Distant Worlds

Few months back, around mid July, i was really excited to found out that Distant Worlds tour performing for the first time in Kuala Lumpur at Dewan Filharmonik Petronas a.k.a MPO. I'm not really a FF geek but i enjoyed their music very much especially music composed by one of the most celebrated composers in video game music, Nobuo Uematsu. 

So yea, i decided to tag along with yukirye and her friends to go for the Distant Worlds coz thinking orchestra thingy is not chubby type, no point dragging him along plus the ticket is pricy. 

Worth the wait. I know yukirye is hell excited counting down for it once the month reach November. Me too, just not as excited as her. I'm hell busy this month and i sick quite often due to the climate changes. Worst, i even fall sick *curse the flu* on the DW day that i'm so looking forward to it. Don't care! Die die also must go there. 

Thanks to my ehem.. Mr Driver... my chubby of coz to send me there! I reached KLCC early, just to have dinner with yukirye and cheryl before we heading to DW. I'm been craving for pasta lately, even mentioned in whatsapp group that i wanted pasta pasta pasta but i ended up ordered hearty chicken & vegetables soup @ Ben's. Feel so sick that i don't think i can eat the pasta anymore; it is quite heavy portion for me. 

After dinner, we head up to MPO. It was quite early, almost more than an hour earlier than the performance gonna start at 8.30pm. Yukirye wanted to come early for the DW merchandise checkout. I think we really waited almost an hour for it. Once the counter is open and DW merchandises are ready for sale, lucky we were among the first at the counter. The queue was crazily long after when we purchased our stuffs. @_@ They were selling t-shirt, booklet, and cds. Dvds sold out. =/ I'm not fond of the shirt, knowing the only time i will wear shirt is to go to bed. So i grab the cds; the black and the white version. 

Me seating in Row R Sear 22.

My loot: the first and second album of Distant Worlds.

It was my first time attending live performance orchestra. It was superb and amazing. I can only gasp and amaze with the every sounds i could hear from every single instruments played at that moment. This is so amazing that it giving me goosebumps and i couldn't believe that i could actually feel so touched. Glad my flu was behaving well, i didn't sneeze at all but once the whole thing ended, i nonstop sneezing. Feel so dreadful on that night. Though Nobuo Uematsu was not in the present =( yet the whole performance was really amazing.

Conductor: Arnie Roth

Choir: Dithyrambic Singer

Soprano: Stephanie Van Driesen and Ho Chi Mei

Guitar: Az Samad

Tenor: James Long Cai Hunt

Bass: Mak Chi Hoe

Programme

Prelude

Liberi Fatali

Victory Theme

Final Fantasy 2010 Medley

To Zanarkand

Memoro de la Stono

The Man with the Machine Gun

Theme of Love

You're Not Alone

Chocobo Medley 2010

Opening: Bombing Mission

Dear Friends

Vamo'alla Flamenco

Blinded by Light

Don't Be Afraid

Clash on the Big Bridge

Aerith's Theme

Opera: Mario and Darco

Terra's Theme

Encore Play *Arnie understand us so well*

Suteki Da Ne

One-Winged Angel *ah yes, Sephiroth!*

The End

MPO was actually pretty strict. You need to wear smart casual to attend. And no camera was allowed. The place is so beautiful that i really wanna snap a shoot. Kinda hard when the ushers are walking everywhere and warned the audience "NO CAMERA PLEASE". =( 

Deadly Captured! I love my S2 so much!

But the stubborn me still wanna try to capture this amazing place especially with the Distant Worlds screen. It wasn't easy to snap this. This is the only one and last shoot i able to secretly snap and glad the picture turn out well. Though i wish i can also able to snap the beautiful light ceiling but ushers are really everywhere, so i gave up. 

My music, before i went to my dreamland.

Boardgame??

I never knew that boardgame are more than just a boardgame.

When i was a little, the only boardgame that i have is those 8 in 1 games such as Snake'n Ladder, Chess, Reverso/Othello or as far as i can remember. Then during Christmas, i requested dad to buy me a Monopoly boardgame as a present so that i can play with my siblings. Soon, Bingo and Scrabble come into my childhood game collection. 

Card game? Yep, i do have and as i can remember; Snap and Happy Family cardgame was a hit during my primary time. Oh, not to mention the UNO cardgame. Having loads of fun with my friends around whenever teachers are away from classroom. 

I wonder if this game still available in here.

And now, i played something that was so much fun other than these actually, thanks to chubby bringing me to play along. So what is boardgame? It is a game of strategy played with moving pieces on the board. 

Betrayal at House on the Hill

This first boardgame i was introduced. Very fun la playing this game. Bit suspense and mysterious. It allows players to build their own haunted house until at some point someone triggers a scenario called Haunt. So when the Haunt is revealed, the person will become a traitor and the rest players, the heroes will struggle to survive to defeat the traitor. It has more than 50 haunts, each with its own story. Uh huh, me love suspense~~ 

Building up the haunted house. The more rooms the better!

Wanna see how this game played? I managed to googled the online demo --> Betrayal at House on the Hill

The Settlers of Catan

It was the award winning boardgame. The players represent settlers and build settlements, cities, and roads to connect them as they settle the island. The goal of the game is to reach at certain victory points on one's turn. The points are scored from each settlement they own or various other achievements such as establishing the longest road. Though is an award winning boardgame, i don't find interest in playing it. To learn more about this game, you can check 'em --> Catan

Carcassonne

It is a tile-placement game in which players draw and place a tile with a piece of landscape on it. The tile might feature a city, a road, a cloister, grassland or some combination thereof, and it must be placed adjacent to tiles that have already been played; cities to cities, roads to road, etc. Having placed a tile, the player can then decide to place one of his meeples on one of the areas and scores points. Can you see, these meeples are so kewt!!

Agrigola

It is a game about farming where you have to build a well balanced farm at the end of the 14 rounds, every player get to do 2 actions in each rounds. Fun to me but the time played quite long. Need to think. Haha. Me no good in farming. All i do is plow field plow field! Too lazy for me to explain, all i do is copy paste the "how to play this" thingy, you go check it out, googled it yourself. I happen to found an online game for this, not sure how it works but you make go and explore this -->> Agrigola Online

Small World

I like this game! This is a conquest and control of a world that is simply too small to accommodate them all and comes with various races and special powers to expand the empires. 

This is only some of the boardgames i've ever played. I even enjoyed playing new cardgame recently; Monopoly. Monopoly in cardgame?? Monopoly is not boardgame meh? Hehe.. i thought so...

Monopoly Deal

I tell you, this game is dangerous! It is addictive! I really cannot stop playing it in the beginning. The goal is to collect 3 complete sets of properties of same colour. Sounds easy huh but not when you have action cards that enables other players to stop you from building all 3 sets by stealing your card, making you pay rent, etc. This is fun game! 

Since my friend bought the Monopoly Deal : the goal is to collect 3 complete sets properties, i bought myself a Monopoly Millionaire Deal, same rules game except to collect 1M and win! 

Millionaire Monopoly Deal

Love this cards! So many bling bling on the card. Me likey but most of my friends no likey coz the bling confuse them. =3

Playing Millionaire Deal with chubby! I'm winning!!

Enjoyed playing this game with friends in cozy chilling environment. Somewhere that serves nice drink and snack and most important the place is clean!