I think I should start writing again... 

Friday and I was just thinking how much I enjoyed my skateboarding session last night with my mate Luca. Few new things which I had not done for years like an oilli into the bank and poppy hell flips on the bank.

In terms of music we have a nice conversation of this sound of soundcloud hip hop, the 2018 of what is hip hop which sounds nothing like the boom bap era of hip hop. Sound cloud hip hop  the Lo-fi stripped down music. lyrically its not much to the Boom bap counter parts of lyrical rapping with bars, but I easily compare this to the Jamaican MC Toasting to hype up the crowd.  


https://soundcloud.com/catvlyst/sittin-back-ft-suggs

https://soundcloud.com/saveme1/xans

https://soundcloud.com/mackstac/4-crystal-class

Yo in the age of this ridiculous period of Trap RnB gone Sadboy Hip Hop. Hip Hop use to sound a bit like this.   I present to you Non Phixion.

Yo I am back thanks to Tanna reminding me of this ! My goodness where has RASADAVE being all these while? Ok Well I probably been spending some time on Twitter & Instagram well but I really should come back here again? Not that anyone will read this.

Bless up!

Here is a photo of a trip I took back in 2015.

Yeah

So I have just got back from the the tropical city of Singapore. Yeah I wished I could have spent more time there with my dad & Friends but never mine.  At least it was a nice short break

Potential Band names

Yeah I have always wanted to be involve in some emo scremo band.... but there have been a few that I have just loved jamming with!! Zsezsezse still one of the best I have ever jammed!! Anyway a note to me about potential band names, not that this will ever happen.

David & The Rendang Theory. (yes quite silly eh? ha ha)
Planes landing at Kai Tak airport.
The Holiday Romance Victim
Stolen bikes ride faster
Invocation
Assume Hypotheses as the 2nd Principle.
The Dutch Republic.
Indistinct Perceptions
The Impossible wanderings in Temasek
Good night & Good luck

.... yeah silly names.. I better sleep.

Children of Jah

Oh man I have been have some crazy long hours at work particularly this week. Seriously losing sleep, but I did have a really good holiday in France for the last 2 weeks as well the last bank holiday which was productive in the sense of getting some studies done & whilst managing to have a skate session & a few late nights. Yes if you to love London bank holiday weekends as the city has a certain amazing upbeat about it. I have somehow recently taken up late night cycling( when there is not much traffic) around London. It is quite an amazing feeling riding a bike around the old buildings of the square mile, Clerkenwell back to East London. Gonna see if there are anyone who would be interested in some weekday late night cycling??



Channel One Sound System - Notting Hill Bank Holiday- 2011

When I find a good mix, It def has to go up on this Blog!!
Live from the Boiler Room- London.

Ghostpoet Mix

Oh my its been such a long time since I have updated this blog yet there have been a few things that have somehow passed my mind since then. I think what was quite significant was catching up with an old friend of mine from S'pore & his getting to know his new girlfriend better. Yes they spent the week at my place crashing out in the lovely quaint Victorian living room. During that period my sleep was seriously deprived due to long nights which I did the sensible thing of taking a day off from work! There were endless amount of music we checked out at various bars/clubs as well as most of the big London Museums. So for me, it was great just to visit such places.



I have been really enjoying my weekends this summer in London. Other than the necessary skating sessions that I will have, but just catching up with all the mini festivals that are in London. I have also been enjoying my old school vintage racing bike which I bought from a friend. Night cycling in London is such a trill especially when there is not much traffic! I am gonna try and get some guys to go night cycling to some odd places in London if I can :-)

Last night I was at imperial wharf in 7 sisters, near Tottenham, North London. Imperial Wharf is what I think is a Co-operative owned by local artist where they had this massive party! Yeah I did enjoy all of the performances & the music, just chilling with some mates, however, coming home was a problem as there were no night buses at all. Strange? But I did find out that just near by was this crazy riot that was taking place which probably explained all the helicopters in the sky. Yes looking at the news, a man had recently been killed by the police where, what started at a peaceful demonstration turned out to be really sour!! The damage had been burnt buildings, cars as well as a few shops looted. It looked like a warzone. It only goes to show of the scale of the problem in that, there really is a much deeper issue with regards to the neglected social unrest that exist within the inner city of London. As I recently commented on FB, I wondering if Thatcherism (causing unemployment amongst the working class whilst promoting Victorian ideas of self help) ideas that have been in-beaded in UK politics could be one of the factors of this???

The Skyline of France May 2011

Weekend

Oh man not another end of the weekend and a long week ahead of work. I kind of miss those strings of Bank holidays with the extra day we were given due to the Royal Weeding as well as that extra day holiday after the end of May Bank holiday due to the Queens Unofficial Birthday (Apparently there 2 separate days she celebrates, which honestly I am not too sure why, but its a holiday). This weekend I did sadly spend about 2-3 hours on a Saturday afternoon catching up with work as I have somehow been covering 2 job roles the last 1-2 months, but that will end soon as luckily they have found a replacement to my old work. But yeah I did manage to finish on a reasonable time where I went to catch up with some of the old faces within the London Hardcore scene, where yeah it was the usual sort of jokes about the usual day to day events of some of the guys. They were all going to the gig (LBU show) at the 12 Bar, but I went to for skate at Southbank. As I was on the way I ran into this homeless man very near Southbank begging near the stairs. What was sad about this was that I sort of knew this guy as he use to skate London, and he was pretty good, olling massive gaps & Rail bars at Southbank which I have never seen anyone do. Yeah he was asking if I knew anyone who wanted to squat nearby etc etc which I did not know anyone. Quite sad as this guy has done a bit of hard drugs such as a bit of crack. Anyway I do hope he will pick himself up soon as he is quite a nice guy. After my brief chat I did spend a good 2 hours skating which just wore me down. But I am happy I had a nice session. There was this live band playing nearby where some of the Southbank guys went over to chill and see. Yeah very laid back Saturday and my Sunday was pretty much at Rough Trade and chilling around Shoreditch drinking coffee with a mate of mine. It was a grew rainy day today after all.

I have been spending a bit of the weekend covering my CIMA exams at home.
The weather outside looks great and I am itching to get out. Someone reminded me of Sonar Festival for 2011 in Barcelona. mhhh looks good! Although my idea is just to fly off somewhere really far away!!!

As it is the period of Lent.

Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum; Si þin nama gehalgod to becume þin rice gewurþe ðin willa on eorðan swa swa on heofonum. urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us todæg and forgyf us ure gyltas swa swa we forgyfað urum gyltendum and ne gelæd þu us on costnunge ac alys us of yfele soþlice.

"The commerce of the world, especially as it is now carried on, is an unbounded ocean of business; trackless and unknown, like the sea it is managed upon; the Merchant is no more to be follow'd in his adventures, than a maze of Labyrinth is to be trac'd without clue." --- Daniel Defoe.

We live in such a machiavellian plotting period with politicians & major Financial institutions seemingly caught in an unforgiven manipulation of a system that somehow was designed to benefit the everyday man. Somehow with the latest figures of the IMF and the current woes in Europe living in conflict driven oil industry & exploited resources from South America to Africa I often wonder what the world would look like in 5 to 10 years. I have to say that I do admire what some smart academics have to say in TV interviews or debates, but I often end up been rather skeptical. I don't completely advocate for crimethlnc way of living, although I appreciate the broadminded strong sense of community that it bears...... in fact I don't know its 2.00am I ought to be a sleep.

浩钟伟仁

Johor Baru Re-visited

Well as much as I would love to visit my place of childhood & teenage memories I did not actually recently visit Malaysia but I was thinking about some of the scenes that I had came across. As I was just going back to Singapore to my parents safe haven in Balestier road, I was little disturbed when I decided to go a little off track to some of the neighborhoods from Johor Baru City near the cause crossing, a bridge that borders a first world developed country. There were more scenes of poverty that I would have liked to snapped but I felt a little uncomfortable that curious eyes were peering at any given opportunity at this Ang Moh chap. I don't think my "London Black Up Hardcore Punk Kickboxing dance style" would have protected me.

I sometimes wonder how a city so close to such a city as Singapore have much pockets of poverty. Any given text book basic economic theory would probably highlight that a city should be reeking economic benefits to such a rich city such as S'pore. Singaporean business's opening up in Johor developing property, opening factories etc surely creates industry creation, tax benefits to the local state would be re-distributed correctly back to people? Actually back to the Bumiputeras.

Being half Singaporean myself, I am not having a M'sia bashing moment. I do love Malaysia, just that there are things that seem to bother me about, and I somehow point the finger at the Malaysian Government.

Having said that, Can't say parts of London are that amazing. Capitalism has failed all of us.

There is this Nigerian security guard who works late in the hours in my office. As the financial year end drew to the 31st of March right through this week one can imagine the ungodly hours that a lot of people have had to go through. Yeah we are all slaves to deadlines & Emails. As I have been finishing work late I often strike a conversation with this Nigerian security guard who is actually studying to become a professional Psychologist. Working as a security guard is merely cash to cover his cost and a good way to catch up with some reading. We often discuss certain topics as to why society is the way it is with the high amount of depressed people often taking to medication. I am sometimes shocked at the amount of over prescription that are given to patients who really need more attention then just popping a few pills. Although I am told that medication is needed sometimes to suppress certain bad emotions where Doctors can then have a conversation however in most cases it may seem unnecessary. Oddly enough in places like Africa what people appear happy but are deeply concern over life related matters such as the lack of Clean water, food, education and shelter. These are some of the fundamental needs that everyone should be the chance however it appears from my observation that depression in developed countries are somewhat of a different nature. Usually related to deep emotional areas such as the feeling of underachievement. Sadly in our society what does not help is the high amount of drugs & alcohol that is consumed. Drugs may make you feel confident for a short period of time where Alcohol may give you that sense of losing one self but really these are short term affects that alter your state of mind. In a continuous usage of drugs and drinking what then becomes your state of mind. Furthermore if society accepted this form of behavior what hope do we have then?

Back to my Nigerian Friend. Well he did say that he felt that perhaps society had a lack in faith for a higher cause, which possible may mean a lack of faith in oneself. OK he did not sound like one of these bible bashing man from the Bible belt of America but he somehow had a point there. I guess having faith whether it be in the form of Hinduism , Buddhism, Christian, Jewish, Alien or you just believe in the high grand architect that is over looking us. Ok it dangerous sometimes to mention religion especially in Politics and that's because spirituality should on a personal level. I think with the bad press that religious orders have been getting in the media, along side with the lack of hope because of terrible wars, rioting and near economic meltdown, people in general over the years have stopped believing or either entered into this extreme of religious zealots. But yes as my Nigerian friend put nicely, people have stopped believing, somehow not knowing where to turn has caused depression. An interesting point. one that I am not really qualified to remark but he did make some very interesting points for me to ponder. Still I will continue to have further discussions with my new friend.