I’ve been playing the guitar for 10 years now. I’m proud to say that I have no formal training , but I sure can rock people’s socks off. Well, my own socks at least.

I don’t play often, because it’s my brothers guitar and I don’t want to disturb him. You see, he’s almost the opposite of me in terms of guitar playing. He’s calculative and puts up papers on music theory on the whiteboard in his room. As for me ? I just pick it up and start wanking on the guitar. Figuratively, of course.

I guess it annoys him because :

• he’s always studying
• I have to kick him out of the room to play
• he has superior math-like guitar skills
• he doesn’t like some of my music

Well, now that my brother’s off studying Mechanical Engineering in Melbourne, I get the room and the guitar. Guess what happens everyday folks ?

I wake up in the morning to the bright sunshine and rock out! In my pajamas! Before I brush my teeth! Oh sweet liberation.

Hey Raymond ! Hey Ifran ! Hey Ruzian ! Whatever the hell happened to our band ? Lets rock out before the real world gets to us ! Stick it up to the Man ! Come on !

ps: I play a Schecter Diamond Series with a Peavey Amp and rock out to Wolfmother, Silversun Pickups, Bloc party and Fall Out Boy

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I’ve decided that the fox is my favorite animal.

This comic is based on a folk tale. Without the profanity, of course. Thanks to YinLee for the story !

On a related note, Farah asked me the other day , “Where can I download a firefox ?”

I laughed my ass out.

Sorry Farah ^_^

I can’t take it anymore !

blogspot is super slow , and I want to convert to the new blogspot to add tags but I can’t ! I’ve had it with blogspot !

Plus , I’ve been getting tons of spam in my comments section which I have to moderate everyday. I’ve put the word verification which makes it harder for you guys to comment. Sorry , but here’s the good news :

I’ve been playing around with wordpress , and I’m very impressed! Its really fast and as all these shiny features! It even transfers all your posts from your old blog !

I’ll keep you guys posted as soon as I get my own domain ^_^

Enjoy the fox comics for now.

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I watched 300 last sunday, and I almost creamed my pants.

300 is based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel , which is the story of the Battle of Thermopylae . In this battle , 300 Spartans have to defend a narrow road from the massive Persian army.

Firstly, this movie is historically inaccurate in these ways:

• There were actually 5000+ soldiers in the Greek army . Including 300 Spartans of course.
• Persians of ancient times were not just giants, ninjas, lesbians and monsters.

Then again, we did not watch this movie for a history lesson, did we ?

300 is aimed at the videogame generation and it really shows. The game that comes to mind , is of course God of War. Greek mythology and monsters aside , if God of War were to be made perfectly into a movie, 300 would be it.

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The first thing you’ll notice about the film is the superb art direction. The film has a grainy , washed out look, making everything hyper-stylized. Not like how history would look like, but how legends are supposed to be told. Beautiful.

The next thing you’ll notice is the ultra-violence. Yes, somehow our censorship board let this pass and didn’t censor a damned thing ! Severed heads , limbs , sword against metal , sword against flesh never looked so beautiful. Violence , never looked so beautiful.

The action , is breathtaking. Slow motion is used to it’s best effect here. Everytime a spear or sword hit something, you can feel the impact. Seriously, some of the action sequences nearly made me cry. It’s that good.

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Next , is the machismo of it all. All of the Spartans, are blood-crazed , laughing at fear and insurmountable odds. Hell, every single damned Spartan has a six-packed-abs. Even the queen is very macho. The audience in my cinema (probably feminists) were applauding at one scene.

The music is a mix of typical movie score , rock and industrial music. When I watched the trailer and they had a NIN song in it , I wouldn’t imagine that they actually would put industrial music in the movie. One scene had the Spartans marching , and it was awe-inspiring. Of course, it all blends well into the movie, raising it all to a whole new level.

If you guys have not realized, I really love this movie. I’ve put it into my favorite movies of all time. Here’s the updated list :

• Saving Private Ryan
• 300
• Gladiator
• American Beauty
• Forrest Gump
• Apocalypto
• Troy( 300 kicked Troy’s ass of this list )

Hell, this is the results of my fanboyism:

• cutting my hair like a Spartan helmet
• attempting to get a Spartan six pack
• watch it the second time , and third time. alone , if I have to …
• pledging to buy the original DVD when it comes out
• ranting and raving to all my classmates
• ranting and raving on my blog !

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