31 days in June

Tonight was the best decision i've made all week...lol

looking back on tonight's events...

Training back to Melbourne on the 2.28pm train was itself a long eventful trip...Sue's continuous "biting" of my arms, hilarious pictures, lame jokes, (me dozing off thus exposing me to horridious pictures- i can imagine), and ofcourse, great company Sue , Sarah and Christine!

Got checked upon by public transportation officers in the train to Glenny, walked to Sue's quaint house and changed. Both Sue and Sarah looked like they were "dressed like Zee Avi".

Now moving on to the interesting part:
eating...

Went to Petaling Jaya and we ordered respectively Tear drop noodle with minced pork and black fungi, char Kueh Tiaw and Wanton noodles while i curi-curi had the stir fry noodles from Halls last night!lol...

*ahem ahem - then Christine mentioned how hot one of the waiters looked. This catalysed a whole new debate on how Sue thought ANOTHER waiter who wasn't on duty was more hot and that the one that Christine had her eyes on was way too jock-ish. But oh well...the guy was DEFINITELY interested in her - sneaky glances at her, regular pointless walks past our table, an obvious focus on Christine when he poured us all tea - "Ladies, can i fill up your tea?" - whilst looking at Christine...
Definitely plan to come back here again to see if the guy has the nerve to ask her out..LOL

Next, we rushed to Northcote thinking that we were late...Chai - Sue's brother kindly gave us a lift there since he was going to watch Zee Avi with us! It was a full moon that night which we took as a good sign, right? RIGHT!
We did get lost for a little while and then parked a few blocks from the club BUT we ended up early anyway cause although the ticket said 7.30 start, it was actually 8 =p

OH OH OH!

While we were lining up to have out tickets checked, Zee Avi walked past! She was pretty discreet but i kinda ruined that...since Sarah, Sue, Christine and Chai didn't see her, i was frantically trying to get them to turn around to get a glimpse of her...
As she walked up the stairs to their rooms, i'm guessing, i impulsively called out to her, "Do you mind if i could take a picture with you?"
LOL
AND she replied," I'll be around after the show!" in a cheery voice...

Sarah and Sue were like "eeeeeeeeeeee.....she talked to you!"

hahaha...

Let's skip the part where we camwhored for a while after getting to sit on the floor in front of the stage (2nd row) and Sue/Christine buying merchandise from the stall set up there.

Zee Avi began with an acapella of a song which i didn't recognise - perhaps a cover or smtg...then she brough the crowd to start snapping thus bringing us to her first original song of the night, "Poppy".

Then she sang a cover song, "Slow Hands" by Interpol (which she made a joke out of based on her malaysian and internatioinal/interpool fans lol) which was hauntingly lovely...


~*~
Yeah but nobody searches
Nobody cares somehow
When the loving that you've wasted
Comes raining from a hapless cloud
And I might stop and look upon your face
Disappears in the sweet, sweet gaze
See the living that surrounds me
Dissipate in a violet blaze

Can't you see what you've done to my heart, and soul?
This is a wasteland now

We spies, we slow hands
Put the weights all around yourself
We spies, oh yeah we slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself now

I submit my incentive is romance
I watched the pole dance of the stars
We rejoice cause the hurting is so painless
From the distance of passing cars
But I am married to your charms and grace
I just go crazy like the good old days
You makes me want to pick up a guitar
And celebrate the myriad of ways that I love you

Can you see what you've done to my heart, and soul?
This is a wasteland now

We spies, yeah we slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself
We spies, oh yeah we slow hands
Killer for hire, you know not yourself

We spies, we slow hands
You out the weights all around yourself
We spies, oh yeah we slow hands
We retire like nobody else
We spies, intimate slow hands
Killer for hire you know not yourself
We spies, intimate slow hands
You let the face slap around the self
~*~

Then she sang "Honeybee" which she mentioned was her only love song and that she's lost "it" to write more love ones..Although not one of my FAV of her songs, it was still a lovely sing along song...

"Bitter Heart" began with a chic acapella of verse one and flowing into an acoustic version. One guy in the crowd sang "of mine......" too early which made him Zee Avi's target in getting him to sing the line when the time came.Sue, Sarah and I sang the loudest that night i think....since we know her lyrics pretty well..

She introduced her next (NEW) song by sharing the origin of this song:

Her friend was telling her how she'd spent 31 days in June homeless in the US....LOL
she 'asked' if she could borrow that one liner for her song - which was about adapting to a place and about your consciousness. On the other hand, "You COULD treat this as your lover kind of thing, if you wanted to?" ~Zee Avi =)

This song was amazing...loved the plucking pattern in this song and the lyrics are really awesome as well...

Moving on to her ukulele, she announced that "Just You and Me" was the first song she wrote on a ukelele. Singing along was the BOMB! where's the fun without the sing along!

And finally ending the night with Kantoi!

This performance is WAY WAY too short.Still in awe of the whole package: the vocals, the quality of the music, the emotions - overflowing actually, the ambience and the talent shining through the uniquely written songs...

After her exit from the stage, we waited for her to come to the merchandise table where we lined up to take a picture/autograph from her...
A guy infront of Christine and Sarah was totally hitting on her,talking to her for QUITE some time and the most outrageous thing was him picking up Zee Avi's hand gently and kissing it!!!!!!! (Christine and I then saw him walking up the stairs like he was stuck to Zee Avi with glue or smtg....)

creepy stalker material...

But yeah....Matt Costa is pretty ok...atleast we got a picture with him? lol
Mr Pitiful and a few other songs were amongst my favs but yeah....=)

I miss watching Zee Avi now....=p