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This was what happened today.













Ok enough of my senseless drawings although the main story more or less did happened.

More worthy pictures since I'm on a roll right now.





Orgasmic concert!



After this security came and warned no picture taking. Didn't mind also since listening was good enough.

- Domon

Distant World: The Best Shit Ever

Oh my

I'm still so pumped up, even if it's quite some hours after the concert already.

Seriously.

I started out watching my brother play Final Fantasy VII in our little Ang Mo Kio house, on that tiny TV screen with the lego-blocked characters. I was Primary 4 and morbidly obese. Then I got my hands onto it on Primary 5 and never looked back. It's been 11 years and 6 games from the series so far, didn't manage to find and play all of the earlier games, but I'm pretty contented anyway.

And the day started with so much nerves and anxiety, as we waited for Zuhua and the tickets. It's really nerve-wrecking, as the bells went ding-dong ding-dong basically signalling us that we've barely few minutes left before we're barred entry from the show till the intermission after the first half of the concert. That would suck MAJOR balls and I swear the bulk of us would have went berserk, and start attacking allies indiscriminately.

Of course, that didn't happen and we got ourselves in really on the eleventh hour.

That said, I almost cried when the orchestra played the first song. Liberi Fatali, with the choir and the strings and percussion and horns, and the screen showing Squall and Seifer duking it out, it's very powerful and emotional for a long time fan of the game series. I was really really excited since Febraury for this day. Has been my dream since 13 or so to be a part of this live experience of Final Fantasy music.

If it's up to me, I'd certainly change up the sequence a bit here and there, and change the songs a little, more of X definitely.

Nobuo Uematsu was there himself, such a surprise, and he's still that quirky old man wearing the cute traditonal Japanese ojisan outfit with matching bandana. The conductor Arnie Roth is also a brilliant guy, very very good conductor.

Sitting there as part of the audience I was fooled by the programme booklet and forgotten completely about this thing called encore until late in the second half. I was really vexed and frustrated by the exclusion of 'One Winged Angel' but suddenly earlier years of Chinese Orchestra experience hit me and made me realised that hey, there's always an encore. Arnie Roth managed to trick me again when he played Terra's Theme instead for the first encore. Of course, not to be denied, the last piece was One Winged Angel. Now THAT was spectacular, with the choir. Still I'd prefer if they've the Black Mages' version of it with the electronic rock version plus orchestra choir. WOOO, that would be orgasmic.

For me though, all that aside, I still really love 'To Zanarkand' the most. That's the part which I thought should use some serious sequence tweaking. 'One Winged Angel' as the encore last bit is of course apt, but they should definitely put 'To Zanarkand' as the last piece of the second half. But looking pass all that, it was such a thrill and pleasure sitting there listening to that fabulous piece of music LIVE. It's really, one of the best pieces of music ever composed. The melancholy is one that you can feel so directly from the notes, piercing through, regardless if you've actually played the game itself. That was seriously the highlight piece for me.

I'm so so so incredibly glad that we slogged hard for the tickets, How Yong Ming and Zuhua. Just so satisfied now that I actually don't mind the bomb spent while out today. Although the feeling would probably return and bite me hard next morning.

For now, I'm just still fascinated.

Super.

- Domon

The Funniest Woman

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Today was so im-promptu, and as promised, a blog post on the day.

I've met many funny people in my life. The ego funny man like Mong, the weird funny chemical like Mok, the ohmprata sexy lady, but today, I'm convinced that the funniest woman who consistently spews up humourous nonsense is Yuling.

Throughout tonight's sudden arrangement of rice-fest she was the one who kept the 3 of us going LMAO at every single second, I swear. The whole thing climaxed when she threw in the Sensodyne and Colgate shit which left Huangmu and I in spasms and I almost choked on the iced-strawberry. Both of us laughed hysterically and I almost died of asthma while our laughter resonated in the dining area. Yuling, you're damn zai, 'use everyday, twice a day' HAHAHAHA.

That said, it was indeed a fun meet-up, and Marshal is such an extraordinary name.

And yea, I'm officially getting super excited for tomorrow. The Final Fantasy concert. I think I'll just die on the spot when the orchestra plays To Zanarkand. Ohhhhhh, finally it's coming!

Kris Allen won, how unexpected!

- Domon

Idol 8

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As you may know, I've always been a huge Idol fan. Pretty much because music and singing are like 2 of my top top priorities in life, along with tennis, along with having ample 'beauty sleep', as well as eating breakfast, along with earning and saving money, along with friends and family.

All started out in 2004 when I should be busy preparing for examinations but strayed a bit due to Idol fever. Then it hit full stride in 05 and 06. 05 Season 4 I tried to influence Wei Qiang but he really didn't care much about English songs. Of course, Weiting being Weiting got successfully influenced by me and she started liking Carrie Underwood's songs, albeit a short-lived affection nia. 06 Idol was the best for me cause my favourite contestant Katharine McPhee made the finals(Though lost) and there were some pretty amazing performances.

07 and 08 my Idol mania went on hiatus due to The Forces. The interest did waned a little.

09 started watching again out of pure boredom in camp, you know the pre-ORD mood. Was pretty indifferent about the season until the final stages of the competition. Adam Lambert and Kris Allen are 2 of my favourites and them making the Final 2 is absolute justice IMO. One more episode of Danny Gokey would definitely make me puke.

That said, the most attractive aspect of American Idol is that it introduces or re-introduces music and songs to the viewers. Through American Idol, it's funny I got to listen and fall in love with jazz standards from the 50s, disco hits from the 70s and Queen, Elvis so on. The other part of it is the re-introduction part. I might have heard of this song before and never gave a hoot, but on that very stage, sung by whoever the contestant, with whatever new(Or not) arrangement, it is possible to like that particular song despite genuinely not liking it before.

Kris Allen did that for me last week. His acoustic version of Kanye West's Heartless was superb. And although it was criticised, he made me fall in love with the 2007 OneRepublic's anthem, Apologise. No apologies needed there. I dreaded that song when it was madly over-played, and sung by people in camp.

Adam Lambert is such a polarising figure but unique in his own way. His range is crazy crazy, but I do hate it when he screams and shrieks, that's why my favourite performance from him and possibly this entire season is Mad World. A very haunting song sang beautifully by Lambert, controlled and not over-doing it, loved it.

Kris is immensely enjoyable to watch and his vocals is solid and for easy-listening, you know, no pressure. Adam is just showmanship, theatrical and incredible voice. It was an intriguing final match-up on paper, but watching the show just now, it sucks how rigid the show is. What a stupid song choice for Kris by the producer. If it was up to me, I'll just take the first round as voting reference and forget completely that they both sang a 2nd and 3rd song.

Throughout the competition, Kris won me over with week after week of excellent performances. I downloaded so many of his songs, because they do really appeal to me. In fact, I think that Kris is the more current artiste, who can appeal to a wider market.

But hey, all performances done. Will be waiting for results tomorrow night.

- Domon

It's Good To Be A Tennis Fan Now

Yea so excited.

Tonight there'll be coverage of the exihibition matches in Wimbledon with Agassi, Graf, Henman and Clijsters, play-testing the new roof added to the Wimbledon Centre Court. Seeing Graf in action, that's one of the best thing ever, as I've narrowly missed out on her period of dominance on tour, and remains the captivating tennis figure that tennis world has ever seen. Fraulein Forehand.

What's better? Federer routinely demolished(Again) Del Potro to make it to his first final this season since teary Australia, although it's a no-brainer that Del Potro's brainless ball-bashing play is just toast for Fed and is never a great match up no matter the surface. It's worrying, yet exciting at the same time though, that Fed's going to face who else but Rafa again in tonight's final. Rafa's been on a serious roll so far this year, especially this clay season, no matches dropped and in fact, if I'm not wrong, 3 titles in as many weeks, Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Rome. On paper, having Rafa opposite Fed and on clay even, no one would bet money on Fed. But hey Hamburg turned out different and remains the only clay-court final Clay GOAT has ever lost. The unpredictability makes it all the more exciting.

To make it even better-er, Warsaw main draw play starts tomorrow on the WTA side. And I blogged about it, Sharapova's back and is in the singles draw of a tennis tournament for the first time since Montreal last year! After a freaking 10 months long hiatus! Immensely curious about her form and game. Winnable first match against Garbin and it's truely a thrilling moment for all her fans: to see her on court for what seems like forever.

And 2 weeks after Roland Garros starts with grass season right after, wow, pumped!

- Domon

Seok is 21!

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Anyway in case people ask why I now then blog it is in fact because of how busy my week has been, work was extremely brutal and actually got some meet-ups with people so everyday when I got home was just dead as a fish. I also don't know why as a fish but anyway, I didn't have the energy to do much before ZZZ monster hurried me to bed.

Today we went to Queen's Condominium located at Queensway MRT, how apt eh? Went there to celebrate Seok's birthday. First time eh I went to a 21st birthday party. Great seeing everyone again and as usual, Tingwei was the most eye-catching one out of the pack. So deliberate she go and wear that white-framed sunglasses with her black colour 露肩上衣, I just think that me and Peijie looked like her bodyguards and she's like some celebrity.

We were all early and supposedly need to help with the decoration but in the end Huangmu and us just sat there laming around, acting and all those shit. Haha, with them is always so crappy. Sixuan can blow really big balloons. Seok looked really good with the red top and that elaborate hair, quite 容光焕发. Yuling is funny when she talked about that girl she hates.

Peijie is slow. Haha.

Anyway I must dedicate this paragraph to Huangmu. WHA SEH SEXY LADY. HHAHAHAHA. Admit it lah woman you're no longer hunk getting more and more feminine le, not bad sia! HAHAHAHA, you must be damn irritated now.

Must say the food was really good. Seok zai eh you(Or your family) found some good caterers.

One day see Mok for 2 times, haha in the end walked home with her, crapping so much along the way. All in all a good day. Got exhuasted like deflated balloon at around 8 plus, 9. Don't know why I'm completely dead when I'm out for a while, but at home just a different pattern altogether. Really not meant to be an outdoor 阳光 type. HAHA.

Wednesday night met up with Kar Keat and SI bunk mates for dinner. Wha seh, that dinner really sucked the money notes from me dry dry. Really, I don't eat that extravagantly under normal circumstances de. Maybe I was possessed. HAHA. Anyway Weidong organised the outing(As usual) and it was a blast. Must have been or else I won't be hypnotised(Or happy) enough to let the restaurant(s) rip me off. Was fun crapping with them, enjoying bitchy stabs from Weidong, ahhh just like old times.

As much as that this week was also quite uhm, emotionally charged for me. Told Mong about it. Just quite affected a bit by some stuff, but I guess maybe it's just expendable.

Oh and I've idea for my 21st party le. Morning I'll play tennis. Then we'll meet to play badminton then shower change up, go sing KBox, then after that dinner eat 煮炒 in coffee shop. So easy-going right? All these can just take place in Ang Mo Kio! So convenient.

- Domon

为什么要每天吃早餐？

因为那是一件很Rock And Roll 的事！！



Yea! Like that can also play one song out.

Sharapova's back! Back back back!!! Woohoooo.

- Domon