Why Would I Write

Category: Thoughts

  • The Plan/ The Tuesday Text/ The Gig #37(?)

    Since time is of the essence and I don’t have that much free time during weekdays, and I have so many things I want to do, I decided that I should split my time up wisely. And stick to my plans.

    On Monday I’ll be working on pictures. This includes drawing/painting and whatever. Basically stuff I can post up on DA.
    On Tuesday, I’ll be writing! Be it blog posts or song lyrics, anything to do with text.
    And Wednesdays will be for the guitar. I won’t go online and just spend time practising, or writing new music.

    And the rest of the week is up to me to do whatever I want. Yeah. I’ve been following my plan since yesterday, so hopefully I’ll see it through (til at least the end of the year) and hopefully it makes me a better person. Haha. So, expect weekly updates on this blog on Tuesdays! Or if I’m not blogging, at least you know I’m busy writing a new song.

    And so for today’s post!
    *digs up saved message on phone*

    One thing I don’t like about movies is how the bad guys always manage to call up the good guys on the phone. Seriously. And not only that, they manage to call the house phone! It’s like they expect them to sit around at home all day to wait for their call.

    I mean, how realistic is that? And it’s the same vice versa (if the good guys manage to get hold of the bad guy’s number). This happens in countless of movies, especially when there’s a kidnapping going on and the bad guys are calling to demand a ransom.

    I guess it would be stupid if the bad guy called and nobody answered. What would happen then? Kill the hostage? If the bad guys kill their hostage, they don’t get to demand anything. They went through the trouble of kidnapping someone just to kill them and not gain anything in the process. Nice. Then again, waiting around for them to pick up the phone doesn’t progress the story either.

    This needs to change!

    Another random observation I made. In Sungei Wang, the Chinese girls want to dress up like Japanese girls, the Malay girls want to dress up like Chinese girls, and all the Japanese girls are nowhere to be found in Sungei Wang. What a confusing place to be.

    And tomorrow I might be performing at Artista @ Tropicana City Mall again (depending on what time I get off from work). I’ll keep my twitter updated 😀

    Date: Wednesday, 18 November 2009
    Time: 9.30pm til late
    Venue: Artista @ Tropicana City Mall

    Either way if I’m not playing, come check out the other awesome acts. I only know An Honest Mistake, haven’t heard of the rest of them before haha. But it’s free indie music. So yeah, come check it out if you have nothing better to do 😀

  • An unexpected win. Gig #35

    A bag full of Loreal goodies and a polo T-shirt sits next to me, undeservedly. A prize I got for making it through the first heats of Library’s Got Talent. Yes, I made it through. But it wasn’t a walk in the park.

    It was a real wake up call. Even I found it hard to believe that there were people out there who thought AMDW was boring. Yeah, I know I’ve only played it to a handful of people, but I’ve received nothing but praise for that song, and today was the first time ever I’ve been burnt for it. I guess there’s a first time for everything. I’m not saying I wrote the best song in the world, but it’s one of the stronger songs I’ve written. Time to improve.

    After the 3 Xs, I was ready to go home without any consolation. But I’m so glad I got a second chance at this competition. Thanks to everybody who came to support me. Without you guys, tonight would have been the total failure I thought it would be. I’ll try harder for the quarter finals. See you guys in December!

    Oh, and tomorrow night (if work permits) I’ll be playing at the open mic in Groove Junction which starts at 9pm. Come and enjoy the show! This time I guarantee there won’t be any Xs to throw me off the stage 😛

  • Paperback observations.

    Why do authors write books with pen names if they reveal their real names in the book itself? I really don’t get it! Sometimes you don’t even have to flip open the book to find out that it was written under a pen name- you can read it on the cover itself! I don’t know why, but it bothers me.

    Why do women on trains wrap up their romance novels? Seriously, I’ve seen countless women on trains reading novels that have their covers wrapped with some fancy wrapping paper. They can’t fool me!

    I just thought to myself- what do covers of romance novels look like? A half-naked man standing with their sculpted bodies glistening in the sunlight and a women (sometimes topless with her long hair draped over her nipples) all over him. Now I realize why women wrap up their novels.

    But fantasy books have similar covers too- you get big breasted half naked women fighting dragons, but you don’t see them covering their books. I guess fantasy readers are proud to be caught reading such books. Haha.

    I started (well, to be more accurate I tried) reading Shakespeare the other day, and man it was HARD! More than half the time I was referring to a dictionary to look up the meaning of some words, and most of the time I’m looking up the meaning of obsolete words which aren’t even used anymore in modern English. I thought it could help inspire me with my writing or something, but it feels like it’s more trouble than its worth. But I’m not giving up.. yet! Who knows? I might get the hang of it soon.