Yvonne Foong: Fighting NF

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- One of my favourite song but wished it had a better tune for the general voices. Simply poignant. I like the metaphor of wind and leaves. How about you?

The big news is, Lee Hom has been appointed as the Fossil Ambassador for 2006, in 4 countries including Malaysia!

Purchase a Fossil watch and get a Lee Hom calendar for FREE! But not from me la.

*While stock lasts: Free gift only valid for purchases made at: Fossil Kiosk, KLCC; Parkson KLCC; Parkon Sg. Wang; Parkson One Utama; Parkson Alamanda, Putrajaya; Jusco One Utama and Jusco Tebrau City, Johor.

Click here for more shots behind the scene.

Now, what is a blog entry about Lee Hom without mentioning his new album? Ladies and gentlement, Heroes Of Earth! It’s a smart experiment with the new music genre, chinked-out.

Lucky you folks who are still able to hear. *sob*

Lee Hom is on his whirlwind tour again and Malaysia is his first stop this time around. Being an avid fan of his, I did not hesitate to attend and even manage to drag Alan along. Well, not really drag.. but he did come along. So it was a regular Friday afternoon when most people would be eating books, Alan and I took the KTM to KL Sentral, and from there, we took the Genting Express to the Skyway Lower Station. There were a few traffic accidents along the Karak Highway so our journey took a little longer than it should. By time we sat foot in the Skyway upper station, it was already 6:30pm so we hurried to check in to the hotel. Being as ignorant as ever, I didn’t know that the hotel I chose is beside the outdoor themepark entrance! That’s an advantage because the Genting Arena of Stars is INSIDE the themepark. Poor those who stays all the way in First World Hotel!

After leaving our bags in the room, we hurried downstairs to have dinner at MerryBrowns. We both had (economy) fish burgers. It was actually filling, but it is the drink and not the burger. The concert started 30 minutes late, but for Lee Hom, 30 minutes doesn’t matter. Poor Jessie went backstage to wait for his arrival but little did she know that Lee Hom is already ABOVE the stage who later appeared by hanging down with a rope! Lee Hom sang about 20 songs in 3 hours. The first was Fang Kai Ni De Xing and the show ended with Wei Yi. He also sang songs from his very first album, Love Rival Beethoven and even some from Forever First Day. One of the songs, “Missing You” which is from one of his older albums sounded superb. It was very different than what was recorded in CD because the original song was sung in 1996. Lee Hom’s voice and musicality has certainly matured to great heights since then. It’s been 10 years now with 10 albums as history.

There was no ’spinning drums’ this year but he did play the drums with all his might and emotions, they were just not spinning, that’s the only difference. Other than drums, he also played the grand piano, the violin and the er hu (chinese violin). Being able to listen to lee Hom play the violin LIVE is a fantastic experience. For this show, Lee Hom especially went back to his hometown in USA to personally select a music band and breakdancers. There was no guest performers this time because Lee Hom believes that he alone can entertain his fans, and he was definitely right!

Oh I forgot to add, Lee Hom specially modified his own songs to be ’stage quality’. Like “Forever Love” for example. sounded pop rather than its original ballad and ‘In a Faraway Place” was enhanced with extra beats so it didn’t sound at all like a folksong. In between the show, Lee Hom also went downstage a few times to greet his fans who undoubtly scrumbled all over the front part of the stage. But the most ’shocking’ part was when Lee Hom suddenly hopped ONTO the grand piano! To my amazement, this is my first time ever seeing someone dancing ON TOP of a grand piano.
But its just too bad that Lee Hom did not sing “Horoscope” and “Ai Cuo”. If I could have things my way, I would also like him to sing “Mary Says” and “Sorry Seem To Be The Hardest Word”- duet with Kenny G’s saxophone.

I’d say that my RM81 was well spent. Eventhough I could only recognise some frequencies but I am still glad to have WITNESSED one of Lee Hom’s great success. To see some of the photos we took during the concert.. please visit my Photo Gallery