just random stuff

i seem to apologize a lot in my blog for not posting as often as i would like. i can't seem to find the time (even though i have plenty) or topics to update this blog of mine. and today's post is no different. just random ramblings, i'm afraid.

i've been keeping myself busy with self-guitar lessons. i have to say, i'm getting decent. not good yet. far from it actually but i've made tenfolds of improvement in these last 2 weeks than i have when i started 4 years ago! i love music. no. i'm PASSIONATE about music. i NEED to learn something that involves music. i started out with drums. then, while i was on board a ship, i had no access to one. instead they had an electric piano, which i gave it a whirl and loved it. my sister bought one back home. can't wait to have a crack at that soon. now, i'm back here in the uk and no where, could i find a drum set or a piano. then, i saw a guitar being left not played in one of my junior's room. and with it, i branched out my passion.

as you may have already know about my love for the internet, my love for it grew stronger. with the help of youtube, i practice efficiently and with speed. although, i can't do cover song very well yet. but seeing a video of me on youtube would not be an impossibility. ':)

although, not anytime soon because of my hair.. ':( yes.. some noticed my msn nick being "uk stylist, not for asian hair". i've had my hair cut here 3 times now and not once was i satisfied of the outcome. it seems, they have the tendency to completely butcher my hair. it's as though, they haven't cut hair in a VERY LONG while and when they saw my long thick hair, they blacked out and went on a cutting frenzy! ':s

only one witnessed the massacre.. and i'm keeping it only one. now, i walk around with my faithful beanie on my head, covering the sad looking bird's nest. i thank the stars that my hair grows like bamboo. in a month's time, it'll be decent enough to show to the public.

that's it for now. i shall leave you with a few videos that i've been constantly watching. oh, girls.. if you want my attention. learn to play the guitar. and i'm all yours.. hehe.






for this song, i was actually the one who suggested the title 'come away'. i just helped a future music star. nice.. ':)

aching fingers and ugly betty

sorry for the lack of posts. i had nothing worthy to share. as i type this, my brain is still working hard trying to find a topic to talk about. but alas, it just shrugs and leaves me with just random things to talk about.

i had a really early weekend this time. one of my lecturers called off a class, which left us with only one class in the early morning. by 10.30am, my weekend started! went to the city with the guys to buy supplies for a huge dinner gathering. it was a celebration of our 3rd year of flying off to uk and started our career. and starting from this year, we now call it 'the anniversary of our regret'. haha!

i miss my drums. i miss listening to the drums in new music and try to find out the beats so that i could play it myself. so now, i am trying to learn the guitar! oh.. how i hated the guitar.. i've been trying to learn it but to no avail.. in the end, i would just get finger cramps and aching fingers. but now, i've had a change of hearts. i'm starting to get the hang of it. and i think i'm getting better, even if i do say so myself.

most of my weekend was spent cooped up in my room, watching ugly betty on my laptop! it's like devil wears prada but in a tv series. i think amanda is really hot.

anyway, that's it from me. just a short shout out to my sis: have fun at home. ':)

a muffin weekend in london

my first weekend in england and where else would i spend it other than london! it was really good seeing all my london friends again. although, again, i came at a slightly bad timing. iffah had one more exam to go, so she was a bit pre-occupied most of the time.

not much to tell though.. just the normal weekend in london. hangouts. oxford street. big 2. edgeware road. nothing new but still the same amount of fun.

just a quick shoutout to..
mash: have a good safe fun trip to kl!
diz: darn you and your trash talk! haha!
my sister: sorry i can't come over. next time saja.. don't worry about your food. i have an idea..

i'll post something worthy next time.
i'm out

random facts

today i won't post dull ramblings which i have been giving you for the past few posts.. i think, my readers deserves something more. something with depth and won't make them feel like they wasted their time visiting my blog. and today's post will be that. interesting but still very random. insightful and yet some may not even give a damn about. today, i shall bare the truth of the origin of the famous smiley face. where did it come from? why did it become famous? then i try to uncover a part of a male's body part. no need to blush ladies.. it's about the nipples. why do men have them? they're practically useless. next is a personal search of enlightment. i've gotten grief and have been mocked for my middle name. oh yes.. some of you are already giggling right now. but today, i shall find out more about farnie and search for others like me. were they famous? is it a name to be proud of? did i get your attention with the intro? if yes, please read on and learn something today.

just smile :)

if you think forrest gump invented it by accident when he wiped his face on a shirt, then you are very wrong. the smiley face mania was made by two brothers in philadelphia, bernard & murray spain in the early 70's. as you all may know, it was the time of war and hippies. the 2 brothers were trying to design a sort of peace sign but with more appeal. the signature yellow face smile was introduced with the caption, "have a happy day". it became the latest fad with mass productions of button, greeting cards, shirts, bumper stickers, cookie jars, earrings, bracelets and key chains. the fad lasted a year and a half and in 1972, the sale of the buttons ALONE were more than 50 million.

it doesn't end there though.. the 2 brothers made the smiley face popular to the world but they did not invent it. we now travel back to 1963. worcester, massachusetts; there worked harvey ball in a subsidary state mutual insurance company. he was assigned to design a smile button for a morale boosting campaign. harvey, not a man to waste ink, initially drew just the smile. pondering the result, he realized that if you turned the button upside down, it became ... a frown! then he added the 2 eyes, which of course you could also turn upside down, but then it meant ... i'm standing on my head!--a more ambiguous sociopolitical message. he made the thing yellow to give it a sunshiny look, and the company, printed up 100. the buttons were a big hit, the company began handing them out by the thousands, and the rest you know. mr. ball's total take: his $45 art fee. state mutual, not very quick on the uptake, didn't make any money either.

but it goes much deeper still, which i will not go to. some say the yellow face craze originated in the 1930's. but for my sake and for yours as well, i shall leave it at that. on to the next one..

man nipple: just for show?

okay. i've searched really deep in the internet for this and i found no conclusive facts about this. from what i found is that nipples aren't a sex-linked characteristic. in other words, nipples are just one of those sexually neutral pieces of equipment, like arms or brains, that humans get regardless of sex. every human being gets a unique set of 23 pairs of chromosomes at conception. These fall into two categories. One pair of chromosomes determines sex--the XX combination means you become female, the XY combination means you become male.

the other 22 pairs, the non-sex chromosomes (they're called autosomes), supply what we might call the standard equipment that all humans get. these 22 pairs constitute an all-purpose genetic blueprint that in effect is programmed for either maleness or femaleness by the sex chromosomes. the programming is done by the hormones secreted by the sex glands.

for example, the autosomes give you a voice box, while the sex hormones determine whether it's going to be a deep male voice or a high female voice. similarly, the autosomes give you nipples, and the sex hormones determine whether said nipples are going to be functioning (in females) or not (in males).
one interesting consequence of the developmental set-up just described is that during the very early stages of fetal life, before the sex hormones have had a chance to do their stuff, all humans are basically bisexual. among other things, you have two sets of primitive plumbing--one male, one female. only one set develops into a mature urogenital system, but you retain traces of the other for the rest of your life.

human nipples appear in the third or fourth week of development, well before the sex characteristics. (the sex hormones start to assert themselves at seven weeks.) so, after the nipples are developed, then the sex hormones kicks in, rendering nipples on males useless.

i hope i haven't lost you yet cause yours truly is coming up next!

stop laughing! it's not farnie!

my quest to find my meaning was not really a memorable journey. i googled it and the only famous farnie was a henry brougham farnie (1836 – 1889). he was famous for writing the first instruction book on golf. yes.. golf. he did some adaptations on some novels but i shall spare you all from listing them down. i'm sure none of them are known and could not be cared less. ofcourse, when googling something, you rarely get only one result. even then, i just let out a sigh of grief. the other results were from sentences in blogs. apparently, it's a cute way saying/writing the word "funny" as "farnie". sigh..

when all hope was lost, i suddenly stumbled on the meaning of 'farnie'. urbandictionary.com says 'farnie' means someone who wears the same clothes every day.

example: That boy is a farnie because he always wears his jeans and shirt to school everyday.

that's right people.. i'm a definition now. sigh.. i then asked myself how i got the unusual name. who better to ask than the source - my parents. i was hoping for a wonderful story. i was hoping for a funny anectode of how my name was concocted.
alas.. i was dissapointed yet again. my dad said he got it from essays he used to compose as a kid. he remembered that he used the name farnie as a main character in his stories. he liked the name so much, he wanted to use it on his first born son. lucky me.. sigh..

there you have it folks. later days

thunders, stolen & lips of an angel

after only 3 days of being here, i have already adjusted to the time! i guess sleeping at 5am and waking up in the afternoon back in brunei did me good. so far, things are good. catching up with the boys are great. classes are still a bore and internet is really fast! ':) not much to add really. i have plans this bank holiday weekend to go to london and see my london friends for the first and last time before they're off for home for the summer break. it sucks for me though cause after they're gone, i don't have a reason to go there anymore and thus leaving my weekends bare. although, that will help my finance.

anyway, a completely different topic all together.. some people know how annoyed i am by all these internet communities(friendster and myspace). i keep getting invitations to join new ones! i'm sorry but i don't have the time or energy to keep updating my profile and pictures on each and every one of those accounts. i use friendster to keep in touch with my friends and myspace to look for good music. BUT after saying that, i am starting to warm up to multiply.

on it, you get to upload/download music and watch videos. so tonight, i'll be busy updating my multiply. ':)

another thing i'm warming up to is the word 'emo' in music. whenever i hear that word i immediately think 'emo punk'. and lord knows how much i hate punk.. i don't like punk music but i hate the 'look' more! all black with hints of colours and messy hair swept to one side, sneakers with skulls on 'em.. uggghhh..

but all that changed (and i am talking about the word, not the fashion sense) after i found out there's another music genre associated with 'emo'. emo-rock. ofcourse, i've heard the songs before but i've always thought they were ballad/alternative. but emo-rock is the perfect way of calling the songs i really love at the moment.

currently i'm loving: dashboard confessionals, boys like girls and hinder.
long live emo-rock!

i'm out.