Im an artist, but I lack patience

I was trying (for the probably 17th time) to learn Tommy Immanuel's daytripper intro. Ive been trying to get it down since I picked up a guitar 8 years ago. Given I dont play as often as I did, I wouldn't say Ive played guitar for 8 years...but Im good enough to play along with, but not public jam standard...yet.

Anyway, this song is pretty technical, almost like the syncopated piano pieces where the left hand plays almost exactly what the right hand is playing but 2 beats behind. Its such a mind f***. The melody plays on the bass notes while u pluck a beat on the high notes througout the song, its like playing melody and accompanyment with one hand, just as a measure of difficulty.

Anyway Ive gotten some advice from Uncle Steve and actually looked up the tabs and voila! I managed to get it down to a degree. Not perfect yet, but Im happy its sounding like even a shade of what it suppose to sound like...after al this time. I thought my brain incapable. Achievement points!

Its not just some other song, but bragging rights, that I can join the ranks of Roger Wang soon. LOL.

Calling all friends

Today at work, I was almost fell asleep at my desk cause I stayed up wait for it to download and to watch Gossip Girl. It was worth it. Anyway, apparently my songs at work are not working the way they are suppose to. Please help. I need to know what songs you listen to to be productive. Think really hard please.

My friend Mike gave me Lilium so far. Its awesome. 10 minute track of latin choir-ing which does not distract me and alleviates my mood.

Awaiting your attention.

Did you know?

Did you know that true love asks for nothing?
True love dont want a thing.
Her acceptance is the way we pay.

-As, Stevie Wonder.

Tagged!

- Introduction -

First Name - Dezza
Nickname - Dee, Derikus Maximus
Name you wish you had - Keith, my mum's first choice name for me.
What do people normally mistake your name as - Eric
Birthday - 21st Jan 85
Birthplace - Kana Klinik, KK (so that KK,KK)
Time of Birth - etiher morning or night. not afternoon im sure.
Single or taken - Single but taken
Zodiac sign - Aqua aquarius!!!
-Your Appearance-

How tall are you - about 5'6"
Wish you were taller - sometimes, esp yesterday at the concert
Eye color - dark brown
Eye color you want - light blue
Natural Hair color - Black (brown in the sun?)
Current Hair color - Black
Short or long hair - short on the sides, high up top
Ever dye your hair a bizarre color - auburn gold! colour 665 and 667 combined.
Curly,Straight,Wavy - Straight, and wavy when long.
Last time you did something dramatic with your hair - 2 years ago, the ammonia burnt.
Glasses or contacts - glasses mostly, contacts for sports and long make up sessions where glasses are a no-no.
Do you wear make-up - man-liner!!!
Ever had hair extensions - only the detachable ones under my arms.
Paint your nails - someone owes me a manicure. no, never.

-In the opposite gender-

What color eyes - light blue
What color hair - prefer mid to long
Shy or Outgoing - lady in the street,whore in the....
Looks or personality - Personality 65%
Sexy or Cute - You can only be sexy or cute. Its conflicting definitions. So Im gonna go with attractive. But generally I go for cute girls. Sexy girls are full of themselves.
Serious or Fun -you need both. most of the time fun. serious when you need to be.
Older or Younger than you - prefer younger, but I like learning.
A turn on - good comm, click, some similar interest, easy going, fun, pref same faith, have a great laugh/smile, keeps me guessing, spontaneous, confident, dresses up (at least once in a while), loves all sorts of food.
A turn off - being six feet tall (except Stacy Kiebler), too weird ( and I can stand some really kooky characters, hehe), no click.

-This or that-

Flowers or Chocolate - chocolates!
Pepsi or Coke - coke + JD
Rap or Rock - rock
Relationship or One night stand - relationships.
School or Work - school til foundation. then work
Love or Money - Love. Kill me now.
Movies or Music - Damn, I love music videos. I guess music.
Country or City - KK and Brisbane are cities now, so city.
Sunny or Rainy days - cloudy days. sunny if its not too hot.
Friends or Family - family.

-Have you ever-

Lied - guilty
Stole something - aha.
Smoked - second hand marijuana yesterday count?
Hurt someone close to you - guilty.
Broke someone's heart -guilty
Had your heart broken - aye karamba. 2 for 2. its like karma!
Wondered what was wrong with you - not wrong, but what could be better
Wish you were a prince/princess - for the fame, fortune and extra good looks. whynot? do i get a cool horse and sword?
Liked someone who was taken - Liked? Yes.
Shaved your head - None oh.
Been in love - Yes.
Used chopsticks -Im pro.
Sang in the mirror to yourself - Not in the mirror, but in the bathroom for extra echo.

- Favourites -

Flower -golden showers. lol. not the sex feat.
Candy - rabbit sweets! with the rice paper!
Song - misery business -paramore
Scent - one- CK, envy me- gucci
Color - blue
Movie - of all time, Moulin Rouge.
Singer - Hayley from Paramore atm.
Word - Confounded!
Junk food - Prawn Crackers.Double decker! Double Decker!
Website - hollywood tuna
Lotion - QV repair dry skin.
Animal - little wow wow's

Ever cried over someone - Maybe cry inside.
Is there anything you wish you could change about yourself - Need more confeidence...more...MORE!!!
Do you think you're attractive - Sometimes. To certain ppl.
If you had to choose a fairytale as your life what would you choose - Little Mermaid. Ill be Sebastian. He's one kooky crab. But everyone sings along with him. How cool is that.
Do you play any sports -tonsil hockey! pewpew.

III

The rules:-
Link to your tagger and post these rules.- List (8) random facts about yourself and tag (8) people

1. Ive missed church for 3 weeks straight in Lent.
2. Ive broken my Lentern promise already.
3. I havent gone confession in 2-3 years.
4. I can do 32 elevated pushups...in a row. About 120 with short breaks each 20.
5. I can do 7 pullups. yeah thats it.
6. Im sweating now cause I didnt turn the air-con on.
7. My nails are kept long to play guitar, but I cut them to take my contacts out sometimes.
8. I love my job. Yes really.Okie, sometimes.


8 people I tag:
1. Esther
2. Aeron
3. Affendy
4. Alan
5. Sheena
6. Sing Yee
7. Dayze
8. April

Brisbane Brainstorm

7 weeks in Brisbane has been eventful. A taste of something different almost every week and it pushes me, hard. I strive. Spontaneous, getting out of the comfort zone, that sorta thing. 3 more weeks to go here and I know Ive done my best at setting out what I wanted to achieve. Few more big...very big things to accomplish. We shall see.

What Ive achieved: lived in an enviroment Im not used to and mix and mingled and made a fool out of myself. And loved it cause I enjoyed it (most of it) and for doing it. Spoke out of my opinions at work and got along pretty well with 30 odd people in my unit. Oh, and got my contact lenses in! Yay! Reverse parking is easier too.

What I still want to achieve:Need to have that big chat with Paul to arrange something permanent and follow up on our verbal agreement. Need to find some form of exercise during the week, I think Im still 52kg :( , and party hard as always on weekends. The dreaded parallel parking skill...still eludes me.

What Ive learned: If you want something pray, and pursue it. You cant fail if you dont give up. Sometimes Ive got to think about me.

Really looking forward to this concert on Saturday. Its gonna be great! Incubus! Offspring! Plain White T's! Sugacult! Killswitch Engage! to name but a few. WOOOoooo~

Tentang Seseorang

I love this shit.

This guy is sick!
If you never heard rap before, disregard this.

Headlines

Now the Spice Girls are pretty awesome. Biggest girl band in history.ever.
My favourite was ginger spice, second was baby. I had 2 of their cassettes and even a VCD with all the singles from the first album. Now that I think about it, couple of posters on my wall to boot!

The new single entitled headlines leaves me a bit disappointed as a comeback single. The song is about a 5/10 and you wont see me pushing playback too many times. The music video could have been amped a bit with pairing up the girls a bit more to get that lesbionic feeling we see with Geri and Posh (similar to the 2 become 1 video with geri and baby). We can also see Geri's abs are in magnificent shape! Not bad for a comeback after almost 10 years, Im just waiting for some better tunes to roll out. Girl pwr!

Great lyrics

A great musician once said, its not always about the lyrics that make great music, its about the tune. See Britney Spears early work, you cant remember much, but say the title of the song and you can get the tune and maybe sing the chorus from memory. It was the frontman of Travis or Coldplay who said that.

Just wanna share some lyrics that mean something to me, athough simple, it has a great tune which I wish I could show in words.

Anywhere, say anywhere
(as long as Im with you)
Anything, say anything
(we'll watch the world go by)

Okay, reading it makes it sound pretty plain. But here are some lyrics to a more well known song.

I was born to make you happy
Always and forever you and me
Thats the way our life should be
I dont wanna live without your love
I was born to make you happy

Work is getting increasingly hard to do especially when you are sick. I think I contracted the flu when I had steamboat at Lynn's house the other day.

How cool would it be to be the chic in a rapper's video?

Pretty damn cool Id say!

My first cousin Camille (my mum's youngest brother's daughter) is in one, I thought Id be scouring to find her, but damn she appears in the first few seconds! Im mighty proud, I have not seen her for like 8 years and she was really shy back then, and still seems so to me. But enough talk here it is (shes the one in yellow with the roller blades):



And also check out the making off, she gets to talk to the camera a bit.