Can you hear that?

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16:41 - “To those who leave their homes in the cause of Allah, after suffering oppression, We will assuredly give a goodly home in this world: but truly the reward of the Hereafter will be greater. If they only knew!”

Monday, March 16, 2009

Satisfaction Guaranteed / 12:06 PM

We came to Esplanade yesterday just as the sun was touching the horizon. We sat there in front of the stage waiting for our order of caffeine to be served all the way from Indonesia. After checking the proper ingredients were mixed in just the right proportions, we were left alone amongst the crowd. As we pass the time fidgeting in our seat, we readied out history books to document yesterday for today, tomorrow and perhaps the next few years.

As the clock struck 7, the barristers stepped up and picked up their instruments in their stylish aprons, jackets and dresses. The next few moments were nice... just nice. Even the non-coffee drinkers were drooling for these amazing Indonesian barristers' concoction. The Mocca they served was one of the best we have ever tasted in our lives.

After getting high on the constant consumption of drug-like caffeine, the mood smoothed down as the music plays a familiar tune. In the midst of it all, a voice spoke with perfect tone, rhythm and harmony. The girl's voice flowed across the dozens of heads looking up at her. She had a guitar in her hands and she was playing it like a Malaysian pied piper with her other male sirens accompanying her. All of a sudden, my heart was thumping. I was feeling excited, happy, elated and a lot of other similar emotions at the same time. I've seen her last year on my computer screen and now she's performing right in front of me. At that moment, I couldn't have asked for anything more because in a way, we all had a deeper conversation with this girl - Yuna.

Okay I think that's it for my descriptive essay for now because I kinda ran out of inspiration when my right eye started to itch. hahah! But yeah, I am a very satisfied person right now because I got to see Mocca and Yuna yesterday! Plus, I bought Yuna's EP and got her and the rest of her band to autograph it. Furthermore, I got to take like 3 pictures with her. WOOHOO! 1st was with her and my friends, 2nd was with the band and 3rd was a solo picture with her (this was last minute and I owe Sheilah for this)! We met Sheilah's sister over at the gig too and as we were excitedly tearing away the plastic wrap on the EP, we were laughing at the fact that all of us already have ALL the songs on the EP. In other words, we spent 15 bucks each just for her autograph. HAHAHA!

Mocca was great too. I never really listened to them but after their show yesterday, I cant wait to listen to the album Huda bought. Their vocalist was so cute! She looked, sounded and portrayed an Indonesian Mary Poppins. I think I might go for their acoustic set today also. heh. Ouh and I bought 2 Mocca stickers and a Mocca badge. YAY!

Overall, I am very thankful I got to catch Mocca and Yuna (especially Yuna) yesterday and I hope that this won't be the last time they're coming to Singapore because that would be a tragedy. haha.

p.s. But if they don't come to Singapore again after this, then I'll just have to find time and money to watch their shows at Malaysia, Indonesia or wherever.