This is another one of Yuna's songs entitled Dan Sebenarnya. I can't figure which C I should use so whenever you see a C chord, try the C or the Cm chord. I've also done the chord diagram for the chords for your convenience. Aren't I nice? *Ducks and quickly evades a barrage of bullets*

Here you go. Lyrics of Yuna's songs were taken from http://malayapark.com/wp/yuna-dan-sebenarnya/

This is the chord diagrams


This is the lyrics

Because I'm a really nice guy and am in the Christmas spirit, here are the chords for Backpacking Arounf Europe and Deeper Conversation by the one and only Yuna! I'll post it with the lyrics later but for now I'll just write down the chords because I'm freakin lazy.

Backpacking Around Europe
D, A, G, Gm (Yeah for the rest of the song, these are the chords, just repeat them.)


Deeper Conversation


Transcribed by the one and only, Nico Afwill Torunjuo Abel. Alright!

I promise to put the lyrics... once I feel rajin enough to do it. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!!!

(Update: I've come across Deeper Conversation lyrics and merajinkan myself to assimilate the chords. And oh, I've colored the chords for ya)

(Update: Blogspot is acting dumb on me. So I replaced the text with an image if you don't mind)

People should have rules of engagement when facing an alien. I just watched The Day The Earth Stood Still and I thought they did mistakes a normal human being should never do.

In the event that an alien arrives on earth:

Rule No. 1
Send a scout, don't send an army of marines, police, swat, or scientists to interact with the extraterrestrial life form.

Rule No.2
DO NOT shoot the alien when it approaches a chick or anyone for that matter. A gigantic supermodern badass robot might appear and pulverize you.

Rule No. 3
If the alien speaks English or any other language understandable to mankind, LISTEN to whatever it has to say especially if it has a badass robot standing in front of its ship, ignoring it might cost the lives of everyone in the planet.

Rule No. 4
DO NOT try to capture and interrogate the alien. Well, it might have powers that could take down everyone in the building. Oh and you'll never know if it can communicate with that badass robot through telepathy to help it escape whatever prison you put it in.

Rule No. 5
If the alien had a robot that could take out the entire electricity on Earth, why try taking it back to whatever research lab you have? It's just too omnipotent for our technology to contain it.

Rule No. 6
If you insisted on taking the badass robot for research and managed to do it somehow, please do research it within a 100 mile radius, especially if it has lasers for eyesight. C'mon, do you seriously want to stand within its range of sight especially when it just destroyed a couple of missiles (and tanks) with those lasers?
Who gave the idea to study it right in front of its face? Gilaka?

Two cents for the day.

It's been awhile now, my conditioning program for marathon training (that sounds so... beginner) has come to day eight. My progress?

1st Day - 20 minutes jog/run (55 seconds jog, 5 seconds run)
2nd Day - 18 minutes jog/run (55 seconds jog, 5 seconds run)
3rd Day - 22 minutes jog/run (55 seconds jog, 5 seconds run)
4th Day - 15 minutes jog/run (you get the idea)
5th Day - Rest
6th Day - Approx, 1 mile jog/run (it's 3 rounds around the flat area, I don't know how far is that)
7th Day - Rest
8th Day - 15 minutes jog/run

Ah, it feels good to wake up so early in the morning around 5.50 am to 6.00 am, drink water like someone who's surviving a desert, stretch my muscles to the max and start jogging. I really like the stretching part, the best one would be the one when I'll be sitting down stretch both my legs and hands forward while trying to touch my feet, then get my head as close as I can to my knee. I think it's the hardest and most satisfying stretch among all the stretches.

My first day of doing that stretch was as expected, I could touch my feet, well the soles of my feet, so I tried getting my head (face specifically) to touch my knee. The feeling of my legs' muscle being pulled had that tinge of pain and another feeling I can't find the words for it. Ah yes, it's like being high on sugar but my back's muscle was straining a bit so I didn't really get to touch my knee except for a second or two. As I progress through the days, I became more and more flexible and the weird thing is that my muscles are much (very) flexible after a jog, I thought it should be the other way round. Funny.

During these eight days, I observed that the elderly Chinese are really active people despite their frail looks. No matter how early I got to the place where I jog (earliest was 5.30 am), these old people would be there jogging or practicing tai chi while I was only getting ready to do stretchings. I must say I have deep respect for them for being so disciplined and so active at that age, they're like in their 60's or 70's!!! Unlike them, I'm lacking discipline (as usual) because I'm waking up later by the day (I keep telling myself that it's still early at 5 a.m when I should be getting ready to run and end up running at 6.20 a.m), I have to force myself to get up and all. Ahh, I'm just afraid that I'll slack off when college starts, that would be a very bad thing and I need to get up earlier during college so I can be in time for classes.

Oh well, I need to psyche myself more and instill discipline (for a super lazy guy like me, it's kinda hard to do so). Go Nico, go!!!

Catalogue of abuse

The court heard details of horrific abuse inflicted on the three-year old:

• She had been kicked, beaten, slapped, jumped on and held over a burning fire

• She had been put into a clothes dryer spinning at top heat

• Wrestling moves copied from a computer game had been practised on her

• She had been folded into a sofa and sat on, shoved into piles of rubbish, dragged through a sandpit half naked, flung against a wall and dropped from a height onto the floor

• And she had been whirled rapidly on an outdoor rotary clothes line until she was thrown off.

At one point, she was left lying unconscious for 36 hours without medical attention.

She's a human being for god's sake!!! She's not an inanimate object, how can you put a child through THAT?! These people have to be heartless to be able to think of doing such things. Gosh and to think that people can actually watch and do nothing, really, what is the world coming to? My heart goes out to the Nia Glassie, god, to die in such a manner when you're so young and you still have so much to see, just shows how low humans can go.

Let us give a moment of silence to remember the death of this young child and also to all the children who went or are going through sufferings that even adults should not go through. May their souls are blessed.

Life can be really bliss. U.O.X. block party was amazing and uhh, crazy for my part. Since I didn't want it to be only me and Deejay coming, I sent out news of the event to everyone who lives near KL that I know. In the end those who came with me was Deejay, my two roomies, my two younger brothers and their friend. Also, as Miss Zee Avi a.ka Koko Kaina was going to perform, I knew I had to do something different stupid and crazy again. I don't know what propels me to do such things, I guess it's what addiction does. So, I thought of making a placard which has, "Marry
Me Zee" written on it and when I talked about this to Deejay and he gave an even better idea!!! The plan goes like this:

I would take out the first placard which has "Marry Me Zee!!!!" while Deejay will takeout another one which says "He's Serious!!!" while holding up a big finger pointing to me

Since I wasn't being optimistic so I thought when she says no, I'll put up another placard which says, "Aww, How About A Date?"

Again if she says no, then I'll put up another placard which displays, "Nvm, I'll Ask Yuna Then." Then Deejay would put up another placard which shows, "NO!!! She's Mine!!!"

And so on Friday evening I started working on the placards. My first attempt at it was really, really disastrous and I had to ask for my sister's help because she's an aspiring drawing artist. The work took us from 5.30 pm to 1.00++ am. During our toil at 6.30 pm,

Me : Ria, ape ni, it's one hour and we haven't even finished drawing the outline for one side of the board!
Ria : We're watching the tv while doing this, memangla tak habis cepat.
Me : Aiya, this will take foreverla.
Ria : Belum lagi colour them kan.
Me : *Ughhh* *Starts watching TV3* (Unlike you I do not have an astro)



She also reminded me that it might rain ("Choy!" said I) and I was thankful for not throwing the plastic that came with the mounting boards. My sister and I felt very proud of our end product:


Armed with a guitar and plastic of placards, I made my way to Cap Square Boulevard. We lost our way at first, I don't know why but I always seem to get lost whenever I want to go Koko Kaina's (I prefer calling her this way) performance but we reached Cap Square Boulevard. No I didn't take pictures of the place, takut habis battery afterwards when I need it but it was kind of newly built. Nothing much in it but there's a cinema, which is a good thing since I could choose to go there if KLCC and Mid Valley is too crowded. So when we reached there we were greeted by kids in uniform (Federal Reserve Union) and we went jalan-jalan for awhile.

Then I decided to hang at the stage and watch the sessions. First I saw was Isaac Entry, apparently he has Iban blood in him (go, go Sarawakians!!!). His style of singing reminds me of John Mayer and he was really friendly with the audience. Most prominent I think was the song about PJ, it seems that he really missed the place when he was away. The guitar works was simple and soothing and there's a touch of reggae to it. He also did a cover of Bob Marley's No Woman No Cry. I wonder where I can get his stuff.



Next up was Bo - Bedroom Sanctuary, no I don't know who he is but the host of the day, Taya, says that he's multi-talented. He's the turn-table specialist for Cosmic Space Monkeys (God, how long has it been since I've heard about that band). He tried connecting with the audience but to no avail. Anyway, his songs were quite slow, though I like slow songs, I think his are dragging much. The lyrics and melody was nice and all, I guess if the tempo was a bit faster I would have enjoyed it more but well it's just my thought.

Waltz was up next but I didn't stay to watch because my stomach was making noise, so I went to makan. Deejay messed around with a Celcom promoter on our way to makan. I didn't even look at the stalls, I don't know why, maybe they don't look like food stalls. There weren't much choices in Cap Square so I settled for buns and sausages.

Then I went back to watch Reza Salleh. He came up, no hi, no hello, terus perform the songs, and though in between the songs there were some uhh, "conversations" but that's about it, I don't really feel the link between him and the audience. Oh well, at least his songs were great, hands down.

Rashdan Harith was funky with his band. I like the bassist, really adds substance to the overall music. I should get his EP (Just realized I'm not good at giving reviews). I have this affection for bass because it's simple but if you know your way around it, it becomes very complex and very, very tantalizing to the ear. Bassist are greatly underappreciated these days, so do drummers. People tend to think the two are very easy and choose not to learn them. A sad thing really.

Next was Yuna who was really wonderful with her darling voice. I think she sang all her songs in her EP and with the addition of "Rocket". She would sweep a lot of people off their feet if she could be promoted overseas. I love her guitar, I've seen a lot of guitars but this particular one that she was holding caught my eye. I wonder what brand the guitar is, when I have the money (I wonder when is that), I think I'll get myself one. Yuna really looked tired and she seems to be worrying about something else, I'm not sure though. I kesian her le, I think she has exams and the amount of people wanting to get a bit of her attention after her performance would have really worn her down even more. She looked as if her performance was another chore to her. Ahhh, the pain of juggling between studies and life. But for all that, I got her EP. Wee~

My highly anticipated performance of the day which most people would've known already finally came. Dressed in blue and wearing that cheerful smile on her face with a ukelele in her hands, yep ladies and gentlemen, it's Miss Zee Avi or better known as Koko Kaina *screams like a girl in a boy band concert* Before she came on stage, I was fumbling with my placards, trying to block it from everyone else's view. She saw me and said "Hi, Nico" (on stage summore) and I was like, wow, wow, wow, she remembered my name!!! My heart was beating really, really fast, adrenaline I suppose but eventually I put up my placards when she finally settled down. The look on her face? Priceless. She was really taken by surprise, I guessed she had never expected it. Too bad I didn't record it, it never crossed my mind to bring two cameras. Bummer. She didn't answer my question so Djawad said loudly, "So what's the answer?" Krishna echoed the question and she took awhile before answering, "Did you bring a ring? Hmm, I want a white unicorn. That should be in our pre-nuptial agreement." I was in a daze for awhile when she said that and then I flipped my placard which showed, "Aww, how about a date then?" to which she answered, "Where can you take me?"


I wasn't prepared for that the things that flashed through my mind while searching for an answer was climbing mountains, swimming rivers and seas, and Coliseum. I did thought of France and Italy but I wasn't sure with my current financial status. This was when I realized that I do not know of any fancy places to go to if ever I go out on a date and that I lack a car or the driving license to take anyone out comfortably. Gahh, I feel so pathetic. So she performed a few songs, started off with Poppy and then The Traveller, Honey Bee, Just You and Me, You Belong to Me and Kantoi. I made a fool of myself in that last song, which I would not expose here due to the great shame I have inflicted upon myself (or so I think). Her voice was heavenly and I was put into a trance (happens everytime when I listen to her music and classical pieces from the Baroque and the Romantic era) almost immediately.


(The author wishes to write more of his feelings but would prefer to keep these feelings to himself )

Right after her performance, I took my guitar out and went to her. She saw me and went out and hugged me. I was taken by surprise again and everything started to move very fast for me, I couldn't grasp what was going on. She asked whether I wanted to take pictures and so we did with various poses, I was nervous because I was sweaty and sticky (hates it when that happens). *Note to self, always bring toiletries to every outdoor performance to clean self after three hours*




Me : Would you sign my guitar?
Zee : Aww, you want me to do that?
Me : *takes out pathetic sharpie* Please do

Then suddenly a lady came out of no where with a bigger marker pen for Miss Zee to sign. I should have thanked that lady for providing the marker pen, that was really nice of her to take the trouble to look for a marker pen. She saw my shirt which somehow covered the sign Crazee Causa to just Zee and gave such a cute expression.

Miss Zee also said I made her week and when somebody asked what was her reply to my proposal, she said, "An indefinite maybe". I know a lot of people would say aww, or omigosh, or don't worry Nico but to set the record straight, I had never expected for an answer, I'm happy the way I am. A yes would be an early Christmas gift for me and a no would mean nothing much to me, I did all these to show my gratitude to her for producing such wonderful music and songs which have helped me pull through a lot of things. Sometimes I do all these just for the sake of doing it. And it is to be noted that I lost my tongue during the whole thing and I think that everything happened to fast for me. I wished it could've been longer.

Life is bliss, no?

(The author was told that his blog is starting to look like a fan blog dedicated to Koko Kaina to which he agree that it is. He shall try to tackle on current issues and the art of science in future posts as he thinks addiction should be kept to one's self)

Below is an excerpt from BBC's website on a collapsed school due to the recent storm that hit Haiti.:

We could only walk into the site.

Standing on top of what was left of the school was very disheartening.

We wanted to use shovels but we couldn't in case the digging caued further collapses and dropped onto the people trapped down below.

We tried to use torches to cut through metal but we could only do a couple.

Everyone felt so frustrated not being able to help. We're all human. You could feel the pain and the anger around; you could hear the mothers crying.

And all we could use was our hands.

Many children were killed in this devastating incident, many birthdays will not be celebrated, many hopes were crushed, many dreams remained dreams. I myself cannot imagine the pain and anguish I would have felt had I a relative in that rubble of stones. While we are happily enjoying life, let us remember these children whose lives were taken, let us have a moment of silence for them. May God bless their souls.

Am doing this chedet style. Easier for me eyes.

1. In Malaysia, there’s a group of people exists who don’t know where the roads are, they curse at their customers, they smoke when they have passengers, they overprice themselves, they serve people at their leisure and they make the country look really bad. Who are this group of people? Taxi drivers, the bane of beautiful and *coughs* wonderful Malaysia. Ruthless and heartless (not all but most of them), they prey on their victims like hawks hunting rabbits and when they capture their prey they toy with their food like cats do with mice. It’s a harsh reality but no one seems to be able to do anything about it except lamenting and moaning. I guess it’s no surprise (I really hate this expression) when a magazine named The Expat rated Malaysia’s overall taxi services as the worst among 30 countries.
2. I remembered once when I read that taxi drivers were protesting against LCCT (I don’t really remember the details) because the LCCT was favoring the premium taxis over the normal ones. I can’t help laughing when I read it. Come on, if I were to manage LCCT, I’d do the same, why would I keep a bunch of taxi drivers who will give bad publicity? Well, who would actually keep them?
3. I for one do not know how the taxi business operates, but from what I’ve read and heard, taxi licenses are not individually-owned. I’ve heard of taxi drivers complaining how they have to pay the rent of the car (and license too?) to the company, which is rated on a daily basis. The rates can go on from RM50 to RM80 (I have no sources for this, only verbal sources from my memory). If you add fuel, toll and maintenance (locally made car, go figure), you’d see that being an honest taxi driver would produce more loss than gains, hence natural selection plays a role.
4. I’d like to relate whatever I learn with real-life situations, so in this case, Darwin’s Theory can be used. In natural selection, the better your fitness is, the higher the probability for you to produce more offspring which in turn will maintain your species. We can relate the profits gain by a taxi driver as his or her fitness level.
5. Evolution also plays a role here. It is one of the principles of evolution that a species do not evolve, it is the whole population that evolves. When a taxi driver imposes prices without a meter, there will be protests by the customers. To adapt to this protests, that taxi driver becomes ruthless and ruder which intimidates the customers and also taking into account the fast-paced life in the city, the customers are forced to adhere to the taxi driver’s demands. This creates an environment that enables taxi drivers with these uncouth traits to flourish. Other species in the population would then notice the stark change of these individuals and so they learn/inherit (because their humans, so it’s a special case) this trait. End result? Population evolved with uncouth taxi drivers being the dominant ones and honest taxi drivers being the minority.
6. Blaming and moaning about this is quite uhh… dull because it’s been done by hundreds if not thousands of bloggers out there. So I’d like to state solutions rather than moaning. One proposed solution that I’ve read was permitting the license to be individually owned, I guess that would help the taxi drivers a lot because it will cut down the starting (and overrated at that) cost of being a taxi driver. If this is done then maybe those honest taxi drivers can form an “Honest Taxi Drivers Association” (according to source, to obtain the permit you’ll have to be in an organization or association). Then customers would learn of this association and frequent cabbies of this association and soon, according to natural selection, cabbies would inherit/learn good traits knowing that it is vital for their survival. This would need necessary regulation and supervision like trainings, courses, inspections, etc (something our country lacks) as to keep drivers in check.
7. If that cannot be done or if it fails (I hope it does go on, I want an Honest Cabbies Association!!!) we can get rid of the meters and propose a standardized rates like those done in other countries. Though it will take a lot of time to plan this, implementing it would make life easier for everyone. Maybe it can start off on a small scale, on a state-level for example and then if it works, it can be implemented nationwide. But the hard part would be informing the consumers because some people can be really ignorant and some taxi drivers might want to keep the customers in the dark. But if you put great minds to work, a lot of things can be done.
8. So ends my two cents for the day.

Need… guitar strings… fast…

Woke up on a Sunday morning, went to my room (the boys’ room actually but who cares), opened my guitar bag and guess what I saw…

My D-string broke into two!!! The horror, the pain, the anguish, the disappointment… *Cries out in agony*

And it had to happen when I was just about to learn how to play Jason Mraz’s song, “I’m Yours”. *Wails*

Geez, I need to buy a better quality one, going out with friends on Tuesday to get the strings from the Yamaha Shop in Mid Valley. And I just replaced the strings like uhh… three months ago? Okayla, I should’ve changed it like once or twice a month, I’m stingy, sue me. God, the wait for Tuesday kills, I’m like a drug addict without his hourly shot.

*Breathes heavily, starts drooling*

So what did I decided to do while waiting for the Euro final to start? Check on guitar lessons, music theories to be exact, to improve my wee lil’ knowledge on music. Ionian scales, pentatonic, half-steps, diatonic scales, etc, etc. It was then I realized I have such a short focus span; I can’t concentrate on things for more than at least one minute. Quite the predicament I expected from the lazy me.

So I delved in deeper, just a skim though and read up about jazz and blues and had this sudden crave of listening to jazz and blues (even though I can’t differentiate the both of them, or rather have rarely listened to either) And thus I will go out in search for any blues or jazz song I might listen to (I know Koko Kaina sings jazz songs) I’d better ask my friends first to see which songs/artistes I should listen to.

Bu I can barely play this, because I malas want to tune my guitar accordingly. Sigh

This one I malas want to memorise, but I can play it with the help of the music sheet.

My laziness will be the downfall of me. Crap, how am I gonna play alongside Koko Kaina if I don’t work hard?! *The Light of New Resolution glows*

And so Nico decided to continue studying music theories on his own with a resolute face.

Yesterday while trolling around the net, I decided to do my weekly check on Koko Kaina’s YouTube page, hoping that a new song would have come out. But to my disappointment, there were none, so I just decided to scroll down which a few seconds later I saw something that caught my eye. Koko Kaina was going to have an event, on 28^th June which was like, freaking next day. Clicked on the link she gave and ended up at UrbanScapes website, saw the ticket price and the location, was good but the date… It clashed with the day my friend Gigi’s flight to Russia. And thus, the battle of decision making begins…

Nico I : Go to the event my man, there’s nothing to lose.

Nico II : Don’t you idiot, don’t you remember, you have to send off Oi (Gigi, ma good friend) to Russia.

Nico I : B-but, Koko Kaina’s performing. KOKO KAINAA!!!! After this she might be super famous and you won’t have the chance to meet her face to face!

Nico II : You must remember, you value friendship over everything. Or are you going against your principles, eh trash?

Nico I :But, how much would it cost you to get a return ticket to KLIA?

*Checks with people and on the net… RM70*

Nico I : RM70!!!!! Where the heck are you gonna get that much money???

Nico II : Ahh, fuck that. *Pause* Shit, howla eh?

Nico I : *Smses people to tag along*

Nico II : What the hell are you doing?! Stop that!!

Nico I : Too late, looks like we know where we’re going. NGAHAHAHA.

Nico : Stupid subconscious minds…

And thus I went to Klue UrbanScapes, after *hanging out* with my parents in Tesco Ampang and being lost for half an hour. Aqram was there to accompany me even though it was on such a short notice. All the way from Klang summore, a thousand thanks would not be enough to appreciate what he did.

It was 3pm and Koko Kaina was only going to perform at 6.30pm. What to do? Aqram and I checked the schedule which was…

There was Estranged and OAG before her who’ll be performing. But there’s Yuna too! OAG and Yuna performances clashed, so we decided to see how things will go. So after loitering around the building and enjoying a few sights which were…

Teddy, reminds me of someone.

The dude's name is Amir

Then we moved on towards the Lawn Stage where Citizens of Ice Cream were performing. If you asked me before who they were I would say I don't have the slightest idea. Now I do. They were performing some kind of instrumental songs without telling the audiences what was the title or maybe I didn't catch them saying it because they were talking so soft on the mike. They played with the trumpet/horn? and the songs were okayla but not the type I would listen to over and over again. My verdict? An okay band live but I'll be waiting for their songs to be recorded so that I could judge it properly.

The Citizens of Ice Cream playing

Next up was Dian Bang, which at first came on with only two guys, a guitarist/bassist and a dude who I think works with the synthesizers and effects. The first song was also okayla, can tahanla but then the second song killed my ears. The frequency went too high and gave me headaches. When I thought they were another instrumental band, two girls came up, one with a tamborine. And the girl without the tamborine started singing. I can see she got the feel of the music and all but I think she was syok sendiri. Like those who go for a karaoke session and goes all high and everything. Their lyrics were full pa dap pada and not much words. Personally, I'd rate them 2/5.

Dian Bang with only the two dudes.

The whole team finally came up on stage

So the first two bands didn't communicate with the audiences, which was a dissappointment. Estranged was performing next but the lack of crowd made me puzzled but my clock showed it was only 4.25 pm. Took the Estranged team awhile to set up their stuff and all. Then the crowd came... only to sit on the freaking grass!!! A short conversation took place...

Nico: Tuan hamba, bukankah mereka-mereka ini patut berdiri? Khabarnya yang berada di atas pentas itu kumpulan rock?

Aqram: Hamba tidak mengetahui sebabnya tuan hamba, hamba merasakan mereka ini malas.

Nico: Ataupun mereka ini tidak bisa mengetahui cara-cara menikmati persembahan sebegini.

Aqram: Mungkin benar katamu itu hai Sang Beruang.

Nico: Hamba sememangnya handsome dalam bab-bab ini sepertimana yang engkau ketahui selama ini Sang Robot.

And so Estranged performed with their first song, again I didn't get the title (I'm very bad at this). I guess the band was confused to why people sat down so the vocalist started urging people to stand up, which the crowd took quite awhile to do so.

Oooh, I'm in a rock concert... right...

Chocolate Syrup was in the playlist and Estranged announced that their second album will be out. They ended it with two songs, Itu Kamu and a song from their new album. The funny part was during the second last song, Itu Kamu because the vocalist was trying to get the crowd to get involved with the performance. It was a vain attempt.

*The part when Itu Kamu repeats enters*

Estranged Vocalist (Rich): Everybody sing along!!! Itu kaamuu!!! *Shows mike to the crowd*

Audience: *Silent*

Rich: Okay guys one more time!!! *Shows mike again* Itu kamuuu!!!

Audience: *Silent*

Rich: *Shakes head and smiled* I can't hear you guys, c'mon louder!!! *Shows mike again* Itu kaamuuu!!!!

Audience: *In a very faint voice* Itu kamuu

(Band stops playing and the audience's voice can be heard singing)

Rich: Okay everybody, that's what I wanted to hear!!! Thanks for your support and everything!!!

And thus it ended on a high note even though the crowd was really bad. Kudos to Estranged for trying to make things happening.

After that, Aqram and I went off because we didn't see OAG anywhere in sight. We went searching for drinks to quench our thirst. Along the way we checked out the Angkatan Baju Malaya which had lots of clothes designed by independent designers (I'm not into clothes or fashion). Most of them had interesting designs but a lot of the clothes were for ladies, so I got bored halfway walking and scoot off to the building in the search for drinks. We went upstairs and bought two cans of coke for RM8 (I could've bought 3 of those things at my place!). I was worried when I saw the Accoustic Session overflowing with people. So we decided to plough through the crowd to not miss Koko Kaina eventhough OAG was performing at the moment. Everyone was watching Mia Palencia whom I think had a very beautiful voice (from what I can hear from farla).

Then Yuna came dressed in yellow. I think she had a sweet face and when I heard her singing with the guitar in her arms... it blew me away. She has a lot of fans and I can see why. People sang along to a few of her songs and she sang a song she just wrote a week ago. I was honored to be one of the first to listen the song live. Someone should sign her, it would be a waste if so few people know about her. My opinion? Enjoyed her song throughout her session. She plays and sings the kind of song I'd listen to over and over again. Her voice conjures up an image of me sitting by the beach and enjoying the sunset.

People overflowing.

Nico: Shit, where am I gonna sit for Koko's performance?!! NUUUUU!!!!!

Next came Otam, a guy who has this deep and I don't know what's the word for it but it his voice resembles Louis Armstrong to me. I can't forget his first song, Pulau Perhentian. Funny lyrics and it was great too. Another dude whom I just found out on that day existed. If only I was a freaking rich man, I would've set up a record label and sign them in no time. Otam was entertaining but he suffers the same fate as me, we sweat easily. But it was paled by his humor and spontaneous jokes. Ahh, his music was great, I'd give him and Yuna both a 10 out of 10.

Otam performing, a cool guy and a joker too.

And guess who I saw while Otam was performing... Yep it was the one and only person I came all the way from Cheras (I know it's not that far considering Aqram came all the way from Klang but meh, I wanted to sound hyperbolic) to see. This person was the sole reason I decided to come to UrbanScapes and her name isssss Koko Kaina!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

Her voice will save many souls and her smile will blow any men (and ladies) away.

Nico: *Goes green and starts to mumble* I'll kill you if that what it takes to be beside her. Hehehe.

And the lady I've been waiting for went up the stage but at that time pulak my camera decided to to have a weak battery which forced me to only have one good photo of her performing and a few bad shots because of the lighting and the camera But I guess some things are just meant to be kept in the heart. She started off with an acapella, asking the audience to snap their fingers to the song. Ahh, how I was melted away when I heard her voice. I thought I was in heaven. And then she sang Poppy, a song about a lover who's a drug addict. Her voice was so serene and God, words can't describe how beautiful it was. One thing that surprised me was her attitude, which reminded me of my friend back in high school. She's like this gutsy type of girl with... I don't know how to describe it. You'll have to see my friend to see the resemblance. Anyway, she looks like the type someone would be happy to hang out with but you know that's just from what I can see, I'm no mind reader. Oh, and she was not quite... tall (trying not to use the word sh*r*, hehehe) and her friend who played the guitar as lead/bassist/shaker/percussion was really good too. *Sigh* I wished I was that good so that I could play with her *Goes into a corner and cries silently* It was then I decided to do something no one could've think of. *Evil grin*

After she finished performing, I aksed Aqram to take a picture of me with her. I told him what I was gonna do and he was like "You're kidding me". One thing I hated was that, people kept cutting my line to talk to herla, take picture with her but I was silent all the way for patience is a freaking virtue. Yeah, the amount of people that wanted to talk to her, interview her, was not alot but many. So I waited until the last girl who took pictures with her and jumped into the chance. Asked her if she don't mind me doing one pose with her. She gladly accepted it. And thus,

She rejected me at first but...

I should've done the devilish + darlie smile, oh well, too overwhelmed I guess.

Koko Kaina: Now you'll have to buy me diamonds from Habib Jewels, remember Habib Jewels or Poh Kong, they're beautiful too. And it must cost you at least thousands.

Nico: (Crap) Sure, how many thousand? (Walao, so mahal one!)

Koko Kaina: At least four zeroes at the back. *Said that with a big smile on her face*

Nico: (Shitted in his pants) Ehehehe, okay, thanks for the pose! You really make my day!

I wished I was her boyfriend or her friend or something, I'd be the guitar if that's possible. But meh, things don't always go the way we like them to be so if I can't do so, then I'll have to look for other options or rather, look back to my fanclub in Russia, hehehe. Geez, I have this knack for being attracted to really hard-to-get girls. I fell in love with her voice, if I was blind I wouldn't care how she looked like, all I cared was the voice.

And so ends the experience started by spontaneity and obsession. Wow.