Vidblog 8

Apr 082010

Helloooo

Here’s another little video blog with another song. Take special note of the water splash bit between the two parts… I’ve been playing with iMovie *cheesy grin*

Sorry to Mr Anthony that I haven’t yet figured out how to flip the image from mirrored to normal so it doesn’t look like I’m left handed. I’m recording in photobooth from built in webcam, if anyone can tell me how to flip it to record the normal way round, please send me blonde-proof step-by-step instructions. Cheers. I’m still new to this whole macbook thing! It’s funny, when I had a desktop pc I refrained from acquiring any kind of wireless keyboard or mouse because I knew it’d frustrate me whenever I misplaced it. Now with a laptop, I just misplace my whole computer! (And lets not mention phones, keys, keycards, handbags, shoes, ukuleles or anything else that is small enough to be overlooked)

Apart from losing stuff and frantically running around looking for it I’ve been up to a few things. Had some overseas friends come and stay with us so it was a good opportunity to do a few touristy bits and pieces. Drove up to Langkawi for a few days, was nice to get out of the city. Had some classic road trip moments, saw some beautiful scenery, accidentally drove over the bridge to Penang, got a flat tyre, had the best thosai ever in Ipoh (which I always want to spell iPoh), completely forgot where the town was we had dropped the tyre off to get fixed at, and then had a right fun time trying to guess when we went to pick it up on the way back haha!

Langkawi was nice. Touristy but fun. I saw ‘Malaysias Largest Replica Guitar’, I saw a wild otter, I saw the scariest cable car ride I’d ever been on. The cable car takes you up a very steep rise to the top of a hill (can I say mountain? Is it a mountain?) mountain and there are platforms with amazing views of the island and there is a tree top forest walk and of course a tree bottom forest walk (this is where you walk on the ground!). We went on a mangrove boatride which I really enjoyed. Now where I grew up (Tauranga New Zealand) the mangroves don’t grow much past knee high. Maybe waist high if you’ve sunk knee deep in the mud next to them. So I was pretty much blown away by the size of the mangroves, and it was cool to see wild eagles because I’ve never seen eagles before. There was a fish farm on this trip but I’m not going to talk about fish.

We caught the ferry from Langkawi to Satun which is in Thailand just across the border from Malaysia (I am in Malaysia just in case you haven’t been keeping up to date…). Oh and Langkawi is an island off the west side of the northern bit of the Malaysia peninsula. We had hilarious times ordering food in Satun. I know enough Malay to order food but I know absolutely no Thai, I don’t even know the Thai word for rice. The place we ate they didn’t speak english or malay, except the english words ‘chicken’ and ‘cow’. I don’t eat chickens or cows so I was trying to order plain rice and making a complete idiot of myself. That’s the last time I cross the border without taking the appropriate phrase book or iPhone app hehe I’m such a dumbass sometimes

I got a text a couple of days ago from Moe saying that the song ‘Bintang’ that Moe and Loco had recorded together has been nominated for an AVIMA award. (I played session guitar for the track so as well as being excited and proud on Moe and Locos behalf, I also thought it was a sign that I didn’t do a bad job of playing the guitar parts Moe wrote). You can hear the song here…