a tribute to melamines....

Sejak dua menjak ni, kita sekeluarga sibuk pindah rumah....yup...Alhamdulillah, the apartment that we bought around 2 years ago dah siap, and now slowly kita dalam proses pindah rumah....tapi belum official....pindah sikit-sikit...nanti bila dah betul confident, baru lah duduk permanently...

Dalam proses packing and unpacking ni, tetiba, terjumpa la pulak satu kotak penuh ngan cassette lagu-lagu...semua hasil kumpul masa zaman skolah dulu....time tu, mana laa ada download2 lagu from internet...mp3 lagi laa belum pernah wujud lagi....so, kalau nak layan lagu, kenalaa beli cassette. CD bukannya takde time tu, tapi masa tu tak mampu!!!

Tengah seronok belek cassette album2 band-band macam soundgarden, smashing pumpkins (melloncollie - 2 cassette in a set!), Nirvana nevermind, foo fighters...tiba2 terjumpa la pulak beberapa cassette TDK and Sony....terus slot into the player and layan.....guess what I found? my old cassette recordings time jamming masa zaman after form 5 dulu!!!! PERHHH!!!

I sat down in the hall, lying on my front, facing the hi-fi speakers, and was brought back to the good ol' jamming days, with my buddies Arman, Is, Lan, occasionally Ja'a, my bro Mickey...and all those gang who used to follow us ke mana saja kitorang jam.....sambil dengar all the 'beautiful noises' we were making, teringat zaman kitorag naik turun tangga studio. Almost every week, tak kira kat Ampanglaaa, Melawati laaa, Setapak laaa...even right up to Shah Alam!!! memang macam addicted time tu....and macam dah jadi lumrah, kalau jam aje, mesti bawak walkman and at least 2 cassette kosong for recording....

dengar balik cassette2 tu, terasa bangga la pulak....walaupun taklaa orang kata perfect soundnya, tapi taklaa lari beat and at times, kira boleh dikatakan best la jugak...walaupun most of it lagu2 cover b bands like Nirvana, butterfingers, weezer, etc, tapi yg bangganya, ada jugak lagu-lagu yg kitorang wrote sendiri....

bila dengar balik, macam tak caya lak lagu tu kitorang punya....heheheh...masa tu punya la bangga sampai siap buat demo bagai..under our band name: the melamines

well...now sejak memasing dah kahwin, beranak pinak, ber kareer, dah sangat JARANG kitorang jam....sayang rasanya....but that's the way life is....unfortunately...

lately nama melamines di sebut2 di seluruh dunia - tapi malangnya, bukan band kitorang, but isu susu dan makan yang di cemari oleh substance with the same name....but still, whenever I read or hear that word mentioned, my memory always wanders back to all those late night 2 hour jam sessions, making beautiful music with my buddies, the melamines.....long live the melamines!!! you guys rock!!!