Guess Who's Coming To Town?

Although I don't follow up on Andy Timmons' stuff, but hey, he's coming to KL! Noted to have very strong blues-y background, I think I'm able to fit in very well.

He's going to hold his clinic at the Wisma Bentley Auditorium, 18th July 2009, 8pm onwards.

;)

Okay, I'm a late-comer.

... Shit.

The Other Motivator.

This morning, I received an SMS from my all-time guitar instructor, Kelvyn Yeang, requesting if I could help him out on this track of his.

With low confidence, I replied saying that I would love to give it a shot, but I can't assure that it would meet his expectations.

Currently, I'm working on one of his songs, to add some flashy stuff around. Just that while I was explaining about how he messed around with certain time signatures, which he didn't even bother about.

In fact, what he said was, "as long as it sounds good, jalan d"

For someone who goes "sounds good, and jalan d", he had a few time signature changes in between, and his rhythms were all over the place of skipping certain beats and stuff.

Although he doesn't take note about these minor details. Little does he know that this artistic song of his is giving me a MAJOR headache.

Tip learnt for the day: Make sure that you get as many detailled information regarding the clients you're working with.

+.=

And he made me realise that I didn't open my damned Reason since I received my laptop back after it dieded. Hurrah.

Adobe LightRoom, Anyone?

I haven't been blogging due to the fact that I've been busy once again.

But in between of my work periods, I managed to escape to Borders, where I recently got my Angels & Demons, and checked out some Digital-Photography-based programmes.

Adobe LightRoom's one of them.

So here are some test shots compared to the old ones. The brighter toned ones are the editted ones:






A fool-proof programme certified by a fool. ;)

Another Point of View.

Some of you may notice that I'm entirely biased towards some music, especially when it has a little bit of modernised ideas in it. Eventually, it infused with me and came Break Free, Seasons of Heartbreaks (which is a blend of Japanese-pop influence and typical Rock), Worthwhile (Pop in a classical aspect with some wee-wee effects here and there) so on and so forth.

But being who I am, I decided to force myself to watch something like this. A "typical, modern, overrated, appreciated, commercialised" song which was made into an acoustic version.

Don't mind me saying this.

But she HAS ideas.

Reminds me that not all musicians are doing what they're doing, just doing music for the money, and not showing how creative they can be.

Lady GaGa reminded me of this.

Which also led me to my confusion regarding of my musical orientation.

Well, let us look at things on a positive side, I suppose? :)

Hmm.

My concept is simple. If you hate me, or whatever that makes me who I am, that's your problem because that's who I am.

And if you were to have an issue with me, it's better for you to approach a hungry tiger than to stab it whilst it sleeps.

If you happen to stab me when I least expect it, and when I will find out about it eventually, you're fucked.

You know how I can turn the tide around. You watching it, you fucking custard.

A Couple of Random Thoughts.

Only because I am unable to think straight for my stupid Corporate Governance tutorial.

• Reinforcement/Behaviour Change Feedback. Ability to identify what are the learner's good behaviours, and providing a reinforcement feedback to show that what the learner had done is good, and he should do it in the near future to ensure satisfaction (if it is service-based performance). Behaviour change would result to something the learner had done wrong, and the coach would need to take action to change the learner's behaviour. To state out the mistake, then what is supposed to be right, and then give a reason why it was supposed to be right to ensure certain progress.
• Brazil may be the largest exporter of coffee. But that doesn't mean that Starbucks purchase most of it, because most of Brazil's exported coffees would be Robusta beans, due to Brazil's geographical condition (being less than 450m above sea-level) of it being unable to produce high quality Arabica beans.
• Asia/Pacific coffees are interesting. Like the Starbucks Anniversary Blend, the only blend created to go against Dark Roast Blends, and to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Starbucks in 1998.
• Peaberry Blend - One of a kind. Because 5% of most tree's coffee cherries only contain a peaberry, it could be a multi-region blend. And for it to have ascertained complementary flavours would be theoretically impossible as it comes from Asia/Pacific, Latin America, and Africa/Arabia.
• 85% of the beans are purchased from.. Latin America. And Guatemala supplies most of these beans because Guatemala grows the highest-quality and highly consistent Arabica beans in Latin America.

Studying the basics of the coffee may be a stale subject. But if you were to venture more off to like, why does Columbia Narino Supremo have House Blend or Guatemala Antigua as a similar coffee to present towards customers, you'll approach coffee in a different aspect.

That is a key learning - a term for us to use when we learn something new.