Showing posts with label guitar strings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label guitar strings. Show all posts

Mixed Emotions

Twenty minutes ago, I felt like doing a mass-killing on a group of very young boys who roamed about with weapons just outside my house. They looked pathetic, lost and menacing, I wonder whether there's still hope for them. Who is to blame? I've used to hear the saying it is up to that person to choose who he or she wants to be no matter how strong the environmental pressure is. I saw them and sigh my heart out. As angry as I was, there was a tinge of sadness, which reminds me of the deceased children in Haiti, in one place you have kids with bright futures dying and at another place, you see children living in a bleak future. What can I do to make things right?

Right now, I'm having this sunken feeling after reading through the latest information on Koko Kaina. Looks like I won't be calling her Koko Kaina again, it's Zee Avi now. She has her own official website, a new myspace, a new facebook (though she has one already), no, it wasn't done by her, she's a technologically blind person (as she admitted), it's the company who signed her who is doing her PR: The Brushfire Records. Why I am sunken you might ask, I don't know, I guess it's like a sense of realization, the whole world will know her, she'll be famous, she'll be on magazines and newspapers. To me it's like chasing after something on the top of a building, only to realize halfway that something took off for the skies. Maybe her videos on Youtube will be taken off, her future messages written by PR manager, guess that personal communication from her will not be seen again.

This might also mean I can't do stupid poses with her, bummer.

Happy? Yeah, I am happy for her, my effort to let all my friends know about this wonderful songstress may have been a very small contribution or it may even didn't do a thing towards her success. She's going to be a star very soon (well she is now) and may start touring with her colleagues in Brushfire Records. Then her life would be documented by paparazzis, reporters and the likes and this would breed insecurity and thus the curse of artistes would befall upon her. I can only wish that I think too much.

How did I fall for a girl whose real name was a mystery to me? If I was born blind, it will only take her voice for me to fall for her. Yeah, that's it, it was her voice. It's so soothing and I could really feel the emotion pouring out of the song and, and there's more to it but I can't put it in words. Sigh, people say I'm crazy about her, I'm all over her, some say I should try make a move and such, some thinks that whatever I'm doing is freaky. I was always a dreamer and will always be one but I've succumbed to the fact that most of the times, dreams are just meant to be dreams no matter how hard you try. I know, I've been through that too many times, so I'm content being just a fan.

My friends say at the rate I'm going, I'll be like one of those celebrity stalker but I think that won't ever happen because the only time I could actually see her is when she performs and that is if I get wind of any news of her performing. Keeping tabs of her upcoming shows is quite hard.

Ahh, this post sounds so pathetic, I can die. Zee Avi eh, cool name. I should plan on helping some orphanages to keep me busy for the holidays. Nah, keeping busy won't put these feelings away but it helps take my focus somewhere else. Most kids brighten my day anyway, *gives a long breath* now I miss my baby cousin Lisa. It's funny how within a space of twenty minutes you can have a lot of feelings running through your system.

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Broken Strings

Need… guitar strings… fast…


Woke up on a Sunday morning, went to my room (the boys’ room actually but who cares), opened my guitar bag and guess what I saw…

My D-string broke into two!!! The horror, the pain, the anguish, the disappointment… *Cries out in agony*


And it had to happen when I was just about to learn how to play Jason Mraz’s song, “I’m Yours”. *Wails*


Geez, I need to buy a better quality one, going out with friends on Tuesday to get the strings from the Yamaha Shop in Mid Valley. And I just replaced the strings like uhh… three months ago? Okayla, I should’ve changed it like once or twice a month, I’m stingy, sue me. God, the wait for Tuesday kills, I’m like a drug addict without his hourly shot.


*Breathes heavily, starts drooling*


So what did I decided to do while waiting for the Euro final to start? Check on guitar lessons, music theories to be exact, to improve my wee lil’ knowledge on music. Ionian scales, pentatonic, half-steps, diatonic scales, etc, etc. It was then I realized I have such a short focus span; I can’t concentrate on things for more than at least one minute. Quite the predicament I expected from the lazy me.


So I delved in deeper, just a skim though and read up about jazz and blues and had this sudden crave of listening to jazz and blues (even though I can’t differentiate the both of them, or rather have rarely listened to either) And thus I will go out in search for any blues or jazz song I might listen to (I know Koko Kaina sings jazz songs) I’d better ask my friends first to see which songs/artistes I should listen to.


Bu I can barely play this, because I malas want to tune my guitar accordingly. Sigh


This one I malas want to memorise, but I can play it with the help of the music sheet.


My laziness will be the downfall of me. Crap, how am I gonna play alongside Koko Kaina if I don’t work hard?! *The Light of New Resolution glows*


And so Nico decided to continue studying music theories on his own with a resolute face.


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