A very random day out...
Went to Pyramid, Ikano, Pavilion, Low Yat.
Had a Latio Sport with us...
Pushed it till 180 on the KL-Putra Highway... :P


Had dinner at Pepper Lunch...
See the irony?


Met the golden man..
He looks like he's 60 or something..


Bought myself a new keyboard...
To preserve the life of my lappie's keyboard..
Willy's idea...

Funny thing, it feels really weird to be home...
What is wrong with me? @.@

I gotta get out more...
Edi missing peeps from uni...

Exams r over!!! Finally!!!
Im a free man for 3 months!!!
Started off the celebrations right away after Public Policy.
Headed over to Pyramid with Dana, Rob, Izat and Martin to have lunch..
Manage to catch Planet 51 as well..
Not as great as it could be.. But it was ok..

Headed back to Cyberjaya Community Park, hoping to go for some go karting, but in the end it was closed.. AGAIN...
3rd time we've been there edi.. always closed.. oh well...
So we headed back home, i took a nap
and at nite Rob picked me up and we took off to The Loft, at Asian Heritage...
Was so worried that I couldnt get in, coz the age requirement for guys is 23 over there....
But thanks to Rob's friend, they brought me in..
And we had free drinks all nite long..
Partied at the VIP area...
Gosh..
Hell of a nite!!!




Was too drunk to remember to get a group pic.. This is all I've got...
Dana sure was fun.... :D

Exam period
Spent a few nites at Rob's place to revise...







Our saviour for the nite...


Citizens of The World...
We found our abbreviation...
C.O.W
Moo!!! XD
So anyways, Rob, Andrew n myself decided to drop by at Bentley last Sunday to get some stuff that we need for the performance.
(at that point, we didnt know it was postponed yet...)

Spent the nite before at Rob's place, and we headed off like 4 something...
Coz we only woke up at like 1 or so... :P


We arrived there, and we managed to catch a local act performing at the homegrown area of Bentley... Didnt catch the name of the band though, but they were pretty good...


So the guitars there were as usual... Impressive along with their price tags..
Been there like 5 or 6 times edi. The only difference this time is they stocked up on more Takamine's. Which kinda gave me more options now rather than just the EJ200 CE or the hummingbird, which are very hard to locate here in KL...

So we moved on to the drums section which I have never been in yet...
And boy was I impressed...




Seriously, the amount of stuff u can get for ur drumset is just mindblowing
And the price too...
Cymbals there range from hundreds all the way to the thousands...

Andrew spotted a snare which sounded pretty good... and it cost RM500.. Pretty good value actually for a decent Tama snare..


Andrew & Rob going through the accessories...
Andrew was just speechless.. It was funny... XD

Right before we left the room, we spotted THIS


Just look at the number of toms that thing has.. Its just mindblowing!!!
Although I've seen drumsets with more toms on utube vids, but to see 1 like this right in front of my eyes was still overwhelming..

Guess how much does the whole set cost?

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RM20k!!!
Go figure....
But its Pearl after all.. And its all in gold... Haha..


The sign did say No Testing...
Oh well... :D


C.O.W's frontman giving a shot at it as well...
Well, he is a drummer after all.. Haha..


So after that, we went to grab a few stuff before we left to The Curve for dinner, and then we headed home...

I got myself :


A new strap!
Cost me RM69... But it comes with a lock, so its kinda secured... And I think its worth the money... The lock is really useful...


Got myself new strings as well.. Figured I better change them...
Dun wan them to sound crappy when Im up on stage..
Sticking to D'Addario for the time being.. I'll experiment with others some other time...


Re-stringing... and cleaning up my dearly beloved...





Voila!!! Done... And the new strings sound great..
No regrets...

The strap goes well with the theme as well rite? :D


The guitar stand Rob got himself...
Gotta get myself one of those as well...
RM89.. Pretty good deal..

Band updates :

Album launch performance got postponed till further notice...
But it gives us more time to practice and perfect the songs we wanna play..
So far we have 3 songs on the list... Besides our original, we'll be doing 2 covers...
Really looking forward to it... :D

Got ourselves someone on keys, and a possible bassist
Gotta see how things go, but I really got a good feeling about this band... Every one of us... :)

I just got this laptop for a few months...
The semester started like about 3 months ago only...

So, check this out...







Special thanks to Limkokwing's highly infected computers where there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY of avoiding ur thumb drive from getting infected...

Just updated my playlist...
Here's the new one :

Jason Mraz - Live High
Jason Mraz - A Beautiful Mess
All American Rejects - Straightjacket Feeling
Coldplay - A Message

Trying to create that relax feeling and atmosphere
When reading my blog...
Tell me what you guys think... :D



Ok.. Finally my last post about AAR..
The Meet and Greet...
Lets include the " "...
Lets try that again, shall we?
The "Meet and Greet".. There, thats better.. :D

So after the gig, which ended at around 11, we gathered at the back of the "Front of House"
Hmm.. At the back of the Front of House.. Interesting..
Well, basically where all the audio and lighting controls are.. Near the huge screen...
First and foremost, we kinda thought we were damn lucky and exclusive to get those M&G passes...
We thought we were gonna chill and have a few drinks with the Rejects while we bombard them with questions and picture...
But this is what the rest of the crowd looked like...



Yup, every single last one of them got themselves a M&G pass as well...
U have no idea how "exclusive" I felt at that very point...

So, anyways.. We got into line.. And they divided us into different groups according to how we got our passes...
Those who got them from Digi and radio stations were given priority to head in first.. Obviously...
Me and Willy got into like almost the last line..

As soon as we got into our lines, they escorted us back stage...


At that point, I was so God damn excited... I was actually gonna meet them for the 2nd time!!

We were escorted by the RELAs all the way back..
While on our way in, I spotted a guy trying to sneak into the line..
Only to be spotted and shoved away by 1 of the RELA's.. They're pretty rough I must say...


This is what the backstage looked like...


Not as glamorous as the front... Rite? :P

Passed by the VIP and Media Entrance which was just beside the stage...
How convenient...



Nice bunch of girls we kept bumping into the entire day...
They were in front of us at the autograph session in Pavilion...
Bumped into them again somewhere during the gig..
And then, the meet&greet, they were in front of us... again...
Didnt manage to get their names though... All we had in mind was just AAR.. XD
Oh btw... The girl on the left was dressing up as Nick and the one on the right as Tyson..
Those were the exact same outfits they wore for World Stage... Does it ring a bell? ^^

K, this is where reality hits..
They broke us down into groups of 20s..
We all took turns to enter this tent..
So when it was our turn, I was too damn busy setting up my phone cam.
Till I totally did not realize that when we got in, the boys were there right in front of us...
I thought it was like a long way into the area we're gona meet them..
I was wrong...

So I still had my phone in my hand, thinking who shall I approach 1st...
Before I know it, the Digi people pushed me all the way in, asked me to squat...
And the cameraman in front of us told us to smile for the cam..
Snap..
And they started chasing us out...
-.-''''

Seriously, I didnt get to talk to any one of the Rejects... At all..
I was literally pulled out of the tent... Along with everybody else of course...

Well, at least I got a pic with them.. Although we were not really close..
I say this everytime I look at this pic and Im gonna say it again...
I look like CRAP!!!

There's really nothing we can do but to bitch about the Digi people afterwards..
So we carry on to do so on our way out...
While some of the girls were hyperventilating coz they managed to hug Nick or Ty..

We bumped into a walking iPod..
With AAR's I Wanna currently playing...
How cool is that??? ^^

So after the whole thing, Willy gave his dad a call to come pick us up....
We had to wait since its gonna take a while till he gets to us..
So we walked around aimlessly around the venue
By then, most of the crowd left... It was only the 2 of us wherever we go..

And guess who did we bump into.. AGAIN..
Yup.. the same bunch of girls... For like the 4th time??? Haha..
And they had with them some interesting stuff...

If u havent guessed it edi, they sneaked into AAR's dressing room after they left...
Awesome I tell u!!! Should've tagged along with them.. Would've been fun... XD
See the orange hat she's wearing? She got it from the room of course...
Along with..



A small bottle of Mr. Johnny.. Empty of course...
Must be Ty getting himself preped for the show... So he's a whiskey kinda guy? Awesome!!!


And this is why I was so confident with their set list that nite.
Coz I got hold of it!!!! XD
Love the way they put things...
Shwing shwing.... Toad in "T" Minor... Haha..

So after chilling for a bit, we split, and we all headed home...
And that would be the end of one of the most AWESOMEST gig I've ever been to... (I know there is no such word... )

So, once again I shall say this...

The All-American Rejects
They came, they saw..
They conquered Malaysia... No doubt..

Hope they'll return soon...
Can't wait already.... :D


So after the session at Pavilion, Willy & me, we headed to the McD outlet at Bukit Bintang to have lunch.
After which we dropped by Bentley and Chambers for a bit to check out guitars before we actually left for the gig.
We first took a monorail to Hang Tuah station, and then switch to the Sri Petaling line to Bukit Jalil...



Just looooove taking public transport...


Funny story, while getting on the 2nd train, I actually left Willy behind and he had to take like 2 trains after mine... (Those automated doors do close very fast.... :P)


So we reached the venue at around 2.30pm
A quick trip to the loo, and then we were off to the queue at the entrance...



By then the line has already started building up.
Believe it or not, there were people who started lining up as early as 8am!!! Thats insane!!!


These people were at the back of us... The line grew that long in less than an hour...


Duno if u guys can see the length of the line, but to put it in simple terms, we were not even in the shot.. we're Waaaaaayyyy to the right of the picture... And this was around 4 something...

The heat was killing I tell you.. We were literally trying to find every possible way to shield ourselves from the mighty sun...

Fluid's very very important.. Crucial to our survival that day... XD

At around 5pm out of nowhere, everyone started getting up.
Being Malaysians, when 1 does something, everyone else follow... So everyone in line stood up..
Pada hal, they havent open the gates yet.. -.-'''

Around 5.15 if im not mistaken, they opened up the gates, and suddenly the line wasnt there anymore...

Everyone just started pushing and cutting in..
Hell broke loose...
We were dragged by the crowd... all the way in.. we didnt even need to move a muscle, the crowd would push us forward... SERIOUS!!!

Still, we manage to get in when most of the crowd were still stuck outside.. So we were kinda lucky... Coz we had the option to head in front if we wanted to... Although we didnt in the end...



The very first thing we did when we went in was to redeem out meet and greet pass...
In exchange for the token we got earlier at Pavilion..

It was gold that day.. Had to guard it with my life.. Though I just wore it on my neck throughout the whole gig.. Haha..

Moments later we met up with Audrey who got in even earlier than us even though she reached Bukit Jalil at like around wat? 5? -.-'''

Chillin' while waiting for the gig to start...

As we were chilling waiting for the concert to begin, we spot these guys wandering around..
They were hitz crew... Dressing up for the occasion.. And their outfits were pretty awesome..
Check it out..

This guy in the white mask invited us into the Hitz zone (supposedly for lucky winners only) after we took pictures with them and chatted for a bit...
We thought we were damn lucky coz before the gig, Hitz zone passes were going for like RM200 a piece!!!
But as time goes by, people just swamped in, no security was present to check for the tags...

The crowd got bigger and bigger.. And soon, Ean and Hani Madu came out to open up the crowd...


So the first band up was Disagree.. They played a few familiar hits... but I cant remember the titles.. And as expected, they finish off with Crumbs, their biggest hit so far.. They even brought out a marching band for that number.. and they sounded awesome...

The 2nd band up was Pop Shuvit.. And they actually played their earlier hit, Old School Rocker.. How cool is that? And obviously, they did Marabahaya... Which drove the crowd crazy.. Mootz was having the time of his life.. At the climax of it all, he went down to the crowd, and actually jumped into the crowd.. Awesome...

3rd band up was One Buck Short.. Unfortunately, their lead singer was hospitalised and couldnt make it to the gig... Instead they got help from other bands instead.. JD from Pop Shuvit, frontman of Bunkface, Estrella and a few more took turns to hit the stage with the rest of the band.. They were great..

Ok, i gotta come clean here... I was too busy enjoying the music till I totally left the pictures out..
I figured I should really enjoy the gig while I was there.. Instead of keeping myself busy taking pics.. :P

Ok, to give u a picture of how big a crowd of 15,000 people really is, check this out..
And yea, 15,000 people showed up that nite... The crowd was as big as MTV World Stage a few months ago... ^^

(Picture courtesy of hitz.fm. I do not own any copyrights to it... Thx hitz!! :D)

(Pic from Mike's twitter... Again, I do not own the rights.. Thx Mike!!! :D )

There you go.. The crowd was HUGE!!!! and they were amazing.. Especially during "It Ends Tonight" where every single person in the house sang to the song... All 4 of the Rejects were seen smiling... :)

So, here's the set list that nite..

Move Along
Fallin' Apart
Dirty Little Secret
Swing Swing
My Paper Heart
I Wanna
Mona Lisa
Real World
It Ends Tonight
Damn Girl
The Last Song
The Wind Blows
Gives You Hell

Yup, they played a total of 13 songs!!! but honestly, it didnt felt like it was that long..
But no doubt, they did an amazing job..
(U'll see in the next post why am I so positive about the order of the set list... :P)

Ty put on an old native American hat.. Or whatever u call it.. It was amazing.. he got a little carried away though.. With Chris on drums, they started doing a snippet of some sort of voodoo chant or some shit like that.. XD

(Photos courtesy of Digi... Thx a lot.. AGAIN, i dun own any rights to them... :) )

Ty was being nutty and silly as usual...
But the part that surprised me the most was he didnt care about all the stage rules over here..
He said lines like "How r y'all doing, b*tches???" and "I hope ur having some f*cking fun"
Which drove the crowd even more crazy..
Thats the rockers spirit for u.. They dun give a shit! :D

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