Taekwondo MAPCU

This is my 3rd time to join Taekwondo MAPCU competition..

I joined both poomsae and sparing competition
I know my chance of winning is very small as I'm up against black belts.
I wanted to train more before the MAPCU competition to be more prepared but there are a lot of stuffs that I need to do such as assignments, and other events.
The event was held in APIIT on 26 and 27 of September

---------SPARRING-----------

First day of the competition is Sparring.
Before the competition, I keep practicing my chopping kick. I'm planning on use that kick the most during the sparing competition. However, things are completely different during the competition. I was too nervous, my leg was so stiff. My chopping kick is just very slow and can't reach him. Even when I managed to land my leg on his head, it have no impact, and most probably I just hit the helmet.

I know my mistakes, I just moved backward and forward, not sideways. I kept kicking my opponent back and not his front body. When he guard his body, I don't have the idea how to score. I supposed to do fakes, I supposed to move faster, but my movement is stiff. I'm supposed to be fast, but I was slow at the time. The most fatal mistakes that I did is giving my opponent the distance to kick. I keep pulling back when he kicks. I supposed to do the opposite. MOVE IN. Therefore its gonna be his thigh or knee that hit me, and there will be no point nor impact. My guard is also a fatal mistakes that I did, I didn't guard my head properly, therefore my opponent manage to hit my neck twice and my face once. My neck and nose was swollen, and I got crack on my nose.

The score gap is very big, It was 3 to 11 or 3 to 12 if I'm not mistaken.
yea, I managed to score some points. But its pointless as I still lose the match.
I want to win, but there might be no more MAPCU for me, I'm going to graduate next semester.


--------POOMSAE-------

Next day is Poomsae competition.
The night before the competition, I did a little bit of extra training so that I can win.
At the day it self, there are 22 competitors in the poomsae of black belt category.
when I saw the other competitor doing their poomsae, I thought that sunway and monash have a good chance to win this. In my opinion their poomsae is not as good as sunway and monash people.

When it comes to my turn doing the poomsae, I did the same mistakes like before, NERVOUS.
Because of nervous, I don't have the speed and power in my movements as I think too much when I wanna move to the next step.

In the end the winners are
1. HELP university student (can't recall his name, but apparently this guy is sea games gold medalist @ 2003)
2. Yung lin
3. Wei Hong

the first winner scored 91 points, and both yung lin and wei hong scored 78 points.
I just scored 70 points, not good enough to win the game.



Note:
1. Special Thanks to Yung Lin. Thanks a lot for giving me advise when u coach me and for teaching me taegeuk 7 and 8 nicely. U r the man.
2. next post is gonna be.... PANGKOR!!!

Miyabi to Play in Indonesia Movie

check out the news here

In my opinion, Indonesia Music Industry have turn to the wrong direction

Now, Its time for Indonesia Movie Industry to turn the wrong direction..

APOCALYPSE PLEASE

=.=

BEP vs MUSE

I wrote "sunway lagoon ribuut" on my facebook status, and this happen

Roger Ng:TMR BEP!!!!

Muhammad Ikhwan:yea... which means I can't sleep early at the day before MAPCU.. will be noisy like hell

Roger Ngwth...WHAT NOISY??!!

it's gonna be BOOM BOOM POW!!!

That BEP gonna GET IT STARTED

That will make it BE A GOOD GOOD NIGHT~~~

Without them singing, WHERE IS THE LOVE?

Muhammad Ikhwan: I'd prefer Muse Come to Sunway Lagoon

The moment they went up the stage, everyone will be "hysteria"
Together with other Muse fan I'll "Sing for Absolution" under the "starlight" while it "Rain" where all of "The Resistance" gather and ask for "Apocalypse Please" "Endlessly".

then we will "Take a Bow" become an "Assassin" and shoot government which makes us "Ruled by Secrecy"

When the concert ended, They will be "eternally missed", and we will all scream I am "feeling good".

forever they will be my "Guiding Light", my numero "UNO", and the only band that can satisfy my "Undisclosed Desires"

note: all the quoted words are their song title


I find this interesting, that is why I posted it here. ^^

REBEL TO PLAYBACK, LIP SYNC, or whatever it is called

During my last holiday at june, I spent most of my time in Pekanbaru, Indonesia

Almost every morning I watch various of Indonesia Music Shows. I only remember one of the shows name, Its called "dahsyat". A lot of band perform in this shows, however many of them performing Lip sync or using playback. WHAT THE HELL!!

Music is not just a performance, it is not just for shows, not only for enjoyment

It is a message, and also emotion. There is no way you can shows true emotion or send the right message of the song to your audience if you performing Lip Sync or using Playback.

Its better for them just to hear your music from Tape, CD, or Mp3 if you perform like that.

The following video I'm gonna shows you is a band (MUSE) which understand completely how emotion and message of music should be delivered, how can it be theatrical and not just ordinary shows. In those video, MUSE was asked to perform in the shows using playback or Lip Sync. However they know how to fight this kind of shows that wants playback performance.

MUSE-UPRISING

In this video, they supposed to perform "uprising" using playback. they retaliate in a funny way, they switch position with each other.
Matt: Vocal + Guitar + Keyboard > Drum +Backing Vocal
Chris: Bass + Backing Vocal > Keyboard + Guitar
Dom: Drum > Vocal + Bass


Dom even make joke of the emcee during the interview after the playback performance.


MUSE-NewBorn

This was years ago. They were asked to perform Playback, and again they switch position during the performance.


There are some of other performance where they somehow have to perform playback and they always retaliate in various ways. Other than switching position, they also sometimes give "the finger" to the camera or scream like hell. Matt even did a breakdance together with his manson guitar during a playback, LOL. You can search them on youtube.




SAY NO TO PLAYBACK, LIP SYNC or Whatever it is called
REBEL, RETALIATE.
Don't let those ignorance businessmen turn music into a mere showbiz.

BORDERLINE

The lyrics was written during my watch time at Taekwondo booth promotion. When I get to my house after class, I immediately grab my guitar and find the right tone for the song.

here is the lyrics

It is something that is out of my control

something that people keep holding on

But I still can't give up

And I Just won't stop

Yes I am confused

Why I just can't let it loose

Its nothing simple

And I don't want to gamble

Lets just make beautiful

memories

It might come to an end someday

but it'll be memories that we'll grateful for

make a beautiful

memories

I don't want there to be regret

leave no regret

Oh yea..

I know you can't find the word borderline inside the lyrics, but I choose it as the title because it gives a big picture of what is happening in this song. =D

BACK TO BLOGGING

Hmmm...

Few of my friends just start blogging, and this kinda fired me up to do so.

I'm not sure how should I start off my blog once again...

Long time ago I was thinking of posting "RIP e-1here.blogspot.com"

but, here I am. Back to blogging

anyway, few days ago I got MUSE new album

all songs are nice, especially MK Ultra, Resistance, and Unnatural Selection

However, I am a little bit disappointed as they are not as raw as they were before. I hope they will produce more songs that similar in style with "Dead Star", "Citizen Erased", "Hyper Music", and "Futurism". These are the type of song from MUSE that could make me head banging to the max.

. Moreover, Matt new guitar, the keytarcaster kinda upset me. A guitar without a string is not a guitar, when I saw Him with His keytarcaster I was like "What The Fuck".

Thats it. Just a little bit of update for now!!!.

I thought of something else to be posted up in the future, but I'm not sure which one should go first:

1. Lyrics of songs that I have written recently

2. Funny Videos from youtube

3. My Journey as a musician (planning on telling a little bit on how I started playing guitar, changing band from X-Numb, into a no name band, then vanishing acts, acoustic band with Johan cs, and another new band with some member from Antithesis)

4. Some Gadgets that I want/need.

5. Any suggestion???