Everyone’s pumped up for it, which is very encouraging.
It makes all the preparations seem worth it.
I’m really pumped up for the concert too, cos this is the first time we’re holding it in a slightly more posh venue, so I’m really excited to see how things turns out.
There will be some inevitable uncertainties with regards to the concert, and I’m not really sure how many people will actually turn up, or how some smaller details will pan out…but I guess that’s what makes things exciting.
Apart from the frenetic preparations, I have been practising my songs like crazy the last few days.
Will be presenting two of my songs (both of which will be sung by my good friend B), and I have a pretty good feeling about both of them.
We have practised together and I really like what I hear from her, so I’m very excited about that as well.
One thing I really love about our Songcraft concerts is that the songs take centrestage, and for that one evening we get to share our songs in their full glory with the audience.
A few months back I was brainstorming on a title for this concert, and after one night I came up with the idea of “Originally Yours”.
Which is a half-decent title, I guess.
Or maybe I should have entitled it “This Is It” instead.
I will be attending the “Lost In Transit” musical which will be staged at The Hall @ The Arts House until this Sunday.
It’s presented by the folks from Musical Theatre Limited, and the book is by Stella Kon and Gavin Low, the lyrics are by Stella Kon, and the music is by Desmond Moey.
I chanced upon a Guardian article (here) which drew parallels between the upcoming Hamilton-Button pairing with another legendary pairing.
“Senna-Prost”?
C’mon, let’s not go there.
I think we’re kinda getting ahead of ourselves here.
This is nothing like Senna-Prost.
p.s. Anyway, I really like how everyone’s talking about the Hamilton-Button pairing, but as for the Ferrari pairing, everyone’s completely assumed that Alonso will handle Massa easily. Really? I remember they said the same thing when Kimi was about to join Ferrari, but look how that turned out?
Things have certainly gotten very interesting in the last few days.
Apparently it seems like Jenson Button will be joining Lewis Hamilton in McLaren, and it seems like Kimi is without a drive for next year (*gasp!*).
Now I shall try to pen down all my thoughts in as few words as possible.
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Kimi
I know Kimi has a huge legion of fans, but personally I’ve never been much of a fan of his.
My own view is that he’s not as “gifted” as many fans make him out to be, with my supporting evidence being the fact that he struggled to constantly get the better of Massa in his 3 years at Ferrari.
(Bear in mind how Schumacher totally dominated Massa while he was still driving.)
If only Kimi had gone to McLaren for next year, and partnered Lewis for at least one season, then we can finally judge for ourselves if Kimi is really worth his salt.
But alas, it looks like we will never be able to tell.
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Button
What does it say about a driver when he has just won this season’s WDC title, and everyone is predicting he will get slaughtered by Lewis when he goes to McLaren?
You tell me.
If there is one thing I want to see next season, it will be how the 2009 world champion fares against his 2008 world champion teammate.
It will be worth watching F1 next season just because of that battle alone.
Oh, and also I wanna see how Massa fares against Alonso at Ferrari.
Let’s talk a bit about the biggest play in the biggest NFL game over the last weekend.
It was a 4th and 2 situation, 2:08 remaining in the game, and Patriots leading by 6 points with the ball at their own 28 yard line.
Conventional wisdom says you punt it as far as you can, but the Patriots went for the 4th down pass, and came up inches short.
And true enough, the Colts managed to score a touchdown once they regained possession to win the game.
And now coach Bill Belichick is getting tons of flak for his gamble to go for the 4th down.
Now this was definitely a very gutsy call by Belichick, something not many coaches in the league would ever dare attempt.
It’s one of those things where if you pull it off you’re a genius, but if you don’t then you’re a fool.
It’s one of those things.
Looking at the big picture, let’s just say that this is still a regular season game after all.
It’s not the playoffs, so a loss is just a loss.
But I think we cannot ignore the fact that Patriots came very close to beating the undefeated Colts at their own stadium.
That is something that we should take away from this.
Lastly, I can’t help but notice how it seems to be a reversal of fortunes now: The Patriots used to be the team that just kept on winning, and the Colts used to always come up on the losing end.
Now it’s the other way round – the Colts just somehow manage to find a way to win, and the Patriots are the ones making the game-losing decisions.
I’m just not that used to seeing Brady on the losing end.
I’m a bit embarrassed to say this, but the last few nights I’ve been squeezing in a bit of time to catch the wedding special of “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” on YouTube.
(Yes, trashy show I know…but it’s entertaining nonetheless.)
This is the highly-anticipated one where Khloe gets married to Lamar Odom after knowing each other for a grand total of…one month.
Thanks to the wonder of YouTube, you can actually catch the entire special episode in 9 parts (I’ve only made it up till part 4 thus far).
If there is one feeble attempt at justification I can make for watching this, it is the fact that there is a sports link to all of this – Lamar Odom, of course, plays for the Lakers (although I’ve always felt that he was one of the most overrated players I’ve ever seen).
But I digress.
The episode is highly watchable, thanks to the high level of conflict and dysfunction generated by members of the Kardashian family.
Conflict is always good for television.
The more dysfunctional the family, the greater the entertainment value.
That’s just how it works.
I think this show further confirms the fact that the male gender is definitely the more sensible, logical, selfless and respectful gender of the human race.
(*shields self from imminent bombardment*)
I mean, apart from Scott (Kourtney’s boyfriend), who can be a bit of a jerk at times…all the other guys in the family, i.e. Rob and Bruce are actually really level-headed and cool guys.
Whereas people like Kris, Kim and of course Khloe can be very rude, manipulative and self-centered at times, as demonstrated in the episode.
I like how Rob is always the voice of reason amidst the tension and selfish jealously being generated because of Khloe’s wedding.
He’s keeping it real, and that’s cool.
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Vera Wang
Anyway, there was this scene in Part 3 which showed Khloe flying all the way to New York to specially meet up with the great Vera Wang herself for a wedding dress fitting.
I didn’t really care much for the dress, but this scene made me think: I think Vera Wang has one of the best jobs in the world, cos what she does is she makes the dreams of thousands of women come true.
In that she gives them the dream wedding which they’ve been fantasising about their entire lives, by making the perfect wedding dress for them to wear.
(And she makes tons of money in the process as well lah.)
What could be better than that?
I think a job is meaningful when you can see that what you’re doing actually makes people happy and makes their dreams come true.
If I really wanted to look at it that way, I guess I could say that to a certain extent, my job does that as well.
(Yes, I do have the capacity to help make a very small portion of people’s wedding dreams come true as well, which I have been doing lately…but of course not to the extent of Vera Wang.)
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Looking forward to catching the remaining 5 parts! =)
As if we needed further confirmation, Manny Pacquiao defeated Miguel Cotto in the 12th round via TKO to cement his already legendary status as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world today…if not one of the best of all-time.
According to reports, it was Pacquiao who was in control of proceedings, proving the much better fighter between the two.
Right now there is only one fight to be made in boxing…and that is Pacquiao-Mayweather.
It’s what the world wants to see, and it’s probably going to be the biggest fight ever made in boxing in the last ten, fifteen years.
Whether it will actually happen is anyone’s guess, but if there’s one thing boxing needs in order to remain relevant in the age of MMA and UFC, it is Pacquiao-Mayweather for sure.
