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Britney Spears Circus Tour Perth 2009

mooiness — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:16:39 +0000

My happy group went and saw Britney Spear’s concert at Burswood Dome last night. And it was fantastic!

Check out our happy faces.

The setup was very impressive including this gigantic 360° screen that went up and down whenever Britney leaves the stage for costume changes, and which lighted up with graphics, videos and words. The only sucky thing was that it didn’t show what Britney was doing on stage for the benefit of those who sat or stood a little further away like my group.

The sound system was awesome – it was loud but not ear-shattering with the bass lines suitably thumping during her set which consisted of all of her higher tempo songs except for one track.

These were the best pictures of Britney that we got – I think they were taken by Sel.

About an hour and a half into the show, it came to an end. The big circular screen exploded with sparklers …

and then there was an explosion of confetti with Britney in the middle of the stage (you can sorta make out her silouhette here) …

and finally, the screen comes down to close off the show.

We all went home tired and sweaty but elated.

Here’s the highlight clip (6:46).

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Would you share your lover?

mooiness — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:29:06 +0000

I wrote in the previous post that if there wasn’t any emotional maintenance involved in my past relationships, then they might have lasted longer due to the person that I am. Which prompted this question: does that mean I’m perfectly ok with sharing my lover?

Let me explain the idea. Right or wrong, at this point in time I can’t see myself putting up with the idiosyncrasies of a relationship. My physical needs haven’t quite trumped my need for an emotionally carefree existence just yet. So if my girlfriend is not exclusive to me, that means the emotional maintenance part is shared with another person, which means it’s less for me to handle. And I thought, that’s a reasonable trade.

I’m not the jealous type. I also don’t believe there’s anything wrong with having multiple partners as long as everyone involved knows the full picture, and everyone is accorded mutual respect. I feel that the arrangement can be beneficial to the person who shares their lover, and also to the lover who has multiple partners.

The one who shares has an easier time whether it’s physically or emotionally, while the person who has multiple partners can choose different people to fulfill different roles in their lives.

So yeah, I am ok with sharing my lover. But that is me. I don’t think my train of thought is shared by many. People generally still expect monogamy, or at least serial monogamy. And that loving and wanting more than one person at a time is not right. Though I think that what I’ve described is better than the lying, the cheating and ultimately the betrayal that comes with all kinds of affairs.

Monogamy – good for you if it’s easy for you and if you have it but why must that be the only right kind of relationship?

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What if my girlfriends were fuck buddies instead?

mooiness — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:37:08 +0000

Tham asked me the other day what’s the longest that I have been in a relationship for, and I said, “2 months”. To which he said, “So you’ve had a string of fuck buddies then.” Hah, if only!

I’ve now been single for 5 years, going into my 6th. Before that, for about 10 years I would have a different girlfriend every 2 years with the shortest relationship lasting just 4 weeks. I have a theory about why it was like that.

I think back then, 2 years was the longest time that I can go without sex so it was only natural that I would get into a relationship every 2 years. But once I get into a relationship, the emotional maintenance starts to get to me and before long I’d figured that it wasn’t worth it.

I think that if there wasn’t any emotional maintenance involved, I would have probably stayed in these relationships longer. The physical side of things requires less effort and less thinking. So yeah, if my girlfriends were fuck buddies instead, my longest time spent in a relationship would have probably been longer than 2 months.

But if they were fuck buddies, that would mean that they weren’t girlfriends. I may not care about the emotional maintenance but it doesn’t mean that I don’t like having an emotional connection with someone. I still think that sex is better when you have an emotional connection.

All these years, I’ve been coping well emotionally because I’ve got my friends and family, and my dogs. Physically, there’s porn and masturbation and paying for it 3 times so far. But sex with someone else that I cared about? I miss having that on a regular basis.

And yet I lose interest in someone new very quickly these days, over the smallest of reasons – it’s probably a defense mechanism and my warped idea of not bothering with relationships or trying to get into one because of how I feel about the work that goes into maintaining one. I’m doomed, aren’t I?

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DJ Hero is awesome

mooiness — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:15:18 +0000

Been playing DJ Hero for the past few days and it’s super fun. It took me about an hour to go through the tutorial and to get the hang of it. After a few more hours of playing, I’m now comfortably playing the medium level. There’s still hard and expert to conquer.

Aside from the gameplay, the graphics are pretty to look at though you’d be mostly concentrating on the scrolling music highway. And the music will definitely get a party started – the mashups of the different genres of songs including house, trance, R&B and Hip Hop are really cool and there are over 90 songs included with the game, and more to become available for download at a price.

Check out this insane clip of hard-level gameplay.

At $129, it’s well worth the money.

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DJ Hero in da house

mooiness — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:02:13 +0000

Can you tell I’m happy?!

Here’s the unboxing pics.

To gauge how big the turntable is …

Haven’t got a chance to play it yet – the parental units are hogging the big TV. But tomorrow night is a different story – w00t!

If you are in Australia and you are thinking of getting it, JB HiFi is selling it for the cheapest at $129. If they are stickered for more than that (I’ve seen a branch selling these for $159) – ask the store staff why because it says $129 on their site.

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I Dream of Nice Hot Girls and Megan Fox

mooiness — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:56:18 +0000

(via Kotaku)

My kind of hot girl would be the hot girl who doesn’t know how hot she is. She wouldn’t know the extent of her charm and beauty. She would be down to earth, and although she may be self-confident, she wouldn’t have an ego.

She doesn’t behave badly nor does she think she can get away with bad behaviour just because she’s beautiful. She’d apologise and mean it. She doesn’t expect favours or for you to bend over backwards for her. Put simply, she doesn’t trade on her good looks.

She wouldn’t belittle you or make sure that you know that you are privileged to be around her, even though you really are. No, it’s the other way around – she is the one who is grateful that you are in her life and she tells you so.

So I must have been having these thoughts subconsciously because last night I dreamt about Megan Fox, except she wasn’t a movie star. Although she was still smoking hot in my dream (natch), she was a normal person and she was my friend, and we did normal friend things together. And in my dream I relish being her friend because of that whole hotness by association thing we got going – being around a hot woman naturally lifts other people’s perception of your own attractiveness, PLUS the fact that she didn’t know she was the hot Megan Fox.

Perhaps Megan represented how I feel about all my female friends. Amiright?! Big brownie points? Come on! That deserved a bucketful.

Check out these clips of Megan on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien – Megan comes across as so normal and down to earth, that Conan says she’s the “perfect woman”. I have to agree. Woohoo!

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My parents amuse me

mooiness — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:44:15 +0000

I heard mom and dad arguing last night.

Mom said, “@#$%^&!”

Dad said, “”@#$%^& yourself!”

I laughed. I think that wasn’t the correct reaction.

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I’m going to Britney’s concert!

mooiness — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:56:13 +0000

So remember that time I told you I like Britney?

My friend Kayo managed to get us $50 tickets (normally $199) which makes it a complete no-brainer! So our happy bunch are going to her concert on the 7th of Nov! Squeee!

It should be awesome. Her live shows always look good!

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Godskitchen Perth 2009

mooiness — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:07:31 +0000

This post is more than a week late – life, friends and good times got in the way of blogging about it. So Godskitchen 2009 rolled into Perth on 9th October, and it was held at Metrocity as usual.

In my group for the night were Simon, Lydia, and Scott.

This year, for something different the tour included Jes, a vocalist who’s done a few tracks with different DJs. Her live performance was so-so but the choice of songs was good as a steady build up to the more frenetic stuff that was to come. And boy, did it come. Woohoo!

I’ve heard stuff from Blank & Jones before but their own tracks are usually quite mellow and chill. I was pleasantly surprised when the stuff that they spun on the night was decidedly harder stuff. They played an excellent set.

When it was time for Cosmic Gate at 2:30am, I was super hyped up. And they didn’t disappoint. Their set was made up of euphoric melodies and vocals mixed in with a relentless beat – loved it loved it loved it!

My batteries went dead just as John 00 Fleming came on around 4:30am. He took it to another level. My mind was officially blown by then. But I only lasted another 30 minutes before my legs couldn’t quite keep up with the pounding beats anymore.

I left at 5:30am a totally exhausted but extremely satisfied and happy punter.

Here’s the obligatory highlight clip (9:59) – turn it up!

Godskitchen Perth 2009 – Blank & Jones, Cosmic Gate from Marcus Ooi on Vimeo.

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Stable guys are boring guys are single guys

mooiness — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:03:05 +0000

So Tham and I had our usual discussion about sexual politics the other night and he brought up some interesting observations. Some women like to be the mother figure in the relationship, they like nurturing and looking after the man and feeling needed, while others crave the intrigue and mystery that comes with dating an unpredictable, some say unreliable, man. In other words, they like bad and broken men whom they can nurture and fix. Or so they think.

I’ve talked about those things previously so I’m not gonna rehash them here. Tham adds something to the discussion though: stable, independent and reliable guys are boring to the women described above, and thus they are unattractive in their eyes. There’s no challenge, no excitement, and “what you see is what you get” is very dull to them.

Whether or not the theory holds is not important but it sure does make me feel better about myself. There’s nothing wrong with being a well-adjusted independent guy, right? Right? Damn it, where you going? Don’t leave! Hey come back! Please? Hello?

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