Southeast Asian Punk, more and more… and more!!
I am busier and busier and have always less time to set my online life at pace with my real life. Luckily, it got to be pretty interesting, as of late.
Last weekend, on Saturday 17th December, I played my first Kuala Lumpur show with WEOTSKAM, supporting Swedish crust-punks Harda Tider. I cannot say much about them because I have not had the pleasure to stay for their set, as I had to take a bus back to Penang on the same evening, got back at 4 am, drove Azrul back home on my motorbike and got lost around Sungai Ara, and I managed to get back home at 5.30 am. The next day at 12 I was on a minivan bound to Hat Yay, Thailand, and caught the 20 hours train to Bangkok, but this is another story, for another time…
WEOTSKAM is about to make 3 of our new songs available on Bandcamp, wait a few days, please. I am very sorry to put the band on hold for a while, but I am India bound, and there is no turning back. Next year, we will release our first full-length album, if you care about WEOTSKAM and would love to release or help releasing some damn fast and fine Southeast Asian thrash-core punk, drop me a line.
Speaking of Southeast Asian punk, I have published an article, in ITALIAN, for China Files, talking about the infamous treatment reserved to Aceh’s Punks. Check it out here.
More on many things later. the resolution now is to post more, but write less. There is no other way I can manage to keep this thing updated, as I much prefer to spend my time outdoors, rather than in front of a computer.
Meanwhile, I wish you all a merry Christmas, happy New Year, and whatever in-between. If you are Chinese, well, your New Year will come soon so do not complain, ok? A big Dragon will raise over the Earth quite soon….
December 28th, 2011 at 3:11 am
se poi magari trovi il tempo di rispondere alle domande dei tuoi lettori, fai un bel servizio to you and your readers
(vedi post precedente)
December 29th, 2011 at 10:26 am
Ma frend, se avessi il tempo di risponderti con una literature review da circa 50 pagine, la vita andrebbe sicuramente piu’ rilassata di quel che va al momento… se ti attacchi a sktype ogni tanto e mi rispondi, te lo dico li’. fa il bravo, dai!!
January 1st, 2012 at 12:29 am
mi basta un abstract di 50 righe, quello che hai scritto per presentare la tua tesi, fai il bravo
January 5th, 2012 at 9:42 am
Claudio, le language learning strategies sono una teoria che prende in mezzo tutte le attivita’ che lo studente utilizza per imparare meglio una lingua. Il mio studio, dunque, ha testato quali sono le apparentemente preferite dai cinesi in Malaysia. E’ emerso che preferiscono strategie metacognitive (che dirigono l’apprendimento tramite la propria conscia cognizione), cognitive (simili alle sopraelencate) e sociali (cioe’ usare strategie di socialita’ a scopo di apprendere una lingua). A seconda del livello linguistico, ho notato che vengono impiegate piu’ srategie metacognitive. Spero ti basti, cazzo.