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Nov. 1st, 2009

  • 5:08 AM

Had a pretty interesting halloween, involving some crystal-reading-your-personality thing, tarrot card reading, one whole hour of gay self-realization (cause we all were listening in on each other) and an enjoyable night in a familiar place with good people.

im tired but i like how today turned out.

it's garlic bread.

  • Oct. 31st, 2009 at 4:42 AM

yowza. had a nice quiet day today.
the rain and dustin kenrue is gonna put me to sleep tonight.
ive been with nik for a year and two months. it feels much longer than that, in a good way. i know i'm seriously bad at being romantic and shit, i probably look like one hell of an awkward motherfucker when i try to say nice things, but dayamn, i have never known love so sweet. it's been a bummer lately, cause some company has hired slaves for a sizable pay (but seriously not sizable enough for the kind of work she's doing) and it's eating up all of her time and energy. all that pay goes to helping her mom keep that roof over their heads. i have no idea how she gets her shit together, but she does. respect yo.
i have never truly understood the word amazing until i got myself into this whole thing. :)

happy fourteen months, luv.
it's garlic bread.

Oct. 30th, 2009

  • 3:33 AM

technology has depleted my creative energy. i spent all night learning new ways (or at least the proper ways) to do stuff with my sequencing software, and by the time i was half done i forgot what i was trying to do in the first place. fuck you midi controller, fuck you reason, fuck you cubase, fuck you and fuck you rewire!!! arrrgghhh!!!!!!!!!!!
all my problems would be solved if i could actually sing decently. GOD, RANDOMLY GRANT ME A GOOD SINGING VOICE WHEN I WAKE UP TMR PLEASE? I WILL NOT SIN AGAIN!

Oct. 29th, 2009

  • 4:46 PM

wow, i have no idea what to do for halloween this year. last year was so much more fun, we released a couple songs and everybody came. what amazing friends we have. i miss everyone! we're all so grown up and scattered, it sucks. it's really hard to keep in touch with everyone. sometimes i feel like a diplomat going from clan to clan. everyone's so busy. haha. oh and i havent blogged about this yet but i enter ns on the 8th of december. i'm gonna be a policeman. how fantastic!

Oct. 19th, 2009

  • 5:28 AM

I fall three times as hard
If it's from nothing at all
You all seem twice as tall as I will ever be.

And I feel terribly small
When my head works too hard
When you think with your chest,
There's not a thing that you don't see.

I'm hardly capable of half the damage
That I would like to do
I could swear that I don't care,
But you know I'm too full of shit
To think this through.

Oct. 19th, 2009

  • 4:57 AM

i marvel at my talent in fucking things up. that's one thing im really good at. i need to be reminded to not forget to remember.
good god, bring me back to where i used to be.
even though i'm not sure what my stand on organized religion is,
i'm pretty sure god exists and in any case, ive been neglecting that.

Trella is nominated?????

  • Oct. 10th, 2009 at 4:51 AM

 
 

We're nominated for "most promising act" alongside For This Cycle and Audiocean from sg. weiwen is a bastard cause he gets two shots at this. hahaha but anyway, do vote for us if you think we deserve this title!!! we promise that we'll deliver something worth promising by march 2010. :) just click on the picture above. voting closes 30 nov 09. one vote per hour. OH and FBE is nominated too for best breakthrough act. its another category. DO VOTE FOR THEM TOO!
 

day off.

  • Oct. 3rd, 2009 at 3:12 AM


took a day off work today. again. quite randomly. called in sick when i was, but not too seriously.
started writing a song but then had a huge writers block. and now im stuck. hate it when this happens.
been thinking about what to study/what my career would be in the future.
a career in music seems so bleak in this country.

by the time people are my age in america, they would have played warped tour.
i'm sitting ducks here.
GIVE US A SIGN

RE

  • Sep. 29th, 2009 at 5:19 AM

God never had a set of rules. for all we know, moses wrote the ten commandments himself. God's real, people just like to make him into whatever they think is right. And in this world, everyone thinks that everyone else is wrong. human imperfection has made God terribly imperfect, and i guess that's why we both find ourselves disagreeing with all these priests. it's not that they're wrong about everything. its that they could be wrong. cause no one knows for sure what is 100% right. so we're basically praying to a God who could be non-existant, but that's what Faith is I guess. faith is not religion.

brand new eyes

  • Sep. 25th, 2009 at 5:12 AM

Ola. been having a pretty busy week, but I like it this way sometimes because there's always something to do. The Fates have not been kind to me yet again, my Imac recently crashed. It refuses to boot up. Randomly, no warning signs of lagging whatsover. One day I just came home and tried switching it on, and it didn't boot up. Called the service people up and discovered that my internal hard disk somehow dismounted. Am currently in the process of emailing them my "proof of purchase" so I can get free servicing. I'm currently using my mum's laptop which is slow as f*** but I'm grateful to even have a device to keep from getting unplugged. Work at the bar is getting annoying because of a combined effect of my own disinterest in bars/drinking/FnB and overly demanding customers. Well its better now that I can get along with colleagues. And now Brendan, poor brendan, is also a colleague. haha. Waking up these past few mornings is also more difficut, I always seem to press "cancel alarm" instead of "snooze" on my phone. Yes, my phone's my alarm clock, I don't have a proper one. phoey. I wish there was more than 24 hours in a day, so nik and i could hang out abit more. I also wish the human body and mind could stay awake for longer without pushing the limit........ but oh well. its all wishful thinking!!

Well other than that, life's been pretty neat. We've been tracking drums, guitars and bass for a song on the EP this week, gonna finish tracking on Saturday and then it's editing and mixing all the way. Sounding sweet so far. I never actually realised how much I like this song, I always thought it had the most cliche lyrics in the world and really boring instrumentation but I'm pleased to honestly say that it's not too bad. Definitely one of the few songs that I'm proud to call ours. It's not that I'm a perfectionist. It's just that we're lousy. But we're working on that. haha...

We've got a show coming up on the 4th of october at scape lab. the band's been through some shit but I'm glad that we're all finally working together again, things are looking up and we're all excited about stuff. It's like we have brand new eyes!

Been spending my hours at the studio, kpo, and youtube. Been getting around on my bike which is honestly a piece of shit but I kinda like it. I've come to realise that travelling on public transport is actually calming in a way. Much more calming than riding a shitty motorcycle to get yourself around. When you're riding your own vehicle, you have to pay attention to everything in order to prevent your own death. Today I almost died, my front tire had a puncture so I rode home on that piece of shit, it was absolutely thrilling but also kind of scary. I received the finger from a random biker for taking up the entire lane. Is it really wrong to actually ride properly instead of squeeze between lanes? I know I'm slower and probably slow you down as well but hey I've got a shitty excuse for a bike and IVE GOT A FLAT TIRE!!!!!

I miss taking public transport, it gives you time to just sit down, plug in to your music and just think about stuff. I find that I quite miss that, I think I will do that soon. I've been watching band of brothers, it's a, I dont quite know how to wrap it up but it's the most intense miniseries ever. it's insane to think of what those guys went through. please watch it if you havent. world war two was such a motherfucking bitch, you start to wonder where God was in all this.

Ah, there's always that revert to my favourite topic. If God exists or not. Well I think I've come to a pretty reasonable conclusion for everyone. The bottom line is that WE DON'T FUCKING KNOW. I don't care how much you "feel" him around. I can see fucking ghosts, and It's not pretty. I dont feel God around. I feel the love of the people around me but that's not god, that's just the people around me. Yes there is an afterlife but as much as I can tell you that I can't find God anywhere anymore, I just don't know. And you probably don't either. No one knows. So dear religious, if everyone just realised that, we won't be fighting about what's supposed to be good and pure. As far as I'm concerned, everything that's good and pure in this world comes from Human Beings. We're capable of a hell lot of destruction (enter WW2) but also a hell lot of love and a whole lot of good and pure things. (enter forrest gump, the retard who ran. i love that movie.)

Enter my weekend, I hope it'll end up being a sweet combination of "productive" and "satisfying."

PEACE!!!!

 

p.s. the new paramore album is AWESOME
 

Sep. 20th, 2009

  • 12:40 PM

If half the people at church actually paid some attention, we'd all probably realize how incredibly full of shit the catholic religion is. i dont know what keeps me dragging my feet to church, maybe it's just that out of my 19 years of living, i've hardly ever skipped mass. i dont know what it is honestly, but the bible is starting to make less and less sense. oh and i also feel really bad for deaf people. they will never get to experience the insane and most amazing joy of music. peace.

Sep. 14th, 2009

  • 3:07 AM

why revoke against selling out when you have absolutely nothing to sell out in the first place?

new ipod!

  • Sep. 10th, 2009 at 3:51 AM

my parents are the fking best.
got an ipod for my birthday.
SWEEEETTTTTTTTTTTT
after living with my 2gb creative mp3 player which i've been living with since i was fourteen,
this is DEFINITELY something to shout about.
yay.

Sep. 9th, 2009

  • 5:30 AM

i cannot get to sleep when my imagination is tormenting my mind, which in turn, torments my brain, which in turn, torments my tiny little body which results in my inability to fall asleep. being frustrated is annoying, but i can't help it. there are just too many questions right now and i can't even answer any of them. i honestly don't know what i'm gonna do, or end up doing, i don't have a plan, everything's purely done on impulse. but i feel like i'm right, even though it makes so sense at all, i love it, but i hate that i'm so vulnerable. and no, having a plan does not equate to having hopes and dreams. oh sure, i have loads of that, enough to last me till i die. i have enough passion to last me till i'm shrivelled up and paralyzed and enough hopes and dreams to keep me alive till i'm a century old. but sometimes passion can kill you before you're ready to die, and those hopes and dreams would never happen.

well it can fucking kill me before i can say that i'm done with it, cause i'm not backing down.

Sep. 9th, 2009

  • 12:10 AM

if only i had some real talent, i wont have to depend on people as much.

the recount.

  • Sep. 5th, 2009 at 4:50 AM

today was one hell of a long day. it started out with some scary ass shit in the morning but im glad it's somewhat better now. i went to scape to do a bit of work before jamming with face off. slacked a bit, went to pick up cymbals then played the show. it was okay, i somehow managed to enjoy myself while feeling incredibly weird and out of place. i already feel weird and out of place when i play in my own band, (that's just cause i am the way i am. i try not to show it...) but it's really retarded when im playing for someone else's band. haha. anyway, after that, we headed back to scape to chill with the rest of the people there. ended up chilling there for quite a bit, had a couple interesting conversations and i was engaged in battle with our producer. we were playing winning eleven. liverpool versus man-u. now we are both average players at best but this was one hell of a match. probably the highlight of my day. i of course, had to choose liverpool. was two to nothing in my favour before half time. in the second half he scored. so it was 2-1. we fought to the end, and just towards the end, i just went "eh roland. just score la. we go extra time and penalties." haha and OKAY FACTS RIGHT I LET HIM SCORE. and we went into extra time. those 30 virtual minutes were the most exciting moments of the day. no score, so we went into penalties and well. i'm such a lucky bastard, so i managed to miss all my shots. the win went to roland. yay, so much for being a nerd. im a nerd who sucks at games.

anyway, we wanted to leave after we realised that it was getting late and i was fucking tired. but im a hell of a lucky bastard, so as soon as we got ready to leave, it started raining as if everyone in heaven decided to take a good, long piss. so there we were, we just sat down and slacked till the rain died down. i swear riding in the rain is scary, fun and painful. haha. sent wei back, baptised jeraldboy for a while and then went home and here i am. this was a nice recount. okay goodnight. oh yeah i passed my class 2b by the way i wanna remember this period of time so in a year i can take off the p plate. hahaha. goodnight.

Sep. 2nd, 2009

  • 1:49 PM

thank you kind sir for being an honest person!!!
my money is back in its rightful  place

Sep. 2nd, 2009

  • 5:23 AM

dear money, come back please? :(

baybeats.

  • Aug. 31st, 2009 at 10:15 PM

Surprisingly enough, we all managed to enjoy ourselves at baybeats this year even though we weren't really looking forward to it as much as baybeats in its previous years. I expected the worst, because I basically wasnt eager to catch every band there. Its as if the festival wasn't made for us anymore. Metalheads infiltrated baybeats with Meza Virs, and it was quite scary. I was honestly shoked beyond words when some random girl came out to whip the singer. I dont understand that. (not dissing, please dont beat me up.)

Before its downfall, I loved baybeats. in 04, I was like a kid entering utopia. at the time, playing at baybeats was about the biggest deal anyone could be for me. obviously at fourteen, i didn't think outside a 65 kilometer radius, so there you go.

Needless to say though, I loved Anberlin and still managed to get the greatest kick out of seeing them live again even if it was for the third time already. Enjoyed FBE's set and all of Wei's sets. I just hate that they decreased the overall volume of baybeats cause of fucked up neighbours. Luckily they like, didnt give a fuck and just turned it up for Anberlin. If only they did it for FBE too.... it would have been perfect. Haha, I have this thing with anberlin. I'd randomly and impulsively yell a particular song title and they'd play it. It happened all three times with the songs Paperthin Hymn, Adelaide and Godspeed. Yay. oh and ive never seen utt be so vulgar before. that was quite random.

The last day of baybeats was the most awesome. Music + friends and loved ones ftw.

Oh but the first day... the ending of the first day was something we'll NEVER forget. hahahahahah


"ah, stairs, the bane of life."

I swear we have the most entertaining producer.

Alright, so basically, to sum it all up. Spent my time watching Roland get fucking wasted, Weiwen's sets, Barricade, For Better Endings, The Ambassadors, and Anberlin. Celebrated our 1 year, rode around on my dad's bike for the first time and learnt about metal music and terrifying showmanship. Definitely a good weekend.

The Lost Boy can be found on FBE's NEW EP!

  • Aug. 28th, 2009 at 12:21 AM

YO. update.

For those of you who've somehow managed to actually like what you've been hearing on our myspace, you'll be pleased to hear this piece of news if you haven't already heard it.

'The Lost Boy' sampler's been up on our myspace (http://myspace.com/trellaband) for almost a month, and if you like it, there's a way for you to get the full song.

Big Ear Music is introducing bonus content on all our releases, and our dear friends and labelmates For Better Endings (Who are playing on day 3 of Baybeast 09!) have ever so kindly given us some extra megabytes on their NEW E.P. to slap the Full Version of The Lost Boy in their bonus section!!!!!

Their new shit is insane and absolutely mind blowing. If you wanna hear The Lost Boy as a complete song, do get the new For Better Endings E.P. at Baybeats this year. They're only playing on last day 3, (sunday) but the E.P. will be on sale throughout the entire festival. If you are a fan of FBE, and you get the new ep at baybeats, I hope you take the time to listen to the bonus track as well. :)

We're really grateful to be given such an opportunity to cross promote this way. I really hope you guys get FBE's new EP. I had the priviledge of listening to their new stuff at the studio and it's really, really, amazing. We're honoured to have our music on their EP, even if it's just bonus content! I hope more and more bands help each other out this way, I think it's great for everyone. Especially you guys, cause you get more stuff to listen to. :)

Thanks everyone,
hope you like The Lost Boy!

Do help us to spread the word out. Hope everyone get's FBE's ep, YOU HAVE TO HEAR THAT SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!! EVEN IF YOURE NOT HARDCORE!!!!!!!

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