Monday, March 30, 2009

The weekend

I probably shouldn't done that, but oh well, I took a long weekend off. I went back to BP since Thursday, since I have dental appointment on Saturday. It was good, and bad, the weekend.

The good thing was... I was, well, revived, sort of. I needed the break away from assignments and all the pollution in PJ. Most of all, I just needed to be away from the stress.

Anyways, I removed partial of my braces already. The upper front part was still left intact, seeing as my retainer is in the progress of being made, but I digress. I can eat chewing gum already! And that was what I did after all the drilling, scaling and polishing done to remove my braces. I know, nothing significant, but seriously, taking out the braces wasn't such a sweet process after all. Halfway through the drilling, scaling, and polishing, I almost wanted to tell the dentist to just stop it and leave my braces be. It was quite an... uncomfortable experience.

Moving on, finally the metal removing ceremony was done (almost). And then my dentist dropped the bombshell that my wisdom teeth are out (like I didn't know that), and they needed to be removed.

And so she went, "Ha! Now you have something to do during your holiday, Jo. You can come and remove your wisdom teeth. Both the upper left and lower right have to be removed."

Geez... thanks, doc, I'm so looking forward my holiday now. Tada! The highlight of my finishing of finals.... the removal of wisdom teeth.

-.-'''

Seriously, doc, you sure know how to cheer up a girl.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Words

There are times when I speak without thinking, hell, I think my mouth might sometimes not linked to my brain at all, but when you peel off the sarcasm and the meanness, I still care, and I don't mean to hurt anyone with my words. It's just that I don't know how to channel my concern etc into my words. If you ever come to me when you are down, you would have known that I suck at consoling people, and I ask stupid questions that seem insensitive even without realising that they are insensitive. I make remarks that are supposed to sound encouraging, except that they might not be what you want to hear.

But sometimes, I guess that just gives off the impression that I don't care at all.

Monday, March 23, 2009

A fantastic Saturday night... with Jrockers, who are not Js

This post is dedicated to Farah, who missed the Jrock no Tamashii. I know... rub it in, but you know I still love you anyways. Muahaha!

But seriously, you would have enjoyed it as much as I did. Good music and bishies, not to mention some other Jrock fans who came in costumes. Phew... talk about an interesting place to people-watch.

So the event was held at The Republic Bar, which was in Sunway Pyramid. It was held outdoor, and was supposed to start at 6pm, but since I was late, I didn't know what happened. But we were late, and we got there around 8 plus, and it was just the first band playing. So we didn't miss much, which we were thankful for.

The first band was called Kawaii Sakura. They were not bad actually, in fact, all the bands were pretty good except one, which Sal and I disliked cause the vocalist's voice gave us headache. It was kinda high-pitched, and well, sounded as though it should belonged to Jpop instead of Jrock.

Anyways... back to Kawaii Sakura. I missed half of their performance, but when I got there, they were playing one of Naruto's songs, I can't remember which one. They definitely had the energy, and it was fun to watch them perform as they were so lively. Not to mention I think the vocalist was pretty bold to shave off one side of her hair. I really admire her guts for that. But not so much about her hair, the band was good, with good energy.

I can't remember the sequence of the performance, so I am just gonna tell whichever bands that I can recall off first.

Then there was this band called Gemini. This band was good too, with good energy. Not to mention that they performed one of my fav songs, "Zetsubo Billy". It was just awesome, and Sal and I got high over that since we weren't expecting to hear this song there. But I guess since it's an anime themesong, it probably got a lot of publicity too.

Another band called Endless Eternal, they were very good. I love them, they were pretty impressive. Apparently they won the second place for the Battle of the Bands last year, and I can definitely see how they got the second place. Even the vocalist's voice is good, which is something that I can't say for every one of the bands. Plus, all the songs that they were performing were all self-composed, so that was just impressive. Actually the vocalist reminded me of Paramore's lead singer. Maybe cause she's pretty young, and her voice is good. Oh... and this band has a drummer that's as young as my sis. So... yeah, I like this band a lot.

The band that Sal went for, was called Mage. Apparently they were like the founder of Jrock scene in Malaysia. Like if it wasn't them, there wouldn't be this sort of thing going in Malaysia. They were good too. They were the guest performers for this event, along with John's Mistress.

Then there were some other bands, such as Miniature Garden, that I didn't really see, not because I don't like them, but because Sal's heels were killing her and she needed to sit down. So it wasn't like we could see the stage from that far away. Thus we missed a couple of bands.

There was also this band called Strawberry Jam, which was not bad, but I can't remember why I wasn't paying much attention to them. I think I was pissed off cause some smoker were sorta everywhere I went. I moved forward, he moved forward, I backed off, he backed off. So yeah... all I know was the music was not bad, but I couldn't appreciate it due to the annoyance. By the time I actually turned my attention on stage, the lead singer had already taken off his shirt, I have no idea why he did that, but oh well, he has a pretty hot body, so I guess it was okay.

But seriously, the one that really blew me away was the last band, Drako'Zen. They were just amazing.... great songs, great on-stage performance. I know... I'm a lousy writer, I can't describe properly, but seriously, they were that amazing. I love them. And that has nothing to do with the bishies playing guitars n bass. Really.

Ah well... like I said, I'm not that good of a writer, and well, my memory fails me already. After doing assignments, the event actually seems a long time ago, instead of just two days ago. But what I really regretted was I didn't get any of the bands to take pics with me. So now I only have the mental image of the memory, and well, no bishies pictures to stare at.

Oh.... did I mention about these two bishies playing solo guitar? Erm... Mage's and Drako'Zen's. That was just plain hot... and Sal and I almost melted from the "yeng"-ness of the whole solo act. *swoons*

And after the long-winded lame attempt to describe the whole event, I am just gonna conclude that yeah, Malaysia's Jrock bands are good, so don't just ignore them just because they are from Malaysia. They should have more of this sort of events going on, if not, people wouldn't know how good they are. We gave our musicians less credits than they all deserve.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

This... and That

As if assignments and deteriorating results are not enough to bring me down, not to mention, pile a mountain of stress on my being, that has to happen.

This... seriously, if she gave us the information AND confirmation that she gave me today two weeks ago, she could have saved me from the amount of fretting and stressing AND cursing because of that bloody assignment. But better not speak so soon yet, because the end is not here yet.

I just hope that eventually I might get good results despite the bad coursework marks. Which, I don't even have to wait till the end of week 14 to know that. I can predict it with the way my midterms turned out.

And That. Seriously, if I could just take a knife and stab my heart to end the pain, I will gladly do that. Okay... I guess it will stop the pain... in a different way, but still, it wouldn't end the problem.

What's a girl to do? When she's not supposed to be that worried and stressed out but there are This and especially That?

Sunday, March 8, 2009

My first concert

Well... that title is a lil ambiguous. But let me clear it up, it was the first concert that I attended, and though it was not by some drool-worthy dude with deep, husky voice, or some hot chick with provocative dance moves, I was blown away.

Really, it was that amazing.

To spare you the suspense (let's pretend that I am actually good at building suspense, shall we?), yesterday night, I went to Kitaro's Live at Genting 2009 with my mum. I was pretty excited about it, seeing as I know Kitaro is an amazing artist. And apparently all his songs are inspired by nature, and well, we all know that I am not a big fan of soothing songs. I rather like loud bass and drums and all those screaming... most of the time.

Anyways... the concert started off pretty mellow. There are these two instruments that really sound like nature's sound, one is something that sounds like some kind of bird, and another, the sound of river flowing. The first three songs, like I said, were pretty mellow. The whole stage was pitch black when those songs were playing, instead, visual on nature was shown to us. I remembered thinking that it was amazing, that somehow all his songs really did remind me of those visual that I have seen. Honestly, I can easily just imagine those scenery, though maybe not so pretty in my head, seeing as I have never really seen those amazing scenery first hand, but really, those songs really do related well with those scenes. I almost felt as though the nature was singing to me instead of Kitaro's playing.

And well, I would be lying if I said I like the mellow songs. True, I enjoyed them, but I was already sleepy to begin with, and if the whole concert was filled with songs like that, I would have dozed off despite the uncomfortable chair. But the pace of the music picked up. In fact, the whole concert reminded me a bit of a storyline. Something like at first, the world was filled with peace. Then, came intruders who wanted to destroy the peace. The nature retaliated. Nature won but was filled with sadness from the destruction. But life went on, and slowly, it healed.

Well... that was what I felt during the concert. Somewhere during the song that made me felt nature had won but was saddened by the destruction, I actually felt so touched that my eyes were starting to fill with tears. I know... I sound a bit emo-ish and weird, but really, I could feel the music reaching out to me. But luckily for me, the music didn't continue with those kind of feeling, well, as least not to me, and the tearwork didn't start or else I would have freaked my mum out, big time.

After two hours, the concert came to an end. But the crowd wanted an encore so Kitaro came back and played two more songs for us. Yays!

But honestly, the whole concert was just amazing, especially the second half. The keyboard, the guitar, the drums, and the violin especially, were so fantastic. And well, it was just so mesmerising to watch them play.

I am just so glad that I have this experience. This trip to Genting was just brilliant, not just the concert, since I got to unwind with my family and also my cute baby cousins, Jay and Phil. God knows I need that if not I'm gonna go crazy from all the stress.

:)