I have always been a super big fan of Guns n’ Roses. I’m not sure how exactly it started, but their songs were like all around me when I was at the university. I remember buying their famous Use Your Illusion posters and putting them on the wall of my tiny hostel room. Then I’d buy their albums, back then in cassettes, and I’d listen to their songs on my earphones over and over and over again until my ears…
I have never been emotionally involved in a tragedy ever before – more than I was when the earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 struck a big part of Sabah – which I thought was not serious at first – until the news of casualties at Mount Kinabalu reached me. The final number of those killed – 18 – came to me as a shock; in fact, it devastated me more than I had thought it would. Mount Kinabalu is…
I remember how I fished some 120 bucks out of my hard-earned money as a student working as a part-time waiter at a coffee house in PJ to buy a ticket to their concert. It was my very first time coming to a concert of an international band. I watched intently and in disbelief as they sang at the top of their lungs and jumped as high as the giant speakers on the stage – almost non-stop. I wondered where…