Monga Movie Review

So I just finished watching Monga. I've been dying to see it after I saw the cast promoting it on Kang Xi Lai Le. It took me forever to find a copy of it because it's NOT EVEN ON YOUKU or TUDOU, which are the two Chinese sites which have everything.

The problem with this movie was that I needed to find the English subs with this because they speak Taiwanese throughout the whole video with A LOT of slang so I didn't understand a thing. I got the Mandarin parts... thank goodness but they don't speak Mandarin all that much, most of it is in Taiwanese.

I thought the movie started off pretty good. It caught my attention and it kept me watching until the end. I expected to find "great" meaning in this movie because of how the director spoke of it on Kang Xi Lai Le, but I didn't really find a strong message. There was a RELATIVELY strong theme of brotherhood and betrayal in the movie but I felt that it wasn't all that heavily developed. They had a lot of scenes that were presented only to show how much training effort they put into the "martial" aspects of the movie.

The plot is quite simple. There's a loner who has no friends and is recruited into the gang and there he finds brotherhood and loyalty. They also do this blood thing, where they cut their fingers and they drip the blood into a blood of water and they have to drink it or something, lol. So it's like... OFFICAL that they're brothers. The head of these brothers, his name is Dragon, so Dragon's dad is like the Big Brother of all the gangs in the Monga area, like no one messes with him, lol. Mosquito is the name of the loner guy who got recruited. Monk is like Dragon's really good friend and they're super tight. There's a guy named Monkey and another dude... I forget his name but it's probably something ridiculous as well. So Monk finds out that Dragon's dad once ordered someone to chop off his dad's arm so that he could be the BIG BROTHER. And every time Dragon does something wrong, Monk always gets punished for it.

So then eventually, Monk gets invited by this other gang to kill Dragon's dad so that they could expand their gang business into Mainland China. Dragon's dad's against expanding into China, he wants to keep Monga in Taiwan only. So then Monk kills the Big Brother. And obviously, now that the Big Brother is gone, havoc spreads like wildfire. And the 5 brothers plan to go to the Philippines until the insanity dies down. Oh and NONE of the brothers know that Monk is the one who kills Dragon's dad.

And Mosquito, who is so loyal to the gang, wants to seek revenge and kill the person who kill Dragon's dad.

And basically that's it. Mosquito eventually finds out that Monk is behind all this. And I think the sequence goes like this in the final scene:

-Mosquito is stabbed in the leg with a knife from a fight and he's limping around with it, trying to chase Monk

-Monk hides and sees Mosquito coming after him and he shoots him

-Just as Mosquito is about to die, he reaches out his arms to Monk

-Monk THINKS he wants to like hug him or something

-As Monk bends down, Mosquito takes the knife out of his leg and stabs Monk with it

-Dragon comes out of nowhere and slashes Monk with a knife

-Both Monk and Mosquito die at the scene

-The random fifth dude who I don't remember the name and Dragon drag Mosquito's body away

-THE END

LOL.

I expected Monk and Mosquito to really bond throughout the movie, and I sort of felt a bit of it at the beginning but then it faded it away as the director focused his attention to build the plot.

I thought this movie could've been really good, like excellent. There were so many ideas that weren't developed and so many themes and motives that the director could have built on but instead he slightly covered a range of concepts. I sort of wish Dragon played a bigger role in the group. After his father died, he completely fell apart and didn't even want to seek revenge. I'm not saying he's not allowed to be sad and cry after his father died, but like... DUDE. YOU'RE A GANGSTER!!! FEEL SOME ANGER!!!

The casting was not bad. They were all pretty hot except for Monkey and.. OH YEAH I remember the fifth guy's name, it's Dog Boy, lol. So yeah... those 2 are ugly but the other 3 are amazingly hot.

I thought Ethan Ruan, the guy who played Monk, could've played Dragon's role a lot better. Those two should've switched roles.

This is Ethan Ruan who plays Dragon. I think he's a really good actor but then again, he's been in the industry for a while now so I guess it's a given. Like I mentioned earlier, I thought that he should've played Dragon in the movie. I think he would've been able to carry the role a lot better and also uphold the movie.

Apparently he's Tiffany Xu's boyfriend. I think Tiffany is absolutely gorgeous. Her acting is still kind of meh... but she's pretty. She's a mix, I'm not sure a mix of what though. I think she's Italian and Taiwanese? On Kang Xi Lai Le, the host sort of asked him if they were going out and he's like, "I'm dating right now?" And the host was like, "Well, there are picture of you kissing her... it was very obvious. You guys didn't even try to hide it." And he's like, "Oh... hahaha. *drops topic*" So I guess they haven't officially announced it yet. Even though i find him good looking, I still think she's too pretty for him, lol.

This is Mark Chao. I find him so HOT. That's why I have picture of him throughout his entry, lol. He plays Mosquito. I think he's an amazing actor for a newbie. I haven't really seen a new side of him though. His first acting job was a policeman who is very passionate about his job and is really loyal and follows all the rules. In this character, he also plays a very righteous and passionate person... I don't know. In terms of acting, I haven't seen another side of him, but who cares. He's hot.

I thought he was perfect to the cast, one thing I would change is his age in the movie. He was supposed to be a 17 year old, this guy doesn't look 17 at all. Why didn't they just make him like 20 or something and he's in university? Do people in university not get picked on?

When I was watching Kang Xi Lai Le, the director tells us how popular he is in Taiwan. I agree he's goodlooking, but I don't think he fits the role all too much besides the fact that his mom is white in the movie and his father is Taiwanese so... they need a mixed looking kid. But why the white mom in the first place? And his acting is horrendous. LOL. I didn't buy his "big brother" of the gang character. In the movie, he looks like a big wuss who can't stand up for himself without the help of his other 4 friends. His father in the movie is completely different from him. Tough. Strong. No one gets in his way. Too bad his son isn't half of what he is.

The movie, overall, is a good watch. I might watch it again just for the eye candy but the plot itself is lacking in many ways. I didn't really appreciate the love line that the director squished in for Mosquito. Just because he's a loner doesn't mean he needs to find love in the movie to define his newfound character. I thought his discovery of brotherhood and friendship would suffice as his character development. And there wasn't even chemistry between them... blah. I swear, I'm not biased here.

I like the voiceover at the beginning of the movie but not the end. So at the end of the movie when Monk bends down to give Mosquito a hug and is unexpectedly stabbed, it was supposed to be a huge revelation of plot and character on both Mosquito and Monk's part. The voiceover that explains why that happened is supposed to be the grande closure of the entire film. I thought the voiceover said too much, either remove the voiceover all together or say less. Basically the voiceover says something along the lines of, "Monk, you bent down to hug me because you thought I was going to hug you. In that moment, you chose to trust me. Therefore, you didn't join the gang for the sake of being a gangster. You joined it for the same reason as I did, for brotherhood. For friendship." Although it was touching, but I felt that the audience should've been given a chance to make that connection themselves instead of having A CHARACTER in the film explain it. I think the voiceover really took away the thunder of that final scene. They should've just left the scene as it is or maybe if they were really afraid that the audience wouldn't understand Monk's character, they could've added, "Monk, 你更我一样。我们做的一切都是为了兄弟。" That would've been nice. I don't think they needed to say all the "you bend down to hug me... blah blah blah." LIKE. LET THE AUDIENCE MAKE THAT CONNECTION! The scene is so nicely executed, why ruin it with all this logic? I think to say, "Monk, I know you didn't join the gang for the sake of being a gangster," that would've been really good. That's like putting complete faith in the audience to understand why Monk did what he did.

There is a short father-son thing going on between Mosquito and the leader of this other triad. I wanted them to explore that theme more and less on his love with a prostitute. The film apparently exceeded Avatar in box office success during the first week it was released in Taiwan. I thought the film had so much potential to be so much greater, but because of it's lacking plotline and themes, the mere genuine backbone of the movie was hidden. Therefore, to me, it's just another one of those gangster movies that try to portray deeper meaning than there actually is.

Slow Me Down

It's been a while since I've posted a blog entry. I don't know why I keep on telling myself to post something up but every time I sit down at the computer, I lose the motivation to do so.

So let's start off with Thursday. I actually don't quite remember what happened on Thursday... It was a day after exams and I think I just sat at home and watched videos and caught up with dramas. I -think- that's what I did anyways, I can't imagine what else I could've done that day.

On Friday. I went to WONDERLAND. It was CRAZY fun. Of course, I was a chicken throughout the day, but my friends practically almost dragged me on every ride. I'm so grateful they did it lol. Because even though during each ride, I felt, LITERALLY FELT, like I was heading towards death, I still found it so exhilarating at the end of every ride!!! Well, except for bumper cars and like... the Merry-Go-Round. LOL. I chickened out at the Behemoth. I knew that my Wonderland experience would not be complete without it but the MOMENT I saw how steep the roller coaster is, I just backed out. My friends did try really hard to get me on it, but I stood my ground. They told me that after I left, they rode it FOUR more times. I've got such gutsy friends. I felt kind of bad because the whole time I was pretty much like, "How long is the ride? Is it scary? Which is scarier? Do I feel that "feeling" in my stomach?" And everyone actually answered all my questions and tried to convince me to go on the all the rides. I know for sure without them, I probably wouldn't have gone on anything. It was my second time there, the first time, I went when I was 5 or something and I swore never to go back again. So THIS time I really wanted to make the most out of it because I don't know when will be the next time I go back. I don't visit Wonderland often and it's not a place I would WANT to visit often. I think to have fun at Wonderland you have to go with the right people because if you go with people who are too scared to go on rides and you, yourself, are too chicken to go on the rides as well, then you've just wasted all that money to just ENTER Wonderland and walk around and do nothing.

The food in Wonderland is so shitty expensive. A foot long hot dog is like 8 bucks, 3 of us actually split that hot dog, partially because it was expensive and also because we weren't all that hungry. When you go on all those rides, your stomach doesn't know how to feel hungry... lol. The ENTIRE day, I had a little bit of rice in the morning, 1/3 of a hot dog and at the end of the day I wasn't all that hungry after ALL that walking and running around and screaming. I also tried FUNNEL CAKE!!! It was 10 bucks, and we split it with the 4 of us. It was pretty good. If I went by myself, I'd definitely spend 10 bucks on it. I wouldn't find it a waste of money, I think the only wasteful part of getting a funnel cake for $10 is the fact that I wouldn't be able to finish it. It's not THAT big but it's the kind of stuff that's only REALLY good for the first 5 bites and then it's just gross.

Friday was a really good day for me. I had so much fun. 10 hours at Wonderland. TEN HOURS!!!

In the morning, I bussed down to Wonderland by Viva to Major Mac and then taking the 4 bus to the front of the amusement park. And the problem with me is that I assume that if I go there one way, I EXPECT to come back the same way. Little did I know that at 8PM most of the buses at Jane and Major Mac weren't running anymore! So I had to figure out some crazy route to get back to Yonge Street before ALL the buses around the area stop running.

I met up with a friend later that night as well and we talked at Mcdonalds. I shouldn't have gotten myself Frutopia and fries, I'm already on a diet so all that exercising I did during the day would've all gone to waste if I just started shoving junk food into my body again. But she needed comfort food. I don't know, when I'm sad, junk food = comfort food. LOL.

OH. I REMEMBER WHAT I DID THURSDAY. I went to the doctor and apparently... he found out why I have that gurgling noise in my throat. It's because I'm suffering from acid reflux... LOL. Strange eh? I have acid reflex. I asked the doctor, "Is it NORMAL for a female at the age of TWENTY to be experiencing heart burn?" And he's like, "Well... stress changes everything."

On Saturday I had a family dinner to attend, only to find that 1/2 my cousins didn't show up so I was bored shitless. Hmm... is it weird... to be attracted to your cousin's son? LOL. My cousin is older than me and her son is one year older than me and honestly, he's so hot. LOL. I know it's incestuous but I'm just wondering if this happens to people. See the thing is, research has suggested that the only reason siblings (likely of opposite sex) do not show an attraction towards each other is because they grew up together. When you grow up with someone, for some reason, you lose that sense of attraction. BUT. If two siblings were raised in different environments and then brought together without knowing that they're siblings, they would likely find each other very attractive because they share similar DNA and pheromes. My cousin's son, I technically should call him my nephew but I refuse to call him that because:

1. He has to call me aunt then. And that makes me sound old.

2. He's OLDER than me. Aunt's should not be younger than their nephews... that's so weird.

3. He's hot. OKAY?!

So ever since we were kids, I would just call him my cousin and I've always seen him as my cousin and I don't give him any pocket money on New Years or anything neither does he expect any from me. LOL. Ugh. Why am I even talking about this? This is so gross.

Anyways. Tomorrow I have to go to the doctor's again and then I have volunteering... I sort of made plans with a friend to go to the OSC but I don't know if I want to go now. I'm kind of lazy. I'll think about it and text her tonight I guess.

What else is new? Oh. School. What am I going to do? WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?! Okay. I figured out my problem I think. My problem is that I'm in too much of a rush to finish school. I refuse to slow down and assess my situation. Every time I fail, I say to myself, "I didn't study hard enough. Study harder next time." And that's the end of it. I charge towards the finish line, not really caring about all the rocks and obstacles in between. I thought I would be completely fine falling down, getting hurt, scrapes and bruises and all as long as I make it to the finish line. It doesn't matter how I get there, as long as I get there. But I never really thought, what if because of all these cuts and bruises, I don't make it to the finish line. What if it's better to stop running and to just walk for a minute or two and start pacing myself again? What if it's actually better to stop charging at the finish line and look at the path I'm running on and SEE who my other competitors are, and SEE what they're doing, and LOOK at where I am in the race? I think everything has happened so fast and I feel like if I don't stop and think now, before I know it, I'll be standing on stage to get my Bachelors degree but I won't have the marks to pursue further education.

So right now. I'm giving myself a second chance. I have a week to prepare myself for the second chance that I'm giving myself. I've taken the time to slow down and think about why I'm not studying hard enough and why I can't concentrate.

This week has been so crazy. I've made plans for this entire week and the next. This is the perfect time to put my plan to the test =D *fingers cross* I hope it works.

My thoughts on G20:

There's no real cause anymore, just riots and idiots downtown making a mess and then asking the government to clean it up using our tax dollars. Geniuses.

I have reached a dead end.

There are no more emergency exits, no more u-turns, no more helicopter rescues. I've used up all my lifelines, my health meter is beeping red and I can no longer call a friend. I have reached a dead end. What am I going to do? How am I going to pull this one off? How am I going to write this to have a happy ending?

It's now or never. No more second chances. No more redos. This is it. I have reached the very dead end. I mean the absolute dead end. If I can't find a way out soon, I'm going die. Well, maybe not die but everything will end pretty tragically. Tragically. Yes, tragically, a word that I don't use often but in this case it is very appropriate.

I don't have a plan! I don't have a backup plan! I don't have anything to work with right now. I'm just going to charge forward and wing it??? That's never worked out all that well for me but I don't know what else I can do right now. And I have no one to turn to right now because it's my own battle, it's a fight that I have to win myself. I have a feeling if I can get through this, it's going to solve a lot of other problems. But what if I can't solve it? What does it mean? What if I don't get through this? Am I seriously out of the game for good?

I've been having such bad dreams lately, seriously. Not nightmares but bad dreams, just yesterday I had a dream that someone was out to kill my brother and I. The setting was at our old house not our new one. Somehow we got chased up to my bedroom and my brother and I were trapped inside and I was trying to hold the door shut as the killer was banging it open. I told my brother to help me push against it so I can start pushing stuff to the door to you know... put weight on our side so the killer can't open the door so easily. But my brother was SO UNRELIABLE!!! He kept on slacking off, like one point he just walked away from the door and the killer almost opened it and I had to run to like slam the door shut! Okay, I can't describe it but I can still see it in my head very clearly. Point is, I was so upset at that point because 1. We were probably going to die and 2. When we were both FIGHTING for our lives, my brother still could not be someone I can trust and lean on.

I don't think I over-analyze my dreams, in fact, I think it's my dreams that help me realize a lot of my unconscious thoughts. It's not that my brother and I don't like each other but lately, not really lately, a while now, after he's got a new girlfriend I can feel him drifting away from everyone in the family. Back then, he was ALREADY in a rebellious stage where spending time with family was not exactly something on his to-do list. And now it's EVEN WORST. Does this happen to everyone who gets into a relationship? The moment you find a girl/boyfriend, you immediately forget about everyone else and all you care about is the other person? He/she is the ONLY thing on your mind? Is that the way it really is????? Because if that's the case, I hope I don't fall in love. Geez. I hate how his entire world just revolves around her and no one else matters. There are OTHER people in your life who still take care of you, feed you, and watch over you, you absolutely have no right to just be such a jerk to everyone but your ONE girlfriend, WHO PROBABLY still can't do shit for you except say the useless words "I love you". Why is it that once people find a partner, they can just throw away everything? Like in movies, people go, "Let's just leave EVERYTHING BEHIND AND RUN AWAY." Isn't that so selfish? Yes you love this person and yes this person loves you, but so do the other 10 people you were planning to leave behind. Besides, usually the person you fall in love with is someone you've just known in recent years, whereas your family and your friends, you've known them for so much longer. You've had so much more history with all the people you're planning to leave behind. Those people were THERE FOR YOU when your freaking girl/boyfriend wasn't! So how do people prioritize all this?

Of course, I'm saying this based on absolutely no experience. I hope I don't become a hypocrite and end up running off with my boyfriend and marrying him in some small island. I can't see that happening just because I love my parents too much to just leave them for anyone but I can't seem to understand the other side right now. Or maybe unconsciously I'm just cranky that I don't have a boyfriend I'm just being sour grapes at the moment.

Ugh. How did I get so sidetracked?! Back to the point. I have to save myself right now.

Emo much?

I haven't been called emo in ages. So there's this guy in my biochemistry class who reminds me of Mark, the way he looks, talks, and his freakishly weird hands. LOL. AND THE WAY HE HOLDS A PENCIL TOO! It's kind of strange how much he resembles Mark and his name is MARK TOO!!! And the stuff he says is just so, "OMG I CAN TOTALLY SEE MARK SAYING THAT!"

Oh before I begin, no I can't imagine the ACTUAL Mark saying this stuff. Just this though. So anyways, this Mark guy called me emo after I said, "Life sucks." And I realized, well not JUST realized, but sort of realize realized that I say that line to everyone and in ANY circumstances. It's like a horrible catchphrase? I hate it. I don't know why I say that. Actually I say, "I'm tired" a lot too. My mom hates hearing it because she's tired too and she doesn't complain and here I am, sitting on my ass, STUDYING, and I'm complaining about being "tired". And she's always like, "You don't know the meaning of being tired. That line is not yours to say." That's kind of harsh, I mean, I KNOW what it freaking means to be tired but I'm obviously PROBABLY not as tired as other children who are slaving away in factories for like 20 hours a day.

ANYWAYZ. So this Mark dude tells me I'm emo, and I was kind of offended because I'm -not- emo, okay?! And so I was like, "I'm not emo." lol. What else could I say?! And he's like, "Life sucks is a big statement." And in my head all I could think about was, "Seriously?! I say this to ALL my friends and they all agree with me life sucks." But obviously I didn't want to start a fight with this guy and he's nice too and he keeps me awake in class so he and I need to be on friendly terms so I just said, "I'm not emo. I don't think anyone's called me that before." And he laughed. So. I guess everything's okay? But that has brought to my attention that I should stop saying that line because I can see how it shows such a negative perspective of me, LOL.

I also told him that he reminds me of a friend of mine also named Mark and the FIRST thing he asks is, "Is he good looking?" Ugh. So shallow. I would think, "Oh, is he nice?" would be the first thing to ask. I don't know... that's what I usually ask when people tell me I remind them of someone. Or I ask them, "In what way I resemble them?" Not like, "Oh, is she hot?!" Geez. But anyways, this guy is so smart, he got 90% on our last midterm when everyone totally failed.

I think he likes this girl named Harriet. They've apparently known each other for a long time and I think she's got like gorg skin and she's nice so I can see why but I'm not going to play matchmaker any time soon. He should do his own little thing but I can't see them together just because I can see the girl thinking she's too good for him, lol.

Hmm... I think the only thing he doesn't remind me so much of Mark is the fact that... actually there are several things.

1. He's not that tall.

2. He's polite. LOL. Not saying Mark isn't polite, but he's like... maybe we're still in the phase of getting to know each other still, so it's too early to show our true evilness.

3. He's Cantonese and he can speak it.

We TVB rant together! I have a new TVB buddy! I can sort of tell he likes Linda Chung but because I said I didn't like her, he was like, "Yeah... I like Tavia more too..." But I think if he said, "WHAT?! I like LINDA!!!" I wouldn't know how to respond because I can't justify my dislike towards her. So I'm glad he agreed or pretended to anyway. And he's *SORTA* into Kpop, okay, not really. But I can rant to him about Kpop stuff and he knows enough to sort of *girltalk* about it with me. HAHA. Yeah, our group of friends sort of made him our gay friend. I'm sure he's not gay, but I've always wanted a gay friend so I guess this will have to do for now.

Raymond Lam Let's Get Wet Concert Review

I've been meaning to write a review for the concert but I never got a chance to since I've been crazy busy! I figured, if I don't do it now, I'll never get it done. And besides, I'm sleeping too much these days, it's a bad habit to get into if I'm heading into crunch time next week.

So I never really watch HK concerts only because I've labelled them as boring and pointless. To be honest, I haven't watched a lot of Hong Kong concerts but the few that I've watched include Joey Yung and Twins, lol. And they were such a waste of my time. I always thought concerts weren't just the artists singing their songs, the artists were supposed to PERFORM their songs and make a -show- for the audience. Seriously, the Joey Yung concert I watched was so boring. She just ran around the stage singing her songs and banging her head to the music and flipping her hair to the water that poured out from the ceiling during the "high" of her concert. I like a lot of her songs so I did go in with high expectations and I was very disappointed. LOL.

So I was reluctant to watch Raymond's Let's Get Wet concert just because it was another Hong Kong concert... this time I DON'T know a lot of his songs so I was worried that I wouldn't be able to connect with the concert but I was so wrong. I totally loved his concert!!!

He first started the concert with a face-paced song, which I think is smart because you have to build the exciting atmosphere, you don't want people to like relaxed and sleepy during your first song. I remember Joey started her concert with My Pride, I love that song but I remember just kind of swaying to the music at the beginning but I wasn't *excited*.

I liked that he tried to dance in his concerts, like choreographed dancing, not head-throwing-running-around-the-stage dancing. His dancing was kind of awkward, but I do appreciate the effort.

After the first song, he followed with a couple slower paced songs. I didn't know all the songs he sang, but I LOVED THEM ALL!!! I really like his voice. I'm probably over-rating him but I find him to be in the better group of TVB actors turned singers.

Vincy Chan was one of the guest performers at the concert. Apparently they're from the same label. I haven't heard of her before but she and him sing good duets.

After Vincy, guess who else came?! WONG CHO LAM! I think it was really smart of Raymond to invite him as a guest singer. Wong Cho Lam works the audience so effortlessly and he was so funny. The only problem I can see with Raymond inviting Cho Lam is that Cho Lam makes Raymond look like such an amateur singer. I didn’t realize that Raymond wasn’t THAT great of a singer until I watched the two of sing a duet. Wong Cho Lam just sings without straining but I kind of find Raymond struggling a little. They also fit Nong Fu in with WCL, they’re like these Hong Kong rappers, I actually really like them too. I youtubed them and I found a couple of their songs that I liked and downloaded. Apparently, Edison Chen “founded” them. Whatever that means. LOL. I still think Edison is so stupid. It’s not because of the whole scandal, even BEFORE that, I think he’s so talentless. I don’t think he can rap at all or dance. But this is a whole other rant.

After Wong Cho Lam leaves, Raymond sings a combination of slow and fast paced songs, more slow ones though. I find that Raymond likes to sing slow songs more because he feels like he has more control of his voice but I find that when he sings fast songs, he doesn’t come across as “trying so hard”. He’s great with both, but seeing as this is a concert, I sort of wished he sang more fast songs.

I also figured that he didn’t have a lot of his own songs, he has like what? 2 CDS? So he sang some renditions and I think he did a great job with those songs. He totally turned the songs into his vocal range and his singing style so it wasn’t a carbon copy of the original.

Before intermission, he sang, “Finding you in loving memories”, I’m not sure if you guys know the song but it’s like part of the soundtrack for the TVB series Drive of Life. IT WAS SO AMAZING‼! LOL. I love the song and hearing him sing it live was even better!

After intermission, he started off with a fast song again. Very smart. LOL because I was starting to get tired of the slow songs. I’m not sure what the first fast song was but it led into a song called Tonight. I really like it, I think I’ll download that song sometime soon, the only strange part of the song was this random guy’s voice that goes, “Uh uh, go Raymond, uh uh.” *speechless* The song is good though. He’s not much of a dancer, he’s kind of stiff, they should’ve gotten the backup dancers to kind of jiggle like he does so he wouldn’t look so bad and it would look more like the dance was SUPPOSED to be like that. LOL. But still... he tried. KUDOS for that.

Afterwards he sang a series of slow songs... I didn’t know a lot of them. LOL. HE SHOULD’VE SANG MORE FAST SONGS‼! But I guess, by the middle of the concert, he had to do one of those go-around-and-shake-hands thing so I suppose it was easier for him to sing a slow song and go around to shake hands than a fast song?

Then he had another guest singer, Ah Sa from Twins. I don’t think she’s a bad singer, not phenomenal but she has gotten better over the years. They sang an English song together... I’m not quite sure why... But their English was good so I guess the producers wanted diversity in the songs? Ah Sa made a joke about how she became a guest singer because Linda Chung couldn’t make it, his rumoured girlfriend. After their duet, Raymond walked around the stage with her as she sang a song by herself which I found really weird. Like, why didn’t Raymond go off stage to like take a break or change his costume?

Raymond sang a few more slow songs until LAUGHING GOR CAME ON STAGE! Michael Tse is his name I think. I LOVE THE DUDE. I didn’t know he sings though... They sang a duet together, it was so jokes because it was a Twins song. Their dance battle was also kind of cheesy. I even though Michael was the better dancer between the two. Seriously, Raymond needs more dance classes. But Raymond was clearly the better singer.

After Michael left the stage, Raymond had the “wet” part of his concert, where “rain” started to fall from the ceiling. He sang a Jay Chou song... I think that was the worst song he sang at the concert. It wasn’t bad, but I personally don’t know anyone that can pull of a Jay Chou song. Then he sang the song “Let’s Get Wet” and I thought it was going to be a fast song, I mean, doesn’t it just sound like a fast song?! But it was a slow song. So basically it was “raining” and he was singing this slow song, and these half naked dancers like “dance” in the water and like... yeah. Actually, the dancers were fully dressed, the half naked girls were just girls who had to act all sexy in the water... I think that’s what they were doing anyways.

After the “rain”, Raymond goes in to change and he comes back with a beanie. I guess that’s smart. He’s probably cold from all that water, and he looks good with his hat. LOL. And he sings like 2 more slow songs. And THE END.

He ended the concert with “Ai Bu Gou” which is like... one of his most famous songs from the TVB series Moonlight Resonance. I don’t think that song will ever get old. He’s like a hit song for him.

I think he did a pretty good job, I don’t know how many concerts he’s had but if this is his first, then it was pretty good since he’s known as an ACTOR not a singer. Am I right on that? The only thing that I wasn’t a big fan of was his clothes? I thought he could’ve been more innovative with the clothes and his random “Yo” throughout the concert, LOL. Cute. He’s cute no matter what he does but still‼!

The concert was good. I would watch it again and again. I downloaded a lot of his songs just because of this concert. Wong Cho Lam has got to be the highlight of the show. I'm sort of glad Linda Chung didn't come just because I don't like the pairing... lol. And I just don't like her in general. I don't know why. I remember when I watched her in the pageant, she totally won me over and I wanted her to win so badly. But I guess, now that she's a celebrity, I don't find her that great of an actress or a singer. I don't know.

I wish I could go to one of his concerts.