Wednesday, August 29, 2007

You are not a self-taught guitarist!

I always don't understand why people will call and pride themselves a self-taught guitarist when they are not. Just because you didn't attend any formal lesson, doesn't mean you are self-taught. Sometimes a passerby, your friends may give you as much advise and help you to learn as much as when you attend a formal lesson. That one sentences spoken, if it give you just a little bit of help in improving yourself in guitar playing, then you are not a self-taught guitarist anymore.

To be a real self-taught guitarist, you need to have nobody ever giving you any advise on your guitar playing.

So for eg.
If you are minding your own business playing guitar at one corner, and this guy walk over and say, "you can use this voicing at the 5th fret for your D chord, it will suit better for this song." And you realize it is true. That's it! In less than 1 min, you are not a self-taught guitarist anymore!

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Sunday, August 12, 2007

Why is the number pad on the computer keyboard the complete opposite from the number pad on your usual mobile phone?

When I want to key in 123 on my board, sometimes I will forget and key in 789 instead. sigh....

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Monday, August 06, 2007

Phuket retreat with my agency



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Thursday, August 02, 2007

I have always been unable to really swim, or should I say it take a whole lot of effort to swim even the breathe of the swimming pool, around 20m. The effort it takes feels like running for 2km.
On top of that, I just couldn't manage to master the breathing technique, so that adds to the difficulty.

I remember learning to swim in the army, and the first thing the instructor did was to ask us to hold our breath, and relax, then our body should naturally float. Well.... I sank to the bottom of the pool.

I really thought I was "one of a kind", until now then I found out there is such a thing call negative buoyancy. I am just glad that it is not me not putting effort, but rather it is just a lot harder for people born with negative buoyancy to swim.

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