upfront at the coldplay’s last concert for the twisted logic tour at bristow, va.
it was amazing being in the pit for their last show. my first time at nissan pavilion and it was well worth it. towards the end, the members of the band took pictures of the fans w/ disposable cameras. they then tossed the cameras into the crowd.
What as a bit goofy this concert was just as the band returned for the encore, Chris Martin sat down at the piano to start playing Swalled by the Sea. However, somehow a present of flowers was on the piano. He grabbed them and sad what, we’re not like Celine Dion or something, then he proceeded to fawn over the flowers bowing up and down. He then tossed the bouquet at Jonny Buckland and decided to start the encore over again 
yeah my rocking wrist w/ the pit entrance band 21+ orange band, and the blue band that says coldplay — i got it at the msg concert 
so the beacon theater performance on was totally amazing. it was my first time seeing coldplay live and i could not contain my excitement. i didn’t have the greatest seats, but moved my way towards the front. at one point i could see the band so clearly and close-up. chris martin was totally rockin’ out at the piano belting out “in my place”.
i was quite annoyed that because this performance was a “corporate function” more than half the ppl there didn’t know more than one song (as chris martin stated their “one and two-hit wonders”). even the band was feeling low energy from the audience. at one point, after the fifth song, martin said: alright let’s start over. let’s forget the first part of this concert because we’re not doing so well and start it all over now.
grrr how annoying.
anyway, i’m waiting for the broadcast to air as some of the new songs alluded me. i do remember “till kingdom come”, a hidden track on the new album, which they did in one take. i’m not sold on it, yet, but i’ve pre-ordered the album and have most of the summer to get into it before the “twisted logic” tour.
amazing amazing
at the risk of turning this into a totally coldplay entry (and revealing how obsessed w/ coldplay i am), i’m requesting any and all info on how they played hfstival in baltimore this weekend — i need to know how it was!!! it hasn’t been updated on band site yet.
i was so psyched to go catch coldplay at hfstival in anticipation of their performance in nyc. i’m heading up tuesday AM for a performance at the beacon theater sponsored by aol music. however, my stinkin allergies, a cold, and the threat of rain quarantined me to my home. 
pictures are posted on hfstival, but haven’t seen too many comments yet. i’m surfing the message boards as we speak. can anyone fill in the details below?
i know coldplay isn’t your typical hfstival band, but it’s great they came to the area on their promotional tour before the release of the new album. i totally welcome any comments on hfstival in general (foo fighters specifically,too)…will update throughout the day…
“Coldplay was incredible. I truely love this band. They threw in a bunch of nods and thanks to other acts and HFS too (played a bit of white wedding their way and mentioned dave grohl in it as well). Set: new song, politik, yellow, new song, clocks, fix you (very romantic ), in my place Foo Fighters were fun as always. Dave talking with B’more accent at end-priceless. Set: All My Life, Learn to Fly, My Hero, Times Like These, The Last Song (new), Stacked Actors (with a “jamming” session), Monkey Wrench, Everlong.”
“The rain really f***** up the set times for Coldplay and Foos because they each only ended up playing about 35-40 minute sets. I was pleasantly suprised by Coldplay and the dedications to all the bands was nice. That guy had a hard on for Dave Grohl apparently but I’m not gonna fault him for that. Clocks was great to hear live. Good job Coldplay. Foo Fighters. 3rd best set of the day but only because their set was massively shortened. Stacked Actors rocked my a** off and I could see Dave running into the T barrier.”found more info on coldplaying fansite: – coldplay tooks stage at 9:45 in the rain – line-up: square one, politik, yellow, low, clocks, fix you, in my place.
who believes in fate? the movie serendipity is on tbs (damn them!) and it talks about fate and destiny and finding one’s soulmate. i think there isn’t a single soulmate for each person. really…there are billions of ppl in this world and people who run into each other and are are meant to be together.
i honestly think things happen for a reason. however, i feel you’ll run into ppl all your life that you connect with. which is why the idea of one soulmate doesn’t hold for me. it’s about relating to others who are special in your life.
anyway, i’m more annoyed that kate beckinsale’s character, is an idiot in the beginning of the movie for tempting fate. making john cusac’s character run all over the place, up and down the waldorf astoria and whatnot. that’s just another form of mind games that women make men go through. take fate into your own hands and if doesn’t work out, then it wasn’t meant to be.
i’m a survivor…
from my last post in early november, you know what i mean….
i made sure to come to the office early that day, but spent most of the morning w/ my head down because it was just too weird to go wandering about the office. definitely eerie w/security officers milling about the halls and cubes…
over the last 6 weeks, i wondered (a lot) about what if i’m one of the chosen to leave. the good thing is, and what i think happened w/ a lot of the layoff-ees, that this was not a life-defining moment. there was enough time to prepare yourself for it and be ready to move on.
i’m reminded of the movie sliding doors — where your future could completely change within a split second. now, to me, the event of missing a train doesn’t have enough impact (kind of a weak premise in life, but it works in the movies) as you’re leaving things to fate and not to controlling your own destiny.
so in valid “what if” scenarios, you have to make a conscious decision to take one path versus another. also, the decision that you make or that’s made for you has to be difficult. it can’t be “well, i’m going to the mall today”. that’s easy and if you don’t go, no big deal. yes, you might miss your chance to be discovered as a rising fashion model because a talent agency was scoping out real people…but the decision to go is not hard.
my “life-defining moment” was when i didn’t go to japan to study abroad in college. i knew my family was not keen on the idea, but i was given the opportunity to apply for the program. i thought if i didn’t get in, then there’s no reason to bring it up. well, the application process went by over a few months and i did get accepted. if i went, i was to be in kyoto for 4 months and do intensive language and cultural studies. if i went, i’d miss the entire job-recruiting season at school and would have to start from scratch months after my cohorts. if i went, i’d be for the first time in another continent and without my family.
ultimately, after much heated deliberation, the decision was made for me not to go. so i stayed in chicago…and recruited…got a great consulting job…graduated early…and my path continues from there.
had i made the sliding doors, i see myself as whisked away to a new land. i would have been corrupted earlier in my life. in the real-world, i hit my wild streak once i started working. i think it was itching to get out of me and japan would have brought that out quickly. i would have explored my creative-side, producing oragami monstrosities, contemplating beautiful landscapes while playing with dainty electronics.
however, i don’t think you could’ve taken the love of numbers and quant and desire to confirm and reason out of me; so, as a person i would have stayed just as rationale as i am today. i would have come back to recruit for a job, with different opportunities accessible to me and yet, i’d still probably go for the highest paid gig i could get.
so sliding doors do not change who we are fundamentally. i think that’s why i can believe in fate and yet, the abililty to control one’s destiny. and today, the decision was made that i was not going to be laid-off. i neither volunteered for a package nor was i involuntarily axed.
i live my days as who i am with opportunities abound in front of me and a daily 45-min commute
it’s coming up on my parents’ 2-year anniversary of being owners of their own business. they’ve worked in this field for over 30 years, but never as owners of the entire business.
life has completely changed for them. when i moved to the dc area for work, i thought they were going to retire. my mom was frustrated, my dad was tired — made sense for them to slow down and not worry about it all.
my parents have always been entreprenuerial and taking over the business is the culmination of 40 years of hard work. it’s amazing. and i sit here in dc, worrying about a job that probably isn’t going to get me anywhere, and unable to help my parents. today i’m blogging like fiend, when i could be in chicago helping them out.
it’s hard to describe…i love the industry i’m in, but i sit bored day-to-day as we’re in limbo about layoffs and budget cuts, etc. by far, healthcare’s not my bag baby, but i wonder if i sit here and continue to work for the man, or if i should take the risk to go for something bigger and better in the long run.
and then there’s school. i’m ready to move back to chicago, but want to do graduate studies somewhere besides uofc and heaven forbid nu.
gotta keep telling myself to make the most of my time…
what i can’t believe is how funked up i feel after this election. i made the effort to vote…i was actually less active in supporting the campaign effort than in years past. i wanted to volunteer for get out the vote rally’s and events, but didn’t. i think my parents stole my thunder since they became citizens — i commend them!.
then i realize how we all have to live w/this decision for the next 4 years and for the rest of our lives.
what affects my family’s business directly the most is the crazy rising healthcare costs. it stinks. luckily illinois is blue and hopefully the state will keep paying up, but w/o help from the feds…
wow wow wow, so a lot has happened in the past few months
1) decided to make my profile more public – meaning i’ve hidden some entries (the really bad ones), but u still get the gist of where i was last year
2) check out Metroblogging DC — a much more constructive way for me to blog
3) i’ve resolved that work should not affect me so greatly. i can have a work/life balance and not feel useless. plus with the layoffs — whoohoo, whaddya gonna do?
4) joined volleyball team…finally!
5) even more-so active in my alumni club.
6) trying to figure out what else to do with all my free time (yoga, apa women’s forum, dnc, etc.)
7) i still freak out and take things too personally and get upset at a drop of a hat, but i gotta balance it somehow…
i have a lot of encounters at the grocery that highlight my asianess. is it because the grocery is a level playing field and the meeting place of all races, religions and heights?
anyway, i undergo alot of presumptions by others. at work, i look young. a new hire’s first question to me was if i went to college for my job (omg, how many years ago and can you not tell by the massive university of chicago poster?). after we spoke a little longer, i think she realized that i wasn’t an intern or someone’s daughter working part-time.
another presumption is that i’m asian and not asian-american. at first glance, it’s hard to tell if i was born and raised in the US or again someone’s daughter who immigrated a few years ago to start a new life.
so to bring together both assumptions, on saturday afternoon, i’m in line at a grocery in podunk, VA — which actually has a large asian population (btw, my definition of podunk is anything outside downtown). the cashier asks me if i live in the area, in which i respond i’m just visiting a friend. he’s very intrigued about my friend and asked how i liked my visit, does my friend live far, have i been to the wal-marts down the street. now, the wal-mart question has relevance, as you shall soon see, he then asks if i was filipino. oh, i have so many filipino friends that work at wal-marts. lots of my good friends are filipinos and they work hard and cook very good. he then asks if i just got off work (remember it’s a saturday afternoon) — so he’s now figured i work at the wal-mart-like job as many of his filipino friends. and i said, no. and that’s ok by me. i’m the ubiquitous asian.
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