常徘徊於情愛與放棄之間，不知應否表白愛意。

射手男心底深處有不為人知深度的一面，可是婚前的他實在太輕浮了，常常滿嘴胡說八道，再加上孩子重的他處世態度很自由行為又狂放不羈，可是一旦他步入婚姻之後細膩的一面就出現了，有必要時他不僅可以洗手做羹湯，還會全力去照顧另一半，最重要的是他會對婚姻非常忠實。

When Neogio chatting with Silverfish

12:18:52 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: .
12:19:02 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ？
12:19:25 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: ...
12:19:34 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: :|
12:19:49 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 想问你一见事
12:20:24 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 怎麼啦
12:20:59 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 你现在有没有男朋友？
12:21:11 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我不是跟你講過
12:21:20 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我有很認真的跟你講過喔
12:21:26 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 有？
12:21:39 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 你先想想我有沒有講過
12:21:50 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 你都沒有認真聽喔
12:21:52 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 現在問我
12:22:04 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 有
12:22:14 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 恩我跟你講過吧
12:22:22 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 是
12:22:25 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 对不起
12:22:37 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我記得我很認真的跟你講過說
12:22:59 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: ok
12:23:17 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 怎麼啦
12:23:32 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 為什麼問我這個事
12:23:34 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 快說
12:24:13 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我可能没让自己记住吧
12:24:56 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 你一定有事
12:24:58 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 快說
12:25:03 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 没有拉！！！！
12:25:04 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 是不是有女朋友啦
12:25:06 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 有
12:25:12 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: grrr.
12:25:13 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 一訂有鬼
12:26:15 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 有人跟我说你有男朋友的
12:26:24 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 别试
12:26:48 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 誰
12:26:52 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 不過重點是
12:26:57 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我有跟你講過
12:27:03 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我不是沒有跟你講喔
12:27:04 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 然后我想。。。 你有跟我说。。 但我没让自己记住
12:27:09 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我很真的跟你講過
12:27:14 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 有拉
12:27:20 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: :(
12:27:25 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 对不起
12:27:42 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ....
12:27:56 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 喔
12:27:56 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 可是我真的没记住
12:28:06 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 可是你記得我有根你講過吧
12:28:34 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我昨天记起来了
12:28:44 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 昏倒
12:28:56 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 真的对不起
12:29:19 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我没有想要破坏人家
12:29:26 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 沒有事阿
12:29:39 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 哦
12:29:47 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 大笨蛋
12:29:48 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 沒記住
12:29:50 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 好
12:29:59 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 好什麼啦
12:30:04 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我開玩笑的啦
12:30:15 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 你要好好珍惜
12:30:21 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我
12:30:22 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 如果是好的感情
12:30:23 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 喔
12:30:29 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 对不起
12:30:32 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我自己知道阿
12:31:42 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 真的被你打敗了
12:31:46 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 我以為你記得了
12:32:06 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 如果我记得。。。 我不会对你那么好。。。
12:32:08 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 笨蛋！！！
12:32:27 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我我不会让自己对你那么好。。。
12:32:45 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 那样做很坏
12:32:48 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 昏倒
12:33:14 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 怎麼搞得好像我也很白癡
12:33:21 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 沒發現你好像根本忘記這件事了
12:33:28 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 。。。。
12:33:52 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 哭
12:34:14 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 如果我记住。。。 那我很坏把？
12:34:22 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ㄟ
12:34:30 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 就不知道再想什麼
12:34:50 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我可能一直以为你们有问题。。。
12:34:58 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ....
12:35:11 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 可能一直以为你喜欢那GL 比较多
12:35:17 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ㄟ
12:35:18 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 阿
12:35:19 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ㄟ
12:35:20 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 阿
12:35:28 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 怎么样？
12:35:53 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 只覺得真難怪你會這樣覺得
12:36:25 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 有一点难看
12:36:40 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 難看???????????
12:36:49 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我拉！！
12:36:52 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 难堪
12:37:09 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ㄟ
12:37:13 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 沒事阿
12:37:29 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 就想起來就沒事啦
12:43:57 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我前女友这星期结婚
12:44:08 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 難過？
12:44:14 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 没有
12:44:18 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 为他开心
12:44:36 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我那时和他一起不是那么好
12:44:37 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 那很好阿
12:45:40 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 深呼吸
12:45:47 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 出去走走
12:45:59 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 誰？
12:46:10 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我
12:46:32 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 哦。。。。
12:46:36 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我刚才
12:46:46 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 喔
12:47:17 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 在一家民歌餐厅唱歌
12:47:26 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 你？、
12:47:35 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 自弹
12:47:48 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 打工？
12:47:51 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 客人都不让我走
12:47:53 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 跟我朋友依樣
12:48:01 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 不是拉
12:48:15 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 朋友请我去吃饭
12:48:20 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: then
12:48:46 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 说一定要我上去弹唱我才可以回家
12:49:01 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我不想
12:49:05 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 呵呵
12:49:06 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 很不想
12:49:16 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 但他们一定要我上去
12:49:33 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 然后客人和DJ 也不让我走。。。
12:49:55 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 就在上面呆了很久
12:49:59 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 昏倒
12:50:37 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: :p
12:50:40 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 闷闷 的
12:50:44 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 怎麼啦
12:50:45 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 出去走走
12:50:49 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: bye
12:51:25 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 你
12:51:32 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 還在因為剛剛的事再悶喔
12:53:03 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 很难才找到自己喜欢的。。。 有点无奈。
12:53:12 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 不讲了
12:53:23 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ㄟ
12:53:25 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 幹嘛啦
12:53:29 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 真是滴
12:53:33 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 别人喜欢其实自己会很幸福:D
12:53:35 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: hahaha
12:53:49 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 什麼啦
12:53:58 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 但我会 逃的
12:54:01 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: :D
12:54:02 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: hahah
12:54:08 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: aiya...
12:54:12 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 没事拉
12:54:28 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 你！！
12:54:48 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 經
12:54:50 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 身边的如果不珍惜！！
12:54:50 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 驚
12:55:07 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 我会 看不起你！！
12:55:22 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ㄟ
12:55:28 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: 那我有備你看不起?
12:55:31 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 讲完！‘
12:55:49 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 散步去
12:55:52 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: bye
12:56:13 AM Neogio1130@hotmail.com: 8o|
12:56:15 AM Silverfish@hotmail.com: ...

Just a Little

For the sake of 6 years in my memory... just a little gloomy.
I’m truly happy for you, greeting under my breath.

DAMN... Martha’s words keep whispering in my ears since this morning. You giggle, I burn Shah Alam !!!

Digital Disaster

I have to grouch about this...!!!

I accidentally deleted a folder on Nov 12, Sunday. and I didn’t notice!!! Emptying my trash without double-checking... typical SAG!!!

All my work in 3 weeks, 4 projects, all of a sudden, disappeared, evaporated!!!

I think I deleted them in the morning. Then in the afternoon, I realized the folder I wanted to delete was still on my desktop.... WHAT THE HECK!!! It was like... magnified and seems SUPER BIG at that moment. FARK (Julian’s version of F*ck) !!!! “Then what did I deleted” I thought.

Where is my “Latest Work” folder??!!! Hell, spending whole evening to call AppleCare (who cares about me since I didn’t pay for it), calling apple centers, looking for aids and the program that does data recovery. I finally got a program called File Salvage. Pretty cool, Got another program, Data Rescue... Both programs rescued my deleted data, not only those in the “Latest Work” folder, but ALL deleted data in these few months. No way to rescue only those files from “Latest Work” folder, and No way to trace the file deleted date. So, I got about 200 Logic files and few thousands of audio files in .wav, .mp3, . aiff, etc formats. No file names, All messed up!!!!

I gotta open one by one to find those files back in the”Latest Work” folder. Spent like, let say, 24 hours, and I ended up sleeping only 2 hours. Woke up at 8am continue....

Here I come, the most GERAM (Frustrating in Malay) was, FARK!!! those audio files that laid out on Logic Arrange Windows.... ALL MESSED UP!!!!
The regions are still there, but they couldn’t recognize the right audio files. Hell !!!
OK put them back, match them, 2 days 2 nights !!!

Here and there some small tiny “data hunt”, another one day. On Thursday that week, NOV 16. I started my work as usual, on James Bathroom Film and Mo’s Album... 5 days just flew away because of a stupid click!!! FARK!!!



Little Children

I almost didn’t go this screening, because it was my birthday. Not really cool to spend my birthday in a theater... My only intention to go to this screening, Thomas Newman

But indeed, Little children is a fabulous film. It is a surprise for me. Thomas Newman was there with the music editor Bill Bernstein. This is one of the film well demonstrates his composing techniques - IMPROVISATION!

Some of the cues, he composed it to nothing, not to a score, no notation. Just some graphic draft, hand it to a group of musicians he has been working with for long time and trustable, and they just improvise. First time I heard about it when I just arrived in LA... I was like... WTF? That’s not composing Thomas.... But after watching his American Beauty, I thought it was excellent.

It was the 1st time I heard Thomas Newman talked about his improvising composition. What he has in mind before improvising with musicians were
- Time code, and all necessary changes or what we called spotting note from editor.
- His tempo
- His patterns, that can be used for repetition, or whatever purposes
- The idea of direction
.... I remember this few things he said.... but isn’t it terrific? I still don’t really agree with his method. But I asked myself after that, can I do it? if I do it is that the same fabulous sound? I can’t answer. Ok, then that is composition! I like Thomas Newman very much since American Beauty. Although he doesn’t seem put a lot of appreciation (should I say that? or he just forgot how he did it) of his past gigs in his mind, he really did a great job on this Little Children... he just move on and concentrate on the next film.

This is master piece of his. I saw some ugliness of playing spontaneously, but there is something... something very organic that can’t be done with notation. He used his technique and confident to do it, outside the box but not too far as usual, and he successfully making a great balance between comedy and tragedy and perhaps some children element in there. I think it was a very excellent job!

It is my dream to try what he’s been doing... maybe when I’m big enough to do it that way.

I really like what he said especially when dealing with editor. He never tried to change the story, never tried to go against the spotting notes. and Thomas said, “I always stick with it, I don’t dare to change”. In order to survive in Hollywood, I think it is really important to know what you should do and what you shouldn’t and he is one of the best examples.

Go surf online for the review of this film... it is surprising. The film itself is a good. And Thomas contributed a score to help strengthen the picture to bring about the musical vein of comedy-tragedy mood... not too much and not ignorable.

More about Thomas
THOMAS NEWMAN (Composer) has been seven Oscar nominations for his film work for LITTLE WOMEN, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, UNSTRUNG HEROES, AMERICAN BEAUTY, ROAD TO PERDITION, FINDING NEMO,and LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS. Newman also won an Emmy for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music for HBO’s award-winning SIX FEET UNDER. Since the beginning of sound film, the Newman name has been an integral part of the evolution of film scoring. Thomas is the youngest son of the legendary Alfred Newman, nephew of Lionel Newman, brother of David Newman and cousin of Randy Newman. Thomas Newman studies composition and orchestration at USC, completing his studies at Yale. He considers his greatest mentor to be Broadway’s Stephen Sondheim, who was deeply impressed with Newman’s originality and championed one of his earliest works. Other films he has scored include MEET JOE BLACK, THE HORSE WHISPERER, UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL, PHENOMENON, AMERICAN BUFFALO, IN THE BEDROOM, PAY IT !
FORWARD, ERIN BROCKOVICH, THE GREEN MILE, JARHEAD, CINDEREELA MAN, and FRIED GREEN TOMATOES, and for television, HBO’s acclaimed 6-hour miniseries ANGELS IN AMERICA directed by Mike Nichols.

Some Brief about Little Children
Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly and Patrick Wilson star in LITTLE CHILDREN, the latest work from Oscar-nominated Writer/Director Todd field. Based on the novel by Tom Perrotta, LITTLE CHILDREN centers on a handful of individuals whose lives intersect on the playgrounds, town pools and streets of their small community in surprising and potentially dangerous ways.

What a party for 29


My roommates and friends threw a surprised party...
I thought I could sneak through the 29th birthday. I thought I could spend the last 365 days at the celling of youth, quietly.... well, it’s quite happening thou. Ok... here I go... 365 countdown

This is what I look at the past 10 years and coming 10
20...21...22..23.24.25.26..27...28.....29...............30.....31....32..33.34.35.36.37...38....39...........40
You will see the gaps between 29 and 30... so huge, and seems so far. As what Nori said, “you will be fine once you pass 30, everything just comes in a way that you don’t really bother and care”. LOL true true true, I think the graphic above is pretty true about numbers.

Thank Connie for everything, Thanks all my Thai buddies from UCLA Smakon - Connie, Peter, Kanit, Nicha, Tiffany, Clara.

Thanks for my basketball “kaki” (buddies in Malaysian slang) - Peter, Kanit, Ken (another Ken), Jeff (and his girl Jennifer)

Last and the most, Thanks for my lovely roommates - Fumi, Shioko, and Jessica. You all are the best roommies !!!

You can click here to see the party walkthrough (with all my ramblings). Just click NEXT
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hfken/313402839/in/set-72157594346528004/

Or, here to see the pictures in my Flickr archives
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hfken/archives/date-posted/2006/12/calendar/

OBSTACLE OF LOVE, Casting Audition in Los Angeles

Location in Los Angeles

This is a low budget short film and possibly an award-winning script, about 20-40 minutes in length. As long as you are interested and confident in meeting the requirements, we would love to meet you!!! We are devoted to creating art in the form of film and are planning to submit this film to festivals nationwide. We sincerely look forward to meeting people who are passionate about acting and the craft of filmmaking. Please, serious inquiries only.

STORY PLOT
This is a story about love, trust, patience, and persistence between two young married couples.
• Imagine your marriage is not consummated
• Imagine your husband is hiding something from you
• Imagine your online friend, who you share your secrets with, was actually your spouse...
Written and will be directed by Giovanni Chen

INFORMATION & REQUIREMENTS
• Auditions will be held between Dec 26th and 30th, in Los Angeles. Finalized time and location will be informed to all applicants.
• Sides (audition material) will be provided prior audition.
• The film will be shot in January until early February
• DISCIPLINE and RESPONSIBILITY are mandatory for each individual
• We are willing to work out a flexible schedule that works for everyone
• Non-Union gig
• No payment but excellent experience, credits and copies in returns

Do not hesitate to email us at neogiovannismfilms@yahoo.com with the following attachments:
• 2 recent pictures, one close up, one full body shot
• Contact information (Name, phone number, email, etc.)
• Language fluency – Mandarin and Cantonese preferred (Languages other than Chinese are welcomed)
• Ethnic heritage
• Acting history

CASTING
• Actors with strong acting skills who are able to perform realistically, improvise dialogue, and control their emotions/mood (like laugh and cry instantly). New faces are welcomed.
• We prefer Chinese applicants (Mandarin or Cantonese speakers), but we also welcome other Asians.

1. Male / 18-30 yrs. Requires Nudity (Top). This character is a pessimistic and aimless engineer who works in an office. The actor should be comfortable having his shirt unbuttoned.

2. Female / 18-30 yrs. This character is an adorable homemaker. The actress should be skilled in imitating. The ability to write Chinese is a plus.

3. Female / 18-30 yrs. Chinese or Cantonese speakers preferred (not necessary fluent). This character is a college student cum a part time prostitute, cheerful, and laughs easily.

Basil Poledouris the composer of RoboCop

Basil Poledouris (August 21, 1945 - November 8, 2006) was an American film composer.

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Basil Poledouris credited two influences with guiding him towards music: the first was composer Miklós Rózsa, the second was his Greek Orthodox heritage. Poledouris was raised in the church, and used to sit in services, enthralled with the choir's sound. At age 7 he began piano lessons, and eventually enrolled at the University of Southern California to study both film and music. Several short films to which he contributed still reside in the university's archives. At USC he met directors John Milius and Randal Kleiser, with both of whom the composer would later collaborate. In 1985, he scored Flesh & Blood for director Paul Verhoeven, again establishing another ongoing collaboration.

Poledouris became renowned for his powerfully epic style of orchestral composition and his intricate thematic designs, and garnered attention for his scores to The Blue Lagoon (1980; director: Kleiser), Conan the Barbarian (1982; director: Milius), Conan the Destroyer (1984), Red Dawn (1984; director: Milius), RoboCop (1987; director: Verhoeven), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Free Willy (1993) and its sequels, Starship Troopers (1997; director: Verhoeven) and For Love of the Game (1999).

Poledouris married his wife, Bobbie, in 1969 and had two daughters, Zoë and Alexis. The elder, Zoë Poledouris, is an actress as well as a film composer.

He spent the last four years of his life living on Vashon Island, in Washington State, and died on November 8, 2006 in Los Angeles, California, aged 61, due to complications from cancer.

Basil Poledouris on IMDB
Announcement I received from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Great composer, huge respect!




Recipe out of Nowhere

Three recent Screenings

I went to a few SCL screenings these 2 weeks - Happy Feet, Babel, The Queen. Sorry I’m not talking much about them, coz I should really go back to my work.


Happy Feet
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/happyfeet/
Typical hollywood animation... great production thou, but not much surprise if I look at it professionally. Actually, who cares?? I know I’m going to enjoy the film and I truly enjoyed it and came out from the theater with mirth. Isn’t it more valuable?

Penguins a cappella, tap dancing Mumble are simply too charming. ‘Mexican Penguins’ doing Mariachi? hell hilarious! Great music I have to say! John Powell, as usual, had done a stunning score. All vocal music were well arranged and performed! John Powell and the director Geroge Miller were there for Q and A session.


Babel
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_vantage/babel/
From hollywood, no?

Damn... a surprising american film for me!!! for many americans too I’m sure. Perhaps Babel is the best film I’ve watched in these 2 years in LA. How should I put it??? Crash, ya another Crash but much better than Crash.

With 3 different stories happened in 3 different places, 3 different countries, 3 religions, 4 languages, 6 different families... but are somehow connected. I love the way the story is plotted. How Alejandro (or the writer) interlocked those relationships (or the crossover) between strangers, between cultures (it’s so far but at that moment they are close), between close family members (but it’s invisibly so far), etc... damn, he is as good as the real mother fucka!!
Telling you stories - someone appears at the wrong place, a wrong person steps into another existing world, and an a story happens at the wrong time, and.... and just TELLING you stories, no conclusion, no hidden meaning, not intended to build any climax... just naked stories. How you wanna take it, your business. Crash is somehow still an american film, giving you a conclusion indirectly and somehow building the plot although the plot is not linear.

Who should get the credit? Director Alejandro is a HUGE surprise. I haven’t heard his name before. (O... he directed 21 Grams!! But I am still surprised!) Script is good too. Music is good, going along with the stories so well, and not intended to build or dig any hole. However, the music is a little bit disappointing when it comes to the Morocco story. Gustavo used the right sound, and definitely the right instrumentation, but he should study Islamic music more. It sounds western played by different instruments, timbre etc... It’s not that bad, I agree, but Gustavo (Composer of Brokeback Mountain) can definitely play around with the sound far far away the box for the Morocco segment. Other than that, he did a tremendous job. I love all the stuff he created for the Japanese segment.
Composer was there for the Q & A session after the screening.... but Alejandro wasn’t there. :(
Not surprised if this is the best film of the year. I watched Prestige few weeks ago and gave some good comments. But Prestige seems so small compare to this. Shouldn’t say much. GO WATCH!

O ya.... Brad Pitt is much better than Tom Cruise. Acting wise, maybe they are close technically. But in terms of CONTENT, Brad is way much better. Tom Cruise should come out with another film talking about his freaking scientology. How good is Scientology I don’t know, his scientology is just a freak.


The Queen
http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/thequeen/
I have no comment! There is a purpose behind the film... and I slept through the 1st half. You can’t use a film to plead a monarchy. You either tell the truth, or don’t make the film. DIU.

Anyway, the queen Helen Mirren is fabulous!!!! She is one of the only two reason why audience got in tears. The other reason is because of those reconstructed footage of the period after Diana’s death until the burial. I got my tears for that, and half of the audiences wept when the screen showed those footage.

Charles is a jerk and he still a jerk. No tolerance for this!


Perhaps, it’s true as what english critics said “NOT FOR FOREIGNERS”. The best film of the year? It’s maybe true but not outside the Great Britain.

The composer Alexandre Desplat was there. Music was great I think, but sorry dude, you scored a wrong film... End!

Looking forward to welcoming a film about Diana, uh??

Finally I spent much longer time than I wanted to... I am really terrible.

Stuff to Share

My New pictures @

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hfken
- Shioko’s boyfriend, Mike’s Birthday
- Pictures from Japan Expo at Convention Center, LA Downtown. I went there last weekend, not so happening compare to other expo around and saw a japanese band. They are not super, but I still put their sites here
http://pinklips69.com/
http://www.myspace.com/pinklips69band


What I’m NOW digging +
Friends @ Myspace.com/hfken
Uri Caine - He is CRAZZZY!!
Oops-asia
Big-bangmusic
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
Samunori



Yasmin Ahmad’s Blogspot and Flickr Photos
http://yasminthestoryteller.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49503074700@N01

Wai and Weng, and Ping

From the picture: Wai Ken Seng Weng.

I have 2 scorpio brothers which are in water sign, I’m a sagittarius, fire.
I had a scorpio high-school girl friend. I’m a sag, hot hot and burning!!!

They all had their birthday this month. Today, Nov 13 is Weng’s 20th birthday, my youngest baby a.k.a. The Mirror :)
Haha he is still underage... sorry he is not available.

My 3rd younger brother, Wai had his 24th birthday last week on Nov 8
... OK !!! You’re the most handsome among 4 of us.
... OKOK !! ‘m saying it from the bottom of my.... ...
...
...
...
...
pencil box.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

OK la, you’re the most handsome one and your girl friend is the most beautiful among all of ours now... but it doesn’t mean much if just a girlfriend. See whose wife is the most xxx...
Whatever... as long as not a “pig-leg” and “vegetarian”... hahaha

I learned to appreciate this brotherhood only after I broke up with Mei Yen, my 2nd girlfriend and someone I thought I would spend my whole life with.
It might be a bit late, but I’m glad I finally realize how important you are to me.
I didn't know how to express my love especially during my high school... regret that I didn't spend much time with you guys when I was at home.

Now after the breakup with Cheshire, I see things more clearly, more wisely, and promised myself I will always put my parents and brothers in 1st priority after I get home.

Miss our old days especially when we played basketball together. Coz that's the time we do things together, the time we have the same goal. Although I am not as good, I really hope that we are always in the same team... for basketball, living, sharing, caring, etc.
It doesn't really matter whether we win or not, but I enjoy the quality of the process and the renascent moment.

Seng, Wai, Weng... I love you.



Ok... This is my high school girl, Ai Ping. Charming huh? We were 17 that year. Unfortunately, we broke up few months later. It was a very pure puppy love.


She is married laaaaa. I’m a loser ok???

Will talk more about her next time... gotta sleep.




Recent happenings I wanna ramble... but next time:
- Screening that I recently attended and the music
- Ai Ping my puppy love.
- My Cousin Keat and his wedding... Hey homies, show me picture!
- My data recovery adventure.... Dork!!!... OKKKIEE my fault... but still.... fuck!
- Mike’s birthday.

New Mix

Click here to listen to the new mix of Arizona, with production sound

Click here to watch the video clip, and my ramblings about this project.

Foong’s Big Day & Grandma

My cousin, Khuen Foong’s wedding procession... 接新娘 YEAH!!!

Click here to watch picture video from Foong 接新娘

My brother, Seng made it :)
Simple and meaningful.
Very touching when there are some pictures Foong facing our grandma’s shrine and said “I became a doctor, and now I’m getting...”

Our grandma must be proud of us, especially Foong. There are engineers, lawyer, accountant, architect, musician (me! but don’t be a musician... musicians and homeless are buddies), and Foong is our only doctor... all of us are your lovely grandchildren that you can be proud of. All of us are holding at least a degree. All of us remember you urging us and our parents: You can be poor, but don’t let the education poor!

We will pass your words to our children and offspring.

I wrote a song in a summer dawn last year for my greatest grandma.

I wrote this for a gig in LA, but it’s intentionally express my regret few years ago for not going back to my hometown one time when she was sick, because of some piddling little gig... and she passed away in a summer dawn, 4 years ago... I thought she would be fine and I promised to see her soon after my work, my stupid meaningless work.

Damn, wepping and miss home.
Click here to listen Summer Dawn.
Don’t feel like talking about getting married and wedding...

I was in tears... almost

I have to sleep.... very sleepy. Just copy and paste an email to my client here. You will understand.
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Hi xxx,

i got very serious problem here. I accidentally deleted a folder this morning. The worst thing was I didn't check before I emptied the trash. I noticed that in the afternoon when I was about to work on your score... and I couldn't find the folder!!! including another 2 films that I recently scored and the album that I've been working on for the past 2 weeks. All my work in the recent 3 weeks, GONE!
Cry...

Anyway, I spent almost 100 for a Data Recovery software and have been spending my whole evening recover those deleted files. I almost got back all the files, including the LOGIC files that I did for the dreaming scene. Problem is I can't find the 2GB Quick time file that you gave me. I think it's too big for the "rescue trash", and permanently deleted.

Is there anyway that I can get the Quicktime file, maybe from your partner?
Please give me a ring once you get back. My carelessness really put me in deep shit.
I already watched the film many times and I think I can make some rough draft at the meantime.

Enjoy your trip and hope this won't bring you too much worries,
Ken

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I think I did something bad recently. The god is punishing me! Don’t do bad things.

CH, don’t peep!!!
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Monday, November 13, 2006

Current Affairs & Ramblings...

Maurico’s Album
- R&B-Pop, Justin Timberlake kinda stuff, a bit of hip-hop taste
- Still arrangement stage
- Will soon go to studio... means it will be finished soon! Yeah!


James Jauregui’s Film
- In progress... still. More info click here

Giovanni Chen’s Film
- Will start composing the end credit song. He will start shooting in January, and I will only get to score it when he gives me the final cut. This film will be a blast in festivals!
More info click here

Orchestral Score for Ken’s Premiere
- Seems like I can’t make it. But I will try my best.

O ya, WanJun told me that her album will launch soon in KL and Taipei. can’t wait to see that! I composed 4 tracks for her, Justin did about another 4 tracks.



HALLOWEEN AFTERMATH........

So Halloween has come and gone.

Had some happening time with Nori and Fumi. We went to Indian’s Oven, a restaurant near by my apartment. I brought too many business to them - ChernHwei, Doreen, my roommates (so many times!), Connie, and on Halloween Nori!!! One of the workers there even called me name. I forgot his name thou... Anyway, they serve real good indian food, even better than most of those I had back home.

Sorry, no pictures to show. I think I should take some when I go there next time.

Something really awesome. We passed by a corner house on the way walking to Indian’s Oven, and there was an open-house show, by the neighborhood (I supposed). They play little opera (haha I don’t know the term, Chern Hwei said Bangsawan, funny). They played american folk stories, bedtime stories, like our chinese opera. Many people, in fact families, were standing around the small little stage and enjoying. They seems like dressed up a lil to attend the “Bangsawan”, showing some respect! I looked like a homeless that day with my green sweater on.

Felt warm in my heart to see people here still trying to maintain their cultures, and remind me about my homies back home... I’ve never seen Chinese Opera (DAI HEI) since long time ago. The last time I saw it was when I went to Penang. Many old things are fading... really sad! I can’t imagine what I can show my children in future. I don’t them to see everything online.... and accidentally click some porn links!

Weeeellll, Halloween is their big day... and they really celebrate it hell out of them!! I had crazy halloween celebrations for the past 2 years, and I was a demon cow (actually not... a female cow with huge nippers). I didn’t join my friends this year. Doreen and Weiyann asked me to go to the Gay Parade, which is a big attraction in LA. I missed a big Malaysian party in Alhambra coz I didn’t get a ride.
But I rather stayed at home, had some drinks with Nori, had a good sleep, then worked the next day.

Meanwhile, we had some great chat during dinner. Some really sensitive topics popped up when we talked about cultures. Fumi and Nori are very interested about Malaysia, and don’t understand how our life look like there. I told them we have real indian food there, and Fumi questioned me “have you been to India? They must be different.” Got a bit harsh at one point...
O hell, we Malaysians maintain our culture very well, somehow, still doing what our nenek moyang (ancestor) were doing. He just doesn’t understand how Malaysia was brought up by 3 main ethnic groups, and we are strongly holding our religions and cultures. At least we are still eating real Chinese, Malay, Indian food back home! China mainland people don’t have religion, Taiwanese are just too modern to do old folk stuff. Chinese in Thailand and Indonesian.... they can barely write their own name!

Talking about China, Nori started venting... kept criticizing China lying about the NanJing assassination.. like China always lies about the amount killed. I got a bit harsh too! I don’t know how many exactly, I ain’t surprised at all if Chinese lie. Chinese are always big-mouth, no doubt! But does it mean Japanese didn’t kill a lot of people when they invaded mainland? Hell! I asked him if he saw those pictures, human stacked up like a hill, the way they killed babies, and what about the fucking crazy experiment of bacteria weapon on real human? FUCK!
and I am not forgetting Japanese came to Malaysia before, and we heard lots of stuff from our parents, not magazine. When talking about NanJing, I see from the point of view of a Malaysia, a person out of China. I say no shit for China, But, I’m a living human and can’t accept the fact - not a murder case, not killing people parties.... it’s far more crazier than that, it’s an assassination of a nation, at the highest magnitude!

We got a bit harsh, but not fighting at all... at one point he tried to change topic. Then I thought why are we doing this? I’m glad that I know such a great guy... who the hell cares what happened in past. We got out of the topic, and I glad we did.

All in all, exactly had 3 huge bottles of Miller Draft, few cups of wine... No more left... Dudes lets gather again when I get my shit done, I’ll definitely drink you under the table, see who falls drunk first.

Nori, is definitely one of the best friends I have in LA, and I definitely my pleasure! Friendship is far more important than those stupid history. Those stupid stuff our nenek moyang did... forget and move on!

Sexy Cantonese

I’ve never met her. I didn’t like her when in the beginning because of her ignorance after Chern Hwei introduced us to each other. I was like... whatever... performance students are mostly haughty if they don’t know you or if they think you are not good. So, whateveeeer!

Surprisingly, we still keep in touch and get to know each other more. She is actually a happy person, such a likable, extremely amusing chick!
Check out her video (chinese)... Hilarious!!!
CY in Berlin 1
CY in Berlin 2
CY in Berlin 3

She loves cooking and always shows off her food. She got a crazy admirer who always gives her hell.
My secret weapon - Don’t love me, I’m a troublemaker. It will sure work.

I call her sexy cantonese coz her accent is just irresistibly seducing.
(sincerely from the bottom of my pencil box)

She sent me her music today. As what I expected, her playing is awfully good. Then I read more about her, damn!! The only american in top 10 of some international harp competition 2005... and is a candidate of the Fulbright program (wow!!!) in Germany. No wonder she is in Berlin now.

I decided to write about her here. I haven’t even written much about my peeps nor my parents!! You gotta carry your delighted smile to see me in NY... only if I write well for my premier. (anxious...)

Hey any cool dude looking for a chick, this is a decent one!!! But you better be cool, really cool like napoleon (Dork!!!)... coz she is 三戀八花!!! Ask me the meaning if you’re interested. O ya, she is a Taiwanese living in the States since high school, a bit (LOT) narcissistic. She loves certain angles, loves candy and her mom loves pork.
Service fee will be applied for contact inquiry. Convenience fee is ...

LOL!!!

Check out Chia Yuan’s music.
http://www.webconcerthall.com/winners2006/liang.htm
or an interview about Liang Chia Yuan at
http://www.webconcerthall.com/interview/index.htm

Happy Day... Hilarious Stories

1.From a sought-after studio musician in hollywood, “I once caught my son masturbating and warned him that he could get blind if he keeps doing this.
‘Dad, I’m over here...’, The son waved his hand and said”

2.Heart’s latest fairy tale about getting her first wedding ring - http://raisinggirls.spaces.live.com/


3.Mom kept nagging her not to eat candy... teeth will drop out soon. All in Taiwanese slang.

Girl: ...gotta eat as much as I can before my teeth drop out. If I don’t eat now, and I STILL ain’t eating when my teeth are all gone... Better eat when I can still eat.

MOM: @#*&%$#&*
seems like rough words... maybe not.

Girl: It’s true right? People said it’s bad to eat pork. Now I ask you, what do you like to eat the most?

MOM: Ngua (Your mom) like to eat pork the most.

Girl: Why are you still eating if you know it’s bad?

MOM: RIGHT!!! Eat till die is better than dying from hunger.

Girl: RIGHT!!! Who am I?

MOM: You are my gurl, dear!

Girl: So, I learned it from you *$&%@#*$*
seems like rough words again

MOM: #*$&*#()%&$)*(&$#^
I’m sure those are rough words!!

4.I watched The Ugly Betty... A jerk dressed up like Betty on Halloween in the show. Damn mean!!!

5.I brought a chopstick to a recording session in my 1st quarter here, and left the baton on the dinning table. This afternoon, I saw that chopstick in a stack of old scores.

6.Listening to Beautiful South’s “Song for Whoever”
I love your from the bottom of my pencil case
I love the way you never ask me why
I love to write about each wrinkle on your face
And I love you till my fountain pen runs dry

The Best Blog I've Ever Visited

Check out some touching stories at
http://raisinggirls.spaces.live.com/blog/

I got some tears to shed when I read the latest post, then my heart got sweeten by a very touching story in the 2nd posting... and I kept reading until 5:30AM!!!!

This blog is listed at about shoehorn page too, under Shoehorn’s friends.

She didn’t teach enough, and I didn’t learn as much as I wanted to. But, as what I said in the description - She has enormous impact on me, the huge encouragement that brought me here, that opened my eyes to a brighter future... and all the reasons I ended up in this dreamland, chasing a dream that I had never thought of.

MOST RIGHT



PS: I have another picture at home... even more charming. kekeke.
I gotta forward it to TED. They probably didn’t know each other that time.

Showhorn's running away again

The Cruel shoehorn is running away from his blogspot, an old blanket that accompanied him going though quarter-life crisis . Sorry for that, iWeb and Mac are just too cool.

So, come visit

Shoehorn's new blog - web.mac.com/hfken

Cool?

Youtube Sharing

Prestige

I watched Prestige yesterday. Scarlett is pretty. She is more than being sweet in the Lost in Translation....

I like the story very much, the script especially. The plot was executed at the right tune, even it was non-linear. Christopher Nolan is brilliant I have to say. Damn, he did the screenplay script too, no wonder. Christopher and his brother Jonathan (?) and the script deserve the biggest credit, very innovative, perhaps a pioneer. The way he got out of the box, then created a great solution, then brought out another brilliant twist... are just phenomenon. The most important thing is the audience are still in his pace. No one is off course I suppose. If you think you are a great predictor, I bet you’ll love the ending.

Hugh Jackson, too bossy and I don’t think like that. I would prefer him to stay obedient all the way for a greater “silent” payoff. Christian Bale is great. His wife in the movie, Sarah did a good job too. David Bowie is a surprise.

O... music!!! Sorry, I don’t like it. Especially the big twist near the ending... Can you David Julyan please write as what the audience see? The music plays the inner heart and cushion too much under the dialogue... it’s just annoying. Maybe you scored well in other part and I believe you did, but your sound in the ending cue is still haunting me.

... It should get really hot in Oscar. No doubt for screenplay and maybe some luck in best directing.

Check out Okkyung’s Blah Blah Blah and her view - http://okkyung.blogspot.com/2006/10/prestige.html#links

Hey check out the picture in this posting, she got a pimple on her cheek.
YEAH!!! The Scarlett in the short I’m going to score is really hot too.!!! Yeah baby.

Magic Mountain

Check it out at my New blog - 
web.mac.com/hfken

I'm done with Zombie!!! errr... no?

The director, surprisingly, got some budget to bring the short to a studio. I will get at least a flute, and some brass, hopefully a sax. So, more work to do? Give me a few more bucks...

Check out the audio, My Hubby is a Zombie @ Kenhor.com

Pretty interesting story, a new short film about zombie. I'm just doing an additional music, and not the main composer.
A guy was dead in a car accident, came back home because he loves his girl friend too much. But he could only say I love you.
He wasn't doing good. Vacuuming the garden, gas blower in the living room, use dishwasher as clothes dryer... he messed up the breakfast he prepared for girl friend. He was fuck-up.
And worst thing was he always broke his own organ... hands, legs and even head always got chopped up.

He started eating human for healthy organs - legs hands, and even penis, and last a brain so that he could have sex with her.
He wanted to think and do more than I love you....

No more story, can't tell everything...

Another Short - Ready to go anytime

I think this is fastest gig I’ve ever got.
The director called this morning. Then I brought along my roommate’s laptop to meet him an hour later at the Coffee Bean on Westwood Blvd.

I didn’t noticed the laptop wasn’t charged and the battery died away before the film ended. We then went to my apartment. Finished watching the film, gave him my opnion, especially for the last scene... How I would build up the music from a simple repetition, adding up elements, creating a small payoff (when the girl closes the door a.k.a. rejects the guy and being not tolerant) with the same repetitive stuff underneath softly and morphed after the door is completely closed. The repetition comes back but subtle at one cut, then lead to the end credit. Subsequently I showed him some similar scenes I did before in past, and also how I handled sequence scenes... He loves it and I got the gig. Pretty quick huh?

Basically, it is about 2 couples, in a bathroom, a love story. The story is decent. Something which is cool about the scenario is the whole film was shot in the bathroom, some wide cuts from the bathroom or to the bathroom.

The production quality is surprisingly excellent I have to say. Cinematography is good. Production sound is clear. Actress is... OMG damn pretty!!! Imagine, a slimmer Scarlett Johansson. My perfect angel, hell, even pretty than the real Scaelett!
Shitya! Chern Hwei.

O... I just watched Prestige yesterday. Scarlett is pretty. Not just sweet like she was in the Lost in Translation.... I should talk about it in a new post.

New Short Film

Some rough draft...
Copy and paste.

- Story about a husband, a medical report, his wife, and a prostitute.
- Pre-production stage.
- Directed by Giovanni Chen, a Malaysian director who studied film at Buffalo U. He is currently living in Los Angeles.
- Amazing script, not surprising if this film win in any film festival. He is brilliant!
- Will only start scoring in February when I get back to KL

Mom I miss you!

I screwed up too... sometimes

This is one of the cues that I was well-prepared, but I screwed up a little. I used Shakuhachi in this cue, and I wrote about 2 tones higher than it should be. Unlike flute and clarinet, Shakuhachi is very strict to its range and timbre change. I noticed it’s like recorder, the highest pitch can be clearly distinguished... but too late, I noticed that in the studio.

I already did some research, listened to some shakuhachi CDs, checked out the player that night and his past recordings (he recorded for the Last Samurai), made sure I understand the timber, especially the beautiful solo range... what can I say? A very big lesson - get 3 times more prepared than you should when you’re taking something serious. For me, once I take things seriously, I’ll get my ass kicked if I don’t make it...
Perhaps, I’m not strong enough.

I listened to Steve Mazzaro’s stuff. he is Doreen’s classmate. I felt I was hella small after listening his work. What have I done in LA? Ya, I did some gigs, regularly... but so what? I haven’t done something really big, written something I’m really proud of. I took too long to recover from the breakup. I often blamed the breakup swallowed up my inspiration. I didn’t try to tackle a higher destiny. After a year, I still haven’t got my 1st indie, not even the symphony score for NY... I’m still doing shorts and sometimes pop. Worst, getting gigs from KL... Well, hell yeah!

2 more months, 3 more the most, How far can I go? We’ll see. I gotta show my cards on my table, no shit.

The Mirror

My youngest brother Weng. He’s just a photocopy of my face... Sometimes we would laugh at each other and say “why are you looking at mirror?”


My mom sometimes called a wrong name and got response in rage, even got grouched by us the whole day... she deserved it! But now, I wish someone calls me Weng from behind.
:’(
Dad would sometimes whisper why we look alike so much and not the other 2 brothers.

If I ever dream of a mirror, does it mean I miss him too much? I was looking at the mirror, I wasn’t sure who was in there. But I thought of you when I woke up.

Yes, I do... and also our AMY. You are the best.

HA HA HA HA!!!! Who is this???

When a SAG meets a "Fish"

我向一个双鱼座的朋友分析她的新婚射手座丈夫

射手座就喜欢追⋯ 不停地射。
如果是小白兔而已，就会丢掉，再去找别的。

爱上射手本来就很危险
因为射了人就会想逃
逃远了，就会想回来看看你是死是活

    我那双鱼座的朋友就说：
          雙魚女沒什麼要求
          只希望她愛的人好好愛她而已 就這麼簡單
          但雙魚女無法忍受她愛的人花心
          因為她自己是全心全意的⋯ 要懂得珍惜她

他妈的！我近年来都遇到双鱼。早先被一条我一直以为很不错的伤到残废，不知干麻又来了几条小的老的。已经好几条了...
可能我在水里不善于射箭，都瞄不准！

还是去射兔吧⋯ 松鼠也不错！
可是她看着我怎么射呢？ @＃％⋯

KFC - Don't pRay pRay

Lazy recipe for Doreen, Chern Hwei, Justin, and all my buddies in overseas.

damn lazy, but it really works.

KFC chicKEN, even better! best in Westwood LA eeehhh, and somewhere in Queens, NY.
Don't pRay pRay yeh!!

Gotta be Chicken thighs dude. Don't try drumsticks, it will be like super dry goreng ayam.
Defrost in the morning la.
***hit the surface with knife back, or massage it with fingers (or do that when you put salt and spice). haha
***Stab with fork, or shallow cut on the surface so that the flavor infiltrates into the meat.

***If lazy, skip it

Apply salt first (about 1/4 to half tea spoon for each), then pepper (a lot). Massage a bit laaa.
secret recipe - add Yoshinoya red pepper... go curi a lot everytime you go there :D
Then flour that just enough to cover the surface, especially the skin!!
Then throw them into a freeze beg or clean plastic beg... let them "marinate" for 1/2 hour to 2 hours... go do your work.

Here is the trick - use aluminium foil to make high pillow to cushion the thighs.
You need those oil to make the inner meat juicy (that's why thighs and not drumsticks) but also want them to be dry, and not soaking them in the oil and become oily wet... eeeewww!
Make thick cylinders from foil and place 2 of them closely and parallel and put a row of thigh on it.
(don't fold them nicely laa, the more uglier the thicker, "gulung" them roughly)

440F, (250c) about 25 minutes, depending on your oven.
take one out and test after 25 minutes.

IF YOU ARE SUPER BUSY or LAZY!!! I tried this and it still taste really good.
Throw thighs, salt, pepper and flour into a plastic bag. and hit them like those chinese robbers use linen beg to catch and wallop people. LOL


PS: 100% guarantee you will like it and make it so often until your TJ hates it!!!! hahahha
and make sure keep one for me next time.!!!!
PS: Julian, welcome to the club. HAHAHAHAHAHAH

I am levitating!!

I am now officially an  ASCAP 
member. 

It's not difficult to get in. Why didn't I do it earlier? sigh...

The baby has sprung

Kenhor.com

Slept at 5am then woke up at 9 just now. DAMN..

Just too hilarious!!

Singapore Censor Board

LOL

Kevin and I

I hang out with Kevin yesterday, whole afternoon. He is still handsome, still very tall (There was once he almost knocked the lower ceiling in a practice room when he wanted to stand up to show me breathing. HAHA,!). We walked from Santa monica beach to Venice Beach... pretty crazy! then walked back to Santa monica, then to 3rd street. Whole aftenoon walking.

We talked a lot. Talked about his life, my life and my job here, his job in MPO, our friends, and many things about music and some about MPO and Malaysia, and music in our society. He has been in MPO for 8 years, one of the first principals when MPO was founded. But I noticed, he isn't given much chance to to work outside MPO, (as well as contribute to our society, although he really wants to contribute more) because of his working permit and status, also the contract with MPO. Sigh... what a big lost if he leaves.

He told me about MPO youth orchestra (I think there are few UPM students too), and he is happy about the progress and the arising standard. So sweet to hear that. He noticed the music scene is getting better in Malaysia, but sometimes disappointed especially there are not many audience attending their concerts, and when students aren't serious about playing or practicing.

He played with PJ Catholic High recently. he was very impressed with the performance and the students there. Happy to hear that. Show him my music, show him my film, he was impressed too, and was amazed every time a new track was played. He was also surprised when he listened to GET IT by Chern Hwei and his string duo. Totally stunned! He is proud of us as a person living in Malaysia. He is happy to see what I am doing now, although he was disappointed when I stopped playing tombone few years ago. We talked a little bit Malay. Sometimes he talked to me in Manglish.

I asked a lot of questions, some are questions I wanted to ask for long time. Asking about his music journey, what has him been through, how has he been practicing to achieve the level he is now at, and some personal stuff too. They were not easy to get through... I suppose I'm at the stage where he faced all kinda difficulties before he got an orchestral offer in south africa.

I will write for him once I go home, I promise, and I will do my very best. He's a good person, that kinda person who I respect sincerely.

Go to MPO, watch them, approach them, grab every chance that you can learn from them. They are the world-class musicians that you hear in overseas.

Kevin Thompson, Trombone principal of Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra, was my trombone teacher back home in Malaysia.

Belaian Jiwa

How beautiful....

Seindah
Tiada lagi kau ku ingatkan
Sayang kau hilang
Menanti
Biar sampai akhir hayatku di dunia ini
* Kau tahu betapa ku sayang padamu?
Hanya bidadari sebagai ganti
Hanya takdir menentukan ia
Oh Belaian Jiwa
Second verse:
Oh~~ Angin
Sampaikan laguku padanya
Yang Sedih pilu
Terimalah
Laguku jadi teman hidupmu
'tuk selamany

I Can See It Now

Testing Testing...
New feature by box.net

End Credit Song of Jeff's Short Film, Mother's Day

I Can See It Now.mp3

The sample rate is lower than the original file. So, the song played by the player is slower and the pitch is lower.
Download the music, it sound muh better,

Current affairs

Additional Music for comedy short I "Love" Zombie - Almost done

2 songs for independent album - Going to start arrangement of the 1st song. HipHop / Pop, Justin Timberlake kind

1 event arrangement, small budget. 

Upcoming... there are few to be confirmed.
Conclusion, I am still surviving :D
But haven't paid last month rent.

Sorry...

I am safe at home, back from magic mountain. Just too busy to update my blog. 
Will update some new pictures.

Chern Hwei's canadian friend traveled around asia, including MALLAYSIA!!!!!!!!
His pictures makes me cry! 

Ruth's pictures in Malaysia
There is a link to browse all 16 albums.

Holy Shit!!

If I don't post again after 24 hours...  inform my mom!!!


http://www.sixflags.com/parks/magicmountain/index.as

Very JIT DO

I did 2 very cheap arrangements.... very JIT DO. :(
I wanna go home!!

A message from my heart

From my heart to UPM Music Department, a reply to Mr. Chan's reply to a harsh message I posted previously at Malaysia Music Forum

Harsh Message -  

Most of us have this attitude -
I come, I see, I leave...
Don't give a damn.
Or, I don't think I have the standard to say anything,
Or, Sorry... I am busy. (hey dudes, does it mean whoever who posted their opinions here have been free or jobless? I know some of us are busy, ME TOO, but I strongly believe MOST of us don't feel like saying anything)
And it's always "true" that people like to say "I don't say shit doesn't mean I don't care."

Anyway, great to see some little enthusiasm from some of us in the past 2 weeks... BUT
Without reason, this forum cools down again.
We always have brief period of enthusiasm.

I am SURE there will be some people feel pissed after I say this.
But sorry, this is really what I feel everytime I talk to Malaysians. and we are discussing some bad attitudes that we are actually carrying out.

Chan's message -  

... ...
 

My reply to Chan's message -  

1st thanks to chan for the reply. I was expecting your feedback.
Sorry for being rude, and I definitely apprehend the consequence of sending the last posting - Creating a huge pressure and tention among members. I always make sure I don't criticize people but the sin, and I am sorry if I did it, unconsciously.
I hope you understand my intention of sending a sincere caution to all of us. Maybe not in a right way, but your reply well corrected me and set a good direction in this forum.

Seniors are not perfect, I am not perfect for sure. I am still learning and still screwed up sometimes. There are much more room to improve, not limited to music, but also in my self cultivation, career direction, and even my language and communication techniques, etc...

"I have written the message, but did not have the courage to press the send button" - I wrote the last posting, clicked send... deleted it after a while. and decided to rewrite and posted my thought after I realized I couldn't concentrate on my work. I open up myself. Do all of you?

I am using bad english all the time. So, please don't hesitate to express because of your language ability. In fact, it should be a good chance to write your best english here, as well as start networking, learn to sneak into an on-going discussion, get yourself started.

I am always proud of the achievement of our music department. I think UPM music department is STILL one of the best school in Malaysia, because of the involvement of Chan, and ALL other lecturers. I totally understand how hard the situation has been these few years especially after Chee Meng's batch. But I still encourage my friends to go to UPM, but with a promise to me of more hard work and serious concentration especially when having classes with our lecturers. I respect all our juniors who are still in UPM. I heard good comments from LAM and Arrif. I think you all (students) are the reason these good lecturers remain in this fading department. They can go somewhere else for better compensation.... whatever nice words, I sincerely thank to all our lecturers. I think you are tremendously notable perople. And you all are definitely a good mirror to all musicians in overseas, and encourage us to return to our country to contribute whatever we can. I believe Chee Meng, Chern Hwei, especially whoever who still keep in touch with UPM lecturers have the same thought.

Don't feel shy... all of us were at the same beginning. How well we are in future, we still ought to go through all emberrassing learning proccess. Older people definitely don't laugh or look down at juniors. all of us were scolded hard by lecturers before. I am a famous example! Friends still laugh at me how I got scolded in past. In short, if you step back because you are shy (that applies to whatever personal emotion that stops you from expressing yourself)... then you must learn to open up yourself no matter what. Don't wait until it's too late, and difficult to change yourself especially when you have to find a job or pursue a career in this crazy world.

Thanks Hui Sin for your active involvement. It's very encouraging. Still looking for more new juniors and please invite more members. And please don't limit this forum to UPM people and department topic. I think we shouldn't always address ourselves as UPM people (Although I always did), becuase it might stop other people step into this forum.

FYI, I will not be as active as in the past for coming 2 weeks because of my work. But I am keeping track on this forum, and never lost track. If I can't "tahan", I will post a short buzz
:D