WMW 5745

This is based on an incident that happened to me.

Date: 18th February 2012

Time: Between 12.30pm - 1.00pm

I was driving along Federal Highway headed towards Jalan Gasing. As I was approaching the Bangsar South exit (Google Map 3.115006,101.662483), I noticed a black Proton Waja (WMW 5745) with heavy window tints coming from the back at a high speed (Offence 1, speeding). I was going at about 80 km/h (cruise control on), the speed limit on Federal Highway is 80km/h. I was on the left most lane (not the lane to exit to Bangsar South), so I assumed that he would overtake me on the right, like how it should be when overtaking. But he didn't, he overtook me on my LEFT, on the EMERGENCY LANE (note that the right lanes were clear) (Offence 2, driving on lanes reserved for emergency purposes). So I flashed/high beamed him when he got in front of me. He sped off.

I exited at the EPF junction to enter Jalan Gasing (Shell, BP, Catholic Highschool). He was in front of me. I didn't really bother much as drivers like these appear every now and then in Malaysia. I was to pick a friend from the Shell station, which means I turned left immediately after coming out of the traffic light junction (3.108632,101.653307). I noticed the black Waja taking a sudden turn at the other entrance of Shell (Offence 3, endangering other road users), and looked like he was "speeding" towards me (about 3.108316,101.653256).

So I didn't turn into Shell as my car would have collided with his car. Instead I went straight along Jalan 5/35. He came very close to the back of my car (Offence 4, tailgating). He tried to overtake me (on a two way single road, in a RESIDENTIAL area), but I "closed" the path cause I know if he were to be able to overtake me, he would most likely block my way. From my rear view mirror, he was already gesturing asking me to stop.

I was thinking, "Should I give this joker a run for his money and start speeding?" but decided not to as I would be driving and taking corners unpredictably to get away from him, which could result in him losing control and killing someone, hopefully its himself.

So I thought, "Maybe if I drove into the church nearby (3.11105,101.655844), he wouldn't follow me in". I was right, he didn't, but what he did was park his car outside the gate, blocking anyone trying to enter/exit the church. I was in the church compound by the way. So all I did was wait in the compound to see his next move. He approached my car, so to give face, I wind down my window to "layan" him. He stood about 10 feet away from my passenger side.

Conversation went something like this:

Waja owner: Dude, what the f**k is your problem? Why were flashing me?

Me: Er, you were overtaking on the emergency lane?

Waja: So what? Did you have to flash me?

Me: I flashed you just to let you know that what you did was wrong.

Waja (starting to raise his voice a little more): Do you know how irritating it is to get flashed by someone?

Me (starting to get annoyed): You were overtaking on the emergency lane.

Waja: But why did you have to flash?

Me: To remind you.

Waja: (rants a little more and storms off)

By luck would have it, as I went to pick my friend from Shell, there he was cutting out into Jalan Gasing (did I mention nearly hitting me [again] as he cut out from the junction before Shell?). Tried to follow him (at a distant) but he was speeding. Oh well, for a guy who overtakes on emergency lanes, driving fast in a 50km/h zone wouldn't be any different. BUT, bumped into him at the Jalan Templer/Old Klang Road traffic light (3.081696,101.655646). He was turning right unfortunately. But managed to take down his number.

Driver's description:

Male Indian, about 30 years plus. Height about 5 feet 7. A bit on the chubby side. Bald headed. Wears specs. Deep eye sockets. Voice is the rough low toned type.

Becareful of this car. There's a maniac on the loose.

The journey so far…

Just done with studies. Well sort of, IF I pass everything. And am working part time with MPH CLS. Got a new car, 1000km service due soon.

Another step in life, another transition. It will be, Monday to Friday, go to work. Weekends, sleep it off (with church somewhere in between).

As for Point-0-Nine, we just recorded our first single, “Just Fine”. You’ll probably hear it on radio in a few months. NO I WILL NOT SEND MP3s!

Was blog… travelling (is that the word?), stumbled upon a blog, controversial one (think you know which one I’m talking about. My comments about the latest post (this week), whoever follows that advice, will be in deep shit. Cause that advice shows pure rebelliousness. And that blogger, well, that person’s life is always in tatters cause of that person’s ego.

Till next time. (.09 is performing at Artista on the 19th of June, 5pm on)

Introducing…

Point-0-Nine!!!

(L-R): Adnan, Hayat, Damien, Jason, Ken

“True” Christians

My friend shared this forum with me, he said he was embarrassed, I asked him why, he said just read.

http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=60991

Disturbing huh?

Well not to worry, I researched this Land Over Baptist church and found out it was a parody church, portraying those over enthusiastic brainwashed misinterpreting the Bible “I hate Muslims” Christians. (come on, we all know at least one, I know I do)

For people to actually make a website to poke fun, I think it is partially true. I mean, you don’t see people parodying stuff just for fun, it has to relate to something in real life and over enthusiastic brainwashed misinterpreting the Bible “I hate Muslims” Christians is as real as the chair you’re sitting on while reading this post right now.

Ah the word I was thinking of is extremist, not over enthusiastic brainwashed misinterpreting the Bible “I hate Muslims” Christians. Extremists bothers me. They preach about love and the next second they bad mouth other religions, races, animals, cars, guitars, tables, chinese food etc…

Don’t you all think that there are different religions to cater to different cultures? Like that joke of a group of people dying and going to heaven. St Peter asked them to walk quietly pass a particular room and when asked why, he replied, “The Catholics are inside, and they think they are the only ones here”.

I know I’m enthusiastic but I’m pretty sure I’m not an over enthusiastic brainwashed misinterpreting the Bible “I hate Muslims” Christian.

 

Meanwhile…

I like how my church needs someone to translate from Malay to English whenever the… the… orang asli drop by. (and sometimes the translations are wrong)

Playing in church and playing outside… the approach…

Haven’t written a serious blog in a long time. And since this topic was accidentally planted into my head, so I shall go into it.

Having played in bands longer than serving as a guitarist in church, I’m pretty sure people would be thinking, “Does JT’s approach to playing for church the same as playing in a band?”

Answer is, yes and no.

Yes?

Even though I’ve played songs like Glory, For All You’ve Done and so on a billion times, I still practice them before coming to the actual practice. Same with my band, we’ve played songs like The Anthem, Hell Song and All the Small Things so many times that we can just play it without practicing. But even so, I still choose to practice the songs and hope to improve on them (not add licks or what, just playing it cleaner).

And when it comes to the actual practice, I have the same practice – no phones, no goofing off, regardless of how tired I am, whether my dog ate a cat or what, when I come for practice, I concentrate on the practice. So some of you might probably realise by now that I get annoyed when we waste time.

Before any practices, I make sure I know the songs in and out. Even if I have to replay the mp3 a million of times and figure out the song on guitar for hours, I do it.

 

No… ok the hard part, I think.

My purpose is different. Obviously. One is to perform, one is to lead the people into worship and also my form of worship. Some people speak to God better by praying, some by singing, some by this, some by that, I speak to God by playing the guitar. That’s why I don’t really like it when the musicians dwell on how to make a worship “epic”. For me, if God wants to move you, He WILL. I admit, I have my off days as well. Sometimes I just don’t connect, but that just shows the human side of me. How does one expect me to play well if (for example) I just lost a close friend. Yeah, people say leave it God and all, but it is always easier said than done. Only once that when I played for church, my purpose was as a tribute to my late uncle Hon Kit, who suffered from diabetes. My reason: He has always wanted to see me play for service, and everytime I play, somehow he is admitted into hospital. And he passed away the week I was to play, so since I know that he will be looking down from heaven, so why not?

Improvisation. Yup, that’s what I like about playing for church. A normal mainstream song is already like that, you can’t change it much, the solo will be the same, the riffs will be the same, the breakdowns and cuts will be the same. But in church songs, you can have like many different versions of a song. I know there has been debates (or should I say, “I’m right you’re wrong” arguments?) whether it is alright to do an instrument solo? For me, its ok, but a limit has to be set. Cause for me, if you have an electric guitarist in the worship team, and all he/she does is play chords (not even fill ins), might as well sell the guitar he/she saved up for (not forgetting pedals and cables) and get an acoustic. And as far as I’ve been listening to Hillsongs and so on, I don’t consider those guitar solos as guitar solos. For example, Hosanna (I see the King of glory…), imagine that song without that instrumental before the bridge? Yes you can say, “Just play the chords la”, then my reply will be as I said, sell that guitar and get an acoustic.

And I think I have mentioned this in an earlier blog post, it will be a waste of the hours (I’m pretty sure I’m not the only guitarist putting in 2 hours daily) put in practicing your instrument and all you do is chords.

Then the question of whether that musician is able to worship? Well for me, I am able to worship and I’ve told some of my closer counterparts, I feel empty without my guitar. Yes I know, worship can be in any form, but how many of you can admit that you can worship in any situation without having the thought that you’re trying to sound the better Christian behind your head?

Are they showing off? Hmm I don’t know, it’s like a singer who can harmonize well, harmonizing during worship. Is he/she showing off that he/she can harmonize? Or the acoustic guitarist wanting to start every song so he/she will be heard first?

 

I realise this topic is always brought up by certain individuals only.

Jealousy?

First jam

Start of a new year, start of a new band. These were the songs we did:

2010

So, a day left, everyone will be heading somewhere to party. I have 3 invitations and I still haven’t decided yet though Flamingo might be the best choice.

So how what did 2010 do that made it 2010 for me?

Internship at MPH

I would never had thought I’d be doing my internship at MPH. I don’t read, well not heavy novels, just comics and magazines. And textbooks. I’m still doing part time there. And yes, if your company need books, contact me!!! You get discount!!! All year round!!!

The not-so-epic World Cup

Apart from the Vuvuzelas and the many many oscar nominees, 2010’s World Cup will be one not remembered by many unless you’re a Spanish fan.

An Honest Mistake’s album launch

Held at City Harvest Church (near Sunway College). And I got my first traffic summon after the launch!

House Renovation

So yeah, some of you might know that my house is undergoing renovation. Expected completion is before CNY.

Malaysia Boleh!!!

Ok I’m sure all Malaysians would know what I’m talking about. If not, here it is:

They won the Suzuki Cup!

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Don’t drink and drive.

If you must drink, get a friend who’s allergic to alcohol to be your driver.

Slender Man

Was at shitbrix.com when I stumbled upon this picture:

(shitbrix goes by the quote: when you see it, you’ll shit bricks)

Well, I didn’t see anything at first so I read the comments. Everyone was screaming/typing “SLENDER MAN!!!”.

So yeah, decided to google him. By the way, Slender Man is that man standing on the left side of the picture in the background. Look at his arms.

Found out that Slender Man has been “around” for centuries.

Ok, back then there were no such thing as photographs. So artists drew, drew whatever they see or came to mind. So an artist drew a picture which shows a creature with abnormally long limbs. Like this:

And also with extra limbs like this:

And you know how people were back then, they take these as visions, probably portraying one of the devil’s henchman. Note that both the above pictures, were drawn centuries apart.

Fast forward to our era, and these pictures were captured.

The first picture looks like it was taken from a video which I couldn’t find. Second picture you can see him in the middle and the third picture, er, you can see him clearly.

Based on my understanding, after he appears in pictures, children go missing. And looking at the paintings and the pictures, could it be a sign? Muahahahahaha

Here’s a Youtube radio talk show interview:

Also, the history of Slender Man:

And guess what? There’s a series about him too!

Watch the whole series. It’s a bit psychological but give me that over a cockroach any day.

A lot of people are debating whether this guy is real (let’s put our religious hocus pocus aside), but he sure is scary to me.

Renovation!

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