So here's to a new year

*raises alcoholic beverage*

Here I am, yet again sleepless and a mind without the ever elusive 'off switch'

Another year has already passed by and dear god what a year it has been.
Year 12 completed albeit with some let downs - I saw them coming though - the band closer to being able to do gigs and dare I say it

a new romance?!

This year I was finally able to let go of my demons from the past and reconcile with some.
I'm not gonna lie, some things this year I have regretted - drinking and doing fucking stupid and pointless things - and I've done somethings where I've yet to look back and say

"well wasn't that a disaster?"

Like I've mentioned in one of my previous blogs, it's gonna be scary going to a different school/uni. Not being able to see the same faces I've become use to seeing as I walk down the year 12 corridor. I'm really going to miss it.

*They made us read Catcher In The Rye for a reason this year, man up Holden Caufield*

2010 is just 13 hours away at this point. Can't help but think of how I spent new years eve last year. Sitting alone on the couch in the lounge room watching fireworks go off on TV, a very low point of my life I must say. I know I have friends but that day was just 'off'

I really don't know what else to add to this blog right now, I've been awake since 12 30pm WEDNESDAY so thats 23 and a half hours with no sleep? I don't plan on sleeping till after
the countdown
is done.

Happy new year to you all


p.s. I'll still be at home celebrating new years eve, but with close friends and my bird.

2010 doesn't look too bad.

merry christmas

be safe in 2010

may you all have a good christmas and an even better start to the new decade ahead.

Take Care

J.Duong

Where The Wild Things Are

I'm not a movie critic but I'll say it was a pretty good movie.
They expanded the book
- which contains only 10 sentences -
Into a movie that went for 101 minutes.
Fair effort I must say.
The Soundtrack was possibly the best one I've heard this year.

So Christmas is fast approaching which can only mean the new decade is just up ahead,kinda scary considering there's all this hoo-haa over 2012 and what not. Who's to say it will really happen? Don't fret about the future but just take your time and soak in what's happening in the now...dude~
What does the new year bring?
Means that I turn 18 and that the band can finally, fucking finally start gigging. I think we've got enough connections - namely 3 bands - to which we can start organising events with.

2010 also means the yet another change in social life now that I've completed highschool and awaiting an acceptance letter to go into uni. January 18th is when I'm meant to get my letter but let's not worry about that now.

Off to bed it is,goodnight.

J.Duong

no need for despair

enter scores in 2 hours and a half?

I'm not really fussed since I'm not planning on becoming a doctor,lawyer or chemist etc

Who knows about the future, it's never set in stone but as lame as this is or might be to the minuscule number people who actually bother to read my blog

the future's what you make it to be

you set in motion the options that are presented to you so to all you people who believe in that psychic reading and tarot card bullshit

stop forking out money to old hags who "read" your future and go set the future in motion.

I'm only writing in this lame fashion cause of my lack of sleep.

Adios

J.Duong

attack of the dust bunnies

So today, I woke up at 7 30 to go to my girlfriends house.

shower,clothes,brush teeth,shave outta the house

Dropped by highpoint cause my mum insisted on looking at the Myer sales that are on whilst I ran down to jb hi-fi for some cd/window shopping time and by great odin's raven I want a truckload of cd's. Really should start to buy more vinyl records since I finally got myself a record player not too long ago.

So I fell asleep in the ride to the missus' house and to my surprise, she was awake! but considering I only had two hours sleep last night I konked out till 12 30.

hours pass

So now my mum has dropped by during her work break to take me and the girlfriend back to my house along with my younger brother, Jordan.
This is when the dust bunnies had grown in numbers under my bed, behind my guitar amp and in the nooks and crannies of my room - being shelve sides,rims of the room etc -

after two hours of cleaning my room and changing my bed sheets sucess was awarded with 4 packets and Mi Goreng and 2 scrambled eggs.
actually wouldn't mind some Mi Goreng right now
The band is rehearsing tomorrow from 12pm till 6pm. That should be good fun getting our chops back and writing again considering that the band has not finished any new songs throughout the whole year but instead simply had start/stop song ideas up in the air.

let's finish with some DANCE SKATING

take care, J.Duo/ng

505

slow days and long weeks.

I'm finally done with going to school since the last thing I did there was perform with the guitar ensemble at the awards night, yet again, I fucked up.

So whats been the buzz of busy jim lately?

bbc formal
end of year concert was nothing short of fun
previously mentioned awards night
setting up of the stage (hours of fun)
rehearsals for concerts (hours of fun)

I've got my interview on monday for the studio engineering course which I hope will be awesome. Learning about how to capture sound in different enviroments and according to the pamphlet, having unlimited access to studio equipment and rehearsal spaces.

Life doesn't seem too bad.


ciao