Halloween Celebration 2014!!

26th October 2014: Halloween Escape

Last year's Halloween celebration was a blast! Even better than my birthday actually to be honest. Celebrated twice with the best people around! First one was Halloween Escape at Shah Alam Wet World with the Escape Gang! Managed to buy the RM28 Early Bird tickets ^^. Was really glad to go on the 26th October (Sunday) as there's less people compared to Saturdays/near halloween and it's drizzling so we didn't really have to queue much.

Ticket comes with free Sakae Sushi coupon! I just realised I forgot to pass them the coupon =___=. But I did not use them myself, still stuck in the pile of papers in my study room ahem.

 



My OOTD! Super casual for easy movement~ Cap and top from Hard Rock Tokyo.

 



We had our dinner at this Beef Noodles restaurant in Puteri Puchong. Sadly it was my first time even though I'm from Puchong lolol. Adam really liked the beef noodles and chilli here, and he sweated so much that it was kinda amazing haha.

 



At the venue before going in!

 



There were only very few ghost around, and we kind of recognised all of them hahahhaa, new buddies for Adam! But I have to admit that they were much more professional compared to the ones in Sunway Lagoon. The games were quite tough, or perhaps the time given was really little. The main game was really difficult, especially going through the long path of haunted house, quite tiring (and I broke by bag while crawling =___=; was screaming but not coz of the ghost, i was shocked that my bag broke LOL, it's a legend now). We managed to clear 3 out of 4 of the mini games, and failed the final main one. It was rather pressuring to try to think of the clues while getting scared by sudden screams and ghost popping up haha. Nevertheless it was really fun! Would definitely wanna go again next time.

 

Of course the 'must-buy' blood bag! People who have known me may know that I'm a fan of vampires, so I was kinda enjoying the look of drinking from the blood bag!

 



We took the trouble to drink our same blood type, to ensure smooth tranfusion. Le selfie with bloog bag!

 



Adam wanted to drink in a more....fierce and rough way LOL.

 

Bloog Bag GROUPFIE!!! From Left: Erin, Melissa, Me and Adam.

 

And now with our new supernatural/ghost friends: **Photos are blurred because it's hard to capture at night**

The grim reaper - The one who rejected Adam few times LOL.

Adam's best friend the chinese giong xi. This Giong Xi is really nice, he knew that we wanted a photo with him but the place he stood was really dark. So when we move to another place queing for the game, he actually walked to us just so that we can take this shot ^^

 

The prison ghost - we met him while going out after he removed his makeup hahaha. I recognised him!

There isn't much photos because...we were busy playing. Have to make our money worth! I'll definitely want to go again if there's something like this this year. I love my escape gang~

31st October 2014: Nights of fright 2

Went with my lovely band members (some of them).

Prepared some treats for my colleagues and friends this year! And bought this cute pumpkin sweet case to fill my treats hehe. The screaming shocked face was the souvenir from my mum, from Chiang Mai. Told Taro that I'll look like that throughout the event because i'm scared of ghosts haha.

 

Had dinner at Johnny Rockets!

Passion Fruit Milk Shake. Should have try those normal flavors like Vanilla or choc.

My order, Cheese Corned Beef fries. Shared this with Taro, because the serving was seriously huge.

My OOTD: I was a Neko (cat) that day! Neko Mimi+ Neko Dress+ Neko tights and Neko bag hahaha.

May not be visible but I was wearing a special Neko eyelash bought when I was in Japan. Wonder when will they be available in Malaysia. They were soooo cute!

 



The Many selfies of Me and Joee!~ Really love her hair color, was purple that time!

Group Photo! 4 CrestFallens and one Joee's friend (sorry forgot your name ><)

From Left: Taro, Me, Carlson, Joee's friend and Joee

 

OMG THE QUEUE EVERYWHERE WAS SCARYYYYY. So long that we missed some of the nicer haunted houses. But I'm glad I went with them, we chatted all night while waiting and it's still fun hanging out with them ^^

 

Some photos while waiting for our rides/attractions:

Next time if we are going, we will pick some other days other than Halloween day itself hahaha, too much crowd and so hard to move around! Perhaps going to Halloween escape, since it's so much more fun hehe.

 

The night parade was quite interesting though, at around 11pm.

 

The ending of the Halloween Nights of Fright 2.

 

Lastly a groupfie of us going for our final haunted house: (I love this photo haha, Taro looks interesting getting nearer to the screen lol).

2014 ACG Fiesta, UTAR Sg Long

Super Backdated post: 22 March 2014
(Although typed this right after the day lol)

I just had a short mini 2 piece acoustic performance with Joee (The CrestFall's keyboardist) at ACG Fiesta 2014, UTAR Sungai Long. Here's the page if you guys wanna know more about the event: ACG Fiesta.

We broke the record of shortest practice time before performance LOL, but it wasn't as scary as the time where our full band only met up for the FIRST (means we haven't even see each other before) time TWO days before the band performance, that was seriously nerve wrecking. This time we only met up twice for practice; first one was the Monday before the performance where both of us weren't really prepared ahem, and the 2nd practice was few hours before the performance =__=. I was feeling uneasy and all, but we were all in 'nankurunaisa~" (whatever will be will be) mode. 

Selfie of the day~

I have to say though, this is a really small event (with very few booths and a small hall), but the committees were really helpful and friendly (example we were given a room to rest and practice)~ The audience were very supportive by singing along with us~ and were very attentive and cheered for us even though there's some who have never heard the songs before ^^. So both of us had quite a fun time performing and spending time together.  

Some performance pictures~

This year's performance was a whole lot better than last year's, in terms of the PA and sound equipments etc; but somehow our performance was full of echos in the hall which I don't really know why. And as usual we can't really hear ourselves on stage (there's no monitor), but I'm starting to get used to this (am being quite pro performing in worse situations). Performance wise I think we did quite well!~ I did some lyrics mistakes here and there but I don't think anyone would realize during the live performance ^^.

I'm looking forward for more performances with my band, really miss spending time with them. Kinda regret not buying stuff from the booths haiz, I was too tired to look around. 

Ending the post with performance videos:

1st song : The Beginning by ONE OK ROCK

2nd song: Everything's Alright by Laura Shigihara -- from the game 'To The Moon"

3rd song: Pledge by The Gazette

Acoustic Band Performance @ACG Fiesta UTAR Sungai Long

 

Event: Anime Cosplay Games (ACG) Fiesta

Venue: UTAR Sungai Long Campus South Lobby

Date: 26-27 June (Wednesday & Thursday) 11am-4pm

 

Before event: Practice

 

Around Mid-June I got a message from Carlson (CrestFall band leader) to sort of ask me if it's possible to go perform for this event since our band got invited to perform. I find the dates rather rushed and find it impossible to gather for a full electric band performance; however an idea crossed me that I could try out for a 3 pcs acoustic band performance instead since my keyboardist and guitarist were itching to perform as well.

 

And off we go, the usual meet up practice process lol. This time we've decided to meet at my place instead of booking a studio because...well, there's only 3 of us. We did a total of 3 practices, but rather long and relaxed hours because it's free (duh it's my house) and there's no time restrictions. First practice is Always, always and always very laid back as most members haven't prepared and practice well, especially David (guitarist) who didn't even listen to the song once before the practice.

 

Nevertheless it was real fun being together with them, can't stop our laughters whenever David said something or even when he did nothing wth. On our first practice we had Sushi Tei for dinner, and due to David's forgetfullness or funny-ness or whatever, i spilled green tea on my sushi =_=. Well no use crying over spilled tea on sushi i guess lol.

 

2nd practice is a little different because we were practicing for about 2 hours before going for a Music Composition Workshop at Bentley Music. Thanks a lot to Akiko for the directions!

The workshop was "...". It literally made me speachless hahaha. All the speaker has to say was "it's very hard to explain composing, all you need is feel". Which is rather lame as most of us has music background and I'm sure we would hope to learn up some skills which would help to ease the process of composing. Just like a teacher asking students to FEEL the drawing to learn how to draw, so very "helpful".

 

But! I fell in love with the entire building that is filled with music equipments and books and instruments!!! Really feel like getting a sequencer >_<.

 

Our final (3rd) practice went rather well, and we decided to drop a song because we got too bored playing it. Personally I still feel that we didn't practice thoroughly enough but I guess it's just me, I couldn't stand if there's any mistakes during practice lol. But am trying hard to control myself and let things go a bit since, well, not everyone is like me.

 

I'm rather satisfied with the song choice this time: Wherever you are by One OK Rock; Last song by Gackt; and This Love by Angela Aki. I've did Wherever you are with Osiria Rose before, and I definitely miss the duet with their vocalist. Last song was a great song to cover for an acoustic performance so I totally bought the idea of doing this right when Joee (keyboardist) brought this up. As for This Love, am feeling really excited and happy practicing this song as it's quite a high level song and I've been wanting to sing it for years and do not have the ability to do so.

 

Event day

It was of course, a rather small event since the campus is quite small to me lol. Anyway, outfit of the day!

 

Matte Sequin top and grey skinny jeans (both from Mango, jeans got them from Spain ^^); washed light blue jeans cap; back studded boots.

Max love my sequin top because it's really rare to find a matte sequin because usually they are all shiny and disco looking.

 

 

Here's our (performers) resting area. A small lecture hall ^^ Unfortunately we didn't make full use of the room for warm ups because we spent most of the time setting up the stage and EQs (which is kinda pointless because the PA people tempered with it right after we set =_=).

 

The event has very few stalls, selling document files, handmade goodies, sushi lol.

 

 

Really love this file~ Bought them for my sis. I feel like getting one as well but I know I'll just keep it aside and won't use it since it's too pretty haha.

 

Handmade goodies~~ Kinda regretted not buying.

 

As predicted, David was late, apparently his car broke down. Setting up took a while because there's some problem with the speaker (it got burst haizzz, don't know why PA people didn't go change it). For some reason the usually chilled to the core David went nervous, probably his first time singing while playing the guitar.

 

First song (Wherever you are by One ok Rock) was okay, nothing much except our mics got toned down. It was rather soft so I was pretty worried about the dynamics. 2nd song (Last song by Gackt) was a disaster lol. First the keyboard and PA settings got messed up, then Joee's mic became so soft that her solo was difficult to be heard and I went near her to hold my mic for her. And then came the biggest disaster: Joee's keyboard cable got unplugged ohnoessss.

 

While Joee singing I realised that there was no power from the keyboard, and there's no lights on the screen! And then I looked at the floor....cable was lying flat. I picked the cable and showed her, and panic attack begins!! Ergh it was quite a brain storming process trying to think what to do to continue the performance.

 

Before the 3rd song (This Love by Angela Aki), we paused for several minutes to try to set the equipments but it's kinda futile. I don't get why the stage crews did not change the speakers while we paused our performance, instead, they changed it AFTER our performance *criessss*

 

Our This Love was okay, except some mistakes here and there on the keyboard; but thats acceptable after the panic attack. Personally I did not make mistakes for this performance and am kinda proud that I'm levelled up enough to sing Angela Aki songs~ YAY~~

 

Some on-the-stage pictures:

 

 

 

Two pictures below were taking by Joee's sister, it's blurry since she did not realise there's thumb prints on the lens hahaha. But it made us look as if we are performing in the midst of haze, kinda cool lol

 

 

 

Like got some light effects right haha.

I hope to perform This Love again, next time a much better cover! Why why why Animangaki's performance slot not open yet T_T.

Most of the problems in this performance were caused by the inexperience of stage crews in the event, as such the way they handled situation and made wrong decisions gave us huge problems during our performance. But still, they were all really nice and friendly, and tried their best to work their first-time event out; so I hope they could improve and make a better event next time~

 

I'll end with two videos from this performance, do enjoy~

Serdang Countdown 2013

31 December 2012

Around the beginning of December last year I received a call from my cousin who was the counsellor of MPSJ to do a band performance for their Serdang Countdown event at Seri Kembangan. After several discussions with our band members, we decided to go perform, but with a slight member change: Rhythm guitarist was Raee (Daniel's friend) and Drummer was Milo (borrowed from Dustin's band).

December was a really scary month for me last year, as half of the month I was occupied with my studies, and after that I went for a trip to Singapore, relatives came over to visit for Comic Fiesta and a 3 days continuous performance to end my year. Looking back it was seriously pretty hectic, I don't even know how the heck I survived. So back to the Countdown performance topic, our band was supposed to perform for a set of 45minutes. My cousin prefers a performance with mix of languages, so we decided to perform 2 english, 2 chinese, and 2 japanese songs for the countdown.

Event poster:

Preparation and Jamming

I couldn't recall how many times we jammed for this performance, maybe at most 3 times, since it's the CrestFall curse lol, we were always pretty rushed for almost everything. The final jamming was the night before the countdown event, which I have to go jamming right after my Christmas busking performance at sunway pyramid (see how messed up my schedule is--i'm copying what David always say haha).

As you can see from the pictures below, I was still wearing my performance outfit, the green mori-styled dress. For the final jamming, my sister decided to come along to listen (if i'm not wrong she joined us for two jamming sessions while we were preparing for the countdown event); and Acap came along to support too~ He went to Sunway to support me and Carlson's christmas busking during the day, and joined our jamming session at night. He even went to the Countdown event that day to support us, thanks soooo much! Carlson joined the jamming session helping us take pictures too~ It was the only session that has so many people joining, the merriest jamming ever.

 

Discussing some stuff..

Resting while discussing on our performance outfit

Group shot without flash

With flash

Performance day - Before performance

My mum and I went to the venue early in the morning to make sure we got the place right (plus testing out our new GPS). At that time the place was still really empty, and I thought it was just a really small event, nothing to worry about. But after reaching there, I knew I was kinda wrong. There was a huge crowd there, I couldn't even see the end of the crowd from the stage, haha. Apparently the whole street was closed for the event.

We all reached there rather early, but I somehow still felt really rushed. Probably due to the sound engineers being late, so we were unable to do our sound check on time. And when they did came, all other performers wanted to do sound check as well ==. Seriously can't believe that sound engineers could be late for their jobs; and not just that! Their knowledge with the props is seriously speechless--they plug on the cables wrongly ohmygod. And at first they don't even bother about us, trying to ignore us when we asked for help on the sound check. Many problems with the props for example there were no keyboard amps, the guitar amps did not have distortion, no monitors, many many more..i could use another blog post for that lol.

It was pretty much a huge challenge to perform on such a stage where everything is insufficient (even the cables were extremely short so my band members have to be stucked behind haha). I was kinda panic before performing arranging slots to do more sound checks because Daniel realised the problems on the cables, and also thinking how to drag our performance for at least 40 minutes hahaha.

The Crowd:

 

My parents were in this picture, my cousin too ^^.

View from the stage: you guys don't really get to see this view unless you are a performer lol. And I personally love seeing this from up the stage, sort of my drive to perform ^^

During Performance: 

To me, my time on stage always flies by so fast, this time was a little harder because I was seriously working hard on dragging our performance to fulfill the time slot given. The organisers wanted us to perform longer as they have not much performance left for the night, and they wanted the crowd to stay until 12am for the fireworks display. I asked help from the emcees, to chit chat with us during our performance break, and it kinda works lol.

 It's really hard to find picture that has all of our band members in it. I've been digging hard from my picture album and gotten a few to show ^^.

There's no me in this picture because I was standing further in front. The stage was really (really) huge BUT the cables were short ==. So you see our band lineup all behind hahaha. And Raee was covered by the smoke, can only see his leg.

One more thing about the performance is the smoke and spotlights. It's really cool since it was my first time performing which those effects and it looks kinda amazing haha, feels like a super star. I couldn't see the audience at all since the smokes were everywhere (but i heard comments from the audience and they said they could see us clearly haha), I guess it's good for people who wants to perform but has stage fright. The spotlights were really hot, but I'm kinda used to it because some other stage has it.

More pictures of us in action:

 This was when I was chatting with the emcees (to drag time). We talked many lame stuff, and I feel kinda stupid, but whatever works well works ^^. During the break Joee played To Zanarkand from FFX, and after that the emcee talking session for around 3-4 minutes.

 This was the guy who gave me that red flower lol. And I forgot the next line of lyrics hahahaha. but no one realise I guess so it's fine ^^

Song list:

1. Hirano Aya - God Knows : This was cool coz when we started off the audience faces was epic, all like "HUH?" hahaha. I purposely chose Japanese as the first song to give people a shock.)

2. Taylor Swift - Sparks Fly

3. Sun Yanzi - First Day

Break: To Zanarkand (Joee's Solo)

4. ZONE - Secret Base

5. Rainie Yang - Yu Ai

6. Aerosmith - I don't wanna miss a thing

Members:

 Lead Guitarist - Daniel

 Rhythm Guitarist - Raee

 Bassist - Dustin

 Keyboardist - Joee

 Drummer - Milo

 Members playing~

And lastly, me the Vocalist ^^

It was a really great experience for us, and I really hope we could get more chances to perform in future. Thanks for reading such a long post~ Just wanted to write down whatever I could remember for the event, so that I could look back in the future ^^

Here's the performance videos: