It’s been awhile since I have opened the dashboard of my very own personal punching bag of rants. The very first thing that caught my attention was this notice: “WordPress 3.3.1 is available! Please update now”. Curiously I checked my current version and to my surprise I am still using WordPress 2.9.2. When I was reading the log files for the changes, I laughed when I found out that I have been slacking for a year and a half. To make things short, I’m a cave man again in blogging. To all who followed my blog and wanted to know what really happened, I think I owe you a summarized story of what happened to me all these times.
It was the last quarter of 2009 when I temporarily joined an IT company here in Sharjah, UAE. It was quite a challenge but the company really upgraded my technical and troubleshooting skills. The only problem I had was the timings. I usually go home 10pm onwards. Then, just a few months later, I was hired by the biggest sportswear retailer in the middle east who happened to be the exclusive distributor of Nike. Working on different shifts was not easy and the first few months made me want to only rest and sleep on my free times.

I was only a month old in the company when a shocking news devastated me; my father passed away untimely. My lament lasted for quite a long time. Adding to the injury, a lot of disappointments and confusion came into my life. I didn’t know where to start. From there, a lot plans and changes needs to be made specially that our priority is our mom who is now living all alone in our house.

I decided to learn Wing Chun Kung Fu; a very deadly form of martial arts that specializes in close-quarter combat. It favors the weak specially women and people with small built.  I tried to approach and learned from different teachers and schools. Finally I ended up learning from someone who dedicated almost all his lifetime to learn different forms and styles of martial arts. He is my teacher, my friend, and a father to me. Until now I’m still learning from him and I’m proud to be on the half of the system already.

Then, there were a few good things that came into my life that added light while I’m still on my darkest moments. And there were also quite a few disappointing and sad moments that they were too difficult to bear. Life is tough and it’s the reality we all have to face. But it’s not about how you fail, it’s all about how you fail and keep moving on. Quitters never win.

Anyway, so much for the “excuse letter”. I’m happy to be back in blogging and I’m looking forward to improve and update my other website which is my portfolio. Thank you very much to all those who waited and still supported me until now.

I’m not really a big fan of Rock Band. Well, call it biased if I liked Guitar Heroes more. You can’t blame me because of the fact that they featured Metallica on one of their features. But the reason that I made an article about this is because of my love for The Beatles’ hits. I’m a 1960s and 1970s music fan. I usually listen to Neil Young, Beatles, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix and a lot more.

Rock Band reveals a list of 19 songs by the Beatles. It includes the classic hits “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and A Hard Days Night”. Also included in the list are “Ticket to Ride”, “Helther Skelter”, “If I Needed Someone”, and “Drive My Car”. There are actually 45 more unveiled songs by MTV Games and Harmonix, the developer of Rock Band series that lets fans play the plastic guitar or drums.

“The Beatles: Rock Band” is set to be released on September 9 worldwide. For years, Beatles’ hit lists weren’t available in the Web sites such as iTunes. The game will be compatible with Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Nintendo’s Wii. It has also been said by MTV Games that the game was creatively conceived by former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, as well as the wives of late Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison respectively.

The Beatles were among the most influential band in the history and sold more than 600 million albums worldwide including “Help!,” “Revolver,” “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” “Abbey Road” and “Let It Be”. Rock Band left one mystery title from The Beatles.

I hope either of the gaming companies would feature music artists such as Jimi Hendrix or Neil Young in the near future.

Lyle Ham is proud to announce the launching of his Personal Blog, IAMLYLE.COM

Check it out guys! Thanks!

I would like to thank Jehzlau for sponsoring my domain and hosting. Salamat pre!

To make it short and sweet, the very reason why I made another blog is to separate my personal stuffs from my Web Design blog. This blog will contain all my rants, raves, reactions, opinions and above all, this will be my personal punching bag.

So, welcome guys! And I hope you guys enjoy your stay.