SLN Special: "INDIE-GO" Gig and a short story of 25th April

So here it is,
The entry I've been dying to put on,
And hopefully the entry everyone- involved or not involved,
Dying to read,
Wishing they had their pictures taken.

I present to you:

INDIE-GO gig at Hong Lim Park,
Organised by non other than Smoke Party Productions themselves.




And of course,
The bands that performed on that very day too.




The cooling music on a hot weather of,

Paddlepop




The most fashionable in both apparels and rock music,

The 21s



The experts on catchy tunes of rock and roll,

Love Jets




The music which brings you high on ectasy,

Crackerjack



The ones who works their every song into perfection,

Blind Meets Mute



The grand revival of old school rock music,

The Pinholes



The comedians who writes their randomness into great music,

The Zozi



And finally,
The one I'm superbly proud of,
Who will one day make it big after their tunes mature more and more,
With each meet-ups that comes along.

The one whom makes my life as bright as it can gets,


My band;

Melfraps




*Rewinds SLN's tape to 1045 hours on 25/4/2009*

Met up with Wana at Simei MRT and off we went to meet the others at Clarke Quay,
Ate at Melfraps' favourite,

Long John Silvers.

While I bought a Caramel Frappe to show my support,
To my own band.

Uh.
Yeah.

Saw Blind Meets Mute eating there too,
Perhaps in future we could have another band joining us each time we go LJS,
Which is to be exact,

Every single fucking time.

And after the meal we finally went to-

*ZAPPPPZUPPPPKUZAPPPZAPZAP*
*Forwards to 1400 hours at Hong Lim Park*


Made-in-Sabah carwasher with the Mercedes SLR 55 owner



Was hoping I could be the first one who will takes the mic off the stand




And the unimaginable happens,



Feeling devastated of not being able to make history being the first one,
To take the mic off the stand,

I went up to Roy,
Who was drinking red bull,

PLING!

Came a thought.

"Simple, Mr big mama. Get me two cans of blue/silver cans of redbull. NOW!"




Lan was eagerly seen waiting for his two cans of power redbull




The redbulls arrived at last.

The Portuguese vocalist- Lan,
Has the habit of consuming red bulls just before gigs to increase his nervousness on stage,
What sounded more negative than positive,

He actually loves being really nervous on stage.
That's the hype which keeps him going.

Blue/Silver redbulls,
What more,
Two of them.

Leading him into severe nervous breakdown



With the help of his "supporters",

"WE ARE GOING TO EASE HIM!"



"TURN HIM ON!"



"TURN HIM OFF!" (45% effort more needed)



"AND HE'S GOOD TO GO!"


"Watch me baby, Melfraps will bring the stage to a whole new level."



With a last photoshoot backstage,



Melfraps was finally,

READY TO HIT THEM HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*resting finger due to cramps*!!!!!!!!!!!!


It's hard for me coming directly after Blind Meets Mute due to our height differences, (no offence intended though :D)



One last release of sexual urge on the stand



All the sessions,
All the jammings,
All the red bulls,

All the stressing out on parts.

It finally kicks into a whole adventure.






















Eh wrong Lan,

My bad.









Sponsored by 1.5l Coke?



Dia sengih ahh




He walks


And he walks too


He turns


And he turns too





Fucking hyper



Handsome-bugger


Voluptous-Kickasser


Act-Cuter



BEND-OVER!!



After about 30 mins of pure enjoyment by music means,
Melfraps was finally done with their biggest gig they ever had.

Nothing like end-of-the-show photoshoot.

For all of them musicians.

The End Credits;





Zhar: (italian accent) Mamma miaa! I was on the top of stage and them girls still ooglin at maa msucles mannn, what is this mannn come on mannn

Lan: I'm..too sexy for my skin, too sexy for my skin skin skin.




Lan: We love killing!





Them: WE LOVE KILLING TOO!



Wana: Let's go kill somebarrdayyy!




Crackerjack's Lan and Melfraps' Lan


To all the bands- SQUEEEZEEEE!




Nothing like a friendly rivalry of no-need-stand-lah vocalists



With all that said,
I would like to personally thanks all of those that came down last Saturday,
Whether to support us,
Other bands,
Or just supporting local music.





We of Melfraps loves you.

And do come for our Mayday gig on first May,
Most of the bands that performed at Hong Lim Park will again be performing alongside us too,
So do show your support and get your ass in FAD Studio.

You can contact me for details if interested.

And remember this fellow locals.


Rock never dies,
Lan

Holy Cow

The biggest-gig-we-ever-had on 25th april at hong lim park went really well I'd say,
Even though the amount of crowd was pathetic,
Even though we had quite a number of mistakes,

Call me arrogant but I'd still think we're one of the better bands playing that day.

So to the others of Melfraps,
Don't worry too much,
All the comments I've been receiving,

They actually love our sounds.

And they felt the same way I do,
It's the best performance we've put up.

I'll be doing a major update about this on the next entry,
When I've gotten the final shots from Wana,

Prepare your desktops and laptops everyone,
Cause the next entry will again be,

Pictures heavy.

And I believe that picture above is the best band shot overall on that very day,
Lan

No woman no cry

Hectic.



That word up there best describes my days recently,
I rarely had time to really sit down at my bed playing some football game on my Ps3.

[accent= hardcore gamer] Become a legend FTW! [/accent]



Yesterday-today's night shift for the start.

Came home earlier today at almost 10am,
Slept at 12pm after doing my stuffs,
Woke up 3pm and went for football training with them airport police mates,

Regulars vs NSmen.

We the National Suckassmen,
Scored two goals.

Although the second one was own goal,
Resulting at 1-1 at half time.

I only played acceptably for the first 15 mins,
And by acceptably I meant playing-the-way-I'll-get-my-left-knee-injured.

After that,
I hardly ran and gave a few balls away.

Came half time,
I left and met Wana (Some Simei kebayarobics chick ahahaha) at Temasek Poly,
Which is just infront of the field I played ball on earlier.



Left for penin and bought a shirt there for my sat's gig,
Ate something at LJS which irritates the shit out of me,
Cause them veggies keep spilling all over.

And it suprises me like fuck when little wana assisted me by eating em dropped tomatoes,
Tearing open chilli sauces and squeezed them out on the tray,
Some funny feeling,
But hey,

That was nice of you man.

Today has it all,
Lots of perspiring,
Lots of expressions,
Lots of walking,

But one thing's for sure.

Today's one full-of-laughter-in-a-weird-sense day.

But who cares anyway,
Ima weirdo nam sayin'?



So hectic-O-hectic,
In less than 3 hours of sleep,
I'm continuing my night now with some football match on TV at 3am.

In service the next day at 8am-6pm.

Onwards to bugis for jamming 6pm-9pm.

And the next day starts my more-than-12-hour morning shift,
Then comes the gig day,
Gotta be there at 11am.

Seems like I won't get enough of night life for awhile.

And to all the school kids who complained about some busy schedule,



YOU JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT BUSY IS LIKE,
Lan

Damn Nat, she gave me one hard pinch

Watch this.



Now watch this.




Told you I love complicated girls.

Somehow the ending of the first video never failed to get me laughing,
The expression,
The mouth,
The "WHAT!"

Priceless.

And of course,

"Damn Natalie, you're a crazy chick"
"JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP AND SUCK MY DICK!"

Now that's my baby Natalie to you.

Ahaha.

So like you've guessed it,
My desktop recovered suprisingly.

Just half an hour to go before Mr Repairman arrives and gives my desktop some counselling,
It suddenly came alive.

I tried restarting it again and bloody hell,
It works fine.

So I got my mom to call Mr Repairman and canceled the invitation,
Thank God he haven't came out of his house.

Best news for the day:
Sing Dollars Saved.


Talking about speedy recovery,
After days of me being stressed bout the gig on 25th April,
After days of trying to find one that can temporarily takes my drummer's seat,

Khai has recovered.




Good news for Melfraps,
He'll be joining us back on Sunday's jamming.

And of course our two upcoming gigs.








Now now,
Before I go to sleep for another morning shift shit later,

Shit.

SHIT.

Before I continue,
SHIT!




The two I marked with pink spray,
That's two arabs who added me somehow.

And when I probed further,




I don't know it's pure coincidence or what,
But I'm presently talking with some arab-blooded girl on MSN,
And suddenly these two arab guys from bahrain added me up.

Indirectly threatening me when they mentioned about some Iraqi friend.

Bloody hell,
That teaches me not to mess up with some shisha-loving arab chick.

I had some white gays adding me up last time asking me to webcam with them,
And now this.

I'm starting to wonder if they actually talks about me in these countries.

Okay fuck,
Let's get on with my "Almost got conned" story.


You see,
I was planning to buy a PSP for myself.

Because I need it in my line of work,
Cause' when there's nothing to do,
Everyone magically took out a PSP from somewhere and leaving me daydreaming.

I did my research and eventually went out to Far East Plaza to get one for myself,
After reading that it's one of the best shops around to get a PSP,
Amazing customer service and good pricing.

I've also heard news about the latest version being unmodded,
Meaning to say it can't play downloaded games.

So off I went to Far East Plaza and started finding "Funz Square",
The shop everyone was talking about.

I came to one PSP shop that has a "Square" in it's name,
I blindly went to the shopkeeper thinking it's the shop I'm looking for.

I'm gonna cut this short,

It came close to 30 minutes standing there buying my first PSP,
With the shop assistant being patient with me and trying to rake up good offers for me.

So I came to know the latest version suprisingly was able to play downloaded games,
Whether it's true or not, I don't know,
But somehow it starts the suspicion in me.

Then he claimed that the memory stick which was included with the PSP bundled set is a genuine one,
Till I eventually load that shit in front of him and found out it's not like what he said.

He staggered a little and mentioned that he didn't know about it and tried to offer me the other memory card which he so-called genuine,
So what if it's genuine,
He offered me some bullshit brand memory card and even adds up the price.

I said no and because of him been doing so much for me,
I was still going to buy the PSP.

There's this carrying case I've asked for earlier to bring home along with the PSP,
Until something inside of me just send some invisible force to my tounge and makes me go,

"Eh can cancel the carrying case?"

In which he called his boss about it,
Maybe to seek advice on how to cancel the receipt thingy,
Yes it was written and signed already.

Heh.

So he put down his phone and told me that the bundled set comes with the carrying case.

In which I opened that "menu" again and pinpointed that it didn't mention about the case under bundled set,
I also mentioned that if it's really a bundled set,
Why am I paying for the case?

He staggered for awhile,
Called his boss again,
And there he goes,
The worst tactic of conning arts.


"My boss say if the customer don't want to buy then don't sell it to him."

Now press R1, R1, X, O, O, SELECT!

"Okay can."
*Lan uses Smile of Arrogance on seller*
*Seller is now stoned and shocked -15hp*
*Lan walks away successfully*

So I left smiling,
With him still stoning and that blue PSP just lying there on the desk,
With screen protectors on,
Ready for someone to bring that baby home.

Pariapa and his ex-classmates walking with me away from the shop.

Man,
If life's a movie,
That's one part I would gladly put up for the trailer.

And as it turns out,
That was not Funz Square I went to,
If you're planning to get PSP or the like,
Please don't do the same mistake I did.

Never go to Gamer Square at Far East Plaza.
And don't mistake the 3rd floor being the 2nd floor,
Because thats what starts all this crap up for me.

Anyway,
Funzsquare was closed when I went there afterwards,
I'll probably make another trip there again just before my night shift tomorrow.


Gotta love my arrogance aura,
Lan

Stopped fucking the net temporarily

Just when I had ideas into putting a detailed entry,
Just when I found things to talk about,
A fucking lot.

I wasted time playing PES 09 on my beloved PS3 and getting mad each time I conceded goals.

That leads to my egoistic soft-hearted desktop into breaking down.

It kept restarting on me no matter what I do.

Reformat.
Safe Mode.

You name it,
My limited knowledge on computers takes it toll.

So here I am,
On my pa's laptop getting stressed at keying "\" whenever I attempted to press enter.

That is why I'm never good at turbo-typing on laptops.

Now comes the rarest of times I won't be on MSN for quite awhile,
Although its not as important as getting on facebook just to play pathetic games.


Anyway before I get another chance to put on a detailed update,
Some things I wanna highlight;

Khai,
Our drummer,
Suffered a road accident and is currently on crutches.

Well we do have a replacement drummer,
But I'm still hoping that he can make it in time.

25th April is gonna be one huge performance for Melfraps,
And to put myself in his shoes,
I know he's dying to get his ass on stage,
No matter what it takes.

So please get well soon Mr Drummer who only appears magically on jammings and gigs.
Aha.

And I'm currently having a mini-crush on someone,

Who acted in Sisterhood of the Traveling Jeans (or whatever that show's called)

She has that Natalie Portman look,
Which automatically puts her in 2nd place in my "Girls-I-Would-Have-Learn-How-To-Shuffle-For" list.

Heh.


This my first post which backspace was the most pressed key,\\
ARGH
Lan

Another girl, Another planet

Melfraps' 1st May gig,
And yes you read it right.

Force Vomit and My Writes will be performing too.

I know,
I got a shock too when I heard that news.

So anyway just a reminder,

25th May gig is confirmed,

Venue's at Hong Lim Park (Clarke Quay exit A)

From 1pm-6pm,

Bands playing (by memory):
Love Jets
The 21s
Crackerjack
Paddle Pop
The Zozis
Melfraps

And it's free,
So please come.


Anyway one last thing to do before I go to sleep,
Fucken morning shift.


Happy meal.

Does it really makes one happy?

The infamous Faf the White begs to differ,









So to summarise things up,




Depressed girl + Happy Meal= Guilty girl


Have a happy hour instead.

I'll keep this update short,
Hopefully I'll have some spare time during this hectic season to get a detailed update going.


Oh and,
Melfraps is currently completing two more originals,
Which make it 6 on the record.



I'll ask you out on my next payday,
Lan

Run neon tiger, there's alot on your mind.

So I would like to talk about a random topic.



Facebook is evil.





Here and now,
I'm living an era of taking cabs to work every morning shift,
And how I could have spent all that cash getting cigars and getting high puffing them at gigs.

But no,

Why?

Facebook.


The first thing I've been doing whenever I woke up at 5 plus in the morning,
Was getting to my computer seat and logging in facebook.

Mafia Wars,
Street Racing,
Space Wars,
Rock legends.

5 minutes on each to level up and earning cash,
Results in me getting to the bathroom late,

Thus ended up being late for work.

And spent another 8 bucks on cab.


Hell,
Even all that money wasted on my Playstation 3 whom I kept claiming as my new best friend in my room,
With games like Metal Gear Solid 4 and Fallout 3,

Somehow facebook still won my heart over.

It stole my heart away from something I've promised good massaging on buttons,
Extraordinary-attention,
And as faf would say,
Sexing it every day and night.

But no.

Facebook is evil.


I'm here blogging about this random shit,
And again I have 3 tabs that has facebooks all on em.

Even at work,
I spent my free time thinking how should I get more cash in Mafia Wars etc.



The shroud of facebooking has fallen,

Begun,
The Mafia+Cars+Space Wars has.


Okay fine,
Save me,
Anybody?



Mamma mia, Ima ar Mafia nuw,
Lan