BIG BANG ALIVE TOUR (Oct 27, 2012 - MALAYSIA)

Dark clouds and lightnings threatened to delay the concert of the year as eager young Malaysians filled the stands of the stadium from top to bottom and all corners of the field. 

Rain poured over them for over an hour but despite the soakiness of every person beside everyone, Malaysian VIPs weren't about to let mother nature ruin the fun as strong cheers for BIG BANG miraculously cleared the skies right after BIG BANG took stage.

The stage was enormous with all the installed gadgets and props. It was unlike any concerts I've ever been and best of all, Big Bang sang live 90% throughout the whole concert.

Big Bang lived up to their name as Big Bang and delivered a memorable night for all Malaysians who were there that night.

GD and Taeyang were charming as they spoke English to us most of the time, Daesung showed off some shyness and awkwardness when Taeyang passed the mic to him to speak to us in English, TOP danced for us when we wished him happy birthday,and maknae Seungri is quite the eye candy in real person.

Tracks: 

1. Tonight
2. Hands Up
3. Fantastic Baby
4. How Gee
5. Stupid Liar
6. Knock Out + High High (GD & TOP)
7. Strong Baby + What Can I Do (Seungri)
8. Gara Gara, Go
9. Number 1
10. Cafe
11. One of A Kind + Crayon (G-Dragon)
12. Bad Boy
13. Blue
14. Love Song
15. Monster
16. Feeling
17. Only Look At Me + Wedding Dress (Taeyang)
18. Wings (Daesung)
19. Haru Haru
20. Lies

Last Farewell/Encore: 

1. Heaven
2. Bad Boy
3. Fantastic Baby
4. Hands Up

A beautiful moment was captured when Big Bang sang Blue and everyone turned on their blue light sticks and bangles creating a magnificent blue sea all around the stadium.

The energy radiated from Big Bang ran through the crowd like wildfire from the very start till the very end of the night.

Watch the encore videos recorded by Seungri with his Samsung Galaxy III,

BB Encore Malaysia

Feeling a Little Grimm?

Grimm is a TV series from 2011 and is currently in its second season in the US. Now the word 'Grimm' might remind you of 'Grim Reaper' but they are totally unrelated. This show revolves around the main character, Nick Burkhardt who is a detective officer and the last descendant of Grimms, aka hunters who hunt mystical creatures inspired by the Grimm brothers' fairy tale stories about monsters, demons and witches that exist in our world.

I've been watching this for the past few days and it ain't bad. I kinda assumed that the show will have cheap unknown actors, horrible special effects and make up disasters because that's usually the case for not so highly promoted TV series. Take Teen Wolf for example, it's horrible. The only thing to me that is attracting the viewers are the sexy eye candy actors, that's it.

Grimm on the other hand, believable acting, no awkward humors, dark concept but grabs our interest, and it's not all about hot young actors. Nick's side kick is a weird dude with a beer belly and is a reformed 'Bultbad' or in other words a werewolf by the way.

Superstitious Much?

I heard about this little Chinese superstition about the color of your newly brought car will either bring you luck or misfortune. 

I rarely believe in these crap but i enjoy reading about it. 

Today i was proven to be dumbfounded when a string of misfortune incidents kept occurring to a friend of mine in just one afternoon.

Apparently the God of Fortune thought it would be funny to take away all my friend's luck for half the day and see what would happen~ If not how do you explain the bad incidents happening one after another? 

*This isn't her car so don't go buying some random person's car plate number at TOTO*

This is the color of her new car she bought for work and she just got it for a day when all of this happened.

1st Incident

My friend wanted to groom her handsome dog so she took him to Petsmore. 

Now i wasn't there for the vicious bloody incident, i only arrived after everything had calmed down.

She said her dog needed FOUR groomers to control him and in the end they put a dog muzzle on him.

It seemed that my friend's dog was so scared that he bit the handsome groomer's hand and his own tongue during the struggle to give him a bath.

There were blood from the guy's hand and the dog's tongue dripping everywhere from inside the bathtub and outside around the bathtub.

I quote, "It was chaotic".

The groomer had to give himself and injected for the bite.

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2nd Incident

I followed my friend to send her dog home before going to yum-cha but who the hell knew she would end up getting 2 stitches to her scalp because of an open window. *Yes, stitches to her scalp*

My friend said after she tied her dog to his spot she accidentally dropped something so she bent down to get it.

Everything from my point of view became slow motioned after she bent up.

I first heard a loud "THUMP!!" and knew it wasn't good.

Then i saw strands of hair stuck onto the object she bumped into.

I looked to my friend and she was pressing the top of her head.

Lastly I smelled and saw blood dripping down from her.

OMFG i thought.

My friend just got her head stabbed into the edge of an open window.

At first i only saw droplets of blood so i went to call her mum while another friend helped to keep her balanced.

I was gone for maybe 30seconds but when i came back it to them it seemed like i was gone for an hour because now there was a PUDDLE of blood still dripping onto the floor and my wounded friend's half face and arm were cover in blood from her head. 

I felt worse when i saw my other friend who was helping had both her hands covered in the wounded friend's blood. *Was i gone THAT long??*

Damn I'm really not making this up because i would have taken pictures if i had no sense of urgency at what was happening.

Her hair was soaked in blood and my other friend couldn't shut up about seeing this piece of meat at her wound. 

I just witnessed one of the most live gruesome moments in my entire life of my friend getting her head stabbed by an innocent window and my other friend kept mentioning that piece of meat to me like i wasn't feeling squeamish enough from the sight and smell. *Yes you. And so much for being an ex-St John*

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3rd Incident

This 3rd incident happened while we were driving to the doctor.

As i mentioned earlier, my friend getting stabbed in the head by an innocent window so obviously neither me nor my other friend wanted to let wounded friend drive.

So i drove her one day old newly purchased Myvi to the doctor.

And then an asshole decide to bang into her car's butt bumper while we were waiting at the turning.

The first thing that came into my mind was what did my friend do in her past life to deserve such a significant day?

After my friend checked her car and settled the little accident with the guy we left for the doctor again only to find out that her back right mudguard got hit so hard it came out and was scrapping the tire.

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At the clinic my friend got her head wound cleaned, injected with anesthetic, and finally stitched twice by this charmingly funny young Indian doctor.

I was wondering if all Indian doctors act the same way because my Indian doctor does.

And i when i came home i found out there was a 4th incident that happened to her at home.

Seriously girl !!! What the hell did you do in your previous life??? 

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4th Incident

My friend's cousin brought her dog to my friend's house and it bit her.

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If you're superstitious enough to believe it has something to do with the color of the car then so be it but i don't expect my friend to be changing her car so soon just because of today.

And don't you think maybe she or we were at the wrong place and at the wrong time at incidents 2 & 3?

Another reason is because DO YOU THINK PEOPLE ARE SHITTING MONEY EVERYDAY TO CHANGE CARS AS THEY LIKE???

If my friend's bad luck continues then i might have to use 'Bad Luck Brian' on her~ LOL

What I think about Reaction Videos

I sort of understand why there are so many [Reaction Videos] towards Korean Pop (Kpop) in Youtube nowadays. *There are other types of [Reaction Videos] but I just wanna focus on Kpop*

Before it used to be written reviews and word of mouth of how cool or how lame things sound and look. 

But with the nerd powers of our brainiac forefathers who invented the internet and Youtube, our world of music reviews were digitalized and we got to see the disgusting face expressions, high pitch squeals, on-the-spot-meltdowns, and some pure reactions of first timers to a certain song.

There's a simple explanation of why people make [Reaction Videos] that doesn't require any sort of deep critical thinking because there's no need to!

[Reaction Videos] are all about expressions and people who make Kpop [Reaction Videos] are Kpop fanboys and fangirls. 

They either really support that certain group and want to show others through their [Reaction Videos] of how amazing they think that certain group is to them or they just wanna share their genuine opinion about Kpop through expression.

Most of the [Reaction Videos] I've watched were made by Americans who have posters plastered all over their bedroom walls and have Kpop accessories everywhere.

Some of them have actual thoughts of a certain Kpop MV but unfortunately 90% of them are just simply squealing at the sight of their favorite boy or girl members, mouth hanging with a disturbing unmoving gaze from the screen, sometimes even hyperventilation from fangirls and the most annoying of all - rambling about unrelated topics they pick out from the MV.

This link below is a video in Youtube about kids watching Kpop for the first time and for viewers to watch the kids' reaction and later personal opinions about it.

>>> Kids React to Kpop <<<

*Ps: I blame the Youtuber for selecting those of songs*

The reactions were bad because they watched the MVs of SNSD 'Gee', SuJu 'Bonamana' and 2NE1 'I AM THE BEST'.

It's understandable for those kids to react that way they did in the video because i used to think the same way as them.

In my opinion, Americans especially American KIDS aren't used to foreign media. They grew up watching Disney Channels and listening to The Jonas Brothers and thought they don't need other country's music or movie because their's are good enough unless they're immigrants.

Kpop music only breached the ears of Americans maybe over a decade ago so you'd probably think that's long enough to start hearing them on the radios but no. Because of the language barrier and culture differences, most Americans associate Kpop music to loud noises with blonde wannabes who copy their American music. 

I guess [Reaction Videos] helped prove a point that there are hardcore American fans who can see pass all the negativity towards foreign media and appreciate Kpop for what it is and not be all territorial about what Americans should or shouldn't watch or listen.