Posts Tagged ‘guitar’

Pet project

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

baileymckenzieOnly in recent months have I noticed this. Each time I enter the living room, my son’s terrapins, Baily and McKenzie, will excitedly stir in their tanks, and turn their heads to look at me. Of late, I’ve been feeling bad for them, peering on the world through that plastic wall. I’d like to release them into the wild one of these days, but I sometimes fear that they may not have the necessary skills for survival.

Today, I made an attempt to colour their world by singing a song to them. I only performed one number, Lady Gaga’s, Bad Romance. I felt a bit silly doing it, but utterly glad afterwards. I think I’ll do this more often… unless of course they crawl into their shells each time I belt out a tune.

Ok… that’s all from me at this time. Your weird author friend reporting from home.

Stringing it all together

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

After 4 years, I now have got my guitar back. I only remember 10 percent of the songs I used to be able to play, but it’s coming back to me in tiny pieces. Reacquaintance has been slow.

I got myself the cheapest acoustic Yamaha had to offer. It doesn’t sound that great. But neither do I.

One of them bad days

Tuesday, June 13th, 2000

It’s two days before I depart for Malaysia, I’m in my office and I’m currently eating half of what is left of my sugar twistee from yesterday. The darn doughnut is more like a churros today.

I woke up really depressed today and fingered through half a pack of cigarettes in an hour as I strummed my guitar, playing both happy and sad tunes… happy tunes to try and draw me out of my gloom and sad ones to help me articulate the thoughts that were speeding through my head at a 1000 miles per hour.