Sally Yeh Live!

[Friday August 10th]
Ah, the last day of work this week. The sun rise looking out by balcony was amazing. I had to take a break, relax, gaze, and of course take a photo for you guys! It was quite a long week and getting to see a view like this just brightens the day!

Once I got to work, I found out about a concert going on that evening. I was invited to go, they had another ticket. I didn't really know what I was getting myself into but what else is new? I accepted, brave the unknown!

On the way there we all went out to eat at a western food restaurant. I had to take a quick snapshot for the Wisconsonites. Yes, if you can read it, it says Veal Bratwurst Sausage! And here I thought there wasn't any brats here! I ended up having some sliced pork with a nice apple sauce glaze. I also had some interesting scalloped potatoes... They were more Crayola brown then normal but quite good. Ohh, I almost forgot! I, for the first time ever, had a Coke Float! It was scrumptious! It was chocolate ice cream in a Coke, who woulda thought it was so good!? So much better than the Chocolate Coke I tried at Ella's Restaurant in Madison!

We went straight to the concert after dinner. It was crazy traffic getting there! Kudos to Yoke Mun for her creative 'KL' driving. (For those not up on Malaysia, KL is Kuala Lumpur, their Capital City, home of the Petronas Twin Towers, as seen in Entrapment with Sean Connery). After quite some time we were directed to just park just off the main road, not quite the norm in the US. We hiked up a hill to the venue. Turns out a new condominium 'park' was opening up and they were the sponsors of the event. We walked around a little looking at their main facility. It was quite nice. I heard prices in the 500k+ MYR.

Eventually the concert began. They had an interesting opening act, it sounded like a fiesta pop mix of music. They had people in full costume out dancing, much like you'd expect out a Brasil. Not soon before that I found out that all the musicians will be singing in Cantonese, that's a specific Chinese dialect. So I didn't understand a word! It was good music and dancing. Between acts they had people come up from the crowd and participate in contests for prices such as signed merchandise, etc.

After a while, Sally Yeh was performing. Apparently she's a famous Hong Kong Cantonese Pop music star from the 80's. The music was quite good, I have some video clips with audio that I'll have to try and get posted sometime!

To top off the night, there was a good fireworks show. Quite spectacular as we were just underneath it all as the explosions filled the sky.
-Terry