Double Nights of Live Music

It had been a great relaxing weekend with colleagues and friends after the being involved in such an arduous team building event. The weekend started with spending time in the company of colleagues at Feeling Cafe in Serdang. This was my first experience of live chinese music with a duet. Not bad for college students...

The second night was more of a good friend's fiancé's birthday get together. Normally these people would party with rave music or R&B but this time they decided a change of pace was needed and we went to Double Take's Summer Jazz Series II at Flo in Equatorial.




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Bar Flo interior









Double Take comprises of Mia Palencia, a very talented singer-songwriter who also appeared recently in M!The Opera, and Roger Wang, a very skilled fingerstyle guitarist. The performance was quite spectacular for me as they could perform a whole range of songs with just Mia's voice and Roger's guitar though mostly it was more of a Bossa Nova ambience to it. There was also Mia's own "extended" version of 'A girl form Ipanema' though for her it was 'A girl from (insert name of a place that it too long for me to remember)'.

World Cup Finale 2006

What a way to end the World Cup. I'm happy for Italy...seriously I am, but part of me wishes that France would have been the one to take away the world cup. One thing for certain in this prestigous event held every 4 years is uncertainty. There were a lot of upsets: Argentina, Germany and Brazil to name a few..but they were surprises too. I mean the Zidane's headbutt for example that made Italy's win seem like a sideshow. I don't condone it but the press everywhere is suddenly making him look like the devil. I am sure provocation was the cause... maybe he had been provoked throughout the game by that Italian defender, who knows? But whatever it is, I think we need to find out the reason behind things before we come to a conclusion. In any case, Zidane (Zizou) did get the Golden Shoe award which was decided by the media. Though I did not watch the final match due to fatigue from a week's work, I found out later that both Zizou and my personal fav, Theirry Henry, was not around for the penalty shootout decider. That was a pity because it is my feeling that with these two around, the scores would be a little ....... different.

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Just got some 'enlightenment' from wikipedia regarding the events of the world cup final. You can read it here. If this is true (wikipedia cites various sources), then the Italians really have no honour in their win.

Houzan's Cosmos GT Queen

Of all the GT queens that I saw at the recent Japan GT 2006 event at Sepang, I would say the ladies from Team Houzan's Cosmos/Excite tops my list and specifically Saly (seen here with Yuumi Andou). Though alot of people have been telling me she doesn't look Japanese. Well she she certainly looks Japanese (and different) in her blog ..

Oh, and for those interested in more pics of GT Queens, please visit my friend's site: fox and yong...