Live at the 2008 Festival...

The Bluestankers enjoying the festivities at the Alliance Franchise grounds...
Showtime: jeeby(drums), framus(lead and vocals), razer(bass and vocals), dark kai(rhythms)
After the gig, nicotine to the rescue... :-) look at jeeby... he pounded away... :-)

Thanks for all who came and supported us. We really appreciate the applauses and the yells... :-) Good gig, see you next year...

For a clip of the gig, tune in here :-)

Le Creme de La Bluestankers

Lend us your support for our maiden gig... Set list in honor of the supergroup Cream...

1. White Room
2. Badge
3. Outside Woman Blues
4. Crossroads
(5.) Sunshine of Your Love

Nostalgic and tragic drama... Age of Glory

This is my favorite prop photo - It has the closest to a Leica look of all - What do you think Debbie? :-)

The past months or so has been regimental to my tv watching habits. Never did I think I would have ended up glued to the telly at 945pm for an hour, mostly weekdays to catch the current local favorite drama. NTV7 and Double Vision's latest collaboration; Age of Glory tells the story of 3 local women and their struggles in the hard lifes of the 60s and 70s. It also portrays Kuala Lumpur's legendary BB Park from its prime days to its demise in the early 70s. Beautiful casts as well... led by Debbie Goh herself (a former beauty pageant queen), Aenie Wong, and Danielle Dai... Well done you gals! You rock! :-)

A good drama should always be accompanied by a great soundtrack... In this department, we had the local 988 host Lee Xin Yi providing sweet vocal duties for most of the tracks heard here. The opening and ending themes of this drama send shivers down my spine whenever I hear 'em... It's sort of haunting, perplexing yet nostalgic... The kind of strange vibes I'm into... la... :-) Love the antiquities presented in the drama too: vintage cars, furnitures, costumes, clocks, etc. Businessmen in their 3 piece suits... really regal and accurate in every aspect of capturing the era's environment.

So, since this drama concluded last evening, I'm gonna have troubles putting it behind me; anyone else who wants to appreciate a good drama should head to the NTV7 website for catch up tv... Trust me, it's worth it... :) t

Lurking With My Paul...

Courtesy of photo booth mac application, pose away and snap away in mirror rocking images... :-D

Sweet Home Alabama!

Our inaugural outing to the recently opened Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurant at the Curve tonight... Shrimps, crawfishs, tasteful entrees, and deserts flavor our occasion to this new eatery. The place is a cosy one, housed on the top level of the Curve's row of cafes and diners, amongst them; Starbucks, Marche, Italianies, and TGIF. The theme: From Columbia's Forrest Gump movie, a so called extension of the movie itself, the restaurant evidently owned by Forrest (played by Tom Hanks) after scoring it big with fellow Vietnam veteran Private Benjamin Bufford 'Bubba' Blue as business partners.

The restaurant is opened by my good buddy as well, Rizal, who's clearly put in tons of effort opening it in such a short period of time after his stint in Long Beach, CA for about 2 months last year. An expert in the F&B industry with a wealth of networking leads got him to head the establishment after his departure from the TGIF chain which he's heralded for the last 12 years.

2 cents: Good atmosphere, home/country taste cooking (good control of sodium), fast service, friendly staffs, and extremely creative decoration all around. A highly recommended eatery if you like the homely and the 'forresty' ambience. Can't beat it for shrimps definitely... :-)

Strat Mania Kicks In!!!

I don't know what's gotten into me lately... Strats, strats, strats.... I leave you to the photos to decipher... :-), t

We are family... All My Brothers, Sisters, and Me...

Portraiture
1977 Fender Stratocaster
1966 Fender Stratocaster
1974 Fender Stratocaster

New Axe, New Vision...

The Skunk
She was definitely a whore once :-)
Endless bashing yielded these marks...
'The Skunk' is a common breed of a rare species: a vintage 1974 Fender Stratocaster in what used to be a 3-tone sunburst finish... Plays like butter, as most of this era's Strats are, and the tone.... my my, bright and clear as a bell, and wails like Billy F. Gibbon's Strats... Funky as hell, and the smell of the funk from the years played... 34 years in total of accumulated funk is no joke.. Took me like 4 hrs to give her a proper scrub she's been longing for all these years...Heck, it was definitely worth it... now 'The Ford' the other '66 Strat in my possession would have a 'Mustang' for a competitor eh...Naughty t just had to get him a torn down abused axe to justify for all the blues he's facing... :-P

Summicron 50 M from Bangkok!

O la la, another lens purchase... i need to refrain, really... ha ha ha. Above are a couple of shots with the 21mm and 35mm lenses along my travels there recently...

Snapshots off the Biogon...

Carl Zeiss 21/2.8 Biogon ZM lens

Got this as a standard wide angle lens for my M8. With the 1.33x crop factor of the M8, the perspective becomes 28mm on the M8. Razor sharp wide open, and great contrast. I think I prefer this lens over my previous Leica 21/2.8 non asph lens. For landscaping and interior photography, this is a perfect accompaniment to my current 35/2 asph and 90/2.8 lenses...

Pre dawn euphoria

Oh well, first photos of the candy itself... Plan to go do some sponty with it in the morning, maybe around the city area, while everyone's still asleep :-) Will post up some photies soon after!