Stereo

The week long holiday is almost here. To all you kampung people, safe journey back home. To the rest, please stay away from the highway dammit.

Happy Chinese New Year.

I heard this song last night on radio.wazee before I went to bed. When I woke up this morning, I can’t help but to google for the the song. It will be my song of the moment.

Download: Pixies - Where is My Mind? (MP3 format)

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Been working on a new replacement for the old WP [radio.wazee] plugin lately (top right column, main page). It would be something more dynamic, with some AJAX thrown in for auto refreshing. Something like you would see on the radio.wazee site itself, but less detailed. The plugin should be up in a few days time, hopefully before the holidays. I’m almost done with it. Just a little touch up here and there and some more testing.

Added Feb 7th, 2006: Okay I got lazy coding. Once I feel less lazy, I’ll finish it up. I promise!

Added Feb 12th, 2006: Version 2.0 released, finally. Get it here.

Did I mention I am a total geeky geek?

Stereo is now on its own subdomain, stereo.joechung.org. About the previous post, I think I’ll keep the domain just a little while more. Reason beings are that, I love me name =) and I couldn’t think of another domain.

Anyhoo, I decided to put Stereo onto a subdomain rather just a folder on itself. I might have another thing coming on in the future, so I’m trying to organize things out now. You would probably get some 404s if you’re coming from search engines or linked from somewhere. So, if you get a 404, just do a search again on this site. Nothing is lost here, just some changes to the links.

If you must bookmark this site, please bookmark http://stereo.joechung.org, or just simply http://joechung.org. I will have you redirect to this site directly.

Until the next post, cheers.

My domain is going to expire soon. I am thinking not to renew it, but maybe register an entirely new different domain and have it up anonymously. Maybe I would even give myself a pseudo name, like Dirk Diggler or something.

So come the first week of February, if you can’t access this site anymore, it means I decided not to renew. If it’s still here, then it’s still here. One way or another, I would definitely be around lurking somewhere, for the time being.

Cheers, and good night.

I don’t normally do this, but I guess there’s no harm to it except some innocent fun. I was tagged by Rach, and since it was my birthday yesterday and I had some surprised yet wonderful company at the last half hour, I feel happy to give anything a go. You should ask me anything now, ‘cos I’m in the mood to say yes to anything, I mean anything. So, here goes…

7 things to do before I die
1. Get myself lost around Europe / America / Far East / not here.
2. Not to lock myself in my room alone.
3. Learn to hold a decent conversation and be nice.
4. Not to piss anyone off for at least a week.
5. Tell Billy Corgan to get his goddamn band back.
6. Own a record store, open ’til midnight.
7. Be a rock/porn star.

7 things I cannot do
1. I can’t sing or play any instruments.
2. I can’t hold a conversation.
3. I can’t stop pissing people off.
4. I can’t say no to the ones I’m close with.
5. I can’t drink alcohol.
6. I can’t take spicy food, mild sambal included.
7. I can’t think of the seventh one.

7 things that attracted me to blogging
1. Make a fool of myself.
2. Because I can tinker with the codes, it’s a geeky thing.
3. To share the music I enjoy.
4. One of the things I can do while I lock myself in my room.
5. I can say anything and no one would even care.
6. I face the computer day and night, what else is there to do?
7. So I can write this down.

7 things I say most often
1. I’m sorry.
2. Hehe.
3. Haha.
4. Alright.
5. Hi.
6. Bye.
7. a/s/l pls?

7 books I love
1. None.
2. None.
3. None.
4. None.
5. None.
6. I do enjoy reading books, but I can’t say I love any particular ones.
7. Any books that you’re gonna share with me.

7 movies I watch over and over again
1. Empire Records.
2. Almost Famous.
3. Shawshank Redemption.
4. Stuff by Kevin Smith.
5. Stuff by Quentin Tarantino.
6. Stuff with Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller.
7. Porn.

7 victims tags
1. The one who’s reading this.
2. The one who’s digging his nose beside the one who’s reading this.
3. The one who’s scratching his butt beside the one who’s digging his nose.
4. The butt scratcher’s girlfriend.
5. The guy that the butt scratcher’s girlfriend is cheating on.
6. The sister of that cheating girlfriend.
7. The sister’s boyfriend who happens to be reading this now.

I am so gonna regret this in the morning. Good night.

I am never too fond of the local radio stations. The only time I would listen to radio is when I am driving to work in the morning, that short 10 minutes drive. So anyways, once in a while Tim and Sherena over at Red 104.9 FM would play some tunes that totally bring back those good old days of 90s alternative rock.

I remember the time they played Primitive Radio Gods’ Phone Booth song. It got me go crazy over that song all over again. And this morning, after a quick bank robbing session, they played Mansun’s Wide Open Space on a listener’s request. I can’t help but to just sit back, relax, drive at the slowest speed possible and enjoy the moment.

Thank you, listener. It has been ages since I heard that song.

Download: Mansun - Wide Open Space (MP3 format)

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I found this (alternative link here) while doing a search on Smashing Pumpkins in del.icio.us. It’s by some comedian guy Stephen Lynch doing a parody on that guy from The Smashing Pumpkins, and can imitate his voice like that guy from The Smashing Pumpkins too. I was almost fooled by it.

Listen to it here or here.

Happy Birthday, me.

What If That Guy From Smashing Pumpkins Lost His Car Keys?
by Stephen Lynch

Where the fuck are my car keys?
They where right here in my hand
I had them about a second ago
Did I leave them here in the kitchen?
Or under the cusions of the couch?
I cant find them anywhere, anywhere - Oh, here they are

This album has been on heavy rotation on my list of late. I have always fancy long winded albums, or rock epic/opera albums. Albums that may not have a single standout song, but instead a collection of songs that connects to one another from the first second until the end of the album. To me, that makes a great album and worth listening to.

Coheed and Cambria’s 2005 effort, Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV - Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness is one of them. I like their 2003’s In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, and Good Apollo is on par with that, if not better. If you listen to the two albums back to back, you would think these albums were recorded at the same time. At least I did.

There are 2 singles released from Good Apollo, Welcome Home and The Suffering. Check out the opening minute for Welcome Home. It kicks ass. Sorta like what Metallica would have. But of course I guess you listen to the whole album to enjoy it. Better yet, pop in Silent Earth and Good Apollo back to back and enjoy the journey.

Download (MP3 format):

• Welcome Home
• The Suffering

I got a freaking something growing IN my left nostril. It started with an annoying pimple (yes, a pimple in your nostril IS whole lot more annoying), and now it just grew kinda hard and less painful. I am never much a pimple guy, but this thing IN my left nostril is kinda bugging me. Not because of the pain, or the lack of, but I feel violated having something IN my nostril. I feel like just taking a surgery knife and cut the whole nose off, Dr Christian Troy style.

On another note, company annual lunch tomorrow! Yes, lunch. We are a company of 14 employees (including the bosses) can only afford to do lunch, not dinner. But a fancy lunch at a hotel restaurant, nonetheless. But before that we have to deliver 80+ crates of kam (Mandarin oranges, pronounced cum) to our clients all over the city in the morning. Two cars loaded with oranges, rushing our ways in the morning traffic. So, watch out.

Imagine calling our clients up to check their availability, “Hello Miss, are you available in the morning so that I can deliver my cum kam to you?”

Lame, Joe. Lame.