ROCK never DIEs

I went out last night, first stop is Temasek Club to meet up my ex-collegue. Introduced to his army buddies back in the 60s to 70s. Yes, there're all old chaps with children complete with grandchildren. I feel forever-young with them. Hee...

THE RIDGE BAND played life.. There're so good, but I strongly thinks that they're a little underpaid. THE RIDGE BAND are made up of all Fillipinos, a drummer, keyboardist, lead guitarist, bass guitarist, and two female vocalists. They used to play all rock genre, but has switched to more of show music, which means they are capable of playing any song you pick out of the blue. Be it country, sentimental, slow, rock, jazz, blues, whatever it is, I'm pretty sure they'd do it well. They has been around for three years in this profession, and has been playing at Temasek Club for 6 weeks on a 6days week basis. Their contract with Temasek Club will end Jan '07. They'll play from as early as 8pm till as late as 2am. I had a brief talk with them, asking if they'd come if I were to invite them to play for a party. One of them asked my budget for their talents only, told me they do not have the intrumentations and that I should provide them to perform. They asked about where the party is going to be held, for how long they are expected to play, how many people are going to be there, and all sort of questions that caught me off-guard... In all honesty, I haven't even give it all a thought!

Next, my ex-collegue's friend brought me to watch another purely Malay ROCK band, Maleex. It's really really the old time kind of Rock band, with long hair, bandanas on the thighs/knees/arms kindda people. I am so proud to have them still standing firm and doing well, no matter how hard it used to be, they still kept true and do the things they love. And they are friendly too... This band plays till 3am. So I didn't get to see much, only catch the last set of songs. They are great nonetheless. Truly salute my respects to them! WA CAYA SAMA LU LA~

Then we went to WoodStock, another rock band called FireBall. All Malays except the lead guitarist who is a Fillipino. They play till 6am. This time, I won't say much about the band or his members. I would talk about the people at WoodStock instead. It's a very new experience for me. It's filled with the whole young Malay population, I'd say three quarter of them has tattoos. The girls are no older than 25 I guess. On the dance floor, there're only two females and the rest of the space is filled up by the boys. Yeah.. All I see are boys dancing all over the dance floor. I was drinking iced water through out. These boys, are on a tight budget and still wanna have fun, for that reason they never asked a girl to dance with them, as it will mean he has to pay for her drinks, or at least expected to.

Then there was this guy who was beyong his drinking limit, he was way gone goner. Still, he stubbornly wants to dance with this girl, tried to kiss her, then attempted to go on the bartop to dance. Everyone including his friends were at standby just in case he falls on his back, his friends were holding his legs, and he start to imitate how the ladies danced earlier, the sexy pole dance, and it was just a pain in my eyes. Thank god, he didn't unzip or attempted to. And thank god, he didn't fall and make a scene. He still didn't give up the attempt to kiss and hug that girl, but some guy came to her rescue, pushed him away and pulling her behind him simultaneously. Then he got him behind this long table, then they left him alone, I kept my eyes on him, and seeing him try so hard to get out of there and to get near the girl just tickle my toes. Next I saw him, he was hugging his friend and it looked his he's taking a deep breath under his friend's armpit.

Then I hit home, I reached home at 6am... My parents threatened to chase me out, but I will just be more than happy to live on my own again. I will be.. immensely contented to simply live life the way I wanted to. The reason why I do this, going out and coming back late, is because I don't want to be filled with regrets when I get too old to do such again. I wanted to see things I've waiting to see. I don't want to stay home do shit, and lose out. I want to know all the possibilities in life. All the places I can go. I want to be travelling and do the outrageous before I settle down. I want to be sure of the things that I wanted done.

Is it wrong, to be wanting to experience it all? To be wanting to explore the things noone in your family ever tried? Is it wrong, to just be happy or wanting to be happier?