Someone change the spelling for my name please

Your kids are better off...

Drinking anlene at Birth
not watching cartoons
staying away from nursery rhymes

[SMP] inoh ss!w !

Ok people, if you have been checking out our purevolume site religiously for the past week, you'd have noticed that we have a show slated this coming 18th August. So.... come catch us at the Prince of Wales pub on the 18th August @ 9.30 PM (Singapore Local Time). If you do not know where the Prince of Wales, then to be honest, it's really hard to describe it to you and where have you been exactly the last time round ArPee performed there eh? Feeling guilty now here are we? Ok, i give. I give. You take any bus that goes to Little India. Any bus service that actually plies the little india route with the least amount of decency ought to stop in front of Tekka Mall. Ok so now you stop right in front of Tekka Mall right.. you go into the Foodmore Foodcourt. DO NOT BE DISTRACTED BY THE FOOD. Getting to ArPee's show is the priority here remember? So, ok once you've infiltrated the place, head for the exit door behind. It's a glass door. You would not miss it. Cause if you do, you'd know it cause you'd feel a sharp pain either in the nose, forehead, chest or crotch. Depending on your sex, physical properties and walking posture. You might hit your knee first too. Ok, so once you get out of that door, you'd strafe right abit. And you'd then notice the Prince of Wales banner right in front of you. Then, you know you are nearing the Rendezvous Point already. So knowing full well of where the pub is, you ought to make a mad dash for the nearest money changer, change all of your money to five dollar notes and then rush to the pub and catch ArPee live. Yeap! Hope that was helpful!

And...here's the new wallpaper!

Listen to ArPee at www.purevolume.com/arpee!

[SMP] Your Momma is so fat, she was on page 5,6,7,8,9 and 10 of Playboy.

Alright. Yesterday's show was great! Absolutely great! The crowd was absolutely great! There was this feeling that the band and the crowd were really connected cause everytime i said 'Blow' they sort of finished the sentence for me by saying 'Job'. Now if that's not connection then i don't know what is.

Following that, there are a few people that the band would like to give a shout out to... Not in order of merit, we would like to thank Colin (Thanks for the sound!), Terence (Thanks for the chance!), Dorothy (Thanks for encouragement and being on standby to stand in for me!), Rico and Jeremy (Thanks for being our cameramen and supporting us!) Khien (Thanks for coming to our show! This is like the 6th ArPee show you've been to right?), Hans (Thanks for coming down to support us yet again!), Eric (Ok, i'm not really sure whether you were there or not cause i wasn't able to see you.. BUT, you deserve a thank you mention nonetheless for supporting us! So..Thank you!), Isaac and Jay (Thanks for like coming to our show yet again and supporting us even though you guys had to pay for it and all.), Carmen (Thanks for coming down to support us and then calling me an AhPek and then refusing to let me see the video of the band cause most of the times i'm not even in it! It was graet fun!), Juan (Thanks for coming down to support us! ), the guys from Samanta (Thanks for like supporting us!), the guys from Sons of Liberty (Russell, Egan, Melvin and Shane, it was nice hanging out with you guys after the show!), not forgetting all the bands that we shared the stage with (KDJ, ShoeSizeNine, 3dash1, Dr M's Contradiction, etc...) and of course, all of you guys who like saw us and liked what you saw and heard and tagged on our board and played some tracks off our PureVolume site and mailed us pictures of camel toes, you know who you are! So there you have it! Our thank you mention list. Exhaustive, but still not that much eh?

So if you think that you should have been mentioned in anyway, then please do, come to our next show, say hi after our show and we will try our best to mention you in our next thank you mention list! And of course our next show is on the 18th August 2005, 9.30pm at the Prince of Wales Backpacker Hostel. So, hope to see you there!

With Love,
ArPee.

Your Momma is so fat, when she stepped on the weighing machine, it said 'To Be Continued'.

Don't let the world bring you down.
Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold.

Pretty Gay Wallpaper! (:

[SMP] Keeping Them Confused

For those of you who caught us yesterday and have watched us before previously, well, it was probably not the best of our shows. The technical mishaps as Khien has put it was as frustrating to us as it must have been for a car full of queers getting pulled over for doing a 69 on a 55. However, the band did have as much fun as possible. We'd like to thank all of you for your continual support. I'm not good with names so i'm going to try to name all those that i can remember who came and saw us. Ok here it goes, thanks to Dorothy, Mint, Jem, Kelvin, Sameer of Set for Glory, Nic of Second Storey, Rico, Joyce, Khien and Eric of Heroic No Avail, Sameer's friend whom i didn't manage to get the name, Nic's friend whom i didn't manage to get the name, Ah Pek and Shaggy and their friends whom i didn't manage to get the names, Rizal and Sandra for well wishes on our blog and to those surfer dudes who wanted us to play a few more songs but we were totally zoned out and couldn't hear them that well.

Of course not to forget the organisers, AFUA. Their efforts to actually create platforms for local acts to perform on should be lauded as those of event organisers such as platformthelabel and also DoubleYellowLine. Ok i hope i did not forget anybody. And i know some of you requested that the lyrics to our songs be displayed on our blog. Well, we're really considering that and we appreciate such suggestions.

With Much Love,
ArPee
Our Dragons, Your Temple.

[SMP] Like An Angel

Alright guys! The dust has barely settled, muscles still aching and blood blisters popped and unpopped but ArPee is going to be at it again! This time, it's going to be Marine Cove Amphitheatre from 8-9PM on the 26th June 2005. So come on down for a wholesome good time as before us, there's a whole list of other great bands such as Burnout, Rare Copper Coin, Grey Matter and Sons of Liberty. So do come and have an ArPee time. Remember to bring along those five dollar notes to throw at us!

ArPee
As Complicated As It Is, It's Better Than Sex.

The Post-POW Syndrome.

Friday was SUPERB, pals. Really. (: We played beside a fantastic band, to a fantastic crowd, at a fantastic venue. We couldn't ask for a better experience.

People to thank!Samanta - Terence, Hilmi, Helmi, Nas. Dorothy, Thelma, leon, Jem, Mint, Rico, Hans, Khien, Jia Hao, Jeremy, Isaac, Ah Neh, Carmie, Shun Foong, Terri, Aaron, Sam, Nick, Tristan, Joanne, Colin, Xuan, Ricky, and last but not least Malcolm, owner of the Prince Of Wales. And to all the new friends we made that night - We love what we're doing and it's because of you.

Our next gig will be at Marine Parade, this coming Sunday (that's the 26th June), from 8 to 9pm. We have yet to know the full details so keep visiting this site for updates, please!

Love (: ,
ArPee.

Catch ArPee with Samanta on the 17th June, Friday. 2130hrs to 2330hrs. See you there and we love you all. :)

As The Story Unfolds

Ok people, if you have been checking out our purevolume site religiously for the past week, you'd have noticed that we have a show slated this coming 17th June. So.... come catch us at the Prince of Wales pub on the 17th June @ 9.30 PM (Singapore Local Time). If you do not know where the Prince of Wales, then to be honest, it's really hard to describe it to you. Ok here's how. You take any bus that goes to Little India. Any bus service that actually plies the little india route with the least amount of decency ought to stop in front of Tekka Mall. Ok so now you stop right in front of Tekka Mall right.. you go into the Foodmore Foodcourt. DO NOT BE DISTRACTED BY THE FOOD. Getting to ArPee's show is the priority here remember? So, ok once you've infiltrated the place, head for the exit door behind. It's a glass door. You would not miss it. Cause if you do, you'd know it cause you'd feel a sharp pain either in the nose, forehead, chest or crotch. Depending on your sex, physical properties and walking posture. You might hit your knee first too. Ok, so once you get out of that door, you'd strafe right abit. And you'd then notice the Prince of Wales banner right in front of you. Then, you know you are nearing the Rendezvous Point already. So knowing full well of where the pub is, you ought to make a mad dash for the nearest money changer, change all of your money to five dollar notes and then rush to the pub and catch ArPee live. Yeap! Hope that was helpful!

One helpful thing in turn could be, can someone please recommend me places where i can send my bass guitar for a quick repair at a reasonable price? Thanks.

We're In Talks People!!

The band is currently in talks with a few people. namely their family and friends. We're still alive. And we're excitingly waiting for Ihsan's return from the States so that we can work on whatever we've already worked on. So hope to see you guys at our next show.

Meanwhile, 3 months ago, we set up a purevolume site to load up songs for our own referencing. And 3 months on, we've already had more than 800 views and more than 400 play clicks. This is very encouraging indeed and we hope to add more stuff that you guys can listen to. So keep on clicking even if its for no good reason and if you have alot of time to burn. And remember to throw at us five dollar notes if u see us play next time round.

With Love and without wax,
Arpee-The Band.

My flowering laptop broke down but it's finally fixed, so I figure I'll do a post before it cranks up again.

A band update: Ihsan has flown to Atlanta for a month, so there'll be no gigging until June. The rest of the Pointes miss him dearly, but it's a good chance for the band to work on new material and we promise you all that we'll keep going on. This can only get better! :)

Love,
ArPee

2nd National Epilepsy Awareness Day Charity Bazaar 2005

aRPee's in love ...

(not in order)

Double yellow line crew (ever grateful to you guys),"Rare copper coin", Organizers and helpers of the Epilepsy awareness, the dude that was promoting the $20 bikini's (ure awesome), Juan (Get the RAFE cd!), Benita, Faye ,Mora and Eunice, Lloyd.. (the latest Parousia cd is out!)woo..oo , sazali "kio-sai",Third place dudes and chicks (their seriously hot), "Caracal" (hardcore crew), Sameer, Neek and friends, Dorothy (arpee's badge designer~), Shelly and Cheryl ,"heroic no avail" khien and hans, Mint (someone's interstellar), Lou and san's secret hot chick( that's if u did come and we're not just disillusional), Eunice no.2 and Andrea, Renny, family! Aunties and uncles that could not stand the noise, Friends of friends of people i did not mention or don't know. Im sorry. (Ur name here) __________ , ure hot, we love you!

i hope i did this right.
well. Thank you!!!. We screwed up.
but man, you guys are one hell of a group.
what a night.

Here's a link to pictures of that night and other bands.
http://thepaininmearse-photos.blogspot.com

to arpee. we have got to stop touching each other.


Water is good ain't it?

Again again again

HOWDY HO PALS!

Okay. We've hit a park, a school and a lounge. Well this time we're hitting the SHOPPING CENTRE! Plus it's all for a good cause so it's just way neat. We've got a good sound system, good event, good bands performing and it's all thanks to the good people from Double Yellow Line.

Do come down to catch this event yeah. We appreciate you guys tagging our board and spurring us on and stuff; it'd be great if you could say hi after our performance!

Plaza Singapura (nearest train stop is Dhoby Ghaut)
24th April 2005, Sunday
8pm

We're creating a mailing list so we can update you on how we've been. So if you'd like to be included, leave a link on our tagboard and we'll add you yeah? Niiiice. :D Okay enough mushy crap, here's the RAW STUFF MAAAAN!


2nd National Epilepsy Awareness Day Charity Bazaar 2005
Plaza Singapura (sheltered stage outside starbucks)

Admission is free.

22nd April 2005, Friday
1900-1945 Underedge
2000-2045 RAFE

23rd April 2005, Saturday
1900-1945 The Subway Stars
2000-2045 Barrecoda

24th April 2005, Sunday
1900-1945 Rare Copper Coin
2000-2045 ARPEE

[SMP] The Belladonna Document

It's Easter sunday today and since i'm free i thought i'd post a blog thanking all you guys and girls who came to watch us perform at the 3rd place on 25th March. For those of you who watched us for the second time at the 3rd place, thanks for supporting us through and through and as corny as it sounds maybe you can hope to see us again for the third time at the 3rd place. It was simply awesome to have performed infront of you guys. Especially with all the catcalling and screaming. You guys are certainly the liveliest crowd we've ever played to. Thanks!

Also, I would like to thank everybody who has come to this blogsite through the purevolume site that we have set up. The last I checked, 199 people went to that website. And it certainly is encouraging to find the numbers growing! Appreciate it!

Right now, the band is working on its various projects(like how to throw the guitar around and around and around while playing...) and so we hope to see you guys at our next show! So keep on rocking! Walk within beauty, dream within grace.

p/s: you can support local music by throwing at ArPee loads of money the next time you see us. Honestly, we need the money. In order to improve ourselves we need stuff like Lays BBQ flavoured chips. So empty yer swiss bank accounts and throw it all at us!

GIG ALERT GIG ALERT GIG ALERT GIG ALERT

Venue: The Third Place (Click for directions)
Date: This Friday, March 25

Bands performing:
1. Parousia (acoustic) 8pm
2. Unforgotten Memories 8:30pm
3. Arpee 9:00pm
4. Pinnacle of My Vanity 9:30pm

GIG ALERT GIG ALERT GIG ALERT GIG ALERT

We're Not Done Yet PEOPLE!!!

Wokay people! Ihsan got us a gig at The Third Place so please please please keep visiting this site for more information. :)

[SMP] Why ArPee?

Because ArPee, is complicated enough. That's why it's ArPee.

College Rock was great, thanks you all. :)

Time Slot Has Been Changed.

Hey pals we're performing at 5.30pm.



NUS Centre for the Arts (CFA) and Original Music Society (OMS),
together with NUS Sheares Hall presents:

College Rockfest 2005
A Celebration of college-based bands in Singapore

Date: 05/03/2005 Saturday
Time: 4pm - late
Location: Youth Park Orchard

FREE!!!!

Bands:
Arpee (emotive pop-punk)
Stereo Superstars (ol skool rock)
Scar Driven (hard rock)
Bathroom Acoustics (alternative rock)
Documentary in Amber (avant-garde soundscapes)

NUS hall bands:
Sheares Hall
Kent Ridge Hall
Temasek Hall
Eusoff Hall
King Edward VII Hall

Guest Bands:
USV (emoskapunk rock - come skank with us!)
RAFE (power pop-rock, WINNER of Power98 POWERJAM)

For upcoming information on OMS gigs:
visit www.geocities.com/omsnus
Correspondence: omslovesyou@gmail.com
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Rock On!

[SMP] Sad

It's sad day for us all. Blink 182 has announced their indefinite hiatus. I was worried about this. There were rumours that cracks were appearing in the band. Haiz.. i hope that they will decide to keep on playing and i'll be able to catch at least one of their shows before i die. Gone are the days when talking about blowjobs and paedophiles on stage was an ok thing to do. Gone are the days when cussing and dissing on stage was an ok thing to do. It's a very sad day for us all. And to think they decided to take it sometime near my birthday. haiz.. sad day. if only someone got me the urethra chronicles, everything would be fine right now. Blink 182 saw me thru lots of stuff. i still remember practising songs by them. working hard on them. I still remember watching their videos and analysing their songs. I still remember watching them run around naked in the what's my age again video over and over again. i still remember, telling myself that someday, i'll be just like mark hoppus. i still remember spending hours and days reading up stories about them. i still remember spending time to write songs just like they did only to fail miserably. i still remember arguing with someone just caused he said that anybody could play like blink 182 and nothing went into their songs.

It's been more than a decade since they've been together. I just hope that they will stay together for the fans. Here's to my hero, Mark Hoppus! Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits, fart, turd and twat. Salutations!

To be honest with you guys, I've always thought that ArPee wouldn't be here if i didn't get obsessed with Blink-182 and trying to be just like em. ArPee wouldn't be here if i always felt like putting up performance just like they did. ArPee wouldn't be here if i wasn't into Blink-182 and rose above the initial feelings of being rejected from a band and meeting evelyn outside the toilet and forming a band with her. So yeap, it's a sad day for me, for us all.

College Rock Fest

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! College Rock Fest is soooo gonna rock your asses. Join in the fun, pals. We're going to make much more noise, cause you're going to catch the FULL BAND. :) Spread the word!



Ready, get set, go.

YIPPEE!!

THANKS, YOU GUYS! Inhabitant was really a blast. We're so thankful, we're gonna kiss all of you one by one.

Double Yellow Line
Ave, Ben, Roslan, Fairoz, KC, Mudz, Lin, Eugene, Mr Soundman, Mr Ticketman, Mr Cinematographer and everyone else from DYL whom we didn't get acquainted with, thank you. The industry definitely needs more people like you guys.

People who came down
Alex, Isaac, Ching Hong, Azman, Abalone and Zhang 'Macau' Xi, Mint, Juan, Benita, Serene, Isaac, Yuhan, Faizal, Johan, Fizhah, Carmen, Matthew, Eric, Khien, Hans, and supporters of other bands. We wouldn't be what we are now without all of you.

Bands
Ace Troubadour, Lunarin, Pale Pretense, Dreams of Day Architecture, Lunchbox - It was our privilege playing alongside all of you. Thanks for the good music!

Arpee
Thanks Ari for wanting to do this, and for sacrificing time for all the practise sessions. Louey, for being there all the way and for drawing on Ais's face. And of course the birthday dood Ais, for being the best lead guitarist, mentor and band leader the band will ever have. :)

aRpEe pOwEr sIaHxZ! hEHex.. ^_^

[SMP] Gates of Fire

Tell the people, strangers passing by.

Here we lie, true to their laws.

Anyways, i've updated the music zone, you can hear a new song instead of boring plastic skies. so here you go interstellar love song. i dun approve ot this at all.

Directions

Okay I referred to my handy dandy bus guide and realised one can get to the Yusof Ishak Hall (that's where doubleyellowline:inhabitant, our gig, will be held at) by 3 buses:

95: Loop service between North Buona Vista Terminal and Kent Ridge Terminal.

96: Loop service from Clementi Interchange. Personally I feel this is the easiest route to take, cause it's near Clementi MRT Station.

• Upon your exit from the ticketing machines, turn left and board the escalator.
• Follow the sheltered pathway; it'll lead you to the interchange.
• Alight at the 9th stop, which is the stop after the chinese library bus stop (the interchange being the first stop).
• Cross the road and whoopadeedoo, the Yusof Ishak House should be within walking distance. That's what the map tells me lah at least

151: Hougang Central and Kent Ridge. For NP students you can board it from the bus stop opposite NP and alight at the 10th stop. Don't have to cross the road.

Quite boringly comprehensive I know. I don't know how to get there myself actually, haha! Shall ask the organisers for directions. Hope this helps man. :)

stuffed crust chicken ice cream

ArPee

eh mannnnn...

I found the next best thing!!!!
some band called 'aisen' from the east indies in sri lanka.
HIs song is awesome man. Its bloody 6 mins long.
The whole band is one person.
he just runs from the base to the drums to the guits. crazee cow.
its called "SP0000"... or " what we have in common"
We got to learn it. its a must. must must must.
we got to save his prata shop. aid the tsnami victims!
best thing is. we can even call it arpee's own.
coz noe 1 will eva noe. NO ONE!!!!!

well. Hope u have it alr. if not. ask ihsan or me for it.
its about time for me to notice hot Mcm gurls.

Louwee

[SMP] Question The Answer

Finally got this opportunity to blog/log into this blog. Ok let me see where do we begin? Well the band has been progressing that's something. We've come up with pretty neat new material that somehow we're not interested on working on. Seems to me we're all caught up covering than focussing on our originals as we had proposed a few weeks back. So that's something. I have no idea what's gonna happen next, but i assure u, it'll be an exciting chapter for ArPee and i'm sure you guys can't wait! cause whatever is gonna happen, is going to be a bang for ArPee!

Hahaz! Ok, so i really do hope to see you guys at our acoustic set this 12th feb. so..yeap.. it'll be great to see some familiar faces there! aha! so yeap.

This is a note to the band:

Hmm, ok i'm really cool with us covering. As it does help us to destress. so dun take me wrong here k? but i'm seriously more enthusiastic about us doing our originals. i'm serious. like growing in harmony. how about we give Reinventing Yourself a try? Maybe the tune is not right, maybe this maybe that but we can work it out right? how about Different Worlds? are we ever going to do that or not? and how about aisen's new song? how about eve's new song? are we ever going to work on them or just let them be? if we're going to make it, let's mighty well act like we're gonna make it. and while we're at it, why dun we not only act but actually believe that we will make it and give it that extra push. i know we're all caught up academically but really, we can do it if we put our hearts and minds to it! i believe we can. I believe in ArPee.

On that note i would like to propose we design new band shirts!! how about that eh? i really think we should all sit down sometime soon and discuss our band materials. i'm serious about this. but on taht note i would also like to say i'm glad that we're doing screamo covers somehow! hahaz! so what we should do is actually do both. covers and yet focus on originals. it's no use covering if u're never going to feed off the influences. if u're never going to feed off the influences i suggest we don't listen to any music besides ours. i'm serious. so yeap. this is ari signing off.

Hey pals,

We will not be performing for the Thumper Bar gig. Check us out at doubleyellowline:inhabitant instead, please!

New Song Update! Acoustic Version of ILS.

Hey Ari, Ais, Louey and all you listeners of ArPee!

The acoustic version of Interstellar Love Song is out! If you know us, you could ask for the song via MSN. Otherwise you could leave us a tag and we'll see how we can send you the song! The doodleboard's up, so there's no excuse that you're too lazy or that you don't have a Blogger account. :)

What happened to Faizal, don't stop leaving tags leh. Eh I don't mind helping you mark books you know. Haha I think marking books are fun!

ArPee

ArPee

jam again sometime soon?.. i got like 1 new song frm 'finch'. gd one to break cymbals and sticks, ari to go timeless head bobbing, ihsan to go screaming n eve to scratch her epiphone with. drop me a nice letter.

We're finally going to jam. We're still aliiiiive..

[SMP] Auld Lang Syne

I hope i spelled it correctly. But it's ok. I never knew what it really meant. Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? What's that supposed to mean. If we're gonna forget that old acquiantance, how can it be remotely possible for us to remember that we have forgotten that particular old acquaintance. You dun go about living your days saying, "Damn, i nearly forgot about Peter!" or.. "I absolutely forgot about David!" or what have you.

Oh well, enough of my rants. I believe ArPee is currently working on a few songs. Let's not limit our scope to just 2 now shall we? And yes, work has taken a toll on us. We're now haggardly and tired. But it's money well earned. And hopefully well spent. And louis, i will take up your offer and be more than happy to be earning some money whilst jamming a song.

Have a happy new year people!

I pay homage to the people who got washed away by the tsunamis. And u know what's the worst thing that can ever happen to a musical career of a particular band and also an events organiser? Well, if the organisers had slated the band Tsunami Bomb to perform all over south east asia. just a thought to myself that i somehow felt like sharing.

Once again, i pay homage to those who perished in those waves.

We'll never know why
So many innocents had to die
But i promise you
That we'll all meet again underneath these plastic skies.

yesterday was a yr ago..

ArPee

alright... so im like home early in the morning on the 1st day at 2005 and im banging my table n pillows to..

e Artist in the Ambulance - Thrice ( thanks eve )

please im begging u guys to jam this song...
i'll pay u guys to do it..
i'll make alvron pay u guys to do it..
i'll stop wearing berms n slippers to sch..
n i'll stop talking abt hot MCM gurls..

just a new 2005 coming up... another day anyway... well..

god bless
Louwee