I was having a youtube session after work, looking through some live clips of some of my favorite hardcore punk bands such as Planemistakenforstars & Orchid etc when I am across this band call "I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook". Damm what a crazy name for band but then again if I started some post hardcore band I probably have a name of a band like "stolen bikes goes faster" or something ha ha.

I was yhinking about S'pore.. I remember when I was last living there I somehow had the need to be with like minded people. It is difficult as S'pore been such a fast moving city, there seems to always be a question about the quality of time spent & what the majority of people do with it in such a small space. light hearted conversion at about 4.00am in Paris with a french dude (who had been there) about life in Sg which made me even wonder more of the times I was there.

Pianos Become the Teeth

And they will be playing in the UK soon!!!

Democracy, The West & The Arab World

Some extraordinary events that is unfolding in this Arabic part of North Africa with the Tunisian president escaping his own country. Its strange that for years Zine Ben Ali was seen by the West as some benevolent dictator (Far from been a LKY in S'pore) who rightly stood up to hardline Islamist but was such corrupt dictator to his own people. however, Its funny that in the West whenever we read about elections in the Arab world, we desire for a fair & democratic process so long as its leaders that favor the West. Think of all that Oil concessions that are out there in the Arab world. Sadly from about the Mediterranean world(Club Med) to the Borders of India there appears to be some sort of endless disaster with Iraq, Sudan elections, Lebanon(they have no Government it seems??), Egypt(another recent fake election) & Algeria a country that for some reason should be as rich as Saudi Arabia but has the worst unemployment in the region with no social pensions or security but somehow the wealth is sitting in some Swiss bank account.

With the internet been readily available to many young Arabs, a need need for a sudden change in the region without the absolute rule of Princes of the Gulf state. Lets hope it will be the best.

I was listening to Shelter as I was typing this ha ha

Cricket Australia

Yeah over the past few weeks I have been spending late hours watching the current ashes series in Australia to which England was the better side to win the series. This first in the last 24 years or so. It was very entertaining but and the right team won even though my heart still goes out to Australia to have won. Its very difficult to explain why I support Australia despite the fact that I have lived out here on English soil for just less than 10 years. I suppose when I grew up in Singapore/Australia there was something instilled in me to just support Australia. Who knows? Anyway I just hope Cricket Australia will learn from this series just in order to get to where they were for years!!!