Strangely, while listening to purest of pain by son by four, the lyrics from it's chinese counterpart sung by coco lee reasonated in my head, esp during the chorus. "baby,想对你说声对不起,用错的方式去爱你，因为我太在意"...

RJ band concert yest. Impressive stuff. Japanese composers never fails to thrill audiences with their compositions. The opening piece, Machu Picchu, was magnificiently breath-taking. Joe Hisashi Works was a little disappointing, dynamics range was limited and melody and accompaniment sounded oddly disjointed at some parts. The rearrangement of "tong hua", fairytale, sounded much better this time since thier last concert at the PAC. It is interesting to see that the rearrangement not only brought out the crooning feel of the song in the horn solo, but also added new interpretations in the light-hearted chorus. Given the japanese penchant for the dramatic, the silence-then-timpani-roll-doing-a-crescendo-to-max-volume, hold-max- volume-for-a beat-or-two-b4-breaking-into-the-chorus is almost forgivable, esp when the band manages pulls it off well. Shan't elaborate into the other pieces. All in all, it was impressive concert, even better than the hcco one.

Went back home to catch the opening match of world cup, ger VS costa rico, but in the end ended up watching spirited away on Channel U, where the enchanting soundtrack by joe hishashi got me hooked on. match ended 4-2 in germany's favour but germany fans should be wary of their chances. Leaky defense and a directionless attack. yeah, they scored 4- 2 long shots, 1 rebound from keeper and only 1 from a build up in attack. World cup fever is on now, i'm backing the non-favourites, holland and italy. bleah... have to hit the books too... sianz... common test rite in the middle of world cup, the only consolation is that it'll be over by the quarter-final stages....