Went for the Ty Tabor guitar clinic by Yamaha last night. Daniel was basically "working"..although he was somehow seated near me, we couldn't enjoy the whole thing together.....would prefer if we both were there as part of the normal audience....BUT then again, if he wasn't working in combo, then i wouldn't get the free seats! hahaa...i enjoyed the clinic quite a bit because i never expected him to be that good....or maybe i'm just easily amazed. Ty Tabor is basically an advocate of simplicity and non-flashy stuff....i was impressed with all his riffings...simple but really "powerful" like he said...just use 2 or 3 notes at one time so that the notes don't fight to stand out....very impressive. I think i may be a little biased towards him because he had a side project with Derek Sherinian. Before Ty Tabor left, i spoke to him and told him to please please please bring King's X (out of courtesy because that's his band) hahaa...and most importantly bring DreamTheater and Derek Sherinian to Singapore.....he told me he'll work on that and i thanked him profusely. I missed PlanetX the last time round when they were in Perth because i had my exams...EXAMS?!? You mean i actually missed Sherinian because of my exams? I find that bizarre and incomprehensible now that i think of it...hehe...oh nevermind we'll see Steve Morse soon (oooops daniel's getting more and more jealous with my blabbing about Morse hahaaaa)....dan is trying to hook up with the local musicman dealer to see if we can get more info on when they're gonna fly in and all that stuff.....i hope we get to meet Morse in person!! I better go find something for him to sign...we used to have a poster that Paul Gilbert signed but that idiot kept getting my name wrong!! Now i dunno where the poster is anymore because we left it with Ryan and erm i wonder if we can ever get it back again. I always make it a point to request for our names to be written along with the autograph so next time we can frame up everything and put it in our new home....it's always been our dream to set up our own home studio.....so i guess all the autographed posters will come in handy as wall decoration when we do that :)

the autographed poster

Oh yah btw, thanks Esther for accompanying me...sorry if you were bored to tears hehe....i hope maybe the diet coke jokes made the night a little more entertaining for you? hahaaa...

Everything has been wonderful since i got home. Spending as much time as i can with daniel......haven't seen him so happy for a long time...not that i'm being thick-skinned but i really start to wonder about my impact on him. We had our late night supper last night..char kway teow and prata....my teh-o-peng and his bandung...everything seems so blissful. It's good that we can finally have our late night conversation again...though i know how tired he is after a hard day...we seem to still have so much to say to each other. It's just not the same when i'm in aussie......

A lot of plans have been made and i think i'm gonna make it a point to see everyone i'm supposed to see. No more taking things for granted and telling myself i can spend time with them after i come home permanently. Not that i'm saying suay things will happen, i think i should start reciprocating other people's concern for me. So there, i'm gonna meet dan for dinner tonight...wait for him to knock off work...may seem bo liao that i meet him for dinner and then wait for him to knock off work just for him to send me home...but whatever little time we have is enough. Dad, mum and sis wanna bring me out for high tea tomorrow afternoon and i agreed....i haven't spent time with the whole family since i got back...i wanna see how's sis and her baby....gotta pass her the baby stuffs i got for her too. Dinner tomorrow night will be with dan because he finally gets to knock off at 7 instead of the usual 9 . Will be meeting caroline on sunday (eh my mum say u don't want them around ah...why u so bad ah? hehee....ok call my sis or me i don't have your number and i'm too lazy to call hehee)...maybe meeting other cousins also if they have the time. I need to go visit them....one of them just had a nose operation and she's not doing that well...after all she took care of me while i was growing up...though she may not remember it anymore but i still remember how as a kid she'd sing "Bridge Over Troubled Water" to me....yes i'm being nostalgic. Need to go to Mt Vernon too....at least go tell auntie i'm back to see her again. I'm glad i met up with Esther too although it was just for awhile....i just wanna make sure everyone is fine...and if i were to die in a plane crash (considering how unsafe SQ flights are now haha..but choi!), at least i've seen everyone and vice versa.

I'm playing a lot with Cocoa too...think she's really lonely now that Bonnie is gone and i'm away most of time. She used to whine alot but not as much as it does now...however she's taken this real liking to one of the brown paper bag that i brought back (which was used to contain all the chocs). Dan says maybe it has something to do with the fact that chocolates are made of cocoa and my cat's name is cocoa hahahaaa......who knows? Anyway she's been playing with the paper bag since i got home and while i was having my lunch, i brought the brown bag out into the living room and there she went..sleeping in the bag again! I took a shot of her and a few shots the other night. Mum is gonna start timing how long she's gonna zzzzz in the bag...we'll see. So for now, let's not let the cat out of the bag hahahaa......