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X Japan(the 80s), high speed metal rock!!!

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This band was occur since 1982 as the same year I born. I get to knew them in the year of 2003. I still remeber one of my colleague borrow me the Mp3 of X-Japan CD. It was quite awful when I starting to hear thier music but no choicelah coz my work place PC crash so have to format all over again and my mp3 all gone. I am so addicted to Japanese song although I dunno what the hell they are singing. So this were the first Japanese Heavy Metal band I have heard.

There were the 1st Japanese Heavy Metal Band in Japan. Very classical band with Benimaru(KOF) hair style, I am still wondering how they made thier hair stand like that.

I dunno what is the reason they make me so addicted to thier music and yet thier music have been already 20 years already. Maybe is because the fast rythm of the music make me crazy about it song such as Blue Blood, rusty nails, jealousy and Dahlia. And they also have ballad such as Endless rain, Forever Love and Longing.

From Left to right: Hide(Eguitar), Toshi(vocal), Yoshiki(drum and piano), Pata(Eguitar) and Heath(bass)

Thier History

X Japan were one of the first visual bands in Japan and also one of the most popular. They started in teh mid-80’s with the union of school friends Yoshiki (drums and piano) and Toshi (lead vocals). After that the joined with a couple other guys and formed the band X.

They released the two singles ‘I’ll kill you’ and ‘Orgasm’ and made it on two compilations albums with other Japanese newcomer bands. At that time Pata (guitar) and Taiji (bass) joined the band.

In 1988 they made their first album ‘Vanishing Vision’ and hired a second guitarist, hide. The album was released on Yoshikis new record label Extasy. It was a great success and they changed to Sony records. More albums (‘Blue Blood’ and ‘Jealousy’) and more touring.

With Jealousy they tried to come out in America, but no one there wanted visual bands. They renamed the band in X Japan because in America there was already a band called X. The band had great success in Japan and the members also made solo projects.

At this time Taiji (bass) left the band and was replace with Heath. Yoshiki wrote the 23 minutes long song ‘Art of life’ which was the first record on their new label Atlantic Records.

In 1996 finally came their last album ‘Dahlia’. In the spring of 1997 Toshi (vocals) decided to quit the band for ‘artistic and religous reasons’, so they announced their disbanding in September 1997. They made a final Goodbye concert in December.

The members made different solo projects. In 1998 a tragedy happened, hide commited suicide for unknown reasons. The fans were shocked. Yoshiki draw back from public.

In 2000 he started a comeback with his project Violet UK…

source from this site http://www.x-japan.de/main.htm

These guys are the godfathers of jrock, so even if you don’t like their style, they still demand respect. Without X, there would be NO jrock. Hell, American music would certainly be affected in more ways than one.

Here come thier videos.

Silent Jealousy

Blue Blood

It was so sad one of thier member has pass away(Hide) and so thier band also break of as well . Bye …..Legend of J-rock.


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Ten factors that would affect your salary increment and promotion.

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It was time to clean up my room as chinese new year will coming soon so i just rearrange out all the messy books and comics to my storage. Somehow, I found this book which my friend left it at my house for almost half year already but I never read it. It might be the reason that I am not so interest in reading. Oh well, just a bit boring and not get ready to sleep yet. So I opened up the book and I started to read some of the articles.

I found this “ten factors that would affect your salary increment and promotions”. it was all chinese article so I direct tranlate it.

You almost got the same perfomance as your colleague but why still not be promote or get increase for your salary so this might cause by some of the reasons:
1) Bad coversation and cooperation to your manager / executive – Your manager might arrange work for you. Somehow you need to report the progress to your manage frequently and make good conversation to your manage instead of just being tripod(polish) o your manager.

2) Punctuallity problem – Everyone might late for some reason but if you get late to work frequently it my affect your image. Eventhough your boss ignore this but your colleagues might found it unfair or even back step you.

3) Non respect company culture – Each company have thier own working flow and system, somehow you still have to follow them or else you might rugi.

4) Over reaction – To show off some of your skill for ensuring that your get value by your manager was good but plz dun over do it coz it make him feel annoying.

5) Lack of co-operative – You might be very good on some skill but it was bad if you don’t make it as a co-operative tools to help other colleague. If you do help other ppl the manager will keep an eye of you.

6) Don’t let them know your weak point- If you dunno how to do that thing please don’t go for it or you might recommend other people coz it will detuct your marks.

7) Don’t complain so much – Today you complain this and that the other day you might get complain by other people. You might consider to talk about good things rather that bad things.

8) Do more suggestion and don’t just keep quite – Sometimes suggestion are necessary to improve your work. If this was good for the company then you should speak out and don’t just sitting there coz your manager will found that you are not concentrate on your job.

9) Don’t be so opposite action – Your colleague might boycot you.

10) lazy and extend your work flow – Once you accept any task please complete it on time if there was any problem please report it asap. No extend and over due time coz it might lower your perfomance.

This article were very useful for the people which was just started thier first job. For me I think I fail half of it although I have been working for few years……XD. It depends on you whether you find ur manager / boss / company good or not.

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Haunted Restaurant.”(@ o @)” !!!!

Today my colleague give me this brochure about the 4D Haunted Adventure Theatre Restaurant which place at the 6th floor of Sungai Wang. This was my first time to hear about this, I quickly scan it and upload it. I heard my colleague said they will provide you a 3D spectacle. I Planning to go there soon, for more details plz refer to the pic below:

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