Kirkmania Strikes Again

Arms and legs hurting like hell. Terrible exhaustion after the biggest charity concert in the world. My boss called and said that we should do a musical next. Haha! In a strange way, I'm actually looking forward to that. Anyway, I took my wife and kids out yesterday. Picked up some CDs (a compilation album and I got Meat Loaf for free). Also got "JSA: The Next Age" and "JSA: Thy Kingdom Come Vol. One". Read them both back-to-back for that Geoff Johns magic. It's still there but it's kinda different from his original run on the title (with David Goyer).

Biggest Charity Concert In The World

Was in Kompleks 3K at about 2:00pm yesterday. Started decorating the place and getting everything ready for the biggest charity concert in the world. Was half-dead by 5:00pm with the endless shouting, screaming and rehearsals. The concert performances start at 8:00pm (with food served at 7:00pm for guests).

Performances began at 8:00pm. Three of my students helped out on emcee-duties. A group of breakdancers came over to perform (courtesy of a church-friend from a local college). Our teams put up 20+ performances despite the faulty sound-system. Very large crowd. Many were sitting on the floor and cheering us on. The concert went later than planned. In fact, it went on for close to four hours! We were supposed to end at 10:00pm but many of them stayed with us all the way up to 11:30pm! The performances by the charity homes were especially moving. Orphans and disabled people came up on stage with renditions of "God Is Good" and "You Raise Me Up". Many people were visibly moved and some were sobbing openly. It was like mini-Woodstock! Forget the World Youth Day in Australia. This was the real thing. Most of our performances were terribly amateurish and some were downright awful! But we had some laughs and lots of cheers. The Bollywood Dreamz Team and the Form 2 Singers & Dancers took home the awards for the night. It was a crazy, crazy night. Months of preparation and endless rehearsals. Lots of laughs, stress, frustration, work, etc. Now it's finally done and strangely, I wished we could do it again.... Don't know why. It was a wonderful experience for everyone... :)

[Sitting in MyDin, USJ wearing a T-Shirt that says "I Can Sleep All Day" but ironically, I could not sleep well at all. Too much excitement. Limbs are aching. Throat is sore. But I just can't sleep...]

Infinite Crisis

The biggest charity concert in the world is tonight. It's a little something that my team and I cooked up together and tonight's the payoff. Months of planning and preparation went into it. Months of laughs, tears, stress, frustrations and joys. I don't know what to say. Final rehearsals in a while before the big thing. I finally read "Infinite Crisis" by Geoff Johns, Phil Jimenez and a gazillion other creators this morning. I think I read it to see the collaborative process going into an enormous project just so I get a sense of perspective before the huge charity concert event tonight. Anyway, it's probably the best superhero-epic ever written/drawn... until "Final Crisis" by Grant Morrison and J.G. Jones, that is! Haha... :)