Thriller Live in Malaysia 2015

Hey you guys! How's everyone doing? :)

Today, I headed to the Putra Indoor Stadium at Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur to catch West End’s Thriller Live which was a musical celebration of MJ’s illustrious career, chronicling the Jackson 5’s early pop years right up to the 1970s, followed by the solo Michael Jackson years. It is still on until until March 25 so you guys can still catch it!; information: visit www.ticketcharge.com.my or call 03-9222 8811.

The show is here in Malaysia for the first time ever with over 21 international cast members, 11-piece live band(I am so so in love with the live band.) and the actual stage set and props all the way from London. And I totally enjoyed it even though I wasn't a hardcore fan of the late King of Pop.

The show is very much like a tribute concert, and not a musical play with plots and characters. Instead of having one person pretending to be MJ, the late legend's personality and personas are divided into a few incredible lead vocalists who perform the King of Pop's hit songs along with energetic dancers, colourful visuals and special effects, it's a full MJ musical journey experience indeed. However, just like most theater production, there are two acts with an interval in between. Act 1 kicks off with a bit of MJ's history before taking the audience back in time with songs from The Jackson 5 including I Want You Back, ABC and I'll Be There, performed with retro-style visuals and costumes. I especially loved the few moments with solo electric guitar performances. That was just, wow.

The talented and charming performers were very interactive; at one part they split the crowd into two and seem which could shout the loudest, and they got the strong crowd to not only sing along, but during several songs, majority of the audience got onto their feet, clapped and moved to the beat as well. The dance choreography is amazing and dancers are highly energetic throughout the entire show. The song arrangements, if I'm not mistaken, are mostly faithful to the original except for the obvious ones like the opening Jackson 5 medley; the vocals, needless to say, was pitch perfect.

In the second half of Act 1, the show begins performing songs from MJ's solo career as well like Dangerous and Rock With You. On this night, I thought the act was stolen by Australian rocker MiG Ayesa when he performed the heart wrenching ballad She's Out of My Life. Besides singing and dancing, Ayesa also plays the role of a host/emcee who does the opening speech and introduces his colleagues. The act closed with a strong performance of The Jackson 5's Can You Feel It, and it was like as though they're asking if we were warmed up and ready for an even more entertaining act after the coming interval. Yes, I felt it!

Act 2 features the stronger and more popular hits including Beat It, Smooth Criminal, Man in the Mirror, They Don't Really Care About Us, Earth Song, Billie Jean, Bad, Black & White, and of course, Thriller. The practically perfect performance made Act 1 seemed as though it was just a sound check. Former The Voice UK contestant Alex Buchanan stands out vocally as his growling sounds strikingly similar to MJ's when he sings the "rockier" parts and songs like Beat It and They Don't Really Care About Us. The iconic dance moves like the moonwalk and the anti-gravity lean are assigned to be to led by one of the other lead vocalists, Sean Christopher,(who after watching this show, I am now a huge fan) who dresses like MJ in entire show, and his performance killed it as well. The rest of cast also did a very good with MJ's other styles, personas and personalities, particularly with MJ's trademark falsetto

Thriller Live is one gig that fans of Michael Jackson should never miss when it's in town. It was truly a complete and sincere celebration of MJ's magical music and career, and I was blown away by how great it was. Even the King of Pop himself, although we know he was a perfectionist, may have approved if he was still around today. 

Watch this mini trailer of the show!

PS: Photos are not mine. 

Till next post!

With love, k
xx

Nuffnang 8irthday!

Hello there,

First, I'd like to thank Nuffnang for the invite & also, Happy Birthday! Me and my plus one had a blast. :)

So I started off my day, rushing. Was rushing to dress-up, put on make up, do my hair and pack my bags. Yes, bags(I have more than 2 events today). Arrive at Zouk Club almost half an hour late, thanks to me, registered and got door gifts!

Thank you :

#ForetBlanc for the prettily packed macaroon,

#MilkCowMY for the small jar of honey,

#HeinekenMY for the set of headphones

#RADKL, #StripMY, #GardenOfDazzle, #BenefitMY for all discount vouchers.

Much love. x

Since it wasn't time for lunch yet, everyone satisfied their sweet tooth with amazing ice cream from #MilkCowMY, cakes & macaroons from #ForetBlanc, and drinks from #StrongBow, #FiftySixDegrees and #Heineken.

And then it was lunch time! The buffet spread was so good. *drools* It's making me hungry now. Aw man. 

Followed by a few Q&A for some bloggers, lucky draws(I SWEAR I WAS THIS CLOSE TO GETTING IT but nope.), and prize giving for best dressed. Overall, it was great. Loved the atmosphere, loved the food especially, and loved the experience. Can't wait for many more to come. :)

Also, if you're reading this, thanks so much Gab! For being my date and driver. Hahahaha. Take care of that leg of yours, have faith that it's temporary. x

Left Zouk in a rush just to attend another event which will be in the next blog post since I'm still waiting on some pictures and videos from my mates. 

Till next post.
with love, k
xx

The 5 Times We Put Fears in Place of Emotions.

So many things in life are labeled strange, abnormal or scary. Would we look at things the way we do if society hadn’t marked them that way? Or are our fears just our mental insecurities, manifesting themselves into things we’ve been told are acceptable?

1. Ghosts. We breathe easy knowing we’re in the safety of our own home. Confined within walls, behind a deadbolt, with 9-1-1 on speed dial. Ghosts take that security and leave us helpless. To be in the presence of a ghost is the all too familiar feeling of being trapped within ourselves, with nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. The mere idea of being powerless, is enough to break us down.

2. Spiders. (my kind of nightmare)
Although many spiders are less dangerous then a bear, we’re quicker to scream, “ew”, than “aw”.  We fear the unknown and we hate the idea of living amongst something so different then us. It’s not surprising that we hate spiders, as we’re guilty of looking at everyone ‘different’ then us as though they have eight legs.

3. Needles. We hate sitting in the doctor’s office. Tapping our foot and waiting for a nurse to register our flu shot. Just before the needle goes in, we grow anxious. We wait for the sting, knowing it’s coming and knowing it’s not worth the stress. We torture ourselves in the final seconds as anticipation has the ability to be one of our most agonizing experiences.

4. Heights. With heights comes trust. We have to trust that we won’t fall, we won’t lose our step, we won’t end up victim to a push. The idea of our fate being out of our control is unacceptable. The idea of making a mistake or a misstep that ends in more then a scrapped knee is overwhelming. One of our greatest comforts in life is knowing there’s a way to get back up after a fall.

5. Dark. Nothing tightens our breath or sends chills down our spine like the idea of walking through a dark forest, alone. We know it’s full of trees and timid squirrels, but we know that’s beneath the sunlight. The night tells a different story. The night is dark, and quiet, and unknown. We hate when we have to trust that there’s nothing looking to harm us for we know very well, there are times when the strength of our mind and the strength of our legs, simply won’t be enough.

Hiheyhohello, people who are actually reading this.
Sometimes it dumbfounds me that people
actually read what I write.
Or maybe they don't.
Oh wells, their lost. ;)
Had a pretty busy busy week.
Dying for a breakkkk.
Have a great weekend guys!

with love, k
xoxo

10 Thing I Wish I Knew Before College.

1. There’s a way to balance doing well in school and a having a social life. Sometimes it will mean staying in on a Friday night, and sometimes it will mean sleeping in through an 8 a.m. class.

2. There’s nothing scarier yet more exciting than the freedom that is college. It’s easy to get overwhelmed but a few phone calls home will always keep you grounded.

3. Leaving High School doesn’t mean leaving the ‘popular kids’ and in-class cliques. However, it should mean that you’ve found peace with who you are and where you fit in.

4. In the end, it may cost more money to pursue a degree you don’t want than it would to drop out and reconsider your path. On a similar note, there’s a stigma to taking a ‘year off’, but that could be exactly what you need before making such a big decision.

5. Despite what we’re told, college isn’t the time to discover yourself. It’s the time to push your limits, find your strengths and experiment with who you are. Chances are, you won’t find true clarity until after you graduate.

6. It’ll take hard work and will-power, but there’s a way to beat the work load or overload, just don't procrastinate. Ever. Okay maybe once. Or twice. 

7. There may be a day when you look at your pictures from college and not remember more than 3 names. Fortunately, those whose names you do remember, have the ability to be life long friends if you let them.

8. There’s a balance between your home life and college life. It may take time to figure this out, but learning to maintain all relationships will make things easier when you need an escape from either world.

9. The ‘poor college student’ stereotype is not far from false. Spend the summer prior to college building a budget that can withstand your school and social needs. You’ll quickly learn than textbooks and food are the biggest money grab.

10. Just like High School, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll countdown the days until you graduate. But, don’t ever let these years pass you by .You’ll never have an experience like college again so enjoy every minute, every second, every cloudy memory you get from it.

with love, k
x

50 shades of BS

Heyho,

So I manage to free up some time today to watch the supposedly 'long awaited film' of the book, Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James. If you don't know this trilogy, the books follow the romance of Christian Grey and Anastacia Steele. Christian is a dashing, twenty something gazillionaire, who's a tortured soul due to a harsh early childhood that left him orphaned and mentally and physically scarred. Luckily, he was adopted by an affluent, loving couple, but a bored, married, female friend of the couple decided to make Christian her sexual submissive while he was a handsome teenager doing yard work for her.

Anastacia Steele is a demure, clumsy, awkwardly dressed yet naturally stunning college senior with a perfect figure who interviews Grey for an article in the college paper as her roommate, Kate, had caught on a sickness of flu. Upon her stumbling into his office, he's so smitten with her irresistible ways that he asks his staff sleuth to get the details on her. He arranges to happen into the hardware store where she works to pick up a few of his bondage necessities. The books portray their tumultuous romance and subsequent marriage.

Christian originally sets out to make Anastacia his sexual submissive, and while she does initially entertain the idea, reads the rules, and tries to play the part, she finds that it's just not in her nature to do it well because obedience outside of the bedroom is also required. Early on, she risks a spanking any time she rolls her eyes, talks to another man, disobeys an instruction, or otherwise arbitrarily angers the controlling Christian.

Throughout the books Anastacia spends lots of time trying to predict and anticipate Christian's reactions, thoughts, and moods. She's happy and her "inner goddess does an arabesque" when Christian is happy with her and things are going well. Her inner goddess looks sternly over her half-moon glasses questioning Anastascia's decisions and actions when they may not be in her best interest. She does this a lot. If you have no idea what I'm saying, read the goddamn book.

The relationship is based on ownership, control, assuming, and reacting. It's the typical "bad boy turns into a prince charming who rescues the maiden who turns out to be a beautiful princess" fairy tale.

Anastacia, who was a virgin when they met, is able to make Christian, a man who has been into "kinky fuckery" for years, explode in ecstasy with just a few minutes of her novice, vanilla skills. Just the sight of Anastacia biting her lip drives Christian wild with uncontrollable desire. So very typical.

Anyways, the point of this post is that the movie was a complete and utter disappointment. The actor and actress, Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, were the biggest disappointment of all. It wasn't so much of their solo acting skills but more of the chemistry between them. Or in this case, the lack of chemistry between them. I mean, what were they thinking? This movie is all about chemistry and it looks like it completely slipped their mind when they cast both JD and DJ. Ironic how their initials are back and front and front and back of each letter. Argh, you know what I mean.

The only parts of the movie which I thoroughly enjoy was first, the soundtrack. Gosh, the soundtrack is amazing. One of my many favorites would be Ellie Golding's Love Me Like You Do. It was on my replay mode for 2 weeks. Hah! And the only scenes I liked was first, the part where JD & DJ danced together. They actually manage to show proper emotions and actually liked each other's company. Ditto to the part where they flew the glider, yeap that part was really good, I admit. But that's it. The other 85% of the movie was just a shit load of crap. 

Sorry, not sorry, if any feelings were 'hurt' in the process of reading this, you have pretty bad taste in movies is all I can say. Goodnight.

with love, k.h

Insomnia

Its 3AM. And you're still awake, when you shouldn't be. Slowly it starts happening. You start thinking and thinking and thinking till you can't stop.

These are the thoughts that happen when you're awake until sunrise. The ones where you start questioning existence, inspecting every one of your imperfections, and thinking of every single mistake you've made. You begin to wonder why you should still be around, what really matters after all.

This is when you start to question whether you should tell your best friend or your boyfriend or your girlfriend or simply, keep it bottled up inside your untamed mind.

What you think inside your head is all yours.

The thoughts I think are closed off to others by the walls of my skull and I like them to stay there.

Once you choose to speak a thought or act upon it, its no longer yours. Once you've been heard or seen people will judge and think about it.

And its not yours anymore.

The thoughts you think late at night that shake your heart and make your soul quiver are yours. No one can take them from you, no one can tell you you're wrong or right or weak or strong. Those thought are all for you to hold and keep and dwell in and forever hide because that's okay.

It's okay to hide sometimes. It's okay to have thoughts that never leave your mind. It's okay.

You don't have to share. Those thoughts are yours and are not meant for anyone else. Keep them close and keep them dear. And think before you speak.

You never know what thoughts can do.

So this was something I wrote some time ago on

my other blog; https://themirifical.wordpress.com/

and I just found in my drafts and decided to post

it up! :)

Have a great day!

with love, k

See the good in others

Hiya peeps,

So recently, I had a 'fight' with one of my mates. Until now, we aren't even talking. I guess it was sort of a misunderstanding as both of us were stressed out at that moment when it happened, especially if you are more emotional than usual, we tend to think irrationally and do or say things we normally wouldn't do or say when we're sane. And we both kinda blurted out hurtful things to each other and honestly, it made me think the worst of my mate cause I'd never expected such things to be said from them. I guess this is where the saying, 'expect nothing and you won't be disappointed.', comes in.

Anyways, my point is sometimes we tend to be overly straight forward that we wouldn't realize we're hurting someone till it's too late. Or we purposely pick out their flaws only to throw it back to their face. I think a lot of us out there tend to do this. Instead of seeing the good in others, we always pick out their "flaws" or not so good things. But on the other hand, we want so badly for others to see the good in us as well. It doesn't make sense, does it? Again, things like that is a cycle. You want people to see the good side of you, you should see the good in others as well. As the saying goes, 'If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all', right? If in your head, you wanna mention a sensitive issue, you're thinking "Should I mention it or nah because they might get hurt?". That's when you know you shouldn't mention it. Why take the risk of hurting them? Just keep it to yourself, yes?

Basically, I think we should all fight hard to start seeing the good in people first. Yes, sometimes it's very hard I know, especially the people you do not like. If you really have nothing good to point out, just keep quiet and ignore them, Hahhahahah. But yeah, always try to see the good side in others. We humans are all damn screwed up, I think we should really try to make it a better place so we all can live with less assholes in this world. I always try my hardest to do kind to people especially strangers because when someone does good to you, there is a chance of them paying that kindness forward. If more and more people pass on this kindness, we can live more peacefully and this world WILL be a better and SAFER (the caps lock to emphasize on our world's current state of security) You don't lose anything to be kind and say nice things right? Give it a try, it makes you feel a whole lot better too :)

Have a great weekend guys & its still CNY so Happy Chinese New Year to those who are celebrating it. Get loads of ang paos ya! :D

with love, k