cherm

Boring week I might end up at my friend's diner for a job till September. Or I might not... I'm going to Pop Trash tomorrow afternoon for a meeting to discuss a possible future event and share some ideas I've had in my head for a while. And maybe there might be something else installed for me. I also finally got a reply from the MDA regarding my Film Classifier application. They said they'll get back to me once they find an appropriate date for an aptitude test (done in group). Funnily, my aunt my I applied for the same job at the airport but no reply *laughs* and I also went for an interview for a DJ job at Sembawang, they'll contact me for the auditions once the bar is up and running... they have not decided on their musical direction but based on experience I would say they are going to have problems in the beginning... the fact that they don't have a music direction is questionable. They obviously lack in musical knowledge whatsoever and it is probably their first business venture with "This Type of Bar" concept If you're going to play to rich 25-50 something year olds, what music would you play? Frankly I don't know, but one thing is for sure, you got to stick to your theme, musical direction to consistently run your business successfully, you will need repeat customers. After I heard the boss tell me he might want the DJ to play thai and mandarin songs, I told him I was open to it but something in me really wanted to tell him "Have you even done your research on the market? Don't you know that in any case scenario, you cannot please everyone nor can you please a single person just because they request for something" You can't have a bar that plays Retro, Rnb, Hip Hop, House, Thai, Chinese, Oldies. There's really nothing wrong in being eclectic but when you start playing mandarin or thai songs it's just not COOL in general man... ok fine maybe only in ST JAMES. You can't assume that your crowd is going to be totally chinese, how would you would feel if the DJ decided to play Hindi songs when you are chinese? Language barrier plays a part if I were him I would go for an eclectic mix of Oldies, Rnb, Hip Hop, Rock, Retro or just go with an eclectic mix of electronic music.

I'm really annoyed people think I'm lazing my arse off but the reality is that I can't even count the number of job applications I have sent!

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I'm Fucking Pissed off right now, with so much on my mind I can't be bothered to mention all these small things that are piling on top of one another. I hate all those Elitist fucks... maybe I'm kind of ego-centric and Elitist too, but I think the whole fucking world is stupid even the smartest in the academic fields. For a start I got really angry that people are making money off MJ's death, holding tribute parties in drunken celebration... but I'm also so pissed that so much air time has been dedicated to this one legend. I also got angry after watching BBC, when they interview a classroom of kids in Ghana about Obama's upcoming visit to their homeland. Seriously... it was just fucking American Propaganda... and that Obama is seen as real change... Come on you live in Ghana and Obama is your hero just because he is BLACK? and that clip with Obama writing an excuse letter to a teacher for a student who was attending one of his speeches also pissed me off. Obama seems to be too concerned with being popular and different. Or at least the Men behind him want him to portray that image. And yeah my fucking Aunt introduce me to a page in the papers where the Esplanade were giving courses on Sound Engineering, I told her I wasn't interested, but she made it seem like going for a course was a sure-fire way to get a job when the Esplanade already has their own Sound Crew yes? You think out of 200-300 people applying... MOST OF THEM WILL GET TO WORK THERE? FUCKING STUPID. I CAN'T FUCKING STAND THE FACT THAT MY AUNT IS SO GULLIBLE AND BELIEVE EVERYTHING SHE READS. AND OH YEAH ON ANOTHER NOTE FUCK-TARDS THE WHOLE 2012 APOCALYPTIC PROPHECIES AND PROBABLE OUTCOME THEORIES ARE AS AS FUCKING MYTH AS THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS CHRIST WHO ROSE FROM DEAD 3 DAYS LATER. AND YOU KNOW WHAT'S THE CRAZIEST PART? THERE'S MORE SCIENTIFIC AND SPIRITUAL PROVE/EVIDENCE THAT SOMETHING MAJOR COULD HAPPEN ON 21st DECEMBER 2012 (All though we are already in the Zone), WELL BEING HIT BY A COMET/ASTEROID OR A POLE-SHIFT ON EARTH IS DEFINITELY NOT AS CRAZY AND LUDICROUS AS BELIEVING IN SOME GUY RISING FROM THE DEAD 3 DAYS LATER... SERIOUSLY. HAVING SAID THAT YET A LOT OF US BELIEVE IN ALIENS.... WHY? BECAUSE THERE IS OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE THOUGH MAYBE NOTHING PHYSICAL (NOT AT LEAST IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN) THE TRUTH IS NO MATTER WHAT FAITH YOU ARE... YOU DO NOT HAVE A DEFINITIVE ANSWER FOR A QUESTION LIKE THAT.... THEREFORE YOU HAVE FAITH... BUT REMEMBER YOU WILL ALWAYS LIVE IN DOUBT. WE PEOPLE SHOULD RESET THEIR PRIORITIES RATHER THEN JUST FOLLOW WHATEVER YOUR PARENTS OR ANY FORM OF EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM TELLS YOU. ANYHOW JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE HAS A PH.D DOESN'T MAKE THE PERSON'S VIEWS MORE RELEVANT! IT'S NOT AS IF HISTORY AND EDUCATION HAS NOT BEEN TAINTED WITH FUCKING LIES, IT'S NOT AS IF HISTORY OR EDUCATION WAS NOT WRITTEN WITH A POLITICAL AGENDA. I TOTALLY BELIEVE DAVID ICKE WHEN HE SAYS THAT WE ARE VICTIMS OF MASS-HYPNOSIS.

What a great night
and tiring.

HOW THE FUCK I SAY THIS? It's been a while since my mates came down for my set and it seemed some of them wanted Tiesto and Above and Beyond. But I chose not to play any of that trance but instead compromise at 130bpm. My set was totally fucking impromptu and "rojak" total reverse to what I'd been practising and playing at fredo all week. I never had that feeling in a ages... that bloody uninspiring surge of energy and then fussing about what to play... as much as the Love governs you more then Fear. Usually that feeling comes fucking naturally. Maybe one hour is not enough at least overall everyone said it was good so weeee. haha but for a change it's really nice to see everyone really sloshed and offering you more booze when you've stopped drinking already.

And thanks for the Classic Prog Vinyls bro... I need to get one of my turns fixed.

I wrote this like a year ago. But I think it is important and "virtuous" LOL where I accidentally spelled Merry go round as "Marigold round" with reference to the Nirvana B-side.

It you were born in the 80's or before that era you would have understood the joys of experiencing life in more primitive conditions then what we children or adults experience today. I spoke to my cousin Nicole who was raising her two daughters (8 and 10) in Oz and I was asking her about technology (various gadgets) and how it has affected the process of raising kids after all she was a kindergarten teacher so I thought maybe she had something interesting to point out. So her conclusion was that the gadgets could come later in that kids these days in first world countries are naturally more drawn to ipods, gameboys, Playstation, etc especially when it's right in front of them. The important thing is not to raise your kids hooked on gadgets right away, they can live a larger part of their childhood building sandcastles on the beach, watching the sunrise, playing on the merry go round or whatever it is. I remember when I was around that age the first gadget that I had was a gameboy, and eventually I got a playstation when I was 11 or 12, but at the same time I remember in my neighbourhood we were playing hide and seek in the block, police and thief, playing soccer barefoot, going to the beach to roller blade or sometimes even play marbles and the girls would play 5 stones. In this day and age I get the feeling kids are bombarded with information overload, so many gadgets are marketed to children... now in secondary schools, students are allowed to carry ipods and handphones because it has become a norm, and it has become a no way out kind of necessity. So I like to quote from an article that I read on the net 6 years ago, unfortunately the link is now dead but it was on livejournal. The author summed it up best “Technology rearranges life for us to prevent from experiencing the real thing” The author had also mention a video clip that was taken from the 50s or 60s filmed in black and white. And based on his/her observation as compared to now, people were more sociable back then because there weren’t distractions like the handphone, Ipod or carryable game consoles, instead greeting random strangers on the street was the norm; they weren’t walking along the street engrossed in "our" music or text messages. As sometimes the case especially in some suburbs where technology is backward, it’s not rare to see people greet one another as the norm opposed to a busy city street. If you’ve watched Zeitgeist: Addendum, you know it stresses a lot on the point that the advancement of technology as it is moving so rapidly would mean people would eventually run out of jobs because the machine would eventually replace the ‘technician’. In a way it's like how the photographer replaced the painter artisan type. You gotta embrace the future/technology whether you like it or not but let’s not forget the joys of watching the sunrise, and not forget about our kids too.

I love this so much. I'm really a child of the 90's. The 90s was the best period for music if you ask me.

I was having an afternoon unwind with a couple of my mates at Scruffy Murphy's yesterday. I had to take a dump, and mind you I took this before I reached for the toilet paper dispenser. Just thought this whole poster was kind of funny.



And no matter what critics say. David Icke was right, he predicated the state of the world today in the 1990s. Please watch this.



THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE! AND TRUE FREEDOM OF MIND, BODY, SOUL, EXPRESSION ARE NEVER CONFINED OR NEEDING TO BE PART OF THE NORM!

So I'll be playing the last set at Blu Jazz 2nd level this Saturday morning from 2am onwards. After which will head up to level 3 for some Hard Dance the rest of the boys and a girl will be dishing out. I should be going with the DARK, MELODIC and PROGRESSIVE sound. :)))

So maybe this is a preview from 2007!


my 100 min mix downloaded 360 times so far!

Leslie - Cruise Control ( 2007 )

01. Chab – My Memory (Romania Dub)
02. Stan Kolev – Deeper (Shana Mix)
03. Cates & DPL – Downtime In A Hotel
04. Bjork – Hyperballad (Nick Gaela Four To The Floor)
05. Akihiro – See
06. Pole Folder – Apollo Vibes
(Young American Primitive's Spacecraft Communicator Mix)
07. DJ Cinful – Wicked (Ben Brown Mix)
08. Tetraktys – Interstellar Overdrive
09. Thomas Penton – El Ritmo
10. Ryan Sullivan – Walk Over
11. Kenneth Thomas – The Orange Room (Nick Warren Mix)
12. Bjork – Aurora In June (Facundo Mohrr Mix)
13. Maetrik – Future Will Survive (Rene Breitbarth Mix)
14. Matthew Dekay – Digifruitella
15. Breeder – Sputnik (New York FM)
16. Der Dritte Raum – Halle Bopp

I am not homophobic or a conservative at heart. But in general I see the importance of balance in our community in that we are a multi-religious/racial community... and we can't change that for now. Having said that I absolute hate that we are both, consciously and unconsciously divided by religion and the colour of our skin. Most of us live in world of lies and delusion because we believe whatever the religious institutions and governments tell us. That is why I love alternative history... I can't find any alternative articles pertaining to Singapore. And I reckon sir Stamford Raffles was a a Freemason, so why the hell do we have a Masonic lodge in Coleman street long after the British colonization? ever wonder?

"It must be difficult for them, those who have taken authority for the truth, rather then truth as the authority..."

- Gerald Massey

Tiffany - Radio Romance


THANKS SIS! WITHOUT YOU I WOULDN'T HAVE DISCOVERED MUSIC WHEN I WAS 4!

TIffany - Radio Romance

From whom ? Ah
just say from
from the one who loves you
baby.-

I see you
baby
every single day

holding on to my
best friend
but you don't see me.
So I make the
same request now
every single
night

going out from me
to you on the
dedication line.
I wonder if
you're listening
to the words that
keep me wishing
that one day I'll
be kissing you.

Radio
radio romance
radio
radio romance

radio
radio romance
radio romance.

My secret admiration
I won't reveal

I wouldn't
want to hurt
no one by
tellin' how I
feel.
The DJ knows my voice now
he even knows my
choice now

he never says my name
he just says:
From the one who loves you
baby.

Radio
radio romance
radio
radio romance

radio
radio romance
radio romance.

One
night
you'll
hear a
song and
then
you'll
know
just who
it's
from.
I see you
baby
every night

I see you
baby
every single day

holding on to my
best friend
but you don't see me.
I wonder if
you're listening
to the words that
keep me wishing
that one day I'll
be kissing you.

Radio
radio romance
radio
radio romance

radio
radio romance
radio romance.
Radio
radio romance
radio
radio romance

radio
radio romance
radio romance.

I'm not crazy or a freak but everytime I am on my own or when I'm on the way to work on the bus. I like to think and jot down notes in my handphone just for the fun of it. So I thought I should just post them here. All these notes were mostly when I was having a drink on my own or on the bus listening to music.

April

"I can't be arsed. I am broke I'm having my second fucking pint. Fuck you all for making the music bullshit. That old my God it's techno music crap on myspace is fucking up the state of edm. People complain that sex sells but this is the same fucking theme. I see titties! That's the ultimate shit-on"

May

" I just realised how much gals with make up appeal to me on such a superficial level. And the worst part being I have nothing to Succumb to. These damn pigeons around me picking up the left over food on the floor are so much more intriguing except that I am not aroused."

"1 for 1 is great, The bar staff from New Dehili and I had a very interesting conversation about religion and culture. He expressed how India possessed a spiritual quality and belonging like Tibet and that other countries don't have. Which reminded me about that Sacred Temple I saw on Discovery where the rats and humans share food openly. Because of their shared secularity these rats were unique because they were discovered to be free from any disease generally associated with them. If there is anything in life it's spiritual unfoldment."

June

"I love bus rides because I get to space out to music and watch the world go by right before me. This is extremely cliche I've heard others muse about the humility of the moment. I think it's just a blatant excuse that applies to some, those who can't afford a cabby ride or drive but secretly yearn for the privilege."

The burning sensation in my chest
the kind that is filled with regret
I wish they'd see me different
and accept the one with the unstable mind

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's a random instrumental track that I did today. It's actually patchy and really off time if you're a pro. But I guess this sums up what I'm feeling now. Hope you listen to it and at hope that it is at least somewhat relaxing and calming.


unknown instrumental - leslie james

Ah crap. I got up from my sleep with an aching pain in my stomach. Funnily enough, the last moments of my dream I was worrying that I could not get to the toilet on time coz some bitch had locked the door to the handicap toilet... or something like that. But anyway I got up in time so I didn't crap in my sleep.

Celebrities/Artistes/Politicians any type of public figures tend to suffer from various forms of depression that I reckon can be classified as a unique kind of mental or emotional disorder on it's own... in relation to being in the public eye too much... their dependency on fans/press/drugs and vice versa.

I'm absolutely saddened after reading about MJ's autopsy report when all they found were a bunch of partially digested prescription pills in his stomach.

Screaming fans and people tend to blame the press, blame drug use, blame everyone when in fact they are very much part of this cycle... the demise of their own idols. When you think about it a mass base of fans could fuel the artiste to do things that destroy them.

coup d'état |ko͞o"dā tä|
noun

1 a rapid, savage takeover of power from a regime.

2 a sonic rebellion against today's force-fed musical stereotypes.



Follwing the success of our very first night, the COUP team has decided to dish out a second night of aural bliss. Every month, we try to have our friends join us, contributing their share of tasty, unique beats for all to enjoy.

Come join us as we bring you on an aural odyssey charting electronic dance music from the past, present and future; a blissed-out journey that relives the sounds and grooves of EDM that we so love. And oh, did we mentioned it's two levels of aural bliss this time round? Sweeeeeeeet!

The 2nd COUP D'ETAT is happy to feature Wilson from Frontal Labs and roy(E.B.)chan as our guest DJs for the month! =)

Lineup:

Level 2 (Lounge)
-Jules
-Yat
-roy(E.B.)chan
-Justin
-Chermy

Level 3 (Space)

-Yifeng
-Chee Who?
-Fiq
-Wilson
-dekoyan

Entry: FREE

Address:
No. 11 Bali Lane
(Entrance Via Ophir Road, Next to the Bus Stop after Golden Landmark Hotel)
Historic Kampong Glam
Singapore 189848

Getting There:

MRT station - Bugis MRT Station

Bus services -
Bugis Station : 2, 7, 12, 32, 33, 51, 61, 63, 80, 130, 133, 145, 175, 197, 851, 960
Plaza Parkroyal : 100, 107, 961, 980
Ophir Rd : 48

R.I.P
KING OF POP

No I'm not that affected by MJ's death all though I did worship him when I was a boy. I don't feel much I guess it's because he didn't die at his peak. Despite the way the media had portrayed him I was feeling indifferent. Whether or not if those reports of him were true I can't help but feel that people should have been more sympathetic. But I reckon his death probably has affected more people then Princess Diana, Mother Theresa and the Pope.

For a while I guess a lot of people got freaked out over the child abuse allegations and blah blah. I'm sure some fans would have boycott him... but I'm sure most of us have forgiven him and remember him for his best!