Road Trip with My Broadband

This is an article for project alpha 2

Currently, I'm busy for my next month road trip planning. Finding friends to go together,booking hostel,arrange the time table.......ha,just as a celebration after i finished my half year internship life. And this time, Port Dickson is my destination.

This is not my first road trip, so i have gained experience before and know what should i bring along with and what preparation i should do now. But, one thing special for the coming road trip is, A mobile broadband would be my companion throughout the road trip!

I admit that, I have totally addicted with internet surfing recently, for blogging,facebook-ing,finding part time job,check mail,Youtube-ing, watch news and more.With a mobile broadband along my road trip.I can share the latest information about what's happening on and around here. Besides, i can share my travel stories, photos instantly with friends,net-friends, and blogger.

We know that,Malaysia has not provide free wifi services throughout the country. You may face with difficulty if you reach the area which has no internet connection if you know to settle some important thing by network. urgently. But nowadays, technology made nothing impossible and you can get internet connection easily with a mobile broadband in your hand!

When think about mobile broadband, fist thing come into my mind sure is P1 Wimax WIGGY ! It’s the 4G technology that can speed up to 70Mbps around the 50Km radius wireless coverage. It is tiny!you can bring it along your road trip easily!

At last,catch projectalpha season2 episode 8,9,and 10 below and remember to answer an easy question everyday at Rummz.com!

Project Alpha Season 2 is presented by Adidas Action 3 and supported by P1 and MAS

关于本地中文独立音乐

说起本地华人玩摇滚...
来来去去都是受到beyond影响（早期）
后期呢？ 比较倾向于j rock~
有的甚至组团打流行歌曲的～
这是受到卡拉ok文化影响～

中文摇滚在本地实在是太少icon了～
我们少了值得学习的对象！
黄火昙花一现，黄明志过于不成熟～
香港lmf算是曾经引领过一段风潮～
但是很快的那群孩子们也“乖乖"的回到自己位置了～

我们依然被强逼接收着那些主流咨询！
我们要反抗，却没有精神领导（更多时候是懒得寻找）～
在这前提下，多数华人对独立音乐/摇滚的观念是很空白的
他们玩音乐依然想象自己能被媒体第一个提问
希望能到综艺节目通告
希望台下女歌迷们激情呐喊...

独立音乐有的不是着一些
当年独立音乐之所以诞生
就是因为部分年轻一代们厌倦主流音乐的做作欺骗
但是自己热爱音乐，所以在车库里跟同好搞乐队
并用卡带记录下粗燥的小样
他们都是punk, 这也是次文化
音乐跟次文化脱离不了关系～

在提前一些，我们说说摇滚的诞生～
摇滚前身就是blues乡谣～
后来被猫王搬上舞台～
变得更加通俗，流传也广了～
在这之前，音乐是属于宗教，宫廷和贵族们的消遣玩意。
古典音乐，交响音乐，爵士等这些都是服务这群”小众“的

因为摇滚的诞生，把音乐更加平民化了。
普罗大众都能享受音乐
这也延伸出一种乐种——pop
pop和rock可说共生的～
rock有着年轻人反抗叛逆态度
成为主流后，也就是pop了～

从猫王到披头四到再来black sabbath等
进入一股hard rock哪代，或者heavy metal
别以为重金属是属于地下的
重金属曾经是世界上最流行的乐种～
就这样庞克出现了
他们厌倦重金属明星的明星气质
就有刻意更这些摇滚明星做对的庞克。

indie这个字就开始出现了～
到后来nirvana的grunge浪潮...
我们看到一个现象非主流和主流几乎没差别的
非主流随时可能成为主流，
主流分分钟被喜新厌旧的听众们遗忘。
这个个市还不断在重演着...

为什么？一切根源就是就是因为商业因素
次文化能成为主流，是因为商人们看重这些人的商业价值
并已帮助他们推广为招号
把他们推销成一股潮流~
然而来到现今世界
什么国际村，多元世界等
我们随时都可接受很多不同想法不同观念
独立音乐的定义更加的广了！
我们还要继续把自己停留在主流的声音里头吗？

如果我们真正喜欢音乐，应该投入去开发音乐更多的可能
不能把自己的偶像摆上不可超越的地位
我们必须更加了解自己的文化！
不排除主流乐坛也有很多想法的创作人。
但是他们真地得到应该得到利益了吗？
还是，唱片公司得到最多~
现在港台唱片公司表面上是推广音乐
实际上是在剥削音乐

资本主义社会下，一些都被大财团垄断
现在他们的力量过于强大了
反过来要求创作人跟随大众的取向走
结果音乐变得单元了
音乐人为了生存就妥协了
甭说内涵
甚至
音乐的新意也失去
外貌之上的错误观念已经横流
谁还知道什么真善美？

一些搞团的朋友
因为不喜欢港台流行，转而投入日本或欧美摇滚
对于这类朋友们，不要否定自己的祖辈文化
我们受到外国文化影响，要清楚知道什么是值得学习，什么不是属于我们的
这样作品在超前的同时也会更加坦白更加有内涵。

这是黄火他们一直说提倡的。
音乐造旨会比较难突破
刚开始我们都离不开模仿
但是我们可以尝试用属于自己的语言唱回属于我们文化背景的东西~
千万不能鄙视自己的文化和母语
要知道，我们的母语也是属于这个国家的一部分！
独立音乐需要的是更加真实和坦白
开始写自己的歌曲是第一步
用自己熟悉的语言来创作就是第二步！

黄火至今，到扩音和动态度
他们都好像董教总一样自己在制造着这个环境~
他们从来不是闭门造车的，他们比谁都积极接触友族的独立音乐场景
这些年，我更加看到改变~
爱好音乐的友族朋友，他们会听日文歌曲同样也会听中文
他们不会鄙视中文，他们听的是音乐!
语言不是最重要的！

很多时候，华人玩摇滚只是局限在流行摇滚（或偏流行的乐种）
这才是他们不会接触的原因
他们对音乐的格调都很高
真的喜欢就会全情投入。
甚至自己的一生。

所谓的格调
就是怎么评定一支乐队的好坏
同样，本地地下音乐也是很多没新意的
为什么有些乐队能跟别人不一样？
就是乐队自己的概念了
概念明确，路向也明确
气势赢人一筹
这个就是关乎创作者的个性了
过程，你会更加了解你自己！
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呵呵，不要怀疑，这文章不是我写的，想看原文请点击摇滚已死——代夫洛克壹壹柒的文字与音乐空间。原著是zhong min,我的音乐好友。zhong min是大马独立音乐的主要推手之一，本身是个graphic designer,所以会帮忙一些独立音乐活动画海报。

我记得我们第一次会面，是在SS2的火箭餐厅。他的确对音乐有很深的认识，很熟悉大马独立音乐的一切，更重要的是他很有自己的想法，不会盲目追崇，这是我敬佩他的地方。他有自己的乐队，乐种偏向brutal metal。由于我自己也只是个学生band，大家玩的乐种不同，所以我们在音乐上很少有接触，我们真正接触到的，是彼此想法上的交换。

进了大学创作坊三年，始终觉得缺少了什么东西，对，就是一个独立的思想，属于自己的创作。我们时常可以听到音乐人在创作比赛鼓励参赛者要接触多元化的音乐，创作更多不同的风格，但到最后看到的，还是千遍一律的ballad song。歌词除了拍拖就是分手。乐种除了pop就是ballad,啊不然就是轻摇滚。歌的编曲就是first round没full band,reintro后进drum再full band,bridge后静8beat，之后再full band到ending，ending时还不忘唱多一句尾chorus。

问题出在哪？因为大家都在跟着“流行”两个字走，创作最大的成就就是“卖歌”。大家都开始爱从流行的角度去看在每一首歌，只要没有流行味道的，或是偏离流行结构的，都被批为“不好听”。也或许，是华人对音乐的接受程度太低了，你不可能在华人流行音乐听到metal,不可能听到funk,听到electropop。

我没有指望创作坊能够创作非主流歌曲，但起码创作要有自己的独立想法，自己的风格。我们是否要依据大众的喜好来创作，还是依据自己的品味来改善大众的喜好？

最后，和大家分享一首很好听的曲子，很有post rock的味道～

UM lovemycampus

UMlovemycampus  is a community which formed recently in University of Malaya with their peaceful slogan: Love My Neighbor, Love My Campus UM. Love my neighbor means showing love and care to the people around us no matter what races, religions, cultural, social status, countries they came from. Love my campus means a feeling of appreciation to our University and to be concern about the things happen in the campus by making the campus a better place for learning and growing holistically.

Through this community,they hope it is able to build a good relationship among students,to increase the awareness of social concern in the University and to encourage the loving and caring values among the University students and the University.

I had joined their Know Your Campus, Love Your Campus Challenge contest. It is a simple contest organized by them where we just need to collect all 10 questions within a period time, answer them, then send the answers.The first 20 entry with all correct answer will be the winners and get the prize!!! All the questions are related with UM, if you are really love the campus and know it well,you sure can answer it.

I joined this contest without any hesitate as i think that maybe the winner can get the cash,i need money recently,i need to save about RM1500 within these two months.So,everyday i will visited their page to check the new question.

I'm so lucky and surprise when i was received their email and they informed me that I'm one of the winner.......WAH!!that's mean i really love UM and know it well??? =.='' aduuuii

Don't care it,what i look forward is the SECRET PRIZE,what is it actually????

Cash???

 i want,nearly bankrupt recently T.T

Free trip???

trip to Space??? yaahooooo!!

Free bass???

 wah,so i can sell it to gain money in my account 

or................

A memorable UM TNC signature???

 

i don't want =.=''

I ask teng to helped me collect the prize and the veil of the SECRET PRIZE are finally revealed,it is

 

a thumbdrive

=.=''

T.T

U.U

n.n

erm,ok for me too,since it is free.I had lost my pendrive before this and now i get the new one,haha

Anyway,thanks UM lovemycampus XD

My Version of Grooming Tips

This is an article for project alpha 2

Oh,when talk about my own grooming tips,erm........actually guy are simple if compare with girl.Haha,this is my tips:

1. Please keep yourself far away from odor whether in workplace,party or event. You may choose perfumes, deodorant,anti anti-perspirant to avoid it.But don't over.

2.Use sunblock when you are go out, especially at the noon time.It may protect your skin from sun burn.

3.Eat more fresh fruit and vegetables.  Try to minimize to eat meat.

4. Keep your body fit by going gym regularly.

5.Drink plenty of water at least 1.5 litres a day(i used to drink more than 2.5liters a day...can't live without water lol)
6. Keep your nails clean,And the last,check your zipper !!!!!!!!!!!!! make sure is closed,haha.

Then,what i would do before i go out?For me,have two version!!! depends on the situation and time,ha!

First one is normal version:

1. Take bath and wash my hair
2. Wash my face with cleanser and facial scrub
3. Take out my toner, moisturizer and use it
4. Dry my hair
5. Style my hair with my Gatsby Moving Rubber Wild shake
6. Apply hair spray on my hair
7. Apply lip gloss on my lip
8. And last one,use my

Adidas Action 3

Then,second is: Super duper fast version

1. Take bath
2. Wash my face with cleanser.
3. Apply hair spray on my hair (skip moving rubber lol)
4. And last one,use my Adidas Action 3 Again

Talk further about Adidas Action 3, the new absorbent anti-perspirant by Adidas.Personally,i like the blue colour: Fresh spray.It helps to block perspiration,keep us fresh and it help to absorb extra wetness. The price is very reasonable and it make the people far from bad odor.

Forgot to mention, Project Alpha Season 2 starts now!!! check news here: click me.Starting 19 April, Season 2 will be aired online at http://www.projectalpha.com.my/ daily in 49 mini webisodes. Here are the first three episodes,you may check in youtube if you are interested to check the following episodes







The bloggers featured in Season 2 include journalist, actor and social media advocate Niki Cheong, yoga instructor Ninie Ahmad, local celebrity Azwan Ali, food-blogger KY Teoh, British-born but localised Gareth Davies a.k.a. Shaolin Tiger, the fashionable Ringo Tan a.k.a. Cheesie, and multi-talented journalist Joe Lee aka Klubbkidd. Explore them one by one NOW!!!

Project Alpha Season 2 is presented by Adidas Action 3 and supported by P1 and MAS

If I'm IP man master,i would......

Just imagine.......if I'm IP man master, i will...........

Oh,asking about what is my kungfu pose??? sorry, I'm used to be a low profile man. Anyway,i will ask my students to entertain you.

Students,just show some finishing move........

#1 Student name: Super white
Country: German
Favourite food: Ikan Sardin
Idol: Cactus Jack
Finishing move: The Handcore Hand
Damage: 70/100
Accuracy: TBC



   
#2 Student name: Gan LinYang
Country: Hong Kong
Favourite food: Wise Potato chips BBQ flavour
Idol: Andy Lau
Finishing move: TIpu Mati
Damage: 50/100
Accuracy: 20/100

#3 Student name: Micheal J
Country: China
Favourite food:no info
Idol: Jackie Chan
Finishing move: DDT
Damage: 75/100
Accuracy: 80/100

#4 Student name: Akihiko
Country: Japan
Favourite food: Sushi king
Idol: erm........Maria Ozawa
Finishing move:Pretend as kung fu master!!!
Damage: 10/100
Accuracy: 50/100

I just found out some of friends who have HIGH potential to learn kung fu.......if there's chance, i will be very happy and they are welcomed to learn kung fu from me. 

People1 :weesim--他连做梦都把自己当成牛魔王

People 2:cynthia-- She will be the next generation of 铁头功 top master

People3:kaixiang-- He always imitate the statue of liberty, a super peace lover

People 4: kohkai and guanthai--They will be the next generation of 轻功水上漂 top guru



Besides,i will use my hand to save the world from any menace and violence. I will..........
 

Rescue my drummer and tell my guitarist:；兄弟，吉他不是这样玩的。要练武功，要练对的方法

 

Ask my students to promote kung-fu in AI FM

Teach my coursemates kung fu,so they will be fresher and stop sleeping inside lecture hall again

 

Rescue my project director from a group of gangster......

And the last, i will tell Shifu Hung that:

"第一第二对我不重要，但希望你好好去学习和领悟功夫的真理。只要你把它用在对的地方，第二也无妨。"

                                           Shifu Hung                               IP man

Kung fu is a martial art to make world peaceful,give to the love to everyone. NOT for the purpose of competing.

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  Yup, IP man 2 is coming, 29 April,waiting,look forward, and desperates to watch it !

Sypnosis : After his victory over the Japanese General in Foshan, Ip Man moves to Hong Kong. He sets up a martial arts school to teach Wing Chun. Here, he is challenged by other kung fu masters, including Sifu Hung who masters in Hung Quan. Sifu Hung and Ip Man draw a tie in their challenge and the latter is adored as a recognized master in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, Twister, the powerful but cruel boxer champion who despised Chinese kung fu destroyed the fruit market and harassed the kung fu institutes. Twister, who also resulted in Sifu Hung’s death, then challenged the Chinese kung fu masters for a public combat. Ip was filled with grief and indignation and he decided to take up the challenge. He swore to claim back the dignity of Chinese kung fu and the Chinese people. A furious fight is about to begin… 

  If you feel interested to win a Samsung Jet Mobile Phone or Samsung Explorer B2100,check this:  nuffnang contest.

 GSC-EON Bank Credit Card is running the Martial Arts Challenge and Share & Win contest for IP MAN 2. You can check all this out in their minisite at http://www.gsc-eonbankcard.com/.

 GOOG LUCK.......and NUFFNANG,GSC,i want the ticket ......XD !!!

Messy Blog

Recently, I found that my blog is really messy and unorganized, anyway, I’m just too lazy to change it and just abandoned it a side. Feeling tired after work is always my best excuse. Finally, I am done just now, rearranging my blog layout and deleted some unnecessary stuff. So now, do you feel better and not feeling blur when you come to my blog? Ha.

I plan to change my blog template, got roughly search some website just now, but still can’t find my cup of tea, maybe I’m too picky? So, do you have any website that can recommend? Appreciate it!

Hmm, found a useful website named website speed test from fang . It is quite interesting, you just need to key in you website/blog domain name and the program will test and estimate the loading time of your web page.

My blog's load time is 1.71 seconds, how about yours? Ha ha……

Then, i check my blog ranking in alexa ,oh...........better don't figure it out. Check yours at here:http://www.iwebtool.com/rank

My Favourite Sport

This is an article for project alpha 2

wau.......when talk about SPORT.Yup,before i start to play music and become a so call music-lover,i'm totally fall in love with sport,different type of sports,by playing myself or watch the live match from TV.I think i have no any sport which i like the most currently as my time is limited,now,cloudfly has drop into his music world,left hand hold his beloved small red(bass),right hand reserved for his future camera(future mean haven buy,haha),so,here i will talk some sports which i addicted with it since i'm small.

I think when i'm still a young boy,i'm fall in love with NBA,yup,basketball. I like michael jordan and chicago bulls so much.Everyday,i will grab my father's newspaper and looking for NBA news,when i found that the NBA news' photo is nice,i will cut it and paste in my special "NBA photo collection album".haha. Besides,every week,i will catched the newest episode of japan basketball animax from tv: SLAMDUNK(this also a reason i like sports???? =.='')

When i entered secondary school,i give up of NBA,since my michael jordan has retired and feel that iverson and kobe bryant is not my cup of tea =.=''' such a good excuse,huhu. At that time,i started to put my eyes on badminton. I still remember,when teacher asked us to fill the "cita cita "column in the student personal profile,i wrote NATIONAL BADMINTON PLAYER as my first choice,haha. I like badminton quite a long time,but during secondary school,i'm a ping pong player.haha,so complicated!!!

Not only badminton,i like to watched WWE during secondary school too.THE ROCK,BATISTA,BIG SHOW,TOO COOL and many more,i cant recognise their nickname.But my mother always shut off my tv when she found that i'm watching WWE,as she think that WWE will leave bad influence on me.I stopped to watched WWE after 3years when i found that WWE storyline is totally boring and always repeatted unstop.Forgot to tell,my favourite WWE superstar is CACTUS JACK,ha.

Now,i'm not addicted with sport like before,and there has no any sport which i like the most when you ask about MY FAVOURITE SPORT,my life is full with different sports,ha.Now,i put my time for music,for band,for photography,but i still used to watch football match during weekend,it just for entertaining myself.

As usual,when think about sport,Adidas will appear in my mind.Remember,get one deodorant before you go for sport.refreshing yourself and no more body odour!

Adidas care wash

Project Alpha Season 2 is presented by Adidas Action 3 and supported by P1 and MAS

Taman Sri Endah

Recently I was helping out my family to purchase a unit in taman sri endah area.

There are mainly 3 options for us as our budget constrain is below 200k, Endah Ria, Endah Regal, and Endah Villa. Endah Puri can easily cost up to 300k + and the penthouse area costs 400k+ per unit. Therefore, there are no other choices but these three for us.

We were looking for Endah Regal in the very beginning as the external view looks finest with the brand new painting. Located near Endah Parade and right besides Endah Ria.

Endah Regal offers a bigger built-up square feet per unit with the same price as compared to endah ria. Besides, it is “one-block away” nearer to endah parade and public transportation station than Endah Ria. However, we didn’t put “her” into our first choice eventually. In spite of its age is 2 or 3 years elder than Endah Ria, the main reason that hold us back is they didn’t build a balcony for each and every unit. My father always fancied the enjoyment of sitting in the balcony, enjoy the night view and the pleasant cozy air, sipping Carlsberg and so-called “this is my life” the only joyfulness. We are not cruel enough to rob away his dream. Besides, during our purchase period there is one construction project going on just right besides Endah Regal. I believe most people would not enjoy to be greeted “good morning” with construction noises.

Our agent recommended us endah villa as she stayed there as well. Endah villa was actually 10 minutes walking distance from Endah Regal and it is much nearer to bukit jalil LRT station.

Similarly, it also offers a bigger built-up square feet than endah ria. However, since condominiums are 99 years of tenancy instead of freehold, endah villa has spent nearly 25 years of it. It has great environment and convenience but we are not only looking at the comforts of our new home but also the values and potential value behind it.

Finally comes to endah ria, no doubt it has smaller built-up square feet than the above mentioned 2. However, it is the newest and younger residential groups, mostly occupied by new forming families and foreign students.

I personally appreciate the security system in it where you need access card to go into the condominium area as well as your staying block. The security system used is similar to office usage. The only thing that turns me down is 2 blocks of it are facing highways, if you don’t mind, you can actually ignore the noise outside your balcony and keep enjoying your new home, as those who are facing penthouse view are averagely 10-20k more expensive.

From the above, obviously we have put in a lot of effort on researches and surveys regarding the price, built-up and surrounding environment on our targeted area. Since searching in the newspaper property advertisement wall is no longer a "trendy" move in doing so, we focused more in online searching. We have browsed through several websites and view a few units but came back with empty hands and disappointing mood. However, our fortune still lies at our side. I was browsing propwall finding that there were no units available for sell in our targeted condo posted there, but we found our current agent, debbee ooi, her contact number from it.


Propwall tends to appeared as luxury property websites with less medium priced choices, however, the Property forum offers us a lot of advice from current purchaser or agents.

I was praying hard to wait for the management to decide to paint the external appearance, as promised by the agents saying that the painting will be run soon and the prices are going to raise, whether it is a truth or just some sales techniques, hope it works.