Strived for the "Plan"
Monday, October 10, 2005

Actually this entry is slightly outdated.. as i should update it yesterday instead of today..

Yeap, yesterday was one hell of a day.. that brought a few unexpected surprises to me.. Oh well.. i started the day without a plan anyhow..

To begin the story.. the first glimpse of the day(yesterday) was awarded to me by Liew (my housemate) when he knocked on my door at bout 4.15pm (yes.. i m such a koala..i need 20 hrs of sleep).. To be frank.. i was a bit piss at him at first.. since i really needed my sleep at that time.. and the first thing that came out from his mouth was this, "Eh, Freddy ah, do you want to go to Simple Plan's concert?" *......
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After a brief 5-7 secs of silence.. "Huh?" is the only response i could come up with for his question.. Anyway, he restated his question again, and demand an answer from me.. so since he was so nice to ask me bout it.. i asked him, "when is it?" he replied, "2 and a half hours later"

Again.. his reply really smacked me around n left me mind stoned for a few more seconds..

Maybe i was too blur and still remained at my alpha state of mind.. i couldnt think of a reason and any excuse to refuse his offer.. since he said i only need to pay 50% of the price for the ticket.. So, i accepted his invitation to this Simple Plan concert without any initial plan or motivation for it..



So, we left our house at bout 5.10pm for the concert..and while on our way in the public bus.. i just realized that.. Liew.. he dont even know WHO is simple plan (that might be a good thing actually) yet he decided to go to check it out.. hmm...

Anyway, cut the crap short, we reached the city 20 mins later, shopped for our dinner and bunked at Liew's friend's place - Aaron Nathan, a very nice indian guy who offered me countless shots of drinks before the concert.. For this incident i deduct my previous remarks on most Indians are stingy.. only some indians are like that.. some of them can be pretty generous and friendly...

We then took a cab from around his place at bout 7.20 and reached the Adelaide Entertainment Center at 7.30... Initially our plan was to push together and get to the front before Simple Plan's performance, however due to the fact that most of the crowds there are young healthy strong looking Australian teens that although aged around 14-17 yet physically more superior than us witty Asians, our fleet of platoons got seperated into 2 groups, when Aaron the front soldier man managed to escort only Private Sashi but left me, Corporal Liew and Private Jade behind..

I never know that Young Australian kids could be SOOOO barbaric.. and remarkably strong especially when the first opening band - Kisschassy (some local bands) performed one of their hit songs, and everybody just stomped around and squished each other into everyone.. damn.. now i know where the Australian national rugby players train their endurance and techniques...
And before i could recover my sense, i realized that 3 of us were moving in front without putting any personal efforts.. i felt as if i m just like a small little leaf floating on the river.. i cant control my movement at all and just kept following the flow.. sighz.. young kids nowadays..

A moment later, All American Rejects - the second opening band came out and do their thing.. I've heard of them before, they are actually pretty established themselve.. yet they had to run this kinda small errant for the almighty Simple Plan, and yeah i can feel their depression.. Anyhow, frankly speaking i prefer their music way more than Simple Plan, especially one of their hit songs - Swing Swing, it is really a good song, and the live version was good as well.. And since i was paying more attention to song, i didnt realize that the flow that generated by the crowds has attempted to suck me into somewhere else like the quicksand and seperate me from my fellow platoons, so i quickly pulled myself back to the squad..

And while trying to reunite with them, i felt a sudden shock impact on my head, and my sensorimotor reflexes quickly processes the inputs of pain and i realized that somebody's elbow hit right on the softspot of my headskull.. it was &@(&(#$ painful.. I looked back and saw this 19-20 years old looking Australian girl, smiling at me and just before she apologized, she popped out with this line," Hey, Benny(or issit kenny) is that you?!?!" And just before i could come up with an answer, she pulled me away from my initial direction and dragged me to her group of friends.. (oh gosh, she completely defeated me in terms of strength man)

She introduced herself to me, and her name's Carla, and since i was already lost and got dragged into her group somehow, i decided to stick along with them.. and let's just be friends.. I had absolute no problem on hanging out with them until when i found out that.. all of them were only 16!!!! Goodness!! and all this while i thought that they were at least 18-19!! So, i treated them like the age i perceived them to be and spoke to them with a matured tone and all.. but now you are telling me that they were only 16??!!! Gosh, it makes me looked like a bloody pedophilliac since most of them were females.. (oh yea, i couldnt take any picture with my camera, as i left it with liew, and i think it's abit big and clumsy to bring it out as well)

So, i behaved like a freaking lost child and looks like a stupid squirrel squishing around a bunch of gold-haired gorrillas.. But somehow or rather it was fun in its own way, as i m practically aggressive in nature, and when you introduced a new born predator to a group of violence loving teenagers, that's it.. case closed.. We managed to clear the path and fougth our way through to the very front of the concert 3 songs after Simple Plan appeared.. In the process.. i received countless shots of upper cut, left/right hooks, shoulder thrusts, boob smashs, toe crackers, etc..
It was a tough road to kill..

After reaching the top.. you cant really do much there already except for listening to the formulated-all-sounds-the-same Simple Plan's simple songs.. So, basically i just dragged my way through and had a lil bit of chats with some of the new gorrilla friends that i've just met through Carla (or Kayla).. They performed for bout 90 minutes, including 2-3 encore songs..
Personally i think that they arent exactly a very good band, in terms of technique and quality of songs, but they are really good with few things, 1) provoking the audience (it's like splashing bloods in front of thousands of hungry predators), 2) then cheer them up again with nation-related praises and actions (the whole Aussy! Aussy! Aussy! Oi! Oi! Oi! thinggy, it's something equivalent to malaysian's "Malaysia Boleh" thing..) , 3) making catchy tunes with repetative rhythms, 4) writing lyrics with bold languistic and words that are very easy to remember and sing along with, 5) using the F words, 6) Occasionally the A**holes, 7) and not afraid to show their beer bellies in front of blood thristy gorrillas...

I am really amazed at the fact that i actually managed to survive the entire concert without passing out and all.. afterall, i got lost from my mates n all.. And just before the end of the concert, when all of the band members starting to throw all the "free gifts" like guitar picks, brandless drum sticks, water bottles (!), sweat towels, etc.. The vocalist (i dunno his name.. i just know that he's the fattest of them all) walked towards my direction and threw some black coloured sock-looking like object towards my direction.. With years of experience as a goalkeeper, my reflexes denied my brain's order and instructs my hand to raise up and grab that dodgy looking object..

Guess what.. it's one side of his wrist glove


It does looks like sock right? lol



And this is how it looks like after u put it on.. it's freaking nameless and worn off (i washed it before i put it on)

Yeap, this is the bloody nameless wrist glove i snatched it from the rest of the hungry gorrillas (Jase, i didnt steal it from the vocalist la, he threw it towards me one, it's freaking worn off anyway) It was all sweaty.. when i first hold on to it.. I do not know whether i should be happy or sad.. As.. i expected it to be something of a "brand" uno.. like nike or adidas.. or at least a reebok.. i never expected it to be something NAMELESS and that cacat in condition sommore.. man.. u can get this kinda shit in every single K-Mart man.. damn there goes my plan of selling it on ebay and make some money out of it.. grr..

All in all.. yesterday night was fun!! seriously.. but mainly not becoz of the fan tho.. I am happy because, 1) got to participate in such a big scale concert with only 28 aud, 2) Met so many young australian friends (some of them are hot.. Carla especially.. too bad, only 16, and i dun really wanna go out with ang mohs.. as in into serious relationship), 3) They mistaken me as someone 16, :P HAHA, 4) Got to witness All American Rejects' performance.. though only 4-5 songs, 5) managed to prove that Australians are generally more ganas than Malaysians, 6) somehow got my hands lay on the stupid sweaty wrist glove of a retarded looking celebrity, 7) got some free drinks from Aaron's house before the concert (Teacher's Scotch) and made some new friends there as well..

It might not be a good plan to go n watch Simple Plan without any plan in hand, but for my case, it ended up all good.. i am satisfied..

And PEACE OUT..






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