Jamiroquai Live @ Sepang F1 Concert Malaysia 2009

Music: Jamiroquai- Stillness in Time Mood: Aching All Over

My purpose of going to the F1 circuit is never to watch the race. So I shouldn't cringe over being late, right? The race is supposed to start at 5pm, how come the dreadful jam at this time??



It's the must-have parking sticker on every car.


Of course Agong no need to stick lah.


Finally I'm here! Initially wanted to take a few photos before proceeding to the concert zone, but I was at the wrong entrance (need to take a sky bus to the correct one(!!)), so I decided to wait at the concert zone entrance. It was 6pm and it started to rain like whales and dinasours~

The only tent outside. I saw girls with heavy makeup and high heels -__- early birds stand inside, late comers play far far with your umbrellas.

The entrance opened at 7.30pm, I was surprised to know that we were the only people running. So when we reached the stage, we were among the FIRST few in front; in other words, less than 10 meters from the stage!

Opening acts Maliq & D'Essentials from Indonesia and American acappela band Naturally 7 belted out 4-5 songs each.

I apologize for the bad quality photos as my cam settings weren't perfected YET.

Jamiroquai came out at 9.30pm, everyone went absolutely crazzzy. I'll let the photos do the talking:

JayKay himself

The Band
Bass- Paul Turner


Keyboards- Matt Johnson

Guitar- Rob Harris


Drums- Derrick McKenzie

Percussions- Sola Akingbola


Backup vocals- Lorraine and hazel

Jay Kay threw two towels- first one landed on top of a bald bodyguard XD, second one at the Singaporeans.

Songs performed:
1) The Kids

2) Alright
3) Seven Days In Sunny June
4) Black Capricon Day
5) Use The Force
6) High Times
7) Travelling Without Moving
8) Space Cowboy
9) Little L
10) Canned Heat
11) Cosmic Girl
12) Love Foolosophy
13) Deeper Underground

Here's where we are standing- you can start a mud fight down here.

They thanked the fans and went in after Love Foolosophy. We cheered on and they came out again with an encore song- Deeper Underground. Here's my favourite photo of all:

A drinking and smoking JayKay!

And he thanked us one last time:

"Thank you SINGAPORE!!!!"
what tha....???

It ended at 11.30pm. As a result of standing in the rain for 5 hours with lousy shoes-

But then again, I paid RM100 for a RM1,000 view and a world-class performance. Now I can die happily.

Behold of the Funk God

Music: Jamiroquai- Too Young To Die Mood: Ecstatic

At last, Dear God answered the prayers of fans from The Corner of The Earth. Behold, it's Emergency on Planet Earth! Someone is gonna Blow Your Mind and you are Too Young To Die now. He's gonna be the King For A Day, making you Feel So Good, like a Dynamite going off in your torso.



I'm coming! I'm coming! Funk me, Jaykay! Funk me! *Evil laughter trails behind*

Vote EARTH

Music: None Mood: Typing in the dark




Malaysia has finally joined the rest of the world towards the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights for 60 minutes as part of a global vote. I wasn't home, but I'm so glad that my family did :)

This is IKEA-

Here's The Curve-


Opps, too dark to recognize-

Come on Malaysia! We can do better! Let's go for 240 minutes next year!

Filial Piety

Music: 萧闳仁- 我沒有錯 Mood: full

"You sure you don't want to follow?" Mum asked for the third time in a week, in the car on our way back from work.

"No. Pin will be coming over in the afternoon." I repeated the answer for the third time, with my eyes closed.

It's Qing Ming festival this weekend. It's also the time of the year my parents will dutifully clean up grandparents' tombs in Ipoh, unfailingly each year; whereas my last recollection of going there was nearly 8 or 9 years ago. Relatives who are still paying their respects are getting lesser and lesser each year.

"who's going this time?"

"Only 大伯父，大伯母 (my dad's brother and his wife) and us."

"It's never easy getting to their tombs. The grasses along the way grew longer, so it's getting more and more difficult to get there each year since there are lesser people visiting there now," She paused and continued, "Both of you couldn't even recognize the way, not even your cousins who stays near here. They are not going back this time either," She paused again.

"Sooner or later, me and pa are going to be too old to drive there, so no one will be visiting poh poh and ah gong anymore."

I kept quiet.

"Next time, just burn our bodies and throw it into the sea, save all the fuss to visit or clean our tombs every year, "She hinted.

"I'll come along next year." I blurted out suddenly.

She drove slowly on the congested road. The radio continues to play its music, but there's an uncomfortable silence in the car. I slowly opened my eyes and stole a look at her- I just saw her mopping a trickle of tear off her right cheek.

It just so happened to be drizzling outside and this struck me- 清明时节雨纷纷，路上行人欲断魂。It means the drizzling rain during Qing Ming festival represents family members' dismal feelings for their loved ones. Indirectly, it's filial piety.

I promise I'll go next year.

No sports after meal

What did the experts say? NO extreme games after meal!

笑瓜我XD

Jogoya + The unexpected

Music: Juwita Suwito- Desperado Mood: I wanna travel...

Actually, this is not even my point of blogging this post. Aaaanyway, I finally went to Jogoya last Saturday.

If it wasn't because of the buy one free one coupon, I wouldn't have visited this place, as I would be taking photo instead of taking food, paying to shoot photo nia ^^

I later found out that visitors are prohibited to 'shoot' around the restaurant, thus ended up taking photos of food after being brought to our table instead.

I managed to steal a few shots before being chased around by different staffs.




Raw food section- sashimi and some other seafood.


hotspring eggs.


Teppanyaki section- you choose your food to be prepared by the chefs.


Sukiyaki- you choose your choice of seafood and soup, then heat them up on a small gas stove on your table.


Here's another kind of DIY sukiyaki, you choose your own food, press soup from the soup tank and heat it up at your table.


The soup is so bland that I thought it might just be plain hot water.




Both teppanyaki and sushi tasted so ordinary that it kinda surprises me.


Spring egg taste like...well, normal half boiled eggs. Sashimi was dissapointing, I might have choosen the tough part as I couldn't even chew them properly, didn't managed to finish them either.


normal cooked food.


Star dish of the night- ebi tempura. A must-try. It's so crispy and addictive!


A wide variety of desserts made up of chocolates, cakes, omochi and cookies.


The green tea cake and tiramisu was nothing close to nice, too much whipped cream. At least the hazelnut chocolate cake still boleh tahan.


All Haagen Daaz ice creams were almost out when we get there, here are the remainings Pin managed to scrap from the bottom of each bucket.


I don't even wanna know what kind of 'cocktails' are this. Probably soda and coke?

We paid RM88+service & government tax= RM114 for the dinner. I still don't geddit why everyone was so hyped up about this Taiwan-based Japanese restaurant other than it's based in the posh Starhill Gallery. It felt like Marche (the Swiss food restaurant at The Curve), scoring A for variety, C for quality.

Ooh yes, I'm finally coming to my point. We went to Pavilion after this and saw a small crowd gathered in the middle of the walk way. Guess who we saw there?


Mahathir and his wife!!! i have no idea why would they go shopping on a Saturday night with minimal bodyguards around.


Expats loved them so much. So nice of them to stop and pose for pictures. Actually they were inching away slowly, I even caught Mahathir making a 'pai seh' look before the obedient crowd make way for their departure. ^^

Infection

Music: 王力宏-春雨里洗过的太阳 Mood: Headache

So it's my first time taking LRT to work. I've heard so much about waiting as long as 3 rounds to get into the jam-packed vehicle every morning. The first train to arrive at Bangsar Station was an entirely vacant one, I thought,' it must be my lucky day!' then sat down like everyone else on the hard plastic seat.

The train then reaches KL Central and it was instantly filled up with working patrons.

Then I felt a sudden itch at my inner thigh. Well, of course I couldn't scratch myself THERE in front of nearly hundreds of working adults, so I squeeze my leg shut, hoping it could ease that irritable itch. But the itch grew more and more unbearable and I couldn't do anything to stop it, thanks to my big ego.

Have you ever tried refraining yourself from scratching a mosquitoe bite? I must've look really goofy with both legs pressed extremely hard against one another, moving from side to side every 10 seconds, clutching my bag very tightly while biting my lower lip.

The 15 minute train ride seemed to take forever until it finally reaches my station. I ran like a madwoman back to my office/cubicle so I can scratch the hell out of the freaking itch. I stared with my mouth agaped at the rash, which is not even a rash. It's like a bee sting, two 3cm wide, 6cm long swellings.


I took this today, it's initially 5 times bigger than this last Thursday.

Almost immediately, all kinds of 'what if' ran through my head. I don't want to know what kind of bacteria from what kind of person have I sat onto!!

I showed it to my female colleagues and two of them exclaimed that they had similiar experiences. one kena exactly the same spot, another kena TWICE in a month, wearing pants!!

I swear I'm never going to let my bare skin touches the seats anymore.

*scratch scratch scratch* Jesus, it's still itching after 7 days!!!