Received an email from Square Enix like months ago (haha cause i dont check my email..) i was over joyed with the news that they r here... erm more to they r here in Asia at my neighbour country.... :D Singapore.. if the concert ticket is affordable, Im Going :D:D my friend said gonna bring me around... YAY :D

This is what it written in the email....

...a holiday announcement from Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY music director and maestro, Arnie Roth

Dear FINAL FANTASY Fans,
Happy Holidays! I cannot believe a whole year has passed since our premiere of Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY in Stockholm. I am excited to announce on our one-year anniversary that we will be visiting even more cities in 2009! We have confirmed concerts all around the world, including many concerts in the USA and for the first time ever in Asia!

Our first concert of 2009 will take place at the historic Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on April 11th. And our great friend, Nobuo Uematsu will be in attendance! A special VIP meet & greet will be available to a limited number to meet Nobuo Uematsu and myself in person after the show! Please check ffdistantworlds.com/minneapolis for more details and to purchase tickets.

I am happy to announce that more post concert meet & greet tickets have been made available for Grand Rapids. They are only available by phone, so call today and do not miss out on a chance to hang out after the concert with Uematsu-san and me. We will be signing autographs after the concert exclusively for fans with meet and greet tickets.

A lot of fans have asked us when we will be visiting the east and west coasts of the U.S. and I want to thank you so much for your kind and encouraging words. Your requests have been helpful in planning concerts in these regions in 2009. Today, you can buy tickets to see Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY in Seattle with the Seattle Symphony for two shows only on July 10th and 11th at 8:00pm. The Emmy award winning Seattle Symphony orchestra will be performing in Benaroya Hall - S. Mark Taper Auditorium, noted for its architectural and acoustical splendor.

Tickets will also be on sale soon for two more USA cities: May 16th with the Baltimore Symphony in Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, a gorgeous venue known for its pristine acoustics and versatility and July 17th and 18th with the Grammy award winning San Francisco Symphony! I know everyone has been waiting for these, so keep checking ffdistantworlds.com for info about these exciting events.

Asia tour!

We are excited to perform Nobuo Uematsu's music of Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY on tour in Asia in 2009! In May, we will travel to Taipei and Singapore for two concerts in each city. Distant Worlds will make its Asian premiere in Taiwan at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, and in Singapore we are proud to be part of the Singapore Arts festival for two concerts on the 22nd and 23rd at 7:30pm in the Esplanade Theatres on the Bay. Tickets will be on sale in March 2009.

Holiday Contest!

With each newsletter, we plan on bringing special offers available only to our fans. As an exclusive offer we are announcing a CD, T-shirt, and concert program give-away just in time for the holidays. The official concert T-shirt and program are usually only available at the live concerts and not online so don't miss this great opportunity to win these gifts. Our CD, Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY is rapidly becoming the definitive recording of FINAL FANTASY music. To participate, simply sign up and forward this newsletter to one of your friends, and you will be automatically entered in the drawing. Five lucky winners will be chosen at random from our list. We will contact the winner via email on Dec 22nd to claim the prize. Sign up and forward early and often to win!

Good luck and best wishes!

Sincerely,
Maestro Arnie Roth
Music Director of Distant Worlds



For details about all upcoming concerts go to ffdistantworlds.com/tickets
To purchase the CD "Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY" go to amazon.com or ffdistantworlds.com/cd

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Since Valentine is around the corner... "yawn.. boring" this is a love story that i wrote like years ago... sorry for the weird grammar u might see later.. but i do hope u enjoy it... :D muahaha..

"Why are you crying, Kitty?" His voice tried to be as comfort as possible.

I turned and face his worrying face "You are sick, your heart is weak and I'm so worry yet I can't do anything, I'm hopeless in this situation Tiggy"

"Silly girl, how many times do I need to tell you that I'll be alright?"
My tears rolled down from my eyes faster than I ever imagine it would now.

"You always said you gonna be alright, but yet you refused to go to the hospital" with the sobbing.

He quickly walked near me, moving out his hand and hug me around my waist, I can feel his body warm around me, and he whispered something near my right ear and ended with a light kiss.

"So Tiggy, you promise that you are going to the hospital????" My tears suddenly stop rolling, a joy of excitement had generated within me.

"Yes Kitty" he went back to his original coolness again.

I waited outside the couch while Tiggy is inside the doctor's room. My mind wonders around in both positive and negative ways. Like, how I met Tiggy, and how we ended up a couple and later a life long partner. Of course I do believe that Tiggy is my soul mate, and I always will.

My mind wondered to the negative thought, is more to the nightmare for me, "what if Tiggy is sick, what if he.... CUT IT OFF". My mind wondered to somewhere else, the feeling for me now while waiting for him as if years had passes by although i merely seated for 5 minutes.

A clinched of doorknob had cut my imagination from going too wild and total lost of control. I saw Tiggy walking out with a grin on his face. I quickly walk near him and before I manage to open my mouth and start asking, he cut me off "Kitty, see I told you I'm alright".

"Huh? But your heart hurt, you hardly sleep at night and now the doctor ..." I was a bit disappointed with the news not because I wanted my Tiggy to suffer is just that I feel that I kinda silly of having all the negative thought and of course another part of me is so excited and glad that Tiggy is alright.

We had our diner out at the restaurant that we frequent and headed home.

Once we reach home, I headed to the door, to unlock it and without any warning, I was lifted up by Tiggy and again he is whispering something at my ear and I blush.

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IM FREAKING 24 WHY CANT I GO TRAVEL ALONE?????????????????????????????????????

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I�m having blogger�s block so, another story of Tiggy & Kitty, hope you will like it� :D

Lets the story begin��
My tears flow over to my cheek, because it will be another month before I able to meet him again. I know, I promised Tiggy to be a good girl, not to cry, but the pain, the loneliness when he is away to work, is unbearable.

I walked to the airport�s car park, to search for my car; it took me 10 minutes to locate it. I slammed the door shut and sit in the car for a min, thinking how clumsy I am.

�Oh gosh, what is wrong with me? I promised Tiggy I won�t be sad, this is not the first time we are apart, and is just a freaking one month, I have to be strong�.�

When I reached home, I rested myself on the red sofa we always chilled at, our love seat. I saw a stack of photo on the table. I scanned through the old photos, and felt how silly I was when I first met Tiggy.

My memories, is like a VCR, rewinding back to the past, showing me all the loving and bitter sweet scene me and Tiggy went through.

3 Years ago

I landed into the foreign land of Czech Republic, knowing no one except myself, a map and a handbook to speak simple West Slavic. Walking into the city, Prague was indeed a place for me to have occasion cultural shock. To me, everyone does look strange, although I had been exposed to the foreigner and culture over the cable TV, but having myself to stand next to them, were totally new experiences.

I enrolled myself in Charles University at Prague, during the first week of orientation; we were introduced and showed around the university. As for the second week before the class start, we were free to do anything including visiting the city or sleeping in the campus 24/7.

One week after the tiring orientation, I went roaming alone to the city, to get used to the new culture that I will live in for another 2 years before I headed home. Occasionally stop by to take pictures of the landscape and tall buildings were the things I enjoyed doing, besides sipping a cup of hot Mocha at the nearby caf�.

I walked along Vltava River at Prague enjoying the view of river; suddenly I sensed someone was following me. Well my dad always reminds me to be extra careful while I�m at foreign land. So I fasten my steps to the crowd, wish that I could lose him on the way, but the stalker also fasten his steps. When I reached the large crowd, I no longer sense him following me. Of course I was afraid, so I cancel my night trip and headed back to the campus.

As the bus stopped at the campus, I again sensed that someone is following me, as I hurry myself off the bus, I heard the same footsteps again, which this show that he been following me and now to my campus.

�OMG, I don�t want to die in the foreign land, there must have something I can do to protect myself.� As my mind struggle to think of a way to flee myself, I fasten my steps to the girls� hostel. I know I�ll be saved once I reach that area, because boys are forbidden in that area.

Suddenly, I heard him shouting at me. �NO, PLEASE WAIT, I�M NOT GONNA HARM YOU, SO PLEASE STOP�.

I stopped; I know this is the most stupid thing I ever done in my life, who knows what might happen to me, maybe in 2 seconds, I might become a corpse. This moment was the sweetest moment in my life, where I met him or the first time.

�Ah, you stop, Persephone.�

�How did you know my name?�

�This is because you dropped your student ID.�

�How? I mean where?�

�Well, I was in the same bus as you, when I saw your ID dropped on the bus, I wanted to give it back to you, but it seems that you are avoiding me.�

�Avoiding you? Oh, I�m so sorry, is kinda creepy to feels someone following me, you know I�m new here, safety always come to my mind than anything else.�

�Ha Ha Ha, you are sure one of a kind.�

�One of a kind????�

�Never Mind, I am Markey, a year 2 student studying business.�

�I�m Persephone, a noob studying business too. So you are my senior.�

�I�m not that old.�

I giggle over the joke he said, and he return a lovely smile to me. He returned my student ID and offer himself as a tour guide to show me around Prague, quickly I accepted his invitation because he don�t look like a real stalker.

As time passes by, with his continuous effort to win my heart, I finally gave in after the 6 months of hi trying, he did lots of silly things to make me laugh, and he always by my side whenever I feel homesick or lonely.

My tears start rolling over my cheek again, as the memories slowly come back to present, I�m glad that I didn�t whack him during our first met, if not I�ll be regretting now. I feels that the reason got us together must be my silliness.

Suddenly, the phone rang; I quickly grab the phone handle that less than 5 inch away from me.

�Hello Kitty, SURPRISE� oh Kitty, I Love you.

�Tiggyyyy�. I Love you too...�

�Are you crying? Remember what you had promised me before I headed to France?�

�I�m not crying, I just� Oh Tiggy, I miss you so so much...�

�Aww Kitty, I miss you too, but I have to go now, meeting in 5 minutes, just wanted to call and tell you I�m ok and misses you.�

�Aww Tiggy, you are so sweet, I love you.�

�I love you too.�

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Taken during my last trip to Melaka... this tiger v playful so he disturb almost every other tigers there :D

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It been so long (many one or two months) I didn�t crazy over Japanese drama, but recently, I watched a Japanese movie, (sort of) the reason was, the plot is so cute that I decided to watch it�. Well ended up the story was not bad, and hilarious and of course the value is there.

Story start with�. Mukashi Mukashi (once upon a time), far away land of Edo time, there was a country name (I forgotten)�. And the story goes on�

Main character is Anmitsu Hime, a 16 years old Tomboy princess that do not enjoy LOVE, during her birthday, her parents reviewed that she have to find a heir to help her rule the kingdom. Of course she against it, but forced to obey.

Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler

The hilarious part was during the interview for Heir to be, lots of weirdo turned out. She was pissed off and run off to the castle tower, and peep over the city to see the commander�s lifestyle.

And of course she decided to run away from Castle into the commander�s world with the help of her Grandmother that always seems to support her, accompany by a little soon to be Samurai, there goes their journey.

One thing I learn from the movie is, Anmitsu Hime loves food, she eat lots of foods and the shopkeeper was afraid she will not pay the bill and ended up calling up the police. But when she does pay the bill, the police accused her for pick pocketing, and thought she is from the same gang of recent pick pocketing.

However, Anmitsu Hime ended up become the real pick pocketing target, ended up she lost all her money.

The little samurai, wanted to go back to the castle, but Hime refused and said until I find my LOVE (taught by her English teacher) she will not go back. One the way, she saw a girl (from the pick pocketing) was bullied by a group of kendo�s students, Hime stands up for her, with her extraordinary strength, she shoo the kids away.

Because they were broke (lost all their money), she followed the pick pocketing girl home, and slowly she learned the story behind each of the gang, why were they pick pocketing.

Story goes on and on, and normally, the same things happen in all the stories that she will felled in love with the head of the pick pocketing gang � Senbe� things go round and round�.

And the bad guy wanted to steal the country treasure and blackmail Senbe to help in the process because the bad guy had kidnapped all the other gangs (all r kids including the little samurai).

Together, Senbe and Hime plot a theme to steal the treasure from her own castle to save the kids, and things go round and round again�

Turn out most of the people she encounters in town was sent to protect her. And fighting scene take into place, and only she learn a small gift she carry home for her father was a bom by the bad guy, she rushes home� and funny things happen�..

Of course this is funny movie, so happy ending always here :D� lazy to describe �. Is recommend to watch� if u want some good laugh :D

Anmitsu Hime by Inoue Mao

The English Teacher that teaches her "LOVE"

The Girl from Pick-Pocketing Group - Morisako Ei - She acted Chibi Maruko :D

Otoko ka Onako?

He said in the movie.. he like to date different women

Kawaii no Chibi Samurai

The king trying to cut the bom's wire off

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