阿宅’s first post for 2009

09Mar09

Bren, Danny and I chose to end 2008 at the Boiler, St. James in a countdown party which I didn’t get to really enjoy; I got wasted that night, and Tampinesians Bren+Danny had to send me literally back to my doorstep before heading home.

Was really lazy, and it was hard getting myself in to blog just for the sake of  2009. The year of 2009 has been, and will still be a year of many changes. My plumpish friends went from fat to thin (some even suffer from anorexia nervosa), Rainie Yang replaced Ariel Lin as my favorite female artiste because of [不良笑花], partly due to colleagues’ influence, KTV outings with hyper colleagues who simply love to sing became a reality, and my sickening colleagues now call me 阿宅/宅男.

Ibanez AW15ECE-LG

While waiting for events & happenings to blog about, the idea of getting myself an electric-acoustic guitar was intriguing; my first guitar was only 3 months old; I don’t play the chords well; so why do I even bother.

On the 24th of Jan I went to Swee Lee and got myself an Ibanez AW15ECE-LG as my CNY prezzie.

My beginner guitar class ended shortly before the CNY period, and I’m stuck ever since with the same strumming and picking patterns which I’ve grown to be quite tired of after some time. I had to constantly find new song chords to retain the interest. Barre chords were mentioned and briefly introduced in the last lesson, a topic not so beginner-ish (at least) to me. I learnt that the usual F chord which I’ve practiced since week 2 was not the only F chord. Switching to the F Barre chord was hard; my finger strength was not there yet, but the real horror starts when I tried to do fingerpicking for the songs that I usually play. Not to mention that the strings that came shipped with the Ibanez was of a thicker string gauge then my old guitar. My fingers tire easily, I get muted sounds after few minutes of practicing Barre chords, even now. Still instilling muscle memory to chord shapes for Barre F + Bm.

Mac OS Leopard Dock for Windows

Fascinated by mac machines these days. Surfing aimlessly when I came across this website with a sleek tutorial on emulating the Leopard dock. I’ve been conscientiously using RocketDock for my shortcuts, and so it’s just a minor tweak to my current dock to get the stacking feature. For further reading please click here.

Rainie Adidas Photoshoot

楊丞琳 半熟宣言 (CD+DVD) 幸福新年庆功版

Might be a bit late, but still I got myself a copy of Rainie’s 半熟宣言 (CD+DVD) (幸福新年庆功版) during our short meet with Stan and Bren for breakfast at BK this morning. 加油 陳默默!

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