Wednesday, June 24, 2009

henry gurney

DALAM NEGERI

Papan tanda bagi ingati pembunuhan Henry Gurney

KUALA KUBU BHARU 21 Jun – Dalam beratus-ratus kenderaan yang melalui Jalan Kuala Kubu Bharu untuk ke pusat peranginan Bukit Fraser setiap hari, mungkin tidak ramai yang tahu bahawa salah satu selekoh di jalan itu pernah menjadi saksi kepada satu peristiwa berdarah yang menggegarkan negara.
Bagi mengajak orang ramai dan pelancong luar mengimbau semula peristiwa pembunuhan Pesuruhjaya Tinggi British di Tanah Melayu Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworthy Gurney, Pejabat Daerah dan Tanah Hulu Selangor mengambil inisiatif meletakkan sebuah papan tanda di lokasi berlaku tragedi berdarah di selekoh itu.
Pegawai Daerahnya, Nor Hisham Ahmad Dahlan berkata, perletakan papan tanda itu dibuat supaya orang ramai yang melalui jalan itu dapat memperingati dan mengimbau semula peristiwa hitam itu.
“Ramai yang melalui jalan ini untuk ke Bukit Fraser tidak tahu di sini terpahat satu peristiwa bersejarah di mana seorang pegawai British ditembak mati oleh pengganas komunis,” katanya ketika ditemui selepas majlis perletakan papan tanda itu di sini, semalam.
Beliau berkata, papan tanda berkenaan diletakkan sebagai sebagai satu ‘monumen’ untuk mengingatkan orang ramai dan pelancong luar mengenai peristiwa bersejarah itu.
Katanya, dengan adanya usaha itu, diharapkan masyarakat terutamanya golongan muda lebih maklum mengenai sejarah negara dan lebih menghargai keamanan yang dicapai negara hari ini.
“Jika sebelum ini mereka hanya membaca kisah pembunuhan itu di dalam buku-buku sejarah, kami juga mahu pelawat-pelawat yang datang ke sini melihat dengan mata kepala mereka sendiri lokasi sebenar pembunuhan Henry Gurney,” katanya.
Henry Gurney yang berumur 53 tahun ketika itu, merupakan Ketua Setiausaha Pentadbiran Inggeris di Palestin sebelum dilantik menjadi Pesuruhjaya Tinggi Inggeris di Tanah Melayu pada 13 September 1948.
Henry Gurney mati ditembak dalam satu serangan hendap oleh pengganas komunis di Batu 56 1/2, Jalan Kuala Kubu Bharu-Bukit Fraser pada 7 Okt 1951, semasa beliau dikatakan bersama isteri dan setiausaha peribadinya D.J. Staples sedang dalam perjalanan dari Kuala Lumpur ke Bukit Fraser.
Kira-kira 12 kilometer sebelum sampai di Bukit Fraser, kereta Rolls Royce yang dinaiki mereka dan dipandu oleh seorang Konstabel Mohd. Din dengan kibaran bendera Union Jack, menjadi sasaran peluru komunis. – Bernama


aku cuba sedaya upaya untuk memahami kenapa papan tanda peringatan untuk henry gurney di naikkan disitu. apakah signifikannya terhadap perjuangan kemerdekaan negara? siapakah henry gurney? dia adalah pesuruhjaya tinggi british di tanah melayu yang pada ketika itu menjajah tanah melayu. kalau dia diberi sebegitu penghormatan, bagaimana dengan J.W.W Birch? taknak dibuatkan juga papan tanda sebagai penghormatan? kenapalah sungguh benak dungu pemikiran kebanyakan pemimpin di negara ini? penghormatan diberikan kepada penjajah dan anak watan yang memperjuangkan kemerdekaan tanah air, dipenjara, dihukum, dibuang daerah dan yang paling sedih dibunuh.


Wednesday, June 17, 2009

homage for satan!!!

Deicide is an American death metal band formed in 1987. Their first two albums, Deicide and Legion, are ranked second and third place in best-selling death metal albums of the Soundscan era.

As Amon (1987-1989)

Deicide was formed in Tampa, Florida July 21, after guitarist Brian Hoffman called Glen Benton, replying to an advertisement the latter had placed in a local music magazine. They are influenced by bands such as Destruction, Sodom, Venom, Bathory, Possesed, Death and Slayer. Within days the band, consisting of Benton (bass/vocals), Hoffman, Hoffman's brother Eric (guitars) and Steve Asheim (drums), had been named Amon after the Egyptian deity.Within a month, Amon had recorded crude Feasting the Beast 8-track demo in Benton's garage and had started playing the occasional gig in the Tampa area. In 1989, Amon recorded their second demo, Sacrificial, at Morrisound with producer Scott Burns.

However, before being known as Amon, the band was known as Carnage: "Carnage consisted of 5 members the 2 members were let go. Glen was found in a local music magazine. We had him play bass. And another singer was hired. He could not phrase properly so he was let go. Then we decided have Glen sing. Amon was brought into this world."- Eric Hoffman

Malevolent Creation guitarist Phil Fasciana recalls an early Amon show: "It was like Slayer intensified a thousand times." "I guess Amon had hollowed out a mannequin and filled it with fuckin' blood and guts from a butcher shop... and then they threw the fuckin' thing on the floor. Morbid Angel had these pit bulls with them back then and they were just tearing the meat up. It was a really weird scene, man. There was blood and meat everywhere.

As Deicide (1989-2004)

Benton reportedly stormed into Roadrunner Records' A&R man Monte Connors' office and presented him with the demo, saying, "Sign us, you fucking asshole!" The next day contracts were issued to the band. In 1989 the band's name was changed to Deicide at the request of Roadrunner Records, as Amon was the name of the house in the (then fellow Roadrunner artists) King Diamond album "Them". "Deicide" is defined as the act of killing a being of a divine nature, or a symbolic substitute for such a being; a deicide can also be one concerned in putting such a deity to death. "Me and my first wife were visiting family up in Buffalo and we went over to the city with a copy of the demo. Scott Burns had already sent it to Monte, though, and it was actually sitting on his desk. So I walked in and said, "I'm Glen Benton- here's another tape. Don't be an asshole- sign us. I wasn't even back in Buffalo yet when they called in with the contract offer."

Deicide then released their, also produced by Scott Burns at Morrisound, in 1990. Their debut featured re-recorded versions of all six of the Sacrificial tunes that had secured them their record deal.

Both Eric and Brian tended to play technical solos at fast speeds and with overlapping riffs, which gave Deicide the definitive heavy sound and complex song structures. This lineup remained intact until November 25, 2004 in the wake of increasing animosity between Glen Benton and the Hoffman brothers - allegedly in regards to royalties, publishing and the fact that they were Christians.

Post-Hoffman brothers period (2004-present)

Shortly after, the guitar roles were then filled by ex-Cannibal Corpse guitarist Jack Owen, and Vital Remains guitarist Dave Suzuki. Following the tour, Suzuki was replaced by Ralph Santolla, formerly of Death, Iced Earth and Sebastian Bach. Santolla stated he is a Catholic and this has received a small amount of shock and ridicule from some metal fans. In spite of this, Deicide's eighth studio album The Stench of Redemption album received rave reviews, and is one of their biggest sellers yet.

On May 24, 2007, it was announced Ralph Santolla had left Deicide. Subsequently, he joined Florida's Obituary and appears on their album Xecutioner's Return as well as the tour. Then on July 20, 2007 guitarist Jack Owen (ex-Cannibal Corpse) announced that Deicide is "on hiatus" and he has joined Ohio based death/thrash combo Estuary for touring purposes.The band did a Balkan tour, dubbed "Balkans AssassiNation Tour", in October 2007 alongside Krisiun, Incantation and Inactive Messiah.

By November 2007 Deicide began work on its ninth studio album at Florida's Morrisound Studios. Entitled Till Death Do Us Apart, the follow-up to 2006's The Stench of Redemption promises to be Deicide's "most savage and aggressive [offering] to date," according to a press release. Drummer Steve Asheim recorded drum tracks and Benton started recording vocals in December. By April 2008 two songs off this album were posted online.

On January 6, 2009, Deicide posted a blog on their official Myspace page saying they had signed a worldwide record deal with Century Media, with Ralph Santolla returning to the band for a European tour. They are working on material for a summer 2009 release.

Controversy

Deicide has received considerable controversy relating to their albums and lyrics, which include vehement anti-Christian themes, such as "Fuck Your God","Behead The Prophet" and "Scars of the Crucifix", among others. This was reinforced by frontman Glen Benton branding an inverted cross into hisforehead. Drummer Asheim of Deicide said "The whole point of Satanic music is to blaspheme against the church", "I don't believe in or worship a devil. Life is short enough without having to waste it doing this whole organised praying, hoping, wishing-type thing on some superior being".

Ostensibly in order to prove his genuine Satanic nature, Benton claimed in the early 1990s that he would commit suicide at the age of 33, to "mirror" a lifespan opposite that of Jesus Christ. However, he passed that age in 2000 and did not commit suicide. In 2006, he stated that these statements had been "asinine remarks" and that "only cowards and losers" choose to kill themselves.

Deicide has been banned from playing in several venues (such as Valparaiso, Chile over a promotional poster featuring Jesus Christ with a bullet hole in his forehead) and with various festivals such as Hellfest, after several graves had been spray-painted with "When Satan Rules His World", which is a song from Deicide's 1995 album Once Upon the Cross. More recently, their music video for "Homage for Satan", which features blood-splattered zombies on a rampaging mission to capture a priest, was banned from UK music TV channel Scuzz.

In the early 1990s, Deicide was on tour in Europe with Gorefest, a Dutch death metal band. In Stockholm, during Gorefest set, a bomb exploded in the club in which they were playing. The bomb was located to the rear of the stage, behind a heavy fire proof door. The explosion was big enough to deform the door and blow it off its hinges. Deicide managed to play three songs before the police decided to stop the concert and evacuate the club. At first, Benton blamed that attack on the Scandinavian Black Metal scene, where Deicide's brand of death metal was despised, but many people blamed animal rights activists who were angered at Deicide's lyrical themes of animal sacrifice.

Members

Current members


Past members

Tour members

  • Dave Suzuki - guitar (2004–2005)
  • Seth Van Loo - vocals (2007), as substitute for Glen Benton

Discography

Studio albums

Compilations

Live albums

Friday, June 12, 2009

childplay...

i thought school day had gone long ago but i was wrong. well...nothing seems serious but i would say it was a bit of childish. should i be aware of it? maybe i should. didn't see it was coming but hey, i just let it go. some says meeting an old friends would be delighted but what was happened to me were the other way. maybe it was just me thinking that way, but it was just like the way it was to be at school. maybe i wasn't the brightest student but i wasn't the dumb fool either. maybe i should be a aware sometimes people do not grow up. i just rest the case.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

me, nagging...

sometimes people think to much. well...that the norm. when we didn't get the answer right away, we start to make presumption. well as if our brain can figure it out all those unnecessary debate. not all things we can figure it out. for example, the doomsday. can anybody tells me how the world gonna be? how are we gonna survives that? well, that's why we don't have to exaggerate the whole. some matters best just left to be unexplained. perhaps we should be more humble and modest towards the world.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

dilema seorang ahli bina badan...

orang besar dia pun nak jadi besar. angkat berat-berat tapi sampai sekarang dah masuk bulan ke 6 masih lagi macam tu juga rupanya. nak aku tegur, memang dah pun tapi macam tak makan saman je. nak biar, tak boleh sebab nanti member lain ikut. jadi aku nak buat apa?makan supplement dah bertong-tong. tak tahu lagi apa yang nak telan. cerita buat orang bimbang. tengok orang angkat berat-berat dia pun nak tapi injured. macam mana ni bang? macam mana aku nak tolong kau? jalan berkepak macam nak terbang. baju nak ketat je, tapi yang nampak lebih perut. bila aku perbetulkan, pandang sinis kat aku pastu cakap aku pun perut besar. memang aku perut besar sebab aku makan banyak. aku dah cakap aku bukan nak masuk pertandingan. bila aku train dari jauh usha. buat sendiri injured. sebulan relaks kat rumah sebab dah tak boleh angkat. nampak client aku yang dah berjaya, tanya tapi tangguh. susah kalau ingat diri sendiri tu tahu semua benda. aku nak tolong kau, kau eksyen!! sekarang ni, kau buat la sampai cita-cita kau tercapai. aku, kalau kau tanya aku, aku tolong la.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

wind of change...

hello guys, as you noticed i changed my layout. hope it will bring new horizon to this blog and attract more reader. will come back with more strong opinions and perspectives and dynamic thoughts to all of you. so just hanging there ya..ciao..