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• OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: We are opening for SICK OF IT ALL MAY 25 in KL/Malaysia!!! PLEASE READ!!!

  Wednesday, Apr 23, 2008 9:29PM / Standard Entry

  OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: We are opening for SICK OF IT ALL MAY 25 in KL/Malaysia!!! PLEASE READ!!!

  APRIL 24, 2008: OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: OPENING FOR SICK OF IT ALL!!!
  
  Oh my god...here comes the news that I've been telling you about...the most unbelievable thing that is going to happen to King Ly Chee. I NEVER NEVER imagined that this would happen to us. I never in my life imagined that I would ever get this opportunity...here is the news:
  
  KING LY CHEE IS OPENING FOR THE LEGENDARY-THE GREATEST HARDCORE BAND IN THE WORLD: SICK OF IT ALL!!!
  
  This is a dream come true for me...I was 13 years old (I'm 31 now) when I was skateboarding with my friend and they told me to check out this band called Sick of it All. They told me it was a band that played "hardcore" music...I didn't know what it was or what it meant. But I listened to it - and I heard the words of the album "Blood, sweat and no tears" - songs like "Injustice system", "friends like you", and of course my favorite Sick of it All song: "My Life" with the simplest lyrics that when I was 13 years old was the only thing I wanted say to the whole world "All my life people tell me what to say...this is my life live it my own way"...These lyrics still mean the world to me today when colleagues ask me why I'm wasting my time with King Ly Chee, when friends and old acquaintances ask me why I waste so much money on my band when I don't get any money back, when my colleagues/girlfriend/friends see me working my ass off for King Ly Chee/hardcore and Start From Scratch and don't understand my passion for something that they don't there'll ever be any rewards from, when band members quit, when it feels like the whole world gives up on King Ly Chee something that I have put my entire LIFE into...any time I feel like giving up or not dealing with this shit anymore - I listen to Sick of it All - it brings me back to the very first day when I heard Sick of it All and when I was first introduced to hardcore. A little Pakistani skater kid who spoke English better then he spoke his own mother-language, but was growing up in a city (Hong Kong) that spoke another language (Cantonese) that he couldn't speak, and went to a school full of rich white kids from USA, UK, etc., and feeling so different from all these people. That's all I was...a confused little kid that didn't know what he was - am I Pakistani? Am I a "Hong Kong person"? Am I Chinese? What am I?
  
  I listened to Sick of it All and I learned many things:
  
  1. The world is too xxxxed up to worry about yourself. So what if you don't understand yourself? There are people in the world who don't have food, there are people in the world who have been kidnapped from their home and forced into sexual slavery, there are people in the world who deal with the most disgusting of racists actions, there are places in the world where children are growing up without entire families, there are places in the world where 8 year old children are raising their younger brothers and sisters because their parents died to AIDS or were killed...
  
  2. That it doesn't matter if you're different...you still have the strength to change the world. It doesn't matter if you're different and you SHOULDN'T TRY to change yourself because you're different so you can fit in.
  
  3. That I can do anything I want to do with my life. All I have to do is try and NEVER NEVER NEVER give up...persist through EVERYTHING.
  
  I owe this band for everything that I am and especially for all the beliefs and morals I have about hardcore. Everything that I hold dear about hardcore: it's humility, it's DIY spirit, it's never give up attitude, it's fighting for the weak, it's MESSAGE BASED lyrics, respecting other people and especially respecting people who think differently even within this hardcore/punk scene...I learned it all from this band...
  
  They saved my life as a teenager...I am who I am because of Sick of it All and the world they introduced me to through their music and lyrics...
  
  They are my heroes...and I am finally not only going to meet them, but be on the same stage with this band. I CANNOT BELIEVE IT...
  
  This is the big announcement that I wanted to make...PLEASE HELP US CELEBRATE THIS GREAT THING TO HAPPEN TO US...
  
  Thank you for reading...now go and do something with your lives - we all have the power to take control of our destinies...
  
  Riz
  
  
  
  
  

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• GIVING AWAY A FREE EPIPHONE GUITAR AT THE COMEBACK KID SHOW!!! 免費贏取EPIPHONE 結他

  Tuesday, Apr 15, 2008 7:17PM / Standard Entry

  You read that right!!! We have arranged with Gibson Guitars to give away a free Epiphone Les Paul Studio guitar at the show! All you have to do is attend the show and you will be automatically joined into a lucky draw. The winner gets to walk away with the guitar!!!
  
  表演當日會有幸運抽獎﹐ 幸運兒會免費獨得Epiphone結他一支! 到時見!!!
  
  See you at the show!!!
  
  Here are pics of the guitar that we're giving away!!!
  
  PEACE,
  Riz
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• EVOCATION - HONG KONG METAL BAND RELEASES DEBUT ALBUM!!!

  Monday, Apr 14, 2008 9:16PM / Standard Entry

  EVOCATION - AWESOME HONG KONG METAL BAND releases debut album!!!
  
  IT'S SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!!! Please check out the information in the flyer below to find out where you can buy the CD's in Hong Kong!!!
  
  Also, to check out this incredible band's music then go to their myspace page: www.myspace.com/evocationhk
  
  Please support our local heavy bands!!!
  
  Peace and ENJOY!!!
  Riz
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• KILL MOSQUITOES USING THIS THING!!! IT WORKS!!!

  Tuesday, Apr 8, 2008 8:48PM / Standard Entry

  Yo,
  
  Wow! Pretty cool that people were interested in my horror of a room that is inhabited, more like taken over, by these pieces of shit called mosquitoes.
  
  My girlfriend takes great joy in my sleepless nights and groggy annoyed mornings, because as anyone who has a horrible night's sleep knows, ain't nothing like having to get up early without any sleep and truly annoyed (in spectacular fashion) and head off to fucking work.
  
  Most of you don't know, but I teach kindergarten. NOW IMAGINE FACING 18 AMAZING BUT SUPER ENERGETIC KIDS AT SCHOOL!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...It's the worst...and I love kids so I can't take it out on them, so I just have to slap myself and get on with it.
  
  Anyway...here's one little solution that has allowed me to get at least ONE night's sleep:
  
  
  This thing I bought from Wellcome a couple days ago and last night was the first night that I was able to sleep without any obnoxious pests waking me up. The weird thing was, I thought I was still hearing things. That's how much these bastards have traumatized me!!! I THINK I'M HEARING THEM IN MY SLEEP!!!
  
  Enough's enough...I think it's high time King Ly Chee wrote a song about mosquitoes. The song will be inspired by the old Metallica album "Kill 'em All" just changed so that the song is called FUCK YOU ALL. With love of course...hahahahaha...
  
  Go to Wellcome for all your mosquito destroying needs - no I'm not getting any commission from Wellcome for this...
  
  Word up...
  Riz
  
  
  

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• I HATE MOSQUITOES!!!

  Tuesday, Apr 8, 2008 8:18AM / Standard Entry

  IT IS SO HOT IN HK!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...and the mosquitoes are out in full force in my room...it sucks...in the middle of the night these bastards totally have me as a target...so i'm in my bed comfortable and just want to sleep...and then out of nowhere, i hear that annoying buzzing sound, and then out of nowhere one attacks me in my ear!!! IN MY EAR!?!?!? WHAT THE?!?!? there aren't any better places for you to bite me you little punks?!?!?! Then it's like comedy hour in my room when I wake up and start hunting these things down. Remember, this is like at 3am when the rest of the world is asleep. All of a sudden there's all this commotion in my room because I'm smacking the walls trying to chase these bastards around the room to kill them. I swear, once there were 4 mosquitos!!! I killed one, and then I see another one flying around!!! WHAT THE HELL!??!?! Where are YOU ALL COMING FROM!!!
  
  Anyone...have a nice day...hehehehe...
  
  Dude...how cool does that Comeback Kid banner look? Most of you don't know who this band is...but for those of us who do, it is CRAZY that this HUGE HUGE band is coming to HK. It really is insane that they're going to be here. And it's even more insane that we're putting it on...it just shows how down-to-earth hardcore can be where no matter how HUGE a band is, they're just still just down to earth hardcore kids.
  
  One of the best things about hardcore is the idea that we're all just people, one minute we're standing in the audience watching the bands on stage, the next minute we're on the stage playing in those bands...
  
  No rockstar attitudes please...check that in at the door...or save it for another music genre. hahahaha...
  
  We're also about to announce a show that we're playing on May 25th...if this happens, it will be one of my BIGGEST dreams come true. I still can't believe that this is a possibility...it's crazy...
  
  Peace,
  Riz
  
  
  

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