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Updated daily by: Riz
*The thoughts written in this diary only represents those people who wrote them (Riz) and does NOT represent King Ly Chee. This band is made up of individuals with their own ideas and thoughts...sometimes they agree with each other, and sometimes they don't. this is what hardcore and punk rock and has always been about...discussion and a sharing of views.
以下之日記純屬個人看法 並不代表樂隊立場 (如果你看到很难明白的中文或者觉得完全不知道想说什么, 是因為所有稍息是Riz寫的!!! 如果你不明我寫什麼, 那我要道歉! 我就是想練習用写)
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JUNE 25, 2009: LONG DAY

Dude - had an insanely long day yesterday...happy it's WAY over...and excited because today I'm watching the new Transformers movie!!! OH YEAH!!! 昨天的日子太长了。。。很开心昨天已经完了。。。今天我跟我办好朋友将会看最新transformers!!! 太期待了!!!

So for the past 2 weeks I've been running everynight and it is GRUELING! It has been insanely grueling because I keep trying to push myself and run a bit more and pick up mypace. These past 3 days I've been doing almost 50 minutes at a good pace so I'm VERY proud of myself! :-) 这两个礼拜我每晚出去跑步。真的很辛苦。。。我每晚就推动我自己跑的再长一个路,然后我慢慢加速度。。。这三天我终于开始跑了差不多五十分钟。三天前我跑了一个小时!

可是我最开心是我跑的路:Actually, the proudest part is the running route that I have:

1. Start under my house on Ashley Road 在我家下开始 (
亞士厘道
2. Run to the Star Ferry (TST of course) 尖沙咀天星码头的方向跑
3. Run along the harbor passed everything...然后全尖沙咀的海边跑 (我们这里有一条路 - 包括这个挺无聊的“星光大道” - 十分无聊的达到)
4. Run up the pedestrian walkway that takes you to Hung Hom 然后跑上一个行人天桥向
紅磡的方向)
5. Run along the inner road of the harbor towards the Hung Hom Ferry Pier 在
紅磡的海边跑到紅磡码头的方向
6. Run to the Hung Hom Ferry Pier and then turn around 到了
紅磡码头然后转回去尖沙咀天星码头。。。
7. Do the same route but backwards all the way back to Star Ferry Pier...到了天星码头的便利店买一个挺大瓶水!!!哈哈哈哈。。。。

I do this all in about 45 minutes!!! Pretty excited about that...even more exciting - I bumped into our old awesome drummer Kevin last night and he has lost CRAZY weight!!! And he said he's been running along the TST harbor too! hahahahaha...great minds think alike! :-) 我这个路大概四十五分钟左右可以做得到。真的很兴奋!!!昨天晚上我跟alison逛逛的时候撞到我们以前非常厉害的鼓手kevin.我一见到知道他也有减肥!然后他说因为他每晚有跑步!他跑的路跟我差不多!哈哈哈哈。。。可是他跑的时间比我晚很多!大概晚上的三点钟!哈哈哈哈哈。。。

Yesterday - I fell in love with the Hatebreed album "Rise of Brutality" again...I forgot how good this album was...Great album - awesome simple as fuck lyrics..their lyrics have spoken to me especially this year..我昨天做gym的时候再爱上了hatebreed的舊唱片叫rise of brutality。。。太牛逼了。。。歌词有简单 - 也代表的我的心。especially今年。。。

So Brian called me yesterday in the afternoon and I could tell he was very excited about something! Hahahahahaha...he started by saying 昨天brian有打电话给我。我一听到他的声音知道很兴奋!:

"Hey you know a famous Taiwanese singer named
范曉萱。你认识这个台湾的歌手吗 范曉萱?"
I said, "Nope...never heard of him" 我回答,“没有”
He then said, "Well he's a HUGE singer and basically every single HK person knows who he is..." 然后他说,“反正在香港差不多每个人一定听过这个歌手!他是非常出名的。”
I replied, "Okay" 我说,“哦”
He then said, "Well the reason I'm telling you about him is that he's in Hong Kong for some show and he was just doing an interview on the radio. The DJ asked him if he knows any Hong Kong bands. The first band he said was Beyond, then the second band he said was King Ly Chee!!!" 然后他说,“我提他的原因是他现在是在香港宣传的演出。他刚才是电台做个访问。这个电台的主持人有问他 ‘你认识什么香港的乐队?’。然后他有说"我认识beyond.............还有king ly chee"!!!!
I replied "WHAT?!?!??! That's pretty cool!!!"我回答,“真的吗?!?!??!?!非常酷!!!”

I could tell Brian was very proud about this! We were named AFTER Beyond?!?!?! WHAT?!?!?! That's crazy!!! It's awesome that people outside of Hong Kong know who we are! We haven't heard our name mentioned on the radio in a very LONG time so that was very nice of this person to name us...我感觉到brian对这件事挺proud. 这代表荔枝王就在他的心里有一个很深的位子。:-) 这个歌手放了我们的名字在beyond之后?!??!!真的很酷!!

If you read this website (yeah right - hahahahaha), we're still here after 10 years!!! The players may have changed a million times, but the heart's the same and like I've written in many songs these past 10 years, there's NO GIVING UP FOR ME NO MATTER WHAT.
范曉萱 - 如果你有看我们这个网站(我知道不可能哈哈哈)那我想告诉你 - 我们还在!!!十年后我们还在!当然成员变了很多次 - 可是这个乐队的态度和目标还没变!!!在我们很多歌词里你可以看我们的最重要一个态度 - 无论如何我们永远不会放弃!

:-)

JUNE 23, 2009: TRANSFORMERS 2, TIME MAGAZINE, DAVE LOMBARDO...

Yo...13 of us are going to be watching the new and definitely awesome Transformers on Thursday at 9:45pm!!! It is GOING to be awesome for sure!!! FOR SURE!!! To all those of you who don't see or understand the beauty of Transformers - I only have 2 words for you: YOU SUCK!!! hahahahahahahahaha...just kidding...no really, you suck...just kidding...no, really...You have to all go check out this amazing website www.transformersmovie.com .太兴奋了!!!我们十三个兄弟这个礼拜四将会过去看最新的Transformers!!!我真的很期待这部电影!!如果你是一位不觉得transformers的电影有什么特别 - 那我只有一个句子给你们听 - 你是一个笨蛋!!!哈哈哈哈哈。。。就是开玩笑。。。可是我真的觉得你是一位笨蛋。。。哈哈哈。。。再说笑。。。真的。。。笨蛋。。。呵呵呵!

Here's an awesome interview with Slayer's legendary drummer Dave Lombardo...great interview 这里有个非常好看的访问。是跟slayer的鼓手: AWESOME INTERVIEW!!!

I have been subscribing to news magazines like Time for many many years...I think any singer of a heavy band (especially hardcore) that doesn't read news-related media (whether that be magazines, newspapers, websites, etc) is SOOOOO weird. What the hell do you write about when you don't read? How can you present an educated argument when you don't do any homework to prepare support and evidence for your songs? 好的 - 到了我今天最想说的题目。我真的不知道我怎么可以用中文代表我所想说的事情。。。可是我会尽量试一试。。。

我这几年订
本杂志叫Time。。。大家一定听过了这本杂志呢。(可是真的说,我不明白一般在玩重音乐的注音不喜欢看关于世界新闻的书或者网站或者杂志。。。如果你是在一个硬核乐队唱歌你还不看这样的东西?挺奇怪。。。那你的歌通常是关于什么?如果是关于社会的问题那你为什么不会看多点书,等等,拿到多点资料可以支持你的歌的立场?你说话的时或者唱歌的时最重要是有证明支持你所说和唱的东西。。。这样你才有力量改变你想改变的事情。对不起 - 这就是我的看法。你不喜欢我这样说 - 那对不起了。

反正 - 我为什么提了这件事是因为这期的time杂志是我最喜欢的。。。真的。我从来没有看过一期time比这个好。

这期他们的重点是在1989年所发生的事。当然 - 一说1989那我们在中国里住的人一定会一定想起一件事。可是,当年还有挺多东西发生!!!全地球真的有非常重要的东西发生!!!

这期他们有提当年的每一件发生的事!!!真的我看完每一个文章我觉得我的人聪明了一点点!!!:-) 写文章的记者全部是当年还在每个地方的人。。。挺好看。。。他们说见过的东西 -挺有意思。。。

如果你们可以买这本杂志的话快点去买了!!!本杂志的封面是:
1989 - 20 Years Ago, The World Changed

Anyway, this latest issue of Time magazine is the best issue I have read EVER. The entire issue is about all the events that took place in 1989. Of course when we all think about 1989 the main incident that comes to mind is what happened in Beijing. But, we all forget the many MANY other things that happened all over the world that same year!!! And this issue of Time talks about every single incident that took place all over the world and the articles are written by people who were actually THERE!!!

Honestly, with every article I read in this issue, I felt myself get that much more smarter, and definitely more cultured and educated...it's a great feeling. If you have a chance - then go get this issue...the issue is called - 1989 - 20 Years Ago, The World Changed.

Damn - now I have to translate all that...shit.

JUNE 21, 2009: WU TANG CLAN!

Hahahahaha...this has what's been playing in my Ipod this past week这个礼拜我ipod就播放这些乐队的音乐 :

Wu Tang Clan
Chui Ball Tong www.myspace.com/chuiballtong
Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack
Taking Back Sunday (the song "Sink into Me" is a SUPER WELL WRITTEN SONG!! 这是他们最新的唱片。。。他们其中一首歌叫"sink into me"是一个非常好听的歌!做的非常好!)

But I'm especially high on having Wu Tang Clan serenading me when I go on my daily jogs...hehehehehe..."if you want beef then bring the raucus - Wutang Clan Ain't Nothing to Fuck Wit"...SOOOOO good hehehehe...可是我最开心听是wu tang clan!!! 哈哈哈哈。。。很久没听过他们的音乐。。。我不知道我为什么突然很想听他们的音乐。。。因为我真的很久没有听。。。可是我这个礼拜跑步的时候最舒服是听他们的音乐跑步。。。

Last night we celebrated our guitar player Kent's birthday in Hong Kong!!! Great great night...HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROTHER! 前天我们有庆祝我们吉他手kent的生日!!!生日快乐兄弟!!!

This coming week - new Killswitch Engage, new Set Your Goals, and the best - TRANSFORMERS 2!!! I CANNOT WAIT TO WATCH THIS MOVIE!!! 这个礼拜有新唱片 - killswitch engage, set your goals, 可是最期待是transformers 2!!!!

And then Alison and I leave HK (THANK GOD!!!) on Friday night for the beautiful world of the Philippines - Cebu and Bohol!!! Can't wait...a week with Alison anywhere in the world is the best thing in the world..然后这个礼拜五我跟alison会去菲律宾旅游!!!可以再离开香港是一个非常兴奋的事情。。。可是跟alison去什么地方都可以 - 最重要是跟她一起...

JUNE 19, 2009: IRON MAIDEN FLIGHT 666 DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH MY GOD!!! If you are a TRUE fan of metal then you HAVE to watch this DVD!!! This is a DVD following Iron Maiden when they want their HUGE world tour where the singer actually flew the plane that took them from stop to stop!!! (Hence the name Flight 666)...大家爱金属音乐的兄弟姐妹需要马上去看Iron Maiden的最新DVD!!! 这DVD是关于他们最新全地球的巡演!!!他们巡演的时候是他们的注音Bruce Dickinson开飞机!!!从一个占到第二个站都是开飞机!!!

I just can't believe how HUGE this band is...of course I knew they were huge...when I first got into them I was a 12 year old little kid and just wanted to listen to some good metal...and they were the best at the time to me. Now I listen back to all their stuff and I can't believe just HOW GOOD THEY WERE!!! There's still no metal/melodic band that is better then Iron Maiden in my eyes...我真的不相信这个乐队是那么大!!!当然我十二岁的时候第一次听他们的唱片我已经知道他们是金属音乐里面其中一个最厉害的乐队。可是你看这个dvd的时候你真的不相信他们有那么多人也支持他们!!!你还有记得他们从来没有一个主流电台节目支持他们的音乐和乐队。。。所以他们有那么多歌迷是因为这般支持者是真的支持这个乐队的音乐!!!非常好的感觉 因为我也是其中一个Iron Maiden的支持者!!! UP THE IRONS!!!

To think that that this band got so big without ever being played on mainstream radio or TV is just unbelievable...

You all HAVE to watch this DVD ASAP!!!

 

JUNE 18, 2009: NANJING NANJING南京南京

So I finally watched this movie...我昨天终于看了这部电影。。。

I had to brace myself before I watched it. I actually had to sit down and be mentally prepared for all the things that I was about to see. I read "The Rape of Nanjing" many many years ago and in that book I had to put it down MANY times because of all the horrible things that happened to the poor Chinese people of this city...The book was written in such graphic detail that it scared me from continuing to read the book. But to better understand history, we can't run away from what happened so I built up the courage and continued to read the book. 看这部电影之前我用了一点儿时间准备我自己。我有准备我自己的心态因为我已经听了不少人说这部电影的镜头是非常非常清楚。。。我几年前有看了一本书叫“The Rape Of Nanjing”。。。这本书是非常非常恐怖。我看这本书的时候差不多有嘔几次。。。这个那么恐怖的事情怎么可以发生?!?!有时候我真的不想继续看这本书。。。可是如果我们要学东西,学怎么做好人,那我们不可以隐瞒很敏感的事情。。。所以我有force自己继续看。

I needed to do the same thing as I watched this movie. Every few minutes I would look at the clock hoping that that movie was almost over...but it kept going...我看这部电影跟我那本书一样需要force自己继续看。没几分钟我会看着我的钟希望这部电影只有多几分钟然后完了。。。可是没有。。。过了一个很恐怖的镜头又到另外一个恐怖的镜头。。。

I think just like all the movies made about the holocaust, this is another movie that everyone SHOULD watch to better understand the evil that transpired in Nanjing. 我觉得跟“大屠杀”的电影一样 - 全世界有看“南京南京”。。。全世界有看这个时候在这个城市发生了什么恐怖的东西。。。

The evil that is inherent in all human beings is really scary....这个地球的涉恶的人真的太多了。。。很恐怕现代应该还有很多一样那么涉恶的人。。。这样的事会不会再发生呢?可是已经有了 - 近几年前在非洲的国家叫盧安達.........

JUNE 17, 2009: GUANGZHOU, NEXT STOP CEBU and BOHOL!!! 玩完广州!下一站菲律宾的海滩城市:宿霧和保和島!!!

Alison and I had a GREAT time in Guangzhou this past weekend...we went there especially to go shopping in Guangzhou's wholesalers market where things are cheap AS HELL and they have million and millions of things out there. She managed to walk away with quite a few jems so that was great. Other then that, of course we had to go up to EAT!!! And eat what you might ask? Xin Jiang Cai!! We ate there the first night with our bro He Hee and his girlfriend. That was awesome...good food good company...我跟我女朋友上个周末去了广州玩几天。。。我们的目的就是去广州的批发市场!!!挺大!!!比北京的大很多!!!他们这边的东西挺多。。。价钱挺低。。。她买了很多衣服所以这个经验对她来说真的不错!!!我们的兄弟hee hee有带我们去批发市场。去广州当然需要吃东西了!!吃什么东西?你认识的活你知道 - 一定是吃新疆菜!!!我们第一个晚上去了吃新疆菜。。。挺好。。。挺饱!!!哈哈哈哈。。。吃完了我们去了荔湾区的沙面。。。dude...这里是十分好看也很舒服。。。这边的建筑全部很舊的。我很喜欢的建筑所以见到全一区都是这样 - 我是挺开心。。。

Next week - Alison and I are going back to the Philippines and hanging out in Cebu and Bohol!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED ABOUT THIS!!! I just hope it's not raining the whole time we're there...but we're on the beach so even if it rains it'll still be fine...我很期待下个礼拜!!!我跟alison会去菲律宾的两个海滩城市:
宿霧和保和島。我已经上了很多网站看这两个地方有什么好玩。。。太多了!!!很多水上玩的东西。。。

Hong Kong news - we're finally practicing this weekend!!! Not just one or two of us - but the WHOLE BAND!!! Woohoo!!! Got Egas' MSN message yesterday very simply written like this "THIS WEEKEND!" hahahahahahaha...can't wait to see everyone again! :-) 香港新闻:我们这个周末终于会排练!!!我们去菲律宾巡演之后没有排练过!!!很期待再看到荔枝王的成员。。。

Now - I have been following this Mui Wo rehab school issue for the past week and I have very mixed feelings about it. My first reaction is that the people of Mui Wo who are complaining about this school being moved there as being very unsupportive, uncaring, unkind, to these poor kids who are hooked on drugs and NEED a place where they can rehabilitate themselves and then one day enter society again. But these poor kids are probably listening to all these Mui Wo residents complaining and wondering if society hates them. 我这几天有跟着这个在
梅窩开一个吸毒人員康復中心。边的市民是非常反对开这个中心。。。他们的道理是他们自己的学校已经太多小朋友了 - 他们这边需要多一点普通的学校。可是昨天的新闻说其实这边的本地的学生真的不是很多。政府那么少数量的学生不值得开一个普通学校为了那么少的学生。

The news has mentioned that the residents' main complaint is that their schools are already overcrowded and they want the government to open a school for the RESIDENTS first before they open this school to rehabilitate drug addicts. But then yesterday's newspaper says that the actual number of people who attend schools in Mui Wo is such a small number that it doesn't make sense to open a school for them.

我就是觉得我们这个"公众”和“社会”的意思没有了。。。这边的市民应该有想一想这个中心是服务谁?这个中心是服务香港的年轻人。。。这般年轻人开始吸毒然后不会放弃这个毒品 - 他们最需要是我们大家的支持帮他们找办法放弃这样的生活。所以他们需要一个这样的地方。。。他们可以在这里过几年然后一天可以再返回社会!这样的事情是一个非常有意义的事情。。。大家应该有欣然接受这个机会帮他人 - 帮下一时代的年轻人。。。这般年轻人可能已经经历过很多不好的事情为了他们这个吸毒的问题。。。可能他们的家人已经放弃了他们或者社会里的人也已经放弃了他们。。。如果他们没有什么希望 - 我怕他们会怎么样再或者?没有一个东西推动他们继续生活。。。

这就是我的想法。。。如果你们不同意,当然没有问题。。。我们这里有言论自由 - 你们想说什么就说。。。当然最好听的意见通常是成熟的意见 - 有看过新闻,有看过其他网站,有读过书,才建立你自己的意见。因为这样才是一个成熟人的方法想一想东西。。。
The point is that this whole feeling of "community" seems lost in today's society. We no longer think of our neighbors or other citizens as part of a "community" that we should be ready to help and look out for. These poor children who are addicted to drugs need our help...they've probably been shunned from their families, have been looked down at by society, and we need to do all we can to help them through this turbulent time, provide them with the skills they need in order to be able to rejoin society later on...

Those are my thoughts....

JUNE 12, 2009: SCHOOLS CLOSED学校停了。。。


So suddenly schools closed yesterday so we had to quickly say goodbye to the children...Wasn't a very sad day because I've got a very exciting 2 years coming up at HKIS so I'm excited about all of that...I'll see most of these kids next year anyway since I'm also moving up to the first grade...昨天突然我们全港的幼儿园停了因为这个猪病毒。。。今天应该是我们跟小朋友的最后一天。。。但是我不是不开心 -因为我明学年有个很兴奋新的位子。。。很多今年的小朋友我明年都会见到。。。

Tomorrow my girlfriend and I are going up to Guangzhou!!! Can't wait to spend a few days there and eat Xinjiang cai!!! :-) See you in GZ my friends!!! 明天我跟alison会上去广州玩几天!!!很兴奋再可以上去。。。希望我会见到我的广州的兄弟!!!

If you're into good legendary punk/hardcore then check out the player below...it's a bunch of bands covering a legendary punk/hardcore band called Kid Dynamite...they were such an awesome band!如果你想听一对很有历史的punk/hardcore乐队你们马上听下面的link...就是一对叫Kid Dynamite...可是下面的全部其他乐队cover他们的歌:

 

JUNE 10, 2009: SINGAPORE HARDCORE BAND星加坡硬核乐队 - OVERTHROWN

Overthrown is a KICK ASS Singaporean hardcore band that plays hardcore in the vein of Strife. Strife to me is one of the best 90's era hardcore bands and to know there's a band in Asia that is greatly influenced by them is AWESOME! hehehehe...Overthrown是一对非常牛b的硬核乐队。。。他们是从星加坡来的 - 我们好像在2004年左右有跟他们演过出。。。如果你们喜欢九十年代Victory Records那些硬核 - 你们一定会挺喜欢这个乐队!!! (他们很像Strife!!! 我挺喜欢Strife!!!)

They've released an album and you can hear songs from this album on their myspace 他们刚才出了他们新唱片 - 你们可以上他们的myspace听听:

http://www.myspace.com/overthrownlchc

Tonight - Bridged takes over HK at The Wanch! Come support young dudes in an awesome Hong Kong hardcore band!!! 9pm...今天晚上我们香港硬核乐队Bridge会在湾仔演出。。。酒吧叫The Wanch - 他们会在九点钟左右演。

China will now require all computers sold inside China to come with software that will block websites... :-( That is so sad...it is so sad that a government is so scared that it's people will find information on the internet that will influence them. Maybe info about VIIV, or other corruption, or other people in China who are also angry or upset about things. 内地的政府现在会开始要求所有内地里卖的电脑点装一个软体。。。这个软体会堵很多内地人上很多网站。。。我觉得这个是一个非常差的事情。。。我也是一听到就觉得很不开心。。。内地的政府为什么那么怕他们自己的市民?他们怕什么呢?在网页上有什么资料他们不想他们市民看呢?如果他们的市民看到 - 会有什么问题呢? 除非有些资料会代表政府的错和孵化和缺点。。。。所以不像市民看得到。

一天内地的政府会不怕他们的市民。。。一到那天 - 全内地的同胞终于可以享受我们香港所有的自由。。。

One day the Chinese government won't be scared of it's own people...that's the day where Chinese people in China will FINALLY have all the freedoms that we enjoy in HK.

JUNE 8, 2009: LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL!!!

Yes!!! This is my last week as a full-time TA!!! NEVER AGAIN!!! WOOHOO!!! Starting next school year I will be a half-time teacher and a half-time TA...needless to say I am SUPER excited about it...非常开心。。。这个礼拜是我最后做专职TA的位子。。。我明年的学年(今年的八月开始)我会开始我新的位子 - 就是一般专职老师,一般专职ta...我等了很久!!!挺开心终于到这一天。。。

But what I'm excited about is that KLC right now has 15 new songs...oh my GOD...of course some of these songs have been sitting around for a couple years now...but since we've got Egas, Ho and Ken in the band - the energy to write more stuff has been coming out of nowhere...可是最开心的事是我们荔枝王已经有了十五首新歌!!!十五首!!!我们现在等我们的兄弟egas考完试然后我们可以正式开始录音!!!

Honestly, I miss these bastards...we don't see each other and I personally haven't even been in the bandroom since BEFORE we went to the Philippines! Holy shit!!! That's a LONG ASS time ago!!! But I don't want to go up until both Egas and Ken are back and so we can finally rock out with the FULL King Ly Chee...我很想荔枝王的成员。。。我从去菲律宾之后还没上过我们的band房。。。我想等到全队可以排练才会上去。。。

So anyway...Killswitch Engage has released a video of their newest song...this song is CRAZY POP!!! hahahaha...there's nothing metal about it at all I think. But you know what? Who fucking cares!!! This is such a great song - and honestly, I don't listen to Killswitch Engage for my moshing needs - I listen to Killswitch Engage for this INSANELY good choruses. And yes, this song has an AMAZING chorus...the song is called "Starting Over" (pretty damn emo...hehehehe...)...good song though!!! Killswitch Engage上载了他们新手流行歌 - 哈哈哈哈。。。不是流行歌,我就是觉得挺像一首在电台一定可以拨的一首个。。。可是虽然没有什么metal的风格 - 这首歌真的是非常好听。。。他们每次做的chorus是挺好听。。。你们可以上这个link看他们的最新MV:http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=121469

Okay - so our young little bros who are quickly becoming the next generation torch bearers of Hong Kong Hardcore hahahahaha...Bridged are playing a show this Wednesday at The Wanch!!! Seeing that they're actually too young to be allowed into The Wanch - we all have to go there and support this young hardcore band!!! :-) See you all there on Wednesday!!!我们的兄弟香港硬核乐队Bridged这个礼拜三在一个酒吧叫wanch将会演出。虽然他们的成员还没到十八岁!哈哈哈哈哈。。。大家支持hardcore的朋友一定有过去支持下!!! :-)

Peace...

JUNE 5, 2009: WHAT A HISTORIC BEAUTIFUL NIGHT!!!

No...not for as long as I live will I forget last night...我永远不可以忘昨天晚上的行动。。。

I will tell my children and their children that I was there when 150,000 people took part in an emotional and memorable candlelight vigil. 我一定会跟我将来的儿女说和跟他们的儿女说 - 你的爸爸有去过参加这个那么感动和激动的一晚。。。Macau also had one!!! 澳门也有一个活动!!!挺开心看到在多一个中国里面的城市会有这样的行动。。。 There are pictures of the Macau event online as well!!! That is wonderful that Macau also had an event commemorating this incident...

Later on that night I had a great conversation with my brother Joe in Mensheng...this event has led both of us to think of SO MANY things...

NEVER FORGET.

JUNE 4, 2009: 20 YEARS TODAY二十周年...YOU ALL WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN。。。我们永不会忘记你们牺牲的行为。。。

See you tonight at Victoria Park...今天晚上在香港的维园见。。。记住你们的雨衣或者雨伞。。。bring your raincoats, umbrellas, just in case...

When it rains tonight - it's as if all the souls of those people who lost their lives fighting for what they believe in are crying as well...如果下雨的话。。。我觉得的雨会像二十年前牺牲他们生命行动的人是在哭着。。。

Never forget...毋忘VIIV。

希望所有香港人会继续珍惜我们所有自由。。。我们很多内地的同胞这几天已经上不到很多网站。。。每次这样很铭感的日子 - 他们会经这样的行动。。。希望我们会继续明白我们住在香港住的很幸运。I hope all of us HK people will remember how lucky we are to be living in a city where all our freedoms are still intact. These past few days all our of our families and friends up in Mainland China have not been able to get onto a lot of websites...any time a sensitive date comes like today's one - they have their lives interrupted by these types of things.

Please always remember and cherish what we have in HK...

JUNE 2, 2009: HONG KONG HARDCORE BAND: BRIDGED!!!!

Oh yeah!!! FINALLY some actual Hong Kong hardcore news!!! Our lovely bros in the Hong Kong hardcore band called Bridged has finally uploaded some songs on their myspace!!! I'm so excited to hear these songs and the song Victory is killer!!! Please check them out on their myspace and keep in mind, these guys are only 14 to 16 years old!!! 终于有本地香港硬核的消息!!真的说好像已经过了几十年才有些香港硬核的消息。。。反正现在有了!!!我们的兄弟Bridged终于上载了他们几首歌!!!我已经等了很久 - 现在非常高兴终于可以听他们的歌。他们的一首个叫"victory"是很牛b!你听他们的歌的时候请记住他们的成员就是从十四岁到十六岁!!!挺年轻!!!真有希望!

BRIDGE: www.myspace.com/bridgedofficial



I feel like it's been FOREVER since we've written about anything remotely hardcore related in Hong Kong. Truth be told - nothing much has happened hardcore related...no new bands, no new shows...it's a weird little place. It's especially weird for me because once upon a time there was an AMAZING little scene going on here...I can almost pinpoint EXACTLY when it all started going South. But I'll keep that to myself. I just read STW's awesome little blog that they posted on their myspace and as I was reading it I thought to myself "Oh my gosh, I remember I used to write that after every SINGLE Hong Kong show we used to play!" I really was so grateful back then to all those people who supported us and went absolutely CRAZY for us. They don't anymore. But at least they're STILL going crazy for our fucking great friends in STW and allowing them to experience the passionate supportive years that we used to have once a long time ago. 我觉得这几年的香港是很奇怪的几年。。。我还记得有一个时候香港的地下情况是非常厉害 - 很有热情,很有诚意。。。(其实我还记得那一个刻开始坏了。。。)一开始坏 - 那种很诚实的感觉很难可以回来了。。。可以回来吗?很难说。。。我刚刚看完我们另外兄弟的乐队shepherds the weak的blog. 我看他们所写的时候我开始想 - 我们很久以前也有一模一样的感觉。玩完每一场本地的演出我也会这样写 - 因为我很感谢和感激他人对我们的支持和热情。。。我们当时支持者的支持真不可比较。。。当时我们就是感觉到什么叫“真支持”。。。可惜 - 那时候本地香港支持荔枝王的感觉已经没有了。。。

反正我们对我们兄弟STW挺兴奋因为他们有机会感觉到这样很热情的支持!!:-) 是挺好的感觉!谢谢大家支持我们全香港最近的兄弟!!!STW加油!!!

Thank you for continuing to support our family in Shepherds the Weak!!

MAY 31, 2009: HK HAS GONE CRAZY香港有病了

Yes, all my friends know that I am not a big fan of Hong Kong anymore. Especially not like I used to be...我们最近的朋友知道我最近对香港没有什么好的感觉。我以前对香港的爱情差不多没有了。。。今年是更加幸苦的一年。。。

This week - I have especially NOT been a fan of this city. I really truly believe that 2009 is the year where all of Hong Kong's crazy, lunatic, mentally unbalanced, psychiatric patients, are coming out in full force. 这个礼拜的很恐怖的事情让我更加觉得香港真的有病。有一个很深的病。。。我觉得不能治到。。。今年所有精神病的人出来了。。。大家小心一点儿。。。

You should all have heard about the horrible tragic incident that happened 3 days ago. This incident involved a 3 year old boy being chopped to death by an insane man who got into an argument with this little poor innocent boy's father. The fact that this cold-blooded killer was recently released from psychiatric care and living in Hong Kong free - drives me CRAZY!!! Where are the regular checkups on these people? What is the government doing to make sure these people are still getting some sort of help?!?!?! 你们应该已经听过了几天前的挺恐怕的新闻。。。有个三岁的小孩给一个精神病的打死。。。不是打死 - 这个精神病的人用了挺大的刀捣碎这个小孩。。。真的很恐怕。。。这个杀手是最近是精神病医院出来的。。。我想知道他出来之后政府安排的什么东西检查他的进步? 这个精神病的人有收到怎么样的服务?

My heart goes out to this poor little boy...may his soul rest in peace in heaven. 希望
願这个小孩安息。。。

This is the year that we should all be careful...all the mentally unstable people are out amongst us...we've got one idiot on a radio station, we've got cold blooded killers, we've got people throwing acid off of the top of buildings in mong kok...we live in a crazy city that seems to breed crazies. 我觉得今年大家需要小心一点。。。在香港里面好像很多精神病的人突然出来了。。。我们已经有一个挺精神病的人在香港那么小的地下音乐圈里面破坏这个社会,我们有这样的冷血的杀手,从高大厦有人丢了酸在下面的很忙的街头。。。我们的城市今年好像疯了。。。

God help us all...

The only thing I'm going to do today is finally that book by Zhao Zi Yang...I cannot WAIT to read this book. 今天我只有一个事情我要做。。。出去买
赵紫阳的书。。。我挺期待看着本书。。。最近已经出了中文本版。。。。

See you all on Thursday at Victoria Park...VIIV。。。星期四晚上在铜锣湾见大家! 毋忘VIIV!

MAY 27, 2009: SONG WRITING HAS GONE BANANAS...

Dude...this past week I have written 3 songs and I'm going crazy listening to these damn things...one of the songs the rest of the guys weren't very impressed so they gave me a huge challenge to fix that damn thing - and last night I was finally able to fix it and it sounds SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good! I literally JUST sent it to those guys to see what they think!!!

When this album finally comes out you guys will be so excited to hear it! (those of you in HK probably don't care if it comes out or not so my last sentence wasn't intended for you)...To me it just seem like we're taking the song writing back to actual SONGS...not just a million parts put together with no flow etc...to me a true song can stand the test of time...and I think that's the direction we're heading in...

Can't wait to get in the studio and recording all this shit!!! To hear Egas beat the shit out of the drums on these songs is going to be amazing!!!

MAY 25, 2009: GREAT WEEKEND!

These past few weeks after coming back from performing in the Philippines and Guangzhou - I have been feeling insanely bored!!! I miss playing man - I miss being on stage! (I do not however miss playing in places that don't give a shit about us.) These past few days all I do is wonder when our next shows in Guangzhou and the Philippines are going to be!!! 我这几个礼拜每天会想一想我们什么时候再有机会演出!!!什么时候再有机会去广州和菲律宾演出。。。我真的很想演出。。。

Then this weekend we had a good time hanging out with Egas and friends again...I haven't seen my band members in like 2 weeks so it was AWESOME to finally see them all again! Kent didn't come though so Kent if you're reading this - I'm going to kick your ass for not coming!!! :-) We all miss you dude! 这个周末我终于有见荔枝王的成员。。。我们差不多两个礼拜没有见面!!!挺想他们!就是kent哥没有来 - 快点儿过来了kent哥!! 哈哈哈哈。。。

I can't wait to watch that new movie about an area in HK called Tin Shui Wai. Sounds horrific...a very sad story - the movie is based on a true story...我很期待去看新电影关于香港一个地方叫“天水围”。。。这个电影是关于一个很恐怕的真故事。。。

No - I'm not going to bitch about the rain...we all need rain every now and then...suck it up我知道很多人有投诉下雨。。。可是我不会。。。我们大家需要一点点雨。。。.

I love all these discussions about 46 going on throughout Hong Kong. And only with these constant conversations and discussions, will this incident NEVER be forgotten..。每天看报纸和新闻知道很多人有说46的题目!!!我每次看到这个我会很兴奋因为我觉得每次有这样的对话才可以永远记住这个event...今年是二十周年。。。

MAY 21, 2009: HAPPY BIRTHDAY EGAS GOR!!!

It's our lovely little bro Egas' birthday today!!! Happy birthday homie!!! Hope you have an awesome day and an awesome year - of course you will since you're playing with KLC now! hahahahaha...

See you Saturday bro!!! It's going to rain so I think we'll need a change of plans!!!

Okay...

I'd like to know SERIOUSLY - what the hell happened to the band Bury Your Dead? After releasing such a good album called Cover Your Tracks - everything else they've released after fucking SUCKS!!! They just released a new song from their upcoming new album and it's HORRIBLE!!!

I don't understand this whole discussion about the new road that's going to be constructed in Central on the reclaimed land. What is the point of this road when in a few years this road will ALSO become congested? The point shouldn't be to allow for more cars to be comfortable - but to encourage LESS cars to be on the road. The goal should be the environment and building a system that allows for less cars to come in during peak hours and build up infrastructure so efficient and convenient that people realize that they don't need to drive in HK at all - our MTR, bus system is one of the best in the world! You can practically go door to door without ever needing a car.

MAY 20, 2009: RISE AGAINST VIDEO...

This is a pretty amazing video...this is one of the reasons I fell in love with punk and hardcore many many years ago - because each song was expressing an important message that would make you THINK. Punk/hardcore to me was NEVER about TELLING people what to think - but presenting information in music or lyrics that would allow the listener to make some opinions of their own. Rise Against刚才出了新的MV. 我看这个MV知道会记得我那么多年前为什么爱上了punk/hardcore这个文化。在punk/hardcore文化里面每首歌有个意义想告诉大家。每首歌的意思不是影响你们应该怎么想 - 一定不是。。。每首歌的音乐和歌词的题目就是给你们机会自己想一想。。。然后建设你自己的意见。

Good song...please read the explanation of what this song is about - try to follow the lyrics...very well written song...这首歌很有意思。。。你看他们的MV留意下他们的歌词。。。写的非常好:

http://www.punknews.org/article/33611

MAY 18, 2009: NEW VIDEO!!! 新短片!!

Just uploaded a new video from our show in Guangzhou!!! This is for the Chinese version of the song called "Unite Asia"! Check it out here or go to our VIDEOS page。。。我刚才上载了我们另外一个在广州演出的短片。。。这次是我们的个亚洲起义的短片。。。希望大家可以帮我们发给全地球支持中国硬核的朋友们!:



MAY 15, 2009: PHOTOS, EARTH CRISIS, HATEBREED, HAVE HEART

Here are some great photos of some of our most recent shows 我们最近很厉害的演出当然是在菲律宾和我们最爱的城市 - 广州。我们这里有上载了几个照片。广州的照片需要谢谢一个人叫"yellow"!谢谢你那么快发这些照片给我们:

Cavite, Philippines菲律宾:
WE LOVE THE PHILIPPINES!
Guangzhou, China广州,中国:
WE LOVE GUANGZHOU!!!

I bought the new Earth Crisis and Hatebreed's cover album For the Lions yesterday. 我昨天买了earth crisis和hatebreed的新全cover的CD. 两个是非常牛b! BOTH are awesome!!! Earth Crisis的第一手歌就是一首straight edge歌!!! :-) 当然我挺开心了。。。 Earth Crisis comes off on the first album with the first song being a fiery straight edge song! Hell yeah!!! :-) Good shit...Here's an interview with Earth Crisis' guitar player这里有个访问。这个访问是跟earth crisis的吉他手: GIVE ME EARTH CRISIS

Speaking of straight edge - so we found out from Have Heart when they were in GZ and HK last week that after this whole big world tour they were actually going to break up. But I didn't want to say anything on our website. But they have finally announced it on websites all over the world so I can say it now. Their last show is October this year...如果我们说straight edge - 这几年只有不多的乐队宣传这个生活法式 - 最大的乐队应该是Champion和Have Heart. 上个礼拜我们跟Have Heart巡演的时候他们有通知他们玩完这个全球的巡演他们的乐队就完了。可是当时他们还没有通知全球所以我也不放这个消息在我们的网站。可是昨天很多其他website开始通知这个消息了 - 所以我现在可以说咯哦。他们今年的十月会玩他们最后一场演出。

相信他们的成员很快会开始了新的乐队。。。

Nice guys...I'm sure most of them will turn up in brand new bands soon...

MAY 14, 2009: 我们在菲律宾做的访问 PHILIPPINES KING LY CHEE INTERVIEW

Brian found a link to an interview that King Ly Chee did in the Philippines by our good friend Keith (Thought Market)! I forgot about this interview and I actually don't remember the interview being that long! I kind of remember it now - but I had taken so much medicine earlier that day that I had no idea what I was saying and if I was even making sense. Thank god watching this interview back now - it seems that I was making some sense! :-) Keith did a great job editing the interview!!! Really quite touching watching it back...I just wish he was on the road with us to the other shows!!! That would've been AWESOME!!! 昨天Brian找到了我们在菲律宾做的访问。我忘了我们有做过这个访问。可能是因为我当天下午突然生病了所以我吃了很多药因为我想马上可以好。。。做访问的时候我还有很病的感觉。反正菲律宾那边他们已经上载了这个访问。 我看完真的觉得很感动。。。他们剪得短片剪得挺好。。。

希望你们可以享受这个英文的访问!



MAY 13, 2009: MISSING MY BOYS ALREADY!

Damn man - I'm missing the KLC dudes already! hahahaha...these past two weeks has been on crazy long time of getting to know each other and just realizing that these members can actually work and get along! FINALLY - nothing like being in a band with people that you actually LIKE and enjoy being around.

Photos of the HK show are up here: CLICK HERE!

But I want to see photos from the Guangzhou show!!! 如果人拍我们在广州演出的照片请发给我们看看!!!我很想看广州演出的照片。。。当晚真的太难忘。。。.

MAY 12, 2009: VIDEO OF US PLAYING in GUANGZHOU!!!

I've uploaded a video of one of our songs that we played at the unbelievable guangzhou show. The song is the Chinese version of "Promise". Watching this video over and over again moved me in ways that I couldn't have imagined...thank you Guangzhou...THANK YOU!!!

我上载了我们在广州演出的其中一个短片。这个是我们的歌叫
誓言。我剪这个短片的时候我有看然后再看然后再看。。。看的时候真的很感动。。。都是不知道可以说什么。。。

谢谢广州。。。。


MAY 11, 2009: GUANGZHOU AND THE PHILIPPINES!!!

Guangzhou - has been the highlight of my life...with one night in Guangzhou I feel like I was able to actually realize one of my ultimate dreams of playing a show where over 300 people were singing along to every word...we had so many friends and supporters show up at that show it was crazy...广州 - 我不知道可以说什么。。。你们对我们的反应,热情和支持真的是非常厉害。我们就是一个很幸运的乐队可以有超过三百人的支持(我知道当晚也有些深圳上来的支持者 - 非常谢谢你们坐几个小时的车上来看我们!!!)。可是我觉得是再深过普通“支持” - 你们对我们歌词的态度,对我们歌的态度,对我们乐队的态度 -这个地球没有一个城市可以好过你们。

我们很期待再上广州演出(我们需要谢谢太多人 - 超, bill, hehehaha, gay-on, paul, mingming (你是最厉害的!做一个爸爸是这个地球最难做的工作。我很尊重你!!!),全队杀虫水,全队老佛爷,大话梅,shalky,chen四,我韩国的兄弟 AN YONG :-),chui ball tong,等等。。。真的很幸运有那么多内地乐队的支持!!!

现在我们回来了香港然后需要开始做好我们新唱片!!! 一录好马上会再上来了!!!

所有广州的兄弟姐妹 - 非常感谢你们!!!

So with the end of the Guangzhou show our two weeks of shows have come to an end!!! We couldn't have ended on a higher note then the reception we received in Guangzhou...

We'll be uploading videos of that show soon...

Back to work today...


MAY 8, 2009: GUANGZHOU WE'RE COMING!!! 广州的兄弟姐妹我们来了!!!

OKAY!!! We are so excited!!! Tomorrow we're playing in our favorite Southern China city!!! Guangzhou EASILY is our favorite Southern China place to play in!!! We caNNOT wait to see all of you at the show!!! 我们太兴奋了!!!明天我们会在我们最喜欢中国南方的城市演出!广州的兄弟姐妹希望你们会跟我们一起疯狂 哈哈哈。。。太期待跟你们一起玩和演出!!!

为了所有内地的支持者我们内地的经理已将上载了我们最新两个影片:

新歌的影片: THIS IS OUR NEW BEGINNING:
在这里!!!

我们的PREVIEW影片: 在这里!!!

快点学我们的新歌的歌词了!!明天见!!!


MAY 7, 2009: 新歌LIVE影片THIS IS OUR NEW BEGINNING!!!

Okay - so yesterday I finally finished editing our first full video of a song we played at Summer Slam. The song is called "This is Our New Beginning". I have edited the song and even included lyrics at the bottom so you can follow along with the video karaoke style! hahahaha...我昨天终于剪了我们在菲律宾巡演第一场的第一首歌。 就是我们其中一首新歌叫 This is Our New Beginning! 你看这个影片的时候可以看到这首歌的歌词!(我们内地的兄弟姐妹我们知道你们看不到youtube!!! 我们内地的经理说他尽快会帮我们找另外一个内地里的网站然后上载这些影片!!!)

Check it out here:

THIS IS OUR NEW BEGINNING


MAY 6, 2009: PHILIPPINES TOUR PREVIEW VIDEO

Here's the preview for all the videos from the Philippines tour that we'll upload soon!!!

Enjoy!!!


Here's a different video that our friend Mic of Intolerant uploaded of us playing Unite Asia at Summer Slam 9:



MAY 4, 2009: TOUR OVER = BOOHOO :-(

What can we say that we haven't said on this site many times before? Those who know me know that I live for touring - that's one my all time favorite things to do. This tour was by far the BEST tour we have ever done...and for a band from Hong Kong - we have toured A LOT (of course not compared to bands who tour in the US or Europe - but like I said, for a band from Hong Kong). This was the best for many reasons - but mainly, because of the different personalities that were on this tour...the 5 of us worked well together because for the first time not ONCE did touring actually feel like "work". All we did was hang out, drive a LOT, sleep a lot, eat plenty of SISIG (Chicken Sisig that is), laugh with each other, get each other excited to go nuts, support each other especially since for 3 of the KLC members - this was their FIRST show with KLC (and for Ah Ho - this was the first time he has played on stage with a band in over 6 years!!!), played 3 great shows (I don't know how many of you could do what this band did - the very FIRST show for this line-up was in front of over 30,000 people! I am so proud of these guys - and we're all proud of each other I'm SURE!), and the best part made? Is that we made some more awesome AWESOME friends...

Our last show got cut short because of going over the time limit, so I didn't get to thank the millions of people that King Ly Chee wanted to thank for hooking up this tour for us...

I think hands down - the FIRST person all of us in King Ly Chee MUST thank is the man, the legend and the person who hooked this entire tour up for us:

MR. JOEY the DIZON MUSTARD! - Without this man - this tour would NOT have come together. Not only was this guy also in charge of putting on the Philippines' largest annual rock festival Summer Slam - but the day after Summer Slam he slept MAYBE for like 2 minutes, then got in a van with us to our next show 2 (what became like 3) hours away and played with his band Intolerant and hung out with us...We owe our beloved brother Joey so much and he is the main reason that when our departing plane eventually left the tarmac in Manila (interestingly - it was pouring rain - don't get me all emo about this coincidence that it was raining as our tour officially came to a close...I was ridiculously emo when the plane took off) that we were so bummed to be leaving...

JOEY - thanks for being such a great dude, such a huge supporter of King Ly Chee, and just such a class-act that is professional in every way...WE LOVE YOU BROTHER!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING (now go get some sleep!!! :-)

This tour couldn't have happened without our brothers who got together in vans, again laughing, talking, and building lifelong friendships:

TYPECAST - our bros Melvin and Steve...the Typecast roadies and road manager (DUDES ARE SOOOOOO PROFESSIONAL!!!)...and then when we got to each show we got to hang out with the other AWESOME AWESOME Typecast bros - Pakoy and Chee (see you in HK soon!!! Typecast taking over a stage in Hong Kong soon!!)!

BADBURN - easily the scariest band we have played with in a long time! hehehehehe...Marvin - we frickin' love you and your band brother!!! Thanks for not killing us hehehehehe...

PILEDRIVER - OUR FILIPINO HARDCORE COMRADES!!! We love seeing you guys EVERY time brothers!!! You guys are our long lost family...and I know we'll see you again and carry on our friendship as if the last time we saw you guys was the previous weekend! :-) YO REGGIE - I'm SOOOOOO SORRY! hahahahaha...CEBU JAN 2010!

SIN - these extreme metalheads reminded us every night that we have to practice our instruments a little harder! Filipino Meshuggah tearing it up!

INTOLERANT - dude...what the hell can we say about our favorite Filipino metal band...from Joey to Russell (yes Russell - please read that in an Indian accent like we did the entire tour every time we saw you - thanks for not kicking our ass!), to our brothers Pepo and Mic!!! These guys took care of us as if WE were Shadows Fall! For a small band from Hong Kong, to have these kinds of friends who stand behind us 150,000% and treat us with so much kindness, love and respect is just beyond comprehension!!! To be playing with you guys nightly was inspiring!!! :-) Every night Egas was like - "These guys are so fucking good!!!" We can't WAIT to be on stage with you guys again and again and again and again (CEBU 2010?!?!?). THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

SHEPHERDS - What are we going to do without these dudes? Our brothers in arms roadied for us on this tour and we all noticed how tough it was for these guys to be on tour and NOT be playing! It sucked that they weren't on stage with us on this tour...but at least they were there supporting and providing immense amounts of love and encouragement! The best feeling for me personally was getting off the stage after our last show and Mike looked right at me and said "I'm SO proud of you guys" I almost lost my shit and started crying then...He's a man of few words (when he's not joking around and making us laugh) but when he said those choice few words - I could feel it right through my heart...

TO THE ORGANIZERS OF THE SHOWS: Jen and Mali (Cavite), Jerk (Olongapo) - thank you so much for believing in this tour and agreeing to put it on for us!!! We hope we didn't cause too many problems for you but we really appreciate your support and the time and energy it must've taken you guys to make sure each show was a success!!!

And of course...there were countless other people we need to thank that I cannot think off the top of my head...

The last people that I need to thank are the dudes in King Ly Chee - especially the new dudes Ho, Egas, and Ken and of course our "ah suk" and band doctor Dr. Wong (otherwise known as Brian): Thank you for working so hard to make this band ready to do this tour in such a short amount of time!!! We are all so proud of you guys!!! The tour was a success in SO MANY ways - playing well is just one tiny success - the fact that this line-up can actually TOUR is the biggest success for me...GOOD JOB GUYS!

Can't wait to see you guys in Guangzhou!!! I LOVE YOU ALL BOYS!!! Egas - get up bro it's time to go to work! hehehehehe...Ken - "oh baby..." finish that sentence!!! hehehe...Ho Gor - one more rice? hehehe...Dr. Brian Wong - best tour EVER?!?!? When's the next one! :-)....Guangzhou - WE ARE COMING FOR YOU!!!

OK - Philippines tour diary soon!!! And video diary!!! JOEY YOU'RE in TROUBLE!!! :-)
MAHAL KITA TO ALL OUR BROTHERS!!!

APR 29, 2009: IT STARTS TODAY!!!

For all those who live in the Philippines - here's ALL the information you need for our upcoming Philippines tour!!! CLICK HERE!!!

It is quite insane just how many people have come together to help us organize this tour...UNBELIEVABLE!!! Thank you so much to all of these people...it's so crazy to think that all these people in a different country will come together to help a small band from China!!! That truly is such a special community you guys have in the Philippines...we used to have that once upon a time in Hong Kong - but that vibe is dead and buried. (Good job assholes! You know who you are.)

Unfortunately, we come back to HK on Sunday. But only to get the fuck out of here on Saturday May 9th to play the most passionate South China city - GUANGZHOU!!! SEE YOU SOON TOO!!!

Okay...I almost was going to say to our HK friends "See you soon" - but we don't have any HK friends. The only HK friends we have are pretty much ALL coming with us on this tour! hahahahaha...Shepherds the Weak is coming with us and are going to be our roadies! hahahaha...funny shit man!!!

Guangzhou, Olongapo, Cavite, Manila - SEE YOU ALL IN A FEW HOURS!!!

APR 28, 2009: WE LEAVE TOMORROW!!! 就是明天出发!!!

God...all I want to do is be on tour NOW!!! Urgh...天啊!!我只想巡演啊!!!为什么我还在香港呢?!??!!

Watching the new As I Lay Dying DVD...honestly, it's frickin' awesome. It's 3 discs and the first one is a HUGE extensive look at their history. As I Lay Dying is one metal band that has gone through 100 members changes JUST LIKE KING LY CHEE!!! HAHAHAHAHA...so I have a new found respect for As I Lay Dying! They've persevered through millions of changes because they believe in their band. Of course selling over 1,000,000 millions albums helps keep your belief alive! hahahaha...我昨天看了as i  lay dying的新dvd. 真的不错 - 比hatebreed的dvd好看很多!!!我看as i lay dying的dvd的时候最开心的事情是看到这个metal乐队欢乐挺多成员!跟我们一样!!!哈哈哈哈哈。。。挺好笑!!!起码看到坚持真有用。。。可是当然他们的分别是 卖了超过1,000,000cd 可以鼓励他们继续他们的乐队!哈哈哈。。。

ANYWAY

Philippines...we're only playing these OLD songs so learn them and go fucking CRAZY: Unite Asia....and at the smaller shows we're playing Promise. THAT'S IT!!! When we get there and let you hear and feel our new shit - you'll understand why we have NO interest in playing the old stuff! :-)

So I checked Records Rendezvous to see how many tickets we've sold for our upcoming Have Heart/King Ly Chee show in Hong Kong. Keeping in mind that we haven't played back in our so-called "hometown" since April 08 - I didn't think that ticket sales were going to be this funny! :-) We have sold a grand total of 3 tickets so far! Hehehehehe...the funniest part is that we're going to Manila in 2 days to perform in front of 24,000 people, and then one week later we're coming back to Hong Kong to play in front of maybe 10 people! :-) A show's a show! 我昨天打电话给了一个cd店。我有问他们我们将会在香港演出的票卖了怎么样?因为我们从上年的四月没有在香港演出所以我自己以为可能起码有几十个人来看吧。可是我打电话问问他的时候他很紧张跟我说 “对不起riz - 就卖了三张”。。。。哈哈哈哈哈哈。。。我觉得挺好笑! :-) 最好笑是我们后天是去菲律宾在二万多人面前演出然后下个礼拜回来我们的“家”可能就是十个人面前演出!真好笑!:-) 可是演出就是演出 - 对我来说,一个人在或者一万人在没有什么分别 - 都是一个机会玩我们想玩的音乐!:-) 我真的很想知道这三个人是谁 - 很想打电话给他们感谢他们的支持。虽然可能是他们就是想看have heart! 哈哈哈哈。。。可是都要说谢谢。

Good times baby...good times!

PHILIPPINES and GUANGZHOU!!! 菲律宾和广州的兄弟姐妹很快再见到你们!!!SEE YOU SOON!!!

APR 27, 2009: A FEW MORE DAYS!!!

Oh my god...SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!! We leave to tour the Philippines in 3 days!!! I don't need to tell you I'm sure but we're SOOOOOOOOO crazy excited to be leaving HK to be playing 3 shows in the Philippines!!!

To all our brothers out there - we'll see you soon!!! Piledriver, Intolerant, Typecast, Sin, Kjwan - can't wait to see you all AGAIN!!!

I'm going to keep this short because I really need to TRY to sleep...it's going to be impossible to go to sleep because I am too excited...it's crazy...CRAZY!!!

Actually - I wish all I had to do with my life was tour. Playing shows every night - playing your music that you believe in...I wish I could just do that...

APR 24, 2009: TOUR TOUR TOUR TOUR巡演巡演巡演!!!

This time next week we'll be on tour in the Philippines!!! Philippines has quickly become one of my favorite places to perform in Asia!!! The support we get there is incredible and of course we're so grateful, especially me because it's such an awesome feeling to know that after we've been doing this for so long - there STILL are places in the world who really appreciate us. Our shirts SHOULD be ready before we leave - we're just checking up on them now. 下个礼拜就是我们菲律宾的巡演!!!挺期待再有这个就会去菲律宾巡演。。。他们那边的摇滚音乐的情况和环境是挺理想的。。。我们所有香港乐队应该过去那边看看和感觉到他们的环境 - 他们怎么样接受摇滚音乐的文化。。。是因为他们的对摇滚音乐很热情所以他们每一个菲律宾人玩音乐的时候是挺好。。。真的他们很厉害。。。

Here is the T-Shrit design and we'll be selling it for 200 PESOS only!!! (That is COST price - we are not making a dollar from any of these shirts!!!) There are 4 colors of this design - blue/yellow, black/white, maroon/yellow, army green/yellow!!!菲律宾的朋友们!!!这个是我们新印的t-shirt!!! 我们出卖的价钱就是我们成本的价钱 - 我们一块钱都不会挣!!!SEE YOU SOON!!!:

APR 22, 2009: JACKIE CHAN - IS HE HIGH?

So finally - I understand why most people in HK can't stand Jackie Chan. For years I had no idea why so many of my local HK friends didn't like him - even Alison can't STAND him (she actually refuses to watch any movies that he stars in). 我终于明白了为什么我很多本地香港的朋友恨成龙。我很久已经不明白他们这个感觉 (我女朋友从来没有陪我看他的电影 - 她拒绝看成龙的电影)。

This past week he has been in the news everyday because of the stupidest thing I think anyone could ever say about Chinese people. He has told the world that he thinks Chinese people "need" to be controlled - and he said "I don't know whether it is better to have freedom or to have no freedom". Only an idiot who has NEVER EVER lived in a world where all his freedoms are restricted - his freedom of speech is restricted, where websites are restricted, where people are terrified to speak against the government, where people who have differing views of the government are taken away in the middle of the night, where when any "sensitive dates" come - then certain people in the country's houses are guarded so these people can't come outside...成龙几天说的东西对我来说是挺失望!他怎么可能说那么无知的东西?中国人不想要自由?中国人需要给政府控制?你说什么!!!你住在这个地球其中最有自由的城市 (在这个城市你可以反对政府,你可以出去叫人“下台”,什么自由都有) - 你有经验说那么笨蛋的东西吗?你当然没试过住在一个很没有自由的地方 - 一个地方给政府block什么什么网站,一个地方你不能批评政府,一个地方你不能出去抗议社会的问题和政府所做错的事情,一到很敏感的日子给政府和秘密警察限制什么什么人的运动。

You live in one of the freest cities in the world! In Hong Knog we are free to do anything we want! We are free to make the comments we want, criticize the government, protest on the streets, without the fear of being jailed!

You know nothing. Shame on you for making such stupid comments. Who do you think you are that you think YOU represent an ENTIRE race of people? CHI SIN! 我真的不明白他所说的。。。他还说大家误会了他的意思。可以吗?我也想知道你的意思是什么。

APR 21, 2009: UNITE ASIA, NEW LYRICS歌词, METAL AND ISLAM 金属和伊斯兰教

So our little friend named Peggy was at our little secret show and she filmed only one song...Out of all the songs we played, she conveniently filmed Unite Asia! :-) So here's the clip of it...yes ladies and gentlemen - this show took place in our little bandroom...and we had a GREAT time...what else do you need in life besides music and good friends? The only thing I was missing was my beautiful significant other who was busy getting drunk at someone's wedding! hahahaha...I forgive you of course! hehehehe...我们的好朋友peggy昨天已经上载了他拍的短片!就是一首歌 - 亚洲起义的英文版。。。你见到我们band房!!!什么可以比跟好朋友和音乐过一个晚上?哈哈哈。。。

 

I also posted lyrics to the new songs that we'll be playing in the Philippines and in Hong Kong when we get back. Yes unfortunately, I only have the English lyrics ready. It'll take months before I can get the Chinese ones written up...我也上载了我们几首新歌的歌词。。。现在就是英文的歌词。我应该有很久才可以写到中文词 - 中文不是我的母语所以我应该需要很多人的帮助才可以写到中文词。

So go to our myspace to check out the lyrics过去这个网站看看新歌的歌词: CLICK HERE!

Lastly - check out this awesome TV special about metal in the Middle East!!! Two parts to it so you have to watch both parts...最后有个新短片关于中东里面的金属社会!!! 挺好看!!!

PART 1

 

PART 2

 

APR 20, 2009: KLC SHOW LAST NIGHT 昨天晚上荔枝王演出:-)

Last night was probably one of the best nights I've EVER had in my life...I'm lucky that I've had a lot of good nights in my life - but last night was easily one of the BEST if not THE best!!! :-) 昨天晚上可能是我最近的最正的一晚。。。

In preparation for our upcoming Philippines tour and two dates with Have Heart, we decided it was important to try out a show for the new guys to get used to. So we decided why not just call our closest friends up to our bandroom and play a show for them!! So that's what we did and we had so many friends come up and spend the night with us! Last night we played our entire Philippines tour set to our friends and watched them enjoy it and get into the music...为了将会出的菲律宾巡演 - 我们决定了搞一个很小的演出在我们自己的band房里面!就是请了我们最身边的朋友上来支持和给他们听和看我们荔枝王的六首新歌!!! 他们有上来站在我们的很小的band房看和听我们全部新歌。。。可是还有几首新歌我们没玩因为还没有准备好!哈哈哈哈。。。

Then after the REAL party got started and there were free jam sessions going on everywhere! :-) Musicians were unleashed in the KLC bandroom last night...SUCH A GREAT NIGHT!!! 我们玩完之后真的party开始了!!!挺多朋友拿了不同的乐器开始弹和打!!!挺开心。。。看到我们全部音乐人之需要音乐就开心了。。。 :-)

Thank you to everyone who came...for us, this year so far has been a lot of trouble with stuff going on in Hong Kong. But last night no one had any negative thoughts! While you guys were all there, all we could feel was genuine love, respect, support, and friendship!! 谢谢我们所有上来的朋友!!!这年已经感到很辛苦的感觉 - 可是昨天晚上一点负面的感觉都没有了!!!全部人给我们看到他们的爱,友情,尊重,和支持!!!非常谢谢你们!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SUPPORTING US!!!!!!!

APR 16, 2009: MUSIC I'M LISTENING TO 最近听的音乐

These past few days this is what I've been listening to 这几天我是听这些音乐:

1. Thick as Blood - new album新唱片 "embrace" - www.myspace.com/thickasbloodfl

2. No Trigger - new album新唱片 "canyoneer" - www.myspace.com/notrigger

3. Transit - new album新唱片 "stay home" - www.myspace.com/transitma

4. Hatebreed - 将会出的cover歌的唱片叫 "for the lions" upcoming album full of songs they cover from their favorite bands - this album will be called "for the lions" - http://www.stillbornrecords.com/hatebreed/  (on this album they will cover songs from these bands在这个唱片他们cover这些乐队的歌: Slayer, Misfits, Sick of it All, Madball, Obituary, Metallica, Sepultura, DRI, Suicidal Tendencies, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, and others......God - I hope that if you listen to punk, hardcore or metal then you know who all these bands are!!! Know your history!!! RESPECT HISTORY!!! 我很希望如果你们听punk, hardcore, metal音乐的人,哪你应该听过这些乐队!希望你们知道这些音乐风格的历史和文化!才可以明白怎么样尊重这些音乐风格!)

5. Misfits - EVERYTHING 他们所有歌 - legends of the punk/hardcore world这个乐队是朋克文化其中一个最传奇的乐队...

On Sunday - all of King Ly Chee will be doing something very special with our closest friends in Hong Kong. We don't have that many friends in Hong Kong - so it is quite special that the closest friends will be with us for something special...这个礼拜天我们荔枝王全队会跟我们香港的最身边的朋友做一个活动。。。我们在香港没有什么朋友所以我们很期待这些朋友会跟我们做一点东西。。。:-)

Lastly - check out this crazy OLD flyer 你看这个很舊演出的宣传 - 你看很久以前谁有做过sick of it all的开场乐队?对 - 就是korn。。。...look at who opened for Sick of it All a LONG long time ago...yes, that's Korn.:



APR 14, 2009: METAL IN PAKISTAN!!!

Oh my god...I don't think you have ANY idea how happy this makes me!!! Yesterday I saw an article posted on CNN about a battle of the bands competition in Pakistan!!! And the article also included a video of some of these bands performing! Everything is very ghetto but come on - there's metal in Pakistan!!! Check out the video here and get inspired!! Especially read the article if you can and check out what an organizer of shows discusses about what she's most worried about with putting on shows! 我真的不相信!!!我刚才看完cnn.com。。。他们有个文章是关于巴基斯坦里的metal乐队!!!记者写的是关于一个乐队比赛。。。在这个文章里可以看到一个很短的短片!!!oh my god...太兴奋了!!!我很希望你们会用一点儿时间看全部文章 - 如果你英文不够好没问题!!!他们写的不太深的 - 一定会明白! 最重要是看最后写的。他们有访问一个在巴基斯坦安排演出的人 - 他有说他最怕的什么 - 他不是怕别人会说什么“是非”或者什么谎话,或者的小人会写一首歌关于什么什么人,或者一个笨蛋会站在他们的演出外面鼓励人不进去。。。他们安排演出的时候最怕给恐怖分子攻击他们的show. OH MY GOD!!!挺可怕。。。

在香港你们还在搞那么多负面的事情吗?Read the article here在这里可以看全文章: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/12/pakistan.music/




APR 11, 2009: OH YEAH DISNEYLAND!

Hahhaahhaa...so I spent the past few days at Disneyland with Alison and her younger sister. We took her there to celebrate her birthday! That was very exciting because she had never been...she definitely had a great time and enjoyed herself which is important!

Last night I came home late and had a conversation with a member of an HK band about some very important stuff regarding his very own band members. While I was having this conversation I kept asking myself, "Are you sure you want to be having this conversation? Do you really trust this person to be having this type of conversation?" And I seriously don't know if I should've had this conversation but his band member was the one who approached Ho and told him not to join KLC in October of 2008. At the end of the day - the reason I had this conversation was because it is hard for this underground community in HK to truly be "united" or "positive" until people have these types of conversations with their own band members. What does "unity" mean? Does "unity" mean getting on stage and singing about it and talking about it in interviews, but at the same time your own band members are going around behind each band and talking shit? Give me a break! How does that TRULY build unity? No fucking way. 昨天晚上我回家之后在msn跟另外一队香港乐队的成员有个对话。这个对话是关于他其中一个成员(这个成员上年底有联络Ho - 鼓励他不加入我们荔枝王)。我跟这个人讲话的时候我有问我自己 “你现在说什么!你为什么问他这个东西?!你可以相信他吗?!?!” 可是我现在,在这个那么黑暗的时候,我真的没有其他办法。真的要问。因为我在这几个月有开始想 - 香港地下音乐社会可以有真正的 "团结”吗?或者,我们真的可以有个 "正面" 的环境吗?对你们自己的乐队来说 “团结”是什么意思或者是什么样子呢?“团结”是不是就是上台唱和说得东西呢 - 是不是下台之后不要理你自己乐队的成员喜欢说“是非”或者你自己乐队的成员会联络另外一个乐队的成员鼓励他放弃那个乐队?这个代表团结吗?对不起 - 对我和其他荔枝王的成员和Shepherds the Weak的兄弟来说 - 这样的行为不可能代表“团结”。

True unity is when people use their hearts and minds in a mature way and realize that the only to truly have "unity" is to communicate more and learn about each other more, and then try to figure out how to work TOGETHER for the good of the community. That is not easy to do - but I don't think that's hard to do either! 我觉得真正“团结”是人用心和他们的能力做出的很正面的行动。真的相信“团结”的人会用一个很成熟的方法表达他自己 - 还会明白如果想这个圈子有团结那我们很需要用多点时间去联络别的乐队,用多点时间了解他人。我们有什么物会 - 我们为什么不用时间和其他联络的方法了解?

I think all bands right now should have these types of conversations with their band members. Is it time to change right now? Are you willing to change so that HK's underground scene can become healthy again? 我自己觉得每个乐队需要跟他们自己的成员有这个对话。一个有团结香港地下社会对你来说重不重要呢?如果是重要 - 哪是不是到时间改变自己?为了我们明天正面和健康的地下社会 - 你行不行改变呢?

If you are willing to change - then maybe we can talk about "unity" again. 如果你行改变 - 才可以说香港的将来会有团结。。。才有希望.

APR 9, 2009: NOFX BACKSTAGE PASS DVD

I was finally able to buy NOFX's latest DVD. This DVD is called Backstage Pass and is a documentary of their almost 2 year world tour. Yes - King Ly Chee is in it...it's crazy to see myself in this DVD. And when you open the DVD box and look inside the DVD booklet, you can see our name on two different pages. Then in the "thank you" section they thank us like this: "Riz and King Ly Chee UNITE ASIA!" How fucking cool is that!!! They even included the words "UNITE ASIA"! 我昨天终于买了nofx的新dvd. 这个dvd有我们荔枝王的几个短片。不是很长 - 真的就是几秒。。。可是还是很奇怪 - 在nofx的dvd里面可以见到荔枝王的成员和名字。他们这个dvd里面的书也看到我们的名字。。。在“谢谢人”的位子可以看到他们谢谢我们。。。他们是这样谢谢我们:“riz and king ly chee UNITE ASIA!”最酷是他们加了这两个英文字 unite asia!!!

Unbelievable...

Regardless of the fact that King Ly Chee is in it somehow, this is probably one of the most entertaining DVD's I've bought! I've watched some of these parts over and over again already!!! hehehehehe...it really is SOOOOOOOOO funny...可是真的说 - 这个dvd是挺好看。。。我买了那么多dvd我还是觉得这个是其中一个dvd我可以再看再看再看。。。是真的那么好看。可是我对我们的兄弟shanwei很可惜 - 他给人物会了 :-( 他一个那么好的人这样给人物会,挺可惜。。。

Anyway - go listen to some more Have Heart :-) 反正- 大家快点去听have heart的音乐!!!

Also - I sent a rough version of the new song "This is Our New Beginning" to the boys of KLC. 还有我昨天发给我们荔枝王的兄弟我们新歌"this is our new beginning这是我们心开始'给他们听听。Our homies in the PHilippines are going to be the first to hear these new songs LIVE 我们菲律宾的支持者将会第一班人可以听到我们最新五首歌!!!:

1. This is Our New Beginning (这是我们心开始)
2. Think About Those Lives (aka Rock this Shit)
3. When Will We Learn
4. CNHC (中国硬核)
5. Time Will Prove (时间就是证明)

The only old songs we'll be playing on the are: Unite Asia, Promise, and maybe Work 我们在菲律宾只玩这几个舊歌:亚洲起义, promise, 和work...

To say we're excited to play these new songs is an understatement...WE CANNOT WAIT TO GET OVER THERE TO PLAY THESE SONGS!!! 当然我们挺期待玩这些新歌!!!真的说不出来。。。给大家听我们荔枝王新声音 - 我们挺兴奋!TO show you what King Ly Chee sounds like today is something we are ALL dying to show you!!!

Peace...

APR 8, 2009: HAVE HEART PROMO VIDEO UP NOW的宣传短片上载了!!!

Okay so I finally finished the Have Heart promo video lsat night and posted it up! Very excited about the feedback I've gotten about it. Sometimes it doesn't matter how "flashy" something is, the most important part is that there is a message...and with this video obviously there is some meat to the content. 我昨天终于做完了Have Heart五月十号演出的短片。我已经收到了特好的意见 - 有时候宣传的东西不一定是很“好看”,有时候最重要是这个东西有没有意思。这个短片当然很有意思。



Now - I know all our friends in Mainland China can't access this video because youtube is blocked up there. 我们知道我们内地的兄弟姐妹现在上不到youtube的网站。所以我在这里想给你们一个直接的link - 你可以在这里下载这个短片: So here's a direct link to the file: http://www.kinglychee.com/Sequence 01.mp4

Check it out and spread the word!!! May 10 - King Ly Chee will finally be playing in our very OWN city again. It's been a LONG time...and May is the EXACT 10 year anniversary for King Ly Chee (I can't believe it's been 10 years already...oh my god). 看完请马上发给你们朋友,亲戚,动物,妹妹,奶奶,等等。。。我们很期待这个演出因为我们终于会在我们家(香港)演出。我们很久没有在香港演过出所以有点儿兴奋的感觉因为我们不知道会要怎么样的反应。

五月也是我们的exact十周年。到时间!已经过了十年。。。真的chi sin...

Peace...

APR 7, 2009: WORD UP

Okay started to make the Have Heart promo video yesterday...I'm pretty happy with it. It will definitely encourage you all to think...

Earth Crisis - straight edge metal-hardcore legends (before the term "metalcore" ever existed) has uploaded a new song from their upcoming album!!! Can't wait to get this...it's so cool to hear mid 90's metal-hardcore again...

Nothing much to update now...I have the week off this week and I have no idea what I'm going to do with my time off! hahahahaha...stay at home and watch movies, videos, etc...

APR 5, 2009: GREAT WEEKEND


Yes...for me personally, Misery Signals has so far been the most incredible band that I have had the pleasure to be involved in putting on a show for. They were just unbelievable...their music, their musicianship, just how humble they are...their stage presence - they were just the most amazing dudes, and the put on an incredible incredible show. 对我来说,misery signals, 是我最满意安排的演出!他们就是一队非常厉害的乐队,他们每一个人也是很厉害 (特别当然是他们的鼓手!!!OH MY GOD!!!),他们的演出是非常牛b (很明显他们挺有表演的经验)。。。而且他们一点都不自大。。。他们没有特大的expectation,就开心他们有机会在香港演出。

It is always weird to put on shows for bands like these that I've been listening to for years, and to then actually build "friendships" with them is NUTS! Feels so surreal...我觉得这样的情况是很奇怪。。。我几年前开始听他们,当时我怎么知道过了几年我会帮这个乐队安排一个香港的演出,而且我会跟他们做朋友。。。真的很奇怪。。。可是当然是一个很开心的事因为他们是证明,从hardcore文化出来的metal乐队一点都不自大。从hardcore出来的乐队一定是很谦逊的。。。虽然他们是一对metalcore的乐队。

Anyway...thanks everyone for coming out to support this show! It was worth it I thought...反正谢谢大家过来看和支持这场演出。。。我自己觉得是非常值得一个演出。。。

So our next SFS show is with Have Heart on May 10. That show will take place at the Warehouse and money will be donated to Hong Kong Unison. Very excited about this show...it will be the first time we have played in Hong Kong since April 2008. That's over a year ago! hahahaha...我们下个"由零开始"演出是五月十号 - 是介绍一对美国hardcore乐队叫Have Heart!!!这场是我们荔枝王几年的第一场在香港的演出。我们从上年的四月没有在香港演出。所以我们是一点儿兴奋 hahahahaha...我们香港站之前一晚我们将会跟have heart去广州演出!!!YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 广州的兄弟们我们又来了!!哈哈哈。。。

This next month we're going to be working hard getting the band ready for our Philippines tour!!! CAN'T WAIT!! 这个月我们会忙准备去菲律宾巡演!!!挺期待!

APR 2, 2009: YES - IT WAS AN APRIL FOOLs JOKE YESTERDAY! :-) 对昨天我所说的就是开玩笑!昨天是四月一号 - april fool's day!

Sorry to all those of you who sent emails to me and posted messages on my facebook!:-) It truly just was a joke...I don't know how many years in a row I've done this! hahahaha...at least we know that there still are people out there who care enough about us that they would be willing to help us in this time of need!! 对不起大家!我昨天所写的就是我开玩笑因为昨天的日子是april fool's day! :-) 就可以说收到别人的email和msn和电话和facebook的留言真的非常感动我!给我点儿希望 - 香港真的还有些人会关心我们! :-)

TOMORROW IS MISERY SIGNALS!!! I still can't believe that they're playing here...that's just crazy to me...NUTS!!! 明天就是MISERY SIGNALS!!!我还不相信他们真的会来香港演出。。。还不信!!!

If they play "the year summer ended in June" - I might just have to cry...hahahahaha...如果他们这首歌“the year summer ended in june" - 我可能会哭!哈哈哈哈。。。

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY FOR PRESALE TICKETS!!! 今天是最后一天买预订票!快出去买!!Go buy them today!!! For shops check: www.startfromscratchrecords.com.hk

我刚才发现这个笨蛋,没有文化的人
”陶傑“已经给了菲律宾领事馆禁令他进去菲律宾!!!他现在不能进去菲律宾!!!菲律宾真的太厉害了!!! 我心目中已经对这个国家,这个国家的人,的文化,挺有尊重感 - 可是听完他们禁令了他进去菲律宾我更加挺爱菲律宾!!!你知道他怎么样道歉?他上了电台用西班牙语言说 “对不起”。 为什么你没有用过英文说吗?如果你真读过书的话,有文化的人你会知道以前是西班牙拓殖菲律宾!菲律宾怎么拿到自由?他们对西班牙打战争才拿到他们的自由!然后你还用西班牙跟菲律宾人道歉?!?!你是不是有病吗!(我觉得你应该是另外一个电台主持人的亲戚因为你跟他一样有病。)That piece of shit Chip Tsao has been banned from traveling to the Philippines! NOW THAT IS COOL!!! I have so much love and respect for the Philippines - but this just raised the country of the Philippines even higher in my heart. :-) That piece of shit actually used Spanish to apologize. What the F*&K?! Why would you apologize in Spanish?!?!? Philippines was a Spanish colony and they had to fight them to become an independent natoin. So you decide to use the language of their occupiers to apologize to them? ARE YOU DEVOID OF ANY SENSE? WERE YOU BORN INSENSITIVE!!!

HK Magazine has some soul searching to do. That's for sure...我觉得HK Magazine这本杂志的老板很需要想一想他们是什么样的杂志。他们这本杂志是有什么立场。。。这样的笨蛋会在他们的杂志里这样说话?我们知道他的写法是
諷刺.可是没有一个说英文的人觉得你所写的有什么好笑。一点都不好笑。你还说是因为读者不明白你?我们全部人物会你的意思?我的母语是英文。是不是不明白英文?

APR 1, 2009: BANDROOM BURNED DOWN!!! 昨天晚上我们BAND房著火了!

Last night around 11:30pm one of the air-conditioners in our bandroom caught fire! It took the firefighters an hour to hose down our room! All of our stuff inside our room has been destroyed! That includes amps, drums, equipment for shows, King Ly Chee CD's, everything!!! 大家!我们有个非常惨的消息要通知你们!!!昨天晚上差不多十一点半左右我们band房里其中一个冷气机著火了!!!消防队员用了差不多一个小时的时间才可以控制这个活著!!!:-( 我们很多的东西和电器机有破坏了。。。我们音箱,鼓,荔枝王的产品,等等。。。全部都没有了。。。

We are URGENTLY asking for your help!!! We need a little donation from you all as soon as you can! We cannot believe how much equipment we lost in the fire last night! If you can donate money please call Ho at this phone number: 9372-9436 我们现在很需要你们的帮忙!我们需要一点儿钱的帮助因为我们很多用具都没有了!!!如果你可以捐点钱给我们请打个电话给我们的成员Ho (他电话是9372-9436)! 我们会很感激你们什么帮忙!!!

真的很可惜了。。。Can't believe this has happened to us...


MAR 31, 2009: MISERY SIGNALS T-SHIRTS ARE HERE 到了!!!

So I came home and a huge package was waiting for me! I opened up the package and there were all the brand new Misery Signals t-shirts!!! :-) DUDE - THEY LOOK SO GOOD! So psyched for these shirts... :-) 我昨天下班之后回了家看到一个很大的箱等着我。。。我一打开看到misery signals演出的所有t-shirt!!! 真的说 - 我觉得全部t-shirt挺好看!

Here's a photo of it on my floor hahahaha...在这里看到我放了一点儿t-shirt在我间房间的地下(click it to make it bigger请按这图片 - 会放大):


So - the next few days are going to be BUSY AS HELL!!! Last night was probably the only peaceful night I'll have - going to try to get some sleep because I won't be getting it over the next few nights. 这几天一定会挺忙!!!昨天晚上应该会这几天最轻松的一天。。。

Yes - this is ALL very exciting...being busy like this is what I live for. If I was busy like this ALL the time I'd be happy...life for the next few days is just going to revolve around getting things ready for this show, then putting it on, then unloading...and then finally being able to sleep properly Saturday night. I think the coolest part is that all of this work has nothing to do with my own band. Instead all of this work is for the other bands - bands that are performing on Friday. Honestly, being able to bands like this makes me so proud.  可是我觉得这样的生活真的是最好的。。。有那么多事有做 - 而且全部是关于音乐的事情。也不是帮我自己的乐队 -全部是帮其他人的乐队。。。这样我真的会挺开心。。。

希望大家会明白 - 这样的行动不是我一个人做的。有很多人跟我一样为这样的行动会作出犧牲。时间,energy,睡觉,钱,等等。。。我星期五会请病假。。。I hope everyone understands that it isn't just me that puts on these shows. Like me, there are plenty of people who will be sacrificing things over the next few days. Just to name some of them will be time, energy, sleep, money, the list goes on and on...I'll be calling in sick on Friday hehehehe...

MISERY SIGNALS 3 MORE DAYS!!!

MAR 29, 2009: KLC SHOWS SOON! 演出演出演出!!

Dude...can't begin to tell you how excited and nervous we all are for our upcoming shows!!! :-) We are excited because personally, the Philippines has quickly become one of our all-time favorite places to perform (the other place that we LOVE performing in is Guangzhou). And we're going to be playing both places in one month!!! Of course some of our us are also a little bit nervous because it will be their first show with KLC! :-) But we're all brothers so we stand behind each other 100%. 真的不知道怎么跟大家说 - 我们只有一个月然后我们终于演出!!!对我来说菲律宾是我其中最爱演出的地方。。。对我们全队菲律宾是跟广州一样那么好玩和对我们一样那么热情。我们好幸运因为在一个礼拜之内我们两个地方会演出 - 菲律宾和广州!!!当然我们几个成员也是一点紧张这几个演出是他们跟荔枝王的第一个演出。可是我们大家是兄弟所以我们一定会用全心支持大家!!!挺期待这些演出!!!

CAN'T WAIT!!!

Now - like we mentioned a few days ago...this year has been a weird year for Hong Kong. For some reason, this year has given birth to a bunch of idiots who choose not to use common sense, civility, rational ideas, or arguments based on supportive evidence. Last week once again another incident happened in Hong Kong's LEGCO sessions that makes me wonder where exactly is Hong Kong headed and who are going to be our future leaders? If all of Hk's current youth watches current TV or listens to the radio, they're going to be influenced in such a negative way because all they see and hear on the media are idiots who take no responsibility for their actions, and seem to no believe in providing support for any and all their ridiculous claims. 我们几天前有提过 - 这一年真的是一个非常古怪的一年。。。我们真的不明白突然那么多本地的笨蛋是从哪儿生出来的。这些笨蛋觉得做一位大人不需要用文明的态度来批评东西,觉得理性也是一个不需要的东西,然后也觉得批评的时候不需要给证明来支持他们的看法。上个礼拜在我们香港的立法院里发生的事真的让我想一想我们香港的将来应该会怎么样?在电视和电台上突然有很多像儿童的大人。这些"大人"也不明白他们这样的态度会怎么样影响现在的年轻人。一天这些年轻人可能会做下一代的立法会员。。。他们会不会用一样的态度和做法呢?他们会一样觉得做大人说话的时候不需要负责任?

Last week members of a political organization in HK decided that it's okay to use curse words in LEGCO. Why would you think this is okay in a civilized society to use curse words in a place where laws are made and passed? What is this a sign of today? Then one of these politicians says that by using "curse" words he's representing the grassroots. WHAT?! Are you saying that the "grassroots" of HK are people who are uneducated, and unaware to the importance of being mature responsible adults in the world today, walk around swearing,  上个礼拜在立法院里有些立法会员说操。你觉得这样说话会代表一个文明的社会吗?然后其中一个说操的立法会员说他这样说话是代表香港的基层的人。他这样说是什么意思?香港的全基层的人是这样说话吗?他的意思是基层的人跟他一样不文明吗?

越来越过分。。。以前香港真的是一个文明的地方。。。在立法院里一定不会有这样的行动。希望这般人会明白如果他们想影响立法院里的会员或者想有多点人支持他们的立场(有时候他们的立场我也会同意因为我有时候跟他们的看法会有公明),他们要好好的代表他们是个成熟的人和真的珍惜支持他们的人。因为有人投他们票所以他们有个责任要好好的代表他们的选举人(我不知道怎么说constituents)。

我真的开始怕香港的将来是什么样的。。。

MAR 27, 2009: MISERY SIGNALS ONE WEEK!!! MISERY SIGNALS只有一个礼拜!!!

Seriously...never in my wildest dreams would these words appear on anything related to metal or hardcore in Hong Kong. 真的不相信。。。我真的不相信一个那么大的metalcore乐队会来香港演出。。。最要想一想的东西是:

现在新入地下音乐社会的年轻人没几个月可以看那么大的heavy乐队一定会影响他们对音乐的想法。。。他们终于可以看到很高水平的乐队怎么样玩他们的乐器 - 怎么样负责乐队的事情。。。最cool的东西是在香港看外国乐队的演出慢慢是变了一个“normal”的情况。哈哈哈哈。。。我们老的人就知道我们等了很久才有这样的情况。。。只看这两年已经有: comeback kid, horse the band, parkway drive, 将会有misery signals...

But it's true - the great metalcore masters in Misery Signals will be playing in Hong Kong one week from today. How insane is that? It's so weird that for young kids getting involved with music these days, having bands like these guys coming to Hong Kong is probably becoming "normal" for them! Whereas us older dudes can't believe that within these past 2 years we've had such a big number of bigger name bands are actually coming to Hong Kong: Comeback Kid, Horse the Band, Parkway Drive, now Misery Signals...

It's nuts...

We're also so proud of all the opening bands...it's going to be a fun time. Everyone gets along with each other and we're all looking at just having a good time on that day! :-) 我们也是对misery signals做开场乐队很proud! 最“正”的是大家都很有团结的感觉 - 大家都有好的关系。这样会让演出一定挺好玩。。。

It's going to be fun...

If you haven't bough tickets then get on this website to find out more info如果你们还没买票那你可以上这个网站看看: www.startfromscratchrecords.com.hk

MAR 24, 2009: 2009 IS THE YEAR OF COWARDS - 二零零九年是懦夫年

We all know that amongst the underground scene it seems that a lot of cowards have risen with their "misplaced passion" (which is my new term to describe people who put all their passion, energy and heart into destroying things instead of using all that passion, heart and energy into constructing, building and using a positive heart to do things for the better of the bigger picture). 我们大家在香港的地下社会里已经知道今年突然有点懦夫起来了。他们寄托错的热情。。。非正面的行动。。。就做非建设的行动。

But in yesterday's news was something that I thought was absolutely APPALLED by. 可是昨天的新闻我看到一个很烦恼的消息。。。

Yesterday, the founder of the wonderful social organization that has been helping and standing up for ethnic minorities in Hong Kong called Unison - admitted that she has been receiving death threats ever since she mentioned that the police officer who killed a Nepalese man in Ho Man Tin could've been more culturally sensitive. Since then she has received death threats and very threatening messages from members of the public. 昨天这个很厉害的社会组织叫 “unison”的创立者告诉了报纸她上个礼拜开始受到了懦夫的恐吓她的email和其他封信。这全部是关于他有说一位警察杀了一位尼泊尔人没有用过一个比较铭感的方法告诉这个人放低他的东西。这位警察只用了中文跟这个少数民族说话。当然在香港不是每位少数民族可以说中文 - 所以这个尼泊尔人可能听不懂然后不放低 - 然后这个警察射了他。。。这位尼泊尔人死了。。。

有人说恐吓她的人可能是其他警察。。。真的很恐怕。。。

This is of course really  troubling in many areas.

But she has said that she will never give up our goal with this amazing organization. We also hope that she keeps fighting. 可是这位创立者说了他一定不会放弃他的组织的目标。。。我们也希望他可以继续做。

Cowards exist throughout this city. Yes, I think you cowards in the HK music scene are cut from the same cloth as those fools that sent Unison those death threats.


MAR 23, 2009: DON'T JOIN KLC 你不加入他们的乐队了!

So we heard over the weekend that the singer of another HK band actually contacted our current temporary drummer and told him not to join KLC. So as of right now - ever since 2005, every new member that has joined KLC has been approached by people in HK that have told them not to join KLC. Ho was approached by the guitar player of another heavy band to not join KLC. 这个周末听到我们其中一个成员又收到别人的意见。这位人是另外一个香港乐队的注音。从二零零五年我们每一位新加入乐队的人是受到外面人的意见 - 全部是跟他们说同一句 “你不加入他们的乐队!你知道riz是老板!你知道riz想控制这个音乐社会!” 挺好笑 - 我还不明白一个人怎么可以“控制”一个音乐社会呢?有这样的可能吗?我真的有这个能力吗?如果我有我真的很厉害!哈哈哈。。。或者如果你可以给我(或者其他人)控制你,是不是代表你自己很有问题?哈哈哈。。。Ho半年前已经受到不少人的意见 - 一次他收到另外香港乐队的吉他手的意见。一样的意见。

When there are more pressing problems that exist in the world - it's so sad that your lives revolve around trying to ruin and destroy KLC. Seriously - go get a life, better yet, go try and get a job and develop a passion for something so that you can put all your energy, your hatred, your disgust to some good use. 当然我永远不会明白这样的人。我真的对你们很可惜 - 你们的生命是那么无聊,你每天就是想我。好像你的生命的目标就是杀king ly chee和我. 哈哈哈。。。真的对你们很对不起,无论如何我永远会存在。

I raise my glass to the death of any sort of community that once existed here. I think Inti decided to leave this music culture at the right time - the more time goes on, the more it is apparent that this is no hope for this city of children. 我想举杯因为在香港 “团结”这个字终于什么意思都没有了。我几年前猜不到香港地下音乐的情况可以再差。可是真的可以。。。good job! :-)

MAR 22, 2009: ELIMINATION OF RACISM CARNIVAL/PROPAGANDHI

First of all yesterday's carnival was so much fun! Ho and I were there at 9am helping set up the stage and the venue and we met lots of other South Asians at the event which was great. We also met the heads of that wonderful organization called Unison who we'll be working more with in the future. The whole carnival was to attract more and more local Chinese people to the event so they can watch performances by many different South Asian groups like: Nepalese, Pakistani, Filipino, Indians, etc. They invited all these different schools to perform at the event, the also had the schools be in charge of all the games and food booths. It was a great event which I thought was very successful...I didn't see anyone from the music "scene" there so that was disappointing. But maybe you came I don't know...第一。。。昨天的國際消除種族歧視日嘉年華會我觉得真的非常成功。我跟ho早上九点钟到场帮他们set-up台和很多其他东西。然后我们认识了很多其他南亚洲人。我们也终于认识了Unison这个非常厉害的组织 (如果你们有兴趣了解他们这个组织的目的请上他们的网站:http://www.unison.org.hk/ 。。。我跟他们已经联络了几年 - 可是这是我们第一次见面所以我真的很开心。 我们一定将会一起做点活动。

昨天的嘉年华的目的是给本地香港的中国人机会了解香港的少数民族的文化。。。Unison安排了很多不同国治的人的表演(跳舞,唱歌,等等)。。。他们也安排了不同学校来表演和看游戏的台。。。非常好看。。。这样我觉得他们真的做的很成功。。。

可惜 - 从我们香港音乐的圈子我沒有見到誰有過來支持這個节目所以我有很失望。。。可是你们可能有过来参加我也不知道 - 因为真的有很多人。。。希望你们真的有来看这个节目。。。

For all of you so-called "political" punk rockers who only know how to write lyrics that my 5 year olds in school can write, and play your instrument like a 10 year old does, watch this video and learn a thing or two of what it's like to be playing in a political punk rock band. They are true legends - and this live video of them is UNBELIEVABLE!!! Propagandhi!!! 下面我上载了我几天前介绍的乐队的live video. 这个是他们在澳洲玩的live表演。你们叫自己是“政治的朋克”应该要看看他们这个短片。你们叫自己是“政治朋克”应该用时间写你们的歌词 - 我在学校教的五岁的小朋友可以造歌词比你聪明很多。这个乐队是叫Propagandhi:




MAR 20, 2009: ANNOYING挺烦恼

So something super annoying happened to me/King Ly Chee yesterday. I am thoroughly annoyed still now and it's way past 12 hours since all of this has passed. 昨天我收到了一个非常烦恼的email. 已经过了半天可是我还是一样那么不开心。

You all know that as a band we have always been about talking about issues regarding minorities in Hong Kong. Being a minority member myself you can say I am way sensitive to this issue here. 大家知道我们这个乐队是非常关心香港的少数民族的问题。当然是因为我自己是一位巴基斯坦人所以我是对这个问题更加铭感。

for the past 10 years I have been involved with joining workshops to promote awareness, write songs, have done interviews on TV, magazines, books, newspapers, etc. We have also organized shows in the past to support organizations in Hong Kong that provide care and assistance to minorities. 这十年我参加了很多关于少数民族的活动。我跟很多不同的组织合作 - 上了他们办公室里跟他们的会员谈谈我在香港长大的经验等等。。。跟不同的杂志,报纸,电视,做过很多访问。而且我们也安排了不少的演出捐赠不同的组织。通常是捐给关心少数民族的组织。

For King Ly Chee's upcoming May 10th show that we're organizing I decided to contact one organization in Hong Kong because I was hoping to donate money from each ticket sales to this organization. We have done this before and have never had a problem. All I wanted was their logo to put on our promotional materials to raise more awareness about this organization with our audience and supporters. They were very interested and asked me to send them King Ly Chee's website to check us out. 为了我们将会在香港出的演出(五月十号)我有跟一个组织联络。我想每一张的票可以捐点钱给他们。我希望给我们的支持着一点机会认识这个组织。 就是一个可以宣传他们所做的那么有同情心的服务。我一联系他们,他们有兴趣。然后他叫我给他们看我们的网站。我就是需要拿到他们的logo。

So I waited a few weeks for their response. Finally I emailed them yesterday because we're looking to start promoting the show soon。 然后我等了几个礼拜可是我没收到他们的回答。所以我昨天早上再联系他们因为我想马上开始宣传这个演出所以我真的需要尽快收到他们的logo.

They replied 然后我终于收到他们的回答:

"
Unfortunately your music doesn't fit the 'image' of our organization (I have taken their organization's name off). 真可惜你们的音乐不适合我们组织的印象."

So they won't let us use their logo on our posters and other promotional materials. 他们决定了我们的乐队不适合他们的组织所以他们不给我放他们的logo在我们所有的宣传的东西。I am so disappointed...我真的很失望。。。in 2009 heavy music still has the same old reputation that we're nothing but destructive and there's no way that we could be singing about something positive or addressing social issues in Hong Kong。在二零零九年,在这个年代香港还有很多人还以为heavy的音乐是
非建設性的的音乐,不可能是正面的。不可能是唱关心社会的歌词。.

So disappointed...真的很失望。。。如果有人觉得我们香港的heavy不要受到一种歧视感哪你真想错了。。。anyone that thinks it's not a struggle playing in a heavy band in HK should really think again.

ANYWAY反正!!!

明天就是一个很正面的嘉年华。。。是关于少数民族的。将会尖沙咀的文化中心做的。。。希望如果大家有时间的话可以过去看看!是下午一点钟开始。Tomrrow is the Int'l Day for the Elimination of Racism day and Unison has organized a carnival to be held at the Cultural Center in Tsim Sha Tsui. If you're free please come on down to support this! Starts at 1pm!


MAR 18, 2009: 作band时间

Oh my god...I must be the biggest idiot on the planet...I didn't even know that Inti from Zhou Band Si Gan's last show was going to be this Sunday!!! HER LAST SHOW!!! She has been doing this supporting HK bands for well over 10 years...she has always been one of the staples of the underground HK scene. She had a radio station program and would promote local bands on it, play their songs, and interview bands. She was one of the best supporters King Ly Chee ever had. In 2000 we released our first album We Are Who We Are and she called us into her studio to interview us. It was incredible to get that kind of support for a brand new band at that time. She even continued to promote us until our CD release show...amazing she was amazing. 我真的不相信。。。我们香港的电台节目“作band时间”这个礼拜天是最后一个!!!真可惜了。。。Inti就是一位挺支持香港乐队的人 - 挺支持摇滚音乐和文化。我们第一次认识他就是十年前 - 她这十年一路继续支持我们 无论这个乐队的成员变了怎么样 - 她还在支持我们请我们上去她的电台节目做访问和宣传我们的新作品。她十年前是第一次上去她电台节目宣传我们当时的作品 “这就是我们”。。。

Even after 2000 she always called us to come up to do any promoting of any of our releases. No matter how many times this band's members have changed - she has always supported it.

I think it's a huge loss to Hong Kong that she isn't going to be here anymore. I asked her on MSN what she's going to do now and she told me that she just wanted to relax and do some traveling. 我昨天在msn问了她之后会做什么。。。她说就是放松一下。。。去travel...

Thank you Inti for all your support of me and my band! We are one of the luckiest people to have met you...your selfless support for ALL of Hong Kong will never be forgotten. 谢谢inti那么多年的支持。。。我们真的很幸运有您一位那么无私的人。。。你对香港乐队的热情我们永远不会忘记。

It's so sad and ironic - a mature person like that who actually KNOWS about music and has been involved with music in Hong Kong in over 10 years is leaving the airwaves, right when an idiot who thinks he knows everything about music (calling Refused a band from Poland shows how ignorant this fool is and just how baseless all his arguments are) has a radio show where he goes on and on and on and on about how we all suck and are "fake" and thinks this is going to be a positive influence.
真的很悲哀的。。。因为这个时候一个那么成熟所有音乐和香港的音乐历史的人不会继续作她的那么正面的节目,可是同时我们有一个无知以为自己什么都知道的人开始了一个电台节目(说refused是从
波蘭来的就是代表他的无知和代表他所说的是那么無基礎的 - 那么简单的事他还不会自己出去研究。一点责任感都没有。)。真的可惜了。。。inti的那么正面影响我们大家一定很快会想念。。。

MAR 17, 2009: 港女。。。一个地球

These are two good TV shows that have been on TV recently. Brian told me two days ago about this TV show discussing a term called "港女" which is Hong Kong Girl. It discusses the stereotypical HK girl and it's pretty crazy how dead-on the description is. Anyway - that's on youtube already and is great to watch if you understand Chinese. 现在有两个好看的电视节目。一个是关于 "港女" 的题目。。。一看就知道这个节目有什么立场。 我觉得特有意思。。。

The better show to me is the one that features Paul on NOW TV that is about taking people and traveling around the world to show local people places such as the South Pole and other places. While there they talk about societies impact on the world etc...it's amazing...such a great show - very inspirational. 第二个电视节目我觉得比较好看很多。是关于paul wong跟一间香港的电视台 (now) 去南极做一个关于环保和地球的节目。。。挺有意思。。。我觉得电视二十四小时应该就播这样的电视节目。。。不要播平时播的挺无聊的游戏。。。我看这样的节目真的想自杀。。。。

You can watch it here:



我觉得这就是
富有成效的行动...他们不是这里小朋友一样投诉设这个东西,投诉那个东西。。。就是自己过去看看和感觉到我们在这个社会里应该怎么样改变我们的态度和生活 - 为了这个地球的将来。。。用自己眼光看看我们在这个地球的影响。。。

MAR 16, 2009: DEFEATER

Yesterday I introduced a more heavy hardcore band called Reign Supreme...today I'm going to introduce a little bit more of an emotional type of hardcore band - (if you're a fan of bands like Modern Life is War then you'll love this band)...the band is called Defeater. I was totally taken by surprise by this band...sooooooooooo good...昨天我有介绍一个比较heavey的硬核乐队。。。今天我想介绍一个比较传统硬核乐队。。。他们是叫defeater...我一听觉得挺surprise - 猜不到他们是玩这种风格。。。你可以上他们的myspace听听:check out their music on:

www.myspace.com/defeater

My girlfriend is hanging out in Beijing this week...she's so lucky... :-( While I'm stuck in horrible Hong Kong for the week - she gets to be up there..这个礼拜我女朋友是在北京。。。她很幸运。。。我在这个无聊的城市。。。她在一个那么好玩的城市。。。

I was talking to a person named Brian online last night. This guy used to live in Hong Kong and watched King Ly Chee in like 2001 and even bought one of our very first King Ly Chee shirts. Two years ago he moved to the US and happened to live in a house with the guys in Champion! He then joined a band that features some of the Champion guys and Figure Four guys called Grave Maker. They tour all over the world - and they recently did a huge tour with Comeback Kid, Bane, Misery Signals, etc...He quit that band though and now plays in the huge hardcore band called Outbreak! 我昨天晚上在msn跟一位朋友叫brian聊天。他以前是在香港住的。。。然后他零一年的时候办了去美国。他在美国住的地方是跟Champion乐队几个成员一起住的!然后他跟他们建立朋友之后开始了一个乐队叫Grave Maker - 这个乐队是feature Champion和Figure Four的成员。他们最近跟comeback kid, misery signals, bane, 一起去了一个很大的巡演。然后brian放弃了grave maker然后进了另外一个很大的乐队叫Outbreak...

他很幸运了!!!可以跟那么厉害的硬核乐队巡演做到一个硬核的生活。。。

Pretty crazy that this guy is playing in all these huge bands and he's from Hong Kong!


MAR 15, 2009: REIGN SUPREME

Okay - here's an awesome hardcore band that you guys gotta check out...if you're fans of Hatebreed, Terror, you know - the heavier type of hardcore then get into this band: Reign Supreme. Trust me - this band is going to be huge REAL soon...今天我挺想介绍一对新的hardcore乐队叫Reign Supreme! 如果你喜欢比较heavy的hardcore (比如说Terror和Hatebreed哪种) - 你一定会很喜欢这个挺好的乐队!!!新我 - 他们一定尽快会做到一个很大的乐队。。。就是我的感觉。。。

They're about to release their first album with Deathwish Records and you can hear some of the songs on: http://www.deathwishinc.com/listennow/55 This site is quite annoying - I can't put a direct link on to our site. You go to this page and click on the image with a side-ways looking face. That's the album cover for Reign Supreme's new album...it's going to be SOOOOOOOOO good!!! 他们将会在美国的deathwish records出他们的第一张album. 你可以上这个网站听听两首新歌: http://www.deathwishinc.com/listennow/55 可是这个网站是很麻烦 - 我不会给你们一个direct网站地址。。。你要上这个网站然后按第一个图片 (是一个女人的照片)。。。这个就是reign supreme的link.

Also, over the weekend I bought a DVD called This is Hardcore Festival! Frickin' awesome DVD!!! It has a lot of super hard working hardcore bands featured on this DVD. The DVD is part of the This is Hardcore Festivals that takes place in the US. Check it out to get your full hardcore fix! :-) 这个周末我也买了一个新dvd叫This is Hardcore Festival (这就是硬核节目)。是关于在美国其中一个很大的全硬核节的dvd...挺好看。。。有很多新代的硬核乐队的表演。。。

I'm interviewing Misery Signals today for HK's Respect Magazine. Should be fun! :-) 我今天会访问misery signals。这个访问会在香港的respect杂志出现的。。。

LASTLY 最后想通知大家:

Guangzhou!!! 广州 我们又来了!!!在五月九号!!! WE'RE COMING MAY 9th!!!

We just confirmed over the weekend that May 9 we will play in Guangzhou along with the hardcore band Have Heart. Then we will come back to HK on May 10 and play the show along with Have Heart and Contact Chord in HK at the Warehouse. Very exciting!!! Can't WAIT to come back up to Guangzhou!!! :-) 我们刚才确定了五月九号跟美国硬核乐队have heart一起在广州演出!!!然后五月十号我们会跟他们下来香港在warehouse演出。非常兴奋在广州演出!!!ho说他上次在广州演出是十年前了!!哈哈哈哈哈。。。很兴奋给他看我们广州兄弟姐妹对荔枝王乐队的热情!

So our upcoming shows is 5 shows within one week 我们差不多一个礼拜里会有五场演出:-)

Apr 30 - Manila (Philippines)
May 1 - Cavite (Philippines)
May 2 - Olongapo (Philippines)
May 9 - Guangzhou (China)
May 10 - Hong Kong (China)

And look at that - all 5 shows in different cities! 五场演出都是不同的城市!!!:-)


MAR 12, 2009: PROPAGANDHI - possibly the most intelligent punk rock band on the planet? Propagandhi可能是这个地球的最聪明的乐队吗?

So I finally got Propagandhi's new album "Supporting Caste" and this album is incredible. What is incredible about it? That this band has been around for such a long time but can still release quality punk rock album after album after album. This latest release continues down their road of mixing crazy amazing punk-metal guitar riffs, with some of the most amazing drumming I've heard on a punk rock album in a LONG time, and then on top of all of this - they have some of the most intelligent lyrics I think I have read in a long time. There easily hasn't been a release in the past few years that has actually inspired me to take a dictionary out to learn more about the topics of the songs, or a release that makes me want to read about issues all over the world. 我终于买了propagandhi的新唱片叫“supporting caste”。。。这个唱片真的挺厉害。一个乐队怎么可以越出唱片越好听!一开始你会听到非常好听的吉他riff, 然后这个鼓手是挺牛b!!! 真的!挺好的鼓手!!!然后他们最好的东西是他们的歌词。。。歌词是代表一个非常聪明的乐队。我很久没事过一个乐队会影响我拿个字典出来看看! 哈哈哈哈。。。然后我看完他们的歌词我马上上了网站找找关于他们每首歌题目的资料。。。

Propagandhi to me is the quintessential punk rock band. They write music that is incredibly addictive and obviously show that the musicians in this band actually KNOW how to play their instruments. Then they have lyrics that touch on issues that are worldly - and they write the lyrics in such a way that it WILL force you to want to learn more about the issue. Then they also include a list of books, movies, and articles that you should read so you can become more informed about the issue. 我还觉得他们是这个地球其中最重要的punk乐队。对我来说他们的乐队就是一个真正的朋克乐队。他们的音乐可以那么厉害,吉他,鼓,等等。。。然后他们的歌词会写的那么聪明让你想知道多点关于这首歌的题目。。。然后他们CD书里面有很多字你可以看每首歌的意思。他们还有介绍很多书和电影大家可以看。关于歌的题目你可以看他们介绍的书和电影。。。

That is punk rock to me...我觉得这样就是punk rock (They prove that punk rock can be smart!他们是证明朋克音乐可以聪明!). 如果你有音乐
天賦你应该用你这个声音试试影响他人想一想这个世界是怎么样的 - 影响人想一想他们自己的人生有什么意思。

这个社会有那么多问题,这个地球里有那么多不好的事情发生,这个地球有那么多不公正的事情,那么多人挨过很不好的事情,这时候经济那么差,那么多人失业了,哪你还做一首歌关于我?真的不明白。你真的那么肤浅吗?Using your voice, your music, your life to impact the world by singing and writing about important issues. Not writing songs about people like me. I mean how shallow can you be that amongst all the problems there are in the world, all the people suffering, all the injustices happening, you decide to write a song about me? You're pathetic.

Go get inspired - check out the new Propagandhi album!!!
http://www.punknews.org/bands/Propagandhi

MAR 11, 2009: NOFX

Dude...never in my wildest dreams...keep in mind that I have been listening to NOFX since I was 18 years old (1993)! Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that one day NOFX would release a DVD and I would be in it!!! WHAT THE HELL!??! 我十八岁大的时候开始听一队punk乐队叫nofx (一九九三年)...当然我从来没想过我一天会跟他们巡演而且从来没想过我一天会在他们其中一个dvd出现!!!可是你看下面的广告 - 你等到最后会看到你认识的人。。。真的想不到。。。

这个广告是为他们将会出的live DVD 叫backstage passport...听人说在这个dvd里还有多我的短片!哈哈哈哈。。。

Here is an advertisement for their upcoming Backstage Passport LIVE DVD...supposedly in the extras sectoin of the DVD I'm in it some more!!! Wait until the very end of the advertisement to see me:



Oh by the way - Misery Signals tickets are on sale now!!! Go to our SFS website to find out more: www.startfromscratchrecords.com.hk

MAR 10, 2009: MUSIC音乐

One of my all-time favorite punk bands Propagandhi has released a new album!!! And yes, it is as amazing as the last one they released just a few years ago. 我其中一对很喜欢的朋克乐队是Propagandhi。他们刚才出了他们最新作品。如果你想听听你可以上这个网站: To hear it go to this link: http://www.punknews.org/bands/Propagandhi

Lamb of God's newest album was No. 2 on the Billboard charts! Can you believe metal can be NUMBER TWO in the US?! Lamb of God was on the same charts as artists like Chris Brown, Britney Spears, etc., and they still sold enough CD's that they landed on the No. 2 spot! THAT IS INCREDIBLE!!! :-) Lamb of God的新唱片是在美国的billboard chart上到了第二个位!真的挺厉害!想不到一个metal乐队可以那么成功!如果你听他们的音乐那你知道他们音乐里没有好像metallica的“enter sandman"的歌。一首都没有这个感觉 - 他们就是metal!!!

Tickets for Misery Signals show will be on sale Wednesday March 11!!! We had some problems with the printing but Ho has taken care of it and says the tickets will be in shops by Wednesday!!! WOOHOO!!! Misery Signals的票将会这个礼拜三发出!!!你们可以去店买!!!http://www.myspace.com/startfromscratchrecords 

MAR 9, 2009: YO

RIZ: Today Oscar would like to update KLC.com....今天我想介绍oscar! 他想上载今天的新闻:I'll pass it on to Oscar:

OSCAR: I don't know what to say - but I have a fucking test tomorrow。我不知道想说什么。我明天有个fucking考试!

RIZ: Introducing guitar player - Fat Nuts...好的 - 介绍吉他手Fat Nuts! Hey Fat Nuts - how're you feeling? 你今天怎么样?

FAT NUTS: I feel horny..我今天感到好色的.

RIZ: For a Pakistani? 对一个巴基斯坦人有兴趣吗?

FAT NUTS: No problem! 没问题!什么都行!

RIZ: Really? 真的吗?That sucks! I don't want Fat Nuts in this band! 我不想有fat nuts在我们的乐队到!哈哈哈哈。。。 Ho Gor - how do you feel about Oscar and Fat Nuts? Ho哥!你觉得oscar和fat nuts怎么样?

HO: I'm hungry 我就知道我很饿!

RIZ: You didn't answer my question - do you think Oscar and Fat Nuts are okay? 你还没回答我的问题。你觉得行吗?

HO: Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...do you guys feel hungry? 你们饿不饿?跟你们胖人一起吃饭吧!Let's go eat beacuse you guys are all fat asses!

FAT NUTS: I'm starving 我挺饿!

RIZ: Okay - this is a mo liu interview...这个又是一个很无聊的访问。 到了时间去吃晚餐好吗?oscar还需要准备他明天的考试!time to go eat because Oscar still needs to study for his test. 加油bitch!!! Good luck bitch! Don't fuck up!

OSCAR: Oh wait - I want to say something - but I don't know what to say. 等等我想说一点东西。可是我忘了想说什么.

RIZ: Introducing Joe Mensheng - what's up Joe?介绍门生的joe! joe 怎么样!

JOE: What's up...not much。。。没有什么特别!

RIZ: I hear you have some news about some cool shit going on in Hong Kong's super UNITED scene!
听人说你有个新稍息关于香港的super团结的重音乐的社会!哈哈哈哈。。。

JOE: 我没有了。。no i don't have any man...

EVERYONE: 哈哈哈哈。。。。

MAR 8, 2009: PHOTOS

So on Tuesday last week our good friend Terence took some time from his busy schedule to take some last minute band photos for us. These photos are being used in the Philippines' largest music magazine called Pulp Magazine. Pulp Magazine did an interview and feature on us because we're taking part in this year's HUGE Summer Slam music festival that they have in Manila. We played it last year in front of 24,000 people - I have NO idea how many people will be there this time but it should be AMAZING!!! This year they'll have Shadows Fall as the main headline band.

Okay - yes, we don't have the Misery Signals tickets printed yet. Ho says the printers have told him that their was some problem. He's still working on it. Should be ready soon...

Will let you all know...

Today we have more band practice!!! Can't wait...we have two very nice dudes who are helping us for all our upcoming shows. These dudes travel from far every weekend to come practice with us...hearts in the right places and they're committed. So amazing that they're doing this for us...

MAR 5, 2009: MACAU澳门

I cannot believe a university professor from Hong Kong was barred from entering Macau! That is RIDICULOUS - he was invited to give a talk at the University of Macau. So he is an academic that was invited by another academic institution to give a talk. It could've been a talk about the article 23 that has just been implemented in Macau. But the point is that he is JUST an academic! If he has views that are different from the government there so what? What kind of a show of freedom is there? Freedom of thoughts, freedom of expression, freedom of words...ZERO. And the government there still says this has nothing to do with the passing of Article 23? That's crazy...我真的不相信一位香港大学的教授给澳门的政府閂进澳门。真的很笨。。。他就是给一个澳门大学邀请他过来做一个特别的talk. 可能他说的话是跟那边的政府的立场不同可是他还就是一位教授。澳门还有言论自由吗?我觉得他们接受了二十三条立法之后很明显没有了。

To make it worse - that IDIOT Stanley Ho has the nerve to chime in and say stupid shit about he's happy that these "people" are not being allowed to enter Macau! He is such an idiot. Why can't people like that who have no understanding of freedoms just keep their mouth shut. Does he really think people are stupid? EVERYONE knows that the reason he's saying all this shit is to continue to get support from the China government. As long as he keeps saying this type of crap, he will continue to get support for all his projects in Macau. 然后这个笨蛋stanley ho昨天有说他支持澳门的政府。我觉得这个人应该不要在说政治的东西。他很明显就是想给中国政府看看他怎么样支持他们。如果他还有他们的支持他可以继续做他所想做的事情。

This is totally worrying...I hpoe everyone is thinking about this. Thank GOD (regardless what that fool Stanley Ho says) we don't have Article 23 implemented in HK!!! We are a free city that loves China. There is no need to restrict our freedoms even if Stanley HO thinks HK would be a "safer" place after its implemented. What an idiot. 我觉得大家都认同这几个事情发生了之后我们香港人特开心我们还没有这个立法。无论stanley ho怎么说香港接受了这个立法之后会变得一个安全的城市 (谁说我们已经不是一个安全的城市!!!我们可能是这个地球其中一个最安全的城市!!!),我们香港人不需要这样的立法。我们已经是很珍惜我们的自由和很爱中国。不要怕我们会做什么什么。。。

MAR 4, 2009: PAKISTAN巴基斯坦的事件

Once again some sad shit happened in Pakistan. Yesterday, a cricket team from Sri Lanka was attacked by stupid religious militants in Pakistan as the team was arriving at the stadium. These stupid extremists attacked athletes! Why would you attack athletes? Out of all the countries in the world - why would you attack Sri Lankan athletes? These are people who already come from an impoverished background and are just visiting Pakistan to play a sport! 巴基斯坦又经过一个很悲的事情。。。一般很笨蛋的几顿主义者攻击了一般从
斯里蘭卡来巴基斯坦玩板球的板球员。。。他们就是运动员。。。你为什么会攻击一般来你国家的队员?他们跟你们的政府里的问题有什么关系?!?!

I feel so sorry for my country...because of these militants - these stupid extremists, all the positive things that people are trying to do for Pakistan, constantly ends up being destroyed. 我真的对我国家觉得很可惜。巴基斯坦里真的有很多人想建立一个很正面和健康的国家 - 可是因为里面有很几顿的笨蛋 - 他们会破坏所有正面的东西和行动。。。

Kind of reminds me of things going on in Hong Kong - actually. 有时候这样的事情真的很像香港里的事情。。。几顿的态度有什么好我真的不知道。当然有理性的道理就是对社会很有用。。。

I posted an event on facebook regarding a great event coming up in Hong Kong called "International Day of the End of Racial Discrimination" organized by Unison in Hong Kong. Please check it out on this link: 我昨天开了一个非常厉害的event在facebook - 请过去这个link看看。。。是关于支持香港的少数民族的事情: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=131881300579

MAR 2, 2009: BACK TO WORK又要上班。。。

I want to know if any of YOU who read this actually like Sunday nights? I HATE Sunday nights with a passion...I hate the fact that the next day is back to work. That's not a good thing obviously..我真的想问你们 - 这里有没有一个人星期天晚上会很兴奋?兴奋因为明天又到星期一?肯定没有一个人。。。

Anyway...

Watched Recycle over the weekend in Hong Kong...and god they're such a good band...every band member plays in that band like their life depends on that band being successful. That's what makes certain bands GREAT and certain bands totally worth skipping. Bands who play like their lives depend on it play with a whole different intensity that just can't be compared. Recycle's drummer is still and easily my favorite punk rock drummer...I hope he was able to inspire a lot of people last night at the show...这个周末看了recycle在香港演出。。。十分好看。。。他们全队真的挺厉害。。。他们玩音乐的Style就是我觉得最吸人。。。因为他们玩的时候很明显他们当这个乐队就是他们的生命。一个乐队这样跟他们乐队玩的感觉是比较深很多。。。跟其他乐队的比较是挺大。。。每个乐队应该是这样玩音乐。。。就是我的信念。。。recycle的鼓手挺厉害。。。希望他有影响了很多人。。。

Check out the fastest band photo we've ever taken这个是我们最快拍的band照片:



Hahahahaha...seriously - it was like 5 minutes...awesome..真的说是五分钟里拍完了。。。

So Chai has bought the new Lamb of God and he says it rules...I've been listening to it on their myspace and I can't wait to own this thing. It sounds so awesome - I feel like all the songs are simpler and straight to the point...Can't wait to read the lyrics...

I actually have nothing to post up today...I'm in the bandroom and Brian's trying to record the guitars to CNHC but I'm too tired to even think about recording guitar。。。其实我今天没有什么好东西上载。。。我还在band房听brian录cnhc的吉他。。。我今天太累一定不够力录吉他。。。

RECYCLE RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!recycle牛逼!!!

FEB 26, 2009: WEEK

Dude...this has been a long fucking week. I have two more kids that I tutor now so it's Mon to Thursday that I am not done working until like 6 or 6:30 (I start work at 7:15am)...it just sucks dude...It's nice to be making this extra money - but it is fucking tiring. By 8pm I am SOOOO tired. Last night I fell asleep at 9pm...这个礼拜真的过得挺慢。。。我这个礼拜指导了多两个小朋友所以我星期一到四差不多六点或六点半才下班 (我每天七点十五分钟上班)。。。

So - don't know what to really tell you because I work so much that it's hard to stay in touch with what's going on in the city or around the world. 反正因为我每天工作到chi sin我真的不知道有什么好稍息可以通知大家。。。

What I have realized over the past few days...可是这几天我终于明白了一个很深的事情。。。

The reason that HK's underground heavy music community always seems to have petty petty problems...I mean racked with petty ridiculous issues...I realized is that the people involved in the heavy music community in HK are just very immature. That's what is a big problem in Hong Kong in general. All the backstabbing you see or hear here, the comments that people make about each other, the issues that people have with each other, are so childish that it disappoints me that me at my age I have to still have to be working in this type of immature and childish environment/culture. 几年前我已经有想过也问过别人这个问题:为什么在香港听重音乐的人的行为像小朋友一样? 在别人后面说的谎话,看着别人的时候一起来笑一笑,可是在这个人后面说很多废话。我们这个世界已经是很小的可是如果人有误会的话他们还不会拿电话解决这个问题。。。一解决大家可以再继续走下一步因为这个障碍已经没有了。 可是在香港别人不喜欢面对误会了的事,反而他们喜欢信别人说什么然后留这个障碍在别人跟他们的中间。你可以看有些人有什么批评。 当然批评是一个好事情 - 没有批评哪大家怎么可以进步?可是有些人有个挺极端的批评 - 很明显开始不理性的想法。可是在美国和其他很成熟的音乐社会里几十年前已经经过了这样的挺极端的说法,想法和做法。慢慢那边的人发现了这样的极端批评没有什么好的后果 - 反而会让他们的社会变的不太健康。他们发现了如果他们有很极端的想法哪他们还不需要用这个态度和想法去评价他人。个人有个人的想法。成熟的人会给个人自己想一想。

所以你可以看成熟城市的社会已经没有这样的看法 - 如果有的话就是在网站写的小朋友。大人已经会明白一个成熟的人应该用怎么样的行为面对问题和误会。

可是我觉得香港还有希望。是因为我们越来越多差不多三十岁或已经过了三十岁的人还在这个社会里面行动。因为这班人是比较大年纪所以他们说的话或他们的行为是比较成熟。如果我们这些比较大年纪的人会继续在香港,继续用正面的态度面对事情,哪一天香港的重音乐的社会可以比其他成熟的城市/国家一样那么好。。。

我觉得如果我们大家可以努力得到一个成熟的文化。。。这样才可以做到一个好的香港。你自己想一想 - 如果一天我们全香港可以不理小朋友怎么说或看的事情,哪我们大家可以做到更多东西 - 让香港的音乐社会/情况变得更好。

But I think things will eventually change. As more and more of us reach 30 and over, and if we are still playing in bands and still working on continuing to create a better music climate - people will realize that petty childish high-school drama is not part of a music climate that THEY want to be involved in.

I really am jealous of those music communities all over the world that are mature and therefore healthy and productive...

One day we'll get there...


FEB 23, 2009: WHAT?! 不会吧! 周末已经玩完了 WEEKEND OVER?!

I hate Sunday nights...last night I was watching the news with Ho in our studio and the reporter said "Have a good night..." and I yelled at the TV "Have a good night?! Tomorrow is Monday and we're all back to work! How can we have a good night tonight!?" hahahahaha...我最恨的日子一定是星期天。。。我昨天晚上跟ho在我们band房看着电视的时候突然听到记者说 “希望你的晚上过得好 something like that la"...然后我很大声对着我们电视说  “怎么可以过得好!明天是星期一!大家要上班!!!” 哈哈哈哈哈。。。。

We had a great Sunday...we tried out a drummer and this dude has shown CRAZY potential not to mention a lot of heart. The most important thing is that when Mike heard him playing drums - MIKE WAS IMPRESSED! :-) If Mike was impressed then this must be someone with a LOT of potential. 我们的星期天过得不错。。。我们有试过一位鼓手。。。挺有希望。。。最重要是mike非常喜欢这个人打鼓的style! 如果mike喜欢这个人一定有希望!哈哈哈哈。。。

We'll let you know in a few months how things work out...keep your fingers crossed! 过多几个月后可以跟大家说说。。。

We took a band photo last night with just the 3 of us and it was the fastest band photo I think we've ever taken. We went under our building and took maybe 5 photos. We looked at them and were like whatever - that's fine. 我们昨天晚上也拍了一个乐队照片。。。只有我们三个。。。可是我从来没有试过那么快拍一个乐队的照片。我们只拍了五张然后再看然后说“算了。。。就是这张!” Hahahahaha...你可以上我们的Facebook看看to check it out go to our Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=2257133651

I can't believe we have two months before we play our first show in a long time!!! I can't wait to play again...I'm dying to play...and for our first show of 2009 to be in the beautiful Philippines is just the greatest thing...我不相信我们只有两个多月然后终于可以演出!!! 我真的很想演出。。。我们二零零九的第一个演出是在一个特美丽的国家菲律宾。。。真的很开心我们的第一个演出是在这个对我们那么好的国家。。。

Have Heart - 快点听听他们一首歌叫 'watch me rise'. check out the song WATCH ME RISE...I LOVE this song...我非常爱这首歌。。。when they play this song - I"m going to go crazy for the end part "Watch me...watch me...watch me rise!"...他们在香港演这首歌的时候我一定会疯了。。。哈哈哈哈。。。我一定会拿注音的mike然后唱最后的歌词 'watch me rise..."...挺期待看他们和跟他们一起演出。。。can't wait for Have Heart.........

FEB 21, 2009: OLD FRIENDS 舊朋友

Last night hung out with old friends...friends from my first year back in HK in 1999...it was Fai and Shun from the old HK band called Fat Job. it was great being with those dudes again...Fai was a very close friend of mine for awhile - and it's good to see that the guy hasn't changed at all! hahahahaha...Shun was the same ol' Shun - cool and mellow...昨天晚上我跟我很舊的朋友一起吃饭和聊天儿。。。是我九九年刚回来香港的朋友们 - 是以前香港乐队发作的成员fai和shun. 有个时间fai是我好朋友 - 所以昨天晚上终于有机会再聊天儿真的特开心。。。他真的还没变过!哈哈哈哈。。。

Fai owns an old school car that is SOOOOOO damn awesome...i took a pic of it but i'm too tired to upload it now. 他有个超正的old schoool车。。。我拍照可是我现在太lazy上载。。。

So over the past few days a HK based photojournalist was barred entry into Macau. I don't know about you guys but I think that's so strange and very worrying...this guy wasn't an actual reporter, but a photographer and for some reason he was restricted entry into Macau. 这几天的新闻我有留意关于澳门的海关不给一位香港的拍照人进去澳门的新闻。 真的有点儿恐怕的事情。。。他不是一个记者就是拍政治东西的人 - 这样还不给他进去是个担心的行为。。。

These types of situations are worrying in general - of course if something like that happened in HK lots of people would go crazy. But Macau is a much more different place...

Have Heart song "Life is Hard Enough"...great song...simple lyrics...

To find out more about Have Heart please check out their music on如果你想听他们的音乐请上他们的myspace听听:
http://myspace.com/haveheart

And please read their lyrics so you can understand them better...they have great lyrics about life...听他们的音乐的时候最好是看着他们的歌词
。。。你们可以在这个网站找到他们所有歌词:

http://www.plyrics.com/h/haveheart.html

One song called "Life is Hard Enough" is about how we all have an inner strength then can help us cope with the struggles we face in life. 他们其中一首歌叫'life is hard enough (生命已经很辛苦)的歌是说我们大家有能力面对我们所有
的问题。We don't need to drink or smoke or do drugs to run away from these problems. 我们不需要每天喝醉或吸毒以解烦闷。We can rely on ourselves to face these problems head on (this is one of the biggest ideas behind the culture of Straight Edge). 我们可以依赖我们自己全心面对这些问题 (这个是straight edge文化最大的信念). The last few lyrics for this song is 这首歌的最后歌词是:

"we know, we know you got the strength inside
to defeat the problems of our lives
without, the "crutch" ...cause we all know
life is hard enough as it is."


FEB 20, 2009: 美国hardcore乐队HAVE HEART 香港演出 MAY 10, 2009

Yes, so if you have had time to watch the video that I posted yesterday and that SFS Records posted as well - then you will know that our very first Hong Kong show since April 2008 will take place on May 10 this year. We will be opening for the great message-oriented hardcore band Have Heart. These guys have been touring non-stop for the past few years and have earned incredible amounts of respect from people all over the world. It's also nice to finally have an actual hardcore band play in Hong Kong! The last time we organized a show for an actual hardcore band was the great Comeback Kid in 2008. 如果你们有看我昨天上载的短片你会看到我们荔枝王终于会在香港演出。。。我们从上年四月份没有在演过出。今年的五月十号我们会跟这个世界上其中一个特有名的真hardcore乐队叫Have Heart一起演出。我们挺兴奋有这个机会。。。他们这几年不停巡演了。。。什么地方都去过。。。这个是他们第一次来亚洲巡演。我们由零开始也兴奋因为我们终于可以搞一个真hardcore的演出。。。上次有帮过一个真hardcore乐队的演出是上年来香港的comeback kid.

We are VERY excited to be playing with these guys...you guys should check out this band ASAP and when you listen to the music try to find a website that has all their lyrics and read along. It will make the music and HARDCORE in general feel more real and amazing to you...希望大家会用点时间听听他们的音乐。 可是听他们的音乐的时候一定需要看他们的歌词。他们的歌词挺有意思 - 每首歌都有个意思。下面我放了两个网站 - 一个是他们的myspace第二个他们的歌词的网站。可是他们myspace只有他们最新的唱片。如果你们可以找到他们第一个唱片就好了。。。他们第一个唱片是叫'the things we carry" - 非常非常非常好!!!

Here's a link to their myspace:

www.myspace.com/haveheart

Have Heart's lyrics:

LYRICS HERE


到时间!!! See you all May 10!

FEB 19, 2009: MISERY SIGNALS LIVE IN HONG KONG PROMO!!!

I finally finished the promo last night! I'm so excited that every time I make one of these videos I think I get better and better at it! :-) The program that I taught myself is Premiere...easy as hell to use and you have so much at your disposal!!! I love that because of King Ly Chee and Start From Scratch since 1999 I have taught myself so many things (including Chinese - speaking and reading!)...if that isn't a strong DIY attitude then what is it?!??! hahahahah...我终于做完了misery signals的短片!!!我挺兴奋因为我每次做一个短片我觉得我有进步多一点儿!这次我有自学premiere的program!!! 我觉得是挺容易的也是很好玩。。。

我真的很开心。。。我从九九年为了荔枝王和由零开始我有鼓励我自己学那么多东西。。。很多program...还有中文!都是为了我这两个大project学了。。。

Here's the video!!! Please forward it to friends and family and uncle and aunties and your pets too! 下面是个短片。。。请看看然后给你们朋友看和家人和你们所爱的动物也行!哈哈哈哈。。。:-)



FEB 17, 2009: LAMB OF GOD...other shit

So I think it's safe to say in the metal world, the release of the new Lamb of God album that comes out next week is a HUGE HUGE HUGE event! They've released their first music video from a song from the album...and they released a new song yesterday as well...it's crazy - a few months ago the song that they actually uploaded first I didn't like at all. But now after watching the video and listening to the new song they uploaded - I CANNOT wait to buy this album! (Yes - I still buy CD's unlike you BT assholes who download shit for free! hahahaha...) 我觉得在金属音乐社会里听多人是很期待挺lamb of god的新album. 他们新album下个礼拜出的。。。他们刚刚出了他们新mv和上载了他们一首新歌。。。我记得几个月前我听完他们其中一首新歌真的没有什么好感觉。可是我刚刚看完他们这个video和听他们新歌。。。我也开始挺期待这张cd ...当然我会买cd...我还喜欢这样支持乐队。。。

Here is the link to the new song: http://www.spin.com/articles/exclusive-song-lamb-gods-insane-riffage

Here is the link to the video:

Set To Fail


So the asshole "leader" of Zimbabwe has bought a house in HK that is worth 40 million. This is while his country is in ruins...over 1,000 people have died from cholera...his country is one of the poorest countries in the world - but he thinks it's okay to spend this much of it's countries money on personal homes.

That's easily what we call in english - a piece of shit. 

FEB 16, 2009: GREAT WEEKEND 周末不错!!!

Had a great weekend...didn't really do much but walked around a lot with Alison and then yesterday had a great time jamming with mike and ho...it was the first time we had an almost full band practice getting the band ready for the upcoming Philippines tour!!! SOOOOOOOOOO excited to get back over there...it's pretty crazy. Brian wasn't there so we haven't had a FULL band practice yet but we should be having it soon...这个周末过得不错。。。我星期六就是跟alison逛逛。。。在旺角找到一个特好笑的铺头。。。你可以上我facebook看看! 哈哈哈哈。。。

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5874185&l=c8289&id=538530272

然后昨天我们终于有我们第一次排练。。。可是就是我, ho, 和mike。。。我们昨天开始练菲律宾巡演的几首歌。。。brian昨天不再所以我们第一个全队应该会这个礼拜排练。。。挺兴奋!!!因为我们会玩五首新歌!!!特期待玩全部新歌。。。

我很想通知我们五月十号会跟谁一起演出!哈哈哈哈。。。就是等我们ho做好这个演出的poster...然后同时通知大家!我上个礼拜说过了 - 可能有点人不会有什么兴奋的感觉可是对我们一个hardcore乐队来说, 这个是一个特开心的机会。。。他们一定这个世界其中最有名的传统hardcore乐队!!!他们来中国巡演是一个非常好的事。希望大家会用心和时间学学他们的歌词 - 他们歌词的题目和态度就是所有hardcore应该有的态度和题目。。。特好。。。还有我们上年四月之后没有在香港演出所以我们也是兴奋在我们家再演出。。I really can't wait to announce the show that we're playing in Hong Kong on May 10th!!! I'm just waiting for Ho to confirm the poster design and then we'll announce the whole thing at one time...In general I don't think this band's "style" of hardcore is something that most people in HK are going to be attracted to. But to us as a hardcore band, we are incredibly honored to be playing with a hardcore band that has so much belief, has been touring the world singing their songs knee-deep in meaning and message...for us to be organizing their show in HK is a very exciting thing for us and we're excited to be with these guys...Plus we haven't played in HK since April 2008 so we're pretty excited to be playing back on our own home-turf.


The only thing you need to do today is watch my good friend's in Recycle's new music video and then come watch them when they play on Feb 28 in Hong Kong!!! 你们今天只需要看一个很重要的东西。。。就是我好朋友北京乐队再循环的新MV!!! 然后大家要准备他们在二月二十八号在香港演出!!!

 

FEB 13, 2009: 关于STRAIGHT EDGE 网站 WEBSITE

Here's a link to a pretty good Straight Edge website called Straight Edge Lifestyle...they recently did an interview with the owner of one of my favorite hardcore record labels Bridge 9 Records (they've released music by American Nightmare, Have Heart, Verse, H2O, New Found Glory, Sick of it All, Agnostic Front, Death Before Dishonor...god the list goes on and on...) One of the owners discusses his beliefs about straight edge...awesome interview...这里有个好网站介绍straight edge的生活方式。。。特有意思。。。他们有访问我其中最喜欢的hardcore唱片公司叫bridge 9. 这个唱片公司有帮挺多乐队出唱片 - 比方说: h2o, have heart, verse, new found glory, sick of it all, agnostic front, death before dishonor...还有挺多其他乐队。。。 http://straightedgelifestyle.com/

Here's a good site of photos from hardcore shows in Europe...when can we get a photographer like that in HK!! 这个网站有挺多非常好看hardcore演出的照片。 全部是在欧洲拍的: http://facetheshow.com

我们将会在香港演出的日子会有一个很大美国来的hardcore乐队跟我们一起演出。 可是他们的风格大部人应该不会太喜欢。。。他们是很old school那种的风格。。。我们荔枝王的成员挺喜欢这种hardcore也很尊重这个style因为八十年代的hardcore都是这样开始。 我们是挺尊重这个文化的历史所以特喜欢听这个风格。。。我们确定了poster的design然后会通知大家这个乐队是谁。。我们当然很兴奋可以跟他们一起表演 - 做他们的开场乐队。。。The show we're going to play on May 10th is with a pretty huge hardcore band...They're style is not particularly a style of hardcore that most HK kids are going to be into...but we as a band love this style because this always reminds us the roots of hardcore and how it sounded in the 80's when this culture began...this is where it all came from so when we hear bands like this we do get excited! We're very excited that they're coming here and that we'll be opening for them. Quite an honor!

off to bed...

FEB 11, 2009: SHOES 鞋子

Check out these amazing shoes that Adidas are putting out to support one of hardcore's oldest record labels - Revelations Records! This record label has been around since the 80's and has released music by some of the legends of hardcore: Sick of it All, Bold, Judge, Gorilla Biscuits, Youth of Today, Warzone, and so many more..你们可以看看一个很有意思的鞋子。。。是adidas跟这个世界最舊和有尊重的hardcore唱片公司。。。公司是叫revelation records. 他们一起来合作因为这间公司今年终于会发出他们的第一百五十张唱片。。。看看这个鞋子的图片:http://www.crookedtongues.com/news/index.php#jumpLink_1

Last weekend I watched the movie 7 Pounds with Alison...this is the new Will Smith movie...as all movies that I watch in the movie theater I love going into the theater without knowing ANYTHING about the story. With this movie I had NO idea what the story was and I was SO blown away! It is an amazing movie and I'm not going to blow the story for you...just remember to bring a box of tissues! hahahaha...I was crying like a little baby in it! :-) 上个周末我跟alison看了will smith的最新电影叫7 pounds...挺好看。。。我在电影院看。。。看得特开心。。。进去看电影的时候我真的不知道故事是什么。我最喜欢是这样看电影。。。什么都不知道。。。没有看过别人看了这部电影然后有什么感觉等等。。。就是进去然后给部电影机会影响我。。。

挺好看。。。如果你去看准备哭到像一个baby...hahahahaha...

Looks like we'll be playing a Hong Kong show soon...the show will take place May 10 but we're confirming more things about it before we announce the show. We haven't played since April 2008 in Hong Kong so it'll be interesting to see who if anyone turns up to watch us. 我们好像将会终于有个本地香港的演出。 我们还没确定所有的detail - 可是这个演出是我们 由零开始 安排的。 演出将会在五月十号开的。 就是我们零八年四月之后再香港的第一场演出。。。已经过了一年多没有在香港演过出。。。看看有没有人有兴趣看我们表演。。。尽快会通知大家。。。

FEB 9, 2009: UPLOADED MIKE RECORDING VIDEO!

Yesterday I finally finished making that video of Mike recording two of our new songs 我昨天终于剪完了mike录鼓的短片!!! 就是他在我们的studio录我们两手新歌:

Time Will Prove
and和
CNHC

Check it out 你们可以在这个link看这个短片 CLICK HERE!!!

我们确定了我们四月底在菲律宾的巡演。。。请上我们的myspace看这机场演出的information...so we have uploaded the dates for our upcoming Philippines tour!!! It's 3 dates in easily one of our favorite countries to perform in!!! Check out the dates on our myspace... www.myspace.com/kinglychee 

然后就像鼓励大家看看我昨天上载的link...对我来说是很重要。。。我很想大家会看看然后发给你所有朋友和家人看看。希望大家会明白我们少数民族的生活。。。Lastly, I would like to continue to encourage you to watch the videos that I linked on to our website yesterday. For me, this is one of the most important videos that ALL HK people MUST watch. Please check it out and forward it to your friends and family so we can all try to understand the lives of minorities here...

FEB 8, 2009: PLEASE WATCH THIS ESPECIALLY IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND LIFE AS A MINORITY IN HONG KONG!!! 大家请马上看看这个短片!!!如果你想了解多点关于香港住和长大的少数民族的生活!这个短片是做的挺好!特有意思!!!请发给你所有朋友。。。给他们感受我们的困难。。。

节目叫 Assalamalaikum 你好

FEB 7, 2009: SLEPT ALL DAY 好累了!!!

Holy crap...organizing and managing this past Parkway Drive show kicked my ass so much that yesterday I called in sick to work and slept all day. It was actually quite ridiculous. Those who know me know that all I do 24 hours a day is work work work work - very rarely do I get tired...so I was quite surprised with myself yesterday...probably just the fact that there was a BILLION things to be on top of!!! 我昨天十分累所以我请病假然后全天就睡觉。。。有点儿奇怪因为认识我的朋友们知道我是一位二十四小时可以做事的人。。。很少真的会那么累。。。所以我有点儿自己很surprised! 就是因为真的挺多东西有安排。。。

My friend sent me this CRAZY skate video...you guys have to see it...older skaters will know of a thing called "leap of faith" that a famous skateboarder named Jamie Thomas did years ago...this video is now of a new skater doing a NEW leap of faith...INSANE...CHI SIN!! 我朋友昨天发给我了一个新滑板的录影片。。。舊的滑板人一定听过“leap of faith"这个东西。。。是一位人叫jamie thomas ollie下来的活动。。。挺疯的。。。然后这个新video是一位新的滑板人。。。你自己看看!!! 也是挺疯了!



We already have started a Facebook event page for the Misery Signals show 关于misery signals的演出我们已经开了一个facebook的页:

CLICK HERE!

FEB 6, 2009: WHAT A NIGHT!!!

Yesterday was an awesome AWESOME day...great show, great turnout, it's 3am right now and I really need to go to sleep...

Thank you Parkway Drive for being such cool dudes and allowing us to organize the biggest show that SFS has organized! :-)

Next:

King Ly Chee/Shepherds the Weak Tour Philippines
Misery Signals LIVE in Hong Kong


Of course as always...we have a billion people to say "thank you" too...no SFS show can be organized and executed so well without the help and support of tons of people...

I don't want to name people because I might forget someone and people like to talk a lot of bullshit about me...so...

THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO VOLUNTEERED TO HELP US WITH THIS SHOW...you know who you are (at least we hope you do! hahahahaha...)

FEB 4, 2009: SHOPS SOLD OUT OF TICKETS?!??!

Oh my god...this is a FIRST for Start From Scratch Records!!! We just got phone calls that 2 stores have already sold out of tickets!!!

White Noise in Causeway Bay still has tickets...and I just put more tickets in Records Rendezvous!!!

LAST DAY TO BUY ADVANCE TICKETS IS TODAY!!!

Tomorrow will ONLY be walk-in tickets!

PEACE

THIS IS WHERE TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE (LAST DAY TODAY!!!)


White Noise Records
TEL: 25910499
銅鑼灣堅拿道東4號1樓 (鄰近鵝頸橋∕地下門口是飾物店舖)
1/F., 4 Canal Road East, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong (close to Times Square and Canal Road Flyover)

Records Rendezvous
Tel : 2716 9333
地址 : 九龍尖沙咀梳士巴利道3號星光行地庫B23h鋪
Address : Shope B23h, Basement Floor, Star House, 3 Salisbury Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui


FEB 3, 2009: SOOOOOOOOOOO BUSY!!! 非常忙

Holy shit SOOOOO busy getting things ready for the Parkway Drive show. Checked out the ticket sales at the shops and they have been amazing! :-) Please remember the tickets will be on sale UNTIL Wednesday. After Wednesday you can ONLY buy tickets at the show. 这几天忙到pok kai!!! 准备parkway drive的演出非常兴奋。。。挺多东西有搞。。。我昨天问问了买票的地点卖的怎么样 - 他们说的卖的不错!!! :-) 这样星期四的演出更好玩!!! 我就想跟大家说预订票会买到星期三。。。星期三之后只在场地可以卖票(星期三之后只有walk-in票)。。。

3 more days................只有三天!!!!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

Show starts at 7:30 SHARP!!! 演出七点半正开始!!!Come early because Embryo is playing first!!! 记住早到因为第一个乐队是embryo!

See you all there..到时见!!!

OLDER NEWS CLICK HERE


KING LY CHEE
荔枝王

LIVE IN GUANGZHOU!!!
广州现场

SONG: 亚洲起义
(Unite Asia - Chinese Version)



SONG: 誓言
(Promise - Chinese Version)

 

 

NEW SONG荔枝王新歌:
THIS IS OUR NEW BEGINNING

内地的朋友们用下面这个
 

KING LY CHEE
荔枝王


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King Ly Chee Mix Tape:
please click here for LYRICS
如果你想看我們的歌詞請按這裡

  1. Promise

  2. Unite Asia

  3. Skinless

  4. Queen's Pier

  5. Work

  6. Refuse

  7. 誓言(中文版)

  8. 亞洲起義 (中文版)

  9. 無皮(中文版)

  10. 皇后碼頭 (中文版)

  11.  朝九晚十(中文版)

  12. 拒絕(中文版)

  13. 奋身见证

  14. My Family

  15. Chaos of Thoughts & Action (from Stand Strong 2003)

  16. Stand Strong (from Stand Strong 2003)

  17. She (from compilation released in 2003)

  18. Scarred (from We Are Who We Are 2000)

  19. A Useless Gift (from Stand Strong 2003)

  20. EPD (from We Are Who We Are 2000)