It has been a long time since I have been clubbing. Don't see the need to. Last Sat, John Digweed was down in Zouk KL. Heard from a friend that the set was wicked but even that was not enough of a motivation for me to get my ass down to KL. Plus was really feelin' tired. But on Friday the 23rd of December the trance-meister, Ferry Corsten will be down again (he was here in May 2004). Some might recognize him as System F from a couple of years back. I missed his session last year and will make it a point to be there this year. Check out his other tour dates for those interested. And his new track 'Fire' is already out while the LP 'Star Traveller' will be released 21st November this year (not that it will be readily avalailable here in KL and not that I have a readily available turntable ...sigh)
P/S: Just found a wicked track on itunes, Carte Blanche by Veracocha (actually its old as I heard it back in 2000) but whats interesting to some is that Veracocha is an alias of a collaboration between Ferry and Vincent de Moor. The other good result of a collaboration was with DJ Tiesto back at the turn of the Century: Gouryella - Walhalla.
Monday, November 14, 2005
The need to achieve
Hmmmm... Any volunteers for expendable labor?? Anyone?? Sigh..guess I'm back to the drawing board...
Monday, November 07, 2005
Post Eid
First day at work after Eid Mubarak break and can’t really say I had enough of a break. Such a hot day at that, the centralised air-conditioning system is apparently not “working” …yet. There are only 3 persons who handle building-maintenance and working on 12 buildings in this so-called technology park…..and they’re still on holiday!! Bastages man…So now after trying to ‘warm-up’ my brain from inactivity during the hols, I think it went straight to being ‘overheated’…
Anyway, just wanted to wish all the muslims out there a happy belated Eid Mubarak. Hope it was eventful and meaningful. This year for me it had been a low-key affair: no going all out eating after a month’s worth of fasting, not really visiting every single person I know .. just the grandparents up north. Guess this year it was more spiritual for me. Just thank god that I’m still alive and well-off compared to the millions and trillions and gazillions of poor souls out there .. despite the fact that 1/3 of my life is gone and I have yet to achieve something significant (to me).
On a side note Seb Fontaine came down to KL last Sat. A friend called me to go but I was too busy (visiting and entertaining at the kampung) and too tired to (flight back arrived hours before the event). Maybe I am getting old for all this. Used to go raving heaps when I was in Uni..or maybe it does not interest me that much anymore..oh well…
- Josh Billings
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
The Imminent Festivities
Sigh... Monday blues indeed...
I was really looking forward to being on leave the whole of this week but alas last minute call for a meeting meant I had to cancel the leave less it will be wasted to just come to the office for a couple of hours. Everywhere else, all my friends, had one week COMPULSORY leave. All for the festivities of Deepavali and Eid Mubarak. Just had the meeting and it was nothing much..what an unproductive day. Network even shut-down in protest..we must be really overworking the servers. Either that or the whole of TMNET's Streamyx along with their servers are on holiday.
So here I am on a Monday lunch hour with so much free time to spare. Feelin really lazy to be productive on a day I am supposed to be on leave. In any case, just kinda hate it when people complain about things (myself included). I mean people complain about the workload that they currently have but not realize that almost everyone else is on the same boat if not worst. I once heard someone giving an advice: if you think you are poor, there is a whole world that are poorer than you and if you think you are rich, there is a whole world that are richer than you..same goes with work, life, love, your fat cat.... ok ok, no relation to that last point.
Oh well...was forwarded this mail couple of months back (no doubt pretty old and has been circulated for quite a bit) and thought of including the contents in this post as something to ponder about..
Cup or Water?
A group of working adults got together to visit their University lecturer.
The Lecturer was happy to see them. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
The Lecturer just smiled and went to the kitchen to get an assortment of cups - some porcelain, some in plastic, some in glass, some plain looking and some looked rather expensive and exquisite.
The Lecturer offered his former students the cups to get drinks for themselves.
When all the students had a cup in hand with water, the Lecturer spoke: "If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal that you only want the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all you wanted was water, not the cup, but we unconsciously went for the better cups."
"Just like in life, if Life is Water, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold/maintain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change."
"If we ONLY concentrate on the cup, we won't have time to enjoy the water in it."
I was really looking forward to being on leave the whole of this week but alas last minute call for a meeting meant I had to cancel the leave less it will be wasted to just come to the office for a couple of hours. Everywhere else, all my friends, had one week COMPULSORY leave. All for the festivities of Deepavali and Eid Mubarak. Just had the meeting and it was nothing much..what an unproductive day. Network even shut-down in protest..we must be really overworking the servers. Either that or the whole of TMNET's Streamyx along with their servers are on holiday.
So here I am on a Monday lunch hour with so much free time to spare. Feelin really lazy to be productive on a day I am supposed to be on leave. In any case, just kinda hate it when people complain about things (myself included). I mean people complain about the workload that they currently have but not realize that almost everyone else is on the same boat if not worst. I once heard someone giving an advice: if you think you are poor, there is a whole world that are poorer than you and if you think you are rich, there is a whole world that are richer than you..same goes with work, life, love, your fat cat.... ok ok, no relation to that last point.
Oh well...was forwarded this mail couple of months back (no doubt pretty old and has been circulated for quite a bit) and thought of including the contents in this post as something to ponder about..
Cup or Water?
A group of working adults got together to visit their University lecturer.
The Lecturer was happy to see them. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
The Lecturer just smiled and went to the kitchen to get an assortment of cups - some porcelain, some in plastic, some in glass, some plain looking and some looked rather expensive and exquisite.
The Lecturer offered his former students the cups to get drinks for themselves.
When all the students had a cup in hand with water, the Lecturer spoke: "If you noticed, all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal that you only want the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all you wanted was water, not the cup, but we unconsciously went for the better cups."
"Just like in life, if Life is Water, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold/maintain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change."
"If we ONLY concentrate on the cup, we won't have time to enjoy the water in it."
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