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Sinister: so i broke into the palace
by marc bots 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

HIEPERDEPIEP. as of yesterday i have officially entered the world of popmusic. last evening we played our first gig, and it was okay. right now i am listening to the minidisc that was recorded, and it actually is better than i thought. but the really really really good part is, that the first song that was played when we finished was... BELLE AND SEBASTIAN! and then they played the flaming lips! and then they played placebo! and then they played some more songs but i don't remember them. i think i started jumping around on stage when i heard the first tones of electronic renaissance, and i still want to jump around if i think back. that's all for now. have fun tonight. love marc +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: It's Summer in *my* head
by DansonHatcher＠aol.com 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

Oh! I'm so excited about things now, Isn't it amazing how putting on a record can totally grab you and make you see the world in a big summers day light, I just realised that all my dreaming and plans are soon to come to fruition. I have so much to do very soon and all of it is fun. The winter just can't get to me at the moment cos Saint Etienne is playing and I have found a body for the car I'm building, the place I'm working at is dishing money out at me the like of which I've never known and soon I'll be visiting Maja in Poland! Feels like everything I've been working for months is coming into bloom. Wow! I love being me at times like this. Sorry, but for some time I really have felt like I was in a rut getting nowhere and my (somewhat lofty) plans would never come into being and now that hard work has paid off and I may well just run down the street and shout at people with excitement after I've written this. Also today, when I was on my bike coming home from work this morning the thought "what is beauty(full) and how do we define this" and why is it that not all people see certain things as beautiful" Lada Riva Using one of these fine automobiles as an example, have you looked at one lately in depth? cos I reckon they possess a kind of simplistic beauty yet most people would agree with most other people that they are totally ugly. Is this the 10,000 thou' line between very beautiful and ugly? So (in a very roundabout sort of way) putting my newly discovered "Lada Riva theory" in to practice I question music. Broadcast are brill! but... Are they really any good? Much as I now place them ever so highly, when I first bought "Noise made by people" For about the first six months of ownership I only ever listened to "Come on let's go" cos rest of it just did sound like some noise made by Brummies. Then as l gradually heard bits of other songs they didn't seen so bad and tunes appeared from beneath the bleeps and drums. Now getting back to the my theory, I'm not sure if I have come to appreciate the music or that perhaps Broadcast only made one good song and the rest I just kind of got used to? I've just read back through what I just wrote and it's possibly not as much of a breakthrough as it first appeared because it would also explain the reason why people like drum 'n' bass, hard house and anything else that is without dought utter shite. Oh Ben (of Swiss Cottage) Do I ow you money? If it's more than ten pounds then you understand the chances of seeing it again are rather slim. Seriously though let me know won't you. Bloomin sister She goes off and gets herself in BIG (monster) debt and I have to lend her like nearly £200, Thats one thing but why did she have to coincide this with the week I go to see B&S. I can't afford to go now and I feel poor. ^ look, content Anyhow... I'm working nights at the minute and I quite like it After yesterdays shift I was really tired but some of the gals were going to have a drink round Roy's house, I tagged along for a *couple* of drinks. Suddenly I was wide awake with excitement as beakers were being filled with Tia Maria and offered around. The couple of drinks turned into an all day event anyway and it came out that this Richard bloke had a peanut allergy and the thought of Russian Roulette with a bag of Revels flashed though my mind. After spending most of the day there we made our way to work and hoped "Drunk in charge of a label gun" was not a serious crime. It's a good job without dought but I'm saving and having *plans* about visiting places. I was thinking that being as I'll be in Poland in January I could start there and then perhaps go and get lost for a couple of months in Europe before meeting up with you Greek picnic superstars in March. Yeah sod it, I'll do it! If you've read this FAR then you must have taken leave of your mind. James. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: What's purple, orange, and sinks?
by Matthew Henderson 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

A baby with slashed floaties. The flipside to that coin you ask? What's red, orange, and floats? A slashed baby with floaties. So I'm in an internet cafe on St. Vincent Street in Glasgow. Have I already posted from here? I want to say I have... ...I just looked and I have. But I don't care. Fuck the pirahnas, I'm building it anyway... I have 30 minutes until I can register for classes next semester, so you are keeping me company until that time. Feel good about yourselves. If you've done nothing else with your day/week/life, you've occupied me and entertained me. That's quite an accomplishment. I've basically spent a lot of money in the past few weeks on cd's and drinking. I had a proper meal for once with dimitra yesterday, so I felt a bit better than normal. By the way, everyone should make it a point to meet dimitra. She's just the best. You probably won't have to go far. Chances are, she'll be in a country near you in no time. :) So belle and sebastian are playing tonight. I'm sure I'll get excited a bit later. It's a bit early. Excuse me if I start giggling like a 'wee' schoolgirl and hopping about. Let's all pray it doesn't come to that. The new gorky's cd (is it new?) is pretty good. I suggest you get it. I think the Mull Historical Society album is decent as well, but I can't say for certain until a few more listens. The new Pulp is..well..it's Pulp! Okay, you are all spared. I'll see some of you tonight I'm sure. I'm gonna make some phone calls...and make things happen. -matt _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: being taken places
by figure2＠fsmail.net 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

Here in a railway carriage: 06:30am; darkness outside; dark shaking sound and feel under: the rumble of unwoken bones and struggling machinery over metal lines seizing in frost-bitten contraction. A sharp rip of ticket from the role in the guard's shoulder-bag electrical dispensary, then a slight G-force as we all decelerate towards a local hault: a shed and short platforms affair in a former spa town. '"Her name is *Rene*/ If she told you her name was Alice, she was lying"/"What the **** is...[the rest is unintelligible]"/I want to take you away from here/...' sings Gavin Henderson* Maybe because these carriages are hurtling through only a black, with a low moan and chattering asides, I'm thinking to see made-ups. A film I saw once, say, that featured an encounter between the painter Egon Schiele and his Viennese mentor Gustav Klimt in a scene of studied decadence: a wintergarden furnished like a merchant's house by the Bosphorous: the soft beauty of golden beading on the edges of expanses of crimson velvet; decanters; tobacco through various contraptions; freckles of lapus lazuli and elephant-ferns intermingling with her shock-tresses: eyes flashing like those of a wild animal in a Blakean forest of the night. The reflections on the window fade to a new focal depth. From the Forth Estuary, the foreshore of the current horizon, rises a flame some 100 feet tall; the product of an oil pipe from the far north; prehistoric fossil-crushing; titrations and filtrations in submarine-technical spaces; heavy industry powering distant agendas; spirits millions of years old finally escaping skywards from their underwater strata. 'Before you eat me',said the graptolite to the orthocerus, 'shall I say we'll meet again one day, in a flame?' " Oil was discovered in Iraq on October 14, 1927, in Kirkuk. As so often happens in the Middle East, the event was violent and unexpected...Shortly after midnight, a worker decided to lift the drilling bit from a 1,500ft hole [so as to clean it]..."** He got 140ft worth of black stuff at a rate of 80,000 barrels a day. The cleaning was put on hold. I can see a BMW 3 series out of the window, recogniseable not from the form of its bodywork, which is shrouded in the pre-dawn, but by the configuration of its break and tail lights swerving in a chunky turning circle by the track. It's an assignation with a transit van, one of whose white flanks is rendered by the light pouring out of this train. And gone again. Pear-infused grappa is settling into my brain now, and the images of a now indolent artist's model leaks into myself and an arc of lights which are the streetlamps of an urban connurbation and the memory of phosphorescent plankton on hebridean waters. Reducing further, perceptions and articulations veer towards sleep, but in a nether state, before dreams gain their own logic. 'The curse of the West' says the Russian writer Andrei Makine, [I paraphrase] 'is the curse of words; when words prematurely replace that which they are employed to represent'. So I'm content almost uttering interverbalisms like a chanting of the mad; begningly hypnotic prefaces to sentences. I'm content to betray these words and descriptions because even caged in argument and counter argument, there are tangentials which make the cage itself part of the scenery, rather than the nature of the situation. The situation is mysterious, child-like, life-like. Gordon * 'Words and Music', Sympathy 7, Starfish Records 2001, SRDC001 [Edinburgh Band] ** 'The Middle East: The Arab States- in pictures', Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., Two Park Avenue, New York, New York 10016, 1978 _______________________________________________________________________ Never pay another Internet phone bill! Freeserve AnyTime, for all the Internet access you want, day and night, only £12.99 per month. Sign-up at http://www.freeserve.com/time/anytime +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I'd rather be fat than be KenChused.
by Rachel fruitloop 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

HELLO SINISTER!! I just want to tell you lot a couple of things... 1)I bowled at the company Christmas bowling party yesterday and got my highest "granny rolling" score ever: a 79. 2)Ken Chu is *all talking about talk and no acting on talk*. If you recall, he wrote: "Are there any girls who wants to play the Flirt Over The List Game with me? Basically you can tell me how good I am publically on the list and then I can write back something about how wonderful you are? Or are you all just going to snog other boys too?" And then, I tried to participate in the Flirting Over The List game in my last post. I have not heard one-single-word from Ken. But he repeatedly mentions Erin, which is confusing, since Erin is my middle name... but I know it's not for me. SO WHAT GIVES? Not Ken Chu, apparently! Which leads me to... 3) Snogging Other People (at least, that's what we say we're doing!) Hey, a lot of people confuse me! But I know of several Sinisterines who have/will be taking airplane rides to visit one another. It's really wonderful in my opinion. I like our little incestuous family. I can hardly wait another 10 days before *My List Crush* Mr. Ben Apps arrives on the loverly shores of Southern California! Hi Ben! I'm winking at you! I'm not even going to mention how jealous I am that some of you get to see B&S!!!!!! Ok, so I expect to hear some "reporting back" on all fronts soon! Question: Do you think if I send cookies I made to my Sinister Pressie Exchange Recipients along with the gifts that a) they will withstand the journey overseas? b) that it will make up for the fact that I haven't mailed the gifts yet? and c) that said cookies and gifts will make KEN CHU notice me? Good luck to Nik on his rings around the world adventure!! See you in May, Niko! Also shout outs to the usual suspects! And love to you all, Sinister! love, Rachel fruitloop P.S. LIST ABUSE __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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RE: Sinister: recognition in belfast
by trish delish 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

hullo again i'm sure we're starting to really annoy non-belfast gig going listees with all this talk of busses and meet ups and such like, but i've said it before and i'll say it many times again...RAHRAHRAH! for those of you who are going to be there, just thought i'd let you know that there will be defence forces at hand in case the NME carrying hordes are set upon by glass wielding ho's and spides...there's 10 of us on the bus from dublin, we're leaving at 4 and should definitely be there in time for some pre-gig revelry no pre-arranged recognition is necessary - you'll spot seamus from 20 paces! (sorry seamus!) looking forward to seeing everyone there trishdelish ps saw lord of the rings tonight - a bit brutal, spent much of the 3 hours peering out from behind my scarf, but undeniably epic all the same - go see! >===== Original Message From "Ian McKinney" <the_gibber(a)hotmail.com> ===== >The Empire is about 5 mins walk from queens uni, on Botanic Avenue. That is >the street that starts from the back of the main queen's uni site and goes >off to the left towards the city centre. > >While arriving in the empire, I suggest ever carry a copy of the NME/ >Guardian Friday Review and/or dress in an outrageous manner, for recognition >purposes. > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: She's Bowling It Final Chapter (NEW MEET UP INFO)
by Kenneth P Y Chu 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

Hello, Sorry Finsbury Park's been outvoted 7-2 so we have a NEW meetup place: We're now bowling at 3pm on the 29th Dec at "Hollywood Bowl" (the pun!) which is near Canada Water tube station. So we're going to meet up there - 2:45pm at the tickets hall of Canada Water Tube Station (tickets hall = where you buy the tickets) The lanes are only held for us for 10 minutes so please be on time. If you can't see me give me a call 07967 755446. Any problems e-mail me or call me. Otherwise see you soon. Off to Scotland in 6 hours, um, better go to bed really.. Ken _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: recognition in belfast
by Ian McKinney 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

The Empire is about 5 mins walk from queens uni, on Botanic Avenue. That is the street that starts from the back of the main queen's uni site and goes off to the left towards the city centre. While arriving in the empire, I suggest ever carry a copy of the NME/ Guardian Friday Review and/or dress in an outrageous manner, for recognition purposes. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: belfast, childish glee
by Ian McKinney 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

Hi list, This is my first post in years... All i wanted to do was express my trembling excitement at B&S's first show in my favourite town - in the very hall where I almost drank myself to death on numerous occasions during my student years... Oh Friday, when will you come? Not only the show, but the start of my Christmas Hols. Becoming a teacher (I Rule the School, as it were) was the best thing I ever did.. TWO FULL WEEKS paid christmas holidays. Re the Menagerie bar in Belfast, more than one person has told me that Struan once played an impromptu secret solo show there - is this true or was I misinformed? About a friday meet-up, The Botanic Inn on a friday is an horrendous cattle-mart where no reasonable human being should go. The Bunatee in the Union Building may be closed, as it's out of term time. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest a plan for those interested: the basement bar of the Empire Music Hall from about 6pm onwards. It's a good bar, and they also serve cheap and tasty meals for those who may arrive in town hungry. If this doesn't suit, email. See youse all, Ian. Tim - give me a phone at home _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Christmas music & private recordings
by arlequim＠osite.com.br 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

Dear Sinister I have finally found the perfect soundtrack for Christmas: the Lillywhite Sessions, by Dave Matthews Band. I remember reading in here someone asking if it would be a complete contradiction liking B&S and DMB, and I don't think it is at all! In fact, I feel like there is something of complementary between DMB and B&S, as if the Dr. Jekyll part of me listened to B&S and the Mr. Hyde part to DMB, or vice-versa - as Robert Louis Stevenson is some kind of Scottish national author of the XIXth century , the metaphor sounds more than appropriate. For anyone who hasn't heard of it before, the "Lillywhite Sessions" is the perfect DMB unreleased album, much better than the blockbuster "Everyday" and much, much darker, lower and heartfelt. The tracks are flying from HD to HD through the internet and pleasurably I managed to have'em on my own in august. When my mother was decorating the tree, and my father was coming from shopping, I was listening to track 6, "Captain", and realised it just fit for the moment. But I don't really know why. Somehow, everything made sense. I will try listening again to my Aimee Mann records. I suspect they're going to fit too, as much as my recently acquired Ellen Cherry material (thanks, Mel!). Tomorrow I am starting the rehearsals for a CD I will record late January, with my own compositions, which I am going to play on piano, alongside a female singer and flautist, a percussionist and a bass player. Ok, it's gonnna be a Ben Folds Five-like record, but that was not on purpose. These were simply the available musicians. Unpleasurably all the lyrics are in portuguese, so I will not be able to share the results with everyone in full. But I will try to write bilingual sleeve notes. Wish me luck, please... Everybody needs some. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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