im blogging cos my cousin told me to

yeah the title should say it all...
hmmm okies Carol's my very intelligent, sharp, funny cousin (this statement is made without any duress at all) who is currently studying final law at the University of Bristol... having had the pleasure of spending extended periods of time with the said cousin and her family (which is also my family :-P) during my last trip back to KL (last June), hahaha all that i can say is that yes family is family :-D... hehehe yeah hmmmm also a very musically talented wing of my family :-D (lets see... church keyboardist, lead guitar rite?) .
hehehe the line "the hills are alive, with the sound of music!!!", sung loudly by 3 different voices over the scenic backdrop of Cameron Highlands is generally quite a great way to pass time... (may have given Uncle D a headache lol) yeah but it was fun... then again reenacting parts of the musical that night in the chalet may have taken the joke abit too far... i've never laughed that loud in my life lol (it appears 'the sound of music' has had a huge influence on my family... "my roots man"
yeah spending time in confined spaces with family can get abit... interesting is the word to use here... after a while... i believe it was Carol who noted that if the trip had been on for an extra day (rather than just the 3 days 2 nights) yeah we might have ended up killing each other... hehehe mainly due to my idiosyncracies... and some of hers i might add... but yeah it came down to name-calling in the end (i might add that she's 22)
okies i take it the reason she asked me to blog was because she's interested in what goes on in her cousin's life in boring old Perth... hmmm yeah what did i do this week?
lets see uni on mon and wed... procrastination on my essay due next monday, yeah im supposed to be doing it now... but my cousin insisted lol :-P (i'll blame her now)
okies... oh yeah saw Ray on Thursday. i would give it 7.5/10 i guess. am not a huge fan of biopics in general as yeah quite frequently the character of person the film's about is generally airbrushed to a glistening shine. but yeah i was pretty impressed. Ray Charles Robinson... what a muso... i dont think i could ever play the piano if i were blind (can't play it with both eyes, come to think of it...) yeah and the film deals with some pretty serious themes... heroin addiction, racism in the South in the 50s... the general discrimination against handicapped ppl which is still quite a recurrent issue in society i believe. i enjoyed the movie alot... and the music? PHENOMENAL... yeah i mean i loved it. he's brilliant... so much energy, flair, passion in his music, his voice... the cons? well its a tad long at 2 and a half hours... and gets draggy at parts... and the use of flashbacks... hmm i dont know ehh (up to personal preferences here... i didn't mind them to be honest.. helped add abit of colour, tie up loose ends etc)
great acting by Jamie Fox btw... who did a good job in portraying a man who was often tortured by guilt, seeking refuge in his music...
okies yeah after the movie... went to church worship team prac at the Maths LT... not bad lahh i guess... what songs did we do? hmm cant remember ehh :-D... yeah it was ok i guess... only my battery ran out at the end... so no power for my acoustic at the end :-P
hmmm Friday had an early CNY dinner with family... well the rest of the extended family here in Perth... Gong Xi Fa Cai, Sun Lin Fai Lok to all my frens and family back in KL and wherever really (well hahaha just Carol in the UK i think...) yeah miss u all heaps...
sigh have to go to uni on CNY day (not a public holiday in Perth. even if it was well the powers that be at UWA have decided that public holidays are not worth skipping classes over... why? ive missed 2 public holidays already hahaha)... anywayz dinner was good... good to catch up with family (well 14 of us i think at the end)... had some mou tai (chinese rice wine... strong, bad-tasting stuff)... can't say i will have it again but to my credit i didnt embarass myself :-D
Sunday... hmmm Church as usual... played guitar...
what songs did we do? ok i might actually remember this :-P
1. Open up the gates (B)
2. For all you've done (E)
3. Jesus the same (E)
4. We fall down (E)
5. Only by grace (G)

yeah wasnt a bad service... hehehe having to quickly improvise 'Only By Grace'... hahaha well at least i'm improving on the playing by ear thing... :-D

lets see went to play bball with some of the guys after church... ended up in a 3 on 3 hahaha where my woeful shooting was exposed... i think i sank 2 out of like... 20? yeah hehehe not my game :-P... okies signing off for now
gotta start that essay lol