What an amazing concert!!! It was our first concert in Hong Kong and only my third large concert. First one was Roxette in Taiwan (yeah.. back in the 90's), and the second one was Cure in LA last year (birthday present from my friends Megan and Grant!).
Getting There and Getting Out
It was extremely convenient to get to the arena since the MTR drops you right inside the arena. I thought I would have had a chance to take pictures of the outside of the arena but we just got pictures of the entrance to the concert hall. The venue offers some food options. The only downside was that there was only one beer stand and the line got really long right before the concert started.
Leaving the venue was a major bottleneck and mad dash towards the MTR entrance. They did arrange for extra trains which helped get the thousands of people back to Hong Kong downtown. Even though getting there took us about 40 minutes, getting back home took an hour and a half. But little of that mattered since the concert was amazing!
The Concert
The Coldplay concert was definitely a great experience! We got two great seats which allowed us to get some great photos and videos. Every music performance had its own backdrop and visual treatment. Chris Martin made sure that every corner of the stadium was able to get a good experience of the band by offering performances on both sides of the extended stage. He entertained and talked to the crowd. He surprised everyone by walking to the back of the hall and playing with his band in the back of the arena for two songs. Needless to say, the music was great and the performance was awesome! We, along with the entire arena, were up on our feed for the entire performance.
Hope you enjoy the few snapshots we have!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
So many places - so little time
There are just too many places to go and too little time for me to write my blog... In the past 5 weeks, I've been to Macau, Taiwan, Bangalore and Shenzhen, and each one can easily be its own blog entry. But I (and all of you) will have to settle with a condensed version.
Pictures are better than a thousand words so I'll share some of our moments in Macau through the gallery below.
I then also took the opportunity to make it back to Taiwan for my dad's 60th birthday. It was great to spend some family time with my parents. I unfortunately don't have any pictures since I lost the camera with those pics on my trip to Bangalore. We took the direct flight from Hong Kong to Taichung on Dragon Air. The Taichung airport is the smallest International airport I have ever landed in. The great thing about is that it's only 20 minutes away from my parents house. I spent the weekend there mainly enjoying some great meals with my mom cooking up a 10-course meal every day and enjoying a great spa Sunday with my parents.
I got back from Taichung on March 9th afternoon and then flew right back out to Bangalore that same evening.
I was there purely for business so I didn't get a chance to do any shopping or much sightseeing. However, I did ask the driver to take me on a 30 minute detour to check out the major sightseeing places in downtown by the Star TV office. A few things to note about Bangalore:
* People honk their horns just as a courtesy to let others know that they are coming from behind so there is constant honking coming from the streets
* If you ever thought driving in Taiwan is bad, Bangalore is much much worse
* Lanes don't mean anything and neither do street lights (when there are no cops)
* Crossing the street is like playing froggy
* Bomb checks with every car that goes into any nice hotel and metal detectors at the main entrance
Despite a few of the points above, I loved Bangalore. The city is beautiful with lots of trees, beautiful parks and beautiful architecture. I had Indian food in every meal and loved it! The people there are also all very friendly and welcoming. The one interesting cultural thing is that the people there will shake their head from side to side and it's really a sign of acknowledgment. It took me a little bit to get used to it because I felt like they were disagreing with me instead but they'd do it with a smile. :-)
Pictures are better than a thousand words so I'll share some of our moments in Macau through the gallery below.
I then also took the opportunity to make it back to Taiwan for my dad's 60th birthday. It was great to spend some family time with my parents. I unfortunately don't have any pictures since I lost the camera with those pics on my trip to Bangalore. We took the direct flight from Hong Kong to Taichung on Dragon Air. The Taichung airport is the smallest International airport I have ever landed in. The great thing about is that it's only 20 minutes away from my parents house. I spent the weekend there mainly enjoying some great meals with my mom cooking up a 10-course meal every day and enjoying a great spa Sunday with my parents.
I got back from Taichung on March 9th afternoon and then flew right back out to Bangalore that same evening.
I was there purely for business so I didn't get a chance to do any shopping or much sightseeing. However, I did ask the driver to take me on a 30 minute detour to check out the major sightseeing places in downtown by the Star TV office. A few things to note about Bangalore:
* People honk their horns just as a courtesy to let others know that they are coming from behind so there is constant honking coming from the streets
* If you ever thought driving in Taiwan is bad, Bangalore is much much worse
* Lanes don't mean anything and neither do street lights (when there are no cops)
* Crossing the street is like playing froggy
* Bomb checks with every car that goes into any nice hotel and metal detectors at the main entrance
Despite a few of the points above, I loved Bangalore. The city is beautiful with lots of trees, beautiful parks and beautiful architecture. I had Indian food in every meal and loved it! The people there are also all very friendly and welcoming. The one interesting cultural thing is that the people there will shake their head from side to side and it's really a sign of acknowledgment. It took me a little bit to get used to it because I felt like they were disagreing with me instead but they'd do it with a smile. :-)
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