Thursday, September 29, 2005

goodbye los angeles: part of this was mine

forest fires cosume the mountains once again. ashes falling from the sky that morning in San Diego.

And it's sad, but true
Out of cash and I.O.U's

I remember luis singing that to me. it was a day i was taking the bus with him in the morning after i had stayed over at his place after a show. LA underneath overcast skies the sun yet to shine too bright.

music dates so much of my memories. when i woke up in aunt mei's place that first morning feeling that this was beautiful. mr children with aya in the sunset. brand new outdoors at kimmel and feeling like home with Matt, Michelle, Luis. northstar in summer walking down reseda. brand new and mom's first visit A Blink-182, 5 years reason why america dream come true with Michelle, Jessica and Johnny. Saves the Day and Allison around LA taking poloriod pictures. Days Away, SoCo screaming at Palladium with Michelle. Salt Lake City. Denver. Friends. Nicole and New Found Glory a Universal Amphiteater... and yes, movielife was there too... Joanna between Sunset and Hollywood after Blink. Finch at Soma, Palace the glue that held us together. I met them all there... either Finch or..... taking back sunday, always taking back sunday, spring, summer, fall and missed winters. new years, with everyone... really.... and so many, many, many more that memories fail within months because they were always there... the music, the bands, the friends....

how can you ask me to move that easily when this IS home. The past weeks hanging out with friends and saying goodbyes, you can't say that this wasn't home, you know. It just wasn't a university experience, it was life, and it is life that you're asking me to say goodbye to. to drop and go that easily. and i can't do it. i wanted to stay in america till december because i couldn't say goodbye to my friends, i didn't want to leave them... and in so many ways i should just stay with Michelle instead of relocating and have the time of my life for the next few months instead of worrying.

what is the measure of life in the end? It is measured by our own yardstick, really, and i have found myself to have lost sight of what MATTERS to me... and in so many ways, that job in Boston is NOT it. and yet.

I always want to feel like part of this was mine.

I was going to Ventura Blvd the other day, to get the bracelet i lost in the Taking Back Sunday mosh pit. It's called an affrimation bracelet, and it was "believe" that i go.

I was on the bus and i didn't know what to listen to, and so i simply scroled and on it's own so happen, Jimmy Eat World's Praise Chorus played... and there's a line in that song that went "I always want to feel like part of this was mine"

and i was thinking about Joanna, Michelle, Jessica, Nikki and Luis who were coming all the way up to Northridge to see be before i left, and i remembered all the times i had spent with them... and at that moment it dawned on me that I WAS part of it. It was MINE. As much as i wished that i was, that i could have been in the LA emo punk scene, the whole ride, the whole life i had longed to have in america, as much as i wished i had it... truth is that i DO have it. I WAS PART OF IT. and THAT is something no one can ever take away from me... Looking into the eyes of all those friends who actually came, who remembers so much of the stuff that we did, who had never treated me as an outsider, whom i met when i first got here and welcomed me into their world and made me PART OF IT, I know for sure.... I was in the heart of it all... Like the whole britpop thing i missed, i missed... But this, this life, this life here for SURE, i know, i was part of it...

and i am really sorry i have to leave... because believe me, i would have rather stayed here till the bittersweet ending... because i know that the friends that i met and have over here, and all my experiences in LA... has made this place, truly, HOME and LIFE for me for the past 2 1/2 years...

I love you, and you will always be part of my heart till will stay fond with me, always.



Image hosted by Photobucket.com




Image hosted by Photobucket.com



jaa, mata aimasu...
Tuesday, September 27, 2005

nani??????

There is also a brief comment by Rumiko Takahashi, where she is happy on reaching the 400th chapter of the series. She also adds that there's still many more stories she has to write (before the series can finish) and that for now she's aiming for at least 500 chapters.

is she nuts??????????????? FIVE HUNDRED CHAPTERS????????? MANY MORE STORIES SHE HAS TO WRITE????????

doesn't she know that people are getting sick of Inuyasha because it's toooooo frigging long winded????? If it's NOT for Sesshoumaru and Rin i would totally have lost interest like 200 chapters ago! SERIOUSLY! everyone i've encountered, no matter how much we DO like Inuyasha, everyone's complaining it's beating around the bush wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much! I mean it's one thing to write a really intricate and well woven story. And while i do think that her story are quite well woven, there comes a time that it's SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SUPER obviously LONG WINDED! No one wants to read a frigging long winded story! geez!!! I mean, it's getting sooooooooooooo long winded that characters can go missing from the story for like more than 50 chapters! da hell! (kouga for example! where the hell has HE been??)

Like my blog posts and emails. geez! ppl dun wanna read long winded beating around the bush stuff!

PLEASE, ONEGAI!! JUST END IT!!!
Saturday, September 24, 2005

celebrity skin

SO! i walked the red carpet yesterday (hehehehehe)

Image hosted by Photobucket.com


yeh, like dat, like dat... exactly like that!


Well, since i am leaving Los Angeles soon, what better way to cap off my whole experience than being a hollywood whore!

Well actually, I went for the premiere of that Sci Fi movie Serenity. Luis, who is like this HUGE Serenity/Firely fan, invited me to the event which was at Universal City Walk's theaters.

So yeah, we waited around and saw some celebrities (somewhat) here and there walking down the red carpet. They were from the movie mostly and one actress from Buffy. Also got to see the creator of Buffy and Angel who is also the creator of Serenity (which is from the series Firefly)

Anyways, we ourselves got to walk the red carpet because that's the only enterance to the theather.

The experience was really cool in the sense that you got to see the Hollywood world. In the sense that, man, no wonder celebrities DO live a different world than we do. I think it's really hard sometimes, being one of them. The red carpet was short for this one, so it was okay (imagine the Oscars that's what!).

It's like when you first enter the red carpet, you see all these reporters/papparazzi or whoever they are holding thick folders of pictures. I don't know what they're for. But you see the reporters on the right holding papers with pictures of the celebrities so that they would recognized them. And then when you enter the red carpet, the carpet is seperated into two lanes... The normal ppl (like me lah) are ushered to one side, and the actors/directors are usherd to another side where there's this massive crowd of reporters and cameras and blinding lights lining up by the railing to interview them.

And that's their life you know. Basically it takes them forever to walk down the carpet cause there are at least more than 20 reporters from different stations and new media with their cameras and lights and all that. And well, the celebrities basically gets ushered by security from one reporter to the next all the way down the aisle. Madness.

Then at the middle, there's a platform that has been erected (i think this one was for E! Entertainment) and they will go up to the stage to be interviewed. Then ushered down and towards another 12 reporters waiting for their turn one by one.

And when they say that celebrities live in the spotlight, man, i finally know what they mean. It's not just like the lights from the cameras, there's just these huge massive white spotlights illuminating the aisle where the celebrities are walking (i think it's lighting for the cameras) and it's just BLINDING, BRIGHT and HOT also. Such madness, no wonder these celebrities are not like normal people, you know, cause truthfully, they DON'T live a normal life!

Neways, yeah so that was that... and then we went for the after party too which was inside the Universal Theme park, and like a whole big red carpet lined the way towards where the party was. The atmosphere was really nice too cause the party was held where the European and Birtish quadrants of the theme park, and it was all really nicely lit and stuff. Really atmospheric.

And it was nice, getting to see Universal one last time.

Neways, this is Serenity, i actually liked the show quite abit. Although it was a movie, it didn't feel like a movie movie, it felt more of like an extended version of a sci-fi episode on big screen, but still, i thought that the pace of the movie really carried the audience quite well throughout the show.

Image hosted by Photobucket.com

click on pic to go to movie site for more information on the movie
Thursday, September 22, 2005

when i was younger though still as naive




HEY!!! anyone remembers this website???? and by anyone, i'm referring to Ching Mun of course!

I got this junk mail (AGAIN) in my hotmail mailbox from this website and i clicked it and yooooooooo!!!!!!!! I REMEMBERED IT!!!!!! I remember we used to play around with it back in like form four (98)!! You know that whole MCKL phase and all that stuff. hehehe. Apparently it's still around!

Neways, please don't forget to drop in at the new SIDE KICK blog! and check out all elaine's random thoughts and truly see, what a scatter brain she is! ^^

post-grad

i think i wrote this in my email to Nigel (which i do hope he would reply) that life after graduation isn't fun: it's a series of confusion punctuated by crucial life-changing decisions i am not prepared to make.

And i was thinking about Evonne the other day, about her making the decision to go home and DOING IT. I realized that it takes as MUCH strength to go back home as it is to stay here in America. It really does.

NEW SIDE KICK BLOG!




SO!!!!!

I have a NEW SIDE KICK blog!

The new blog is just basically random stuff i think about each day that i don't wanna put in this main blog (this one's for "serious" stuff). Neways, I still hope you'd please do go check it from time to time ^^! Thanks!
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
SO!!! TODAY I FINALLY WENT FOR MY FIRST OASIS CONCERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry ler, but i have to say that, nine years ago, I could contend at being one of the biggest Malaysian Oasis fan, ok!!!!

NEWAYS, although i was NINE YEARS TOO LATE, and the whole BRITPOP era has come and gone and faded away............

I DID FINALLY SEE OASIS LIVE. THERE in that crowd... FINALLY. (btw, i actually REALLY wished Oasis would cover a Stone Roses song, i suddenly felt such an urge and desire to go crazy live with some SR songs!!!)

However, the drawback was that, i did see them at the HOLLYWOOD BOWL (see pic below):

Image hosted by Photobucket.com

As u can see, it's a huge ass areana. and Unfortunately, it's not knebworth or Maine Rd, where at least those were legendary Oasis shows, so it didn't matter that they looked like ants when u saw them but at least u were part of history. BUT NO, this show was NOT part of history. So, that's the sucky part.

NEWAYS.

OASIS FINALLY CAME ON after supporting acts Kassabian and Jet.

NEW OASIS, that is... so i don't know who the four other dudes were, i only knew Liam and Noel Gallagher..... Noel of course, whom i still love and adore with the same idealism that i did 9 years ago...

Image hosted by Photobucket.com
super zoom camera.

NEWAYS they came on...

They started with two new songs that, of course, duh, i didn't know. THENNNNNNNNNN the highlight started when they played a very old song Bring It On Down, which i thought was a very odd selection of a song to play. Not just because it was a Definitely Maybe era song but also cause it was a B-side... For a huge arena like this where i would bet 75% of the audience are just casual Oasis listeners, so... WHY THE HECK BRING IT ON DOWN??

Neways, after that they hit into What's The Story Morning Glory, which got the crowd rumbling (mind you, i think there was at least 6,000 people).

But it was here that i did feel though, even when they were playing Bring It On Down, i loved these songs, i really do, and once before, some time ago, i remember i used to obsessed about them and could not stop listening to these songs. I remember how much I rotated Oasis' singles (and i had every one of them for both Definitely Maybe and What's the Story singles) and heard these songs you know.

But i just couldn't help but feel how much, things have changed. That i was indeed.... LATE.

I think the moment really became very very very very incredibly WOW!!! FINALLY for me was when they actually played Cigarettes and Alcohol. Noel said "this song is for the fucking law that say no smoking in places" and I KNEW they were going to play Cigarettes and Alcohol and they did!!!!!!

You know, funny how you suddenly remember the words to the songs even when you've not heard it in awhile. And actually was reminded how poignant the lyrics were "is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth living for?" NO SHIT NOEL!! I guess just gimme some cigarettes and alcohol at this point and i'm sure i'd be set for life! hellz!

But i think the feeling that i was NINE YEARS too fucking late didn't strike me that much till they played Live Forever.

I was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy they played Live Forever. I was thinking abt it before the show that it would be AMAZING!!!!!! SIMPLY nostaglically like a dream coming to live, if they played Live Forever, Acquiesce, Don't Look Back In Anger, Slide Away and all those old old songs. And THEY DID play Live forever!!

Noel said before the song "This song is dedicated to all those in New Orleans" and i had a feeling they'd play Live Forever and they did!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ouh mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn simply amazing!!!!!

and i was reminded again, of those great lyrics Noel once wrote that really really spoke to my heart and spoke what i felt, "maybe i will never be all the things that i'd like to be, but now is not the time to cry, now's the time to find out why"... Amazinggggg!!

But i think it was here also that halfway being REALLY REALLY like struck wit hthe wonder of FINALLY seeing them live and hearing them play these songs, was when it also crunch on me the very very deep realization that I was VERY VERY much 9 years too late...

I know i was in the middle of it all, but it was in the middle of it all, of a dream becoming true, realizing before my eyes, was when i also realized that i was already too late. This whole thing, this whole phase, this whole essence, and PHENOMENA and entirety of OASIS that i loved, was already gone. This wave that i was in at that moment standing there singing with them Live Forever, and relive/living the moment NOW that i could not live BACK THEN in 96, I realized that that moment was VERY FAKE. It was not the real thing. It was not the real phenomena. THAT phenomenan that was Oasis, that i loved, that I LONGED with my WHOLE HEART to be submerged in it's landslide... that's gone, that's over..... Simply put, the whole Britpop era is done and GONE, and I had the train, the boat and it has sailed... And whatever that i was experiencing at that moment, really is not, really is, just, a shadow, of that... a shadow of what I wanted... I was as if grasping finally the one thing that you had longed for so many years ago, but you realized that what you have in your hands is not the real physical thing but a mere hologram... that's how it felt like.

And I think i felt that the MOST when they played Champagne Supernova, and Liam sang those words "where were you while we were getting high?"

And i remembered those years ago, even back in 97/98 during the tail end of Morning Glory and the near beginging of the Be Here Now era, I remember always singing that line as if Oasis was asking its people "where were you while we were getting high?".... And i remembered writing in some deranged fan mail probably or one of my thousands of Oasis-reflection-lamentation pieces "where were you while we were getting high? I was six thousand miles away, longing to slide away to be caught beneath that landslide of the supernova that is Oasis".

And the sad sad fact that hit me while Liam sang that, and even when I sang back "Someday you will find me, caught beneath the landslide" and knowing that today, that moment was my finally SOMEDAY and i was in that landslide, i was finally part of, one in the sea of thousands in an Oasis crowd, but even when i sang that, I knew that this was just the mere image/reflection/shadow of the actual phenomena that i really wanted to be in those years ago.

Back in 98, I think, I was watching the D'yer Know What I Mean? video of Channel V and going all crazy about it cause it was the first single and it was the first video after Morning Glory and i was all exicted about it. In the midst of the obsessiveness and longing flooding out of my adoring eyes, I remember my brother said to me something along the lines "what are u obsessing about, you're not part of Oasis' people. Cause all their people are THERE in the video, and you're here. So you're not part of it. Give it up."

And you know, in such a shitty but true way, the core of what my brother said, was right. Sybolically Liam singing "all my people right here right now," and there was this bunch of people sitting around watching them with the helicopters and all in that video... It was as if symbolically, it was true... all the Oasis people, the ones who were REALLY THERE, in the HEART of it ALL, in the CORE of the Oasis phenomenan back then, was truly, right there right THEN.

And i was NOT part of it. I never was, I never could, and i will never be. I miss knebworth by 10 days, that first time we visited England. THE historical KNEBWORTH Oasis weekend, yeah, by 10 days.... And I guess no matter how many Hollywood Bowls show i can attend after that, will not make for the fact that I missed it, will not make for the fact that, it will NEVER be that Knebworth Weekend or those Maine Rd show...

that when i was form 3 and i stared out at Stadium Negara pretending it was Maine Rd, wishing that it was and IMAGINING that i was there.... Even if i had seen them, now, I think, it'd still have to go on IMAGINING i was there in the REAL phenomena.

and i guess that's why i didn't feel incredibly beyond belief overwhelmed tonight....

i would STILL give my left lung to have been able to be there in that crowd in Knebworth that weekend or in that two shows in Maine Rd, those years ago..

It was still amazing though, being there, and felt like i was being hit, like my head was exploding, when i did feel though in some tiny moments as if i was caught up FINALLY in the real thing, in the original Oasis supernova landslide i wanted to be in. Especially in moments when they played ACQUIESCE!!!!!!!!!!!

OUH MANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN I really wished and dreamt they would play that song before the show started because i thought "wow man! it would be amazing to hear that song live finally!!!" and i still always remember that one night, that first night when i discovered Acquiesce on the Some Might Say single. I still remember that night. Ouh man i TOTALLY fell in love with that song and looped it the WHOLE NIGHT, and i remember falling in love with Oasis all over again because of that song. I felt that song was so beautiful especially in lights of Liam and Noel's bickering when Noel sang "cause we need each other, we believe in one another, i know we're gonna uncover, what's sleeping in our soul."

And mannnnnnnnnnnnn that song REALLY IS a phenomena to witness live. It's an AMAZING AMAZING live song.

and it was simply BRILLIANT to have had that chance to stand there to listen, to sing, to scream to be MOVED by the power fo the song, that time tonight.

Then they did play wonderwall which liam dedicated and said "this one's for the lads."

But i never realized though, how MELLOW Wonderwall was!! Seriously! It's a beautiful song but i don't think it's a power song like Acquiesce is.

Neways, they ended their set with Rock and Roll Star. When they played the song, I knew i recongized it, and memory again is a funny thing cause i could still remember 60% of the song and pretty much the chorus. which was brillaint. I must say, NOEL GALLAGHER could write fucking BRILLIANT lines back then man, he really did. I guess Manchester did something to him huh!

Neways, the came back for an encore. They played two new songs and when Liam walked off stage (he constantly dissapeared when Noel sang the songs) I KNEW they were going to play Don't Look Back In Anger!!!!!! And it was DEFINITELY confirmed when Noel said it was good to finally play at venues like these instead of fucking clubs, and then he started asking if anyone was mexican. then he said "This one's dedicated to all the people here who are of mexican heritage" (and knowing what america did to the mexicans back thenn... hehe) he started with DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER!!!!

It was BRILLIANT to hear all the people, almost 10,000 of them, screaming with him "Slip inside the eye of your mind, don't you know you might find" Brillaint, BRILLIANT!

I tried to record this set but errrr... sorry, my recording sucked, plus u could hear me screaming off key more than u can hear the music too!

And I think it was just amazing, cause Noel didn't sing at all for the entire chorus but instead, the crowd sang it, and it was just brilliant! (if u think abt it, it seems that DLBIA seems to be the more popular one than Wonderwall). BRILLIANT! and of course, the part i screamed the most with my dear Noel was "AND PLEASE DON'T PUT YOUR LIFE IN THE HANDS, OF A ROCK AND ROLL BAND, THROW IT ALL AWAY"

Brilliant... and of course, Don't Look Back In Anger is one of my favourite Oasis tunes... if not, my most favourite one....

and so he sang... "don't look back in anger.... i heard you say..... at least not today...."

brilliant...

then it was their last song, Liam announced, then Noel said "you are the Hollywood Bowl and I am the Hollywood mole, thank you," and they played their last song....

The ending... well, they played a song i didn't know, but it was at the very very very end, the part where the band walks off stage that left me left me overwhelmed

First, I was very surprised by this but i thought that it was actually REALLY REALLY REALLY nice and superbly cool of Liam to do this. But at the end of the last song, some girl managed to climb up on stage, and immeidately i saw this guy run across the stage from the other end and darted towards the girl who was already held back by one security guy but was still clammering her hands towards Liam and Noel. Neways, a few of the security guys managed to haul the screaming girl towards the side of the stage where the speakers were, and i thought it was really really nice and cool of Liam because Liam actually walked quickly over to where the girl was to actually talk to her for abit, or maybe to make sure she was okay, and I thought it was superbly great of him to do that... I guess, to me, it gave me a sense that, you know, it made the show SMALLER, in a way, that it was cool to see or feel as if Oasis is not like those aloft cool-ass bands that don't give a fuck abt fans anymore. That it gave a sense to me as if, not that Oasis is not big, but that they're not a band that is not connected to the fans at all and remains aloof to them, but they're not aloof, you know... they're still there, and no matter how big they've become, maybe they're still Oasis.

And the second thing that left me crying... well, i nearly cried, i didn't want anyone to see, so i didn't cry.... Almost like that time when I wanted to buy, I think it was eithe Q or something else, magazine that had a SPECIAL OASIS issue... And i remember going to the store at 1 Utama and walking into the music store and not find it there. When i enquired, they store clerk told me that it was SOLD OUT. I remember walking out of the store at the verge of tears after he told me that, and i remember that when i walked out of the complex at the underground parking, i just started crying like hell, because i thought i had missed.... lost, failed, to hold, to grasps a part of them that i was so, very desperate to attain... to hold, to own. I wanted every piece of them that i could get, I had already missed and lost so much, and i didn't want to lose any more...
And it was like that moment again, it was as if i was turned into that 16 year old again you know.

And it was when Noel Gallagher finally bade his goodbye and walked off stage.

He was meddling around with his guitar abit, then he put it down and said thank you, then he walked to the front of the stage to get something that someone was holding out to him. He autographed it, shook more hands, then took a bow, blew a kiss, then waved goodbye, turned around and walked off... like the many many times i had watched him do, and now for real.

when he waved goodbye, and i knew this was it... i really felt as if i was 14 again, you know... and when he waved, i actually waved back but caught myself, because, it was really saying goodbye you know...

and i was 14 again... and all those years that i had longed for them... and now, he was going to be gone....


I guess, the show was not as if a dream come true, or at least i didn't feel completely overwhelmed as if "wow!!!!! I'm in this finally!!!!" in that sense of connection to the feelings that i felt for Oasis, and the longings and wantings and mad obsessive cravings i had all those years ago back home when i used to look out of my Form 3 classroom towards Stadium Negara and pretended it was Maine Rd and said good morning to Noel Gallagher every day. While i was watching the show and finally singing those songs, I didn't feel as if I was in that whole Oasis mania '96 phenomenan... i was happy and i was glad... but i knew, i knew, i knew, i had ALREADY missed IT ALL, you know.

But at the ENDING of the show, when noel was going to walk off stage and when he did walk off stage, i was totally sucked back into that whole thing. And i think if there was one moment in the show that i REALLY REALLY REALLY felt as if I WAS 14 back in 1996 ACTUALLY am part of and experiecing the whole Oasis 96 mania phenomenan first hand for REAL, it was that final moment when Noel Gallagher was walking off stage....

if was as if, when he walked out... a part of me, a very very old part of me that i can still feel so nostalgically, died along with it...

and then the stage was silent, and the crowd began to disperse..

and then the crisps clear sound of the piano of Let It Be began to play and echo in the wake...
Monday, September 12, 2005
California Whore
I do love california, REALLY. But i think i am getting abit sick of it.... need to go somewhere else di. huh.
Image hosted by Photobucket.com
I still think they look really cute together.

And the question i never really answered as to why i want them to be with each other is that, when i first saw them in this pic:

Image hosted by Photobucket.com

and when i realized that CHARLOTTE was a girl, and i went online and researched on Ash, and read that Tim chose Charlotte to join the band recently, it was then that i fell in love with the idea of Tim and Charlotte.

Because, when i saw the pic of Chaz sticking close to Tim's legs (hehe ^^) and the thought that Tim brought Charlotte into the band, it was so cute, okay maybe in like a brotherly way, it's like as if Tim was Charlotte's boss/protector, you know?? Cause it's like I felt as if like, when i read all these interviews with Chaz in it, she felt like an outsider when she first joined Ash, and some fans didn't like her there, but i liked the idea that Tim wanted her there, and the only other person she could turn to and could depend on for support, was Tim. And then you see pics, it's always just the both of them, so it's really cute that way, cause it's like Tim bringing Charlotte under his wings, and no matter whoever said whatever, it didn't matter cause Tim wanted her to be there, Tim chose her to be there, you know. So it was a cute thing, seeing them together in pics, and Charlotte's close to Tim, it's like Charlotte's looking to Tim for support or like Tim being there to protect Charlotte.

So i guess, that's why till today, i still carry that feeling and notion with me.

And you know, that picture where i first saw Charlotte sticking to Tim, that's actually one of the earliest pictures of then-new Ash.

Image hosted by Photobucket.com
actually, THIS is the first pic of Charlotte with Ash. I think it was either on Q or NME but this is the first pic of Charlotte and it had the headline "It's a Girl!!!" =))

Neways, here are some early Ash with Charlotte mag covers pics... 1998/99-era

Image hosted by Photobucket.com Image hosted by Photobucket.com Image hosted by Photobucket.com

Actually i was watching Ash live at Glastonbury 2005 video yesterday (meaning one of the most recent shows), and made me realized that Tim and Charlotte seem pretty distant these days... Of all the periods, i think they looked and seemed the closest in the Free All Angels 2001-2003 era..... WHICH was the period that Tim met his ex, actually...

Neways, hate to admit it but, i think they were closer and had more chemistry back then... yeah especially during the Free All Angels era, and abit when Charlotte first joined (but i think that's only cause yeah, Tim chose her first and also they both play the guitar and so it would be natural to just pair them up). But lately, they've been looking distant!!!

WHY?!

on that note though, watching the concert video yesterday, hmm... seems very right with Charlotte by Tim's side on stage, but also felt very right in the sense that, they're band mates, and i couldn't help but keep feeling that he's her boss!! hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Saturday, September 10, 2005

fuck lah. "not a good match" TOTALLY NOT QUALIFIED more like it.

fucking hell.
Friday, September 09, 2005
[23:54] PERnant Ian: ok put it this way
[23:54] PERnant Ian: ur leaving for Japan right?
[23:54] Animatrix4: indeed
[23:54] PERnant Ian: lets say u met this girl two weeks ago at work
[23:54] PERnant Ian: and stuff
[23:54] PERnant Ian: and u've met her a few other times after that
[23:55] PERnant Ian: had some talk (but not much, but enough)
[23:55] PERnant Ian: and ur aquantances
[23:55] PERnant Ian: and maybe u were a little worried abt going to japan
[23:55] PERnant Ian: and u told her that
[23:55] PERnant Ian: k?
[23:55] Animatrix4: k
[23:55] PERnant Ian: and ok, on the day u guys are leaving
[23:55] PERnant Ian: she shows up at LAX to send u off
[23:55] PERnant Ian: without telling anyone
[23:56] PERnant Ian: not u, or like the friend who introduced the both of u
[23:56] PERnant Ian: how bad is THAT?
[23:57] PERnant Ian: meaning it was a surprise send off
[23:57] PERnant Ian: is she the fool?
[23:57] PERnant Ian: apparently, i was the fool


So i am still thinking abt him but i don't know why.

I guess i want closure, but i don't want it bad enough to dare to disturb the universe.

let sleeping dogs lie.

i just want closure u know... that's all i really want, you know, to know and to let go...

and yet i ask myself, "why do you even need closure?" "closure from what?"

what's there to close when there really wasn't much opened to begin with???

In addition to that, why disturb the world, the universe, to bother people around you, to bother HIM, just cause YOU need THAT closure when the rest of the world has already FARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR moved forward and beyond and forgotten???

You're the only one stuck elaine, and you don't even know why you're stuck, so why should u go bother someone else for something so insignificant anyway? Isn't that INCREDIBLY selfish of you to do?
Tuesday, September 06, 2005


So i spent the whole day "making" this site. Rie had invited me to go view her pics of the Summer camp. But, u had to register to view ppl's profile, and so i did (blindly filling in the registration form, no less!). After seeing Rie's pics, i ended up uploading pics on my profile, then TRIED to fill in the rest.... WHICH WAS QUITE TOUGH, considering that i can't read or understand anything there! Except, some of the katakana... nice to erm.. brush up on it, since i've forgotten MOST. Wanna upload more stuff, i wonder if like, i could learn to write more in Japanese, and see if Rie could help correct it!!! I don't even know how to say "I am not good at japanese" in japanese correctly! But since Rie is my only friend on it :(, i guess it will just be a page for her!! then she can see new pic i've taken or something! I hope she will ^^
Sunday, September 04, 2005
Intentions.

I was talking to Norika today, still talking to her. I was also reading through some of my journals and some things i wrote on Inuyasha. I realize that sometimes damn, i am obsessive. But I always realize it too long after.

Whatever it is, i also realize that, my problem is that i don't know how to channel my obsessions into something that will benefit me, you know?

So now since i love music, i have decided that I will go with my plan to write that book/article and make that documentary about my friends here in america who are kick ass obsessed with bands and shows. I want to do that.

I mean dad sent me here, and sadly to say, i gained nothing much in my studies at CSUN. I did gain experience as a reporter and i am going to use that. But most of all, i threw away my chance to study at indiana state univ, u know, and i chose California specifically for the music, and i am GOING TO utilize everything i have experienced here to push me forward, through hell and high water i will.

and i hope, God, You're willing.
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Love affair is left in Ashes
Thursday August 4th 2005

ASH frontman Tim Wheeler has split with his ex-model girlfriend Audrey Nugent, the Diary can reveal.

The pair were due to tie the knot some time in the next year but sadly they have decided to go their separate ways.

Friends say the pressure of Ash's punishing tour schedule and the break-up of Nugent's three piece, The Alice Band, took its toll on the romance. "The wedding is definitely off," said a pal.

The couple dated for six years after meeting through their mutual friend, acclaimed artist Jim Fitzpatrick, and they got engaged in Christmas 2003. Jim brought his good pal Audrey to an Ash gig at the St Francis Xavier Hall in Dublin and afterwards introduced her to the band's lead singer, Tim.

The two instantly hit it off and began an intense relationship that saw Audrey quit modelling and move to London to form her own female group, Alice Band.

Smitten Tim even wrote a song for and about Audrey � Shining Light � which won an Ivor Novello award for songwriting, beating off competition from the likes of Chris Martin of Coldplay.

But sadly the two have now decided to call it a day in a move which could see Audrey returning home to her native Dublin.

The Alice Band, a female three-piece with a penchant for short skirts, cowboy boots and jangly guitars, were once hailed as "the next big thing" but broke up this year.

Made up of Audrey, lead vocalist Amy Lindop and Charity Hair, they were always a very cosmopolitan bunch and released an album, The Love Junk Store, several years ago.

Audrey once spoke of what a positive influence Tim had on her life and her music and how she tried to take a leaf out of his book while watching him perform.

"When he�s playing guitar I try and absorb how he's playing or how he'll go about writing a song. I also know how hard he works at making songs, I admire him for that," she said.

She has had a strong bond with artist Jim Fitzpatrick for years, he once referred to her as his "closest friend" but the pair were never lovers.

The Diary
Evening Herald


haih... what's the point?? six years liao... and summore i find this right after i saw the pic of Charlotte and her boyfriend Edgar together. He is the director of the movie Shaun of the Dead by the way. and here's a pic of them together at the premiere (always abit odd for me to see Charlotte in a non-Ash context).

Image hosted by Photobucket.com

Timing sucks. When Charlotte joined the band, Tim met a great girl. When Charlotte's in a great relationship finally, Tim breaks up. Not just that, he broke up at a time when the band is having a BREAK, with Charlotte on her own Solo Career that's hitting it off REALLY well nevertheless! And they're all having a time off NOT SEEING EACH OTHER, you know??? da hell's with timing man??

I guess sometimes, some things are just not meant to be, huh?


Image hosted by Photobucket.com
-Tim and his Shining Light, Audrey-

Image hosted by Photobucket.com
-Charlotte is........... Happy... and finally SERIOUS!!! in a relationship!!!!!!-


Blog Archive