Blue

This part of the post is dedicated to Miss Daphne Lee... again!

This.. is Daphne Blue. =D

Haha, I couldn't help but laugh when I saw the fender catalog. A shade of blue dedicated to Daphne, the biggest blue fan on the face of the planet.

And this is for Mr Simon Sim..



Happy Birthday punk!!~ =D May your guitar skillz bloom like crazy and may you continue to grow in the Lord!! =D

You're so gullible la.. I wish everyone was as easy to surprize. Lol!! =D

Exposure

I knew I shouldn't have listened to you Jon. =p

Kaki King


Michael Hedges


Don Ross


Listen to Don Ross first!! Haha.. I must say that he's my favourite among the 3 of them. Such skill.. It's videos like this that make you wish you learned fingerstyle. Come to think of it, I've never seen anyone play fingerstyle live locally. I hear lessons for fingerstyle guitar cost more than normal guitar lessons. Much harder to learn too...

Kaki King looks so much better and edgy without her glasses. Haha!! She's fantastic man..

Darn.. I'm out of saliva.. again.

I should have listened to the voice at the back of my head telling me not to listen to Jon.. =D

3 easy steps to feeling horridly untalented

Step 1: Search "whose line is it anyway?" in Google and go to the first link you get.

Step 2: Click on the "Whose who?" Tab and scroll down to the last photograph, guitarist Linda Taylor.

Step 3: Click on "Musical Riff" under the photograph and the feeling of being horridly untalented should sink in pretty soon.

Lol... I'd sell my toes off to play half as well as she does. See!! Hannah!! Jane!! Shanice!! Girl guitarists can blow peoples minds away too!! =D

Comeback

Good day ladies and gentlemen..

Its been awhile hasn't it? =)

Forgive the long silence in The Noodle Shop. When assignments and exams come I barely have time to check my mail, what more blog. The good news is that I'm on a study break for a week. 1 week to catch up with all my subjects and to prepare myself for my 2nd sem finals. Not to mention catch up with some sleep..

I'm updating from the computer kiosk in uni.. Currently transfering some files but it's talking forever because it's on USB 1.0. What better time to make a comeback eh? =)

Ooo.. The files are almost done.. Look forward to a truckload of Flash games reviews in the next post!! =D

Evils of BitComet

My friend has thought me the dark arts of BitComet. So now I can download my beloved Prison Break episodes by myself!~ Buahahahahaha! Haha, season 2 here I come!! =D

I've also downloaded and watched X-men 3! The way everyone was talking about it was as if every other character died in the movie. Haha, as far as I remember only 3 people died, right? It was not bad, I had expectations for the movie and they were well met. =)

I'm still annoyed that the Tokyo Drift movie I downloaded was only half the movie. Gah..

My current download project now is "Whos Line is it Anyway?". Haha! The entire season 7 of the show is a whooping 4 gigs! Had to uninstall Oblivion from my PC just to make sure I could fit the files in my hard drive when they arrive. My already limited disk space is going to suffer more with all these downloads. =D

Beef or Chicken?!

This is dedicated to Crissida "Nonsense-girl" Wong.

The question remains!!



Buahahahahahahahaha!!

Wah, Dictionary.com just revamped. So canggih now..

It is finished!!

Dear Daphne Lee,

After a sudden burst of inspriration and 40 minutes of research and development, Ju Wei and Xin² Sdn Bhd are proud to present this to you. =)

I'm pretty sure you'll love this.. =D Hehehe...





Enjoy..

Xin: Fuyoo Daphne.. Macho man..

"It is finished!!" Lol lol lol..

All roads lead to Kajang...

Mr Simon Sim, I so want to borrow The Afters. Please give it back to church right away. =p

A picture's worth a thousand words. Lets start this post with four thousand words.. =D

Dear Daphne, Xin is editing photo with photoshop as we speak. =D hehe..


The mini mountain of fries!!


Feel the fatness!!


X!!

My cousin Chi Mei invited us (Kee Ken, Chui Yeng, Tina, Judson, Xin and I) to the "We will rock you" musical at Cempaka Private School (Cheras) on Friday. Unfortunately for us, we never made it to Cempaka.. Despite having a map, we got hopelessly lost along the way and drove aimlessly for a good 2 hours. We even reached all the way to Putrajaya!! Lol.. Sesatt..

Kee Ken drew up the map to the place because his printer is not working. Upon coming home I checked the schools website and saw the map for myself. It was somewhat funny..

It seems that we didn't even arrive to the point where the map starts. *sweatt..* (see figure 1)


(Figure 1)

Lol... Guess it was because the drawn map didn't have the landmarks. Haha.. What to do. =) But not all was lost!!

Fortunately, Tina had a back-up plan. She suggested we go watch One in a Million live in Syah Alam. So we then turned back towards Syah Alam to watch One In A Million at Sri Pentas 2. Luckily for us we only missed 1 performance. =D And we got in just in time to watch Faizal's rendition of L.O.V.E.!! =D

I was totally blown away by his version of the song. Who knew that song could be sung by a guy?! Haha!! What a show!!

Not everybody liked it though. I know Leonard and Crissy didn't.. *glare..* =p

The journey to Syah Alam from Putrajaya was hilarious. No matter which direction we went, the road signs all say Kajang is in front of us. (O_o) Haha..

To end the day, we went to pig out for supper at McDonalds!!

(see pictures above)

So much fries!! Haha!! =D

What a day is was. My foot was sore from driving..

Bless the inventor of automatic transmission..

1.2 Terrabyte hard drive??!

Firefox has been crashing too often already. I just reinstalled the latest version. Hopefully it doesn't happen anymore, especially not while i'm blogging. Haih..

On the brighter side, Sean passed me his cassette adapter since he doesn't use it anymore!! =D I've been looking for this for ages.. What a bliss to enjoy 1Gb of music in the car, compared to listening to the same CD over and over again. haha! Goodbye forever CD's!!

Rudi's crazy man.. a 1.2 terrabyte hard disk.. terrabytes.. crazy..

They play Queen at KFC

Haha, they played Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody at the KFC in Jusco, Klang. Of all songs..

Hilarious..

Cosmic Funk Express!! We love you!!

Three words...

COSMIC FUNK EXPRESS!!

What a blast the Jazz Fest has been..

A few of us went over to Crissy's place last night for a surprise birthday for Hannah. Happy Birthday Hannah Banana!! =D I'm quite she was surprised.. We being the professional nonsense people we are.. =p

The look on her face was priceless..

"Oh my gosh....." Haha!~

I'll update with photo's once I get my hands on some.

We then devoured the fabulous dinner that was prepared by Crissy and Auntie Lee Ching. Oh glorious lasagna, beef pasta, giant sausages and Otai burgers.. lol.

But the fun was just beginning..

After eating our hearts out, chatting, opening presents and laughing like lunatics we proceeded to Mont' Kiara for the SUNRISE JAZZ AND RHYTHM FESTIVAL!!

(insert picture of Jazz festival here)

Haha, be patient. Pictures will come.

As always the fest was amazing, packed and crowded. It's amazing how many people you bump into at the jazz fest. You feel so happening and cultured. Haha..

Then there was them..

(insert another picture of Jazz festival here)

COSMIC FUNK EXPRESS!!

Such fantastic musicians. The guitarist Zach just blew me away with his jaw-dropping display of speed, emotion and skill. I couldn't help but laugh aloud when they played the medley of Fantasy Impromptu and the Super Mario theme song. Haha, what a show. I could have stayed there all night.. =)

Good musicians do two things. They amaze us and make us drool buckets in awe, and they also have an uncanny ability to make us feel dreadfully untalented wishing never to play our beloved instruments ever again. =D Haha.. (ref: Simon Sim)

But ultimately those two things should inspire us to practice more, develop and polish our talents and skills that God has blessed us with. These guys show you where you stand in your music and lead you towards the path of playing better, and hopefully making other people drool buckets with your mad music skillz in the near future. =D More importantly, using them for His glory..

I definitely know I need so much work. With the many talents I see every other day like Jon, Raymond and Daryl, I don't need superb fantastic demi-god guitarists like Zach to show me where I stand. There's so much room to grow.

It's a tough road, but I'm enjoying every minute of it. =)

I'm sure Simon was definitely inspired. We was doing research on jazz guitar and experimenting with new drum stuff the very next day. lol..

Why?! OH WHY???

I was halfway typing a pretty long post when suddenly..

POOF!~

Firefox suddenly crashes, taking my long update together with it..

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

The many trials us bloggers face..

Back to the drawing board..

Neon!!

It's been awhile. There's so much to do for uni.. Sigh.. No major updates, just another game recommendation to entertain the people. =)

Game of the day : Neon

I've always loved the classic Asteroids. This is how I've always dreamed Asteroids to be. Since the mouse is used to control your ship, Neon has a much faster pace compared to the traditional asteroids. It gets rather frantic at the later levels though with a dozen opponents swarming around you. I didn't like the fact that the power-ups didn't last very long. There is a good variety of opponents though, which is good. I hate those blue round ones which deflect your laser beams right back at you when their shields are on. Haha..


Hot Rocks on the other hand plays and feels more like old school asteroids. The nice addition to Hot Rocks is the arsenal of power-ups that you can get by docking to the space station. The shields in Hot Rocks reminded me of the random teleport button in the GameBoy version of Asteroids. Haha, it was always fun to escape death with the teleport. If you're lucky that is. Haha! =D

Gah, I saw the music video of Ronan Keating singing 'Iris'. Haha, so weird.

Iris shall always remind me of Simon, without fail everytime I listen to it. Lol...

Oily Soup..

This guy is a genius..

I'm not sure about you but as a kid I used to play with the layer of oil on my soup, combining smaller circles together into bigger circles of oil. Now with technology we don't need a bowl of soup anymore to experience the pointless fun we had back in the good old days..

Go on, go play with some soup.

Do-fi Blog also offers many other simple yet very entertaining games and toys to play with in Java. SAND SAND SAND is one of those toys to play around with. It's difficult to explain what SAND SAND SAND is like. Try it yourself, you'll either hate it or love it.

Another worth trying is WAR OF THE HELL where you try to pull (or fling) people to heaven with your magical string. Think it's based on a chinese folk tale.

Back 2 skool blues..

What a week it has been. How I miss sleeping in late and bumming.. Haha. Guess I'm still getting used to university life all over again. The first week is still not too bad since tutorial and lab classes don't begin until the 2nd week. Gah.. The worst is yet to come.

I'm not very happy with my results last semester. I know I could have done slightly better. Therefore I'm working much harder this semester. University fees are not cheap..

I was wondering the other day how working life will be like, earning for a family and sustaining them. I can't imagine myself in that position at all, it's only a matter of time. I can't even imagine being half as successful as my dad is. The mere thought of it scares me. Haha, even my mom asked me why I was thinking of such things at my age. Too much free time for my mind to wander between classes I guess..

Then my mom ended the conversation with this; "It doesn't matter how well you do in the future, just do your best. The important thing is that your relationship with God is right and everything else will fall into place."..

Matthew 6:33 - But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Such a simple yet wonderful promise!!

Thanks mom.. =)


It's been an eventful Saturday. The morning started with Tina following Christina for some audition at a studio in SS18. Ken came along to support and to carry Tina's water bottle. Haha.. We did 2 acoustic songs from Michelle Branch. I doubt we'll be called back, haha! Adam (from malaysian band DragonRed) was just being nice to us in my opinion. Oh well.. we had fun. =) It was more for the experience..

Next was the trip to the Doulos!! Sadly I didn't find any books I liked. I wanted to get this super cheap devotional guide that Xin bought from the Doulos earlier but I guess it was sold out. Bah.. Too bad I missed the music section too. Heard there was a good guitar book. Sigh...

Jon on the other hand found jems among the mass of CD's on the Doulos. He got 2 great CD's for 8 bucks each!! What a steal.. Jon.. I want to rip. =p

Then came this..


Haha, the college group outing today was a steamboat dinner. I'm still bloated from the noodles and all the fish balls. Haha!! Since we wanted to aviod the wastage fine we had to eat the mountains of food that we took. It was so painful having nonsense people like Kat Tan and Racheal making you laugh on a full stomach.. Crazy.. I'm so traumatized. Haha!! =D I won't eat steamboat in a very very long time..


To close this post.. Don't you think Lucas looks like a certain rock star?




Lol... It's a beautiful dayyyyy....

Warbears!!

Another game recommendation.

Game of the day: Warbears!!
Probably the one of the cutest puzzle Flash games I've seen in awhile. The graphics style is awesome too. Certainly a memorable game. Give it a go!

Still down with football fever..

Now I'm sure it's truly football fever..

I was going through my sister's CD collection in her room. I never knew she had the movie on VCD. So I watched it on Friday night..

It's one of those movies that made you wish you could play football. Haha..

On the very same day, Jon and Chuen came over to play Winning Eleven. Crazy man.. Such skill.. I got whooped by Jon. The only time I scored against him was when I took a shot and the ball deflected off the goalkeepers hands into the goal. Haha.. Other than that I wasn't even able to get anywhere near the goal.. Need more practice.

It was fun to watch them play a co-op game together. Argentina against Germany. Haha, such chemistry they have.

Ken came over today to try it out. I'm starting to think I suck pretty bad at this game. Despite being completely new to Winning Eleven was able to own me 2 - 0 on one game. Haha..

You wait Ken.. You wait... =p

Games with the ability to make civilized individuals shout and howl like madmen in excitement and euphoria don't come very often. =) Truly awesome..


University is starting again tomorrow. Gah.. I'm not ready!! It was a great 1 month break. Sadly it's all over.. Back to Uni for me.. Praise God for my results for last semester! Thankfully I did okay for my math. This semester there's no trace of math to be seen!! Celebrate!! Kill the fattened calf!! =D

I bought my stationaty and supplies for tomorrow already.. Bring it on...

"I'll always be around.." Fuyoo..

Eee.. The moon is so strangely big and orange. So sureal man.. It looked like some photoshop edited background while I was driving back. Wanted to post a photo but my camera couldn't do it justice. Oh well..

I finally watched Superman Returns!! =D Definitely a must see!! I won't bother writing a review since Mr. Tan has already written 2 (very long) reviews for it. Haha.. I enjoyed the movie very much. Since today was the opening day for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, there were only like 10 people watching Superman today. So sad, I felt so outdated. Haha..

I can't believe they made a DOA: Dead or Alive movie. How can they possibly pull this off?! I shudder even thinking about it. Gah.. The whole hair dyed purple thing does not work very well in real life.

Ghost Rider looks cool. However after watching National Treasure on HBO last Wednesday I can't imagine Nicolas Cage playing Ghost Rider. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

SHOOTO!! SHOOTO GOALLLL!!!

It's been awhile. My wife is back in Xin's hands. So for now I'm having a laptop fast until Thursday. I don't think it's really working because now I'm playing the Playstation more instead. Haha, I didn't know Playstation games now are so cheap. 10 bucks for 4 games, what a bargain!!

Out of Jon's recommendation I got myself Konami's Winning Eleven 10. So the next Winning Eleven title will be Winning Eleven 11? Kakakakaka... =p I'm looking forward to see what Jon, Chuen and Arvind can do in the game. My goals are still either basic ones or flukes. Haha..

It's post World Cup fever I suppose, playing football games after the World Cup has ended. =)

We watched the final game at my place. Simon, Kee Ken, James, Jon, Jin, Crissy and Jane came over. Too bad Hannah was too sick to come. The poor girl had food poisoning earlier that day. Get well soon Hannah!! Thank God the TV didn't break down during the game. The first half was great! Both teams were playing well, you were almost certain Italy would score with a corner kick after so many near misses. Too bad it wasn't the most exciting of matches after the second half. It was like Italy was under France's mercy.

And then this happened..



The news seem inconclusive on what exactly Materazz said that made Zidane headbutt him. Theories range from his wife to his mother.. Poor Ee May, she must be so heartbroken about her Zizou.

Buffon can't catch penalty shots for nuts man. Haha.. Thankfully Trezeguet struck the bar. Yay Italy!! =D

Before the match we went to Shanice's birthday party. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHANICE!! Despite not having an extra change of chothes I was dragged out of the house (literally) into the water fight. Jeans soaked up with water are not very light.. It was fun though, I had a blast. =) I still have a scar on my forehead thanks to Eileen for swinging the bucket towards my face. haha!! So ganas man..

Gonna watch Superman Returns tomorrow!!

"Kau umpama.. merpati putih.."

Bless you Tim Berners-Lee..

Ah... Blessed internet. Oh how I've missed thee.. Now I'm starting to think that I'm too attached to my laptop. Haha..

I borrowed my wife (laptop) to Xin for the weekend to do her Flash work since Adobe Audition doesn't work properly on her house PC. She only needs it on Monday so I took it back. I've never actually realized how much I use my wife. The small things from just playing music in my room to searching for chords on the looknohands website. Maybe a fast from it will be good for me. Painful, but good.

Coz I'm leavin' on a jet planeeee...

To Datin Lee Ee May: We'll miss you Datin!! Haha!! I tried putting in a photo but PhotoBucket seems to be having problems. Take care of yourself and have a blast in Adelaide!! =) Be sure to update your blog ya!! Study hard and may your experience in Australia be an enriching one!! Continue to grow in the Lord and shine for Him!

She left to Australia 3 hours ago. I drove to KLIA at 130km/h just to see her for 15 minutes. Haha.. It was well worth it. Went to Klang for mamak with Xin, Joshua and Sean after that.

Subang won second place in the Bible Quiz!! Congrats to all the team members who worked their backsides off to study for the quiz. Once again Agape Chapel got first place. We should have brought the padi poms. Haha!!

World Cup Finals are tomorrow!! A few of us are gathering at my place to watch it on Monday morning. I feel like a bad influence to all the school going people. =p Those who want to join us just tell me okay? =D