clash of the booze brothers.

Filler entry

2007-06-06T22:01:00.000+10:00

Disclaimer: This is just a filler entry to keep everyone's buzz going till the end of the attachment. Do not blame the author if your life is unchanged at the end of this post. If you do.. well.. You're an asshole.

I didn't want to do this but Elwin said that I should be blogging so here i am blogging away using Jinghan's laptop. Why? Why Jinghan's laptop one might wonder. Isn't the acer laptop loaded with 12Gb of south park and another 12GB of quality music a much better and stylish laptop to blog with? Is the aurthor then an idiot?

The reason is pretty simple. No matter how advance we are, no matter how fast a laptop is, how much cool shit is contained in it, it is suscepitble to primitive problems such as a hardware failure. And therefore, on the 5/6/2007, the aurthors link to the rest of the world via the WWW broke down, with a black screen citing a media test failure and the absence of an operating system the reason. Beep....

OIAP/IAP is coming to a close and we can all meet up and have a good time. And I can get my computer fixed real soon.. hopefully, not overlooking the trouble i have to go through. Still, with some retail therapy back in place, there's no reason to let it get anyone down.

Let's hope that this would not be the last post, though by the frequency of the entries.. I would say that it might well be the last. So.. friends, brothers, comrades all over the world, stay chinese and proud. And black metal. Otherwise F*CK and add the missing you (marilyn manson - I've got an F and C and I've got a K too), Haha.

PS darren: You heard the new marilyn manson yet? Is it any good?

Cheers,
Hanrong

As dead as my earphones.

2007-05-25T22:45:00.000+10:00

0915
24/05/07

Dearly Beloved,
We are gathered here to witness the passing of a good friend.

On this fateful morning of the twenty-fourth day of May, the year of two thousand and seven, my comrade, the creative in-ear earphones, while playing Psycroptic's Cruelty Incarnate, had been brutally tortured to death.

Let us not forget the glorious length of service this companion has clocked. And let us remember the good songs that i have listened to on it. And let us forgive it of the crappy, crappy songs it delivered to me.

We were all making our way to school. And when we were passing in between two parked pick-up trucks, my earphones caught the side of the truck and was ripped apart from solders connected to the jack. Its coppery entrails were hanging out of the black rubber tubing that withstood so many twisted and kinks.

Ah fuck.
Fuck fuck fuckitty fuck fuck fuck.

Time to get new earphones.
Dammit.

_Conquer_All_

2007-05-12T11:30:00.000+10:00

Hi Everyone,
Below is an old post. Had problems uploading the photos then so i just drafted it.

but well, now our net is working well.
so i've got no excuse not to finish that post.

so yeah.
have a good weekend.
\m/

PS:
behemoth's new album has leaked online, among many others.
so... yeah.
check them all out on metal-music-forever.

hails.
Elwin.
_______________________________________________________________

12 May 07
1737h

hi everyone.
con-fucking-gratulation to Manchampster United. looking forward to next season, where Arsenal will crush everything.

its been a long week for both of us.
frankly i've been kinda emo this couple of days.
yeah sorry. feeling 333 recently. you know.. only half evil.

sigh.
well we miss you guys, our families and the fucking SG food. seriously this is the longest time in my life i've gone without eating chicken rice.

i just remembered i've not posted any Lamb of God photos.
i'll do it in this entry.A
later.
haha.

anyways we went to gold coast again that weekend. since 6 May was Labour day. (yeah its different here. first Monday of May)

this trip was way slacker than the last. with more fuck-ups than the last (cause i planned the last one haha.) we visited sewaworld. and paradise country (farm attraction). took tonnes of photos. wa lao eh. really dont feel like posting these. damn a lot. we come back then show you la.

damn. i miss the bar at the backpackers' already. a day always ends happy when there's booze. good times man, good times.

work is getting tougher. weather getting colder. mood getting sian-er. but luckily we re-stocked our booze yesterday (only to realise we should have bought FOOD instead).

please blog everyone. blog or i'll fucking cut you up so bad, that...uh...you would wish i didnt cut you up so bad.
sigh.
guess we'll see you when we see you.

oh yeah.
photos.
have fun, god bless.
take care, good night.

Wooh!

2007-04-28T12:03:00.000+10:00

We're about 8hr away from the Lamb of God concert. And hopefully we'll get to be right in front again so I can enjoy the show without my specs again.

Having watch their dvd about 5x now.. I never thought I would be this close to catching Lamb of God life but just 12 hours before this I was telling myself I wouldn't go if somehow I managed to get my money back for the ticket. It's just shitty how fatigue can fuck you up.

But after a good night rest and some southern comfort in the dark "looks like it's gonna rain" saturday morning, I should have enough to last me through at least the after party. Then I'll leave Elwin to figure out how to get us both back home. HAHAHA

On the downside though, my sup caught me dozing off. Not once, but quite a few times. Hopefully we're still cool since I managed to produce conclusive gel results and I did not let my work get affected. See, it IS possible to have fun and catch lots of METAL and still kick ass at work.

Oh yea. And those who think that we're having a hell of a time.. We are! So feel jealous. Let your jealousy rip your guts and soul out for satan who will then convert it to nourishment for us. muhahaha.

Ah. I'm kidding. We have to submit our reports next week and we do experience problems in the lab. We just have to you know.. metal it out and give everyone else the impression that we're having a way better time than anyone else (phy and kailin I'm looking at you guys) just to prove that we're well.. way more cool than all of you.

And as Carpathian Forest said... FUCK YOU ALL!!!

We really do miss you guys. Serious. ((:

Sign off no.696 of the Kaos Legions.
Hans. D:

Forwards to Die!

2007-04-28T11:06:00.000+10:00

26/04/07
1645

hi guys.
how's it going.
haha. looks like our tagboard is the most active one. keep posting!

as of right now, i'm writing this on a piece of paper,cause i didnt bring my laptop today.
will get this onto the blog asap.

today is the day.

muahaha.
gonna rush of after work, in 15 mins time.
catch bus 412 to Queen Street
walk down to Club Phoenix, Edward Street
and flash our freaking VADER tickets.
hopefully we'll get to the front;
firstly, to see the band better and get good photos;
and secondly to avoid turning into moshed potatoes.

raaarghh.
damn pumped now.

be back with the gig review.
\m/ thraash und destroooooy!!
_________________________________________________________________

yawns.
its saturday morning.
vader. was. fucking. awesome.
no shit.

We arrived 2 hours prior to the start of the gig.
and we met this crazy aussie death-black-grindcore-crust girl who had pink hair. and she brought us to this really cool pancake place to have dinner. after which we headed back to the venue.

Club Phoenix is essentially like the Gashaus of Brisbane. just that they're slightly bigger. like more pool tables, 2 bars, and lots more space. the stage was slightly smaller. but there's like a cement barricade behind the monitor amps. and a single metal bar to hold on to. a really good idea for a stage.

the opening bands were pretty damn good.
there was Defamer, this local band which plays death metal more towards the brutal side. not bad at all. the seven string guitarist was pretty good.
and there was Empyrean, another local band, sounds like a mix between cradle of filth and amorphis, kinda. drummer was good, guitarists were good. vocalist sounded slightly like dani filth. got their 6 track cd. no idea if its an EP or LP. too long for EP, too little tracks for an LP. well they're not very original but i believe that they're pretty talented. darren, will pass you the songs when we're all back in Singaland.

vader.
sigh. never thought i'll get to catch a Polish band in my entire life. and well, there we were.
got photos with 3/4 of the band. didnt manage to get a photo with the bassist. we got a drumstick each from Daray, and Hans got a pick from Peter.

let the photos do the blogging.

Club Phoenix.

Zoom for the set list.

Bassist Marcin Nowak.

Guitarist: Maurycy Stefanowicz.

Vocalist/Guitarist: Piotr Wiwczarek

Close up.

Drummer: Darek "Daray" Brzozowski

rwar.

\m/

sweet.

Horns Up!

Drumsticks.

photos.

2007-04-14T09:28:00.000+10:00

Hi all.
first things first. take a look at this.

yeah.

pardon us. we only really took photos in movie world. didnt have time to get photos at dreamworld cuz we went late and were rushing to fit all the rides between 1.00 and 5.30 (plus the first few photos were crappy). and so we missed getting on the tower of terror and the giant drop. we DID intend to take them but decided to leave it for the last cuz they were the most hiong ones.
leo, think you see the rides your legs will start shivering haha.

well. less talk and more photos:

day 1.
crappy dreamworld pic

tower of terror iamges from net.

a jumping puma!

tame kangaroos at dw

kua4 si4 mi4 koa(la).

HRC

dont mess with this guy.

yeap. booze. going cheap.
from 2 out of 4 days.

day 2.
nice bitch! i mean beach.

these waves are no joke.

surfers paradise

day 3.

Store display

mask of sanity.

serious piece of shit.

double whammy.

there were a lot of photos of the movie world parade but i'm too lazy to upload. you'll see them when we get back.

12 more days to vader..
14 more days to lamb of god..

that week's gonna be brutal man.

O God, the aftermath

2007-04-09T16:36:00.000+10:00

How's it going guys? I'll just do a brief entry here. Don't have any photos with me. Will get elwin to upload some later. Forgive my long absence. I'm the only guy with no internet access in UQ. Bummer.

We've been away for the weekend as everyone knows. And it was good. Drinking every night. JD, Jim Beam, Wild Turkey, Corona, Southern comfort.. Lots of new "friends". And because of them we had some good conversations, which made us quite messed up, turning whatever brain matter we have into coleslaw which we ate it in the morning for breakfast. Was pretty good.

And we took a few thrilling rides which made my legs went wobbly(have to admit). And phy, we wished you were here cause we're sure you'll be game for the rides and we'll have a really killer time together but oh well..

Then the beach which I really have much to bitch about for taking my sight away. I gave my specs to tame the raging sea but it didn't work. The beach continued tossing us around and yea. It was fun but my specs.. Damn. It was a good specs. At least now it'll see oceans it'll never see resting on my ears/nose. I'll have difficulty at concerts now since I don't think I'll risk my very fragile specs. Bummer.

That's all I have I guess. Plus we got some gifts settled already. So.. it was pretty good. Now the thing is to get geared in for work tomorrow and hopefully.. My SDS-PAGE would be killer. I mean I actually calculated the loading concentration this time round. haha.

And on the side note, new CDs to check out
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Graveland - Will Stronger Than Death(NSBM)
Ensiferum - Victory Songs
Marduk - Rom 5:12

That's about all I can think of. But please try marduk and let me know if it's good? Awesome reviews.

Take care all. Cheers and JDs.

alcoholiday.

2007-04-04T16:52:00.000+10:00

hails.

easter holidays are coming up and being the hypocritical antichristians we are, we're glad to have this long weekend to kick the fuck back and down some booze.

the four of us have planned a trip to gold coast. and we've even booked a budget hostel for our 4 nights stay there. will possibly be visiting dreamworld and movieworld. and chilling at the beach.

on another note. we have gotten our sober fingers on a bottle of the green fairy. yes. ABSINTHE people. made from wormwood and containing thujone and 60% alcohol. banned in most countries around the world between 1925 and the 1990s. and is STILL banned in the US and A.

the shots taste medicinal and herby. and gives your throat a minty burn. been mixing it with lemonade and apple juice for 2 days in a row despite the next day being a working day. tastes pretty good actually.

i read up on wikipedia that the allerged psychoactive and hallucinogenic effects of thujone was nothing more than a medieval misconception. so absinthe is as safe as say, gin with a slightly higher alcohol content.

oh and btw. the booze IS really cheaper here. we're planning to buy a 24 pack of XXXX Gold (a local brew) for A$31. which would bring a bottle to about A$1+. cheap as piss.

well.
looking forward to a buzzy weekend/easter.

cheers and beers.
your slightly drunk friend,
Elwin

P.S. our address is

31 Ninth Avenue
Saint Lucia
QLD 4067
Australia.

so if you guys want to send us letters, you're more than welcome!

Overcranked 07 - The Aftermath

2007-03-26T14:57:00.000+10:00

Overcranked 07 was a blast.
Tickets were A$85 at the door, but hell. it was fucking worth it.

Hans and I stayed at the Red Octopus Stage throughout the entire festival cause it was the extreme metal stage. there was a punk/indie stage, emo/hard rock stage, emocore/metalcore stage and of course the extreme metal stage.

Here's the set list.

we took tonnes of photos. but almost none of ourselves.

this was definitely not a regular gig for hans and I.

Firstly it was a festival. Baybeats, in terms of the bands playing, is a feeble attempt compared to this. renowned death metal acts like Psycroptic and Dawn of Azazel played. and so did God Forbid (but that was the metalcore stage).

Secondly,NO BANDS SUCKED. serious. every single band was kickass. some had a better soundcheck than others but none of the bands gave crap music.

Thirdly,though there were almost no other asians except for us, the locals were fucking good to us. talked to us, asked us where we came from, what we like to listen to. nothing like the SG gigs where everyone basically ignores everyone else that they dont know.
Lastly, we got priceless photos with Rigel of DAWN OF AZAZEL. he was a damn nice guy. he was around few bands before his band was up, we flashed our horns. and he flashed his at us. came over to pose for a photo for us. after the entire fest, he came down, talked to the few fans that stayed behind. we told him we came from singapore and we asked if he had any stuff like stickers or posters he could give us and he went in the back to bring us 2 copies of his lastest album SEDITION, just for us. after which we all took a photo together.
Great success!

before that we already got a free cd from an aussie death metal band Minus Life. and the guy at the merch booth gave us the fest posters for free.

the only disappointing thing about the entire fest was that the biggest stage wasnt for extreme metal. it was for metalcore. says quite a lot about what aussie kids listen to more.

Happy times..

good surfing tip.

Ruins vocalist/guitarist Alex Pope.

Pathogen vocalist Mike Leanne.

Pathogen guitarist Aidan Barton.

Aidan in action.

Minus Life vocalist Scott Moss.

Minus Life guitarist Ryan O'Connell

Rigel from Dawn of Azazel flashes us his horns.

Carlton Draught!

Rigel in action

Rigel and us

Overcranked 07

2007-03-23T15:06:00.000+10:00

hey all.

sorry for the lack of updates.
we still have no proper internet connection in our house.
hopefully the net will be up by the end of this month.

anyway the owner of the house we've been putting up in has decided to let us stay for 3 months. so its us 4 OIAP kids and one Aussie dude in the house. 5 guys in a partly furnished 3 room house. well. at least we've got a place to stay. thanks a billion to our mate john.

alright, before you guys start asking, I will say that I HAVE been taking photos. just damn lazy to even upload them from my cam to my com. I swear I'll post them once we get a connection at home. I swear. really.

anyway I'm in the office now. not much to do today. finished all my work for this week on Wednesday. in fact... I've been slacking since 10am. went online to look for gigs and !Kapow! I realised that there will be a huge music (Punk, Rock, Post-Hardcore, Metalcore, Thrash, Death and Black Metal) festival in the city tomorrow. (click blog title for link)

the OVERCRANKED 07 features: Helmet (US), The Butterfly Effect, Frenzal Rhomb, God Forbid (US) , Behind Crimson Eyes, The Hot lies, Sunk Loto, Horsell Common, The Hard-Ons, 8 Ft Sativa (NZ), Psycroptic, Against, Terrorust, (Jobson's) Dreamkillers, Dawn of Azazel(NZ), Minus Life, Mammal, Lord, Blowhard, Wish for Wings, Mourningtide, Repeat Offender, The Rivalry, The Daylight Curse, The Amity Affliction, 50 Lions, Melodyssey, Vicious, Pathogen, Rollerball, Fort, Mary Trembles, Dyscord, Ruins, Art Vandelay, Beijing Tank, Regular John , Western Decay, City in Panic, Dead Letter Circus, The Quickening and Severed Link.

well. we're gonna be checking it out tomorrow, at the expense of 70 odd Australian dollars. (hopefully they will sell tickets at the entrance)(and hopefully it wont rain tomorrow.)

if all goes well we'll be able to catch Psycroptic and Dawn of Azazel. and come out of the pit in one piece....

...only to make it to these other shows during our stay in Aust-fucking-stralia:
ARCTURUS (NOR)- Thursday March 29th At Club Phoenix. $43.30
18+, bring ID. call (07)3229 5360 for ticket availability.
GOSPEL OF THE HORNS (AUS) - Saturday April 7th At Club Phoenix. Rowes Lane, Cnr 235 Edward St, Brisbane. 18+, Bring ID. $11.50
VADER (POL) - Thursday April 26th At Club Phoenix, Rowes Lane, Cnr 235 Edward St, Brisbane. 18+, Bring ID. $40.80
LAMB OF GOD (US) - Saturday April 28th At The Arena - 210 Brunswick St Fortitude Valley.. $45.10
18+ only. No I.D. No Entry. Doors open at 8:00pm.
OBITUARY - Friday May 18th At Club Phoenix - Edward St City. All Tickets $46.30
NILE (US) - Saturday May 26th At The Arena - 210 Brunswick St Fortitude Valley. All Tickets $59.40
SODOM (GER) - Wednesday June 13th At Club Phoenix, Rowes Lane, Cnr 235 Edward St, Brisbane. 18+ BRING ID. $54.40

till next time..
|m|

homeless bums.

2007-03-15T23:41:00.000+10:00

brave new world

ah. greetings from australia.
date: 15 March 07
time: 1449h
blogging remotely because we havent been able to get access to the internet since we landed. but i'll post this as soon as possible.

we havent got a proper place to stay yet.
sleeping on the streets is totally brutal.

gotcha! just pulling your leg.
we're currently putting up at alex and jinghan's place. their landlord was kind enough to take the both of us in till we find a permanent place to stay.

and i think we've got a good chance of getting this place very near school. A$150 per week per person. gonna look at the house at 5.30 later. hopefully we can get it and move in either today or tomorrow.

so far i've gone to 2 seminars. the first one is about a laboratory safety standard called PC2 (Physical Containment Level 2). damn boring. kept dozing off. the other would probably be interesting if i could undestand a single word the guy was talking about. accent not that heavy but it was serious chimology. obviously we kept dozing off for this one too.

right now i'm waiting for hans and the other 2 guys to knock off. my supervisor isnt free today. and he seems to be holding 2 posts at the same time. busy dude. so he's got no time to tell me what to do and shit. told me we could probably start tomorrow by doing some background reading.

oh yeah. we might be going town today. cuz its late night shopping in the suburbs every thursday. and for friday its the city. but late night here means 9pm. ah well. better than nothing.

nothing to do now but wait. for like another 2 hours.
well i could use the time to lengthen my drum track for my personal music project on Guitar Pro 5.

see you when i see you.
g'day!

Pre Departure 2 (sequels are gay)

2007-03-14T04:37:00.000+10:00

a slice of our conversation. just before the first post was added by hans.

epip - 1166/627 - Brandy of the Damned says:
are u putting up a post?
[rp7] vital remains - icons of evil. says:
no idea if i'm in the mood to
epip - 1166/627 - Brandy of the Damned says:
haha. ok.
epip - 1166/627 - Brandy of the Damned says:
i'll go post a short one
epip - 1166/627 - Brandy of the Damned says:
and the result is Australia
epip - 1166/627 - Brandy of the Damned says:
haha
[rp7] vital remains - icons of evil. says:
oh i did the description
[rp7] vital remains - icons of evil. says:
descriptions are gay.

"anything that isn't metal is gay"
-some gay dude
epip - 1166/627 - Brandy of the Damned says:
lol
epip - 1166/627 - Brandy of the Damned says:
damn man. i cant write also
epip - 1166/627 - Brandy of the Damned says:
haha. no flow
epip - 1166/627 - Brandy of the Damned says:
anything u wan to say?
[rp7] vital remains - icons of evil. says:
hmm nothing also
epip - 1166/627 - Brandy of the Damned says:
ok. haha
epip - 1166/627 - Brandy of the Damned says:
posted already. it's.. really random
epip - 1166/627 - Brandy of the Damned says:
like some filler shit
epip - 1166/627 - Brandy of the Damned says:
haha
epip - 1166/627 - Brandy of the Damned says:
but nvm. haha. the 1st piece of work is always very immature. haha. n lack any constant train of thought
epip - 1166/627 - Brandy of the Damned says:
haha
[rp7] vital remains - icons of evil. says:
okay i'm copy out this section of our conv and add it in the blog
epip - 1166/627 - Brandy of the Damned says:
haha. ok

as you can see. we are pretty damn bored.
desperately trying to spend our last hours in Singapore awake.
and then arrive in Brisbane like zombies.

well no matter.
there's still the 8 hour flight to
1: sleep
2: down some whiskey
3: catch a movie
4: pee
5: more whiskey
6: movie again
7: sleep

you get the idea.

oh btw, if you're wondering why the time is screwed up its because I changed the time zone to fit the Brisbane one.
so there.

lastly i would like to thank everyone who made this opportunity possible. despite the fuck ups and such. i would also like to apologize to all my friends who left way before us that i didn't send off.

Pre Departure

2007-03-14T04:34:00.001+10:00

And the result is Australia.

We forgive whoever that screwed us over. Seriously. Then again our idea of forgiveness might come with a stab or two. Depending on the state of mind(intoxicated/normal).

We have no address yet but we'll get one soon.

Hans is will attempt to read Nietzsche and Elwin.. dude.. I don't know man.
Oh yea. And I will be playing D2 too. Ps: leo, help me get occulus. I have 0 form today. Fuck.

3 more hours to the time I'm supposed to be awake.
So.. sorry for the post that makes no sense at all. Will come back with better post soon. We promise.

Lastly, kill for Satan. And.. stay healthy everyone.