Mosaic Music Festival Presents Broken Social Scene

and I hope the rumors will break your fall
guess it's gonna be love for the fucked up kid

No Feist. But we live.

Finally got the chance to see them live after enjoying so many of their tracks. Not the biggest of fan but it was enjoyable nonetheless. got auntie to go with me since mong had to make it for her daddy's birthday dinner.

I am really glad that finally the concert-goers start getting off their butts and enjoy themselves. The ushers had difficulty trying to get people to keep their cameras and I think nobody got stopped once the concert started.

Their take on Lover's Spit (which alot of people were screaming for) held everybody in rapture. The whole concert hall just fell into a quiet hush.

It was surreal.

No encores, no need for that. Because they played their hearts out for more than 2 hours. Still have The Bird & The Bee and Sondre Lerche to look forward to this coming week. Woots! Totally like Mosaic Music Festival.

Skipped the autograph session, ate dinner at lousy Gluttons' Square. Met Saiful (Great Spy Experiment) but missed his gig which was at the entrance foyer at 9pm.

Past mosaic attendances. KoC. J. Gonzales. and R. Yamagata.

ah shit, guess I'm in love with the fucked up kid

Shure SCL2

I jumped ship!

Shure SCL2

I am so sorry to Ivan from Norman Audio....cause Shure earphones are brought in by Ban Leong (somewhere in un-atas Ubi Ave 4 instead of assured atas-ness of Adelphi).

At $280 each, my ER6i was costing me way too much. I am already in my third pair because each lasted me for 6 months or so. Even though Ivan was kind enough to give me a half price "existing customer" price, it's still $140 half-yearly.

And the price difference is obvious.

Sound isolation is passive in the SCL2, just like ER6i. Both do it quite well. Although I will give the Shures a little bit more points in insulating ambient noise and comfort. Additionally, there seems to be less "thudding" due to the sound isolation. This thudding can be rather noisy when running and the cables are moving alot.

But the entry level SCL2 cannot beat ER6i in terms of sound quality. It's muddier. The bass is "stronger" but not punchy. The trebles are out of control. And it's just not as polished as Etymotics. I do complain about Etymotics sterile sound (flat or "how the producer wanted it to be heard) and lack of soundstage.

But at an "IT Show 2008" price of $99, the SCL2 is good enough. I realised that I really appreciate being able to shunt the world out when I am commuting. I was totally distracted when I switched to the normal Creative earphones.

It's a cheap thrill, but I like seeing my mum open and close her mouth in speech but I cannot actually hear her.

Wachowski!?

What were the Wachowski brothers thinking of when they casted Rain (the Korean "pop" sensation aka "I like black - Heads N Shoulders") in their upcoming Japanese anime adapted movie "Speed Racer"?

"To produce the manpower, to maintain ships and weapons systems in good order, to train ship crews to an acceptable level of operational efficiency - all these had to be done under the pressure of time and within the constraints of manpower and finance. It has been a very substantial effort..."

- Dr Goh Keng Swee
at the commissioning of Singapore's first missile-armed crafts

1975 - 2008
Still ...... Swift & Sure

So weird not to be angry about things

Imagine you are sleeping in your cosy hdb 4-room apartment. outside along the corridor hangs your laundry. down the shorter end of this corridor is the lift lobby. the lifts, after the recent upgrading by the government, stops at every level.

it's about 4:38am. you wake up with a start because there was a loud explosion that sounded like its from next door. heck. it is from the next door. your neighbours, a family of five including 3 children ranging from 3 to 8 probably heard the last explosion of their lives.

so who the hell allowed the US government to fire "precision missiles" into a village in southern Somalia? it's like a misnomer; precision missiles but killed 3 women and 3 children, injuring another 20. what killed them is an oxymoron called "military intelligence", US of A style.