me and Kristina were at this coffeeshop in Chinatown. don't ever go there. they charge $2 for a can of jia jia herbal tea...bloody hell..didn't even get a cup of ice....
Steve and Ronald warming up before our Baybeats auditions...as you may have guessed, we didn't get in.
my last day at the Box....
in between, Lena, a good friend of mine that i met in Byron Bay dropped by singapore on the way back home to germany from australia. was nice to catch up after so many months.
my new work place.
my desk, fully setup after a month of waiting or so...
mizeryfree's very own dressing room at Training Ground at the Esplanade. we felt like rock stars for that one day...haha...
err...yah. me and Kristina just had to check this place out...see who all the assholes and idiots on the game are like...monsters i tell you...
Kristina and I enjoying a light desert lunch before going to watch Caroline at the Esplanade.
Daniel, who's currently based in Bangkok, came to singapore to do his research presentation.we met up for dinner and catch up which was nice. he's a friggin good 3D animator. and the following day, i was off to...
Sweden! went with Kristina to check the place out and visit her family.
in the city. huge...lots of people...some were rather interesting to say the least....emo-kids..metal-heads...potential drug-dealers...etc...
this costs about the same price as a 2 macdonalds meals combined...but it is SO wicked...tunnbrödsrulle is the name of this evil object.
me and Neil went to the Cure concert...and we paid for the most expensive tix...but hey, we sat at the SWEET spot...so it was awesome.
Arthur and Eric celebrating their birthdays with a spongebob squarepants cake...hehe...
and that's the last we'll ever see K2 with that length of hair for a long time...sigh...
my mom and Ariel (my niece). she's growing up so fast..and getting VERY chatty....*gulp*
our first rehearsal with the Fritz Quartet for the Nightsound in Motion show.
my very modest pedal board setup.
my dad with Kristina in penang, buying tao sar peah (which is the best in penang by the way...)
Kristina's last day with me and my friends in Singapore...SIGH
ok, so this blog is starting to collect some serious dust here. I haven't really been able to find the right amount of focus to actually sit down & properly pen out my thoughts. where shall we begin...
Nightsound finished the Arts House showcase in October. we played to an almost packed room & lots of familiar faces showed up, so that was quite nice. the videos from that show are looking really excellent..my favorite is still Remember Me.
Kristina just went back home to Sweden. unfortunately, things didn't work out here for her with regards to her job. to sum it up, the company was just WAY too chinese for their own good. other than that, erratic levels of heat + humidity, constant idiots in public transport situations just got a little bit too much for her. also, she wanted to go back & pursue a different course of study. now, its gonna be a long 1.5 year wait before i join her there...
things at my job...aren't really going that well. i hate going to work. there's hardly anything to do. i'm stuck in an office where privacy isn't really anyone's concern & i have to deal with & tolerate with nonsense every single day, be it from the boss or a particular colleague (sometimes its colleague(s)...but that's another story). the level of work motivation there is ridiculously low. i'm somehow starting to feel its influence & beginning to slack.
i've done my fair share of work...handed in whatever i needed to do on time, so the rest isn't really my concern, right? i try to occupy my time by working on other projects, one of which was Kenny's recent film, Fading Jasmine. trust me, composing for that film within a week in MY office, was a fuckin' nightmare.
i like to tell friends that my office isn't exactly the most conducive place to exert any kind of musical creativity 'cuz its practically like a LAN gaming shop. I am NOT exaggerating. in my head everyday, i think "you wanna slack off, play your bloody warcraft & stuff, by all means, go ahead. but for the love of GOD, shut the hell up." peace & quiet is non-existent at my office. and the bulk of the noise pollution is coming only from one idiot.
i fear, sometimes, that i've traded stability for monotony. sure, the pay's good, the job's stable. but it is such a soul-killing place to work at. job satisfaction.....WHAT job satisfaction?? sadly, i can only look at the dollars & cents now. i need the money in order to save up. save up for my big transition in time to come. 'till then, LL suck thumb.
what would u rather have? a job that assures you decent/good salary, stability but no future prospects in any other companies & has the most fuckin' sterile environment to work in....OR....a job that works u to the ground, pays u peanuts but gives u immense job satisfaction & the ability to walk your head up high every day knowing how hard u worked & how good u are at your craft?
i've bitched & moaned enough. think its time to dust myself off & get productive/proactive. mizeryfree needs a serious reboot soon. we gotta start jamming again...
