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• JAN 31, 2009: PARKWAY DRIVE...
  
  Holy shit...Parkway Drive is 4 days away!!! THAT IS AMAZING!!! Can't wait...I think that feeling of anticipation has been missing in my life for a long time since we haven't played a show in so long. I miss playing shows but what can we do...April we'll be playing some shows so we're very excited about that...还有几天然后到parkway drive在香港演出的日子！！！太兴奋了！！！这个很期待东西的感觉真的很久没有感觉到了。。。是因为我们很久没有演出。。。可是我们快到四月份。。。在四月份我们会几个演出。。。所以当时可以再感到期待的感觉。。。
  
  We hope you've bought your tickets already!!! Records Rendezvous has already told us that Parkway Drive CD's have been sold out there...so that's pretty cool that so many of you are supporting Parkway Drive by BUYING their music and not just downloading it for free. 我们希望你们已经买了你们的门票！！！一间cd店说他们已经卖完了parkway drive的cd!!! 真的特开心大家会用这样的动作支持一个乐队。。。你们选择买他们的cd给他们感觉到香港人的支持力。。。大家可以免费下载他们的音乐。。。可是你们还是用买他们的作品支持他们！真的特好了。。。
  
  When I get home I'll be uploading some photos of us in our studio and a short video of Mike recording drums...good times good times...
  
  It's 12:40am on a Saturday night and I'm still in the bandroom by myself...is it weird that I'm more comfortable here then at home?!?!?!? hahahahahahaha..现在是晚上的十二点钟左右可是我还在我们的studio...是不是很奇怪吗？我觉得我们的studio是比我自己的家更舒服！哈哈哈哈。。。
  
  Peace...
  
  I went to Shenzhen over the weekend and because the STW boys have been in our room so often I bought a huge series on the Chicago Bulls especially for them...right now I'm watching the 1992 finals of the Bulls vs. the Lakers...SOOOOO awesome to be watching this again right now...
  
  Awesome article about skateboarding in Afghanistan!??!?!?! 阿富汗也有人滑板吗？！？？！？！你快看这个报道！！！ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/sports/othersports/26skate.html?_r=2
  
  JAN 30, 2009: MIKE DRUMMING打鼓- INTERVIEW。。。访问
  
  Ladies and gentlemen大家好。。。
  
  It brings me great pleasure to bring you an interview with our temp...Mix Masta Mike (aka Tickle Me Mike)...今天我很开心带给大家看看我们临时鼓手的新作的访问。。。就是我在我们band房访问他。。。
  
  KLC: Hey Mike, I heard you recorded drums for our new song "Time Will Prove today". How did it go? Mike听说你今天录完了我们新歌 “Time Will Prove”！录成怎么样？！？？！
  MIKE: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa - are you going to write that dude?! It was hard! 啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊。。。你真的会写吗！！！啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊。。。很难。。。
  KLC: What do you mean? 什么意思？
  MIKE: It was difficult。。。就是不容易
  KLC: And by that you mean..你这样说的意思是？
  MIKE: It's complicated...很复杂。。。
  KLC: So by that I take it you mean it was tough? 哪你的意思是很难？
  MIKE: (laughing uncontrollably...tummy jiggling...笑到他疯了。。。哈哈哈。。。)
  KLC: You are the official first drummer to record at the SFS studio. How do you feel about that? 你知道你是我们　“由零开始”录音设的第一个鼓手录鼓！你觉得怎么样？
  MIKE: It was great...是很好玩。。。
  KLC: Dude this interview B L O W S...thanks for your time Mike - NOT!　大佬这个访问挺无聊！哈哈哈哈。。。不想继续做！哈哈哈哈。。。
  
  Okay...anyway...yes, Mike recorded drums for us yesterday and it was SICK!!! Glenn was over too messing around on my facebook the bastard and he slept on the couch after eating like $50 bucks worth of McDonalds!　反正昨天ｍｉｋｅ有帮我们录我们新歌。。。录的挺好！！！很期待给大家听听。。。我们另外的兄弟ｇｌｅｎｎ也在我们ｂａｎｄ房。。。可是他在ｂａｎｄ房就是吃吃吃吃吃东西。。。不停吃东西。。。他去了McDonalds买了差不多五十块多的食品！然后他吃完了就在我们sofa上睡了觉。。。
  
  Can't wait til all of you hear Mike's recording!!!
  
  Also - STW and KLC are going somewhere truly special in April...holy shit - that sounded so gay (not that there's anything wrong with that!)...我们将会通知大家四月份我们跟stw会出去一起演出！！！挺挺挺兴奋！！！就是ho的第一场演出！！非常期待他跟我们上台。。。can't wait!!!
  
  Okay I'm out...
  
  We'll make the announcement to where STW and KLC are playing a show together in April! It will be the first show with Ho playing bass!!! WOOHOO!!!
  
  JAN 27, 2009: GAMBLING赌博...
  
  The new year started well for me! Last night I was in the bandroom and I went to grab a drink from the fridge...I pulled it out and found out that there were TWO straws attached! hahahahahaha...I brought it back and showed everyone and they all thought that this was a sign that this was going to be a good year for me! :-) So then we gambled last night - Brian, Ho, Ming (Brian's pretty much brother hahahahaha) and myself. After they taught me a few new games - I ended up winning 20 bucks! And it was 20 RMB so if I convert that to HKD it was even more! hahahahahaha...新年的第一天过得不错！！！昨天晚上我在我们band房去了冰箱拿一个柠檬茶。。。拿了之后发现这个柠檬茶的盒上有两支吸管！我给大家看看然后他们马上说这可能代表我这一年会过得很好！哈哈哈哈。。。可能是我自己有这个感觉。。。反正，我们赌博的时候我赢了二十块钱！真的不错。。。哈哈哈哈。。。还是二十块人民币所以如果我去银行换二十块钱他们会给我二十多块钱港币！哈哈哈哈哈。。。
  
  Good times good times...这样过这几天真的不错。。。
  
  Okay - for all those bros that we know who are having a hard time getting with that one girl that they think they're destined to be with - please call Ho. He is THE MAN!!! Trust me - I don't know anyone that is as fast as this guy!!! HE IS THE MAN! :-) okay。。。就是跟我们的好兄弟说 - 如果你们有问题求他最喜欢的女人那快点打电话给ho。。。他是非常厉害！ 哈哈哈哈。。。挺厉害。。。
  
  New Thursday song is up now...pretty good: http://www.spin.com/articles/exclusive-first-listen-thursdays-armed-forces
  
  Can't wait to see what tomorrow is going to bring me...hahahahahaha...
  
  JAN 26, 2009: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
  
  Happy New Year everyone!!! Last night Ho, Terence, Glenn and I hung out in our awesome bandroom watching old old OLD videos...I found an old video of me playing a show in 1993...this was my last year in high school but all my friends had already gone to university. All my close friends were a year older then me so they already graduated from high school...so in my last year in high school I hung out and became friends with a whole different group of people who were ALL awesome people. Anyway, some of them could play music so we got together and played a show covering some songs. Hahahhaha...I totally forgot the songs we covered until I watched this video! We covered "Are You Gonna Go My Way" and Rage Against the Machine!!! hahahahahhaa...in 1993! :-) Pretty funny...the video is in our bandroom so if you ever come over to our room you have to check it out...恭喜发财大家！！！心想事成。。。龙马精神。。。万事如意。。。新年进步!!! :-) 希望大家的新年会玩的开心和达到你想达到的东西。。。
  
  昨天晚上我，ho, terence,和glenn去了我们的band房看看挺舊的录影带。。。我在家里找到一个挺舊的录影带。。。是我1993演出的一个！哈哈哈哈。。。1993至1994年是我高中学的最后一年。。。那时候我真正的朋友们已经毕业了因为他们全部是比我大一年。。。所以他们已经毕业了然后离开了香港去外国读大学。。。所以我这一年有新建立的朋友们。。。他们也是很好人。。。有些人有玩音乐所以我们开开心心开了一个乐队玩些歌。。。在这个录影带里看到我跟他们cover几首歌！哈哈哈哈。。。有Are You Gonna Go My Way和Rage Against the Machine一首歌。。。哈哈哈哈。。。
  
  可是我想找我91至92年的录影带。。。因为那三年我有跟几个挺metal乐队演出。。。我们有cover Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, 等等。。。然后也有写自己的歌。。。可是我不知道那些录影带是在那里。。。
  
  Our brother Richie is out of the hospital and safely recovering back at home! Good things are happening at the start of this brand new year! 我们的兄弟richie离开了医院然后已经回了家！！！太好了。。。
  
  Mike (STW) will be recording drums for KLC and STW sometime this week. Very excited about that...so soon both of us will be uploading new demo songs for all of you to hear!! Woohoo!!! 我们的兄弟mike这个礼拜将会录我们两首歌然后也会录stw的两首歌！！！很兴奋。。。很期待上载这几首歌给大家听听！！！
  
  Anyway...I hope everyone has a wonderful new year and at least enjoys these next few days off from work...
  
  JAN 25, 2009: DRUNK DRIVERS 酒后开车
  
  First of all...my brother is recovering in the hospital SUPER well!!! It has been amazing to see how one of the funniest dudes I know can get back on his feet after such a harrowing experience so damn fast! Even the doctor was like "Holy shit...that was fast..." when discussing his recovery...第一件事。。。我们的好朋友上个礼拜四进入了医院。。。他这几天的进步挺好！！！所以特开心。。。他的一生也说他愈得特快所以大家可以放心。。。
  
  We'll see you back soon homeboy!!!
  
  Next..。下一件事.
  
  One of the best metalcore bands that got me into metalcore in the first place back in like 1996 or 1997 is a band called Turmoil...GREAT GREAT band...anyway...they reformed last year and have found a new singer...they have just uploaded their first song with their new album and this song KILLS IT!!! 我九六或者九七年其中最喜欢听的metalcore乐队是turmoil. 他们上年reform了找到一个新主唱。。。他们前天上载了他们新album其中一首歌。。。你在这个网站可以试试。。。挺好听。。。Check it out: http://lambgoat.com/news/view.aspx?id=12128
  
  Next...
  
  My good friends in Beijing's pop-punk band Recycle are playing in Hong Kong Feb 28!!! They're playing a show organized by HK punk rock band Feel of All and features 7 opening bands ALL of whom are HK punk rock! So go check out the show!!! 我北京的好朋友Recycle将会在香港演出！！！ 是香港的punk rock 乐队叫Feel of All安排的。。。这个演出会有七个本地乐队做开场队！！！想知道多点information请上他们新开的facebook网站！ More info can be found on their facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=57797323560&ref=nf
  
  Next 下一件事:
  
  Parkway Drive (they're a metalcore band - everyone knows that...even the Parkway Drive members will tell you they're a metalcore band and NOT A HARDCORE BAND) are playing in Hong Kong/China soon!!! We are SOOOOOOOOO excited about them coming!!! It's going to be great to have them here...Parkway Drive （大家知道他们是一对metalcore的乐队！肯定不是hardcore...大家知道。。。他们自己也会认他们是一对metalcore乐队）多一个礼拜后会到中国 - 香港演出！！！我们真的很期待看和享受他们的表演！！！
  
  Remember to get your tickets!!!
  
  Lastly。。。最后件事
  
  Two days ago yet another stupid idiotic person decided to go driving after he was drinking. I don't understand how selfish people can be...it is beyond my understanding why someone would be that selfish and ONLY think about themselves to actually get behind the wheel of a car after they've been drinking. What makes them think that they have that much control and power over alcohol that they can actually drive a car or operate machinery while drunk? 两天前一个特自私的人喝醉酒之后出了开车。他开车的时候突然控制不到他的车然后撞到一个公共车。。。公共车里面有六位人准备上班。。。这六个人全部给他的撞死了。。。那这位喝醉的人呢？他没事。他杀死了六个人可是他完全没事。
  
  The saddest part...is that this stupid fucking driver crashed his container onto an oncoming taxi who was bringing 5 innocent people to their jobs first thing in the morning...the container crushed the entire taxi and all 6 people died. And what happened to the stupid fucking drunk driver? Nothing happened to him. He is fine.
  
  Selfish piece of shit...and the penalty for him killing 6 people - is that his license will be taken away for 3 months, and he will be jailed for 10 years. 我真的不明白人为什么可以那么自私。如果你喝了就能你怎么可以觉得你可以开车？或者你喝了就之后怎么可以运转电器？你是超人吗？！？！？
  
  这位杀死六人的人只要坐监狱坐十年。。。他的车牌也给检查拿了三个月。。。就是这样。。。他死了六个人可是就受到这样那么轻的处罚。。。这位应该与生坐监狱！！！他死了六个人！！！他喝了酒之后自己决定了开车！！！
  
  That's it.
  
  For killing 6 people the only thing that will happen to you is that your license will be taken away for 3 months, and that you'll be imprisoned for 10 years.
  
  Do you think this is going to be a deterrent? Do you think that there will actually people out there who will change their selfish habits? 那么轻松的处罚怎么可以影响别人喝醉酒之后不开车！？一定不会影响人。。。如果处罚是更加严重就可以影响人开车之前想一想。。。可以想一想他们这样做值不值得与生坐监狱！！！
  
  No way.
  
  People caught drunk driving in which a death or deaths are a result should be imprisoned for LIFE...their licenses should be revoked forever.
  
  Driving is a PRIVILEGE not a RIGHT! People allow you to drive because they put faith and trust that you will respect the rules of the road and that you will operate your vehicle with care and concern. 开车就是一个特權不是一个權利。。。你一收到车牌社会会相信你开车的时候会负责任。。。
  
  全事情特特震惊。。。
   
  JAN 23, 2009: BROTHERS FOR LIFE
  
  To my brother in the hospital...you're going to get through this brotha! We're all here for you and ready to kick some ass when you get out...just think about it this way - now you have one MORE reason to be the sexiest person alive! :-) When you get out all the ladies are going to be checking you out homie!
  
  Stay strong - keep eating though! and get some sleep! - we're here with you...they drew first blood not f**king me! .........................................................which one?
  
  JAN 22, 2009: TATTOO
  
  So Glenn finally got his tattoo last night...it's an amazing piece of pride etched on to his body forever...anyone that knows Glenn (and all the STW boys for that matter) knows that he is a proud Filipino and so for him to get the Filipino flag on his leg is just awesome. And it's not just a "flag" you need to see the full design that the tattoo artist Denis came up with...it's off the HOOK...you can go to my facebook to check out the pics...soooooooo badass...
  
  Gotta go to work...piece...
  
  JAN 21, 2009: NEW DAY
  
  A new day begins for Americans...a glorious day for them and hopefully this person and the country can unite together to right the wrongs of the illiterate buffoon they had leading the so-called "most powerful country in the world". Powerful military maybe - but as we have seen in Iraq, Afghanistan and the recent Israel/Palestine conflict - a powerful military doesn't result in success. Israel with their mighty military lost to Hezbullah in Lebanon, and recently against Palestine and the 3 weeks of destroying Gaza, look to see who still stands.
  
  But this is about America...never before have I been actually excited about an American president. This is the first time EVER that I am actually excited to watch an American president on TV talked (because he actually SOUNDS like a president compared to the drunk-fratboy-hick that has been president for the past 8 years).
  
  2 more days and the Chinese New Year holidays!!! woohoo!!! :-)
  
  JAN 20, 2009: SOCCER 足球
  
  Last night Ho, Brian, myself and our friends Billy, Terence went to play soccer up in Kwun Tong. It was so much fun - I've been running every few days for about 30 to 40 minutes, and so last night I didn't get tired once even after playing soccer on and off for about 2 hours! Felt frickin' good...昨天晚上我，Ho，Brian，和我们的朋友Billy和Terence去了官塘踢球。。。挺好玩。。。提了差不多两个小时。。。我这几个礼拜没几天会跑步跑差不多三十至四十分钟。。。所以昨天晚上我们踢了两个小时 - 我真的不觉得很幸苦。。。特好。。。。
  
  Might become a weekly thing! :-) Also, Brian's brother-in-law is going to install our water heater in our bandrooms's bathroom!!! Dude - it's going to be so awesome to have that thing set up in our room!!! 我们可能每个礼拜会踢起码一次。。。brian的姐夫会帮我们安装一个水加热器在我们band房的厕所里所以我们以后可以在bang房洗澡。。。我们踢球是band房附近所以特方便。。。而且以后演了出之后回band房放低东西也可以洗澡才出去吃饭， 等等。。。
  
  Yes - I cannot say enough nice things about our bandroom...it's set up so nice...I have my little corner in our living room area. As soon as I sit my ass down in that spot - it is almost 100% guaranteed that I'm going to fall asleep! I LOVE it...我们新安排band房里面的东西真的让我们的房间舒服挺多。。。我们的厅里面有一个位子就是我的位子。。。哈哈哈哈哈。。。我在这个位子一坐下马上会睡觉。。。挺舒服。。。
  
  We also watched one of the Resistance Tour DVD's last night and I actually did hear Sick of it All thank a good friend of mine named Rob! The same guy that hooked me up with my kickass Sick of it All jacket! :-) Pretty cool to hear his name come out of Sick of it All's singer Lou Koller's mouth! 踢完球之后回band房休息的时候看了这部Resistance Tour DVD...在这个dvd里终于sick of it all在台上谢谢我的朋友rob (是上个礼拜送给我sick of it all的夹克哪位。。。）真的很苦听到我朋友的名字！ :-)
  
  Okay - its midnight right now...time to go to sleep...oh wait - shit I still have to translate all this into Chinese. Pok kai...hahahahhaa。。。okay。。。现在到晚上的十二点钟。。。挺累需要睡觉。。。shit - 等一下我还没翻译我所写的英文。。。shit...
  
  JAN 19, 2009: SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE!!! 一百萬零一夜
  
  Oh my god...what an INCREDIBLE movie!!! I didn't know what to expect of this movie at all - of course I know that it just won some awards...but I really wanted to watch this movie without any ideas about what this movie was about etc. So when I bought the movie yesterday and watched it - I was COMPLETELY and TOTALLY blown away. The acting and the story were BEYOND incredible!!! The movie was directed not by an Indian - but that didn't matter...the cinematography was phenomenal...the director really completely grabbed the entire feeling of the horrible lives the less fortunate have to live in on the streets of India...这部电影挺挺挺挺挺好看！！！ 真的不相信这部电影会那么好看！！！当然我知道最近这部电影赢了很多奖。。。可是我还没有看过什么试映。。。我真的喜欢没有什么注意开始看一部电影。。。
  
  真的说我看这部电影十分十分十分surprised...这部电影所有东西做的挺好。。。全部演员演十分好。。。很多就是小朋友！！！可是他们演非常出色！！！ 这部电影的故事也是非常非常吸引。。。这个导演不是印度人可是也真的做这部电影做的非常出色。。。他真的拿到印度最穷的环境。。。在印度贫民窟区挺幸苦。。。你看这部电影的时候真的会感觉到这里长大的小朋友感到非常绝梦。。。
  
  This is easily one of the best movies I've seen in a long time and I hope that all of YOU will watch this when it comes out!!! IT IS ABSOLUTELY WORTH IT!!! 真的可以说很久没有看过一个那么出色的一部电影。。。我记得几个礼拜前我说 “葉问”也是非常好看。。。可是这部电影是比“葉问”好看挺多！！！快点去看看！！！
  
  PREVIEW HERE!!! http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=AIzbwV7on6Q
  
  JAN 18, 2009: GOOD WEEKEND...
  
  I've had a pretty fun weekend! :-) 这个周末过得不错！ 我跟alison看了一部内地拍的电影叫： Alison and I watched a pretty okay new movie called: 非誠勿擾 ...这部电影的故事我觉得是挺无聊。。。I don't really care about the story...可是我觉得这个男主角特好。。。but the main male actor 葛優  is awesome...在这部电音他的角色是特搞笑。。。in this movie he's SOOOOOOOOOOOO funny and such a great actor...again, the story is too boring way too boring...看这部电影最好的是我可以再联系听北京的普通话。。。but it was fun to watch him and listen to his Chinese...看这部电影的时候马上想起我所有北京的朋友们！！！ 很想你们！！！ it made me miss all my Beijing friends!!! :-) Can't wait to see you guys again man!!!
  
  Then yesterday I stayed in the bandroom cleaning up a bunch of crap, alison watched a movie in the bandroom, and Ho was working on the PM magazine layout...then we went out to meet friends in TST...然后昨天我去打扫band房，alison在band房有看dvd, Ho在band房做他工作的东西。。。然后去了尖沙咀跟朋友聊天儿。。。聊天儿的时候发现我们的ho也有facebook的一页！我真的不相信他会有因为在我的心里他是一个非常反潮流的人。。。不误会我的意思因为他还是一个反潮的人。。。

  在香港找到反潮流的人真的特难。。。很幸运我们找到ho, brian, STW的兄弟，等等。。。全部不会穿很窄的服，有很emo的头发，听现在最潮的音乐，不用腦子地跟社会，等等。。。真的特难。。。在香港我们这样的人真的是少数民族。。。可是有时候我真的会觉得我的人是很奇怪 - 为什么其他香港人关心的东西，我没有兴趣关心呢？

  反正我们这般人一定不会给这个社会改变我们的性格。。。我们就是这样所以过十几年后还会这样。。。
  
  JAN 17, 2009: HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!! 超大消息！！！
  
  Huge announcement on Start From Scratch Records website!!! Go check it out RIGHT NOW!!! All you metalcore fans are going to go nuts! :-) 请过去我们唱片公司的网站看看挺大的消息！！！所有metalcore的歌迷应该会挺开心！！！

  :-)
  
  www.startfromscratchrecords.com.hk

  WOOHOO!!! So exciting...特兴奋！！！
  
  JAN 15, 2009: MERCH DESIGNS!!!
  
  Go to www.startfromscratchrecords.com.hk to check out Parkway Drive designs!!! They're up now!!!
  
  Israel has now killed almost 1,000 Palestinians...1,000...This is the biggest mistake because with them killing Palestinians, it does not help them in the area. They are surrounded by Muslim countries and they think that this attack on Palestine will benefit Israel in any way? No way...
  
  God help the innocent who are caught in this hell...Earth must be some form of hell...sometimes I wonder how hell could be any worse what certain people have to endure. Imagine being in Gaza right now - what could you do? Where you can run and hide? Israel has already bombed United Nations schools in Gaza! So not even SCHOOLS are safe for Palestinians to run and hide in...
  
  There's nowhere safe for them...God be with those people and keep their families as safe as possible...the horror will be when children see their moms and dads die from these Israeli attacks - what Israel has then created is a whole new generation of possible Palestinian militants who are going to avenge the deaths of their parents...
  
  The cycle of hatred, distrust and destruction will continue on and on...
  
  JAN 14, 2009: PARKWAY DRIVE MERCH
  
  Information about the Parkway Drive merch (CD's, shirts and hoodies) that will be on sale at the show in HK will be uploaded soon! Save your cash for these bad boys! :-) 关于将会来香港演出的乐队parkway drive, 我们尽快会通知大家他们的卖品的价钱。。。记住带定钱来看这场演出！ :-)

  So it has been frickin' FREEZING IN HONG KONG these past few days! But good thing I've got a new favorite jacket! :-) hehehehhehehe...Our pal Rob from the Netherlands saw the recent Resistance Tour in Europe (This is an annual tour that is any hardcore fans biggest wet dream) that featured H2O, Madball, and of course Sick of it All!!! And guess what he got me? He got me a Sick of it All windbreaker!!! Dude - the thing is BADASS!!! So excited that he got it - thanks brotha! 这几天香港特冷！！！好幸运我有个新夹克。。。我们的朋友rob在欧洲的时候看了一个特hardcore的巡演叫Resistance Tour...这个是每年搞的巡演。。。今年有Terror, H2O, Madball，和Sick of it All!!! 每个hardcore的歌迷一定想一天可以看到这样的演出！！！那么多那么厉害的乐队在一起演出！！！特好的。。。反正我的朋友在这个演出的时候帮我买了一个sick of it all的夹克！！！特特特特特特好！谢谢bro!!!
  
  Any hardcore news recently? Not really...kinda strange...there are some awesome albums coming out this year like new Comeback Kid, Hatebreed...King Ly Chee...hahahahahaha...but nothing else that I can think of...
  
  The good thing about no new stuff coming out...is that I have time to listen to some old stuff again...I recently put on the old By the Grace of God album, In My Eyes, Ten Yard Fight, Champion's killer album Promises Kept, and stuff like that...old is definitely gold...even though Champion is not "old" hahahahaha..这几天真的没有什么特别关于hardcore的消息。。。没有什么特别的Cd将会出。。。我知道年底应该有新comeback kid和hatebreed...可是这几个月没有什么特别。。。
  
  没有新cd的时候有一个好处。。。就是可以给你自己点时间再听舊的音乐。。。我这几天再听了By the Grace of God, In My Eyes, Ten Yard Fight, 和Champion...我知道champion不是一个舊的乐队哈哈哈哈。。。可是他们最后的唱片promises kept是挺好听。。。
  
  OH! There is some news...just found some...
  
  Blackened - a band featuring members of Hatebreed, Fastbreak and The Distance has uploaded a full album stream. 这个乐队有hatebreed, fastbreak和the distance几个成员。他们刚才上载了他们全身作品叫 This Means War. Click here: http://www.punknews.org/bands/blackened
  
  New Found Glory, Set Your Goals have added Verse (a very political hardcore band) to their upcoming tour! New Found Glory, Set Your Goals刚才加了一对特政治的hardcore乐队叫Verse跟他们一起巡演。That'll be interesting?!??! 有点儿奇怪！
  
  Propagandhi is releasing a new album in March and it's NOT on Fat Wreck Chords!!! Propagandhi将会出他们最新作品。。。三月出的。。。可是不是fat wreck chords出的！
  
  JAN 12, 2009: HELLO
  
  Hello I am a "new vegetarian"! I am vegetarian but sometimes I eat meat.
  
  hahahhahahahahhaha...
  
  大家好！我是个“新素食者”！虽然我叫自己是个素食者可是有时候我会吃肉！
  
  哈哈哈哈哈哈哈。。。
  
  JAN 12, 2009: NEW AND OLD STRAIGHT EDGE?! WHAT?!??! 新和舊straight edge!? 你说什么？！？？！
  
  I just heard the craziest thing I've ever heard...我刚才听到最疯的东西。。。
  
  Last night I was told that there are ACTUALLY some people in HK who think that there is such thing as "new straight edge" and "old straight edge". I thought that they meant that "old straight edge" just meant people who have been straight edge for a long time, and "new straight edge" meant people who have become straight edge recently.
  
  昨天晚上有人跟我说：
  
  “在香港有些人以为有个东西叫 “新straight edge” 和 “舊straight edge”。”  然后我问这个人 “舊straight edge” 的意思是不是我这样大年纪的straight edge人！哈哈哈哈。。。或者做straight edge做了特多年的人。。。
  
  这个人跟我说 - 不对。。。有些人以为“新straight edge” 的意思是虽然他们叫自己是straight edge他们有时候可以喝酒。WHAT?!?!??!?!?!?! 他们是真的吗？！？？！如果你是一个straight edge人可是你有时候会喝酒，哪你跟普通人有什么分别？普通人有时会喝酒 - 在周末的时候，或者下班之后，庆祝朋友的生日或者结婚周年，等等，都会喝一点点。我女朋友也是这样可是她肯定不会叫她自己是straight edge了！！！如果你信这个　“新straight edge＂的废话哪全世界的人也是ｓｔｒａｉｇｈｔ　ｅｄｇｅ！哈哈哈哈哈。。。你以为straight edge就只要你不喝醉然后可以叫你自己straight edge!??!?!?!

  But I found out that people think that "new straight edge" is a group of people who call themselves "straight edge" but drink alcohol every once in awhile. WHAT?!?!??!?!?!??!?! ARE YOU CRAZY?!?!?!?! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!! If you are someone who drinks "every once in awhile" then what is the difference between you and normal people? Normal people who DON'T call themselves Straight Edge drink "once in awhile" also like on weekends or a quick drink after work. So you're saying that even these people can call themselves "straight edge"?
  
  This is the biggest joke I've ever heard in Hong Kong for a long time...听到这个特笨蛋的想法真的证明了这世界什么人都有。。。
  
  What I don't understand is - obviously these people who claim "new straight edge" like to drink. Then why do you want to label yourself "Straight Edge"? Is it cool to call yourself "straight edge"? I've been straight edge my whole life and people who find out I'm straight edge NEVER think I'm "cool". Instead most people who find out I'm straight edge make fun of me and say "You don't drink beer? You're not a man! What kind of man and "rocker" doesn't drink alcohol! What's wrong with you?!"　我真的不明白。。。这班人很明显是喜欢喝酒。。。哪你喝了！喝酒有什么问题？是不是你觉得叫自己straight edge是很酷吗？我所经过的经验证明了别人不是觉得straight edge是一个很酷的东西。我那么多年每次还是一样。我同事一发现我不喝酒他们马上会跟我说　　“你不喝酒？你是不是男人啊！！！　什么男人不喝酒！！你还说你是一位摇滚乐的歌迷吗？！？！？怎么不喝酒！！怎么可以一点点都不喝！！！”
  
  Straight Edge is a strong belief about self-discipline and control. The discipline is that no matter how much society requires you to drink promoting this type of lifestyle through TV, movies, advertisements, etc., you still choose NOT to drink at all to be able to be in total control of your thoughts and actions. Straight Edge是一个很强的信念。。。这个信念是以自我修养和自我控制基础。无论这个世界怎么样宣传喝酒的文化（在电视上，电影，广告，等等），一个straight edge人都不会喝酒，不吸毒，不吸烟，不是杂乱（跟很多不同的女人上床）。Straight edge的人想自己可以控制他们所想的东西和动作。
  
  To those who claim "new straight edge" go do some research on the history of hardcore and the philosophy of straight edge. The idea of Straight Edge is really NOT complicated: no drugs, no alcohol, no smoking, no promiscuous sex. It is THAT simple...信这个　“新straight edge” 的人请快点研究这个文化的历史。。。快点研究这个文化的哲学。。。你可以研究很多网站和乐队们的访问看看。Straight edge的信念是特简单。你不需要想那么多。。。straight edge就是不吸烟，吸毒，不杂乱，不喝酒。。。怎么能再简单？
  
  It has not changed in the 30 years that straight edge has been on this planet.  Straight edge已经过了三十多年 - 一路没有改过。
  
  新和舊straight edge？对不起　－　只有straight edge．
  
  JAN 9, 2009: NEW BEIJING HARDCORE BAND 新北京hardcore乐队胡同拳头
  
  Yeah so a few weeks ago I received an add request on myspace from a new Beijing hardcore band called Hutong Fist. An on the website it has all these things about straight edge and straight edge hardcore in Beijing!!! DUDE!!! I was so happy to see that straight edge is catching more and more attention in China. I just hope that straight edge doesn't go through the same thing like HK where a few years ago lots of people were "straight edge" - maybe they really believed in it, or maybe it was just a trend so they became "straight edge". But look at those people now. How many actually believed in "straight edge" sincerely? If they believed in it they'd still be here today. 我几个礼拜前收到了一个“加朋友”的电信在荔枝王的myspace到。是一个新开的北京hardcore乐队。。。在他们的myspace看到他们形容他们自己是beijing straight edge hardcore!!! 当然我挺开心见到他们这一句。。。当然特开心在内地月来越多人对straight edge有兴趣而且越来越多人跟straight edge这个文化有同感 - 想做到一位straight edge的人。。。
  
  可是我很想内地的人不会经几年前香港的情况。。。几年前香港也有很多人说自己是straight edge。。。那时候在演出的地方会看到很多人受伤畫了"X"。。。
  
  可是你可以看现在他们全部放弃了这个东西。。。有些人对straight edge真的相信这个文化也明白对他们的生活来说这样的东西真的很适合他们。 有些人可能做了straight edge因为那时候这个东西是很潮。。。所以这班人是最快放弃这个文化。。。
  
  希望内地的朋友们会很努力想一想这个文化是不是真的适合他们自己的人。。。希望他人不会特快叫自己是straight edge...慢慢想一想才说了。。。 :-)
  
  So - I hope all those straight edge kids up in China can really take some time to understand what straight edge is and what it's about. It's not a trend or cool lifestyle...it really is a way of life.
  
  Good luck to Hutong Fist!!! They have uploaded some new songs on their myspace so please go and support our fellow China hardcore band!!! :-) 反正真的想跟我们内地hardcore的同胞说加油！！！ 打加一起需要继续努力为hardcore... :-)
  
  JAN 7, 2009: 3 HOUR HALT TO ATTACKS
  
  The attack on Palestine continues. Israel says they'll have a 3 hour break of attacks everyday. But the main problem is the way that Israe deals with Palestine...it is this ridiculous disrespect to Palestinians, their government, and the culture of Palestine, that empowers these stupid religious extremists in Palestine. Israel claims to have "left" Palestine in 2005 - but after leaving Israel is STILL in charge of what goes in and out of Palestine, Israel is still in charge of the airspace above Palestine, and the waters around Palestine. Instead putting all these rules and pressures on Palestine, Israel should've invested in creating an economy in Palestine that could put Palestinian people to work!!! Everyone needs jobs and money to survive - when people begin realizing that their heart and energy can be used to make their lives better and the lives of their families better, they'll stop supporting these religious extremists. Think about it - when you're hungry and your family and your children are hungry, and the ONLY place you can go to get money is to join the religious extremists - what choice are YOU going to make?!?!? 
  
  It sucks...
  
  Start From Scratch Records will be making an announcement soon about another show that we're organizing...the show will take place Mar 27. That's all we can divulge for now! 由零开始几天后会通知大家一个特好的消息。。。是关于一场我们安排的演出。。。将会三月二十五号开的演出。。。:-)
  
  JAN 6, 2009: WEDDINGS! WEDDINGS! WEDDINGS!!! 结婚结婚结婚！！！
  
  Yesterday my brother Glenn announced to the world (or at least everyone on Facebook - hehehehehe) that over Christmas break he proposed to his lovely and awesome girlfriend Heather!!! I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO psyched for the both of them!!! :-) 昨天我的兄弟glenn (shepherds the weak) 终于通知了大家他跟他的女朋友heather将会结婚！！！他这个圣诞节的时候跟他女朋友去了他国家加拿大。。。在那里他求婚了heather!!! 特开心！！！

  This Christmas has been great for my dear friends...besides Glenn, my other lovely friend Nic (lovesong) proposed to his girlfriend Trigger!!! 这个圣诞节对我们朋友来说真的是一个很兴奋的一假期。。。我另外一位好朋友nic (lovesong) 也求婚了他女朋友trigger!
  
  This has been awesome AWESOME news and I'm so happy for all of them!!! :-) 真的对他们我挺开心。。。
  
  Can't wait to be at your weddings boys! 我很期待参与你们的婚礼！！！
  
  JAN 5, 2009: PALESTINE
  
  May God be with the people of Palestine as they get slaughtered by Israel. 希望这几天上帝可以保户怕裂斯坦的人。。。他们已经是一班很没有希望和机会的人。。。他们还有给别人攻击。。。真的挺难受。。。
  
  JAN 3, 2009: WHAT?! THE 3RD ALREADY?!?!
  
  What the hell...it's already the third for the NEW year!!! How the hell did that happen!??!?! 已经是新年的第三天！！！！新年已经过得特快！！！
  
  So new year's eve I spent the night talking to Alison about all the fun things that ALL boyfriends love to talk about - our future. Oh god...hahahahhaha...it was good - as good as those talks can be...but I love her more then life itself so whatever our future it is - it's definitely with her.
  
  Then we hung out with my brothers and spent new year's eve under the IFC!!! It was awesome!!! The fireworks went off right over our heads...incredible...
  
  So...what have I been listening to you ask? These past few days I popped in Lam Kei onto my Ipod! hahahahaha...so good...good ol' times! Good thing they won't reunite - the spirit and the magic of their music was definitely best during THOSE times...you can't just recreate that again...这几天我有开始再听Lam Kei的第一张CD!!! 很想他们。。。哈哈哈哈哈。。。真的非常好听。。。可是真的说我觉得他们现在不再出来是好的事情。。。他们已经做不到那时候的气氛和感觉。。。现在看演出的观众全部都不同了。。。只可以听他们的cd时候可以再想一想那时候的bandshow...
  
  I've also been listening to a lot of Second Hand Rose from China...easily my FAVORITE band from China...god they're sooooooooo good..我最爱的内地乐队是叫二手玫瑰。。。这几天再听他们第一和二张cd...god - 我觉得没有一个内地乐队可以比他们好。。。他们真的做到他们自己的音乐。。。我特尊重这个乐队.
  
  This band called No Turning Back from Europe are AMAZING!!! You have to check them out if you haven't already...great GREAT。。。欧洲有个乐队叫NoTurningBack。。。非常牛逼的hardcore乐队。。。 hardcore...http://www.myspace.com/noturningbackhardcore
  
  Lamb of God has a new song up Contractor: http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=IZvBFI-w2Bs sorry - I fell asleep listening to it...hopefully the whole album is much better..他们上载了他们的新歌。。。可是我听的时候我睡觉了。。。对不起。。。可以说没什么特别。。。希望他们新album的新歌可以比较好很多。。。.
  
  Parkway Drive show is a month away!!! Very excited about it because Shepherds the Weak is going to fucking DESTROY the place...我们下一个安排的演出parkway drive差不多到了！！！只有一个月！！！我特开心因为我知道shepherds the weak一定会破坏全场！！！哈哈哈哈哈。。。我知道“破坏”是一个不好意思的字可是在英文说“破坏”　也是代表一个特牛逼乐队玩的特好的意思。。。
  
  all y'all heavy music wannabes in HK with your tight clothes, make-up, "cool" hair, should bring a notebook and pencil to the show and start taking notes when STW gets on stage. First note in your notebook will be:
  
  1. Clothes and your image don't mean SHIT.
  
  DEC 31, 2008: NEW YEAR'S EVE
  
  So the end of another momentous year in King Ly Chee land has come to an end...started off awesome with the release of the Unite Asia EP...playing in front of 24,000 people in the Philippines, playing with Comeback Kid!!!!, losing 3 members, playing an unbelievable show in Laguna (Philippines), gaining a new member, and writing songs...这个年底终于到了。。。今年真的是一个很重要的一年。。。今年的开头我们出了亚洲起义的EP。。。真的是一个很兴奋的事情。。。然后去了菲律宾在二万多人面前演出， 跟comeback kid演出，三个成员离队，找到一个新成员，开始写特多新歌。。。
  
  As always KLC land is marred with problems and a negative world where people hate us and especially me with a supreme vengeance. it's quite interesting...brian last night said "you've got to be the one person in HK that has the MOST enemies" and I answered probably...some of these people may have a legitimate reason to hate me because I am an asshole when it comes to my band. But some of these people don't even know me or have had any interaction with me - so their reason to hate me is? No idea. 当然荔枝王的每一年有很多问题。。。今年当然有很多了。。。我们的环境有特多人真的挺恨我们这个乐队。。。更多人恨我。。。对我报复。。。有些人真的有道理恨我因为我对我乐队真的有很高要求。。。可是有些人都不认识我而且每有跟我聊过天 - 他们怎么可能对我有那么严的感觉呢？
  
  Anyway - a few nights ago we took new SFS crew photos...it was nice to see that 10 years ago when I started SFS it was just one person doing it...now we have 6 in STW involved, plus the 3 in KLC involved, plus we have Chai involved, plus we have our street team members Matt and Sue involved...it's nice to see something that just started by one person be taken on by so many others...反正我们几天前拍了新由零开始成员的照片。。。拍的时候我真的特开心。。。因为十年前由零开始就是一个人开始。。。现在有STW全乐队的进入了还有荔枝王的三个人还有chai还有我们由零开始的Street Team的成员Matt and Sue...真的开心慢慢这个活动加了多很多很有诚意的人。。。最重要是全部有诚意想做正面的东西出来。。。我们这几个人没有兴趣说什么闲话的废话。。。
  
  It's been a tough year as always...but a lot of momentous stuff happened...both good and bad...当然是一个很幸苦的一年。。。可是有很多好的东西发生而且有很多不好的东西发生。。。
  
  Next year we begin with uploading a couple demos, hopefully that will inspire Mike to help us just start recording our album...but the problem is that once we record and release our album we ALL WANT to tour - but we can't get Mike to do that for us because he's a busy person plus STW is his true love. We really need our OWN drummer...who knows when and if that'll happen. Of course we have to say that we really appreciate his support for us and wanting to help us any time we need help. And of course we have to thank our brothers in STW for also standing by us and helping us in our time of need...Without those dudes who knows where our band would be right now... 明年我们会介绍两手新歌的demo...开始这两首歌的时候很希望mike突然会有兴趣继续帮我们录音！如果他有兴趣的话哪我们可以马上开始新album!!! 可是问题是。。。我们出了album之后全乐队会想巡演 - 到处巡演。。。可是mike的热情是在他的心里最关心的乐队STW...所以我们没有什么道理叫他帮我们巡演。。。他真的是一个非常忙的鼓手。。。可是我们特感激他的支持。。。还有很感激全部STW的兄弟的支持。。。.
  
  But next year I'm certain we'll release our album..可是我觉得很肯定可以跟大家说。。。我们明年应该终于可以出我们新album...出了之后谁会帮我们演出还不清楚。。。.
  
  Happy new year everyone!!! Good luck to all of you who are using your time and energy to do something POSITIVE in your lives!!! 新年快乐大家！大家加油。。。继续努力为你们所正面的活动！！！
  
  PEACE
  
  DEC 30, 2008: BUSY NIGHT
  
  Just got home (3am) from a busy night...the night started off with me going to our bandroom to record rough demo vocals for 3 songs...I was using my laptop to record the vocals so they don't sound perfect...but good enough for Ho and Brian to listen to the rhythms and lyrics etc...very happy with these songs though!!! Includes the new version of My Family which frickin' rules!! We've sent the demos over to Mike of STW so he can help us record drums for two of these songs soon!!! Can't wait to have him record drums for us! 刚才到了家里。。。今天晚上真的玩的特好。。。我先去了band房录三首歌的demo vocals...我只用了我的laptop所以录出来的声音不是最理想可是就是给Brian和Ho听所以没事。。。我真的特爱我们的新歌。。。My Family的新版本挺好听。。。我们已经e了几首歌给mike听听。。。他应该会准备好帮我们录鼓！！！特期待他帮我们录鼓！
  
  Then we did an interview and shot a SFS crew photo late at night in a parking lot which was fun. The interview was cool because it was an interview about how SFS started and it was nice to talk about the 10 years that I've spent doing SFS and KLC..然后我们做了一个访问。。。是关于由零开始和荔枝王。。。然后去了跟全部由零开始的人拍照。。。访问有意思因为是关于我这十年跟由零开始和荔枝王所做的东西。。。那么快到十年！！！好奇怪。。。
  
  Then Chai, me and Ho went to go watch Ip Man!!! OH MY GOD!!! THIS MOVIE IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Such a great movie...actors were great, the story was of course incredible especially since it's all based on a true story...great GREAT movie..然后我跟chai和ho去了看新电影“葉问"!!!! 挺挺挺挺好看！！！如果你还没看快点过去看看！！！！！！！真的特好看。。。
  
  最后希望大家会用点儿时间想一想在巴勒斯坦所发生的事。。。特可惜。。。已经有三百多人死忙。。。就是给以色列屠杀。。。Lastly...I hope everyone can take some time to think about the hell that is going on in Palestine these past few days...over 300 people have already died...the slaughter will continue...
  
  DEC 26, 2008: GUITAR HERO!!!
  
  Woohoo!!! Bought Guitar Hero 4 World Tour last night!!! I got a bunch of coupons from my school for HMV and so I was able to buy the whole set (guitar, mic and drumset) for super cheap!!! 昨天我买了guitar hero的游戏！！！特好玩！我学校几个家长送给我几张HMV的卡。。。所以我买guitar hero的全游戏不贵。。。
  
  So I set it up with my brother and my sister and we played it for like 3 hours last night!!! We totally sucked but we kept at it! hahahahahaha...we want to unlock the extra songs because there are some good songs on this thing! Then after 3 hours of trying, I got online and found out that there already is a secret code that we could've put in and all the songs would've been unlocked! hahahaha...买了之后我跟弟弟和妹妹玩了三个钟头！！！不停！哈哈哈哈。。。我们想开启八十多游戏的extra歌。。。可是完了三个钟头之后我上了网才知道网站已经写了游戏的密码。。。
  
  This game TOTALLY gives you a whole new found respect for the old classics man!!! So much...
  
  Okay - going back to playing this...seeya...
  
  DEC 25, 2008: CARITAS HOSPITAL
  
  For those of you who don't live in HK you probably didn't hear this piece of ridiculous news that happened a few days ago...I'm still so angry about this...住香港外面的人可能没有听过最近的稍息。。。我再想还在特生气。。。
  
  A person's father suddenly had a heart attack right at the doorstep of the Caritas hospital in HK. When the person ran back inside the hospital to ask for help, guess what the person at reception told him to do? Call an ambulance. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT!!! Instead of trying to find someone in their OWN emergency room to come out and help - the receptionist told the man to call an ambulance! So he did that and when the ambulance came - his father had already died. 最近有一位男人在一个医院外面跟他爸爸站在医院门口。突然他爸爸有心脏发作。。。这个男人进去了医院通知接待员。。。这个接待员应该通知一个医生反而他叫这个人打电话给警察！！！救护车来了之后这个男人的爸爸已经过了身。。。真的太可惜了。。。真的特冷血的。。。你看到一个人发生很严重的事你还在叫他打电话给警察？！？！？！你是一个医院的服务员！！！你为什么马上自己叫一个医生过来看看！！！
  
  I can't believe it...still can't believe it...where are your fucking ethics!!! A hospital is where people to go to get help and where people SAVE lives!!! Can't believe it...这个时代人越来越没有什么道德。。。只关心自己。。。他人不管你事。。。
  
  This is the state of the world today...people don't care for each other anymore...all they care about is themselves and to find anyway to protect themselves...
  
  URGH...
  
  Anyway...here's a great website for some awesome photos of hardcore shows in the US. This photographer's name is Matt Miller and the dude is INCREDIBLE!!! When you look at the photos notice the people at the shows and the bands on stage...not one photo has anyone in tight black pants, cool looking shirts, make-up, or cool looking haircuts...it's just kids in shirts and shorts playing a music that goes much deeper then cool hair and clothes. THAT'S HARDCORE. 反正我找到一个听好hardcore演出照片的网站！是一个人叫Matt Miller的网站。。。特拍照拍的挺好看！！！你看他的照片的时候请你留意演出里的观众和台上的乐队。。。没有一个人穿很窄的衣服，没有一个人有很cool的头发，没有一个男人化妆...只是普通的人穿普通衣服玩一种很深的音乐和文化。。。那么深的音乐和文化哪儿有时间留意你的衣服和头发？！？！？！这就是HARDCORE!!!
  
  Photos of Bane, H2O at a show: http://www.thefivemilegrace.com/photoblog/?p=302
  
  Photos of Verse and Have Heart: http://www.thefivemilegrace.com/photoblog/?p=164
  
  DEC 23, 2008: END OF THE YEAR?!??!
  
  I can't believe this crazy year is coming to a close...we started this year so positively with the release of the Unite Asia EP! With that we took the EP and played in the Philippines in front of 24,000 people...then came back and played with one of my favorite hardcore bands Comeback Kid in Hong Kong! Don't forget that we ALMOST got to play with my biggest hardcore inspiration - Sick of it All! Oh my god...we were so close to that show...so close to meeting my heroes...我真的不信已经到了年底。。。我们今年开始的非常好。。。我们出了新ep叫亚洲起义。。。然后我们拿了这个ep过去菲律宾在一场二万四千多人面前演出！然后第二天回来跟我们其中最爱的hardcore乐队Comeback Kid一起演出。。。别忘记我们几乎跟我最大最大最大灵感...Sick of it All!!! 后来他们在马来西亚玩不到。。。所以我们后来没有机会见面！！！太可惜了。。。
  
  As always - no year can go by without some shit happening...so our singer quit in March, our bass player quit in August, and our drummer quit in October. What a great year it's been...当然我们是荔枝王所以我们每一年一定要经挺多问题。。。二零零八年当然有很多问题。。。我们主唱三月放弃了乐队，八月份我们bass手也放弃了。。。然后最近我们鼓手也放弃了乐队。。。真的一个很幸苦的一年。。。
  
  We picked up an old friend Ho to play bass for us...and as soon as he joined the band we've written like 7 songs...it's pretty crazy...these past few days I've written crazy amounts of lyrics to most of these songs. We have a new version of My Family which is a MILLION times better then the old version and hopefully we'll upload that someday...可是我们几年也找到了一个好朋友ho入了对弹bass吉他...他入了对之后我们有很多新歌。。。my family这首歌也有个新版。。。比以前的好特多。。。很期待给大家听听。。。
  
  Anyway...it's been a great year...who knows what's going to happen next year. We do hope we'll be playing shows again...we hope that we'll be a full band again. But who knows when and how that's going to happen. 反正今年也是很好玩。。。明年不知道会发生好的或者不好的事 。。。我们很期待尽快可以再演出。。。可是还没有找到适合的鼓手。。。所以真的想不到我们下次什么时候会再 有机会见大家。。。
  
  I'll end this with an awesome live video of a new Hong Kong hardcore band called Contact Chord! It's nice to hear a hardcore band from Hong Kong that actually SOUNDS hardcore! :-) Anyway。。。我很开心给大家介绍香港的新hardcore乐队叫Contact Chord！！！真的很开心终于可以听到一个香港hardcore乐队真的像hardcore!!! 他们是特年轻人。。。下面的短片你们可以看他们的live! 他们需要我们的鼓励 !
  
  ENJOY!!!
  
   
  
  DEC 19, 2008: LAST DAY TODAY!!! :-( 今天是我实习的最后一天
  
  So I've arrived to my very last day...what an amazing trip this has been. Anyone that is in the midst of doing a degree in education - look forward to being a student teacher. It really is a wonderful time especially if you put your entire heart and soul into the experience...I will probably never forget these kids and I know they will always remember having me as one of their second grade teachers...终于到了我实习的最后一天。。。想不到三个月可以过得那么快。。。如果你们开始读教育的degree哪我真的想跟你们说 - 一到做实习的时候请期待这个经验。。。真的太好。。。如果你放你的心在这个经验到 - 你一定会觉得特感动。。。我一定不会忘记这班小朋友。。。而且这班小朋友永远不会忘记我 - 他们的其中一位二年班的老师。。。
  
  I think over the next few days of holidays all I'm going to want to do is sleep...these past 3 months I have often woken up at 5am to prepare for my upcoming classes to make sure that I'm ready for these students, and to prove to my school that I'm ready to teach. I had my first job interview two days ago and I did really well...I walked out of that job interview feeling really good about myself!!! If I didn't have my lack of fulltime teaching on my resume, I'm sure I would've gotten the job. So over the next few weeks I'm going to have to update my resume and start applying to schools all over Hong Kong!!! Very excited about future possibilities and maybe even going to different schools and all the professional development I will have as I make these changes...明天开始圣诞节的假期。。。这几天我一定会睡觉。。。不停睡觉。。。这几个月真的没有什么好睡觉。。。有几天我有五点钟起床准备当日的课。。。这样的准备是对小朋友很好。。。还有我要给我学校看看我对这个工作那么努力和ready做老师。。。前日我有我的第一教育的面试。。。我觉得我做的很好。。。可是因为我没有fulltime老师的经验应该拿不到这个学校其中一个老师的位子。。。这个假期我会开始看看其他学校然后希望可以去其他学校面试。。。
  
  In the next 2 weeks I also hope that we start recording some demos!!! With all the songs that we have now - I've started writing lyrics and CANNOT WAIT to record them!!! HURRY UP!!! 这两个礼拜我也思想快点录新歌的demo!!! 我们有特多新歌！！！我这几天也开始写歌词所以真的兴奋录新歌的音乐和歌词。。。
  
  Okay...gotta get ready to go to work for my last day as a student teacher...january I'm back to being a damn TA...URGH!!>!>>!>!>!>
  
  DEC 15, 2008: LAST WEEK OF STUDENT TEACHING
  
  Oh my god...I can't believe how fast time has flown by!!! I finish my 3 months of student teaching this week!!! It has been such a wonderful experience...but the best part has been able to get get to know these children so well. I will miss them that's for sure...it'll be a bittersweet day on Friday this week...sweet because these past few months have been full of lots of pressure and coming into school everyday was quite nerve wracking because I had to perform with lots of people watching. My school principal has come into observe me twice in the past two weeks, my assistant school principal observed me a few times, and of course the teacher I work with everyday is constantly observing me. The analogy of a "fish bowl" couldn't fit this situation ANY better! 这个礼拜是我实习的最后一个礼拜。。。真的很奇怪。。。三个月已经过了！！！特快。。。这个礼拜五一定会一个很bittersweet的一天。。。因为我一定特开心因为我终于做完了我的实习还有做完了我的学位。。。可是礼拜五也会很不开心的一天。。。因为这三个月我跟这二十个小朋友的关系是很深的。。。我是很幸运有这个机会可以认识着班小朋友。。。他们真的特好。。。每天跟他们一起教书和听他们的故事， 做他们的老师是一个非常幸运的东西。。。可是这个礼拜之后我不会再做他们的老师。。。所以一定会很想他们。。。
  
  上个礼拜五有一位小朋友早一个礼拜放假了。我跟他说再见的时候他已经跟我说他一定会很想我。。。然后他自己去上校巴。。。然后过了十五分钟另外一个老师有找我跟我说“这小朋友刚才自己下车哭。。。哭的严重。。。我不知道发生什么事所以我国他那边问他发生什么事？小朋友一路哭一路跟我说他不想你走！！！他想你留在这儿教他们。。。”
  
  特sad...
  
  But it will also be a very sad day on Friday  because I get attached to kids very easily...I love being with kids...so being with one group of kids for 3 months has been very rewarding for me and I am going to miss being their teacher :-( One child left early for Christmas holidays last Friday and after saying goodbye to me, he went to his school bus and broke down crying :-( He was sobbing uncontrollably and a teacher was called in to take care of him...the teacher asked him why he was crying and the child said that Mr. Farooqi was not going to be his teacher anymore and he didn't want me to leave...
  
  :-(
  
  So this weekend...songs and songs and songs have been written...I wrote two this weekend (one i've been working on for like a month...) and I was also finally able to update My Family the way I always wanted this song to sound like!!! God...can't wait to record these things and let you listen to them all...
  
  God - I wish we could find a drummer that actually loves hardcore like we do...that would be the best...not since Kevin have we had a drummer who actually listens to, loves and understands hardcore...
  
  At least right now the 3 of us (Ho, Brian and me) really know what we need and what we're looking for in terms of a drummer...we just don't know how long it'll take...but when we find this magical person - it's going to be awesome!!! We'll be back...
  
  DEC 11, 2008: PARKWAY DRIVE INTERVIEW
  
  So yesterday afternoon I was asked by my favorite China magazine Painkiller to do an interview with Parkway Drive. So I called them around 6pm their time and they were the coolest guys...very VERY humble...they kept saying "we don't know why people like us! The music we play there already are a million bands playing this style!!!" hahahahahaha...When I called them it was the first night of their HUGE tour with HUGE US bands Suicide Silence, The Acacia Strain, A Day to Remember, etc...but the coolest thing was that Parkway Drive was the headlining band!!! They're headlining the whole tour even with big huge US bands on it...that's how big they are in Australia...昨天下下午我最喜欢内地的杂志painkiller叫我马上跟parkway drive做个访问。。。所以我差不多四点钟(他们的六点钟)打电话给他们。。。他们真的是特好人。。。他们的主唱常常说“我不知道为什么那么多人喜欢我们！我们玩的风格在这个地球上有挺多乐队比我们好很多！” 哈哈哈。。。他们特谦恭。。。他们昨天晚上在澳洲开始了一个特大的巡演。。。是跟美国很大乐队suicide silence, a day to remember, the acacia strain...可是最兴奋的事是parkway drive是做主办乐队！在澳洲他们真的是一个特大的乐队。。。美国出名乐队也没有parkway drive那么大！挺好。。。
  
  Anyway - to read the interview wait for the January issue of Painkiller! My bro Freddy is translating it all now...hahahaha...good luck dude! :-) 反正如果你们想看这个访问你们需要等一月才有机会看。。。这个访问会在painkiller一月份出的。。。
  
  DEC 10, 2008: JOE SATRIANI vs. COLDPLAY
  
  The funniest thing is going on in the music world right now...Joe Satriani (you know - the guitar god that taught Steve Vai and Kirk Hammett) claims that Coldplay's award winning song "Vida La Viva" or whatever its name is the EXACT same as his song If I Could Fly...and it REALLY does sound exactly the same...the main melody and chord progressions are all the same. So he is suing the band for ALL profits that Coldplay has incurred because of this song...
  
  Here's a video that compares both songs...http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=110526
  
  Other videos:
  
  New Terror video for the awesome song Betrayer (video is kinda lame):
  
  http://www.punknews.org/article/31553
  
  New Metallica song video:
  
  http://www.punknews.org/article/31560
  
  New Thursday song:
  
  www.myspace.com/thursday
  
  Parkway Drive has decided to play 3 shows in Mainland China!!! Woohoo!!! This is their spirit "Hey we can either go snowboarding for a few days, OR we can play shows in China - Let's do CHINA!!!" That is the attitude of true musicians who LIVE for playing shows. park way drive确定了在内地玩三场演出！！！特兴奋！！！这个是他们的态度。。。他们跟我说 “我们可以去滑雪或者去中国演出。。。当然选去表演！！！” 真正音乐人的态度！！！
   

• DEC 8, 2008: PARKWAY DRIVE PROMO MATERIALS
  
  Yesterday we went to our bandroom to divide up all the Parkway Drive promotional materials and it was the first time we saw all the stuff that Ho printed up...dude - LOOKS SO GOOD!! Wait until you all see how amazing the tickets look...definitely the most professional we've ever done them!!! 昨天去了band房因为大家想看parkway drive演出宣传的东西。。。第一次看ho所印的东西！！！挺好看！ 大家一定要看这个演出的票！特好看。。。
  
  So all you Parkway Drive fans get yourself out to the stores now to buy these tickets!!! CD's are also available at the stores and they come with free Parkway Drive stickers courtesy of Resist Records out of Australia!! 演出的票现已可以买！！！快点上我们唱片公司的网站看全部卖票的地点！！！ 他们新唱片现在也可以买。。。每一张送一张贴纸！！！谢谢他们澳洲的唱片高哦纳斯resist records送给我们！！！ www.startfromscratchrecords.com.hk 
  
  Ho the lucky bastard went to Shenzhen last night to watch one of my favorite China bands Secondhand Rose...god I LOVE this band!!! 我们的ho昨天晚上上了深圳看我其中最喜欢的内地乐队叫二手玫瑰！！！他太幸运了。。。我很想看。。。
  
  Okay - back to work...received an email from Luke of Parkway Drive. It's nice to know that bands that big still do a lot of things themselves...definitely raised a lot of respect in my eyes!!! :-) 前天收到parkway drive吉他手的email...特开心一个那么大的乐队还会负责自己乐队的东西。。。对我来说我真心可以尊重这样的乐队。。。
  
  Also - congratulations to Filipinos all over the world!!! The pacman won!!! :-) 最后想恭喜我所有菲律宾的兄弟姐妹！！！pacman赢了！！！
  
  Check out all the promo stuff!
  
  
  
  DEC 4, 2008: NEW STRAIGHT EDGE STUFF
  
  Just found out a bunch of hardcore kids in Xian, China have made some Straight Edge merchandise!!! That's awesome man...so excited to see all these straight edge kids when King Ly Chee tours China one day...We will be back there one day! MARK MY FUCKING WORDS. 刚才知道内地的朋友们做了一件新straight edge衣服！！！我觉得特好看。。。真的很期待一天上内地去巡演然后见到内地所有的straight edge兄弟。。。希望你们不会放弃。。。我今年是三十二岁。。。我自己还没有放弃。。。以前香港也有很多“straight edge” 的人。。。差不多全部都放弃了。。。我还在。
  
  内地STRAIGHT EDGE的朋友们加油！！！
  
  A legendary Straight Edge dude named Ray Porcell who started the infamous hardcore band called Youth of Today, then Shelter, Bold, etc...has now started a brand new Straight Edge clothing company called "True Til Death"...awesome stuff check it out。。。一个很著名的hardcore人叫Ray Porcell (他是很著名八十年代的hardcore乐队youth of today的主唱)最近开了一个新straight edge的衣服公司叫 “True Til Death"...你们可以上去看看:
  
  http://truetilldeathhq.com/
  
  最近听什么音乐？我最近真的没有什么时间因为还在努力实际。。。现在只有两个礼拜然后我终于做完了！！！特开心。。。现在我真的给我自己很多压力。。。因为我真的想给我学校看看我一定做得到。。。可是因为我给了自己那么多压力我这三个月睡觉睡的不好。。。可是十二月十九号是我最后一天。。。所以那晚上我会睡的特特特特特特特特好！！！ 哈哈哈哈。。。很期待那一个晚上。。。
  
  I think we've just bought a brand new drumset for the band room!!! So excited!!! Even though weo don't have a drummer right now - its nice knowing that we finally have an awesome drumset in the bandroom to start recording drums...we've got friends who're going to be helping out so we're excited. Thanks to Mike for going with Brian to check out the new set...can't wait to record the new songs!!!
  
  我们最近买了新鼓！！！特开心。。。虽然我们没有鼓手。。。可是我们知道我们现在有一个很厉害的鼓在我们band房里特开心。。。我们有朋友会帮我们录音所以很期待马上开始录新歌的demo给大家听听。。。
  
  DEC 1, 2008: PARKWAY DRIVE PROMO VIDEO!!!
  
  Wei! I'm so proud of myself! :-) I taught myself how to use Adobe Premiere this past week and so I was able to create a promotional video for the upcoming Parkway Drive show!!! :-) 我为我自己特proud因为我这个礼拜教了自己怎么用premiere这个program!!! 特开心所以我现在想给大家看我第一次用premiere做的图片。。。是parkway drive演出宣传的video!!!
  
  Check out the video here and go find more information on: www.startfromscratchrecords.com.hk
  
  
  
  NOV 28, 2008: THE LOVESONG TONIGHT!!!
  
  All you need to know is that my favorite HK band: the lovesong: is playing tonight at the Fringe Club...they're the second band playing so you have to be there by 10pm so you don't miss anything. Supposedly, they'll be playing some new songs!!! COOL!!! 你们只要知道我最喜欢的香港乐队今天晚上在艺术会有演出！！！他们是叫 the lovesong。今天晚上他们是第二个乐队。。。差不多十点钟玩。。。他们说今天他们可能会玩几首新歌！！！woohoo!!!
  
  All of this stuff going on in India and Thailand is so sad...I can't believe they had over 10 attacks take place at one time. That is insane...Then the stuff in Thailand - they took over the airport! Why doesn't the prime minister of Thailand just step down? He should know that the history of Thai politics has been that if an unpopular prime minister doesn't step down, then the army comes in with a coup.  这几天在印度发生的东西真的很可怕。。。新闻说他们在一天里有十几个地方给人攻击。。。特可怕。。。然后再泰国这个政治的情况也是很不开心的事。。。在新闻见到一个党派的人打死另外党派的人。。。其实大家是泰国人。。。大家是兄弟和一家人。。。为了你的党派你为什么会有这样的行为？泰国的首相应该快点下台了。。。为了他国家的稳定。。。他应该知道在泰国政治历史里一个不得人心的首相，通常有国家的军队进来政变。。。
  
  Crazy world we live in...
  
  NOV 26, 2008: KICKBOXING!! 拳擊
  
  Yo!!! Last night Chai and I went to go watching Planet Battle!!! That's the international kickboxing tournament that took place in Hong Kong last night at Hitec!
  
  Both of us were walking around last week when I saw a huge advertisement for this and I told him "Dude let's go! I've never gone to an event like this" He was like LET'S DO IT!! So yesterday he called me and told me that he bought tickets so we were ready to hit it! :-)
  
  We got there and there were TONS of people!!! Lots of lovely people...lots of hip-hop blaring...it was awesome!!!
  
  Then the fighting started and it went OFF!!! Like it was probably one of the most exciting Tuesday nights I've EVER had! hahahahaha...it was so much fun sitting right at ringside watching all of it!!!
  
  NOV 25, 2008: GREAT DAY YESTERDAY
  
  I wish and hope that all of you could have as an amazing day as I had yesterday...我真的希望你们可以享受我昨天的那么理想的一天.
  
  Yesterday everything went amazing at school...all my lessons were awesome, all the kids were awesome...it was just great...昨天我在学校真的特开心。。。我教书不错， 小朋友跟我一样很兴奋。。。真的特好。。。
  
  Then I got off work and hiked from Repulse Bay to Tai Tam!! It was awesome!!! Such a nice day and it was nice to go for a hike and hang out enjoying a beautiful part of Hong Kong (the trees, hills, reservoir). Then when I got to Tai Tam I met up with my friend Geoff and we went to Chai Wan Skatepark and skated for an hour or so...然后我下学从浅水湾爬山去太潭！！！ 我也以为应该太远了！！！可是真的不太远。。。然后在太潭我约了我滑板的朋友Geoff。我们坐车去柴湾去滑板。。。在柴湾我们滑了差不多一个小时。。。
  
  滑板之后我约了我们的bass手Ho去吃晚饭。。。他现在很努力帮我们做很多关于parkway drive的演出的东西。。。我们特幸运有多一个这样的人。。。这样那么努力性格的人在香港真的不多。。。
  
  Then I met up with our bass player Mr. Ho and had dinner which was great...he's working SO hardcore for the upcoming Parkway Drive show!!! It's nice to have people like him who are so hard-working involved with KLC and me.
  
  Then on my way home I bought the new Paramore DVD!!! IT'S SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!!! I just finished watching it now and it's increidble. I think ALL bands should be as good as these guys LIVE...each band member gives the audience 200%!!! I have YET to see a band like this from HK. They have one of the best drummers ever I think...all drummers should be as into their drums as this guy!!! If you don't believe me then search Paramore's LIVE videos and see what this guy does...I don't give a shit about technique and any of that stupid bullshit. All i care about is band members who play their instrument like it is the ONLY thing in the world keeping them alive...然后回家的时候买了paramore的新dvd!!! 特好看！！！特特特特特好看。。。挺挺挺好看。。。我觉得所有乐队应该起码这样那么好！！！他们演出的时候我真的感觉到他们的心。。。你们真的要看他们这个ｄｖｄ．．．这个乐队的鼓手非常好！！！！！！！我觉得所有鼓手应该要看他表演才知道一个真的爱自己乐器的人怎么样玩他的乐器。。。
  
  I had a great day yesterday...here's to more like this I hope!!!　昨天真的特好。。。
  
  Go buy the new Paramore DVD!!! Don't buy the new Guns N' Roses CD...it SUCKS...快点出去买ｐａｒａｍｏｒｅ的新ｄｖｄ！！！别浪费你时间和钱买新ｇｕｎｓ　ｎ＇ｒｏｓｅｓ的唱片。。。特难听。。。
  
  NOV 24, 2008: PARKWAY DRIVE
  
  So yo...metalcore fans throughout Hong Kong were heard dancing up and down the city streets. They were dancing and singing indecipherable lyrics all day and night and supposedly the police were called in to settle this strange occurrence over the weekend. When the police asked them if they were high on drugs - the fans responded "No man! Parkway Drive is coming to Hong Kong!" :-) It's true - these metalcore kings are coming to Hong Kong on Feb 5, 2009.
  
  So unless you have been living under a rock these past few years...metalcore has taken over the world...there are countless metalcore bands roaming the world...some of these are truly awesome bands...and some of them are just ripping those legendary bands off but for some reason getting bigger then the bands that they rip off which is weird. Anyway...along the way - "hardcore" has been confused. Hardcore is hardcore - metalcore is metalcore. The only co-relation is that the music can also be at times heavy.
  
  Anyway...Parkway Drive musically sounds exactly like As I Lay Dying, Unearth style metalcore...so musically that's what you should expect. Both their last albums were recorded and produced by Adam of Killswitch Engage that's why their albums have sounded so similar to all the metalcore bands taking over the world for the past few years. The difference with Parkway Drive however is that on stage - they perform like a hardcore band! They're not wearing tight clothes, make-up, black clothes...none of that - they're jumping around in shorts, band shirts...pretty cool...
  
  So the show will be Feb 5, 2009 and our brothers Shepherds the Weak are going to destroy the damn place as one of the 3 opening bands!!! :-)
  
  More info on: www.startfromscratchrecords.com.hk 
  
  NOV 21, 2008: THANKS! 谢谢大家
  
  Wow...lots of birthday wishes yesterday on my facebook page! Thanks everyone... :-) 谢谢大家放在我的FACEBOOK页生日快乐的message!!! 。。。
  
  在学校里跟小朋友过了生日真好玩。。。他们特可爱。。。他们就是七岁的小朋友。。。他们做了一个很可爱的卡给我。。。可是他们很厉害因为他们做这张卡的时候我真的看不到他们！！ 我还不知道他们在什么时候做到！哈哈哈。。。
  
  然后到很感动的一个事情。。。你们应该知道我今年的九月开始在二年般做我的实际。。。那已经过了两个多月。。。我跟这班小朋友的关系特好也特深。。。那我昨天通知了他们下个礼拜开始是我实际的最后四个礼拜。。。他们一听到几个开始哭。。。特感动。。。有几个很大声说　“可是我不想你走！！！”。。。
  
  One of the best hardcore interviews I've read in recent days...check it out here...it's the owner of one of the biggest hardcore record labels called Bridge Nine (the label that released H2O, Verse, Have Heart, Give Up the Ghost/American Nightmare and other legendary hardcore bands...) 当然我一定用这个机会再说hardcore la! 我觉得我很久没有看过一个那么好看的hardcore访问。。。这个访问是跟一个很大hardcore公司的老板做的 (是Bridge 9 Records的老板...这个公司出了很出名hardcore的唱片:Ｈ２Ｏ，Ｈａｖｅ　Ｈｅａｒｔ，Ｖｅｒｓｅ，等等）： HARDCORE INTERVIEW HERE!!!
  
  I don't know how many of you know about punk rock history especially of the early 90's...but there were quite a few bands that were very influential...some of them were bands like Jawbreaker, Crimpshrine, Operation Ivy, and so many more...i'm sure none of you are excited about this next piece of news - but the singer of the legendary band Jawbreaker is now playing in a band with the drummer of Crimpshrine (the infamouse Aaron Cometbus!!!)!!! DUDE!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOOO exciting!!! There are live videos up of their first show and it's just quality punk rock!!! The band is called Thorns of Life。。。很久以前有很多三藩市来的ｐｕｎｋ乐队对punk文化有很大影响。。。几个乐队是Ｊａｗｂｒｅａｋｅｒ，　Ｃｒｉｍｐｓｈｒｉｎｅ，　Ｆｉｆｔｅｅｎ，　Ｏｐｅｒａｔｉｏｎ　Ｉｖｙ．．．等等。。。最近Ｊａｗｂｒｅａｋｅｒ的主唱跟Ｃｒｉｍｐｓｈｒｉｎｅ的鼓手开始了一个新乐队！！！　特兴奋。。。在这个网站你可以看他们第一场演出。。。他们叫Ｔｈｏｒｎｓ　ｏｆ　Ｌｉｆｅ: http://www.punknews.org/article/31286
  
  Brian and I have been writing so many songs!! Can't wait to record them and upload them so you can hear! As we mentioned a few days ago - we don't have a drummer now. But our good friend Mike from Shepherds the Weak has agreed to help us record our drums!!! THANKS AGAIN BROTHER!!! So keep checking back...hopefully by the end of December we'll have new songs up! Brian跟我最近开始了写很多新歌！！！ 特开心。。。太兴奋！！！ 希望马上可以给大家听。。。当然， 我们几天前通知了大家我们现在没有鼓手。 可是我们的好朋友Mike（shepherds the weak)的鼓手已经说了他一定会帮我们录音和有时候可以帮我们演出！！！ 谢谢兄弟！！！
  
  我们没有希望在香港可以找到一个爱听，爱玩，爱努力为了hardcore做一个乐队的成员。 当然了 - 香港是潮流文化。。。除非hardcore突然变了很cool，我们一定在这样的社会找不到适合的成员。 我很喜欢开玩笑跟我版朋友说 “如果hardcore文化有发型和很潮流的衣服。。。这样才会有香港人对hardcore有兴趣”。哈哈哈。。。当然这样听音乐没意思。。。你看别人衣服听音乐吗？你看别人发型听音乐吗？真的不明白。难怪那么多香港人不明白我。。。我也不明白很多香港人。
  
  可是没事了 - 这个就是现实！ :-) 所以没事。。。这样的困难一定不会让我想放弃。知道如果我放弃特多香港人和香港乐队会很开心。听人说在这个时候有两个香港乐队写了歌说我的坏话。哈哈哈哈。。。真不真我不知道 （听人说其中一首歌里有我的名字！我很有兴趣看这首歌的歌词。。。）。我真的特厉害 - 我可以激发人写歌说我是一个怎么样的非人？！？！正！
  
  你们这样送给我个礼物，我真幸运！哈哈哈。。。 谢谢。。
  
  NOV 19, 2008: GOODBYES and WELCOMES
  
  Okay - two pieces of news for all of you today 今天有两个稍息:
  
  First of all, our drummer for the past 2 years decided over the weekend to take a break from KLC. So we would like to say goodbye to Man and wish him the best of luck in the future. 第一个是我们这两年的鼓手这个周末决定了他需要休息一下。所以我们wish Ah 文 the best of luck!
  
  Secondly, we would like to welcome our new bass player to our band!!! He has actually been playing and working with us for the past few months! Some of you may know who he is - and those of you who have followed KLC since 1999 will DEFINITELY know who he is. He is a very old friend and has been one of our biggest supporters and a TRUE friend to me. His name is Ho and he used to play in a legendary HK heavy band called Fatjob! :-) 第二个稍息是我们终于想通知大家我们的新bass手！！！可是他几个月前已经入了荔枝王。。。他这几个月已经开始准备他自己玩我们的音乐和跟我们写歌！可能 你们会认识他。。。如果你们是从很久以前听着我们那你们可能会认识。。。他是以前香港乐队FATＪＯＢ发作弹ｂａｓｓ吉他！！！他是一位很久的支持者和朋友所以真的太开心他会有兴趣跟我们玩！！！欢迎！！！
  
  WELCOME TO THE BAND BRO!!!
  
  Exciting things ahead...
  
  Of course, anyone that joins KLC will quickly have his character tested. He has already received phone calls, and people have talked to him on the streets, in bars, at shows, and lots of places, about how he should not join KLC.当然如果你想跟我们玩你马上会受到不少人的意见。。。已经不少人打电话给他，在街边撞到他的时候，在酒吧里跟他说，和其他地方和情况跟他说：
  "What are you doing Ho by joining KLC!??!!" “你为什么想跟他们玩！？！！”
  "Are you crazy? Don't you know Riz is like a "boss" in the band?!?!?" “你疯了吗？！ 你知道riz是老板吗！！！”
  
  So...Ho has already been challenged and questioned by many people. 反正Ho已经收到了很多意见。真有意思。It's interesting I think...kind of sad 我听到当然有点儿幸苦可是算了。。。这个地球有那么多问题。。。如果有些人真的是那么无聊，只用他们时间说我的坏话，这个就是代表他们的性格。。。but whatever, life has more important things to worry about。

  Anyway!Ｐｏｓｉｔｉｖｅ　ｔｈｏｕｇｈｔｓ！:-).
  
  Now we have no drummer...exciting!ｈａｈａｈａｈａｈａ．．．那我们现在没有鼓手！哈哈哈哈。。。怎么办？！
  
  NOV 18, 2008: GUNS N' ROSES NEW SONG
  
  Yo...your favorite weirdo singer Axl Roses has released a second Guns N' Roses song...this one is called "Better" and is a pretty damn good song...你们最喜欢的怪人ＡＸＬ　ＲＯＳＥＳ上载了ＧＵＮＳ　Ｎ‘　ＲＯＳＥＳ的新歌叫ＢＥＴＴＥＲ。。。真的特好听：
  
  Check it out: CLICK HERE
  
  I spent like 2 hours last night trying to teach myself Premiere. I'm pretty happy that I was able to do a lot of basic stuff after the two hours of searching the internet to learn about Premiere. It truly is a pretty damn awesome program...but there are a lot of simple things that are annoying about it. But that's just because I haven't fully learned it yet...我昨天晚上花了两个时候的时间自己学怎么用ＰＲＥＭＩＥＲＥ这个做ＶＩＤＥＯ的ＰＲＯＧＲＡＭ。我花了很多时间找一个有用的网站。。。不错。。。这个ＰＲＯＧＲＡＭ真的特好用。。。可是还有点儿东西我不太明白可是是因为我刚才开始用。。。慢慢来。。。
  
  You'd like to know WHY I'm learning this don't you? hehehehehhe...you'll find out soon on the Start From Scratch Records website.　你想知道我为什么想用这个ＳＯＦＴＷＡＲＥ？你们会很快知道。。。就是上我们由零开始的网站。。。哈哈哈哈。。。
  
  Going to bed...
  
  Peace...
  NOV 17, 2008: MENSHENG TOUR
  
  So another HK band is touring and again it's not us. Our friends in Mensheng have organized a 4 day tour (the same dates that we were going to tour China) together with a Taiwanese band called Vanish. To find out more info you can go to their facebook page: 再有另外一个香港乐队叫“门生”去巡演。他们安排了一个四场演出的巡演。这个巡演时他们跟一个台湾来的乐队一起。你可以上这个网站看多点INFO： CLICK HERE!
  of a band called Suicide Silence and they always say "LIVE shows is what we live for. That is where we can show everyone our true power". Anyone that doesn't understand that doesn't understand the power and beauty of playing music. Brian over the weekend said about playing shows and the importance of it over just recording "I forgot the roots about music - the actual playing". 真的对他们特开心。希望他们全乐队做完这个巡演会明白演出和巡演对每个乐队几重要！！！我那么多年看别人的访问全部人都说 “我们演出的时候是最开心，是我们人生其中最开心的时候。在演出的时候我们终于可以让其他人知道我们的力量”。 这个周末关于演出比录音的关系Brian也有说 “我忘了音乐的ROOT。。。玩音乐是最重要”
  
  Lots going on in the KLC camp. Over the weekend we decided that in the next 2 months hopefully we'll finish writing 2 new songs and record it to upload. It's about time all of you get to hear what we've been doing. 这个周末我们决定了这两个月里我们会写完两首歌，录好他们然后上载给大家听听。。。
  
  NOV 13, 2008: HK NEWS
  
  I think the legislators finally did something right and got behind the proper investigations to find out what happened with the Lehman Brothers fiasco!!! All those bankers that keep saying "Please be careful with information..." are just saying that because the information that the government finds will show that these bankers are just greedy-money hungry pieces of shit that care about money more than helping people with their savings. 我们的立法会员终于决定了一个很重要的东西。。。他们同意关于这个ＬＥＨＭＡＮ　ＢＲＯＴＨＥＲＳ银行的情况需要一个很深的调查．当然很多银行业者不想有这个调查因为调查了之后大家一定会发现他们就是很贪婪。。。他们最爱的东西就是钱。。。他们不是关心他人的储钱。。。这个银行业者应该要坐监狱。
  
  We'll see what happens...再看一下发生什么事
  
  okay。。。到了开心的东西。。。PARAMORE刚才上载了他们将会出LIVE DVD的PREVIEW。。。我很期待买这个DVD！！！在ＤＶＤ里面你可以看到主唱穿一个特有意思的Ｈ２Ｏ的ＴＳＨＩＲＴ。。。ＴＳＨＩＲＴ上只有一个句子：PASSION ＢＥＦＯＲＥ　ＦＡＳＨＩＯＮ。。。特有意思。。。如果我有这件衣服我在香港（这个特潮流的城市）逛逛的时候我一定特开心给他人看这个句子。Paramore has uploaded a preview of their upcoming LIVE CD/DVD...I can't WAIT to buy this thing...in the video the singer is wearing one of my favorite H2O t-shirts...a shirt with the simple lyrics: PASSION BEFORE FASHION...I would wear this shirt with PRIDE. Especially walking around Hong Kong...
  
  I'm happy for them! Hopefully they'll understand how important playing shows and touring is for ANY band. I've read so many interviews and read another one this weekend
  
  
  NOV 12, 2008: FREE DOWNLOAD
  
  Oh yeah...one of my favorite hardcore bands in recent years is The Promise. This band released one of the best hardcore records called Believer...if you haven't heard it yet I say you stop reading this and search online for it...better yet - I'll search now..这几年我其中最喜欢的HARDCORE乐队是ＴＨＥ　ＰＲＯＭＩＳＥ。。。我觉得他们的唱片ＢＥＬＩＥＶＥＲ是这几年其中特好听的唱片。。。如果你没有听过这个乐队那请你不继续看这个稍息。。。马上去ＳＥＡＲＣＨ这个乐队的网站。。。ＡＣＴＵＡＬＬＹ我可以帮你做一个很快的SEARCH：..http://www.myspace.com/thepromise But they broke up...可是他们已经没有了。。。
  
  Yesterday I looked online (I think I told you before...everyday I search like 5 or 6 different metal-hardcore-punk websites...hahahahaha...) and I found out that there's a new band called It's Alive that features The Promise members!! (Unfortunately, it doesn't feature The Promise's vocalist!!!) And guess what? They have a free EP available for download!　昨天我看了一个网站（我以前说过我每天起码看四和五个不同的ＭＥＴＡＬ和ＨＡＲＤＣＯＲＥ和PUNK的网站！！）找到The Promise的成员开始了一个新乐队叫IT'S ALIVE。。。他们已经上载了一个新免费的EP! 大家可以免费下载：
  
  Click here to download awesome hardcore It's Alive for FREE: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qem5wxntdfi  
  
  NOV 11, 2008: BANE INTERVIEW
  
  So our old friends at Dungbeetle Interviews has now moved from Hong Kong and is living in Canada! And guess who she recently interviewed? The singer of the legendary hardcore band Bane!!! Yup! She interview Aaron Bedard and the interview is up now on her myspace page!!! 以前香港有一个女孩很喜欢访问很多来香港的乐队。。。他有访问过我们所有由零开始的外国来的乐队（COMEBACK KID， INTOLERANT， 等等）。。。可是她这个夏天般了住在加拿大。。。在那里他有很多机会看别的演出。。。看了很多HARDCORE演出。。。
  
  她最近上载了一个新访问。。。是跟HARDCORE其中最著名的乐队：BANE！她访问了他们的主唱！！！ 你可以上她的网站看看！
  
  http://www.myspace.com/dungbeetleinterviews 
   
  NOV 10, 2008: PARAMORE
  
  Yeah...I have fallen in love with this band this past week. Actually, I only started liking them recently when they started playing the video for the song "That's What You Get". Dude - as soon as I heard that song and watched that video I was hooked on this band. That's one great song...and displays the power of a well-written song that can get a listener like me hooked on the band instantaneously.
  
  So since I'm a music-nerd...what I normally do when I fall in love with a band is spent retarded amounts of time learning about that band. So this past week I've been watching all their live videos on youtube and documentaries on them etc. The coolest thing about Paramore - besides great music and an amazing bunch of musicians and a great and incredibly gorgeous singer - is that these guys are fans of hardcore! :-) In their documentaries you can see the members of Paramore wearing H2O jackets (the singer's wearing it on some TV interview), Set Your Goals t-shirts, and Paramore even gets interviewed by the guys in New Found Glory. hahahaha...pretty cool that a band as enormous as Paramore also has roots in hardcore...
  
  Go to their website to check their shit out...pretty cool...
  
  我最近爱上了一个乐队叫PARAMORE。。。可是真的说我几个月前已经开始喜欢他们。。。我在家里无聊的时候经常会MTV或者ＣＨＡＮＮＥＬ　Ｖ。。。突然他们有播PARAMORE的一首歌叫“THATS ＷＨＡＴ　YOU GET”。。。我一听这首歌马上爱了他们。。。这首歌真的写的很好。。。这首歌的MTV也是很好看。。。没什么特别就是拍了他们最近的朋友一起来玩。。。
  
  ANYWAY。。。我经常是这样。。。有点儿疯的性格哈哈哈哈。。。我一喜欢一个乐队我花很多时间学这个乐队的历史。。。所以这几个礼拜我上了YOUTUBE看他们很多LIVE短片。。。他们的LIVE真的特好看。。。他们的主唱非常厉害。。。除非看他们的LIVE短片我也看了他们的纪录影片。。。看这个发现了他们也很支持hardcore哈哈哈哈。。。在这个纪录影片他们有穿H2O的衣服(在一个电视访问可以看到他们的主唱穿H2O的衣服）和其他乐队比方说ＡＭＥＲＩＣＡＮ　ＮＩＧＨＴＭＡＲＥ，　SET YOUR GOALS, 然后有ＮＥＷ　FOUND GLORY 的成员访问他们。。。特开心看到一个PARAMORE那么大的乐队也是跟HARDCORE有关系！ 哈哈哈哈。。。
  
  你们可以上他们的网站看他们的东西。。。
  
  NOV 9, 2008: GREAT WEEK
  
  I think I had one of the best weeks I've had in a LONG time! School this past week was amazing...the kids and I have been getting even closer together, my lessons have been inspirational and exciting, my connection with cooperating teacher has been amazing...and of course Obama...come on...what a great week!!! 这个礼拜真的可以说是一个非常开心的一个礼拜。 在学校里我跟我的小朋友的关系真的特好。。。我教他们的时候他们很开心我也特开心！我所有的LESSONS教的不错， 我们教书时候的对话真的特好， 特有意思。。。我跟我PARTNER老师的关系也是非常好。。。然后当然OBAMA赢了是让我觉得这个礼拜是更加美丽的礼拜！！！
  
  Last night the turnout of the show wasn't great, but I still had a great time because I saw old friends that I haven't seen in weeks and we just laughed our asses off last night :-) It was good to be around close friends and just have a good time even though the situation looked grim. Hahahahahahhaha...虽然昨天晚上的演出没有特别多人可是我们还是玩的很开心。 我昨天见到的朋友我很久没有见过了。见到他们我们真的笑的太开心。。。有时候这个就是最重要的情况。。。我旁边的人是朋友的时候，真的有个好感觉。昨天终于见到PONG哈哈哈。。。去了菲律宾之后没有见过他了。。。
  
  Hanging out with Conquest for Death was fun because these guys have done things with their band that I wish KLC could do but never will because we can never find people with similar hopes and dreams. Conquest for Death quite literally have toured the world. For the past 6 weeks these guys have gone to Australia, New Zealand, played 7 shows in Indonesia, Malaysia, Borneo, Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Hong Kong, and Guangzhou today. Last year they toured SOUTHERN AFRICA!!! WHAT?!??!? I didn't even know you could tour that part of the continent?!?!?! They played South Africa, Botswana, Mauritius, Reunion, and Namibia...the stories they told us about with their experiences in these places is why I love touring and meeting people and having these types of experiences. 昨天跟美国的乐队聊天真的很有意思。他们做过的东西我也很想跟荔枝王一天可以做可是特难找到一样思想的成员。你可以说他们真的巡演了全地球。。。他们这次的六个礼拜的巡演让他们去很多国家：Indonesia, Malaysia, Borneo, Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Hong Kong, and Guangzhou。他们去年去了非洲巡演！我不知道你可以在非洲巡演。我听说你可以去南非这个国家里巡演。。。可是他们去非洲的南方很多国家演出包括South Africa, Botswana, Mauritius, Reunion, and Namibia。在巡演的时候他们跟很多本地的非洲人谈很认真和难受的经历。。。他们那边的黑人收到了夸张的种族歧视。。。特难受的种族歧视。。。虽然他们从那边的白人收到了特不好的种族歧视，这个乐队见过的黑人对他们还不是很刻薄。。。关于南非的種族隔離政策。。。真的特难接受。。。一听到这个东西你会以为是特多年的东西。。。可是不是，二十年前这个东西还在。。。这个乐队说他们去了非洲巡演的时候突然觉得他们自己生活没有什么意思。。。非洲的人经历过那么多困难，可是他们自己过了什么？ 我觉得这个是真HARDCORE性格其中一个元素。。。

  They told us about how when they went to that part of Africa and met Africans who have dealt with the most horrible racism by white people there, but still are not bitter about what happened to them and treated the band with respect and friendship, made them feel like everything else going on in the world and in their own lives was so insignificant.
  
  That is why I play hardcore...I don't want my life to be only about ME. That's how people involved with hardcore are connected I feel...people who are involved with hardcore are usually people who use the music or the culture to do something for others or want to hear about other things going on all over the world or their community.
  
  NOV 6, 2008: WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY!! 特美丽的日子！
  
  A minority member is now the president of the most powerful country in the world!!! I cannot even begin to explain the joy and excitement I feel knowing that an African/American has now been elected by Americans to lead their country!!! It truly is a historic day and time to see this happen...I am so happy to be alive in this time of the world which will easily go as one of the MOST incredible moments of history!!! Decades and hundreds of years later when people read in history books about the first African/American to lead USA, I will always remember this moment!
  
  Now it's time for the rest of the world to learn from this. To be a civilized nation you need to welcome in your minority nationalities who consider that land their home.
  
  Watching the celebrations in Kenya where Barack Obama's father is from, was amazing! To see a whole country on the other side of the world share the joy that the US is having right now, as if Barack Obama is now going to lead Kenya, was truly incredible!!!
  
  What a great day!!! There is hope in this world...could American come back into the hearts and minds of the world and become a country to be respected instead of despised? We'll have to wait and see!!! :-)
  
  真的太高兴了！！！我昨天一听到美国政治的结果我开心到不得了。。。我真的不相信一位少数民族可以做到这个地球的最强国家的总统！！！现在我特开心因为我是在这个时候活！！！这个歷史上那么著名的日子！！！几十年或者几百年之后的历史书会说这个日子。。。
  
  我想全地球的人还不明白。。。这个结果的影响。。。这个结果一定会影响全世界的少数民族。。。

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh。。。。说不出来我的心声。。。

  你们有没有看在肯亚人的反应？！？？！！哈哈哈哈哈。。。特好看！ ＢＡＲＡＣＫ　ＯＢＡＭＡ的爸爸是肯亚人。ＯＢＡＭＡ的祖母还住在肯亚。。。肯亚的人全部开始跳舞和快乐。。。好像ＯＢＡＭＡ做了他们自己的总统！:-)
  
  :-)

• NOV 3, 2008: KING LY CHEE SHIRT
  
  Our old friend Mian Bao posted a picture of a King Ly Chee shirt that is making fun of the Burger King logo! hahahaha...I remember that our friend Paul in Beijing showed us this computer design. But we all thought it was just a joke...I didn't know that he actually printed them on to shirts!!! They look pretty damn good! The best part is "Hardcore is the way" at the bottom!!! Hahahahaha...我们 朋友“面包”昨天晚上放了一图片。。。特好笑的。。。我们这夏天的时候收到了一个很好笑的“荔枝王”的新LOGO。。。是我好朋友PAUL做的。。。他很喜欢拿很出名公司的LOGO改作PUNK或者HARDCORE乐队的logo。。。他这夏天拿了ＢＵＲＧＥＲ　KING的logo作“荔枝王”的logo哈哈哈哈。。。特搞笑！！！ 可是我不知道真的作了TＳＨＩＲＴ！！！哈哈哈哈哈。。。前天他在香港有卖我们这个ＳＨＩＲＴ！！！哈哈哈哈。。。我想买ＰＡＵＬ！请你留一间给我吧！！！
  
  I want one Paul!!!
  
  The legendary Ian Mackaye (if you don't know who that is - don't even think about calling yourself "hardcore") does a long talk at some museum in the US recently...you can check it out here在ＨＡＲＤＣＯＲＥ文化里其中最出名的人一定是IAN MACKAYE （如果你不知道他是谁那你马上在网站找找。。。）他最近在一个MUSEUM做了一个talk。。。你可以在这个网站可以看和听他说的东西　:
  
  http://vimeo.com/2064707
  
  This weekend Conquest for Death is playing in HK! I've never seen these guys before but they're really nice guys and one of the members has actually played in Hong Kong in his old band called All You Can Eat! The show will take place at the Warehouse so see you there!!! 这个周末有一对美国的punk thrash乐队将会来香港演出！演出是在WAREHOUSE。。。一定非常好玩的！ ：-）到时间！
  你可以上这个facebook页看看： CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
  !
  NOV 1, 2008: SLAYER and HIGHER GIANT and TIRED IN GENERAL...
  
  Dude...what the hell...Slayer has already released their newest song from their upcoming new album!!! That is some speedy song writing man! They just released their latest album like a year or two ago!!! And I listened to that album last night again "Christ Illusion" and it's SOOOOOOOOOOOOO good! I forgot how good their latest album was. Now they've already released a song from their upcoming NEW album!!! Amazing...真的不相信！！！SLAYER已经上载了他们将会出唱片的第一首歌！！！特快了！！！ 他们最近已经出了一张特厉害的唱片叫CHRISTILLUSION。。。然后他们那么快可以再出一张真的很厉害！！！SLAYER FOREVER！！！
  
  在这里可以听到他们新歌 You can check out Slayer's new song here：
  
  
  
  Also, yesterday I checked out a band online called Higher Giant and I seriously think this is one of the best pop-punk bands I've heard in the last few years. The singer is great and the music is so fresh and new sounding (no breakdowns, no screamy parts, just melody and good song structure)...我昨天在晚上找到一个POPＰＵＮＫ乐队叫HIGHER GIANT。。。我真的这几年我没有听到一个那么好听美国的POPＰＵＮＫ乐队。。。他们的主唱特好听还有他们歌的ARRANGEMENT特好。。。特有新鲜的感觉 （ＴＨＡＮＫＧＯＤ他们没有BREAKDOWN， 没有大声呼...只是很好的歌。。。）.http://www.myspace.com/highergiant

  Another great punk/hardcore band...this band is called Transit and I swear they look like they're 16 years old! hahahahaha...Check them out...这个世界真的有很多特好的新乐队。。。这个乐队叫TRANSIT。。。他们的成员真的像十六七岁！！！ 哈哈哈哈。。。:
  
  TRANSIT
  
  Okay...this week has been an insanely tiring week at school...so many goddam meetings. Ridiculous - you can't even be a real teacher at my school. You can't be because you're always stuck in meetings - the times you're with your children is totally marginalized because you have to be in this training or that training or this meeting and that meeting. I have to admit - this has been a really frustrating week for me in regards to my school. At least Friday was a much better day. My lessons felt better - my Math lesson was INSANELY successful so I ended the week on a super high note.
  
  Tiring as hell...can't wait to start applying for teaching jobs at schools soon!!! Next week is my mid-point of my student teaching!!! :-) It's almost done...A big thank you to all my friends who have been supporting me through this. It means a lot - it is a very stressful period, so it's cool to hear friends just say "Don't worry dude - it's almost over!!! :-)".
  
  OCT 29, 2008: DRUM WORKSHOP LAST NIGHT
  
  That was SUPER fun last night! Jimmy Degrasso is a legendary "metal" drummer...quite funny because he doesn't consider himself a "metal" drummer like he said last night because he grew up listening and playing jazz. It was funny that he was talking about Davide Lee Roth, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, like they were some local musicians! hahahahahaha...it was great though - he had a lot of good things to say that I think A LOT of HK drummers needed to hear. He talked about how drum solos and going crazy on the drums is NOTHING - the most important part is to make the other musicians sound good. That is what he said is the main job of a drummer. How amazing is that! He also talked about how sometimes certain styles of music really need you to bang hard, and other styles of music don't need it, but the key he said is never to be tensed up. Your arms and your person should always be relaxed when playing drums...
  
  Good speaker...he was funny too which was good... :-)
  
  昨天晚上我去了看这个美国鼓手的表演和教鼓的课。。。特好听。。。他还有很多好东西说。。。很多东西好像是给香港的鼓手听！ 哈哈哈哈。。。他说一个鼓手的责任就是让到其他音乐人好听。。。就是说做很厉害的鼓SOLO是没有意思的东西。。。他还有说一个鼓手最需要是很放松自己才可以打的很好。。。
  
  真的好看和听。。。而且他也是很好笑所以真的不错。。。
  
  OCT 28, 2008: HAPPY DIWALI!!!
  
  Today's a very special day for Hindus all over the world! Happy Diwali everyone...enjoy this wonderful day of lights...if you live in Hong Kong and near any Hindu families then look around their doorsteps today! You will see beautiful Diyas (candles) lit outside of their homes...今天对印度教人是一个很大的日子！如果你住在印度教的人附近那你需要留意他们门口外面很漂亮的蜡烛！！！特漂亮。。。
  
  Also...tonight i'm going with Mike to watch the insane drummer Jimmy Degrasso rip it up in Hong Kong!!! Can't wait to see this drum clinic man!!! He's amazing...watch the video below!!! 今天晚上我跟我好朋友MIKE将会看一个特厉害鼓手的表演。。。这个鼓手是叫ＪＩＭＭＹ　ＤＥＧＲＡＳＳＯ。。。他以前有帮ＭＥＧＡＤＥＴＨ和SUICIDAL TENDENCIES打鼓！！！ 特厉害。。。很期待看他怎么样教人打鼓。。。这个是教鼓的短片：
  
  
  
  OCT 27, 2008: BRIAN IN AUSTRALIA
  
  YO - if any of you live in Australia (Sydney to be precise) then please email Brian about where to watch hardcore shows!!! There HAS to be some hardcore shows going on in that part of Australia this week! By the time you read this he should've arrived so please go ahead and email him: brian@kinglychee.com 我们的BRIAN昨天去了澳洲！他是在SYDNEY！如果你们也是在SYDNEY请快点EMAIL他！！！他想知道这个礼拜有没有HARDCORE ＳＨＯＷＳ！我觉得应该有可是我也不太清楚。。。跟澳洲的SCENE我真的不太清楚。。。好像是最厉害的ＳＣＥＮＥ是在ＰＥＲＴＨ。。。你可以在这个地址发给他一个ＥＭＡＩＬ：brian@kinglychee.com
  
  Do'nt know if you've heard the new Guns N' Roses song yet but it's available...I have started it and surprisingly it STILL sounds like Guns N' Roses...but the song keeps stopping in middle so I can't give you a full review...you can check it out on this link: 你们听了GUNS N' ROSES 的新歌吗？你可以在这个网站听听。。。我只可以听到几秒。。。我不知道每次听的时候首歌中间会停。。。特讨厌。。。反正你可以在这个网站听听：

  http://www.spin.com/blog/first-listen-new-guns-n-roses-single-reviewed
  
  Remember this? Those were the good ol' days in Hong Kong...记得这个吗？ 以前香港机场。。。
  
   

  OCT 25, 2008: SLAYER
  
  Yeah what?!?!?!??!?!?!?!? Slayer is already recording a NEW ALBUM!!! GREATEST NEWS!!! Check out this video of them in the studio (the new song sounds AMAZING!!! Fuck Metallica - Slayer will ALWAYS keep it real!)...真的特高兴！！！SLAYER已经开始录新唱片！！！ WOOHOO! （ＦＵＣＫ　
  ＭＥＴＡＬＬＩＣＡ！！！如果你想听真好听metal那快点上他们这个网站看他们在STUDIO录音！！！:
  
  CLICK HERE!
  
  That's all you need to know!!! 这个只需要看这个稍息哈哈哈哈。。。
  
  OCT 24, 2008: WEEK'S OVER!!!
  
  Dude...hellish feeling week!!! This student teaching stuff is awesome...just solidifies in my heart that I made the right career decision years ago when I accidentally came back to work in my school (god - to think that was 6 years ago is crazy!!!). Anyway...it's great...when I'm done I'm excited to start applying to schools all over Hong Kong. But the most exciting part will be when I walk into my OWN classroom and see the name Mr. Farooqi up on the board or the walls. I can't wait for my kids to be referred to "Oh, those are Mr. Farooqi's kids!" Can't wait...
  
  Anyway...
  
  I don't know if you guys watched that stupid shit that happened in Taiwan with that poor official from China. That type of bullshit makes my blood boil. Forget the fact that the official is from Mainland China, the guy is 60 something years old! That poor man is probably a grandfather, has children, has grand kids, and may have other health-related issues. How good could you feel about yourself yelling abuses at this man? How good could you feel about yourself when you pushed this man to the floor! Are you crazy!? What happened to human decency! Ridiculous...so disgusted by that situation when I watched it on TV.
  
  Guns N' Roses new song is online...check it out
  
  Unearth's latest album debuted at #45 on the billboard charts. Yes - it's proof that metal is back in the US for sure...
  
  Reports are saying that AC/DC's new album sold 800,000 copies in it's first week!!! Holy crap!!! :-) It's a great record...go get it...
  
  OCT 22, 2008: MUSIC
  
  Yeah...so what I've been listening to these past few days 这几天我有听这几个乐队和歌手的音乐:
  
  1. Comeback Kid...CD/DVD is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!! It's much better then the recent Hatebreed DVD...so if you want to choose then DEFINITELY choose the Comeback Kid dvd....他们最新的DVD特好看。。。我觉得是比HATEBREED的新DVD好很多。。。
  
  2. AC/DC...it's amazing...great to hear some straight rock n' roll...guitar tones are incredible...vocals are always amazing. I'm surprised that the bass is so low in the mix...but great album...特好听！！！ 有时候听这样的TRADITIONAL rock N roll真的非常好。。。吉他录音真的很厉害。。。主唱也是（六十一岁的！！！）。。。BASS是最奇怪因为他的声音不够大声所以有时候真的听不到。。。
  
  3. 方大同 Khalil Fong...this dude RIPS it up!!! I even played this record as I went to sleep last night...great music...great vocalist...这个主唱特厉害！！！ 他唱歌特好听。。。音乐特好听。。。我昨天晚上是听他的音乐睡觉！！！ 哈哈哈。。。
  
  Okay...I'm out...
  
  OCT 20, 2008: BIG DAY
  
  Yo...today's a big day for many reasons...here are some reasons why YOU should be excited today...今天是一个非常兴奋的日子。。。有几个原因:
  
  1. AC/DC's brand new album is coming out today!!! OH MY GOD!! I am so excited to buy this album...it's going to be amazing. There was an article in the English newspaper that says that Brian Johnson is 61 years old!!! WHAT?!?>!?! And he's still rocking in AC/DC!!! That's some CRAZY inspiration right there...今天AC/DC会出他们最新的唱片！！！ 非常期待下班马上出去买这张CD！！！他们的主唱今年是六十一岁！！！ 很厉害！！！ 六十一岁还有摇滚的心！！！：－）
  
  2. Comeback Kid's DVD THROUGH THE NOISE is coming out today as well!!! This DVD has footage of their touring all over the world these past few years (hopefully it has some HK footage - but I don't know) and has some sort of documentary, and a LIVE Cd as well...CANNOT WAIT!!!　今天终于可以买他们的ＤＶＤ！这个ＤＶＤ是包括他们这几年巡演的短片。。。可能有香港的短片可是我真的不知道有没有。。。很兴奋买这个。。。
  
  3. It's my good friend Glenn Bogadorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr's birthday today! He's getting closer and closer to the big 3-0 hehehehehe...happy birthday bitch!　今天是我好朋友ＧＬＥＮＮ的生日！越来越老了！　哈哈哈哈。。。
  
  This is why HK sucks...Motley Crue played in Singapore and didn't even entertain coming to Hong Kong!!! :-( I mean seriously, if they came here how many people would've gone?　这个短片是一个很大的证明香港真的是一个很无聊的地方。。。ＭＯＴＬＥＹ　CRUE去过星加坡演出可是没有来香港！！！ 当然不来香港了。。。如果他们来这里可能有多少人去看？在星加坡差不多有一万人去看他们表演。。。如果不是星期四我真的会想一想下去星加坡看！！！
  
  Motley Crue live in Singapore在星加坡演出的短片！！！ 很厉害！！！:
  
  
  
  Killswitch Engage has also uploaded a new video...nothing really special about the video...but listening to all their clean chorus reminds me how much I love this band..。他们上载了新VIDEO。。。没有什么特别可是听这首歌的时候我会记得我为什么特喜欢他们。。。他们每个chorus真的特好听。。。CLICK HERE!!! 
  
  OCT 17, 2008: UNREGENERATE BLOOD LIVE VIDEOS
  
  All you need to do today is watch this video by our brothers in Beijing hardcore band: Unregenerate Blood...你们今天只需要做一件事。。。看下面这短片。。。是我们中国hardcore同胞不复之血的LIVE:
  
  
  
  OCT 16, 2008: GUNS N' ROSES NEW ALBUM
  
  Holy shit...I don't know if you guys have read all over the internet...but the new Guns N' Roses album is finally going to be released on Nov 25! What?!??!?! This thing has been in the recording stages for over 10 years...I can't believe it's finally actually going to be released (Of course, I'm sure something's going to happen and it won't come out on time...). I do want to hear a few songs off of this to hear what direction Axl has taken his cover band...interesting...你们有没有看新稍息吗？很多网站现在开始说了GUNS N ROSES的新唱片终于会在十一月二十五号发出！真的吗？ 还觉得又是废话。。。可是很多网站是说一定会在美国发出。。。我真的想听现在的假的GUNS N ROSES 是怎么样？ 真的说这个不是ＧＵＮＳＮＲＯＳＥＳ。。。你们没有ＳＬＡＳＨ你怎么可以叫你自己是？

  This is kind of funny or stupid...whatever you think...the positive hardcore band called Good Clean Fun has released a preview of their upcoming movie...it's about a college girl who falls in love in college, has a job, and tries to get the world's biggest band The Goodcleanfuns to play at her college! hahahahaha...kinda stupid but check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbj7FBuElNA 有一个正面HARDCORE乐队叫ＧＯＯＤＣＬＥＡＮＦＵＮ将会出一部电影。。。很好笑可是也是一点儿笨笨的。。。这部电影是关于一个大学生在大学读书的时候要工作，爱上了人，　还有安排一个很大的演唱会。。。他请了这个地球最大的乐队叫THE GOODCLEANFUNS 哈哈哈哈哈。。。真的有点儿stupid的感觉是吗？
  
  INTOLERANT - Filipino metal - is releasing their new album Nov 15 in the Philippines!!! They've already uploaded a SECOND song to their myspace so go check it out (this song is with the cool bass guitar solo in the middle!)!!! We will DEFINITELY be getting these CD's into sell in Hong Kong through Start From Scratch Records!!! www.myspace.com/intolerantmetal okay最重要的稍息：菲律宾的最大的metal乐队ｉｎｔｏｌｅｒａｎｔ十一月十五号在菲律宾将会发出他们第一张album！！！ 太兴奋了！！！在他们的MYSPACE他们已经上载了第二首歌！！！ 快过去听听！ 我们一定会帮他们在香港卖他们的album！！！
  
  
  OCT 15, 2008: SHORTER DAYS
  
  I love these shorter days that we're having...sunrise is much later and sunset is much earlier...the reason why I love it is because I know that winter is around the corner - and winter in Hong Kong is the best! It gets cold here but not too cold...
  
  Since we're not touring this winter I don't have any plans for the Christmas break...maybe go back up to Beijing and hang out with friends...no idea yet...I also don't have any money because of my 3 month student-teaching practicum so I probably should just stay in HK - but that would be SOOOOOOO boring...
  
  Gotta think about it...
  
  我很喜欢这个时候的天。。。每日日出是在晚一点儿然后sunrise是再早一点。。。一到这个时候我知道冬天差不多到了。。。在香港冬天是最舒服的时候。。。
  
  我们这个冬天没有巡演所以圣诞节的时候我没有事做。。。可能再 上去北京看我的好朋友。。。可是我实习没有钱收所以我这三个月特穷哈哈哈哈。。。所以冬天的时候应该留在香港最好。。。可是留在香港太无聊！！！
  
  OCT 14, 2008: ANOTHER HK BAND TOURING CHINA RIGHT NOW!
  
  No...it's not us... :-( 不是我们。。。
  
  Our good friends in a Hong Kong metal/metalcore band called Protoss are on tour around China right now!!! Their tour is: Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Changsha, Wuhan, and then Beijing!!! I'm so excited for these guys!!! 我们的好朋友protoss这几天开始了他们内地巡演！！！ 他们的巡演是从广州开始然后经深圳，长沙， 武汉，和北京！真的对他们十分兴奋！！！ 加油！
  
  Please check out their music and support them on this tour!!! 请支持我们香港的兄弟： www.myspace.com/protosshk

  You can see from their myspace - they take their band VERY seriously! Great looking logo, great layout, great poster design for the tour!! 看他们myspace知道对他们的乐队特认真！ 这个是一个非常好的态度。。。一个认真乐队一定需要录音，和巡演。。。加油！
  
  By the way, check out Ho rocking out on his djembe on Hong Kong television! He's the dude on the very left grooving to the beat! :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwC3JJNRk88
  
  ALSO: Funeral for a Friend has uploaded their whole new album!!! DUDE - can't wait to buy this CD!!! I love this band - I never liked their first few albums...but then the last album they released changed everything for me! They just sound so good and the music is just mature writing...they don't sound emo/hardcore or whatever people call that screaming melodic stuff. They just sound like a good rock band!!! Funeral for a Friend上载了他们最新的唱片！！！特好听而且我很期待买他们这个ＣＤ！！！他们第一二张唱片我没有什么兴趣听因为我觉得他们那时候的风格ＥＭＯ／ＳＣＲＥＡＭＯ就是太潮的。。。现在他们没有那种感觉。。。他们就是一个好听的ＲＯＣＫ乐队。。。Check it out: GOOD ROCK!

   

• OCT 12, 2008: METAL SHOW LAST NIGHT SOOOOOO GOOD!!!
  
  Amazing...last night's show organized by the Hong Kong Extreme Metal Organization was probably the best heavy music show I have seen in many many years...我说不到。。。昨天晚上的metal演出是特特特特特厉害！！！ 我这几年真的没有看到和感觉到一个那么好看好听的metalshow。。。
  
  The show was organized with what I think are Hong Kong's most incredible metal bands and then organized by easily the most united music organizations fighting for the music and culture they believe in. All the opening Hong Kong bands were incredible: Adversary, Hyponic, Evocation...oh my god...so fucking good. Every band was incredible and it was so good to see Hyponic again live in Hong Kong!! Tommy and Evocation were ON FIRE last night...if you know the situation with the show last night you'll understand why. Adversary were INSANE!!! HOLY SHIT!!! ALL HK metal bands need to watch these guys!!! Holy crap!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!!! 昨天晚上的演出是香港的metal会叫Hong Kong Extreme Metal Organization安排的。。。他们这几年安排不少的演出可是他们昨天晚上我觉得一定他们最正的一场。。。他们那么专业的会还有那么多特厉害的本地乐队一起来玩。。。真的特好的感觉。。。hyponic - 特开心终于再有机会在香港看到他们的表演！！！ 特厉害。。。evocation昨天真的发火！ 哈哈哈哈。。。特热情。。。adversary特特特特特特特正！！！！！ 很期待看他们下一个表演
  
  The best was the organization of the show...a group of people working together with no petty bullshit between each other. They were all a bunch of adults acting responsibly and working together for metal in Hong Kong. 我真的很赏识他们为他们最爱的文化和音乐的努力。。。真的是一般大人一起来为了他们目标工作。。。没有其他bullshit在他们的人中间。。。
  
  It was amazing...特好。。。
  
  Once upon a time we used to have a scene like this...it was a great time...after last night both Brian and I realized that our "scene" is dead and buried. Did we actually ever have a united group of people who believed in something? Who knows...我还记得我们也很久以前好像也有一个地下的社会。。。可是我们现在证明都没有了。。。可能本来也没有了。。。就是我们以为是一个很团结的社会。。。可是几年前已经证明了原来不是。。。反正大家可以只可以做一个东西 - 做好自己。。。经历了那么多事情我还不会放弃我的目标。。。我对我自己还我自己和hardcore的信念还有相信。。。
  
  I can't wait to watch the next show organized by the Hong Kong Extreme Metal Organization...good job guys!!! 反正很期待再 看Hong Kong Extreme Metal Organization下一个安排的show！！！
  
  OCT 10, 2008: 4 THINGS
  
  Unearth's new album can be heard entirely on this website Unearth的新唱片现在可以在他们的网站可以听到: www.myspace.com/unearth

  Shai Hulud has an interview up on ShaiＨｕｌｕｄ有个新访问在这个网站: http://lambgoat.com/features/interviews/shai_hulud.aspx

  Intolerant is finally set to release their debut album!!! If you forgot who Intolerant is - that is the amazing Filipino metal band that graced our shores in July!!! Check out the God of War recording on their myspace and we'll post more info up soon!!最兴奋的稍息！！！ 我们的好朋友菲律宾乐队Intolerant将会出他们第一个唱片！ 你可以去他们的网站听其中一首歌! http://www.myspace.com/intolerantmetal

  There's a metal show in Hong Kong tomorrow night at the Warehouse!!! It's organized by our good friends in Hong Kong's Extreme Metal Organization so you KNOW it's going to be good!!! 明天香港有个很厉害的metal演出在warehouse！！！ 我们的好朋友ExtremeMetalOrganization安排这个演出所以一定特好看！ GIVE ME HK METAL!!!
   
  OCT 9, 2008: I FORGOT TO MENTION
  
  I forgot to mention!!! DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOU PASS IMMIGRATION AT THE HANGZHOU AIRPORT TO EAT!!! Before you pass immigration and in the main area of the airport where you check in there are a BUNCH of restaurants...cheaper ones where you get food at regular prices. BUT - once you pass immigration and go wait for your plane, there is only ONE restaurant and guess how much they charged us for a bowl of noodles? $70 RMB!!! WHAT?!?!?!?!?! I couldn't believe it! I even asked the lady "These prices are wrong right?" She said nope...but Alison and I were so hungry that we ordered anyway...so stupid...
  
  我忘了跟大家说。。。如果你去杭州的话请不等过关先去餐厅吃东西！！！ 你一到机场大堂那边有很多餐厅。。。他们的价钱是通常的价钱一样。。。可是你过了关在大门口吃只有一个选择。。。你猜一猜在这里吃一碗面是多少钱？70人民币！！！ 急死了我们！
  
  Anyway...
  
  Here are some photos of our bandroom cleaned up 我们终于干净的房间的几个照片。。。可是昨天去了band房之后才知道还没有做的那么好。。。都是跟以前差不多。。。就是organized比以前好很多。。。还有其他idea我们一起要想一想。。。:
  
  
  
  The most exciting part of our bandroom though...is that Ho had two OLD OLD OLD King Ly Chee show posters!!! 最兴奋的事是Ho找到了两张很舊的荔枝王演出的poster！！！ 你看！ 一张是我们第一次去内地巡演的poster。。。
  
  
  
  And finally...here are the photos from the Wuzhen part of my trip 终于我上载了我们在乌镇逛逛的照片:
  
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  OCT 8, 2008: BACK IN HK 回來了香港
  
  Yoooooooooooooooooo...back in Hong Kong!!! Pretty fun trip that Alison and I had...we went to Hangzhou for about 2 full days and then went on to Wuzhen for one night...終于回來了。。。這個旅行玩的不錯。。。我們去了杭州兩天然后去了烏鎮一個晚上。。。
  
  What can I say about Hangzhou? For the past few years I kept hearing that Hangzhou is easily one of the best places to visit in China (of course, I heard this from someone that is actually FROM Hangzhou! hahahaha...)...對杭州我可以說什么？這幾年我聽很多人說杭州是中國其中一個最漂亮的城市。。。當然最喜歡說這句子是從杭州來的人。。。哈哈哈。。。
  
  We noticed a few things。。。到了杭州我留意到了這幾個事情:
  
  1. The construction of their infrastructure is much better then most places in China! 杭州的建造和發展真的不錯！ 比很多其他內地大城市好很多！
  2. People are A LOT nicer then I thought they were going to be...the reason why I thought the people weren't going to be nice was because Hangzhou is so close to Shanghai and the last time Alison and I visited Shanghai the people there were SUPER rude...so we didn't know what to expect...我真的想不到這里的人會那么好和有禮貌。。。我去杭州以為那里的人會一點儿自大。。。为什么我这样想？因为我跟Alison几年前去了上海的时候见到了很多真的没有什么礼貌的上海人。。。服务？什么服务都没有！（当然这是几年前了。。。现在可能已经不同了！。。。所以如果你是一个上海人看这个网站哪对不起了！！！）
  3. My Mandarin was actually better then most Hangzhou and Wuzhen people we met! WHAT?!??! That was SOOOOOOOOOOOOO weird! 去了杭州和乌镇发觉了一个特奇怪的事情！我说普通话是比很多那边的人说的更好！很奇怪对不对！！！ 我的中文怎么可能比那边的人好？！？！ 反正就是很奇怪。。。
  4. Hangzhou is actually not that great...nice lake but the lake reminded me of the Summer Palace in Beijing...so if you've been to the Summer Palace, there's nothing special about Hangzhou's famous West Lake后来我觉得杭州真的没有什么特别。。。他们最出名的地方当然是西湖。。。可是如果你们去过北京的颐和园那杭州的西湖是跟那边一模一样。。。
  
  Wuzhen was a bit better for my taste...but there was NO one there when we visited! It was like a little ghost village on the water...totally weird...and kind of creepy at times! hahahahaha...乌镇是比杭州好看。。。我很喜欢这样的古城。。。去到乌镇然后才知道有些建筑是假的:-( 听到真不开心。。。还有我们是国庆节之后的礼拜到乌镇所以没什么人。。。特安静而且有点儿恐怖！哈哈哈哈。。。那么大的地方，那么有感觉的地方没有人只有我们两个人特奇怪。。。晚上这边真的特漂亮。。。我跟Alison以前去过周庄。。。我还觉得周庄是比乌镇漂亮很多。。。而且真很多。。。
  
  Anyway...while we were traveling from Hangzhou to Wuzhen I suddenly missed my Beijing brothers Paul and Li Yo so I quickly sent them SMS' and lucky for me they had time to reply and keep me company for the trip. Paul was in Guilin traveling with the band No Opinion that's touring China right now. Lucky guys :-( 反正我们从杭州去乌镇的时候突然很想我北京的兄弟Paul和李游所以我马上发了一个短信给他们。。。很幸运他们有空马上回答！ 哈哈哈哈。。。Paul当时是在桂林跟德国乐队巡演。。。特幸运他们可以内地巡演 :-(
  
  Anyway...back in HK...it's back to work (thankfully for only 3 days)...I think I'm going to the bandroom with Ho to see what they've changed there...can't wait to see it! I actually wanted to go there first when I got off the plane! hahahahaha...反正回来了香港。。。今天下班之后会跟Ho去band房。。。很期待看那里有什么进步！
  
  Before I left I hung out with our pal Joe from Mensheng and he told us that they're touring Southern China in December! I'm happy for them because touring will teach them A LOT about being in a band. Of course, I also felt bad because we SHOULD be and WERE going to be touring China in December. So again my feelings of anger and sadness came back when Joe told me about their good news...我去杭州之前我见到了我们好朋友一个香港乐队叫门生的吉他手Joe。。。他有个好稍息给我听。。。他的乐队十二月将会做一个小小的南方中国巡演！我真的对他的乐队特开心！巡演的时候一个乐队可以学很多东西!我对他开心的时候同时对我们荔枝王也不开心。。。因为十二月我们本来是去内地做一个特大的巡演。。。可惜了。。。anyway。。。
  
  Someday..
  
  我旅游的照片刚才上载了在我的facebook Photos from the Hangzhou part of the trip are up now：
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  I'll upload the Wuzhen part of my photos tomorrow...我明天上载乌镇的照片。。。
  
  OCT 4, 2008: MIKE'S, BRIAN'S BIRTHDAY, HANGZHOU
  
  Spent a great day yesterday with good friend's, girlfriend, and then more good friends. Yesterday morning I found my good friend Terence online on MSN so I figured that he was too sick to go to work. So I asked him if he wasn't sick enough to watch a movie! So we went out to go watch Eagle Eye (fun movie!) which turned out to be pretty good...not as good as Transformers (of course), but still pretty good!!! I liked it at least...
  
  Then we walked around some more taking photos because he's borrowing a friend's camera...then we both went over to Mike's restaurant to say happy birthday and hang out with our favorite Mike...Alison showed up a little later and then Alison and I went to go eat...
  
  When I came back we waited around for some more friends to show up to celebrate Mike and Brian's birthday. Jason, Ivan, Franco, Ho, Joe all showed up later and we started getting Mike drunk...hahahahaha...we waited like 3 hours for Brian but for some reason he wasn't picking up his phone all night. So we waited as much as we could for him but ended up surprising Mike with the cake and just celebrated his birthday. It was a FUN night hanging out with friends...I've got lots of photos that I'll hopefully upload soon!!!
  
  I wish everyday could be like that! :-)
  
  Okay...time go to to Hangzhou!!! Have a great few days everyone!

   

• OCT 3, 2008: FIXING UP BANDROOM...
  
  These past few days we've been fixing up our horrible bandroom...this is the room that when Shepherds the Weak come over all they do is complain about how ugly and disgusting it is. And I TOTALLY agree with them...there's just too much shit in our room and things aren't organized or set up properly. FINALLY these past few days we started redesigning the outside part of our bandroom. After about 2 days being there until late to fix it up...I'm happy to say that it looks SO MUCH better!!! There's still WAY MORE to do...but at least going back to the bandroom feels more and more comfortable. I'm usually the LAST person to go to our bandroom because I hate it so much. But now I look forward to going back there because outside of the room feels a lot more comfortable. It actually feels like a home!!! That's what all bandrooms should feel like...like someone could live there because you spend so much damn time there anyway!!!
  
  So the picture that's on our first page is just the door to the practice part of our room...Brian came up with the great idea to cover it in Unite Asia stickers (we printed so many of these) so instead of throwing these stickers away...we decided just to decorate our room with these stickers...
  
  Good times! :-)
  
  Tomorrow Hangzhou!!!
  
  這幾天我們有留在band房因為我們這個房間真的很難看。。。我們的好朋友香港樂隊shepherds the weak每次來我們的房間一定會投訴我們那么不干凈的房間。。。他們有說“你們應該讓我們去你們的房間幫你們做好..." 他們真的恨我們的房間。。。可是我同意他們的看法。。。我真的不喜歡我們的房間。。。

  Anyway...這幾天我們終于開始了再organize我們的房間。。。我現在可以通知大家。。。花了幾天之后真的可以說我們房間開始有點兒舒服的感覺。。。以前一點都不舒服。。。一個band房應該是跟一個家一樣那么舒服。。。我們從來不是這樣。。。可是這幾天我們真的盡量做的最好。。。還有很多東西需要安排。。。可是起碼現在我很期待上我們band房。。。以前我通常是最后的人上去因為太不舒服。。。現在非常舒服!!!
  
  明天組杭州！！！
   
  OCT 2, 2008: CAN'T GO TO MACAU?
  
  I just read online that Mainland residents are only "allowed" to travel to Macau one time every 3 months. When I read this the first thing I thought to myself is...when will our brothers and sisters in Mainland China be given more freedom to at least travel wherever they want? I cannot imagine what I would do if someone told me "Sorry - you can't travel to XXX." I would immediately go WHY?! You tell me why I can't travel wherever I want to travel!
  
  On Saturday this weekend Alison and I are going to Hangzhou and Suzhou. I'm SO excited to go because I've heard these places are beyond beautiful. But now I'm thinking what if the HK government said "Sorry you can't go". Oh my god - I'd kill someone! hahahahahahaha...
  
  我剛才在另外一個新聞的網站看到一個稍息。。。他們說現在每三個月內地的同胞之能去澳門一次。。。我一看這個稍息我真的覺得好奇怪。。。我自己想我們的內地兄弟姐妹什么時候可以享受多點自由。。。起碼可以享受流行的自由。。。如果有人跟我說我這個地方不能去那個地方不能去我一定會瘋了。。。
  
  這個禮拜六我跟Alison將會去杭州和蘇州。。。我很興奮因為我聽人說這兩個地方特漂亮。可是如果有人跟我說我不能去我會有什么感覺？反正我可以去。。。很期待這個流行。。。非常喜歡在內地去看別的地方。。。
  
  在蘇州我們會留在烏鎮這個地方。。。有人說是特漂亮而且也有人說這個地方太商業了。。。可是我們以前去過周莊。。。我們特喜歡了周莊這樣的地方所以應該會享受烏鎮。。。
  
  New Norma Jean song is awesome!!! 新NormaJean的歌特好聽！！！Check it out: http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=43781090
  
  OCT 1, 2008: 穆巴拉克开斋节EID MUBARAK
  
  Today is a very special day for Muslims all over the world! So I would like to say EID MUBARAK to everyone all over the world that I know and have made friends with...especially all my Muslim friends in Beijing, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Pakistan, and my lovely sisters in the UK!
  
  今天對回教人說是全年最興奮的一天!!! 今天我們會慶祝穆巴拉克开斋节! 會慶我一定想恭喜我們所有回教人的支持者和好朋友...在北京, 馬來西亞, 菲律賓, 印尼, 星加坡, 巴基斯坦, 和我的兩個在英國住的妹妹!!! :-)
  
  還有想慶祝所有中國朋友們國慶節好!!! :-)
  
  SEPT 29, 2008: SHOW LAST NIGHT
  
  I think the show that we (Start From Scratch Records) helped organize (just making it clear that we weren't the organizers - it was organized by the Warehouse we just helped find the bands) was probably one of the best shows we've ever helped in terms of quality of bands. We had altogether 4 bands/artists perform: Justice League (hip-hop), Attention to Piss, Audio Traffic, and Hardpack helped us out by getting on stage without even practicing to be the 4th band to play because one of the 4 bands we confirmed canceled last minute.

  Right from Justice League - we could tell that the quality and standard of tonight's musicians was going to be amazing. Justice League is an amazing local group of hip-hop dudes who are AMAZING...if you haven't heard them then go to their myspace to check it out: www.myspace.com/mastamic Masta Mic got on freestyle rapped and he was INSANE!!! So good...he just asked for people to give him any prop and he started rapping about that prop! CHI SIN!!! Masta Mic was such a nice dude...I kept apologizing about the turnout (there was seriously only like 40 people) but he kept saying not to worry! He got on stage and KILLED it...
  
  Attention to Piss came on and once again proved to the world that it doesn't matter how long you've been playing music, sometimes people who are good songwriters just ARE good songwriters regardless of how long they've been playing. They played only new songs last night and they're incredible...better then all their old stuff combined! They were so good...

  While Attention to Piss was playing all of a sudden Kevin of Hardpack asked if it was okay for them to get on stage since all of Hardpack's members were here anyway! So I asked Warehouse's Cathy and she said sure! So Hardpack got on stage and played 4 songs!!! Without any practice or discussion...that was amazing!!!
  
  Then came the kings of the night Audio Traffic...they really showed what a "professional" band should be like. They were tight, incredibly well rehearsed, super nice, and had a good time even though they were tired as hell and even though there was only like 40 people in the audience. Their drummer Ferdie even had to miss out his daughter's birthday to play this show! NOW THAT'S CALLED DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT.

  It was a great night of bands...too bad the show wasn't promoted well because it would've been a great show for the general public to attend to see just how great HK bands can be.

  After a terrible week last week where I realized a lot of things, it was nice to end the week with a good show watching REAL bands with REAL musicians who love and commit their lives and hearts to the music/band they play in.
  
  SEPT 25, 2008: TOUR CANCELLED 取消巡演
  
  对不起大家...我也不知道怎么样通知大家这个不好的稍息...
  
  我们需要取消我们十二月的巡演...原因是我们其中一个成员最近开始了新工作所以他突然不能请假...
  
  写这个稍息的时候真的很难受因为我自己等了很多年终于有这个机会上去内地巡演...我们八月底确定了这个巡演之后我每天真的特兴奋...我每天跟我们内地的经理 (Paul) 开始了很多计划...特开心的计划...突然什么都没有了...全部计划要取消...

  这几年我们从很多内地的城市收到不少的email. 他们很希望一天可以看到我们的表演...我真的以为终于有机会可以见面然后谈谈中国hardcore的发展. 反正现在希望你们会继续支持我们...我也很希望一天我们真的可以上去做一个特大的巡演...
  
  还有我们已经确定了机场演出...现在Paul需要通知他们我们的情况...我很窘迫...希望这机个场地的经理会继续支持我们...因为我还希望我们一天真的有机会上来...
  
  最辛苦是我觉得我浪费了我们的特好兄弟Paul的时间, 热情和努力...对不起my brother...
  
  I'm in an embarrassing position to announce to everyone that we have to cancel our upcoming December tour of China. One of our band members recently accepted a new job and is so no longer able to take those days off to tour. The most humiliating part is that we've already been announcing the confirmed dates and we've been receiving emails from our supporters throughout China who are so excited that we're finally coming up...especially since the last time we went up was 2000...Now we can't come up...
  
  We confirmed that we were going to tour in August and so everyday I would come up with awesome little ideas for this tour with our brother Paul (our China manager). We would come up with this and that...and now all of a sudden all of those plans are over. Paul now has the embarrassing task to inform these venues that we can't come up. I hope these venues aren't going to "blacklist" us or anything like that - I do hope someday we can come up.
  
  The worst feeling is that I feel like I've wasted my brother Paul's time, energy and passion. He's even more passionate about King Ly Chee and King Ly Chee's future then I am! He sees a future for us that few people see...
  
  Anyway...sorry Paul, and to everyone that was helping us with this tour...we hope someday we can actually do a real tour.
   

• SEPT 23, 2008: BEIJING HARDCORE BAND: Unregenerate Blood北京硬克乐队: 不复之血
  
  The only piece of news that you need to know right now is that our brothers in Beijing hardcore band Unregenerate Blood has put up their first official WEBSITE!!! CHECK IT OUT: http://ubhardcore.com/
  
  你们只需要看一个新闻...我们的特好朋友北京硬克乐队不复之血上载了他们的网站!!! http://ubhardcore.com/ 
  
  加油兄弟!!!
  
  SEPT 22, 2008: LEHMAN BROTHERS雷曼兄弟完全失败...
  
  I think this Lehman Brothers debacle/fiasco whatever you want to call it is a wake up call to all those people who just work, work, work, work, and do more work. These people spend hours upon hours at their office during the week, then on the weekends, all with the hopes and dreams that one day they can stop working and live off of all their hard work and retirement.

  But just like that, all these people who have worked thousands of hours at their meaningless jobs selling/buying meaningless things at banks like Lehman Brothers, etc., have had all their money, savings and retirements disappear just like that.

  For those of you who live your life solely around your job, office, and work...I hope this Lehman Brothers fiasco is a WAKE UP CALL for all of you! WAKE UP - life is not about making money, it should never be solely about making money. In the end of the day, all that money is going to disappear. And what memory will you have? Your only memory is that you stayed in your office for thousands of hours upon hours upon hours. While the rest of us have toured all over Asia playing music, meeting friends all over the world...
  
  THINK ABOUT IT!

  我觉得这个雷曼兄弟完全失败的情况应该可以wake up 很多人!!! 看到这个那么舊和大的银行公司可以这样失败还有突然所有钱都没有了应该可以让大家明白钱和追钱是完全没有意义的事情. 你看在这样的公司工作的人每天可以二十四小时工作. 为了什么 ？为了钱 ？为了一天可以退休? 可是如果突然你没有钱你会不会那么努力工作呢? 你那么努力在工作为了老的时候可以退休有什么意思呢 ？你老的时候真的可以做什么? 你还有能力出巡演吗 ？可是如果你们是跟这间公司的人一样突然什么钱都没有了 - 你会不会有后悔吗? 如果你这样每天工作做到天光然后突然什么都没有了, 你会有什么回忆? 可能只有一个回忆 - 每天在办公室睡觉, 工作, 做到笨蛋一样...
  
  我很希望这个情况可以让多人想一想对他们的生活什么东西是最重要的。 花多时间跟你们家人一起和你的爱人一起应该是更重要...如果多人反而会花时间追他们的梦想这个世界会不会再开心一点儿的地方吗 ？追钱真的有意思...一点点都没有.
  
  ANYWAY:
  
  There's an interesting little video about Straight Edge up here...actually, it's kinda lame but at least for those of you who don't know anything about Straight Edge can get some sort of idea about it...在网站我看到一个关于Straight Edge的短片...我自己觉得是一个很无聊的短片...可是如果你关于straight edge什么都不知道那你看这个短片有点儿意思...http://current.com/items/89031821_wasted_not_me
  
  Yesterday I saw a link to a punk/hardcore band called The Departed that features members of Fall Out Boy and Misery Signals. Interesting right? The vocals suck a big fat ASS!!! 昨天我看听到一个新乐队有Fall Out boy和Misery Signals 的成员. 我觉得特有意思...你可以听听 。。。主唱的声音特难听...http://www.myspace.com/thedepartedband
  
  Rise Against has uploaded a new song from their upcoming new album Rise Against上载了新歌...这是他们将会出新唱片的第一首歌: http://www.myspace.com/riseagainst

  SEPT 20, 2008: WAKING UP AT 3:30pm

  Dude...waking up at 3:30pm must be a sign of just how tired I get from work and all the extra stuff I do after school to make some more money to stay alive. It sucks...I slept the entire day away today...
  
  I'm fasting today so that's another reason why I just want to stay in bed...
  
  Anyway...our old friend Hala (ex-Qiu Hong guitar player) now lives in Beijing and she emailed me yesterday to ask if her husband's band The Falling can play with us when we arrive in Beijing on our tour! That's so cool that bands want to play with us on this tour!!! Hala is also very interesting because I've actually been friends with her WAY BEFORE Qiu Hong started...I remember her old band called Bra which I interviewed a long time ago fo rmy old zine etc...cool girl and I'm happy she's found happiness up in a great city like Beijing...我很舊的朋友Hala (以前是秋红的吉他手)昨天有email我问我他老公的乐队可不可以在我们巡演join我们北京站! 真的很幸福有这样的乐队那么有兴趣跟我们一起玩!
  
  Here are some cool links to new stuff:
  
  1. Comeback Kid DVD trailer!!!他们将会出的dvd!!! http://vimeo.com/1737737
  2. AC/DC new video for new song!!! SOOOO GOOD!!! 他们的新歌!!! 特好听...新唱片将会十月出的!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lermqfhhJx4 Their new album is coming out in October!!!
  3. Envy - my favorite Japanese hardcore band...is releasing a split CD with Thursday and at this link you can hear one of the songs from it 我最喜欢的日本hardcore乐队将会跟Thursday出一张两个乐队的CD...这是他们其中一首歌: http://www.punknews.org/bands/envy
  4. The Geeks - new song up from Korean hardcore legends!!! 他们有出一首新歌好像是一首Sex Pistols的cover歌! http://www.myspace.com/townhallhq

  SEPT 19, 2008: LONG WEEK!!!
  
  Oh my god...what an insanely long week! My work day starts at 7:15am every morning...and everyday this week I have had to do tutoring and teaching guitar after school. Then on Thursday (last night) we had the "back to school" night at our school so we were in school until 8:15pm...oh my god...I am frickin' exhausted right now dude...这个礼拜太累了...我每天七点十五分钟上班 。。。然后这个礼拜每天下班之后还有做辅导然后教吉他...昨天晚上我们还有这个很特别的节目在我们的学校...所以我们上班上到八点十五分钟...SUCKS...

  Anyway...I officially start my student teaching tomorrow. I'm excited about it but I'm also insanely tired right now so I just want to sleep. 今天我正式开始我的实际...我是很兴奋可是现在打这个稍息的时候累死了...
  
  My student teaching starts tomorrow which officially means starting tomorrow Sept 19 to Dec 19 I will not be getting a salary. :-( That's 3 months without money man...not excited about that...今天开始实际的意思也是我从今天开始到十二月十九号我没有薪水...这几个月一定非常幸苦了...香港没有钱的话一定可以死了....
  
  Okay...I HAVE to get to sleep...tomorrow's ANOTHER long night...we have a school party right after school gets out. I have a feeling I'm going to just want to go home...

   

• SEPT 17, 2008: PARALYMPICS
  
  Is it just me or are you also proud of all our Paralympic athletes!!! Our able-bodied HK athletes weren't able to win any gold medals - but our paralympic HK athletes have been winning gold medals left and right!!! How incredible is that!??!?! It's amazing...as a Hong Kong-er I am SUPER proud every time I see more results of them winning...
  
  I just hope when they return to HK that the government takes care of their needs by sponsoring training, maybe building more facilities for them for training and so they can focus on their obvious gift!!!
  
  我不知道你们有什么感觉...可是我每天看到香港的运动员在傷殘奧運再赢了金牌我真的对他们非常proud!!! 我就希望他们回来 的时候我们这边的政府会开始支持他们的training...可以帮他们建造多好的运动场为他们的好好的training...真的太明显他们这个能力是天生的!!! :-)
  
  CONGRATULATIONS!!!
  
  SEPT 16, 2008: DAMN! WHAT A DAY YESTERDAY!
  
  Within 24 hours of posting the message about us not having a bass player - we were able to get one phone call from someone who is interested in trying out to be our bass player AND Brian was able to find a friend who can at least help us play the China tour! WHAT THE HELL!??!?! Yes, there are times where there really is some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. 没过二十四小时我们已经收到了一个人有兴趣做我们新bass手的电话...还有Brian找到了一位好朋友会帮我们巡演!!! 真的有时候我们是几幸运的人...
  
  Pretty cool if you ask me! :-)
  
  Last night we went out to Ned Kelly's (that live jazz bar in Tsim Sha Tsui) and were able to relax to some awesome music...great musicians and they had a female jazz singer that was awesome too...the fat white guy wasn't there though! :-( He is the FUNNIEST dude!!! Great singer, great stage presence etc...昨天晚上我, Brian, 和阿文去了Ned Kelly's酒吧听他们jazz乐队...这个酒吧是在尖沙咀...当然对我来说是很方便因为我也住在尖沙咀! hahahahaha...可是他们这里的音乐非常好听...我各人很喜欢听jazz而且他们的音乐人真的很厉害!
  
  Yesterday I also found out that our Wuhan show is going to be organized by my OLD friend Wu Wei (singer of one of China's other great punk bands SMZB!!!). I haven't seen this guy in 5 or 6 years man!!! I can't wait to see him again! The last time we played in Wuhan he came to the airport to pick us up, and we stayed at his house for like 4 days! :-) Good old days...昨天才知道我们武汉的演出是我老友Wu Wei (生命之饼的主唱)安排的!!! oh my god...特久没见过他!!! 上次见过他应该是我们上次去武汉演出的时候 - 是在2000年!!! 我还记得我们上次的时候他有来机场接我们然后带我们去他家. 我们在家过了四天!!! :-) 真的对我们很热情也很好...很期待在见到我的老朋友!!! :-)
  
  Please check out his band SMZB's music! It's incredible!!! If you're a fan of Dropkick Murphy's style of punk rock then you will LOVE these guys!!! 请马上过去他乐队的网站!!! 如果你们喜欢Dropkick Murphy's那种的punkrock那你们一定会爱上他们的音乐!!! http://www.myspace.com/smzb 

  Also - check out this AMAZING LIVE video of Have Heart (Yes I know I've been posting way too many videos of this band...but they're really that damn good...)...还有我再有几个Have Heart的演出的短片给大家看!!! CLICK HERE: HARDCORE!!!

• SEPT 15, 2008: 对不起大家!!! SORRY EVERYONE!
  
  I bought a brand new computer last week with my friend Chai and when I brought it home I found all my old software files EXCEPT for Frontpage! Pok Kai! I only know how to use Frontpage to update our website...I have Dreamweaver and I tried my best to learn it last week but that program is SOOOOOOOOOO damn hard! Chi sin!!! SUPER HARD!!! 我上个礼拜买了新电脑. 我回家的时候找到我所有的软体除非我Frontpage的软体!!! 我只知道怎么用Frontpage update我们这个网站所以我上个礼拜不会update这个网站!!!! Sucks!!!
  
  So anyway...that's why I haven't been able to update the website all last week...
  
  Anyway...we have some good news to update and some bad news to update...反正, 我们今天有几个好稍息也有一个不好的稍息...
  
  GOOD NEWS好稍息:
  
  1. Paul has confirmed our Beijing show of the December China tour!!! The show will take place at MAO and is scheduled for Dec 23rd!!! WOOHOO!!! Paul已经确定了我们北京站的演出!!! 将二十三号在MAO演出!!!
  2. We are currently talking to some people who are interested in shooting a music video for King Ly Chee!!! We really hope this is all for real...we'll let you know more soon...我们昨天跟一般对我们有兴趣拍MV的人谈谈了...如果这个是真的话那我们更快会通知大家 !!! 当日我们需要我们所有支持者的帮助!!! :-)
  
  BAD NEWS不好的稍息:
  1. After 3 years of playing in King Ly Chee - Pong has decided to quit the band so he can focus on his work and stuff going on in his life. He has especially stuck with me during a very turbulent part of my life in 2006 where my true friends were weeded out. I'm going to miss this dude...but wish him the best of luck. 我们的兄弟Pong决定了不会继续跟我们玩. 他想再努力工作所以以后不会有时间给我们. 我们一定会很想他(我永远不会忘记在我人生特幸苦的时候他没有放弃我...当时才知道什么是真朋友)可是我们会尊重他这个决定.
  
  那我们有一个很大问题...我们十二月的巡演没有bass手...我们已经开始找几个朋友看看他们会不会帮我们玩这个巡演. 希望可以很快给大家好的稍息. 我们大家不想取消这个巡演 - 可能我自己要弹bass! hahahahaha...

  With Pong quitting that means we don't have a bass player for the December China tour! :-( But we have asked a few people to see if they can help us...(yes, of course we asked my pal Glenn! :-) But he's traveling to Canada during the Christmas break with his lovely girlfriend...).
  
  HEY - 你们买了Hatebreed的DVD没有了? 特好看!!! 我昨天跟Brian在我家里看了一半 DVD...非常好看也不太贵! 值得买...Yo - have you guys bought the new Hatebreed DVD? It's frickin' amazing! I watched it yesterday at my house with Brian and it was awesome...not too pricey and totally worth it!
  
  SEPT 8, 2008: BACK TO THE OLD SITE再用舊的网站...
  
  So as you can see...I decided to put the old site back up...this site is actually a lot easier for me to update and I can have a lot more fun by actually posting photos etc directly to this news page...so I hope you guys don't mind that I put this back up...
  
  Yesterday I was walking with Alison in TST and I bumped into our pal Rob from the Netherlands! I haven't seen this guy in a LONG time and it's so funny that we were both wearing Terror t-shirts! hahahaha...such a small little world...
  
  Okay - back to work today...wonderful...NOT...I hope you all voted yesterday!!!
  
  ALSO - just got news that we are organizing a show for my favorite China punk band Recycle in Hong Kong!!! The show will be held on Nov 1 and we'll post up more info soon!!
  
  Check them out on this site: www.myspace.com/recyclebeijing

  We've confirmed our first two shows of our December tour of China!!! WOOHOO!!! CAN'T WAIT!!!
  
  大家看到我们再用了我们舊的网站...这个网站是比较方便所以我决定了再用这个...
  
  昨天我逛逛的时候撞到我们好朋友Rob! 很久没见过他! 很搞笑因为我们两个穿着Terror的t-shirt! :-) Hey...希望大家昨天去了投票!!!
  
  刚才收到新的稍息!!! 我最喜欢内地的punk乐队会在十一月一号在香港演出!!! 是我们安排的!!! 特开心可以在看到他们!!! :-) 关于这个演出的稍息尽快会通知大家!!!  快点过去他们的网站听听!!! www.myspace.com/recyclebeijing
  
  我们已经确定了我们十二月内地巡演的第一二站!!! 特兴奋了!!! 上次去武汉演出是零零年的时候!!! :-) 长沙我们从来没去过!!! 特期待那边观众的反应!!!

   

• SEPT 7, 2008: THE LOVESONG...greatest HK band...
  
  Just got home from watching The Lovesong...easily for me, the best bands in Hong Kong...everything about this band always puts a smile on my face. From their amazing bass lines, to the great twin-guitar chemsitry, their new drummer Ding is fitting in pretty well and I can't wait to hear what stuff he comes up with on brand new songs. The best part about this band is that each show they give it 150%...by the end of each show you can see that all their members have soaked through their t-shirts, got scratches on their arms...basically, you know when watching these guys that they play music with their whole beings and hearts thrown into it...they don't care about looking "cool" or playing the "trendy" new style of music or whatever...this is music they love and give it 150%. They were simply phenomenal last night as they always are...
  
  I've had an awesome weekend so far!!! Friday afterschool I went with my colleagues to the South China Athletic Association in Causeway Bay and became a member! $100 for an entire year to be a member! After becoming a member we immediately went bowling at the club for 3 hours!!! It was so much fun...then that night we went to eat at an awesome Indian restaurant in Chung King Mansions, and then after that we went to Aqua for drinks...great night...
  
  Saturday I hung out with Alison all day walking around...and then, as mentioned above, I watched The Lovesong at the Fringe Club...great night...
  
  Today I think we're going biking again but I'm not sure...will let you know later...
  
  At some point today I think I'm going to put up our old website...so look out for that...
  
  Later today I'm going to go vote!!! As a Hong Kong citizen, this is my social responsibility to put in a vote and show the HK/Chinese government that people in HK cherish this opportunity we have to choose who leads us in this city. I have many friends who live in China who would love to have this opportunity and hope to have it one day. I hope all of you will go place your votes - I'm not going to tell you who I'm voting for or ask you to vote for a particular person because this is YOUR vote and you need to think for YOURSELF which candidate (if any) really represents you and your hopes and dreams. GO VOTE!!!!
  
  刚才看完了我最爱的香港乐队The Lovesong...我每次看这个乐队真的会觉得自己很开心也很舒服...他们的音乐和表演真的我让我觉得香港乐队真的有希望...我很期待他们的心唱片可是我更期待他们次表演...他们演的时候我真的觉得香港所有音乐人姚来看 - 可以感受他们的音乐很态度...
  
  这个周末真的玩的很开心. 星期五下班之后去了铜锣湾的南华会如会员!!! 他们会员费就是$100/一年!!! 特便宜! 然后我们直接去滚球!!! 玩的差不多三个小时!!! 然后带我同事去尖沙咀吃印度餐...然后去一个很漂亮的酒吧叫Aqua...
  
  星期六我陪了我女朋友Alison然后晚上去了中环享受The Lovesong的演唱...good times!!! :-)
  
  今天我会去投票!!! 我是香港市民, 投票是我责任!!! 我有很多内地的兄弟真的觉得我们应该好好的珍惜这个人权!!! 可是我也认识一点儿香港人对投票没什么感觉...希望大家能明白如果我们多人会投票那对内地的朋友们很有什么意思. 如果我们可以给北京政府看到我们怎么样珍惜投票这个人权, 然后给他们看我们所有香港人一定会继续坚持投票, 那一天内地也有这样的希望!!!
  
  请去投票!!! 我一定不会跟你们说我选那一个人...我也不会跟你们说你们应该选哪一个人...这是你的权利...你们就应该一个人会代表你的声音...就是需要你们自己好好的想想那一个选择是适合你...
  
  SEPT 5, 2008: TIRED
  
  LATE ADDITION: now this is a band with something to say! how hardcore is this? click here
  
  Yo...so our boys in Shepherds the Weak have uploaded a new interview! So go check it out on this link...大家可以过去这个link看我们香港兄弟Shepherds the Weak的新访问: click here
  
  Yesterday I read an interview with, like KLC, the only original member of Shai Hulud Matt Fox! Interesting interview...of course, I share many of the same comments that he shared about member changes and going through this and that...good interview...昨天我看了Shai Hulud的新访问...是跟他们的最后一个original成员(在荔枝王这也是我的位子! hahahaha...). 他所说的对我来说真有意思...可以过去看看...click here
  
  One of my favorite melodic hardcore bands Crime in Stereo has their WHOLE show uploaded online...they've got an awesome drummer and great vocalist...but it's their songs especially on the newest album that are just amazing - and they sound great live...check it out...我其中最喜欢的melodic hardcore乐队叫Crime in Stereo刚才上载了他们演出的录影片...他们的歌真的非常好听可是在LIVE的时候他们的歌是比较好听: click here
  
  So tired right now dude...10 something PM on Thursday night and just had a long ass day with work, then tutoring a first grader, then teaching guitar to an eigth grader afterwards...didn't get home til late and I'm EXHAUSTED...the only thing exciting about this weekend? The Lovesong is playing!!! Woohoo...can't wait to watch these bastards...haven't seen them in forever - and still haven't seen them with their new drummer...
  
  SEPT 3, 2008: VIDEOS ON VIDEOS PAGE
  
  So I put the videos on our videos page...go there to check them out...我放了我们新的短片在我们的VIDEOS页...
  
  Yesterday I got an email from someone named Penny who checks out website - she says she liked the old one better because it was easier to view all the links etc...I don't know how you all feel but maybe we'll put up the old site again - it was definitely much easier to upload then this one is for me. We'll see...昨天收到一位女人的email...她说她喜欢我们以前的网站...她说以前的网站是比较容易找到我们的歌词和其他links...我不知道觉得怎么样可是我也想过在放我们以前的网站...对我来说以前的网站是比较容易上载东西...可以想一想...
  
  SEPT 2, 2008: RAMADAAN MUBARAK!
  
  Yo...for those of you who are Muslim reading this website - RAMADAAN MUBARAK!!! That's right...today starts the month of fasting for Muslims all over the world. Today's sunrise is at 4:45am man!!! Oh my god...this is going to be a LONG day of fasting...in our religion - when we fast we can't drink either. So it makes it extra tough...
  
  从今天开始我们回教人有一个月我们每天日出到日落不能吃东西和喝东西...一共是三十天这样做...今天的日出的时间是四点四十五分钟!!! 太早了!!! 今天应该会很幸苦的第一天！！ 哈哈哈...
  
  SEPT 1, 2008: NEW LIVE KLC VIDEOS...DEC TOUR CHINA!!!
  
  我刚才上载了三个新荔枝王演出的短片...这三个短片是在菲律宾演出的...我昨天剪片的时候真的非常开心因为我再可以感受那么理想一个演出的气氛... 我不知道我们下个演出是在哪一个城市, 可是那个城市的观众一定会有点儿压力!!! hahahahahahaha...菲律宾的观众对我们荔枝王太热情了!!! :-) Yo...so yesterday I finally edited 3 videos from our recent show in the Philippines! Watching and editing these videos I of course was totally overwhelmed with awesome memories of a great show...I have no idea where our next show is going to be, but wherever the show is, the Laguna hardcore kids are a tough act to follow! :-) Laguna definitely brought the passion and support to a whole new level...A level that we haven't seen in some time for that matter.
  
  Anyway, enjoy the videos!!!
  
  PROMISE click here
  
  YOU WILL GET THROUGH click here
  
  UNITE ASIA click here
  
  对了..你们看到我们特开心的稍息!!! 我们十二月将会去内地巡演!!! 对我来说 - 等了太久了!!! 内地是我们的世界!!! 我们应该是每年去内地巡演...上次去内地巡演是2008年了!!! 我们等了八年才再去内地巡演 - 你们觉得是不是太过分了? hahahaha...反正我们终于将会去巡演!!! 我们这次巡演会去很多新的地方...很期待看到那边对我们的反应!!! 我们应该将会去一个十天的巡演...会玩起码七八场演出!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!! 太兴奋了!!! 内地的支持者我很期待见到大家!!! 希望你们会看到我们的时候一起来唱歌, 一起来MOSH, 一起来stagedive, 一起来跟我们吃饭聊天儿!!! 请记住我们是一个hardcore乐队, 我们很欢迎你们上台跟我们一起唱, 你们随便可以拿我的mic!!! 一定没有问题!!! 真的不知道应该有什么期望!!! 我们太久了没有去一个巡演...
  
  放心我们很快将会上载再多点儿的稍息...
  
  As you can see from our front page - we are FINALLY touring the Mainland again! The last time we went up to tour was 8 years ago in 2000! That is just unforgivable if you ask me...we are a Chinese hardcore band but the last time we toured the rest of China was 8 years ago...ridiculous! We should be touring there once every year. Anyway, I CANNOT WAIT TO GO BACK UP AND SEE ALL OUR SUPPORTERS UP THERE!!! It'll be a 10 day tour playing up to 8 shows...can't wait...it'll be FREEZING UP THERE THEN!!! hahahaha...
  
  AUG 28, 2008: UNITED NATIONS...featuring Glassjaw and Thursday members...
  
  Yo...this band called United Nations that features the singer of Thursday as well as members of Converge and Glassjaw is going to be AWESOME!!! They've already uploaded their entire new album on myspace 现在有个新乐队有Thursday, Glassjaw和Converge几个成员. 这个乐队叫United Nations...他们已经上载了他们全新唱片在他们的myspace到: click here
  
  Good band...
  
  AUG 26, 2008: BETRAYED的纪录影片DOCUMENTARY VIDEO
  
  Good band called Betrayed (featuring members of Champion and others...) put up a documentary thing about themselves...the band is not together anymore...but a pretty cool little video...learn more about hardcore through these little things...
  
  Betrayed是一个乐队从另外一个很有名hardcore乐队叫Champion开始的...Champion的吉他手开始了Betrayed因为他很想唱歌...反正这两个乐队也没有了...可是有一个网站上载了一个短的纪录影片关于Betrayed...
  
  click here
  
  I do think it's weird that hardcore bands in the US only play for like 3 or 4 years and then end...of course, hardcore bands in the US are not like us in Asia...in Asia there's no way we can quit our jobs and committ to touring for months and months like they do in the US. In the US bands quit jobs, tour for months and months, come back home and record a new album, and then tour again for months and months...of course this must be a tiring and crazy type of life to lead. For us in Asia, we all have dayjobs to pay the bills, and hopefully allow us to make enough money to do short tours around Asia, maybe record, and then do some more short tours. Not many Asians band do this...we're one of the few that spend our own money and continue to play here and there, here and there...可是我要说...我觉得在美国每次看到多一个hardcore乐队放弃, 我觉得是很奇怪也很失败的...因为他们的歌词通常是关于改变...改变自己的生活和生命...可是如果你们这样的歌词然后给生命的压力让你放弃 - 真的不是一个好的东西 - 还是代表一个不太好的态度. 当然在美国做一个乐队跟亚洲做一个真的太不同的. 在美国为了他们的乐队全队的成员一定会放弃他们的工作. 他们每年会去几个月再几个月的tour. 然后回家再录音, 然后再tour...这样的生命当然会有很多压力因为你不知道明天够不够钱付大家的费用. 在亚洲我们大家一定有工作...为了tour大家会试储蓄一点儿钱...tour当然没有美国乐队那么长时间 - 可惜了, 如果可以跟他们一样去几个月的tour一定会对全亚洲音乐的情况特有用. 刚写的时候我有留意没有那么的多亚洲的乐队会这样tour - 就是我们这样的乐队, 我们九年后还在付出自己的钱买机票为去tour...
  
  But my point still is - I wish more of these bands in the US would stay together for a longer period of time. I think if they stuck around for a long period of time, their would be a lot more sincerity in those lyrics about "change" that they sing about...it just seems like their message is lost once they decide to end their band.
  
  可是我的意思是...我还觉得那么多美国乐队太早玩完他们的乐队...有很多乐队的歌词特有意思...如果在坚持他们的乐队可以带他们的乐队更有意思...
  
  所以我觉得Sick of it All这样的乐队是我自己的英雄...他们已经玩了二十多年的时间...还在坚持...还没有放弃这个文化, 这个音乐...
  
  就是我的意见...
  
  ANYWAY!!!
  
  Check out the photos from that hardcore/metalcore show last week in Beijing that our bro Paul organized!!! awesome pics!!! 大家过去这个网站看上个礼拜在北京hardcore/metalcore的演出! 这个是我们兄弟Paul安排的演出:
  click here
  
  还有 more photos here! click here
  
  AUG 26, 2008: VERSE...HAVE HEART IN KOREA
  
  My brother Ki in the Korean hardcore band called The Geeks told me yesterday on MSN that Have Heart is touring Korea next month! That's awesome...I don't know if Have Heart would be a band that would garner much interest in Hong Kong...but that would be an awesome band to watch in a setting where kids go crazy singing along...
  
  I don't know if I've mentioned Verse before...but that is a GREAT hardcore band...great lyrics...go check them out if you haven't already!!! click here
  
  我韩国兄弟Ki(韩国hardcore乐队The Geeks的主唱)昨天跟我说下个月Have Heart将会去韩国演出!!! 韩国真的很幸运! :-) 可是我不知道如果他们来香港的话几个人会去看...这个hardcore风格我觉得没有那么多人喜欢...anyway...看Have Heart在一个很热情的环境一定是最理想的...
  
  Anyway...我不知道我有没有介绍一个hardcore乐队叫Verse...可是大家应该要试他们的音乐!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!!! 歌词特有意思...click here
  
  内地的朋友们...这几天我们应该会通知大家一个很好的稍息! :-) 等多几天!
  
  Last thing...check out this DVD trailer for an awesome RIP band called Guns Up! 你们可以过去这个网站看一个hardcore乐队叫Guns Up的新DVD...THIS IS A HARDCORE SHOW!!! 这个是一个真正的HARDCORE演出...click here
  
  AUG 25, 2008: CONGRATULATIONS CHINA!!! 恭喜我们全中国的兄弟姐妹!!!
  
  Oh my god...what a beautiful closing ceremony!!! I'm not Chinese but I have lived in China my whole life...while watching this I couldn't help but feel moved by the whole thing...7 years in the making!!! What a wonderful event it has been...both the opening ceremony and the closing ceremony has shown the world the power of Chinese music and arts! I seriously don't know how nervous and how much pressure London has! hahahahahaha...
  
  真的很感动!!! 看完昨天晚上的closing真的很激动和感动...这全部奥运会真的可以给全地球看中国的新时代...看完奥运会的opening和closing真的代表到中国的音乐和艺术的力量和美丽...虽然我不是一位中国人, 可是我全人生是在中国所以我跟我所有中国朋友们一样为了中国很proud!!! 恭喜大家!!!
  
  我觉得伦敦的奥运会一定会很紧张! hahahahaa...一定很有压力!!! 中国做到真的太完美! :-)
  
  AUG 23, 2008: HARDCORE and METALCORE SHOW in BEIJING
  
  So last night was the super exciting HARDCORE and METALCORE show in Beijing that my brother Paul organized!!! I forgot that it was yesterday!!! Then I got an SMS from Li Yo of the Beijing hardcore band Unregenreate Blood telling me that he was on his way to MAO to play the show! I totally forgot...
  
  Hopefully all of you China's hardcore kids showed everyone the power of hardcore at the show!!! :-) Paul sent me an MSN message after the show to tell me that almost everyone was wearing King Ly Chee shirts or hats in the pit!!! That's fucking AWESOME!!! I think we might be coming up to play in December - but have to wait for our band members to think about it. Hopefully it'll happen!
  
  昨天晚上在北京有一个很兴奋的演出: 是hardcore和metalcore的演出...我的兄弟Huang Jia Si安排的...我完全忘了昨天是这个演出!!! :-( 我昨天收到我的兄弟李游(不复之血的主唱) - 他跟我说他刚才下班然后打车过去MAO准备这个演出.
  
  我希望你们北京和内地hardcore的哥们儿玩的非常开心...在moshpit里面你们有给别人看我们hardcore人的力量和热情!!! :-) Huang Jia Si在MSN跟我说在moshpit里面差不多每一个人是穿我们荔枝王的衣服或者帽子!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COOL!!!! 谢谢大家的支持! :-)
  
  我们可能十二月再上来演出...还没有决定...还等我们其他成员看看...希望可以再看到我们内地兄弟的支持者!!!
  
  AUG 22, 2008: NEW METALLICA SONG - SUCKS
  
  Wow...2 weeks and 2 typhoon number 8's in Hong Kong! Pretty crazy...right now it's about 11am here in Hong Kong and they said the typhoon will be here later this afternoon. They think it might be a direct hit! That's crazy...
  
  But I'm not going to waste my time talking about that...
  
  I'm here to talk about the horrible song that Metallica just posted on their website and myspace. This song is called "The Day That Never Came" or something like that. Go listen to it - I think you'll agree with me that it just sounds like they're jamming different riffs! It doesn't feel like a song - it just sounds like they put like 20 guitar riffs into a song and it just goes on and on and on and on and on...it's a terrible song...and this is their song from their new album that they've posted on their myspace. The other song is called "Cyanide" which is a new song that they played LIVE recently.
  
  Once again, I stand by what I said last time - Lars is one of the worst drummers for sure. He sucks even more on this song...
  
  Why do I sound so angry? Because these guys were one of my favorite bands when I was growing up - why have they totally lost their magic?!?!??!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! It's so sad to me that they can't write good songs anymore...
  
  想不到两个礼拜的时间里我们在香港已经有两个很大的大风! 现在是星期五的十一点钟天文报道说今天下午这个大风会直接到香港! 可能是一个很夸张的情况...等一下可以说...
  
  可是我不想浪费时间说这个题目...我是想说Metallica新上载的歌. 如果你上去他们的myspace你可以听到最新歌叫The Day That Never Came...我觉得这首歌是特难听. 我觉得这首歌就是特多吉他riff放在一起...没有一首歌的感觉...好像是一个大jam! 怎么可以这样啊...
  
  可是我还在觉得他们的鼓手sucks!!! 你听这首歌的时候你可以再留意他的鼓...terrible...
  
  如果你想感觉到失望...那你们可以去他们的myspace听他们这首特难听的歌 Prepare to be disappointed here: click here
  
  为什么我有那么的大的反应? 因为我小的时候真的很爱这个乐队...他们为什么现在不会写一首好听的歌呢? 很奇怪... AUG 20, 2008: METALLICA IN THE STUDIO VIDEOS
  
  Hey...I don't know if you're excited about the new Metallica album - I'm not at all. They've sucked from their "black" album on...I don't even like the "black" album. But everything after the "black" album is the worst shit I've ever heard in terms of so-called "metal". Anyway...you can go to youtube and start watching videos of the Metallica in the studio practicing, writing and recording their new songs. None of it sounds good to me...but maybe it'll be better when the CD comes out. 我不知道你们对metallica的新唱片有没有兴趣...（可是我觉得他们从"Black"唱片开始真的特差...)...可是你们可以现在去 youtube.com看他们在录音室里排练, 做歌， 和录音...我看了几个短片觉得他们这张唱片又是一个很大的失望...
  
  Also, after watching all these videos, I've realized how horrible of a musician Lars Ulrich is. I never thought he was a good drummer...but I always thought that at least he had good ideas. But if you watch these videos, you can see that all his ideas are so stupid! hahahahahaha...Every time he wants to try something, it just sounds like SHIT!!! hahahahahahaha...还有...看完Metallica几个短片我发现了他们的鼓手Lars(我十几年前第一次听到他的鼓到现在听他打鼓, 我还是觉得他是一个特没有意思的鼓手)全部注意是非常难听! hahahahaha...你自己看他们这个录音室的短片然后你自己可以听到他一给一个注意, 每次是难听! hahahahaha...你自己看吧! See for yourself:
  
  click here
  
  AUG 19, 2008: WHAT UP
  
  Met the new kids yesterday!!! Woohoo!!! Nothing more exciting then meeting the children that I'm going to get to know super well all year!!! I love these first few days where you don't know anything about each other...you don't know what the kids like or dislike, you don't know what their interests are, what their backgrounds are...but by the end of the year - you can ask me these questions again and I'll be able to give you SUPER in-depth answers to these questions about EACH of these children! :-) It's such a wonderful situation...a classroom is just awesome - especially a classroom full of young children who just love to come to school and make you love your job coming to school everyday with these excited little people around! :-)
  
  Can't wait for Wednesday! That is their official first day of school! :-)
  
  AUG 18, 2008: SAI KUNG
  
  Went to Sai Kung yesterday...that is one beautiful part of HK for sure...it was packed yesterday of course because the weather was so nice...it felt like the entire city was also visiting Sai Kung! hahahaha...I got there too late and so Alison wasn't in any mood to get on those little Sampans to travel different islands. I think I'll go do this visit later on in the week by myself and do it during the week instead of the weekend. We walked around Sai Kung just checking out the shops, the small cafes, dessert places, etc. We ended up leaving around 7 but so was all of Sai Kung. So we ended up having to wait for FOREVER to finally get on the bus...and then stuck in traffic forever. I finally got back home at almost 9pm! Anyone that lives in HK knows that that is totally CRAZY to take almost 2 hours to get home! That's just because everyone was in Sai Kung...
  
  昨天我跟我女朋友Alison去了西贡 (当然是香港的西贡! hahahaha...)...当然昨天好像全市也跟我们去西贡因为天气特好...我们有点儿太迟到西贡所以我们没有时间做三班去其他岛看看! 可惜了...我一定自己会那点儿时间自己再来西贡然后租这个三班再出去看...
  
  等一下...我刚才在电视看着奥运会突然有播香港的歌手!!! 特难听!!! OH MY GOD!!!...
  
  Anyway...Dude - China is fucking kicking ASS at the Olympics! :-) Pretty damn amazing!!! 中国队太厉害了!!! 已经拿了超过三十个金牌!!! 太厉害了...我觉得美国对一定追不到那么多金牌! hahahaha...amazing...
  
  我十月头有差不多十天的假期...我现在打算坐火车上去北京...可能是我自己一个人上去...我现在在中国开始认识了很多不同地方的朋友们. 很多我认识因为hardcore! :-) hardcore这个世界真的可以建立很多好朋友...所以我可能坐火车的时候可以找这般朋友们招呼我! hahahaha...可是我觉得我一定要拿这样的机会在学习普通话...如果我自己去一定需要逼我自己说多点儿普通话...还没决定...就是想...October I've got about a week off from school and I'm currently planning just getting on a train by myself and traveling up to Beijing. I know a lot of people in different parts of China and maybe they'll help me out! The funny thing is that all these dudes I've gotten to know through hardcore! :-) I love that this little society is ready to help each other at a drop of a hat! haven't decided yet though...that is the plan...
  
  我们的兄弟Paul现在开始了一个荔枝王的活动!!! 我自己非常期待这个活动!!! :-) 还需要跟其他成员谈谈...如果更快confirm，我一定会通知大家!!! :-) 跟我一起来享受这个活动!!! :-)
  
  AUG 17, 2008: NEW BOOK: A Long Way Home...新书: 長路漫漫：非洲少年兵回憶錄
  
  In my days lately living in HK, I've become overwhelmed with boredom. The only good thing about all this boredom here is that I have been able to read A LOT - because during all my boredom that is the ONLY thing that gets me excited. Two days ago I bought the book mentioned above...it's about a child who becomes a soldier fighting in Sierre Leone through all it's tragic and most disgustting circumstances. While you're reading you can't imagine that this actually could've happened! Nor do you think this could actually be witnessed by a child. It's a very very striking book...another one that I've picked up lately that I can't put down...
  
  Read more about the book and the author here:click here
  
  我最近在香港觉得这个城市是太无聊...无聊的时候只有一个好的事情...我突然有很多时间可以看书...我那么无聊的时候只有这个动作会让我很兴奋...anyway...我前天买了一本书叫 "長路漫漫：非洲少年兵回憶錄". 这本书是说一个小朋友在Sierre Leone这个国家怎么过生活...是在他们一个很黑的时候...当时有很多小朋友给人逼入他们军队...这个军队会去每一个村打人， 杀人, 强奸, 偷东西...当然要记住他们就是小朋友...这个军队会逼这个小朋友吃毒品...可能是这个毒品会影响他们的心...小朋友怎么可以那么冷血?!?!?!
  
  看这本书的时候想不到这样的人存在...你看得时候觉得这全部情况应该是假的...可是不是, 是真的...写这本书的人是其中一位小朋友逼人进入他们的军队...这个人现在住在美国...
  
  可以去这个网站看到点关于这本书: click here
  
  I think lately I've just been rethinking why I care about hardcore so much...and these types of books that I've been reading lately has really invigorated my feelings towards hardcore. It's not so much about the music, or the breakdowns, or the singalongs, it's that through this type of music I feel like I'm trying my best to give back to society. I don't think I'll ever succeed in the ways that these authors of these books have and are giving back to the world...but at least I know that through music that I'm trying my best. Hardcore to me will always be about giving - giving back to the world we live in...not just constantly taking and taking from it. Think about that the next time you go off to work - is what you do at all helping someone in this world? Or is it just another way for people who already have all the world's wealth, gain more wealth?
  
  这几个月我有再想我为什么对hardcore那么热情...看这样的书我会记得...还有看这样的书会再鼓励我为hardcore奋斗...hardcore不是就是关于音乐, breakdowns, singalongs...对我来说hardcore是一个方法在社会服务...用音乐和歌词我觉得我尽量帮社会服务...当然我一定没有这几本书的作者那么强的影响...还有我知道为社会服务不会只用音乐!!! 一定需要自己出去动...
  
  Hardcore对我来说永远是关心他人...尽量给社会你所有空间的时候...当然不是那么简单...我们那么有压力的人生谁有空间? 可是只需要试...下次你上班的时候你可以问你自己, 你这个工作室帮助谁? 通常你的工作是帮助已经有钱人再有点钱. 这样说 - 你的工作有什么意思?
  
  关于metal...regarding metal:
  
  这几个月对上载了新音乐 The following bands have uploaded new music:
  Bleeding Through: click here
  Unearth: click here
  See You Next Tuesday: click here
  
  其他网站说了 Websites have announced: Lamb of God已经开始了路新唱片...Lamb of God has started recording their new album....
  
  AUG 15, 2008: YESTERDAY WAS PAKISTAN'S INDEPENDENCE DAY
  
  Dude...I totally forgot yesterday was Pakistan's Independence Day! I thought it was today! To make things worse, all day yesterday I was wearing a Beijing t-shirt! DOH!!! Quite embarassing...
  
  Anyway, CONGRATULATIONS PAKISTAN!!! My country has been around for 61 years fighting and struggling...I don't think we've had a single decade of peace...it has always been wars, fighting, infighting...
  
  This is a country that once there actually is a stable period, and education and work is available to EVERYONE, I'm SURE extremism of any sort will be wiped out forever. We've always had problems with our "leaders" as well...even now...
  
  Richie of STW's favorite metalcore band August Burns Red has posted a new video up. This type of band - the only thing I ever want to watch is the drummer. The vocalist is like non-existent because the music is already so full of interesting things that I don't CARE that he's singing or what he's singing about. In this video - it's just them playing live (which is so boring) and there are some close shots of the drummer - but I wish it was JUST of the drummer! hahahahahaha...this dude is so awesome...
  click here
  
  昨天是我国家巴基斯坦的獨立紀念日!!! 我自己忘了!!! 我以为是今天...真可惜了!!! 还有你知道我昨天穿什么衣服呢? 我全日穿了"北京"的t-shirt!!! 糟糕!!! 在我国家的独立纪念日我有穿中国的t-shirt!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! 哈哈哈哈哈...真的很好笑!
  
  反正我想恭喜我的国家...独立了六十一年...可是应该没有一个时代我们享受过和平...我们不停有战争, 有跟自己人打, 所以很有贫穷...我觉得如果一天我们可以给每一个巴基斯坦市民教育和帮他们找工作, 那我们一天应该没有什么恐怖分子的东西...我们为什么现在有这样的东西? 因为很多很穹巴基斯坦人什么都没有...他们没有学校, 没有工作, 所以他们会参加这样很激动的恐怖分子的学校和工作...当然不是全部国家!!! 请你不误会我的意思...
  
  Anyway...我好朋友STW的Richie很喜欢一个metalcore乐队叫August Burns REd. 他们刚才上载了他们新video...这样的乐队他们最有趣的成员是他们的鼓手! hahahahaha...我不理他们主唱...我也不里他唱什么! hahahahaha...最重要是他们的鼓手...这个video我只想看他们的鼓手! 如果全video就是拍他就是比较好看! hahahaha...他打得非常厉害! click here
  
  AUG 14, 2008: GIVING...
  
  I just read that the tour that would make me and Pong go crazy is going on in October in Canada...the tour is Comeback Kid with Bane with Misery Signals and with Shai Hulud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT?!??!?!?!?!??!?!??!! Holy shit...that is one fucking amazing tour! You bastards in the West are so lucky...I'm sure every hardcore kid will be at these shows...
  
  刚才收到休息今年的十月在加拿大有一个很牛B的tour!!! 有Comeback Kid和Bane (这两对已经这个时代其中几个最大的hardcore乐队)跟Misery Signals和Shai Hulud!!! DAMN!!! 如果我跟Pong可以看这个tour我们一定会非常开心!!! damn...西方人真的很幸运...
  
  我不知道你们有没有看我昨天上载的休息关于那本书...可是我看这本书开心很想我们以前的荔枝王...我们以前荔枝王会做很多charity的活动和动作. 以前我们的alex有安排很多charity的演出, 我也有安排很多charity的演出...
  
  我们现在几年没有做过这样的东西...对我来说hardcore还是关心他人的文化...我们这几年就是关心我们自己 :-( sucks. 我们这个态度一定要改变...从我开始...我一定会再开始找我以前在重庆大厦的会...在哪儿我以前有教重庆大厦的很穹的小朋友怎么弹吉他...希望我们其他人可以再想想hardcore的意义...
  
  关于这个奥运开场的节目...我真的不开心...怎么可能这样做? 什么是漂亮什么不是漂亮? 应该唱歌的小孩就是一个七岁的小孩...她从现在之后一定会觉得这个世界就觉得外面好看的人是最值得...sucks! 一定是给她唱歌! poor girl...我对这个小朋友真的觉得是一个很可惜的事...
  
  AUG 13, 2008: BOOKS ABOUT GIVING 看一本关于良心的书...
  
  These past few days I've been reading a wonderful book about an American ex-mountain climber who because of a failed attempt to climb the world's second largest mountain K2 in Pakistan, stumbled onto his real life mission of building schools in the poorest regions of Pakistan. He built schools in the most remote villages where the government of Pakistan was unable to reach to provide any type of support to these villages. These villages for hundreds of years never had any type of proper education - so generations and generations of people were never able to read or write. What this ONE American person did was provide and build schools even though he himself was not a rich person. He went back and forth from the US and Pakistan trying to raise money in the US so he could buy supplies to build schools in Pakistan. He slept on people's floors, he did like 3 jobs, he wrotes hundreds of letters to people (at the time he didn't know how to use a computer, so he typed each one of these letters!) to raise money...
  
  It really is one of the best books I've read this year...I'm lucky to have read some great books this year...but this is one of the best because it's a true story of how ONE person literally was able to change the lives of hundres and thousands of children in the poorest regions of Pakistan (easily one of the poorest regions in the world). It is absolutely a wonderful book to read...
  
  It's called: Three Cups of Tea written by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin and you can find more information on this English website: click here
  
  这几天我看着一本很有意思的书叫 "三杯茶"...这本书是关于一位美国人在九三年的时候试过爬世界第二高峰 - K2 (是在巴基斯坦的最北边). 他有试爬可是失败了...他失败的时候有很严重的意外. 在山下本地的人救他命...在这儿他开始他新的目标...他有留意这个那么穹的地方什么都没有...他看到他们那么多小朋友也没有学校...真的什么都没有...他当日决定了回去美国找办法挣钱回来买东西建造一个学校. 最大问题是他本身也不是一个有钱人...所以他回美国的时候找几个工作然后蓄自己的钱...还有他一路工作一路写很多信给别人看因为他想知道有没有人可以捐赠给他为了去巴基斯坦建造这个学校.
  
  他成功了建造这个学校之后一共建造了六十七的学校! 全部是在巴基斯坦的最最最最最最最穹的地方...因为这地方的人是那么穹他们是最容易收到恐怖分子的影响. 这位美国人的感觉是如果这样的地方可以有多机会读好书, 多教育的机会， 那他们不会跟恐怖分子的废话和谎话.
  
  这本书当然是说我从来的国家所以我更加有很深的感觉...可是就是给大家看到一个人真的可以改变几百(可能几千和几万!)小朋友的生命...请大家起码看这个网站或者自己search网站看这本书和这个人的历史...这位美国人是叫 "Greg Mortensen"...我找到一个网站关于这本书可是你还可以自己找...click here
  
  AUG 12, 2008: HEROES
  
  The fire in Mong Kok two days ago was quite a surprise I think for all of us. Brian and I had just finished playing soccer when we got in his car and he turned on his radio and we heard the news. Later we found out that 200 firefighters were deployed, 2 of them died and one other person died.
  
  My heart goes out to the families of the dead...especially the 2 hero firefighters. Firefighters are called the bravest people for a reason - they're the only ones that are running INTO burning buildings, when everyone else is running out.
  
  旺角的炉火真的特suprised...Brian和我刚才踢玩足球然后进了他车里然后他开了车的电台才知道这个消息...然后我们才知道两百多救火队员去了旺角帮其他的队员...然后知道两个死忙...
  
  我觉得救火队员真的是英雄...就是他们会跑进去一个燃烧的建筑, 其他人是跑出去...这两位燃烧队员真的是英雄...
  
  AUG 11, 2008: SOCCER
  
  Brian and Joe saved my life yesterday by calling me out to play soccer...that was awesome...I must've lasted like a total of 40 minutes (brian only lasted like 15 mins because the pussy got drunk the night before and was hungover! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!) and by the end of it I felt frickin' great!!! I scored a goal with a little behind the head action :-) THAT felt badass...昨天Brian和Joe救了我的因为他们十二点钟左右打电话给我叫我出来踢足球!!! Woohoo...我应该就完了四十分钟...可是打完真的非常舒服...Brian就踢了十五分钟!!! hahahaha...因为他前天晚上喝醉酒然后昨天非常不舒服! hahahaha...我昨天有奢求!!! :-) behind my head...不知道中文怎么说...
  
  I don't know if you guys know but I've been writing columns in RESPECT magazing, which is a free Hong Kong Chinese magazine that comes out twice a month. I just turned in my third article a few minutes ago, and I have to really thank Respect for giving me one more place to make my voice be heard...sometimes I think playing in a band is just too slow of a process - especially when you want to talk about stuff that matters. It just takes too long to write music, practice it, re-write it, re-practice it, then record it, then release it. God - what a hassle to finally let your thoughts and feelings out. That's why I cherish this website and especially when people invite me to write things or do interviews so I can speak my mind...我不知到大家知不知道可是我这两个月在RESPECT杂志有写文章...RESPECT是一本本地和免费全中文的杂志...Anyway, 我真的要说感谢Gary给我多一个机会代表我的声音...有时候玩乐队的process太慢了...你想给多人听你的声音可是你先有写歌，然后写歌词, 然后练歌, 然后再edit歌和歌词， 然后再练歌, 然后录音...然后一年后可以出这首歌给大家听...真的太慢了!!! 所以我很珍惜我这个网站, 还有RESPECT杂志这样的机会...我想说什么可以马上写给大家看...
  
  I haven't seen any of them yet but I've had some good comments so far! So I hope you're all enjoying it...这几本杂志我还没看...可是听人说有人真的享受我写的东西...太好了! :-)
  
  Okay - I'm back at work today so I'm so excited!!! Thank GOD!!! It will help kill some of my boredom I hope!!! 今天终于可以再上班了!!! 太开心了...希望这样可以解决我香港无聊的问题...hahahahaha...
  
  AUG 10, 2008: 10PM ON SATURDAY NIGHT
  
  It's 10pm on a Saturday night and both Alison and I got so bored of walking around Hong Kong that we decided to go home. I can't believe how bored I am in Hong Kong. What am I going to do? It's almost suffocating being here just because there is NOTHING to do. I'm GREATLY looking forward to getting back to work just so I have something to finally do. The other good thing about getting back to work is that by around 10pm I'm so tired that I just go to sleep. That's all I've got to do in Hong Kong - go to work, come home and sleep. That's it. There's nothing else to do here...yippee for Hong Kong. The only time I get excited is when we're playing shows or touring...right now I have no idea when we're ever going to do either again. 现在是星期六晚上的十点钟...你知道我现在做什么? 我跟我女朋友刚才逛逛突然觉得香港太无聊所以我们放弃逛然后回家了...十点钟已经是在家里. 香港太无聊!!! 救命啊!!!!!!!!!! 大家应该知道我现在放假了两个月...可是我明天终于开始上班!!! 我很期待再上班因为我每天在香港真的没事做...我期待上班因为通常一到晚上的十点钟我很想睡觉...所以一上班我每天就是上班, 然后睡觉...我真的太爱香港生活 - NOT! 工作， 睡觉， 工作， 睡觉...这不是生活 - 这是坐监狱...就演出和tour的时候可以感觉到一种release的感觉. 可是现在不知道我们什么时候再会演出和tour...
  
  Another video of us playing in the Philippines is up now. The sound is not very good but we're playing the song Skinless. The part in the middle where I sing "wo oh oh oh oh oh" you can hear the audience singing it! When we play this song in Hong Kong no one sings it. When we play it in Guangzhou everyone sings it - when we play it in the Philippines people sing it. Quite interesting how things work for us in Hong Kong isn't it? 我昨天再找到多一个菲律宾演出的短片...这次声音不太好...可是你一听你会认识我们玩的歌是Skinless (无皮)...最有趣是中间我唱 "wo oh oh oh oh oh" 的位子...我们在香港演这首歌没有人会跟我们一起唱这个位子...可是在这个短片你听到菲律宾的兄弟姐妹一起跟我们唱...特感动...我们在广州演这首歌也是有广州的兄弟姐妹跟我们唱...就是香港没有...
  
  Check out the video here: click here
  
  关于hardcore:
  
  1. Most Precious Blood的主唱刚才上载了一个非常有意思的访问...请用时间看他说什么...感觉到hardcore的精神...他的回答是很深所以可能比较难明白...看得时候想一想什么潮流的杂志会有这样的访问呢? 一定不会有. Most Precious Blood's vocalist just did an awesome interview - check it out here and learn some more about hardcore...I think his answers are insane...while reading I started wondering what frickin' magazine on this planet would print this type of an interview? click here
  
  2. 一个很舊的hardcore/metal乐队叫Integrity刚才上载了一个很有趣的短片...请记得他们是二十年前开始所以你们听他们玩歌的时候可能觉得很老土...就是因为他们二十年前写这首歌...A legendary hardcore/metal band called Integrity just uploaded an interesting video...check it out...click here
  
  AUG 9, 2008: MORE PHOTOS FROM OUR PHILIPPINES SHOW
  
  Oh my god...I got some more photos from our show in the Philippines! AND OH MY GOD THEY'RE SO GREAT!!! Once you see these photos you'll see what hardcore is all about...昨天说收到多点菲律宾演出的照片!!! 对我来说这几个照片代表到菲律宾hardcore的热情!!! 我跟荔枝王玩了九年了 - 我可以很诚意跟大家说这场演出是我们最棒， 最牛B, 的演出...因为这个是一个hardcore的演出, hardcore人安排的, hardcore乐队玩的, hardcore观众来看的...对我来说, 这样是最理想的...
  
  We're just a hardcore band from China and to play in a different country with people all around me singing our words - is the best feeling in the world!! BEST!!! 我们只是一个中国来的hardcore乐队...这样可以去另外一个国家然后看到那么多人唱我们的歌词真的太感动了...
  
  I've been writing songs these past few days and every time I write music now I just have all of you in Laguna in mind! What other songs can I write that are going to make you guys react even crazier the next time we come! :-) Trust me...some good tunes will be unleashed on all y'all soon! hehehehehe...
  
  CHECK OUT THE PHOTOS HERE!!! 请看这个照片!!! Laguna Fucking Hardcore!!! CLICK HERE!!!
  
  AUG 8, 2008: OLYMPICS
  
  So the big day that all of China has been waiting years for is finally here today...I don't care about it at all. I have never cared about the Olympics and this year is no different...of course, it's GREAT that it's happening in China because through this event I think a lot of things in China have changed. Who knows if the good things that have happened in China will stay after the Olympics is over...I definitely think that a lot of things are going to happen in China during these next two months, so if you live in China make sure you keep checking websites from all over the world to read some other viewpoints about things that have or will happen...今天终于到了奥运会的日子...可是我对奥运从来没有什么兴趣所以我对今天也没有什么感觉...当然开心中国有这个机会给全地球看这个国家的力量和美丽...希望改变的东西会留在过了奥与会以后...很难说会不会...anyway,这几个月在中国应该会有很多东西发生所以内地的朋友请记住上内地外面的网站看别人的角度...昨天新闻有说 "这个地球的最有力量到了中国". 你知道他们是说谁? 美国的总统. 我真的恨这个句子!!! 他是最有力量的人吗？!!! FUCK YOU!!! 一定不会...请以后不用这句子形容美国什么的总统. 他们就是一个国家! That's all!
  
  Last night Pong came out to hang out with Paul and me in TST and it was so funny. Pong is the type of dude that just doesn't care about walking around and checking out shops etc...he is probably the only person I know who doesn't know where that stupid store Double Park is in TST. It was hilarious!!! We were in that shop because Paul and his friend saw some shoes on sale there, and then Pong called me. When I told him that we were here he was like "Where is it?" hahahahaha...I told him it's next to the Nike store and then he was like OH! hahahahaha...funny dude...it almost felt like he was a tourist too! :-) 昨天晚上Pong也出来陪Paul逛逛. 他真的很好笑...他真的不喜欢逛逛也更不喜欢去看其他的店...他昨天晚上打电话问我们在哪儿。然后我说我们是在Double Park, 然后他跟我说 "doublepark在那里?" hahahahaha...我觉得他真的是hardcore! Double park他也不知道是哪里! SO COOL! 然后我们在尖沙咀逛逛我跟他说"这个酒店还没有做好吗？！？！ 太久了!" 然后他跟我说 "我从来没有看过这个建筑!" hahahahahaha...然后我跟他说 "hey - 你是香港人吗!? 你为什么好像跟Paul一样是第一次看香港的东西了!" hahahaha...她最近也买了Terror的新唱片也说每天听...hardcore的fans应该知道这个唱片怎么有力量...
  
  I don't know if you guys have heard of the hardcore band Have Heart (if you're a fan of hardcore - how have you NOT have heard of this band!!!)...anyway, if you want to see a REAL hardcore show then check out this link and watch this show...it's fucking AWESOME!!! 我不知道你们听过一个hardcore乐队叫Have Heart没有(如果你真的是hardcore音乐和文化的歌迷那你怎么可能没有听过这个乐队呢!!!) - 可是他们是一对非常全铜的乐队...如果你想看一个真正的hardcore演出那你快一点上这个网站看他们的演出: THIS IS HARDCORE: click here
  
  我还没买have heart新唱片...可是他们以前的唱片叫 Things We Carry...是非常好听! 最好听是他们的歌词...如果你下载他们的音乐哪你一定有下载他们的歌词...不看他们的歌词真的没有一丝...I haven't bought Have Heart's new album yet but their old record Things We Carry is frickin' amazing...the best part for me is their lyrics...it's just incredible lyrics...if you're one of those downloading type, then you have to download their lyrics as well...don't listen to it without looking at their lyrics!!!
  
  这几天我下载了Yahoo Messenger因为我菲律宾hardcore的朋友说我一定要下载! 他们说他们每天是在Yahoo Messenger开了开会! hahahahahaha...那每天晚上看到很多菲律宾的hardcore朋友上网然后聊聊很好笑的东西...这个真的是网站的力量...这样那么容易可以建立那么不同国家的朋友...i love it! HARDCORE IS FOR LIFE!
  
  AUG 7, 2008: PHOTOS OF THE PHILIPPINES
  
  Shit! I totally forgot to put links to all my photos from the Philippines!!! I'll put them up now so you guys can check it out and then bury yourself in all your jealousy! hahahahaha...I'm such an ass! :-) 我忘了给你们看我们上个礼拜去菲律宾的照片! 我几天前已经在我的facebook上载了!
  
  PHOTO PAGE 1: click here
  
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  PHOTO PAGE 6: click here
  
  昨天我们有大风...在香港如果是八号的大风那全市关门儿了...所以我们北京来的朋友全日没什么好地方逛逛哈哈哈哈...太可惜了...可是后来应该还玩的好...很多店晚上才开门了...My bro's from Beijing are here and yesterday we had a Typhoon No. 8 which means all of HK closes down! So these poor dudes had nowhere to go all day! hahahaha...in the end I think they still ended up having a good time just walking around in this city...e
  
  到了我最后几天的假期...我很诚意可以说我这个假期真的玩的非常好...我知道我是一位很幸运的人...三个礼拜在北京, 一个礼拜在菲律宾...如果这个夏天荔枝王有一个很大的tour那就是最理想的...反正真的玩的非常好...可能是我最好的夏天...有点儿想上班...I've finally reached the last few days of my holidays...at least I can say that I've taken FULL advantage of my vacation time...spending 3 weeks in Beijing, 1 week in the Philippines...there's still more that I could've squeezed in but I can just think about that for the next time. The best would've been if King Ly Chee did some sort of big tour! That would've been the best...I'm kinda ready for work now actually!
  
  AUG 6, 2008: WATCHED NEW FOUND GLORY LAST NIGHT
  
  The best thing about watching this show last night 我昨天晚上去了看这个New Found Glory和其他乐队的演出. 看这个演出只有两个好的情况: - actually two things that were the best part about the show last night:
  
  1. My brother Paul is visiting from Beijing and this was his first time in Hong Kong! I love this dude like family...so it's great to have him here in Hong Kong! 第一是我从北京来的兄弟Paul有过来香港看这个演出! 所以我非常开心可以再见到我的兄弟...
  
  2. I bumped into Andy!!! Yes, our old guitar player Andy! I swear to god it feels like it's been years since I last saw him. Someone asked me when the last time was that I saw him and I said "two years" - but Andy says it's only been one and a half...but when you're used to seeing someone like 3 times a week, and now you only see the person once every year and a half, it feels like a lifetime ago...Good seeing you again bro! Hopefully you're still into hardcore :-) I still remember those late night talks underneath my building in your car with just you, me and Alex...man - life was so much simpler back then :-) 第二十我昨天见到我们以前的吉他手Andy!!! 真的好想几年没见过他! 可是就是一年半...是因为以前我们每一个礼拜一定会见两三次, 所以现在一年半见一次是好像十年间一次...
  
  So yeah, that was the best part about the show. I feel very bad for New Found Glory...I think they tried their best and they actually played well. But the sound outside was TERRIBLE...I couldn't hear the singer for most of the songs. And it looked like they brought their own sound guy. I was standing next to the mixing board and was watching the idiot sound guy do NOTHING for New Found Glory. When Lost Prophets came on after, they had a different sound guy and lighting guy, and so Lost Prophet's sound and lighting was a MILLION times better then for New Found Glory...昨天New Found Glory玩的时候声音是特差!!! 我对他们真的很可惜了...因为他们玩的不错! 就是因为外面做声音的人是一个笨蛋! 他们玩了一个小时可是真的说, 一半的演出我听不到主唱...NFG之后是Lost Prophets, 他们有带自己的soundman和灯光的人所以他们的表演比NFG好特多...
  
  I guess the cool thing was that there were so many people there to watch this show. I think there must've been at least 3,000 people there. That's pretty cool! Of course, all the bands playing are MTV bands, so I don't know what would happen if the bands were not MTV bands but instead were bands like Hatebreed, Terror and Sick of it All! hahahahaha...
  
  Anyway...Terror has an awesome LIVE video up 现在Terror有一个非常牛B的video!!!: click here
  
  AUG 5, 2008: VIDEO OF US IN THE PHILIPPINES...MISERY SIGNALS NEW RECORD
  
  我昨天link了一个在菲律宾演出的短片! 在这个短片里你们可以感觉到菲律宾人对hardcore的热情! 我们很久没有试过在那么hardcore的地方演出...在这个演出到有差不多四百人来看...还有一共有十个乐队全部是hardcore...观众也是 hardcore的fans...对我来说是一个非常理想的环境...我已经非常想这个地方...想很快再有机会去Laguna跟那么多hardcore 的兄弟姐妹一起演出...
  
  在这儿你可以看到在菲律宾演出的短片: click here
  
  So yesterday I linked a video of us playing in Laguna. This to me is what hardcore is all about...watch the show, watch everyone's reaction...they all got on stage with me to sing the words...THAT IS HARDCORE...not just mindlessly moshing to nothing - but singing along, dancing along, moshing because you believe in the band, it's message and HARDCORE...
  
  Check it out here: click here
  
  昨天我买了Misery Signals的新唱片...我觉得他们是metalcore其中最好听的乐队...这个唱片也是非常好听...我只是不太喜欢这个注音的声音...音乐是比以前简单很多所以我自己觉得比较好听 hahahahahaha...喜欢metalcore的朋友可以试一试这新唱片...歌词还是跟其他metalcore乐队一样 - 一样的意思是他们的歌词的意思我真的不知道和不明白...跟其他metalcore乐队的歌词一样...hahahahahaha...
  
  Got the new Misery Signals record yesterday...in terms of metalcore, they have to be the top of the top I think right?!?!? Come on - they're so damn good...the vocalist I think totally sucks on this album. I can't stand his voice...but the music is top fucking notch! Great record I think...Again, have no idea what the lyrics are about (in true metalcore fashion)...so good luck deciphering those...maybe you just have more patience then I do! hahahahaha...
  
  AUG 4, 2008: BACK IN HK - unfortunately...
  
  KING LY CHEE PLAYING "UNITE ASIA" IN LAGUNA!!! THIS IS A HARDCORE SHOW!!!!click here
  
  Yo yo yo yo...so I'm finally back in HK...thrilled? Hell no...the only good thing about coming back to this city is that my girlfriend is here...I was really excited to see her and I've spent the last two days with her so it's been nice for her to be the end of my crazy and awesome week in the Philippines...
  
  There are SO MANY things to talk about my trip in the Philippines...but for today I'm just going to talk about the show that we played in Laguna. I've already talked about it on our myspace page so please read that: click here...you have to be a "friend" of ours to be able to read it I think...
  
  The only thing I want to say is that it was the first time in many many years that we finally got to play a "hardcore" show. It was almost 10 bands that played this show and every ONE of those bands were hardcore bands. The audience (according to my dear sweet brother Howell of Piledriver) was 400+ big! And guess what? All those people are into hardcore...I was in my element to say the least when we arrived at the venue and saw all these people, and saw bands selling their merch, people selling zines, people wearing hardcore shirts, hardcore bands getting on stage...it was something that was beyond anything that I expected about the show...
  
  Now that I'm back in HK of course it'll just make me wonder why people don't like hardcore here...and by "hardcore" I don't mean Lamb of God, Unearth, As I Lay Dying, Norma Jean...by hardcore I mean stuff like Ignite, Bad Brains, Sick of it All, Madball etc...
  
  While we were in Laguna I didn't feel alone at all...I didn't feel weird being someone that loves hardcore with a passion. In HK I always feel like I'm this strange dude that loves hardcore - I always feel like there must be something wrong with me that people here don't like hardcore (to the point that a lot of people think that hardcore sounds like shit) at all but I love it so much...I feel like KLC is a band that people will never understand because of this issue.
  
  When we played in Laguna we had 400 people get on stage taking my mic and singing our words...it was a dream...I felt like I was dreaming that all these people who were into hardcore were also showing us so much love, respect and support...they sang all our words...it was the best feeling on the world playing to an audience like that.
  
  At this point, if we never play a show again - I wouldn't mind. At least I'll know that our "last" show was to an audience that is into hardcore, and believes in hardcore sincerely for what it's all truly about...
  
  Thank you to all the people that we met in Laguna, to all the people that took care of us, to all the people that talked to us at the show, to all the people that have now become lifelong friends of mine, and most importantly to all of you who sang our words - danced to our music - and showed us that we are not a band that is alone in this world. Laguna - you showed us the power and strength of hardcore, stuff that I have always believed in since day one but things that we have forgotten about living in Hong Kong...thank you for reigniting the passion of hardcore in my heart once again...
  
  Can't wait to be back someday - I know that playing in Cebu is now in process for next year!!! :-) Cebu - we're coming for you next! :-)
  
  Our bro Franco helped video our performance in Laguna and he did it from right on stage so it looks AWESOME!!! I'll hopefully upload it soon...
  
  Now we're back in the non-existent world of hardcore in Hong Kong...yippee...not.
  
  JULY 26, 2008: EXAM TODAY
  
  Okay...my exam is today at 7:30am...I'm typing this the night before...I have to get up at fucking 6am to make sure that I get to this exam on time. I don't even know where the stupid hall is where I have to take this crazy exam. So I'm going to leave my house around 6:45 so I make sure I can find this place in time...
  
  I do have a show in the Philippines later on - but right now, all I can think about is this goddam exam and all the rote learning I've been doing to gear up for this bitch.
  
  Anyway, I'll be in the Philippines until Aug 2nd so this will be my last blog until then...see you all back here in a week!
  
  JULY 25, 2008: EXAM AND PHILIPPINES TOMORROW明天有考试和菲律宾演出
  
  Yeah...you read that right...tomorrow morning I have a goddam exam in the morning. The exam is part of my master's education degree and it's a BITCH OF AN EXAM!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been studying for the past 2 weeks and it's killing me...I'm nervous as hell and I'm re-studying things that I have NOT learned, talked about, or seen since like I was in the 5th grade!!! Goddamm!!! The exam is at 7:30am and then from there I have to race off to the airport because I'm playing with King Ly Chee in the Philippines at night...we're not even playing in Manila where I'm landing! I actually have to get picked up and drove over an hour to the place called Laguna where we're playing. I am VERY excited about playing this show BUT I have to focus on my stupid exam first...to make things worse, I lost my voice a few days ago so I'm trying to talk at all so I can be okay to play tomorrow night...
  
  WISH ME LUCK!!!
  
  我明天早上有考试!!! 这个考试是关于我现在读的学位...考试的题目全部是我十几年没有看过的题目!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! 真的非常无聊!!! 这几天我只可以记得很多特无聊的information...希望明天早上我会考得好!!! 可是应该不太可能...考完了以后我要做车直接去机场去菲律宾...我们飞到Manila可是演出不是在这个城市...我们到了机场还有再坐差不多两个钟头的车去Laguna...我对这个演出非常非常兴奋...可是现在真的需要focus读书准备这个无聊和麻烦的考试!! FUCK!...
  
  There's an interview up with an awesome hardcore band called Shipwreck A.D. 现在有一个新访问...访问是跟一个很厉害hardcore乐队叫Shipwreck A.D.: click here
  
  Bleeding Through 上载了新歌...has a new song up: click here
  
  Misery Signals 上载了新video...has a new video up: click here
  
  可是我觉得两个真的不好听和看...I think both song and video suck... :-(
  
  JULY 22, 2008: INTOLERANT GONE...
  
  The nice dudes in one of our favorite Asian metal bands Intolerant left yesterday...it was good times with them here showing them around our cool little city...once in awhile, it is a pretty cool to live! hehehehehe...
  
  We'll see them in a few days when we go to the Philippines to play this Saturday! We haven't played a show since May so it's going to be weird but fun...it'll be the first time that we're playing a much more "hardcore" show in a LONG time! I actually can't think of the last time that we actually played a "hardcore" show - probably the Comeback Kid show in April...but in the Philippines every show we've played (2) has always been with a lot of different style bands. The first time was with NOFX, then the second time was at Summer Slam with a huge array of different types of music. This Saturday will finally be a Filipino show with lots of hardcore bands!!! CANNOT WAIT!!!
  
  Looks like stuff in Beijing is crazy with all these bag checks etc...hang in there brothers up there!!! The Olympics will be over soon and everyone can go back to their normal lives!!!
  
  Yes...new Batman movie is the greatest thing to watch this summer...the GREATEST...
  
  我们好朋友菲律宾metal乐队INtolerant昨天回去了菲律宾...这几天跟他们一起大家玩的很开心...有时候我可以记得香港也是一个不错的城市! hahahaha...
  
  等多几天我们再 有机会去菲律宾演出!!! 这次的演出时比较hardcore很多!!! 所以我自己是非常开心和很期待这个演出. 我们第一次去菲律宾演出是去年跟NOFX, 然后第二次的演出是今年在菲律宾最大的音乐节叫Summer Slam. 两个演出当然不是一个hardcore的演出...可是还是很好玩...可是我很期再有机会玩一个比较hardcore的演出. 我们最近玩一个比较hardcore的演出可能是跟Comeback Kid那次玩...所以很期待去一个地方有很多听hardcore的观众!!!
  
  北京的朋友们...我在新闻看到现在为了奥运会上面有很多麻烦...好像做地铁的时候需要看你们的书包等等...等多几个月然后所有东西可以变了正常...我不知道怎么说 "can go back to normal"是我的意思! hehehehe...
  
  大家...新Batman电影真的是非常好看...我已经在电影院看了两次...一定会再看几次...信我 - 是真的那么好看!!!
  
  JULY 21, 2008: NEW TERROR VIDEO
  
  Yes yes yes...if you've been reading these blogs for the past few weeks then you know that I'm in absolute love with the new Terror album...so, if you've heard the new Terror album and are in love with it as much as I am (i.e. Richie, Pong, Li Yo in Beijing, lots of friends in Mainland China) then you'll all be super excited that the first video for this album is out now!!! It's for the song "Never Alone"...it's an awesome video and they filmed it inside a prison that is still being used: click here
  
  当然如果你这几个礼拜有看我这个blog那你一定知道我爱上了Terror的最新长篇叫 "The Damned, The Shamed..."...那如果你也是跟我一样爱上了这个唱片(好像我的朋友richie, pong, 李游, 还有很多其他内地的朋友们) 那你们一定会高兴因为Terror刚刚上载了他们的新video!!! 是Never Alone这首歌的video...他们在一个监狱里拍这个video...click here
  
  看这样的video真的会带我记得我的人怎么爱这个hardcore文化...他们这首歌有个歌词是非常简单可是对我来说很有力量 "when you're down, reach for me, with all your strength, and i won't let go, it's you and me against this world, you've got to know, that we're never alone"...
  JULY 20, 2008: AWESOME SHOW!
  
  Yes...last night was an INCREDIBLE show!!! We were very worried that we were going to lose a lot of money because we counted 4 different shows going on all over Hong Kong!!! These were the shows going on: 1. Mind Your Head, 2. Underground, 3. Elf Fatima, 4. Our show featuring Intolerant...We really thought we were, for lack of better words, FUCKED because there is just so much going on. But within the first hour, we knew we were going to be alright! :-) By the end of the night - we were more than alright...so thank you everyone who came to the show last night and supported it!!! It was GREAT - turnout was AWESOME - vibe of course was PERFECT - bands were STELLAR! What can I say about Intolerant? Probably one of the best metal bands to ever play in HK - that's just my humble opinion! :-) Okay...need to go to sleep now...so frickin' exhausted...
  
  JULY 15, 2008: INTOLERANT - AWESOME FILIPINO METAL!!! 菲律宾METAL乐队这个礼拜六在香港演出!!!
  
  The time is almost here to see one of the best Filipino metal bands to play in Hong Kong! The band is called Intolerant and are AMAZING LIVE!!! We had the pleasure of playing with thme when we went to the Philippines this past April and they were fucking GREAT on stage!!! Can't wait to see these guys bring their Pantera style metal to Hong Kong!!! As always, because all we have our crap venues in Hong Kong we have no choice but to hold the show at the Warehouse :-( These guys are TOO good to play at the Warehouse but that's all we can find in Hong Kong. Sorry everyone! :-( But I really hope that you will come to the show to support these awesome Filipino musicians...opening bands are Evocation, Shepherds the Weak and Maniac (both bands last shows for at least a year as they take time out to write and record new stuff)!!! GREAT LINE-UP!!! SHOW WILL BE $120HKD and starts at 7:30pm so see you there!!! PLEASE TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO COME CHECK IT OUT!!! WE REALLY NEED THE SUPPORT!!!
  
  CHECK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION!!! click here
  差不多到时间看一个特好看和听的菲律宾乐队叫Intolerant!!! 我们今年的四月在菲律宾跟他们演了出...可以跟你们说他们演出是特牛B hahahahahaha...!!! 非常"正"!!! 我很期待再有这个机会听他们Pantera风格的metal!!! 因为我们没有比较好的场地做一个演出, 我们在Warehouse安排了这个演出...有点儿奇怪因为他们在菲律宾是一个非常大的乐队, 可是我们在香港真的没有办法...不够人听这样的音乐所以我们也没有什么选择可以帮他们做一个在大一点的演出! :-( 对不起Intolerant! 希望大家会来看和支持这个演出...开场乐队是Evocation, Shepherds the Weak和Maniac...这场是Shepherds the Weak and Maniac的最后一场演出因为会用一两年的时间做好新歌和录音...
  
  演出是这个礼拜六 - 7:30pm开始 - 就是$120HKD!!! 到时间!!! PEACE!!!
  
  CHECK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION!!! click here
  JULY 14, 2008: SEX IN THE CITY = stupid movie
  
  I've been lucky to have seen some good movies this summer especially because I was in Beijing and I was able to watch awesome movies for only 7 Yuan! hahahaha...but two nights ago Alison and I went to finally go watch Sex in the City. She was very excited to see this movie finally because she was such a HUGE fan of the TV series. I liked the TV series too so I was excited to see it.
  
  As soon as the movie started, I started to regret the fact that I paid to watch this movie. Right from the beginning the movie was littered with all the stupid labels that I hate LV, Gucci, Dior, all that shit. And it wasn't subtle - but in your damn face! Everything the main actresses picked up had a HUGE ugly logo of these labels...Argh!!! And the movie is 2 and a half hours long!!! How come no one told me that/!?!?!!? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 2 and a half hours of being bombarded with images of what is considered "luxury" of living in gigantic houses, making lots of money, walking around buying expensive but ugly as hell clothes, shoes, etc. It was terrible...
  
  Not happy about that movie at all...
  
  But the rest of the weekend was great... :-) Three nights of eating dinner with good friends, good company, hanging out doing nothing...it was great. Yesterday I took my brother to the hospital to check out his knee, and I fell in love AGAIN with Hong Kong's great health system. There are some great things about Hong Kong - and our health care HAS to be one of the best things about this city...
  
  这个夏天我很幸福因为我有机会看很多电影...当然是因为我去了北京所以在北京我可以买到七块钱的DVD! hahahahahaha...反正全部电影是好看...可是我前天看了一部电影终于是一个很无聊的电影...两个月前上了一部电影叫Sex in the City...这个是以前电视的节目...anyway, 大家很兴奋看这部...我女朋友很兴奋所以我们终于去了电影院看...可是, 一开始我非常后悔给钱看这个电影...一开始非常明显这部电影有很多名牌的赞助!!! 什么都有名牌的牌子...我非常恨这个东西所以坐在电影院里面看这个电影是特辛苦!!! 还有， 这部电影是两个半钟长!!! 太长了!!! SUCKS! FUCK名牌! 我想问买名牌的人， 这个名牌代表到什么东西呢?!?!?! 我真的想知道!!!
  
  这个周末其他东西非常好...每个晚上跟好朋友吃饭, hang out, blah blah...非常舒服...昨天我有带我的弟弟去香港的医院因为他的knee受伤了...我真的忘了我们香港的保健system是特好!!! 我们在香港真的很幸福有这样的东西可以随时用...大家应该有好好的珍惜我们香港的保健...
  
  JULY 12, 2008: RACISM NOW OFFICIALLY AGAINST THE LAW IN HONG KONG!!! 种族歧视现在是非法的行为!
  
  昨天香港立法会终于pass了一个反对种族歧视的立法!!! 现在香港的所有小数民族有一个立法可以保护他们!!! 香港政府开始聊这个立法太多年了...还有说香港是一个国际的城市. 怎么可能是一个国际的城市如果你们自己的小数民族没有什么东西会保护他们? 终于有这个立法可以给全地球看香港真的是一个国际的城市...Anyway, 对香港的小数民族今天是一个非常开心的日子! Finally an anti-discrimination law has been passed in Hong Kong!!! It has taken YEARS AND YEARS for this thing to be passed and so this is a very great day for all of us minorities who live in Hong Kong and call Hong Kong!!! WOOHOO!!! Of course, newspapers have reported that this is going to be very hard to administer in Hong Kong and the government has said that too. But the fact is, if we are being discriminated against, you now KNOW you have the law on your side!!!
  
  JULY 11, 2008: GREAT DVD
  
  Lamb of God's new DVD rules...definitely worth the money! I just spent about 2 hours watching the first disc...later on I'll watch the second disc which includes footage of them recording their last album...
  
  So what else has been going on with you? Life for me this summer has been weird...and is still weird...but at least I've been skateboarding, and I've been with my close friends almost everyday...I haven't seen my girlfriend since Monday and I miss her like crazy...I'm going to see her today in a few hours so I can't wait to see her again. Its crazy how Hong Kong works - we all live in the same city, but all of us are so busy that we don't even get to see your close loved ones unless you live together. Sometimes you don't see close friends for months. I have a friend named Siu Pak and I swear to god I think it's been like a year since I saw her last...that's just the way it works here...
  
  New Terror album is incredible...for any fans of hardcore, you've probably already bought this album so you don't need me to sell it to you - but if you HAVEN'T (hint hint Kevin hehehe), then you need to get your hands on this thing asap. It is as expected, pure hardcore from start to finish. You're not expecting crazy metal riffs, or a sudden "musical growth" or whatever it is called when bands start adding more melody and go more poppy...its pure hardcore from beginning to end and that's just the way you want it when you press play on a Terror album...
  
  There is one song on the album where they throw in clean guitars...WHAT THE HELL!??!?!?! CLEAN GUITARS?!?!?! hahahahaha...threw me off...but it sounds great...
  
  This is funny...I don't know if you've heard of a hip-hop band called Gym Class Heroes - but they recently covered a Lamb of God song! hahahaha...it's kind of weird but cool that a hip-hop band would cover something like Lamb of God!!! click here
  
  JULY 10, 2008: SHORT MESSAGE
  
  Bought the new Terror album and the new Lamb of God DVD!! Too busy now watching this DVD and importing the CD to my Ipod...will type more tomorrow! :-) LONG LIVE HARDCORE!!! 刚才买了新Terror的唱片和Lamb of God的新DVD! 现在忙看这个DVD和下载Terror的歌放在我的IPOD! 明天会写多一点儿! hahahahaha...HARDCORE直到永远!
  
  JULY 9, 2008: HARDCORE INTERVIEWS
  
  I remember when I first got into punk and hardcore a long ass time ago, I just wanted to learn what hardcore means and what it's about. I cannot tell you HOW MANY times I get asked this in interviews "What is hardcore?" like there is ONE answer for this. Some things you just can't explain, and if you're getting into hardcore then what you have to do is search the internet and read interviews. That's what I did and that's what I still do to this day. I search and search and search for my favorite hardcore bands and read their interviews. Through their interviews you can really get a great idea about what is this punk/hardcore culture? What is it all about? That's the best way to learn...我还记得十几年前我刚刚开始投入这个punk/hardcore文化的时候我真的想知道什么是hardcore什么是punk rock. 当时我只有一个方法可以学这个文化 - 是看我最喜欢乐队的访问...现在当然是比那时候方便很多...当时我们只可以等到每一个月新出的杂志...现在你可以上网站马上看你最喜欢乐队的访问...我当时跟现在一样会很兴奋看新的访问...我还在学者这个文化...
  
  Here's a great interview with the singer of Converge. Check it out if you have time...现在你们可以上这个网站看一个非常好的访问...是跟Converge的主唱: click here
  
  Skateboarded yesterday for like 4 hours in Mei Foo...so much fun...I love having this time to be able to do this all again...tonight I'm going to the Chai Wan skatepark with ryan, warren, brian etc...I'm going to give Brian the 24 HERRS hat that I got for him in Beijing! hahahahahaha...
  
  JULY 8, 2008: ALL MY BEIJING TRIP PHOTOS and VIDEOS
  
  下面是我所有在北京牌照的照片...如果你们有空请慢慢享受! hahahahaha...
  ALBUM 1: click here
  ALBUM 2: click here
  ALBUM 3: click here
  ALBUM 4: click here
  ALBUM 5: click here
  ALBUM 6: click here
  ALBUM 7: click here
  ALBUM 8: click here
  ALBUM 9: click here
  ALBUM 10: click here
  ALBUM 11: click here
  
  下面是我所有在北京拍的短片 Below are links to all 3 videos that I made of my trip in Beijing! ENJOY!!!
  PART 3 (刚才上载了! The latest one!): click here
  PART 2: click here
  PART 1: click here
  
  JULY 7, 2008: BACK IN HONG KONG!!!
  
  Spent the night last night with my best friends in HK glenn, terence, richie, mike, chai...good times just joking around, getting excited about the Philippines show upcoming, etc...
  
  Good times...I'm going to stay a few days extra in the Philippines after the Philippines show so I'm SUPER excited about that!!! Should be lots of being retarded with them... :-)
  
  Thanks for welcoming me back so nicely brothers!!!
  
  JULY 4, 2008: MY BODY!!!
  
  Hahahahahahaha...yesterday was quite possibly the best 6 hours of my life...we arrived at the indoor snowboarding park at 12:30 and snowboarded NON-STOP until 6pm!!! NON FUCKING STOP!!! I can't believe how much fun I had...the feeling of not having to think about the pressures of the world, getting this done, getting that done, band related stuff, master's degree related stuff, leaving Beijing for boring Hong Kong, it was all great...the people I went with were all Alison's classmates so it was fun to be with all of these people. Most of the crew this time were guys so it was even better because all of us were just crazy about trying different tricks, falling HARD, getting back up and trying it again! By the 4th hour I was able to start convincing the two girls we were with to start trying some stuff too so it was awesome!!! 昨天可以说是我人生最开心的六个钟头! hahahaha...我们差不多十二点半到场地然后马上开心滑雪...滑到六点!!! 没有停过!!! 滑雪的时候最开心的事是我没有时间想我人生里还有什么压力, 还有什么乐队的东西没做, 我硕士学位的事还没做...全六个钟头就是玩的特开心...我跟Alison的同学去滑雪所以也是玩的很开心...这次有多点男人所以玩的特别开心因为他们是跟我一样很喜欢试新法式...如果倒地了, 马上起来然后再试...My pride and joy from snowboarding yesterday were two things:
  
  1. They have a box in the middle of the slope and you can grind across it. I already did that last time so I was okay about it. Today I wanted to land a boardslide across it!!! AND I DID IT!!! FELT SO DAMN GOOD DUDE!!! It felt awesome and the dudes I was with were like dude it looked great!!! :-) Then later on I wanted to try a frontside boardslide and dude - I ATE SHIT!!! I slammed my knee on the box so hard I wanted to cry! hahahahahahahaha...I had to sit out for about 15 mins...but was back soon...
  
  2. Then I wanted to do a huge air off of one of the ramps and I did that...that felt great. I turned it into a line, so I landed the air then went straight to grind the box...BADASS! :-)
  
  So...this brings me to my last day...到了我最后一天在北京...怎么可能那么快呢？　我不知道也不相信...现在我全身很疼!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Hahahahahahaha...MY BODY IS KILLING ME!!! But I have to go out and make the most of my last day...
  
  JULY 3, 2008: LAST FEW DAYS IN BEIJING... :-( 到最后几天在北京...
  
  This sucks...I have two full days left in Beijing!!! SUCKS!!! I could easily stay here the entire summer...If I didn't have a show in a few weeks, and if I didn't have my exam on the same day as the show, I wouldn't come back to HK until the day I have to go back to work...
  
  All day yesterday Facebook has been blocked here in beijing...weird...must have something to do with the annual july 1st protest in Hong Kong...either way, that is one thing about China that is a pain in the ass. I've never taken our freedoms for granted in Hong Kong, but when you're faced with such things up here, it makes even more something that I absolutely TREASURE...
  
  Other Beijing happenings...since it's getting closer to the Olympics, more and more police are out on the streets and you can see this especially at night on all of Beijing's many highways. All of a sudden you see a lot more police officials with full AK-47 rifles etc...
  
  The odd/even number license plate numbers for cars will be starting in a week...who knows if that's going to help clear up the air here. I think they'll need to do much more then that...the air here is disgusting...I cannot imagine raising children in this air...
  
  Anyway...I'm sooooooooooooooo ridiculously unhappy to leave Beijing. I recently got back in tough with an old friend Raph who runs and owns China's biggest skateboard company called People's Skateboards and I'm going to his office on Friday to pick up some shirts, hats, DVD's...my friend Freddy at Painkiller Magaizne has still invited me to come to their office too on Friday!!! I HAVE SO MUCH TO DO!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh...when I go back to HK, I will be back to having nothing to do...at least I know that I'll be doing a lot more skateboarding when I get back. That's my number one priority this summer...
  
  到了最后几天在北京...真的说, 我离开北京的时候一定非常不开心..如果我这个月没有荔枝王演出和我硕士学位的考试, 我一定会留在北京多几个礼拜...
  
  昨天差不多全天上不到Facebook的网站...特麻烦...我依靠这个网站知道香港的朋友么现在怎么样...可是真的说这个是在这里住的一个很大的问题...我从来都很珍惜我们香港生活的所有自由...现在更珍惜这样的自由...
  
  这几天在北京开的马路我有留意多很多警察...晚上的马路真的很明显...然后我问了出租车的司机他说这个是治安...对我来说是真的恐怖...突然见到那么多有AK 47步枪的警察...
  
  还有在北京的马路下个礼拜开始只有单或者双号的车可以开车...希望这样可以帮北京的空气的问题...可是应该不是那么简单...这列的空气是非常危险...如果我在这里有小孩儿我一定很怕他们的身体会有问题...呼这里的吸一定为你的身非常不好...
  
  Anyway...我离开北京的时候我一定非常不开心...我最近找到了一个很舊没看过的朋友...他是一个滑板公司(社会滑板)的老板叫Raph... 他星期五会带我上去他们的办公室拿社会滑板的产品!!!...然后我另外一个朋友Painkiller杂志的Freddy也是星期五请我上来他们杂志的办公室...我怎么可以星期六离开北京!!! 我还有那么多朋友没有见过, 和那么多地方还没去!!! 这里我有那么多东西可以做...回香港没事做...至少我可以滑板...这个是我这夏天最優先想做的东西...
  
  OK - 到睡觉的时间...明天再去滑雪!!! :-) OK - time to get some sleep...I'm going snowboarding AGAIN tomorrow!!!
  
  JULY 1, 2008: NEW BEIJING VIDEO!!! 新北京的短片现在上载了!!
  
  New video is up now of my little trip to Beijing!!! Last night I hung out with my favorite punk rock band Recycle...I LOVE these guys...their drummer is quite possibly the best punk rock drummer I've ever seen...I SMS'ed our old drummer Kevin while watching them play! hahahahahaha...
  
  新短片已经上载了...昨天晚上我去了看我最爱的punk rock 乐队Recycle排练!!! 我觉得他们的鼓手应该是我最喜欢的punk rock鼓手!!! 非常厉害的鼓手...我拍了他们排练所以应该下一个短片你可以看到他们练习的短片...
  
  CHECK OUT THE VIDEO HERE 按这里看短片: click here
  
  JUNE 30, 2008: 牛街和颐和园...九门小吃...Niujie, Summer Palace, Beijing food
  
  The countdown has begun...these are my last few days in this amazing city of Beijing...people told me that yesterday they started the mandatory bag checks on the subway system here...so I'm not looking forward to getting on the train and doing that...I already HATE that I live on the 13 line and to get into the main part of the city I have to go Xizhimen to switch to the 2 line and I seriously have to walk for about 15 minutes before I finally get to the 2 line!! DAMN!!! It's SOOOOOOOOO annoying...that interchange part is badly constructed if you ask me...这个礼拜是我在北京的最后几天. 有人跟我说在地铁站里面公安开始检查所有人的书包, 等等...当然是非常麻烦可是他们是为奥运做这样的活动. 我住在北京地铁的十三号线...如果我想去城里那我需要在西直门转线转二号线...可是在西直门我需要走差不多十五分钟才到二号线!!! 特麻烦...
  
  These past few days have been awesome...we went to this part of Beijing called 前门...which I visited with Alison almost 4 years ago and I loved it then. It's a really old part of Beijing and the streets were full of shops, old shops, and a really bustling part of Beijing. This time however, I get to 前门 and the WHOLE place is under construction!!! WHAT?!??!! THE WHOLE THING! Imagine if all of 广东道 Canton Road in TST was under construction...that's what it's like here. It was crazy...so we had to take these back ally roads that were full of dirt, mud and more construction and there were actually shops here! WHAT?! People were actually selling food amongst all this disgusting dirt...weird weird...anyway...we made it through that warzone alive and then we went to this AWESOME part of Beijing called 牛街...this is a very special place for me because it is surrounded by a beautiful mosque, a Muslim food supermarket, a Muslim food court, and lots of Islamic related places so it was great. We visited the mosque first and from the outside it looks like a traditional Chinese courtyard! But in the middle there is this beautifully built mosque with Chinese elements...I was taken aback that I went in and actually prayed because we came right at prayer time. 这几天玩的特开心...我最近去了一个很特别的地方叫牛街...这里对我来说很有意思...在这儿有个清真寺, 还有清真超市, 还有清真小吃的地方...我们先去了清真寺...我真的想不到这个寺会有那么多中国文化的元素!!! 是一个非常漂亮的寺...这个地方还有很多中国式的感觉可是中间有一个很漂亮的prayer hall...我在这儿突然想祈祷...所以我进去了祈祷...里面是特好看, 特有感觉...
  
  Then the next day we spent the whole day at the Summer Palace...what an awe-inspiring this place is...it's like when you see 故宫 for the first time or 天坛 for the first time...when we arrived at the Summer Palace I was like WHAT THE HELL!??!?! This WHOLE place was constructed for the emperors and emperesses? Crazy...然后我们去了颐和园...如果你去过天坛, 故宫, 等等, 你一定会有一样的感觉...是特大...想不到我们人可以创造这个地方...好像是从天国下来的! 里面的苏州街很有意思...我们在这一个地方过了很长时间...
  
  然后昨天去了找一个地方叫九门小吃...是一个胡同里面的地方...可能我们是错方向开始找这个地方所以是非常难找到...可是这个地方里面有很多非常好吃的东西还有很有感觉...吃完了我们出去了逛逛...外面是后海...在后海我们找到了一个很有意思的东西...在水上面他们建立了一个鸭岛!!! 你们可以看我的照片看看这个鸭岛是怎们样的...
  
  PHOTOS OF 牛街, 前门, 颐和园: click here
  
  PHOTOS OF 颐和园: Part 2 click here, Part 3 click here
  PHOTOS OF 九门小吃 and 后海: click here
  
  JUNE 28, 2008: MY EYES MY EYES...
  
  Yo...just got back from judging at the Metal Battle band competition hosted by Painkiller Magazine and held at 13 Club! A lot of fun and it was great to see so many incredible Beijing bands at one show! There was a band called 641 that sounded exactly like Hatebreed! Then another band played earlier that sounded like a mix of Terror, Figure Four and Hatebreed...of course these were the 2 bands out of all the bands that played that got me the most excited :-) hehehehehehe...but there was one band called "Ling Yi" or something like that - and they were AWESOME! I don't know if I'd buy their album - but their live performance was incredible...they mix a lot of traditional Chinese music and elements into the music including Chinese rhythms, China's many ethnic minority singing styles, etc...very VERY unique band and music...
  
  But I haven't been in a bar or closed room with so much smoke in a long time!!! MY EYES ARE KILLING ME NOW!!! DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy that most places in HK are SMOKE-FREE!!! THANK GOD FOR THAT!!!
  
  刚才看完了北京metal乐队的比赛...这个比赛是painkiller杂志做赞助然后在北京的13 Club做比赛! 非常好看的一晚...他们有请我做评判所以我有一个很好机会看在一晚上看到那么多北京heavy音乐的乐队...有两个乐队很有hardcore感觉...一个是差不多hatebreed 哪个风格...还有一个乐队有些Terror, Figure Four和hatebreed的风格!
  
  可是有一个乐队叫零壹是特别好看...他们加了很多中国音乐的元素在他们的音乐到...很多中国rhythm和中国少数民族的唱法! 非常特别的音乐...表演真的很厉害...
  
  可是看完这个演出我非常珍惜香港...因为在香港差不多没一个餐馆和酒吧不准抽烟!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...在北京很多演出地方你还可以抽烟所以现在我的眼睛特疼! 超幸苦!!!
  
  我要睡觉了...只有一个礼拜在北京...怎么办 :-(
  
  JUNE 26, 2008: SNOWBOARDING
  
  OH MY GOD!!! Had such a good time yesterday snowboarding in Beijing!!! Technically I don't think we were actually in Beijing...we had to drive over an hour to get to this place that is an indoor snow mountain. There are two parts - one is for beginners and one for the more advanced. The beginners one was just a slope...the more advanced one had jumps, a grind box, ramps etc!!! DUDE SO MUCH FUN!!! I have posted some photos from it on my facebook page so go check that out...I'll upload a video that Alison shot of me on the slopes...click here
  
  Last night I got a call from our good friends at China's biggest metal magazine called Painkiller and they want me to be a judge at their "Metal Battle" Contest that they're having on Friday night!!! That's SO nice of them to invite me to be judge for this!!! Can't wait!!!
  
  SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED TO BE HERE!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
  
  昨天晚上去了滑雪!!! 玩的特开心...这个地方是一个室内的滑雪山...有两个山一个是为刚刚开始滑的人另外一个是给玩的非常好的人玩...我们玩四个小时!!! 玩的非常...我已经离开北京之前啊再来一次!!! 我已经上载了几个照片...我这几天应该会上载一个短片在我滑雪的时候!!! :-) 一定看到我非常开心!!! hahahahahahaha...click here
  
  然后昨天晚上收到电话...是我们最喜欢内地的杂志的朋友们Painkiller Magazine...他们这个礼拜五赞助了一个metal乐队的比赛然后他们请我做评判!!! 那我非常想感谢他们这样请我做评判!!! :-)
  
  我太爱这列的生活...每天有很多东西可以做...
  JUNE 25, 2008: FRIEND JESSICA/SKO/DVDs/SNOWBOARDING
  
  Dude...watched another good DVD yesterday before I went to meet my old friend Jessica who just got up here to Beijing. I watched a documentary on Iraq called "My Country, My Country". I don't know if you guys have ever seen this or heard about it but I found it in one of the DVD stores here in Beijing...it's SO good! The movie follows a doctor in Iraq during the ongoing war there and this doctor provides free medical service to Iraqis. The movie follows him right before the first ever free elections that took place there (I think in 2004)...and he actually becomes a candidate running for a seat. It follows him talking to Iraqi prisoners at the infamous Abu Gharib prison, talking to regular people on the street, and you can hear the REAL sentiments of Iraqi people from this movie (not from what you see on CNN or the news). Highly recommend this movie for anyone that is not afraid to hear about the sadness and tragedy of real life...昨天也看了一个很有意思的DVD...这个DVD是一个纪录影片关于伊拉克...这部电影有跟着一位伊拉克的医生. 这位医生的服务是免费的然后他这样可以见面很多普通的市民. 这样你可以听到市民的真正的感觉关于美国和这个战争. 这位导演有跟着这位医生去访问很多拘留者在伊拉克的最出名的监狱叫Abu Gharib...然后这位医生成为了一位挑选人...可是后来他的党输了...非常感动的一部电影...如果你想看和感觉到伊拉克的真话那你可以试这部电影...
  
  Also, last night besides hanging out with Jessica, I also went to go watch my friend's band SKO play! That was fun and I finally got to check out the venue D22 which is right next door to 13 Club! Hahahahha...I didn't know that! So while I was there of course I went over to talk to the owner of 13 Club who is a big fan of King Ly Chee so it was great to talk to him about life and politics and of course Dimebag Darrell! :-) 我昨天跟我非常好朋友Jessica逛逛了. 她刚才到北京所以我们去了很多地方逛. 然后我去了看SKO 演出在D22. 我不知道D22是在13Club旁边...我们非常喜欢13 Club所以我进去了看13 Club的老板叫 "Liu li xin"。。。非常好人也是荔枝王的支持者! :-) 跟他聊了很久关于很多东西 (其中一个题目当然是Dimebag Darrell! :-) 他是Dimebag Darrell的最大的歌迷! :-)
  
  You won't believe what I'm doing today...I'm going snowboarding!!!! WHAT?!??!?!?!?! CAN'T WAIT!!! 你们一定不相信我今天有什么计划!?!??!! 我会去滑雪!!! SNOWBOARDING!!! 非常期待这个机会去滑雪!!! 可能明天有很多照片给你们看!!!
  
  Okay 2 things: 最后两件事情
  
  1. Our bastard of a guitar player Brian turns out to be a riff machine! After almost a year and a half in the band, he finally just sent us an old demo of a song he wrote! And this thing has KILLER riffs in it!!! The dude has to start sharing more!!! :-) 我们的吉他手Brian跟我们完了已经一年半...他今天才给我们听他自己做了一首歌!!! 是非常好听也有很多RIFF!!! (RIFF我不知道怎么说...) :-)
  
  2. Just read a great interview with the singer of H2O (arguably the best melodic hardcore band on this damn planet...) so if you have time please check it out - it's VERY long: click here 刚才看完了一个个很长的访问. 这个访问时跟一个很有名的melodic hardcore乐队叫H2O. 如果你们有时间话请过去看看! click here
  
  JUNE 24, 2008: DVDs
  
  I have officially gone DVD crazy...I'm announcing my sickness today so the world can be wary of me when I return to Hong Kong bringing back this new disease! hahahahahaha...I have bought so many goddam DVD's that I think I should be worried about crossing the border when I return in just over a week's time...
  
  Yesterday I watched the Beijing based movie called Lost in Beijing苹果...The movie is so good and I think the original uncut version is banned in China because it documents the infamous "massage parlors" in Beijing which only front as massage parlors but actually provide other "services". People who live in Hong Kong or in China what this is all about. Anyway, the movie totally turned out to be something that I wasn't expecting and was a great great movie...all the actors in this thing were incredible. Wong Ka Fai is already one of my favorite HK actors, and for him to take on this role just sets him in mind up there with Johnny Depp! And dude, Johnny Depp is the BOMB!!! Anyway...great movie...
  
  Then it rained here like torrential rain...my girlfriend got stuck outside in the rain on her way home...after that we went to celebrate our good friend SKO's bassist's birthday...that was a FUN night!!! Photos from it are all up on my facebook page again in part 2 and 3 of my Beijing trip albums: PART 2click here
  
  PART 3 click here
  Tonight I'm going to be watching SKO play...should be fun!
  
  我今天可以通告你们...我生病了...我的病是买DVD! hahahhaahaha...在北京太便宜了!!! 我已经买了很多!!! 我有点儿怕过关的时候会不会有点儿麻烦...算了下个礼拜先想...我昨天看了一个内地拍电影叫苹果...非常好看!!! 我几个礼拜前在香港在报纸看了一个review...我马上想买可是在香港我找不到..然后前天在李游家附近有个DVD店在哪儿我找到了...这部电影是关于中国的按摩地方...什么人都知道有些按摩地方不是就给按摩的服务...所以这部电影是说这个事情...部电影的故事非常感动...感动我想一想按摩里的人有什么样的生活...可能很多也有很幸苦的生活...如果你们有时间看可以看吧...很有意思...
  
  然后昨天晚上庆祝了我朋友SKO的Li Yo的生日! 你上载了照片可以上这两个link看看: PART 2click here
  
  PART 3 click here
  
  今天晚上我过去看SKO演出! should be fun!!!
  
  JUNE 23, 2008: ALMOST DIED TODAY!!!
  
  **LATE ADDITION**: 我刚才上载了我在北京的第一短片!!! 你可以上这个网站看看click here Just uploaded my first short video of being in Beijing...click on this link to check it out: click here
  
  ...eating a chicken wing! Dude...I'm not even joking or exaggerating hehehehehehe...Li Yo invited Alison and I over to his house for dinner today. He lives in the southern part of Beijing which he's really proud to mention is where in the olden days is where people were buried...and ever since we arrived in Beijing he's been telling us about this little restaurant under his house that serves the best chicken wings! So both Alison and I have been super excited to finally have some time to hang out with Li Yo and his wife, check out his house, and enjoy some of those chicken wings...
  
  When we arrived we first went up to his house to check out his pets - one is a dog whose name is MOSH hehehehehe...then he took us down to the chicken wing joint under his house...I started eating and thought I was all brave "The spiciest in the restaurant? Sure! I'll eat it with you!" His wife was like "I'm not eating that!" hehehehehe...but dude...once it arrived and I took one small bite, I swear I almost died! It was and still is the spiciest thing that has EVER entered my mouth!!! I just had 2 bites from this thing and I was done...tears were coming out of me like a little baby...I had to stand up and walk around because I couldn't calm my damn mouth down...then when the food went down into my tummy, I swear it was on fire and there was World War III taking place in there!!! IT WAS HELL!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahaha...I'll upload photos tomorrow...
  
  The night ended with us buying a HUGE amount of cheap DVD's so it turned out great! :-) Thanks Li Yo and Li Tai for inviting us over!!! It was a GREAT night!!!
  
  昨天晚上我吃了最辣的鸡wing (我忘了怎么说对不起)!!! 我从来没试过吃那么辣的东西!!! 辣到POK KAI AHHHHHHHHHH!!! 我们是上个礼拜到北京...一到李游有说他一定有带我们去看他的家还有去他家下面吃鸡wings...他说是他最喜欢吃的东西! 所以我们全礼拜很兴奋去过试试...我们先去了他家看他跟他的老婆的动物...他们有一个狗叫MOSH! hahahahahahaha...然后下去了吃鸡wings...我们已经很饿了所以点了很多不同的鸡wings...其中是叫"BT辣鸡 wings"...BT的意思变态!!! hahahahahahahaha...可是我以为我一定吃的了因为我真的可以吃的辣...可是我一放在我嘴巴里我开始哭!!! 我真的不知道怎么说我的感觉...我嘴巴马上有火的感觉...然后再我的肚子里好像是打挣!!! 我不会坐下...马上起来走走...走哪儿我不知道就知道我刚刚吃的东西是辣到POK KAI!!! oh my god...特辣!!! 然后去了买很多特便宜的DVD所以昨天真的是一个很好玩的一晚!!! 感谢李游和李太请我们上来看他们的家然后带我们去吃饭!!! :-) 明天上载照片和录影...
  
  在北京我已经过了一个礼拜...玩的那么开心怎么可以回香港... :-(
  
  JUNE 22, 2008: BEIJING METAL BAND SUFFOCATED
  
  刚才看完了北京metal乐队"窒息"...非常好看的表演...开场演出是 AK-47...不错...今天晚上演出是在MAO Livehouse...我们去年的四月份也在这里演过出...非常好的场地...今天的声音也不错...窒息非常牛b! :-)
  
  Just got back from watching the Beijing metal band Suffocated rip a new asshole at MAO Livehouse in Beijing! Awesome band...tight as hell...aggressive and in your face...the singer is AMAZING...great crowd control...
  
  我们很舊的朋友 "面包" 这几个月是在moov.com.hk的网站不停宣传我们! 她刚才发了email跟我说他放了我们 "亚洲起义" video在独立音乐页的第一版! 所以所有人一去看这里一定会看到我们的video!!! 非常感谢您面包!!! 知道这几年还有你的支持是非常开心的事! :-) 大家如果有空的话请过去他们网站看看吧! click here 请记住按 "独立" 音乐哪页...
  
  Our pal from YEARS ago Bread has really been working hard to promote us on the Moov.com.hk website!!! It's nice to have that type of support from such a HUGE website!!! Thanks Bread for sticking by us for so many years! She put our video up on the main indie band page so when you click there you'll automatically be hit with our video "Unite Asia"! :-) PRETTY DAMN COOL!!! To check it out please: click here
  
  DUDE! 到时间介绍一个hardcore乐队...这个乐队叫Verse...可能喜欢hardcore的朋友已经听过了.可是如果没有那请记住这个报告!!! hahahahaha...Check out this awesome hardcore band called Verse who're about to release their newest album entitled "Aggression"! I CAN'T WAIT!!! The whole album is currently available for streaming at the following link. 大家可以上这个网站听他们将会出的新作品叫"Aggression"： click here Great hardcore band, great lyrics, great music...特好hardcore乐队, 特好音乐, 特好歌词...
  
  Time to go to sleep...tomorrow we're going to Li Yo's house for dinner! :-) 到睡觉的时间...明天去李游的家吃晚饭!! :-) 他跟我女朋友说他家附近有很多古惑仔! hahahahahaha...OH! 在北京我见过什么人他马上会问我 "香港真的有古惑仔吗?" hahahahaha...可能这图电影在北京有很大的影响! hahahahaha...
  
  JUNE 21, 2008: SHORT BEIJING VIDEO UP NOW!!!
  
  I just uploaded a short Beijing video up on my facebook page...if you have time go over and check it out...really short...nothing to be too excited about but shows just how much fun I've been having here in Beijing. Am I dreading going back to HK in 2 weeks? Hell yeah...all good things have to come to an end at some point dude...我刚才上载了一个短片在我的facebook页到...如果你有时间的话可以看看...昨天我去了一个地方叫动物园...可是不是去看动物...我就是去动物园对面一个特大的商场...好像罗湖城一样可是还比那个商场大很多!!! 我们进去因为听人说里面的东西是很便宜因为是批发的东西...可是我们四点钟左右到店已经开始关门儿了...然后去这个三里屯喝点东西...在这儿还有很多地方还在建造所以特别髒...特多沙尘...可以说这样东西现在代表了北京的空气一样...我在北京已经过了一个礼拜可是还没习惯这里的空气...真的很悶热...有时候不会呼吸...滑板的时候更难呼吸...让我想之后有很多奥运会的运动员在北京怎么办! 然后我们跟alison的同学去了吃新疆菜...又吃新疆菜!!! hahahahaha...我特喜欢吃!!! 可是这次去的饭馆很特别!!! 一路吃饭一路有人表演!!! 如果你想看照片你可以上这个网站看看: click here
  
  然后Alison的同学Rose带我们去一间西式的酒吧...在这儿你可以一路喝东西一路打篮球, 打baseball！！！ 非常好玩的地方!!! 如果香港这样的酒吧就好了!!!
  
  今天晚上去看Suffocate演出！！！
  
  So I've just finished uploading a video and more photos to my facebook page...go up there to check them out...the link is: click here
  
  When the video's ready I'll let you all know...we we went to this awesome Xin Jiang restaurant last night that had crazy performances with belly dancers, singers, guitar players, and even a snake!!! WHAT?!?!?! So much fun...the belly dancer with the snake even put the damn thing around my neck!!! hahahaha...then we went to this bar that was way far away in the Eastern part of Beijing. It was a bar of course with drinks and a live band, but you can also play basketball here and baseball! WHAT??!?!?! ARE YOU KIDDING!!! Imagine if we had one of these places in HK dude!!! Our Friday nights would be even more fun...
  
  Good times man...tonight I'm going to watch Suffocate play!!! WOOHOO!!!
  
  JUNE 20, 2008: PHOTOS UP NOW!!!
  
  现在好像可以打中文！！！ 李游昨天介绍了一个新打拼音的program叫google pinyin...刚才下载了可是好奇怪。下载了之后看不到这个software...然后上了很多其他网站找办法看这个program... 现在找到了一个方法。如果我想用这个我要开很多别的的东西在control panel里面先可以用...反正可以打中文了!!! :-) 谢谢李游! hehehehehe...我上载了我在北京的照片。 你可以上这个网站看看click here 昨天又去了滑板...滑了几个小时然后去了新街口找一个朋友的hardcore店! 很不错!! 一看他的店知道他是跟我一样对hardcore很热情! :-) 他有很多records (对不起中文不知道怎么说...是很久听歌的东西是黑色的...)!!! 比方说, Sick of it All的Call to Arms, Snapcase的第一二唱片...和其他的...然后我们去了找东西吃...吃完了以后开始累了!!! 因为我这两天滑了太疯了!!! hahahahaha...差不多半年没有滑突然这两天滑的那么多真的对我身体不太好!!! 吃完饭我真的想回家可是今天晚上我们一起会庆祝我好朋友,Reflector的Ah Ye的生日! :-) 我真的好兴奋可是累死了...我们去了鼓楼大街附近一条路...跟大家昨天说那条路...在这Ah Ye订了一个酒吧开party...在这儿看到很多久朋友! Max (BMX的), 还有TJ, Li Peng, etc...真的很开心一晚...然后回家了...现在是第二天可是我全身还疼了!!! hahhahahaha...等一下去动物园买些东西! woohoo...okay - 现在太开心了可以打中文!!! PEACE!!!
  
  Got some photos of these past few days of my trip in Beijing: click here
  
  Dude...there's so much yet I forgot to tell you guys about!! I only remembered after uploading these photos!!! More coming soon...went skating again yesterday...I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO tired!!! Will write more later...need to sleep...
  
  JUNE 19, 2008: SKATEBOARDING IN BEIJING
  
  Yesterday I went skateboarding at Yu Yan Da Xue with my friend Rio (bass player of SKO)! It was fun skating in Beijing again! The last time I skated in Beijing was I think 4 years ago or something like that...I think Kevin was still in KLC back then!!! Long ass time ago...We skated and of course checked out all the girls that were getting out of class etc. hehehehehehehehe...Then slowly we were joined by more skaters which was cool. Two Korean skateboarders came up and we skated for awhile together until I started talking to him about Korea. I told him that my band King Ly Chee has played there and then he said "OH!!! I've seen your band in Seoul!" hahahahahaha!!! He said "I thought you looked familiar!!! I saw you guys play with Vassline, Johnny Royal, 13 Steps..." :-) WHAT A SMALL SMALL WORLD MAN!!! Oh my god...that was definitely a cool little day I had...
  
  Before skating I watched Rambo 4 finally! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!!! Even though Sylvester Stallone is an old bastard now...he was still awesome in this movie! Of course, I'm sure his total script was not even 2 pages in the entire movie hahahahahaha...but it was good. Definitely a lot more gory then I thought it would be - definitely would've worked for some death metal band's music video. hehehehehehe...
  
  Dude...I'm trying to upload photos here in Beijing but it's such a pain in the ass!!! The internet here is so slow for certain websites...some websites are super fast...others take FOREVER...I can't wait to show you all the awesome photos I've been taking walking around here!!! Okay...gotta get some food...oh, also just watched National Treasure part 2...GOOD movie...
  
  I think I'm skating some more today...then tonight is Reflector's drummer's Ah Ye's birthday party!!! Should be a good night!!! :-) I LOVE BEIJING!!! SO MUCH TO DO HERE!!!
  
  JUNE 18, 2008: WALLS OF JERICHO GETTING KILLED BY JANA
  
  Hahhahahaha...just found photos of my brother Jana from Malaysia kissing the singer of Walls of Jericho!!! Here's the link to the photo of him putting his digusting lips on the queen of hardcore's cheeks! :-) click here
  
  More on Walls of Jericho...new album can be streamed now...sounds fucking awesome...her voice is a lot lower sounding (thank god) so it sounds even better I think. The songs are heavy as hell...totally metal of course... :-)
  
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  Yesterday...more fun was had...and more "xin jiang cai" was eaten! hahahaha...I think I've successfully been able to eat xin jiang cai everyday since I've been in awesome Beijing. Yesterday I hung out with Paul and we met up with Recycle's Guo Feng who gave me a guitar that I could borrow for the few weeks I'm here. Guo Feng's a cool dude...he rides a bicycle everywhere :-) and is vegetarian which is cool too. Remember when being vegetarian, straight edge, or vegan was as much a part of being punk rock or hardcore as the music was? Then we went to this SICK SICK SICK practice place where they had walls full of Mesa Boogie FULL STACKS and 3 FULL AMPEG BASS AMPEGS!!! DUDE!!! I was so happy...I think I'll figure out how I can upload photos!!! And then send you the links for all these photos!!! IT WAS GREAT!!!
  
  Then we went back to Dong Si to check out this underground shopping place that sells crazy amounts of cool clothes etc...but the weird thing was, there were no shoppers. There was NO ONE visiting these stores except for Paul and I. Totally weird...another thing that's weird here is that shops close SOOOO early!!! Like crazy early...around 8pm! Most Beijing people are working until like 7 so how do these people go out and buy anything? They'd have to run to the stores to buy something...Li Yo says that's why people just wait for the weekends here...
  
  Met up with my favorite couple Li Yo and Li Tai again last night and of course they kept teaching me new words...I learned "xi fe-r" last night which means wife...and "bu ji ge-r" which is in one of Recycle's songs. The funny thing was that even Guo Feng didn't know what it meant! hahahaha...Our taxi driver had to explain it to him!!! :-)
  
  I'm having too much of a fun time here...ahhhhhhhhhhhhh...Beijing is so relaxed...people just hang out etc. Of course those that HAVE to work are working hard like Li Yo and his wife...which sucks for them...but at least it proves that soon Beijing's work-life is going to mirror HK's horrible, pressure-filled, anxiety-ladden, wake up-work-sleep and then repeat cycle until you die life.
  
  Going back to listen to the Walls of Jericho stuff...peace
  
  JUNE 17, 2008: SHOES
  
  So Li Tai told me to go check out this part of Beijing that is called "Dong Si" and this is a station on the purple line which my girlfriend loves to say "looks like Hong Kong's MTR line"! hahahahahaha...the only reason because it has those security doors on the platform like we do in HK. Anyway, this part of Beijing is pretty cool...lots of shoe stores so I'm excited! Actually, not that many but still pretty good shoe stores. One of the stores has Adidas shoes but the prices on some of these shoes were like 2,000RMB!!! WHAT?!??! That's CRAZY expensive. Then one store had Slayer Vans high-tops!!! WHAT?!??!?!?!?! DUDE!!! I almost got stupid and bought them!!! They were 900RMB for a pair of Slayer Vans high-tops! Li Yo, Paul and my girlfriend were all like you're crazy. So I didn't buy them in the end...but dude...they look SOOOOOOO good. Then we found a Nike store that had all sorts of awesome Nike shoes...they had the old school dunk high tops that I want and they're like 900RMB. I might get those...around the corner from there is this little alley street and we found Nike Air Max shoes for 280RMB!!! What?!?!? My girlfriend and I both bought a pair hehehehehehe...cheap as hell shoes. I had to do the unthinkable though - I had to throw away my black vans!!! :-( I've DESTROYED that pair of shoes since I got them in Korea many many years ago. Finally, the streets of Beijing showed no mercy and all the walking that we've done these past few days took its toll...the soles of the damn shoes were falling off.
  
  So that's what has been going on with me...got a bunch of DVD's too for dirt cheap. I'll finally be able to watch Rambo 4! Damn...haven't seen that yet. My girlfriend is dying to see the Sex and the City movie but that's not out here in DVD stores yet...then last night we got massages that were REAL massages not the so-called "massages" you get in Shenzhen (or in Dong Guan for you dirty bastards! hahahahahaha)...These dudes were licensed Chinese medicine practitioners and were analyzing every part of our foot to tell us what we're doing wrong in our lives. It was crazy...my big toe hurt especially hard so he said that I think WAY TOO MUCH. Hahahahahaha...I was like "Bro, I didn't need you to destroy my big toe to tell me that. You could've just asked..." hahahahaha...
  
  Then crashed early while watching one of the DVD's Fool's Gold...pretty funny movie...
  
  Today I'm excited because I'm meeting Guo Feng from one of my favorite Nei Di punk bands Recycle...then tonight I'm going to watch my bro Li Yo's band Unregenerate Blood practice!!! They've got a new drummer and guitar player so can't wait to meet them! :-)
  
  JUNE 16, 2008: LI YO...
  
  Hung out with my brother Li Yo and his wife Li Tai last night!!! Love these two...such great people with great hearts...they taught me so many new mandarin words and terms that i think my head's going to explode!!! hahahaha...I should have a notebook and start writing EVERYTHING they say down...plus they're teaching me beijinghua so I'm getting everything all mixed up!! DAMN!!! :-) I found out what my Mandarin name is...instead of calling me "Riz" people here call me "rui zi" hahahahaha...awesome! :-)
  
  He also downloaded the new Terror album already and oh my god...it sounds SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good!!! The recording itself is better then any of the previous records...gotta get the CD when I get back to HK so I can check out the lyrics and see what they're singing about. I finally also got the Hatebreed "Supremacy" album and even this album is not my favorite - the CD booklet has SO MANY cool things in it. There are song explanations, and there is a HUGE LONG story that the singer Jamey has written about his thoughts while making this album and everything he was going through!!! IT'S AMAZING!!! That to me is hardcore...not a bunch of rockstars playing music, but real music made by real everyday people who have to deal with up's and down's of daily life...
  
  Going back to watch my CCTV television...hahahahaha...seeya...
  
  JUNE 15, 2008: IN BEIJING NOW!!!
  
  It's nice to be here and out of Hong Kong that's all I have to say. But I went through hell getting up here!!! hahahahaha...as always is the story of my life right? Yesterday while waiting for my flight, there was no announcement that my gate was actually changed! So I'm sitting there for my 12:30 flight (which was already delayed) and kept waiting and there was no announcement on the speaker, or any announcement on the screens about my flight. Finally at 12:50 and I went up to the attendants and said what happened to my flight? She said "Oh sorry! Your flight already left!" I WAS LIKE WHAT?!??!! LEFT?!?!?! She said that the gate was changed to a different gate and that I missed the flight. Dude, I was PISSED. So I went and yelled at the Dragonair staff (this airlines sucks!!!) and they told me that they'll get me on another flight immediately. I said what about my luggage? They said don't worry the luggage was taken off and will follow you on your flight. I knew there was going to be a problem with this though...I could feel it...
  
  Anyway, the rest of the flight was fine. Got to sit next to a hot Filipino chick that I told my girlfriend about! hahahahaha...then when we landed at the Beijing airport the first thing I noticed was how amazing this new airport looked!!! HOLY CRAP!! The new Beijing airport is amazing...it's beautiful, huge, clean, VERY VERY modern...then I went over to immigration and of course got in line in the "Chinese Nationals" line and this always looks funny because I don't look Chinese but I'm a Chinese national. The immigration staff were so confused as always. Then they spoke to me in Mandarin and kept complimenting my Chinese which was very nice :-)...then they asked me "ni shenmen shihou jiaru le zhong guoren" and i just replied "ji nian le yinwei wo shi xianggang zhangda!" which they thought was amusing...
  
  Anyway, I arrived at the airport and as expected they lost my luggage...fucking sucked man!! So I had to wait for hours and hours before my luggage arrived to my house where I was staying. It arrived finally at 3am! hahahahaha...Paul my brother and KLC's Mainland manager picked me up which was nice! I love this dude...brother 4 life...
  
  Okay...I am very excited to be away from HK for 3 weeks. Some stuff happened before I left and I just need to be away so I can relax and not think too negative. So hopefully after 3 weeks of not talking to anyone in HK I'll feel better and rekindle my love for the place. Who knows...
  
  Alright...gotta go out and get some food!!! Peace!!!
  
  我到了北京!!! 昨天的旅行真的庭麻煩!!!我坐了港龍航空公司..是一個非常差的航空公司!!!
  
  My stupid Chinese software on my laptop isn't working!!! TING MA FAN!!! Sorry dajia...
  
  JUNE 12, 2008: BOOKS
  
  God...because of my master's degree course, I haven't read a book in years...I have to do so much damn reading for my degree, that I don't have time to read a REGULAR book...
  
  But I'm done with my classes and yesterday I bought two books for the first time in years...so excited to start reading these...one book in particular is called The Reluctant Fundamentalist...GREAT GREAT book...I started reading it yesterday and I'm already almost half done. I just couldn't put the book down once I started reading. The book is about a Pakistani, who is incredibly smart and does well in school in Pakistan. So he gets into a prestigious university in the US and begins to make a life for himself there. But at the same time experiences being "different" and what it's like to be Pakistani growing up in an American culture while trying to accept the culture there as his own, but at the same time not being able to let go of his own culture. Can't explain it...obviously, for even more obvious reasons, I feel a connection to this book...
  
  Beijing beijing beijing...can't wait...Paul has already given me an order to get something for him!!! hehehehehehehe...I'll check in Tom Lee dude...
  
  JUNE 11, 2008: 北京!!!
  
  Thank god...I get to leave HK for a few weeks!!! I'm going to Beijing this Saturday and staying with my beautiful girlfriend who has been there for about 2 weeks now...I've already sent my CV to some places in Beijing and hopefully I'll be able to teach English while I'm there and make some money!!! Hahahahahaha...I'll see what happens. It'll be nice to have a part time job there for a few weeks...
  
  這個禮拜六我將會上去北京!!! 好興奮終於有機會離開香港幾個禮拜!!! 我女朋友兩個禮拜前已經上去了, 所以我會陪她...我已經發了我的CV給幾個教育公司...希望有機會找工作! 在北京教英文應該很好玩! 有機會掙一點兒錢也不錯嗎!? ha