~This post is 3 days late~
~Sry for the lack in picture quality~

Nope, I didnt take that picture up there.. Wasnt that close.. And my cam isnt that good either.. :P

So, the geek in the pink hit Malaysian sand last Wednesday...
Honestly speaking, I wasnt expecting much from the concert...
Was thinking that its gonna be.... well... a concert...
But that nite.. It was just amazing... Worth every single sen of that RM138 i spent..
Jason Mraz is certainly a natural performer...

So, let's back things up a little...
Whole thing started off with me renting a car, driving to Subang with Martin...
Picked up KarMern, KaySim and his brother from their place,
And we left for KL, took the NPE, which led us to Bangsar, then link to Federal and to Stadium Negara...
Got caught up in the jam a little.. We reached around 7pm if im not mistaken?
Can't really remember..

So we got there, and the area around the stadium was already packed...
Cars were seen parked everywhere.. And I mean EVERYWHERE...
There were even cars parked on the pedestrian walkway.. Or whatever u call it...
We ended up paying RM10 to park at an empty lot beside the stadium...
I know it cost a lot, but we didnt have a choice..

So, we went on to look for the gate...
And this was hosw the crowd looked like...

Can't really get the picture of how many people were there at that moment actually..
But it was packed.. Like, seriously..
Thank God for Sanjaka who was there that day...
We just quietly slip in to the queue together with him...

Us, minus Martin... Waiting to get in...
Oh!!! And we bumped into Adrian Calvin and Haafiz Nordin as well...
Lots of familiar faces...

Gates opened at around 7-ish...
And before we know it, were in...
We were lucky to get in kinda early.. Crowd havent build up inside yet..

View from the top.

The area on the floor surrounding the box in front of the stage was where were allowed to be..
Kinda fun, being able to walk around, even sit if we want...
While the others are just sitting at watching from above.. XD

See that barrier at the bottom right of the picture?
That's wat seperated us RM138 from them RM258....
We could've just jumped in actually..

The stage for the night

The RM68 ticket was the favourite.. Obviously...

Malaysian people are really funny, I tell you...
Everytime someone steps on stage, they start screaming their heads off...
First was a guy setting up the mics...
The crowd just went crazy when he stepped up..
After cooling down, another guy steps up... This time preparing the instruments...
Again, they start screaming their heads off..
Which later led to Martin screaming "We love Guitar Guy" all nite long..

A few minutes after 8pm, the lights were dimmed...
I was expecting an opening act.. Kept thinking who could it be...
Coz I couldnt think of any local acts who sounded like Jason Mraz..
Except maybe... Reshmonu? O.o

But I was wrong, there was no opening act...
The star hit the stage immediately...
Without saying a word, he kicked the nite off with Make It Mine
First track off his latest album We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things

I duno if its visible, but the guys on the horns are actually wearing out national football jersey...

I gotta say, all these while I have this negative image about Malaysian crowds...
Maybe coz last time during Good Charlotte, the crowd sucked...
They didnt know the lyrics..
Througout the nite, they only sang along to 2 or 3 songs...
And the response was pretty bad...
But not tat day with Jason Mraz...
The crowd was amazing!!! Like, seriously!!!
They know most of the songs.. Sang along, cheered for the entire nite..
Just never ran out of energy...
That made me enjoy the concert even more...

I enjoyed most of his new songs..
Like the intro to A Beautiful Mess, the lyrics of If It Kills Me, his amazing rapping skills in The Dynamo of Volition and his optimism in Live High.

He even did Lucky with a little help from Penny Tai, a local pop artist...

Obviously, the crowd was the loudest when he played songs like I'm Yours, Lucky and his older hits like The Remedy (which he cleverly mashed it up with Oasis's Wonderwall just like he did at his NYC concert).
My personal favourite though, is him performing an acoustic set to You And I Both...
The band faded out, and all lights were on him...
It was only him, the crowd and his guitar...
It was just magical...

He managed to play about 13 or 14 songs if im not mistaken?
The concert was done at around 1030...
We hanged around a little, waited for most of the crowd to leave before we actually left..
And guess what we stumbled on our way to the parking lot...


His bus waiting for him backstage..
And look at the crowd, getting their cameras ready...

So, we waited till the he and the band exited the stadium n boarded the bus...
And drove off...
Sadly I couldnt get a close up picture of him...

So, after all that, we headed back to Subang...
Dropped by Asia Cafe for a bite, sent them off...
Then Martin n me headed back to Desa...
All in all, an unforgetable experience...





There are actually more pictures taken using KaySim n Sanj's camera..
I'll post them up if I get to lay my hands on them...
Till then, this is the biggest group picture I have at the moment..

The dudes present that nite..

I'll end here with a quote from Jason Mraz himself...

"Don't let your mind stop you from having fun"

I know some of u out there might get bored of it, coz a lot of ppl have been quoting it recently...
But I totally agree with it..
And now I can remove it from my msn's pm...

A great concert indeed...

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