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Sunday, June 15, 2008posted by Phat'Hi at 7:20 AMTwo...
Exams tomorrow...hardest two together... haven't started one yet..
I won Pen it black, again =P. And after that, let the killing begins. =). Labels: GeekBeast., lamentations Wednesday, June 11, 2008posted by Sara at 11:34 PMThe Pit and the Pendulummust watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch must watch Traditions ?Hey, I'm stuttering out of pain in my belly and I vomited thrice already. Today, I was feeling so happy and glad until I had this lovely talk with my own mother about traditions in most of the important aspects in life including marriage & religion. I was utterly shocked of how much of a strict old minded she thinks like, its like she's a typical 60 years old grandmother of this tribe that makes its youngsters bring coconuts and play [Fata7y ya wa warada]1 around it. Maybe this is why arabs are stupid, when I thought about it. it made me pissed how much of traditions they hold in order to disform their personality and some religion rules that would be encountered by origins of each country's tradition and replaced by it. like now, Abayya in with gulfans is a tradition more than a religion trait. same goes with many things, anyhow I felt like everything is missing the core part.. the real one.. even traditions is racist sometimes, its not culture, its like a blind civilization. Maybe this is why Muslims of arab nations are disunited. Anyway, I thought about it all.. made me pissed because of some stuff I might impact in the future.. kind of scared as well, grinding my teeth for a whole three hours wasn't fun indeed. The worst part of the day: I go to a place where I don't feel like going, dragged by friends. and I came back pissed & tired, basically not feeling ok.. thought I'd hold myself and not make anyone mad at me, didn't work..made someone close to my heart sad while me trying not to make that person sad.. and the first line of the post happened and I don't know what to do .. I just did not wish to to hear what I did today.. and now,maybe staying away for a bit would make that person feel better even though I already miss that person. Labels: NocturnalBeast Tuesday, June 10, 2008posted by Sara at 5:30 AM20 and a half hour day and Metal Mantra I am so tired. Woke up at 4 am and it's 12.30 am now. Had a 20 and a half hour day. Am quite suprised I haven't seen talking bunnies yet, although a funny thing happened today while I was having lunch with G. I SWEAR I heared someone say Salam to her and she said Salam back. So I turn my head to look who it is, see no one, ask her about it, and she tells me that no one spoke to her but me ... -_- Handed in two assignments today. An application for a cake shop database and a pattern searcher. I worked so hard on the application to get it working perfectly since the lecturer informed us that she will spend seven minutes testing it. In the end she spent less than two mins going through it -_-. That was so frustrating! I seriously wanna sell the application, it breaks my heart for it to lie in my computer totally useless after all the blood and sweat i put into it =( The pattern searcher was a disaster lol. Me and an assignment partner split the workload between us. I finished my part and it was working perfeclty. Unfortunatly, my partner's part of the assignment wasn't working so well. So we spent about 7 and a half hours working on fixing it. 7amdullah we managed to. My fingers hurt from all the typing I have been doing today ... I honestly think I typed tens of thousand of lines of codes while fixing the programmes xD All the while I was working on the pattern searcher Tom kept coming over to me and asking me to give him ideas on the Unreal Tournament map he is building .... *cries* Oh I was so jelous! He and G got to create Unreal Tournament Characters (G's one is Rock Lee from Naruto, and Tom's is Ant man ... just Ant man lol) and also their own Unreal Tournament map. Why can't I do something awesome like that =( I gave Tom alot of ideas that he kept incorperating into his map and by the time I left uni at 10.45 pm it was look pretty darn neat! I think he's still there working on it (Tom is a perfectionist) I drew something new in the past couple of days. I just got this image of a guy sitting and listening to music like Tool's and experiencing spirtuality through it, like a mantra. Hence I deemed it Metal Mantra. I adore this piece. I believe it is my favourite. I'll print it out sometime after I am done with exams and hang it somewhere for me to admire. Right then ... it's 12.50 am and I am gonna log onto WoW now for a bit coz I have been looking forward to playing ALL DAY! =P Night night! *waves* Labels: drawings, lamentations, life Friday, June 6, 2008posted by Phat'Hi at 5:20 AMMoment of Truth.
No, I'm not opening my heart to you, apes.
I'm talking about a fucked up show called moment of truth, something to show you how humans can be pathetic and worthless. Its a show where they bring random people and their families as observers, the person should answer every single question and if the answer was honest and the polygraph agrees its true they proceed and the person wins money. OHH its fun! No ?? Fucking piece of shit, NOT! its lame and stupid, but I gotta admit.. it made me laugh my lungs off the other day.. I watched the whole thing on TV... this episode in particular. The look on her husband's face... PRICELESS! but I gotta admit, I bet that felt like a knife getting shoved slowly up his ass.. and suddenly 10 more stabs fast. its totally lame and gibberish in my opinion, the woman is fucked up and so is the stupid show. The moral of this post is, yes.. you are a part of a messed up twisted society that doesn't know how to feed itself and the worst part... you are a part of it! you are an ape without having a choice! This show also kinda made me feel relaxed for who I am and for my religion (Holy music in the background) "smirks". ....blah. Goodnight, lovely monkeys. Wednesday, June 4, 2008posted by Phat'Hi at 11:34 AMEnter Phat.man
Stellar:
When the earth's heart sighs, Preparing for its usual slumber And the horizon ignites… With what the eye could not draw When the bats spread their wings And the hyenas screech with laughter And the darkness embraces the sand To become one with the human's soul With the night time emotions start to breed The Mountains share its agony through it's caves The desert shares its yearning through its shards The sea shares it's secrets through its waves The sky shares its tales through the stars To be with desolate Melachony When humans cower infront of gory war When lovers bow to steady seduction. Buried at sea yet I still suffocate Spoiling my agony. Forborne by my own disease, I lay there forgotten Collapsed my body is, I suffer with perfect harmony. Dying more and more… Little by little… …alone Looking up shivering I smell the breeze of death As I close my hopeless eyes I feel a magical aura on my chest I open up my eyes to find nothing Except myself recalling a myth A sudden whisper calls me I turn and stumble toward the voice I kissed Endlessly running into this forest Deep shadows surround me I finally fall Into a lake where I can see The reflection of her standing tall… I stare silently, shaking While my skin melts of her beauty I kneel down, praying to be one With her, with her stellarity And I think and wonder Will my darkness be forever lengthening? Will this misanthropic forlorn spirit rise And reach the shiny stellar and in infusing Turns the dead stone into embers To both shine like a sun ... into the night --- Yes, you bet your fucking ass I'm in.. and from now on, you won't be reading the so cute stories of Sara alone, but you will have a bitter taste too. Phat, me, wrote this lovely poem which luckily won in a competition recently. I dedicate it this post to thank Sara for supporting me and pushing me to contribute. Next to me she was and so I won. Thank you. Apparently, you will be seeing me here more often. ;P Lovely monkeys, enjoy yourselves. Monday, June 2, 2008posted by Sara at 1:19 AMTool - Lateralus A kind of review I stumbled upon on Urban Dictionary (I love the site btw =P) on one of the best albums I've listened to --- > Tool - Lateralus.f I told you that Tool's latest album, Lateralus, was way better than everything else currently on the market, would you believe me? Probably not. First of all, you don't know me. Second of all, you probably don't listen to Tool, because most radio stations pretty much ignore them. It's easier to follow what the radio tells you to listen to, isn't it? The answer, of course, is yes. But what if you are looking for more than the everyday stuff? It's an undeniable fact that mainstream music is becoming bland. The record companies churn out single after single of "one hit wonders", creating radio garbage. Manufactured artists with no potential play their song, make some money, and then are never heard of again. ("Who Let the Dogs Out" anyone?) It has been happening since the beginning of Rock and Roll, and it probably will continue on forever. The only problem is that it seems to be getting worse. One has to ask him or herself, "How many of these bands are going to be remembered thirty years from now, the way bands like Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones are remembered today?" Yes, every era has had its share of bands that come and go faster than Mick Jagger's voice at a Rolling Stone's Concert, and there is no stopping them. So why not go for something different? It is hard for the average music fan to change his or her taste. Your average music fan usually starts off listening to what his parents listened to, simply because he is not aware of anything else. Then, he turns the dial on the radio, and discovers rock, rap, pop, and other exciting genres. At about the same time, the average music fan's friends start to turn the dials on their radios, too. As they get older, they collectively start to worship a certain type of music. Then, whatever their radio station of choice tells them what listen to, they blindly obey. It doesn't matter that the quality of the music is steadily declining. The radio says do it, and then like the sheep humans are, they listen to the voice. Then the sheep run to the music store and spend fifteen to twenty dollars on a compact disc containing one popular song, and forty minutes of noise. Two weeks later, the family dog chews happily away at the shiny round thing it found in the garbage can. For some people, this cycle will never end. For others however, it does. Around their late teens, some people start to notice that there is other music out there. It doesn't get played on the radio. Naivety may have told them its because the music is not "good enough", but they now know better. It's too good. The average music fan won't like it because it doesn't make sense to him. The radio won't play it because the average music fan won't listen to it. Progressive rock tends to fall under this category. Progressive rock is like modern rock; however, it is smarter, longer, and instrumentally diverse. Progressive rock does not get played on the radio because after five minutes, the average music fan gets bored. This is very unfortunate, because progressive rock is spectacular. It can move a person in ways that regular mainstream music can't. Some like to refer to it as "smart rock". Pink Floyd is good example of a great progressive rock band, which did make it big. That is because during the seventies, long instrumentals were popular and were allowed to be played on the radio. Today, they are not. Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is the definitive progressive rock album. Many are comparing "Lateralus", by Tool to The Wall. "Lateralus" is not like "The Wall". Yes they are both long, and they both have a lot of synthesizers in them. That would be the end of their similarities. Neither one is better because they cannot be compared. So why try? "Lateralus" is not a typical Tool album either. None of its songs sound like "Sober" or "Prison Sex". Tool has gone a few steps higher with this album. It is meant to be heard all at once, almost like an opera. It is slow. Not slow in its speed, but slow in the way it gets from point A to point B. While a good riff in any other song gets heard a few times before the song is over, a Tool riff is explored like it could be the cure for cancer. The riff plays on, only slightly changing, to a point of hypnosis, before the song continues. The members of Tool are not afraid to do this. They aren't worried if the song exceeds ten minutes in length. They don't care that this kills their chance of getting on the radio. Tool is simply interested in making beautiful music. Beautiful music may be an odd word to use on an album that is so heavy and full of anguish. But it is beautiful the way fire is beautiful. It is destructive yet captivating. As usual, Maynard James Keenan's vocals are heavenly, and his lyrics are deep and poetic. The guitar, base and drums are rock solid, and play together like an orchestra. And the synthesizers top it off, making it eerie and full. The album is a masterpiece. One can listen to the radio, and then again, one can find something better. Lateralus mocks radio music, and takes pride in the fact that only a select audience will listen. Perhaps this is a blessing. Popularity is often a band's downfall. It would be hard to accept the fall of a band like Tool. Lateralus is one of Tools greatest albums. This review really fits my disposition towards the album perfectly. I love the riffs throughout it and Maynard's voice is just amazing. I don't usually love an entire album, I just pick a few songs I like and that's all. However, when it comes to all of Tool's albums, each one is amazing in it's own sense. Their music is what first inspired to go back to drawing and start experimanting with claymation. I just love this band! An awesome video I found of the song Lateralus. It showcases the use of the Fibonacci Sequence throughout the track. Sunday, June 1, 2008posted by Sara at 7:23 PM |
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