GMKS #06 - New Year Resolutions

New Year is coming soon. Have all of you prepared for it? What were your New Year resolution, and were you able to accomplished it? In this podcast, Dennis and I have been talking on what our New Year resolution are. Feel free to leave a comment in our facebook or here for your feedback as well as your new year resolutions. Cheers!

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Jigsaw Puzzle (Original Song)

I recall writing this song after I got back from hanging out with friends which was around 12-1am back in 2002. As usual then, I wasn't able to sleep so I ended up putting up jig saw puzzles together. If you been through what I been through, you tend to fill up the gap with a lot of things to put the mind at ease so to speak.

Anyway, while I was pretty much occupied with it inspiration tends to come in during these hour.  Hence, the song was written there and then.  But I didn't finished everything till 5.30 am, after numerous tries of recording trial and error. Hehehe.  So here's a remake of doing the song "Jigsaw Puzzle", and this time I got Deluxe to sing as well. Hehehe.  She only learned the song 5 mins, so forgive us if we may sound a bit messy.   One thing I noticed is that, when I play certain songs on the laptop it sound funny. But if I were to put my headsets on it sounded ok.  Dennis thinks it's because the lack of bass in it.

Would like to dedicate this song to all of my friends and family who have been supporting me all these years.  I wouldn't be here if it weren't for all of you.  Thank you so much for investing your time in my life.   So this song is for all of you.

Jigsaw Puzzle feat. Deluxe Bun
Verse 1 :-
From a distance I could see,
So many beautiful things surrounds me,
Life is full of mysteries,
As days passed it turns into history.

Pre Chorus :-
Time travel so fast, you won't feel it when it pass,
All the tears and joy, I still feel them from my head to my toes.

Chorus :
Life is like a jigsaw puzzle,
Each day you receive a brand new piece,
to be put and store in memory,
And when it's done it tells a story about me.

Verse 2:
Along my life I made a lot of friends,
The one I can depend,
All the friends that I made, will go their own ways,
But it's not the end.

Pre chorus :-
There were times I made them sad, there were times I made them glad,
I wanna say that I'm sorry, for all the things I did.

GMKS #05 - Drivers In Kuching

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Good morning all.  Dennis and I are backed as promised, because we know that on Monday is the best time to tangkap ular.  And we would like to thank you guys for your support, and we wouldn't be here if it weren't for you guys taking time to listen to us.

Anyway, we'll be moving into a new server to host our podcast because we won't be able to continue to host it with podomatic as we will be reaching our limit in another 1-2 more podcast.

So we just celebrated Christmas and New is coming your way.  If you would like to send your New Year greetings as well as any New Year Resolutions, do drop us an email at holantv [at] gmail [dot] com.  And the both of us will read out your messages, as how we did it for the past few podcast.

Ok, so on with the show, and hope to hear from you guys soon.  You all have a good day now.

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GMKS #04 - Finance 101 with Holankia

We are back.  Sorry for the delay in getting this up.  As something came up this week, so the podcast have been postponed till today.  Ranking dropped to 7.5k which was expected because we didn't do anything.  Never the less, we would like to thank you for your continuous support especially from Lord Kevin who apparently message me on twitter asking about our podcast.  Without further adieu, here is our this week podcast!

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GMKS #3 - Tough To Be A Guy

We're back again, and hopefully on track as we are trying to do 2 podcast in a week. This morning show we talk about how tough is it to be a guy. And also, we made a surprise call to someone. Tune in to find out what we did.

P.S Thank you all listeners who have been supporting us just by listening to us.  Highest ranking we ever got was it went up to 3785 before heading back down to 4k++ as of yesterday.  Dennis and I appreciate the time you take off just to listen to us.

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Walking In Kuching

Due to the overwhelming response for this song, here is the song with lyrics finally up for you guys.  After a long day of work, finally managed to finish it.  Thanks again for your support!

Good Morning Kuching #02 - Tangkap Ular and many more

We received a lot of good response from our 1st podcast of the Good Morning Kuching Show.  Both Dennis and myself would like to thank you for taking time to listen to us.  Anyway, something to take away the Monday blues we are here once again to entertain you.  Leave a comment or recommend us to your friends on facebook or even twitter!  Thanks again for listening, and we're looking forward to hear from you soon.  If you have any questions you would like to ask, you can drop us an email at holantv [at] gmail [dot] com.

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Lyrics to Walking In Kuching
Drove to the petrol station, Just to purchase some fuel,
Didn't know that the price went up that day,
Plus I did not bring any cash too.

I paid using my credit card, unfortunately it didn't went through.
When I drove out from the station, Then my car just wouldn't move.

So I'm walking in Kuching,
I'm walking cuz I forgot to pay my bills,
Walking in Kuching,
Dude you know how hot it really feel?

Then I got quite hungry, Cuz I didn't had any food,
The only kopi tiam around that area, Is only open in the afternoon.

So I tried to look a bit further, With only 5 ringgit in my hand,
I got really, really desperate, Till I couldn't even stand,
I ended up eating sand.

So I'm walking in Kuching,
Looking for a bowl of kolo mee,
Walking in Kuching,
That's the only food I love to eat....

We have sio bee at open air, Belacan Bee Hoon at petanak,
My good friend that sell beef murtabak, Is only at Expert Food court,
That's too far for me to walk.

I'm heading now to Maybank, To withdraw from the ATM,
Then I forgot what was my Pin number, My card was eaten in the end.

I went to customer service, And gave them my IC,
She asked, "What do you want me to do with it?"
I said, "I really need some money".

I'm walking in Kuching,
With some money hoping to buy some fuel,
Walking in Kuching,
And maybe I should get some happy meal.

I'm now driving in Kuching,
Heading to Star Cineplex to park my car,
I'm driving in Kuching,
I almost hit that aluminum bar.

Now I'm walking in Kuching,
Walking to my shop at main bazaar,
Walking in Kuching,
Hope you like my story so far.

HolanTV #03 - Nothing Much...

Good Morning Kuching Show #01

Ok, Dennis and I came up with this show to basically be DJs wannabe, and of course there will be music from song writers that have not been signed yet.  So if you see them get famous, remember you heard them first on the Good Morning Kuching Show.  Without further adieu, let's go on with the show.

P.S We are still editing the picture for our show.

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Podcasting Equipment

Hardware

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Ok. Many of you may be wondering how I do my podcast or songs recording and how much it may have cost to do something like this. Well, if you really want cheap I suggest that go for the normal headsets like what I have put on from the picture above.  I started using that for the first few episode of my podcast, and it may not be something great but it does the work just fine.  And if you were to record guitars on it, it will sound just fine as well.

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Ok, I got this baby a few weeks after doing my initial podcast.  And the sound quality did improve A LOT.  This actually was a little unnecessary because back then I didn't really had much thought on what I plan to do with it.  After reading some reviews on it, plus doing some research I ended up getting this instead.  Not only did it helped out on the sound quality, it does eliminate a lot of "air" sounds compared to the previous headset microphone.  I had a hard time adjusting the setting at first, because it was super sensitive.  Plus it only records on Mono, Left Channel only.

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If you notice just next to the laptop on the right, and slightly above the headset you should see a device that actually has jack being input to it.  This is actually a USB Sound card that has a line in, and it has 7.1 channel.  I used this to record Skyp  conversation or anything that goes through the system.  The reason why I got this was because I didn't have any line in port on my laptop.  But after getting this device, there is actually a line in port on the laptop which uses the same jack as the microphone.  So I was a bit upset, as I thought I could have saved about USD8-9, when purchasing this sound card.  But never the less, I found another usage for it whereby I was able to output the sounds to 2-3 head sets if necessary.  Plus it comes in handy during the recording part which I will explain later.

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This few things I only got it recently.  Both the pop filter as well as the spider mount I got it less than USD40 from a seller on eBay.  Whereby combine shipping is crucial and a lot of negotiating was done before I paid for it.  And as for the mic stand, I got it at quite a bargain considering that this is 2nd hand.  Plus the condition really looks new, and it still does the job perfectly.  Total for this is probably less than RM180 all in all.  I had to buy them separately, so it was less painful to the wallet. Hehehe.

Software

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If you can't afford Adobe Audition like me, Audacity works great just as it is.  It has all the features that you need to do, to record your podcast or songs on to it.  It has a multi-track system whereby for instance you can play the piano, then after that you can record your guitar, and maybe finally your vocals.

The reason why I use this method is that, not only it helps add a lot of instruments to your songs but also saves time on errors.  You can actually edit certain parts if you made mistakes and it really saves up a lot of time.  You can also select the different inputs when recording, hence what I did for my skype recording.  I selected the USB sound card as input 1, and my samson USB mic as the 2nd input.  So basically that's how it works.

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Finally I use Skype for all the podcasting session whenever I have guest who are currently far away from me.  The reason why I use this is that, it supports group conferencing.  So I can have more than 2 guest to talk to, as how I did on my previous shows which you can listen to.  If your other guests has skype, then you can actually call them for free.  But if you don't, you can use their credit system like a prepaid card like that.  Quality wise you can check it out when I did the mooncake festival with 4 people.

So that's pretty much about it.  Probably my next target is getting a  USB Mixer.  So at least I can do a proper recording for my keyboard as well as guitar.  But I might or might not get it, depending how things goes in the future.  Lol.  So that's pretty much about it from a cheapskate podcaster/recording artist wanna be. Hahaha.

You're My All In All (Original Song)

Ok, this is another song that I composed back in 2002.  After the major heart ache that I got back then, I was pretty much in a wreck.  The song that I wrote in between of my song Why, to this song I've written quite a number of depressing songs. Lol.  But I thank God who took me out from my depression, and I didn't really write much after that.  I guess being too emotional you tend to think too much.  After that I pretty much moved on, which brings me to this year 2010 happily married to a wonderful wife, and having a beautiful daughter.  So God has His own plan for me.

This song has been very close to me, as I wrote it during the time when I had my quiet times back then. The funny thing was that, I actually heard this song being played in my mind and the melody was just like flowing out. So I quickly had to write it down, and do a simple recording just in case I might have forgotten about it. Hope this song will bless all of you, as much as it has blessed me. God Bless.

You're My All In All
Verse 1:
When I woke up this morning,
I'm on my knees and pray,
To thank the Lord in heaven,
For giving me this day.

You gave me air to breathe,
You shed Your blood so I may live,
Thank You lord for loving me.

Verse 2:
There were times when I feel lonely,
There were times when I feel sad,
But You showed Your grace and mercy,
Then things weren't so bad.

So many things I wanna thank You,
For all the things that You do,
Lord Jesus,
I wanna say I love You.

Chorus:
Thank You for setting me free,
You died on the cross,
Just for me.

You mend my broken heart,
You mend my broken soul,
Lord Jesus,
You're my all in all.

Holankia Talkshow #10 - Larry & Luke and life

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OK I've been away for about a month for podcasting. And hopefully I'll be doing more of this in the near future. Hehehe. But never the less, life is good and fortunately for me I had the privilege of having both Larry and Luke on tonight show.

Host : Holankia
Guest : Larry & Luke Nyanti
Quote for the day : "So they don't actually play a guessing game, by stab here and stab there" - Luke Nyanti

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Preparing For Tomorrow

For those of you who are currently using Ubuntu, and uses the IM pidgin.  You would notice that there is always a notification for those who comes online or goes offline, or even receiving new messages.  You can check out the post here on Disable Online User Notification in Pidgin, which really helps a lot.  So you won't be disturbed all the time unnecessary.

And as you know, each time whenever Ubuntu upgrades itself it will add a new boot menu item in your boot menu.  Especially for those who are running dual boot, it's really a pain by selecting the item you wish to boot into.  You can go to this post "Clean Up the New Ubuntu Grub2 Boot Menu" to pretty much clean up your boot menu.

So today is 1st December 2010.  And it has reach the final month of 2010.  How times flies, especially when you're busy or don't really take time to stop and smell the roses.  And as you all notice, after I changed the template for this website 3 weeks ago.  I have been trying very hard to be consistent in doing a post everyday, and so far I have yet to miss one apart from Sunday.  It helped especially when someone who have been supporting me all these years, kept on encouraging me to write and be consistent.   So at least, whenever I start to do anything in the future, I will keep on doing it and don't fall back halfway like I always used to.

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If you noticed on my side bar, I have already put a list for my 2011 resolutions on what I want to achieve next year.  I didn't do one this year, because I don't know what I wanted unlike my previous years.  I'm still thinking on what I plan to put on that list, as I still have another 31 more days to finalise it and start working on it to achieve my target.  Another thing I'm working on is also pretty much plan out on how am I going to achieve my goals, especially goal #1.  It may not seem much, but I shall try to give it a shot.

I was a bit emo today as how Dennis would put it as, I feel that this year went by so quickly compared to previous years.  I don't know why, but somehow I felt that I didn't achieve anything much.  Whereby I still saw myself last year sitting at the same position and pretty much living the years as it is.  One good reason for that was that, I didn't set myself a target on what I wanted to do or needed to do.  Maybe that's why nothing happened, and I was so excited when 2010 came.  But I didn't do anything, when it came.

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But looking on the bright side of 2010, I feel that God has been preparing me in a lot of ways.  And at times, I really feel that being hopeless He is always there to watch over me.  And no doubt, that life goes on He remains the same.  And not to forget that The Holankia Talkshow has been started, where I actually had big plans for it.  But apparently died slowly due to lack of ideas on what I want to talk about.  But it was fun while it lasted, and it sort of gave me the courage to pretty much do a video log after that.  So I think it's a good start, and will try to plan to talk about something as well starting next year.

Plus since I'm planning to head back into song writings again, hopefully I would have enough time to do something about it.  As I've put that talent away for a very long time already, and it's kinda hard to get inspired to write something.  But never the less, I know it will come back if I keep on working on it.  Maybe that's why I started the podcasting series, which actually got me to figure out on how to record stuff onto my laptop. So hopefully by end of next year I might have something to show already.  Hehehe.

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So since Christmas is around the corner, I may as well start doing something about it as well.  So this the time to be busy, and I have been seriously slacking off.  But will go back to top gear starting tomorrow, as I need to sort out a few more things again.  Hopefully by then, things will pick up before the year ends.  And it's kinda exciting when you draw out your plans and being able to work on it.

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But one thing I learn this year is that, above all things I need to do everyday.  I have to make sure family is always first.  Been pretty much neglecting in a way, whereby been so busy with activities but don't really spend time with the family.  Things really brighten up, when I decided to stop from other things to spend time with the two important people in my life.  And positive things do came out from all that, so I guess it's a good sign.  Anyway, going to close up now.  You guys have a good one.