playing music again

i’m back to doing what i love best.  playing music.  not that i have not been doing it at church all the years i’ve been a corporate hack, but i feel like that i am going to start doing this a little more regularly now.

i played a show, i guess it would be last night, and it wasn’t the best of shows.  but nevertheless it was brilliant fun.  it was for a friend’s annual dinner, and i got to ship my drums over, and i generally had a great time playing.

we had high hopes going into the set cause everything was set up… i broug...Read more

a sign of things to come

here’s a quirky little story for you.  us president barack obama has started a fewpeople talking about the strange way he signed the 750 billion dollar stimulus package.  to the highly unbservant person, obama signs left handed and he hands gets contorted into this strange twisted curl of his wrist.  i never thought too much of it but then you can see he’s definitely curling his wrist.

to me, the average left hander, when signing or writing, i believe their knuckls are facing about 10 o’clock.  however if you look closely you...Read more

something is brewing

Starbucks Gonna Try Instant Coffee

it’s no secret the recession has hit everyone pretty hard.  no industry here in hong kong and around the world is immune from the effects of the economic downturn, except for maybe karaoke.  karaoke always does well.  however, big companies...Read more

it used to be a dream

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen from Bay Films/Michael Bay Dot Com on Vimeo.

Directed by Michael Bay

it is often that things from my childhood that i hold dear gets lost or destroyed.  because of an oversight, or my mom throwing something away, or an untimely fire that kill our home when i was a kid.  but that’s another story.

however, in the r...Read more

Going Solo

Very soon This Music Studio in Central will be opening its doors full time. Since it opened in February 2006, it has been a personal passion project of mine which I have rented to a number of people on the side, loaned out for a few recordings, and has served as a place for me to teach drums and practice.

Now, I am ready to take the place full time and develop this studio to hopefully reach the pot...Read more

Liam Neeson Taken

 i mentioned this movie’s reivew by some others in a previous post,  but however i just want to highlight this brilliant film myself.  by no means is this a complicated thiller.  it’s about an ex special forces operative who’s daughter is kidnapped by some smugglers/traffickers at a paris airport. ok that is simple enough right?  straight forward and simple because that pretty much is it.

th...Read more

i’m going…

so i did it.

i resigned.  it is a really strange feeling that i have right now.  but i resigned.  i know that deep in my heart it was the best decision i made. if i was to remain in this post, i will slowly see my abilites as a writer slowly dwindle down.  i’m pretty tired of writing the same things every single day and now.  i have spent the better part of the last year figuring out how to say the line.  win cool and awesome prize.  there are some awesome prizes wating for you.  join this contest and you could be going home with a… win th...Read more

i’m losing it

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/taken/

first off the bat, does anyone find the following review for the Liam Neeson movie Taken slightly offensive.  I’m not a major supporter of the french but still i find this unecessory.

New York Magazine  David Edelstein

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