David Archuleta - To be With You

Specially dedicating this beautiful song to my precious princess...



I'm missing you here..

Everyone is No. 1

I joined a seminar. They put up this song. I never know there's a song like this. Motivational. I think I'm gonna listen once every single morning.

Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Tour 2008

Venue: London The O2 Arena
Date: 4 June 2008
It was my first live concert that I attend and it was my first time seeing Avril Live, again and it was my first time sitting in The O2 Arena London which is the most popular venue in the world!!
Unfortunately I went alone.... which was a little disappointing, but I met a Greek Avril fan who sat beside me. He was a nice guy though. Anyway....
The concert is made up of 2 parts. First part was Jonas Brothers' performance which was only around 30minutes. There were lots of Jonas fans as well who went there but of course mainly for Avril.
After their performance for around 30 minutes, preparations for the REAL concert starts... more people started to gather up and I'm not very sure if all the people down there were using the right tickets... but anyway... it was hell lots of people down there... I got my seat this far from the stage!!! which is a shame as I was hesitating too much before buying tickets so in the end I only got my tickets around April which is 5 months after the tickets were released...
30 minutes later.... The Best Damn Tour London officially launched!!! And of course the first song is the hit single Girlfriend in her latest album "The Best Damn Thing". Well... spot Avril yourself.... it was too far away... urgh...
Image on the big screen beside the stage...Avril on piano for the song "When You're Gone". Avril on acoustic guitar... forgot which song was that...
Avril on drums... also forgotten which song was that... :(
Avril on electric guitar...
And the ending song... "Sk8er Boi" which is one of her famous songs in her first album "Let Go". It really stirs up all the fans....
And there goes 2 hours... it really felt shorter than ever... good times really flies...

In the end, I edited a video of some footage which I took with my camera... As I only had 512Mb of memory, I didn't took longer videos. So... enjoy...

OK Go - Here It Goes Again

What the heck is that? Well, it's a really unique music video. I first heard this song and the video from this year's Big Brother 9 on Channel 4. It was one of their task to perform this music video.

The whole music video is just simple and cheap to make, only time needed to practice all the moves. I think it only involves 8 treadmills and a camera that's all.

Anyway, enjoy the video and tell me what you think.

The All American Rejects - Move Along

Recently I just heard this song called Move Along by AAR. I was first attracted to its music then when I find the lyrics of this song online, I was really into it. Actually this song is dated back in year 2005 if I'm not mistaken. The lyrics are quite simple but inspiring. I really need this song for my life now and years to come.



Go ahead as you waste your days with thinking
When you fall everyone sins
Another day and you've had your fill of sinking
With the life held in your
Hands are shaking cold
These hands are meant to hold

Speak to me, when all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through
Move along
Move along

So a day when you've lost yourself completely
Could be a night when your life ends
Such a heart that will lead you to deceiving
All the pain held in your
Hands are shaking cold
Your hands are mine to hold

Speak to me, when all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through
Move along
(Go on, go on, go on, go on)

When everything is wrong we move along
(Go on, go on, go on, go on)
When everything is wrong, we move along
Along, along, along

When all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through
[x3]

(Move along)
(Go on, go on, go on, go on)
Right back what is wrong
We move along

Amazing vocal....

Adrian just sent me a link from Youtube which interested me to share with you all. This guy here, Nick Pitera, really has amazing vocals. He can sing men and women voices... look at one of the videos. This song is originally by Alicia Keys. Song: No One. I posted the original music video below in case you never heard before.



It's amazing... hehe... you can view Nick's profile for more of his singings.

Audi R8

Have you heard of this super car? Even though I'm more of a BMW fan but this beauty really makes me fall in love with it. It was launched last year in England for £77k as only around 430 was imported.As for the TV advertisement, I really love it as well. The soundtrack - "Beep Beep Song" by Simone White is so lovely that I download the whole album.



Audi - Vorsprung durch Technik
Audi R8 Microsite

Dragon Boat Race

It was a lovely Sunday (2-Sept-07) morning and my aunt was suggesting the previous night that we go to the dragon boat race held at Hanningfield Reservoir nearby. It is an event for the 50th anniversary celebration of Essex & Suffolk Water. Before going out, aunt's friend called to ask for extra hand for her team as their drummer was injured and was unable to attend. Aunt suggested me....

I was shocked and surprised that me, a spectator, suddenly turn into a participant!! So we head out. It was amazing seeing so many people at the lakeside waiting for the event to start off. The main control tent of the event

There were actually 16 teams participating but one of them pulled out... or chickened out? So this is aunt's friend, Caroline, who's very friendly. Our team members were all wearing viking horns.

And this is our team... named "Hidden Tiger Crouching Dragon Boat" What do you think about that name? cool? Soon it's our turn... and there we are listening to the briefing and preparing ourselves. That white t-shirt guy with 2 hands stretching is me. I'm standing in front as I'm their drummer.. We compete against the green shirt guys who were beside us.
So we went off... and this is the first round...
Crossing the finishing line, just a close win, with our time nearly at the bottom of the chart. LOL~~
This were other teams competing...
This is the second round for our team and we had a great win over the same team in first round... but sadly our time only improved 0.21 seconds... we had fun though.
Then it's time to have lunch and I had this. Chinese stir fry with sweet & sour chicken, costing £4.50. The other choices are with vegetables or curry. There were other food around as well. After that, it was our final round but sadly we failed badly as we even lose to the previous team which we won twice.
So this is the winning trophy. What do you think? I think they were stunning.
This is the time chart in the end of the qualifying rounds. The fastest 4 teams compete in the final round. Here is the video of the final round.

In the end, the winning team is "Super Heroes"!! How great were their costumes...

This is the announcer's car. He had been in Dragon Boat events for many years, so his car's number... DRA66ON = DRAGON. This registered number must had cost him a bomb.

For more official photos, go to www.dragonboatevents.com and click for Events > September - Oct > Sunday 2nd September - Billericay, Essex - camera icon and look at the photos. You can spot me in 2 of the photos. Sorry that I can't provide the direct link of the photo page as the page is in Flash format.

The Orsett Show

First day of September, that's last Saturday, I went to The Orsett Show with aunt and granny. The Orsett show is a traditional agricultural town show held in Orsett since 1895. The show provides a mix of both town and country attractions to provide a great family day out with plenty for all the family to see and do.
The weather was fine that day, sunny, windy but not freezing. The entrance cost £9 per person but you can stay there for whole day and watch any shows. Too many shows to see though. You can even go out the show ground and come back again whenever you want.
I didn't took many photos of the crowds, more focussed on the events. The first event which caught my attention was the motorcycle show. They really got guts to do that. There are 2 riders taking turns to showoff their skills and in the end, they both 'fly' together...

Sorry about the video, it was not taken properly as I can't see the screen of my camera.

After that, I went around the tents... and I saw this...
Our very own Proton Satria Neo on display... this is the basic 1.3L version, selling at £7995. I wonder how are the sales figures....

Agriculture Tent

It was very interesting seeing that there are competitions going on. Contestants brought their best harvested fruits or vegetables to enter the competition and the judges will judge the best of all.

Potatoes

Cacti

Carrots

Tomatoes

Home-made Wine

Flowers

The Heaviest: pumpkins and marrows

other categories are like cabbage, onions, turnips and etc. That's for the agriculture tent...

Arts & Crafts tent

Basically I didn't took many photos as most of them were arts. This is the baking contest where the concept is basically similar to the one above.

This is the one which impressed me. How are the ships look? Nice? Printed? Postcard? No. They were painted by hands on a piece of stone!! This marine artist really impressed me. He can draw every ship in the world as he has all of the ships' informations.
So much for the art & craft tent... we move on to the outdoors...

Steam engines

So here is the steam engines' show. As you can see, this one below is huge, and it's the biggest in all others.
while this one.... is the smallest... cute eh? even the whistle sounds so cute..
This is 1 of the 2 early steam rollers in the show...
and this... is the oldest engine. And it's my favourite. It looks like a sports car design though.. Long wheel base and low central of gravity.
Coming up next is the classic cars' show. As of space reason, and I know readers are not fan of cars, I just show you this picture. Behind the classic cars are the steam engines earlier on.
That's all the shows that I was able to watch. Some random photos below to share with you all...
This wooden cow here is for you to milk it. Of course, brown fake wooden cow comes with brown fake milk...
This is one of the horse in the stables. There was a horse race later in the afternoon which I was unable to watch due to time limit.
Horse shoe making... which is interesting to see. I think this industry is becoming rarer nowadays.
And this is the photo which I like the most in all the photos which I took that day. I don't really know the reasons though. Just like it.

Anyway, other than the above events, there are still dog shows, donkey rides, amusement park, terrier racing and etc which I was unable to see. Farm rare breeds were available as well. There was also helicopter rides which cost £25 per person for don't know how long is the ride.

That's the Orsett Show.