Minutes to midnight? More like minutes to doom...

Song of the day:
Breaking Benjamin
" Breath"

Ok.

I got hold of the mp3s of this album way before the official release of the new Linkin Park album.

"Minutes to Midnight" is the album title.

Well, as a former LP fan (I treat myself as a Daughtry fan nowadays), I always love to listen to their previous albums.

I remember I bought "Hybrid Theory" after watching Linkin Park's "One Step Closer" video clip on MTV during CNY long long time ago....

I still remember clearly that this track was on the UK Top 40, debuted in positions outside of the top 20 but nevertheless it caught my attention.

After buying the album, I suffered some sort of a culture shock because their music is hard enough for me reject at that time.

But somehow, "Crawling" and "In The End" saved the album from being kept away by me.

I continue listening to the album and love the rest of the tracks, especially "Cure For The Itch" and "Pushing Me Away".

Then after a while, LP releases "Reanimation", where tracks from "Hybrid Theory" were revamped with superb mixing.

"Krwlng" (a reanimated "Crawling") was the best track on "Reanimation" to date. My other favourites were "Enth E Nd" ("In The End") and "Pts.f.Athrty" ("Points Of Authority").

However, "Reanimation" was like an intermediate album or a teaser album before the release of their next album "Meteora".

And this time around, Linkin Park is already well known and they made a worldwide release thingy for "Meteora".

At least, "Meteora" wasn't a letdown.

Harder stuff and style. Superb tunes. These are things that kept the old fans and attracted new fans.

My favourite is always gonna be "Session" (without vocals), "Numb" and "Easier To Run" (a song which was played in my car during my first car accident...).

So Linkin Park hung around for a while with those two albums and then went into hiding for quite some time until...................

May 15th, when they will be releasing their new album "Minutes To Midnight"....

Linkin Park - "Minutes To Midnight"

Basically, I think I'm gonna write a short review of all the tracks in the album...

1. "In Between" - As the opening track, this song is not a good one. It doesn't give you the impact needed. Not that impressive.

2. "In Pieces" - A midtempo track which sounds melancholy. Sounds OK (reluctantly).

3. "The Little Things Give You Away" - The longest track on the album (6 to 7 minutes?!). But a new problem occurs. The 1st half of the track is boring, but the 2nd half (bridge) is superb, blowing me away.

4. "Wake" - This is the "vocal-less" song that would always appear in all Linkin Park's album. It's nice, especially the bass guitar. The awakening feel is clear and the title to this song is oh so correct!

5. "Given Up" - A typical screamo track I would say. Hard guitar riffs too. All in all, not too bad but I think the anger has been overboard.

6. "Leave Ot All The Rest" - A song which sounds too much like a sad pop track, but one can expect hardcore moments in the song.

7. "Bleed It Out" - Finally, more towards the original LP. Rap + Rock. Great bass and rhythm but Chester's coarse vocals are really not required.

8. "Shadow Of The Day" - A nice track, but the 1st half of the song should be heavier. The vocals and solo guitar parts though are.. NICE!

9. "What I've Done" - Linkin Park owe a lot to this song as it's the only track that fits to be the first single. The most consistent song in terms of song "weight".

10. "Hands Held High" - Mike Shinoda solo track I would call this. Using marching beats and pipe organ as background, this song is quite refreshing.

11. "No More Sorrow" - Another hard stuff by Linkin Park. Hard in a sense that would only be done by hard rock bands like Korn. Disappointing though.

12. "Valentine's Day" - Don't be deceived by the title. This song further proves my point where a lot of songs in this album are weak "in the 1st half" and strong "in the 2nd half". Hopefully this is not the style in future LP albums??...

In a nutshell, "Minutes To Midnight" is not anything near to the style of "Hybrid Theory" and "Meteora".

There are many tracks, in my opinion, are overdone and overhyped and overproduced.

Can't be helped, but I personally think that the album is a bit disappointing.

So guys. I think I gave a short insight of the album...

If you have already pre-ordered the album, you must have some mental preparation.

Till then, all the best and PEACE OUT!

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Finally! The end of a pretty "interesting" season...

Song of the day:

Daughtry
"Crashed"

Hey yo!

I'm just so into the mood of logging in online and stuff lately.

Lol... I've been using the computer for almost 18 to 20 hours per day.

Blame my boss for handing me and my friend the task of converting assembly language to C language.

Hell yeah it was damn "nice".

For that, I'm still counting down the weeks towards the end of this pathetic industrial training.

Hmm.. more like industrial hell-ing...

So, with f**ker team Manchester Untied (I love to put it Untied and forever I'll type it that way) won the title with the help of my beloved team, Arsenal.

And every Manchester Untied fan seems to be generous at showing their gratitude towards Gooners.

Well, to all Manchester Untied fans, "FUCK OFF AND GO TO HELL!".

Obviously you know what I mean.

C'mon, who wants to help you guys win the title? Just f**k your ass off, Man Untied fans.

Anyway, it has been an interesting season for Arsenal.

A lot of reflections can be and should be made upon this season, due to the weird storyline to this season.

Big matches: We get points.

Small matches: We lose points.

Bolton: We lost away in the EPL, 3-0; We won at home in the EPL, 2-1; We struggled to beat them in the FA Cup but still won in the end.

Perhaps the worst frustation would be Chelsea's PSV player Alex stopped Arsenal from progressing to the Quarterfinals of the CL.

However, all are not gloom and doom.

For one, I would always stress that INJURIES are the key towards Arsenal's early exit in most cup competitions (bar the League Cup).

I personally think that Arsenal would still only need 2 or 3 players to relocate Arsenal's position to the top of the table next season.

Well, the usual suspects are still Ribery, Eto'o etc.

By the way, a keeper has been very close to joining the Arsenal.

Let's welcome LUKASZ FABIANSKI!

Lukasz Fabianski

Full name	Łukasz Fabiański
Date of birth	April 18, 1985 (1985-04-18) (age 22)
Place of birth	Kostrzyn nad Odrą, Poland
Height	190 cm
Playing position	Goalkeeper

This keeper was Legia Warsaw's No. 2 when Boruc was still first choice in between the goal posts at the club.

With Boruc leaving Legia Warsaw for Celtic, Fabianski was automatically promoted to first choice keeper.

According to news and reports, Arsenal have been keeping in touch with this keeper for quite a while now.

So, maybe we have something to savour upon. Afterall, Arsene did wanna get Cech but the stupid UK rules and bla bla bla.. (you know what I mean).

Here you go... The season hasn't officially ended and Arsenal are increasing their tempo to sign new players in order to prepare for pre-season.

Well, the pre-season is always predictably in Austria.

It'll be a boring June though. Sigh...

Meanwhile, I'll be looking forward to the Champions Youth Cup (August) in KL and Emirates Cup (end of July) in London.

Till then, congratulations to Arsenal for surviving a better season in the league.

Viva La Arsenal... Arsenal WILL BE BACK!

Programming Nightmare! / A little bit of this and that...

Song of the day:

Breaking Benjamin
"The Diary Of Jane"

*Sob sob*

My industrial training session has finally started.

Well, I wouldn't say it's a nightmare all in all, but the stuff I''ll be involving in...

It's... pure... madness...

At least for me la, you know.

For an "orang bodoh" like me, programming is the worst thing that could ever happen to me.

The constant "using your head to death" practice must've got me thinking "why I choose engineering"??!!

And even worse, I've to do interpretation of assembly language to C programming.

TOTAL DISASTER!

You know what, the assembly language that I've learnt in uni... Even though all assembly languages are similar, but... it requires a person to completely read through again!

Sigh...

Okay, maybe if you ask Zhe Wei, he won't tell you that programming is a total nightmare.

Lol.

It has it fun part though.

It involves lotsa logic arithmetic, a little bit of mathematical operation and of course the usual "get used to it" language.

Binary, hexadecimal, .. You just have to get used to it...

Anyway, I realise that I've been using this blog to release my utmost tension.

Kinda think of that, I think it's a good way to release tension too...

Oh ya...

Congratulations to Man Utd for getting thrashed by AC Milan.

3-0. I salute AC Milan.

Kaka was, is and would still be class!

Luckily there's no such thing as the "All English Champions League Final". Thank God really.

Well, tbh, I wouldn't give a damn about Manchester Untied (Haha.. really untied). Really...

Lately, there's been so much debate on the potential Arsenal Away Kit 2007/08. Here are 2 clear samples that you can have a look at:

Sample 1

Sample 2

I think both designs are okay, not that bad.

But you know, fans are SOOOOO critical about history and stuff. I'm a fan too, but the design is very ok to me.

Lol... I'll leave the discussions and arguments to others.

May has finally arrived and usually it means that the football season is ending.

Yucks season for Arsenal, but I had lotsa fun too, especially watching Arsenal beating Man Utd twice, Liverpool thrice and witnessing the ocassional total football at certain games such as against Reading and Bolton.

Besides, there are lotsa things to look forward to in May.

Spiderman 3! Linkin Park's "Minutes To Midnight"!

I guess we're spoiled for choice of late. Lol.

Anyway, there's also more "programming stuff" to look forward to. Duh...

Oh ya, I've added a beautiful version of Breaking Benjamin's "The Diary Of Jane"...

So beautiful...

Till then, enjoy May 2007!