Because randomness rules....

On 31st December 2004, I ushered into the new year and welcomed 2005 in the most fun, unbelievable, exciting and random manner EVER.

Started pretty normally though(Ed:Unthinkable endings always have normal beginnings XD).I fetched Elaine and Atifi from Taman Bahagia LRT Station, dropped by Atifi's house first because left her handphone at home(you better believe it), then after a few minutes wasted in a futile fruitless attempt to find the phone, went and picked up Daniel, then Johan, and finally picked Lina.Then it began...

You see, everyone had the idea that we'd be heading to Bukit Jalil to celebrate with the rest of the gang (Namely Aoi, Ciel, Seiji, Xiong, etc etc), but that never turned out to be the case, or at least, something else happened before that, as we were soon to discover....

Daniel called John, and discovered much to our chagrin, dismay, shock, discontent, whatever, that the BJ gang that was SUPPOSEDLY waiting for us at BJ to celebrate the new year together was still unceremoniously stuck at KLCC for god knows what reason.We were thrown into a state of near-confusion...

ZOMG!ITS GONNA BE 12 AND WE DONT HAVE ANYWHERE TO GO!!

Then came the voice from behind, the voice of Elaine, the voice of reason:

"Lets go to Genting"

And as they say, the rest was history.Next thing I know, I'm driving to Shell to fuel up, and heading towards Jalan Kuching to enter Karak Highway!Mind you that if my father somehow found out that I drove up to Genting without telling him at all, he would probably just ban me from driving for quite some time.Anyway, there is this term "What my father doesnt know WONT hurt him/me".So yeah, we were on the road to Genting....

But we never made it to the top in time to celebrate the coming of 2005 though.We celebrated inside the car, somewhere along Jalan Kuching...Along the way, we joked about the best welcome back messages on IRC, best quotes, funniest moments(like on the Oxford thread XD), and sent out SMSs and made new year calls...

I never really doubted my car's ability to go up Genting from the start.Regardless of the fact that there was a grand total of SIX people in my car.Oddly enough, while I was driving earlier, I actually felt the real effect of the grounding:That increased torque at 3000-4000 rpm.Anyway.....

Reached up the top at 1 am, and boy was the weather crazy that day.It was so misty I could hardly see anything, and the wind was blowing strong.I think I froze my balls off up there....

Ok so I didnt...but we went up for a stroll at the entertainment centre, walked, walked, walked, and went back down at about 3 am.

Then came the treacherous drive downhill.My car suddenly went crazy....I mean CRAZYYYYYYYYYYY.I normally switch to 4th gear at around 80-100 km/h, but suddenly, during the descent down, I was at 4th gear doing 40 km/h.AND THEN, THE BRAKES STARTED TO FAIL ME!But either way, I made it down safely, and as expected, once I hit Karak Highway, the car returned back to normal.....

AND THAT WAS MY FIRST TIME DRIVING UP TO GENTING!!Talk about randomness.....

The BJ gang was still at the park in BJ, so off we went.Reached the park at 4 am, met up with Ciel, Aoi, Kara, Heal, Xiong and Seiji.I was damm tired, so I tried taking intermittent rests where possible.After a while of hanging out at the top, the guard came and chased us off ^^;, so we went back down, and while I tried getting more sleep, the rest did random stuff like exercise on the many exercise machines, roll downhill(Heal XD) and other stuff....

Then the scene shifted to Aoi's car, where after seeing Att take Aoi's car for a spin, Ciel suddenly wanted to try it out.And as expected, the car didnt even move a meter before it died unceremoniously due to the dreaded "release clutch too fast and never press accelerator" faux pas every manual n00blet does the first time.Then suddenly, Lina told me she wanted to try driving my car.I was like "O_O you serious ah", but there was doubting the serious-ness of her words anyway.So, next thing you know, I was teaching Lina how to drive my SunSun....XD

And it wasnt half bad.Sure the car died the first time she tried moving it (See above for the mistake), but on the second try it moved, and she even got to make the u-turn properly and drove a fair bit, before she almost banged into the curb later ^^;;;;

It was 6 am, Aoi drove Xiong back home for some reason I cant remember with Ciel and Seiji, and the rest went to look for a place to eat breakfast.....

But we never found one, because they were all closed.After much deliberation, they decided to have dim sum, and I, after VERY LITTLE deliberation, decided to stay in the car and get some shut eye, as Lina and Joe did.Then at around 8 am, we left Bukit Jalil for Atifi's house.

Reached Atifi's house and collapsed INSTANTLY.After some more sleeping, felt renewed, rejuvenated and refreshed, and tried playing Taiko no Tatsujin with the drum pad Johan had brought.Not bad actually, but I had sorta retired from Taiko and lost all my l337 skillz, and for some reason I straight away played Kagekiyo O__________O

Had lunch at Atifi's place too (ATIFI, THANK YOU FOR THE PETROL MONEY AND LUNCH.YOU ARE TOO KIND TT____TT), then at around 1 pm we bid Atifi farewell, and I set on a quest to send everyone back.Dropped everyone off, reached home and collapsed, because this driver was too tired to do anything else.....

What a day it was indeed.What a way to user into the new year....thanks to the 5 people who joined me on my little excursion.I enjoyed it a lot, the same way I am SURE you guys enjoyed it too.

And now for a random thought:I want to try Absinthe *__*

"There are moments when everything goes well.Dont be frightened, it wont last"

Was going through my past blog updates and came across this quote.Beautiful......

In other (disturbing) news, yours truly has a hit an all-time low where indolence is concerned.NEVER BEFORE in my entire life have I been this lazy to do ANYTHING.And anything even includes eating lunch -_-.Just the other day, my mom told me to guy buy dhal from the nearby shop.I told her I was too lazy to take the car out and I'd rather skip lunch then haul my ass out onto the car and drive to Old Town.Amazing.....

Keeping in line with "pre-set, pre-programmed life templates", here is what I've been doing ever since Cosmas ended.

Wake up, Brush teeth, Drink Coffee, Online......Eat lunch, Online......, Drink Tea, Online....., Eat dinner, Online.....Sleep, Wake up, repeat ad infinitum.

Subsitute the dots with something like "Band photoshoot", or "Fetch mum to Bank", or "ONLINE EVEN MORE" where necessary.

Now the indolence has infected my blogging habits.I cant even bring myself to write a half-decent blog update AT ALL.So anyway, Happy New Year FUCKERS, here is to hoping that 2005 is as good as, if not better than 2004.
WHAT, no 2004 roundup you say?Well, at this current state, I'll be happy if I can roundup anything past January, so we'll just leave that for later.2004 was a great year, lotsa great things, lotsa not-so-great things, and stuff in-between to recap, reflect upon and reminisce. but now just is NOT the time for that.It might turn into a mental horror story for all I know....

Oh and if you dont already know, I am know bald.No this isnt my idea of some prank/bad joke etc etc.I am REALLY bald.Apparently Mahen saw me at KLCC, and then he called my mum and told her my hair was HORRIBLE (Ed: LOL), so she pressured me to get it off that morning itself.

Thats it for now, await my coming at the dawn of the 5th moon.Or whatever it is that signals my coming....^^

Its the year end again, lotsa stuff to do to the car, here is my planned list of things to do-up/mod.

1.Ground Wiring(DONE)
2.Add Internal Light
3.Complete Service
4.Change Seat Cushions
5.Remove STUPID sound coming from front passenger door
6.Remove STUPID rattling sound coming from beneath engine
7.Remove STUPID rattling sound coming from roof
8.Remove water stagnant in back light panel, and re-use silicone sealant.
9.Install waterguard for doors
10.Buy bigger mats for the back

The following will most likely be done myself when I get the money.

1.Install CD Player
2.Install new Air Filter, preferably with Ram Pipe
3.Change exhaust pipe to S-Pipe

Those 3 alone will set me back by about RM1000.A new CD player is easily Rm400, Air Filters go for RM300 and an S-Pipe is around 300 as well.Can be done....as long as I get that teaching job, or failing that, or any other job for that matter....^^

I thought it would be a good idea to let both CF and Cosmas pass by and THEN only write an update on both events as well as everything else that came with it.But I thought wrong.My frail brain cannot possibly contain within itself the many crazy, mad, sad, uplifting, joyous, painful, disturbing, stressful, demoralising and other whatnots events that happened in the space of 2 weeks.Not at all....

So....herein begins the recap of the weeks that went by and were never to be relived....

The week after STPM ended was basically used up practising for CF and Cosmas.Although I'd use the word "CF" very sparingly here.You know what?Me, Elaine and Gi had practically only ONE proper practice session, and that was on FRIDAY!And since I remember what happened on Friday very vividly, I'll start there.

Woke up, went to Atifi's house for practice.Covered Mods de Chocobo and Magical Dreamers rather easily, Summer Squid still left a lot to be desired, and came up with a plan to perform "A Moment When Tension Breaks" from Neon Genesis Evangelion OST Disc 2.At around 1.30, left for SS2, to get my bleach at Guardian.Then went to Old Town to get my hair cut and check on the status of my shirt, which, not to my surprise, wasnt ready yet.Fair enough.Hair cut was done well, very closely resembling Anderson's, and headed back to fetch Elaine and off we went to the National Art Gallery for a soundcheck.

Ed's note:Lugging around that keyboard is crazy.I dont ever wanna do it again....

Sound check proceeded without a glitch, left NAG around 7, collected my shirt, reached home feeling EXTREMELY tired and sleepy.....and I dozed off.

CF Day 1:

Woke up a little later than I had wanted to.7.30 am.And I told Max I'd fetch him at 8.And I still needed to get a bottle of shampoo for my sis.Quickly got ready, sped off to 7-11, got the shampoo, then drove off rather quickly to Max's place, loaded up his stuff, then proceeded to OUG Plaza to guide Bunny-chan, because she  wasnt so sure of the road to NAG.Interestingly enough, saw Hong Yong on Jalan Tun Razak.^^

First day was cool.Considerable amount of cosplayers, I was at the 2nd floor mingling with the crowds at the doujin stalls for the most part, and really, my memory has failed me to the point where I just CANNOT remember anything at all....

After everything ended, I drove to Amir's place to get my hair bleached.But first, sent Sizer, Rylands, Mamoru-chan and Jin to the LRT station.I HATE THE JALAN TUN RAZAK JAM....
And I look cool with my hair bleached.XDSeriously.After finishing Hong Yong's hair as well, drove off, reached home at 12, got my costume ready, chatted a bit online and dozed off.

CF Day 2:

Woke up a little earlier, got ready, and once again set off to NAG.This time to COSPLAY ALEXANDER ANDERSON!
Here I am cosplaying Mr.Ganderson.

All-in-all, great day.But everytime I try to recollect my thoughts, I get these disturbing images in my head....its almost as if it doesnt want me to access them...

5 more days to Cosmas....

5 days of non-stop band practices.Well, make that 4, since we took off on Wednesday.The highlight was definitely Friday, going to the hotel and practising with Jared and Gi.Hisashi came later, and we stayed over in his room.I miss that day.....I miss it a lot.

Cosmas 2004:

Woke up at 7 IIRC, went down for final practices with everyone.Everything SEEMT ok.....then disaster struck:

The sound levels were WAYYYYYYYYY off.We couldnt hear the drums at all, causing all of us to go out of sync and everything to come together as one HUGE mess.End product:Kanojo no Modern and The Final was screwz0rred.....

Jared decided to play the drum track directly off Guitar Pro, which proved to be a wise idea, because you see, when you can hear the drums, you wont fall out of sync, and you actually play well, and the crowd goes crazy....
In short, the last 3 songs (+1 encore) was awesome.After I finished Yokan my fingers were sore as hell, but feeling the energy coming from the crowd during the first bar of Stay Away, I pushed myself to the limit, and now look, The Nyatrix has a fanclub.....XD

Anyway, pic time:

I look so damm teh cool in this pic.XD

From left:Elaine, Me, Gi.

Hello, my name is Gan and Im playing the Stay Away bass solo w00tz0rZ!

But somehow, everytime I think back on the past weekend I feel an uneasy sense of eeriness....its as if something happened and I didnt realize it at all...of course there is all the fun in reminiscing the good times, but something is just waiting there, looming ominously over me, imposing a dark shadow of disturbance....*Sigh*

One thing is for sure, I'll miss everything.I'll miss the phone calls "Gan, I'm in Taman Jaya already", or "Gan, tomorrow practice what time/where?", I'll miss the practice sessions, I'll miss the jokes we cracked, I'll miss everything......

I know this blog update was horribly incoherent, nothing like anything I've posted before, but Im finding it so hard for me to collimate my thoughts into one single being without having to flinch....I just feel like Im writing this for the sake of writing....Ah well, thats all for now.

Due to the excessiveness of the previous blog post, this next update will see me use a different approach, while still maintaining that critical level of abusive incoherence ^^

1.Behemoth's new album totally knocked the living daylights out of me.This is black metal at its fucking finest.

2.STPM is over.Project Nocturne is still pending due to excessive lack of sleep and constant going outs.

3.Finished downloading all 7 discs of the Evangelion S2 Works OST.Together with the Death & Rebirth OST and the End Of Evangelion OST.

4.Finally found out that the song that plays at the opening of Death and Rebirth is "Ode to Joy" by Beethoven.

Corollary to 3 and 4:Going crazy over Johann Sebastian Bach's II Air.

5.Went to Seiji's house on Friday and overnighted till Saturday.Found out how deeply bound I was to The Grim Demonolith, Crawlspace and the Internet.Xiong says he likes my driving ^^

6.Still havent finished Anderson's costume.Still havent started practising for the CF band.

Aliter:Had a quick jam session with Jared and Azam for the CosMas band.Looking good....

Corollary to 5: Got back my Hoshi no Koe DVD from Elizabeth.Found out how deeply I missed this show, also showed them the trailers to Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho.Elaine loves the clouds....

Addendum:I suck at the guitar....

7.This week will be oh-so-goddamm busy for me.Move aside Doujinkas, you havent felt stress and pressure until you've led a band to perform, and only started practising 1 week before....^^

8.CF is this week.4th member of the Exalted Infernals wont be present.Sadly...

Corollary:Harle will be doing Ceras.Meaning there will be 5 people in the Hellsing group this time.You whats the significance of the number 5?There are 5 vertices in a Pentagram.

9.Returned to Seiji's today for awhile, joined them for tea at Secret Recipe, then went to Bukit Jalil Park, to shoot my new movie, titled "Bukit Jalil no Mukou, Elaine no Yakusoku" .Elizabeth being my CG artist and Elaine being the actress.XD

Aliter:The Royal Plastic Fork of Doom broke today.I dont know how, it just snapped.When I asked my (ex)Queen if Im still bound to her, she said it was up to me.XD
Whether or not this is some kind of ill omen of impending disaster, I do not know.But she said she'd give me another plastic fork.YAY!

Next update probably wont be till after CosMas.Stop e-mailing me asking for updates.