Latest Vespertine Releases

hey guys, how's it goin? i'm proud to say that Vespertine's process of recording their two singles "Never There" and "Someday" are now finally done, the songs have been uploaded on MYspace for previews.

for previews of our latest songs do visit www.myspace.com/vespertineonline, looking forward to comments!

Dance your way

Something to watch and learn or admire.

Little Ceasars

only 45 minutes drive from perth city to a little place that's only big enough to accomodate a few, but worth while the trip. i'm talking about having the 'Best Pizza In The World' at a place called Mundaring. ppl say, if you haven't been to little ceasars, you've never been to perth. honestly i've never heard of the place during my last trip 2 years back. but yeah its a lovely place, minus the freaking cold weather as that area is way up in the hills supposedly.

that's little ceasar's apple strudle pizza, looks appealing ey? but there was actually more but i forgot to take any of them coz i was busy hanging out with my best friend:

yes, it was 8 degrees mind you

but overall, it was a pretty nice place to be, something different, yo ugotta try the fettucini pizza if you ever get a chance to visit this place

The Recording Process

alright, i remembered mentioning that i'll post up something about the band recording their last 2 songs, so here goes.

So this time we decided to choose JD of Pop Shuvit to produce our songs. It was a decision that clearly helped the band to further venture into our music, a different feel and a different approach to recording our songs this time. The last EP Album was produced fully by the band.

The recording process clearly divides itself to 3 different stages:

1. Tracking
2. Mixing
3. Mastering

sounds simple doesn't it? Tracking is a process where each individual records their instrument/vocals backed up with a recording software such as Cubase or Pro Tools. For our case, we used Cubase. Each instrument can take up to 8 hours to record. I remember that ruben took almost 8 hours to record the guitars for Never There. Here's a picture on the left of Wei Li doing his violin trackings for the song Someday.

The picture on the right shows me doing my vocal trackings. The band decided to write two more songs, Never There and Someday. Never There is a song that depicts of a certain individual that has gone through tough times hoping to rely on people who were supposed to be there for them, but eventually that individual ends up facing his own dilemma. And Someday is a song that i decided to write before i left for Aus, i would not disclose the meaning behind the song, i hope you'll be able to listen to it and see if you can read my thoughts.

Here are more random pictures of the recording session:

the tracking device!

yeah phil was there too

not much pictures really, didn't really have the time to take that many pictures, but i did take a video of wei li doing his string arrangements for Someday:

greetings from down under

wassup! i'm finally here! It was a long flight but well it was well worth it for the nice weather, did i mention that my hands are half the time numb? haha, there's so much to share from my recording sessions till my arrival here in perth. ut i'll be happy to share my happenings with all of you.

for those of you wishing to come to perth, i guess at the current moment the best fare to choose from is Qantas. I was suprised to find that the flight was a real pleasant one, really comfortable and we all each get a personal television attached on the seat in front of us. And you get UNCENCORED movies! how cool is that? hahaha

but at the current moment i miss my family; mom, bro, sis-in-law, little ashlynn, sis and my baby. i love you all very much and grateful for your support to me coming to perth. You are all my firm foundation of support and i'll try my best not to disappoint you all.

Fuck The Cops

I fucking hate the cops here, fucking assholes looking for a quick buck and if they ain't gettin nothing they'll threaten to make your life a livin' hell.

And they threaten to arrest me the next day for DUI? Well FUCK YOU and your SIX TITTED MOTHER. The only reason you're a cop is cause you didn't quite cut it through in life. Beeeyaaatch!

Viva Italia!

You had to see it, to believe it. Who would had thought Italy would have been able to pull through with one man down against the Aussies. No matter how hard the pressure was on Italy, they managed to hold on for at least 30 minutes, and to claim their spot at the Quarter Finals.

The Aussies really played a good game today, the best out of all that I've seen. But heck I bet they have more to celebrate as they came this far.

And I'm finally back from Kuantan. Had to go back there to see my relatives before I leave and at the same time, *main reason*, collect some red packets, hehehehe.

Gonna be busy till I leave for Aus, hopefully I'd be able to post up more stuff soon enough, like my recording session later in the evening. We're doing our vocals today for our song entitled "Never There". Hope to get video footages and post them up to let you guys in on how we record our songs. Till then, pz.

joke of the day

THE ORIGINS OF THE F-WORD

First opinion
In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that came from.

Second Opinion
The word f*** comes from colonial times, when someone would be punished for 'prostitution' It was an acronym for the words
'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge'
F.*.*.*. was written on the stocks that held these criminals because For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge was too long to go on the stocks.

Third Opinion
I always heard that "F***." originated in the 1800's in London, when they used to charge prostitutes "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge". So officer got sick and tired of writing those, um, lessee, 26 characters, not including spaces, so it got abbreviated F*** and stuck.

Fourth Opinion (Mine)
I think it came from a little kid who was trying to spell duck in a little English exercise writing book :)

"I will always be over-weight no matter what"

I was just about heading out to the airport when I stumbled accross an article

In a new interview with People magazine, the fifth season runner-up reveals that she struggled with severe bulimia for five years, bingeing, and purging in a destructive cycle that could have permanently ruined her singing voice and caused devastating consequences to her health.

At her worst, McPhee says she was making herself vomit up to seven times each day, which she equates to "putting a sledgehammer to your vocal cords."

But all that changed once the 22-year-old aspiring singer got the go-ahead from the Idol judges, and realized that in order to succeed on the talent search, she would need to rein in her eating disorder.

"When I made it onto American Idol, I knew that food--my eating disorder--was the one thing really holding me back," McPhee tells People. "I was bingeing my whole life away for days at a time...So when I got on the show, I said, 'You know what? I can do well in this competition. Let me give myself a chance and just get ahold of this thing.'"

Backed up by her parents, frequent Idol audience members Peisha and Daniel McPhee, the Idol hopeful enrolled in an intensive treatment program at Los Angeles's Eating Disorder Center Of California, where she underwent three months of group and individual therapy, spending 10 hours a day, six days a week at the center.

"I really had to surrender and give up having a free life to do the program, because I'd be there from 9 in the morning until 7 at night," McPhee says. But she knew the sacrifice was necessary if she wanted to get well.

"I knew I had put off going to a treatment center long enough--I'd been struggling with bulimia since I was 17," she says.

McPhee attributes some of her problems with food to growing up in a city where tremendous emphasis is placed on celebrity-slim bodies.

"Growing up in Los Angeles and spending all those years in dance class, I'd been conscious of body image at a young age, and I went through phases of exercising compulsively and starving myself," she says.

By using the intuitive eating approach she learned at the Eating Disorder Center, McPhee was eventually able to redefine her relationship to food.

"I learned that there's no such thing as a bad food," she says. "If you look at a doughnut, people think it's a fattening food--why? Because if you eat it you'll get fat? No, you'll get fat if you eat 10 doughnuts."

As a result, she dropped 30 pounds and broke her cycle of bingeing and purging.
"That's why I say American Idol saved my life, because if I hadn't auditioned I don't think I would have gotten a handle on food," she tells the magazine.

By openly talking about her eating disorder, McPhee stands to help fans who may be struggling with similar issues, according to Dr. Thomas Weigel, a psychiatrist at the Klarman Eating Disorders Center at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. - Taken from Yahoo! News

As stated in the article, it took American Idol to give a wake up call for Miss McPhee. What is it gonna take for others? Should you judge a girl's beauty through her weight?

I'm beginning to think that this might be a common life phase a female has to go through, no offence, I'm not trying to make any claims, that's just my opinion. I've had a couple of friends who've actually suffered from bulimia and the reason, they explained, was because they were not satisfied with their physical appearance. They claimed to be fat no matter how easily the wind disregarded to their claim. And it almost cost them their lives to just realize that there was nothing wrong with their physical appearance. There was nothing I could do or say to actually help.

In my opinion, it is always comparison that drives someone to do something that is out of the norm just to satisfy themself. I think that anyone for that matter should be confident over what they are capable of, not what they're capable of looking. What do you think? I thought that America chose to vote for Katherine due to the fact that she could sing very well, not that she was drop dead gorgeous. Look at Fantasia.

What would you do? Do you have any friends who have the same problem? Did you go through an experience like this?

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thought of the day

which was named first? the fruit or the colour ?

you decide.

It is unusual.....

To find me awake at this hour of the day, usually I'd still be buried under the sheets of serenity till God knows when. The good news is, my biological clock is perfectly back to normal for the time being unless I decide to take a nap in the afternoon which is something I might do as the STUPID meeting with Celcom has been postponed for no apparent reason.

*P.S :It's unusual again for a person like me to get involve/participate in this blog*










Nvm, so I asked her to visit the site......







Cheh waaaaa, kembang-ness kau kau until......








=.=" but hey....at least I have an extra reader now.

But yeah I do agree that keeping a blog would be a great way to keep in touch with friends....

What do you think?