Broken Bridges...a MUST watch musical!

Urgent Update/correction: Very sorry for the wrong information. Broken Bridges on the 3rd of September, Sunday (last performance) will only have ONE performance at 3.00p.m.!!



Broken Bridges, The Musical. Catch it at KL Pac, Pentas 1 by 3rd September!!


A few of the casts in Broken Bridges

The first time I heard or get to know about this musical is actually off the bulletin boards in my college, it looked interesting, since Douglas Lim is one of the main cast (the dude who acts in Kopitiam) and so is Colin Kirton (but I didn't know this until later). To be honest, I wasn't very keen on going, because at first I thought if I've seen one musical, I've seen it all already.

But at the end I also decided to go, after I found a few people to teman me. I was thinking how bad could it be?? Since there was so many publicity of this musical all over Malaysia, even the trailer of this musical is shown on TV.

KLPac building alone is already something to shout about. I did not know about this place until yesterday when I went there, for photographers, the building itself and it's lightings will be a really nice subject to shoot, make sure you bring your tripod though!

As I enter Pentas 1 in KLPac, honestly, I was very impressed, the whole place was very artistic, simple and nice, and not to mention it is huge too. Knowing me, the first thing I noticed is the mixing cosole behind, again, I was stunned. For those who know, they have a full blown Yamaha PM5D-RH digital mixing console for front of house mixing and a Midas Heritage 3200 mixer for mixing the instruments!!! WOW!! Instantly my reaction was to look around, and I was right, full 5.1 channel surround speakers set up flown from the ceiling!! First impression tells me that the sound is going to be excellent..and I was right.

So how is the musical?? 3 words.. VERY VERY GOOD!! The script of this musical is very well written, and you should also know that it is written by a 22 year old and a 19 year old guy (at the time when they wrote finish this script), Lim Chuang Yik and Teng Ky-Gan is their names. The whole time, the musical is very entertaining and exciting, most of the time the stage is always filled with people, with smaller group all around doing their own things (which is also interesting and funny) when the main cast would be singging. All their timing is so good and they never clash with each other too. Scene changes is so fluent you won't even noticed it most of the time. The music and the band is nothing short of spectacular too, all their timing was so perfect and sync perfectly to what is happening on stage, until we thought the music was actually pre-recorded in a studio, but we were wrong. All their voices is also good, and no such thing as "chow yam" in this musical. Mixing of all the voices and instruments is also excellent, voices came from the center channel in the middle as it should, crisp and clear, and music came from the side channels, and effects came from behind when it should. Really really good live mixing, 2 thumbs up for Michael Thomas, the sound engineer for this musical.

So what is this musical about?? *WARNING!! POTENTIAL SPOILERS!!* The story is set in Ipoh town, where a boy "Ming" (Douglas Lim) wanted to venture out into the world and achive his passion, while his father, "Wong" (Colin Kirton) actually wants him to take over his Ipoh White Coffee shop business, hoping to pass it down to him. But "Ming" refused his father request, stating that this isn't what he wants and it is not a real ambition. So he heads down to KL to work as a contractor. 10 years later when he returned, he finds Ipoh still the same, and he came back to actually convert the Marketplace into a 12 story building, and relocating all the people there to a new place, and also compensating them with money. At the same time, he also found someone he love back here in Ipoh, but unfortunately, things became ugly.....

I won't finish the story, go watch the whole thing, and it is really a musical you won't regret, the RM40 for student price is really worth it. I will summarized this musical as a father and son r'ship and a love story which turned ugly, and I forgot to mention it is quite funny too!

By the way, for those who are planning to go, the play is at 8.30p.m. in KLPac everyday UNTIL 3rd of September, means THIS SUNDAY is your LAST CHANCE to catch it!! Anyway for those who will be going, PLEASE let me know first, might want you to help me get their CD.



Click on the picture to go to the official website.

EMF

Wow! I didn't know it take almost forever to upload 30 pictures into Photobucket. I know is free and all, but, they should improve man! Nevermind, that aside, here are pictures of the EMF, Evangelistic Music Festival. And I'm extremely proud to announce that "Psalm 100", the band consists of Henry, Benjamin Tay, Nigel, Jon, Tze yang, Adam, and Isaac WON!! It was a joyous moment, especially for all the SSGC and Agape people who went there to support, at least 40 of us, shout and cheer like there is no tomorrow when they announced -- "The champion for EMF 2006 is Psalm 100"!!

At first I was wondering whether we can win or not, because when I took a peek at one of the judges score sheet (I'm sitting right behind them), the youngest judge there gave the lowest score for Psalm 100, but I guess the other 2 judge must have give them high scores. But anyway, EMF is again, a Evangelistic Music Festival, it's point is to evangelise to other people, and I hope that non-Christians will be touched and impacted by the music and the message they hear.

So I shall talk less...and let the picture do the talking.... 30,000 word post!!!

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Worship team by Shah Alam..






The first band, "StarPark"..


Followed by "YW@P"


Psalm 100!!!!


































Seven for Heaven


Psalm 100 recieving the hamper..


Their faces when announced champion







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Well that's all folks, sorry the picture taken is terrible, had to use ISO1600 for all the pictures as the lighting condition is insufficient; and sorry barely any chance to take any individual focused shot, mainly cause of the limited place I could move around, and also cause people is always blocking and I don't have a further zoom lens.

Before I go..here are some posers..

Black & White..

Nothing much to say again, would just want to post up some pics. Stressing out for my English theme study presentation tomorrow, hope Alex and I can do well enough to at least past...

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There is something about black and white photos that make it really beautiful in it's own way..sometimes I wonder how would the world be if we do not have any colors...it would be interesting..in a way!

Anyway this are the same photos, but I converted them to black and white...I like black and white photos...

Pictures..

No mood to type and blog about anything, but would like to share 2 pictures I've taken from yesterday's CG, BBQ pool party in Riana Green...

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I don't know why but I just like this picture...soothing...


It would've been much nicer if the basement car park light wasn't on..

A secret place...

Another boring week with no less then 2 test, but forget about college, I've just discovered something much more fun!!

Earlier tonight Zac Han took me to a "new" secret place that all car enthusiast will love! The road there is as wide as 4 lanes, flat and barely any portholes, and best of all, there is BARELY any car at all, except for other car enthusiast who goes there to fool around, can see alot of tire marks all over the road. So for people who want to do things like time or practise your 0-100 or quarter mile, or infact do any "stupid" things like drifting and so on, here IS the best place, because the road is long, wide, straight and best of all, NO CARS!! It is actually in Kota Damansara, behind Sri KDU school. But exactly where is it, I can only show it to you. Owh, and now I understand why they say drifting is an art!!; and it is really fun!

Anyway, around this place is also a nice place to do some photo shoot for you cars. Again because there is absolutely no cars around, so you can just park in the middle of the road and take your time...

Well, lazy to type somemore, here I'll leave you with some pics taken around that area, and below are some pics of my car sound system, just went for "final" tuning today at CV Audio for 5 hours, added in crossover modules into the Steg amplifier, now my subwoofer is barely noticeable; and sometimes it is as though the bass is coming from the front of the car, from my mid woofers..amazing!!

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*All the pictures above is at it's original state, no photoshop effects has been added, only used photoshop to resized it and to crystalize my number plate.

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No, is not what you think!!; that's my tweeter on my custom A-pillar!


Tweeter on A-pillars, aligned to be right above the mid-woofer; carefully aimed so the sound staging would be right infront of the driver (me) and with the help of time corrections.


Mid-woofer on custom fiber-glass door mount for better bass response.




Mid-woofer without the grill. Look closely enough can actually see the wood fibers.


My head-unit, and I did not steal the number 2 tag from Mc Donalds.


My amplifier, Steg QMosII 105.4x, wrapped up in masking tape and under my seat. Would locate it in the boot in the near future with custom plexiglass enclosure with white neon.


De award winning JL Audio 12W3V3 subwoofer in it's custom 1 Cubic feet enclosure. Looks like a discuss..