Tremolo ichi

This will be my first post.

I don't really know why I've decided to call this blog 'tremolo'. I suppose it sounds catchy and is somewhat related to what I'll be blogging about. I am an aspiring musician living in KL and have been relentlessly trying to make better and better music as I grow old together with my guitars. And it is after all my hope that the value of my guitars would not deteriorate as fast as my good looks and health would (sic!).

I play in a band called 'Cloudburst' and we've been in and a rocky up and down state lately with the lack of shows being a pretty vital part of it I suppose. As you can see, it's not been a great ride. Thus the title 'aspiring musician' - it fits ever so perfectly doesn't it? cliche yet so abstract that no one could actually tell whether its a positive or a negative thing. We're in the midst of recording a short album (EP) and will complete it, providing our sound engineer returns on time from whichever country he's in right now, end of this year. So this is, I'm afraid, just a form of shameless, disgusting and 'prickly' piece of marketing on my part. I don't actually know whether there is any value to it? But I guess it won't harm to try.

So the story goes that I met my long lost friend Hafiz at Starbucks Subang Jaya last Monday and we were discussing about the band's next gig and glamor shoot (sic!) when he brought up the subject of blogging. So I asked him why on God's earth would I want to blog? I don't have a lot to talk about, so he replied and tell me to write about this conversation any other conversation I might have had with anyone about anything that somebody out there might find interesting to read. So I told him that I don't have conversations about sex anymore because most of my friends are married and talking to them about sex makes me uncomfortable because of anecdotal evidence. In the first person point of view. It burns the membrane.

So he told me instead to write about me and my band. I thought it was a good idea at the time because who would honestly pass up the chance to write long dribbles about their thoughts on the laptop 2-3 times a day. That guy must be maddd! So here I am, I suppose. So, tell me, what are the rules of blogging? AM I or AM I not allowed to use shorthand? netlinguafranca doodleatoodle? Can I say Fuckadoodledoo? Or Shitfacecockmaster? I duno. Erkh. I am hating this blog thing already. Its so... cramping.