Playing The Synthesizer

Not many of my friends have commented on my performance in playing the synthesizer favorably which includes my wife. One song I thought was my best was the playing of the tune The Godfather the theme song. A high level attorney did not think it would be copyright infringement being that I play for fun and never made a dime at it. It is a hobby and I even went as far as posting a video. Most of the time I practice behind close doors with maybe a few family members around but there is no excitement in my music which has brought down the house. There is nothing extraordinary in the numbers of views I have received as we see the superstars churning out videos with numbers in the millions. I never even considered myself a musician because playing a synthesizer with one hand is like a recreational baseball player using one arm to hit a baseball with. And no one does that. One cannot be good if they do it that way. But for the first time I took the synthesizer outdoors with an attached loud speaker I had from my fail attempts at the electric guitar and I could feel the music. For years I would close my eyes and imagine performing down at pier 39 in San Francisco or the area in or around the piers of San Francisco. It was my fantasy that I could play because I can carry a tune listen for yourself on you tube but when it comes right down to the core I would be nerves galore. I figured playing in my own backyard with the sound up enough to blast away could be heard from my place to several houses away. Unfortunately most of the four or five videos were of poor quality due to my lack of experience in posting such videos

The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Dynasty

A good  pageview can make me smile and why not it is just a  goal and pleasure in my small life  and not asking for the moon I only want to capture the hearts and minds of my readers and for them to like me so it is probably a blessing that I am too dumb too follow directions and have this blog set up show to me the comments directed at me.  And yes I don't like rotten fruit thrown at me when I'm up here on stage bleeping out my very heart and soul.  I do have feelings and the information you may or may not gain from me is far different than a professional's work such as Wikipedia a web site  which makes my web site look like a little girl's diary namely Ann Frank.  Don't you laugh at her work.  In my mind Ann Frank was  one of the important writers in all the world.  She wrote her story not for money but she wrote a great  book and her soul was perpetuated into a human torch for freedom and liberty.  She is my inspiration.  Do you think by chance she sparked the first movement toward the woman's liberation? Was it  because she was too mild manner to be a woman's liberation fighter?  Again I disagree after all she took on the whole Nazi Regime and showed the world just how wrong they were.  I will begin to explain the rise and fall of the Chinese army and no I am not the world authority on this matter but just one man among the masses. It is with all seriousness that I think this one out without candor for there is serious business at stake when the world economy is concerned.  And yet I am told by my neurologist that I cannot be qualified for a brain operation because I cannot win the candidate position due to my lack of cognitive ability as proven in the tests they gave me.  Yes it is true I am but a little man among very powerful people but I will not give up.   Have you not ever heard of a mouse that roared?

Landscaping isn't Rocket Scientry

When I get older and lose my mind many years from now will you still be reading me lighting birthday candles and break open a bottle of wine?  Well probably some of you speculate about me and wonder how one lone man without a four year college degree could possibly accomplish such a goal after all Parkinson's is said to have characteristics of delusional illusions brought on by the side effects of the medicines.  And if indeed I am demented there  would be little chance of receiving real credit for the discovery and eradication of Parkinson's.  Well I will not find a cure for Parkinson's but perhaps just maybe I can shed a few clues  as to what Parkinson's is and how and why we as a civilization should join forces and stamp out  this horrible disease.  Even though I lack a four year college degree and have not achieved significant heights in terms of accomplishment I believe even at this stage in my life I can.

I have never seen a miracle in my lifetime which would lead me to believe Christianity as a religion which can bring me into salvation and save my soul.  Miracles simply don't exist never has and never will.  Oh but there is one miracle I do believe in.  And I have many witnesses to back me up more witnesses than anyone cares to shake a stick at.  We are seeing it now but will this be a real miracle
or just another economical boom only to turn into a real estate bust  and everything the Chinese have gained will simply turn into rust and bust like we have seen in the real estate market.  But wait a minute!  Isn't the real estate  market robust and healthy it never stays in the doom and gloom forever now does it?  Contrary to popular belief that the Chinese economy will take a nosedive and crash I desist from such belief and this is indeed a real miracle never before achieved by a nation in modern times as this modern time.  Now I may be dead wrong and the Chinese economy may indeed be headed into a doom and gloom not the miracle economy we have    been hearing about.  But       come on I know the American people and some people accuse me of being an American I  just don't know how to take this but I am Chinese I look Chinese but when I  open my mouth I sound like  an American.  I get confused just as much as you do.  But I do confess Americans are getting smarter than they ever use to be by   showing little tolerance toward racism.  Oh by the way landscaping is what is on my mind and what I am doing it allows me to enjoy the miracles of life in other spectrums.  Stay tuned.

Don't Write Me Out

I may have writer's  block but then again who said anything about me being a real writer?  I confess I am not as I know I am not listed as a writer while there are others like my father Howard Ah-Tye who is listed as a writer being published by or associated by an Oakland Chinese Church of which I have not visited for many of years and cannot be specific about.  But my dad's publisher had a position of power and authority having been an officer of rank like a colonel who I met only a few times briefly but my father would speak of him as someone who could get him published.  Anyone can look up his book and buy one but be it known I do not advertise for my father or myself and if I am I am not aware of it.  His book or my father's book is called "Resourceful Chinese" and the more important review of this book was made by my brother-in-law John Davidson a man with a college degree and law degree a well read man.  We are all aware that financial  gain is very important toward just being able to survive but what to me is more important is having soul for  without a good soul all the money in the world would be worthless.  I need all the good soul I can get.