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It started with Suede, I swear

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Warning: Many links ahead. #SorryNotSorry :P I'm quite overjoyed that Suede has a new album . While I'm not buying music and music magazines like I used to, I think the teenagers today should have access to the great music I enjoyed growing up. So I'm happy that Ash, The Prodigy, and later on Muse, are still making music. I like: Ash, Islands 2018: Did Your Love Burn Out? , Is It True? The Prodigy, No Tourists out 2nd Nov 2018, first single: Need Some1 Muse, Drones 2015: Dead Inside reminds me of Duran Duran's Wild Boys , hehe! The members of my number one band, Blur, are still active. Graham Coxon has announced his first solo American tour ! I wasn't exactly thrilled with Blur's The Magic Whip, but I still bought it on iTunes to support it. Gorillaz's new album, The Now Now is a bit out there. I mean Humility is way too Californian. I prefer the previous Humanz although I only bought Submission and Let Me Out . After reading Suede's articl...

Mission Trip to Padang

It was the time to clear my annual leave. As I was torn between Japan and New Zealand, that Sunday, I took the bulletin from OLPS and saw a post for this mission. The dates were good, the price was right, so I sent an email the next day. A couple of days later, I got a response. I was in!  After the first briefing and the formation, I felt mentally prepared for the trip to Padang. Being vain, I brought only 3/4 and long sleeves, to prevent patchy tanning, old trackpants and old sports shoes as my site-gear. It was gonna get muddy. The time to meet was a ridiculous 5.30am, but I made it. After check-in, we went to grab some breakfast. We were going to have Indonesian food all the way, so I had O'Briens. Sharon, my ex-coursemate from Poly, was my roommate. It was a real coincidence! So we had breakfast together, and just about did almost everything together. We were also the youngest in the group. Winie was a few years older but she was very soft-spoken. Marion and Naomi were a lit...