thx for the birthday wishes and celebration!!

LOL.....today is my birthday...but i have already been in so called "birthday mood" for few days already...haha.....

Long ago before final started, our friends (includes partially me) led by Lucas planned to celebrate the birthdays of three of us (Annie's, Ming2x's n mine)...

The celebration was held on 5th....our whole big gang (no nid to mention one by one lah hor) arrived at BDC Shuang Tian Steamboat...n w/out further due we COOK n EAT until my "small" tummy getting bigger and bigger "by a bit"......LOL....we ate until around err...was it 9??yeah i think so....then we start the candle blowing....LOL.....i was lucky to have only 2 candles to pull since it was my 20th....haha so i pulled it out very quickly...LOL....annie n ming2x also pulled the candles...

annie got an acoustic guitar from us as b'day present n she was so happy since she said she wanted it b4 haha.....ming2x got A LOT OF PRESENTS......wew.....almost each one of us bought hers separately.....so we all hope that she will tutor other subjects for us n give us super-high-or-full marks for the subjects...hehe.....as me..i got two very nice n rocks guitar souvenirs...haha.....

after the celebration we go sing KTV.....wew....it was very nice as i sang a lot of rock songs....like New Divide (sang it very terribly)....some GnR songs, Santana's,MLTR's,etc.....i got sing one mandarin song (one that i noe how to sing..haha) it was "Zui Jin" by "Li Sheng Jie".....lolx....n we sang some funny songs n after dat we get back dy....it was very tiring...haha...

anyway nothing much happens few days after dat...only me trying to clean the mess i made during the semester...haha....wash some clothes,etc...practise some xmas song, santana-ing and paul gilbert-ing my electric guitar...haha....

this wednesday me+my bro+my housemates celebrated my bday again....haha....we ate steamboat again....but much healthier one....coz take a lot of vege in front of my bro...haha.....if wif frens i dun bother taking all meat...LOL......after dat we went to the cinema to watch Ninja Assassin. anyway the movement n all dat was nice but it was a bit worthless to be watched in cinema...wat to do..i insisted to watch it haha.....

then thursday!!!which just passed around 3 hrs ago was my real birthday!!!haha.....received a lllooootttt of wishes (attached below becoz i wanna "kek" jason....hehe) n ming2x bought me a box of dark chocolate....haha...thx a lot ya!!i reli like dark chocolate very much.....i got quite a lot of wishes around 12am...one even super accurate at 00.00 from jia2x.....haha....thx ya!!oh yeah....i went to uni this afternoon and some staffs even wish me happy birthday.....haha....it was reli surprising...^^

latest mails in my inbox..LOL....most are birthday wishes

i guess i am a very lucky birthday boy huh??haha..Thank God for giving me a lot of good friends, family n people who care about me....Thanks everyone!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYY!!!

WHAT THE HELL!!!!WE FINISHED FINAL EXAM ALREADY!!!!

after 17-week CHASING for assignments, home works, tests and most importantly eating the engineering management 1 notes....(vomit!!!yyaaalllllkkk!!!) finally we finished everything peacefully by finishing our last paper today (well kind of)....haha

HAPPY HOLIDAY, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!

oh yeah....there are some birthdays to be wished for this December.....

• 4th-> Annie (our classmate)
• 5th-> Jia2x (my maths student, but sometimes she taught me oso)
• 7th-> Ming2x (our big sister)
• 10th-> Universal Declaration of Human Rights agreed by United Nation General Assembly..hehe..
• 25th-> Natalius (my house buddy)
• 31th-> Sheng Han (Nat's buddy)

Big, Bigger, Biggest

Well ppl that have been with me during secondary school time will realize that that this the greatest hits album title to my favorite rock band, Mr.Big!!!!!

Well, it's pretty normal for somebody who learn to play electric guitar to be first obsessed by the "must know" rock band such as Guns N' Roses and Bon Jovi...even me as well.....I was a big fan of Guns N' Roses and partially a fan of Bon Jovi.....because of them I started to be more serious in learning guitar....

Slash (former Guns N' Roses guitarist)

In my 9th grade my good friend introduced me to Mr.Big and guess what, I like some of their songs without even know that band's name...My brother's band played one of their greatest ballads, 'Wild World' and after that i bought two of their albums (no downloads that time ok??), 'Big, Bigger, Biggest' and 'Deep Cuts:The Best Of Ballads'......

Let's get to some background about the band,
It started in 1989 by four great musicians from right to left:
1. Paul Gilbert on guitar (he is the reason I chose Gilbert as my Christian name during baptism)
2. Eric Martin on vocals (after Mr. Big disbanded in 2002, he pursued his solo career and became famous in Japan)
3. Pat Torpey on drum (not only a pro drummer, but also has very nice tune of vocals)
4. Billy Sheehan on bass (even Paul Gilbert was a big fan of his)

Early Mr. Big photo

They gained their popularity during the late 80's and early 90's....At 1996, Paul left the band because he wanted to start his solo career and Ritchie Kotzen (which is another great guitarist) came and replaced him until Mr. Big officially disbanded in 2002....

Early this year, Billy featured Paul in his solo project and after few weeks getting together again, both of them started with an idea to reunite Mr.Big again!!!!!And I am very happy of that!!!!!

Four of them started their Reunion World Tour in early July and still running now.....Their released their live DVD and CD taken from their concert in Budokan, Japan...here is the cover

Budokan 2009 World Tour....This was when Pat and Eric "helped" Paul and Billy during their guitar and bass duet

Their album cover

Well, here is some reviews of the songs I like most from them (I like to categorize their songs as ballad or metal song):

1. Wild World (Ballad)
Previously released by Cat Stevens in 70's...The song is some kind like a farewell song for a girl who move to other place (for study?? work?? I dunno)

2. Green Tinted Sixties Mind (Ballad/Metal)
The first song which has tapping techniques that I mastered in 9th grade...it was pretty lousy when I first played...I guess now is much better....It has a very nice slow rock tune....Ritchie played the tapping part using picking.....so pro....I am practicing it nowadays....

3.Shine (Ballad)
This is the song they played with Ritchie and it was the soundtrack for the anime Hellsing.....I like the acoustic version.....

4.To Be With You (Ballad)
I helped some of my friends to get their girlfriends by performing this song....like "This song is requested by X to Y"...by the end of the song X and Y are couples already....
One of my best friends told me recently that he confessed to his first girlfriend using this song also....nice lyrics and guitar strum

5.Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy (Electric Drill Song) (Metal)
Never tell ppl that you are Mr. Big's fan without even knowing this song...90% of their concert started with this song....During the solo (duet actualy coz Paul and Billy very kiasu and always do solo together) they played the guitar on the third string using Makita Battery Drill...LOLX

6.Addicted to That Rush (Metal)
Another super-fast-with-speed-of-light song.....Billy exposed a lot of tapping in the song....one of their first metal songs

7.Anything For You (Ballad)
Their first single...Paul used his orange-color Laney amps during the recording...^^

8.Superfantastic (Ballad)

9.Promise Her The Moon (Ballad)

10.Just Take My Heart (Ballad)
There are two versions to this song, one by Ritchie and one by Paul...Both are very nice, but Ritchie's version is more bluesy as Paul's version is more to slow rock

11.Nothing But Love (Ballad)
For me, this is very suitable for wedding song....because they have some strings ensemble over there....VEEERRRRYYYY nice solo.....a lot of emotion....a famous Indonesian Teenlit novel 'Nothing But Love' is fully inspired by this song...my Economics teacher in high school, Mr.Raco heard this song when we played it in the class's DVD player and he said "This is very nice song"

12.Seven Impossible Days (Ballad)
It is a very meaningful song and relaxing...I'll post the lyrics below...very short song (2mins +)

Sunday morning, out of my mind
Feel like it's going to waste
25 years, 7 Impossible days
Monday morning, I'll never find
Someone with strength to betray
25 Years, 7 impossible days

People are walking, leaving behind
Someone who wants them to stay
Everyone's talking out of their minds
See that their gone
Afraid that their coming to stay

Friday morning, got through the grind
Find me a woman who lays
My head to bed in 7 impossible ways
People are walking, leaving behind
Someone who wants them to stay
Everyone's talking out of their minds
See that their gone
Afraid that their coming to stay
Sunday morning, out of my mind
Feel like it's going to waste
25 years, 7 impossible days
7 impossible days
7 impossible days
7 impossible days

Well, I will talk more about Mr.Big more bcoz I have to do my assignment now^^

Exam Prayer

First Prayer

O Great St. Joseph of Cupertino who while on earth did obtain from God the grace to be asked at your examination only the questions you knew, obtain for me a like favor in the examinations for which I am now preparing. In return I promise to make you known and cause you to be invoked.
Through Christ our Lord.
St. Joseph of Cupertino, Pray for us.
Amen.

Second Prayer

O St. Joseph of Cupertino who by your prayer obtained from God to be asked at your examination, the only preposition you knew. Grant that I may like you succeed in the Embedded Microcontroller, Structural Mechanics, Machine Dynamics 2 and Engineering Mathematics examinations. In return I promise to make you known and cause you to be invoked.
O St. Joseph of Cupertino pray for me
O Holy Ghost enlighten me
Our Lady of Good Studies pray for me
Sacred Head of Jesus, Seat of divine wisdom, enlighten me.

Amen.

For all friends who are having exams these two weeks, wish you all good luck and study well for exams^^.GBU all!!!

lol....no idea for the title...haha

well i guess i don't nid to say that this sem is very bad....haha...everyone feels it oredi....

and i guess i dun nid to say i had a whole lotta assignments, labs or whatever the names are....

err....these days really both very fun and very bad....last two nights we ene n rnm ppl had bbq at a park near alice's house to celebrate her birthday and also to release some (much actually) stress after series of tests and everything...we were so high that day...haha....lol there was one funny story....our fren's car key was locked inside his car at that place...then all of us helping him by trying to somehow open the car door....haha then i oso dunno how...by using ruler i was playing around with the lock and it was unlocked...lol....very interesting...haha...but i was really sorry to my fren who was the owner of the ruler coz i bent it too much and the printed text on the ruler was scratched....sorry lik ming...

oh....during the bbq we did a lot of crazy things like icing ppl,run here run there,playing with everything we can play there.....the playground was very nice....i wish i had one in front of my house oso.....haha.....err it's impossible to actually explain and elaborate all of them haha...coz we were there since 9pm to 2am....i'm waiting steven to post all the pictures...haha...since he was the only pro photographer there we just left everything to him....haha....but he is oso very busy...i couldn't ask him to post...haha....but i really can't wait to see those!!!!

ok lar....still got a lot of things to do during this gawai "holiday"...arrggghhh...wat kind of holiday issit??but at least i dunid to step to uni...phei phei phei...i feel really sien to be in uni the whole day lidat...++"...

CHOOness

haiyah....this sem really very CHOO...got a lot of things to do

first, we had MD2 test last week and it covers 6 chapters...LOL....and the lecturer asked us to do the tutorial for the 6 chapters..haha....and all of us submitted like around 30+ pages of tute solution....LOL....but it helps us a lot in the test...haha...but I am quite disappointed with the test result.....chicken....i threw away so many marks just because i keyed in the wrong number to my calculator....SHIII...ITTTO!!!nvmlah..haha...but the lecturer said he will only take the highest 2 test marks out of 3....so i still have 2 chances...hehe...

last friday i oso started japanese class organized by swinburne japanese language club....lol...it's quite interesting...we learned like simple conversation in japanese.....

on saturday i began toturing my foundation students (now they are in degree oredi) a bit about maths and more about C programming....LOL....mmm....i think their C syllabus are a bit...i dunno....strange...because they have only 1 hour lecture and 3 hour lab per week....i mean....how much can we learn in 1 hour lecture...+_+"....but they are fast learners so no much prob...haha....i did quite fast actually....but i think they can cope with it...

this week....ummm.....haha.....wait...seems like i forgot what i did on monday and tuesday...haha.....oh!!!!!on monday nite we had Mathematica lab....i felt the Mathematica software is very pro!!!!!!Just like our lecturer said, Mathematica is good for mathematics applicaton....but from other ppl's experiences...Matlab's still the best for engineering!!!!haha

just now i had structural mechanics test....lol.....luckiliy not that hard...haha....but i did made some mistake in calculation at first but finally i erase almost the whole question and redo again.....+_+"....haha....

2molo we oso have maths quiz...lol....eventhough i like maths...but i din touch maths a lot this sem....LOL....bcoz the other subjects' workload also beyond wat human can sustain...^^...sorry maths...i still love you but i'm busy with the others....LOL...

OK!!!!so what to do now????SLEEEPPP!!!!i think i am really lack of sleep!!!!but dunno why...even when i slept like 7-8 hours...when i wake up still very sleepy.....haizzz....