Devious Concoctions.

Gosh it’s been ages since i’ve updated this thing! (sweeps dust. *cough cough*). Anyway my A LEVELS ARE OVER! Yes!! Muahahaha! Finally after 1.5 years!! I’m free!!!

Anyway first thing i did after the last paper was worry. Okie okie i’m just kidding. But i did worry! A bit. More than a lil bit. I think. Fine fine fine. I went to watch movie with the gang in 1U since later that night i won’t be able to attend to last supper of PE12. Drat! Stardust was a really nice movie. Then again i’m a sucker for fairytales and make believe. Hehe. Gosh i think i’m missing all of PE12….

Anyway after that was the much-anticipated GENTING MAGIC FEST! I went with the MCG (yukiko, Isaac, Chris, Edmund and Szehowe). But that holiday started the day before, in SUNWAY LAGOON!It’s been ages since i last went to a theme park! Last was when i was 6? Or was it 13. Can’t remember. And i’ll tell you why i try to avoid theme parks! Coz i’m freakin scared of heights! And theme parks are filled with rollar coasters that goes up and comes zooming down at top speed, 360 degrees and stuff!!! But it was okie, all i did was demand that i only sit the mild rides! =P Okie okie just kidding. After the first 3 rides, i got used to it. Yukiko was like my guide, telling me which rides were scary and stuff. Boy that girl has been to Disneyland and theme parks in Japan!!! And they’re like 100 Higher, Faster, Dizzier, Scarier! Szehowe was my teman who sometimes exaggerated the thrill of the ride. Then later we all stayed over at Yukiko’s place. She had a few hours of practicing for her piano exam the following week. Jazz pieces are crazy!

Saturday, 24th Nov. GENTING TRIP! We all had to wake up early coz a few wanted to catch MICHAEL AMMAR’S lecture at 11am. So it was up and at ‘em at 6.30 am. Hehe. But it was worth it going up to genting so early and feeling the cool breeze. Nice to get away from it all; KL, work. Met Simon and Andy in the lobby as they’ve just arrived as well. Haven’t seen them for so long! Since September to be exact. Anyway some went off to catch the lecture, while the rest waited to get rooms. We were lucky to meet some strolling magicians like Derek DelGaudio and John Lovick. Derek was a whiz with cards, quicker than the eye can catch cardist! John Lovick came his his huge set of 5 Linking rings. Both were a pro in this game! We also met Shoot Ogawa! But he had such a huge fan base here that he was performing half a trick 1 second, autographing a card the next and taking pictures the next! Boy did he look beat!

Anyway, we went to watch the Tournament show at 2.30pm. Around 8 international contestants were competition. The show was quite lively, especially the MC! He was talkative and a juggler being at that!! There was a guest act by comedic duo LES ARNOLD and DAZZLE! Dazzle would sometimes steal the show with her saucy dance moves and high kicks, and Arnold would be looking at her impatiently from time to time, only to have Dazzle return to being his assistant in dismay. hehe, the audience gets to vote for who they like at the end of the show. I voted for ARTHUR TRACE, the magician who pulls objects out of an abstract painting!! The whole show was entertaining. JEFF MCBRIDE was there to give support to his fellow magicians!! =D

Later at night there was the CHAMPIONS SHOW in the arena of stars. There was JAMES DIMMARE (his dove manipulations were superb), DAVID AND DANIA (their quick change costume were their forte, watch them on youtube on America’s got Talent and you’ll see what i mean), AYALA AND TANYA(the big illusions, with a kicker ending where Ayala escaped from being sawed and appeared among the audience!), JEFF MCBRIDE!! (mask changing routines and card throwing master), MAGIC WAVE(A duo from Netherlands, like Surfer dude vs Hip Hop dude.) and ED ALONZO (the Misfit of Magic : his brick catch ala cannon blast was hilarious). Our group was prolly the loudest in that section, getting weird stares from around. The guy next to me whispered to his partner : magician groupies! SAy what?

Yea that totally made the whole trip worthwhile. Oh yea, attending MCBRIDE’S lecture was another highlight of the event. That guy is an an energizer bunny! He’s always reminiscing something about his past, jumping aroung, mimicking EUGENE BURGER! I bought one of his effects, thinkering with it now! Then i attended MICHAEL AMMAR last general lecture and got really really GOOD discounts for 2 of hid DVD’s. Ooo lala…..

We all arrived back in KL past 8pm. This would be my first trip with friends, and i wouldn’t have it any other way.

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