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Yeaps, the photo above was just to lure you into this post. Hahaha, It's a pretty cool shot by my friend who's a professional photographer. But this was probably the only coolest moment I have ever been.

During my time in high school, there was a trend to form bands. Bands like Simple Plan, Blink 182 were the HITs that time and a lot of us probably got emo and thinking we can rebel after listening to 'I'm just a kid'.

...and life is a nightmare

Haha, to be a 'cool' band, YOU HAVE to practice in a garage because that's how most successful bands start out. You also need to have a oil stains on the garage floor so when you become famous, you get to tell the interviewer that you've been through hell with 'oil stains on the floor'. Tough life you know... tough life.

Well, I didn't have a garage so my band and I kinda practice in some of the weirdest places and alleys. Which is retarded I know but we thought we were COOL. Back then, we thought that by doing this, girls would swamp to us(when playing a Boys like Girls song) and push the bouncers that are hired to protect us. But nah.... it was just my friend, G and I.

Later on, G and I kinda found a really good vocalist and two girls who were just awesome friends to us. We were talking about how we could take this to the next level. Like be famous and all that.

Sigh...those were the days, so young

So, we started joining competition and honestly, we were just in it for pure fun. I mean that's what highschool kids do right? The vocalist I mentioned had a bright future in singing for her but G and I, we were just being 'cool'. After our first competition, we did what highschool kids who were hyped up about the event would've done. We formed a REALLY COOL BAND - The High-7

The name, The High-7 basically means there were 7 of us... and... we.... we are....

Okayyy... moving along, we formed this band called The High-7. We would gather in a friend's house to sing and do cover of songs. To even write our own songs and record. That time, the best handphone was a Sony Ericsson w810i so the video quality wasn't as good as the most basic smartphones out there today.

But I still thought G and I were cool. I would strum the guitar and G would rap whatever he wants. Literally whatever he wants... and we mash songs up.

This is G and I going all out freestyle. Hahaha, I seriously thought we were really cool back then. No lie! In a band, we had to be badass too, like go against the rules.

So we rebelled and stole some 1.5L softdrinks from the local store. These weren't even alcoholic!!!! And we felt pretty cool about it. I'm sorry, it will never happen again. Stealing is BAD ok? :D

So as a band, this was our first group photo together. I thought that it'll be cool that we took one of those jumpshot photos. The ones where you get like a silhouette of the person and a nice sunset background. Yea those kind.

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Exactly what I wanted, silhouette and us jumping high up in the sky like a real cool band. Here's what happened.

Yea...noooo, we failed. we failed miserably and I even turned on the flash for my camera. Haha.

Well, the band was disbanded after a few months because of some internal conflict among the girls, but G and I were still believing that the band could work. We ended up forming a band called Budaddys.

Budaddys basically means Bringing Up Daddys. I don't even know how we got to this name but we thought it was cool. We used this band name during my uni years and we kinda influenced a housemate of mine to join us in singing cause we both sucked at it.

Thinking back now, it was pretty mean cause we kinda gave him false hope that he was the best singer ever just cause we wanted to record a song. I mean his voice is much much better than both of us but we just wanted him to join us. Haha. It felt almost like 'America's Got Talent' where a contestant who thinks that he/she can really sing but ends up getting all Xs mainly because of THOSE FRIENDS like G and I giving false hope. Okay, I feel kinda bad now. :D

But anyways, we managed to record a song cover which was one of the coolest thing we've done and were pretty proud of it. Just don't puke.

Hahahah, IT WAS TERRIBLE! With all the try-hard fill-ins and all thinking we were COOL cause we ended up giving each other false hope. This was a TRAIN WRECK! Oh, we added a rap part in the song.

These were one of the best times of my life with these good friends. And these were all sweet sweet memories. Retarded,naive and just wanting to have FUN. These are the memories that I would tell my grandkids one day.

Zord : Hey Kids.... cough cough, wanna hear a story of how I formed a band

Kids : Grandpa was in a band?! Wow... so cooooolll (ikr)

This is my entry for the #makemesmile challenge by Hive account@elizacheng