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Just to let you all know that I’m back home in Malaysia. I flew back to Kuching last week and decided to come to Miri for a week just to meet up with my girl and to perform together with my so-called famous band for a Leo function which was held last night. Performance was crap as I dropped my drumstick once and the drum pedal thingy flew off… hahaha… laugh all you want.

I don’t know whether it’s just me or not but the weather here in Miri’s so freaking hot that this sticky sensation on my whole skin will never let go off me for as long as I’m here. Who likes to take bath 3 times a day anyway.

I’ll be going back to Kuching tomorrow and just give me a shout if you guys wanna do some sort of crap or something. And nah, don’t think I’ll make it for this year’s Rainforest Festival unless someone is willing to sponsor me a ticket. Hint hint!

Posted 29 June 2008 † kenjj § Daily Life ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Pfft

The past few weeks had been very hectic for me. Yea yea… so hectic that I decided to get this revision off my mind and all I could think of is updating this freaking blog.

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As usual, I didn’t do anything interesting since everything’s in Aussie dollar for a poor guy like me. At least I got a part-time job working at a Mexican restaurant just down the street from where I currently live… well, I stopped working to concentrate on my final exams and hope that they still have a place for me when I come back here for the 2nd semester.

Oh yea, did I tell you guys that I’ll be coming back to Kuching on the 21st of June? So excited… and all I could think of is doing the right thing that all Kuching-nites at overseas would do when they come back home…

F.O.O.D.

Sigh… now I miss laksa… and the only laksa I’ve eaten here is the one made out of vegetables…

Stupid vegetarian laksa…

Posted 24 May 2008 † kenjj § Daily Life ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Just Another Boring Post

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2 weeks ago we had a field study at The Coombe and we had absolutely no idea on what to do with the report. It was on that very stressful day that I had the most expensive meal ever… you know, just to ignore the stress.

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And all I got is some expensive foods on top of a plastic plate, with a plastic knife and a fork… like, wow…

Today, we revisited the place again and I’m really thankful that finally we understood the objective of our work. It’s such a big relief though, knowing that there are 2 craps due by the end of this week.

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Ah, the sweetness of life… only for temporary.

Posted 11 May 2008 † kenjj § Daily Life ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Foo Fighters 2008, Perth

Tickets bought from eBay: check!

Be there at the venue by 3pm: check!

Buy poster: check!

Buy the tour t-shirt: check!

Free pizza while queueing: check!

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To no veil, reaching the venue 4 hours prior to the start of the concert’s worthless. Crowds only began to fill up the line at around 5pm with free pizzas being given from the back line. But heck, I managed to steal another slice of pizza when you know that it’s 1 slice per person. Ah, who cares… like I care cos’ I paid so much for the ticket anyway.

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Gates were opened at 6.30pm and my left foot got stuck at the stupid turning door, thanks to those bunch of girls screaming and yelling like they can’t wait to get hold of their space at the front stage. Freaking annoyed that they didn’t know what caused the door to be jammed, so I yelled “my foot! see! my left freaking stinky foot!”

So we were in and got the best view of the stage, like not too near or not too far. Like you know, we’re just in front of the barriers which separated the area between the first and the second general admission ticket holders. As predicted, Kaki King and The Mess Hall did the opening act for an hour and they’re quite good on stage. What else to say that The Mess Hall are only made up of a duo: each on guitar and drums.

Then Foo Fighters came…

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And you know what… that is the first and best concert I’ve ever seen in my entire life! Nothing can describe the fanaticism of the crowds when they took the stage with Dave Grohl making everyone there screaming his name.

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Heck we were even entertained by the best triangle soloist ever! And darn Taylor for doing his solo on drums… so good that he’s referred by Dave as Perth’s favourite drummer. And I’m surprised to see Pat Smear, the ex-guitarist of the band to be part of this tour.

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My favourite part of the show is when Dave Grohl started to play Everlong and sing along with the crowds in acoustic style. Here’s the video of it.

With the exception of the sounds, the pictures here are enough to describe how awesome the concert was… it could be the best in a decade… or even for a long time.

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Posted 05 May 2008 † kenjj § Daily Life § Music ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , ,

That Day of Drumming in Freo

Wow… I really did miss out lots of things to share with you all. Lets just say that we went to Fremantle (or better known as Freo) to attend this drum workshop at Fly By Night, which was held last month.

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Surprisingly, not many people turned up for the clinic and it wasn’t the typical drum workshop I expect it to be… you know, full drum set… and it was actually focused more onto world beats: djemba djemba etc… It was hosted by an Irish percussionist called Wayne Sheehy and the best part of the workshop is that it is free.

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Although feeling dismay of how the expectation turned out to be the other way round, boy we had so much fun that I almost fell asleep during one of the workshop sections.

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Hmm… At least that made up my list of 1st-time experience.

Posted 04 May 2008 † kenjj § Daily Life § Music ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Foo…

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I know I know… it’s been more than a month since I last wrote on this so-called blog of mine. And that makes you all wonder… why am I back again with all the same crap of saying “oh, I’m sorry for the late post and I won’t gonna do it again” yada yada yada… Pissed that cos’ finally it’s week free… well, only for a week though. And I got 2 exams coming up right after that. So it ain’t a week free anyway… apart from getting the comfort of sleeping like a pig everyday.

Speaking of that… erm… week free… Do you have any idea that this Monday, there will be something big going on in the city? Foo yoh… maybe some jet Fighters swooshing festival thingy? Nope… how about this…

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Yup… that’s right. Foo Fighters. And I’m going for it.

So cheers!

Posted 20 April 2008 † kenjj § Daily Life ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , ,

2nd Home

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That’s my residing street.

And there are still so much things to do around here that I totally disagree on people’s opinion that Perth’s boring.

Geesh, I’m just scared that this blog will turn into a photoblog cos’ of the great picturesque this place has to offer.

So… adiós! City’s awaiting me again.

Posted 01 March 2008 † kenjj § Daily Life ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

Perth

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Hey mate! I’m really sorry for the lack of update about my new life here. I didn’t realize that I got sick since boarding the plane that the next few days, I had the rubella. You’ll be stupid enough if you think that rubella only happen to girls.

Weather’s pretty hot lately that I got many golds being dig out from my nostrils. Why golds? Cos’ the weather’s freaking dry here! Pfft…

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Anyway, there’s not much time for me to write over here as I need to catch up with some sleep for tomorrow’s classes.

And it’s gonna be freaking hot tomorrow… at 38 degrees, can you imagine the heat?

So there… g’d day, mate!

Posted 27 February 2008 † kenjj § Daily Life ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged:

Brunei Transit to Perth

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Landed an hour and half ago, now I’m just killing off my time here at Coffee Bean after having a shot of machiato.

Everything seems to happen so fast that I myself couldn’t believe that I’m flying to Down Under in the matter of just an hour to go… so fast that my visa was granted just last Friday.

I mean, why the heck does it took so long for it to be granted? Well, lets just say that they discovered that I have a specific health complication during the medical check up. Because of that, the medical report was sent to Australia for further review.

I thought it was over and I really thank God for the good news.

So there, a new chapter of life has begun and will be keeping in touch with you all regarding my journey to Down Under.

Shit… now’s boarding time. See you all soon!!!

Posted 17 February 2008 † kenjj § Daily Life ‡ Comments (4) °

The Longhouse Family

I just had a long drunk conversation with my uncle (I wasn’t drunk, he was) with him doing the talking most of the time while I just kept nodding on agreeing on everything he said.

He’s the brother of my mom and together with his whole family, they had been staying with us since yesterday and they’ll be going back home to Sibu later in the morning. At first, I got to admit that I was a bit uncomfortable with their presence equivalent to 10 people. The 3 kids are damn annoying, I thought, and never knew that I’m already an uncle to them.

That’s the problem if you didn’t go back to your mom’s longhouse for a number of years and being shy of mixing around with them. Consequences are really bad that I missed out the development of my mom’s family nor I even know who are my cousins from her side.

If only I could speak Iban fluently… sigh

I’m glad that they came.

Somehow this reminded me of Joyce’s written experience of her 2 different lifestyle between her mom’s hometown in KL and her dad’s village in Bario, which won her the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2003. That was about 4 years ago when I first read it.

So back to the story.

I wouldn’t even thought about it if not for the Scotch that made my uncle to relate me his and mom’s endeavour of life from their once poor family background. Spoken in broken English, he admitted that he only know how to speak that language when he’s drunk. Hey, you’re talking about some Scotch whiskey here… and I just couldn’t stop smiling for his drunk behaviour. :D

Everything of what he said is personal but it’s a bit of everything of those hard times back in the longhouse from the olden days till now.

Later on, I reminded myself to give all the unwanted clothes to them. Observing them browsing through my old clothes made me feel pity of the way they live. Somehow, that contribution brought them a joy feeling knowing that they have new clothes to wear.

I still feel sad for them but I just realized one thing.

They’re so content of everything they have as long as they’re healthy and living together in one big family… all in the same longhouse.

Their lives will be better, I promise.

Posted 09 February 2008 † kenjj § Thoughts ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,