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Last week I was a runner at Gorillaz's show.  The show was reminiscent of the shows which our university's chinese student club used to help out at the Fairchild TV in Vancouver.  The difference was that this time I actually got paid.

Honestly speaking, I didn't really know much about this band.  London boy (we worked together in bank before) was so busy at work and didn't get to reply till the date of the concert..really wanna punch him right in his face!

First day we spent most of the time travelling back and forth between the airport and hotel just to ensure the main bands & artists were safely arrived to their designated accommodations.  At night, I was back in the airport again waiting for De La Soul.  I was a bit scared becoz I knew I had to lead them back to the airport parking lot to the van all the way back to the hotel by myself.  There were four black guys coming up, so my "Craig Duffy" sign was immediately raised to their eye level.  Maseo was the first one coming out, but he was mad though.  I thought he didn't like Cathay Pacific simply becoz of the size of the seat and the food (this was what he told me when he first stepped out!)  Soon or later, I found out that I was totally wrong!  The moment of truth was Maseo, who had been in the industry for 23 years, didn't earn much and being rip off.  He told me that he would never want to sing and beg.

While we were on the way from the airport back to the hotel, Maseo asked me whether I could play him some hip hop music.  This time I really freaked out coz I didn't bring any music with me (my MP4 was broken down at home, and I had not yet synchronized my personal songlists to my iphone4).  I simply asked the driver whether his car had any of the hip hop stuffs.  He said all the songs I listened were Chinese Karaoke songs!  WT!?!?  You know what I think this was the most embarrassing moment that I had ever ever had in my life!  While trying to tell them I couldn't find anything, I simply told them I'd prefer a live hiphop by De Da Soul now in the car.  Just about they refused to do so, I was lucky enough to find some LMF stuffs and got them played in the car without any hesitation.  Both Maseo and Kelvin were satisfied.  LMF - you saved my life!

The next day I went to the hotel to pick up Damon/Jamie and De La Soul afterwards to the venue.  Damon/Jamie were nice, but Damon got pissed a bit when he knew he needed to wait for another minute until the battery recharging was done in the van.  The last round I went back to the hotel again to pick up De La Soul to the venue.  Kelvin was very punctual.  He stood right outside of the hotel lobby with his headphones on as well as his head nobbing.  I chit chat with him a bit , and then I saw Maseo and Smiles were standing right in front of the lobby.  Maseo was down to earth, whining sometimes yet genuine.  I told them Kelvin was standing outside by himself waiting for the van.  They said that that dude was weird all the time.  I told them not to tease his mate, and they said it was necessary to tease at your mates (ok whatever..).  I kept calling Smiles as Chris at the beginning coz this was his official name listed on the hotel room's list.  Maseo put his index and middle fingers at both end of my mouth and pushed upward.  His name was smiles and you should smile more (ya..he realized my problem!)

On Sunday morning,  we picked up the remaining main bands & artists from their hotel locations to the airport.  I met Maseo and Kelvin again.  Maseo told me the next stop for their tour will be at Perth all the way till Dec 23rd.  After the Christmas break, the tour would continue till end of Feb if my memory served me right.  He mentioned he would come back to HK later on to produce a couple of albums.  I brought him to the queue for economy class to check in his luggages, and he kept telling me that he never travelled by economy class.  I asked the tour assistant and she shook her head and replied "sigh…I really have no clue!".  After that, Maseo and I kept arguing back and forth and he claimed that I was not listening to him.  He gave me his contact no. and email address.  We embraced each other warmly before I watched him departed.  The last word he said to me, "you should trust me and listen" (sorry mate..shouldn't doubt you regardless of what the tour assistant said).  The band from Syria was having visa problem that further delayed them entering into the restricted area for boarding.  I saw Bobby Womack with his super friendly assistant.  We helped them to video tape themselves before they departed.  Last of all, the visas for those Syrian folks were ready and we also watched them safely departed before we call it a day!

I know there are more live shows coming up e.g. Eric Clapton / Michael Boo-blay / The Eagles.  I hope I will have a chance to help out at Boo-blay's show coz I am crazily about this coolest man in the world for a long time too.  I know am biased coz we are both originated from the same place.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIZW4SGVbhA

如果一天有多過二十四小時。。有多好!
很努力地去學習分配時間。。一定要做得到。。因為已影響了進度和質素。。

很佩服那些能夠multi-tasking的人。。在這方面通常女人比較好。。
我究竟是不是女人? 又不見得聰明。。

都是那句，真的不想解釋太多。。繼續努力吧！

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG7ltZ4dg2A

While figuring out the difference between Finale 2000 vs 2011 on my Mac (I'm really unfamiliar with all the stuffs now)...Meanwhile, watching this clip with this particular song from John Mayer's is always my all time favourite and is always on repeat...and I keep giving myself the same response whenever I am listening to: how could he be so natural on this especially when he sang the oo parts.....and then the lyrics "I'm not going to LA anymore....", but this was a live excerpt from LA..What the?!?!