Monday, April 28, 2008
today, i attended my LAST lesson in school ALONE. what a day to mark the end of my 10+ years of school life! i don't even have a friend besides me to talk cok with during lesson or celebrate with me after lesson. 好悲哀啊! haiz... anyway, hopefully i can finish this year smoothly! (same to all friends out there struggling for last year!)
had super busy yet fulfilling weekends! on sat, attended morning lesson, then went to cousin's church wedding followed by mayday concert!! sun, went to ashin's book autograph session in the afternoon then went to the same cousin's wedding dinner in the night. i was prepared for not studying for these 2 days and intended to chiong on the following day. BUT, i realised i have suffered from post concert syndrome (ONLY for their concert) and denial of preparations for exams. *CRY* TIME IS RUNNING OUT!!!!!!!!!!
T_T
MAYDAY concert
highlights of this concert:
-special 360 degree stage (main stage+2 runways+1 movable bridge, forming a rectangle). heard the bridge itself costed $100K!
-there's no security obstruction along the runway, thus the fans can get real close to them (shake hands etc) when they walked by. poor ashin, got 'molested' by the auntie-fans again.
-usage of fireworks (though not much)
-孙悟空was sang without ashin (except for last verse). the foursome took turns to sing. didn't know that they can sing so well. haha. but ashin's voice is still most powerful. ^^
(ming's turn to sing, thus the other 3 turned to him)
-the various acts they put up ->ashin claiming to be very happy to get rid of the other 4 and sing alone (same old trick); disappointed with our performance, and so ashin did a crying pose and out of sudden, monster 'punched' stone in his face; ashin as musical instructor, dividing us into 2 groups, controlling our volume of cheers and screams. haha. (still got??)
(hand sign: keep quiet) --> photo is from someone.
-introduction of each member after running up the runway to the bridge one by one; ming got bullied again as usual.
-surprised masa with belated bday song and in return, he provided us his 'yellow' joke. haha; ashin helped masa 征友(gf to be precised.lol).
(sang the intro 'la la la' part of 垃圾车. then, ashin led us to sing the bday song.)
-stone sang 咿呀呀, a song specially written for his 1-year-old child. so sweet. so touching too, i got the urge to tear..(side note: ashin was so touched to tears when he first listened to this song. anyway, he super dotes on little stone. to the extent that he wanted to 'buy' over his child at HIGH price!! lol)
(masa is wearing 'skirt'!)
-ashin performing with his classical guitar.
(solo time with his guitar) --> got this from same person.
-the well-performed solos on their own instruments from the other 4 members and the keyboard teacher. the way they performed was so cool~
-sing along and ktv time throughout the concert.
-they (except for ming-drummer) sat on the stage floor to rest, followed by reading out the credit list. this reading part alonewas very entertaining partially because part of the list are in english (supposed to be done by ashin but he kept seeking help from masa and stone). funny. haha.
(photo's quite blur)
-at the end of concert, they (including the other staffs on stage) danced along with the 離開地球表面remix version with towels in hand. the towels were thrown to the audience when the music stopped. (omg! i saw someone in the forum saying that ashin was shaking his bum when masa and monster did that! really rare scene. haha)
my thoughts:
-song list did not have huge changes as they had promised and their 闽南语歌are very limited. i was hoping to listen to 志明与春娇, 寵上天(i like the hand movements for this song), 拥抱, 憨人too. anyway, they got many songs and it's hard to satisfy all fans.
-luckily i got revised on their old songs. lol. some of them (like 九號球) were sang.
-洋葱was sang!! so happy =) i love his version~
-their stamina are really good (concert last for ard 3 hrs) especially ashin cos besides singing, he jumped with the different beats of music, ran along the runway as he sang and spinned around in circle. uncle liao still can have so good stamina. wahahaha. (oops)
-ashin's voice wasn't at tip-top condition in the beginning. luckily, he got better after sometime.
-they are really passionate about music!
-the 3 enjoyable hours passed away very very quickly. good time flies =(
(bridge was descended again for the encore part)
(encore part: they reappearred on this bridge) -->photo's from the same person
worth going for their concert because:-they sang for ard 3 hours (their previous concert oso lasted for ard 3hrs)
-they got this 'talk less, sing more' policy (30 songs and started talking almost after 1/3 of the concert is over)
-1 price to see 5 bandmembers plus the-always-stealing-limelight 的技师, mr shijie and his gang. he will do funny dance moves(like wiggling with music, bollywood dance etc) to attract our attention. lol.
-the entertainment and interaction levels are very high. eg, see them bullying each other (so envious of their friendship), crazed with them.
post concert syndrome:-aching arms (from waving lightsticks too vigourously. haha)
-aching and sore legs (stood right from the start of the concert)
-sore throat/ coarse voice (with all the singings, screamings and cheerings)
-temporary partial hearing problems (from the deafening music-maybe i was quite close to the speakers- and cheers)
-super tired and drained
-missed their live performing on the very next day
-emptiness feeling on the following days (maybe oso due to exam coming. =<)
-listening to their songs every now and then
PS: might have left out something for the highlights, due to poor memory. haha.
PSS: my camera is CMI, so don't expect much. hee.
cousin's wedding
church:
first time attending such event. it's a new experience. anyway, wanted to say that the buffet is nice~ quite classy and the desserts were yummy~ too bad i cant take my time to enjoy them, cos i need to rush for the concert.
dinner:
the ballroom had oriental decorations, quite nice. this dinner was abit different from all the dinners i had attended. 1stly, there's no shouting of 'yum seng' on the stage. instead, we just said 'cheers'. then, there were music performances put up by cousins of the bride and bridegroom's brother(aka my cousin) and his friend.
Labels: concerts + autographs
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