i am not going to sing praises to the final fantasy concert, not today. 

neither am i going to talk about how good the concert was, enough people have done that already.

in fact, i would talk about some things that would make some of you feel a bit uncomfortable. 

2nd violins (or was it 3rd?) were slightly off. 

wrong notes here and there.

conducting and the music expressed was slightly ... odd, i would say, but i guess its pretty subjective.

but towards end of the concert, where the everyone were cheering for the encore, these sounds indicated to me that the concert is still on-going. and what i wouldn't give just to here these sounds again. in the end, its these small things that we remember, the little imperfections that made them perfect. 

ok nice try. phails. 

but my point is, it was technically not a very good concert, but there were great company, good music, good tone, and what was best was that i was able to sit back and enjoy the music without worrying that i might miss out some parts and i won't be able to discuss it musically after the concert. silly boy was sitting beside me all along listening to the concert (btw, i realised how much he's cuter on the left side of the face compared to the right side). i loved how they combined the animation and the music. the chocobos and how it evolved (NEW! and improved!) FF1 is amazing, given the technology back then. oh, and i think mr uematsu walks like a cute mascot on stage. <3>

its the usual after concert. met up with zairt rawshoff and some friend (whom i cannot remember the name) and the girlf for dinner and they went off to play poker at someone's house and then i left. 

anyway, its in the middle of the night and i was looking at the FCD 2008 photos. it was so much different back then, although its at the same place. the whole atmosphere was so different. it felt more like a family. (HAHA beautifully imperfect again). it was really fun back then. much more laughter. (xin jian and his balloon bed, for example). i don't mean that i don't like FCD '09. its just that, i haven't been working for quite some time and i think there are people whom i haven't really talk to like a close friend. and we didn't get to come together to prepare for FCD together too. 

i think what i lack with the store is the bonding. i really wish that i'm closer with them, but i guess its just difficult, when i'm not putting down shifts there anymore.